What To Do?

Normally I look at an issue and if Chucky Schumer and Jimah Carter are agin it, I'ma fer it.
Well the UAE and the ports is an issue that puts a crimp in that plan. Well not really, because Chuckie and Jimah are on different sides, so I have to side with one of them. AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Now normally I read the posts over at LGF and that helps to set my stand on issues that involve the Middle East, but this time...

The argument that just because there are Arabs involved, that makes it wrong is as bogus as the argument that just because foreign nations are involved it is bad.

If you want to read a smart overview of what it is all about this piece from the Council On foreign Relations, a group I usually stay away from, gets to the point quickly and well.
But, if you want to read a rant keep reading.
The case is simple, really, a British Corporation that used to perform 30% of the off-loading duties at 6 of the largest ports in this country is selling itself to the highest bidder. That bidder happens to be a state owned Corporation from the United Arab Emirates. The deal was struck last month and the Federal oversite group that "oversees" the approval of overseas corporations that want to do business with government entities signed off on this plan.
Why? Is it because Bush is an evil corporate stooge who masterminded the plan set into motion by a bunch of Arabs who live in the same nation as some asshats who made up 10% of the 9/11 jihadist attack on America. This same corporate shill is responding to the call of his family friend OBL and allowing Arabs to make money while destroying America from it's ports inward.

Listen if these asshats want to destroy us they will try, again and again. And the Administration will use any means f'ing necessary to stop them.

What really bathers me about the vast majority of "conservatives" who are against this move, is that most of it looks like anti-capitalism and anti-globalization run amuck. The left is filled with people who question the motives of corporations world wide, just because they are corporations. We do not need the right to join them.
We already have a wing-nut-job playing the role of anti-corporate super-American, and it is really past time for HerrPat Buchanan to STFU and STFD. It is also way past time for any of us to listen to a word he says.
Now what am I going to do if I find that the uber-Amerikan is on the same side of this issue as I am (highly doubtful, but) well I will still stand by and say we need to do it, and remind most of the anti-Capitalist right that the foundation that he built is built on sand and not on the rock of Adam Smith, or even Milton Friedman.

Rant Mode Off.

Cartoons Are Fun To Relink

Charles over at LGF is reposting, so I think I will too.
Here they are.

The Michael "Meathead" Stivic Of The Week Award

Who will it be?

Bryant Gumble? David Gregory? Lincoln Chafee's Campaign Manager Ian Lang?

Let's look at the nominees.

Bryant Gumble on Real Sports talking about the Winter Olympics:

Like try not to be incredulous when someone tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a psuedo-athlete waits in what's called a "kiss and cry area" while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. And try to blot out all logic when announcers and sports writers pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon, and all those other events they don't understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face it, these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February

David Gregory at the White House Press briefing on Monday:

"The vice president of the United States shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell a local Corpus Christi newspaper, not the White House press corps at large or notify the public in a national way."

Lincoln Chafee's Campaign Manger Ian Lang, on the endorsement by NRO of his opponent Steve Laffey:

For anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Mr. Laffey's record, the idea of describing him as you did as a tax cutting, pro-life conservative is just plain ludicrous. Since he became mayor, Laffey has raised taxes a whopping 20 percent - hiking the average Cranston homeowner's tax bill by $1,000 three short years ago, while also increasing government spending. In fact under Laffey Cranston taxpayer dollars were spent on among other things; an increase in the number of employees in the Mayor's office, money to soundproof the walls of his own office, and a new luxury SUV for him to drive.
NRO also overlooked the fact that Laffey has consistently flip-flopped on his views on abortion. Laffey says one thing when he talks with editorial boards in Washington, but when meeting with potential voters he has offered just about everything except a clear answer. Just this fall Laffey said that while he was "pro-life" he considered Roe v. Wade "settled law" so "let it go."...It is clear that Laffey is no conservative. But don't take my word for it, take Laffey's. In a September 16, 2005 story in the Providence Journal, Laffey himself admitted, that "when you say the word 'conservative,' I don't even know what that means."

And the winner is...


Ian Lang.
Because I know that the other two will continue to step up to the plate as the year goes on.

I mean the settled law comment was the same thing that Chief Justice Roberts said in his confirmation hearings that alowed Senator Chafee to vote for Judge Roberts. Remember The NARAL RINO only will only vote for judges that support "a woman's right to choose".