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Col. Bob Howard, MOH, passes away at 70

I regret to inform LM31 readers that Col. Bob Howard, Special Forces legendary combat leader and Medal of Honor Recipient, passed away yesterday of cancer in Waco Texas. 

Colonel Howard enlisted at 17 and retired after 36 years in the U.S. Army.

He served 56 months conducting combat missions in South Vietnam,  North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; and was nominated for the Medal of Honor three separate times in a 13-month period.

In addition to the nation's highest award for valor, Col. Howard was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with "V" device. 

He was wounded 14 times and received eight Purple Hearts.

His death at 70, leaves 91 surviving Medal of Honor Recipients.

Read more http://rlhtribute.com/.

Rider on a pale horse

Well America, it appears that we are on our way to medical care provided by the Postal Service and the DMV.

We are one small step from the destruction of our medical care and the scuttling of our economy and here’s just a preview of what may happen to you and yours.

Birmingham, England:

A grandmother died after 'gross failures' by NHS doctors who injected her lungs with a chemical that was ten times the recommended strength, a coroner ruled today.

Rosemary McFarlane, 64, spent ten days in 'burning agony' after receiving the lethal dose during what should have been a routine procedure.

The caustic chemical, phosphate buffered saline, burned the inside of her lungs. Read more here.

“But GA, terrible mistakes happen all the time, even in our present system.”

Gosh, I wasn’t aware of that but, and it’s too bad; the difference here is that England has been operating a socialized medical care system forever, and still can get it right.

And we’re going to turn our system over to to people who brought you “The Bridge to Nowhere”, “Cash for Clunkers”, the bail-outs, Obama Motors, the IRS, Fannie May and Freddie Mac?

And, like Obama, the government has absolutely no idea how in hell to run anything, let alone medicine.

You will suffer and you will die… or as Chairman Barack Hussein Obama has patronized: “sometimes, it better just to take the pain pill.”

I’m sure they gave poor Rosemary McFarlane pain pills, but by then she would have preferred arsenic.

A year or two ago I received some meds from the VA which I routinely do, but they—a blood pressure medicine—had not been prescribed.

On my next appointment, I took them back to the VA and the response was “huh, don't know how that happened.” 

I could only think of what if an 88-year-old disabled vet had received them… and trusting his government, his socialized medicine, he took them as directed.

Your ever tried to sue the federal government?

A blatant crime has been carried out as we watched Harry Reid bulldoze a secret bill through in the dead of night over the Christmas holiday.

It is the out and out bribery of a public official to support Obama care… in fact, it should be more than a crime; bribery would be Reid using his own money to buy votes…. but he used your money to buy votes from Landrieu and Nelson and who know how many others?

But GA, he was using leverage to get money for his state.

And that’s the whole damned problem…. legislation by the pimp and whore system.

When did Landrieu and Nelson come to believe that placing their state over the nation’s best interests was anything less that failure of their oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”?

There is such a thing as being a “national senator”… of  course that was when there were still a few statesmen in the Senate.

May Reid and his ilk rot in hell and very soon.

Epic fail!

The greatest speaker who ever spake sure wowed the world in “Hopenhagen” with the incredible imagery of phrases like:

• “The time for talk is over”
• "time for action, not words,"
• "we should live in the future, not the past"

And… he searched and searched until he could find someone to bow to… not his usual lick-the-shoes bow that he reserves for our greatest enemies, and not the head-bob his mouth-breathers insist was a “stumble” or perhaps a “weather balloon”—somewhere in-between.  

And there is more good news from Jake Tapper—the only reporter left in the state-run network TV news-: Oh my- White House sounding resigned to defeat in Copenhagen

Breaking: Breaking: India, China walk out of Copenhagen. A much-need wooden stake has been drive into the heart of the Enviro-idiots and their attempt to destroy America.

In honor of this moment-to-be-cherished here’s The Goracle reading his “poem” which was obviously inspired by a a 15-year-old sophomore chick.

And quote for the day goes to Ralph Nader (the 1960s hysterical liar who succeeded in destroying a perfectly reasonable and safe U.S. automobile.. the Chevy Corvair):

“This is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations.”

My good friend from the Mystic East, Jeff The Norton Driver, said this morning, “… I have been appalled by congress for years. My disgust is plumbing new depths on so many fronts. But it has become more than disgusting. It is now dangerous. The chickens will come home to pay the piper.”

The Senate is case-in-point. This must have been what Romans thought as Nero made his horse a senator... Minnesotans made one of a ass.

The world at large has indeed become theater of the absurd.... Tony Blair ran away to join the circus in Copenhagen yesterday and promptly announced:

“It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege. It doesn’t need to be.”

Saying that the global warming science (sic) “might not be certain” when it has been wholly fabricated, faked and merely a facade for the greatest Ponzi scheme in history is akin to saying that Sen. Babs Boxer is “dumber than a post.”

Yet here is Britain’s former PM saying “don’t bother me with the truth, I have my mind made up.”

And to think I once considered him sane.

ENOUGH!

