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The Department of the] Interior alone is managing about 31,000 Web sites, presenting between 3 million and 5 million pages of information with maintenance costs approaching $220 million a year. “Now, AOL-Time Warner, who I believe is the largest Internet service provider in the world, manages in contrast about 50 sites, but the Interior Department manages 31,000 different Web sites,” the congressman says. “In an agency that employs 70,000, that means the Department of Interior has almost one Web site for every two employees.”

How anyone can read something like this and still expect positive results out of government, be it managing the debt, nation-building or welfare, I’ll never know.

The infamous Gargler was exploring the bitter roots of feminism, and while it’s undeniably true that many women are raised from birth to be bitches, the sad reality is that many men mistakenly believe that they are interested in subjecting themselves to this sort of punishment.

My blood ran cold when one of my friends described a girl he was seeing as “spunky” and how much fun they had “giving each other a hard time”. Because it was “all in fun” of course. Fortunately, he stopped seeing her before it became too serious, but what a disaster in the making that was! Think about it, guys. Sure, it may be fun crossing wits with a girl and hearing her snappy retorts for a while, but it’s not going to be that fun when she decides to up the ante. It will be even less fun when the barbs are laced with genuine venom. It won’t be fun at all when you are not allowed to respond in kind, or eventually, at all, without her going nuclear on you at the least hint of criticism.

Do NOT encourage this sort of behavior in a young girl, or in any woman either. Men, only you are responsible for the merde you elect to take. If a woman’s behavior is out of bounds, you must call them on it just as you would a man. Okay, perhaps not just as you would a man. Society tends to frown somewhat on the whole punch-in-the-mouth thing.

This tends to underline my point about how invading any one country, or even three countries, is not going to make the US any safer from jihadist terrorism. From Debka: “First arrest in US of suspect in Madrid train bombing. FBI takes US citizen Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim lawyer, into custody in Portland, Oregon after his fingerprints found on items used in attack.”

I did, briefly, post something about some aspersions cast publicly at Ms Rodham-Clinton. However, I elected to nuke that post as I prefer to keep my Clinton-hating pure, based solely on quantifiable, undeniable ideological issues and other matters that, like a continental watershed, separate her and me. Such as socialized health care, for example. And phylum.

Furthermore, I find it very, very hard to believe that the Lizard Queen has genuine interest in anything warm-blooded, except perhaps as lunch.

One measure of the Bush administration’s foreign policy incompetence that it has refused to do the obvious in the one area of Iraq where it has been successful. The Kurds are happy to be liberated from Baathite rule, delighted to be on friendly terms with the United States and would like nothing more than their own country. Why don’t we give it to them? Are the lines drawn by British colonial officials really sancrosanct? (If so, our Founding Fathers have a lot for which to apologize).

Of course, the Iraqi Kurds only make up part of the mythical Kurdistan. The other Kurds are in Iran and Turkey. But so what? Turkey hasn’t exactly been a staunch and loyal friend, and besides, a potential partition of Iraq is no business of theirs. Turkey is a second-tier power; it can handle itself. And any potential destabilization of Iran would be a good thing, even if we’re putting off WWIII for a rainy day.

Apparently George Delano and company aren’t really quite as interested in furthering democracy and self-determination as they pretend. Otherwise, we’d already have witnessed the triumphant declaration of a free Kurdish nation.

David Limbaugh demonstrates his military expertise: Liberal columnists are using this isolated case [Abu Ghairab] to validate their preformed opinion that our entire war effort has been mismanaged and a failure. Well, I’m not willing to concede that everything has gone bad for us in Iraq or that we are guilty of poor planning because we didn’t accurately predict every terrorist strike against our troops. Do the critics really believe it’s possible to fight a casualty-free war, especially against an enemy that has less respect for the rules of war than it does for life itself?

