The untold story

Seen in quite a few places, about President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.

"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."

(.....)

Mr. Cheney similarly has hosted numerous events, even sneaked away from the White House or his Naval Observatory home to meet troops at hospitals or elsewhere without a hint to the news media.

For instance, Mr. Cheney flew to North Carolina late last month and met with 500 special-operations soldiers for three hours on a Saturday night at a golf resort. The event was so secretive that the local newspaper didn't even learn about it until three days after it happened.

Mr. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, also have hosted more than a half-dozen barbecues at their Naval Observatory home for wounded troops recovering at Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed and their spouses and children.

There's four pages to that story. Read each and every one of them. I hate Bush's domestic policy. I think that on the domestic front, President Bush is no different than any Democrat American Communist Party member chosen at random from Congress.

But when it comes to the military..........

There's President Bush, who obviously cares about the troops, who shares their pain, who understands exactly who and what is at stake, and then there's the Democrats, the troop-hating, military despising, Soldier insulting, Marine-spitting-on, Airman dismissing, Sailor-cussing Leftoids who haven't done or said a DAMN thing positive to the troops in decades. The worthless, drug-addled ex-hippies who never grew up, who remember spitting on the troops after Viet Nam, and who want to do it again.

Go read. While I wasn't a big McCain supporter, read that story and ask yourself if you could ever in your wildest dreams see that corrupt fucking commie piece of shit Obama doing what President Bush has done.

Snort

"Stop linking Islam to Terrorism!"

As Mike says, You First, assholes! Maybe when muslims stop blowing shit up all over the world, hmmmmm?

Quiz Time

Just for Gits and Shiggles.

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Take the quiz at www.FightLiberals.com

Yep. Sounds about right.

From Frankie C

Reader Frankie C sent me this link in an email in an attempt to get my blood pressure up.

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.

The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages.

Now, before I start ranting and raving, I have a serious question to ask - how much of the bank failure was caused by the Government?

Think about the mortgage crash-n-burn. We can all blame the banks, or the mortgage companies, but the fact is that it was CONGRESS who forced companies to make loans to people who should have never gotten a loan in a million years. All in the name of Diversity (ALL HAIL DIVERSITY!). That was the trigger for the problems that we're having right now. As usual, when the government gets involved, things get worse. As the mortgage crisis flamed out of control, banks were left holding mortgages that were essentially worthless.

When you go from having assets, to having no assets, that's gotta hit a bank pretty darn hard.

Now, was there some stupid financial shenannigans going on? Most certainly. But by who? Who exactly needs to be keelhauled, and who should be congratulated for their damage control?

The AP article doesn't say.

I don't trust the AP in the best of times, and these ain't the best of times. They have their agenda, and they push it at every opportunity. Remember folks, the Media is not your friend. They are the enemy. So the fact that the AP is hyperventilating over the bank CEO's salaries means nothing to me.

And I must point out again that the very same Congress who caused the Mortgage burnout, the very same Congress who has driven our economy into the dirt, the very same Congress who has killed thousands of jobs in this country.... just gave themselves a pay raise.

Which the AP is fine and dandy with. So that ought to tell you exactly what they're thinking. So while I'm upset at some greedy bastards, I can't really get angry until I know WHO screwed up, and who did their level best to save their companies.

Rather Busy again today

Going to shovel my walk, go to church, then help a buddy move some crap around.

If I'm lucky, I'll get to watch a football game somewhere in there.

See you tomorrow.

Yep, that sounds about right.

Mark Alger has a link up to The Doctor Is In, who takes on the case of assisted suicide, and "the Right to Die". And I just have to link to it, because this paragraph right here boils down so many of the "rights" being pushed by the Leftists into something comprehendable.

Many of the “rights” which are being promulgated and promoted by today’s secular culture are in reality straw men, fine-sounding proxies for demands and desires far less salutary than they sound. Thus, gay marriage is not about gays getting married (hence the lack of enthusiasm among gay rights advocates for civil unions which provide all the legal benefits of marriage), but is instead an effort to destroy traditional heterosexual marriage as normative in culture, thereby removing not merely legal but cultural restraints on all forms of sexual and relational deviancy. The high standard — heterosexual marriage, with its enormous advantages in the raising of children and establishment of societal self-restraint, morality, and relational stability — must be brought down to the lowest common denominator of any two (or more) people getting “married” — with the sole purpose of muting societal condemnation for self-gratifying, dysfunctional and heterodox partnerships. Unrestricted abortion, a.k.a. “freedom of choice”, is about the uncompromising (albeit delusional) demand for unconstrained sexual license without consequences — especially for women, but also for their sperm donors who want no responsibility for their casual hookups: dispose of the unplanned pregnancy, move on to your next “partner”, and you have achieved the perfect “zipless fuck.”

Likewise, physician-assisted suicide is not at all about “death with dignity”, but rather about actively enlisting the culture in support of radical individual autonomy. Not only must we exert full control over the time and manner of our death — which we have always been able to do, by simply killing ourselves — but we demand that society support, honor, and praise this decision, without the faintest whiff of criticism or condemnation. It is not sufficient that we be able to kill ourselves. Rather, it is necessary that we actively kill those societal sensibilities and strictures which condemn such a choice as morally misguided and potentially destructive to our human dignity and our social fabric.

Every single "right" promulgated by the Left can't be found in the US Constitution. Instead, these "rights" come from the Leftist's desire to enforce his way of life onto other people. They want to do x, y, or z, so dammit, they'll claim it's a right and force everyone to let them to it!

By all means, go read the whole thing.

After you're done, go raed Francis Porretto's post on why the Left is pushing for Embryonic Stem Cell research even though every major breakthrough in that field has come from Adult Stem Cells, not Embryonic.

And by the way

Congress just gave itself a raise. That's right, the group of idiots, thieves, corrupt canker-sores, and greedy communists have just upped their pay. After destroying our economy, causing thousands of people to lose their jobs, Congress gave themselves more money. After leading what has to be the most unethical Congress ever, they're getting paid more to be that corrupt.

Can we lynch them now?

Velociman on the Big Three

And he rips Salon to shreds, which is a bonus.

I noticed, by the by, that Mr. Lind never states the blindingly obvious: Detroit isn't bankrupt because of a few automobile plants in the South. They are insolvent because their business model is as putrid as Gacy's date in a crawlspace. The combination of managerial greed, union greed, and insufferable government mandates combined to slay an industry that has been essentially producing unwanted junk for 35 years anyway. These Yankee protectionists need to take the buggy whips out of their collective asses and throw them upon the bonfire of history. It's not broke, idiots: it's fucking dead. And unless the next CEO of General Motors is Jesus H.M.S. Christ it will stay dead. Unless the Corkers of the Senate have their way, and the industry is reborn with a foundation of economic viability, shareholder oversight, and viable product offerings.

I've said for years that I would buy a Ford Truck, because those actually have a history of, well, working. But I wouldn't touch any domestic cars if my life depended on it. And I'm not just talking about my ass - I've owned and operated both the so-called "foreign" and domestic cars, and damn near each and every time the Japanese car has out-performed and out-lasted the domestic. My Nissan truck, which has gone through several different kinds of hell that no automobile should ever be asked to do, is still running with over 220,000 miles on it. It starts up every single morning.

The last two rental cars I had were both Chevy's, and in both cases I had to get the Rental Car company to come pick them up, because they were not working. New cars. Non-functioning new cars.

How much you want to bet that if I'd gotten a Nissan or Toyota, that bugger would have worked?

Tossing money at the Big Three isn't going to do jack shit other than push that problem down the road for a couple of months. Ford, Chrysler and GM are going to collapse unless they fundamentally change the way they operate. Since they're not going to do that, they will go bankrupt.

