LEATHERNECKM31

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.

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?

Our PC Generals undermine troop morale

To our nation’s detriment the time of boot-knife carrying, profane, shaved headed, alpha male, with killing-on-their-minds generals in the U.S. military is over.

I cannot remember the last time I heard a rousing, blood-pumping comment from someone with stars on his shoulders. The more stars, the more they sound like a senior senator from Pennsylvania…. no disrespect to Pennsylvania.

Nowadays generals “in country” walk around without covers and don’t even carry sidearms, thus giving the impression of USO entertainers in borrowed military gear.

I know that such dashing command presence would just fill me great confidence as I prepares to break wire.

General McChrystal is the absolute worst about this….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And… I don’t believe that it is appropriate or dignified for professional soldiers to mourn their dead in weepy candlelight ceremonies especially with civilians present.

 

 

 

 

 

Many years ago, as Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Douglas MacArthur chafed at the thought that FDR's socialist New Deal would be funded through cuts to the military.

He told Roosevelt:

"When we lose the next war and an American boy is writhing in pain in the mud with a Jap bayonet in his belly, I want the last words that he spits out in the form of a curse to be not against Douglas MacArthur but against Franklin Roosevelt." FDR was enraged, and he said, "Never speak to the President of the United States that way."

MacArthur immediately offered to resign, but Roosevelt brightened and said, "No, no, Douglas, we must get together on this."

The man who now holds McArthur’s job—Gen. George Casey—is typical of the politically-correct, “diversity-at-all-costs” mentality that has poisoned the upper ranks of our military; perhaps all ranks. 

As the highest commander, the blood of 40 Fort Hood soldiers is on his hands; it was on his watch that an anti-American Muslim zealot who openly praised suicide bombers was catered to, educated at tax payer expense and then murdered 13 young real Americans.

What was Casey’s response?  

• “I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that.” Casey on CNN and any other number of left-wing Sunday TV shows he could slither onto.
• "I wouldn't say I fear (a backlash against Muslims), but one of the reasons I told our leaders to keep their people informed and not rush to judgment or speculate until the investigation comes out, is I do worry slightly about a potential backlash, and we have to be concerned about that."
• “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

Somewhere in America 40 families had to hear their son’s or daughter’s top general say that a dent in our “diversity”—whatever the goddamned hell that is—is more important that the lives and bodies of their loved ones.

Perhaps Casey is best know for using specific troop numbers in his public discussion of a possible drawdown of US Troops in Iraq in 2005. He said the then current troop level of 138,000 could be reduced by 30,000 in the early months of 2006 as Iraqi security forces took on a greater role. President Bush publicly called the talk "speculation" and rebuked the general.

Obviously an opponent of vigorous war-fighting, in January 2007, Casey implied his opposition to a troop surge in Iraq.

"The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And the other thing is that they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term."^[3]

Not long after, Bush kicked Casey upstairs to make way for a real general… David Petraeus, who seems to have been very very quiet since Obama bluffed his way into commanding our troops.

Over the last two hard days of photo ops Obama-appointed Secretary of the Army John McHugh could muster little more than repeating the Army’s pathetic, Madison Avenue motto when discussing the Fort Hood massacre:

"This is a time for the Army family to stand together, this is a time for 'Army Strong' to mean what it says -- and this is a time to know that we are working every moment to ensure that their safety and security is met to the highest possible degree."

At least he expressed some concern about soldiers being assassinated inside their own bases.

A career politician, McHugh, like so many of my fellow Baby-Boomers, graduated from high school in 1966… college four years later; but just couldn't find time to join us in South Vietnam.

But I know you’ll be reassured to learn that McHugh was voted one of the “50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill” by The Hill magazine.^[10]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the boss of the entire Army.

Is justice being pursued?

Asked whether he thought the Army “dropped the ball” in not responding to warning signs that the major was increasingly radical, General Casey replied that he was encouraging soldiers to provide information to criminal investigators.

But he added that the Army needs to be careful not to jump to conclusions based on early tidbits of information.

In other words… do not talk about ragheads…. and it’s a “criminal matter” for the FBI and the courts… not a failure of Casey and his Army.

It was left to Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, get it right; he promised that his committee would investigate Hasan’s suspected motives and whether the Army “missed warning signs that should have led them to essentially discharge him.”

