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Canada refuses to face reality.

Canadian officials, seeking to make sense of another fatal shooting in what has been a record year for gun-related deaths, said Tuesday that along with a host of social ills, part of the problem stemmed from what they said was the United States exporting its violence.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Toronto Mayor David Miller warned that Canada could become like the United States after gunfire erupted Monday on a busy street filled with holiday shoppers, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding six bystanders—the latest victims in a record surge in gun violence in Toronto.

The shooting stemmed from a dispute among a group of 10 to 15 youth, and the victim was a teenager out with a parent near a popular shopping mall, police said Tuesday.

“I think it’s a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence,” Det. Sgt. Savas Kyriacou said. “It was a tragic loss and tragic day.”

While many Canadians take pride in Canadian cities being less violent than their American counterparts, Toronto has seen 78 murders this year, including a record 52 gun-related deaths—almost twice as many as last year.

“What happened yesterday was appalling. You just don’t expect it in a Canadian city,” the mayor said.

“It’s a sign that the lack of gun laws in the U.S. is allowing guns to flood across the border that are literally being used to kill people in the streets of Toronto,” Miller said.

Miller said Toronto, a city of nearly three million, is still very safe compared to most American cities, but the illegal flow of weapons from the United States is causing the noticeable rise in gun violence.

“The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto,” he said.

There are a number of things at work here.  The first is that the Canadian social welfare system, which they hold up as being a model for the world in its ability to provide for the needy and thus reduce the “need” for people to turn to crime, is failing.  The second is the belief that guns cause crime, when crime is a symptom of social failure and guns are merely the most convenient tool with which to do the job.  The third is that Canada’s gun registry has been a monumental failure, despite costing roughly fifteen times the original estimate.  The fourth is that this is an election year, and rather than speak honestly to the Canadian public about any of these issues, Canadian politicians are falling back on the most trusty old sawhorse in their political arsenal:  blame America. 

“It’s not aboot us, eh.  Our problems aren’t our own.  We’ve got a social welfare system and free health care.  We love each other.  We don’t lock our doors.  If we’re having a problem with guns and gang violence, it just can’t be our fault.  It’s those damn hoser Americans, isn’t it!  With their guns and their cowboy president and their love of violence.  You know what America needs?  It needs to be more Canada-like.  If they followed our lead and implemented a social welfare system and gave everyone free health care, then their crime rate would drop… like ours.  Oh.”

The rise in Canadian crime is a failure of the Canadian system, and has nothing to do with rates of gun ownership in America.  Yes, the guns going into Canada are coming from America, but this is because the criminal element in Canada is creating a demand for them.  This is EXACTLY the same dynamic that gun rights advocates in America use to point out the inherent stupidity of gun control laws: when you pass a law against guns, criminals will be the only armed people, because by the very definition of the term criminals do not follow laws.  Canada seems to think that by disarming the law-abiding public somehow this will keep weapons out of the hands of criminal gangs, when this idea is absolutely absurd on its face. 

Canada.  Where real progress is always impeded by a pathological need to blame everything on America.

Oppression is for Cool Kids

Here we see the latest victim in the eeeeeevil fascist Bush’s war against dissent in his never-ending quest to implement a fascist state.

It rocketed across the Internet a week ago, a startling newspaper report that agents from the US Department of Homeland Security had visited a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth at his New Bedford home simply because he had tried to borrow Mao Tse-Tung’s ‘’Little Red Book” for a history seminar on totalitarian goverments.

The story, first reported in last Saturday’s New Bedford Standard-Times, was picked up by other news organizations, prompted diatribes on left-wing and right-wing blogs, and even turned up in an op-ed piece written by Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Globe.

Wow, that’s pretty bad, huh?  I mean, I have a copy of the Little Red Book, and even a statue of Chairman Mao, on display on a bookshelf in my apartment.  This concerns me greatly.  Are Bush’s fascist stormtroopers going to be kicking down my front door soon?

But yesterday, the student confessed that he had made it up after being confronted by the professor who had repeated the story to a Standard-Times reporter.

The professor, Brian Glyn Williams, said he went to his former student’s house and asked about inconsistencies in his story. The 22-year-old student admitted it was a hoax, Williams said.

