Place your bets

How long before a Congressional Democrat cites the shootings at Virginia Tech as justification for "gun control"?

Tick...tock...tick...tock...

And more.

Stop me before I make another one!

OK, so I lied when I said I was done.

Things to do when you have five minutes and you're online.


Meh-heh!

On a personal note

I'm busy as hell, so this will be my last post today.

Tomorrow ain't looking to good either.

Whoa...

There's a blog I go to quite a bit, that covers 2nd Amendment issues much better than almost anyone - The Smallest Minority. I've been going there for years, and used quite a bit of his research on his left sidebar when I needed to prove a point. I consider Mr. Baker to be one of the best bloggers out there in terms of what information he puts out, and how he can refute every point the gun-grabbers bring up.

I guess every now and then, he reads this blog as well.

Whoa.

Uh oh

There's a Donk now talking about putting troops into Darfur.

Look, I've written about this in the past. I honestly believe that the genocide in Darfur will not end until we put a full division of US troops into the middle of the refugee area with orders to shoot any enemy troops on sight. So in one respect, I agree agree with Sen. Biden. Here's where I have to put on the brakes, however - I do not think that the troops would be allowed by the Democrats American Communist Party to do what they HAVE to do in order to stop the murders, rapes, muggings, and various other crimes being perpetrated. All I have to do is go back to Somalia to see how a Democrat American Communist Party-run operation would look like.

And let's not even talk about the howls of indignation that will come from the rest of the world should we drop the 82nd Airborn into Darfur. If you think the moronic screeching is bad now, just wait until the first American shoots some African rapist in the middle of the act. We won't just have to kill the murderers and rapists currently infesting the Sudan, we'd be in an all out war with the Sudanese government and everyone who supports them. Oh, and let's not forget how China would act, since they have invested heavily in the oil fields there.

So if you're going to advocate sending ANY troops into Darfur, you're going to have to accept the fact that it will most likely end in one of two ways: A) we wipe out all enemy forces for a fifty-mile radius, thus allowing the refugees to go about life unmolested, or B) another Mogadishu-type pullout, with video of dead American soldiers being played worldwide. We cannot go into Darfur expecting the locals to act rationally. If they felt like acting rationally, we wouldn't need to go into Darfur in the first place! Should we put any troops in harms way in Africa, it should be with the full backing and support of every feckless parasite on Capitol Hill, orders to shoot to kill, the knowledge that we are starting a shitstorm that can only end when our enemy is too dead to fight anymore, and the resolve that it is the right thing to do no matter how many rapists, thieves, murderers, and other assorted scum-sucking cesspool dwellers die at our hands.

That means no whining and wailing about how many people we kill. If our troops see someone committing murder, they kill the perp. If our troops see someone raping a girl, they kill the rapist. If our troops see a large group of people with AK-47's marching into a refugee camp, they don't have to ask that group who they are, why they have weapons, and why there is a dead 12 year old girl with a bullet hole in her head; they simply sight in on the group and open fire. We're not trying to stop crime in Times Square, we're trying to prevent the wholesale slaughter of a group of people who are targeted because they belong to the "wrong" religion.

Anything less, and we just invite more tragedy. But for some strange reason, I cannot think of ANY of the current crop of communist clusterfucks in Congress who would go for those rules.

Makes me wonder

What would have happened a few weeks ago if the British Navy had the same Rules of Engagement that the British Army seem to have?

Personally, I'm voting for "Dead Iranian Goons In The Water".

One Last Imus Post (I hope)

So, we all know that Don Imus got fired for calling the Rutgers basketball team "nappy-headed hos". The country went apeshit.

Well, parts of the country went apeshit. Al "Jews are diamond merchents" Sharpton and Jessie "Hymietown" Jackson went apeshit, and their egos are so large they have their own gravitational field. But let's be honest, shall we? Nobody handled this with any kind of class. Imus is an ass. The Rutgers women's basketball team made asses of themselves as well, I'm sorry to say. How, you ask? Because what they SHOULD have done, what would have impressed damn near everybody except for the Race Warlord Poverty Pimps, is come out to their media interview and say "Don who? Never heard of him. Someone told me he had a radio show, but I've never heard it."

"But, but, but, Dave, they're the VICTIMS here!" you might say. And my response is "Bullshit". They are "victims" because they allowed themselves to be victims. If somebody came up to me and called me a "greasy mick-wop hybrid", I'd laugh in their face. Yeah, I'm Irish and Italian, but the only problem I have with that is I don't know what part of Boston to go hang out in. You can call me what you want, and I'll just laugh at you. Why? Because if I choose to get offended by your name calling, I'm giving you power over me. I am allowing you to turn me into a victim.

Well, I say fuck that.

Nobody came out of this episode looking good. The Race Warlord Poverty Pimps did their usual scummy act, the Rutgers B-ball team came out looking like sobbing, simpering babies, Imus came out looking even worse than he did when he first made the comment, and the media came out looking like the the worthless jackals that they are. A pox on all their houses. I never want to hear Don Imus mentioned again. I'd be happy if I never had to see the Race Warlord Poverty Pimps on TV again as well.

A pox on all of them.

UPDATE: Well, I think we can all see what Imus' problem was - he called the wrong people a bad name! I mean, he should have stuck to insulting conservative women, because from what I can see people do it all the time, and nobody seems to be bothered by it one bit.

Hypocrites.

If you live to be 100...

...you may never again get the chance to read something this ludicrous. So go ahead, click it: UCCS: WPC. And make sure to peruse the "One Day Institutes".

Yo Dave

Didja get that shipment, Chief?

Say, you look familiar....

Aren't you... um..... Bob? No, no, not Bob. Brett? Nope, that's not right either. Wait a second -

HOLY SHIT! YOU'RE BILL! BILL WHITTLE! It's been so long!

OK, all kidding aside, if you want to see WHY people keep begging Bill to write more, just peep at this:

Recently, Rosie O’Donnell said on national television that she believes 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government.

Well, that’s why we went through the steps above. If you believe that the government lied about the moon landing, you can believe they lied about killing JFK. If they lied about JFK, then they can lie about chemtrails. And if they are willing to poison the entire population with aerial spraying, what are a few thousand people in four airliners and a couple of buildings?

Rosie O’ Donnell making such a claim on a major network is a national disgrace. The fact that much of the audience cheered and applauded is nothing less than a national
catastrophe.

To her, and to her audience, it is taken as granted that the government is capable of such things. As if “the government” was operated by cyborgs grown in Haliburton vats, rather than by well-meaning and patriotic people that love this country.

"This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel," she said. This is a statement of such pristine and perfect idiocy that it surely must be emblazoned in stone across the entrance to the Physics Imbecile wing of the Moron Museum of Natural History. But mastery of physics and engineering requires some intelligence, some perseverance and some discipline: none of which are in evidence in this buffoon. Everything is a conspiracy to a mind this far gone. The 15 British sailors kidnapped at sea? All a plan by our evil (but incompetent!) government to get the next war it so desperately needs. “Gulf of Tonkin! Google It, people!” she said on national TV.

And I will, Rosie. I promise. As soon as I finish googling MAD COW DISEASE.

I agree with Mr. Whittle - it's a national shame that we have someone like Rosie O'Blabbermouth on TV spouting off half-baked conspiracy theories. What's worse is that she's not laughed off the set immidiately, but instead applauded for her diseased thinking.

So anyways, go read. It's BILL WHITTLE!

Imus is Gone...

...and Rosie remains.

Quel suprise.

Or is it plus ça change?

Je ne sais pas.

Protesters Demand Answers In Alleged Gang Rape At Duke

Looking and sounding like imbeciles in Durham: WRAL.com :: Protesters Demand Answers In Alleged Gang Rape At Duke

Solace: these are the same numbskulls who are banging pots in protest of war in Iraq.

Brave Sir Robin!

Sir Robin Ran Away!

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday joined former North Carolina senator John Edwards (D) in deciding to skip a debate scheduled for September that Fox News is co-sponsoring with the Congressional Black Caucus.

Liberal activists, particularly the online group Moveon.org, have called for Democratic presidential candidates not to participate in debates by Fox, which they say is biased against Democrats. Clinton campaign aides said she would participate only in the six events sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee and two other events she had already agreed to. Several candidates, including Edwards, last month withdrew from a debate that Fox was co-hosting with the Nevada Democratic Party and would have taken place in August in Reno.

