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Beyond the Palin….

First… a few comments about Gov. Palin’s resignation.

Even as someone who is near-inured to the bottomless slime pit which produces leftists and hard core liberals in the country, even I was outraged anew by the round the clock attacks on Sarah Plain, her husband and her children… at the attacks on her baby son who was born with Down’s Syndrome.

… and not aborted immediately like the Left would have wanted and perhaps even given Palin’s some eugenics props.    

HuffPo celebrated her announced resignation last Friday as Alaska’s governor (effective July 26) with the headline: ‘Palin will run in ‘12 on more retardation platform’, and there was something about her being in favor of “lead paint chips” for children:

Previous attacks on Mrs. Plain and her family were of this ilk (screen shot and quotes thanks to Gateway Pundit):

HuffPo contributor Michael Seitzman wrote a sick hit piece earlier: "I want to have sex with Palin on my Barack Obama sheets"
This was just the latest attack on Sarah Palin and her children. Most of the attacks, of course, were ignored by the state-run media. But, when David Letterman cracked rape jokes about her 14 year-old daughter the poor media was forced to report on it. The Left was finally able to drive Sarah Palin out of office. Let's pray they will leave her and her family alone for awhile now.

Palin was (and sadly will continue to be) the litmus test and punching bag for all manner of things political and psychological to GOP moderates and RINOS as well as the dems and the hard-left.

Think not? Three words: Dan. Quaye. Potato.

It’s quicker to list the accurate statements made about the governor than the lies and distortions.

But she was despised for the following reasons, in no particular order:

• She is a woman.
• She is a Christian.
• She is an unbowed and unrepentant conservative.
• She is an attractive conservative, Christian woman.
• She is an attractive, conservative, Christian, woman with five children.
• and, she is hated because she didn’t sacrifice Trig to Roe v Wade. 

Contrary to the Goebbels tactics mounted against her, she has a good sense of humor and is quite self-effacing, she is very intelligent and politically savvy and still has far more executive experience than your president who, because of his ineptitude and Marxist philosophy, has near-doomed this great nation.

Because of her lack of big league experience, I was opposed to her as the VP nomine in 2008. But due to the party insistence on nominating Socialist Lite to run against The Socialists, she was the only bright spot in one of the most inept national campaigns on record.

Running her when they did was desperation considering McCain could never move the country, let alone bring his party together. By running her national before she was ready they wasted her talent early, and what might have been is only that.

And she was/is not the answer for 2012, but she is an effective rallying point for The People to regain control of the Republican party and the Congress. With a well-organized bully pulpit, she can monkey wrench the socialists while a long-needed right-wing coup regains control of the GOP.

I plan on sending Gov. Palin a letter of congratulations for (I hope) finally washing her hands of politics. She is just the latest casualty among those well-intentioned patriots who still see public service as just that.

And this is what politics (especially if you are politics' minority’s minority—conservatives) does to you… Clarence Thomas, Judge Bork, John Bolton and on, ad museum.   

There are far better people in science and industry, health care, the military, and in my small town, that those who “represent” us on the state and national level. 

Her future….? I hope it includes a wonderful life with her family and friends and, like Johnny Carson when he decided it was time to leave, just steps into the shadows. 

And now on the Joe Bupkis front (courtesy of Gateway Pundit):

The man is dangerous...
Obama Administration foreign policy guru and chief idiot Joe Biden just gave the terrorists in Iraq the glimmer of hope they so desperately needed.
Prairie Pundit reported on this from The Washington Post:

Vice President Biden warned Iraqi officials Friday that the American commitment to Iraq could end if the country again descended into ethnic and sectarian violence.
Biden delivered the warning during a three-day visit to Iraq that began Thursday, just a few days after the United States formally withdrew most combat troops from Iraqi cities under a security agreement reached last year. It was the vice president's first visit since President Obama asked him to take the lead on Iraq policy.

Biden who pushed a disastrous plan to partition Iraq was tapped by Obama this past week to be the White House point of contact on Iraq.

Ahh, the Peter Principal remains with us. Does anyone remember the Vice President of the United States congratulating our troops of their hard-won success in Iraq. Get back to me when you can.

Bombiran….

The Times of London (via HotAir) that “… the Saudis have agreed to tacitly allow Israelis to transit their airspace to attack Iran and end its nuclear program.  The Mossad has worked with the Saudis for several years as the Iranian threat in the region grew, and the Saudis — and other Arab states — would be privately relieved to have Tehran’s nuclear ambitions curtailed.  But is now the right time, while the mullahs teeter in Iran?”

I think now is exactly the right time… the Iranian people are standing up and the CIA operatives there would certainly convey to them our support in overthrowing the concernment…. oh, wait, I’m sorry, I thought I was back in the 1980s and we were running the Commies out of Nicaragua by arming the Contras.

And this just in:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former D.C. mayor, now Washington councilman, Marion Barry has been arrested again.

On July 4, the U.S. Park Police arrested Barry and charged him with misdemeanor stalking.

About 8:45 p.m. in Anacostia Park, a Washington woman flagged down a Park Police officer on patrol and pointed to Barry, who was in another car. The woman said Barry was stalking her, Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said.

Barry was taken into custody, processed and released, but he must make a court appearance for the charge. A court date has not been set.

