I wanted him out of office a different way. Jack Murtha was the first Vietnam Veteran elected to Congress. Somewhere along the way he lost his compass. But he loved his family members and friends and they loved him regardless of his actions. As did Our Lord regardless of Jack Murtha’s actions…or any of our actions…here on Earth.
I pray that his family and friends will find a peace that defies understanding in the passing of their loved one. That there is a Hope for tomorrow and a time to be together at the end.
Sadly, there will be those who gloat on Murtha’s passing. I wished vehemently that he was defeated last election, but shucking the mortal coil is nothing to gloat over. In the end we have to remember that people, loved ones, are involved and we should show compassion.
Dave at Ace’s posted Ronaldus Magnus’s Inauguration speech from 1981 in honor of Dutch’s birthday. Compare and contrast how and when Reagan uses “I” and the way Obambi uses the word.
Wow.
How the fuck did we go from a man like Ronald Reagan to the self-absorbed Marxist we have in the White House now? Watching and listening to President Reagan address the economic crisis compared to the recent SOTU by the Preening Punk from Chi-Town shows clearly how manifestly unfit Obama is to be President of the United States of America.
Hopefully our nation can withstand the next nine months until we can change the Congress and put a leash on Obama and his mendacious munchkins.
At work, the only station we can pick up is Fox news. And the only news we can read on our computers is AP. While I’d rather watch Fox than CNN, I must say that I’m growing quite tired of having to watch the uproar of the situation of those poor American missionaries in Haiti.
Being a Christian does not mean leaving your brains at the church door, and that appears to be what these misguided, ignorant individuals have done. Give me a break! I know that I’m not even allowed to bring the child I gave birth to across a border without written permission from his father. How could they honestly have expected to get away with transporting dozens of children not their own to another country?
Although I applaud their desire to provide earthly and heavenly salvation to people in need of it, I also say throw them in jail for the simple crime of stupidity. Maybe let them out once they are safely past childbearing age so that they cannot contribute to the gene pool. It will give them a great opportunity to reach out to a whole different target audience!
Hmm, so a year ago, when the markets were really in the dumps, I got a stock tip on Dollar Thrifty from someone very dear to us all.
Bought it at $1.70 a share. Sold it to pay off Christmas, and buy the wife and I a 10th-anniversary trip to Ireland.
There was some left over. I got a little starry eyed for a milled-receiver Bulgarian AK-74. I shall name her…Quilly (quill installed for effect).
Why, oh why, didn’t I put more into the market then? Ah well, lesson to be learned here…now that Christmas is paid off, I may be able to take a slice of each paycheck and put it into the market.
Anyhow, Quilly, spasiba! Er, or perhaps mersi (Bulgarian)...
We’ve been commenting on the anti-inoculation band wagon..it’s stupid. Despite all other evidence to the contrary the anti-immunization people keep on going. Most likely because it gives a person, or corporation, to blame the unexplainable on. Usually a parent or guardian.
News Flash: It’s nothing you did. Moreover, it’s likely that the person that you turned to to assuage your guilt, despite it being unnecessary, was a fraud. And so it is.
Wakefield’s study has since been discredited, and the MMR vaccine deemed to be safe. But now medical authorities in the U.K. have also ruled that the manner in which Wakefield carried out his research was unethical. In a ruling on Jan. 28, The General Medical Council, which registers and regulates doctors in the U.K., ruled that Wakefield acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” during his research and with “callous disregard” for the children involved in his study.
Frankly, anyone who does not get their kid immunized is a moron. There is zero evidence that many illnesses are gone; it just takes a small sample to prove them wrong.
THE PEOPLE THAT TELL YOU NOT TO IMMUNIZE YOUR CHILD ARE FRAUDS!
Those who have followed my missives in this space are also aware of my growing concerns about the President himself. While he enjoys the continuing allegiance of our nation’s smart set, it now appears that the unhinged insolent mobs of the town halls have successfully conspired to inflict some damage on the once-unassailable fortress of his approval ratings. This unforeseeable turn of events has culminated in the recent coup in Massachusetts, when the ancestral Kennedy Senate seat was usurped by an ill-bred populist pickup trucker. I am afraid that Mr. Obama must accept some of the blame for this latest insult to American birthright. The corollary to le droit de seigneur is the obligation of the ruler to maintain a modicum of rapport with his subjects, and in this respect the President has been found curiously wanting. But therein lies a conundrum; how does a man of such impeccable oratory and intellect lower himself to the simian grunts of the commons?
