Jeezal Peezal! Charlie Sheen’s New Girlfriend Has Sure Been One Busy Porn Babe…

Her name is Bree Olson. She's 23 and just a small town girl, originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana. While Sheen, 45, is reportedly currently seeing three different porn stars in Vegas, Olson is said to be his "No. 1" as well as a dame with whom he's become quite "smitten" (links at bottom).

And Sheen – whose own film career took a sharp turn for the worse about 10 years ago – might be able to score some pointers off his new porn chick when it comes to staying relevant and employed in the film business. That's because according to IMDb, Bree's porn "filmography" is starting to push the number 200 in just four short years since her "debut" in 2006’s Whale Tail 3. If you’re scoring at home, that’s almost one porno per week over that period!

Many of Bree's porn titles are not readily repeatable in a family blog such as this one, but here's a list of 25 of her top titles which are (at least somewhat) repeatable – all of which serve only to reinforce that Bree is just the kind of broad that we'd all like to take home to mama (or not):

-Big Screw Review
-BlackMarket Bayou
-Bra Bustin’ & Deep Thrustin’ 2
-Debbie Duz Dishes Again
-Destination Tonsils
-Double Decker Sandwich 10
-Filth C*ms First
-Go F**k Myself 2
-Grand Theft Anal 10
-Lex the Impaler 6
-Long Don Black Kong
-Lord of Asses 9
-Manaconda 2
-Meat My Ass 7
-Meet the Twins 7
-MILF Eye for Teen Pie [Sorry, but that’s just wrong!]
-Natural Knockers 12
-No! Please Don’t Tickle Me There
-Old Enough to be Their Mother 2
-Pop Goes the Weasel 2
-Rack by Popular Demand 3
-Real Racks 4
-69 Bree Street
-Slam It! In a Slut
-T**ts Ahoy 5

My two personal favorites from that laundry list (favorite titles, that is) are Rack by Popular Demand 3 and Long Don Black Kong. And I even have a film idea of my own to pitch: Sheen and Bree should star in a porn film together! Working title -- Ball Street: Charlie Never Sleeps.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/11/sheens-sexxxy-new-squeeze-celebs-resist-porn-stars/
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_soup/b219864_has_charlie_sheen_found_his_dream_girl.html

As Kansas City Is Pummeled with Nearly a Foot of Snow & Arctic-Like Winds, I Think I’m Starting to Come Around on This Whole Blame Game Thing…

It took a completely ungodly Midwest cold snap & snow blast, plus a healthy dose of the Arizona massacre, to finally bring me to my senses on a few things that the American political left and right have known all along:

I’ve fooled myself for way too long into always looking for the most convenient person or natural phenomenon to blame for bad events. Always, it seemed, I blamed the act’s perpetrator or such cursory notions as the natural course of the earth’s cycles, or some other such drivel.

Well today, finally, I woke up and said to myself (I said, I said): “Self, TODAY – We’re going to break the hearts of all those damn mealy-mouthed Independents!” And so it is that I arrive at the following pronouncements as I officially cast my lot into the Great American Blame Game!:

1. The Jared Loughner Arizona Massacre (Allegedly): I’m officially blaming Global Warming, since the same has acted to contribute to Loughner being either unseasonably hot or cold nearly 24-7, 365 days annually, for years now. Who could possibly blame this slime (errrr, individual) for overheating like he did on a chilly day in early January?

2. This Damn Pesky, Inclimate Kansas City Weather: I’m blaming heavy metal music. The American pop culture is purely rotten, heavy metal among it, and finally God’s Wrath has fully come to roost upon all of us here in flyover territory for that and for consistently voting incumbents out of office every election cycle for no apparent good reason as oftentimes pointed out by the American political left and right.

3. My prior reluctance and push-back towards fully embracing the American Political System’s incessant Blame Game, which spins every single human tragedy and worldwide calamity as a product of the terrible behavior of those with whom we disagree: For failing to come around for so long, I blame Bush. Hey, I don’t have any otherwise decent candidate, and he’s the good ol’ standby in that regard. When in doubt, blame Bush. Good grief, it would be SO politically incorrect to blame the ultra-personable nice guy next door named Barack Obama. I ain’t going there! Since I may disagree with many of his policies, but I find him personally very likable! Nope. I'm on Bush.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/10/2573595/first-big-snow-of-the-season-hits.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345895/Tucson-gunman-Jared-Loughner-appears-court.html

Rush Slimebaugh Today on Accused Arizona Killer & Gabrielle Giffords Shooter Jared Loughner: "This Guy Listened to Heavy Metal!" Gee, Can't Have That!