Whew

Today is the first free day I've had in about two and a half weeks. I can actually do some Christmas shopping, and work on my truck.

I think I might have actually gotten enough sleep.

Why aren't people rioting in the streets?

That's the question asked by Roger Kimball.

When is Governor Paterson up for re-election? And what about the New York State legislators, the men and women who connive in this orgy of fiscal irresponsibility, when are they up for re-election–or, rather, when can the people get together and throw the bums out?

Throw the bums out? Yeah, right. It's the people of New Fucking York who elected the bums in there in the first place. And being the good little indoctrinated slaves that they are, they will continue to elect their masters no matter how badly their masters whip them and beat them.

They are subjects, not citizens. They won't be throwing anybody out.

Sigh...

Well, that's that for Snopes. I can't trust yet another segment of the internet. Found via Cold Fury.

Yeah. Still Busy.

What can I say? Life is like that sometimes. When my posts are one or two lines, you know I'm up to my ass in work.

Kathy Shaidle needs a little help

Compiling the biggest Liberal Lies of 2008.

Lord knows there's a shit-ton to choose from.

Found at KisP, who found it at Five Feet of Fury, who actually IS Kathy Shaidle. Round Robin, I guess.

HORRY CLAP!

So everyone bitched at the Auto Execs flying their jets into Washington D.C. and begging for money. Rightly bitched at them, as far as I'm concerned.

But the United Auto Workers union has their OWN FUCKING GOLF COURSE???????

Worthless, greedy, corrupt, fucking PARASITES! FUCK! THAT! SHIT!

NOT ONE DAMNED DIME!

Media whores

The New York Slimes pulls it's lips away from Obama's cock long enough to give Blago a handjob. There's no action so low, so disgusting that the MSM won't excuse it so long as it benefits the Democrat American Communist Party.

Pravda on the Hudson. They're nothing more than whores and propaganda artists. They ceased to be "reporters" a long, long time ago.

They are the enemy.

I'm not the only one

Who thinks Colin Powell needs to STFU. We listened to Colin Powell, and RINOs like Colin Powell. Guess what we got? John Fucking McCain.

How did that turn out again?

Found via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.

Infighting

Kevin Baker put up a post that has brought out the worst of the pro-gun camp. It got so bad that one person was banned.

The "Three Percenters" referenced by Mr. Baker haven't exactly made a good showing. One thing that really chaps my hide is how many of them have insulted Kim du Toit, but I'll get to that in a moment.

When Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech, he was already known as a firebrand. In fact, he was known to be outspoken well before the Revolutionary War. Consider him to be the historical equivalent to the modern-day Three Percenters, those gunnies who are just as outspoken about their freedoms as Patrick Henry was in his day.

Patrick Henry set a spark to tinder, to use a metaphorical phrase. He was the blazing torch thrust into a pile of hay. But in order to have that hay set alight, someone had to pile it up first.

In order for spark to be set to tinder, someone has to gather the tinder and pile it together for it to burn.

Here's where the Three Percenters seem to miss their mark. The blogger who got banned, one Billy Beck, was vitriolic to the extreme, and not just to the anti-freedom, pro-Obama crowd. He was vitriolic to the people who are on his side, but who disagreed about the rubrics of the argument. It's like two people arguing about how to scramble eggs - one person wants to use a fork, one wants to use a whisk, and the person who advocates for using the fork starts screaming at the person who wants to use the whisk. At some point, the person who wants to use the whisk is going to say "You know what? Fuck it. I'll pass on the eggs." and walk away.

You cannot alienate your allies, unless you want to stand all by your lonesome when the enemy starts charging.

But perhaps the most important part is this: as bad as it is to alienate your allies, it's just as bad if not worse to alienate the people who you want to win to your side. Which is why the vitriol against Kim du Toit pisses me off quite a bit.

So the Three Percenters are pro-gun, pro-freedom, fine, yes, we got it. They are the firebrands, ready to set the tinder on fire. Gotcha, no problem with that. But just who the hell do they think is setting that tinder up?

Kim du Toit is responsible for getting thousands of people into shooting, some after a long absence, but most for the very first time. His essays have been used to convince recalcitrant spouses and significant others to try shooting, or to overcome the resistance to buying a gun. And the people that he influenced have in turn gone on to influence others, bringing even more people into the shooting camp. That's thousands of people who before didn't give a damn about guns, or were opposed to personal gun ownership, who have now been brought over to the pro-gun, pro-freedom side.

I don't know how many people Billy Beck has brought over to the pro-freedom side of the argument. But based on his internet writing style, I'd have to say "Not many". I could be wrong. He could be as sweet as a lamb in person. But people who savage their possible allies online probably don't change their attitude much offline. Beck would probably say some not-so-nice things to me just for challenging him on his attitude. Fine. THAT'S MY WHOLE POINT. Let's say that the Three Percenter's worst nightmare comes true, and the military is marching around trying to take people's guns. Just who the hell does he want knocking at his door? Some guy who's looking at him as the enemy, or someone like me? Because I've thought this over quite a bit given who the Media just elected as President. What happens if I get the order to confiscate guns?

I'm looking at two possibilities - the first is to tell my commander that the order is unconstitutional. But that would get me relieved rather quickly, and possibly tossed in Ft. Leavenworth, where I can't do a damn bit of good to anyone.

The second, which is what I'm leaning towards, is to walk into a house and not see a damn thing, even if they have an entire arsenal laid out on the livingroom floor. "Guns? No guns here, Sir. Next!" And make sure that my troops underneath me do the same damn thing. Can one man make a difference? Yes, especially if he has a platoon following his lead.

I'm the guy Billy Beck wants on his side, not arguing with him. I'm his ally, not his enemy. But if he's going to prosecute me for not agreeing with him on every little detail, then chances are he's not going to want me standing side by side with him either.

More to the point, if I'm going to be outcast by the Three Percenter crowd for not going along with every little damn thing they demand, then just what's going to happen to the people who can be swayed to our side but aren't there yet? Sometimes to win an argument, you need gentle nudges to get the other side to see what you're saying.

Now I'm not talking about the hard-core Lefties. As far as I'm concerned, they're a lost cause. We might be able to convert one or two here or there, but the Left as a whole has been indoctrinated to the point that they can no longer recognize what is up and what is down, and will in fact spend their entire day trying to tell you that up is in fact down, black is in fact white, and there is no absolute truth. I don't care about converting them, I care about shoving them aside and trying to make sure they can't do any more damage to my country. But there is still a huge swath in the middle who hasn't made up their minds yet. Hell, there's plenty of those folks who haven't even seen the argument from our side yet. It's not that they're anti-freedom, it's that we haven't had a chance to convince them. Lumping them in with the Left and lambasting them is NOT the way to win them to our side!

I know that someone who's nom de cyber is "Ragin' Dave" is probably the last guy you would expect to argue for moderation. Look, there's a need for H.E. rounds in this war. But you had damn well make sure those rounds aren't aimed at your own troops, otherwise you won't have anyone to fight with you against the enemy. You do not shoot at the folks who are recruiting people to your side. And to force this already-tortured analogy even further, you do NOT shoot at the people in the middle who are holding rifles and wondering which side to shoot at.

We needed Patrick Henry. We also needed Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel Adams. We need the firebrands, and we need the less abrasive recruiters. We need those people who are a driving force, but we also need those people who can convince the fence-sitters to hop down on our side.

We cannot win against the anti-freedom forces in ones and twos. And we need a hell of a lot more than three percent of the population if it comes to a shooting war. If it comes down to flying bullets, I'm going to have to choose not just where to make my stand, but who to make it with. Are my cohorts the people who say "Sure, we quibble on the details, but we're together on the big items", or the people who say "AGREE WITH EVERYTHING I SAY OR GO FUCK OFF AND DIE!".

