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Tick… tick…tick….

"We need to finish the fight in Afghanistan... George Bush and John McCain have been weak on terrorism. It's time to finish the fight in Afghanistan."

                                                            —Barack Obama 2008 

The longer the man on the left ignores Afghanistan, the more letters the man on the right will have to send grieving parents.

The difference is that the man on the left doesn’t care, and the one on the right will grieve along with the parents.

The U.S. casualty count since Barack Hussein Obama refused Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s emergency request for 40,000 troops in Afghanistan has increased by eight following a coordinated attack by Taliban forces in Kamdesh District of Nuristan Province, a remote mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan. (Map of Afghanistan with Nuristan highlighted below.)

As many as 200 militants assaulted two US/Afghani outposts manned by 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers who were outnumbered nearly three to one during the four-hour firefight that was finally ended by US airpower.

It was the largest loss of life in the theater since nine Americans died in a battle 15 months ago.

And while our young men and their allies were fighting and dying Saturday, their Commander-in-Chief also faced a hard evening.

AP reports:

WASHINGTON — There was no fancy outing as the Obamas celebrated their first wedding anniversary since they moved to the White House.

Instead they kept it simple, with a dinner out Saturday night at an elegant, American-fare restaurant near Georgetown. The evening was balmy and the moon almost full.

President Barack Obama stayed in all day before taking a motorcade with Michelle Obama to the Blue Duck Tavern to mark their 17th wedding anniversary.

The anniversary dinner came after a whirlwind week that saw the Obamas fly to Copenhagen to make an unsuccessful pitch for their hometown of Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics.

Lyrical and lovely, no?

YLSIL: That’s not fair, GA; you shouldn't criticize POTUS for celebrating with his family.

GA:  Oh that’s right; there’s a no-bitch zone surround BHO. Funny, I remember President Bush who ate and slept the war against terror Overseas Contingency Operation in Iraq and Afghanistan being laughed at and ridiculed for stating he would no longer play golf out of respect for the troops in time of war.

But enough of that; this CnC spends more time talking about everything from volunteerism, nutrition, thermostats, electric cars to college basket playoffs on TV than he does commanding the OCO in the Middle East.

McChrystal is hardly alone in his concern; the British Chief of the Chief General Staff, Gen. Sir David J. Richards, has issued a wake-up call to the public by warning of the "terrifying prospect" of a defeat in Afghanistan.

In an unprecedented comment, Gen. Richards described the conflict as "this generation's war" and added that failure by NATO would have an "intoxicating effect" on militant Islam.

By and large, McChrystal must feel like Col. Travis at the Alamo or Maj. James Devereaux on Wake Island; he calls for backup, because the situation may well be in doubt without reinforcements.

But when the red phone rings at the White House, the military is instructed to leave a message.     

Talk on the Tarmac

So convinced of his own importance and driven by his arrogance, Obama had a photo op aboard with Gen. McChrystal aboard Air Farce One so he could say that he’s met with his commander at least twice during his 10 months in office.

‘Course you know what the 25 minutes consisted of…. it was Truman/MacArthur in reverse. Obama telling his lead general to keep his mouth shut. According to sources close to the administration, Gen. McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.

That’s why Barry ordered him for some tarmac talk while he was micro-managing the Olympics in Denmark; he was not serving his Constitutional duties, but his handlers and cronies.

So where is Gen. David “Surge” Petraeus in all this?

Unfortunately, the successful Iraq commander who made our left-wing enemies in this country (and Congress, including Obama) eat crow, is ducking for cover.

From the NYT:

General Petraeus’s aides now privately call him “Dave the Dull,” and say he has largely muzzled himself from the fierce public debate about the war to avoid antagonizing the White House, which does not want pressure from military superstars and is wary of the general’s ambitions in particular.

Why?

Because despite being responsibility for a two-front war, Obama is more concerned about Petraeus as a potential political adversary in 2012 than the war.