Of course, for pure gut punch fisking Ace drops Chris Buckley T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII like a cheap date.
As far as anyone knew the investigation into the Anthrax attacks on Congress ended with the suicide by Tylenol of Bruce Ivins. That isn’t true, nor is Ivin’s the only body left in the wake of the FBI’s six year investigation.
The FBI’s six-year investigation was the largest inquest in its history, involving 9,000 interviews, 6,000 subpoenas, and the examination of tens of thousands of photocopiers, typewriters, computers and mailboxes. Yet it failed to find a shred of evidence that identified the anthrax killer—or even a witness to the mailings. With the help of a task force of scientists, it found a flask of anthrax that closely matched—through its genetic markers—the anthrax used in the attack.
There’s someone out there who weaponized Anthrax and it isn’t the fall guys the FBI identified.
Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe have done a great job of allowing the MSM to make fools of themselves. This does not excuse what O’Keefe did.
I do not believe that O’Keefe meant to wire tap a phone, in fact in my previous post I said “interfere with”. To be clear, O’Keefe did not break intoany office…his cohorts did. But this is what O’Keefe has to say:
The government has now confirmed what has always been clear: No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office. Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines. Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.
Since O’Keefe doesn’t bother to tell us whom in government said that we’ll have to think it was this.
A law enforcement official says the four men arrested for attempting to tamper with the phones in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) were not trying to intercept or wiretap the calls.
Instead, the official says, the men, led by conservative videomaker James O’Keefe, wanted to see how her local office staff would respond if the phones were inoperative…
But really, that only confirms the first half of O’Keefe’s paragraph…sorta. Later O’Keefe says this:
The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public.
Well, yes that’s right. The Affidavit says that two other people broke into an office via subterfuge and that O’Keefe was the ring leader. So, while O’Keefe didn’t B&E his henchmen did at his behest.
Somehow this over statement of what O’Keefe did by the MSM is supposed to excuse what they did do…allegedly….
I’m still betting that O’Keefe and crew is going to be in front of a judge in very uncomfortable circumstances. And every time the ACORN sting is brought up so will this.
The “woman” who wrote dozens of identical letters to newspapers across the nation using faked information has been found out. She is Winston Steward of Bakersfield.
Not surprisingly Winston is a Kos Diarist and a facebook and twitter fan of leading Leftist lights.
One thing I forgot…Bambi attacked the Supreme Court. Not very Presidential. Justice Alito mouths “not true”. It’s War!
I don’t think that the SCOTUS ruling on McCain -Fiengold actually addressed the foreign corporations. I think that’s another section. I’m sure someone will post the real facts in the morning.
A boring speech on the whole enlivened only by counting how many times he said “I” or “My” and wondering how he can contort himself so much as to be able to exhort politicians to stop finger pointing and blaming others and then not two sentences later blame the whole thing on Bush.
One key was his plea to Democrats not to run to hills. I suspect he wants them to be slaughtered on the plains of the electoral battlefield this November. We’ll see how many fall on their sword for The One.
Dear Jim,
You don’t mind that I call you Jim, do you? After all you just destroyed one of the best offenses those of us who are Right of Center could imagine against the entrenched Democrat/Labor machine. So we’re feeling a little close now.
You did it by destroying your cred. Forevermore when the vids of the crooks at ACORN are mentioned people will also mention that the guy who tried to expose them is a crook himself. You see, when you Break and Enter you commit a crime. When you do so and interfere with interstate communication you are involving the Feds and breaking Federal Law. And they are going to shove you up against a wall and put it so far up your ass that your tonsils will be screaming for mercy.
And they better do it. And every pundit ought to urge them to do it.
You need to do time, Mr. O’Keefe. Hard time. Maybe you ought to look up G. Gordon…except he’s ten times the man you are, Mr. O’Keefe.
You didn’t do the cause any good, and that is mainly because the cause you were wanting to promote was YOU!. Emboldened by the success of your operation against ACORN you wanted more, you immature brat. You wanted to take down a Senator.
But you missed the point. We want Ms. Landrieau to go away. We want a good person to take her place. BUT WE WANT IT DONE FAIR AND SQUARE you worthless pile of shit.
