You’re right about my critique. I just didn’t have my heart into it. Like I said in my post, I don’t care that President Hinckley supported the war. He’s perfectly free to do so. But I am disappointed that he did, and how he did it. In any case, I’m going to delete that post. I just don’t like it. It wasn’t good enough. Let me refer you to a more soundly written point I made on this same subject over on Connor’s blog. I explain myself better there.

BTW, if you’re interested in how Al-Qaeda or any other group could actually be cultivated inside the US, try reading Chris Stewart’s “The Great and Terrible” series. It’s fiction (as far as I know) but provides an excellent scenario where terrorism could actually come from within our own country. We have no evidence that the evil groups terrorizing the world today are not connected to the US (one more reason your analogy to the Gadianton Robbers is off base).

After my many comments, show me where I have said in so many words: “Kobe is the best player on the planet”, “The Lakers are the better team”, and “the Celtics victory was an unprecedented upset”. You are silly.

Kobe is one of the best players on the planet, East Coast or West Coast media.

DKL & Danithew-

The Lakers weren’t the better team? Bill Simmons, the raving Boston fan said so. Most of the East Coast media agreed. Look at the line on the series and the predictions by the experts. It’s plain as day everybody thought so. The way they were playing, I thought they were.

Danithew, you’re right, though. They didn’t have the right combination of players. Team sports are all about matchups.

And let it be an upset. It takes more heart, integrity, and passion to pull off an upset than winning because you ought to have. Personally, I could care less. I’m not a Celtics fan. Have it your way. I simply extolled the merits of that line of thinking. The Celtics were way better. How they dropped 2 games, I’ll never know. What imbeciles. And what imbeciles Celtics fans are for going so nuts after the victory. It was inevitable.

DKL,

So where is the hyperbole and braggadocio? Care to pontificate?

And you obviously have no concept of L.A. media.

I was happy to see that you would do a critique on that talk. I put YOU in caps because I know you see yourself as expert, though torn apart on many occasions. You simply do not have facts straight and inject editorial too much.

By halfway through your ‘critique’ I thought “Dan, you are officially a hack”. By the end, I felt sorry for you for your 1) being a hack and 2) misinterpreting so wildly the assertions of President Hinckley. Your conclusions are illogical and you failed to extract the real purpose of the talks.

What a hack job. You officially have no credibility on the topic. Furthermore, you come of as quite a jerk with the assumptions you make. It is one thing to have your own mistaken position on the topic, it is another to drag GBH, a beloved prophet of God, into it by putting words into his mouth and misguidedly attacking the credibility of his counsel which had nothing to do with being pro-Bush or pro-Iraq.

My critical response has been added to the post. Again you are wrong, but this time, pathetically so.

“Kobe is the best player on the planet,” “The Lakers are the better team,” “The Celtics victory was an unprecedented upset.” This is not merely incorrect. It’s hyperbole and braggadocio. Shame on you.