I think that’s obscene, but I’m not a petty, insecure, narcissistic coward who is uncomfortable with “victory” as is the President of the United States. Sadly, quashing the successful commander stills an importance voice for our troops and the much needed surge.

If not McChrystal or Petraeus, who is POTUS listening to?

There are two it seems. First, it’s former Marine Commandant and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. James L. Jones (Ret.)—Obama’s National Security Advisor —in all this?

It’s speculated that Jones' record suggests he is "someone who, unencumbered by strong ideological leanings, can evaluate ideas dispassionately whether they come from the left or the right. This is probably why Obama picked him."

He is also known for this quote:

Speaking to Marines in July 1999, shortly after assuming the post of commandant:

It’s OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We’re human.

Not exactly Chesty Puller is it?

Second is JCS Chief Adm. Michael Mullen.

Faithful readers will recall my post regarding Mullen:

“Chairman of the JCS Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said he was ‘shocked’ by the piracy of a Saudi Arabian supertanker 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya in the Arabian Sea.

“’I'm stunned by the range of it, less so than I am of the size,’ he said. 

“I can't express how Mullen's admission fills me, as an American in my post-9/11 world, with rage and disbelief.

“If I were George Bush I’d immediately sack Mullen and get someone, anyone who doesn't sound like a whimpering goddamned civilian.”

I imagine Mullen is exactly the kinda guy Barry likes in charge… “shocked and stunned” just like he is. 

When the going gets tough, the tough go to Copenhagen

This must have been the way Custer felt…. “which e’ffing way do I shoot?”

Do I sight in on the fifth or is it the 17th video of our children being brainwashed into “pledging allegiance” to the new Leader of the World?

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

Or do I hit the Faux President for being AWOL 80% of the time?

On Thursday Obama will be in Copenhagen drinking lattes and schlepping along behind The Predator as her clean-up hitter with the International Olympic Community sales pitch as the First Couple pimps the O-lympics… get it,  “O”?

Americans are right to be outraged with Obama’s refusal to earn his paycheck by carrying out the duties expected of a president considering we need a troop surge in Afghanistan, decisions on Iran’s latest new secret nuke site, sky-high unemployment and an economy imperiled.

Another 700 words on such dereliction duty while America circles the drain?

I could, but the people who see the outrage, feel it, don’t need convincing that Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama is the “Manchurian Candidate”. (“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.”) The useful idiots like your liberal sister-in-law will never understand, and that’s why Lenin called dubbed them; their idiocy is their usefulness.

And our out and out enemies—socialists and communists, the far left, most liberals, fifth-columnists and dimocrats—must be stopped in their tracks… now; they have a 40-year head start on the million+ people you saw at the March on DC two weeks ago. 

I’ve written frequently about the machine which brought the unknown Barry Obama to the forefront of national politics seemingly overnight, except it wasn’t overnight, but a decades-long program which needed to be entrenched and working before just the right Raymond Shaw could be found.

None of what you’ve witnessed in this coup is by chance or coincidence; Obama is the test tube baby of the radical left’s affirmative action program.

Every step of the way since childhood he has received a helping hand, a helping left hand, over every obstacle faced by anyone.

The only thing he lacked, being the half-Nigerian child of two PhDs, raised by a doting, white grandmother who was a bank vice president in middle class Hawaii, was even the slightest connection to African-American authenticity; in short, anything associated with being black in America.

He added to his thin resume in college by intentionally seeking out friends from whom he could steal “street cred”.  This is confirmed in his autobiography, “Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”: 

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

“We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.

“We were alienated.”

You can curse Barry all you want, but he told us up front he was a communist… but actually he’s a fascist out to gather power for himself and nothing more. His only concern is that the trains run on time.

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

The Obama ascendency is as likely as a Single-A pitcher with no curveball playing in the World Series at the end of his first year as a pro. Such a phenom gets there by himself? Hardly. And this guy plays for the Black Sox.   