Yesterday it was the far left blaming the deranged and demented Loughner's alleged murderous rampage on conservative rhetoric, and today it was the far right's chance to weigh in, with Rush Slimebaugh actually suggesting that heavy metal music might have played some blameworthy role. Call me naive for continuing to blame Loughner's actions on Loughner himself. And yes, I do fully realize that such a groundbreaking notion is a bit out there on a limb in this day and age!

But another thing about Slimebaugh's rant rubbed me the wrong way as well: It's based on the necessary and ridiculous premise that there is something inherently wrong with listening to metal music in the first place! (And that if you do so, you may go insane!) We're talking about a common form of American popular music, and Slimebaugh just insulted a large swath of the American population with his dumbass comment.

It very much reminds me of a comment from loony left-winger Alec Baldwin (who wants to run for political office, BTW) from a few years back, although I just heard it for the first time in recent days: He was trying to talk smack at right-winger Sean Hannity and included within his rant the fact that Hannity was a "former construction worker." WTF?!?!

So many of these elitist leftist and right-winger talking heads and politicians are just so completely out of touch with the average American. For example, if you're a hard-working blue collar construction worker who loves to listen to some metal on your way to work, then apparently you are to be made fun of and scorned by both the far right and far left alike. Their words, not mine.

Ultimately, Baldwin and Slimebaugh are two illustrative examples of a much larger point: Why have any allegiance to these two parties or either political side when they have absolutely no allegiance to you, the common man? They don't care about you; only about your vote.

Very few of them have any real convictions to speak of at all, and most all of them do not deserve one ounce of our admiration, respect or loyalty. Or, feel free to disagree with me, and continue to follow idols who view the Average Joe to be something beneath them. I'll pass. And where did I put my damn Five Finger Death Punch CD?

Predictably But Yet Disgustingly, the Arizona Massacre & Gabrielle Gibbons Shooting Are Quickly Politicized By the American Far Left…

Links at bottom to examples. Like I said – highly predictable, and involving the usual suspects, such as Daily Kos & Huffington Post. And even an unusual one – Politico.com (“seemed to be validated,” Politico? Get a clue).

Despite the predictability, I guess what gets me a bit perturbed is the fact that the American far left that controls the democrat party has NEVER had any place for a centrist democrat politician like Gibbons. But yet they’ll immediately use her for political purposes in the wake of her being shot through the brain by a madman. How convenient.

In case you haven’t noticed any of the rumblings from the far left, they’re out there blaming Sarah Palin, the tea party movement and the republican party for the Gibbons shooting. Never mind that 6 people are dead, including a 9-year-old girl and a republican-appointed federal judge. Never mind that the believed gunman Jared Loughner was a total nutjob who seemed to be just as enamored with far leftist literature such as the Communist Manifesto as he was with deranged right-winger propaganda such as Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

This slimeball Loughner was completely batty and loony tunes (complete with nonsensical online rants about paper money, gold standards & mind control). Guess whom I blame for this massacre? Him. Gee, what a novel concept! What is wrong with me?! I don’t blame Palin. I don’t blame tea partiers. I don’t blame Hitler or Karl Marx. I don’t blame crazy political rhetoric on talk radio. Heck, I don’t even blame Bush.

But then again, I’m not a mindless partisan ideologue. Instead, I’m a rational human being in a country that’s about half composed of loony left-wingers and deranged right-wingers. A frightening thought.

And let me say just a few words about Giffords. I didn’t know much about her until watching and reading a bunch of the last day’s coverage. She strikes me as a pretty damn impressive politician – a compliment I ever so rarely give out. Strikes me as basically a centrist democrat with conviction and courage enough to be free-minded and to let her viewpoints come out all over the place. I can completely identify.

