I'm loving this quote

That I found via BabyTrollBlog.

"I’m sorry, but not since Professor Peter Singer explained that we should give as good as we get from dogs who hump our legs, have I been so exasperated with the way so many Leftists think they can use their head for a colonoscopy and then crab-walk across the blogosphere expecting all the world to think their new hats make them look smart."

The whole thing is worth reading. Short, sweet and to the point.

Vote Early, Vote Often

For SondraK as Bloggeress Diva. C'mon, do you want her to lose to a large-mouthed New Yawkah? HELL NO!

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Humbly cross Posted at DANEgerus

Right Conclusion, Wrong Reasons

Saw this little bit over via BabyTrollBlog, and just had to toss my two cents into the pot.

For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn, and their harsh treatment of prisoners from Al Qaeda would be subjected to hostile scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.

Now that day may have arrived, after years of shifting legal advice, searing criticism from rights groups — and no new terrorist attacks on American soil.

People are not losing faith in the CIA because of waterboarding, they're losing faith in the CIA due to all the political shennanigans the CIA has been involved in. Leaking info, leaking secret orders, the whole Valerie Plame kerfuffle, George Tenet claiming that WMD's in Iraq would be a "slam dunk", everything. If the CIA stuck to it's mission of collecting intelligence and stop playing political hijinks, I'm pretty sure that nobody would have a problem with them.

Nobody is upset because they're doing their jobs. We're pissed off with all the extemporaneous crap they've been doing!

Father HONORS Son's Wish

I read the following article, and was reminded that patriotism still exists. I find this a beautiful ending to a life tragically short. This came from the 3 December 2007 Army Times. Please pardon the length, as I do not believe most people without military installation have access to this source.

"A pair of flags has helped the father of a Texas soldier killed in Iraq fulfill his son's final wish.
Pfc. Nathan Given was killed 27 December 2006, when a roadside bomb detonated while he was patrolling Baghdad.
Weeks before he died, Given had called his father, Scott Given, and told him avout an idea he had to raise money for the Shriners Burn Hospital by auctioning off an American flag flown in Iraq. Scott Given was reminded about his son's final wish after reaching out by e-mail to some of the soldiers Nathan Given fought alongside in Iraq with the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.
The solodiers sent two flags that had flown over a patrol base near Jumbalatiyah, Iraq. A flag auctioned 17 Nov raised $4000.oo. After purchasing the flag, the unknown buyer then gave it back to Scott Given, who said the generosity made him "cry like a baby." The other flag raised $20000.oo in another auction.
"It's the last thing I can do for him," Scott Given said. "I wanted to honor his wishes.""

Patty 'Osama-Mama' Murray(D) smears the troops

Gateway Pundit catches her in the lie because 'Fewer Soldiers Commit Suicide During Bush Years':

Senator Murray knows better.

A report released to Congress in July of this year showed that military suicides are much lower during the Bush years than the Clinton years.
...
What do you suppose drove our soldiers to commit suicide when the Clintons were in office?

The suicide rate for servicemen is lower then the same age group in the general population.

As Gateway pundit noted, Flopping Aces has
caught the (D)efeaticrats in the same lie recently:

This is a perfect example of an article written with no real facts, just innuendo. Other then speaking to one young soldier, reading one entry in a soldiers blog, and checking the walls of a latrine, this writer at the Democrats Times of Los Angeles, Tina Susman, comes to the conclusion that the morale of our soldiers in Iraq is dipping.
...
This is reporting at the LA Times?

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Bandwidth Blowout

So, I was at a Battalion meeting today. My new Battalion's HQ is at Roosevelt Roads, the Navy Base that was shut down. Well, mostly shut down. There's reserve units stationed there, a small Navy contingent, ect. On the way from the meeting I took a few photos with the new camera.

I'm loving it. So I thought I'd post a few so you can see what kind of pictures I'm getting. But since they're such high quality, they are over 3MB each. I apologize to anyone using dial-up for the amount of time it's taking to load.

If anyone wants to download them, be my guest. Roosevelt Roads is going to be completely shut down sometime in the future, so these may be the last photos I ever get from there.

Bandwidth Blowout part Two

More from Roosevelt Roads.

Some folks just need killin'

Shorty McFatroll up there decided that getting called out for being a lying douchbag deserved a special response. So he insulted a Mike Hendrix's wife, who died this year. Details here. More here and there's a poster contest going on here.

Anyways, after Fatass the Douchnozzle got caught with his pants down, he refused to apologize. And now his blog is gone. He "accidentally" deleted it. Uh huh. He's too much of a gutless pussy, a cowardly sack of shit, to either apologize to Mr. Hendrix or even simply say he was wrong.

You know what? Some people are just toxic. They do nothing to improve the world, they only destroy and poison everything around them. Chuck Adkins is one of those people. He does nothing of value, produces nothing of value and has no inherent qualities of value. His whole existence is dedicated to ruining the world around him via the internet. He's a pathetic excuse for a human being, and in fact shouldn't even be allowed to claim such status. He's a parasite, sucking off of everyone around him for survival.

Of course he's a Democrat. Did you even have to ask?

I'm in the BIGS, baby!

I got linked by R.L. Schlong! Heh. Tried to leave a comment, but since I'm in Puerto Rico, blogger wants me to read Spanish. Sorry, but at this time I refuse to speak, think, or type in Spanish. It's not that I don't know how, it's that I actually refuse to do so. So instead, I'm going to post a puzzle from a link I found at Schlong's place. Puzzle removed. I didn't like the logo it put up on the blog. Sorry.

What a disgrace

Can we just take the entire Kennedy clan and bury them somewhere? The entire family is an embarassment to America.

Once in a while, some lefty will send me an email purporting to demonstrate some connection between President Bush and the Nazis via his grandfather. It’s tenuous stuff, but there’s a segment on the conspiracist left and probably right that buys into it and thinks it should somehow convince people that Bush’s policies and especially the war in the here and now are driven by what his grandfather did or didn’t do several decades ago.

Meanwhile, in the here and now, we have Joe Kennedy, a member of America’s other dynastic political family, sucking up to a tyrannical thug who is openly hostile to the US. This thug has declared multiple times that he hates the US and our "imperialism” and at the last OPEC meeting said that he wanted to spark an oil war against us. This thug menaces our democratic allies in his neighborhood and builds alliances with the mullahs in Tehran among other bad actors on the world stage. In sucking up to him, Kennedy and his ilk are doing everything that the conspiracists accuse Bush’s grandfather of having done. And it’s going on right now, in front of our eyes. Yet I never hear criticism on this from any conspiracist, or indeed, just about anyone on the left. Ever.

