Kevin D. Williamson:Hourly cost of whatever it is we’re doing in Libya: about $4 million. Total cost of building one mile of border fence, as undertaken by our horribly inefficient, bloated, largely incompetent federal government: about $2 million. So, every 30 minutes we’re in Libya is one mile of border fence we could have built: Assuming the mission is accomplished in each case, which investment would make us safer?
Credit is due, I guess, to Williamson for preferring domestic destruction to foreign.
I believe he may have found this theory originally in "The Practical Guide to Hatred and Intolerance", which sagely advised against "Commuting halfway around the globe to kill and oppress dusky-hued foreigners" when we have an ample supply of them on our Southwestern border...
ReplyDeleteAlaska has lots of oil, and it's not in the Constitution.
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If the government's that's incompetent I doubt it should be building walls, even.
ReplyDeleteone mile of border fence, as undertaken by our horribly inefficient, bloated, largely incompetent federal government: about $2 million
ReplyDeleteI will build it for half that.
fish's methods are unsound.
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When you only have fins, it's hard to hold a hammer.
ReplyDeleteWhen all you have is a fin everything looks like a fins.
ReplyDeletefish's methods are unsound.
ReplyDeleteHe knows an affordable design architect.
When all you have is a fin
ReplyDelete..you wish you had a twenty.
Or, you know...we could put that money toward something useful.
ReplyDeleteNaaaah. Makes too much sense.
Wow. It's like T&U is a newcomer to America.
ReplyDeleteShe meant jails.
ReplyDeleteNow, now c'mon. Let's be fair here.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived out in the New Mexico desert and used large amounts of military grade explosives and solid rocket fuel to blow old radars into bits of glass and slag and sold them in a roadside shack as "art", why then NPR would come out and do a story about me, driving up the price of my artwork, and the Travel Channel would do a special about me and my ilk, and if I put some locally caught scorpions on a stick and grilled them over an open mesquite fire then hell, even the Food Network would send that obnoxious blonde headed corpulent dummy out to say his stoopid catch phrases in my face.
that obnoxious blonde headed corpulent dummy out to say his stoopid catch phrases in my face.
ReplyDeleteand you could kill him, grill him up and sell the meat to tourists, and turn his bones into furniture.
What? Too dark?
Does anyone have record of Williamson expressing concern over the costs of the ten prior years' mid-eastern military adventures?
ReplyDeleteThey should build a fence in Libya. It'd be worth it to see teh head 'splosions
ReplyDelete...did he say "safer" or "poorer"?
ReplyDeleteThey should build a fence in Libya.
ReplyDeleteThat's a GREAT idea. We could tell them it's to keep out those nasty Italians.
Hell, babe, y'can't argue with history, right?
I've seen the grainy black n white film of Il Duce and the Stukas on endless loop on the Hitler Channel, where it's all Fascism, all the Time.
I mean, I KNOW, y'know?
W/V recognizes the very thing Substance was talkin about: ingirtas
...a fence in Libya...
ReplyDelete...maybe it's to keep in the elephants! (Carthago delenda est, don't you know.)
...according to several ancient sources the Roman statesman Cato the Elder would always end his speeches with some variation of this expression even if he had not been discussing Carthage in the speech.
ReplyDelete...ah, politicians never change!
When all you have is a fin
ReplyDeleteThere won't be a lot of conversation
She meant jails.
ReplyDeleteIt's a two-fer: it gets young black people off the voting rolls and relocates them to rural areas, where they're considered residents for the purposes of representation.
It's a GOP win/win!
he does know how many miles the boarder is, right?
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