Let us reflect on the best and brightest. This comes from one of the leading milblogs on the net—Blackfive—which posts a regular feature: Someone You Should Know; it contains accounts of courage and sacrifice by our troops.

Marine Lance Cpl. Richard S. Weinmaster has entered the honored realm of our greatest heroes:

In the heat of an ambush in Afghanistan's most lawless province, 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Richard S. Weinmaster threw himself in front of a grenade to shield other marines in his platoon.
Weinmaster was critically wounded by the blast.

But the bloodied Nebraska native stayed in the fight, firing his machine at the enemy position until he collapsed from his wounds.

Looking back at the July 8, 2008, engagement, Weinmaster says,"I didn't do anything special. Everyone on my left and right would have done the same thing. I was just in the right place at the right time."

For extraordinary heroism while serving as automatic rifleman, Weinmaster was awarded the Navy Cross.

For comparison, here’s another young American….

            "I Pledge to be of service to our president."

The worst of humans, the best of animals

While I’m not a fiction writer, I think I could adequately acquit myself due to a decent imagination.

However… I would never have come up with the following:

“White House officials are disputing an allegation making the rounds in conservative media outlets that a White House official threatened Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that if he doesn't support Democratic health care reform legislation, Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base will end up on the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list.

“White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement issued Wednesday night that the ‘rumor is absolutely false, as the people spreading it well know. This is nothing but a cynical, crass political game that is designed to maintain the status quo’."

My friends, Offutt is not simply an Air Force base… it is perhaps THE military U.S. base. 

Why is it in Nebraska…. c’mon, put on yer war caps; because it’s as far as you can get from missiles fired from Russian and China.

• President Bush was taken to the Offutt Strategic Command Underground Command Center’s underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear blast after  9/11. From this location he received the latest intel and prepared for the coming war.
• It is  headquarters to the  U.S. Strategic Command,  Air Force Weather Agency, and the 55th Wing of the Air Combat command.
• It is home to all branches—approximately 10,000 military and federal employees are assigned.
• Offutt is also home to 14,232 military dependants, 25,500 military retirees (4-state area) 3,000 civilian employees and 500 reservists.

Yes, Real Americans, the Fifth-Columnist President has threatened to close America’s most important base and crush our national defense to strong arm an elected member of Congress for not supporting ObamaCare.

And speaking of the air war… Newsweek reports that the Commander-in-Chief who finds the “victorious” attitude of our military distasteful is now highly concerned about “… firing (drone) missiles into urban areas like Quetta, where intelligence reports suggest that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and other high-level militants have sometimes taken shelter, would greatly increase the risk of civilian casualties.”

It’s even obvious to a third grader how stupid and suicidal this is, and he probably already knows that Obama’s ROE (rules of engagement) prevent our soldiers and Marines from engaging the sub-humans in villages and especially in mosques. ( HotAir.com reports.)

So Johnny, where might we find the aforementioned IslamoNazis? 

And speaking of where homicidal wastes-of-skin can most easily be found, there is this—a five-story building two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, now houses a Muslim prayer space. The building housed a retail business until Sept. 11, 2001, but had been vacant since, until a group of Muslims bought it in July:

“But for months now, out of the public eye, an iron gate rises every Friday afternoon, and with the outside rumblings of construction at ground zero as a backdrop, hundreds of Muslims crowd inside, facing Mecca in prayer and listening to their imam read in Arabic from the Koran.

“The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.

“The location was precisely a key selling point for the group of Muslims who bought the building in July. A presence so close to the World Trade Center, “where a piece of the wreckage fell,” said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, “sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.”

Jed Babbin of National Review online reports that one of America’s best somehow slipped past the nation’s attention for his bravery in a combat zone….  by fighting his superior officers:

While serving in Iraq in 2003 artillery commander LtCol. Allen West was in charge of interrogating and Iraqi police officer suspected of having information about planned attacks on American forces.

Local informants told West he was specifically targeted for assassination and fingered the double-agent who was uncooperative. West took a few of his men to the interrogation area to see for himself, where he found the prisoner being questioned by two female officers. They told him the man “was belligerent, and wasn't giving them any information.”

Aren’t you shocked, shocked that chicks questioning ragheads doesn’t work?

West, obviously a throw-back to WWII, sat across from the man, and after about 20 more minutes of useless questioning , West grabbed the man, held him down near a box full of sand used to discharge jammed weapons, and threatened to shoot him at the count of five.

No response.

West held the man down, counted to five, and then fired his pistol into the discharging box about a foot from the Iraqi's head.

He began talking… quickly. Over the next few minutes, the prisoner gave very specific information, he named the conspirators, gave times and dates of the assassination plan, and even described how attacks would be made. Lives were saved.

West immediately went to his commanding officer, woke him up and told him what he had done, and about the information he'd gotten from the Iraqi.

Everything went up the chain-of-command.

West, just short of 20 years’ service, was charged with violating UCMJ articles 128 (assault) and 134 (general article) and was in danger of receiving an 11 year prison sentence, dismissal, and losing his retirement benefits. West was

Processed through an Article 32 hearing, he admitted wrongdoing, was fined $5,000 over two months for misconduct and assault. He then submitted his resignation, and was allowed to retire with full benefits in the summer of 2004.

