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Bits of Hilarity

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Today the news was just full of jokes. My sick sense of humor has been getting a real work out this evening.

Here is a joke that you might not have heard. Here is another one that you probably did hear.

But if you have as sick a sense of humor as I do, the fun is just getting started. Try saying the quote that leads off this post out loud and see if you can keep from laughing. If at first you don’t find it funny, try thinking about the implications of such a statement. Here is some more background info.

While we are on a role, it should be noted that Brant Hansen is always good for a laugh. The only problem with today’s post is that he pulls his punches and goes all PC at the end.

This one from a while back was a lot better. I did not realize at first that he was talking about a real service on offer.

A slightly more obscure source of fun comes from this letter. Hard as it may be to believe, Hertz was actually dumb enough to sue those people in open court. A better way of convincing the world that they are about to go bankrupt could not be found. Especially when their whole argument boils down to saying “6 months ago we were even more likely to go bankrupt then we are now.”

Believe it or not, I did not stay home today to collect all these bits of hilarity. Instead, I went to work even though I still don’t have my voice back and I still am coughing and hacking like a fool. But nobody threw rocks at me so all is well.

Expect for the fact that I am feeling a little crazy.

Essay of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09

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It ought to be considered a war crime to send people out to kill and die for no reason. If such things ever do become an indictable offense, Michael Yon’s latest essay would be evidence enough to start a criminal case.

It is clear from Yon’s post and from other newspaper reports that Great Britian is sending its troops off to kill and die in Afghanistan for no reason whatsoever. They don’t have enough troops to take the battle to then enemy that the old school doctrines of warfare call for. They don’t have enough troops to protect the population according to modern theories of counterinsurgency warfare. All they are doing is fighting and dying for the sheer pleasure of existing in Afghanistan.

They are paying for things that they destroy when they defend themselves. They are giving free medical treatment to people that they know are their enemies. They are letting prisoners go because they are afraid of trouble if they don’t. They are doing all this in the hopes of winning support by being nice.

But if they can’t defend the population, the population will never support them no matter how nice they are. Even if a sizable portion of the population supports the British, they will never dare act on that support while the Taliban have control. And it is manifestly clear that the British cannot secure the population with the force that they sent to do the job.

What is worse is that it is clear that the powers that be don’t even expect them to secure the population or defeat the Taliban. They just expect them to fight and die for the appearance of doing something.