I know where I'll make my stand. The question that remains is who I'll make my stand with. I'm hoping those three percent will break out of their shell and see that we're on their side.

Obama the Perennial Liar

When the Blagojevich flop first came out, the Obama camp was quick to claim "Oh no, we haven't met with Blago in a long time!"

Except some guy named Axelrod first stated that the Obama camp had been in contact with Blago. The Obama camp's response? "Alxelrod mis-spoke". To which the sane people in this country laughed. Yeah right. "Mis-spoke". Bite me if you expect me to believe that bullshit. I'm not some Media Whore with my lips wrapped around the Liberal Lord and Messiah's cock. I don't drink Kool-Aide.

So guess what we have here? Why, could it be Rahm Emanuel, the man that Obama picked to be his Chief of Staff, ON TAPE TALKING TO BLAGOJEVICH ABOUT OBAMA'S SENATE SEAT REPLACESMENTS?

Why yes, yes it is. And I have to ask the same question that the Real King of France is asking:

Those wiretaps prove that Rahm Emmanuel presented Gov. Blagojevich with names of four people Obama would accept to fill his Senate seat. The question now becomes, why did Obama lie about it, when he could easily have said, "yes, of course I gave my recommendations to the Gov."? Is he, like the Clintons. a pathological liar? Or is he, like the Clintons, hiding something more? He's not even sworn in yet, but Obama is, if anything, running ahead of the Clinton Scandal timeline. Kenneth Starr, in the person of Patrick Fitzgerald, already has a bead on him.

Is Barack Hussein Obama the only virgin in the Harem?

Blagojavich(D)? You are worried about a petty shakedown artist like Blagojavich(D)?

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with Frank Davis makes Barack Hussein Obama a Communist? No...

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright makes Barack Hussein Obama a racist hater? No...

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with Syrian Tony Rezko makes Barack Hussein Obama a criminal? No...

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with George Soros makes Barack Hussein Obama a tool of a Nazi sympathizing Socialist? No...

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with Louis Farrakhan makes Barack Hussein Obama a black-supremicist Muslim? No...

Do I believe that Barack Hussein Obama's association with William C. Ayers makes Barack Hussein Obama a terror bombing murderer? No...

But if these are the people he associates with just who are the 3,000 he's bringing with him to Washington and what are they capable of?

Why GM is going under

I'm supposed to be on the road right now. I have a TDY mission in Lake Geneva. I rented a car in order to get there. Picked it up last night. It's a Chevy Aveo.

What. A. Piece. Of. Shit.

It's a roller-skate with an engine attached. And to top it off, when I started it up this morning, the defrost didn't work. There's no heat. How the FUCK can you expect to drive a car in Wisconsin if the fucking DEFROST DOES NOT WORK??????

It's uncomfortable to sit in. You feel every damn bump of the road. Suspension sucks. Handling sucks. This is a brand new car, folks! And it's already fucking broken! No wonder these things aren't selling, they're pieces of shit!

So now I'm sitting here, waiting for the rental agency to come pick it up, because I CANNOT DRIVE THE FUCKING THING IF I CANNOT SEE OUT THE FUCKING WINDSHIELD. I sat there for fifteen minutes waiting for enough heat to come out of the defrost to get the windshield clear. Didn't happen. I am so pissed right now that I can't even see straight.

Obama calling for Blagojevich's resignation?

Well no shit. Because the longer the public scrutiny goes on, the more chance of people finding out just what a corrupt fucking communist that lying sack of shit Obama really is.

Oh, and by the way, Colin Powell

You can go fuck yourself up a tree sideways. When you tossed your support behind a corrupt fucking piece of shit commie, you lost any right you had to tell Republicans what they should do.

It snowed in New Orleans

There was up to eight inches of snow reported in some areas of Louisiana.

And yet California is wholly buying into the whole Global Warming BULLSHIT.

Once again, Mark Alger posts a link to yet another complete and total refutation of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It is a farce. A hoax. A lie, perpetrated by total fucking cons with hidden agendas. It's a lie. A false story. A fairy tale without a happy ending. It's one big fucking load of bullshit, bought by people who can't think their way out of a paper bag.

In the 1970's, the big story was OHMYGOD! WE'RE ALL GONNA FREEZE TO DEATH! And they wanted to dump soot onto the polar ice caps to MELT THEM and avoid the oncoming Ice Age. In the 90's, it was OHMYGOD! WE'RE ALL GONNA BURN TO DEATH! And they wanted to completely shut down any industry that used carbon for fuel, or used electricity created by burning carbon as fuel, which would have turned this country into a stone-age society. Now the very same people are simply screaming OHMYGOD! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! from some vague claim of "climate change", and the same fucking shysters who were COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG in the 1970's, and COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG in the 1990's, now want us to believe their hysterical shrieking and hyperventilating that they're currently shitting themselves about.

Fuck.

That.

I am done being nice. I was done being nice just about the time that fucking corrupt piece of shit Communist from Chicago got elected to the Office that he's unfit to hold. People's stupidity cannot be tolerated. Period. You childish little shits who whine and piss yourselves about "climate change" need to grow up really fucking fast, and if my boot up your ass helps you grow up so much the better. If you still remain a childish little shit with my boot up your ass, at least I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that your stupidity has finally brought you some pain, and plus it's a good vantage point to fucking curb stomp your retarded fucking brain into the ground.

Sigh

Maybe if the Main-Stream media pulled their lips away from their Lord and Messiah's cock, they might just be able to actually report on his shady connections.

I don't see that happening. The media would have to stop tongue-bathing Obama's scrotum in order to actually do their jobs. Unless their jobs consisted of being the propaganda organ of a corrupt Marxist from Chicago.

Hmmmmmmmmmm....

Civilization, dying

I found this link at The Smallest Minority, and I'm quite honestly shaking my head in disgust.

Fire extinguishers could be removed from communal areas in flats throughout the country because they are a safety hazard, it has emerged.

The life-saving devices encourage untrained people to fight a fire rather than leave the building, risk assessors in Bournemouth decided.

There are fears that their recommendation, which has seen the extinguishers ripped out of several private, high-rise flats in the town, could set a national precedent.

Under the Fire Safety Order of 2005, fire assessments must be carried out to 'eliminate or reduce risk as is reasonably practical'.

Ladies and Gents, there are no free English citizens any more. They've been phased out. Britain has turned it's citizens into slaves, who are obviously unable to help themselves in any way. What's next? Mandating that only "experts" wipe people's asses after their morning constitutional? Only "experts" wield napkins at the dinner table for fear of someone poking their eye out with them?

The fact that Britons haven't risen up and lynched the stupid bastards responsible for this crap makes me dispair.

Gov. Blagojevich Busted

I know a few folks from Southern Illinois who are jumping for joy right about now. Here's the link to Ace of Spades, who also has a good run-down of Barry the Chicago Commie throwing his pal Blago under the bus.

I'm not going to add much to it. I'll just say that Blagojevich was the Governor of Chicago, not the State of Illinois. I don't care what the nameplate on his door said. If it weren't for Chicago and it's suburbs, Blagojevich wouldn't have even sniffed the Governor's office. He's just another corrupt politician from Chicago, and I'm smiling right now that he's going down.

Hopefully, all his ties to the Liberal Lord and Messiah will be exposed. Although I doubt it. The media are too busy giving Barry the Marxist Wonder a blowjob to be bothered with any trivial thing like reporting facts.