It's.... FOX NEWS! RUN AWAY! The so-called "fringe elements" are firmly in control of the Democrat American Communist Party, folks. There's no doubt about it. And you know I have Monty Python on the brain....

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Robin!

Somewhere, a baby is crying

Because it looks like my Seattle Mariners are once again going to be the American League's official Whipping Boys.

After the game yesterday? Yeah. Boston took them out behind the woodshed. And then whipped them so damn hard I'm amazed they were able to walk out of the stadium. Whipped, folks. This is not a good sign for those of us who would like to see something more than milktoast come out of Seattle.

You know what? I've said it before, I'll say it again. Fire the front office. All of 'em, the lousy bastards. They all need to get fired. Take a blowtorch to the place and start over. Blah. Bottom dwellers once again.

So Don Imus got suspended

For calling a group of women "nappy headed hos".

Yawn. And then he went on the "I'm so sorry tour" by going onto Al Sharpton's radio show. Yeah, Al "Jews are all diamond merchants" Sharpton. Al "Tawana Bradley" Sharpton. Al "Fat sack of hypocritical shit" Sharpton.

Yawn.

You want to know why I don't give a damn about Don Imus, other than the fact that I don't listen to his show, never have, and couldn't even tell you where to find his show on the radio? I want you to imagine something for me, Mmmkay? I want you to imagine the rage and the furor that the phrase "nappy headed hos" would have stirred up....

......If Chris Rock would have said it instead of a 60ish-year-old white man.

Yeah. Yawn.

UPDATE: Malkin's got the lyrics of the top five songs on Billboard Hot Rap Tracks. Don't let your kids read it. Just another example of the double standard in America, I guess. Piss on 'em all.

It wernt the fuel pump!

OK, so, I took the truck to the garage yesterday. Now, for those who don't know, if you think that part x is the problem, that's all well and good. But you still test, test, test to see what the real problem is.

I pushed the truck into the bay, opened the hood, and realized that at that exact point, I had no damn clue what to do. So I found one of the techs, and said "Look, I think it's my fuel system. Can we test it somehow to see what the problem is?" Pop off a hose here, attach a gauge there, and try to start it.

Fuel system is good. Working properly. OK. So, if it ain't the fuel system, then it's either air or spark that's not getting to the engine. Great. 'Nother round of tests. Is there anyone who would like to guess what the problem was?

Turns out my tachometer, which was dead before I bought the truck, and which I never gave a crap about enough to fix it, was still hooked up to the coil, and was pulling enough juice away from the coil to prevent it from sending juice to the distributor cap. Thus, the engine wasn't getting spark.

Dude cut one frigging wire, and said "Try it now." Vroom. Started up on the first try. You learn something new every day.

I still need to replace the distributor cap and rotor, but that's under the heading of "maintenance", not "ohcrapgottafixitpleasework". I can drive my happy ass down to Western Auto and buy it. Cheaper than a fuel pump!

Ah well, I'd better get ready for work. Gotta do an inventory on an entire building worth of crap. And I do mean crap. Mold infected, cockroach infested, filth covered crap. Why do we have to do an inventory on crap? So that we know what exactly we're throwing away.

Joy.

And one more thing

Because it's been on my mind lately -

All those people who have decided that the stick-figure, anorexic, bulimic, skeletal women is the modern definition of "beauty" can kiss my ass. If I see one more woman touted as a model or a "modern beauty" when they've got bones jutting out of their skin, I'll puke.

Women are supposed to have curves, people. Breasts, and hips. I really don't know if I can see one more woman in hip-hugging jeans with their hip bones about to poke through their skin without force-feeding them a cheeseburger, extra cheese.

Women, for the LOVE OF GOD, put down the "Vogue" magazine. Throw away every copy of "W" magazine that you can find. Ignore the so called "fashion" models that you see. They are freaks. They are disgusting. If I were single, I still wouldn't have sex with them if you PAID me. The thought of banging a woman who resembles a concentration camp survivor makes me want to vomit. If I can count your ribs, I'm not going to give you the time of day.

Let me make this clear - SKINNY DOES NOT EQUAL SEXY. Got it? Good. I'm going to refer back to a piece I wrote back in 2003. (dear god, has it been that long?) The question still remains - does any woman remember what size dress Marilyn Monroe wore?

Depending on the year, it was from a size 12 to a size 16. I want all you women to keep that in mind when you try to fit into a size 0, mmm-kay? I don't want to see a size 0. You want to know what a woman in a size 0 means? Lemmee tell you.

It means no hips. It means no ass. It means no real breasts. It means that you have starved yourself down into nothing but a clothesrack, to wear clothes designed by some gay fwench man that says you should wear a tube sock as a dress. And you know what? If you diet yourself into a size 0, as far as I'm concerned, you've bought the bullshit. You've been suckered. MARILYN MONROE WAS A SIZE 12 DAMMIT! So take your skinny little size 3 or size 4 and GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!

I'm tired of seeing skeletons and told that I'm supposed to find them "sexy". Fuck that. It's NOT sexy, and the people who say it is are deluding themselves. If I find a woman sexy, it'll be a REAL woman, not some stick figure parody of the female form.

OK, I've gotten that off my chest.

One Step Forward

Two steps back. I've been doing some maintenance on the ol' truck. Basic stuff. Change the oil and oil filter. Change the air filter. Change the fuel filter.

Problem is, it seems the fuel pump wanted to be changed as well. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. So tomorrow is going to be spent on a series of tests to try and find the problem. And if it is the fuel pump, that means I get to drop the fuel tank, empty it, and remove the fuel pump from it before I can replace it. Yes, I'm one of those lucky people who has the fuel pump in the gas tank type vehicle. For all the repairs I've done on this truck, I'm still constantly amazed at how the designers managed to shoehorn everything into it. Don't even ask me what it's like just to change the sparkplugs.

Anyways, that's what I'll be doing tomorrow. And why I haven't posted much.

Happy Easter

I can honestly say that Holy Week has me tired and done in. Ever since I took charge of the choir (which I only did because nobody else stepped up - the story of my life sometimes) I've realized just how much you have to do in order to make things flow well. On top of that, if you're part of the church that is kinda required, you have to be at every mass or liturgy that is required.

My voice is shot. As in, gone. Four masses, and I can't sing another note until my vocal chords heal up a bit. I'm not used to singing this much anymore. I used to be able to sing hours a day for days on end, but I'm not a kid who's practicing every day, and I haven't been one for a while. If you've wondered why I haven't been posting much, it's because after I've gotten off work, finished the various tasks around the house and taken care of odd business that crops up when you're in the military, I've then been spending anywhere from three to five hours at the chapel making sure that our Chaplain has everything he needs (He's new to the Chaplain Corps, although not new to the Army), and helping to plan out the next day's mass. I've never been this involved in a parish before. It's a learning experience.

I've been a busy boy.


In any case, I thought it would be a good day to once again remind people about my favorite Catholic blogger, Mr. Poretto. His Sunday Ruminations are not to be missed, if you're of a religious persuasion. Or even if you're not religious, but would like to expand your knowledge of the subject a bit. Hell, why be picky; there's not one damn entry of his that I just skip over, they're all worth reading.

OK, maybe the chess posts are a bit much for those who aren't as interested in chess as he is, but I still read through them. Strategy is always good to learn.

In any case, I'm enjoying a good gin and tonic right now - I gave up all hard liquor for Lent, and I've been without for quite a few weeks. Now I'm no longer without, and I'm going to go enjoy myself with my wife by my side.

I hope your Easter was as fulfilling as mine.

Support our men and women in uniform, their families too

My husband and I aren't exactly shy about us being in the military. I just got back from an Army Family Team Building conference. AFTB is a wonderful program teaching people how to deal with military life. I think it is wonderful program. Something that really surprised me at this conference, is the diversity of the people involved. There were spouses of differing ranks, retirees, family members and many of the volunteers are not even related to the US Army. Unlike many things in life this is not a political thing, there is no status symbol, or rank(I made the mistake of asking a person their spouses rank). Rank is taboo!!! They are really people who care and want to make a difference.

One of the hardships this program faces is that family members do not realized the need for this until their family member, usually a spouse, is deployed. This would not be such a bad thing, except, that not only are there many day to day resources for the military family, but there is so much that needs to be known before deployment, and most people do not start looking for resources until it's too late.