Part of? Try ALL OF.

Part of the scientific consensus on global warming may be flawed, a new study asserts.

The researchers compared predictions of 22 widely used climate "models" — elaborate schematics that try to forecast how the global weather system will behave — with actual readings gathered by surface stations, weather balloons and orbiting satellites over the past three decades.

The study, published online this week in the International Journal of Climatology, found that while most of the models predicted that the middle and upper parts of the troposphere —1 to 6 miles above the Earth's surface — would have warmed drastically over the past 30 years, actual observations showed only a little warming, especially over tropical regions.

The climate, like much of damn near everything on this planet, has cycles that it goes through. Warm, cool, warm, cool, warm, cool. The evidence to prove this can be found in any true scientific journal. Greenland was named such because when Eric the Red found it, it was GREEN, not the ice-covered lump of rock that it is today. At one point, there was a massive lake over the northern states like Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. The water was held in by a massive ice dam in what is now the Bitteroot Mountains. Why isn't that ice damn in existance today? Gosh, because the planet got warmer? Without SUV's and airplanes? What a friggin' concept!

"The usual discussion is whether the climate model forecasts of Earth's climate 100 years or so into the future are realistic," said the lead author, Dr. David H. Douglass from the University of Rochester. "Here we have something more fundamental: Can the models accurately explain the climate from the recent past? "It seems that the answer is no."

WARNING! MAY CONTAIN ACTUAL SCIENCE! Let's say you have a system or theory that you want to test. How can you test this system or theory to prove that it's accurate? Here's an option - take a set of data for which you already have a result, and run it through the system. Let's say you already know that a + b = c. If you test the system or theory, you run your data through it, and instead of a + b = c, you get a + b = moonbeams out your ass, it's a damn good indicator that the system or theory has quite a few problems.

Manmade Global Warming is horsecrap. If the Earth is warming up, it's because of natural cycles. Or perhaps it might be that GIGANTIC FUCKING THERMONUCLEAR EXPLODING THINGY IN THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM! But those people screaming about how we're going to all DIE if we don't stop using oil RIGHT NOW are full of crap.

I refuse to link....

....to a press release about Paris Hilton posing nude for a chapagne advertisment.

Stop it. Just stop it. I can't stand that woman. I'm tired of hearing about a dumb, moronic, drug-using, bottle-blonde bimbo socialite who's only claim to fame is that she has a rich daddy. I'm tired of hearing about a joint-smoking skank who's been stuffed more than a Thanksgiving turkey by everyone in Hollywood, up to and probably including Pablo the lawn-mower. Can anybody name ONE worthwhile thing she's ever done in her whole entire life?

I don't want to see her. I don't want to hear her speak. I don't want to hear anything about her. For the love of god and humanity, PLEASE STOP IT!

Ranting once again

I might have mentioned it before, but there's been this flap over pictures of Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini. And people have been calling her "fat".


Oh please.

I'm sorry, but that's not a fat woman. At most, that's an unflattering swimsuit. But fat?

Anyone who thinks that Ms. Hewitt there should be considered "fat" is an over-metrosexualized, brainwashed, corncob-up-the-ass nitwit who has spent too much time around modern so-called "fashion", where women are made to look like a designer's object of affection - which is to say that they want their women to look like pre-pubecent boys. Or a strung-out clothesrack look-alike. But here is the chatterati all atwitter because Jennifer Love Hewitt refused to become an anorexic twig. There's a label for the way modern so-called "fashion" models look these days: Heroin Chic. Because that's how they look - like a strung out heroin junkie who hasn't eaten in months. I don't care how many worthless idiots try to tell me that the crack-whore drug addict look is supposed to be sexy. IT IS NOT. Were I single, I would take Ms. Hewitt over any of the skeletal ghouls prancing down a "fashion" walkway. Jennifer Love Hewitt looks as if one could enjoy seafood and a glass of wine with her at night. Modern so-called "fashion" models look like the meth-heads who came into the Addiction Recovery Center at my last job; skinny, strung out and mentally vacant. Jennifer Love Hewitt looks like a healthy, normal person. Modern so-called "fashion" models look like starvation victims from a third-world country.

So, just on the chance that Ms. Hewitt or one of her supporters might read this, here's my advice. Extend your middle finger to all those useless pricks who hurl names at you. Real men want their women to have curves like yours. They don't want some concentration-camp pinup girl.

Now, onto the real world.

This reminder was brought to you by Right Wing News.

Lucky Bastards

Frank J and Sarah K just moved to Idaho. Boise. A little south of where I want to live, but still my home state.

I'm stuck on a shitty little rock currently getting pounded by a tropical storm. Crap.

Worth Noting

That Hillary Clinton, when faced with the truth, will lie to anyone about anything.

Found at Malkin's Place.

Yeah, I know my posts are a bit short today. Sorry.

Sick in the head

The shooter at a church last Sunday wanted to kill as many Christians as possible.

"I'm coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the @#%$ teeth and I WILL shoot to kill. ...God, I can't wait till I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don't care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you ... as I can especially Christians who are to blame for most of the problems in the world."

Sounds to me like he was a registered Democrat. At least, that's the impression that his ranting gives.



Yeah, I'm going to hell. Why do you ask?

Yep

We're getting hammered. My yard is under water.

Pali-Arab sympathizer on HLF Jury...

Catch the comments at LGF about how the Investigative Project on Terrorism turned up a Pali-sympathizer on the Jury:

“If you’re going by the evidence in this room,” she recalls him snapping, “then you need to go home.”

...juror William Neal’s stridency may have changed the trial’s outcome. Neal even claimed credit for steering jurors away from convictions in a recent radio interview. Until now, he has been the sole source for public perception of the deliberations and the government’s case.
...
When a juror walked out in frustration after just four days of deliberations, it followed a confrontation with Neal. When another juror briefly refused to cast a vote, it was after a confrontation with Neal. Williams broke down several times during the 19 days jurors spent locked in debate. Each incident followed what she felt was an attack by Neal.

William Neal wasn't interested in "the evidence in this room":

The Dallas Morning News noted Neal “also had difficulty calling Hamas a terrorist group. ‘Part of it does terrorist acts, but it’s a political movement. It’s an uprising.’”