We oppose President Obama because he is a tricksy son of a bitch. His cronies lie and hide the People’s business. He dishonors his Oath and The Constitution. But we have honor, Jim. It is our personal honor that demands we not let our grandkids inherit a debt. It is our personal honor that makes us feel repulsed at what he is doing to this great nation. We honor the Constitution and laws of the land, and seek to honorably change them and the politicians who dishonor them.
Yesterday some of the boys and I headed over to Camp Phoenix to knock out some dental appointments and to pick up some equipment. The team didn’t mess around and we took care of our business in record time. There were no issues and we rolled out early—two guys with fixed teeth, and a trailer full of office supplies and other junk.
This incident only reinforced what I’ve been telling my folks for a long time—there are no “milk runs” over here, and everytime we roll out the wire it is a combat patrol. Period.
It also reminded me of the last time this occurred to us a couple months back when we were at Phoenix and another SVBIED went off in damned near the same spot. We had only just arrived and had missed that one by less than an hour. Upon further discussion it was pointed out that we had been bringing one of our number to a dental appointment that particular day as well. So after consulting with our intelligence officer—who constantly references his “Magic Eight Ball” for in-depth analysis—we collectively decided that the suicide bombings are directly linked to our team’s dental appointments. Therefore I instituted a policy that strictly enforces oral hygiene. Healthy teeth=reduced number of dental appointments=fewer trips to Phoenix=fewer opportunities to get blown up. I think the logic is sound.
In any event, all the Zombiekillers are fine and morale is high. Particularly since we intend on having a screening of cinematic masterpiece Shaun of the Dead this Thursday evening.
Beau Biden is going to go again for the Attorney General slot in Delaware to fight for children’s rights. For real.
For Republicans, two more pieces of the Big Win scenario for November have fallen into place. Beau Biden, the Democratic attorney general of Delaware and son of the vice president, announced Monday he’s not running for the Senate. And seven-term Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas, a conservative Democrat in a red state, announced he is retiring.
In other news Obama is pressing forward and adding middle-class tax relief into the bargain.
We’ve been driving on with our collective training program here and getting the Afghans spun up for rifle marksmanship. We’ve recently been issuing the Afghans M16A2s and M16A4s and it’s been quite a challenge. They require a lot of time to get them comfortable with the fundamentals of marksmanship, particularly with this weapon.
Added to the challenge is the fact that the officers and NCOs here have all trained and used the Kalishnikov during their time in the Army. I constantly hear from them how the AK-47 is a superior rifle to the M16—especially when the new rifles jam during the training exercises. Naturally the rifles jam because they don’t know how to maintain them properly, and it takes a lot of time to get them to enforce disciplined weapon maintenance procedures.
It is common knowledge that the Kalishnikov requires less cleaning than the M16, which has its appeal for some. But the M16’s advantage is that it enjoys much better accuracy. An AK is not a reliable weapon out past 100 meters, an M16 can knock down targets at 300 meters and beyond. This all briefs well of course, but it is difficult to demonstrate when the Afghans struggle with basic marksmanship at less than 50 meters. So in their eyes, the Kalishnikov wins since they don’t have to clean it so much.
Sigh…
Given my druthers I’d get more time to spend with them on the range teaching them how to shoot. The Afghans soak up knowledge like a sponge, and they are definitely “trainable,” so it is possible to get them to a level of proficiency where they can maximize the effectiveness of the new weapons. As it is, I’m not sure we’re getting the bang for our buck.
I leave you today with some sweet video I shot the other day while teaching a Vehicle Control Point class. Some Mi-24 Hinds buzzed us at low altitude and it was quite awe inspiring. That helicopter—as old as it is—is one nice piece of equipment. I certainly wouldn’t be on the receiving end of it, that’s for sure.
Seventy-Five years ago Aussies imported the cane toad, much to their chagrin. They’ve been fighting back by collecting and killing the toads. Most commonly by putting them in a bag of CO2. That practice is now under fire by Western Australia’s Department of Environment and Conservation. They think the toads might suffer.
Never mind that the toads are an introduced animal that is wreaking havoc on the native environment…suffocating the beasts is deemed a problem. It’s just freekin’ amazing that the douche bags that whine for the sanctity of the earth (Mother Gaia) refuse to let the inhabitants of said mother clean off the lice.
In 1935 the Aussies made a mistake by importing the toad…they should be allowed to clean up the mess.
Fucking Earth Nuts…
A final thought is how do these animal lovers feel about the excruciating pain a natural predator feels when it comes into contact with it’s venom?
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