This is what happens when large numbers of socialists gather in large population centers…. crack-head, stalking mayors, poverty, high crime, high taxes, rampant unemployment, schools unworthy of the utility bills paid to keep them open and the eventual jailing of the top democrats.

It’s America’s… learn to love it… or leave it.

Independence Day, 2009

I try my best to resist referring to this most important National Holiday by using “The Fourth of July/July 4.”

Those short forms (not unlike “X-mas”) remove the meaning and therefore any respect due the birth of our nation.  This is largely due to advertising which will bastardize the most solemn of occasions to sell…. anything.

Not even Memorial Day—the most solemn of our national holidays—escapes being debased with Memorials Day Sheet Sets 50% Off! and even worse.

The cartoon heads of Washington and Lincoln with balloons above their heads discuss the merits of women's and children's pajama sets. 

But GA, the country was founded in freedom and that means we should enjoy that freedom by doing what we want.

Uh-huh. So on your anniversary, you go bowling… out with the guys… local bar? After all, you wear a wedding ring… that should be enough, right?

One of the reasons were are in the ditch right now is because we’ve failed to instruct the last few generations in the requirements of citizenship, the true history of our nation and the cost of failing to comprehend and defend our form of government, and the God-given rights of the People.

Not long ago I had a brief conversation with a twenty-something person who, being a non-believer, denied that we have “certain, unalienable…God-given rights” and that such rights “come from the government—from people.”

Alas. Apparently she has never pondered what happens when the government which “gives” rights, can take them away. What then, since the government gave them, we have no recourse?

Perhaps I could have substituted Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” which is a declaration of similar philosophy, though I imagine that Descartes would not have taken it the logical, next step, “…. and I am, because of God.”      

Thus, the Founders were far more intelligent and philosophical than ole Renee… he seemed to be content with self-centered thought… the Founders constructed the freest society in history by recognition the rights of the individual.

All of this is imperiled as the barbarians are at the gates, this 233rd anniversary of our birth.

We have slept, we have grow fat and lethargic, we have failed our responsibilities to our Forefathers, to our children and ourselves, and we have scant little time left to stave off those who would destroy us.  

 

“… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”

Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew

Well, it’s official… Don is now officially insufferable.

I just learned that he just learned from relatives in Michigan that he is indeed related to BGen. J. Johnston Pettigrew who personally led one-third of the assaulting Confederate troops in  Pickett’s ill-fated charge at Gettysburg 146 years ago today; in fact, just about now.

I can see the lineage in the general’s receding hairline.

The disastrous decision(s) is known as the “High water mark of the Confederacy” as some of the Rebels momentarily breeched a small portion of the Union lines. The assault over a mile of open ground, in fact the entire battle, are considered the worst battlefield decision made by Lee during the entire Civil War.

Commanding his unit on Pickett’s left, Pettigrew's horse was shot out from under him, and he continued on foot. Reaching within 100 yards of the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge partially held by his cousin John Gibbon, he was severely wounded in the left hand by canister fire.

(At right is a photo taken from near the middle of Pickett’s Charge, the distant obelisk denotes the Union lines, some 200 yards distant)

Despite great pain, Pettigrew remained with his soldiers until it was obvious that the attack had failed. Holding his bloody hand, the despondent officer walked toward Seminary Ridge where he encountered General Lee. Pettigrew attempted to speak, but Lee, seeing the horrible wound, spoke first: "General, I am sorry to see you are wounded; go to the rear."

With a painful salute, Pettigrew said nothing but continued to the rear.

Don and I have long appropriated as kinsmen, BGens Pettigrew and Edward P. Alexander, (left) best known as the commanding officer of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge on the third day, but he is also noted for his early use of signal and observation balloon intelligence in combat and is well regarded for his postwar memoirs and analyses of the war.

Ahh, of course… the innovator, the historian/ writer genes.

Sadly, Gen. Pettigrew was killed in action during the the Confederate retreat to the  friendlier confines of Virginia. Or as Don would have it, “.. killed in action during a retrograde maneuver to outflank pursuing Federals.”

On the morning of July 14, Pettigrew's brigade was one of the last Confederate units still north of the Potomac River, when the Union troopers closed in. On foot and in the front line, Pettigrew was directing his soldiers when he was shot by a Union cavalryman from the Michigan Brigade (ironically where most of Don’s Pettigrew relatives reside) at close range, the bullet striking him in the abdomen.

He was immediately carried to the rear and across the Potomac, having refused to be left in federal hands. He died three days later near Bunker Hill, W. VA. His brigade, which lost an estimated 56% casualties, had been ruined as an effective combat organization.

Born into a wealthy North Carolina family, Pettigrew’s mother and Union general John Gibbon’s mother were first cousins, making Gibbon and Pettigrew second cousins.

Pettigrew was clearly gifted from an early age. He enter Chapel Hill at age 15, excelled in mathematics and classical languages, and led his class in fencing and boxing.  He was appointed an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Observatory and later studied law in Baltimore and Germany. He remained in Europe for seven years where he learned to speak and write French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and to read Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. He wrote a travel book, Notes on Spain and the Spaniards, and spent time in the diplomatic service.

(At right a latter-day Pettigrew inspects a monument constructed just behind the Union lines against which Gen. Pettigrew’s command clashed.)

