I say all those fallen into that circle of Hell where and eternity passes in a library full of books of the level of Mr. Thomas’s perfervid prose, beg and pray whatever glimmer of grace left them to be moved to that circle of Hell called War.

You have asked us to refrain from being personal as in the case of MikeB.

For the moderator to call somebody a liar is contradictory and in poor taste, IMHO.

So I disagree.

I will not make a point of it further, but it appears that on another thread you are running into some judgement calls that will require more consistency on your part in order to remain credible.

Best regards,
Bear1909

PS: Tough job and my intent is not to make it tougher or to call you out.

I call ‘em as I see ‘em.

The fellow is typical of many lefty commenters who will say something outrageous and then turn around and try and convince you that they never said it or they never meant it that way or more often, they’ll throw up a strawman.

He is a liar and I called him out on it. Whether that is “dignified” is besides the point. By letting him know that someone is paying attention, he will be a lot less likely to pull that kind of crap in the future.

I am not an impartial observer here, btw. I have been engaged by Michelle to moderate and comment on her posts. When I disagree with her or another commenter, I say so. I pull no punches nor do I expect anyone to pull any on me. I have not banned anyone for criticizing or disagreeing with me nor will I ever do so.

I wish I could spend more time commenting but other duties keep me from responding and engaging others in discussion. That may change soon but for now, accept by lightening bolts of logic and thunder claps of wisdom for what they are:

THE VOICE OF THE MODERATOR.

Make the editors pay just the way Dan Rather ended up being exiled to some Tijuana cable station.

Every attempt of the Liberal Media Establishment to foment lying propaganda by using “the guy in the trenches” should result in the perpetrators losing their jobs in very public ways.

We have the power.

You mean to say we should withhold judgement on the truthfulness of Beauchamp’s essay until an official military investigation has been held which can verify his claims one way or the other?

I didn’t withold anything waiting for the military to waste its time on an investigation of *journalistic allegations* without evidence aside from the specious claim ‘i was in the army at the time’.

I wrote to the Publisher (not the editorial flunkees) of TNR and let them know I would never purchase or read their publication again.

I let them know that as an American with a *personal* set of values comprised of principles, beliefs and sentiments which either RIGHT or LEFT could claim as their exclusive political province at any given moment, I used to read TNR to see and interpret for myself what my usual adversaries on the LEFT are thinking and doing about the important issues of the day.

I let them know that I found that to be an important exercise in a vital struggle for the soul and future of the Greatest Nation in Human History.

I let them know that I used to find them to be one more credible source in my endeavour to inform myself.

But now I can no longer trust the TNR to play its role in my personal political information gathering process.

TNR has lost me as a reader and patron.

I read and purchase alot of magazines on a host of subjects.

But TNR no longer gets my sheckels nor does it have my recommendation to others. They no longer have my *applied respect*.

And that seems more important as a use of my mind and mouth than to prattle on endlessly about how they do not share my value set, opinions, or beliefs- and what a shame that is.

Hit our adversaries where it hurts: our applied respect for what they do as a media asset.

I refuse to be frustrated by the Left; to besot myself with the negative coagulants they brew to pour over the heads of us who share Lady Liberty’s grip of the Torch; to swallow continuously the reactionary bleating they craft for us to swallow and hyper-react to in spite of our better nature.

The Left is standing in a swamp of their own making. We don’t belong in that muck with them. You don’t want to go there: because you never know when somebody like me is going to lob a an activated electric motor into the mix and fry all who are standing in it.

(For the record, I *do not* fish with dynamite! It makes the salmon taste bad.)

Bear1909 out.

Wow! I can just tell how HORRIFIED you are! The compassion drips from your pen. You treat the incident as just one more way to stick it to conservatives.

And then you have the unmitigated gall to turn 180 degrees around and claim that gloating was the farthest thing from your mind.

I’ll say it again.

Liar. And I’ll add “hypocrite” for good measure.

I don’t know Captain Howdy from Doody. Nor do I have an opinion of his opinion.

But I am wondering about something as a newbie to this blog.

As the moderator of this discussion, to what extent do you have the obligation to model the type of discussive behavior you expect of the others who debate and engage in passionate discourse with others here?

Calling Captain H-D a “liar” seems less dignified than just illuminating his fault(s).