We'll be hearing more about William Neal soon...
MhoreOn William Neal's Jury nullification of the Holy Land Foundation trial at HotAir...
Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Photo Time

I know there's plenty of news out there, but I don't have time to sit and read it all much less blog about it. So, here's more photos. Yeah, I'm cheap. Whaddyagonnado, stop paying me?

Cataldo Mission, Idaho. 295KB

Cougar Creek, close to my parent's house. 984KB


Maybe I'll be able to post more tomorrow.

Repeat after me

Democrats are hypocrites.

Democrats are hypocrites.

Democrats are hypocrites.

So much for all that outrage over waterboarding, eh? Just remember, the Democrat American Communist Party is for themselves first and for America second. They don't care about America. They care about getting their grubby paws onto the reins of power and nothing else. They would gleefully throw America under the bus as long as they could be in control of it afterwards.

Corrupt, worthless, spineless parasites.

CNN tries to kill Thompson

With this report.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) — Fred Thompson has made a point of visiting gun shops and gun shows while hitting the campaign trail in New Hampshire and South Carolina, usually with camera crews in tow.

But Thompson said Wednesday he does not have a hunting license, nor has be been hunting recently.

OH MY GOSH! THOMPSON DOESN'T HUNT! HE CAN'T BE A REAL CONSERVATIVE!

Give me a fucking break. I've never been hunting in my life, and I'm a staunch gun-rights supporter. Want to know why? Because the 2nd Amendment isn't about hunting. It's about being able to protect yourself from criminals and tyrannical governments. Hunting is just an added bonus. Do I want to go hunting when I return to civilization? Yes. But I could go my entire life without hunting and it wouldn't make me any less of a gun guy.

All I need to know about Thompson's views on gun rights is the statement he made during a debate: "I own a couple of guns, but I'm not going to tell you what they are or where they are,"

And CNN demonstrates ONCE AGAIN that they're nothing more than propaganda-pushing whores for the Democrat American Communist Party. Clueless wankers.

Found at C&S, who's got a graphic of John F'ing Kerry that make me giggle.

But don't dare accuse them of bias.

Nope, no bias here!

Nah, no bias at ALL!

I'm so glad I got my TV shut off. I never want to see or hear from any damned Alphabet soup network again. I say let the writer's strike continue for ever, and let everyone go down in flames.

The NIE fallout

Looking around at various reactions to the release of the NIE, I've kept my mouth shut on it for a while as I digested what it said, what it didn't say, and if it can be trusted.

My opinion? Nope. That thing is as worthless as teats on a boar. It states that Iran shut down it's nuclear weapons program in 2003. Would that be the same weapons program that people were insisting didn't exist in the first place? Would that be the same nuclear weapons program that the NIE was clueless about in earlier releases?

Would that be the same weapons program, supposedly now defunct, which Iran bought 3000 uranium enriching centrifuges for earlier this year?

If American loses a city to an Iranian nuclear weapon, it will be because the so-called Intelligence community in this country has failed to do it's job for over a decade now. Not only does the NIE fly in the face of everything we've learned about Iran, but it's a direct contradiction to what earlier NIE's stated, and what Iran itself has stated.

It's horseshit, plain and simple.

UPDATE: I don't think the CIA has been working for anyone but themselves for a good, long time. They certainly haven't been helping anyone, including themselves.

December 7th, 1941

As much as I hate some of the social policies that FDR put into practice, he had to juggle a billion balls all at once when it came to what was going on in the world. Dealing with a huge segment of the population who didn't want to deal with the rest of the world didn't help much. But once we were attacked, we were in it for the long haul.

I only wish today's Democrats had one-tenth of the spine that FDR had.

So with that......

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

Dear lord, how I wish that today's Democrats had one-tenth of his spine. As it is, we're dealing with anti-American communist bastards who wouldn't have been fit to polish FDR's shoes. How things have changed......

The War Against Christianity Continues

I can't believe this. I really, really can't believe this:

Crosses will be removed from badges worn by Spokane Police chaplains under terms of an out-of-court settlement between the city and a former Lutheran pastor-turned-atheist who sued over the government agency’s use of the insignias and Christian prayers.

So a MAN OF GOD is not allowed to wear the SYMBOL OF HIS FAITH on his uniform? Don't let this asshole get a hold of the military Chaplain's Corps!

His lawsuit claimed that the police department’s use of the Christian cross is an “impermissible incorporation of a particular religious symbol in a government insignia.”

I am so in awe of the huge, massive amount of stupidity it took to create that sentence that I'm just sitting here rather stunned. If one were to attempt to make an atheist, or a Jew, or a Muslim wear a cross, that would go against common sense, as none of those folks would be Christian or have any affiliation with the symbol of the Christian faith. But we're not talking about them. We're talking about Chaplains, the huge majority of which ARE CHRISTIAN! Regular police officers do not wear the cross on their badge. Only the chaplains. Why? Gosh, could it be because THEY ARE PASTORS AND PRIESTS AND DEACONS? WHAT A FRIGGING CONCEPT!

And I think the most telling line of the whole story is at the bottom:

Ideus was a Lutheran pastor for 30 years before he became an atheist. He and his wife, Lorraine, moved to Spokane from Kansas in 2003.

Ideus the Idiot is having a crisis of faith, or lack thereof, and wants to force his crisis on the rest of us. It truly is an assault on Christianity. Where Ideus once attempted to convert folks to religion, he's now attempting to convert folks to atheism. But now instead of trying to convince people about God, he's using the courts to enforce his lack of faith onto everyone else. I'm sorry that Ideus lost his faith. But when he tries to push is lack of faith onto everyone else, and uses the courts to do so, that pisses me off. Because Ideus has just made his lack of faith a problem for everyone else. It's the tyranny of the minority, enforced by a black robe behind a bench.

It's flat out bullshit.

Different Light

Mrs. du Toit posts about how things look different in Germany (and thank you David for pointing it out). I've been to a few places around the world, so I can understand exactly what she's saying.

We all know that the earth is tilted on it's axis, and that light hits different parts of the world at different lengths or something of that nature. But you never quite understand just what that means until you see it with your own eyes. Every picture I took in Egypt was yellowish-brown in overtones, and not just because of the sand or dust. The light there was yellow. It gave everything a yellow tint, no matter what time of day or what the background.

