Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

From a Bloomberg.com story:

“Three decades after the last U.S. helicopters left a city once known as Saigon, a parade marking the communist victory featured logos of American Express and MasterCard, and the nation’s president touted the country as a great place for overseas investors to do business.”

Metaphysically, the Vietnamese communists have LOST THE WAR. All that remains is to physically remove the monsters and allow the nation to rebuild freely.

[The quote was gleaned from a good piece on Arthur Chreknoff’s weblog.]

This is Bill Clinton, campaigning for Tony Blair and quoted by the French wire AFP:

“They [the stupid masses] don’t like this policy or that policy. They sometimes fall into the trap of thinking it doesn’t matter and there are no consequences. But if you believe that look at the difference in the US between now and four years ago.”

Right. Four years ago, the United States was in the throes of Clinton’s recession and was very vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Graying rock star Ted Nugent, speaking of self-defense against crime at the NRA convention in Houston, Saturday:

”Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em!” he screamed to applause. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”

Wango Tango, indeed. Be it noted that he The Nuge differs from liberal Senator Barbara Boxer on the matters of self-defense the death penalty.

From George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney:

“Those who want radical change realize that they had no hope while he was in charge and I hope with the next pope there’ll be a similar sense of security,” he said.

A religion, if true, is not an institution prone to human-driven social experimentation.

This is from Randall Terry of Operation Rescue, commenting on Michael Shiavo’s plans to incinerate Terri’s body and send her ashes away to Pennsylvania:

“This is spite,” Terry said. “Michael is showing in Terri’s death how spiteful he was in her life.”

I can’t read Michael Shiavo’s mind, but this is the only explanation of which I can think. He does not cut a sympathetic figure.

Someone suggested that I put myself in Michael Shiavo’s shoes. If I were in those shoes, Terri would be alive. Perhaps not in disabled, if you believe one theory.