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And the floods came...

Gainesville and North Texas are still coping with the aftermath of the recent flooding.

Our county officials reported at least $27 million in damage – $18 million to 300 homes and about $9 million to 75 businesses, which was mostly limited to water damage in downtown Gainesville. The floods also damaged 75 percent of the area's agricultural crops, leaving small grains and corn harvests in ruin.

Far worse... two small girls and their grandmother were lost when their mobile home was swept into a flood-swollen creek and split apart when it struck a bridge.

They died in Pecan Creek which was supposed to have been widened three years ago in an $8.7 million project approved by local voters, but it was held up due to lack of federal funds and a moratorium of Army Corps of Engineers' projects.

It would have helped... it might have saved lives and property, but there are few recriminations here.

No one in this town of some 16,000 stood in the knee-deep water demanding the federal government "do something." No one called the President vile names, our mayor didn't try to play politics and pass the buck.

The frontier spirit that build this town before the Civil War has never been replaced by the big city helplessness and hopelessness where personal responsibility can be as rare as a clean cop in New Orleans.

Neighbor helped neighbor... our fire department, police, sheriffs, EMS, performed as they should, volunteers and citizens pitched in.

There were no debit cards, looting either went unreported or did not exist; families took in their members... neighbors looked out for their friends and strangers alike.

The dead were recovered, cared for and received dignified and caring treatment to the grave.

No anger, no demands, no politics... this was Mother Nature, God... if you must blame Someone.

We don't have a "Ninth Ward" (liberal, Katrina-speak for minority neighborhoods) but there are predominately black and brown parts of Gainesville. From what I could observe, all residents who needed help received volunteer and tax-payer supported services, and help from local and regional faith-based organizations.

The ironically named Noah's Arc, our "no-kill" animal shelter, opened its doors to lost and displaced pets.

Lives have been interrupted; lives have been taken... tens of millions in damages, people displaced, irreplaceable personal treasures swept away, and worst of all... the bottomless grief of families and their friends.

But you won't find anyone here whining... feeling sorry for themselves.

Even before the waters receded, these Texans were about the business of fighting back with a complete understanding of fate, Mother Nature, the need for self-reliance, prayer and a deep appreciation for a community filled with people who help one another.

No one looked for a handout... anyone who needed it received a hand up.

Probably the best thing about yesterday's defeat of the Terrorist Assistance Act in the Senate is that it proved what Americans can do when they get off their backsides and take some direct action... namely threatening every politician inside the Beltway when his job if the the amnesty bill passed.

Americans (born and naturalized) angered by a do-nothing Congress willing to throw citizenship pearls before hordes of criminals in exchange for eventual votes, shut down the Senate switchboard will outraged calls.

Enough of the politicians backed down... while the usual suspects complained bitterly about "loud" people and that damned talk radio... even threatening to facilitate the vampire-like return of the Fairness for Leftist Pols Doctrine.

Figgers... liberals and leftists don't trust the American people... "We the People"... appears nowhere in the democrat party handbook. They don't want a choice on the airwaves or anywhere else... they want it like it was before 1988 the the "Fairness (sic) Doctrine" allowed them total control of the radio and TV broadcast media--24-7 of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, NPR... etc. 

Oh.. it wasn't just the libs like Sen. Di Frankenfinestein and Rep. Harry Reid... RHINOs like Trent Lott railed that "Talk radio was running the country!"

"Talk radio" is a euphemism; the truth is... the American people run the country, when they want to.

Genaust update...

Members of a U.S. casualty identification team on Iwo Jima report that they have arrived at the area where Sgt. Bill Genaust is thought to have been killed and buried during the battle six decades ago.

On the southwestern slope of Hill 362A the team found two caves which are promising, and another two which had not been previously mapped. The sites will require major excavation and heavy equipment.

The team has wrapped up its 10-day mission which was termed "very successful" and will begin preparations for an extensive search at a later date.

