Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

we are petunias
no matter whether
i think i am not really a flower
you have nice smelling petals
Master of All
do I become a petunia
you say yes, become a petunia
and so i do, Master
i am a petunia
and we are
petunias
forever
thank you, Master.

July 31, 2007 – Tuesday

1585 days into the war

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3651
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 26953

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 68009
(MAXIMUM): 74403
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 600,000

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $447,906,000,000

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 1,000,000.

RED DAVE

Let’s all celebrate the healing power of faith in our lives! Let’s give testimony to the example provided by Ronald Marquez of Phoenix, Arizona, a God-fearing man if ever there was one!

Ronald Marquez was in the process of expelling demons from his 3 year-old granddaughter, grabbing her by the throat and choking them out of her, good man, while her devoted mother sat in the corner, chanting prayers, covered with blood from her own struggle with the demons.

Some demon-inspired neighbor called the police to try to stop Mr. Marquez. The police burst in, and tried to stop Marquez from choking the demons in his granddaughter by blasting him with a stun gun. Still, Marquez was determined to force the demons out of his granddaughter’s body, so he held on, and only released his hands from around his granddaughter’s throat when he was hit with the stun gun again and he lost consciousness.

That’s the power of faith! We can expect to see this story written up in the religion section of the local newspaper soon, I’m sure.

Sadly, the police interrupted the exorcism, and the 3 year-old girl, now in the hospital, is still possessed by demons. If only her grandfather had been able to keep on strangling her body, I’m sure that would have saved her, in the name of Jesus.

July 30, 2007 – Monday

1580 days into the war

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3648
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 26953

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 68009
(MAXIMUM): 74403
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 600,000

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $447,619,000,000

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 1,000,000.

RED DAVE

Iowa was the victim of an islamofascist terrorist attack last week, but the liberal media is busy trying to explain it away, as if it never happened.

The facts are clear: Huge chunks of ice rained down across Iowa late last week. One of the frozen projectiles was measured at 50 pounds, and smashed a hole through the roof of a house. The owner of that house, Jan Kenkel, says, “It sounded like a bomb.”

Well, Ms. Kenkel, the reason it sounded like a bomb, clearly, is that it was a bomb. Yet, the liberal media cannot accept that obvious truth. The Associated Press writes about people who “theorized that the chunks either fell from an airplane or naturally accumulated high in the atmosphere”.

Well, you keep on theorizing, liberal media elites. That woman from Iowa knows what she heard, and where I come from, when a woman says she knows what happens, by gum we show her some respect and take her word for it. If Jan Kenkel says a bomb hit her house, then a bomb hit her house.

No one knows how Al Quaeda has managed to hurl ice bombs at Iowa, and that’s what makes the terrorist plot so very deadly. Until the Department of Homeland Security can replicate the ice mortar machine, we won’t know when the frozen forces of fear will strike us next, and we won’t be able to stop them.

Unfortunately, the Dan Rather types in the liberal media are like Neville Chamberlain, trying to appease the radical Islamic ice terrorists. They’re obsessed with making excuses for Osama Bin Laden, saying that he must not be responsible for the cold acts of violence that have brought Iowa to its knees.

One thing is for certain, now that America has become the victim of a new terrorist attack. Just like before, things will never be the same.

July 29, 2007 – Sunday

1582 days into the war

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3646
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 26953

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 67945
(MAXIMUM): 74336
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 600,000

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $447,340,000,000

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 1,000,000.

RED DAVE

CBS News came out with an article yesterday proposing to shock us with the news that the American military is full of violent gangs. It quotes the mother of a soldier killed in a gang initiation as saying, “How would I have known there were gangs in the military?”

How would you have known there are gangs in the military? Ma’am, the military is a gang. It’s a bunch of young men running around doing disgraceful things like coming up with a variety of ways to kill people, controlled by a small number of older adults. The military has bizarre initiation rituals that are designed to bend the will of members to the group that involve beatings and hazings and shaving your head and getting tattoos and stripping naked in front of other members and all kinds of weird stuff. The military teaches young people to worship guns and value violence. The military teaches people to obey orders without knowing or caring why they are doing what they are doing. The military takes vulnerable young people and transforms them into killers. The military orders people to do things that would be illegal if only they didn’t have a special government exemption.

Parents, if you want your youngsters to become decent, law-abiding grownups, do not let them join the military! The military warps people until they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.

I suppose that military people will come on here and criticize what I’ve said, but that just proves my point. They’ve been made into gang members who are so brainwashed by their cult of violence that they can no longer recognize the antisocial immorality they have been swept up into.

A few days ago, someone here asked about the idea of an Afghanistan Body Count. Unfortunately, no one seems to have any current figures on the number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan during the current war there. I imagine it would take quite a bit of effort to get a such a body count together, requiring the labor of a professional, or of someone with a lot of time on their hands.

There is, however, a regularly updated report on the number of American deaths and woundings in Afghanistan. Of course, it’s given by the Pentagon, so take it with a grain of salt.

The latest numbers are:
409 American deaths
1428 Americans wounded

Of course, these statistics are about eight days old now. Two more American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan just yesterday, perhaps more today. As the war in Afghanistan has continued, the rate of American deaths and woundings has been increasing, not decreasing. Afghanistan looks to be sliding toward something more like the violent chaos in Iraq.

July 28, 2007 – Saturday

1581 days into the war

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3646
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 26953

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 67945
(MAXIMUM): 74336
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 600,000

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $447,075,000,000

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 1,000,000.

RED DAVE

Word comes this evening that Republican Congressman Ray Lahood from Illinois will retire at the end of 2008. Representative Lahood is often described as a moderate Republican, and that’s half true. In our system of legislative rankings, Representative Lahood earns a rating of 42 out of 100 in our progressive scale. That’s not very good, but it’s better than most Republicans. On the other hand, Ray Lahood has a 60 out of 100 rating on our right wing scale. That’s not really a moderate position.

Nonethless, Ray Lahood’s district is a swing district in the sense that the number of voters who tend to vote Republican is pretty close to the number of voters who tend to vote Democrat. In the current anti-Republican mood, that makes it a reasonable assumption that the 18th congressional district of Illinois will go to a Democrat. In fact, it’s that likelihood that convinced Ray Lahood that another campaign for re-election might not be worth it.

The question is, which Democrat will replace Ray Lahood? No Democrat has announced an intention to run in the district yet. Any guesses?