In closing…. The San Antonio Express-News has reported that fellow classmates of Hasan in a graduate military medical program heard him justify suicide bombings and make radical and anti-American statements.

But investigators have said that “Major Hasan” might have suffered from emotional problems that were aggravated by the strain of working with veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and by the knowledge that he might soon be deployed to those theaters as well.

Got that….? the spin is that Hasan who has never served outside the United States and probably fired a rifle but once, may have Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It’s all mapped out for any other sleeper jihadist in the military…. kill as many as you can and then claim to be insane based on hearing combat stories of actual heroes.

Hundreds of ACLU operators are standing by.

dimocrats and gop idiots get the message….

Sorry for being hit and miss of late.

My neighbor, a great young man just starting business as an insurance agent, passed away suddenly last week, and a good friend of mine is fighting for his life in California.

Death always seems close at hand.

May God bless them. 

Rush: Obama's Candidate Losing in New Jersey is Like "Stalin Being Defeated in Moscow, Like Castro Being Defeated in Cuba"....

Coming down with a case of scozzafave.

While it would have been a great emotional boost if Hoffman has pulled it out last night in NY-23, his loss to a left-wing incumbent by only 5 percent means that given six months to campaign—not 30 days—and even minimal support of the GOP, he would have won.

Republicans should remember this race for the object lesson it is.

The true colors of the republican party were in full array: “conservatives be damned, we’ll lay down with anyone—even a pro-abortion, pro-ObamaCare left-winger if we think it best for the party.”

That’s right…. today’s GOP leadership does not care about America nearly as much as it does the Republican Party.

• Former conservative Newt Gingrich endorsed Scozzafave and criticized those who welcomed Hoffman’s candidacy.
• The GOP spent $1 million for ads attacked Hoffman

This should not be forgotten by anyone who has pulled a lever for a Republican.

Last tear the GOP allowed itself to be brainwashed once again to nominate the "so-called “moderate”—John “Maverick” McCain… well, how’s that workin’ out for us now?

The next time you get a GOP begging-for-dollars appeal in the mail, just write “Scozzafave” on the damned thing and send it back. 

Regardless of the New York race which was really never in doubt, this was the first post-tea party-9/12 response from We The People.

And while it wasn’t exactly Bunker Hill, it was a significant enough shot across Obama’s bow that he spent the night ignoring the elections returns in favor of watching himself star in his version of Triumph of the Will.

Let’s see… that was Lie #374 by my count since I first realized that “Obama” wasn’t just another kind of “Sham-Wow”.

Elections aside, the vote on Marxist health care for America is the most important bill that threatens to become law since  

And speaking of… the photo graphically portrays just one major difference between the Republican health care reform bill,    and the Marxists’ version of redistribution of wealth:

And here’s another fifth-columnist pro-Marxist group in full Obama mode:

WASHINGTON (AP)- Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democrats are preparing to take to the floor.

 Officials with knowledge of the group's decision told The Associate Press on Wednesday that the senior's lobby has decided to give the $1.2 trillion measure its seal of approval. An announcement is expected Thursday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made.

The endorsement, in advance of floor votes as early as this weekend, would be a major boost for President Barack Obama's signature issue.   (Breitbart via WeasleZipper.com).

If you’re an AARP member, resign; if they solicit your membership…. give them a big scozzafave.

I missed it because I almost never watch “network” news… but ABC aired “V” last night…. a full-on sci-fi indictment of the Obama take over of the United States.

For those who also missed it, here’s the link to the impressive 9-minute preview from ABC.

The “visitors” who arrive in a “Close Encounters”-sized mother ship, promise hope and change, peace and most importantly…. universal health care.

I am stunned that this made it past ABC’s Obama puppets.

Look familiar????:

In Obama's America…. there are no coincidences

Joseph Ashby of the American Thinker—not the NYT or WaPo or CBS—reports:

“The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director Maurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.”

Obviously out to torpedo Limbaugh’s bid to join the ownership of the St. Louis Rams, Smith sent an e-mail to the union's executive committee last Saturday which stated:

I've spoken to the Commissioner [Roger Goodell] and I understand that this (Limbaugh’s) ownership consideration is in the early stages. But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred.