Genaust is the Marine combat cameraman who filmed the raising of the US flag on the strategic island in early 1945.

Click here for a slide-show of the mission.

"Sulphur Island"

Sixty-two years after the battle of Iwo Jima, U.S. volunteers are hacking their way through thick underbrush to find and identify the remains the Marine combat motion picture photographer who captured the historic flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on film.

Sergeant Bill Genaust (left) was standing next to famed AP photographer Joe Rosenthal when both recorded what proved to be the most iconic moment of WWII; Rosenthal's still photograph became the most reproduced image in history, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, inspired the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, and has been the center of controversy since that fateful day.

Confusion arose almost immediately because there were actually two flag raisings on Iwo; first, a small US flag was attached to a length of drain pipe and raised by a group of Marines, then it was replaced later by a much larger flag which could be more easily seen anywhere on the still embattled island. Rosenthal's and Genaust's shots were of the second raising, and within hours AP had flashed Rosenthal's image around the world. 

Sadly, Genaust never knew the impact produced by his few seconds of film showing five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Feb. 23; nine days later he was gunned down at the mouth of an enemy cave during moping up operations.  Read his Parade Magazine story here.

On March 4, 1945, Sgt. Genaust volunteered to use his movie camera light to illuminate the dark interior of the cave for advancing Marines and was killed by enemy fire. The cave was secured after a firefight, and its entrance sealed.

Ironically, as members of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command teams searched for Genaust's remains and those of any other U.S. military KIAs on the five mile by 2 mile volcanic island, former Marine Cpl. Charles W. Lindberg, 86, (above center, left with flamethrower, and facing the flag, above--far right) the last survivor of the two Iwo flag raisings, passed away Sunday. 

He earned the Silver Star for his heroism on Iwo.

The Associated Press notes his passing here. "No one," he said, believed him when he said he raised the first flag at Iwo Jima. In 1954, Lindberg was invited to Washington for the dedication of the Marine memorial. It carried the names of the second group of flag-raisers, but not the first.

''I was called a liar,'' he said.

For most of his life, Lindberg devoted great effort to explain the confusion surrounding the the two photos and honor the first Marines to raise the flag who remain largely unknown even today.

In addition to Lindberg, they were generally accepted to be: 1st. Lt. Harold G. Schrier , Platoon Sergeant Ernest I. Thomas Jr., Sergeant Henry O. "Hank" Hansen, and Private First Class James Michels. See here for controversy-within-the-controversy of the identities of those who participated in each flag raising.

Lindberg is shown in Marine Sgt. Lou Lowery's (d. 1987) still photographs of the first efforts to raise a flag on Suribachi. He is also in the only known photo of the first being lowered, and the second going up (left).

Corpsman John Bradley, awarded the Navy Cross on Iwo, was the last survivor of the flag raisers immortalized in Rosenthal's photograph; he passed away in 1994. Bradley recalled the events here in a rare interview. Rosenthal died last August, still revered by Marines past and present.

Twenty-seven Medals of Honor were awarded for heroism on Iwo Jima--to 22 Marines and five Sailors -- making it the most highly decorated action of the entire war. It remains the most decorated action in Marine Corps History and will likely remain so.

Three of these heroes survive: Marines Jack Lucas, and Hershel "Woody" Williams and Navy Corpsman George Wahlen.

To add further irony to all this... the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute last Wednesday officially changed Iwo Jima's name to Iwo To ("ee-woh-toh") its name before WWII.

The Japanese have developed near complete amnesia about the horrors they perpetrated during WWII, some of which would have repulsed even Nazi fiend, Dr. Mengele, but they seem to have a great faculty for recalling the names Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

I suggest they change those names to Iwo Thre and Iwo Fo.

In 1968 Iwo Jima was returned to the Japanese which maintains a small army garrison there; the U.S. Navy maintains an air strip. You can visit Iwo through programs offered by Military Historical Tours, Inc.

See my 2006 post "The Immortals" for additional Iwo Jima information.

Names.....

