Day: October 8, 2004

Would you call someone who quit smoking a flip-flopper? You would? You must be a real asshole.

For the rest of us, no. Someone who quits smoking has come to their senses. They realized they were doing something stupid, and then they stopped doing it.

Being pig-headed is not a virtue. If you, hypothetically, lied to the entire world about something and caused the destruction of several countries and the deaths of insane numbers of people, and frittered away trillions of dollars on your rich friends, “staying the course” does not make you a good person. Hypothetically. Refusing to see when you have made a mistake in the face of insurmountable evidence is a little immature.

And for the people who make excuses for this kind of irresponsible person? Who think that someone coming to their senses or actually thinking about new evidence is “flip flopping?”

Don’t be a sucka.

Politics Makes You Stupid

This is like All Your Base… it’s a giant page of photoshopped photos incorporating the phrase “You forgot Poland.”

In case you didn’t watch the President’s disastrous performance in the first debate, what happened was Senator Kerry was describing the paltry support other nations have contributed to the Iraq War- mainly because America has systematically alienated the rest of the world, and the case for a war in Iraq is, was, and always will be extremely weak.

But rather than address the reasons for this, or how we have lost over a thousand Americans and killed wave after wave of innocent people (at last count over 10,000 people), all Bush could say was “you forgot Poland.”

The invasion force of the “49 nations” included America, Britain, Australia, and, yes, Poland. Let’s look at the breakdown:

• United States: ~250,000 troops
• United Kingdom: ~45,000 troops
• Australia: ~2,000 troops
• Poland: 184 troops

Does this look like a “coalition” to you? I count 4 nations. Look at the numbers of troops.

Web link of note: You Forgot Poland
(At http://www.youforgotpoland.com/)