As I posted yesterday, “… if this can happen to Limbaugh, considering he is the proverbial 600-pound gorilla of broadcasting and has…. well, Rush dollars, it can happen to any of us.”

Make no mistake, this was a political hit.

If you don’t think that the Administration’s ballerina, Rahm Emmanuel, picked up the phone and call Obama’s house boy, Eric Holder the Attorney General, and told him to call Smith to play the players’ race card, well, I don’t have time to go through it again. 

YLSIL: But GA, that’s just big time politics; (wait for left-wing default response)….. everyone does it.

GA: I’ll defer to Ashby’s Thinker piece:

“… never in American history has someone had so much power to pummel his political opponents as President Obama. With control over banks, insurance companies, car companies, media (sports media included) and unions (like the NFL players union), Obama tentacles seem to penetrate into nearly every corner of the nation.

It is, after all, the Chicago way.

While Real America fights the enemies here at home, our troops carry the battle to the enemy in Afghanistan, one arm behind their back.

Obama’s had some “meetings” about strategy over the last several days, despite saying six months ago he had his Af-Pak  strategy in place. 

Taliban militants have now killed more Americans and other troops deployed by NATO this year than in any of the previous years since President Bush ordered the invasion in 2001.

And Gen. McChrystal’s 40,000+ troop request goes unheeded in the White House where the president votes “present”.  Four more of our troops were killed by an IED today, while their Commander-in-chief holds a fund-raiser in Cali and speaks in my state, to "engage the nation" in ironically….. volunteerism.

 Either or 

"In 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year," said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats.

The Senate has siphoned off $2.6 billion from DoD accounts that literally pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And used for what instead?

Well, there’s the $20 million stolen to to launch an educational institute to be named after Sen. Ted Kennedy.

In what was called "a worthy investment", the cash was taken from the support and training accounts by Sen. Dan Inouye (a Medal of Honor Recipient) and Sen. John Kerry, who I understand was in Vietnam. 

Other pork included:

• $20 million for the Maui Space Surveillance System in Hawaii, requested by Inouye.
• Inouye inserted 35 “earmarks” worth more than $206 million, but was out-stolen by ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Thad Cochran, with 48 pet projects totaling $216 million.

Beyond the creative accounting, the bill includes $2.5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes that the military says it does not need, and $1.7 billion for an extra DDG-51 destroyer not requested in the Pentagon's budget proposal.

An analysis of the fiscal raiding party points out that "Air Force and Navy combat pilots training to deploy are getting about half of the flying hours they got at the end of the Vietnam War."

"Army tank crews get less in tank training today than they did during the low-readiness Clinton years,” the report said.

To its possible credit, the White House Office of Management and Budget has called on lawmakers to reverse the cuts.

But I suspect the “call” was muted at best and issued only to provide the administration with national defense cover.

Let us not forget--Obama is the Big Satan, but Congress is the Little Satan.

The big and the little

 

The organized effort to undermine Rush Limbaugh’s bid to become a minority owner of the St. Louis Rams (a life long dream) has succeeded; a consortium of would-be owners has dropped Limbaugh from its group under pressure from the usual far-left wing suspects 

When the President of the United States directly attacks a private citizen as Obama and other members of his administration have done to Limbaugh, it’s open season on Real America.

And as a direct result, the following statements scurrilously attributed to Limbaugh were dusted off to incite opposition to Limbaugh joining the NFL both inside and outside the NFL. The heart of the attack are two quotes anonymously posted to Wikipedia.com and attributed to Limbaugh by something called Jack Huberman in his pack-of-lies book: "101 People Who Are Really Screwing America":

• "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray (Dr. King's assassin). We miss you, James. Godspeed."
• "Let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

Neither is true of course, but Limbaugh’s enemies number in the millions—a great many of whom are more powerful and have more money that he does. All they lack… and the major weapon in the Limbaugh arsenal… is a 3-hour radio show carried by more than 700 radio stations.

He speaks for most of Real America, and thus, Limbaugh (and Glenn Beck) are really the only major weapons we have in our arsenals.

Take it from someone whose life has spanned the history of television… America in the 1950-1990 era was actually controlled by the state-run mass news media without opposition.

Imagine a nation without talk radio, internet blogs and Fox… AND Obama.