No reminder was necessary, but today's statement by has-been/never-was Jimmy Carter that the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was somehow "criminal" further secures his place in the ranks of unAmericans.

"That action was criminal," he said in a news conference after a speech today. "The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah," he said.

Apparently to this disgusting anti-Semite, if the devil wins the election, a moral man must support the winner.

Two words, Mr. Carter.... "Adolph Hitler"; oh, two more "Benito Mussolini".

This man is no longer merely an embarrassment, the worst president of the 20th century, and the worst ex-president in history... he is also guilty of sedition, is harming this nation and endangering our troops in the field.

News item: "Bloomberg quits GOP; becomes independent".

Uh-huh... that's like saying "Rosie Gives Up on Men; switches teams".

The NYC mayor is shown at right with an unidentified, and equally identity-confused politician.

We should all write him letters of encouragement to to run for president in '08, since as the leftie he is and always has been.. he'll take a lot of votes from Hillary!

I'd love to see her get "peroted".

Bloomberg has more money than God and that'd be a hell of a fight.. he and his landfills full of cash versus the vicious weasel squads of the Clintonistas.

And speaking of weasels... Trent Lott and Lindsay Graham are shooting their mouths off, providing Bush with unnecessary help in eviscerating the GOP.

Lott said recently that "Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem."

Graham is on recording with, "We are going to tell the bigots to shut up”, and "I don’t do this much, but I want to thank Ted Kennedy!”

The issues... they were both talking about conservatives' opposition to illegal immigration amnesty.

The voters in their respective electorates should make this term their last.

If having a bunch of criminal, unskilled, high school drop outs and pregnant females here is somehow helpful, if this group of net tax receivers is such a boon to our economy, why not just open the gates and let them all in?

Save me the "yearning to be free" speech... this has nothing to do with the economy, bigots, humanitarianism or any of the other trumped up issues.... letting illegals in wholesale potentially benefits both political parties and "diversity" groups.. all of which hope to get Jose citizenship as soon as possible so they can trade it for their own re-elections.

... and the rest of America be damned.

Unless you're a fly fisherman or have been in a flood, it's hard to understand the power of three-five feet of fast-moving water. Some people's last act is underestimating that fact.

Sadly, we had three fatalities here in Monday's severe flooding... Makayla Marie Mollenhour, 2, her 5-year-old sister, Teresa Leann Arnett, and grandmother, Billie Murel Mollenhour, 60, were recovered from the flood waters on Monday. There's a particular kind of horror in their deaths... the grandmother trying to save them, their being swept away.

Governor Rick Perry has declared our Cooke and three other counties eligible for disaster aid... mobile insurance claims units and clean up service trucks are all over town.

I spent a couple of hours Monday afternoon shooting these photos around town.

A Gunslinger flies West....

He was John Wayne in "Flying Leathernecks"... he had the steely eye of any "High Plains Drifter" and the Sturm und Drang of an airborne Georgie Patton...

Best of all, he was as real as the sound of 20mm canon slugs ripping into the fuselage of a MiG 21.

But after staring Death in the face since last March, the legendary triple-ace, Air Force Gen. Robin Olds, closed his eyes for the last time, passing away surrounded by his friends and family Thursday in Steamboat Springs Colorado, Major Tom reports.

He killed 16 enemy aircraft in single combat during WWII and Vietnam, notably in "Operation Bolo".

The General, who held The Air Force Cross (for his attack on the Paul Doumer Bridge in Hanoi) and dozens of other personal decorations, is remembered here.

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Now... from hero to pond scum: Mike Nifong, the just now former Durham County DA, is headed for the gutter which is exactly where he belongs. He is now hearing his fate from the North Carolina Bar Association after being found guilty of 15 violations of ethical standards.

Just think what the SOB has done to citizens in his 30 year-career.

But if you think his criminal persecution of the Duke University student/athletes is an aberration, a fluke... wake up and smell the penal code.

