The best of America in peril, but rising up

 (Stars and Stripes) — Looking up at the high walls of the snow-covered Afghan valley, Army Special Forces Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, right, knew that his patrol might be walking directly into an ambush.

That’s why he insisted on being up front, his teammates said.

It’s also what cost him his life.

On Jan. 25, 2008, Miller’s patrol of 22 U.S. and Afghan soldiers was ambushed outside of Gowardesh by a force of 120 enemy fighters. Troops there said Miller bore the brunt of the attack, then drew even more fire in an effort to help his men drop back to safety.

Even after being shot through both sides of his chest, he continued to return fire and toss grenades at the enemy. “He definitely saved lives that day,” said Staff Sgt. Nick McGarry, a close friend who served alongside Miller in the Special Forces for three years.

Today, the White House will posthumously honor Miller for his heroism by presenting his family with the Medal of Honor, only the third service member to be awarded the honor for actions in Afghanistan.

Also please keep our friend, 1stSgt David McNerney in your thoughts and prayers; David, a Recipient for his heroic 1967 actions in Vietnam, has entered the Houston VA Hospital for hospice care.

A quick note or card would be a great lift for him and his family and friends.

Send to:

David McNerney, Medal of Honor Recipient

c/o Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

2002 Holcombe Blvd.

Houston, TX  77030

I always hate this segue… switching from the epitome of American exceptionalism, honor and achievement and to the politicians who have hacked away at those very bedrock principles for more than a half-century.  

May their end be swift, calamitous and complete 

Once again… sorry for infrequent posts … had a good time at the MOH Society’s annual convention in historic Charleston, S.C.  Many states, many miles… like Lethal Weapon cops, “I’m gettin’ too old for this crap.”

Over the last two weeks and with increasing speed, the radical left of the democrat party, lead by the Obama Regime, has gone into a flat spin on all fronts; Congress slunk out of two for an Obama vacation, doing so via a single vote cast by the most hated woman in the nation—SanFranNan Pelosi.

The dems couldn’t even pass a budget…no matter, we should be more than grateful for gridlock at this moment.

We are now witnessing the final death throes of the despicable, anti-America, hard- core socialist movement that slammed into high gear after 1963; and which made tax slaves real Americans and welfare queens and their poverty pimps in Washington. Under this guise came the storm troopers, not strutting their way down the streets, threatening der untermensch with torture and death.

Working in front groups… unions, “civil rights” (sic) groups, education, the arts, entertainment, environmental movements—all supported, protected and funded by the democrat party in exchange for votes—the radicals destroyed much of American without firing a shot.

We’ve been vigilant, looking outward when first, we should have been looking over our shoulder.

It’s laughable… we claim to have “won” the Cold War—hogwash. Yet every year our “finest” colleges and universities require only four years to turn your kid into a Che Guevara t-shirt-wearing useful idiot of the left, literally cheering for the murder of a million babies a year, ridiculing the country, its founders and God.

The uber irony of course is that you paid $40-$50,000 for the whole freak show.

For America the effective end of the radical left was never really in doubt for one simple reason: we are Americans and like no other people, society or country in the world… in the history of the world.

The best there is, there ever was, or ever will be… what is around us all will fall, but never we.

Instead of being considered about the “military-industrial complex”, Ike should have warned us about the political/ economic complex… money is power, power is money.

He should have joined the founders in stressing that we be ever vigilant against domestic enemies—the real threat for a nation surrounded by massive oceans and insignificant countries to the north and south.

Socialism was and is always destined to implode because it only “works” until the money runs out and the entitlement infrastructure built on taxing to death the productive collapses of it own enormous weight… the exact scenario that now exists.

Confiscating the hard-earned wealth from Real Americans and using it to purchase the slugs, defectives, con artists, race hustlers, and enemies of our society and their votes, lasts only until all are poor and despots rule, or until strong men and women stand and throw off the yoke of tyranny.

Over $11 Million in California Welfare Funds Spent in Vegas Casinos Government

CBS Poll: 25% of Americans Would Not Support Attacking Iran in The Event They Attacked U.S. Soil First…

Unreal. New Hip-Hop Curriculum Refers to Founding Fathers “Old Dead White Men”

We are now rising up... but once again far too late to prevent great wounding. Nonetheless, most indications, even despite my inherent cautiousness when judging my fellow citizens.

1. The democrat party is in collapse.

It is warring against itself and may well indeed emerge after its collapse in 15-20 years as centrist or even conservative-lite in much the same way the Kennedy Administration was.  

Its titular head, Howard Dean, a self-serving apolitical, amoral con man is obviously lost at sea in much the same way as is his doppelganger, Michael Steele, the GOP’s answer to affirmation action. Both are incompetent, without real political clout and are but mere window dressing. This hurts the GOP far more than the DNC… at least Dean is intelligent enough for his post, Steele is not.  

Thus it must also be said that a similar transformation will cleanse the GOP of the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Blanche Lincoln, Arlen Specter, Mike Castle who never were within a solar system of conservative Reagan republicanism.   

2. Old v New.

Ninety percent of politicians are willing to sublimate their principles (if they can lay their hand to them) to win elections and maintain their power and wealth, so they’ll thrown the Obama under the bus as soon as he becomes a personal millstone around their individual necks; and he has been dead weight for them since he won the nomination. Not even a below-average IQ child ever bought into “hope and change” as a political platform. For them it has been flat spin since Jan. 20, 2009.

3. The truth will out.

Despite the massive conspiracy that created the most serious threat to the United States in its history, communism masquerading as soft socialism, law-abiding, Christian middle-Americans, regardless of previous party affiliation have now begun to reclaim their rightful role in the government…. as the supreme power of this Constitutional Republic, as it was envisioned so long ago.

4. Making it stick.

As faithful readers know, I see the world in terms of military tactics and strategy… anyone with a “political science” degree knows more and more about less and less until their know nothing. Look to the “leadership” of either party for examples.

We can win the battle, yet still loose the war; it only required five short years for American to fall dead asleep, resting on its hard-earned WWII laurels, and caught completely unprepared for the communist threat in Korea. Thousands of young Americans paid with their lives for the malfeasance and stupidity of the government, the military and the electorate which came together to rule the world somewhat less than four years.

Essentially then, Sunday, 25 June 1950 at the 38th parallel in Korea was no different than Sunday, 7 December 1941 in Hawaii.

Now we face an even more determined enemy—collectivist globalism and its key henchman, the Muslim religion—as will as the burden of a soft populace which is more than comfortable allowing a small professional military to protect their bloated lives and tag along for the free ride.

Should we backslide and not capitalize on our initial victories to finally eradicate the left in America, we will likely not survive.

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[Dave Carver]

10/6 -- card sent to the 1st Sgt -- we missed you, glad you're back . . .