Say Anything Blog

I have long been a bit pissed about the treatment Filipino Scouts and other soldiers and guerilla fighters have received from us. We asked them to stand against the Imperial Japanese Army, alone, without support for nearly 2 years, after Mc’s return they suffered from massive reprisals against civilian population. Before hand, they received massive reprisals against civilians to force them to surrender American’s still in the Islands. In many cases they did, after Americans came forward and told them to do so in order to save their children and women.

Many people contend that we owe them nothing. They fought in defense of their country. Or that Japan was the legal ruling authority and they were criminals for resisting the lawful directives of the Emperor. Or blahblahblah. The same “reasoning” is applied to the Hmong, Rhade, Anamese, Kurds, Shia, etc etc.

This gets little play in the States, except among those who remember our Allies past.

America has a track record of asking people to do things for us, and dropping them in the fire or gutter as soon as politically convenient. And BOTH political parties are guilty of this. Is it any wonder we have a hard time getting people around the world to trust us? Is it really a surprise that our enemies are successfully using this very history to sow seeds of doubt among the people of the world, including our own population?

Who should be held responsible for the Filipinos being treated as peons after fighting at our request? After willingly sacrificing their lives and those of many families in defense of American interests? In defense of Americans, personally, in many cases.

This is an important question, because this repeated behavior on the part of USG is one of the roots of our problems in the world today.

I was just getting ready to excoriate you warmongering Dakotans for shipping your “hate packets” to other states and lo&behold someone beat me to it. Damnit!

Does anyone believe this mullah will die a peaceful death in his old age? Or eat a dagger in the abdomen one morning after prayers? Anybody want to wager on this Muslim’s cause of death? I highly doubt it will be systemic organ failure due to advanced age.

China and Russia have had several very public police and military exercises of late. So have India and the US. Japan and the US. Indonesia and the US. Hell, Chad and the US have done several active, realtime anti-terror operations in the last 3 years. China and Russia have been playing The Game for hundreds of years, with Russia taking it in the keister most of the time. Short of using nukes Russia will never beat out China. These periods of friendly cooperation are cosmetic, at best.

This article is just one of many, follow the related links. BBC has done a few, and I think Fox has, also.

In the end, global political inter-relations are higgledy piggledy, just as they always have been and will be forever more. Amen.

People should be far more concerned with Russia and Iran dancing. That is where the problems are developing.

From our brothers across the Gulf, Al Jazeera. A fairly evenhanded article, better than CNN or the Big3 will do it.

This,"He said Bush used the province to highlight Anbar as an example of how successful the “surge” strategy has been in the region, pointing to a drop in attacks by Sunni fighters.

The drop in violence is attributed to Sunni Arab leaders joining forces with the US military to combat al-Qaeda fighters, although it is unclear whether they will back a unified Iraqi government as well.” is not nearly as snarky as American press usually are.

h/t Al Jazeera.

Here is an interesting tidbit. American workers are the world’s most productive. What will the doomcriers do!

“The average U.S. worker produces 63,885 U.S. dollars of wealth per year, the International Labor Organization said in its report.”
And.
“The U.S., according to the report, also surpass all 27 nations in the European Union, Japan and Switzerland in the amount of wealth created per hour of work — a second key measure of productivity.”

It ain’t long, but boy is it going to piss a pile-o-leftards off.

h/t Xinhua and editor Lu Hui.

Yet another apostasy uttered from within the Temple Of The Goreacle.

This has got to be pissing Algore off. He has decreed that all debate and research concerning “global climate change” is over.

These guys can expect a lump of coal upside they heads come Goremas season.

This is the money shot."The scientists said the source of the halogens is natural”. That has got to be pissing Algore right off.

This, from Egypt, could be the beginning of Islam’s Reformation.

“Egyptian grand mufti says Muslims can convert.”

Paul Schemm

Agence France Presse

“The essential question before us is can a person who is Muslim choose a religion other than Islam? The answer is yes, they can,” Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said in a posting on a Washington Post-Newsweek forum picked up by the Egyptian press on Tuesday.

Will this man be hailed by the western press for his vision? Will he be ranked with Martin Luther and Calvin? Will he be stabbed to death after morning prayers one fine day?

h/t to the Daily Star of Beruit, and as always, read it all.

And this sentence should be pounded into the heads of the left. “Gomaa is a civil servant, the top religious adviser of the state, and technically speaking the deputy justice minister,” he said. “So his views on the matter carry authority.” The equivalent in America would be to have Jerry Falwell or Bishop Donald Wurhul as Deputy Secretary of Justice.

