Lousy speeches and twisted minds

For me, I became aware of President Obama's speech ending the war in Iraq thanks to Sarah Palin on Facebook.  I expected nothing that was worth listening to from the President, and as far as I was concerned, we had already won the war in Iraq.  If the Iraqis can control and maintain stability over all of their provinces, then I see no reason for our troops to stay there one more day.

The President gave his speech Tuesday night, and as I expected, it wasn't worth listening to.  Alan W. Dowd, writing at Front Page Magazine, noticed the absence of an important word from President Obama's speech: victory.  In addition, Jim Hanson, writing at Big Peace, saw the speech as another example of our President not being a leader when it comes to his duties as Commander in Chief.  Frankly, President Obama can get away with a speech like his because of how well off Iraq is today (with much thanks to his predecessor, George W. Bush), but what will happen when he gives his speech ending the war in Afghanistan?  That worries me.

Yesterday, Fox News aired breaking news coverage of a hostage situation somewhere in Maryland.  The hostage taker had been identified, and it wasn't too long afterwards that police had thankfully killed the man and saved the hostages.  What makes it bizarre is the fact the episode occurred at the headquarters of Discovery Communications (the company responsible for TV's Discovery Channel), and the hostage taker wanted the cable network to “save the planet”.  Unfortunately, it gets worse.

Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That features a look at this freak's manifesto (much thanks to C Monster for the heads up), which included calls for Discovery Health and TLC to stop airing programs on giving birth and focus on “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility” (he had a problem with what he called “parasitic human infants”), for the ceasing of programs featuring war and the technologies involved (he apparently found the Military Channel offensive), and for finding “solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy” (apparently, Planet Green wasn't good enough for this freak).  This guy was a twisted environmentalist who had no regard for human life; the police commendably did their job.