Power Line: Pepsi's moving finger...

When a corporation like PepsiCo offends a racial minority (or at least offends Jesse Jackson), it customarily pays a monetary tribute by funding one of Jackson's organizations. Maybe PepsiCo can make good on its apology by finding a way to assist the brave Americans who have sacrificed during America's efforts to extend a hand (not a finger) to those who have suffered from oppression in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe PepsiCo can extend its own hand to the liberated but still suffering people of those countries.

Power Line: Pepsi's moving finger...

Interesting. It says here that PepsiCo gave "a multimillion dollar donation" to the Ludacris Foundation after dropping the rapper as a spokesperson.

Here, PepsiCo bows to Al Sharpton.

PepsiCo also has a "Minority and Women Business Program" (whatever the heck that means).

Maybe they could set up a program for Veteran Owned Businesses. There's a long list of supported groups on their site; no Veterans' groups. Maybe it's time.

The Board can be reached here: BoardofDirectors@Pepsi.com.

Rather accepts media award with nod to allies

Heh

With thanks to two former colleagues who left CBS in the wake of a scandal, CBS News' Dan Rather accepted broadcast journalism's most prestigious honor on Monday for the "60 Minutes Wednesday" story that exposed the shocking conditions inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

"Most prestigious"

Wow.

Rather took pains to acknowledge Mapes and former CBS News senior vp Betsy West (who also attended the ceremony), among others. Mapes was fired by CBS News, and West was forced to resign in the wake of another "60 Minutes Wednesday" report, which aired in September and used questionable documents as part of the sourcing for a highly critical report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.

"Questionable documents", eh?

Naw.

FORGERIES

"They did most of the work, bore the heaviest burdens and took most of the criticism," Rather said of Mapes and the other producers who did the front-line reporting on the Abu Ghraib story. "It took guts, and they had them."

It tooks guts to use forgeries to attack a President during a Presidential campaign.

Got that?

Rather received extended applause after telling the crowd, "Never give up, never back up, never give in while pursuing the dream of integrity filled journalism that matters."

"Integrity"

As if the snide old coot knows the meaning of the word.

Hollywood Reporter

Kilpatrick's expenses exposed

Detroit has had solely Democrat mayors since 1952. You'd think it'd by now be the best place to raise a balck family in the Contiguous 48.

The two-day hotel stay, which was charged to the city MasterCard, totaled $7,696.45.

That's a lot of books for poor black kids.

Detroit Mayor's expenses exposed

NEWSWEEK LIED*. PEOPLE DIED.

Not much to add to this.

Hugging Ban Sparks Dispute at Oregon School

I love the final line about right to hug.

Mudville Gazette

Must read from Greyhawk.

Orange Barrels, Orange Barrels...

...looking back at me. Orange Barrels, Orange Barrels, why can't I be free?



For some reason that picture makes me chuckle. How many numbskull drivers does it take to molest, oh I don't know, four out of every ten orange barrels on a road like the one depicted above???

And it's not even New Jersey!

Annan Failed to Disclose Key Contacts - Yahoo! News

Golly gee.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not initially tell investigators in the oil-for-food probe that he met twice with representatives of his son's employer as the Swiss company began soliciting United Nations business.

Annan's omissions last November raised credibility concerns with the chief investigator, Robert Parton, that persisted even after Annan later provided his recollections about the meetings. Investigators had uncovered the contacts in calendars recovered from computers, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

Dirty as a skunk.

Annan Failed to Disclose Key Contacts - Yahoo! News

From the 'What Liberal Media?' Files

When Lee Enterprises Inc. agreed to purchase Pulitzer Inc. for $1.46 billion, it also agreed that the flagship St. Louis Post-Dispatch will keep its longstanding liberal editorial slant for at least the next five years, according to the purchase agreement mailed to Pulitzer shareholders Friday.

'For a period of at least five years following the Effective Time, Parent (Lee Enterprises) will cause the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to maintain its current name and editorial page platform statement and to maintain its news and editorial headquarters in the City of St. Louis, Missouri,' the agreement states.

The Post-Dispatch platform statement, adopted in 1911, includes the pledge that the newspaper 'will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.'

Unreal!

In Unusual Agreement, 'Post-Dispatch' Will Remain Liberal Under Lee

HE LIVES!!!!

Yep, believe it or not, I'm still alive. I'm on Ft. Buchanan, Puerto Rico, where I'll be living for the next three years.

And it's frigging hot down here, people. And humid. It's like a swamp, unless it rains, in which case it's like a really REALLY wet swamp, which isn't much of an improvement. By the end of my three years here, I'll be wanting to see some snow. But it's an experience I would have kicked myself for missing if I had let it go.

I'm in a computer lab, so I have to keep this short. I'll do a nice big long posting when I have internet access at my house.

"Venido Adentro"

This is just sick.

I disagree with Lee though regarding the efficacy of voting to change this. The Federal Bureaucracy is entrenched and unionized and it seems as though they do as they please irrespective of the demands of elected politicos.

MOVE

Today is the 20th anniversary of the assault by the Philadelphia Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police on the "home" of a radical group called "MOVE".

A state police helicopter this evening dropped a bomb on a house occupied by an armed group after a 24-hour siege involving gun battles. A 90 -minute shootout this morning came after a week of growing tension between the city and the group, known as Move. Residents in the western Philadelphia neighborhood had complained about the group for years. The only known survivors from within the house were a woman and a child. The fire spread to 50 to 60 other houses in the neighborhood, said the Fire Commissioner, William Richmond. He declared the fire under control about 11:40 P.M.

Police Drop Bomb on Radicals' Home in Philadelphia WILLIAM K. STEVENS Special to The New York Times 14may85


More:

Twenty years ago this Friday, Philadelphia became "The City That Bombed Itself."

On the evening of May 13, 1985, in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia, police dropped explosives onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE. The explosion started a fire that city officials allowed to burn.

When the blaze was out, 61 homes were gone and 11 people, five of them children, were dead inside MOVE headquarters.



The days that followed were a period of sadness and shame unlike any in the city's history, the start of a civic funk that lasted for nearly a decade.

Day that forever changed the city

I could see the smoke from my neighborhood.

What followed the event itself was an exercise in Old School Philly Graft, where the City paid a premium price to rebuild homes, and the rebuilt domiciles turned out to be of, shall we say, questionable quality. Some people got killed, some people got jailed, a few got fired, and a few lined their pockets.

After the Bomb

Life, as they say, "in the Big City".

 

 

 

 

Matador

Great stuff regarding Matador from The Fourth Rail and, natch, Belmont Club.

Note to self: change the blogroll.