JFKerry never released his military records

John Kerry required a "honorable discharge" to be issued years after he left the service for obvious reasons. He shamelessly smeared Bush, who served honorably, all after years of collaborating with Communist regimes in the decades following his efforts to aid the North Vietnamese.

Now... Barack Hussein Obama is being shielded by the MainStreamMedia in his efforts to duplicate that Goebellian smear by going after McCain for being born in Panama while refusing to release his own birth certificate to meet Constitutional requirements for his election to the Presidency.

You and I have to present our birth certificate for employment and ID... why shouldn't he? Why won't he?

Saner writers pooh-pooh this issue but I find it illustrative of Barack Hussein Obama's arrogance as it wouldn't even be an issue if he wasn't an asshole.

Now our own are smearing those that bother to read the Constitution as "truthers" and "Paulians" while the Left rants that we want to "disenfranchise" 64 million voters. Why? Because I expect Barack Hussein Obama to show his ID? Well... after enduring 8 years of Bush Derangement syndrome I have a few rhetorical questions for you.

Do you have to show ID to write a check?
Do you have to show ID to get a paycheck?
Should people be required to show ID to vote? For how much longer?

If The US Constitution matters... then why doesn't it?

It must be the drugs

Cold Fury has an excellent take down of Bill the Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist Ayers' vomit in the Tattered Grey Whore.

Can't excerpt any of it. It's a must read.

Don't tell me

That Congress gives a shit about the military.

Because they don't.

Scientists have discovered a lotion that can save the lives of U.S. soldiers exposed to chemical weapons — a product vastly superior to the standard-issue decontamination powder.

Naturally, the Defense Department wants to scrap the powder and switch to the more-effective lotion.

But there's a problem: After being lobbied by the companies making the powder, several members of Congress pushed through two earmarks worth $7.6 million that forced the military for the past two years to keep buying the inferior product.

The product, known as M291, is made from a resin sold exclusively by a Pennsylvania chemical company, which is then processed into powder by a New York company, then assembled into individual kits at a facility in Arkansas.

Among the lawmakers who championed the earmarks are Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.; Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Clinton, who is poised to become secretary of state, received nearly $7,000 in campaign donations from the beneficiaries of these earmarks in recent years. Specter got more than $47,000.

Fucking worthless parasites. I'm not even surprised at this point. Congress would rather line their own pockets than make sure our men and women in uniform can protect themselves from a NBC attack.

They don't give a shit about us at all.

Found via KisP.

Well.... just.....

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

Two words: Borrowed firearm.








A bunch more words: I HAD TWO FUCKING DEER IN MY SIGHTS AND THE FUCKING GUN DIDN'T FUCKING WORK! Fuck me gently with a chainsaw, the first deer was TWENTY FUCKING FEET AWAY! I could have THROWN the fucking gun at it and hit it in the fucking HEAD! The cap went off, but the powder didn't catch. And I had double and triple-checked the damned nipple on it to make sure it wasn't blocked.

Gah. I'm going to be upset about this all fucking year, until the season opens next November.

Bambi will be my bitch!

OK, another quick post

Browsing through Say Uncle, I found this link, which lead to this link, and that got me thinking...

So, this national visitor's center, which opened late and three times above it's budget, can't even get the national motto correct. Is anyone surprised? Anyone? Hell, no.

This is the government that can't even run a whorehouse and make a profit. OK? Got it? THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CANNOT SELL ORGASMS AND MAKE MONEY. The sheer level of incompetence shown by our "elected" officials is staggering when you actually think about it.

A center dedicated to Congress couldn't even get the National Motto right. I think they should have left it as it is. Let it be a monument to the fuck-upedness that is Congress.

A quick post

Before I rush off. I'm going to be gone this weekend, out in the woods, with no internet access. So, all y'all fellow posters, please keep it going?

But I'll leave you with an Open Letter to a Democrat Majority.

It never really occurred to me before just how many of you have never hit a lick in your lives; never done one hour’s worth of honest work, never gotten your hands dirty, never actually earned a paycheck by the sweat of your brow. You go right into some liberal-arts ivy-league college straight out of high school, usually on your parents’ money and grants of OUR money in student loans, which will probably not get paid back. Then, fresh out of college, you head right for Washington, and find the tit on that government sow that has your name on it, and there you cling for the rest of your natural life.

You have made a very lucrative career of taking our money, telling us it’s for our own good and that it will go to help those less fortunate, then sticking it in your pockets, doling out little dribbles here and there to keep those “less fortunate” as miserable as possible–and just smart enough to blame US for their misfortunes. You have all amassed personal fortunes on our backs, through the sweat of our brows, and you never even said, “I’ll call you in the morning,” while you rifled OUR retirement funds.

Found at Og's place. Enjoy the rest. I'll be off then!

Sorry bout the lack of posting again

This is getting to be a bad habit. But I left the house early yesterday, and I didn't get back in time to do anything but brush my teeth and go to bed.

Today was almost as bad. Tomorrow is more of the same. Bear with me, please.

Linky Love

Via RNS (their quote of the day) comes this gem of a piece. I'll post the first and last paragraph. You'll have to read the rest on your own.

Government officials lecturing anyone on ethics, greed or financial responsibility is as laden with irony as the latest appropriations bill is with pork barrel spending.

(.......)

So in a show of good faith, I would like to see our federal leaders take the lead in fiscal accountability by refusing to accept a salary until, as they've demanded of the automakers seeking a bailout, they can demonstrate a plan to bring their enterprise into the black and repay their debt. Until then, Congress should just be grateful that, like the fat cat executives that they castigate, their pay is not determined by their performance, and avoid drawing undue attention to the fact with their hypocrisy.

Sigh

We missed such an opportunity to have this man as president.

Deepak Chopra is a fucking idiot

Douchebags say what?

Sean Penn is fucking awesome.

And I do mean AWESOME!

I headed up the back stairs, and waiting for me at a table in the upper deck were the two contractors I had arranged to meet the night before. Full disclosure: I'm not a big "contractor" guy. I'd been jacked up by DynCorp-employed Iraqis on a dark night in a Baghdad alley, and slept beside Blackwater boys and their guns on a floor in the floods of New Orleans. It's just this little thing I have about apolitical military might for profit. Call it irksome. Call it what you will, but a source is a source. We exchanged greetings by way of grunts. I took a seat and ordered Johnny Walker Black. It had been years since I ordered Johnny Walker Black. Pathetically I might have wanted to be one of the boys for a moment. They ordered a bubbly water a piece, and it was on. I was Al Capone, motherfucker, and they were a pair of Perrier pansy John Wayne's. "Whatcha got for me?" Uninterestingly, they turned out to be a couple of gents, South African though they were. In practice, their job in Venezuela was logistical. One, organized the patrolling of waterways by their company, contracted by the Venezuelan government to aid in drug interdiction. The other strategized jungle patrols on the Colombian border. We talked about a lot of things, and a lot of parts of the world, as I tend to do when indulging Johnny Walker Black. But here are the highlights: Neither one of them liked Chavez a bit. Whatever personal politics they might have had were far to the right of my peripheral vision. Chavez just wasn't their kind of fellow. But the jungle patrolled said straight out, "I'll tell you this about Chavez though. Of all the countries we've worked for, this government is by far, the most serious about drug interdiction." I said, "What's the bad news?" He said, "Chavez won't last a year." "What do you mean?" I said. "He's too radical. We've seen it before." "Seen what before? I said. "They'll kill him." "They?" I said. He reached across the table, took a sip of my Johnny Walker Black, smiled, and pointed directly at me, the Americano at the table.

That's all [sic]. Dude doesn't like paragraphs.

Click to "read it all" at HuffPo:

Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes

Unbelievable

I truly cannot believe this shit. I can't. Except I have no choice but to believe that the slimy, traitorous, surrender-monkey propaganda whores actually wrote it.