‘’I made it up,” the professor recalled him saying. ‘’I’m sorry. . . . I’m so relieved that it’s over.”

What?  A left-winger lying about being oppressed?  What… what… what the hell is the world coming to?

Williams said the student gave no explanation. But Williams, who praised the student as hard-working and likeable, said he was shaken by the deception.

‘’I feel as if I was lied to, and I have no idea why,” said Williams, an associate professor of Islamic history. He said the possibility the government was scrutinizing books borrowed by his students ‘’disturbed me tremendously.”

I’ll tell you exactly why he did it, because this is a point I have made repeatedly for years.  The left views the world in terms of two groups, oppressors and the oppressed.  There is no middle ground, you are one or the other.  If you’re a middle class working Joe, you’re still an oppressor, because you buy products at Wal-Mart and other stores, and they’re made in Guatemalan sweatshops, where peasant labor is used.  Thus, by being a middle class consumer, you are unwittingly an oppressor.  The only people who aren’t viewed as oppressors are the very people who make this accusation, the radical lefties. 

So, if you are not an oppressor, you are therefore oppressed.  And who does the oppressing?  The powerful, the elite, the capitalists, the fascists, the government.  If your self-image and self-esteem depend on your identity as a member of the oppressed class, especially if you’re a radical lefty fighting against these classes, then the more oppressed you are the more important you inherently appear.  In other words, the more the powerful elites try to silence you, the more righteous your cause seems, because after all, why would the powerful elite try to silence someone unless they were speaking the truth?

This is a technique Michael Moore has turned into an art form, and his followers lap it up like cream.  (Well, organically-grown soy cream.  Anyone who drinks real cream is an oppressor of our animal equals.) Note the manufactured controversy when Disney refused to distribute his film.  Mikey claimed that the corporate elites at Disney were trying to “silence” his message in an election year, when the truth of the matter was that they had told him a year prior that they weren’t going to distribute it.  But the plan worked, and the false controversy made the front page of the New York Times, thus drumming up immeasurable levels of publicity. 

So why did this student lie?  Because, by doing so, he immediately elevated his status in the eyes of his professor and his peers.  In previous generations this student might have lied about the number of girls he slept with or how fast his car went or how high his GPA was or some other generally accepted measure of status.  But today, in the halls of left wing academia, it’s all about oppression.  The more you’re oppressed the more important you are.  Remember that black college professor who spray-painted racial slurs all over her own car, then claimed victim status?  Same dynamic at work.  When you’re a victim you’re oppressed, and when you’re oppressed you’re important and righteous.

The problem is that, despite the rhetoric we hear so often from the left, America is one of the least oppressive places in the world.  Without this actual oppression the left begins to collectively wonder what’s going on.  Aren’t we important?  Isn’t our message threatening to the fascist elite?  So they manufacture it, because the truth should always be subjugated to the higher moral purpose of increasing the status of the message and its messengers.

It’s worthwhile to note that this subjugation of the truth has been the hallmark of every totalitarian dictatorship in the history of mankind.  But somehow I doubt the lefties will be intellectually honest enough to admit that.

Taking Out Dubya

Someone was after Bush.

Before he was captured last spring, Osama Bin Laden’s top operational commander was solely focused on killing President Bush and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharaff, the Daily News has learned.

The capture last May of Al Qaeda’s No. 3 leader, Abu Faraj Al-Libi, apparently thwarted plots to assassinate the two partners in the global war on terror, said a senior Pakistani official, whose information was corroborated by two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials.

“Al-Libi had one mission: Kill Bush and Musharraf,” the Pakistani official told The News. “He wanted to kill Bush in the White House, preferably.”

“It was clearly something they wanted to do. There’s no question about that. It’s the holy grail of jihad,” a senior U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed.

Al-Libi organized several failed assassination attempts on Musharraf before he was nabbed, officials have said. But the plot by Al Qaeda’s international operations chief to send assassins to the U.S. to kill Bush was only disclosed this week.

The officials asked for anonymity because details of the Bush plot are still highly classified. The officials added that there is little evidence the U.S. mission advanced beyond initial planning by Al-Libi in Pakistan.