Back home in 1856, Pettigrew was elected to the South Carolina legislature. Considering his background, he could have had just about any high level government post in the coming Confederacy but opted for military service.

Despite his gift of foreign languages and civil knowledge, Pettigrew leaned toward the military as a way to serve his country and his state and would participate in the negotiations between the governor's office, South Carolina military authorities, and the commander of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.

Pettigrew later accepted a commission as a colonel and commanded the 12th (later renamed the 22nd) North Carolina Infantry. Both President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston urged him to accept higher command, but he declined because of his lack of military experience. However, as the need for qualified officers in the became acute, the new colonel was soon ordered to Virginia to accept a promotion to brigadier general in early 1862.

When a young relative requested a "safe place" on Pettigrew's staff, he replied, "I assure you that the most unsafe place in the Brigade is about me. By all means let him get rid of this idea of a safe place, which he will regret after time. The post of danger is certainly the post of honor." He was true to his word.

General Alexander acquitted himself well for the remainder of the war, absent from the battlefield only for a period of convalescence after suffering a serious shoulder wound during the Siege of Petersburg Virginia over the summer of 1964.

At Appomattox Court House, it was Alexander who made the famous proposal to Gen. Robert E. Lee that the army disperse into the hills for a guerrilla war, rather than surrendering. Lee rebuked him and Alexander later wrote about regretting his suggestion.

Incredibly, the actual decision to order Picket et al to charge the Union center fell to Alexander, only a colonel at the time; Lee’s disastrous vagueness is considered one of the greatest command failures in military history. It is clear that Alexander, Pickett and all the rest were following Lee’s intent, but remarkably, Lee never literally gave the order himself and so on down the chain of command to Alexander.

While I have not searched exhaustedly, I haven’t verified communication between Alexander and Pettigrew on July 3 before what should rightly be called the "Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Assault"… as Pickett only led one-third of the attack. (Gen. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble’s division was positioned just behind Pickett’s in the assault.)

Nonetheless, Pettigrew and Alexander were certainly well-acquainted as infantry and artillery commanders in those days would of necessity maintained close association.

It now falls to me to either confirm or rule out any possible claim of genealogical connection to a tragic chapter in Southern history.

The Union Dead of Gettysburg lie in their ranks in the Gettysburg National Cemetery, not far from the battlefield where the Confederacy lost the war, though Lee’s men held out for almost another two years.

Union Losses – in just three days.

23,055

  3,155 killed
14,531 wounded
   5,369 POW/MIA

 

Confederate Losses

23,231

   4,708 killed
12,693 wounded
   5,830 POW/MIA Overview account of the battle here.

Hey Obama… “We won!”

Not that most of America would know, but our Marines have launched a major offensive in the Helmand River Valley of southern Afghanistan

The 4,000-strong 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), has targeted Taliban insurgents who have seized control of the major villages and provinces.

Utilizing a strategy used by the First Marine Div. late in the in Vietnam War --Combined Unit Pacification Program (CUPP) and Combined Action Platoon (CAP)—the Marines will disperse into designated towns and villages where they will build and live in small outposts among the local population.

Rather than traditional hunt and kill tactics, the Marines will restore Afghan government control and service; they will no doubt conduct “winning the hearts and minds” programs.   Read more here.

My guess is that UAV Predator drones will have an even greater presence in the theater due to the formidable terrain the Marines face.

And not that our great military would be recognized by the Commander-in-Chief… we won the Iraq War.

Just for the record… Obama attempted to undermine the war effort and ridicule the Commander-in-Chief in what has proved to be a very successful and economical feat of arms that brought a burgeoning democracy to the Middle East.

Here’s some of what Obama has had to say from 2002 until he took the oath:

• (On the “surge”) “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is (sic) going to solve the sectarian violence there.  In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
• Saddam can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
• a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.
• the invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. 

The question now is how long will he conduct operations in Afghanistan as casualties mount?

And now direct from Apache Clips via Weasel Zipper (thanks very much, it brightens my day)…. flying hajis, Islamomist, and the ever-popular Muhammad bits…. I give you Thursday afternoon’s WAR PRON (featuring the classic… “World’s Fastest Dog”, get some!:

Meanwhile back in Iran.. the next domino…

 (IsraelNN.com) -- U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies have left an Israeli attack on Iran the only option in preventing the Muslim country from obtaining a nuclear weapon, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton wrote in The Washington Post Thursday.

Bolton is one of the unrepentant, stand up people inside the Beltway… the GOP is in shambles and can’t find its collective 6 with both Obama-shaken hands.

Look for Israel to finally lock and rock… not only is the President an anti-Semite, he is indecisive, timid, and just doesn’t want to “meddle” in Iran’s affairs while the mullahs crush dissent, after stealing the presidential election (see: Franken, Al).

However Obama has no trouble “meddling” in other nation’s affairs by supporting the former “democratically elected” president of Honduras who attempted to set himself up as president-for-life.

The die is cast…. we’ve elected a Marxist and for the first time since 1775, the world is without the booming voice of a democracy demanding liberty and freedom for all who seek it.

That in itself should be an impeachable offence.

Bolton somberly concludes:

Bolton wrote that negotiations with Iran would place Israel in “an even more dangerous trap."