Down here in Puerto Rico, the light is intense. It takes any color and just makes it... more, I guess. The greens are vivid. Where the water is blue it's a sapphire blue that almost hurts your eyes. And flowers damn near jump out, grab your eyeballs and scream "LOOK AT ME! I'M RED! I'M REALLY, REALLY RED, DAMMIT!" Because of the intensity of the light, that makes the shadows even more dramatic. Here's a picture I hope will sort of explain what I mean. Here's a photo I took at San Juan Bay - notice the color of the water, and the way the sky looks behind it. I did not alter this photo in any way. Click on it for the larger version.


It looks like a photo that someone used Photoshop to alter, but that's the way things just look down here.

The photos I took in Washington and Idaho have a different kind of light, more like you would find in Europe, since they're close to the same latitude. It's softer, and well, things just look differently.

Anyways, my battery is about to run out, but I just wanted to add my two cents.

A fool and a wise man

Back in my high school days, one of the popular phrases being bandied about was "A wise man should learn from his mistakes."

Now, this being a publik skool, it was taken as absolute fact that yes, a wise man would learn from his mistakes. However, I had a father who was smarter than most of the publik skool teachers, and after hearing me quote that phrase in his presence he took me aside and said "David,"....

Yes, my father calls me David. And my mother as well. They are the only ones entitled to do so.

Anyways, to continue on, my father says to me "David, a fool should learn from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others."

That has stuck with me for the rest of my life. I think that's why I have such an interest in history; you can see what works, what doesn't work, and the reason for both of them. It is why I have such a hard time understanding why anyone with two functioning brain cells could espouse ideologies such as socialism, communism, or any of the various Leftist "isms" that are touted among "intellectual" circles. You can look at history and see a proven track record of utter and complete failure whenever any of those 'isms have been applied, in any form, for any reason, by anyone.

I guess there are just that many fools in the world.

But the ultimate problem with Leftist ideologies is that by the time the fools have learned their lesson, it's too late. In every communist country, a brutal, power-hungry dictator as taken control, and once in control communists do not give up that power. They will murder, jail, or terrorize anyone who stands in their way. The same goes for those in the positions of lesser power under that dictator. Once they have power, they will do anything they can in order to keep it. And in the event that the fools have won, and the dictators now rule, that means everyone, not just the fools but the wise who tried to teach them and prevent this disaster, EVERYONE is screwed.

Yes, fools can learn from their own mistakes. But by then it's too late, as Aaron shows in his post. It's the diary of a useful idiot from Holland who went and joined the FARC, which is a communist movement to overthrow the government of Columbia. Not surprisingly, one of her diary entries is about how the so-called "equality" is nothing but:

"What will it be like when we take power? The women of the commanders will have Ferraris, breast implants and eat caviare. At least that is how it seems,"

Communism is a pipe dream, period. End of story. There has never been a communist society where a few corrupt tyrants didn't live like kings off the labor of everyone under them. There has never been a communist country where everyone was treated equally. There has never been a communist organization where everyone enjoyed the same quality of life. The people in power always abandon their communist platitudes in favor of rich living, while those not in power suffer a squalid existence. This is because the main proponents of communism don't give one whit about their fellow man - THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT POWER AND WHO CONTROLS IT.

Communism fails. Anyone can look at it's failure, written across the past century, written in the blood of it's hundreds of millions of victims. Anyone who cares to look can see that communism turns men into something less than human, all for the benefit of a very few people.

But I guess there's just that many fools in the world.

A bit busy today

So I'm going to direct you to Random Nuclear Strikes. Specifically this post, which everyone who doesn't want to see Socialized Medicine should read. Anyone who advocates government funded healthcare should first be brought to task on the fact that we already have a government funded healthcare system in this country - Medicare. To say that it is a total and complete failure would be a little off, but only a little. Because the gummint has fucked it up as only the gummint can.

The government has already proven that it cannot run a health care system. Do not give them a second chance. They don't deserve it. And you cannot risk your health on it.

The more I hear about this

The more pissed off I get. Congress, specifically the Democrat American Communist Party members of Congress, are STILL refusing to fund the military.

Folks, I've always said that the Democrat American Communist Party hates the military. Hell, I was saying that back when I first started blogging. And I stand by that statement today. They loath the military with every fiber of their being, and would love to see the military torn to pieces.

Well, now they're in charge, and you see what happens. As I've said earlier, let those pink slips start hitting areas who fall into a Democrat American Communist Party district. Watch what happens.

UPDATE: I see via Ace of Spades HQ that funding for an anti-IED program just ran out.

Retired Army Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, told Pentagon reporters that the organization will have to stop funding new initiatives and just maintain operations.

“We’re out of (funding) new stuff now; we’re going to have trouble sustaining current contracts after the first of December,” Meigs said.

The anti-IED organization needs the funding to sustain operations and to pay for equipment fielded but not yet turned over to the services for funding, Meigs said. For example, he said, his organization funds the Guardian man-portable jammer, the contractors to service it, and the training in the system.

The only time the Democrat American Communist Party cares about the military is when they can us to get re-elected. Other than that? They much prefer us dead.

Otherwise, they would actually ensure that the military has enough funds to operate.

Ragin' Dave's Quote of the Day

I was speaking to the pianist after choir practice last night. We were discussing a few different things not religion related, and we got to talking about depression, relaxation, and psychology. Now this guy, and I'll call him "Joe", has been around a bit. Professional guitar player, learned the piano to help his congregation and then started playing for my congregation earlier this year. Lived in the states for a good while to go to school, and eventually moved back to Puerto Rico. Anyways, we start talking about psychology, and I find out he's got a PhD. In psychology. He's a licensed psychologist. So I ask him why he's not doing that in Puerto Rico. And he says:

"Dave, I went to America to go to the university there. I got my PhD, and practiced in the States, and in Puerto Rico. And after a while, you know what I realized? PSYCHOLOGY IS NOTHING BUT BULLSHIT. Psychology and the people who practice it have done more harm than good to our society. I didn't want to do that anymore. So now I play music, and I've never been happier."

I have to say, he's an incredible musician.