This immediately provoked a response from many left-wing pundits and groups.  In a statement on his website Michael Moore decried the “fascist Bush administration’s meddling in the private affairs of citizens in another state.  These men are not assassins, they’re Revolutionaries, Minutemen, and Freedom Fighters, standing up to the evil monster that is currently engaged in an illegal occupation of the United States government.” MoveOn.org echoed similar sentiments when it said “This is nothing more than the latest example of the Bush administration stopping at nothing to save their own skins.  Hating the president and wishing he was dead is a legitimate act of dissent.  Planning the assassination of a president as evil as Bush is the living embodiment of patriotism and love of country.  And, of course, the fascist Bush junta had to quash this dissent wherever these brave men could be found.  It’s a sad, sad day for freedom and democracy when planning the assassination of the president, something all of us do on nearly a daily basis, is considered a crime.”

A parent who lost a child, but not their perspective

Via Mudville Gazette, we hear from Robert Stokely, father of SGT Michael “Mike” James Stokely, KIA Operation Iraqi Freedom 16 Aug 05.

No pity for me is needed, for as a friend said to me, I am lucky to have a son who has brought such honor to his father and the entire family. My son was a man who had a heart that cared deeply for others, and they likewise cared for him. In all of this, so many stories of his simple kindness have been shared with us and touched us. My favorite is the one where he and his buddies had been on continuous duty for several days (their normal day was 22 hours long). He and one of his fellow soldiers had to pull guard duty after being on missions for that continuous period without any sleep. He told his buddy to take a nap and he would stand watch and then they would swap out. For the next six hours, he let his buddy sleep while he stood the whole watch.

We miss him so much. We hurt inside. But we burst with pride in our son and brother. His memory will not fade nor will our love for him. When Mike was just becoming a teenager, I tried to imagine what he would be one day. I often told people I wasn’t sure where life would take him, but I knew he would do something different and be very well known in his chosen field. I never dreamed he would become an American Hero who would serve his country so well.

I’ll not attempt to trump his words.  Read the whole thing.  Mr. Stokely, I thank you for your words and I thank your son for his sacrifice.

Moorewatch Movie Review : “Michael & Me” by Larry Elder

For those of you who are looking for a point-counterpoint style film in the style of Dick Morris’s “Fahrenhype 9/11”, you may be a bit disappointed at first. That is, until you get to the the end of Elder’s debut film and realize that it doesn’t simply answer to Moore, rather it makes it’s own solid arguments, on Elder’s terms. He doesn’t yell, pull stunts or ambushes like Moore, rather he strolls methodically through the debate with confidence that he is right. Even those who disagree with his ideas will have a very hard time labeling him the radical opposite of Michael Moore. 

I’m sorry, I can’t help it

This post contains another “WTF” moment from a certain attention-seeking mother....mother.  If you are fed up...skip it.  No complaining in the comments.

If you’re wondering just what could make me slap my head and go ‘What in THE FUCK IS SHE THINKING?”...read on.

Mikey and the Stocks

The following originally appeared at Front Page Magazine.

How the Grinch Stole Michael Moore
by Peter Schweizer

In a recent speech broadcast on C-SPAN, Michael Moore complains that a “crazy person” (that would be me) has been spreading lies about him, including the story that he owns stock in a number of evil vicious multinational corporations, including Halliburton. “Michael Moore own Halliburton stock?” the anti-corporate activist told his supporters at the Paul Wellstone Memorial Dinner. “See, that’s like a great comedy line. I know it’s not true - I mean, I’ve never owned a share of stock in my life.” He went on: “Anybody who knows me knows that, you know - who’s gonna believe that? Just crazy people are going to believe it - crazy people who tune-in to the Fox News Channel.” (Looks like this crazy person is in good company.)

On the back cover of my book, I include part of Michael Moore’s 990PF that he files with the IRS for a tax shelter he and his wife set up and control. The form clearly shows that Moore bought and sold shares in Halliburton and a number of other vicious, evil corporations. Look through the tax forms from 1998 to the present, and you will find more of the same.

How is it possible for Michael Moore to say he doesn’t own any stock while his tax forms say otherwise? Since Michael Moore simply never lies, this must be a case of identity theft.

