Keeping it Real

There are certain things that will provoke anyone to write, and this is one of them. When you read this, I should caution that is a real quote from a real Team Obama representative, and not something from the Onion or other satirical content. "We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them," department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on MSNBC's "Hardball." "We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether --"   That's correct readers, give them jobs, and the beheadings will cease! Could YOU say that with a straight face?

You have to dig a bit in these stories , but the quote from one of the store owners tells you everything you need to know about the underlying assumption. "There's no police," he said. "We trusted the police to keep it peaceful; they didn't do their job." Therein lies the heart of stupid. Note that the store owner is saying this "with a large black gun resting on his shoulder". Damn straight. Cops fill out reports, and call the coroner to haul bodies away. It is obviously a bad idea to expect them to stop a crime in progress. Better to prevent the crime attempt in the first place. Had a weekend coffee meeting with LB this morning, so choose this for my message of the day, and was bemused that some folks glanced at it, but didn't make any comments. I don't really want to meet strangers, but I do enjoy irritating spineless lefties. If one of them is foolish enough to open a tête-à-tête, I always have a bit of time to hammer on stupid. I...