Monday School Day

First day of School! The first day of real school in about 18 months. That is, a 6 hour day, five days a week. Only in the last few days has it occurred to this blog that we're going to have to redo our schedule. We might experiment with posting here at night. We shall see. 

Our district's school year was put off another week by Ida. Bitch. For foreign readers, in many parts of the country school starts in early September. In the South and Midwest school starts mid-August. We have no idea about the West, Mountain West, and West Coast. 

We didn't watch a single snap of sports ball yesterday and we didn't miss it. We don't need to turn on the TV and be told out flaws by millionaire athletes who allegedly attended college but dance like morons for simply doing their job, and can barely say they're own names during the Sunday Night Football intro. Let's check rap sheets before we lecture, shall we? 

What will did watch: Star Trek Voyager, Season-2. This season was decently written and kept surprising us. The season ended with a cliffhanger that led into season-3. Overall we'd give Voyager Season-2 a B+. Also we finally figured out why we've  seen so few of these episodes. Season-2 aired during the 95-96 TV season. Back then we attended a non-Jesuit university in Washington DC and took a lot of night classes.  These were War and Diplomacy: Napoleon to Bismarck, War and Diplomacy: Bismarck to Hitler,* and Roman History. We never caught Voyager in syndication. Was Voyager even rerun?

It is said W compared Islamic terror with domestic terrorists. The right assumes he meant the Q Annon shaman guy. W could just as well have been talking about BLM/Antifa. But we all jumped to conclusions and rightfully so. If W left Patriotic Americans with the impression that he was talking about them, that's his fault. 

Long time reader(s) know this blog has vociferously defended W. His record is this: 53 straight months of economic growth, handling 9/11, liberating Afghanistan, winning the Iraq campaign, handling the financial crises. We're not sure what we think of W or his people anymore. Did they make mistakes? Of course. 

But we always thought the Democrat-Media complex was treating him unfairly. We still think that. The media are a lot of communist perverts, and if we saw a CNN reporter drowning, we would be hard pressed to give him a hand. Good people everywhere think the opposite of whatever a BBC producer thinks. Lurn to coad, anal reprobates.

The mere fact that the likes of CNN and the NYTs hate W should give one great pause before turning on the man. If they ever start praising him, that should give one even greater pause. 

Below, your Monday (not) Metal, dedicated to the days, weeks and months after 9/11:

*Holy crap, the prof is not only still alive but still teaching. We still have the books he assigned. He taught us everything we know about the Congress of Vienna, Metternich, Castlereigh, Cavour, Bismarck, etc etc. Can you see 

can you see this 

W's Pet Aghanistan

This blog remains convinced W was a good president. One day they'll name an aircraft carrier after the man

However we take time out from our habitual defense of Bush the Younger to note Zero-Hedge's frightening, dismaying, depressing report on Afghanistan.

Nut graph, as the J-school suckers say, is that Afghanistan is a mess despite a generation of fighting and nearly $100 billion in spending.

Back in the day we thought George W. Bush made plenty of mistakes, the steel tariff, Medicare Part D, campaign finance deform, but Afghanistan was the worst mistake of all.

Even back in 2002 we wondered why we were investing all this time and money in the place.

Whose bright idea was it to stay behind in that crap hole and build a nation? The internationalists talked W into it, we suppose.

If the internationalists talked Bush into Afghan nation building, did the neocons talk him into liberating Iraq?

Was the man a clump of maliable Play-Do?

Exit question, is it time for Will to rethink his like for W?

Presidents Day Spectacular: Part Deux

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love W.

W was a solid president.

Look at his accomplishments.

His handling of 9/11.
The liberation of Afghanistan.
Removing Saddam.
Winning the Iraq Campaign.
His intervention in the Financial Crisis.
Micro-policies like Aids in Africa, human trafficking, the stem-cell debate.

Everyone reading this will one day tell their grandchildren they voted for W.

W and the Crisis Ten Years On

Longtime reader(s) know that despite our MAGAness and general deplorability we remain stubbornly supportive of W and his presidency.

Bush 43 was a good president, here's one of the main reasons why:

The day after Lehman Brothers failed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke went to President George W. Bush with bad news. Insurer American International Group Inc. needed $85 billion or it, too, would collapse.

Though unhappy and frustrated, Mr. Bush approved the loan, saying, “If we suffer political damage, so be it,” Mr. Paulson later wrote.

Scholars of the crisis rightly focus on the decisions that the three crisis managers—Mr. Paulson, Mr. Bernanke and New York Fed President Tim Geithner—made to rescue the financial system. Though unpopular at the time and still second-guessed, their actions were vital in avoiding a second Great Depression. Yet most would have been impossible without the president’s support, which Mr. Bush gave unreservedly from start to finish.

That's leadership. That's making the tough call. That's staving off the next depression.

Recall that TARP was 100 percent paid back.

One day people will tell their grandchildren they voted for W.

W9

Via my friend Bill Katz we see GWB has a 59% approval rating.

We voted for the man twice without regret.

During the dark days, his second term mostly, we never let his dumpster level approval rating get us down. He only had one place to go and with the passage of time his achievements would seem self-evident.

Nine years on, here's what we can say about W:

-He handled 9/11 (talking us through and liberating Afghanistan).
-He handled  the financial crisis (all of TARP was payed back).
-He won the war in Iraq.
-A strong five year economy with 7.5 million jobs.

There's a lot of small things we like to, the nuclear deal with India, help for Aids in Africa, etc, etc.

Not bad, overall.

As we always knew.