The Oily Kraut

Think back to the run-up to the Iraq War.  Think about the allegations from the Michael Moore crowd, about Bush and his oil cronies, who went to war in Afghanistan so they could build a pipeline.  Think about the guardians of peace, those brave nations who dared to stand up to the fascist Bush junta:  Russia, France, China, and Germany.  The Franco/German alliance was held in particularly high regard by left-wingers in both Europe and America, a shining example of the way that peaceful and civilized nations should act.  Which makes this revelation all the more delicious.

Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder was yesterday at the centre of damaging allegations of sleaze over his decision to accept a lucrative job with Russia’s biggest company.

Opposition MPs joined forces to denounce Mr Schröder - who last week confirmed that he was to become chairman of state-controlled Russian giant Gazprom’s North European Gas Pipeline company. Mr Schröder was accused of bringing German politics into disrepute and of “cronyism” and “corruption”.

Mr Schröder signed the controversial pipeline deal for a $6bn (£3.4bn) gas link between Germany and Russia under the Baltic Sea with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, just two weeks before leaving office.

The former chancellor yesterday rejected the criticism and announced that he would take legal action over reports he would be paid between €200,000 (£134,000) and €1m a year. Those figures are “much too high”, Mr Schröder told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

“For me it is a thing of honour to help with the pipeline project,” he was quoted as saying. “I supported the project politically in the past because I think it makes sense.”

That’s right, folks.  Germany’s white knight for peace just committed a more overtly pro-oil act than anything Bush has done during his five years in office.  And you won’t hear a fucking peep about it from Michael Moore or any of the rest of the apoplectic Bush haters.

Pruneface Goes to England

Casey Sheehan’s mother wasn’t making news here any more, so she went somewhere new to get her name get back in the papers.

Hundreds of anti-war protesters, including American Cindy Sheehan, attended an international peace conference in London on Saturday to condemn the Iraq conflict.

Tony Benn, a veteran leftist politician in the governing Labour Party, opened the one-day meeting by calling the war “illegal, immoral and unwinnable.”

He said the peace movement wants to see coalition troops withdrawn from Iraq, justice for Palestinians and a ban on any Western military attacks on Iran or Syria.

In other words, they want to see retreat and defeat in Iraq, the destruction of the state of Israel, and to give a clear signal to our enemies that they can conspire to attack us with total impunity. 

Up to 1,500 anti-war protesters and activists gathered for the 10-hour conference, which was organized by the Stop the War Coalition.

The scheduled speakers included Sheehan, who has become a focus of anti-war sentiment in the United States by camping outside the Texas ranch of President George W. Bush; Hasan Zergani Hashim, a spokesperson for Iraq’s radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr; and leftist British legislator George Galloway.

Okay, we’ve got a barking moonbat from the “peace” movement, a spokesman for an Islamofascist, and a guy who made millions of dollars from Saddam through the oil-for-food program.  What a pathetic coalition the American left now finds itself allied with. 

It’s really sad.  The radical left views western civilization, particularly the United States, and especially the US under George W. Bush, as being the focus of all evil in the world.  Nothing that happens in the world cannot somehow be traced back to find western civilization as its root cause.  So, therefore, anyone who happens to be an enemy of George W. Bush’s America, such as al-Sadr, must therefore be a good guy on the side of “peace.”

And don’t for a second think that Sheehan’s whole pruneface thing isn’t a carefully crafted image.  When she was camping outside the ranch she got sunburned and wasn’t wearing any makeup out of necessity, but she maintains that look everywhere she goes, whether indoors or out, on a plane or a bus or in a building.  It makes her look driven, like the only thing she cares about is bwinging home da widdle soldier chiwdrwn who are dying in Iwaq.

Update: In the comments to this post over on my main blog a reader named rdz809 asks “[W]asn’t Sheehan killed while on a mission to rescue fellow soldiers who were ambushed and pinned down by al-Sadr’s thugs?” He’s right.

In the first 48 hours of fighting Sadr’s followers seized police stations and government buildings across the country including the Governor’s Office in Basra. At least 75 Iraqis and 10 American servicemen were killed, among them Army Specialist Casey Sheehan.