Almost 100 members of Congress signed letters urging full retirement for the career solider.

After the ordeal West said: “I stand by my actions and those of far more courageous men and women who understand the commitment to protect the American people. I made a simple statement at my Article 32 hearing when asked if I would take the same action again, ‘If it is about the safety and lives of my men, I would go through hell with a gasoline can’.

Man’s best friend

And now a great dog story… I’ve been aware of the wonderfully named Faith… a Lab-chow mix who is one of God’s greatest creatures and has done more for humans than most humans.

AP reports:

Born without front legs to a junkyard dog around Christmas 2002, Faith the puppy was rejected and abused by her mother. She was rescued by Reuben Stringfellow, now an Army E-4 specialist, who had been asked to bury other puppies in the litter.

Jude Stringfellow immediately took in the happy puppy who always wanted to play despite her initially ability to walk; she persisted until, amazingly, she simply rose on her hind legs and never looked back. 

Stringfellow will never forget a woman from New York who happened to see Faith on a street corner. The woman was depressed and had lost both legs to diabetes.

"She was in her wheelchair and saw us. She was crying. She had seen Faith on television. She just held her and said she wished she had that kind of courage." Stringfellow said. "She told us: 'I was on my way to pick up the gun.' She handed the pawn ticket to a police officer and said she didn't need it anymore."

Faith is now helping our troops. Last weekend she headed to Washington state, where she met with as many as 5,000 soldiers at McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis. Some of the soldiers were headed to war, some were coming back, some with disabilities.

"She just walks around barking and laughing and excited to see them all," Jude Stringfellow said. "There is a lot of crying, pointing and surprise. From those who have lost friends or limbs, there can be silence. Some will shake my hand and thank me, some will pat her on the head. There is a lot of quiet, heartfelt, really deep emotion."

But Faith's most emotional reunion — with Reuben Stringfellow, who rescued her 7 years ago this Christmas — will have to wait for January. He's already gotten Faith a birthday present: a peanut butter cookie with her name on it.

For more great pictures like these go to Faith’s website. If you are so money send a few dollars of buy a book or two to support this noble dog.

And here she is in action:

Play Video Video: First Person: Faith the Dog inspires with two legs AP

Gotta run… I’m going to hugs my dogs.

American history taught by communists while our schools provide “how-to” manuals on sexual perversion….

Breaking:

Senator Joe Liebermann who vowed he wouldn’t support ObamaCare didn’t last a day. He has caved and the only question of importance is what he got in return for his vote.

The price of his honor should be leaked in 48 hours.

Scumbags… they’re all scumbags.

You’re on your own.

Sunday evening the History Channel presented more communist propaganda—“The People Speak”—which is no doubt headed for for your kids’/ grandkids’ classroom.

BTW: NBC owns The History channel… which in turn was owned by General Electric before it was sold last week to Comcast.

The People Speak is another product of the unholy alliance of Howard Zinn and his leftist acolytes with cash.

Here’s what Zinn wants to indoctrinate young minds with: 

• “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”

“People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful writers who joined the movement against war and injustice, against capitalism and corporate power. That was a very exciting period in American history.”

Zinn’s experience as a WWII Air Force bombardier didn’t take; he used the G.I Bill to get a PhD at Columbia which has produced almost as many traitors as Harvard and Yale… and became a communist.

Zinn has said:

"If people knew, if young people going to school, knew the history of American expansion, first on the continent, and then in the world, and if they knew the history of lies, and the history of massacres that took place along side this expansion, nobody would go to a recruiting station to sign up for any war, nobody."

Dan Flynn wrote a trenchant review of one of Zinn’s so-called “history” books several years ago, concluding:

More striking than Zinn’s inaccuracies—intentional and otherwise—is what he leaves out.

Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate all fail to merit a mention. Nowhere do we learn that Americans were first in flight, first to fly across the Atlantic, and first to walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk, and the Wright Brothers are entirely absent. Instead, the reader is treated to the exploits of Speckled Snake, Joan Baez, and the Berrigan brothers.

While Zinn sees fit to mention that immigrants often went into professions like ditch-digging and prostitution, American success stories like those of Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, and Louis B. Mayer—to name but a few—are excluded. Valley Forge rates a single fleeting reference, while D-Day’s Normandy invasion, Gettysburg, and other important military battles are left out. In their place, we get several pages on the My Lai massacre and colorful descriptions of U.S. bombs falling on hotels, air-raid shelters, and markets during the Gulf War of the early 1990s.

Hollywood dwarf Matt Damon who produced this wholesale re-write of U.S. history has made this collectivist propaganda blitz on your kids possible; fair warning.

Hard left turn into a garbage dump:

Dunno if you’ve been following “Fistgate” but our kids’ childhood has has been raped and destroyed… courtesy of our Fifth Columnist President:

The degenerate pervert below, right is Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings who founded the group GLSEN:

Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network another alphabet soup homosexual shock troop organization.

(Thanks to Breitbart via Gateway Pundit):"

Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).