Ultimately the reason I am doing this post, is that I would encourage anyone with a friend, family member, spouse or who is otherwise connected to the military to go to the link above and take all 3 levels. If you are in the military this does provide promotion and retirement points.

It really is a worthwhile program that is unfortunately a well kept secret.

So be all you can be at AFTB.

Democrats got ya down?

Go watch this guy's speech to the military. There are people back in the states who still get it, who aren't brainwashed, and who don't kowtow to liberally "correct" views.

Thank god!

I've been remiss

In not linking to Chris Byrne's blog, in which he has a transcript of Even Sayet's speech. For those who don't have the "Download Speed of God Almighty", and can't get the 70MB video, reading the transcript is the next best thing.

Trust me, if it's the one thing you read this month, you won't be disappointed.

***sigh***

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New from Iraq

That the MSM does NOT want you to know. Why? Well, if they actually wanted you to know it, they would have reported it, right?

Ask most Americans if they were aware that Iraqis, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, believe that life today is better than it was under Saddam Hussein, and you'd most likely elicit incredulousness, blank stares or outright laughter. Not because it isn't true, though. It is.

The mainstream media just forgot to mention it.

In the past month, two surveys that involved face-to-face interviews with thousands of ordinary Iraqis have been released. While each contained significantly different results, both provided substantial evidence that Iraqis are not nearly as gloomy as Americans have been told to believe.

The MSM is not your friend. They have a political bias, and they have an agenda. The MSM is, by their actions, nothing but a propaganda wing of the Democrat American Communist Party.

Actions speak louder than words. And the actions of the MSM leave nothing to question.

Meanwhile, in Cincinnati...

Classic!

A Wayne Township volunteer firefighter is scheduled to appear Thursday in Mason Municipal Court on drunken driving and other charges after he was found wearing a woman’s blond wig and bikini in a public park.

Steven S. Cole, 46, Waynesville, was arrested about 5 p.m. Tuesday at Heritage Oak Park off U.S. 42 after Mason police received a report of an intoxicated man. Cole was charged with drunken driving, having an open container, public indecency and disorderly conduct.
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“There’s a man out here dressed up in a wig and women’s two-piece bikini freaking people out in the park,” Harphant told a 911 dispatcher. “It’s inappropriate and I’d like somebody to come check this guy out.”

Oy!

It's 1984 all over again

The Democrat American Communist Party has learned Comrade Stalin's lessons well. Control the language, and you control the people.

Maybe that's why they're trying this bullshit:

A memo sent to Democratic staffers on the House Armed Services Committee instructed the aides not to use the specific phrases, the Military Times newspaper reported.

• Click here to read the memo.

Erin Conaton, the committee's staff director, sent out the 15-page memo titled "Style Guide for Defense Authorization Report."

"When referencing military operations throughout the world, please be as specific as possible. Please avoid using colloquialisms such as, 'the war on terrorism, or the 'Long War' Please do not use the term 'global war on terrorism,' " according to the memo.

Yes, mustn't let the plebs know about the war that we're trying to lose!

I don't know if I should be happy or sad

I mean, on one hand, this is just further proof that the Democrat American Communist Party is the party of abject surrender. Nothing says "WE LOVE TERRORISTS" like going to a terrorist supporting country and fellating the pencil-necked leader.

On the other hand, if she keeps this behavior up, after she is converted to Islam, she'll be wearing a burkah and beaten when she speaks out of turn, so that could be a good thing. But only if she stays over there.

I wonder, how much would we have to pay Syria to keep Pelosi?

Why I Left the Seattle Area

Because of crap like this:

Tacoma police say last month's 12-day anti-war protests cost the city an unbudgeted $500,000 to provide a large-scale law enforcement presence.

The rough estimate covers overtime, regular compensation, equipment and food for hundreds of workers from Tacoma police and other agencies, Assistant Chief Bob Sheehan said.

The city plans to ask the Port of Tacoma and the military to cover some of the costs.

"That's a tremendous hit on our budget -- a half-million dollars of unexpected expense," said Tacoma Mayor Bill Baarsma, adding that the military would get the first invoice.

"I think our request is justifiable," Baarsma said. "I would expect that we would be reimbursed. I would be surprised if we weren't."

Oh dear lord on a pogo stick! So, some braindead communists protest the military, and the City of Tacoma wants to stick the Army with the damn bill? How about this idea, you moronic brainfart of a mayor: MAKE THE FUCKING PROTESTERS PAY THE DAMN BILL! THEY'RE THE SHIT FLINGING SCUMBAGS WHO COST YOU SO MUCH MONEY!

Seriously, other than losing the Seahawks and a few friends, the rest of the Pugetropolis could fall into Puget Sound and I wouldn't weep. I'd just want to ensure that Phil and Sondra made it out first. What a festering shithole of Leftism.

I love Korea

No, I really do. When I was stationed there I had a damn good time, and I managed to get out of the barracks and into the country a bit. I love Korean food. Hell, before I got married I would have stated that I love Korean girls, but we all know that since I'm married, there's no other woman for me but the one with my ring on her finger!

So it's without further ado that I present you with this little bit of Korean advertising:






Yowza. Hey, every guy has to have his fetishes, right? I also have a thing for single malt scotch, although, yaknow, not in THAT way. I mean, I'm not going to be walking down the street holding a bottle of The Glenlivet in one hand and a genuine blue-steeler in the other, right?

Besides, I prefer a good Islay malt rather than a Highland.

Anyways, I found this over at Sondra's place.

Need a little sleuthing done.

A reader sent me a link that he's not sure is real or not. It's called Operation America Rising, and while it seems to be a good cause, nobody seems to be able to tell if it's an honest action or just a site trying to get money from people. To quote from the email:

It looks, on the surface to be a fund raising deal. The site has no personal names, phone #s, office address etc. Every Blog/site references back to the Operation America Rising and it seems to be the only source of info. Even Google simply quotes the main site. Is this rally real or is it false?

So here's the deal, cyber sleuths: Is this a real honest website, or just a money-grab? I'll look into it as much as I can, but I'm as busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Any information you could pass along would be greatly appreciated, and I'll relay all info back to the guy who emailed me.

Go.

Read this.

And the minute you have to ask, you know the answer. If, say, Norway or Ireland acquired nuclear weapons, we might regret the “proliferation,” but we wouldn’t have to contemplate mushroom clouds over neighboring states. In that sense, the civilized world has already lost: to enter into negotiations with a jurisdiction headed by a Holocaust-denying millenarian nut job is, in itself, an act of profound weakness—the first concession, regardless of what weaselly settlement might eventually emerge.

Conversely, a key reason to stop Iran is to demonstrate that we can still muster the will to do so. Instead, the striking characteristic of the long diplomatic dance that brought us to this moment is how September 10th it’s all been. The free world’s delegated negotiators (the European Union) and transnational institutions (the IAEA) have continually given the impression that they’d be content just to boot it down the road to next year or the year after or find some arrangement—this decade’s Oil-for-Food or North Korean deal—that would get them off the hook. If you talk to EU foreign ministers, they’ve already psychologically accepted a nuclear Iran. Indeed, the chief characteristic of the West’s reaction to Iran’s nuclearization has been an enervated fatalism.

Back when nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, your average Western progressive was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute. The mushroom cloud was one of the most familiar images in the culture, a recurring feature of novels and album covers and movie posters. There were bestselling dystopian picture books for children, in which the handful of survivors spent their last days walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now a state openly committed to the annihilation of a neighboring nation has nukes, and we shrug: Can’t be helped. Just the way things are. One hears sophisticated arguments that perhaps the best thing is to let everyone get ’em, and then no one will use them. And if Iran’s head of state happens to threaten to wipe Israel off the map, we should understand that this is a rhetorical stylistic device that’s part of the Persian oral narrative tradition, and it would be a grossly Eurocentric misinterpretation to take it literally.

That's only part of it. It's one of the best summations of why we need to flatten the Turbaned Tumblefucks of Tehran that I've ever seen.

Abject Surrender

In what used to be a great nation.

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

I want you all to think about that for a while. They are dropping one of the worst genocides in history from their G*D DAMNED HISTORY CLASSES because they might offend the perpetually outraged!

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

British citizens might as well begin praying to Mecca five times a day, wagging their butts in the air and wiping their ass with their left hand after they shit. Because they have been conquered.

And they surrendered without firing a shot. This is how civilizations die. By giving into the demands of a deranged foe because they don't want to start a fight. John Stuart Mill had it correct, and it's a quote that I think I will be re-posting again and again.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Britain has surrendered.