I’m sure that Obama, whatever he said during the campaign, will play this smart. He has to avoid giving Iraqi leaders the feeling that Bush did — that he’ll wait forever for them to sort out their politics — while also not suggesting that he is leaving tomorrow, so they all start stockpiling weapons.

If he can pull this off, and help that decent Iraq take root, Obama and the Democrats could not only end the Iraq war but salvage something positive from it. Nothing would do more to enhance the Democratic Party’s national security credentials than that.

IF OBAMA PULLS IT OFF? O-FUCKING-COMMUNIST-BAMA! Mr. "THE SURGE HAS FAILED!" Obama! Mr. "WITHDRAW AND SURRENDER NOW!" OBAMA!

WHAT! THE! FUCK!

I'll let Confederate Yankee fill you in on the details. I'm so disgusted right now I don't know what to say. After trying and trying and trying to drown the US military in defeat, now the New York Fucking Propaganda Whores are trying to credit O-Fucking-Marxist-Traitor-Bama with victory in Iraq.

They are the enemy. They must be destroyed.

"And so, it has come to this"

There are plenty of bloggers out there that shovel information out as fast as they can get it. Others pontificate to a small audience (like yours truly), but don't push their heart and soul into blogging for a myriad of reasons (mine is that the Army keeps me too busy).

Kim du Toit has put his heart and soul into his blog for several years, and I challenge anyone to find me any blogger that has affected more people in a positive way that the du Toit's. Today is the last day that he'll be blogging.

Damn.

I truly hope that he enjoys his retirement, and I wish he and his family the best. Happy trails, Kim.

Drool

David at RNS has picture up of a Charter Arms Rimless Revolver. A revolver designed to shoot rimless cartridges, like my beloved .45 ACP.

I want one. I sooooooooo want one.

Skunked again!

OK.... I have now been to four different hunting areas. I have seen a grand total of one deer. Hell, I haven't even heard many other folks getting shots off. I've seen a few tagged deer in the back of someone's truck, but I just don't know if there's many deer out there right now.

Dammit. I wanted venison. I'm trying a new place today, we'll see what happens.

Well, I did better than last year.

I got a 93.94 on this quiz. I got 88% last year.

I've been reading more. Some of the questions were different, but I'm pleased that I'm improving my knowledge. This year instead of comparing the test results with college seniors, they compared them with elected officials. And the officials scored worse than average citizens on most of the questions.

But you know what? I blame the citizens for that. STOP VOTING IN MORONS!

Hell, who am I kidding? Massachusetts, New Fucking York, and California are responsible for more dumb shit than the rest of the country combined. I can't blame someone from Nebraska for the idiots of New Fucking York.

Wait, hold on. Add in Chicago to that mix. Not the entire state of Illinois, just Chicago.

Another list

From Og, via Kim du Toit. Since he didn't pass it on, I'm taking it and using it anyways.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (no, not totally, but I can insult you in five!)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (kind of, long story)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

Damn, there's still a lot of shit I need to do!

Skunked

I saw a grand total of ONE deer yesterday, and that was about 100 yards away and running like crazy through the woods.

Ah well. Wish me luck today!

I am thankful for...

My wife, who puts up with far too much crap and still manages to smile at me. I (partially) joke that I found the one woman in the world capable of putting up with me, and then I married her. I thank God for the day he steered her into my life.

I'm thankful for my parents, who refused to strangle me to death in my teens, no matter how desperately I deserved it.

I'm thankful for the friends I've made around the world, including the one who's taking me hunting today while our wives cook Thanksgiving Dinner (see first paragraph).

Happy Thanksgiving, folks.

I'm going to make a brief comment

On crap like this:

So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George Washington a battle plan to win the Revolution?

Whatever she once was, Ms. Parker is certainly not a conservative anymore, having apparently realized it’s a lot easier to be popular among your journalistic peers when your keyboard tilts to the left. She writes that “armband religion” — those of us who “wear our faith on our sleeve,” I suppose, or is it meant to compare socially conservative Christians to Nazis? — is “killing the Republican Party.” Lest readers miss the point, she literally spells it out. The GOP’s big problem? G-O-D.

N-O-N-S-E-N-S-E.

I'm not calling James Dobson crap on this article, I'm calling Kathleen Parker crap. Get rid of the social cons? What else should we do Mrs. Parker? Get rid of our demands for smaller government as well?

Listen, for the past eight years we conservatives have had the "moderates" telling us what we needed to do in order to win elections. Do this. Get rid of that. Don't be so far to the Right.

Hows that working out for ya? Half the "moderates" of the Republican Party jumped ship, after the Republican party did what they wanted it to do!

Fuck. Them. Fuck them all to hell. Fuck them sideways with a chainsaw, fuck them up a tree with a pruning hook. Fuck off, Mrs. Parker. Fuck off, Chris Buckley. Fuck off, Colin Powell. Loved ya as a general, but your political leanings should not in any way influence conservatives.

These "moderates", these fair-weather conservatives, these DEMOCRAT LITE, should lose any and all say they had in the Republican Party. They're done. They have failed.

They FAILED. They have FAILED so utterly and horribly that a radical Left Communist has just been elected to be President. That is a failure on par with the Hindenburg's last flight. That is a failure on par to the current Detroit Lions football team. That is a failure on par to Benedict Arnold saying "Hey, why don't I switch sides right now?" That is a failure on par to Ishtar. That is a failure on par to the captain of the Titanic asking "Iceburg? What iceburg?"

So all these people who've been yanking the Republican Party to the Left can kiss my ass. We have all seen what happens when the Republicans try to be moderate. If that's not a repudiation of moderate conservatism, I don't know what is. Piss off, Mrs. Parker.

I'm not the only one

Who recently joined the ranks of the home-owning.

Congratulations, Phil! Now I can brag "I knew Phil when he lived in Renton, and went by the Nom de Cyber 'Analog Kid'!"

OOOO-RAH!

Ya see what happens when you just let the military do it's job?

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

Let's enjoy military victory while we can, before the Surrendercrats take control.

Here's a must read

from Jane Galt. Wow. Just wow.

VDH has ten random politically incorrect thoughts

I'm willing to bet that he has more than ten, but he's only writing ten of them down. Here's number 10, and it's resonating with me:

10. The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked. No longer can any professor expect an incoming college freshman to know what Okinawa, John Quincy Adams, Shiloh, the Parthenon, the Reformation, John Locke, the Second Amendment, or the Pythagorean Theorem is. An entire American culture, the West itself, its ideas and experiences, have simply vanished on the altar of therapy. This upcoming generation knows instead not to judge anyone by absolute standards (but not why so); to remember to say that its own Western culture is no different from, or indeed far worse than, the alternatives; that race, class, and gender are, well, important in some vague sense; that global warming is manmade and very soon will kill us all; that we must have hope and change of some undefined sort; that AIDs is no more a homosexual- than a heterosexual-prone disease; and that the following things and people for some reason must be bad, or at least must in public company be said to be bad (in no particular order): Wal-Mart, cowboys, the Vietnam War, oil companies, coal plants, nuclear power, George Bush, chemicals, leather, guns, states like Utah and Kansas, Sarah Palin, vans and SUVs.

I know that there are always exceptions to the rule, but I would not willingly put a child into the American Publik Skool Sistim if my life depended on it.

Oh, and here are the other nine random politically incorrect thoughts. I found 'em over here, so you can thank him for that bit of brilliance.

Sorry 'bout yesterday

I got up early, went running, swept the snow off my driveway, headed to work, and I didn't get home until 2245. So no computer for me. Which means no post for you.