Failure to stage a pre-emptive attack on Iran means that the world must “be prepared for an Iran with nuclear weapons, which some, including Obama advisers, believe could be contained and deterred,” Bolton reasoned. “That is not a hypothesis we should seek to test in the real world. The cost of error could be fatal.”

And just so you’ll sleep easier as we approach the 233rd anniversary of our Nation’s birth, the NoKors have fired not one or two missiles, but four surface-to-ship missiles… essentially and once again telling our affirmative action president, “pound sand.”

How’s the soft diplomacy, open hand thing workin’ for ya Bamster?

Yes, the world of tyrants just loves a pantywaist… what next, is someone gonna stuff Obama in a wall locker during some dictator’s conference?

Update… Obama has lost two million jobs since taking office. Through last month, the nation’s unemployed rose to a 26-year high of 9.6 percent. 

But that’s nothing compared to the metro areas controlled by democrats; Detroit, for example, is 15 percent.

The Picture = 1,000 words category:

“I won’t be back.”

 

Stumbling toward the gulag

“Send in the clowns…”

It’s official… with Stuart Smalley’s election to “the greatest deliberative body in the world”, there are no impediments to my running for national office.

The bar has lowered to the extent that Caligula naming his horse, Incitatus, a Roman consul a reasonable act.

As every village must have an idiot to distract the populace, America has the democrat party… and Al Franken as an added extra.

It would be laughable were it not for the darker side of all this.

Gentlepeople, we are on the verge of losing this nation… just in the last few days Barack Hussein Obama has turned the nation’s back on the brave people of Iran who are fighting a repressive dictatorship, and without a twinge of shame announced that the United States will stand beside ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a drug trafficker and would-be dictator.

Obama has clearly demonstrated that  in a world seeking freedom…. he embraces the oppressor.

Long ago I called him the “Manchurian Candidate“; since then he has earned the title many times over.

No stretch of the imagination would have brought me to this point only five years ago. Watching our nation being dismantled before my eyes was impossible, but… it is happening… every day.

We have been overwhelmed with the “change” part of hopen’change, just as Obama’s mentor, Saul Alinsky instructed.

The plan to bring America to its knees requires sustained attacks on all fronts, in all directions.

Alinsky advocated an “organization of organizations”;  a vast and ever-expanding web of activist groups and foundations, continually spawning new groups – some permanent, some temporary – all designated by an alphabet soup of shape-shifting acronyms. What these groups have in common is that they were founded by Alinsky disciples and employ the Alinsky method of community organizing.

Sound familiar? Does this not describe what has happen to this country in the last six months?

And it’s not just Obama…. it is no chance roll of the dice that Hillary Clinton, a devotee of Alinsky’s who wrote a thesis about his tactics and remained his friend until his death in 1972, has ended up where she has ended up.

Alinsky’s fingerprints are all over this coup d'état.

If you doubt that, you’re running in last place.

It is no coincidence that all this has its origins in Chicago.

The American Thinker:

Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama's life comprise a who's who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it.

But even this doesn't fully describe the extreme nature of this candidate. He can be tied directly to a malevolent overarching strategy that has motivated many, if not all, of the most destructive radical leftist organizations in the United States since the 1960s.

It is imperative that you read Saul Alinsky Takes the White House in the American Spectator to understand.

Do it now… "All warfare is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

---But GA, if Obama’s programs don’t improve the economy, then he’s failed.

---Nope. None of what’s being pushed down our throats is designed to do anymore than destroy free trade capitalism and make the populace dependant on government. It’s about the coalescence of one gigantic federal government; “… it’s not the economy, stupid.”

Meanwhile, the agit-propagandists have been hammering this into young minds since they entered grade school; I would say that at least two-thirds of all high school students in the nation believe that government…not we the people, is the source of our exceptionalism, living standard and economy.

The brain-washing has been that good.

And for those who persist in actually understanding the Founders’ intent and genius, four years of college or university will finish off the stragglers.

Leaders of tomorrow….? Lemmings of tomorrow.

Here’s an easy way to take the pulse of all this…. does it seem to you that The Giant Obama Head has been talking at your solidly for more than a year now…. does it all sound the same… does it strike you that it’s just a flood of words that upon closer inspection are empty, devoid of any real meaning.

Has most of what Obama has said and promised worked? If so, name it. If not, why not.

That’s part of the tactic to overwhelm the masses.

It is the same with all tyrants… after a while the audience just wants them to stop talking; they stop listening… the first and final symptom of being overwhelmed.

It was the same with Castro and his three-hour harangues, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and now their kindred spirit, Barack Hussein Obama, all the same.

The poster bears repeating: ‘IN TROUBLE TIMES THE FEARFUL AND NAIVE ARE ALWAYS DRAWN TO CHARISMATIC RADICALS.”

--- But GA, the UK and Sweden, Norway and other places are socialist and they do okay.

---You read much, I mean besides the NYT? Nothing is going well in socialist countries. Britain is being overrun by radical Muslims and France teeters on the verge of anarchy… witness last year’s riots that went on for months.

Remember this: socialism is just a watering hole way station between capitalism and communism.

You have a duty to die for the Vaterland!

Sotomayor bitch-slapped by SCOTUS:

The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

No surprise in the decision; the lesson here is that the decision rebukes Sotomayor for the left-wing racist activist who believe that ones race and/or gender (especially if Hispanic and Gyno-American) makes one superior.