There are so many places to dig I haven’t even bothered with Michelle Obama’s patient-dumping scheme back in Chi-town. Nor have I written yet about Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings… and homo activist who encourages the victims of pedophilia to relax and enjoy the ride.

Fox News reports:

“President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.”

At left is Kevin Jennings, Obama's director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, who is being opposed but those who believe he is “too radical” for the job.

Too radical ??? He’s an e’ffing degenerate! In a nation of 300 million, Barry comes up with this perv?

Whoa, caught myself… back to images, to get that last image ‘outcher mind.

Symbols have meaning, that’s why we call them symbols.

I say “Golden Arches” and you say,….? “Monday Night……”?

The symbolism and imagery employed by those who have run the Obama machine from well before he entered local politics in Chicago takes its cue from Leni Riefenstahl, right, chief propagandist of the Third Reich.

As a candidate he succeeded in portraying himself as the incumbent, even though his real political experience as a “community organizer” was far less than that of  Gov. Sarah Plain who in a normal election year would not have been within a 81mm mortar from the second spot on a national ticket.

The Obama onslaught in 2008 will stand as the greatest sleight of hand in the history of US electoral politics; the candidate with the barest resume in US history won by running as the incumbent.

“Mmmm…mmmmm… mmmm….  Ba-rock… Hu sane….. Obama.”

The Obama campaign was masterful; his motorcade was almost always comprised of big, black, heavily-window tinted Suburbans and limos; his “O” symbol was not-so-subtly switched with the usual red white and blue livery.

His campaign planes looked presidential.. the media even contributed, calling his 737 “O-Force One.”  

Of course the duplicity of the U.S. news media was virtually 100% in the Obama campaign which reinforced the imagery and symbolism thousands of times a day.

And the Presidential Seal morphed into this: 

He tried to emulate every president he could think of  from Lincoln to JFK  to FDR.

He campaigned in Germany, the first time a candidate has sought votes for president in a foreign country, let alone in the nation that gave us two world wars and Nazism.

This is not leadership, this is embarrassment, and he is leading us to Armageddon. 

“We’re pinned down!!”

"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.

Four of Williams’ Special Operations Command Marines lay dead near a fortress-like Afghan village Tuesday—as their comrades fought on, their ammo running low.

America, your sons are being slaughtered—intentionally sacrificed—because Commander-in-Chief Obama and his top commanders want to limit possible civilian casualties in the war-torn country… buying Afghani lives for Americans.

With sniper rounds impacting old inches away, Maj. Williams persisted in his demands for gunships, air strikes, arty… anything that would keep the dug-in rags’ heads down so his people could pull back to a better defensive position.

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.

But thousands of miles from the air conditioned Oval Office, the four Marines were placed in body bags along with eight Afghan troops and an Afghan interpreter who were killed in the ambush and battle that raged from dawn until 2 p.m. in eastern Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border.

Embedded reporter Jonathan S. Landay, right: 

"This is unbelievable. We have a platoon (of Afghan army) out there and we've got no Hotel Echo," (Army Capt.) Swenson shouted above the din of gunfire, using the military acronym for high explosive artillery shells. "We're pinned down."

Finally, more than an hour after the ambush was sprung, a string of dense smoke, white phosphorus artillery rounds was used to shield the unit’s retreat to better cover.

Of his new policy, Gen. McChrystal has said his measure of effectiveness will be the “number of Afghans shielded from violence” — not the number of militants killed, adding that is our troops taking fire from and they can remove themselves from the area safely, without any undue danger to the forces, then that’s the option they should take.”

During the firefight, Afghan women and children inside the village compound were observed resupplying the Taliban fighters with ammunition.

It’s been a very long time, but America used to be a country of winners, a nation that had the ability to unleash overwhelming, full-on, titanic, and therefore short, low-casualty wars.

Apparently we left all that in the locker after WWII.

