Happy National Day of Sovereignty Iraq!!!

Congratulations you guys!!

You’ve worked hard, you’ve lost many. Now you get to work harder, but live free!

Here is Ralph Peters for you.

We all recall the delighted leftist claims that Iraq had entered a hopeless civil war. Wrong. That Iraqis preferred al Qaeda to us. Wrong. That Shia militias represented the people. Wrong. And that Iran would seize control. Wrong again.

Looking back over six years of good intentions, tragic errors, generosity, arrogance, partisan vituperation, painful deaths and ultimate vindication, two things strike me: the ever-resisted lesson that human affairs are more complex than academic theories claim, and the simple truth that most human beings prefer a measure of freedom to immeasurable repression.

Amen!!
Please take care of it as we’ve cared enough to work for this too.

Ah Yes, the MSM

Scott puts it out there and Glenn notes it with his normal succinctness.

Scott:

In our latest installment of “What Would the Media Be Writing If Bush Were Still President”, we have this story:

Then followed by civilian deaths in Afghanistan without the usual quagmire, we’ve lost, we’re evil byline.

Glenn:

I think it’s compliant and complicit.

Honduras

Why on earth do we have to read blogs to get perspective on major news stories???

This is the “news” story on the Honduran “coup”.

The military-led ouster sparked a regional crisis that thrusts the impoverished banana-growing country onto the international stage and revives painful memories of coup-fueled turmoil in Latin America.

Turns out the military was doing as requested by the Supreme Court and the Congress. Why? Because the President was working on becoming President for Life.

Quote of the Day

Ed Morrissey gets this honor in his post about CanadaCare sending a premature baby over the border to get care here in the US because they don’t have the room up there. (imagine that)

The original article chooses not to discuss the merits of US health care vs Candian by noting that

Thankfully — and this doesn’t mean that the American system is better (after all, at least the couple and their baby are guaranteed care up here, thanks to our public system, even if it’s not perfect) — there was an opening south of the border.

Ed notes:

Well, it’s impossible to look at this situation without seeing the relative merits of the American and Canadian systems. First, the child would have gotten care in the US, too, regardless of insurance status. People get emergency care regardless in this country. There is a difference between health insurance and access to care that some people elide for purposes of political argument. No one gets turned away from emergency care for lack of ability to pay.

Yes – there IS a difference between having health insurance and getting health care.

Links

Quote of my return from ResurrectionSong:

We’ve got the vote on cap and trade coming up, volatility in Iran, and a big fight brewing over the President’s health care plan.
Which is precisely why we’ll spend the next few days talking about yet another politician who can’t keep his dick in his pants.

That was written Wednesday, presumably before Michael Jackson died, because there’s now a new 24/7 news story.

In the meantime,
Iran is still key

Cap and Trade is still unread (and a pile of you know what)

And we’re still looking at a future of health care where we all get to use the quality services of Medicare/VA/DMV.

Real life has interfered

Real life has interfered with the blog, which is probably an ok thing.

My only question is:
Why the hell do people actually live in Texas??

It’s 8:30 at night right now and it’s STILL 99% with 70% humidity.
Seriously….people….there are better places.

Walpin

Here’s a short re-cap of the Walpin scandal in case you haven’t heard.

On Iran

Gateway Pundit with another interview and updates.

Middle East News - on an alternative to the Supreme Leader. Wow.

The Washington Post - makes it sound like a little dissent.

- The Iranian government and opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi stepped up their war of words Sunday after at least 10 people were killed in clashes on Saturday, while an uneasy calm prevailed on the streets of Tehran on Sunday for the first time since Iran’s worst political crisis in 30 years began a week ago.

The NewYork Times - has a story on at least 3 million votes gone bad.

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s day to all you dad’s out there.

You guys are essential.

All my love to my own two dads.

A few points on Iran

Don’t follow me – follow those with real news like Gateway pundit, or hot air or even twitter #iranelection. They have far better sources.

The main reason we have the 2nd amendment, is not so that you can shoot robbers or ducks or clay pigeons. The reason is so that our own government never takes it upon themselves to rig an election so badly that we must rise up in protest. We would shoot back!

Back when Obama started his term, I tried to let him know that management’s words are important. People listen to them and look for signs of care. Is it right? Is it fair? Who cares. It is what it is.

By June 14th Obama had had no high level meetings regarding Iran. Just intelligence updates.
On June 20th, after seeing the killing going on in Iran Obama went out for ice cream.

This all may be fine and well and he may have had plenty of time before his next meeting.
It all may be CIA led.
It may be all in the master plan.

But it makes Obama look like he doesn’t really care about those folks in Iran who are just looking to have their vote count for something and instead are getting gassed/bashed/shot at and arrested.

Management. It’s harder than it looks if you want it done right.