Religion in Politics

Whilst surfing last week, I found an interesting point about how political speech in church is portrayed differently depending on who's doing the speaking. When Republicans do it, it "theocratic. When Democrats do it, it's "outreach". Hmmm. That got me doing more surfing, and I found the following, and the accompanying pictures. "Let's take a look at our Constitution — it says ‘freedom of speech,'" said William Murray, president of the Washington D.C.-based Religious Freedom Coalition. "It doesn't say ‘freedom of speech unless you are in church on Sunday.' [Opponents] want to pass laws that say when we have freedom of speech and what we can say and society doesn't have a problem with that?" "Despite the push for a change, a September Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll found Americans sharply divided over whether they wanted their religious leaders to get directly involved in politics. Critics of the bill, who have been largely successful in foiling Jones' previous efforts, said giving tax breaks to churches who endorse or denounce specific candidates violates the doctrine of separation of church and state and is unfair to other nonprofits that are bound by the same restrictions. In fairness, some anti-church-poltitical-speech do try to play it down the middle: Complaints and investigations are more commonplace and often target churches on both sides of the ideological spectrum. In, February the IRS announced it is investigating the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (search) in Florida, based on a complaint by Americans for the Separation of Church and State. The group said the church was in violation of IRS law when it allowed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and Rev. Al Sharpton to make their pitch for Kerry to the predominantly black congregants during an August service. The pastor had introduced Kerry as "the next president of the United States." Odd, isn't it? I don't recall that coverage. I've never been particularly vested in the participation of churches in politics, but it does ring true to me that the kind of political speech the Left seeks to restrict most ardently is political speech wherein advocacies are steeped in religion. Or is it all a fan dance? -- as the accompanying pictures (of the last four Democrat presidents, seeking support in church) might seem to indicate. It's all very strange to me, this Liberal Media thing. FOXNews.com - Politics - Lawmaker Hopes to Open Churches to Political Speech

Coalition of the Bribed Update

Quel suprise.

Citing contracts, letters and interviews with former Iraqi leaders, the probe set out evidence Wednesday to back the claim that British lawmaker George Galloway and former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua accepted oil allocations under the scheme.

Doy!

FOXNews.com - Politics - Senate Panel: European Pols Took Saddam Bribes

Was World War II worth it?

Pat Buchanan steps in it:

If the West went to war to stop Hitler from dominating Eastern and Central Europe, and Eastern and Central Europe ended up under a tyranny even more odious, as Bush implies, did Western Civilization win the war?

In 1938, Churchill wanted Britain to fight for Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain refused. In 1939, Churchill wanted Britain to fight for Poland. Chamberlain agreed. At the end of the war Churchill wanted and got, Czechoslovakia and Poland were in Stalin's empire.

How, then, can men proclaim Churchill 'Man of the Century'?

Intriguing, and why we'll not know if Iraq was the right move for a decade or two.

(I say Buchanan "steps in it" because the camps are not mentioned).

BTW, do you know that we have our very own camps??? Where the Democrats go, once we install our HalliPuppets on the Supreme Court, I suppose...

Where's Dave?

The last thing Raging Dave posted is here.

He'll return, all in due time, and I've a feeling that, if he can get 'net access, he'll be putting forth some interesting stuff.

WTF???

Heidi Klum, Seal Tie Knot in Mexico

T.H.O.N.G.

In a place where you can view human buttocks without fear of repercussion?

Topless Humans Organized for Natural Genetics

Go'head. Click it!

Stevie Wonder releases video for blind

No, really.

CNN Lexicon Update

Is there bias at CNN?



Monday 9 May: Judicial Watch goes after Hillary Clinton



LINK: CNN.com - "conservative watchdog group with a history of dogging the Clintons"

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Tuesday 10 May: Judicial Watch goes after Dick Cheney



LINK: CNN.com - "two private groups"



CNN - They Report, We Deride, but hey -- standout work by Judicial Watch -- they progressed from Clinton Doggers to a Private Group in just one day.

Nice pickup, Lee.

UPDATE: Reader Fred Simmons notes that the stories are bylined "AP", not some CNN Staff Writer. True that. Reckon I'd still like to see some of that "Review Process" that CCN has and bloggers don't.

Police question 'person of interest' in child slayings

I am guessing it'll be another kid.

I am not usually into capital punishment, but this person when convited should die, and painfully if possible.

Great Stuff from Lee

"What liberal media?" he asks.

Couldn't get him at the polls

Where there's a will, there's a way, or so they say.

Mr Blair's position has been called into question by several MPs since last Thursday's General Election, when Labour won an historic third successive term in power but saw its majority cut from 161 to a projected 66.

Mr Blair - who was finalising the post-election reshuffle of the ministerial ranks - will seek to shore up his position on Wednesday when, in an appearance before the Parliamentary Labour Party at Westminster, he is expected to underline his commitment to serving a full third term and call for tighter party discipline.

But the chorus calling for him to step down continued to swell.

The Invincible Poodle, in a manner of speaking.

Blair faces growing chorus to quit

Reminiscent of Tim Blair reminiscing.

Is it just me, or....

...has Right Thinking from the Left Coast morphed into a Love Shack for a tiny number of self-flagellating "libertarians"?

You'd think...

...that a link dumper like me wouldn't require much time to keep his blog fresh.

You'd be right. But I don't even have that much time these days.

All I've got at this here moment are:

This site is almost a tribute to the Main Battle Tank - M1, M1A1, and M1A2 Abrams. Fascinating, if you've a mind to be fascinated by such stuff.

And then: some quotes from the past about the Horrible Three.

Buh-bye.

Number Three Captured?

Looks like the Pakistanis ghraibed him up a bit.

USATODAY.com - Senior al-Qaeda suspect arrested, Pakistan says

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RE: Google

True or False: "Google policy does not permit ad text that advocates against an individual, group or organization" ?

lgf: Google Says No to Conservative Ads

Heh

Did anyone catch...

...Amy Goodman being savaged by a Marine sergeant who has served two tours in Iraq during a Los Angeles Times Festival of Books forum televised on C-SPAN?

During Q&A he asked her what qualified her to talk about Iraq. She wouldn't answer. She decided instead to ask him two questions, one about the legitimacy of the war and one about morale issues.

He stated, drawing some catcalls from the crowd, that WMDs didn't matter. Earlier, Goodman had made the point that if Americans could see the pictures of dead and maimed Iraqis we'd call for an immediate withdrawal. This Marine countered that of Americans had seen picutres of life under Saddam Hussein that the invasion would have been more widely supported here. He also stated that low morale tends to be the province of those who are stuck in rear bases without contact with Iraqis and without the first hand experience of building a school or repairing a water main.

