Bill Quick takes some woman named Cheryl Davis to task. Poor Cheryl Davis.

I’m not a big history buff; when did the Germans turn against killing people? Germany says it’s going to withhold evidence about Zacarias Moussaoui unless the U.S. assures them that it won’t be used to secure a death penalty against him. Sure, no Europeans will take a stand against evil dictatorships who are planning to kill innocent people, but they’ll stand strong against a friendly nation to keep a murderer from being executed. With moral compasses so screwy in Europe, maybe we should keep a sharper eye on them. Also, we should make it clear to them that America will kill who it wants, when it wants, and for whatever reason it wants, and no one can stop us!

I like Laurence Simon’s take on the thwarted baseball strike. Personally, I would have been more interested in baseball if they did strike; that’s more free entertainment.

A new discovery supposedly reveals that it was an American sailor, not a Japanese pilot, who fired the first shot in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yeah, that’s right, they think they surprised us, but we got their asses! I don’t want enemies of the Unites States thinking they can sneak attack us without losing a midget sub.

Who fired the last shot of the Pacific War is of less dispute.

I just really got into blogging recently, and I didn’t realize there was so much stuff worth reading out there. Still, I noticed I don’t link that often to other people’s blogs. To remedy that, I’m now going to try and pick a post from a blog each day as my link of the day. Instapundit is disqualified because everyone reads him anyway.

Today, John Hawkins’s interview with Daniel Pipes was big news, but everyone already linked to that. Also, there is a big debate at DailyPundit on Bill Quick’s decision to start posting at a the pay only Blogging Network. But, from the looks of the comments section, everyone has already read about that. Personally, I’m too new to blogging to have an opinion, but I myself am not a professional writer (like that isn’t obvious) and am thrilled just to be read by anyone at all. I will mention that I have crossed the line and paid for internet content at ign.com (I like me videogames); I liked the idea of having special access to things other people can’t read. I don’t think I can go on and keep paying for tons of different individual sites, though, so if lots of places go pay, I hope I can suscribe to a suite of sites just like you get a bunch of channels with your cable TV subscription. Oh, I guess I do have an opinion.

Oh, yeah, link of the day. The link of the day is Joanne Jacobs’s post about blogging for money and her ambivalence about the Blogging Network. It’s a bit of a downer to people hoping to blog for cash, but it’s definitely worth a read.

The State Department is going to have a two day conference on the roots of anti-Americanism. My question is: why do we care? We’re the United States of America, the most powerful entity on earth; why do we care of the opinions of a few other measly nations? Of course they hate us; we make them all seem insignificant and powerless in comparison. And I say let them hate us as they eat food given to them by American foreign aid and live in cities protected by our military interventions; we’re plenty big enough to take the hate. All we have to do is scare the piss out of them all to make sure they have the sense not to act on that hate.

Betamax is about to die, though I had no clue it was still living on. Back when I was a kid, my parents bought their first VCR and unfortunately chose Beta. I remember going to the video store and having to pick out a video from the smaller, segregated section of the store. For once, I understood what it was like to be an oppressed minority with seperate but unequal treatment. It was a hard and trying time until my parents finally got VHS, but, I survived, and I believe it made me the man I am today.

Bush met with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, but it doesn’t sound like anything substantial was talked about. The Saudi’s hold American women hostage in their country, won’t let the U.S. use their soil for an attack on Iraq, and it looks like they paid off al Qaeda, so why won’t we confront these mo’fo’s? I’m not saying anything drastic; just a kill a few Saudi princes. Maybe fifty of them. They have like a jillion, so it won’t be that big a deal, but it will let them know we’re serious now.

Other countries don’t seem to like the fact that Bush didn’t attend the Johannesburg summit on whiny environmental crap. Some of the delegates have started wearing buttons that read, “What should we do with the United States?” The arrogance! To think that these puny countries actual believe they can affect a country as immense and as powerful as the United States! Do those in attendance understand how easily we could wipe out most countries? Yet we harldy ever nuke anyone, because we we’re just that kind and benevolent. All other countries should be greatful that we let them have these little U.N. dog and pony shows and pretend they have a say in anything, when, in reality, the environment will stay around just as long as it entertains us. If we grow bored of it one day, the rainforests will go up in a mushroom cloud and no one can stop us.

Saddam Huessein, in reaction to Cheney speech urging a preemptive strike against Iraq, has said that, “American threats target not only Iraq, but the whole Arab nation as well.” I only wish he were speaking the truth. No offense to any Arabs, but that place need a lot of cleaning up after we plow through Iraq. Once Saddam’s skull has a “regime change” into an ashtray, there will still be a lot of other nations out there that’s going to be a threat to everyone until they’re democratized. And, if we have to put guns to people’s heads to get them to vote in a free elecion, so be it. Saddam’s words do anger me though, because he shouldn’t be saying stuff like that; he should be dead. Why is he still alive! Why! We don’t need a permission slip signed by the French; just kill the bastard! Everytime he walks by a window and isn’t sniped, baby Jesus cries.

The Palestinians seem to be in a never ending war with any feelings of sympathy I may have for them. Yeah, things have to be tough living under Arafat, but when I see Palestinians cheering when Israeli kids are mudered (hell they seem to cheer when anyone is murdered) and dressing up their children in phony bombs in hopes they’ll one day blow themselves up and many others, it takes a lot of effort to think of them as fellow human beings. And I’m a lazy man. Still, I hold out some hopes that there are enough good Palestinians out there that peace can happen without razing all their homes and sowing salt in the earth. A Reuters story, though entitled “POLL-Palestinians oppose ending suicide attacks,” gives me some hope. If the numbers are to be believed, 53% of Palestinians are for the suicide bombings, but 44% want to halt them. That’s not a small number of people showing rational thought there. That means to achieve peace maybe only 53% of Palestinians need to be wiped out (plus or minus three percent) and then… I dunno… those 3% undecided pistol whipped.