The Germans had that idea a few years back… and tried very hard to weed out the undesirables devoid of Aryan “richness of experience”.

Welcome to the Obama’s Brave New World.

There was a time in the country that such beliefs were relegated to the drunks and schizos in the bowery, and the radical fringe who met in darkened rooms late at night.

Now you can preach such drivel and end up on the highest court in the land.

But that’s really a fringe issue compared to the fate that awaits older, handicapped, infant and unborn Americans.

Let’s hear from Her Obama, the Architect-in-Chief of The Next to Final Solution.

“There is a whole bunch of care that’s being provided that every study, every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier,” he said.

“If we don’t drive down costs, then we’re not going to be able to achieve all of those other things.” He stressed that medical treatment needed to be “evidence-based.” Under this “less is better” scenario, millions of Americans would be denied vital treatment, and be herded into a sub-standard system where potentially life-saving treatments would be denied in the interest of cost-effectiveness.

A question to Der Führer:  “Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, quality of life? Or is it just a medical cut-off at a certain age?”

Obama’s response was particularly blunt and cold. “I don’t think that we can make judgments based on people’s spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making.” (Source: June 26, 2009—several, including even the World Socialist Web site)

You love your grandma? Obama and his brownshirts see her as an obstacle which must be overcome to pay for more entitlement programs.

Would your left wing sister-in-law love her child born with spina bifida, or cystic fibrosis? Having drunk the Kool-aide, she refuses to believe that once Obama’s radical health care legislation is law her innocent child won’t “make the cut” either.

 Lyndon LaRouche has denounced Obamacare as a Nazi-modeled health plan, a plan that would cut costs by denying care to those defined as at the end of life, or "useless eaters."

You cannot understand Obama unless you understand the American Progressive Movement of the early 1900s, eugenics, fascism sand Marxism. Progressive/ eugenicists included: Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and the pre-1960's Democratic Party. 

As of last November, I make the total of those who have no comprehension just about 68 million Americans… and those are just the ones who voted.

Racial purity, euthanasia, selective breeding… it was all right here in America—advocated by the “Progressives” and well before the Nazis’ extermination camps and Lebensborn (or “fount of life”); lebensborn sought to mass- produce pure Aryan babies for the Thousand Year Reich. Good Nazi girls were housed, fed and paid to have sex with especially the proven-pure SS troops for the sole purpose of impregnation. It was considered their patriotic duty. The offspring were raised in collective nurseries run by the state.

Remember when in America there were “liberals”… and now they prefer to be called “progressives”… it’s not simply a political re-branding.

Some… many… reading this will dismiss it as fantasy and alarmism… that’s exactly what the world told the Jews in 1933.

A dozen years later there weren’t many Jews left in Europe.

Troika

Six months from now most of the nation won't remember that Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon are dead.

... because another well-known celebrity died yesterday and sucked all the air out of the room yesterday.

I'll always remember where I was when I learned Michael Jackson was dead... at my desk eating a sandwich; I got up and grabbed a beer.

In my charitable moments I can give the three-ring, freak show called "MJ" some compassion; his childhood was no doubt hellish what with a brutish and iron-fisted father and a very passive mother. The children's abuse is well-documented:

From a young age Jackson was physically emotionally abused by his father enduring incessant rehearsals, whippings and name-calling. Jackson's abuse as a child affected him throughout his grown life.

The Jackson boys were little more than indentured servants and if anyone ever looked at the books closely they'd find most of the money ended up in Dad's pocket.   

Michael's hatred of his father is the root cause of his near life-long effort to surgically remove from his own visage the features of a big, sexually mature black man. There was no more profound rejection of his abusive father than turning himself into a slight, white, asexual boy with a soft, falsetto voice... the absolute anathema of Joe Jackson; and to the point of disfigurement. 

An excuse for his later behavior? No... just an explanation.

Jackson, like The Grateful Dead, ruled over a very narrow slice of popular music which had no competitors; he and they were successful because no one the planet but they could perform their music.

He was an entertainer who followed Alice Copper's observation on performing: "For his 10 bucks a kid going to a concert deserves more than just some guys with guitars." 

He was Sammy Davis Jr. on steroids and probably was only happy when performing....  no past, no future, no father, only the adoration he never received from his childhood.

But at some point, the cheering always stopped.

Jackson was also intelligent and while no attorney or CPA, he kept his empire together for a very long time, until with his maturity his sexual nature, long repressed, fought it's way to the surface. Jackson was also smart enough to invent the "harmless man-child" personal that the media, his fans, perhaps even his family members, bought into and spouted as gospel.  

The "Neverland Valley Ranch", the toys, the zoo, were all covers for the rather passive pedophile which enabled him to talk disgusting mothers and fathers into turning over their children to him for his infamous "sleep overs". They pimped out their own kids so they could tell their friends they were "friends with Michael Jackson".

Each and everyone of them should have been arrested and their children taken from them.

His front page acquittal on sexual abuse charges a couple of years ago is all the news media (especially Jerry Rivers (aka Geraldo Herrera) chooses to report on his sexual lifestyle. And not much will be mentioned of the $20 million paid off to a family in exchange for their refusal to testify against him in criminal court on charges he molested their son.

Two more pimps. Twenty-million dollar pimps.