The bad thing about going TDY for a week is that the paperwork doesn't stop piling up on your desk while you're gone. The job doesn't just go away. So I was taking care of all that yesterday. But getting back at 2245? Monday Night Football at a friend's house. I left around the end of the 3rd quarter. Pack wasn't coming back from that. Ugh.

Next up? Water is Wet!

Otherwise known as "Well no shit, Captain Obvious!"

Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.

"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."

It used to be that I would shake my head at the Propaganda Press and just ignore them. Can't do that anymore. The whoremongers have proven that they're the enemy. They don't just want to be biased, they want to inflict that bias on the rest of the country. They're Marxists in every sense of the word, and they want to drag America down to a third-world-shithole status in their quest to make communism work. Even though communism fails every time it's implemented. They just want to do it again, only HARDER!

So it's no longer just shrug my shoulders. Now it's time to destroy the fuckers. By. Any. Means. Necessary.

Hunting (slightly) postponed

Life got in the way. It happens sometimes. But the rifle is ready to go, the deer tags are on hand, the license is clipped to my vest, and come Thanksgiving I'm heading out in the woods with a buddy to get a deer.

Yes, Thanksgiving. The Ragin' Mrs. and I are headed over to a friend's house for Thanksgiving, and while the womenfolk are cooking, (and let's be blunt, shall we? My friend and I are getting chased out of his house so the women can do what they want without us bothering them) my buddy and I will be out getting venison.

Yum!

So I have to wait a day or two. Big whoop. There's enough deer up here to go around.

Did I get cloned?

Because I think I just found a guy who thinks exactly like I do.

Found via BabyTrollBlog. Thanks, Alger!

Hell yeah it's in my bookmarks. And once Blogrolling comes back online, it'll be on the Blogroll. (As well as "A Douchbag Says What?")

Remember my call

For reforming the Republican Party?

Well.... here's to hoping we can. Because the Party leadership seems determined to do it again, only HARDER!

Republicans: The Senate Republican Conference meeting Tuesday, amid the ruins of the once-powerful majority, was business as usual.

1. The leadership elections were all uncontested. The top three leaders—Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), and Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)—all stay in place. John Thune (S.D.) joins leadership as vice chairman of the conference, while John Cornyn ( Tex.) will head the National Republican Senatorial Committee and his predecessor, John Ensign ( Nev.) will head the policy committee.
   
   
2. Any sentiment for a serious shakeup was buried amid a belief that upper chamber Republicans had suffered from "circumstances out of our control," as Ensign put it. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pushed some reform measures, such as term-limiting appropriators, but all such changes were shot down.
   
   
3. The party postponed any vote on expelling convicted Sen. Ted Stevens ( Alaska) from the conference, but many senators stated there were certainly enough votes against him in the conference were a vote to be held. A larger majority of the conference, however, preferred not to vote if they didn't have to—and Tuesday night's results make it look like they don't have to.

I would say that the Republican Party elite have not only NOT learned their lesson, but they steadfastly refuse to learn it. They are ignoring every last lesson being offered up. If the Republican Party doesn't force them out, they Republicans are going to continue to lose elections.

And this country will suffer as a result of it.

The Big DUH!

When a Marxist gets elected President, the markets respond. The "PeaceLoveDope" crowd may not understand reality, but the people who actually DEAL with reality don't have the option to prance into LaLa land and dance with the unicorns and fairies.

As an addendum: California unemployment third worst in nation. 8.2%. The worst? Michigan and Rhode Island, both sitting at 9.3%. What's the one big common factor of all three? Domination by Democrat American Communist Party politics, with the corresponding anti-business legislation.

It's not hard to figure out. Hell, you don't even have to study for years at some college to find out what you need. All you have to do is observe the areas where the Democrat American Communist Party has been in control, and look at the results of a "liberal" agenda!

High crime, high unemployment, stifling legislation, nanny-statism run amok, and reduced personal freedoms. People can quibble about the causes all they want to. I can point to the effects and say "This is the end result of what you advocate. No thank you and go fuck yourself".

More Media Buffoonery

So I guess there's this video floating around where Sarah Palin pardons a turkey, and then talks to the media while some turkeys that she didn't pardon get offed.

Accordingly, the whores and propaganda artists of the Press have gone apeshit.

Little Pissy Crissy Matthews of the We Love Obama Network is frothing at the mouth more than he usually does. Wonkette's gaping vagina queefs out another comment. Blah blah blah blah.

Hey dipshits - I might actually listen to you if you would, ya know, stop eating turkey. Until then, turkey farms just like the one Gov. Palin is speaking at, are necessary. Just because you invertebrate shitheads don't like to deal with reality doesn't mean that the rest of us are forced to join you in make-believe land.

God, what a group of pansies. What a group of worthless shrieking ninnies. What a group of pants-pissing babies. The fact that America could even produce a group of brainless fucktards makes me want to puke.

Back

Had a good conference. Learned one hell of a lot of information. Now it's back to the grind. It's looking like I'm going to have at least one trip a month of varying lengths.

Time to catch up on the news? And Obama is still a commie bastard.

A flight time of just 33 minutes

The preamble to the US Constitution states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"provide for the common defence"...

George Soros' "boy" would dismantle our defenses...

Against:

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Collectivist-Left.v.Individualist-Right

There is an ongoing debate about what path the (R)epublicans should take to save our future. I can't think of anything more healthy or important.

To have a political spectrum there must be opposite views on a particular subject. The polar opposite of Collectivist-Left is not "Compassionate Conservativism" but individual liberty best represented by Libertarianism. That is not to say the loony Libertarians who you read about in the news, but true Conservatives, who represent the Libertarian ideal of Individualist-Right.

This gentleman claims to be a "I used to be a Republican But"... yet he says he can't vote (R)epublican because the "Religious Right" works to "ban abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and gay marriage" and then he perpetuates the Jeffersonian myth that "there should be a ”wall of separation“ between church and state. Public policy should not be based on religious doctrines".

First, Jefferson mentioned the ”wall of separation“ once in a letter sent decades after the Constitution was adopted. Although I support the concept of a ”wall of separation“ I am not so arrogant as to argue that canard. Perhaps he might read the Federatlist Papers and review his own statements?

Second, "gay marriage" is not a "right" but a social preference that Gays are entitled to already. Any person may marry one of the opposite sex. To force a "change" over the will of the society that indulges such contracts with preferential treatment is both collectivist totalitarianism and an indulgence of a self-defined professional victims' group with a history of anti-Christian activity. The 'Gay activist' lobby is currently "demonstrating" all of their hateful excess. Should we reward their bullying such victicrats will not be satisfied.

Third, stem cell research is a wonderful, privately funded success, that is making many investors rich. Embryonic stem cell research is a black-hole of failure seeking tax-payer funded subsidies. Why is it a Lefty will howl about the 'evil drug companies' yet now demands that the tax-payer subsidize those very same 'evil drug companies'?

Finally, whether you believe life begins at conception or not, a child is viable outside of the mother long before birth. Ask yourself why we spend billions to save premature births if the whim of a mother is enough reason to murder that child? If you saw a car sinking into a river and dove in to save the family would you not reach for the child before the mother?

You will notice none of my arguments are based on Religious grounds. I just happen to notice that the Collectivist-Left aganda of the "Religious Right" is consistent with government getting out of my life, even when in opposition to my reasoning, as their arguments would involve the morality of the collective society.

The reality is that the "Religious Right" is a myth, they in fact represent the Collectivist-Left of the "RightWing" mostly defined by the opposition in the (D)emocrat party. For does anyone doubt the collectivist inclinations of a Church? They have been drivin into our arms, yet a schism exists because they are not truly 'of us' on the Individualist-Right.