This goes on everywhere.... the DA is not our friend, as I'm fond of saying. This grotesque miscarriage of justice and prosecutorial misconduct is present, even rampant in every municipality in the nation. The only reason this particular lawyer/bastard's situation is stage center is that the victims are innocent Ivy leaguers.

May these young men collect as much money as Durham County has... every cent, and if Nifong doesn't do hard time... it only proves my overall point.

I'll be writing more on this issue in the near future.

Like Marine sergeant and former Congressman, Zell Miller, "... I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel...."

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We have not fought a war to win it since 1945... I would have loved the smell of fission in the morning in August '45... but sadly, I missed it by three years. I would have liked to had my life overlap the pinnacle of an unobstructed, purposeful and crushing American military.

Appropriately, Owen and Bing West have co-authored a brilliant and straight forward op-ed piece in the NYT of all places, accurately laying out why we are "throwing the game" in Iraq and elsewhere... and we're in the 7th inning.

"The other major defect we’ve seen in our military strategy (in Iraq) is the consistent release of captured insurgents. Imprisonment is the dominant military weapon for quelling this insurgency. Vietnam was a shooting war; Iraq is a police arrest war. The insurgents learned years ago not to engage in firefights with American troops. American troops in Vietnam in 1968, for example, found that they killed 13 enemies for every one captured; in Iraq, one enemy is killed for every 10 captured. (Emphasis mine).

"Yet, according to Pentagon records, more than 85 percent of the suspected Sunni insurgents and Shiite militiamen detained are soon set free. The troops call it “catch and release.” The American and Iraqi jails now hold about 40,000 prisoners — by some estimates just half the number Saddam Hussein released from prison in the mass exodus of 2002. Texas, with a smaller population, has more than 170,000 in jail...."

Our civilian leadership in the war is so incompetent that right now Rep. Joe Liebrman, a rare, "maverick" (read patriotic) democrat, is the only one demanding that we attack Iran before it's too late.

When, among our leaders, his is the virtual sole voice, I fear for the future.

The moral bankruptcy of not keeping Pace...

Nothing could compensate JCS Chairman Gen. Pete Pace, USMC, for being cornered by this bitch from the radical-left organization, "Code Pink", who sought him out last year to harangue about policy in Iraq... like she would know from Shinola.

But that's nothing compared to the despicable treatment and betryal he is he's recieving at the craven hands of George Bush.

After six years on the JCS--two as Chairman--Pace is gone, sacrificed by the George Bush and his party at the direction of the real Secretary of Defense--Sen. Carl Levin who was gunning for the general in Bob Ford fashion--so popular with spineless democrats.

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The drive-by, knee-capping of Pace is unprecedented; historically, politicians have refrained from brutalizing uniformed officers in the service of the nation. Even at the height of the Vietnam War... Lyndon Johnson, not Gen. William Westmoreland, was largely the target of the left.

Consider these recent attacks:

--Pace “had not done a very good job in speaking out for some obvious things that weren't’t going right in Iraq,” said Harry Reid, D-Nev. Regarding Gen. David Petraeus as Iraq war general, Reid said, “I’m waiting to see if (he) can be a little more candid with us.” (For the record: Reid ("The Iraq War is Lost!"  "We killed the Patriot Act!") is the fifth-column bastard who voted first to confirm Petraeus, then voted to deny funds for Iraq "surge" that Patraeus was commanded to carry out).s

--Fellow demo lunatic, Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher, (who?) said Wednesday she thought Pace was guilty of a "dereliction of duty" because of his support for President Bush’s Iraq policy. Tauscher, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Pace lost standing among members in March when he said homosexual acts were immoral and that the military should not condone the behavior by letting gays openly tout their sexual preference.

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Yes friends, we live in a world in which following the orders of The Commander in Chief is a "dereliction of duty." But, then again, perhaps it's just the only multi-syllabic word Tauscher knows.

