International Criminal Court

Global court confirms charges for first trial - Yahoo! News

It seems that the ICCt is getting its first go. Thomas Lubanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo recruited children as soldiers. Personally, I agree with the United States position that the court interferes with its sovereignty and its concerns that the court would be used to try American soldiers.

Hanoi Jane's triumphant return

Tens of thousands march against Iraq war - Yahoo! News

Ironic, isn't it, that some people actually believe THIS is a GOOD thing. This is a clear statement to our enemies that we do not care about our own security. These people support denying our troops their pay, armor, equipment, food, clothing, medicine, and fuel just so they can have a political victory of their own. These people would see this country destroyed before her enemies. Sean Penn is probably telling the truth: if they don't stop the war (i.e. cut funding to our troops), the Democrats will suffer. And because Democrats have already proven that they only care about winning elections, they will probably ruin themselves horribly; if they actually believe these nutjobs anyway.

Quite frankly, I'm fed up with Hollywood morons going around thinking they actually KNOW something about this country. Actors have no place in politics. Ironic that some of our best actors are shunned by their own community because they don't believe in their leftist agenda. It's really annoying. I don't CARE about these people. I barely even watch movies! Why do they have to butt into every aspect of my life? Go back to where you came from, smoke your pot, tie yourself in a knot in your zen garden surrounded by your paparazzi. Just live in your own little world and leave the rest of us alone. We don't need you telling us that we're living the wrong life because we don't have solar panels on our houses.

Troop funding debacle

Last night, the President discussed his plans to deploy more troops to Baghdad and Anbar to try to stop the sectarian violence there. I'm not going to comment on this buildup because I don't like playing armchair general and it's not my place to judge military decisions like that.

My complaint is with the Democrats threatening to cut funding to the deploying troops to keep them from going. Cutting funding to the military, ANY part of the military, for a political purpose is unacceptable. Pelosi and Reid want to make a political statement against any buildup of anything in Iraq, they want troops out now. So to keep them out, they're going to stop paying their salaries, stop providing them ammunition and food, stop putting gas in their vehicles, stop their medical supplies, and make their lives miserable just because. The Democrats claim that they're only going to attack the troops that will be going in, but ANY attack on the troops in this manner is an attack against the entire military. The Democrats wanted the war in Iraq to be the next Vietnam, and they're going to do it any way they can, by God.

The Democrats are anti-military. They have been for years. The first step was when they screwed up Vietnam. Yes, boys and girls, the Democrats drove us into Vietnam and the Democrats escalated Vietnam. When the war wasn't going well and a Republican tried to fix it, they cut military funding. When some people fought back against the military, their taste in it was soured. It got worse when Regan actually brought back some confidence in the country and in the military. Now, most people in the military are Republican because Republicans have done well for the military, and that makes Democrats hate them even more. So every chance they get, they're going to attack the military. They wanted to abolish the military under Clinton, and now they're going to try to cut military funding in Iraq.

Environmentalists in Hollywood

I had the distinct displeasure of enduring a segment on GMA about how much Hollywood actors are "living green." It's a bunch of fluff about how they're trying to protect the environment and stuff like that. That's all well and good. If they want to spend the money to be ecologically correct, that's fine. It's their money, I'm going to keep my SUV because I can FIT in it.

What annoyed me is Edward Norton saying, "I think clearly the state of our environmental instability is the defining issue for our generation." Obviously, the threat of global terrorism is not important. Obviously, we should be more concerned about our environment than our national security. We don't need a free country, we need a clean world.

What pisses me off the most is that because Hollywood is saying it, obviously it is true and should be done. Edward Norton is supposedly a click-flick superstar, and with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio along for the ride, you can bet that half of the women in this country are going to simply flip out over the environmentalist fad. After all, if the hunks of Hollywood think it's cool to have a hybrid, they should spend the extra few thousand dollars to have it too. If the hunks of Hollywood think that the environment is more important than our troops, then surely all the money going to support them right now is better spent making the government buy solar panels for every house in the country, because it's more important.