Say Anything Blog

I guess we need to re-visit the whole Jimmuh Cahtuh age:  "Give Peace A CHANCE!", and "I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing", and "Imagine..." and all the rest of the appeasment nonesense.  After all, that method worked so well for Chamberlin, didn’t it?

The world is made up of more than one sort of animal motivated by more than one sort of impulse or instinct.  While it is true that innocence and optimism are charming traits, it is also true that honesty and accuracy, and  realistic expectations are excellent tools for survival.  To portray a murderer as a sensitive and caring human being is a dangerous and pervasive myth.  Evil, in all it’s forms, has free run of the earth and takes a toll n humanity each second of the day.  A hard truth, but one that will lead to a longer life once learned.

 Dan Patterson

Arrogant Infidel

I guess it would be too much to notify local law enforcement in anticipation of a call??

Or would you get a lot of free publicity playing on people’s honest fears??

People are encouraged everyday to report suspicious things and should do so.

I guess it’s the media’s job to slant everything toward racism and simplicity. 

People are encouraged everyday to report suspicious things and should do so.

The Common Good before the Private Good, as I always say.

It would probably be a good idea if the movie/TV/make believe industry would re-think its vernacualr vocabulary.  In time like these, the phrase "shoot a scene" is probably a bit more colorful and suggestive than necessary.

An author named Tom Kratman invented a much more realistic view of what such a person who lost his family to terrorism might do.  He started writing a book titled “A Desert Called Peace” about a former SF soldier who lost his wife and children in the 9-11 attacks.  Rather than “forming a type of friendship” with terrorists, he forms a type of friendship with a bunch of mercenarys, whom he leads into Afghanistan and lays waste to the area.

Crucifixion while smeared with pig dung was one of the more mild things they did to the terrorists, I believe.

I have no idea if he still intends to finish the book, or whether the idea died off.

An author named Tom Kratman invented a much more realistic view of what such a person who lost his family to terrorism might do.

How is that more realistic? Have any relatives of 9/11 victims done anything resembling that?

living in connecticut, I have just finished reading a book by a Dr. Harvey Kushner who wrote a book entitled "Holy War on the Home Front" one of the documents in the appendix of his book which is shown in both Arabic and English, which is dated 1981 a Charter of an Islamic Center for Studies which reads like this: "from here we can monitor the directions of the American policy, and the movement of the suspect entities. We are also able to MAKE A DIAGNOSIS OF THE DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION THAT ARE DEEMED AS MEDICINES AND ANTIDOTES IN OUR COUNTRIES. All of this we shall put in SERVICE OF THE ISLAMIC CALLING EVERYWHERE." (emphasis in word everywhere in text).

any thoughts on that? I just want to see if anyone gets the picture I see.

To Mike:

"I just want to see if anyone gets the picture I see".  Very good questions and one that I’m not sure is ask often enough.  The picture doesn’t seem to be a very rosey one, given the mission of islamists to place the rest of the world under it’s foot.  Visiting several web logs such as Clarity and Resolve, the Dog Pundit, Jihad Watch, Little Green Footballs, and many others will give an insight into the minds of tyrants.  Worse are the minds of appeasment philosophers and surrender maniacs who want to aviod the coming conflict (my entry here from March 13th was a spleen-venting that momentarily helped my point of view, but that’s now long passed).

Dan Patterson

Dave (the first):

The book, A Desert Called Peace is done, long (Brother, I mean _long_...almost 270,000 words), and in the publisher’s hands. 

Dave (the second):

It’s more realistic for what is and is not practical to do.  Finding individual terrorists is _tough_.  Infiltrating them is borderline impossible.  That said, either one is only practical within certain constraints.  The main character of ADCP can go one way, because he inherits a shitpot of money from his uncle who was killed along with his wife and kids.  Absent that, he’d have to have done something else, something much smaller in scale. 

If you care to, you can read the first seven chapters (number eight goes up Tuesday) in http://www.baen.bar.com.  Go the the KratsKeller and dig around.  Note that all of this is unedited copy.  There are typos you wouldn’t find in the dead tree version.  Live with it; I must.