Liberals: Love al Qaeda
I had a busy weekend, four letters to the Boston Globe, all pretty short, three serious, to the extent you can take liberal extremists seriously, and one attempting some humor.
The first letter requires the following intro: A Swedish cartoonist portrayed the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog. Al Qaeda placed a $100,000 bounty on his head and a $50,000 bounty on the head of the editor of the newspaper that published the cartoon. Last Tuesday, at a ceremony remembering 9/11, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, actually said that the attack we suffered 6 years ago was “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”
Editor,
Al Qaeda has announced a $100,000 bounty to kill Mr. Lars Vilks (Qaeda calls for killing of Swedish cartoonist, September 16, A20).
Al Qaeda added, "The award will be increased to $150,000 if (Mr. Vilks) were to be slaughtered like a lamb."
More evidence, I suppose, to support the argument by Gov. Patrick, and those in the pro-terrorist lobby, that we just don't "understand" and "love" al Qaeda enough. (End of first letter.)
The second letter was just my observation about a quote the Boston Globe chose to include in an article on the 2008 elections.
Editor,
Anti-victory military analyst, Mr. Loren Thompson, from the Lexington Institute, a (don't) think (so much) tank in Northern Virginia, said, "The Democratic base wants out of Iraq as soon as possible, and the Republican base wants to fight and win the war. Frankly, most of America is between these two extremes (Iraq war to be defining issue in races, September 15, A2)."
Excuse me? The position of wanting to win the war against terrorists is an extreme position?
And, I hardly think "most" Americans want some kind of tie, the only thing between wanting to win and wanting to lose.
I wonder, were the Americans that wanted to win World War II extremists, also? (End of second letter.)
And, yes, there was an attempt at humor in the second letter when I tried to better describe the tank in which Mr. Thompson thinks (or doesn't).
The third letter needs no set-up.
Editor,
A big “thank you” to national Democrats' for the concept of “too late”; as in, according to Sen. Hillary Clinton, the recent U.S. military victories over al Qaeda occurred "too late (Democrats urge faster troop withdrawal, September 13, A2)".
After leading 7 - 2, the Boston Red Sox did not lose to the New York Yankees 8 - 7 on Friday night (September 14). The six runs the Yankees scored in the top of the eighth inning were scored "too late".
And, certainly the Red Sox have already won the American League East; they're up by 4 1/2 games going into Saturday's game (September 15). Surely any ground the Yankees make up now would come "too late".
The list is endless of the ways I can apply the "too late" (il)logic, now embraced by national Democrats, to improve my life.
Or, as President Bush said, "it's never too late" for a military victory over al Qaeda. (End of the third letter.)
(Blogger’s Note: I am a Yankee fan and to have pretended to be a Red Sox fan for the purpose of improving the chances of getting my letter published was terribly distasteful.)
Finally, the Boston Sunday Globe did a story on the intelligence of birds. The story was loaded with examples of smart and ingenious things birds do. I simply shared the story of something I observed a long time ago.
Editor,
Years (and years!) ago, while making a long drive home from college on Interstate 80, I noticed a crow, feasting on road-kill in the right-hand lane, hop-hop to the shoulder as I approached, also in the right-hand lane, at 65 miles per hour. I passed and it hopped-hopped back to the road-kill. The crow recognized the white lane line separating the right-lane from the shoulder and it counted on me recognizing the same (Eggheads, How bird brains are shaking up science, Ideas, September 16, D1)!
I'm sure there's a great joke about a female driver on a cell-phone and a crows demise related to my story but let's just marvel about the intelligence of birds instead. (End of the fourth letter.)
I had a busy weekend, four letters to the Boston Globe, all pretty short, three serious, to the extent you can take liberal extremists seriously, and one attempting some humor.
The first letter requires the following intro: A Swedish cartoonist portrayed the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog. Al Qaeda placed a $100,000 bounty on his head and a $50,000 bounty on the head of the editor of the newspaper that published the cartoon. Last Tuesday, at a ceremony remembering 9/11, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, actually said that the attack we suffered 6 years ago was “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”
Editor,
Al Qaeda has announced a $100,000 bounty to kill Mr. Lars Vilks (Qaeda calls for killing of Swedish cartoonist, September 16, A20).
Al Qaeda added, "The award will be increased to $150,000 if (Mr. Vilks) were to be slaughtered like a lamb."
More evidence, I suppose, to support the argument by Gov. Patrick, and those in the pro-terrorist lobby, that we just don't "understand" and "love" al Qaeda enough. (End of first letter.)
The second letter was just my observation about a quote the Boston Globe chose to include in an article on the 2008 elections.
Editor,
Anti-victory military analyst, Mr. Loren Thompson, from the Lexington Institute, a (don't) think (so much) tank in Northern Virginia, said, "The Democratic base wants out of Iraq as soon as possible, and the Republican base wants to fight and win the war. Frankly, most of America is between these two extremes (Iraq war to be defining issue in races, September 15, A2)."
Excuse me? The position of wanting to win the war against terrorists is an extreme position?
And, I hardly think "most" Americans want some kind of tie, the only thing between wanting to win and wanting to lose.
I wonder, were the Americans that wanted to win World War II extremists, also? (End of second letter.)
And, yes, there was an attempt at humor in the second letter when I tried to better describe the tank in which Mr. Thompson thinks (or doesn't).
The third letter needs no set-up.
Editor,
A big “thank you” to national Democrats' for the concept of “too late”; as in, according to Sen. Hillary Clinton, the recent U.S. military victories over al Qaeda occurred "too late (Democrats urge faster troop withdrawal, September 13, A2)".
After leading 7 - 2, the Boston Red Sox did not lose to the New York Yankees 8 - 7 on Friday night (September 14). The six runs the Yankees scored in the top of the eighth inning were scored "too late".
And, certainly the Red Sox have already won the American League East; they're up by 4 1/2 games going into Saturday's game (September 15). Surely any ground the Yankees make up now would come "too late".
The list is endless of the ways I can apply the "too late" (il)logic, now embraced by national Democrats, to improve my life.
Or, as President Bush said, "it's never too late" for a military victory over al Qaeda. (End of the third letter.)
(Blogger’s Note: I am a Yankee fan and to have pretended to be a Red Sox fan for the purpose of improving the chances of getting my letter published was terribly distasteful.)
Finally, the Boston Sunday Globe did a story on the intelligence of birds. The story was loaded with examples of smart and ingenious things birds do. I simply shared the story of something I observed a long time ago.
Editor,
Years (and years!) ago, while making a long drive home from college on Interstate 80, I noticed a crow, feasting on road-kill in the right-hand lane, hop-hop to the shoulder as I approached, also in the right-hand lane, at 65 miles per hour. I passed and it hopped-hopped back to the road-kill. The crow recognized the white lane line separating the right-lane from the shoulder and it counted on me recognizing the same (Eggheads, How bird brains are shaking up science, Ideas, September 16, D1)!
I'm sure there's a great joke about a female driver on a cell-phone and a crows demise related to my story but let's just marvel about the intelligence of birds instead. (End of the fourth letter.)
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