RETURN AFGHANISTAN TO THE 12TH CENTURY

As We Leave, Return Afghanistan to its Former Pristine State

Obama wants us out.  The Afghans want us out.  Your Ostrich Killer wants us out - not because I don't believe in freedom, but because I believe that freedom is for those who are willing to fight for it, not against it.  It cannot be imposed, it can only be captured.


So where are the Afghani police and security forces during these hyped-up 'koran burning' riots?  Where is the Afghani leadership?  Why, with the rioters of course.  On their side.  And why?  Because the trash left behind by Afghani prisoners was about to be burned.


Well, ok.  Enough is enough.  I propose that as part of the overall withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, we return that country to its former pristine 12th century condition - you know, the condition it was in before American forces arrived.  


So we should start with roads, dams, power plants, rail lines, bridges and schools.  If we built them or even repaired them, take 'em all down.  Sewers?  Dynamite them.  These are people of the left hand, after all, and they didn't need sewers before we arrived.  You'll have to look that phrase up to truly understand, and your Ostrich Killer has too much class to describe it here.  Or you could drop me a note and ask, as my personal review of Google's search results don't return the proper descriptions.  Maybe Mr. Google is the polite sort.


Internet? Cell communications?  Factories?  Industrial facilities of any sort?  Motorized farm equipment?  Turn them to slag.  And then leave them to fight themselves as they have for millennia.  Drop incendaries on Opium poppy crops.  Wherever pockets of terrorism crop up, carpet-bomb them from 50,000 feet.  Don't waste smart bombs on dumb targets.  With a little luck and enough collateral damage, maybe the population will take steps to keep organized terror out of their communities.  If not, well - that's what Arclights and collateral damage are for.  Otherwise just leave them alone.


And good riddance.  

PEACE RECIPE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST

THE CAB DRIVER IN TEL AVIV


Your Ostrich Killer just returned from Tel Aviv.  First time ever to that part of the world.  An Israeli taxi cab driver passed along a couple interesting thoughts:


First, he said "All we (Israelis) want is to be left alone.  If we were left alone we could be another Switzerland."


A few moments later he said "If the arabs put their weapons down today, there'd be peace in the Middle East today.  If the Jews put their weapons down today, there'd be no Jews tomorrow."


I wonder if our State Department ought to put this fellow on retainer.

Whitney Dead. Darn!

SPARE US ANY MORE MEDIA MASTURBATION ABOUT WHITNEY HOUSTON

Okay, someone should just say it:  she probably offed herself.  Poor little rich girl.  While your Ostrich Killer is as saddened as anyone else by suicide, the act alone is enough to deprive her of any honors.


Suicide is an act of hate, and people should line up to piss on the graves of those who commit it - they should NOT honor them.  It's a mortal sin.  Ask any major religion.


I'm being unfair?  She had golden tonsils.  It's true.  Very good singer.  Lousy wife.  Lousy mother.  Crack and coke head.  Juicer.  Kid in rehab or needing to be.  So other than being a good singer, of what use was she to her family or society?


None.  So let's stop all this whining and hand-wringing and eulogizing.  Say "it's too bad rehab didn't work for her," and move on.  There are other singers.  Some of them are actually decent human beings.


Good thing your Ostrich Killer hasn't had his second cup of coffee yet.

WHAT EXACTLY IS 'INSTITUTIONAL RACISM?'

Your friendly Ostrich Killer only asks the above question so that he can answer it for all the people who SHOULD be reading this blog.  My regulars already know the answer, so my apologies to you.


To properly answer the question, we first have to agree that the word 'institution' means any structured system involving people, such as a university, or a government, or your local day care center.  All these institutions have policies or laws governing many things.  Including dealing with the race issue.


Okay, so now for the definition:  "Institutional Racism" is any enforceable policy or law that treats one group of people differently than another, based at least in part on their race.


End of definition.


What?  You have a question?  Oh - okay, it is true that Affirmative Action programs are institutional racism.  In fact, they're one of the very best examples of it.  Good point.  Oh, and yes, also the university preferential treatments of various races so that they can 'diversify and enrich' their student body population.  And so are so-called 'hiring preferences.'  And yes, Obama's recent address to black Americans, appealing for their support in the next election, was racist.  Can you imagine what the press would make of a white conservative appealing to white Americans? - - but the press is another topic, for another time.


Good points, all of them, o Gentle Reader.  As usual, you're spot on.  Now if we could only get the people who SHOULD be reading this blog to read it . . . And now, another cup of coffee.  You're welcome.  

TOM BRADY DOES NOT AN ENTIRE TEAM MAKE

A SAD SUPERBOWL


   First, let your Ostrich Killer make it clear that he didn't pull for one team or another.  He pulled for quality football.
We watched the team with probably the most talented quarterback in the history of the game lose to a lesser team - a team beaten by the Seattle Seaturkeys this season.  Why did New England lose?
   They lost because of a questionable franchise philosophy:  score a vast number of points, and it doesn't matter how many points the other team scores.  So it's offense, offense, offense - and just enough defense to slow down the other side.
But if you don't score a boatload of points - well, that's what happened.
   Many megabucks spent on offense, lip service to defense.  No interceptions by New England.  Few drive-stopping plays.  And just when New England couldn't afford it, three dropped passes in a row near the end of the game.
   A statistical certainty that happened at just the wrong time, despite Tom Brady setting the all-time consecutive pass completion record for a Super Bowl.
   This game is just another in a universe of examples of why balance is a necessity.  Mrs. Brady, Tom's wife, has it right.