I pray she survives, is not brain damaged, and will be able to make a full recovery. From everything I’ve read and heard, we could use a lot more politicians like her. Just like we could use a lot fewer sleazewads like Jared Loughner and the far left loons who try to use him and Gibbons for scuzbucket political purposes.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47294.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47252.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/gabrielle-giffords-shooting_b_806232.html
http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/missouri-tigers.php?message=8240793

Beware the Wrath of the Defrocked Creature of the House: Both Democrats & Former Presidents Alike Had Best Look Out!

The past few days have shown that outgoing House Creature Nancy Pelosi is still alive and kicking like so many insects in a grasshopper summer. First, we saw Pelosi on Friday blasting George W. Bush and blaming him for the democrat party losing control of the U.S. House in November (first link at bottom).

And why not? Bush is blamed for everything else, after all. I've made the statement before in this space, and I still believe it, that the democrat party will still be blaming Bush for every worldwide calamity, natural disaster, and occurrence of the common cold long after all of us have been deposited six feet under. My previous remark was that at least then, we won’t be around to have to listen to it anymore.

Second, we have a story about how Pelosi is likely to seek retribution against the 19 House democrats who voted against her for Speaker in this past week's election (second link at bottom). The number 19 was highly embarrassing to Pelosi since "it was the largest number of defections for any formal candidate for speaker since 1997."

Although no longer the Creature (errr, Speaker) of the House and no longer a member of the majority party, Pelosi still retains significant far leftist power as House Minority Leader with a democrat party House caucus that is now substantially more liberal than it was during even 2009-10 (due to massive defeats of so-called "blue dog moderate" democrats in November), which is really saying something.

That means bad news for the few remaining "moderate" democrats in the House, most of whom were among the 19 who voted against Pelosi last week. Pelosi can make it difficult for those members to push legislation, and she can screw them over when it comes to committee assignments and chairmanships – as she’s done in the past to democrats whom she didn’t like or who had crossed her.

At the end of the day, I think I’d rather be a Febreze can in an Alabama shithouse than a "blue dog" democrat in the House these days. But alas -- that's just another day in the life of our two truly small-tent parties.

http://nation.foxnews.com/nancy-pelosi/2011/01/07/pelosi-democrats-lost-house-because-bush#http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/06/democrats-voted-pelosi-suffer-politically/#

NEWS FLASH: Bath Salts Are For Use in Baths, and It’s Not Safe to Snort Them…

It’s reportedly "the latest legal way to get high: snorting bath salts." And public health officials in the Midwest are warning people not to turn their epsom salt into nose candy. I’m glad these officials are around to tell us these things. (Link to full story at bottom).

Bath salts are garnering this heightened level of attention in the wake of recent incidents in Kansas and Missouri. In one, a Kansas University (or as we say around here, KU) student wandered out into traffic and was killed – with bath salts on his person (toxicology results are pending). Also in 2010, "family and friends of a Cameron, Mo., man who committed suicide attributed his death to an addiction to bath salts."

So keep your Cloud Nine, Ocean Snow and Lunar Wave out your nose and in your bath. The stuff in those bath salts is reportedly "amphetamine-like and mimics the effects of ectasy." BTW, you also shouldn’t shoot up bath salt through a needle either, as has previously happened in at least one reported case.

And while the linked story is silent on the issue, I would assume that the same advice would go for eating bath salts, rubbing them on open wounds, and ingesting them anally (is that a word?). But that’s just idle speculation on my part.

I also wouldn’t try baking them into a brownie, although they might work OK sprinkled atop a mound of spaghetti (they are "salts," no?). But even that one I would take with a grain of salt. Best bet: Leave the damn bath salts for the ankle soaks and the NFL training rooms.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/jan/06/public-officials-warn-against-snorting-bath-salts-/

They’d Be Tea Party Heroes in the States! Romanian Witches Declare: Read My Lips -- No New Taxes, or We’ll Put a Hex on Your Ass!

I wonder if these Romanian witches are distant kin to republican Witch of the East, Christine O’Donnell? Like the Delaware tea partier, these Romanians dabble in witchcraft, don’t care too much for new taxes, and are fightin’ mad over it! And if you question their sincerity, they’ll put a curse on your sorry behind! (Story at first link at bottom).