Rosie O'Donnell...

...eviscerated.

Watch your shoes.

Hell, you know the answers already, don't you?

Why is San Fran Nan Pelosi going to Syria to fellate boy Assad, along with other Commifornia Congresscritters?

Why is Rep. Keith Ellison going on his own personal "I'm Muslim and I'm Proud!" Middle East tour?

Why the fuck are these people not laughed off the face of the earth?

Why are the worthless, anti-American Communists also known as the "Democrats" not even allowing a resolution to condemn Iran for kidnapping British sailors and Marines?


Why in the name of all that is holy does this stupid fucking bitch STILL have a TV career?

Thanks for all the RCOB's, Sondra. As if my blood pressure wasn't high enough. Gah.

How useless is the UN?

Well, when the 42nd Street Aimless Debate and Chowder Society can't even be bothered to actually blame Sudan for their actions in Darfur.....

The U.N. Human Rights Council expressed concern over the situation in Darfur on Friday, but stopped short of criticizing Sudan's government.

The compromise resolution passed by consensus without a vote after Germany agreed to remove any mention of holding Khartoum responsible for the "armed attacks on civilian population and humanitarian workers, widespread destruction of villages, and continued and widespread violence."

Look, when this group can't even call a spade a spade, what use is it? The UN is worse than worthless, it is an IMPEDIMENT to world peace. I can't even muster up the anger to list all the faults of that group of ticks, leeches, worms, and other assorted parasites.

Nothing good can ever come out of that group. Nothing. Plain and simple. It needs to be destroyed and the ground it sits on razed flat.

What would you do?

Kim du Toit asks the question - if you won flaming assloads of money, and you "cleared the decks", i.e. paid off all debts and had a clean slate, what is the first thing you would do with your new wealth?

Me? That's an easy question. I would buy a sailboat, 50 feet minimum, and sail around the globe, stopping in key port cities. It would probably take around two or three years to complete the trip.

OK, so maybe it would be bigger than 50 feet. But it would have to be something that I could sail by myself, at least for a short while. Because the only people I want on the boat is me, my wife, and my dog.

And, I'm back

A little sicker, a lot more tired, but still kicking. Found out yesterday I have something called "pharengitis". Sorry if I misspelled that. It's a bacterial infection, behind the tonsils, where the sinuses drain down into the throat. It sucks, but it's not so bad that I'm curled up on the couch whimpering. Gimmie some antibiotics and let me go.

I hate being sick. At least I'm not cooped up in the house.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, the Democrat American Communist Party remains true to form, and is working on pushing the largest tax hike in history.

They truly are communists, folks. They just hide behind pretty words and statements, while working feverishly to impose their distorted ideology on America. Think about that when 2008 rolls around, will ya?

ADDED: From Captain's Quarters, a moment of Democrat American Communist Party honesty:

“When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.”

Hoping against Hope

That President Bush finally rediscovers his testicles and vetos this damn bill so hard that it'll leave marks on the congresscritters for a couple of weeks.

In other news, I'm so damn busy at work that I barely have room to take a breath or two inbetween missions. I'll post when I can.

About Iran

Taking British sailors and marines hostage - I haven't commented on it, because DANEgerus pretty much covered it completely.

My thinking on the whole issue can be summed up in a quick paragraph - the British response SHOULD have been "If our people aren't released in twenty-four hours, the entire Iranian Navy will cease to exist." The US response should have been "We will support Great Britain in any endeavor to get her people back." And our carrier groups should have been waiting for the signal to turn the Iranian military into scrap metal. Unfortunately, none of the above happened as far as I can tell. So we're going to play the waiting game, and the talking game, until Iran finally pops a nuke in one of our cities, or a city of our allies.

And then all hell will break loose, and the damage caused by it will be much worse than if we dealt with Iran now. It's 1938 all over again, with NATO playing the part of Chamberlin, and Iran playing Hitler. Only Iran isn't playing at all, it's acting on what it wants to do, and nobody in the world wants to deal with them.

I fear for the future sometimes.

Well, that sucks

Tony Snow's cancer has returned. Since we've already seen the Left wish for his death, I suppose it's only a matter of time before the slimeballs at DU, Kosstards, and HuffPo ramp up their cries for him to kick the bucket.

There's still good people living there

Well, besides my brother and his wife, that is. Man jumps into freezing water to rescue 5 year old girl.

A Yarmouth man leaped into Barnstable Harbor to rescue a 5-year-old girl moments after she lost her balance and fell in, officials said.

Gary Richard was eating lunch with his girlfriend in their car Saturday afternoon near the Ocean Street docks when they saw the girl fall in the water. She had been throwing rocks from a dock into the harbor.

"I dropped my sandwich and ran," the 39-year-old told the Cape Cod Times.

Richard, who moved to Yarmouth from Fall River six months ago, looked down from the edge of the dock and saw the girl in the water about 6 feet below. "I saw her face and I just jumped," Richard said, describing the water as freezing. "It was so cold, it was painful."

The girl reached for him and Richard grabbed her under one of her arms. Richard held her up as the boyfriend of the girl's mother, who had been working on a boat nearby, took the child into his arms, police said.

Autumn Campinha, 5, of Barnstable appeared to be uninjured but was brought to Cape Cod Hospital as a precaution.

I have to admit, when I think of Massachusetts and drowning girls, the first thing I think of is Ted (hic!) Kennedy. It's nice to read a story about the opposite behavior.

Why I think America is going to the dogs

It's because of this kind of crap.

A 37-year-old man who was accused of having sex with his girlfriend's underage daughter under an alleged written contract with the girl and her mother was sentenced to several prison terms.

Michael Fitzgibbon was sentenced Friday to up to 15 years for each of four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after prosecutors said he, his girlfriend and her daughter signed a contract allowing the teen to be his sex partner for two months. He was also sentenced to 12 to 25 years for each of two other cases involving first-degree criminal sexual conduct charges involving a 12-year-old girl. He is to serve the sentences at the same time.

Fitzgibbon pleaded no contest to the charges last month. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated the same way for sentencing purposes.

The case arose after the woman, afraid of losing her boyfriend while recuperating from surgery, allegedly arranged for the three to sign a contract in June, The Muskegon Chronicle reported Saturday. In exchange for the sex, the 15-year-old testified she was to be paid and receive privileges, such as piercings, hair dyeing and permission to stay overnight with her own boyfriend.

OK Ladies, here's the deal - if the guy you're dating won't wait for sex while you recover from surgery, HE'S A WORTHLESS LOSER AND YOU NEED TO DUMP HIS PATHETIC ASS! But you do not, I repeat DO NOT loan out your 15 year old daughter as a rentable vagina! How in the hell do you even ask someone to do that? "Hi honey, I love ya, but since I can't do the nasty I want you to spread your legs for Michael until I'm back on my back, OK? Thanks!" Oh, and nice "privileges" too! "Mommy says if I fuck her boyfriend, I can get my clit pierced! Yay!"

How's that for being a fucked up family? And what kind of a guy goes for that crap, anyways? Just what kind of sick, twisted bastard do you have to be in order to screw your girlfriend's 15 year old daughter?

In a letter read by assistant Prosecutor Dale J. Hilson, the alleged victim wrote that since the incidents last summer, she has tried to commit suicide, was treated at a Grand Rapids psychiatric facility and is now undergoing therapy.

Gosh, maybe she's having problems because she was raised by a so-called "mother" who used her as a sex toy to keep a scumbag boyfriend around, hmmmm? I mean, being treated as a living blow-up doll probably isn't all that good for mental or sexual development, you know? Any so-called "mother" that would do a thing like this to her daugher probably doesn't have a really good set of parenting skills, right?

Jebus on a pogo stick. Crap like this makes my head ache.

Mmmmmmm, beer!

[homer drool]Beeeeeeeeeeeeeer![/homer drool]

32 things you can do with beer! I love it. By the way, Number 9 on the list - steaming mussels or clams - if you're lucky enough to get Redhook ESB where you live, try this recipie.

2 to 3 lbs. of clams
1/2 stick butter.
6 -7 large cloves of garlic
1 bottle ESB

Mince the garlic as fine as you can. Melt the butter in a large saucepan or skillet. While the butter is melting, toss the garlic in. As soon as the garlic starts to pop and turn brown, dump in the clams, followed immidiately by the beer. Cover for about 3-5 minutes. As the clams open, pull them out and put them into a bowl. It should take about 10-15 minutes for all the clams to open. If you have clams that do not open, throw them away! Any clams that don't open after 15 minutes were dead to begin with, and should not be eaten.

