“IN THE MAIL: Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. I was going to read it, but I had to go shop for a PlayStation. . . .”

Bloggers are FUNeeeee
Jenny Hatch

Heather said:

“Why can’t supernanny see that the helpful help that she gives these tormented families would be so much better if it included helping them attach to each other more, instead of promoting detachment? Oh, that’s right, because she’s a NANNY. Nannies aren’t supposed to attach to their charges, silly me. It’s a sad day that the culture is taking parenting advice from nannies, and really sad that the mothers are listening.”

Check out her cartoon, it was very funny!
I also really appreciated the various comments attached to this post: Scroll down to read them.
Here was my favorite:

“I think these shows are for people who really, really dislike children and resent the work that they represent, but who have enough social conscience to not be overtly abusive. It’s an outlet, a way to heckle mother and children and let off some steam while feeling smug and self-congratulatory about one’s own out of control situation.

I never watched it (I don;t own a TV) but what you are describing sounds so depressing I just do not have words. One of the problems is that one can use editing to support any point of view at all. If you only include footage of children who are having a rough day and make it look like that’s the way it is all the time, and especially accompany it with ironic and snarky voice overs, people who aren’t very media savvy will eat it right up. It’s pitiful.”

I’ve watched super nanny a couple of times and it is just a pathetic show that zeros in on all the negatives of child rearing. Parents are dumped on for the most silly things, and that British accent really gets on my nerves.
The nanny should really find herself a guy and settle down to raise her own children, then do a reality show about her own life.
Jenny Hatch

Ghosts of Anbar Part II

Over the past several years, while working into a strategic fatigue, our military has made an amazing transformation in how it conducts this war. Gone, for instance, are heavy-handed tactics, replaced by multi-dimensional counterinsurgency strategy rolled out simultaneously with targeted kinetic battles, like those recently with the 3/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Baqubah.

Arrowhead Ripper was merely the latest experience that underlines the Army’s rapidly-growing expertise. Yet the Marines have adapted faster and seem poised to win the war in their battle space. In fact, it’s been Army officers who have told me repeatedly over the past several years that nobody is successfully morphing to meet this war faster than the Marines. Of course, Army officers who compliment Marines always say, “But that didn’t come from me.”

…Some of these men will admit they were insurgents who switched sides because they realized that they are more likely to get what they want with a stable government. Al Qaeda promised them everything under the baking sun, yet al Qaeda killed people who smoked—and Iraqis like to smoke. They killed people who had satellite dishes or televisions, but al Qaeda would be drinking and with prostitutes.

Iraqis have told me some interesting anecdotes about the religious technicalities of prostitution. They are not supposed to have sex out of wedlock, so they marry the prostitute (and the house of ill-repute has the proper religious authority present to make the marriage), and then they divorce the prostitute after completing their business. Another rumor in the area is that al Qaeda tried to force shepherds to make their female sheep wear underwear. This is one I have heard all over Iraq.”

Sheep in diapers…..that is really weird! I wonder how the terrorists feel about Great Danes??
Jenny Hatch

Michelle Malkin: The forbidden Opus Cartoons
Go Here to see the cartoons that some American Newspapers won’t print.
Bill the cat would have made an exellent president during the Clinton Years, yes I believe even better than Bill from Arkansas.

And Opus, my favorite penguin, what would I be without your cockeyed optimism during my formative years???

Berkeley Breathed should be mandatory reading in political science classes!
Mr. Breathed, Keep on keepin on….we ALL need a good loud laugh once in a while!
Jenny Hatch

George III said that if Washington went back to his farm after the war that he was the Greatest Man in the world…..he was right!
Jenny Hatch