Bill's Notes

I could hide out under there
I just made you say 'underwear'

--Barenaked Ladies "Pinch Me"

I've been so busy lately that I've neglected to comment on the news last week ... apparently some popular young entertainers named Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears went out on the town sans undergarments, and thus flashed the world their naughty bits.

Is this a sign of the further decline and fall of the post-Christian West?

Nah. No big deal.

Closed the land deal this morning. Sold to a guy who wants to build a A-frame kind of thing on it. God bless him.

I won't say what I got for the land -- 'cept to say that I got my money back.

So I'm free!

A few years I came to realize, belatedly, that our country had no intention of actually fighting our enemies, which I had been told were North Korea, Iran and Iraq. As I've mentioned before, it never occurred to me that we would actually fight a single isolated nation-building war in Iraq, one not part of a regional war.

It's disheartening to know just how far out of mainstream public opinion I am. I don't like to be on the fringe, but here I am. Virtually no mainstream Republicans and conservatives agree with me. It's just folks like Bill Quick.

In the months after 9-11, I was stunned at how little the U.S. government did. As I've mentioned before, I thought we would finally do something about terrorism — conduct a mobilization similar to World War II, and beat on our enemies until they howled. Boy was I wrong. I couldn't have been more wrong.

That's all. The Iraq Study Group is more bullshit. If we have the need for such a group, the war is already lost. So, too, is Afghanistan, if this is our thinking.

Our bluffs have been repeatedly called in North Korea and Iran. And now we've pissed away six years in expensive, bullshit half-measures. To wit:

1. You do not REBUILD a nation until you've utterly defeated it.

2. You do not negotiate unless you have leverage.

We have no real leverage against, Iran, North Korea or Syria. A new diplomatic "offensive" will just yield more contempt from these parties. We hold no cards we're willing to play. And our enemies know it. So there's no point in talking to them unless we want our chains jerked more.

I initially thought this story involved a friend of mine:

Flatulence forces plane to land.

But no. It wasn't him.

Nothing to say. World still a madhouse. God still reigns. You figure it out. Thanks for coming by.

Still light to no blogging. Just lots going on and I just don't have time to post more than this. Hope everyone's doing well. -- Bill