Here’s just one of the degenerate’s creations… 

“The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)”

One of the book for your K-6 student is “Hello Sailor”; to wit: Matt lives in a lighthouse. He watches the sea every day... for ships and for his friend, Sailor. Matt is so forlorn that Sailor has gone away that he almost forgets his own birthday. But, his friends say Sailor will never come back, but Matt doesn't give up hope. And, after his birthday party is over, his patience is rewarded, when Sailor finally returns.

Get it… ? Lighthouse? Sailor? 

“Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.

“Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air.”

“One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem.

“Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.”

So why “Fistgate”?

Use your imagination… or just Google “fisting / Jennings” to see who Obama wants overseeing the “safety” of your children and grandchildren.

Then take a shower.

Check Michelle Malkin’s post here on what corporations support and give money to GLESEN; they include Pepsi and Time-Warner.

Government of Oz

Sorry for the drop off in posts; I had the every 4-5 year computer freeze up/blow down and am working on an old laptop.

Time to spend $$ I hadn't counted on.

The Mac devotees would say I have the wrong PC, but I don't want to learn an entire new system.

I had a really decent post for Dec. 7... essentially that we've gone from "Remember Pearl Harbor!" to "Prosecute Our SEALs!"

In essence that was it; when you think of it that's a lot.

The flat-earthers in Cope-N-haaggunn number as many as 20,000... and five rag-head terrorists. It occurred to me mind that if someone set off a truck load of C4 in the midst of thousands of environmental whack-jobs and a handful of poseur politicians, I wouldn't shed a tear. 

And now that the so-called "Danish text" has been leaked, exposing the entire scam as a gigantic con, and designed to undermine small countries.... the entire enviro-idiots are done; but that does not mean that your Congress and President won't sign it anyway.

When you look at the world today... especially the U.S. government, it's like touring a movie lot; intricate facades which front enormous plywood constructs. Or if you will, the "Pay no attention to the Man behind the curtain" scene from Wizard of Oz.

Problem is... 70 percent of most people don't care to step around back, being content to live lives of mindless emotion.... "can't we all just get along?"

No, Virginia... there is no Utopia.

The problem is... Utopians, if they remember, vote.

Think of it, you read, you discuss, you think and fret; you worry about the country you're leaving your children, pray... and you vote--only to have it canceled by a idiot who only needed "Hope and Change" to exercise their franchise.

Frightening, no?

Great take on the similarities between the manufactured public images of mmmm, mmmm , mmmmm Barack Hussein Obama and Tiger Woods.

Jack Shafer, the Slate media columnist, spells out how this transpired.

"The Tiger Woods that was constructed for corporate consumption was spotless and smooth, an edgeless brand easily peddled to sheikhs and shakers.

"Because Barack Obama is about as completely manufactured a political character as this nation has seen. His meteoric rise, without the inconvenience of a public record or accomplishments, and the public's willing suspension of critical evaluation of his résumé allowed his handlers and the media to project whatever they wanted to on his unfurrowed brow."

and, from Lisa Schiffern wringing in American Thinker

"Ironically, the parallels have nothing to do with race. The Obama campaign did explicitly attempt to borrow the from the then-universal Tiger Woods appeal to allay any discomfort voters might have had with a mixed-race politician. They constructed a persona that would make the American electorate comfortable with a barely-known, first-term senator with a left wing voting record, a deliberately obscured personal and professional past, and no traditional qualifications for high office.

Rageaveu… it’s 1972 once more

There’s no need for me to rehash The Fifth-Columnist’s overproduced half hour of lies and distortions…. the young West Point cadets, despite orders from superiors for “enthusiasm”, sat on their hands.

Essentially Obama delivered the same old half a loaf rah-rah he always does when trying to more of less conduct a war while selling out those who fight it in order to appease the radical left.

I am beginning to view this war the same as I did the Vietnam War in 1972-73.

Johnson had wasted thousands of lives through the 1960s by “no-fire zones”, hand-picking bombing targets himself and a refusing to interdict Russian war supply ships before they reached Haiphong Harbor.

From the beginning of Rolling Thunder bombing raids over North Vietnam starting in 1965, Washington dictated which targets would be struck, the day and hour of the attack, the number and types of aircraft and the tonnages and types of ordnance utilized, and sometimes even the direction of the attack.

Repeatedly, the Air Force was ordered to conduct daylight bombing missions over the most heavily fortified city in history, following the very same routes, day in, day out.

Airstrikes were strictly forbidden within 30 nautical miles of Hanoi and within 10 nautical miles of the port of Haiphong. A 30-mile buffer zone also extended along the length of the Chinese frontier.

According to Air Force historian Earl Tilford:

Targeting bore little resemblance to reality in that the sequence of attacks was uncoordinated and the targets were approved randomly - even illogically. The North's airfields, which, according to any rational targeting policy, should have been hit first in the campaign, were also off-limits.

As a result, our losses were appalling and unnecessary.

In 1968, Richard Nixon was elected on his a “secret plan” to end the war… which turned out to be… we’ll run away, and please give us back our POWs.

Like rats on a sinking Green Peace ship, Congress was overrun with democrat anti-war, anti-military cowards and eventually voted to withhold funding from our troops in the field…. any of this sound familiar?

