Conservatives are "whiny" - so say the anti-American bed-wetters
March 25, 2006 ~ 1:12 p.m.
CORK, Ireland � I do apologize everyone � my computer crashed two weeks ago and I have been unable to write since. The use of this internet caf� in Ireland is the first chance I�ve had to write in a while. Anyway �
Everyone by now has heard the study that claims that whiny kids who sit at the back of the class grow into conservatives.
Thinking about it, I always preferred the back of the class. I was also quick to complain to the teacher. But is that a bad thing? If the confident, potentially liberal kids just took things in stride, confident in their own knowledge, I don�t think they learned much. That practice has obviously affected and stunted their adulthood.
In one of the British papers, they questioned whether Michael Moore was more confident than P.J. O�Rourke. Well, if you�re going to carry all that blubber around, in Moore�s case, then I suppose it helps to be confident!
But this is all just a case of don�t-believe-the-hype. Liberal kids may not whine during childhood, but they sure do make up for it when they come of age. I regard how most of them are incapable of arguing without tossing around personal insults, their angry protests, their abhorrence of anyone that dares to disagree with them, and their manhandling of free speech into a one-way street via political correctness, and I question the validity of this study. If these people start out confident and reasonable, what the hell happens to them?
If wanting a structured society that believes in straight talk, functional families, patriotism, mostly unregulated markets, and law and order is whiny and unconfident, then I suppose I�ll wear those labels proudly.
No to liver transplant centers
There is a lot of talk about how much Britain needs a few liver transplant centers, due to the exponential rise in binge drinking.
No we don't need them.
The rise in liver disease is controllable. If young people would stop their binge drinking, the crisis would sort itself out. The troubled Liberal Democrats have a good idea about the government setting a strategy to warn people about safe alcohol consumption limits. But will they be heeded? After all, most smokers continue to smoke despite ads showing clogged arteries that were caused by the habit.
Britain has the worst drinking habits in all of Europe, if not the world. Alcohol abuse is chronic there. If people want to shoot their livers to shit, let them. I don�t want public money going to the NHS so they can give new livers to heavy drinkers. A new liver, in most cases, will simply be a license to keep drinking. Look at George Best � they wasted a new liver on him. They saved his life and told him, you won�t live if you keep drinking. The stupid bastard kept drinking. Many will follow in Best�s shoes.
I say spend the money instead on government anti-drinking strategies. In the long run, that will be cheaper than liver transplant centres. We also won�t be rewarding alcohol abuse.
Good riddance, Slobo
Did Slobodan Milosevic commit suicide, or was he poisoned? Another question: Who cares?
The Serbian strongman is dead and if there is anything to feel glum about that fact, it�s that he�s escaped justice.
It also allowed us to see sickening accolades in his favor among Serbians. Although not all of them regard the ethnic-cleansing nationalist kindly, a lot of them believe he had a right to protect the disintegrating Yugoslavia. They also question how fairly he was treated during his tribunal in The Hague.
A respondent on the BBC thread about Milosevic�s death stated: �Here I clearly state the West has done wrong to Milosevic and the Serbs � The garbage you people have piled onto this misunderstood Nation is phenomenal. You are clearly loosing my respect. And it appears I am not alone.�
We have done wrong to Milosevic and the Serbs? What about the ethnic Albanians that Milsoevic and his henchmen (Ravko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic) slaughtered in their quest to keep a poorly designed nation together? I feel sorry for Serbia � it is true that we do not understand that country much at all. A tortured history often lends itself to times of barbarous acts of irredentism.
However, I was behind the 1999 effort to oust Milosevic as much as I was the ousting of Saddam Hussein. Butchering dictators must face the music at the hands of a furious West.
Milosevic is gone. Our work is not over, and the final book on the suffering of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina has not been closed yet. Not until we�ve caught Mssrs. Mladic and Karadzic.
� M.E.M.
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