I can relate

This here is a bowl full of doggy fun. I was watching a friend's dog over Thanksgiving, and my pooch was a little upset over the intruder into her territory. I noticed that they were arguing over the rawhide chews one day. Well, I took care of that. I went out and bought a two-pound bag of rawhide chews, and scattered them all over the house. For the next week it was like watching the Keystone Kops in canine form; each dog would run around stealing as many chews as they could from the other dog, while the other dog was sneaking chews off of the other's bed. I don't know if that sentence made any sense what so ever, but imagine this:

It starts off with the growling. My dog "GRRRRR!" My friend's dog, who's about one-fourth the size: "GRRRRR!" And it continues like that for about five to ten minutes. GRRRR! GRRRR! GRRR! GRRRRR! Until one dog has to go pee, or go eat, and then the fun begins. My friend's dog runs over to Roxie's bed and snags a rawhide chew. At the same time, Roxie notices that my friend's dog has left his bed, so she goes over and steals one of HIS chews. And this continues for about an hour, with the dogs running in circles stealing and re-stealing the chews until they both pass out from exhaustion.

And for the record, if you can get it where you live, you have to try brewers yeast and garlic on your dogs. It's like puppy crack. And it's good for their coat. I know it helps prevent hot-spots on my dog (where they just lick and chew until they have a raw spot on their hide). We get it in pill form and my dog thinks it's the best treat in the world.

Compare and Contrast

Where I am.

Where I want to be.

34 degrees in my hometown right now. I'm cryin' here. I haven't stopped sweating since I got back from vacation.

Tell me what's wrong with this story (pile-on)

Confirmed by the SmokingGun we have a Senate Staffer charged as child molester

What's missing?

Hhmmmm... could it be the party affiliation?

Which is a dead give-a-way as to what party to which James McHaney is... affiliated?

Before working for Sen. Maria Cantwell as a scheduler, James McHaney, the accused solicitor of anal sex with a 13-year-old boy, worked for the 2004 presidential campaigns of both former Rep. Dick Gephardt and Sen. John Kerry.

Yup... you guessed it... the Ass grabbing pedophile is a staffer for the party of the Ass.

Tell me what's wrong with this story -

By now you should all know that I think Senator Craig should resign, right? If I had my way, he'd be sitting at home reading about Washington DC rather than working there. So, with that out of the way, I think this story, and the way it's reported, stinks to high heaven. Take a look at the way they've "reported" on more accusations against Senator Craig:

Craig declined comment on this story. He stopped replying to questions from the Statesman after the paper's Aug. 28 report that included the accounts of three unnamed men, one who said he had sex with Craig and two who said he solicited them for sex. But Craig's staff told other media that the allegations made by Phillips and Jones were false.

As with the Statesman's August report, the new evidence is not definitive. There are no videos, no love letters, no voice messages. Like last August, they are he-said, he-said allegations about a man seeking discreet sex from partners whom he counted on to never tell.

But the Statesman's investigation, which included reviews of travel and property records and background checks on all five men, found nothing to disprove the five new accounts. The men offer telling and sometimes similar details about what happened, or the senator's travel records place him in the city where sex is alleged to have occurred, or his accusers told credible witnesses at the time of the incident.

Got that? There's no proof, no evidence, no nothing. But the "reporters" and "journalists" found nothing to disprove the five accounts. So they guess they're true.

Well, if that's the only standard that "reporters" and "journalists" go on, then I was forced, by a group of anti-military protesters, to watch Nancy Pelosi have sex with a horse when I was in the States earlier this year. And I personally watched Hillary Clinton trip an old lady on the street and then screech at her "THAT'S WHY YOU NEED MY HEALTHCARE PLAN YOU OLD BITCH!"

Prove me wrong. If you can't disprove it, it must be true! Because that's the standards set by "reporters" and "journalists"!

Found at SondraK's Place.

News You Can Use

Global Warming Rears Its Ugly Head

• Midwest Storm Closes Airport, Expected to Bring 16 Inches of Snow

Ah, yes, of course you uneducated troglodyte. Global Warming, er, Climate Change is responsible for all manner of "extreme weather."
Handy that. Flood? Drought? Snow Storms? Heat Waves? Yup, all global warming's fault.


But...but....but...I thought the people LOVED him?

• Venezuela's Chavez Defeated in Bid for Indefinite Re-Election, Sweeping Reform

The changes would have created new forms of communal property, let Chavez handpick local leaders under a redrawn political map, permit civil liberties to be suspended under extended states of emergency and allow Chavez to seek re-election indefinitely.

Oh man. Where do I sign UP?! Wow. Now, that's funny: isn't Chavez the darling of the lefty commie set? But doesn't the above perfectly describe the standard laundry list of dangers the Rabid Left warns us Bush is poised to impose at any moment? Whataya know...Bush is a socialist! Who knew?


From the "It's not a trend" Dept:

• Death toll for Iraqis falls for 3rd straight month

“We’ve gone from horrific levels of murder to very bad, which is an improvement but not a reason to celebrate,” said Richard Garfield, a professor at New York’s Columbia University and a manager of health and nutrition for the World Health Organization.

Wow. Columbia University. Hmm. Never would have seen THAT coming.

Strangely, Not Being Branded A Hate Crime

• Fourth man charged in NFL player's killing

From the "Surpriiiiise, Surpriiiiise, Surpriiiiise!" Dept.

• Putin's party sweeps to victory

With nearly 92 percent of precincts reporting, Putin's United Russia Party
had 63.2 percent of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission.

Almost as good as Saddam Hussein's results.

Independent election monitors say their work has been hampered, and reports
abound of state employees being ordered to support the government.

Voter Disenfranchisement! Not just for Rethuglicans anymore...

But There's Still Plenty Left to Pay For Government Health Care for Everyone, Right?

• U.S. government debt soars

"We pay in interest four times more than we spend on education and four times what it will cost to cover 10 million children with health insurance for five years," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. "That's fiscal irresponsibility."

So, uh, Ms. Pelosi, where then do we get all the money to pay for these grandiose social programs of which you speak? Hmmm? Shouldn't we be focused on paying off what we've got before we open more credit card accounts? Wouldn't THAT be more fiscally responsible? Maybe you could send a Memo to John Edwards or Hill Clinton about their health care ideas or the $5,000 per student thing?

Religion of Peace Update:

• Sudanese President Pardons British Teacher Jailed for 'Muhammad' Teddy Bear

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday agreed to pardon a British
teacher jailed here after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad

Because heaven FORBID you allow the name of the penultimate prophet of your religion to be associated with something soft, warm, and comforting to small children. That's really more of a Jesus thing. INFIDEL!

Gibbons escaped harsher punishment that could have included up to 40 lashes, six months in prison and a fine.