She just let it all slide by.

Strange Bedfellows?

Of all the places C-SPAN could direct people to to learn about the Online Freedom of Speech Act, they choose KOS.



Perplexing.

They all do it Redux

A congressman who is not an ex-exterminator right wing wacko, took a trip paid for by lobbyists.

The one and only Bruce

Creep!

Springsteen chose to be fairly economical with his comments between songs, although he did...lambaste the "dinosaur" mentality of the Bush administration... He ad-libbed a "That's right" after one audience member yelled "(Expletive) the president" at one point.

Bruce Springsteen, born 23 September 1949, still strumming for a living, calls someone else a "dinosaur".

Oy!
Springsteen captivates Glendale crowd with acoustic show

Leftists March in Berlin

They march on May Day, naturally; you simply must read what they were chanting. Poor dumb bastards.

Comment of the Decade

"Does this flag make me look fat?"

Actually laughing my ass off.

lgf: British Academic Insanity Watch

One wouldn't think...

...that a trustee election at Dartmouth College would be an interesting thing.

Ahhh, but it is. More here: Powerline. Sincerely, it's interesting.

L L Cool M

Ladies love Cool Mfume.

NEVER stop firing

Machinegun You preferred a weapon with 32% power over speed and 85% range over melee.

You use a Machinegun. Phenomenal range and rate of fire more than make up for the lack of mobility that a full machinegun warrant. Though a machinegun lacks the punch of heavier artillery, it is still an exceedingly potent infantry weapon and can fire continuously for a long time. Your enemies will run for cover as you pepper the landscape with bullets.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 18% on power You scored higher than 99% on range

Link: The What's Your Signature Weapon Test written by inurashii on Ok Cupid

Mr. President, Please Secure Our Borders Immediately

"Sign Our Petition on Illegal Immigration," it says.

Infrequent posting alert

For those who are just catching up, it's called a PCS - Permanent Change of Station. It's when the military tells you to move your ass from one post to another.

And I'm in the middle of it. Yeesh. I think I've had more fun laminating my testicles.

(The above is just a figure of speech. My testicles are not now, nor have ever been, laminated.)

So anyways, this is just a post to let you all know not to expect too much from me in the coming days. Any internet access will be infrequent at best, and I'm going to be so damn busy that my head might just come unscrewed.

Oh, and to top it all off, just the cherry on the top of my sundae, the unit I'm going to exists on paper only.

Yep, that's right, it's a new unit! They're still getting people in! So where as I may have been able to call up the unit and talk with an actual human if I were going to an existing unit, I'm stuck in limbo with this one. I've been able to talk to the battalion, but the company has been incommunicado. Boy oh boy, I don't know who's getting fucked worse, the unit or me. Yeah, they're not exactly being all that helpful right now, and just getting simple answers out of people requires an effort not unlike pulling out teeth, but I'm getting put into a slot in which I have no actual experience. I've got the school, but no hands on time. And now I have to build a unit's motorpool from scratch.

Talk about a steep learning curve.....

So, if you don't hear from me for a while, it's because I'm screaming while ripping out what little hair I have left and banging my head against a brick wall in a futile effort to make the bad men stop.

See ya in a couple of weeks.

Go Figure....

Shotgun You preferred a weapon with 58% power over speed and 74% range over melee.

You use a Shotgun. While not the fastest gun in the west, a shotgun's raw power and ease of use make it an extremely potent weapon. Some shotguns can also be loaded with many different types of ammunition, providing a versatility many guns don't have. Choosing your shots, you fell your opponents immediately and without pause.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on power You scored higher than 88% on range

Link: The What's Your Signature Weapon Test written by inurashii on Ok Cupid

It kinda makes sense. To be honest, sometimes my mouth catches friendlies in the blast radius. Although Analog Kid is a frigging Greatsword. I don't think anyone who's met him face to face could disagree with that.

Classic New York Times

I can think of nothing to add to this: Instapundit.com

UPDATE: from The Mudville Gazette. Woot!

Despair for America

Sick society.

County Executive Joel A. Giambra said he didn’t know how a parent could be charged with cruelty to animals and not child neglect, but the police didn’t seem to think neglect charges were warranted at the time.

Sheesh.

Right Thinking from the Left Coast

Chuckling About Mao

Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library think it's titillating.

Also, from their web site:

Although private funding can enhance the public library, the majority of library funding should come from public sources.

Putzes.

Friends Advocacy Efforts

They were never anti-war...

They were just rooting for the other side.

Via Danegerus

It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly four years now, this has been Preckshot?s life from about 4:15 to about 5:45 in the afternoon once a week. She started her solo troop-support effort to counteract the peace protesters who stand a couple of blocks away at the intersection of Providence and Broadway. The peaceniks hold signs that say things such as ?honk for peace? and ?end the occupation.?

They outnumber Preckshot every Wednesday, but she stands out there just the same, sometimes drawing another supporter or two to help her effort.

On this particular Wednesday - it was March 16 - her effort seemed to annoy a couple of the protesters. Not satisfied with their own peace protest, a pair of peaceniks grabbed their signs and made their way to Preckshot, who normally stands outside the Bloomers flower shop near Locust Street.

C'mon, you all KNOW what's going to happen, don't you?

?He started taunting me and reached out and pushed on my shoulder,? Preckshot says. ?Each time he pushed, it got a little harder. When I saw his hand come at me again, I grabbed it. I felt fearful.?

As Preckshot pushed the man?s hand away, ?he slugged me right in the face,? she says.

I don't know what's worse. The fact that it happened, or the fact that I'm not surprised.

I think I'm going to cry

Months ago when Analog Kid decided to go to Boomershoot, he graciously invited me along. Since I wasn't sure of what my future held, I told him that I would see what my calender was like, but until then consider me out.

So, Boomershoot is this coming weekend, and guess what? I'm headed to Ft. McCoy for inprocessing. Talk about shitty timing!

And to make it even worse, Kim du Toit, one of the few people online I'd give my eyeteeth to meet in person is going to be there!

CRAP!

But..... no Ft. McCoy means no Ft. Buchanan, and I can't give up three years of the Army in Puerto Rico just to meet someone, no matter how much I might want to.

Man, talk about mixed luck.

BBC sent hecklers to bait Tories

D'oh!

The BBC has been plunged into an election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative Party leader.

The Tories lodged an official protest after the hecklers, who were given the microphones by producers, were caught at a Conservative event in north-west England last week.

Q'uel suprise.

BBC sent hecklers to bait Tories - World - www.smh.com.au

Anti-Israel Play a Hit in London

My Name is Rachel Corrie has become one the fastest sell-outs in its 50-year history.