Once you have your steamed clams in a bowl, dump the remaining liquid from the pan into the bowl as well. Serve with a couple loaves of good, crusty italian bread or sourdough if you have it.

Yes, it's that damn good. But you've got to use Redhook ESB, or at least a good microbrew ESB, otherwise it just doesn't taste the same. Butter, garlic, and beer..... damn, I'm drooling now.

Why we drink

Found this over at the Armorer's place, and had to pass it on.

We drink because if we have to endure one more Friday afternoon meeting, we might just projectile vomit in Kevin's glandular, gnome like face. Just because you don't have a life doesn't mean the rest of us want to sit down at 4:45 on a Friday to discuss the company's direction for Q3. You see Jeff's left eye twitching? I'd give this meeting another 3 minutes before he reaches across the table and pulls one of your ears off, Kev. The man's in a custody battle for his children and you're taking time away from his weekend with them because you're a selfish, horrible man. And if Kevin does blow, you can bet your ass Mitch, the North West sales manager will. I swear that guy starts off cooking some chicken by biting their heads off. Do you hear his unending finger tapping on the faux-marble table? Notice how the pace quickens every few minutes? Well Kev, you've got a few more seconds of being a bullsh1t blowhard until Mitch pulls your heart of your f'ing chest.

We drink because there's no such thing as a good week of work.

We drink because there is no such thing as a uni-sex bathroom. It's a girls bathroom people. You wonder why us guys leave the office at least twice to three times a day, not including lunch? It's because we have to shit, and we can't very well sh1t in that veritable Globe Theatre of a restroom, where every sound is amplified ten fold. The one time I just had to go (note to Jessica, now that was a mission critical decision) and simply couldn't make it to the hotel across the street (those people must have caught on that I'm not staying there, considering they see me every day) I took a sh1t in the uni-sex bathroom, and what ensued was an anal-philharmonic, led by yours truly, in which the entire office was privy to every fart, grunt, and bowel-related sound effect I had to offer. I felt like taking a bow when I got out, possibly chugging some coffee and going in for an encore. So no, it's not uni-sex, it's a girl's room. You might as well stick a huge tampon on the door with a note reading 'No Y
Chromosomes allowed'. Oh, and Regina, I salute your utter shamelessness when it comes to sh1tting. I've never, ever seen a women carry the paper under arm when she walks into the bathroom. Truly, classic stuff.

Good stuff.

Consider this my upraised middle finger

To the ATF, an agency which needs to be dismantled and tossed into the scrapheap of history. I urge everyone to go read that post at Kim du Toit's and sign the petition against the ATF.

As the shirt says, "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a Convenience Store, not a government agency."

Separation of Church and State....the military chaplainacy

I was sitting down with and discussing some issues with our Installation Chaplain who used to be our regular Priest. One of the subjects brought him to the ACLU. Apperantly the ACLU likes to take the validity of the US Military providing for the spiritual needs of US Soldiers to the US Supreme Court, almost annually. Unfortunately this is not the first time I had heard this. As much as I normally don't believe things like this, unless it can be proven. It is hard to find anything on this particular subject. But here is what I found: a discussion forum asking if the ACLU is good for America; in Arkansas the ACLU does not consider the Military a viable career; and my personal favorite, Jewish Chapel built with Federal Funds: No outcry from ADL, ACLU or AU.

The ACLU website says:

"The ACLU is the foremost defender of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The ACLU has played a major role in nearly every critical civil liberties battle of the last century — in courtrooms, in Congress and in the public arena. Please select from the following list to learn more about these issues."

And if you click on their "Religious Liberty" link, they go on to say
"Madison’s ideals, now embodied in the Constitution, were exactly right. Americans enjoy more religious freedom than do people in any other country in the world.

Unfortunately, some people are now trying to use government power to promote religion in exactly the way the Constitution wisely rejected. The ACLU works to ensure that people remain free to chose which religious beliefs (or none) they wish to express and that governments, school boards, and legislatures do not become involved in deciding which religious beliefs should be promoted or in spending taxpayer dollars to support religious activities and symbols.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE
The ACLU is a strong defender of the right of religious organizations and individuals to express their religious beliefs in public. The ACLU is opposed, however, to the government sponsoring, endorsing, promoting, or financing religious symbols. The government has no right or authority to decide whose religious symbols should be promoted and whose should be ignored. The ACLU is currently contesting the federal government's eminient domain seizure and continued display, following a court order, of the Mt. Soledad Latin cross in San Diego. The ACLU supports an easy resolution to the Mt. Soledad controversy--privately raised funds should be used to move the cross to a religious site, thereby saving the Latin cross and respecting the Constitution.
Learn more >>

The only thing the ACLU is interested in promoting is their own warped viewpoint. If you are Christian, moral, support this country or the military, they think you are the devil in carnate and need an exorcism! I have heard on many occasions that there is no "American" in the ACLU. I think it really stands for something more like Alternatives to Civilized Liberties Union. Half the things they support aren't even legal. Think about NAMBLA...

Back to what started this discussion. The reality is the Military needs the Chaplanacy. I am certain this is all in the ACLU's grand plan to shut down the Military and force us all into a Socialist hippy commune. With the uncertainty and hardships that go with military life, and it is quite the adventure, we need something that resembles normalacy! We need something to believe in when the world is going to hell in a hand basket, all around us.

There is ONE thing I have learned over all else, being in Puerto Rico. That is if you are passive in the way you deal with things and people, you will get walked all over with stilettos and spurs. You have to yell, and scream and throw fits, not always in an appropriate way(judge your audience), to get through to people and make a change.

So, please next time you see a cross, a crucifix, or a Star of David in public, especially in a Cemetary, remember that the ACLU is trying to take away the CIVIL LIBERTIES of the Moral Past, Present and Future.

They must be stopped.

Time fer that Linky Love!

Browsing over at Instapundit, I read a few posts here and there that I think should be linked together, because they all are based on the same thing.

First is Don Surber: Gonzo-Gate hides Dem incompetence.

What? The yahoos are taking over the congressional offices of Democratic congressmen? They are eating their own? This should dominate the nightly news.

And not just because it is good political theater, but because it is a good depiction of what is going on in Congress. Democrats ran as the anti-war party in 2006. They were swept into office.

OK, Pelosi and Reid, end the war.

No, the Democrat American Communist Party ran as the anti-BUSH party. Part of that involved being against the War on Terror. But that's not why they won. They won because Republicans were sick of being represented by corrupt shitweasels who were more interested in personal power and lining their pockets than they were about actually representing the people who elected them. When faced with a choice between a corrupt shitheel on the Left, and a corrupt shitheel on the Right, many conservatives simply stayed home on election day. But look who got elected in their place. While Bela Pelosi gained the speaker's seat, many of the Democrats that were elected in 2006 ran on a rather conservative platform. We now have a new group of Blue Dog Democrats, after years of not seeing any of them around. In short, many Democrats ran on a platform of not following the Democrat American Communist Party platform!

The Democrat American Communist Party didn't win the election, so much as the Stupid Party lost it. The Democrat American Communist Party knows this, which is why they aren't even trying to put a direct stop to the war, and are instead attempting to weasel their way into defeat while blaming the President for their own actions.

The second piece is a report detailing the attack and vandalism of a US Army recruiting station in Wisconsin. You can also read about the not-so-fringe element of the Left via a Hot Air post, which has links to the various offenses perpetrated by the Left over the past few months.

Vandalism. Assault. Flag burning. Burning a soldier in effigy. Spitting on veterans. This is the heart and soul of the Democrat American Communist Party. They have spouted off about having their mandate, and taking down President Bush, and ending the war, until they actually believe it all. So when they see things not happening according to plan, they go berserk. They let their mask slip. This is the Left in America today! There is no hiding anymore, they are out in the open for everyone to see. All of their "We support the troops" statements are shown to be the lies we all knew them to be. Their supposed "patriotism" is shown to be a sham. They are proving every statement we have made about them over the past six years to be true.

In their election victory of 2006, they have become their own worst enemy. Because they now are no longer keeping up the facade of being good, patriotic Americans. They're not pretending any more. They are showing their true colors loud and proud.