There would not be a Michael Jackson on stage, or the MJ with little boys constantly sitting on his lap if it wasn't for an immoral society that demands nothing and gives all to the most inconsequential segment of the populace... entertainers.

Other than Jackson himself, and his parents, the so called black community must bear great responsibility for allowing the singer (and O.J. Simpson) to get away with all he did.

There's an old political saying... "no enemies to my left"; we certainly see that today.

It's the same with black folk.... murderer, pedophile, insane, incompetent, criminal, liar, cheat or thug. It doesn't matter who or what or how they are.... above all, they are black and that's all that required to be tolerated or even revered.

Two words: Mike Tyson.

Think about that.... this extended even to Jackson; yet I'm blacker than he was. He was worked very hard to be intentional non-black, but blacks require nothing more than the color (or former color) of ones skin to form their philosophy. How else to you explain that upwards of 95% of black voters cast ballots for Obama... even those on military active duty.

Group think. Lemmings. Dangerous.

(This just in: the only evidence required for me above observation: four black members of the House of Representatives asked for and received a moment of silence for Jackson on the House floor.)

I digress. Michael Jackson's death a tragic loss....?  Yes--for those who made a living off him, for white businessmen, his family (I suppose), for his mindless, sycophantic worshipers?... so they will say.

As with Elvis Presley who invented the entertainer-out-of-control freak show bit, Jackson's death at 50 (eight years older than "The King") is just a blessing for a tormented soul.  

His passing means little in the end, except that his pain is over and many more children won't have bad dreams.

But then I never understood all the overwrought boo-hooing about Princess Di.

Ed McMahon -- March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009

I wrote Ed McMahon back in the 80s and received a nice autographed 8x10 of him standing by the open gates of the NBC studies in "beautiful downtown Burbank."

It was signed, "Col. Ed McMahon, USMC-ret."

McMahon volunteered during WWII and trained as a fighter pilot, but was never overseas. In the 1950s, McMahon was recalled to duty for Korea. There, he got his hours in the F-9 Panther, and flew 85 combat missions as an artillery spotter in the Cessna OE Bird Dog.

Not an enviable job.

McMahon re-invented the "second-banana" role in show business and as Johnny Carson's side-kick, they changed the definition of late night television entertainment and it's safe to say that over their 30 years together on the Tonight Show they were "beloved" by two generations of viewers and fans.

All the rest who have followed... Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and all the other imitators, they couldn't hold the old Tonight Show's microphone.

In his later years Ed fell on hard times and it was difficult to see him struggle... but that's only money and possessions. He'll be remember and apparently justifiably so, as a good guy.

"Hi-oh" Ed, and Good Night.

Farrah Fawcett -- February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009

If there was ever a quintessential American Girl for my generation, it had to be Farrah... hell, she was even from Texas.

It was easy to dismiss her because of the poster (still the largest-selling of all time with 12 million copies) and the fluff that was "Charlie's Angles", but in time she became a solid actress with several good roles before her career ran out and her own personal demons came to rule her life.

In the end she had a real dignity, fighting an absolutely horrible form of cancer for three years before passing on a few days ago.   

In a way beautiful women never grow old. Of course we see current photos and movies but that reality never seems to intrude on but what captured our eye in the first place.

Hell, I'm still in love with Veronica Lake who in my mind's eye remains as alluring, mysterious and smolderingly sexy as she was when I first saw The Blue Dahlia.

In fact, their careers were somewhat parallel and it always reminds me that despite great beauty and perhaps because of it, some will suffer greatly.

Still, when I see Farrah's photos from those days, for a while I feel younger and remember a simpler time when good health was a given and the party went on forever.

Sleep, princess.

Here, there and everywhere....

I finally got to mix it up with a A-rab who hates us.

Overall, it was disappointing, but then no more so than dueling with the typical U.S. leftist citizen who hates America. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Her website.....:

America - I HATE YOU -- "I hate everything you represent, everything you stand for, everything about you...EVERYTHING. I f**king hate you."

.... drew my attention and so I fired one across her bow:

June 9, 2009 at 7:05 AM, <leatherneckm31@suddenlink.net:

I don't give a damn if you like Americans or not; we're used to being condemned by ragheads who would rather live under a 14th century dictatorship than stand up and fight their oppressor. In the end we will kill as many of you as it takes until you cease being a threat to this country. Why don't you quit whining and go get fitted for a suicide vest?  Currently we're in need of more targets.

GA

 Layla Anwar laylaanwar@gmail.com June 9 3:37 pm

Thank you for your wonderful mail and making my task easier -- you keep confirming what an asshole of a people you are. Hell, you even do it better than I.

Best regards

Layla Anwar

June 9, 2009 4:57 PM, <leatherneckm31

Glad to help.

Gotta go... there are a few others like you that need to be bitch slapped this morning.
Regards,
G

June 9, 5:22 pm <laylaanwar@gmail.com> wrote:
Americans have destroyed my country... carrying their d**ks and their guns on their shoulders.

Okay then f**k off ---you sound like a real retard of a moron, like all americans...lol.

 

June 9, 2009 5:57 PM, <leatherneckm31

That's the best you got.... a gutter mouth and "retard of a moron"...?

"Carrying their d**ks and guns on their shoulders...."?

.... thanks, we do equally well with both.