Katie Couric...

...on the bubble.

Caption these Photos!

The ACLU (Anti-American Civil Liberties Union) has sent "legal observers" down to Arizona in an attempt to interrupt the Minuteman Project. Their tacticts include physically shoving members of the Minutemen, shining spotlights in their facts from six inches away, and attempting to verbally provoke the Minutemen.

And inbetween harassing the Minutemen, intentionally trying to start fights, and assisting illegal immigrants in coming into this country, they like to kick back and smoke some ganja with each other.

Check out the photos at the bottom. Doesn't that just scream "Fine American Citizen"?

So let's caption a few photos! Leave your best captions in the comments, and I'll send really good authors a few stickers, or something.

One Big Incestuous Web

DANEgerus has links to the scandals exploding in Canada right now. The more people dig, the more filth comes pouring out.

Canada has become insignificant because they've let themselves be led by a group of power-hungry socialists who care about nothing but their own enrichment, even if it comes at the expense of those who elected them.

It's rather sad if you ask me. I can remember when Canada wasn't a joke disguised as a sovereign nation. I hope they can regain the status that they've lost in the past decade and a half.

Can you FEEL the LOVE?

So, Tim and I are cleaning the junk out of the guestboook, and some of the comments left by the Leftists are just outright hilarious.

Although there's one that I just can't quite understand....

Jason Walker is a pencil-dick faggot. He will get sodomized in hell.

Who's Jason Walker, and why does this nameless goon think he's a pencil-dicked faggot? And if you're going to call someone names, can't you at least leave a real name? Or an email address?

Anyways, I'm taking the spam out and leaving everything else. I think that comments like this:

You guys are all selfish fools! Right-wing politics are terrible! And war is is also a terrible thing! War is bad because people die, and I believe that death is bad. Don't you see how disgustingly selfish you have become?!!!!!!!!! And George Bush licks balls! Left-wingers rule!

....are the perfect example of why the Left should never be in power again.

But WHY is it illegal?!

I mean, c'mon, would stringing spammers up by their toes and whipping them to death with a cat'o nine tails really be such a BAD thing?

Good News, Bad News

The good news is: "they all do it".

House Republicans yesterday called on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to provide documentation to prove that a Washington lobbyist firm did not pay for a trip she and other Democrats took to Puerto Rico in 2001.

Pelosi pressed for trip records

The bad news is: "they all do it".

Did you hear the one about the woman...

...who found a finger in her Wendy's chili?



Turns out, maybe it was a whopper.

As it turns out, Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, including a former employer and General Motors, though it is unclear from court records whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from El Pollo Loco after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the chain's Las Vegas-area restaurants. El Pollo Loco officials say she did not get a dime.

Earlier Thursday, Wendy's International Inc. announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.

Sales have dropped at franchises in Northern California, forcing layoffs and reduced hours, the company said. Wendy's also has hired private investigators, set up a hot line for tips and offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who provides information leading to the finger's original owner.

So she makes a false claim, it appears, looking for money, and people lost their jobs as a result.

Jail would be good.

UPDATE: Felony theft.

Frothing of the Left

Interesting article here about kneejerk disdain for Pope Benedict XVI in America and in American media.

Good piece that stretches credulity just once, with this:

Was it ethical, then, for NYTimes.com to publish a text accusing pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi?

The New York Times? Ethical?

You want Britain-Style Government Health Care?

Shoot.

Rejecting a bid by the parents, a British judge on Thursday upheld a court order allowing doctors to let a critically ill baby die if she stops breathing — a move doctors say is the only humane way to end the child's suffering.

Careful, now.

Yahoo! News

The New Pope

Reaction, from Democratic Underpants.

Vietnam Vet Sullies Jane Fonda

channelcincinnati.com

The shrieks continue

The Left is still in hysterics about Pope Benedict the Sixteenth. Let's take a look at what they're saying, shall we?

Andrew Sullivan: Well, I won't even bother linking to him. Suffice to say that unless the new pope came out and stated that God was now a transexual and we'd all be praying to "Gladys" from now on, Sully will still be full of crap about religion.

One person from Kos's little cesspool actually has some common sense.

There are many reasons to criticize the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, like his stances on women and gays in the church, social issues, his work in crushing liberation theology, his comments in regards to the priest sexual abuse scandals, and his generally conservative views. Calling him a Nazi, however, is unfounded and unfair, and only serves to demean us...Unfounded accusations are unfair, and will only serve to give the wingers more ammunition. Call him conservative, call him reactionary, call him old, call him surly, call him the wrong choice. Just don't call him a Nazi.

Of course, what really bothers the left is included in the first sentance. "his generally conservative views". Which in reality is his Catholic views. If the damn pope would just stop being so CATHOLIC, why, the Left would love him to death!

Uh, yeah. Right.

However, as Analog Kid notes, the one sane member of the Klueless Kos Kamp was instantly shouted down by the rest of the oh so "tolerant" left:

Lefty Malone: “I’ll call him a nazi. Never once in his career has he denounced them.”

Heteraetcaetera: Let me see…. 1. Hitler Youth = not a Nazi.
2. Wehrmacht = Not a Nazi.
3. Deserted when illusions failed.
4. Fished out and rescued by US diligence = Not a Nazi.
Hitler himself was a minor landscape artist. Why can’t you people remember that?

SqueakyRat: “They couldn’t find a Nazi. So they chose Ratzinger.”

Sausalito: Hes not my pope! Its one thing to jack-off or throw back a few too many. Its another to be a part of the Hitler Youth!!! Are you guys serious? I remember when the left was trying to say that Bush was shady because his family yada yada yada something to do with Hitlers family. This dude was a part of the movement He was a nazi though. What the fuck else do you call someone who WAS a member of Hitlers youth militia? I am not saying he believed that shit but he did have a choice! You always have a choice even if death is the result.

Of course, leaving aside the fact that Pope Benedict came from an anti-Nazi family, leaving aside the fact that participation in the Hitler Youth was mandatory for any kid in Germany at that time, leaving aside the fact that Benedict DEFECTED FROM THE NAZI ARMY, gee, what better arguments than to call the new pope a nazi!

And they wonder why they keep loosing election. Hmmmmmmmm........

And it gets better!

--Lean Left:"They elected another Pope. It’s Ratzinger - the Goebbels of the Vatican. Un...believable, even for an organization as self-destructively oblivious as this one. Well, for Catholics and the dwindling number of Westerners who still take Catholicism seriously, it’s time to kiss the Dark Ages hello again...The medieval wing of an organization that just barely got over Galileo has now claimed the right to declare itself “infallible” (the irony of which they never seem to get). If you thought John Paul II was bad, wait till you get a load of Pope Torquemada Jr."