I just don’t understand the logic behind allegations that we are bungling the war because we sustain casualties or because a few of our soldiers get out of line. How easy it is for the armchair quarterbacks to condemn our whole military operation every time we experience setbacks while fighting an unpredictable urban war against an uncivilized, brutal, inhumane and evil enemy.

If you don’t understand it, David, let me explain it to you. We are not fighting an actual war; if we were Fallujah would have been flattened a month ago. As the German soldiers complained in WWII, Americans fight in a deadly and unfair manner, by advancing until they meet the enemy, engage him, then bury him with air strikes and artillery. Advance and repeat.

But, since we are not actually fighting a war, but instead playing deadly Israeli-style wargames with “terrorists”, (who aren’t terrorists for the most part, but guerilla militias), we are sending lightly armed troops into urban zones without armor, thus ensuring that we lose more troops in the occupation than in the conquest itself. Since this method did not work in Northern Ireland and has not worked in Israel, it will not work in Iraq either.

Even worse, the so-called battle for hearts and minds is a war of semiotics, of symbolism. In that sense, the images of American mistreatment of POWs is a major defeat for the administration’s cause. I’m not condemning our post-Baghdad military operations because of current setbacks, but because I never saw any way that they could possibly succeed in the first place. Three decades of Soviet failure in Afghanistan and Chechnya demonstrate that the only way to handle these countries is to kill the dangerous leaders and support the unaggressive, more or less harmless leaders from a distance.

We’re going to withdraw in the end. Cultures cannot be completely remade by external dictate. Germany was a civilized country that took a bad turn and was relieved to return to sanity. Japan simply followed the orders of the emperor and the ruling elite to follow MacArthur’s path, just as they had earlier followed them into imperialist war. In neither case were the anti-occupation forces, (the werewolves) still dangerous more than a year after the war ended. And since we’re going to withdraw, better to do it before we needlessly sacrifice another one or two hundred young American lives. We should have left as soon as we had Hussein in hand, when we had successfully achieved all that we could reasonably hope to accomplish.

Air traffic controllers who handled two of the hijacked flights on Sept. 11, 2001, recorded their experiences shortly after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, but a supervisor destroyed the tape, the government said Thursday. A report by Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead said the manager for the New York air traffic control center asked the controllers to record their experiences a few hours after the crashes, believing they would be important for law enforcement. Sometime between December 2001 and February 2002, an unidentified Federal Aviation Administration quality assurance manager crushed the cassette case in his hand, cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans, the report said.

The manager said he destroyed the tape because he felt it violated FAA policy calling for written statements from controllers who have handled a plane involved in an accident or other serious incident. He also said he felt the controllers weren’t in the right frame of mind to have consented to the taping, the report said.

Does that sound as utterly unbelievable to you as it does to me? Pretty thorough work for someone who is just worried about six other people’s frames of mind.

Bill hits the pipe and writes: Look at what Vox proposes; either WW-III, which will lead to enslavement faster than you can say “The Patriot Act” regardless of if we win or lose (and, BTW, we’d lose badly). Or, the withdrawing of American troops back to our borders, which puts the front lines in Chicago, LA, and New York, and ensures that we eventually lose to Islam. Either of Vox’s paths lead to our destruction.

Um, Bill, I’m not proposing WWIII, I’m simply observing that WWIII has already been declared on us. Global Sharia is the goal of the jihad, which means that the jihad must a) fade away on its own, b) grow stronger, or c) get crushed. The first option appears unlikely, the president has decided against the third option, which means that we are merely putting today’s war off for tomorrow. It’s a legitimate option and an understandable one. We don’t have to fight it now, anymore than we had to start fighting Japan in 1936 or Germany in 1939. But barring alien intervention, the odds are high that we will end up fighting it sooner or later – later would be my guess.