Scores of journalists (sic) have used the racists quotes in “have you stopped beating your wife yet” fashion, but when it comes to libel and slander of public figures, the bar is set extraordinarily high. Proteinwisdom.com tracks the origin of the quotes (sic) here:

But, if this can happen to Limbaugh, considering he is the proverbial 600-pound gorilla of broadcasting and has…. well, Rush dollars, it can happen to any of us.

Were I Limbaugh and had his aforementioned cash, I’d get one of my attorneys to file law suits 24-7 until I’d covered the waterfront, so to speak.

It’s 60-40 or better that El Rushbo would lose these cases. First, he has to prove that the respondents made statements expressly stated or implied to be factual, which may damage an individual’s negative image or reputation.

The statements must be undertaken with reckless disregard for the truth, must be intentional and with the propose of harming the complainant; lastly, Limbaugh must prove damages as a result.

The last part is easiest, losing an interest in a multi-hundred, million-dollar sports franchise, is a big financial hit.

This is what happens when the politically-correct tail wags the dog. The truth is but a niggling inconvenience; the investors group, headed by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, caved in to lies rather than stand up.

Evil will prevail when good men do nothing.

In the case of Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton and Jess (Baby Daddy) Jackson (whose “Reverandships” came from Post Toasties box-tops) slander of a public figure by a public figure doesn’t enjoy full Second Amendment rights and protection.

The great thing about suing these bastards and the various “news” agencies is that you get them on the stand under oath and in effect, put them on trial.

The take away lesson here is when you face a organized effort to burn you to the water-line, your world, even Limbaugh’s world, gets turned upside down and you begin to wonder if awakened in a country other than America.

You have; we’ve elected the enemy.

Now turning to Irony in the News; Bloomberg reports:

Limbaugh’s group is led by former Madison Square Garden President and current St. Louis Blues and Real Salt Lake majority owner Dave Checketts, who brings a wealth of sports industry contacts, know-how and credibility. Checketts also brings big-time backers like George Soros, who financed the duo’s failed attempt to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003.

I believe that Soros is the foremost enemy of America, and that he owns Obama.

Lastly, where are all the “conservatives” pols and public figures whom Limbaugh has supported on-air over 20+ years… their absence is glaring, especially in light of this from none other than Keith Olbermann:

"There're now gonna be character tests for sports owners? There'll only be three of them left.  Unless they beat the Vikings Sunday as of next Thursday it will have been a full year since the Rams won a game.  My God, if Limbaugh wants to buy them far be it for me to tell him he's flushing his money down a rat hole."

 

Second on Obama’s media hit list is Fox News:

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

Got that? Media which carry Obama’s water are legitimate in the left-wing view, and anyone/thing else can be attacked as an enemy.

Interestingly, Glenn Beck, who has had a “red phone” installed on the set of his record-breaking Fox News Channel show for Dunn, interim White House communications director, is now reporting that she may be leaving the White House.

If true, it’s a sure sign of another of Obama’s hands overplayed.

Beck is also reporting he’ll reveal more “smoking” video evidence related to Nunn, on his radio show, or TV show at 5 p.m. EDT. 

If someone like Nunn is packing bags, it usually means the truth is on her tail, rummaging through her closet and Obama is trying to ease her out before she Van Joneses all over the Oval Office.

BTW: Dunn, 51, is married to Obama’s personal lawyer, Robert Bauer,

The cover story for her departure will be something like… returning to the “private sector”… she doesn’t look the type to want “…more time to spend with a family.”

The NY Daily News correctly points out the likely strategy should the “attack Fox” tactic back-fire:

“But there's another reason she was picked for the Fox News fight — she's only an interim communications director, filling in until the end of the year. If this whole skirmish backfires on Obama, she'll be gone in two months and the administration will have time to distance itself. In other words, the communication team's toughest member is also their sacrificial lamb.”

“I will not leave you behind….. “

It has been this way since time began; a fierce warrior spirit blended with deep compassion and an unquestioning willingness to die for the man beside you.

It was true of The Immortal 300 at Thermopylae, through the Battle of Hastings, Iwo Jima, the Ia Drang Valley, Mogadishu and it was true at two embattled outposts 10 miles from the Afghan-Pak border, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains.