Oooo, a Nazi comment and a reference to the Spanish Inquisition! It's a two'fer! Too bad for Lean Left that the numbers show a growing amount of Catholics in America. But then, for a Leftist, make-believe is all that remains.

Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? The Left objects to the Pope because he's a religious figure. It wouldn't matter who the conclave elected, or what the new pope said or did. It could be Pope Buffy I, a nun who used to be a brothel worker in Nevada, and the Left would still be up in arms and throwing their temper tantrums. Because it's not the person the Left objects to -

It's the religion.

What title did Dane use?

Fake Right, turn Hard Left was the phrase, I believe. And it was used to describe Hillary Clinton's actions as of late.

Well, the Hildabeast proves that she's still a sleazy socialist.

But today, Hillary is returning to her liberal roots by joining the high priestesses of feminism in marking “Equal Pay Day.” According to feminist calculations, the first four months of 2005 were spent making up for last year’s wage gap; today, women supposedly will have finally earned as much as men in 2004. She will introduce legislation to “fix” this gap and thereby end a grave injustice.

Again with the whine of "Women are paid unfairly!" No, they're not. Here are a few questions for you to use on the liberal maggots who raise the hue and cry of wage discrimination.

How many female plumbers do you know? Electricians? Concrete workers? Bricklayers? How about framers or other construction jobs? Fisherman? Crab fishers? Stockbrokers? Engineers? Pilots?

What do many of those jobs have in common? They're damn hard work. Dirty work. You work long hours in unpleasant conditions busting your ass day in and day out. They all happen to pay mucho dinero. And they all happen to be male dominated due to the reasons laid out.

Ask the woman who's whining about not getting paid equally if she wants to spend 12-18 hours a day cleaning shit out of pipes for 20 years. Most likely, she'll look at you and go "HELL NO!". But that's what plumbers do, and they get paid well for it. Ever had to pay for a plumber? Hot damn, that's expensive. The cheapest I've ever paid a plumber was $40 an hour. And yet every plumber who's come to my house was a man.

In Why Men Earn More, Warren Farrell — a former board member of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter — identifies 25 decisions that individuals make when choosing jobs and reveals how, on average, men are more likely than women to make decisions that increase pay. Not only do women take more time out of the labor force and work fewer hours than do men, women also avoid jobs that require a great deal of travel or relocation. Men assume more high-risk jobs — 92 percent of occupational deaths occur among men — and endeavors that require braving the elements outdoors.

What you get paid is a matter of the choices you make. I once spoke to a woman who did woodwork, finish and detail work. She was a carpenter, and a damn good one. I asked her why she got into woodworking, and she told me that she wanted to make good money. So she became very good at turning out furniture, cabinets, ect. And she did get paid. She got paid very well.

But she worked for it, just like every man.

The Captain understands...

....just how conservatives are feeling.

The GOP campaigned on judicial nominations as the second-highest priority for the Senate, and the electorate rewarded them with a healthy gain of four seats, remarkable for an election in which the incumbent president won by a tight margin. After spending a record amount of money on supporting Republican candidates, the electorate has sat back and watched as the Democrats, led by Harry Reid, have uncorked one lunatic manuever after another: challenging Ohio's slate of electors, holding up Condoleezza Rice's nomination while people like Mark Dayton outright call her a liar, and attempting to extort the White House into giving up its Constitutional assignment of nominating the judges the President sees fit for Senate approval.

What has this bunch of Republican milquetoasts done? Nothing.

We didn't vote for conservatives who would sit on their thumbs and whine. We wanted action. And we're not getting it. What we're getting is a group of whiney cowards who refuse to do anything.

Conservatives don't vote for whiney cowards more than once, as a rule. That's the Democrat's M.O. The Republicans should learn that lesson.

Today in History

The British Army, commanded by General Thomas Gage, attempted to confiscate the weapons of colonists in the towns of Lexington and Concord.

So began the American Revolution.

DANEgerus has more.

A New Pope

So, after the third-longest reign of any pope, the Catholic Church has a new leader.

UPDATE: Well, if you feel like getting some slime on your boots, you can see the reaction of the Left over at Kos's little cesspool.

It's a great day to be a Nazi! (none / 1)

The best thing we can hope for is that this will be the "worse" in "it's gotta get worse before it gets better."
If we're lucky, Pope Ratfucker will be even more reactionary, orthodox, and fascist than he has been in the past. We'll call him the "Pope of NO"

Hmmmm.... it seems to me that just last week people were shrieking and howling because someone dared say that the Left opposed people of faith! People on the Left and the Right were both saying how horrible it was that people stated how the Left opposed anyone who might be Christian.

And yet.... if you read what they write, and you listen to what they say...

They ARE opposed to Christianity. Unless you somehow think that calling the new Pope a ratfucker and a Nazi is somehow supportive of that whole "religion" thing.

Now excuse me, I need to go soak myself in bleach after visiting that website.

About Damn Time!

So long, TSA. We knew ye too well.

The Transportation Security Administration, once the flagship agency in the nation's $20 billion effort to protect air travelers, is now slated for dismantling.

The TSA has been plagued by operational missteps, public relations blunders and criticism of its performance from both the public and legislators. Its "No Fly" list has mistakenly snared senators. Its security screeners have been arrested for stealing from luggage, and its passenger pat-downs have set off an outcry from women.

Under provisions of President Bush's 2006 budget proposal favored by Congress, the TSA will lose its signature programs in the reorganization of Homeland Security. The agency will likely become just manager of airport security screeners -- a responsibility that itself could diminish as private screening companies increasingly seek a comeback at U.S. airports.

One of my big gripes about Bush is that he's a big government Republican. Hell, these days EVERY politician is a big government fan, since that's how they accumulate power. As bad as Bush is, the Democrats are even worse. The TSA is one example of that. Created by Bush, run by a Democrat, and a waste of time and energy in every way possible. Run by politically correct idiots, afraid of it's own shadow, and failing to keep our airplanes safe, it's been alive way too damn long. It should have never seen the light of day.

Let's make sure it stays dead.

Found at RNS.

And since I missed it entirely...

I know, I know, I've been busy, the dog ate my homework, I left it in the car, my wife is using it for a lamp stand...

Maybe you can still get in to Buy a Gun Day over at Aaron's place.

And for those who haven't updated their blogrolls yet, Aaron the Rantblogger's new digs can be found at http://aarons.cc/

And if you can't find the cash to buy a gun, mebby you can head on over to Kim du Toit's site and assist him with travel and long-range shooting.