At risk of being censured, or at the least excoriated, I will express my hope that you will take what I say to conscience and review your list behavior in order to perhaps *modify it* for the sake of your own credibility as moderator.

Thank-you for reading, Sir.

Scott Thomas Beauchamp, is about discipline in the 118th Infantry, my opinion of this guy- He’s a Pud.

The idea that you can take criminal incidences and try and apply it to 158,000.00 troops, in a country of 25 million and extrapolate that this is the norm for all those troops is at the very least, bad math.

To call what happened at Abu Grahb “torture” insults the victims of actual torture by belittling what they’ve endured.

Well, I’m not sure the full extent of what happened there, and I’m glad those guilty of violating policy were/are being tried for it. But based on what I have read, Igotta agree with what you say there.

Same goes for the whole Guantanamo Bay detainees. Based on what I’ve read, suspects arrested by our police are often treated less gently.

You mean to say we should withhold judgement on the truthfulness of Beauchamp’s essay until an official military investigation has been held which can verify his claims one way or the other?

There is no way to reasonably interpret what I posted as saying that. Yet another of your attempts at cleverness has fallen flat.

Liar.

This just reeks of fabricated anti-war nonsense, doesn’t it? Our troops would NEVER do anything like this, it’s just impossible and anyone who says otherwise hates America and wants us to lose the war. Let me know when you guys debunk this pack of liberal lies!

Good luck!

Wow! I can just tell how HORRIFIED you are! The compassion drips from your pen. You treat the incident as just one more way to stick it to conservatives.

And then you have the unmitigated gall to turn 180 degrees around and claim that gloating was the farthest thing from your mind.

I’ll say it again.

Liar. And I’ll add “hypocrite” for good measure.

…

Undercover Ambassador: First Meeting
by “Joe O’Hair”

“This coffee tastes like crap!” I said, and scowled. I wrote down MEETING on the top of the page in my notebook. Then I wrote BAD COFFEE underneath.

“Florida does the best she can, Joe,” Princess Valiant said. “She comes from a deprived background.”

FLORIDA DEPRIVED, I wrote.

“Kept down by the man,” I empathized. “Fight the power.”

“Fight the power!” she murmured. “Poor downtrodden minority.”

“Downtrodden like gravel under the man’s boot”, I agreed. I sipped the bad coffee again. “Still tastes like… Hey guys, I’m glad you’re here.”

The door swung shut and two desk spooks sat down at the conference table. They glared at me with inscrutable expressions. One was her boss. He looked like a low level spook boss. The other was just another desk spook. Neither one had as good hair as mine.

Her boss said, “So you’re Valiant’s husband.”

“Yeah, I’m a lucky man, maaaaan,” I replied suavely.

She gave me one of those dreamy looks that convinced me to marry her in the first place. She’s such a foxalicious fox of the foxy tribe of foxes. She added, “and an ex-ambassador with experience in Niger.”

“I guess you know what we need. Right, Joe?” he asked.

“We need to find out if Saddam bought any Uranium in Niger.” I responded. “I heard Darth and Der Fuhrer are trying to lay a frame-job on him.”

“Yeah those dillweeds,” he said. “They think we aren’t doing our jobs, and we have to cover our asses or we’ll have to go back into covert work. And I like coming to work at Langley everyday.”

“Me too,” agreed the other spook.

I wrote DILLWEEDS in my notebook.

“Me three,” said Princess Valiant.

“Me four,” said the boss spook. He snorted with laughter.

I laughed. And they laughed. We all laughed. Man we laughed, slapping our knees, bumping foreheads on the table, crying tears of bemused amusement. I laughed, leaning back in my chair until I lost balance and fell backwards on the floor.

“Hoooo haw, tee hee hee hee,” I snurfled.

…

More at my site and at VC.

There are about 158,000.00 American Troops in Iraq, those are all the crimes you could come up with- per capta 25, million people living in Iraq…this isn’t counting what the enemy is doing to our troops or the citizens of Iraq. What are the statistics in America everyday for the same crimes by Americans and non Americans- committing crimes like these in our own Country? Why just this past week Michelle had a blog about a man from Liberia, that need an interpreter didn’t get one in what the Judge felt was a timely enough manner and she excused a case of him alledgedly raping a 7 year old. He spoke English well enough, he went to school in this country…so you want to match atrocity for atrocity? In and out of Iraq by Americans and non Americans.