While America slept safe and sound Saturday, an estimated 200-300 fighters poured out of a village near Camp Keating which until that moment had not suffered any casualties from hostile fire in the three years since it was established.

Opening the battle with a heavy machine gun, then small arms, RPGs and grenades, the attackers hit the first of two compounds, killing or capturing its Afghani troops and police. The fighters then swept up the rugged terrain to Keating, defended by the 4th Brigade Combat Team’s Task Force Mountain Warrior, (4th Infantry Division) based at Fort Carson Colorado.

Amid the chaos and confusion, the Sturm und Drang of combat, scores of individual acts of heroism—most of which we’ll never learn of—were performed in what is termed “above and beyond the call of duty” in military citations.

But on the battlefield, it’s simply, “just doing my job.”

What is known at this point is that as the attack raged around them, many of our wounded soldiers refused to be medevaced, choosing instead to stand and fight with their comrades. 

The battle was pitched and sustained. The next morning Col. Randy George, the area commander, said: "This was a complex attack in a difficult area. Both the US and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."

That’s political/war speak, but the truth is Afghan forces are not reaching the independent levels of operation they should have by now; and, there is the ever-present question in all asymmetrical, counterinsurgency war…. despite the uniform, whose side are these guys really on?   

Many of the fighters obviously massed in and poured into the killing field from a mosque in a nearby village.

R.O.E.

Faithful readers will recall my Sept. 9 post—”We’re pinned down!!”—about the restrictive “rules of engagement” pressed upon our troops in Afghanistan and one Marines units inability to get air support led to four KIAs; the Marines almost ran out of ammo:

"’We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today’," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.”

“In early June the new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal ordered new operational standards, including a directive to refrain from firing on structures where insurgents may have taken refuge among civilians unless their own troops are in imminent danger. Officials hoped the change in ROE (rules of engagement) will reduce tensions between U.S. forces and Afghan citizens, and build a ‘civilian surge’ to improve reconstruction and governance.”

I assume that the mosque adjacent to Camp Keating, full or hundreds of sub-human hajis, was ignored as per the ROE—“rules of engagement” last Saturday.

As the battle raged at Keating, a fire swept through outpost forcing troops back and depriving them of adequate cover.

Though she was only on the ground for five minutes, Karen Russo’s dispatch for ABC captures well our magnificent troops:

As we were flying into the attack space, the MEDEVAC team with one medic and a doctor were preparing for the oncoming patients, setting up IV's, pulling out medical equipment and making other last minute preparations.

Apache helicopter gunships escorted us as we neared the combat zone to ensure our safety as we hovered at 10,000 feet awaiting word to descend. When word came, we plummeted in a corkscrew manner, making the descent in a matter of seconds, landing in a valley at the bottom of steep mountains. It felt very vulnerable to attack.

One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

The area smelled of burned out pine trees something one solider described as "death and hell."

Some of the injured refused to be medevaced out of the combat zone and continued to fight despite their wounds, according to soldiers at the base. Soldiers told the crew that troops were donating blood during the battle, so it could be transfused into wounded comrades.  Doctors wore night vision goggles, but still found it difficult to see.

One doctor said it was like working by touch. One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

Aftermath

Over 100 Taliban fighters were killed in a weekend clash that left eight US soldiers dead, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Tuesday, the wounded were estimated at 24.

News sources have confirmed that a New Jersey soldier, Specialist Michael Scusa, was one of the eight U.S. soldiers killed in the attack that claimed the largest loss of human life since July of 2008.

According to his Myspace page, 23-year-old Scusa, a Lower Cape May Regional High School graduate, made his last entry on May 26th, posting that he missed his wife and son.

His body will return to Dover Air Force Base Tuesday morning.

His Commander-in-Chief won’t be there, but today he did visit the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday and met with Congressional leaders about the ongoing review of the strategy in the Afghan war.

Given his total opposition to committing to war, or even the United States even defending herself, more and more body bags will be filled while the son-of-a-bitch in the White House favors the word “surrender” over that uncomfortable word---“victory”.

He obviously prefers this:

“I will not leave you behind….. “

It has been this way since time began; a fierce warrior spirit blended with deep compassion and an unquestioning willingness to die for the man beside you.

It was true of The Immortal 300 at Thermopylae, through the Battle of Hastings, Iwo Jima, the Ia Drang Valley, Mogadishu and it was true at two embattled outposts 10 miles from the Afghan-Pak border, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains.