Pro-female? Pro-gun.

The statistical reality is that "shall issue" states, those that issue a concealed carry permit to any law-abiding citizen who asks for one, show a lower rape incidence than states where concealed carry permits are difficult or impossible to obtain. The victim disarmers claim that it's just because those states would have had a lower rate anyway. This claim has been proven false: those states which convert to "shall issue" status show a concomitant decrease in the rape rate. Places which take a proactive stance to promote gun ownership among women show a much greater decrease in the rape rate. A dramatic decrease occurred when the Orlando, Florida police, very concerned about the city's skyrocketing rape rates, instituted a program to train tens of thousands of women in the safe use of handguns. The rape rate decreased 88%.

lizmicheal.com - Gun Controllers Hate Women

Found at this weeks Carnival of Cordite.

Gandhi, Democracy,...

...WMDs, and Iraq.

Score...

... a direct hit.

Happy Income Redistribution Day!

My wife and I are on the... (ahem) lower end of the pay scale right now. And we're paying a total of ... well.... a hell of a lot more than we want to be, or should be.

And that doesn't include taxes we pay on a day-to-day basis. Gas tax. Sales tax. Go look at your phone bill, if you have a cellular phone. Taxes put over $17 worth of charges on top of the actual bill!

This country is overtaxed, ain't no doubt about it. Unless you're a communist, in which case you need to get your ass out of my country and into one of your "perfect" communist governments. May I suggest Cuba or North Korea?

Oh HELL yeah!

New ships? New designs for our fine Navy? Yes, I suppose it's all well and good, but DANEgerus favors reactivating two battleships.

By the way, everytime you say "recommission battleships" some Navy guy suddenly needs to clean out the front of his pants. And not in a bad way. You want to know why?

The battleships are 10 percent faster than the still-conceptual DD(X). They each bring to bear 12 5-inch and nine 16-inch guns -- capable, with new munitions, of firing accurately to nearly 100 miles. The two battleships can also carry nearly twice as many cruise missiles as all the DD(X) hulls combined. All that firepower is available for $2 billion -- the cost of one DD(X).

During the first Gulf War, the Navy brought the USS Missouri out of mothballs and put her back in service, albiet with modern upgrades. At that time, Navy recruiting offices were swarmed with retired and inactive Navy personnel stating that they would be more than willing to re-enter the service IF and ONLY IF they were put on board a battleship.

The whole reason battleships were decommissioned to begin with is because they're expensive. Ain't no lie about that. It's a floating fortress, the meanest, toughest, nastiest thing on all the Seven Seas. A carrier group obviously has more firepower, but that's made up of dozens of ships. One battleship will beat any other thing that floats every damn time, and the USA had the cream of the crop. If we put nuke engines in them and refloated them, they'd STILL be the cream of the crop. Replace the old targeting systems, upgrade their powerplant, and we would have a ship that no country on this planet would want to tangle with.

I say bring 'em back.

A good cause

And a good blog.

The Revolutionary War Veteran's Association

Via the Baron.

Adding to Tim's Linkdump

A handy guide to the Media's liberal bias.

20 different ways in which the media exerts their bias on the USA.

I can't help it

This is just too much fun.

Look everybody! It's me!

Linkdump

"I actually had two Korean War(!) veterans thank me - I could hardly stammer a reply." Greeting returning soldiers at Instapundit.

"He gave his life heroically and importantly, but it's immoral for our command not to provide our soldiers with absolutely everything they need to give them maximum protection: body armor, armored vehicles, sandbags. ... It's immoral if our soldiers are left in any way unequipped and unprotected." Senate Democrat politicizing death at PowerLine.

What was it that President Clinton called Senators who blocked votes? Oh yeah -- "Guardians of Gridlock".

"People don't want to accept that a well-educated, liberal community can have hate." Via Ann Coulter, via DANEgerus.

Dan Drezner sez: "John Bolton is right about the United Nations". As if that really matters...

And, lastly, Michael Ramirez:

I am aghast

John Kerry is looking for letters from the family of soldiers. Not letters of pride and respect. No, that wouldn't do for the Democrats. They're looking for letters describing hardship and suffering from soldiers families.

Gee, why would an uber-liberal senator from Masshole be asking for letters of hardship and suffering?

Go read Kevin's response to John Kerry over at Drumwaster's Rants. I wish I wrote that eloquently sometimes.

Nailed it in one

Via Kim du Toit, (and in turn the Geek w/a .45 and Cap'n Jim) comes this article from The High Road which needs to be a must read for everyone.

Violence and brutality are as much a part of humanity as intelligence and socialization. It is the universal drive of civilization to contain these instincts, to redirect them into more productive channels, to convince people to live within a set of rules. But no matter how civilized, no society has eliminated them, nor will one. The society that forgets this is the society that falls to the barbarian hordes. The society that accepts this, and nurtures the warrior spirit away from barbarism and into the defense of the right is the society that rises to glory.

This is something that people on the Left just can't comprehend. To the Left, everything would be flowers and rainbows if we just gave up our guns and said lots of nice things to each other.

Which is why I say that the Left is infantile and uncomprehending of anything resembling truth and logic.

For as long as mankind has existed, there were humans who preyed on their fellow man. Why? Who knows. Maybe mommy didn't love them enough. Maybe they didn't have any morals or standards. Perhaps they've got a wire loose and they enjoy hurting people. Who knows? But they exist, as is proven on a daily basis where ever humans congregate. Rapists, murderers, burglers, hoodlums, malcontents, ner'dowells, whatever you want to call them, they are here and they don't give two hoots and a hollar about laws, rules, ethics, morals, or any of the other miriad of things that the rest of us live by. The un-named things that make civilization work are just words to these goblins.

So how do you stop them? Knowing that they don't care about laws or rules, knowing that they don't care about anything you do or say, and knowing that they will violate any rule or concept in order to get what they want, how do you stop them?

You can't convince them or talk to them. You have to shoot them. That's an unfortunate fact of life.

So let's talk about needs. This is what I need.

I need to protect my children from harm. I need to stop my front lawn from being a killing field. I need to be safe when I walk out my front door. The government does its part to achieve these things: the Mongol Horde isn't going to come screaming down Main Street stealing my children for slaves. No Zeroes will be strafing my front lawn. The Wehrmacht isn't going to goose-step up the walk and bayonet me when I go to work. But I need to do my part, because no one else can do it for me. No amount of governmental good intention will prevent a man from assaulting me in an alley. No divison of infnatry will stop a thug from raping my wife. No intelligence satellite will catch the man who murders my child before it happens.