Very few Americans are cognizant of how things are shaping up in Europe. The next three decades will see massive changes in many countries there. America is perceived to be at the forefront of this struggle, but it is not. Ground Zero is not in New York, but Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris. How will pulling US troops back ensure losing to Islam? The only serious danger to the US, for the foreseeable future, is posed by allowing continued Islamic immigration. We have Europe to serve as a cautionary example. This has nothing to do with where US troops are now.

The lunacy of pretending that invading one out of twenty jihad-sympathizing countries reduces the danger here is absurd. If Hussein’s WMDs were moved to Syria – or Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Algeria, Morocco, or Iran – then there is absolutely nothing about our military presence in Iraq that reduces the danger in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. They would ALL have to be invaded, occupied and pacified in order to reduce ANY danger. Furthermore, how would those American cities become the front lines considering that none are on the borders? The answer, again, lies in the realm of immigration, not military force.

D69 writes: What are the [multiculturalists] going to say when we are ALL confronted with the evidence from the U.S. Army VRTs (Vehicle Recovery Team) that they have cataloged up to 57 species of ETs. That includes at least three types of “greys”, the majority being mostly “humanoid” in basic DNA structure.

First, let me say that based on my understanding of the world, this sounds completely insane. However, knowing that my Christian worldview is, from a strictly secular point of view, almost equally crazy, I’m inclined to be open-minded about the possibility that there is, indeed, some sort of X-Files conspiracy about the existence of intelligent alien life. Do I believe aliens exist? Absolutely not. But can I dismiss the possibility with certainty? Not as surely as I can dismiss the socialist belief that it is possible to adequately simulate market pricing, and let’s face it, there’s millions of people who believe that despite thousands of years of economic evidence to the contrary. You can no more violate the laws of supply and demand than you can violate the laws of gravity. Work around them, yes, but ignore them? No.

I mean, if you consider that our monetary masters believe that running a fractional reserve banking system with 0.009174312 reserves and an almost incalcuable mountain of debt is going to turn out well, all history of debt and money aside, a belief in alien conspiracy suddenly appears a lot less outlandish than before. But before you scoff at something about which you cannot possibly have any information, keep this in mind: what everyone assumes to be true will eventually be proved wrong. This has been true in every era.

As for the multicultis, I don’t know what they’ll say about aliens, except to defend the right of some whack-job to have sex with them.

John Derbyshire writes of George Bush’s multiculti approach to nation-building: The reason for all the confusion is that the president is talking — or rather, like a good multiculturalist, tying himself in knots by trying desperately not to talk — about race. One of the central tenets of the multiculturalist dogma is that there is no such thing as race. Populations of different ancestry may differ from each other in superficial and easily visible ways — that is why it is O.K., just about, to mention “skin color” — but in no other ways at all. So what the president is asserting is, if you translate it out of multiculturalist code, something like this: While people from various regions of the world might differ in appearance, they do not differ innately in psychology or characteristic patterns of behavior. There is, therefore, no reason why any nation, anywhere, should not have constitutional government under representative democracy. To suggest otherwise is racist.

There is one way, only one way, to impose quasi-constitutional government and representative democracy in an Islamic culture. Hand a permanent veto to the army. Of course, lacking an army with generals uninterested in ruling power, as in Turkey, you’re going to have Pakistan at best and Iran at worst. Most likely, you’ll end up with a very ugly situation like Algeria, where canceled democracy has led to one of the most vicious civil wars in recent times.

As Derbyshire points out, “Everything George W. Bush has said and done indicates that on matters of race, ethnicity, “diversity,” and multiculturalism, he is as liberal as it is possible to be.” In other words, don’t expect his judgment in these matters to be better than any other left-liberal, and don’t expect the results to be any better either. People are not all the same. Culture does matter. I have lived in three distinctly different cultures, have moved in one of them far more successfully than most outsiders, and the experience has taught me that one does not change one’s culture like one changes clothes.

With 215 years of experience in the matter, we don’t abide constitutional government. Why we would expect people with no experience of it or taste for it to do so completely escapes me.