While America slept safe and sound Saturday, an estimated 200-300 fighters poured out of a village near Camp Keating which until that moment had not suffered no casualties from hostile fire in the three years since it was established.

Opening the battle with a heavy machine gun, then small arms, RPGs and grenades, the attackers hit the first of two compounds, killing or capturing its Afghani troops and police. The fighters then swept up the rugged terrain to Keating, defended by the 4th Brigade Combat Team’s Task Force Mountain Warrior, (4th Infantry Division) based at Fort Carson Colorado.

Amid the chaos and confusion, the Sturm und Drang of combat, scores of individual acts of heroism—most of which we’ll never learn of—were performed in what is termed “above and beyond the call of duty” in military citations.

But on the battlefield, it’s simply, “just doing my job.”

What is known at this point is that as the attack raged around them, many of our wounded soldiers refused to be medevaced, choosing instead to stand and fight with their comrades. 

The battle was pitched and sustained. The next morning Col. Randy George, the area commander, said: "This was a complex attack in a difficult area. Both the US and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."

That’s political/war speak, but the truth is Afghan forces are not reaching the independent levels of operation they should have by now; and, there is the ever-present question in all asymmetrical, counterinsurgency war…. despite the uniform, whose side are these guys really on?   (killed two sleeping)

Many of the fighters obviously massed in and poured into the killing field from a mosque in a nearby village.

R.O.E.

Faithful readers will recall my Sept. 9 post—”We’re pinned down!!”—about the restrictive “rules of engagement” pressed upon our troops in Afghanistan and one Marines units inability to get air support lead to four KIAs; the Marines almost ran out of ammo.    :

"’We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today’," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.”

“In early June the new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal ordered new operational standards, including a directive to refrain from firing on structures where insurgents may have taken refuge among civilians unless their own troops are in imminent danger. Officials hoped the change in ROE (rules of engagement) will reduce tensions between U.S. forces and Afghan citizens, and build a ‘civilian surge’ to improve reconstruction and governance.”

I assume that the mosque adjacent to Camp Keating, full or hundreds of sub-human hajis, was ignored as per the ROE—“rules of engagement” last Saturday.

As the battle raged at Keating, a fire swept through outpost forcing troops back and depriving them of adequate cover.

Though she was only on the ground for five minutes, Karen Russo’s dispatch for ABC captures well our magnificent troops:

As we were flying into the attack space, the MEDEVAC team with one medic and a doctor were preparing for the oncoming patients, setting up IV's, pulling out medical equipment and making other last minute preparations.

Apache helicopter gunships escorted us as we neared the combat zone to ensure our safety as we hovered at 10,000 feet awaiting word to descend. When word came, we plummeted in a corkscrew manner, making the descent in a matter of seconds, landing in a valley at the bottom of steep mountains. It felt very vulnerable to attack.

One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

The area smelled of burned out pine trees something one solider described as "death and hell."

Some of the injured refused to be medevaced out of the combat zone and continued to fight despite their wounds, according to soldiers at the base. Soldiers told the crew that troops were donating blood during the battle, so it could be transfused into wounded comrades.  Doctors wore night vision goggles, but still found it difficult to see.

One doctor said it was like working by touch. One of the pilots said that even though he had night vision goggles and ordinarily he can see in that sort of situation, because the fighting was intense there was so much smoke it was actually fogged over and it was difficult for him to see. Fortunately he could make out the landing zone, but it was touch and go.

Aftermath

Over 100 Taliban fighters were killed in a weekend clash that left eight US soldiers dead, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Tuesday, the wounded were estimated at 24.

News sources have confirmed that a New Jersey soldier, Specialist Michael Scusa, was one of the eight U.S. soldiers killed in the attack that claimed the largest loss of human life since July of 2008.

According to his Myspace page, 23-year-old Scusa, a Lower Cape May Regional High School graduate, made his last entry on May 26th, posting that he missed his wife and son.

His body will return to Dover Air Force Base Tuesday morning.

His Commander-in-Chief won’t be there, but today he did visit the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday and met with Congressional leaders about the ongoing review of the strategy in the Afghan war.