But unless you want to leave government to the self-perpetuating professional politicians of the Collectivist-Left you better find some common ground, like I have, and embrace those that will work with you reasonably.

Also, it is worth remembering that true Liberalism, that liberated the slaves, gave women the vote, passed civil rights legislation etc... was all led by the "Religious Right" and if you do your homework you will find out that the Marxist posers calling themselves "Liberals" today are anything but.

In 2004 I had two types of people knocking on my door. One set wore ties, white shirts, smiles and exuded optimism and faith. Not that I rewarded them for that. The other wore save-the-whales T-shirts and slashed the tires of a neighbors' SUV.

I've picked sides with the God Squad. I may not have faith... but I believe in them.

Cross Posted at DANEgerus

Headed out

Flying out today. I might have internet in my room, I might not. See ya when I see ya.

"But why won't anyone listen to us?"

Hint to the gay protesters in California -

If you want to convince people of the justification for your position, it is best if you DO NOT start attacking and terrorizing the people who disagree with you. Attacking little old ladies, sending white powder to churches... not the way to do it.

Your strongest opposition comes from people who believe that your lifestyle is morally repugnant. When you respond with morally repugnant actions, you only prove your opposition is correct.

Not to mention, this could be a push-back from having a bunch of unelected black-robes push your agenda for you. You take the power out of the people's hands, chances are that they'll find a way to get that power back.

So maybe you need to start talking to people, and doing what you tell your opposition to do - compromise a little bit. Otherwise, expect more of the same.

"Hope" for "Change"

Either Obama is the smoothest liar we've seen since Slick Willie, or people in this country are just that damn stupid.

I don't like either answer.

Lyudmilla, she ROARS!

So, I took the rear sight off of Lyudmilla and replaced it with a Weaver rail. Purchased a red-dot scope today at a local shop, mounted it, and headed to the range.

Took a little bit to zero her in. The light snow falling probably didn't help. But it's rather fitting for this rifle.

Once it was zeroed, took her to the 100 yard range. The scope dot is 5 MOA, so it pretty much covered up the entire target at that range. Did my best to get everything centered, and lit off a round. The guy behind the spotting scope said "Well, that's a dead deer right there!"

It's not pinpoint accurate, but with just a red-dot and no magnification I didn't expect it to be. It's as accurate as I can be, and that's all I wanted. I put four more rounds downrange just to make sure everything was properly set. All five rounds were in the proper area. I'm happy.

Deer beware! BWAAA HAAA HAAAAA!

Almost forgot - on the way home, the Ragin' Mrs. and I stopped at a hunting store close to the house and got my hunting license. And four tags, two for bucks and two for does. I'm having venison this winter! Yes, I am!

I looked all around the shop, but I couldn't find any hunting regulations or tags for commies. Maybe they're just open season? Nah, couldn't be. Madison would be emptied out if it was. I'm sure that little oversight will be corrected at some point.

And yes, if it comes down to it I will be shooting commies with a former commie gun. Call it poetic justice.

And sigh again

Ayers says Obama is a "family friend". Well no shit. So here's what it boils down to.

People who defended Obama on his connection to Ayers either:

A) Knew that Obama was friends with an unrepentant domestic terrorist and lied about it, or;

B) Were completely duped, despite the preponderance of evidence.

Either way, it doesn't look good for America. You know, saying "I fucking TOLD you so!" doesn't quite have the same appeal it normally does when your country is in risk of becoming a third world shithole.

Sigh

Democrats and kiddie porn. No, I am not surprised. No, I don't expect any outcry from anyone on the Left. The only perversions they truly care about are the ones they can use in their quest for power.

Leeeeeeevin', on a jet plane....

I'm heading out on Sunday. Going to be gone for about a week. I'll post when I can, but no guarantees.

PHA

Periodic Health Assessment. It's an annual check-up the Army does to ensure that you're still in good working order, all parts are accounted for, and that nothing is broken. I had one earlier this week. The following day, I had a dental exam. Funny part about that is that they had to take my blood pressure at the dental exam. Don't know why. But I got to have my blood pressure checked two days in a row, giving me an idea of what it is.

When I was in Puerto Rico, my blood pressure was running 140 over 90 on average. The Ragin' Mrs. like to joke that Puerto Rico was killing us. We went there looking young for our age, and came back looking old. I went grey while I was there.

Anyways, my medical checkup. Yes. My BP now? 118 over 79. In about three and a half months, I went from having high blood pressure down to normal.

Amazing what happens when you leave a hellhole.

It's open season...

So declares Detroit-born rock legend, hunter extraordinaire and right-on conservative Ted Nugent...
Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required.
Rock on, Ted.

It's that time again

I know the economy sucks.

I know times are rough.

I know that we're all stretching our dollar as far as it can stretch.

I don't care. Go here. Donate. Project Valour-IT is running it's annual fundraiser to provide voice-activated laptops for injured troops. You can pick which team you want to donate to (GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!) or you can just make a donation to the project itself.

The Leftoids ain't gonna do crap for our boys and girls in uniform, folks. We gotta do it ourselves.

UPDATE: I've added a link to the Valour-IT Army Team on the sidebar. Hit it up, folks! Five dollah, ten dollar, I don't care if it's fifty cents. We need all that we can get.

And since I've linked to Mr. du Toit

I may as well go for the family combo and link to Mrs. du Toit's piece as well. I was a bit hesitant to do so at first, because it's not a post that fills you with joy. But dammit... you don't deal with adversity by trying to hide from it.

The Perfect Storm.

This country officially tipped over the edge when congresscritters were talking about bailing out the catastrophe of their own creation (Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae) using taxpayer dollars. The successive bailouts that are coming are more of the same. They all address the symptoms, not the problem. You don't cure appendicitis by giving the person an asprin and sending them home - you cure it by cutting out the inflamed appendix before it ruptures and kills the person.

The Big Three haven't done that. They've tried to continue as if business is normal. They're just taking the asprin and saying they'll be alright. They've been doing it for decades. Which is why "The Rustbelt" exists, and has done so for decades.

And now this country has voted in a Marxist for President.

Imagine our entire country resembling Detroit. That's where we are headed.

Crap.

Grab-n-Go

If you haven't checked out Kim du Toit's grab-n-go tubs yet, take a look.

This isn't some survivalist horsehocky. There are times, hopefully they never come up, but there are times when you just need to GO! Don't pack a suitcase, don't pass the ATM and collect some cash, just grab what you can carry in two hands and get the hell out of the house. Anything from a natural disaster to civil unrest can force you from your home. OR, force you to stay in your home with little or no help or amenities. If you got hit by some natural disaster, and you had no electricity, no water coming in, what would you do? If you turned on your stove and it didn't work, if you turned the handle on your faucet and nothing came out, what would you do?

You need to be prepared. The wife and I try to be prepared for whatever situation might arise. In Puerto Rico, we had our hurricane supplies. Lots of bottled water, non-perishable food, a generator, a camp shower, and extra gas. If a hurricane hit, we could survive for a month without any outside assistance.

Yes, I know that the chances of going a month without help is slim to none. But we also counted on the fact that we would be helping out anywhere from one to six people as well. I didn't just want to survive a hurricane, I wanted to make sure that my friends survived it as well.

We already have a medical kit that's better stocked that some hospital aid stations. That's due to the fact that both the Ragin' Mrs. and I were deathly afraid of going to the ER in Puerto Rico. If you've ever been there, you know what I mean. If you haven't, just take my word for it. We got used to having a med kit that big, and we just kept it up. We've already taken care of a few minor injuries to the children of some friends of ours. Anyways, it's the largest tackle box we could find, stuffed with bandages, pain relievers, ointments, cold and flu medicine, braces and splints, ect. Short of an amputation or surgery, we can take care of it.

