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It’s a drag….

On the road… (with apologies to Jacks Kerouac and Webb).

The story you are about to read is true. Only the names have been changed to protect me from the usual threat of law suits.

DFW. Thursday 2:15 p.m.

I’m working the waiting watch out of  boredom. My name is Thirsty; I have no partner what with the dogs boarded at Club Canine in Denton.

There had been a storm. They say in this part of Texas it’s normal. They cancelled my flight anyway.

I should be half way to Portland by now. Niece. Graduation -- MSW-School of Social Work. Five years… she’ll be a Republican.

Instead I’m in line with all the other cancelled flight non- fliers.

Behind me are Ben and Jerry (not really, I just decided to call them  that); Ben is an Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York and Jerry is his special friend, or “life partner” as Episcopals seem to prefer nowadays.

I ask if they’re baseball fans… “Mets,” Ben says. I discard the usual  the jokes… it’s been a long time since 1969, why rub it in?

I’m nursing a stress headache from trying to remember everything I had to do before take off. Tires me out. I forget stuff.

I try my sure-fire “Episcopals… they’re the Catholics who flunked Latin, right?”

Jerry quips back… “Catholic Lite”, he says.

I like Jerry.

We walk a yard or two and kick our carry-on bags along; mine is tan military canvas; Ben and Jerry’s are non-descript…. not flamboyant, like you’d expect.

Ben has a brother in Houston…. Ben’s complaint is that everything he smokes in the bar-b-que tastes like “it was left behind in a burning building.”

“Is it always brisket? I ask.

“Yes,? How did you know?”

“I live here,” I said.

In an hour I learn a great deal about Ben… not much about Jerry; I assume he’s a stay-at-home priest aide or something.

4:18 p.m.

Finally it’s our turn at the counter… the boys go to Houston and I have the 8:25 to Portland.

“Mozel Tov,” I say…. Ben gets it. Ben waves shyly.

I make my way to the first bar. “Tequillarealto”…. no doubt I can get a beer.

“Thirsty,” she asks, taking in my five-o-clock shadow.

It’s 5:43 p.m.

“Yes,” I said, “how’d you know?

Consuelo cards me. I smile and say thanks; It’s important that the public take an interest in law enforcement.

After two quick beers I pay the $28 tab and tell her not to declare her tips. It’s the only way a young working mom can make it in this crazy mixed-up world.

“Mozel tov, I say.

Consuelo says, “Que?”, she grabs the tip and backs away.

Back in the boarding area, it feels like I’m in one of those airplane disaster movies from the ‘70s.

I’m George Kennedy.

It’s 7:47 p.m.

Seated across from me are The College Co-Ed, an Army sergeant headed overseas or just getting back; Amy, the young secretary on her first trip with The Boss; there seem to be no blind people or guitar cases, and lastly…. Hector, a well-meaning but a very fat man who will have the seat next to me or will be unable to open the emergency hatch when we’re screaming to get out.

I should have driven…

… with the dogs.

The fast and steady march to disaster

Rushisms: too good not to pass along first.

How God and Obama are alike:

--Neither has a birth certificate.

How God and Obama are not alike:

--Obama gets better press.

--Liberals love Obama.

--God doesn't think he's Obama.

--God only demands He be worshiped once a week.

Feel free to submit your own.....   

Headline of the day---

    Rev. Wright on Obama: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me”

And Obama says he didn't have a clue....; in 20 years of church going, he never heard Wright say such things. It's curious that a devout Christian such as Obama hasn't been able to find a church to replace his membership in Wright's racist, anti-American flock.

Government Motors

By his own admission Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. without knowing anything about the auto industry.

Whitacre built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career.

“I don’t know anything about cars,” Whitacre, 67, said yesterday in an interview after his appointment. “A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I’m not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.” (Read more here.)

It's easy to use this quote to ridicule Whitacre's selection, but I imagine it's pretty sound; he's a solid businessman with a good track record with AT&T.

And considering that Brian Deese, a 31-year-old not-quite-graduate of Yale Law School who has as much business and executive experience as Obama is dismantling General Motors Corp., remaking the US automotive industry, and rewriting the rules of American capitalism..... the new chairman is a God send.

Whitacre's 43-year business career is 12 years longer than Lil' Bri has been on the planet.

This just in:

Obama has ordered that high value terrorist POWs be Mirandized.

Yes, you read that correctly. Now murdering, psychotic ragheads have the some of the same Constitutional rights as you do. Access to the Fifth Amendment won't be far behind.

And that almost insures they will never reveal any intelligence which will help protect and defend Americans at home and abroad.

Now terrorists can lawyer up, and free of charge at that, and add another ring to the Biggest Show on Earth that is now performing inside the Beltway. Changes of venue, juries of the terrorists' "peers", endless appeals paid for by the ACLU, special prison accommodations, probation, hung juries, death threats directed at potential jurors and absolutely no chance of execution.

(The Weekly Standard) -- Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

When does the treasonous charge of "providing aid and comfort to the enemy" come into play? 

American servicemen and women will die as a direct result of this and other policies of this renegade administration.

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This should be mandatory viewing in all public schools (private school and home schooled kids already get it):

The continued hypocrisy of the Left

News Item: WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear a constitutional challenge to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. military, a move that effectively leaves it to the Obama administration to resolve the issue.

Yes, good news.... but only temporary.

Actually Obama is glad SCOTUS didn't accept the hearing; this way he doesn't have to take more heat from the hard left when the administration would have to defend "don't ask, don't tell" in court.  