It seems that the Romanian government had the gall to try to impose income taxes on the country’s practicing witches. That has the witches flying off the broomstick handle and organizing together (sort of like a labor union) to cast spells en masse against the Romanian president and lawmakers. The linked story says:

"Witches from Romania's eastern and western regions will descend to the southern plains and the Danube River Thursday to threaten the government with spells and spirits . . . A dozen witches will head to the Danube to put a hex on the government and hurl mandrake into the river 'so evil will befall them,' said a witch named Alisia. She identified herself with one name, as is customary among witches."

Among the tools of the trade being utilized by the witches to cast their spells are "cat excrement and dead dogs." And Romanian politicians, including President Traian Basescu, reportedly aren’t "laughing this off." Not on your life. They’re taking precautions. For example, the Pres has taken to wearing "purple on Thursdays, allegedly to ward off evil spirits."

But one thing occurred to me: How does a person have income working as a witch? Well, the aforementioned one-named Alisia explains that witches make their bones by tossing curses on people for money. Black magic mercenaries, you might say.

They even claim that politicians take advantage of their services: "The lawmakers don't look at themselves, at how much they make, their tricks; they steal and they come to us asking us to put spells on their enemies," said Alisia.

But not all the Romanian witches are angry about the new tax. The first picture at the top shows witch Mihaela Minca and her daughter and witch "apprentice" Casanndra (always a master and an apprentice, after all). Mihaela says that "the law is very good – it means that our magic gifts are recognized and I can open my own practice!"

As a final thought, Hillary Clinton once said – in best Dennis Hopper style -- "We tax everything that moves!" (second link at bottom). Well, the Romanian government has definitely taken Hillary’s mantra to heart. In addition to witches, Romania has also recently enacted new taxes against astrologers, funeral parlor embalmers, valets and driving instructors. Fortune tellers are reportedly next up in the government’s line of fire.

And I can only imagine how the soothsayers might protest. It conjures up painful images of crystal balls to the gonads and tarot card paper cuts. If I were the Romanian government, I’d pick a different target. Strippers come to mind, for example ("If you tax me, I'll march in the streets and won’t put my damn clothes on for a month!").

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/05/ap/strange/main7216288.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-anything-that-moves.html

What a Crying Shame That Such Historical Democrats as the First Female Speaker of the House Have Turned Out To Be So Utterly Pathetic, Out of Touch...

...and extremist. Fittingly, Creature of the House Nancy Pelosi in recent days officially topped off her historically notorious speakership with an extra heapin' helping of tone deafness. Pelosi shacked up for a cool $10,000 a night on the taxpayers' dime -- in the middle of one of the worst recessions in American history -- in a luxury suite at the aristocratic Four Seasons Resort Hualalai in Hawaii. Just for good measure, Pelosi chartered a private jet to travel to the Aloha state in the first place.

Good riddance to the outgoing Creature of the House. She had a chance to be historical. A female Tip O'Neill. A person of respect. Instead she turned out to more like a sorry cross between Eugene Debs and Mrs. Drysdale from old Beverly Hillbillies TV series: One of the most far leftist political figures in American history, but yet not even one of any real convictions in my estimation given the huge tabs she always went around running up during terrible economic times.

Fittingly, her final approval ratings amongst my fellow Independents hovered between 6 and 8 percent. I’m not completely sure whom those 6-8 percent of Independents are, but it just goes to show: Even the most noble of groups always has its tiny little minority of idiots and simpleminded folk. Too bad that the area that Pelosi has always inhabited isn’t such a small minority within the 20-percenter democrat party. Instead, and disastrously, it’s the rather pathetic norm.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/pelosi-obama-hawaiian-vacations-come-to-an-end-but-taxpayers-left-with-the-bill

Party Time! The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same in DC: GOP House Freshmen Set to Party It Up at Lavish Gala at DC's W Hotel!

The GOP has shown itself to be little different from the democrat party when it comes to paying scant attention to 2010 midterm election results and the messages that were sent that day by American voters (most prominently, by Independents, who control your election outcomes). Proof positive comes from this week's news that republican House freshmen and other members plan a Big To-Do fundraiser tonight at DC's swanky W Hotel (three pictures above). Today's Politico.com put it this way:

"With Republican leaders anxious to set an austere tone for their ascendance into the House majority this week, the lavish fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday night at a trendy Washington hotel to benefit a dozen GOP freshmen is not exactly the populist image leaders are anxious to project."