Since then untold tens of thousands of American lives have been sacrificed on the alter of politics presided over by superiors unworthy of our troops’ trust.

Korea—only five years after WWII—was fought in exactly this manner. Gone was “go big or don’t go at all”, the unofficial motto of vastly superior armies, and in its’ place Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson would later be personally picking bombing targets in North Vietnam. 

The first choice of today’s limp-wristed, metro-sexual politicians is to not fight at all, become an equal-partner world government via the United Nations…. I call that surrendering without firing a shot.

Barack Hussein Obama is only a little lighter in the loafers…. scared of his own shadow, apologizing for this own country, and hoping that our enemies will eat us last;  you know… the guy that doesn’t like the sound of the word “surrender”; what’s his alternative….? “Yankee, you die!!”, “banzi!!, or perhaps, “do you want a blindfold?”

We can’t fight back, we can’t yell: get the f**k outta that damned mosque! We’re vaporizing it in an hour”; we can’t use certain ammunition, we can’t use our superior firepower.

But what about intel gathering which prevents or reduces loss of life on both sides? Not just “no”, but “Hell no!!!”

such as:

• no shouting, pushing, or taking his library card 
• tell him he’s facing east when he’s really pointed north.
• telling him his mum died.
• Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner.
• Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes.
• Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain.
• Waterboarding.
• Using military working dogs.
• Conducting mock executions.
• Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water or medical care.
• Threats to turn the individual over to others to be abused.
• Certain humiliating or degrading treatment.
• Implying harm to the individual or his property.
• Threatening to separate parents from their children.

“Good evening, Mr. Iwishi Hadanaudi. Let me tell you about tonight’s specials here at Club Gitmo.”

So what all this means is that without intel from newly-captured POWs/captives, an important—if not the most important—weapon, is neutralized.

As one jarhead observed last month: “The Iraqis (on the battlefield) already know the game. They know how to play us. Unless you catch the Iraqis in the act, it is very hard to pin anything on anyone; we can’t even use basic police interrogation tactics.”

So……. right now, right this very moment Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Hailey, Idaho, has been missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30.

On July 3, officials declared him "missing-captured."

He has been ID’ed in this photo released by the Taliban.

Bergdahl is a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and I assure you that he now lives in terror every moment of his young life.

And….. I’ll guarantee you that America will let him die—probably by a slow and crude beheading, because we won't peel back someone’s fingernail(s) to find out where in the goddamedhell he is.

His father would, his mom would, his grandma would, my friends would, I would.

America won’t.

Goodnight, Pfc. Berghdahl, you acquitted yourself with dignity, but your nation failed you.

Rest in Peace.

Freaky Deaky Friday

While Barry O and his wife, The Predator, embarrass themselves on a daily basis overseas, the 44th POTUS repeatedly reveals that he has all the class of, well, Bill Clinton.

Not just once, but twice:

 

 

 

 

BTW, the young lady at right is 16.

Note how Sarkozy is amused by his counterpart’s less-than-subtle methodology.

Touted for her fashion sense, The Predator embraces all the style savvy of well, Big Bird on a bad day. If you are a woman of size and capable of bucking up against Shaq in the paint, and a back porch you could Shakespeare from, perhaps canary yellow isn’t a good color choice… I’m just sayin’.

 

And while It is my policy not to pick on public figures’ children, I do stand up for them; below is a clear case of child pimping by the First Lady and what’s his name.

(An aside: since “firsts” in First Families are so all-fired important, it is clear that Michelle Obama is and will forever be “The Most Gigantic First Lady in History.”)

While Obama struggles to reinvigorate the G8 summit in Italy, his elder daughter, Malia, has apparently launched her own campaign to educate the planet about nukes; given the sartorial scrutiny the First Family is always under, it seems unlikely that the T-shirt was paraded around the streets by accident.

The kid looks like Euro-trash, not a member of America’s First Family.

Plus I’m starting to see the first indications that the young lady is entering that lovely age parents detest…. The Wise-Ass, Petulant Spoiled Kid Age. I know it, I recognize it, I lived it.