There were also concerns for Gibbons' safety after thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums, burned pictures of her and demanded her execution during a rally in the capital Khartoum on Friday.

I imagine they won't be reading "Charlotte's Web" in her class anytime soon.

Photo Time

I got nothing for ya today, folks. Except for a few photos.

We did the trees in the fog from Ft. Lewis a while ago. Here's another set I took from Ft. Lewis. It's of a Mountain Ash tree.

Up Close - 415KB



Stepping back - 589KB

The New Republic 'fesses up

Honestly, the entire thing was a bit like the "Dead Parrot" sketch from Monty Python. The bloody bird is dead. You can tell he's dead. But the shopkeeper keeps insisting that the damn thing is alive. "The Norwegian Blue loves kickin' on 'is back! Beautiful plumage, eh?" Until John Cleese goes off -

Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

(pause)

Owner: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter) Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.

Mr. Praline: I see. I see, I get the picture.

Owner: I got a slug.

Yep, The New Republic had a dead parrot, alright. And they've refused to admit it for months, even when everyone else could tell that THE DAMN PARROT WAS DEAD.

Well, time's finally caught up with them, hasn't it?

UPDATE: I've added links. Bottom line, TNR has recanted on it's Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories that it printed months ago. Those stories, nothing more than fabricated hit-pieces against the Army, were run as the gospel truth. Two blogs who busted their butts proving that Beauchamp and TNR were full of crap report on the admission from TNR: The Weekly Standard and Confederate Yankee, are reporting on TNR's half-assed admission that they fucked up. But it typical standard, the editor of TNR can't even do that right. Thirteen pages of why they didn't do anything wrong and how anyone who questioned them is a doo-doo head. The arrogance and idiocy oozing out of The New Republic are so damn thick you could cut it with a knife. TNR has proven that they're not fit to run an ice-cream stand, much less a publication. Here's what I wrote back in August.

--The New Republic published his lies without even so much as a faint background check into them. Simple questions asked by amateurs from the Right side of the blogosphere turned up answers that should have made the TNR editors at least think twice about running Beauchamp's lies, but they didn't even bother to do that. No, they ran those stories as quickly as they could. Why? The only answer I have, other than gross negligence and sheer incompetence, is that they ran the stories because the stories confirmed their view of the military. Fact-checking and doing a little background search would have poked holes in Beauchamp's lies, and their worldview along with them. So rather than do the right thing, they ran with a bunch of cooked-up bullshit that jived with the way they already think. So much for actual reporting.

The New Republic lied, plain and simple. They continue to lie to this day. They have less integrity and credibility than CNN. And they continue to deny that there's a problem, the boat's not sinking, everything is fine, pay no attention to the fact that we ran a biased hit piece because it confirmed with our world-view, it's not our fault, it's your fault, and the fault of everyone else..

Fuck 'em, and let 'em sink.

Battle Assembly

Had drill today, so sorry 'bout the lack of posting. Did anything new or interesting happen?

Being naughty

Have you ever had a night where you realize that you want to flip the health nazis the bird and eat one of the most unhealthy meals you've ever had in your life?

Yep.




Fried pickles with pan fried steak. If I don't post anything tomorrow, it's because I had a massive coronary or a stroke last night and never woke up.

Here's a question

How do you make yours truly dance around the house clapping my hands and giggling with glee?

Have the UPS man drop this at my front door.


That, my friends, is my birthday/anniversary/Christmas present combined. That is a Nikon D40x digital single lens reflex camera with an 18-55mm lens!

HEEE HEEE HEEE HEE HEEEEEEEE! *CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*

Helen Thomas is still an apologist for terrorists

When Bill bombed Serbs he was 'good'...

Q Why should we depend on him?

MS.[Dana Perino]: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He's the one who is making sure that the situation is moving —

Q You mean how many more people we kill?

MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.

Q Do you know how many we have since the start of this war?

MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.

Q Oh, regret. It doesn't bring back a life.

MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.

I'm going to move on.

Helen Thomas is a clown that allows the other journalists the cover to be openly partisan.

HotAir has video

Helen Thomas pwned by Dana Perino Video added

I would say that Thomas is a disgrace to her profession, but it was their choice to put her on the front row in these gaggles.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Yep

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You scored as Musical/Rhythmic You are sensitive to sounds in your environment, enjoy music and prefer listening to music when you study or read. You learn best through melody and music. People like you include singers, conductors, composers, and others who appreciate the various elements of music. Musical/Rhythmic 100% Verbal/Linguistic 89% Visual/Spatial 82% Intrapersonal 68% Interpersonal 57% Bodily/Kinesthetic 57% Logical/Mathematical 54%

Found at Manda's place.

Mary Mary, Quite Contrary,

How does your Garden Grow?

With lots of planted questions by Democrat American Communist Party activists.

What are we up to now? Four were found out within hours, then more.... Ace says we're up to nine with the addition of the CAIR activist. A quote I saw earlier (and I'm paraphrasing) "During the CNN Democrat debate, we had Democrat activists asking planted questions. During the CNN Republican debate, we had Democrat activists asking planted questions. So it's all fair, right?" The Clinton News Network has shown itself to be completely unfit to hold any debate what so ever. They are biased, agenda pushing propagandists for the Democrat American Communist Party, plain and simple, and nobody in their right mind should ever trust them to deliver actual news ever again.

It should now be obvious why the Democrat American Communist Party candidates refused to do a debate on Fox News. Without their planted questions, they would be lost. Doing an actual debate with actual questions on actual issues would sink them, and so they run away and hide behind the friendly, soft-ball lobbing, question planting walls of CNN.

I won't go into the other questions that CNN deemed fit to show on national TV. I couldn't have picked out worse caricatures of conservatives if I tried. I've watched a few of the videos, and you can damn near hear "Dueling Banjos" in the background. If I had any hope that CNN wanted to be objective and fair, they destroyed that hope from the opening questions. The entire debate was one huge example of why the MSM cannot be trusted, and why CNN has less credibility than the Weekly World News and their BatBoy stories. CNN has proven that they are nothing more than whores and mouthpieces for the Democrat American Communist Party.

The Republican candidates should demand another debate, this time with real questions about real issues, and on a real News channel.

Huh

7.3 Earthquake? I didn't feel a thing in Puerto Rico. Granted, we're a ways off, so not noticing would not surprise me one bit.

Bwaahaaa!