And "lavish" is certainly the right word. Representing business-as-usual in DC, the big event is designed to connect House GOP members with special interests, lobbyists and political action committee members -- all of whom must buck up $2,500 just to get their foot in the door. And if any of them are ready to cough up a cool $50,000, then they get the special treatment from the GOP in the W Hotel's "VIP Suite." They're even bringing in country music star LeAnn Rimes to croon for all of the special interests' entertainment.

Having called Barack Obama a "chickenshit" in recent days (which he is), please allow me to take today's opportunity to also label as a chickenshit new House Speaker John "Party Time" Boehner and new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (first picture above). Despite his name being featured on the invitation for tonight's huge event, Boehner now (in the face of bad pub) is weaseling out of attending. Similarly, Cantor won't say if he's attending, choosing instead to hedge his bets and to gauge what kind of press this event receives today.

The (lack of) brains behind this plush event appears to rest with incoming House member Jeff Denham of California (the rather slimy-looking dude in the second picture above). He has a growing reputation as a big rainmaker, and his camp is trying to justify tonight's event as just another necessary fundraising event. My foot.

Instead, it appears to me that this event has little to do with raising money, and has everything to do with (1) schmoozing with special interests and (2) just having a Big Party, damn it! As one political consultant told Politico, the amount of money this ritzy event will raise is highly questionable given the high overhead of throwing the event in the first place:

"Another fundraising consultant called [tonight's] event 'a nightmare' and said 'with the high overhead associated with putting on the event and the amount of money it could raise, we just didn’t think it was worth it.' "

So much for fiscal responsibility. So much for an end to tone deafness. So much for eschewing the beltway disconnect. It looks like a lot of these GOP freshmen have been indoctrinated into "business as usual" in DC even before taking their new seats in the House!

But that's OK. We Independents in recent years have grown very used to having to kick a bunch of sorry politicians' asses to the curb come election time, regardless of party. I don't see 2012 being any different.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/46999.html

In Arkansas, 1000s of Dead Birds Fall From the Sky & 100,000 Dead Fish Wash Ashore During New Year's Week: Signs of the Apocalypse?

Short answer: Of course not. That would be pure Hollywood silliness.

But it wouldn't surprise me if the explanation of these events might just be grounded in some sort of Hollywood explanation. For example, inspired by The Godfather, these events could be some type of slimy underworld "Sicilian message" signifying that some bad person "sleeps with the fishes" or (alternatively) "flies with the birds."

Or, maybe the two evil forest hillbillies from Deliverance and/or Bill Clinton got loose last week in the Arkansas wilderness. Lord only knows the havoc that any of those dudes might be capable of wreaking.

Or, coming out of a 2010 that saw more lame Hollywood remakes of old movies than perhaps any year in cinema history, maybe some fool is shooting some uninvited remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds or the cult classic Piranha.

Point being: There are a million possible natural explanations for these events. We should take a good look at those before conjuring up the supernatural. For example, if any of these blackbirds or drum fish happened to catch a few quarters of the Kansas City Chiefs' performance against Oakland yesterday, then you probably have your explanation right there.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/03/national/main7208349.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Sign

2011 Shockers: Canadian Soothsayer Says New Year Will See Sarah Palin Divorced, Michelle Obama Knocked Up, Midget Born & Playboy Mansion Destroyed!

Before you laugh, please note that this same fortune teller (Nikki, pictured on left) last year predicted Tiger Woods' divorce and the Chilean mine disaster. Perhaps Nikki's leading prediction for 2011 foresees Splitsville for Sarah Palin and husband Todd. Man! And not even a year after Palin's (alleged) boob job? Well, she is high maintenance.

But to me the most fascinating of Nikki's prophecies sees Michelle Obama with a new bun in the oven -- or two, as Nikki says twins are more likely than a single child. Fascinating, I say, because of two of Nikki's other predictions and the fun it is to speculate as to whether those two predictions might somehow be connected to the Obama pregnancy prediction:

First, Nikki predicts that "there will be a big scandal involving a Washington politician—and cheating will be involved." Make no mistake, Michelle "Your Kids Are Too Fat" Obama ain't just some garden variety First Lady. She's been very much the politician during the entire Obama presidency, pushing 20-percenter policy and legislation at every turn.