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Tauscher said comments made by Pace, have inflamed the debate about "don't ask, don't tell." He told reporters at the Chicago Tribune in March that he believes homosexuality is immoral. His position drew criticism from several fronts, including Tauscher, who called it "wrongheaded."

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Tauscher said Pace later wrote an apologetic letter, but she said she believes that his comments are part of the reason Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates did not move to have him renominated.  (Pace bio here.)

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And there it is, America... we're in the middle of a war that threatens our survival and the politicians are more concerned about ragheads, dykes, faggots and wetbacks, (See additional commentary here and here.)

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I'm done; we're done. Hillary! will be elected and the GOP will lose at least 15-percent of its remaining Congressional seats. Why... because the party has committed suicide.

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George Bush has driven a wooden stake through the heart of the conservative revolution, founded by Barry Goldwater, carried forth by Ronald Reagan and which blossomed in in '94 with Newt and the "Contract for America" and finally George Bush's election in 2000.

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Bush is now worse than a lame duck, he's a lame duck who has been emasculated and had his wings clipped.

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But in the end, conservatives still have some self-respect... treat us like this, and you will pay, come November.

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They will, and unfortunately, we will.

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I now choose to turn my attention to personal readiness, self-defense and as my friends, Tommy D and Sister Cindy advocate... "keep yer 'Jericho Bag' at the ready."

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Well, here's to all the peace-at-any-cost leftists both within Israel and without who couldn't wait to give back the Gaza Strip to the ragheads.

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Beginning in 1993 with the Oslo Accords, Te-Aviv began giving away its security so hard won in the 1967 Six-Day War. By 2006 (on Ariel Shron's watch) Israel withdrew completely. Hamas moved in and quickly became the most powerful faction, politically and militarily.

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So now the beginnings of a small civil war (for want of a better phrase) rumbles on Israel's doorstep and threatens to spill overs at any moment.

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Nonetheless, the old adage, "If your enemy is committing suicide, do not interfere", applies here.

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Just like I whole-heartedly support Bloods killing Crips, Mexican Mafia capping Nuestra Familia, and visa versa, nothing makes me happier than Hamas gunning down the Fata Palestinians... or any other ragheads for that matter. Eventually, the IDF will be killing all Hamas anyway.

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Here's the downside... apparently Hamas has recovered a cache of critical documents in the Palestinian Authority's Gaza City security center; the top-secret intel correspondence between Fata, the CIA and The Israeli Defense Forces.

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The collateral damage here is that this could destabilize the governments of Jordan and Egypt. (Read details at Yoni The Blogger.)

Flag Day...

Put my flag out this morning; it looks good down my street; for a small fee, a local civic group offers a nice service, putting up flags in people's yards on all national holidays.

I fly mine every day. And every time I see The Flag I am thrilled inside... in the real physical and emotional meaning of the word.

It reminds me of all the foreign shores it's flown over, all the caskets it has covered and the very very few times it has been pulled down and trampled by our enemies... until we could extract revenge.

Our Flag is considered an actually living thing... an American with all the rights and privileges, you might say.

But even in this patriotic community, I could spend all day, most days reminding people of their violations of flag etiquette under Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag United States Code. Most are well-intentioned ignorance, but many are laziness, insulting and disrespectful... and that goes for any community in which I've ever been.

Most common is flying a dirty, faded or torn flag; businesses are most often guilty of this. They put it up and forget it. 

I stopped watching the Olympics decades ago because of the constant disrespect US athletes (particularly track) have for the flag; the same flag which they supposedly, proudly march behind in the opening ceremony, they grab and use as a towel, a shawl or a banner as they strut around the track or rink, acting like they have a right to break my country's heart.

But mostly I just wanna punch 'em in the throat.

Every four years I write to the US Olympic Committee and whichever TV network broadcasts The Games to complain about such disrespect on behalf of my many friends whose caskets the Old Glory has graced. My favorite little firebrand, Michelle Malkin, wrote last year about how those Mexican criminals living in our country respect our flag. Gosh, I can't wait until they Z-visa their way right across the street from me.