What I want is to never be necessary. I devoutly hope to never see true violence, and I have so far managed to avoid even bar fights. I want to be the absolute last line of defense for me and mine, behind every person my tax money has hired to keep my community safe. But no amount of wanting will mean that I am not that last line of defense, and I need, I deserve, I demand the right to be that last line. This is the final remaining vestige of the barbarian impulse, the warrior spirit, that I possess.

One of the main reason I have a gun and belive in carrying it is this simple fact: If anyone or anything attempts to harm my family or my friends, I will wreak terrible vengance upon them.

It is that simple. If you are so morally depraved that you have no problem with assaulting or raping my wife and family, if you are so careless about rules and laws that you break into my house and attempt to steal from me, you will die. Since these criminals cannot be stopped with laws, regulations, or pretty speech, I have no option left but to either be a victim or to eliminate these people from society.

I refuse to be a victim.

Pictures! We Got Pictures!

Analog Kid has a series of photos up from his brother in law who is stationed in Iraq right now. Just in case you'd like to go look.

Series one.

Series two.

Series three.

He'll be putting up one series a day for a little bit. Go check it out.

Just in case you hadn't heard

Operation Iraqi Freedom has it's first Medal of Honor awardee. Unfortunately, like most soldiers and sailors who win the MOH, it was awarded posthumously.

The White House announced March 29 that President George W. Bush will honor Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith by presenting his family the Medal of Honor on April 4, the second anniversary of his courageous actions during the Battle of Baghdad Airport.

Smith is the first to receive the military’s highest award for actions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In action near the Baghdad Airport on April 4, 2003, Smith, a Soldier in Company B, 11th Engineer Battalion, working with units of the 3rd Infantry Division, was tasked to build a compound to hold enemy prisoners, when his small force came under attack by more than 100 enemies.

Smith threw two grenades and fired rocket launchers at the enemy before manning a .50-caliber machine gun on an M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier to protect his troops. While engaging an enemy attacking from three sides, Smith fired more than 300 rounds from the machinegun before being killed.

He prevented the enemy from overtaking his unit’s position, protected his Task Force’s flank, and defended the lives of more than 100 Soldiers, according to his award citation.

Smith was serving as a platoon sergeant in Bravo Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, Task Force 2-7, 3rd Infantry Division. He had been serving in the Army since October 1989.

"No Greater Love Hath Man Than To Lay Down His Life For Another." - Headstone Inscription of a low-caste Indian (Stranger By The River Pg. 131)

So anyways....

Captain's Quarters has been following the scandals up in Canada regarding the Liberal Party's corruption and other sundry problems. Most of the problems stem from something called AdScam, which the Canadian government tried to cover up without success.

Here's my train of thought: Does anyone think that things are different in the USA?

Look at modern politics. Gerrymandering, soft money, hard money, 527's vs. PAC's, lobbying (legal bribery by a different name), all manner of questionable actions are being performed by the politicians here in the USA. Tom DeLay is under fire for supposedly going on a trip with a lobbyist. Hmmmmm... when you look at the records, Nancy Pelosi and Jim McDermott did the exact same thing. Hell, Jim McDermott went on an exact same trip from the exact same group that Tom Delay went on!

The lying, the hypocrisy, the double dealing, the sheer sliminess that oozes out of Washington D.C. on a daily basis is so foul and putrid that normal people gag from the sight of it. This isn't just one party, this is in my opinion deep-seated corruption and rot of the modern political process.

Looking at the problems that the Canadian government is having, how much do people think that the USA has many of the same problems? I say that if we were to dig into the going-ons of American politicians, we'd find plenty of offenses. We just either can't see it or are prevented from digging far enough to expose it.

Anyone else want to give their opinion?

More on the protests in Iraq

If you're not reading Powerline on a regular basis, you probably missed this.

If you relied on the mainstream media for your information about the second anniversary of the liberation of Iraq, all you probably read about was an anti-American demonstration by adherents of the dissident cleric al-Sadr. Haider puts those stories into perspective by pointing out that many other Iraqis turned out to demonstrate with a very different agenda. The sign in the photo above says, in English: "The mass graves are proof enough to find Saddam guilty and hang him."

Now, if you don't read Arabic (which I'd say 99% of Americans don't) then you would see huge crowds waving banners, with the Has-Been Media filling in the details. Those details would be just about as Anti-American as you can get, since the Has-Been Media is by and large, Anti-American. But when someone who actually reads Arabic looks at the banners...

Well....

Iraqis take to the streets on the second anniversary of the liberation of Baghdad. Iraqi government declared it as national day, the day Iraq was freed from Saddam’s barbaric rule. Many of the banners call for the Trial of Saddam and his gang. Other banners condemn terrorist and terrorism. Al-Sadr (who received no seats in the current parliament, because very few voted for him) is taking this opportunity to call for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq. His request is counter to what the elected government is asking for.

That doesn't sound very anti-American to me. More like pro-Iraqi. And yet where did you see any of this in the so-called Main Stream Media?

That's right. You didn't. Never forget that they are the enemy.

Google Search Referrer of the Day

"seat flap pajamas"

This is top page news for Yahoo!

Right there aside trade deficit, Rumsfeld, and kidnapping items at Yahoo! News is this little morsel:

Colombian painter Fernando Botero displays some of his new paintings depicting the horrors of U.S. guards' abuse of captives at Iraq's Abu Graib prison, Monday April 11, 2005 in Paris, France. Botero says he became so upset that he felt compelled to produce works showing his trademark chubby characters naked and being blooded by americans.

Spelling of "americans" duly noted.

And just look at the nose on the tormentor depicted below!



"american", my eye. That's a hooked-nose Joooooo.

Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

Ain't Surprised at all

CBS Cameraman arrested.

Ever notice how the "journalists" are in the perfect place to get pictures of terrorists attacking US troops? Yeah, gee, I wonder why?

And this quote from an Instapundit reader is right on the money.

The story isn't that CBS is employing terrorists. The story is that no one is surprised CBS is employing terrorists. What's more, I suspect that most Americans, say about 52% of them, feel that most of the MSM outlets with any presence at all in Iraq are employing terrorists.

We all know who the Left is rooting for, and it ain't the USA. The Lame-Stream media, being nothing but the Democrat Party propaganda wing, faithfully sides with the terrorists time and time again. They even stand with them as they attack our troops.

Nothing new here, folks. It's just that they can't hide their activities anymore.

Kerry cites voter intimidation examples

Ole Cut 'n Run is back in the mix!

Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group Sunday.

"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.

CNN.com - Kerry cites voter intimidation examples

UPDATE: While we're at it, check out these examples of true intimidation.

Florida With Rain

Harumph.