In response to the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia Congress passed the landmark Cooper-Church Amendment which prohibited the use of any funds already appropriated for military spending on the introduction of additional U.S. troops into Cambodia.

Nixon only whined, and did not veto it. 

Following Cooper-Church, and even after the Paris cease-fire agreement, Congress literally dropped the hammer on the Vietnam War with its passage in 1973 of a joint resolution (H.J.Res. 636) prohibiting any further appropriation or expenditure of any funds for any "combat in or over or from the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia."

The South Vietnamese held on for the next two years, but without the promised and agree upon U.S. air support, the ARVN was finally crushed and Saigon fell in 1975. Millions of our allies, many who worked with and for us, were…. along with their families, imprisoned, tortured and murdered if they were unable to escape.

Cambodia was transformed into a killing field the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the Third Reich.

Their blood (and that of 58,000 Americans) remains on the hands of American politicians.

It is happening again now.

Today we also have spineless politicians in power who care far more about their government job and a license to steal, than they do about the best and brightest of this generation fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And last night after dithering for more than three months, at a cost of 116 U.S. troops, Obama announced that he “will” send the reinforcements so urgently requested by General McChrystal; or more, correctly, about 30-percent of the 80-90,000 wanted by CENTCOM.

And… Obama’s timeline for the “surge” will be carried out incrementally… one of the worst military mistakes.

One move on the chessboard can be met and matched… 20 cannot.

Yet, the Coward-in-Chief said his "urgent attention and swift action" resulted in him sending 17,000 U.S. troops "to stabilize a deteriorating situation" in Afghanistan."

Additional U.S. contingents, the 8,000-strong 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade from Camp LeJeune, N.C., will arrive in late May. The Army's 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., will arrive with 4,000 troops in late July, along with an additional 5,000 troops in still-undesignated smaller units.

And the kicker from last night’s abuse of the West Point Corps of cadets who could have been studying or sleeping, was this:

We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer and all of our troops by the end of 2011.

That’s all “combat” troops out by August 2010… nine months from today. 

And we’ll be out of Afghanistan just in time for….. the presidential election!

Isn’t it ironic how that worked out? 

First, Obama cannot predict the future, despite his water-walking ability.

Secondly, our leaving Afghanistan, also brings into play the issues of Iran, Pakistan and Iraq which TOTUS failed to strategically address. Could those elements possibly impact our military decisions between now and then?

If this time table and decisions are carried out, we will soon have our backs against the wall in the United States, for we will have proven that we’re more bark than bite, and that if we have democrat-controlled government, we can be bitch-slapped at will by any raghead on the block.

This happened in Somalia in 1992, and we suffered 9/11 as a direct result.

Tell, me… how in good conscience can I urge someone to join the military now while Barack Hussein Obama is at the helm? Now that he has given our plans to the enemy, and even given them the date of our surrender?

How could I face their family if they were the last to die in a war manipulated by The Manchurian Candidate to assure his re-election?

I yearn for American of long ago:

“We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction."

Any questions?

Now, do the right thing and go tell your kids to forgive you because there is no such thing as global warming (sic)

As faithful readers will recall, I never argue with Holocaust deniers… it is beneath the dignity of one of the world’s greatest atrocities and beneath the intelligence of any sane person.

So it comes as no surprise that I’m not going to spend much time on the collapse of the world-wide global warming conspiracy; the leftist enviro-whacko scientists has been outed, proving once and for all that anyone who still believes in “man-made global warming” is a certifiable idiot.

Amazing, unbelievable, breaking news:

• people lied to line their own pockets… imagine.
• scientists faked, hid, altered and ignored any data that proved contrary to their pre-determined research results;
• They did so in order to fraudulently obtain grant money, cash in on the lecture circuit, books, documentaries and eventually business opportunities based on something that does not exist.

And they are no different that our scam artist president who will be traveling to Copenhagen in December to help kick off the global climate talks… about a fairy tale disaster cooked up by our enemies.

All “environmentalism” is a scam and has nothing to do with the environment; it has everything to do with the communizing of the entire world.

Should you encounter GW true believers in the future, please just laugh in their face and move on… you have more important things to do—like getting rid of any elected office-holder who carried the water for this attempt to destroy our economy and way of life.

Remember: If you believe in global warming… you just may be are a moron.

Here’s what American parents have allowed government schools to do to their children:

My daughter came home from school recently with a spring in her step and a song on her lips. With no foreshadowing -- or time to call an exorcist -- out came this chilling refrain:

" . . . You can hear the warning -- GLOBAL WARMING . . . "

By the time her father and I removed our jaws from the floor, we had learned that:

A) All the kids had been coerced into singing this catchy ditty, which we called "The Warming Song," at a concert for parents.

B) Further song lyrics scolded selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming scourge that would, in no short order, kill all the polar bears and threaten the birds and bees.  Read more here:

Speaking of office holders

Sunday, four Lakewood Police Department officers, were conducting a routine pre-shift briefing over their laptops at coffee shop when they were ambushed and shot to death by a sub-human waste of skin, Maurice Clemmons.