Any given Nikki's prediction, is there any chance someone other than Barack could be Michelle's baby daddy? Barack likes to keep a close eye on political rival Hillary Clinton, but methinks he better instead keep a closer eye on notorious lady-lover Bill Clinton in 2011.

Second, Nikki foresees that a famous starlet will give birth to a midget. I think that Michelle, who frequently carries herself like the Queen of America, is very accurately described as a starlet. Good Grief -- talk about a big Trifecta of Trouble: Michelle giving birth to a couple of midgets with huge Bubba grins all over their faces! But somehow I just don't quite see that happening, do you?

After all, many of Nikki's predictions are simply outlandish or highly improbable. In addition to the Playboy mansion burning to the ground, another such prediction says that a "giant spider" and spider nest will be found in South America. "Chalk it up to global warming," spouts the linked story. Of course. What else? Other wild predictions from Nikki center upon such things as a 500-pound Salmon in Canada and a "horseshoe-shaped UFO" in New Mexico.

Also somewhat undermining Nikki's credibility is the fact that many of her predictions are completely obvious -- a huge "No $hit, Sherlock," you might say. For example, the aforementioned "prediction" about a Washington cheating scandal. Wow, don't go out there on such a limb, Nikki!

Other examples of "seeing" the obvious include (1) Hillary Clinton winning the Nobel Prize (gee, we could never see that coming, could we?!) and (2) Lady Gaga trying out acting (I wouldn't have foreseen that one in a million years!).

So we have a huge swath of predictions, most of which will never come true, while others are so vague, generalized and obvious that they probably can't help but come true. I mean, Nikki also has Jessica Simpson giving birth this year. Maybe she'll be the starlet who mothers the midgets?
http://www.torontosun.com/life/holidays/features/2010/12/23/16657291.html

As the New Year Begins, I Reflect Upon the Last One, Which Was the Deadliest Year Yet in the 10-Year-Old Afghanistan War…

There were 498 American troop deaths in Afghanistan in 2010 – which is over one-third of all the American deaths for the entire 10-year duration of our involvement in that complete hellhole (second link at bottom). Have you heard that fact reported by a heavily left-leaning American mainstream media which is highly sympathetic to any endeavor supported by Obama? Bet you haven’t.

Matter of fact, you probably hear or see little about the Afghanistan war in your daily lives. Chalk that up to a disgracefully complicit mainstream media and the slimeball agendas of our two illustrious political parties. A new CNN poll (first link at bottom) finds that republicans support the war 52% to 44%. Thus, you never hear your Rush Slimebaughs or Sean Hannitys of the world saying word one about Afghanistan.

The same poll also finds that 75% of democrats oppose the war (BTW, more than 6 in 10 Independents oppose it as well, according to CNN). So where’s the democrat party outrage over Afghanistan? You could hear a damn pin drop.

Most of the democrat party ran for the hills on this issue just as soon as a democrat party member was elected president. The new motto of the democrat party should be, “Make Love Not War Except When a Democrat is President,” since democrats only make noise and organize war protests when a republican’s in the White House. Hypocrites.

Overall, the CNN poll has opposition to the war among the American public, in general, at 56%. What we have in Afghanistan is basically a bloody relic of Bush-era neoconservatism and attempted “nation building.” I supported our initial involvement in Afghanistan when a primary mission was to get Bin Laden and his highest Al Qaeda underlings. But that was 10 years ago. We did what we could in that regard, and now it’s time (long overdue) to bring the boys home.

And frankly I couldn’t care less if that means the Taliban comes back into power in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda has had little trouble finding pockets for safe havens in various places around the globe. Are we really going to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of additional American lives just so that we can say that we’ve kept Al Qaeda out of one of its multiple safe havens?

Are we really that stubborn? And if the answer is “yes,” I want to know who, precisely, is going to deliver that message to the little kid in Springfield, Illinois (or pick the town) who just found out that Daddy ain’t coming home.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/30/cnn-poll-opposition-to-afghanistan-war-remains-high/
http://icasualties.org/oef/