During the two recounts, Mr. Logan's office discovered 566 "erroneously rejected" absentee ballots, plus another 150 uncounted ones that turned up in a warehouse. Evidence surfaced that dead people had "exercised their right to vote"; documentation was presented that 900 felons in King County alone had illegally voted and that military ballots were sent out too late to be counted. A total of 700 provisional ballots had been fed into voting machines before officials had determined their validity. In the four previous November elections, King County workers had never mishandled more than nine provisional ballots in a single election.

Sounds to me like a few more felons need to be rounded up.

I don't live anywhere near Washington State but a hundred bucks sez that in 2000 there was a lot of haughty talk up there about Florida's redneck backwards process.

OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail

So anyways

Barring any more troll vomit, the weekend went pretty well. I did a three-day drill with my unit, went to the Yakima Training Center, and helped with rifle qualification. Unfortunately I wasn't able to fire for qualification. It seems there's a war going on, and ammo stock for training is short. The company didn't get all the rounds they requested, and only 85 people in my company were able to fire. So folks like myself who are leaving soon helped run the ranges instead of qualify. It sucks, but it's life in the military.

So now my time is taken up with getting ready to move. Thank god most of our household goods are still in storage. All we have to do is open the door for the movers and let them grab boxes.

I leave for three days....

And the trolls try to get cute. Since our little troll can't behave himself, and tried to use my name to troll, he now get's his pee-pee whacked. I'm just going to summarily delete any comment from his IP from now on.

You've been a bad, bad little troll. Oh well, it's what I've come to expect from the Left. They can't win with their ideas, they have no facts to back them up, so they resort to harrassment and idiocy.

And they STILL can't spell properly. I know that my vocabulary isn't the greatest in the world, but these trolls are like third-grade dropouts.

This is worth a read

Polyshok I.R.P. shotgun ammo would appear to be ideally suited for counterterrorism missions where hostage rescue is the primary goal. It's DefenseReview's understanding that...

Defense Review is always interested in new specialty 12-gauge shotgun ammo that can fulfill mission-specific military Special Operations (SPECOPS), law enforcement SWAT/SRT, and anti-terrorism/counterterrorism and hostage rescue requirements.

Polyshok's Specialized Shotgun Rounds

A Classic...

...from the Associated Press and Yahoo! News.



"...the slow pace of returning control..."

Oy!

Timeframe nailed down

I head to Ft. McCoy, WI on April 30th. I head to Ft. Buchana, Puerto Rico on May 5th or 6th.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

I'm about to duplicate Kim du Toit's happy dance!

(That's fully naked in the front yard with rifle in hand, for those who don't know.)

Mugged by Reality

The Weekly Standard

Forward Progress

It looks like I'm finally going to get my orders to Puerto Rico. I'm spending quite a bit of time trying to get a hole of the Personell office in St. Louis, but I recieved an email yesterday that someone is working on my AGR packet.

Hot damn!

I've enjoyed my little stay in Coeur d'Alene, but I hate spinning my wheels.

Oh, THAT liberal media!

Analog Kid has a report on yet another liberal "journalist" with an agenda.

The short short version is this: "EEEK! ANYONE (with no criminal convictions or restraining orders, who doesn’t use any illegal drugs and is not mentally ill, is not buying the firearm for someone who cannot do so legally and is at least 18 years of age. Oh and has a valid ID showing their residence to be in the state where the purchase is taking place) CAN BUY AN AK-47 (of the non-automatic variety)!

My response - SO WHAT?

Being as crime rates are lower in states that have fewer gun laws, let's get those puppies into the hands of private citizens!

OK, I take it back

San Fransisco actually has a purpose. It's the advance party for the Democrats. Don't believe me? Check it out.

Just when you thought the Federal Election Commission had it out for the blogosphere, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took it up a notch and announced yesterday that it will soon vote on a city ordinance that would require local bloggers to register with the city Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.

Blogs that mention candidates for local office that receive more than 500 hits will be forced to pay a registration fee and will be subject to website traffic audits, according to Chad Jacobs, a San Francisco City Attorney.

Do you know what San Fransisco is? San Fran is what happens when the Left gets it's way.

Which is why they're the laughingstock of the country.

But in all honesty, they're working on banning handguns (even as Mayor Newsom proposes putting unarmed fire fighters on street corners to help curb the rising crime rate), they give bums money to live on the street (resulting in public fountains being shut down and closed off due to drug paraphenalia, needles, urine and feces in the water), and now they're going to start banning free speech when possible.

If you want to see the damage that the Left can do, look at San Fransisco.

(link found at both DANEgerus and RNS.

I hate to say "I told you so"....

but.... I told you so.

Public opposition to "marriages" between homosexuals is at an all-time high, according to a poll released yesterday.
When asked whether they thought same-sex "marriages" should be recognized by the law as valid and come with the same rights as traditional marriages, 68 percent of the respondents in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll said they should not.
Twenty-eight percent said same-sex "marriages" should be valid and 4 percent had no opinion. The survey of 443 adults was conducted March 18 to 20.

Why the change? People didn't just wake up one morning and say "Gosh, being gay is wrong!" They didn't have some sudden change of heart brought on by some mysterious force.

They had a change of heart because people in general will push back when someone is trying to jam crap down their throat. People are getting sick and tired of judicial legislation, and the gay marriage bruhah that came up last year and the year before is having significant backlash.

The gay marriage group has shot themselves in the foot. And while they went from court to court, trying to find a judge that would give them the results they wanted, they called any and all who disagreed with their methods all manner of foul names. There's one woman who insults me whenever she sees a comment of mine on Sondra K's blog. All because I told her to not go through the courts.

Only time will tell if they can reverse the damage they caused to their movement.

"Excuse me, Senator Byrd?"

"Please accompany me to the woodshed."

Robert Byrd is indeed a valuable link not only to the Senate's past, but also to the Democratic Party's history as the party of slavery, segregation, and opposition to equal treatment of blacks.
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Byrd is old enough, for example, to have vowed memorably regarding the integration of the Armed Forces by President Truman that he would never fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

"Right this way, Sir."

Speaking of Rifts

Oy!

"To win back the White House in 2008, our party must change. We must be willing to discard political strategies that may make us feel good but that keep falling short. We must finally reject the false choice between exciting our base and expanding our appeal, because unless we both motivate and persuade, we'll lose every time," said DLC founder Al From and President Bruce Reed in a new manifesto for their party.

"Manifesto"

Double Oy!

Centrist Democrats warn liberals - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - April 04, 2005

Censorship North of the Border

Good Lord.

Captain's Quarters

At least they have cheap drugs...