The only reason this issue continues to be forced on the military is the left's desire to socially engineer all aspects of society to "prove" homosexuality is "normal".

... a massive case of tail wags dog.      

It's simple, really-- gays are not willing to accept "DA/DT" because it requires them only to keep their sexual preferences to themselves; and that would defeat  the entire purpose of their political ambitions. As a group, the activists are not sincere about wanting to serve their country; first and foremost, they want to promote their left wing agenda, and then cry discrimination.

They've made their bed, let them sleep under it.

The dykes and the queens will drone on and on about the above, but cannot summon an ounce of outrage for our enemies' inhumanity. 

19 July 2005: Two gay teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were publicly executed in Iran for the "crime" of homosexuality. The youths were hanged in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad. (a thanks to Gateway Pundit).  

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deals with gay rights by executing gays left and right despite the fact homosexuality doesn't exist in Iran.

'Course, by now that may be true... they may all be dead.

Rush had a lot of fun with this the other day... I'm not above piling on:

Breaking News: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is resting her broken ankle, having senators come see her in the Capitol instead of hobbling through hallways to visit them.

Sotomayor broke her ankle after stumbling in the airport for a flight from New York to Washington.

Limbaugh opined... "I hope she can find 'a wise Latina' doctor to set that ankle as opposed to an average white doctor because the wise Latina doctor is much richer experience with broken ankles, and would probably do a much better job of setting that ankle than an average white doctor who has not lived the rich experiences of a Latina med student and resident."

Of course, a wise, white, male nominee would not be stupid enough to run in high heels (except some male physicians in the military--see above).

Come to think of it, I'm sure that being such a richly experienced, wise, FOC (female of color), she'll choose a likewise-credentialed slip and fall ambulance chaser to bring suit against the airport.

One thing is certain... Hillary Clinton who has almost as much rich experience to be a Supreme Court Justice (were it not for being white) would never break her ankle... they're unbreakable.

 

When is it enough to call "treason"?

Since it was immensely clear last fall that Barack Hussein Obama was a clear and present danger to the United States, no Real American can claim to be shocked or even mildly surprised at the havoc his electoral socialist coup d'état has wrought in just six months.

He has and likely will fulfil his campaign threats as long as he pilots this modern day Titanic into the proverbial perfect storm.

He has lied continuously since taking office. He has destroyed the already seriously wounded national economy; he had nationalized businesses and sacked chief executive officers of private multi-national corporations and attacked individual freedom across the board.

He has blamed, apologized for and embarrassed the Nation more than the previous 43 presidents combined.

He has subverted the containment and punishment of our fanatical enemies by stopping the prosecution of terrorist prisoners of war and releasing some from prison.

With a ruthless, well-organized and disciplined socialist cadre in place constantly creating stronger and longer tentacles to attack the Constitution of the United States, he is a greater threat to the Nation than IslamoNazi terrorism.      

And with a minimum of three and one-half years left to force America beyond the reach of salvation, when do his anti-American actions become treason and as such constitute an impeachable offense?

In my opinion... since his first day in office when I called for his immediate impeachment. 

There are three elements of this Constitutional, legal, extra-legal and and unfortunately political process:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

(tre·son; tree-zuhn) 

• the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
• the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

and....

The United States Constitution states in Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Obviously, the wording---".... or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"---is the cornerstone of the entire impeachment process; considering that since Congress, the vortex of partisanship, is responsible for indicting, trying, and convicting public officials, it is necessary for the legislative branch to temporarily cast aside its factional nature and adopt a judicial role.

Bribery, perjury, and treason are among the least ambiguous reasons meriting impeachment, but the ocean of wrongdoing encompassed by the Constitution's stipulation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" is vast, and written purposefully so by The Founding Fathers for this exact situation we now face.

They borrowed the phrase impeachment from English common law that had no precisely settled meaning at the time yet at least connoted serious offenses.

This once again, is the genius of the Founders and the Constitution; there is just enough flexibility to allow the blueprint for democracy to guide us as well now as it did more than 200 years ago.

Obama's abuse of power and serious misconduct in office fit this category perfectly.

And I believe that the case for an Obama impeachment and conviction is far more sound than the impeachments of Presidents Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, left, (had he not resigned before Congress voted to impeach, as it likely would have). 

I believe The People can construct a sound case from the "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" Obama has already committed from an ample six-month menu-- the sooner the better. 

But... the question is whether the people's representatives in Congress will act with the patriotic duty of true public servants who have sworn to "... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" and petition to bring Articles of Impeachment.

Every day we the people wait to act only brings us one step closer to a complete collapse of the government, a devastating terrorist attack and/or political violence in the streets. 

In less than 180 days Obama has proven that he remains in office only to the detriment of the United states.

Medal of Honor Host City Golf Tourney Weekend: 

My apologies for not posting much last week; as you noticed yesterday, our Medal of Honor Host City Program brought in 10 Recipients for a golf-tourney fund raiser which was a great success.

I'll post more on that event along with a photo album, but in the meantime here's a group shot of the attendees:

  

Front row, (l-r): Jon Cavaiani (USA), Don "Doc" Ballard (USA), Ken Stumpf (USA), James Taylor (USA), and Tommy Norris (USN)

Back row (l-r): Richard Pittman (USMC), John McGinty (USMC), Roger Donlon (USA), Gainesville businessman and Host City Program supporter John D. Schmitz, Mike Thornton (USN) and Joe Marm (USA).  All the Recipients are Vietnam War Recipients.

With first-time visitors Donlon, Stumpf and Cavaiani, the Host City Program has brought 25 individual Recipients to Gainesville since the program began.