So now Casey’s mother is consorting with a representative of the Islamist whose militiamen slaughtered her son.  What a vile, disgusting woman.

Disarming the Hosers

Up in Canada, which Michael Moore assures us is a crime-free socialist utopia where everyone loves each other and has sunshine shooting out of their asshole, they’re proposing to solve their gun murder program with a sweeping ban on handguns.

Liberal Leader Paul Martin is proposing a sweeping ban on handguns to combat growing gun-related violence in Canada’s cities.

“Handguns kill people—that’s why they exist, and they’re taking too many Canadian lives,” said Martin during his “safer communities announcement” at a school near Toronto’s violence-plagued Jane and Finch area this morning.

Details of the Liberal proposal include:

• a new 250 officer unit from the RCMP dedicated solely to fighting gun-related crimes, as well as other organized crime and drug trafficking;
• 75 new officers at Canada Border Services to combat illegal importation of handguns from the U.S.;
• tougher sentences for gun-related crimes, by changing the Criminal Code to double the mandatory minimum sentences for such crimes;
• encouraging community-based gun prevention, with help from a $50-million Gun Violence and Gang Prevention Fund to focus on youth at risk;
• waving the re-registration fees for owners of long guns in order to encourage compliance with the Canada Firearms Program; and
• a gun amnesty and buy-back program that draws from an Australian model, including a gun stoppers initiative aimed at ensuring the turn-in of illegal weapons.

“Taken together, these are reforms designed to reduce crime, to combat gun violence in our cities and better protect Canadians,” said Martin. 

But… but… why does Canada have a problem with handgun murder at all?  I mean, this isn’t what Michael Moore told us in Bowling for Columbine.  He said that Canadians don’t lock their doors, and he proved it!  So why the need for a handgun ban?

A handgun registry in Canada already exists and has been active for more than 60 years. But a rash of gun-related violence in some of Canada’s major urban centres has prompted Martin to promise even stricter laws. In Toronto, gunfire has killed 50 people so far this year.

So, in other words, their handgun registry hasn’t been effective in preventing a rise in gun violence.  Which is exactly the reason that this type of registry is opposed here in the United States.

The announcement will likely be popular in vote-rich urban centres. But it could anger voters in rural areas, already upset at the Liberal-created registry for long guns. The registry, created 10 years ago, was supposed to cost just $2 million—but the price tag continued to rise to more than $1 billion.

And we can see just how effective it’s been.  I wonder how much free healthcare the Canadian government could have purchased with the billion dollars they’ve pissed away on a useless gun registry.

[Tony Cannavino, president of the Canadian Professional Police Association], disagreed that a sweeping ban on handguns would be very successful in combating urban violence, considering that most guns used in shootings are obtained illegally. He said the answer is tougher sentencing –- beyond the doubling of minimum sentencing included in the Liberal proposal.

What?  You mean criminals don’t obey laws?  But… but… I thought in Canada there were no criminals!  It’s as if everything Michael Moore told me was bullshit!

But Wendy Cukier, co-founder of the Coalition for Gun Control said existing laws limiting the availability of handguns and the use of rifles and shotguns have been effective.

“Five hundred fewer people are killed with guns today than 16 years ago,” Cukier said Thursday on CTV’s Canada AM. “There’s no question that stronger gun laws in Canada have made a big difference. In spite of the surge in Toronto over the last year, gun murders are the lowest in 30 years. ... Murders of women with guns are down 66 per cent.

“So it’s really misleading to suggest we’re not getting anything for the investment in gun control.”

See, here in America our crime rate has been dropping across the board for about 20 years.  During that time period we’ve greatly expanded our right for private citizens to defend themselves, and well as putting more cops on the street and implementing tougher sentences.  I’ll make a prediction: if this goes into effect Canada’s crime rate will not drop, it will rise.

Flip thier script

The Democrats.com idiots love to email me stuff.  Just got this one:

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, IS NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO END THE WAR

Tuesday is the day! Congress Members get back to DC today, and we want to welcome them. We’re asking you to call, Email, and fax your Congress Members and ask for an end to the war in Iraq. This National Call-In Day - organized by Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America, and After Downing Street, together with United for Peace and Justice and many other peace organizations - aims to flood Congress Members’ offices with our message for bringing this war to a close.