Sometimes, when I see the loons, communists and idiots all screaming their rage out on nightly TV, I comfort myself with the fact that at least they're being honest about their intentions now. And don't think that we won't remember this come 2008. If we're afraid of having President Hillary, we can show videos and photos of the people who support her, the people who are out there now howling and shrieking at every opportunity.

I don't think the average American is going to like them any more than I do. Which is to say, not at all.

Following up on Tim's post

About Mrs. Edwards -

My mother had cancer, back when I was in high school. I think I've mentioned this before. She survived, but she's constantly monitoring her health, trying to make sure that crap is gone and stays gone.

My aunt had cancer as well. She was another woman who lived a healthy lifestyle, ate right, exercised, and got cancer anyway. She, like my mom, is a survivor.

One of my friends and co-workers when I lived in Seattle had skin cancer. Three rounds of chemo-therapy and it still ate him from the inside out. He died in 2004.

Cancer is an equal opportunity destroyer. And it will destroy you if it gets a chance, and if it can it will destroy your family as well. There is nothing funny about it, and I would only wish it on my worst enemies. It is a painful death, one that saps your strength and makes you wish for someone to just put a gun to your head and end it all.

Anyone who is celebrating because Elizabeth Edwards has cancer needs to have their membership in the human race revoked. For g-d's sake, people, leave his wife out of your political firefight! Take aim at John Edwards for his stance on taxes, or his stance on the War on Terror, or for his support of the class war in America. Slam him for any number of his questionable politics. But leave his wife out of it. Stand up, be a real man (or woman) and show a little respect for basic humanity.

“Pin the war on the Donkey”

Mwuahahahaa!

TheHill.com - Anti-war protesters arrested at Pelosi’s office

I love it!

Elizabeth Edwards

I wanted to go to the Free Republic site and find reaction that was demonstrably different from the way American Leftists reacted to the attempted bombing of Vice President Cheney or the HuffPo reaction to WH: Laura Bush Had Skin Cancer Tumor Removed Last Month...

NOT FUNNY. BUT KARMA WILL COME BACK AND BITE YOU IN THE ASS. IN FACT, SHE AND HER HUSBAND SHOULD BOTH BE COVERED IN BOILS.
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Finally a cancer has been removed from the White House!
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Karmas a BITCH!
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Here's silly me thinking that robots cant get skin cancer. My bad.....
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pray for aids, bitch
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"malignant".

Laura's right -- the MSM doesn't give us enough good news.

Noxious stuff.

Unfortunately, where Mrs. Edwards' dire situation is concerned, the "Freepers" smell pretty darn putrid, too.

Disappointing.

Amazing

Victory Caucus - Pelosi skips town for big ticket fundraiser while Iraq vote looms

And just to top it off

We find out that one of Chicago's finest beat a bartender, while OTHER PEOPLE JUST STOOD THERE AND WATCHED!

I think the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Some people are just sick

And I don't mean "sick" as in "lifelong Democrat Voter" sick. I mean truly, ungodly sick. Just reading the news made me want to vomit today.

One man charged with 971 counts of sexual assault and abuse. With a child. Sick, sick, sick.

And an entire family charged with beating a young woman and keeping her as their slave, using abuse and death threats. Sick!

But the worst is this: A convicted sex offender AND HIS PARENTS abusing, molesting and killing a six year old boy. Pardon me while I go vomit for about an hour or so. Hanging is too good for these sick bastards. Burning is too good for them. They need to dig deep into the Middle Ages in order to find a death that would be suitable for these three. I don't know if there is any punishment that will equal the pain and terror they inflicted on that poor kid. But we need to try. Personally I think we should cut off their genitalia, and then dump them into a box of fire ants until they've been stung to death, or eaten alive.

Gah.

GET AWAY FROM MY DIM SUM!

Is there nothing that the pushy, nanny statists won't leave alone?

The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found.

A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day.

The battered, fried chicken dish with vegetables has 1,300 calories, 3,200 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams of saturated fat.That's before the rice (200 calories a cup). And after the egg rolls (200 calories and 400 milligrams of sodium).

Get away from my food, you moronic half-wits! This report was put out by the Center for Science in the Public Intrest, when I've written about before. They don't really care about science, nor do they care about public intrest. They're a scam, a sham, a cadre of charletans who care more about money in their pocket than anything else.

So they can piss off. If I want my wantons deep fried and covered in a sauce made of butter, olive oil and lard, then THAT'S WHAT I WILL HAVE! I don't need any group of whiny nannies to tell me what to eat, or how to eat, or where to eat.

They can all get bent. Stay away from my Sweet and Sour Chicken. Get away from my Yaki Mandoo. Don't touch my Dim Sum. Get your harpy asses out of the restaurants that I enjoy and go back to whatever hole you crawled out from!

Sub-human scum-sucking filth

No, this isn't a post about the Democrat American Communist Party, although many of them do fit that discription. No, this is a post about the terrorists in Iraq, one of the few groups who could sink lower than the Democrat American Communist Party. By using children as suicide bombers.

Iraqi insurgents appear to have adopted a new tactic since the start of a security crackdown in Baghdad, using children in a suicide attack on Sunday, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff, told reporters that a vehicle was waved through a U.S. military checkpoint because two children were visible in the back seat.

"Children in the back seat lowered suspicion, (so) we let it move through, they parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back," Barbero said.

"The brutality and ruthless nature of this enemy hasn't changed."

Just plain sick. This is the enemy we're fighting against. Well, some of us, anyway. The Democrat American Communist Party is fighting against George W. Bush, and can't be bothered to fight terrorism. But the grown-ups in this country know who we're dealing with: Terrorists who use children to kill other people.

I've said before that my Catholic religion teaches all life has intrensic value. And I do believe that. But I also believe that by your own actions, you can take away the value of your life. The terrorists have done just that. They have proven that the only good they will do in this world is when they die and their bodies provide food for worms, fertilizing the earth.

Oh, for pete's sake!

Can the Democrat American Communist Party get any more hysterical? Subpoenas? Hearings? This kind of circus is what happens when you have a political party more interested in damaging a sitting president than actually doing their job. The Democrat American Communist Party is whipping themselves into shrieking hysterics over a big fat nothing. But in their frothing-at-the-mouth antics, we can once again see that they don't give a shit about anything but power. Pure power. This is a power grab, plain and simple, and they're doing their all out best to fling entire truckloads of shit onto the President in the hopes that any of it will stick.

I wonder how many of those parasites on Capitol Hill threw a temper tantrum when Clinton fired ninety-three US attorneys when he took office. Wait, I don't wonder, because the record is clear to see. The current crop of whiney, poo-flinging brats couldn't bother to even raise even the slightest objection. You know why? Because the attorneys serve at the president's whim! He can hire them, fire them, and nobody can say jack squat about it. But the members of the Democrat American Communist Party currently going into seizures over the firing of eight attorneys don't give a damn about all that. I mean, in their minds, the law is meant to be broken, unless you can whip a conservative with it, and then the law is their best friend.

What a crock. What a steaming pile of horseshit. And what's worse is the Republicans who are going along with it. They all should be flushed down the toilet, because they're nothing but sacks of bullshit that somehow became animated and stuck in Congress.

Can I question their patriotism NOW?

Because what I really want to do is take a baseball bat to their kneecaps. Burning a soldier in effigy? Yeah, really peaceful, you traitorous clusterfucks!

They're not anti-war, THEY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE!

Indoctrinate U

Go check it out.



Indoctrinate U - Our Education. Their Politics.

Cathy Seipp is passing

Cathy's World

Well, that does explain a lot about Congress

One-third of people living in D.C. are illiterate. Keep in mind that Washington D.C. spend more per-capita on "education" than any other city in the USA. IIRC, it's over $10,000 per student.

But they need more money. Yeah. Right.

Ah, those good old family values

Or what's left of them: Parents help launch daughter's porn career.

Sunny Lee has some really supportive parents.

The 20-something gal has made a name for herself as the "Shirley Temple of Porn," thanks in large part to the help of her loving parents, ABC News reports.

Lee (not her real name) still lives at home with her parents, Mike and Shelby, who help her in every aspect of the business — from helping her create a doppelganger sex doll to bagging her dirty underwear for sale online.

"We're not kinky parents," Mike insists to ABC News. They don't mind what she does, though they do fast-forward through her sex scenes with actors they refer to as "dates."

"She does her thing, safely, in a good environment, and I don't worry about that," Mike said. "When she comes back home, I just ask her how her date was."