Regards habibtee,

g

 

Layla June 10 2:18p

I doubt you do well with either...and that's the best you deserve you sick moron...

Just in case you don't understand what f**k off means...since you are such a dumb American, maybe you need to get that putrid ass of yours in Iraq and we will show you the exact meaning of the word

Best regards dear

Layla

 

June 10 4 pm

Would that I could, dearie; I'd pay my own way to Iraq just to blow you bottom feeders straight to hell. ... but rest assured my friends and I tried to kill as many commie wastes of skin as possible in Vietnam.

Which prompts the obvious question: You're still a relatively young pseudo-jihadists... why hide behind a keyboard when the IslamoNazi subhumans could certainly put you to good use on a one-way bomb run. 'Course you'd have to walk because they don't let your kind drive. That would be a win-win for the U.S. and the ragheads --- we'd get rid of your dreadful writing and the rags hate women which is understandable in a nation of faggots.

Lemme know when you're ready to put your dinar where your pie hole is.

In the meantime here's the link to the latest Apache 30mm gun run videos... http://gotwarporn.com/labels/30mm.html ---new and improved, and now with added Jihadi mist....

Allah Snackbar, G

Layla June 10 4:18p

You keep proving that you're not only an ignoramus Nazi, but also a dumb fuck.

What can I say --  except block your stupid red neck name...

Go get yourself a life and an  anti psychotic medication, all viet vet are deeply imbalanced.

so long sucker...

I suspect Layla the pseudo-revolutionary lives in the basement of her mom's house and goes about 240; and as you can tell, she is very angry and near incoherent.... sort of like Rosie O'Donnell. In fact, she made be Rosie O'Donnell.

Good one from Politico.com complaining about Obama's mix of "frothy mix of glamour and domesticity."

President Obama could become in the public mind something he never sought to be: the Martha Stewart of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

And political veterans say the fine line between what’s inspiring and what’s annoying can be difficult to spot in advance.

Ridiculous, didn't take me more than a few seconds... two and a half years ago.

You'll recall yesterday that I posted the U.S. Army directive that forces our soldiers to break off a firefight if the Taliban duck into houses and other structures that may be inhabited by civilians.

Humm, I wonder what the ragheads will do when engaged?

Here's audio/video proof of how many restrictions there are on our troops before they can open fire.... listen as Apache pilots ask six times for clearance before lighting up a squad of Taliban who helped enormously by bunching up like a gaggle of 1400 A.D. idiots.... wait, they are 1400 A.D. idiots. 

Don't forget to contact your members of Congress to oppose "cap and trade" legislation which is subject of a sneak vote Friday.... why Friday, you ask?

You've been asleep.

Also the Obamacare legislation looms; if we don't hack up these socialist/fascist tentacles, we're as good as economic slaves.

Here's the one-stop link to make it easy... at USA.Gov

Absurdity, thy name is Barack....

What's this?

The cool presidential code sign for "call me"?

That hip thang that The One does when he's in Hawaii hangin' with his homies to indicate that he's down with wazzup?

Who knows, who cares.

Mahalo, Dude.

While the world waits for the leader of the free world to find his testicular fortitude (psst.. look in Michelle's desk drawer) on the brutal suppression of humans rights in Iran, Barack Hussein Obama credits himself with this:

 Washington Post -- Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.

In addition to having no guts, this horses' ass has no shame.

but every once in a while,
I wanna talk about me, I wanna talk about i
Wanna talk about number 1 oh my, me, my,
What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see.

Someone should start counting the number of time Obama uses the first person in his comments, it's easy to confuse him with some giddy 20-year-old starlet in her first movie.

Let us contrast the comments of  French President Nicholas Sarkozy with POTUS on the issue of forcing women to wear burlap bags.

First the country that surrender to the Nazis in a few weeks and then formed a puppet government to help the oppressors....

“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity … The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly, it will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”

Now, Obama in Cairo on June 4th, 2009:

“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.

I'd like to seed him in the hijab; and if it's so great, order Michelle The Predator into one... about a size 22.

 

Build it and they won't come...

The following would only happen in California; the former Golden State and now verging on a movie parody in which Mad Max meets I am Legend, has had sand kicked in its face.

"After hiring a feng shui expert and spending more than $7.4 million on a special exhibit complete with golden Buddha, the Los Angeles Zoo will not be getting three rare golden monkeys (left) from China promised in 2002.  (I'm not even going to get into why three little monkeys require a palace to live in.)

"It was a decision by the Chinese government and we're disappointed," said Councilman Tom LaBonge. "But, it is not a waste. We have a beautiful facility and we will put other animals on display there."

"The agreement to bring in the golden monkeys, identifiable by their blue faces and long flowing blond hair, was developed by Hahn during his trip to China."

Apparently the LA-la Land pols deemed it important to go to China to beg for big primates and got the second place critters... and now they don't even have them.

No wonder Cali's going down the drain.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the Chi-Coms are having a jolly ole time screwing with us. Look for the Reds to stuff Obama in a wall locker when they get the chance.

Remember when Obama rolled out the red carpet for Iranians thugs and murders to come join him for the Fourth of July celebrations here?

Well, the above pictures have not caused him to retract his invitation... besides the formerly living young people despised their government and took to the streets. Perhaps he sees his own future.