Here’s a funny, ironic and also serious decision on the part of the federal government…. bitch-slapping Barry Obama, his Marxist philosophy and his writing.

Supermax Prison Says Obama's Book Objectionable, Won't Let Prisoners Read Them....

McLEAN, Va. — The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

The fed’s decision is quite sound and based on the most glaring and objective evidence; I don’t want them ready Das Kapital and Mein Kampf either.

Can’t Resist: Just in from GatewayPundit.com:

Friday, July 10, 2009

Who Died, Michelle O?

This is weird.
So who died, Morticia?                   ------------------------------------------------------

Pelosi's Mouse Gets $16.1 Million In Stimulus Money

The tiny rodent is the symbol of wasteful spending in the $787 billion Porkulus bill has returned to needle  Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Good. As much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay Area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (left).
”Mickey” was one of Pelosi’s pet project was an "invisible earmark" about which   House Minority Leader John A. Boehner bellowed  "Lo and behold, the government has announced that the mouse is getting its money after all; Pelosi must be so proud."

The follwoing is a serious topic… just another indication of the lies the State Run Media poisons our society with; contrary to what they want you to believe, more U.S. service members committed suicide in the Clinton Years—190—(when there was no war) than during President Bush’s tenure—160—during which wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And guess what? To this point in The Golden Obama Years there are 88 suspected suicides, compared to the first six months of Bush’s first term—67.

And… the last six months have seen combat drop to near zero in Iraq.

But we won’t hear much about all this will we?
And my last graphic for this Friday (also from Gateway Pundit):

Shocker!... BILLIONS In Stimulus Aid Went to Obama Supporting Counties

Shocker!... DC's Alinskyite Regime Spreads Spoils Among Supporters.
Billions of dollars in federal aid has gone to those counties that supported Dear Leader Obama in the last election.

        Obama Supporting Counties-- $69 per person
        McCain Supporting Counties-- $34 per person

And a palate cleanser…

Afghanistan February 2005 – Priority Apache dustoff from the roof of a small building. Minus 8 degrees, wind chill from the rotor wash takes it well below zero. Due to his injuries the wounded solider cannot ride the hoist up.

Chances are the team leader on the building guiding the chopper into a precarious perch on the roof is an E-4 in his early 20s, the chopper AC is probably a warrant, not much older.

We are the best there is; we are the best there ever was.

And a big Hooah to the Army.

Video here.

But for my money…. this CH-47 offering a helping hand in Afghanistan around the same time is even better:

Realities

Reality finds a way to present itself.

Yesterday I was testing a new telephoto lens about 70-80 meters off I-35 outside my town.

By rapidly taking shots of the passing 65-mph traffic, I was  judging the the lens’ “quickness.”

My attention was quickly drawn to this old veteran in cammo, bearing the outward signs of long and arduous service.

After I got home and started running my shots through my photo software I was surprised to learn that this up-armored six-by (although The Ninja reports: “We just called 'em five tons.  I guess they could pull five tons or something. Globalsecurity.org calls 'em M939s.”) had seen its share of recent combat and as a result was headed to destinations unknown.

There were two closely-spaced, large-caliber hits obviously directed at the driver.

Neither of the shots appeared to have penetrated the bullet-resistant windshield,and there were other battle damage on the frame and hood.

Thanks to the free market and American ingenuity, 42-pound multilayered glass and polymer laminate barriers are installed as side window kits on the workhorse military transports, which requires four per vehicle. Humvee windshield sections, for example, weighing 260 pounds each. 

This type of increased protection has saved an untold number of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So… even on a quiet, hot, muggy morning in North Texas there are reminders of the sacrifices of our servicemen and women now in harm’s way… most of them unknown, unheralded and sadly, largely unappreciated.  

Take just a moment to study the photos, remember, and give thanks for those who stand between us and death and slavery.