No one ever responds.

From Cub Scouts to the President, people make mistakes with The Stars and Stripes... please respect the flag.

And... fly your flag every day if you can do it appropriately and patriotically; remind others when they do not. It isn't enough to just fly the flag... you must do it right.

See Betsy Ross website "Flag Rules and Regulations" for all you need to know. Become the "expert" in your community... maybe one day the residents of most of our towns and cities will show though our National Colors they are proud to live in "the greatest country on God's green earth."

Idiot Alert!

In a world where PETA murders puppies, it's no surprise that a bunch of enviro-whackjobs back in the 70s lead by group called Broward Artificial Reef Inc., with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers, Goodyear and volunteer boaters decided it was a good job to dump 700,000 used tires in the ocean.

What could happen? After all, it was to "save the environment" by creating an artificial reef along the Florida coastline the size of 31-football fields!

Well, far from "saving" anything, the tires have destroyed much of the natural reef and "if left unchecked, the tires could kill acres of coral and eventually start destroying other nearby reefs."

The tries are coming up... and the clean-up will take years.

Now... substitute "prevent global warming" for "protect the Florida reefs"... right.

Allowing "environmentalist" to make any policy or establish any program, is a fool's game, and a sure way to damage the environment.

Hillary! has a 15-point lead over Barry Obama in recent polls; apparently the margin is entirely attributable to her 2:1 margin among among female voters

While I'm not surprised Gyno-Americans--especially young, and/or single dem party gals--would vote based on gender, but it still serves me right for expecting more from chicks.

Not so much different than blacks voting for democrats and black democrats who have never done a damned thing to help them, unless you call creating a multi-generation, welfare family disaster for the last 40 years, help. The gains blacks have made is due largely to their own initial, drive and determination and those gains prove that in ways the matters, discrimination ended long ago.

For example... Sheila and her (ex) husband Robert Johnson became billionaires after founding Black Entertainment Television (BET)... they didn't get there by waiting for a hand out in a welfare line, speaking as if they were mentally or vocally handicapped or bitching about "the man keepin' me down."

They benefited by the same free market system that favors anyone who believes in hard work and the resultant rewards.

But go figger... Shelia has announced she's backing Barry ... the socialist, the left-wing, all suit, no experience with the annoying habit of trying to speak like he grew up picking cotton and listening the the Mississippi Delta Blues.

Obama's the antithesis of a free market system... just one more democrat offering a free lunch to blacks in exchange for their vote.

No thinking person would throw away their vote based on something as ignorant as gender or color, or association.

I sure as hell didn't vote for John Kerry or Algore, even though they are Viet vets... and I most certainly wouldn't vote for Jim Webb either despite the fact that our units fought next to each other during Operation Pipestone Canyon May-June 1969, and he holds the Navy Cross.

Those who cast Women for Clinton... Blacks for Obama...Vets for Kerry... votes have the political savvy of Paris Hilton. They just like to do it (as Dennis Prager points out) because it makes them feel good.

A disastrous example of this is the I-wanna-feel-good 20-percent vote Ross Perot garnered as a third-party candidate which did nothing but guarantee the election of Bill Clinton in '92 and his re-election in '96.

Nice goin', dumbasses.

Speaking of gender... Little Katie Couric is in the limelight again. Dan ("Those documents are not forged") Rather called her out... saying that CBS is in the ratings cellar and headed deeper because Couric "dumbed down and tarted up" the evening news.

(That's the serious journalist among her fellow serious journalists, above).

Les Moonves, CBS suit, rushed to KC's aid: “I’m sort of surprised by the vitriol against her. The number of people who don’t want news from a woman was startling,” Moonves then attacked Rather saying he's a "sexist:" in an attempt to prove Rather and other Neanderthals are at fault for the CBS Evening News ratings at a 20-year low.

Don't think so Ms. Leslie.... it's because she sucks; I wouldn't hire her to tell me its raining on the Weather Channel.