Meanwhile he'll just have some dogs and ice cream with the girls.

Lastly, the following is pop culture news that convinced me that we are now living in the Absurd Generation.

TORONTO (AP) - Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub.

Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at a nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager.

Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, complained about the incident on his Twitter site. He tweeted at 4 a.m.: "I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke."

Hilton, who is openly gay, said that he called will.i.am a "faggot," a gay slur, inside the club after the musician told the blogger not to write about his band on his Web site.

"He was like 'You need to respect me.' He was in my face. He was obviously trying to intimidate me and scare me," Hilton said. "I knew (what) would be the worst thing I could possibly say to him.... I said 'You know what, I don't respect you and you're gay and stop being such a faggot.'"

Hilton, along with Lady Gaga, (right) then left the club and was punched from behind. 

......... So a fat butt pirate who stole the name of a skanky heiress and is famous only for writing a blog and condemning a pretty young woman who had the audacity to say "marriage is for one man, one woman" dissed someone named "will. i.am." who is part of a farming collective and was smacked in retaliation by the farm manager Mario Lavandeira who is not the crooner from the 1950s; oh, and all this was either "twitted" or tweeted" to the populace.... and Lady Gaga who is from Yonkers and makes her own jewelry (my own research) was there, too. 

In short, a black black-eyed pea, sucker-punched a gay tweeting faggot for calling another black black-eyed pea a faggot and was later twittered on by the same non-black, non-black-eyed pea faggot.  

....it is the last sign of the Apocalypse.

Iranians whacked, Obama snacked

The young man at the right is a patriot. He would rather die fighting than live on his knees.

His courage in the face of the IslamoNazi subhumans who rule his country has cost him dearly, but every revolution must have a Patrick Henry. 

"Nine years ago, Ahmad Betebi appeared on the cover of The Economist.This photo during the student demonstrations made Batebi famous. It also made him a target of the regime.

"Ahmad Betebi was sentenced to death by the evil regime in Iran after the student protests of 1999. He was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through a free Iraq to Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC." (Read and view in-depth interview via Gateway Pundit.com.

Here's what the new generation of Iranian freedom fighters think of Dear Leader's cowardice in the face wholesale murder in the street of Tehran. 

"His (Obama) lack of response will not be regarded lightly. We will watch for how much his response will help the people or the regime. We will know more this week... Obama can hold talks with the regime in Iran if he wants.

Is it morally correct for Obama to support the regime? Does he actually believe the people of Iran will appreciate that? The social movement requires support. If the world really wants the advent of terrorism to disappear in the Middle East, if they want peace with the Palestinians and Israel, if they want nuclear technology to be developed for peaceful things and not nuclear weapons... They only need to support the people of Iran right now. This regime has the most dangerous of ideologies.

"They're killing the opposition."

Meanwhile, despite Iran, the NoKor weapons ship, an economy fast resembling that of the Weimer Republic, unemployment beyond 12% and a well-planned fiscal suicide.... Obama sets up a propagandist's photo op with his kids; proving the adage, that when the going gets tough, the tough buy ice cream.

As HotAir reported:

Obama Snacked, Iranians Got Whacked

Below is a graphing video of the murder of a young woman dubbed Neda ("The Voice") gunned down by Iranian security forces. Now a decade later, this Iranian uprising for freedom has its own martyr.

She went to the rally with her father and died instantly of a bullet to the base of her throat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be a pinnacle moment for the world's oldest true constitutional republic to stand side-by-side with those who face the guns of an oppressive government, just as we did 230 years ago.

It is in our DNA.

All people in the world striving to be free look to America.... the students in Tiananmen Square erected a State of Liberty before it and they were crushed under the treads of communist tanks.

We could once again provide hope for an oppressed people, but we won't because we have a weak and incompetent leader incapable of doing anything but stroking his own ego.

If we actively backed regime change in Iran, make and fulfill our promise of support to the opposition movement and topple the present government of, half the world's terrorist activity or more, would grind to a halt.

But that would take common sense, vision and courage... both political and moral.

Barack Hussein Obama lacks all three, unmoved by people young an old, male and female, facing down automatic weapons with sticks and rocks and guts.

He is a moral and physical coward.

Not long ago I suggested to some folks that "68 million people were responsible for this" meaning the current domestic and foreign tar babies Obama has created in only six months.

Some were actually offended when I suggested that just as words have meanings, votes have consequences.

Lastly, this is the way the current CnC proposes to ferret out the subhumans in Afghanistan and kill them in their numbers:

Shades of Vietnam? New US Rules of Engagement Says Troops Must Disengage if Taliban Enter Homes....

KABUL – The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.

No army ever won a war by giving sanctuary of any kind to the enemy, or by placing concern for civilian casualties above its soldiers' lives. 

Now, courtesy of the cyber patriots at ApacheClips.com (via The Big Zip over at Weaselzipper.com) here's his Monday Morning War Porn which is fast gaining popularity with LM31 faithful readers.... which means soon you will all end up on a fed list of some kind; I've been on it for some time and was getting lonely. 

This would seem to indicate that the remotely-flown UAV involved here might just be better shooter than pilots and gunners on choppers and A-10s which is total logic. And these are the kids who were "wasting their lives playing video games" 15 years ago.

Hell... we're best at everything.

Allah Snackbar!