And now, back to the madness which we join still (unfortunately) in progress.

Today I’m reminded of the man twirling the plates on sticks…. most often seen on the Ed Sullivan Show or a circus.

Barack Obama is that man; he is obviously out of his depth and experience, yet he maintains a flurry of activity that is “all hat and no cattle” as they say down here in Texas. He insists on twirling an enormous number of foreign and domestic plates and 90% of them are wobbling, yet in response, he adds more plates or one of our foreign enemies throws another at us.

The disaster is obvious and near upon us.

Where are the results from the near-$800 billion stimulus which to not just important, but critical to our very economic survival?

Better yet, where is the damned money…?

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.

The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama.

 

Governor Palin sounds off in the current Time mag:

“President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to "put America on the right track" economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of dollars that we're passing on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn't even make economic sense. So his growth of government agenda needs to be ratcheted back, and it's going to take good people who have the guts to stand up to him, stand up to him and debate policy, not personalities, not partisan politics, but policy to effect the change that we need there.”

Where are the Republicans—especially male GOPers—when it comes to calling a spade a spade…?

Clearly, the best man in the Republican Party is a woman.

And here are Jackson Five who actually deserve our respect: 

By Columnist Chuck Goudie…

“The cause of Mr. Jackson's death was obvious to anyone who saw him.

Really, no autopsy was necessary.

It was cardiac arrest. Caused by a roadside bomb.

I'm not talking about Michael Jackson, the supposedly drug-addled entertainer whose death has dominated every waking moment these past few days.

Instead, as we head toward Independence Day, I found a few other Jacksons whose deaths didn't receive the attention they should have….”

Read the rest here:  They died for us: A Jackson Five you never knew

May God bless them and their families.

Beyond the Palin….

First… a few comments about Gov. Palin’s resignation.

Even as someone who is near-inured to the bottomless slime pit which produces leftists and hard core liberals in the country, even I was outraged anew by the round the clock attacks on Sarah Plain, her husband and her children… at the attacks on her baby son who was born with Down’s Syndrome.

… and not aborted immediately like the Left would have wanted and perhaps even given Palin’s some eugenics props.    

HuffPo celebrated her announced resignation last Friday as Alaska’s governor (effective July 26) with the headline: ‘Palin will run in ‘12 on more retardation platform’, and there was something about her being in favor of “lead paint chips” for children:

Previous attacks on Mrs. Plain and her family were of this ilk (screen shot and quotes thanks to Gateway Pundit):

HuffPo contributor Michael Seitzman wrote a sick hit piece earlier: "I want to have sex with Palin on my Barack Obama sheets"
This was just the latest attack on Sarah Palin and her children. Most of the attacks, of course, were ignored by the state-run media. But, when David Letterman cracked rape jokes about her 14 year-old daughter the poor media was forced to report on it. The Left was finally able to drive Sarah Palin out of office. Let's pray they will leave her and her family alone for awhile now.

Palin was (and sadly will continue to be) the litmus test and punching bag for all manner of things political and psychological to GOP moderates and RINOS as well as the dems and the hard-left.

Think not? Three words: Dan. Quaye. Potato.

It’s quicker to list the accurate statements made about the governor than the lies and distortions.

But she was despised for the following reasons, in no particular order:

• She is a woman.
• She is a Christian.
• She is an unbowed and unrepentant conservative.
• She is an attractive conservative, Christian woman.
• She is an attractive, conservative, Christian, woman with five children.
• and, she is hated because she didn’t sacrifice Trig to Roe v Wade. 

Contrary to the Goebbels tactics mounted against her, she has a good sense of humor and is quite self-effacing, she is very intelligent and politically savvy and still has far more executive experience than your president who, because of his ineptitude and Marxist philosophy, has near-doomed this great nation.

Because of her lack of big league experience, I was opposed to her as the VP nomine in 2008. But due to the party insistence on nominating Socialist Lite to run against The Socialists, she was the only bright spot in one of the most inept national campaigns on record.