Surrendering to Islamic terrorists will insure America has an Imam as the highest authority in our judicial system.

Is this the sentence that really has Hillary pised off?

“Edelman’s letter does indicate the Pentagon might be planning how to withdraw, saying: “We are always evaluating and planning for possible contingencies. As you know, it is longstanding departmental policy that operational plans, including contingency plans, are not released outside of the department.”

And why is that information at the end of the article? Seems that should have been in the opening paragraph somewhere.

Anybody remember Senator Leaky?

Algore is certainly not reining in his priests very well! I mean, did he or did he not declare all debate and research at an end? Did he not decree that Global Warming is solely and only caused by human agriculture and industrial activities? Apparently someone did not get the memo.

“It’s the coupling of the world’s two great fluid systems that actively defines climate,” said Michael Freilich, director of Nasa Earth Science Division and former project scientist on QuickScat.

h/t to Molly Bentley at BBC. A very good article. I agree wit the basic premise, losing QuickScat is one of the stupider things Congress and NASA have decided to do in the last few years.

I always thought the primary mission of the Space Shuttle was for maintenance and upgrading of satellites in orbit. Wasn’t it?

Funny how the Chinese national news service can find out things like thisand our media can’t.

“BAGHDAD, July 19 (Xinhua)—Iraq’s main Sunni Arab bloc ended Thursday its boycott of the parliament, a spokesman from the bloc told Xinhua.

“The Iraqi Accordance Front decided to end its boycott of the parliament sessions after the other political blocs agreed to our condition that the Front’s speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani would preside the parliament sessions,” spokesman Salim Abdullah said.

The 44-member bloc of the 275-seat parliament had suspended its participation in the parliament last month after the leading Shiite and Kurdish blocs voted on June 11 to remove Mashhadani, over allegedly ordered his bodyguards to beat a Shiite Member of Parliament.

On Tuesday, Iraqi political bloc of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also ended its suspension of its membership in the Iraqi parliament.

The move of Sadr’s bloc came after the government responded to their demands of protecting the shrines and the formation of a committee to supervise the reconstruction of the two Shiiteshrines in Samarra, both were destroyed by repeated attacks.”

Even Mookie is bowing down before the Parliament in the face of Al Queda getting owned by the citizens and forces of Iraq.

Why are CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC so silent about this?

h/t to Xinhua

"update" After going 5 pages into FOXNews online I found this AP article. I have AP on one of my RSSFeeds, never saw it there. Guess I will try their public pages, too.

Gang, to see the irrefutable proof that America armed Saddam head over to Froggy’s Dacha.

Incontrovertible evidence that America IS the Great Satan. Go check it out!

I had to laugh on seeing this headline:
Army Misses Recruitment Goal for Second Straight Month

And yet, the numbers quoted seem a bit underwhelming.
“But two defense officials said the Army fell short of its 8,400 goal by about 15 percent — which is more than twice the June shortfall and would mean that roughly 7,000 recruits signed up.”

I am curious as to how many of that 7000 recruits chose a Combat Arms MOS? And why the re-enlist numbers never make it into any of these articles?

And this short fall is just staggering.
“Last month the Army said it recruited 5,101 new soldiers in May, about 7 percent short of its 5,500 goal for that month.” Again, of this 5,101 how many chose Combat Arms MOSs?

If recruiting is falling off, then the numbers of recruits going into combat related MOSs would be affected, would they not? In one direction or the other. And yet, when I read these articles, I see no indication either way.

And nary a word about the poor attainment of minority recruiting by colleges. An issue you would think deserves far more attention, given the crisis in education concerning minority students.

Curious, no?

French president supports Socialist as new IMF chief

“ Strauss-Kahn “seems the most fit for the post,” said the president in an interview with the newspaper.

Noting the former minister shares the same version of the IMF function, Sarkozy said Strauss-Kahn owns the qualities required by the post such as strong credibility, incontestable experience and multilingualism.

Strauss-Kahn has yet to express his interest in the post.”

And the talkingheads in America call Sark the “Great Moderate Hope” of Europe. As if the IMF has not enough problems already.

h/t to Xinhua. At least someone is paying attention.

"MILF pulls out of search for Italian priest”

I saw this in Xinhua just now and laughed so hard I think I hurt myself.

And it is an actual article.