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Forum member Bill Faith and his SmallTownVeteran blog got the attention of blog heavyweight ***** ******** of *********** . Great job Bill ! (although a NAME might have been nice gesture on the part of Mr. ********...sheesh Wink

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kate · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject:

Q-u-a-g m-i-r-e indeed
Voting at a higher percentage than in the Jan elections, with high probability of passage,,and the MSM (to use an old Daschel quote) are saddened, or at least confused.
They are truly stuck on stupid with superglue

Listening to the morning talk shows, Tommy Franks made a comment, something about the media doesnt know how to report good news.

As disconcerting it may be to the naysayers, Freedom reigns in Iraq.

IraqiGovernment.org
TEXT OF THE DRAFT IRAQI CONSTITUTION
(Translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press)
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Bill Faith · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link #1. It's not too uncommon for Glenn Reynolds to just add a quick link like he did to me without mentioning names and I'm not upset; so far he's sent over 1400 people to my blog and I'll probably get a bunch more tomorrow from people who don't read blogs over the weekend.

Gotta brag on Haider Ajina a little more. He's an American citizen who spent roughly the first half of his life in Iraq and still has family there. His father moved back there not too long after the invasion. The first time I heard from him was after I posted about the Kevin Sites/Mosque/Marine incident and he wrote me:

GenrXr · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:42 am Post subject:

Hi Bill,

Added your blog to my favs, definately a nice read. Tell your daughter she is a great writer and should keep on writing. Her obserance of her child giving her faith was refreshing. She sees the world is much larger then the self. Love your Achtung! warning sign, hehe. That is basically your way of saying your commencing a blitzkrieg upon political correctness? If im wrong sorry but clever word usage regardless.
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Bill Faith · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:05 am Post subject:

Thanks, GenXr. I hadn't thought of the Blitzkrieg connnection but I like the thought. Basically, I was just trying to catch all the important languages in that warning (You'll notice I didn't bother with Fwench.) I try to remember that my daughter and my sister read my blog and keep it from getting too out of line but occasionally I just can't help myself; hence the warning post.

I hadn't seen your blog before but I just added it to my Favorites and to my blogroll.
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Viet Nam 1971-1972

wwIIvetsdaughter · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

Iraqi citizens seem to value the freedom midwifed by American troops moreso than Americans at home value the freedom bought and paid for in blood by American troops for the past two hundred plus years--how else to explain that they vote in a greater percentage (70+ vs just over 50%) than we do?

I B Squidly · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:02 am Post subject:

The local Daily Diasappointment (Az Rep) a Gannet rag headlined how the high turn out of Sunnis was (hopefully) a vote "no" and end to this whole silly constitution thing.

Arguing where between 60-70% was the voter turnout is humerous in our republic where on average only 32% bother...save the 5% who don't know their polling stations or that they had to be registered.

We've become so blase about the graveyards voting Chicago or the thousands of unregistered votes in King County and Milwaukee, or the cast of Warner Bros. cartoons registered in Ohio.

Sometimes I'm like Dusty and want to grab my trench broom to sweep the streets.

What did Thoreau say? ...who would trust their vote to a popular gamble... any man more right than his constitutes a majority of one? (sic). Then again, Thoreau was the Cindy Sheehan of the Mexican War.
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GenrXr · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:54 am Post subject:

I B Squidly · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:

GenXr,

Glad to see you hanging, grateful for the directs from your site.

Jefferson's writings allow him to be portrayed as the pre-eminent exponent of republican democracy, avatar of states rights, a tyrant wannabe of the first order, or what-ever you want him to be. He'ld have lost to Adams without Burr. He'd have lost to Burr without skulldugery. He is our first big D Democrat. I trust nothing of him but what's convenient for a sound bite. In his fifty years on the American scene he blew the wind to all quarters, mostly self-serving pusilanimy. True, he had a turn of phrase but that's common among 18th Century writers.

Funny, the to-and-fro of the 19th Century. The progressives wanted an expansion of the electorate while the Tories worried for the dilution of reason and that public libraries spread dangerous pretenses among the unclean.

I've recently reread a compendium of Eric Hoffer. He dramatically contrasts the Old World where nothing is accomplished without the centrallly controlled direction of the 'elites' or presumed elites whether it's the French Revolt and Napoleon or Russia and Lenin, against America where for most of our history the central government was a deliberately fumbling ineptitude and all significant technical, social and economic accomplishment rises from the anarchy of the self-gratifiing criminals, misfits, and failures who escaped Europe. He celebrates an America where 'elites' are rightfully held in disregard and derision. Ivy League degrees, and the title 'expert' immediately subject the holder to suspicion as most of America's greatest moments fall to emigrees of dubious provenance or locals without pedigree.

Before he died this working class Democrat decried the McGovern revolution of a Dr. Spock derived, libertine aberation. He rails against the Sputnik education entitlements that got misdirected from the sciences to radical humanities and a coterie of educational facists.

I don't do him justice. He's a must read.

Is there a thing of which it can be said, "See, this is new"?, no it has been before. -Ecclesiates
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Bill Faith · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject:

Don't try too hard. You could break your brain and turn into a Liberal.
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Viet Nam 1971-1972

GenrXr · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:02 am Post subject:

Thanks Bill for the Blogroll, I will reciprocate once I get my rolling finished.