The murders took place in Parkland, Wash., near McChord Air Force Base, about 35 miles south of Seattle.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is responsible is responsible for the massacre because he commuted Clemmon’s 95-year-prison term after only 11 years.

The dead are:

(L-R): Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, with 13 years of law-enforcement experience, is survived by his wife and three children.

Officer Greg Richards, 42, had eight years of law-enforcement experience, and is survived by his wife and three children.

Officer Tina Griswold, 40, a 14-year veteran officer, is survived by her husband and two children.

Officer Ron Owens, 37, who spent 12 years in law enforcement, is survived by a former wife and a daughter.

Additionally, Clemmons, 37, was recently charged in Pierce County, Wash., in an assault on a police officer and rape of a child, according to law enforcement reports.

Clemmons, though wounded by one of the officers, escape and still eludes authorities.

In 2000, Huckabee commuted Clemmons’ 95-year prison sentence for numerous felonies in Arkansas despite his long and violent criminal history in the state. Clemmons served only 11 years of a the 60-year sentence for burglary and theft of property and was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property.   

The revelation marks the second time Huckabee's clemency decisions have become an issue. During the 2007-2008 presidential campaign, the story of his 1999 grant of clemency to convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who went on to rape again, was widely reported.

News accounts say Huckabee commuted Clemmons' sentence "over the protests of prosecutors”, citing Clemmons' young age at the time the crimes were committed.

Four widowed spouses and nine children left with only one parent.

What’s Huckabee’s response to this?

The usual political coward’s way out… he wrote:

if Clemmons is found responsible for the murders, "it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State.”

But not the very man who let him out of the pen?

Huckabee says he loves doing his TV talk show… great, and there he could stay where he only contributes to boring people, not causing their deaths.

Huckabee is complicit in these murders by Clemmons and Dumond and is therefore unfit for any future public office.

Knock-knock… who’s there?

Don’t believe the “White House intruders” Michaele and Tareq Salahi spin… already in its third or fourth cycle.

In my days as a news photographer I covered two presidents—Carter and Reagan—and several candidates for president and party nominations.

In general it went like this: you contact the Secret Service advance team in the city the President will be in; social security number, DOB, press affiliation, “check back at this number in a week”.

Then on the day of the event you show up at a non-descript hotel room and check in with the agent for credentials. It should be routine unless you lied somewhere along the line, or you aren’t who you said you were. 

Press passes around the neck, you go to the press entrance at the venue where you take everything out of your camera bag for examination and you’re told to fire off a couple of frames on each camera.

Then it’s through the metal detectors and on inside.

And that’s just to get within photo range of The Man…. seldom closer than 30-40 yards.

No one is waved through the gate, let alone snags a one-on-one with POTUS by showing up without an invite or a background check (Although I’ll admit you have a better chance if you have an attractive, thin, bleach-blonde walking point.)

There are several scenarios that I don’t care much about right now, but may prove interesting:

• Gate crasher #1, Tareq Salahi, served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine, where Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi served as vice president. The American Power blog noticed both Salahi’s and Khalidi’s names have been scrubbed from the Task Force website, although Salahi’s bio still comes up on a Google cache search of the site. –Via TheRealBrackOabam.com.
• We all remember that Obama was close friends with Khalidi who is a virulent anti-Semite and Israel hater.
• Desiree Rogers, the socialite (very lite) friend of Barry’s who is White House Social Secretary and therefore responsible for vetting the guest list, but is more interested in having her photo taken.

Anyway, this too—just a tiny little footnote—will settle out and more connections will be made directly to the president of the United States and the shadowy world that he was born and raised into politically and the one he’s visited on the White House… The Peoples’ House.

What’s in a bow…..?

As we’ve noted here before at the Southern Command, a bow is just a bow… unless our Number One Fifth Columnist does it.

Latest American sub-servience seen worldwide and not reported by state-controlled media:

    Obama shows his deference and fealty to fellow communist, Chi-Com Premier Wen Jiabao which amusingly is pronounced: (win jah-bow)

This photo is everywhere, but I cannot find a state-run media story about it.

No doubt angered that Real America was outraged months ago at his groveling before Saudis: Men in Dresses, he has repeated his peasant act several more times that we know of (for all I know, he takes long, soapy showers with these bastards).

Of course it outrages Real America, but the message in this on-going, dog and pony show is to tell you, us…. “I don’t give a damn what you think… I won”.

Be outraged all you want but better yet... take that energy and do something about him, wound him in 2010 by talking to people, especially young people, encourage others to take out their anger at the ballot box, write letters to the editor, start a blog, get your veterans’ organizations off their collective fat asses and take a stand (I’ve got a whole bitch-a-thon on that, coming soon).

Does the above paragraph sound familiar?

It should… the first Americans to take these measures were named Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Washington, Franklin and dozens more whom history neglects.

This is how the Revolution began… because Real Americans don’t bow to anyone.

This is the real outrage:   4 KIAs: Who cares, I shot a 97! 

On Saturday Tigerbama notched his 25th round of golf since Jan. 20, 2009—10 months… that’s 2.5 rounds a month. Or, since Obama likes to blame George Bush for everything: Obama golfed more in nine months than his predecessor did in his last two years in office.   