They liken their role to that of Joe Simpson, the father-manager of singer Jessica Simpson. "They do not make money off of me," Lee said. "If anything, I pay them. I pay them in return for everything — that they have loved and supported me after all these years."

Pardon me. I'm off to go watch the death of modern civilization unfold. With a money shot.

"No, Biff. You leave her alone."

First Biff had George do his homework. Then he told him not to come to the soda shop. Then he twisted George's arm when George tried to stop Biff from assaulting Lorraine.

Fast forward, global scale:

"In response to the latest Islamist threat against Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español - PSOE) thought it appropriate to assure Spaniards that 'Afghanistan is not Iraq.' PSOE officials told news agencies that while the war in Iraq was 'illegal,' the mission in Afghanistan is being supported by the UN and includes 37 countries. It turns out Islamic terrorists don't care all that much about the distinction."

TCS Daily - Spanish Lessons in Appeasement

Bullies don't stop being bullies when you give them what they want. A good wound-up roundhouse to the kisser is what stops them.

President depicted as Hitler...

39 years ago:



Being an American Leftist means recycling more than just paper and aluminum.

Via dead sea squirrel at LGF.

Yesterday was the day from Hell

Have you ever had something so bad happen to one of your aquaintences that it ends up effecting you as well? Yeah. That was yesterday. I won't go into the story, because I'm sure the guy doesn't need to have everyone know about his troubles, but yesterday sucked. Close it, lock it away, seal it up, and never let it come out again, because it sucked like a ten-dollar whore on payday.

So instead of regailing you all with my day, I'll just link to Michelle Malkin's round-up from the Gathering of Eagles. It's nice to see Patriots come out and stand up to the Anti-war loons, moonbats, communists, and general idiots.

Whoah - massive redundancy alert there.

Moonbat Music

You simply must see Medea Benjamin singing the old Negro spiritual "Down By The Riverside".



These "anti-war" people actually think their "struggle" is akin to the struggle for civil rights for blacks.

Hilarious!

Plamegate Timeline

Just for posterity, a kind of "note to self".

Military vs. Civilian

So, in all the debate over gays in the military, one comment left by our polite commenter kinda jumped out at me, and I'd like to devote a post to my response. The comment was (and I'm paraphrasing here) "It's time for the military to play by the same rules as everybody else."

And I'm going to have to respectfully disagree.

The military is unlike any other job, situation, or lifestyle that you can find, except for perhaps the police and firefighters. Our job is to walk into hell and start pissing on the flames to put them out. And whenever you do that, somebody is going to get burned.

The military is a job where failure to obey an order instantly can result in the death of you or your fellow soldiers. The lives of the soldiers in my squad depend on two things: My competence, and their acceptance of the orders I give. The lives of my platoon mates rely on the Platoon Sergeant's competence, and his acceptance of the orders the platoon leader gives. So on and so forth, up the chain, until you can extrapolate that the lives of everyone in my Brigade rely on the competence of the Brigade Commander, and his acceptance of the orders handed down from Division. And this whole grand scheme can be boiled back down into just a couple issues - the trust that soldiers place in their fellow soldier, and the fellowship between troops. "Brothers in Arms" isn't just a romantic ideal, or the name of a nifty HBO series, it is what the military tries to foster within the ranks, because it is a huge part of what keeps soldiers going when everyone else would have quit long ago. We may have signed up for our country, but we fight for our brother on either side of us.

When I first enlisted, my father began to talk to me about his time in combat, a subject that previously had been off limits. He'd told me plenty of stories about his time in the military, but the lessons from combat were something that he wouldn't share. Right before I raised my right hand, we went on a three-day sailing trip, just the guys. My father, my brother, and myself, on Lake Coeur d'Alene. Fishing, sleeping under the stars, drinking a little scotch, and talking. And one of the things that he tried to relay to me was the importance of fostering that brotherhood within the ranks. He told me of a platoon where the leadership had been wiped out, and a Corporal ended up leading the troops to fulfill their mission. Everything had gone to hell, the Platoon leader and Platoon Sergeant had been taken out, the troops were running around trying to make sense of it, and yet they were still able to do what they needed to do because of two things:

The competence of the troops, and
The brotherhood the troops had with each other.

When things go to hell in a handbasket, the biggest motivation to fight rather than to flee is the fact that your brother is out there, getting shot at, and there is no way in hell that you are going to let him die. You're going to kill the bastards shooting at your brother, and he would do the same for you in a red hot minute.

This spirit, this brotherhood cannot be compromised, or the whole thing begins to fall apart.

But just as important as that brotherhood is the willingness to follow orders, instantly and without question. Not as mindless automaton, but as a thinking individual. It's a fine line, but it has to be accomplished. Let me give you a little example of why.

Little PFC Dave, way back when, was a SAW gunner. Every time he was out with his unit on training, he was given a post. Other gunners were given other posts. And at each post, the gunner fills out a range card. What's a range card? Well, very simply, it's a small sketch of my field of fire. It shows on paper the limits of my field of fire. Obstacles that the enemy could hide behind, or dips and depressions in the ground that are obscured from my sight. It lists the range to different points in my field of fire, so that if I see an enemy by that oak tree over there, I know that he is 200 meters out. And it lays all this information out in a map type form. I fill out my range card, and then I copy it exactly onto a second range card. One card will stay in that fighting position, so that the gunner who relieves me at my post has all that information right in front of him, without having to redo it all from scratch. The next gunner can add any information that he thinks is important, but he cannot take anything off the range card.

The copy of my range card is collected by my squad leader. He takes every range card from his squad and puts them all together in a sector sketch. The different fields of fire, obstacles, everything. This allows him to get an overall view of his squads responsibilities, and allows him to correct any discrepancies that could crop up. He might shift one gunner over to a new spot to better cover an area where the enemy could creep up. He might move another gunner to avoid a big obstacle. He makes his sector sketch, and then copies it. The Platoon Sergeant picks up the copy.

He does the same thing as the squad leader. Compile and review. Make any adjustments that need to be done. He then copies his sketch, which is collected by the 1st Sergeant and sent up to the company. So on and so forth. All the way up to the highest HQ. And by the time it gets to that HQ, it's not some little sector sketch, it's a massive map showing where each unit is, what kind of weapons they have, where their field of fire lays, and who has what responsibilities. The top commander can look at that little symbol that represents me and my rifle, and know what kind of weapon I have, what unit I belong to, who my commander is, and any other information he might need.

Got the big picture? Good.

Now, let's say that the enemy attacks that night. Not in my sector, but somewhere else. Reports come back and say that the defenders need some help, more firepower. The top CO looks at the map, sees the little symbol that is me and my gun, points at it, and says "Get that SAW gunner over there NOW!"

Orders go down. Brigade, Battalion, Company, Platoon, Squad, Team, and I'm hauling ass to the other sector to lay a smackdown on some jihadi splody-dopes. That is, as long as every link in the chain obeys that CO's orders. Should anyone fail to obey those orders instantly, the entire thing falls apart. If my Company Commander says "But, I need him here!", if my platoon sergeant says "Well, maybe in a minute, let's hold off and see...", if my squad leader says "Hell with the Platoon Sergeant, he's an asshole anyways.", if my team leader says "Hell, my squad leader doesn't know what he's doing!" If any of the above happen, then I don't get to where I need to go, the defenders don't have my M249 backing them up, and people start to die.

Let me restate that: If the orders don't get followed, then people die.

Yes, that's a very simplified example, but even in that simplified state you begin to see just how a huge, complex operation boils down to a couple simple things. I as a PFC don't have the whole picture in front of me. I don't have that huge map of the Area of Operations. But I have to do two things - trust that the leadership above me DOES have that view, and obey their orders.

Now, you're probably saying at this point, "Dave, quit your blathering and get to the point!" The point is this: In order for the military to work, you must foster a culture of brotherhood. You must have instant obedience to orders, while at the same time have soldiers able to think for themselves. Yes, that's a bit of an oxymoron, but it has to happen! And you have to have absolute trust in the abilities of your fellow soldiers, faith that your command isn't going to throw away your life on some stupid mission.

And you cannot foster that culture or those qualities in a civilian type environment. It. Just. Doesn't. Work. The military cannot play by the same rules as everyone else. Let me give you a small example from my own past of how the current "rules" forced onto the military are impeding it's combat effectiveness.

