Random Nuclear Strikes

Karol at Alarming News makes an excellent point on the Shiavo controversy now that the deal is done.

So, what about the political implications of this whole situation?

My Democratic friends have been happily insinuating that the Terri case may permanently split the Republican party, between the religious conservatives and the small government libertarians. I don’t think that’s going to happen, at least not any time soon, and here’s why:

The ‘Right’ is the only side debating anything and this is no different. The last election saw us debating gay marriage, abortion, immigration, the war and a myriad of other issues and deciding how Bush fit into our personal equations, while Democrats did their best to pretend John Kerry was their dream candidate.

I saw a number of very pointed discussions on right wing websites in the last couple weeks. I saw nothing on the 18 or so left wing websites I visit daily other than “Those stupid Republicans�.

I am still in the midst of a couple of discussions on the Shiavo topic, one of them with the prolific blogger and RNS visitor George Schneider (aka Riverdog).

The main point I am trying to make here is that the left accuses the right of ‘Group Think’ because we generally support President Bush and the WoT. But they are wrong on that accusation because we actually discuss the topics.

The left does nothing but bash the President and play around in their echo chamber and may mercy be upon those who show even the slightest amount of dissent.

And that is what is called a political vegetative state. I think we can all remember what happened to the last vegetable the left put their mind towards.

Soldiers’ next mission: Get a job

A large number of members of the Oregon National Guard are returning from Iraq,

About half of the latest wave of 700 returning Oregon Guardsmen didn’t have civilian jobs before they were deployed, a U.S. Labor Department official said Tuesday. Other members of the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, which arrived home last week, lost their jobs while they were on active duty.

After reading this story, John at Some Poor Schmuck makes a damn good proposition,

This is easy. Everyone has been saying how they support the troops. Anti-war protesers can show their support by quitting their jobs so the returning veterans can have them. If they are unwilling to do this, their employers can fire them and hire the veterans. If it’s OK for Playgirl to fire an editor for being Republican, it’s OK for employers to fire someone for being an anti-war protester.

When you’re right, you’re right, John.

According to an Arizona TV station, The President of Mexico Vincente Fox is not too happy with the Minuteman Project lining up along the border and is thinking about moving the Mexican Army up to meet them.

“The Mexican military is on standby,” reports NBC’s Tucson affiliate KVOA. “One unit has about a thousand soldiers. They’re located just across the border.”

Last week President Fox warned at a Mexico City press conference:

“We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups. We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure these types of groups, which are a minority, will not have any opportunity to progress.”

First up Fox, neither you or your troops have the authority to enforce US law on anyone. Second, you would first have to enter the US to even attempt to enforce said law, making you an invading force. Thirdly, well let’s just not go into what would happen if armed Americans saw your troops invading the US.

Bring it on hombre, You seem to want your citizens to come to America, so now you should retire in disgrace and concede Mexico to US authority and America will come to them. We’ll take the people and the oil and expand into your country making your people not only free, but employed.

So much so that they won’t want to or have to come north.