A complete list of things caused by Global Warming. With links! I love some of the more absurd claims that the eco-freaks spout, such as:

Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,

Since these links are in alphabetical order, you get to see many of the contradictory claims.

avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow,

I have several banana trees in my back yard, and I can tell you that they are growing normally. But it seems that people are willing to blame ANYTHING on Global Warming.

Holy. Crap!

Jason Whitlock just joined the ranks of Bill Cosby as black men who are hated by other black men. I'm just going to re-post his entire article. It's that necessary.

There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.

Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.

The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.

No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.

Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.

When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.

Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?

About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an "injustice" the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor.

Within hours of his death, there was a story circulating that members of the black press were complaining that news outlets were disrespecting Taylor's victimhood by reporting on his troubled past

No disrespect to Taylor, but he controlled the way he would be remembered by the way he lived. His immature, undisciplined behavior with his employer, his run-ins with law enforcement, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and the fact a vehicle he owned was once sprayed with bullets are all pertinent details when you've been murdered.

Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, made the radio circuit Wednesday, singing the tune that athletes are targets. That was his explanation for the murders of Taylor and Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams and the armed robberies of NBA players Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry.

Really?

Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.

Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.

But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.

Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.

You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.

Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change.

Does a Soulja Boy want an education?

HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.

Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.

Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.

According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.

The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream.

The Black KKK is enforcing the same crippling standards as its parent organization. It wants to keep black men in their place — uneducated, outside the mainstream and six feet deep.

In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next.

Think about this. It's not genetic. It's not racial. It's cultural. Hatred and violence don't know a skin color.

I expect Jason Whitlock to be shunned, just like Bill Cosby was.

Another Must Read

Ladies and Gents, I have another must read for you, from someone who pens more than his fair share.

Your Curmudgeon will refrain from comment on the sexual mores. His own aren't quite as stringent as traditional Catholic teaching, which he regards as a case of ultra vires. What fascinates and appalls him is the complete abandonment of propriety and delicacy "Priscilla" narrates. Who are these creatures, that they dare to suggest in the middle of a first date that they expect to bed their companions at the end of it?

I've spoken about the horrors of modern feminism before, but I feel that I need to add my two cents in once more.

When you absolve a man from all responsibility, do not be surprised when that man dumps that responsibility at the first chance he gets. The moment that someone told modern women that they didn't need a man to raise a child, they told men to piss off. And men have been happy with that ever since. Free sex, no strings attached? Sign us up!

The problem exists when people who still believe that men and women both have integral parts to play in society try to intermingle with those who have been brainwashed into thinking that the two sexes can operate individually. I am constantly amazed at those who spread the theory of evolution constantly ignoring any lessons that evolution might provide. If one can believe that human kind evolved through selective breeding and survival of the fittest, then it stands to reason that male and female have evolved to fill separate roles in humankind's survival.

And for those who believe that God created men in his own image, then men and women both been made to fill their roles in God's world.

In either case, both male and females have their part to play. But that has been abandoned in modern times. Women aren't told that a father for their children is needed or necessary. Nope, they can have those kids all by themselves! Men have been relegated to nothing more than wallets with legs, for money to be yanked from when needed. We're sperm donors with cash, nothing more.

So why shouldn't a man expect sex on the first date? Modern Society has told him that there's no other reason for his existence. He is to provide sperm and money upon demand, and then leave. Well hell, if that's all I'm worth, then you'd better put out on the first date.

In today's modern society, I'm not surprised that "Priscilla" finds the kinds of cads she does, I'm surprised that "Priscilla" even exists any more! And to be quite honest, I wish there were more Priscilla's out there.

Hollywood idiots still don't get it.

Captain Ed has a post up about Hollywood's failure to get people to see anti-American movies. The big point? Hollywood still doesn't get it.

The virulent anti-Americanism that Hollywood seems to foster and nurture doesn't sell well in America. While movies stars jet around the world and recieve praise for denouncing the USA, the rest of America lives in the real world, where bad guys try to kill us, good and evil can be defined, and telling us that we're all evil morons makes us less likely to open our wallets. One of my early statements years ago was that Liberals are people who never have to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Nothing embodies that statement more than Hollywood, where the stars are insulated from the real world by layers of helpers, staff, gates and guards, and any measure that money can buy. They can traipse around calling American all kinds of nasty names, and all they hear is applause. Well, when access to an event is tightly controlled, the only people sure to be let in are those who will applaud such statements. It's one huge echo chamber, and the idiots in Hollywood actually believe that everyone agrees with them.

So they make their anti-America movie, where US Soldiers are dumb brutes who like to rape girls and kill people indiscriminately. And the rest of America, who still live in the real world, refuse to buy the bullshit.

There's a reason I've only gone to see one movie in the theater in the past two years. And the script for that movie (Harry Potter/Order of the Phoenix) came from a book written by someone outside of Hollywood. I refuse to be preached to by idiots who haven't dealt with real life in years. Damn near every movie coming out of Hollywood for the past decade has had some sort of anti-American or anti-conservative bent to it, and it's been getting worse and worse as of late. I refuse to pay money to watch someone else's propaganda.

As far as I care, Hollywood can sink and disappear.

Clinton News Network

I haven't trusted CNN for a good long while. And they keep proving why nobody should ever trust them at all. At least four of their "normal, undecided voters" who's questions they picked are staunch Democrats, including a gay former general who's worked for Hillary Clinton.

If CNN were up front and honest about who these people were, it would be a non-issue. "So-and-so is a registered Democrat, and this is his/her question." End of story, wouldn't have caused one single ripple. But passing partisan hacks off as "average, undecided voters" is outright lying and bullshit.

Just another reason to never watch CNN. You don't get the news, you just get their propaganda.

I don't care who ya are,

That's funny right there!

"No matter how many times you pile them in the shortbus, drive them to the mall, and herd them into the cineplex to watch a daring, groundbreaking film that fearlessly points out just what a bunch of violent, soulless retards they really are, before you can collect their ticket money they've escaped and gone wandering off to spend it all at Hot Topic and Sports Authority."

HAA!

Thanks to Kevin for the link.

What do you do when someone is shooting at you?

Well, if you're me, and you have access to a firearm, you shoot back.

Too bad much of France seems to be disarmed. Much like I am at the moment, thanks to the hellhole I like to call Puerto Rico. But still, don't the cops over there have weapons?

On Monday night, youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. About 30 of 82 injured officers were hit by buckshot, Ribeiro told The Associated Press. Rioters also hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police, authorities said.