Obama has double-downed on his links excursions this fall as… the latest deaths of US troops killed in Afghanistan in November rose to 15. October was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the eight-year war, with 58 dead.

And General Dither has promised to make his Af-Pak battlefield decisions on prime-time TV soon, but not in the War Room, not without TelePrompTer and the TV cams.

What good is it if this war can’t be about him?

And they insist that Nero was insane.

 

Just in time for the holidays:

It seems there is a rag-head holiday named “Eid al-Adha”—apparently related to the holy burying of I.E.D.s by those with attention deficient disorder—and Best Buy, which refuses to use “Merry Christmas” in its advertising, happily trumpets “HAPPY EID al-ADHA” for its Muzzie customers.

When the last time you saw a burka in the Home Theater department?

My infidel friends, if you have a few dollars left now that Obama has destroyed much of our economy…. remember this while CHRISTMAS SHOPPING…

1. cross Best Buy of your list;

2. send their ads back with this: “HAPPY EID al-ADHA”  More here, thanks to WeaselZipper.com

The “useful idiots” here at home (helmet tip again to Big Zip):

The Polish community in the United States is outraged by a plan to honor Josef Stalin by placing his bust on a pedestal at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.

According to William McIntosh, the director of the Bradford museum, which is coordinating the project, the Soviet dictator deserves to be acknowledged alongside Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has he was an ally of the US after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

Here’s my take…. Russia was a full partner in the war, tying down Hitler on the Eastern Front which helped England survive, and losing 20 million people to the National Socialists. So acknowledging that truth is appropriate.

And it is likewise appropriate that this truth is prominently displayed as well:

• Stalin's killing machine slaughtered more people than Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did. He enslaved Eastern Europe, including half of Germany and half of Berlin, enabled the eventual erection of the dark symbol of the Iron Curtain with the Berlin Wall, and was responsible for between 30 and 70 million deaths through murder, famine and repression.
• A total of 350,000 "national contingents" (144,000 of them Poles) were arrested and 247,157 (110,000 Poles) were executed.
• Many American communists who emigrated to the Soviet Union during the Great Depression were executed. (Ed. Note: that’s what traitors deserve) 
• Leon Trotsky insisted that that a "river of blood" separated Stalin's regime from that of Lenin.

America, your president is a communist.

You figure it out.

Ask not what you can do for your country… just do what you want in your own perceived best interest

In four years, it will have been a half-century since the day that I emerged from the Science Building to learn that my President had been shot to death on a bright fall Texas day…  just like yesterday.

Nothing has ever seemed right since, despite the passage of 46 years.

It’s been that way all my adult life… and some wonder why I have an “attitude”.

The reason the communist in the White House thinks he invented “hope and change” is… one, he wasn’t alive in 1960, and two, he’s a communist.

Were Jack Kennedy alive today he would be outraged… and a conservative.

It would outrage his soul that he gave his life for a nation which has been taken over by the very enemy he vowed we would confront and “… pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

The PT boat skipper’s country is now led by someone who asserts the following: 

“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”

Obama, you son-of-a-bitch, any time you want I can give you a concise overview of the Bataan Death March; if we were truly all Real Americans, August 6th and 9th would be national holidays.

And I haven’t even gotten to the Nazis and the communists.

If there were some way possible, I would ask President Kennedy’s forgiveness for allowing this to happen.

But all I could really explain is that the America he was willing to die for is populated by 68 million Americans who aren’t worthy a bucket of warm spit… to borrow a phrase.

Rest in peace Sir, the situation is in doubt but we will die in place if necessary.

 

The next step closer to a domestic man-made disaster

When SNL devotes almost seven full minutes in its opening skit to ridicule a Democrat, let alone a Democrat president, its clear the Fourth Horse of the Apocalypse has been unleashed.

The same night a vote to “open debate” (sic) on the intentional ruination of our nation’s health care system—and our society, went as expected, 60-39, straight down the aisle.

The real enemy-within-the-enemy here is the intentionally archaic and Machiavellian legislative branch rules…. it, like all branches of the federal government, are designed confuse and penalize all but the most powerful leaders who can manipulate the process into something far different from democracy.

It’s the oldest trick in the power elite book; it began when a society’s leaders realized the way to remain in power was to make governance a complete mystery to the average citizen.

Early leaders—shamans, witch doctors, priests and kings created their own  languages which made the process so obtuse it defied understanding by a largely illiterate populace. Catholics used Latin and governments used the law… and some wonder why there are so many lawyers in government.

Think about it…. your future, perhaps even your life is controlled by a system you do not even understand. A couple of personal examples…. my step-father’s two scum-bag offspring sued my sister and me as trustees of the family trust for “their share”. These are two “men” who never came to see Ernie when he had cancer and didn’t come to his funeral.

What they did have time for was filing suit since they were 86’ed from the will back in the 80s. How can they sue in that situation, you axe?

Because lawyers run the system and even the dying wishes of a man concerning his estate can be ignored. What I learned: Never disinherit a nuclear family member from a will… just bequeath them $1.00. Even the government (thus far) cannot get around that.

