QuoteLog

“Rumsfeld should have been a great SecDef. He’s intelligent, energetic, experienced and forceful. But his arrogance and the appalling behavior of his key subordinates (none of whom served in uniform) crippled morale at the top during wartime while failing to provide the leadership, support and integrity our troops deserve when we send them into battle.”

“We were very aware of the fact that it wasn’t the Iraqi agenda that motivated our kidnappers, but the internationalist jihadist agenda. I think this is the real challenge for the next 10 years — the clash of cultures that these people are advocating, are seeking.”

“The FOX News Channel and its commentators stand in the way of the secular agenda. Demonizing us sends a message to others who may challenge the secular cabal. Do it and we will slime you badly. So that’s what’s going on. Another vicious battle in the American culture war. Somewhere Jesus is weeping.”

“In April 2003, as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was ending, the Pentagon projected in a formal planning effort that the U.S. military occupation of the country would end this month.”

“When are both sides going to realize that it’s not only about them! That there are millions of Iraqis, Afghanis, Iranians Etc who are suffering daily and who are trying to find a solution and a way to achieve their dreams (with the help they are getting from America) and who do not have the slightest interest in supporting any party in America. The world is bigger than you and your partisan conflicts and frankly I’m getting sick of it.”

“If you produce content and produce comments, then you have to read comments and moderate comments. You have to treat a Weblog like you’d treat a good garden.”

“If the government is willing to shell out a few bucks to try to sell people on the idea that people growing Marijuana in their closets are contributing to Terrorism, why can’t they make the same leap with spam? Do we have any evidence that the profits from spam aren’t being funneled to Al-qaeda?”

“I’m firing up a text editor and deleting databases. It’s reached the point where I can write markup by hand quicker than I can delete spam and manage my spam managing plugins. It’s just not worth the effort anymore.”

“It’s not that I need coffee to wake up, you understand, but sometimes it’s really nice to start the morning knowing that you will be able to successfully go through the day without killing someone.”

“If the government will let us peacefully return to our villages and our children, we will come. We are tired living on the run in these snowy mountains.”

“Then there’s been the parade of talking-head lawyers behaving with all the aplomb of World Wrestling Entertainment performers. If attorneys have long been saddled with reputations as ambulance-chasing ghouls, the Peterson case has recast them as camera-hogging fools.”

“That’s why nobody sticks up for Christmas except me. Did Peter Jennings stick up for Christmas last night? I don’t believe he did. How about Brian Williams, did he? Did Rather stick up for Christmas? How about Jim Lehrer — did he? Did Larry King — hello — I love Christmas — did he? No.”

“I spend most of my time pressing the buttons in front of the big glowing thing. Occasionally, gunfire is heard.”

“If I were Michael Moore, I would much rather rail against George W. Bush, who is much less likely to have me killed, than van Gogh’s murderer and the threat to creative freedom he brings ... Can you conceive of a filmmaker being assassinated because of any other subject matter without seeing a resulting explosion of reaction from his fellow artists in America and around the world?”

“We are about to embark on a 10-year period in which recent tax cuts and runaway spending are expected to add $5 trillion to the cumulative deficit. In my lifetime we will have gone from the Greatest Generation to the Profligate Generation to the Bankrupt Generation. Yes, I’m talking to you 20-year-olds. President Bush has called for sacrifice — but not by his generation. He’s passing the bill onto your generation.”

“A reconstruction of what happened suggests less a sinister conspiracy than problems arising from the legislative practices of the present Congress, in which sleep-deprived staffers often take on much of the burden of writing major bills under deadline pressure, and legislation drafted in secret is rushed through both chambers before lawmakers, let alone the general public, have a chance for review.”

“I could not disagree more with the public policy that underlies the California law. I think it’s flawed. I think it’s bad public policy. But if somebody can go in and tell California you can’t regulate drugs the way you want to regulate them in California, the next step is they could come to Alabama and tell us we can’t do it.”

“With one party controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, and having little fear of retaliation by the opposing party, the House leadership is changing the way laws are made in America, favoring secrecy and speed over open debate and negotiation.”

“Prominent examples from the 108th Congress include the Medicare prescription drug bill, the energy bill, the intelligence bill and the defense authorization bill. These important pieces of legislation total more than 2,900 pages of text and authorize more than $1 trillion of spending. Yet, collectively they were available to members for less than 48 hours total for reading.”

“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked ‘a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?”

“Schadenfreude is a dish best served daily, and if America is rich enough to give around $7 million a year to not one but three different humans who have a job the Brits accurately call ‘newsreader,’ then certainly we have more than paid for the right to laugh like pitiless hyenas at the sight of the great Dan Rather slinking away from his enviable post in half-shame, like an armadillo leaving an ant nest after mistakenly pissing on it.”