Now that we're settled into the house, the Mrs. and I are turning our attention to our supplies, disaster preparedness, ect. We don't have hurricanes up here, but we do have blizzards and the occasional tornado. So we want to be prepared. We'll be building up a grab-n-go kit of our own, using totes just like the ones shown by Mr. du Toit, only silver. They were originally holding the Mrs. sewing supplies, but her sewing room is set up and we have about ten of them emptied out in the basement. We'll use two of 'em. Blankets, food, ammo, some tools, a tent - once again we'll be able to survive without help for an extended period of time.

Just as importantly, if a friend calls up and says "DAVE! I'm in deep shit and I need help!" I can grab the boxes and drive.

Anyways, go check his stuff out and then start making plans for your own. And might I also recommend stockpiling ammo? With Comrade Obama and his Socialist Congress, there's no telling what's going to happen in the next four years.

Solution for Lyudmilla

So even if this thing shoots straight with the bayonet on it, that's really not an option if I want to go tramping around the woods in these parts hunting Bambi. With the bayonet, this thing measures out to five and a half feet long. I'm only six feet here folks. And it's hard enough for me to tromp through the woods without anything in my hands. The rifle without the bayonet was pushing the limit. Adding the bayonet ain't gonna make things better in that regard.

So, hunting with the bayonet is out. Getting it to sight in without the bayonet would mean moving the front sight post so far to the side that it would be hanging out like a Democrat at the Welfare Office.

BUT.... I's been doing a lil' snoopin' online and stuff.

My solution - a drop-in weaver rail from these guys, with one of these sitting on top of it. The weaver rail replaces the rear sight (just punch the pin out and screw the rail in), and the red-dot scope means I don't have to worry about eye relief and can position my head where ever I need it for a good sight picture.

Is it perfect? No. Does it do what I want it to do? Yes. And with the drop in rail, I can remove it and replace the rear sight anytime I need just an "authentic" rifle. There's no permanent modification I have to do.

And yes, her name is Lyudmilla. Contingent on her being able to shoot with some degree of accuracy at the range.

Amen.

I second the previous emotion.
God bless our veterans, living and dead. (I might be persuaded to exempt John Kerry and John Murtha from that, if you argue well enough.)
God bless those who are currently in military service to our country.

To all the Veterans who came before me.

Thank you.

They keep smearing what they fear

This is getting ridiculous.

So according to the hatchet man/woman who talked to Newsweek, Palin is such an ideologue about drilling in ANWR that she won't stand next to Bradley, even though John McCain has the exact same position?

And Palin is such an ideologue that she won't appear with pro-choice politicians, even though she attended events with pro-choice Clinton donor Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild?

And we're really supposed to believe that Palin is so dumb she doesn't know Africa is a continent, but she knew about the voting records of John Sununu and Jeb Bradley in the first place?

Remember what the traitors and jackals of the Press were chattering about when Palin was first introduced? "OMG! IS SHE A LIABILITY? WHEN IS MCCAIN GOING TO DUMP HER?" They couldn't stand Palin. They still can't. Because Palin represents what the conservatives wanted, not their soft, mushy "moderate" McCain. The whores of the Press loved McCain. Because their Lord and Messiah could beat McCain.

I honestly believe that we could have won if it was Palin/McCain, and not McCain/Palin.

In any case, the smears are going to come piling on just like they have for the past week. Why? Because Liberals fear Palin. They fear what she stands for. They fear what she can do with the Republican Party. They fear her because she basically told modern feminism to suck eggs, and proven that you can run off the Liberal Plantation and make it on your own. And that makes her an apostate to the Left.

And if the Republican Stupid Party had ANY FUCKING BALLS, they would be defending Palin instead of curled up in a corner crying and sucking their thumb. Fucking Pussies. I'm still wondering why ANY of the party leadership has a job right now. Get rid of them all! Seriously, why the hell do these people still have a job? Do they want to fail? Do they care about the future of this country? Do they want to win elections?

Right now, the answers to those questions as I see it are yes, no, and no.

I expect that the Media will keep the smears up for four years. Fuck 'em. I've seen plenty of people who are actively looking for ways to collapse the media. I want to join in the fun.

Gregoire, Part Deux

I think maybe the Democrats just have better lawyers.

I don't know what the story is in Two Harbors, but the one Franken bump that is clearly dubious is the 30-plus absentee ballots that a Democrat ostensibly discovered in the back seat of her car. There is no way that should happen. There is, I suspect, much more of the same to come.

Ahhh, to be sure.

Power Line - What's happening in Minnesota? part 4

Well, crap!

I took the M-N 91/30 to the range today. I won't regale you with all the details. The bottom line is this: This rifle shoots FOUR INCHES TO THE RIGHT FROM 25 YARDS AWAY.

Crap. FuckshitpissdammitFUCK!

Is there anyone out there familiar with Mosin-Nagants? Am I doing something wrong? Is this a problem that's common with Mosin Nagants?

Gimmie some advice here, folks, before I return this thing. I can't hunt with it if it's this inaccurate. If I can't hit the damn bullseye from 25 yards, I can't hit a deer at 150. I was aiming center mass from a rest, so it wasn't me wobbling. This thing is just off.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Semper Fi

Today is the Marine Corps birthday.

My father will be off celebrating appropriately, I'm sure. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JARHEADS!

Poll time!

You know, my slim, trim little Russian beauty from yesterday.

What should Dave name his lovely Russian?
	Darya
	Zasha
	Lyudmilla
	Anastasiya
	Katerina
	Just give her a name already, you twit!
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If you have any other suggestions, leave them in the comments.

Save Patrick Fitzgerald

I know, I know, that almost qualifies as heresy after what he did to Scooter Libby.
But think for just a minute here now.
Fitzgerald is the U.S. attorney who nailed O goomba Tony Rezko. He's also in the process of nailing a whole bunch of other corrupt Illinois politicians.
According to the report, the O says Fitzpatrick is gonna stay.
Let's get the ammo ready, just in case he doesn't.
Can you scream "coverup"???
Loudly? Frequently?
Just a little bit of an early warning for y'all.
There are so many potential targets in the future O World that we've gotta be prepared.

Help me name her

So, my birthday was last month, and I went hunting for a birthday present for myself.

I found one. A rather nice Russian beauty, somewhat aged but still lovely. And the Ragin' Mrs. even said I could bring her home! So I did.



And here she is dressed up with a slim black accessory.


She's a Mosin-Nagant 91/30, in good condition. They had flaming assloads of Mosin-Nagant 44's at the shop, but only one 91/30. I picked up a few 44's, held 'em, aimed 'em, and they just didn't feel right in my hands. Besides, I have a carbine already, a Hungarian SKS with the actual blade bayonet instead of the spike. I wanted a rifle, not a carbine. When I picked this little honey up, she went right to my shoulder and stayed rock solid when I aimed her. (At a stuffed deer, if you must know.)

So I brought her home. She has her own case, her own ammo, her own spot in the section 'o guns, but she doesn't have a name. The Ragin' Mrs. says to name her Olga, but her father is married to an Olga and I really don't know if I want that mental picture in my head every time I take a shot. So I'm using my executive powers and vetoing that name. But what name fits?

Natasha? Titania? Give me some hints, people. My rifle needs a good name!

Football today

Going over to a friend's house to watch a couple games. Yesterday I was supposed to go to the range, but ended up going over to another friend's house to help them move in. I was the guy carrying stuff up the stairs.

You know, one of these weekends, I'll be able to have it to myself.

I just don't think it'll be anytime soon. And you can be sure that I'll be calling in favors when it's time to remodel the bathroom and/or kitchen.