The cost of defending Ernie's wishes?…. $25,000 in legal fees to fight these two cockroaches. My sister Lorri and I would have spent the entire estate to stop them.

See? Confuse and booby-trap the law so that in the end, it depends upon what the definition of “is”, is; that way, all attorneys get paid, all the time, regardless.

The second example? After I’d proved that my ex-wife (aka: PBFH: PsychoBitchFromHell) was hiding assets for the fifth time in her financial statement, she was merely directed by judge to submit another. I bitched to my attorney… she said, “It doesn’t matter, everyone does it.”

I said, “I didn’t.” She almost rolled her eyes and wondered how anyone could be so stupid.

I digress.

Government has become a monstrosity which guarantees you always lose. Think about it… what does government do for you…. what does it do to you? 

How long have you answered that question the same way, expecting it to change, while electing the same politico-thugs? Yes, that’s the very definition of “insanity.”

A 2,000-page health insurance reform bill which even those who vote for it do not read and according to more than one $170,000-a-year representative:

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill’. What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”  -- Rep. John Conyers

Yes, Conyers has the IQ of gnat, but he is absolutely correct… and he voted for it, and he was elected by x-number of Americans.

‘Scuse me while I LMAO.

Your liberal sis-in-law may be whining… “But why? What’s the pay-off?”

Here ya go:

Louisiana’s junior Sen. Mary Landrieu like a low-rent whore seeking the highest bidder, paraded her vote on the health care bill and made out like a champ.

The Obama payoff for her vote was $300 million for Louisiana her friends and family members.

Landrieu is like the fat girl who gets a date to the prom because her escort gets to drive her dads’ Corvette.

Doesn’t she look grand in her senatorial formal?

Best for America? No. Best for the South? No. Best for Louisiana? No, best for Sex Worker Supreme Li’l Mary Landrieu.

I was gonna say something about the idiocy of Louisianans, but that would just be redundant.  

The prostrating of Amercia by our domestic enemies

One can only image the gut-grinding outrage veterans if the WWII Pacific Theater felt the other day when the president of the United States groveled at the feet of Nipponese royalty.

The revolting display of obeisance is exactly what I expect from someone like Barack Hussein Obama.

Even the Japanese were put off by Obama's behavior.

In terms of "bows" this was worthy of the most piteous of history’s slaves; one would think that even half-a-black man would find such a show of fealty repugnant… especially as the first half-black president.

This bow was not just a bow…. it was a signal in two parts: one, it was an arrogant signal, an eff you, if you will, at those who questioned his bowing and scraping before Saudi degenerates… men who wear dresses. Second, it was a further signal to the world of our willingness to essentially surrender our role as the world’s dominant force for good.

You don’t need to be an Israeli to understand how this disturbing sign of weakness plays in Jerusalem.

Real Americans don’t bow to anyone…. we fought a war about that sort of thing. Obama should know that… but then, he doesn’t even know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and he has awarded both this year. It seems he would remember that.

It is time even the Jim Jones-type Obama drones accept the fact that everything Obama says is a lie, and that he is intentionally driving the United States into the bar ditch.

Nothing that has happened in the last year can be attributed to inexperience, naivety, or poor advice; Obama is doing everything he is told to do, or do you believe that George Soros’ 22 White House visits were just to mooch free meals?

Cabal. Bloodless coup. Nationalizing. Fascism. National Socialism. Ending capitalism.

They all apply. It is my belief that if this fifth-columnist isn’t stopped in his tracks between now and the 2010 election, we simply will not have time to stop and reverse all the damage that has been done.

Hell, Barney Frank controls your life more than you do, and he’s just some third-rate, opportunistic queen.

The drums roll on

Darrel would have been grouchy about the fuss in his send-off, but also warmed to his soul by the display of love, gratitude, respect and fond memories. The crowd ran from 8 to 80, his son Darren's high school football team members, many co-workers and relatives, and those of us who saw him grow from a young boy to a competent community leader who would rather "do it than talk about it."

Darrel was an emotional patriot who felt deeply about those who serve our country in uniform as his father did in WWII.

It was important for brother Lawrence that we recognize those deeply-held beliefs that we some much or Darrel’s character, and we were able to do so.

Four of us represented all branches of the military—all Vietnam veterans… Lawrence served in the Air Force, Rick Mixon retired from the Navy, Paul Rosenberg was a Special Forces combat medic, and I was the Marine.

But I wasn’t alone; Paul, after seven years in the Army, Paul later did a couple of hitches in the Marine Corps with ANGLICO (Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company).

As always, it struck me…. What (in the world) would I do without  my friends? It is such a great reassurance that they will be there for me when my turn comes.

At the viewing the Friday evening, I tucked one of my miniature Purple Heart medals in Darrel’s coat breast pocket.

A couple of years ago I posted a photograph of a tray of Purple Hearts—maye 25 of them—which were about to be awarded; just the photograph, no words…. I thought the photo spoke for itself.

Darrel wrote back wryly: “Best thing you’ve ever written.”

He meant it both ways.