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A Question Should Have Been Asked By SomebodyJohn Kerry makes much of his Vietnam War experience. Because he was in Vietnam for four months before filing Paperwork for Papercuts and getting his white ass home early and intact, he says he knows what it means to put men into battle, and he knows what it means for men to die in war. He has a respect for the solemnity of war, he says, which George Bush doesn't. Very well. If that's the case, can Senator Kerry explain why he voted in favor of authorizing a war which he claims he did not intend to authorize? According to his own statements -- or at least most of them, since he tends to be all over the map -- John Kerry voted to authorize war not to actually go to war, but to simply give Bush the "leverage" he needed for diplomatic maneuverings at the UN. Authorizing war is the gravest decision a Senator can make. There is no vote that is more solemn or important or fraught with peril. And yet John Kerry, by his own account, voted to authorize war -- war, which he claims he knows the solemnity of so well, from first hand experience -- not because he had made the difficult choice that men must die in order to secure some important military goal, but because he wanted to give Bush some leverage when fencing with Dominique de Villipain. John Kerry-- the man who knows well the lessons of Vietnam, because he fought in that war. Funny. There was a little resolution in 1965, I think, that authorized the President to go to war, if he determined it was necessary. Many Senators voted for that authorization for war, they later claimed, in the understanding that it was just needed to convince the enemy that we were serious. It wasn't really an authorization for war, they claimed later; it was an authorization for the threat of war. War is bad; threats of war, apparently, are good. That resolution was of course the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and, surprise suprise, it turned out it wasn't merely a "threat" of war, but, get this, a full-blown authorization for war (as the text of the resolution plainly stated), and President Johnson relied upon it as such. Given John Kerry's history, can he plausibly say he was unaware of this? How can he now say that he has a better appreciation for the solemnity and gravity of war, when he admits to voting to authorize war for some secondary diplomatic reason? And of course we are too charitable to credit his account as being accurate. We all know he voted for war for one reason-- to preserve his viability as a candidate for President. He never wanted war; he never wanted to authorize war or even the threat of war. He wanted to avoid the charges that he is anti-war, and counterweight his 1991 vote against the first Gulf War. The man who claims to know first-hand the viciousness of war voted for war so he could attain a higher office. Liberals are always arguing that "being against the war is an honorable position." I actually agree. But that isn't John Kerry's position. John Kerry's position was to be in favor of the war for political reasons, and then to be against the war for other political reasons. Do liberals argue that that too is an "honorable position"? If that's honorable, what on earth could possibly remain dishonorable? War may be a solemn consideration, but John Kerry's political aspirations have always been, to him at least, even more solemn. posted by Ace at 01:57 PM
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Star of Shazam and Chuck (where he co-starred with Adam Baldwin, btw) Zachary Levi endorses Trump, says "We're going to take this country back"
Levi opened the event by explaining that he initially was backing RFK Jr. in the 2024 presidential election, and when Kennedy suspended his campaign, Levi knew to whom he was sending his support. I've had a feeling about this guy. A while ago he condemned the "attacks" on Brie Larson and the Captain Marvel movie, but I got the sense he felt he had to do that, because he's in a compromised position: a non-leftist in Hollywood. Glad to have him. I mean he's not Gary Oldman or Nicholas Cage or Star of Stage and Screen Nick Seacy, but he'll do.
Nine Inch Nails started off as a yacht rock band, you know
Sounds more like Kool & the Gang to me. They later changed their sound and recorded it for The MTV Thanks to @alexthechick Wait did Whitesnake start as a yacht rock band too? Again, I think this is much closer to early eighties R&B than yacht rock.
Boise State Women's Volleyball Forfeits Match Against Team with Male Player
This is the template for a successful fight against the transsexual lunacy in athletics. [CBD]
Yacht or Nyacht?
With a combined score of 49.5 on Yacht or Nyacht, I'd say this one is a "Nyacht." No Hoe Snow snap. Not bouncy. Pretty dreary. No smooth groove. You won't be able to snort cocaine out of the cleavage of a "Naval Mabel" or "Poopdeck Patty." Or even if you do, it will be half-hearted at best.
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Joe Biden, nominal president of the United States, sat down with the ladies of The View for an interview on Wednesday. "It's like having one of the Beatles at the table," co-host Sarah Haines said as the audience roared and her colleagues cackled. I guess that's true if you're talking about the Beatles. But individual members of the Beatles did some decent stuff in the 80s. Kyrsten Sinema
Classics of Yacht Rock Mystery Click
Oh but it's all right Once you get past the pain You'll learn to find your love again So keep your heart open This is a fantastic (casual) driving song, when you're actually driving a little below the speed limit because you don't really have anywhere to be. Going forward, if we have any arguments about what is or what is not Yacht Rock, we can just consult the Yacht or Nyacht? website, which has ranked hundreds of songs according to their Yacht Quotient (YQ). I can see this website stopping arguments, fistfights, and formal duels.
In solidarity with the MSM, Rich Lowry and National Review vilified the Covington Kids as racist agitators back in 2019. Now, it’s Rich Lowry being canceled for an accidental slip of the tongue that sounded like a forbidden word. There’s a lesson here for the Polite Right, but they won’t learn it. [Buck]
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click: Pop Princess Edition
'Cause it gets me nowhere to tell you no/ And it gets me nowhere to make you go From the same album
Are Lebanese citizens making up songs praising the #pager bombs?
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The Lost Classics of Yacht Rock
You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy You want to carry on I'm not sure this is even Yacht Rock. This might just be very soft rock. I can't see myself sniffing cocaine from a Boat Hoe's cleavage to this song, which is the primary criterion of Yacht Rock. But I think this song more crosses from the shallows of soft rock to the cresting majesty of Yacht Rock. This is definitely bouncy enough for Hoe Snow. Very smooth, a little folky, a little jazzy. It's got that Hoe Snow snap.
From Andycanuck: Hezballah members reporting for work today, a little bit skittish about entering the code on an electronic keypad lock
I don't know if this is real. It's certainly accurate -- no one in Hezballah is happy to be handling any kind of electronic device today.
FAA fines SpaceX $633K for acting without its permission "These fines therefore are simply because FAA management has hurt feelings because SpaceX wouldn't wait for it to twiddle its thumbs for a few more weeks. The fines also suggest that FAA management is either being pressured to hinder SpaceX's commercial operations by higher ups in the White House, or that management itself is trying to exert more power over the company, for apparently very petty reasons." [CBD]
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