Wednesday, October 27, 2004

 
Open letter sent to Richard Lowry(One wonders if Kerry is elected, many who voted for him, like some of those who voted for Jimmy Carter will later be "sadder Budweiser." I should have also thanked RL for his link to JG's old piece on beer in which he notes that the name, "Budweiser" is derived from the town of Budweis-which is now presumably krautfrei in the Czech Republic. As written earlier, I wish that a non-teetotaling representative of the Bush administration could drain a cold one before a crowd of Iraqis while noting this, and then gesture expansively while asking, "Do you want to end up like the Germans of the Sudetenland?");

"Jeepers, I thought a "Hoplite" was VDH's favorite microbrew...

I still think that the official beer of La Raza is a "Juan Corona."(best appreciated best if consumed in quantities of a case + plus one(25)and aged, of course, in a shallow grave). And I haven't been able to confirm that Selma Hayek, who played Frida Kahlo(who gave her body to Leon Trotsky, but her heart to Josef Stalin when it came time to set up the head of the former for Ramon Mercader's "Basic Instinct" ice pick)prefers a Mexican beer which was rumored to have been a favorite of Catherine the Great: "Dos Equus."
Seriously, many thanks to you and others attempting to provide some balance to the MSM coverage of the purported looting of high-explosives at Al Qaaqa(hmmm..Ira*q*, Al *Q*aeda, Zar*q*awi...wonder if the bad guys, perhaps inspired by pirated James Bond DVDs, have a munitions expert they simply call "Q"?) The local rag, the (Red)StarTribune, has yet to run any editorials contesting its assertion that, "But the administration also didn't secure the Al Qaqaa explosives. Sometime in April 2003, they were systematically looted. Since 377 tons is enough to fill almost 150 heavy trucks. It took quite a sophisticated operation to sneak this material away." "Sophisticated," indeed. If our troops and commanders are *that* incompetent or our enemies *that* good, it's a wonder that we haven't been pushed into the sea or that Washington D.C. isn't already a smoking ruin.
I rather doubt that Republicans claimed that Roosevelt was "incompetent" because large numbers of krauts escaped through the "Falaise Gap" in Normandy, or because others had escaped("down to the last guard dog," according to a "History Channel" program)across the Messina Straits from Sicily to Italy.