Police made six arrests, authorities said.

Snipers. Lots of them. With orders to shoot to kill anyone seen firing at the police, burning cars, or committing assault. Sound harsh? It probably is, but maybe once the first ten or twenty rioters are gunned down people wouldn't be in such a rush to riot. Add in the fact that this is a repeat of last year, and my sympathy for the rioters drops to sub-atomic levels. Toss in the fact that this year's riot started because two brain-dead assholes (of undetermined ethnic origin, if you read the papers) ran a red light on a scooter and t-boned a police car, thus causing the death of the two idiots.....

Yeah. I really don't give two hoots about the rioters. They can live or die for all I care. Actually, I take that back. I do care if they live, because that means they'll just be causing problems in the future. I would much prefer to see them removed from the gene pool.

OK, now THAT was harsh. But true.

A good start

There's a sheet metal plant who has fired people who couldn't speak English.

After a sheet metal plant in Connecticut ordered its employees to speak only English on the job because of safety concerns, five Spanish-speaking workers decided to take the company to court.

The employees, who are legal immigrants, say the rule amounts to discrimination and actually makes the workplace more hazardous.

"I can think of no good reason for them to institute this policy," said Steven Jacobs, the lawyer for the workers who are suing GC Industries in Deep River, Conn. "It's offensive to people who speak Spanish and is potentially dangerous. It inhibits them from communicating in their native tongue in situations that could put people at risk."

I've had to take numerous safety courses over the years. I've dealt with HAZMAT courses, Commander-level safety courses, and unit level safety courses. I doing so, I've had to deal with scads of federal regulations, and have looked up more OSHA regulations and rules than I care to remember.

So anyone who thinks that not speaking English is just fine, here's what I want you to do: Go find all the HAZMAT used in making sheet metal. Then look up the Material Safety Data Sheets for them. Try to find them in Spanish. Good luck.

Now look up the OSHA regulations relating to a sheet metal factory. I hope you have a spare month or two, because that's about how long you'll need to cover everything. Now try to find them in Spanish, or attempt to translate them. Again, good luck, and I hope you don't mind losing another month or two.

Living in Puerto Rico, I think I'm well versed on the problems caused when two people cannot speak the same language. And although I know some Spanish, and most of the people I work with speak some English, there are still folks who cannot accurately communicate the hazards and dangers of working with chemicals or working around machinery. And I guarantee that my daily work area is ten times safer than any sheet metal plant.

Anyone who claims that not being able to speak English isn't a safety hazard in a major manufacturing plant is an idiot, plain and simple. If nothing else, the time and effort used to communicate safety to someone who can't speak English means that those people are taking up valuable resources and manhours that could be used on actual production. It could also put people's lives at risk. If I as the foreman want to correct something happening on the floor, I need to be able to go straight to the person and communicate with them. When lives are at stake, or when the entire plant is at stake, I cannot afford to waste time with a translator!

If these people want to come into our country and work, fine. If they want to start a new life here, fine. But they need to adjust to us, not the other way around. I would not move to Germany and demand that everyone speak English to me. I'd learn German. BECAUSE IT'S GERMANY, AND THEY SPEAK GERMAN! If I were to move to any other country that spoke a different language, I would have to learn that language. Period, end of story. Well, immigrants here had damn well better learn English.

The plant as set a policy of speaking English at work. The workers need to comply with that policy. If they don't like it, they can find another job, or go back to where they came from. Their choice.

Christmas comes early?

Trent Lott resigning. Denny Hastert doing the same. These two congresscritters did more than their fair share in the downfall and the decline of the Republican party. And they'll be leaving.

For those who need a refresher, Hastert presided over massive federal growth in spending, earmarks, and corruption. He actually defended Dollar Bill Jefferson when Jefferson was found to be accepting bribes, and didn't want his offices searched.

Trent Lott has been an embarrassment to the GOP ever since his remarks to Strom Thurmond in 2002. He recently said that he was "damn tired" of hearing about Porkbusters, a group who's sole focus is ending earmarks and corruption in Congress.

Both of them have needed to go for a good long time. I wonder, is this simply the stars aligning themselves properly, or is there finally someone in the GOP who's doing what needs to be done with regards to GOP congresscritters?

ABC has Obama in Iowa

It's starting to look like Richardson(D) will get the nod for V.P.:

"I think the fact of the matter is that Senator Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it,"

Obama said, and added, referring to his relationship with his wife, Michelle,

"There is no doubt that Bill Clinton had faith in her and consulted with her on issues, in the same way that I would consult with Michelle, if there were issues,"

Obama told "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran.

"On the other had, I don't think Michelle would claim that she is the best qualified person to be a United States Senator by virtue of me talking to her on occasion about the work I've done."

I do so enjoy the incompetent attempting to out-inexperience each other.

Here's a thought. The (D)efeaticrats have a majority in both Houses... why don't you two Senators break that cherry and pass a law. You know. Do what you said you would do when you ran for "Senator" in those 'safe' seats you posed for... There has to be a first time for every Presidential candidate for the (D)emocrats to actually author a piece of legislation. That's why they call Congressmen "Lawmakers". It's a slang term for what all the other Congressmen are doing. eg. Their J.O.B.

Oh... and Hillary(D) is so not a Lesbian and "is so a moderate" inspite of that summer spent as a Com-Intern.

OK, so....

That woman who got herself neutered in order to stop global warming? Yeah, that story that's been floating around the net as of late. I haven't really posted on it, mainly because all I could do was just shake my head in disbelief that anyone could be that stupid. Besides, given the way the woman and her husband think, the main thought in my head was "One less Democrat American Communist Party voter! And the problem with this is?"

But Phil has a train of thought that just has to be repeated.

On that same line of thought, while they stand by and stare blankly at this woman, I get called a fascist or a racist or a classist or a sexist or a bastard (or most likely a combination of those) when I suggest that women who cannot afford to have kids shouldn’t, either through abortion or via birth control (another topic that sets off the Lifers) or whatever.

So they are, in effect, stating that it is OK to suggest killing a child/fetus/zygote to stop Global Warming, but to do so in order to stop the birth of another state dependent welfare recipient is an abomination.

Yep. But the Left is full of contradictions.

I'll take it

Via Instapundit comes Fred Thompson's Tax Plan. I expect most of the Democrat American Communist Party to blow into a full shrieking fit when they see it.