Our message is simple: “I am calling to let Rep. ______ know that I think the Iraq war is wrong and all our troops should be brought home immediately!”

Take Action Below, or call the Capitol toll free 888-818-6641.

Here’s my proposal: If you disagree, call and say so.  Don’t let these idiots be the only voices Congress hears.  Spread the word.

A Tale of Two Lists

Now this is an interesting exercise in comparing and contrasting the Red State/Blue State dichotomy in contemporary America.  Take a look at these two lists.  The first ranks states in terms of smart or dumb by evaluating their public school systems

on 21 factors, including student achievement and attendance, positive outcomes, strong student-teacher relationships and school district efficiency. Other factors are the number of high school graduates, reading, writing and math proficiency, percent of school-age kids in public schools, high school drop out rates, student-teacher ratios and class size.

Here’s the top ten.

1. Vermont
2. Connecticut
3. Massachusetts
4. New Jersey
5. Maine
6. Minnesota
7. Virginia
8. Wisconsin
9. Montana
10. New York

Mostly blue states, through there’s a few red ones in there.  Okay, let’s look at the bottom ten.

41. Tennessee
42. Hawaii
43. Alabama
44. Alaska
45. Louisiana
46. California
47. Nevada
48. New Mexico
49. Mississippi
50. Arizona

Okay, so if we accept these numbers as true then Blue States are, generally speaking, “smarter” than Red States.  But California?  The crown jewel of the liberal left?  The 8th largest economy in the world?  The most progressive state in the country?  The one which consistently goes for the Democrats in every national election, which has a state government dominated by Democrats and liberal Republicans?  This is the 46th best school system in America?

Okay, the next list is the 2005 Generosity Index, which ranks the generosity of states by using

published data of individual tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service, we compare the rank of each state’s average adjusted gross income (AAGI) to the rank of each state’s average itemized charitable deductions (AICD). The arithmetical differences between these two rankings are then themselves ranked, resulting in the Generosity Index rank.

Before we go on, what do you think the red/blue breakdown here is going to be?  Okay, let’s continue.  The top 10 most generous states are:

Rosa Moore

I haven’t done a Michael Moore post in a while, but he just emailed out this drivel to his mailing list.

I just thought we should all pause for a moment today to remember the simple act of courage, defiance and dignity committed by Rosa Parks when she refused to move to the back of the bus because the law said she had the wrong skin color. The greatest moments in history, the ones that have truly mattered and have taken us to a better place, are made up of scores of these singular acts by ordinary, everyday people who could no longer tolerate the crap and the nonsense of those in charge.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president’s ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness.

That’s right, folks.  Prostituting the memory of your dead son, and working to keep other people from making the adult decision to join the military, are the intellectual and moral equivalents of standing up against racist society in furtherance of civil rights.  And the left in this country wonders why it can’t appeal to normal people.

What’s next?  People who recycle their empty soda cans are the moral equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi?  Anyone else think Mikey and his fans might have a slightly overinflated sense of self-importance?

They can speak for themselves, and they do

I dare not presume to speak for men like this, but I would add that his words apply to Moore and his merry band of terrorist-sympathizing sychophants as well.

We in the military community have never believed that the anti-war left care about us. You can’t call soldiers baby-killers, fascists, or murderers in one breath, then claim to “support the troops” in the next. The bulk of the “withdraw now” gang have long been venemous anti-military activists. A few weak mutterings of “we support the troops not the war” can’t undo decades of calling us “murderers.”

This is about politics plain and simple. The anti-war crowd don’t want us to leave because they care for our safety, they want us to tuck tail and run because failure would make them right about the whole Iraq debate, waged since 2002. They want defeat, just so they can smugly smirk and say “we told you so.”

Move-On is using us. They’re using the hardships of military life -that have existed well before Iraq 2003- so that they can finally put a notch in their political win column.

Unfortunately a political win for Move-On means a military defeat for our troops. In military thinking, we don’t calling that “support,” we call it enemy action.

(emphasis mine)

Well said.  I thank John Noonan for saying it.

Fahrenheit 1861

WHat if Moore got all Ken Burns on us?  We’d have gotten Fahrenheit 1861.