Given his total opposition to committing to war, or even the United States even defending herself, more and more body bags will be filled while the son-of-a-bitch in the White House favors the word “surrender” over that uncomfortable word---“victory”.

He obviously prefers this:

Olympic postmortem of an Olympic-sized failure

DENMARK—Aftermath: First and foremost we must consider the arrogant, self-serving, narcissistic speeches given by Barry and ‘Chelle Obama in Copenhagen, just your average millionaire political affirmative action couple living off their credit cards until a convicted influence peddler, Tony Rezko, pulled a fast one that allowed them to “buy” a Chicago mansion.

It begins there… these people are worst example of human nature; arrogant without any justification whatsoever.

Let’s listen in.

Michelle with reporters in the White House State Dining Room.:  "It's a battle -- we're going to win -- take no prisoners," the first lady said with a smile before leaving.

"Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection,” Mrs. Obama said. “My dad would have been so proud to witness these games in Chicago.”

Ahem.

Carl Lewis's first Olympics: 1984; Olga Korbut’s first: 1972; Nadia Comăneci’s first: 1976.

Michelle Obama’s birthday is Jan. 17, 1964, so it’s possible that Nadia and Olga, her Dad’s lap, and Michelle all intersected at some point, but gawd forbid she was sitting on the poor man when she was 20 and Carl Lewis was running and jumping.

Since the poor guy had MS; his doctors would rather not have had a very large, 20-year-old woman sitting on their dying patient.

As I wrote yesterday, virtually all democrats do this… they’re so out of touch with the everyday American that they feel that have to make up stories that we “’little people” will be moved or impressed by.

And the guy didn’t deserve to be used in such a manner. Fraser Robinson III, born 1935, was by all accounts a dedicated family man and a very hard worker despite his illness; he died in 1991 at 56.

Barry’s (The Prince of the Personal Pronoun) Denmark speech strategy: first, apologize again for American, and then beg for Chicago:

“America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. No longer do we have the luxury of indulging our differences to the exclusion of the work that we must do together.

“… the USA is open to the world…. I want people to come away with the impression that America is an open and diverse society.

“Over the past few years the fundamental truth of the United States has been lost. The Olympic Games could restore it.”

And when it was over: "One of the things that I think is most valuable about sports is that you can play a great game and still not win," a disappointed Obama said, back at the White House after a quick five-hour stay in Copenhagen.

“Great game”?…. dead last?

Yeah, “My kid is a really, really good participant in Oak Village Little League”.

Makes sense though… he throws like a girl.

Reaction:

It is already being charged, of course, that “this is Bush’s fault.”

The left-wing should copyright the phrase.

So sayeth Blagojevich crony Sen. Rowland Burris, (D-Incompetent):

“…the image of the U. S. has been so tarnished in the last 8 years that, even Barack Obama making an unprecedented pitch for the games could not overcome the hatred the world has for us as a result of George Bush.”

Uh-huh.

And the totally irrelevant fake preacher and “civil rights” race hustler, Jesse Jackson:

"I'm shocked and saddened. We were emotionally prepared for it," he said, noting that the United States had sent its "A team" of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to push for the Chicago bid.

Arrogance Dooms Olympic Dream

Ron Flatter—RealClearSports.com

“Instead of dedicating three days and nights working the IOC members, as we hear Tony Blair did for London in its successful bid for 2012, President Obama figured all he had to do was show up for a few minutes….”

This is what happens to those who enlist in a cult of personality and drink the Koo-Aid…. even if they are atheists, it’s near impossible for them to accept that Obama is not God.

Took me awhile, but here are the money quotes from the “morgue” as we old school reporters used to call research:

About 10 days ago:

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gave his strongest indication yet that he will not join the city's delegation to Copenhagen next month for the decision.

"I would make the case in Copenhagen personally, if I weren't so firmly committed to making real the promise of quality, affordable health care for every American," he said.

This would seem to indicate how reluctant Barry was to go to Denmark carrying water for his masters, and in the end how obvious that Chicago controls POTUS, and FLOTUS:

"Barack and I would feel such tremendous pride to see the Olympic torch burning brightly in the city that we love so much," Mrs. Obama said.

My homies, Don and Mike, and I just got back from Chi-Town… take it from me, the last thing the Chicago Police want is a torch burning brightly in Chicago.