If she's not a helpless little girl.. stop rescuing her.... and git her outta the kitchen--it's too hot.

Words, more words and whiners

For any who may have thought yesterday's post, "Control the language, control society", was over the top, there is this latest outrage:

"The words 'natural family,' 'marriage' and 'union of a man and a woman' can be punished as 'hate speech' in government workplaces, according to a lawsuit that is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a nutshell:  January 2003-- two Oakland employees formed an employees group called the "Good News Employee Association." This was in response a bunch of homosexual employees who formed a group intent on normalizing something called "National Coming-Out Day" and was allowed to do so on the company e-mail system.

When the "Good News Employee Association" countered with the above "pro-marriage/pro-family" statements in e-mail to all employees... they were branded as "homophobic" (sic) and thus guilty of a "hate crime".

Two lesbos sued the city for allowing the words to be used.

If you think this couldn't happen in your town, on your job... to you personally, you're sleep walking.

Don't underestimate the homosexual agenda to undermine the entire concept of marriage and family and curtail our First Amendment rights. Look what happened to "Grey's Anatomy" TV actor Isaiah Washington who called fellow actor T.R. Knight a ''faggot'' during an on-set argument.

Washington was fired last week for no reason other than his comment, proving that the power of homosexuals trumps even that of blacks who scream "racism" and play the race card at the drop of the hat. Even racists scumbags like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton haven't come to the aid of fellow black guy Washington.

Telling, isn't it?   

You want to see why I say that our best and brightest are not in college, but in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in other hard places around the world? Read this:

Little Brian Till, a Haverford College student, has penned a whining, unmanly piece of drivel in the Baltimore Sun, crying "we were duped". He actually believed that all his generation had to do was attended classes for four years and all would be solid gold after that.

To wit:

"Since our first days of grade school, we've been duped - told that if we worked hard in high school and gained acceptance to a good college, the world would be ours...." It gets far worse... read his op/ed here.

I wish to gawd it was 1968 and this kid was drafted right out of his prissy little liberal arts school and headed for DaNang.

On second thought, I wouldn't have wanted him anywhere near real men.... the stakes were too high.

Till will likely remain at the Thanksgiving card table for the rest of his life.

Control the language, control society...

We learned that, or should have learned that from George Orwell... but we've forgotten or ignored it and both the language and society are in jeopardy.

Recently Harry Reid, the House leftist sock puppet, referred to illegal alien criminals as "undocumented Americans"; it was no mistake... it was intentional, just like another left obfuscation-- "economic migrant".

Nope... they're wetbacks; I'm an "economic migrant"... I moved to Texas in part because of a lower cost of living and no state income tax.

Liberals are not "liberal"... they're socialists; progressives are not liberals... (see previous).

Teachers are not "educators"... they're teachers... just like garbage-men are not "sanitation engineers."

Reporters are not "investigative reporters" any more than cooks are "food-preparing cooks"... it's the height of redundancy. All reporters "investigate". It's just another attempt to insist that reporters are geniuses and thus superior to all the rest of us. They're town criers for crissakes....

More darkly...  "pro-choice" advocates are liars. They are pro-killing babies in the womb. No one, nowhere, in no way should let them get away with such a grotesque manipulation of language. They are proud of taking the lives of the most helpless creatures on God's earth.

Listened to...? They should be condemned and "outed" at every forum, in every debate, by those who refuse to accept the Goebbels-like attempt to steal the language.

I refuse to have someone anyone take away my language and freedom of speech simply because they insist on some politically-correct, revisionist, double-speak drivel as their religion.

When I write about or say "Japs"... I am referring to Japan's Imperialist Army, which pitched in with the Nazis as co-criminals in the WWII Axis Powers.

If that bothers you, go burn some incense and ring a gong every August 6th and 9th.

Gooks.  One of the few things on which I agree with John McCain. The communist Vietnamese bastards who tortured and murdered civilians, Allied captives and US POWS are gooks... I got along with the Vietnamese just fine... admired their culture, history and country.