I was Military Police for the first five years of my Army career. Anyone who thinks that we just rode around in shiny police cars needs to check their preconceived notions at the door. MP is a combat arms branch, who might occasionally do some law enforcement work. We carry some damn big guns, and we know how to use them. By the time I left Ft. Riley, out of a two-month period I would spend perhaps two weeks doing LEO, while the rest of the time was spent training and in the field.

Now, a combat MP company is divided into platoons, squads and teams. The three-man team consists of a team leader, a driver, and a gunner, all in one humvee. Got that so far?

Each MP team needs to be proficient in team combat drills, and there are quite a few drills you have to know. One of those drills is dismounting the main gun from the humvee's turret and setting it in place on the ground. You have a certain amount of time in which to dismount, set up, and get the gun up and ready. This requires some fast movement and a bit of skill. But it also requires strength. You have the driver setting up the tripod, the gunner dismounting the gun, and the team leader setting security and directing operations. Each person has their job, and they need to perform it flawlessly. There is no time for errors. And to this date, I have only seen ONE MP team with a female on it that was able to perform that drill in the time allowed. Why? Because they cannot perform the physical tasks that are demanded of them. That gun up top is heavy. A full ammo can for a Mk-19 can weigh up to seventy pounds. The gunner has to be able to lift the gun off the turret mount and pass it to the driver. The driver needs to be able to take that gun from the gunner and set it into the tripod mount. If the soldiers cannot do it by themselves, that means that each soldier is now waiting on the other soldier to get the job done.

And females, as a rule, do not have the upper body strength needed to do those jobs on their own. Which means that someone else has to help them, and that takes time. Thirty seconds can be the difference between being set up and putting rounds downrange, or getting overrun by an attacking force.

Another MP drill involves setting up an antenna for communications relay. You have five minutes to get the antenna assembled, erected, and operational. Again, with a three man team, and one of those team members is pulling security. It's a bitch and a half to accomplish, and it takes one hell of a lot of strength. You have one soldier literally throwing the antenna cone up and then rushing to lift the pole while the other soldier is pulling like mad on the guide ropes to get this thing in the air.

And again, I have seen exactly ONE team with a female on it able to get that antenna up in the allotted time. They just don't have the strength needed to do the job.

Now, do you think that I completely trusted the females in my squad to be able to do their jobs fully? No, I did not. And it was through no fault of their own, by the way. I don't expect many females to be able to deadlift a main gun with one hand. BUT THAT IS SOMETIMES WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. I don't know of ANY female in my current unit who could lift me and carry me out of a firefight if I was incapacitated. BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO. So here is an example of the military playing (in part) by the rules of the civilian world, where men and women are integrated together, and it detracts from the combat effectiveness of the unit. It's not a woman's fault that she doesn't have the upper body strength of a man. Men and women are built differently. But at the same time, we need to keep those differences in mind when you're trying to build up a unit for combat. We cannot afford to say "Oh, but the chance of this or that happening is small, so we shouldn't worry about it." That way of thinking leads to dead soldiers. Don't plan just for what you think will happen, plan and train for what CAN happen. Because sure as shit, the moment you least expect it something unexpected will pop up and you'll have to completely change your plan. There's an old saying - No plan survives first contact with the enemy. That saying is an old one because it is true, no matter what branch you're in or what your plan is. There is no perfect plan. The fact that these females needed assistance to accomplish a task that males could do without assistance caused me to lack the trust that these female soldiers could get the job done no matter what. And that trust is an integral part of what makes the military work!

Again, anything that detracts from the combat effectiveness of the unit needs to be removed. THAT is why the military cannot afford to play by the rules that the rest of the country operates under.

Hot Dog!

Hell yeah! There are reasons I'm proud to be from Idaho!

BOISE – After much debate, the Idaho Senate has voted 29-6 for legislation requiring people 18 or older to provide proof of legal residence in the country before receiving any kind of state benefit, with some exceptions including for emergency health care.

Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell, the bill’s sponsor, said, “It is undeniable that illegal aliens are receiving taxpayer supported benefits in Idaho, and taxpayers should not be saddled with any of those costs, whether it’s $1 million, $1,000 or $1.”

Damn skippy! I don't care who you are - you do not get any of the benifits of citizenship if you're not a citizen, or at least here in this country legally.

LEGALLY!

Freeloading asshats can now piss off!

Found at RNS.

I've got a post brewing

But it'll be on hold for a bit. Lots of things going on today, including a neighborhood dog attacking my wife.

She's OK. She got a little scratch, but the dog broke the skin with it's bite, so she's at the hospital to get documentation and possibly a tetenus booster. If we had actually been able to bring our guns down here, I have no doubt I would have come home to a pissed-off wife and a dead dog.

As an aside, if anyone wants to see what actual debate looks like, please direct them to the comments in the posts below about homosexuals in the military. There's no spittle flinging, no name calling, just a couple folks with different opinions talking about it.

And by the way, if any trolls try to come in and fling poo around, I'm just going to summarily delete and ban. It's nice to actually have a discussion, rather than a troll hunting session.

Incredible stuff...

...at Mudville Gazette.

Why I Don't Write Books

There's always someone out there who can write my argument better than I can. FOR EXAMPLE, on the topic of gays in the military - I give you Fred.

Here, really, is the objection to having the openly homosexual in the military. Men do not like being eyed by other men in the barracks and showers. Pretending that the issue is discrimination rather than sexual privacy makes harder arguing against homosexuality in the barracks, which is why the pretense is made. The reality is that soldiers don't want a gunny sergeant, who they know is gay as an Easter bonnet, who has the power to make life miserable, leering at them if the towel drops.

If I suggested that male soldiers be permitted to shower with the women, everyone would understand without explanation the objections of the females. If I then suggested that I suffered discrimination because I couldn't shower with the women, people would laugh.

But, for reasons that elude me, the objection to unwanted intimacy is thought frivolous if the sexual predator is of the same sex as the prey. It isn't frivolous.

And yes, I'm sure there are plenty of soldiers out there who have a latrine that's only shared by three other people. But open bay showers still exist in the US Army, folks. They haven't gone away. Open latrines (with stalls for the toilets) are still the norm.

Is there any group of women out there who would like me to shower with them, go to the bathroom with them, live with them, and basically invade every moment of their private lives? No? Why not?

Now, let me ask you another question - how many men would love to shower with the women? Use their latrines with them? Sleep in their tent? Live in their room? How many people would like to have a 21 year old male to shower with, sleep around, and live with their 19 year old daughter?

Now, don't give me the answer to those questions. Instead, think about your reaction when you read them.

Now, answer me this: What is the different between MY sexual reaction to a group of young women, and the sexual reaction of a gay man to a group of young men? Do you begin to see the problems and complications that can and will arise?

Too many people try to phrase this debate around the gay person's personal abilities. That is the wrong view of things. Under no circumstances am I making judgement on someone's personal abilities. What I care about is the UNIT. The TEAM, be it an actual team, a squad, a platoon or a company. And nobody can point out where having open homosexuals in the military do more good than harm. The forum where I got the Fred link also has a commenter who nailed it:

Straight people are always going to be a bit uncomfortable living with gay people. Just as men and women will always be uncomfortable in same sex dormitory style housing. For pretty much the same reasons, even if you were to get rid of all the bias.

It is hard to function on a ‘friend’ level with someone who might see you something as more when you want nothing of the sort, regardless of whether they actually do or not. Fat chick or gay guy it’s the same exact effect.

Let me just say this once, for everyone to hear.

YOU CANNOT BE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO'S LIVES DEPEND ON YOU, AND WHO LITERALLY HOLD YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS.

Now, for everyone who wants to operate under the "Well, the should do x, y, or z" principal with regard to how people act, let me just say that I don't only deal with what should happen, I also deal with what can or will happen. It's all well and good to say "Well, people should just behave themselves." Yes, they should, and if it was that easy we wouldn't need cops or a justice system. But despite what people SHOULD do, I have to deal with what people WILL do, because the lives of my squad depend on it.

Procrastination takes a toll

I've been putting off buying a good digital camera for a couple years now, and it hurt this past weekend when I slid on up to the Conowingo Dam in Maryland and happened upon some tremendous river's edge ice formations.



Had to make do with my old Olympus grabshotter. Still got some good ones but a) these macro shots need to be "tack sharp" on focus and mine ain't and b) ice in sunlight requires some solid metering capability and the Olympus ain't cuttin' it.