That some of them tried and almost succeeded in killing me is irrelevant... they failed... and we killed a hell of a lot more of them; the fortunes of war.

Any major in a college catalog referred to as "_______Studies"... is a lie; "Women's Studies", "Afro-American Studies", "Gender Studies"... all elitist crap, nothing but a made up collection of leftist indulgence no better than what one would get from some diploma mill for $39.95.

Think not...? Talk to someone, anyone outside academia who has hired such a CV'ed creature.

Speaking of... "feminist"? Nope... claptrap. They're whiners, malcontents, and useful idiots of leftist propagandists.  You want a role model for young women... Phyllis Schlafly.   

"Affirmative action"; nope... racism pure and simple. Anyone who bases a decision on the color of someone's skin color is a racist bastard(ess). Got that George Bush? Got that leftists?

But GA are you saying someone who has benefitted (unfairly) from "affirmative action" is not qualified to receive that position, admission, raise, etc.?

You bet yer ass...

Gay? Bulls**t... the 1890s were gay... some donned apparel is gay... otherwise they're homos, faggots and queers.

No one will take my language or free speech from me, even the words I seldom choose to employ; I'll go to my ammo bag for any damned thing I need.

You got a problem with that? Here's a dime, call the chaplain; sounds like a personal problem to me.

Lastly, 28 years ago today John Wayne finally lost his fight with cancer. He beat The Bastard once and almost fought it to a draw the second time.

The left hated him... still hates him; that's just one of the many reasons I always loved The Duke.

Over the Hil! and around the world

Just when you thought that someone who turns a poor imitation of a ghetto accent on and off like a porch light couldn't get anymore pathetic, Hillary! gives us more and more, and wows her young guests as well..

Hey! Groovy Guys and Groovy Gals... drop on into "Club 44" (get it? the 44th POTUS?)... be there or be square!

Hil's attempt to connect with the young, hip crowd in D.C. on a weekday can now be considered in the Top Ten Moments of Saturday Night Live. It was less successful than the "I ain't gots no way to be tiret, yaw'll." she delivered recently to a black audience in full white folk patronize-speak.

Perhaps she can learn to say that in Spanish in time for more immigration (sic) debate.

Despite the exhortations of the "smartest woman in the world"... and a supporting act by the very hip Sen. "Babs-Dawg" Mikulski  who urged the young, happenin' peeps to "change history" or something, the day went over like Algore at a British Petroleum stockholders' meeting.

Speaking of idiocy...  it seems that not only will Paris and London and of course Naw'leans soon be under water, but some animal adoption agencies report that global warming is also responsible for an increase in the birth rate of kitties!

Moonbats are not limited to inside the The Beltway or even the democrat party... this from our neighbor to the North:

"We need carbon taxes," Green party Leader Elizabeth May proclaimed as she introduced her party's new climate change plan; it calls for an additional gas tax of "at least 12 cents per litre" in order to forestall "global environmental mayhem".

Laugh if you want... this same legislation will be before Congress after the summer recess.

And speaking of intense warming... Chernobyl is in the news... seems the horror that befell the Commie nuke plant a few years ago and became a talking point fort the enviro-whackos of the world... is now a virtual wildlife habitat.

"Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage."

Yeah, the Commies would have us believe that Mother Earth can take care of herself without much help from us insignifant humanoids.

And now for health news... that same people who believe that cells phones and power lines give you cancer (what doesn't?) and second-hand smoke gives you cancer and non-organic food gives you cancer, will be buoyed by this:

"A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympics has been removed from the organizer's website after fears it could trigger epileptic seizures."

For me it recalls the 80s when the Human Resources Nazis in corporate America genuflected before the altar of victim-hood by demanding that all employees wear no perfume, after shave or scented lotions for fear of pushing the poor sickies on the payroll into anaflactic shock.

Reminds me of my undergrad days when "women" began distancing themselves from razors, deodorant and intelligence.