Running her when they did was desperation considering McCain could never move the country, let alone bring his party together. By running her national before she was ready they wasted her talent early, and what might have been is only that.

And she was/is not the answer for 2012, but she is an effective rallying point for The People to regain control of the Republican party and the Congress. With a well-organized bully pulpit, she can monkey wrench the socialists while a long-needed right-wing coup regains control of the GOP.

I plan on sending Gov. Palin a letter of congratulations for (I hope) finally washing her hands of politics. She is just the latest casualty among those well-intentioned patriots who still see public service as just that.

And this is what politics (especially if you are politics' minority’s minority—conservatives) does to you… Clarence Thomas, Judge Bork, John Bolton and on, ad museum.   

There are far better people in science and industry, health care, the military, and in my small town, that those who “represent” us on the state and national level. 

Her future….? I hope it includes a wonderful life with her family and friends and, like Johnny Carson when he decided it was time to leave, just steps into the shadows. 

And now on the Joe Bupkis front (courtesy of Gateway Pundit):

The man is dangerous...
Obama Administration foreign policy guru and chief idiot Joe Biden just gave the terrorists in Iraq the glimmer of hope they so desperately needed.
Prairie Pundit reported on this from The Washington Post:

Vice President Biden warned Iraqi officials Friday that the American commitment to Iraq could end if the country again descended into ethnic and sectarian violence.
Biden delivered the warning during a three-day visit to Iraq that began Thursday, just a few days after the United States formally withdrew most combat troops from Iraqi cities under a security agreement reached last year. It was the vice president's first visit since President Obama asked him to take the lead on Iraq policy.

Biden who pushed a disastrous plan to partition Iraq was tapped by Obama this past week to be the White House point of contact on Iraq.

Ahh, the Peter Principal remains with us. Does anyone remember the Vice President of the United States congratulating our troops of their hard-won success in Iraq. Get back to me when you can.

Bombiran….

The Times of London (via HotAir) that “… the Saudis have agreed to tacitly allow Israelis to transit their airspace to attack Iran and end its nuclear program.  The Mossad has worked with the Saudis for several years as the Iranian threat in the region grew, and the Saudis — and other Arab states — would be privately relieved to have Tehran’s nuclear ambitions curtailed.  But is now the right time, while the mullahs teeter in Iran?”

I think now is exactly the right time… the Iranian people are standing up and the CIA operatives there would certainly convey to them our support in overthrowing the concernment…. oh, wait, I’m sorry, I thought I was back in the 1980s and we were running the Commies out of Nicaragua by arming the Contras.

And this just in:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former D.C. mayor, now Washington councilman, Marion Barry has been arrested again.

On July 4, the U.S. Park Police arrested Barry and charged him with misdemeanor stalking.

About 8:45 p.m. in Anacostia Park, a Washington woman flagged down a Park Police officer on patrol and pointed to Barry, who was in another car. The woman said Barry was stalking her, Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said.

Barry was taken into custody, processed and released, but he must make a court appearance for the charge. A court date has not been set.

This is what happens when large numbers of socialists gather in large population centers…. crack-head, stalking mayors, poverty, high crime, high taxes, rampant unemployment, schools unworthy of the utility bills paid to keep them open and the eventual jailing of the top democrats.

It’s America’s… learn to love it… or leave it.

Iranians whacked, Obama snacked

The young man at the right is a patriot. He would rather die fighting than live on his knees.

His courage in the face of the IslamoNazi subhumans who rule his country has cost him dearly, but every revolution must have a Patrick Henry. 

"Nine years ago, Ahmad Betebi appeared on the cover of The Economist.This photo during the student demonstrations made Batebi famous. It also made him a target of the regime.

"Ahmad Betebi was sentenced to death by the evil regime in Iran after the student protests of 1999. He was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through a free Iraq to Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC." (Read and view in-depth interview via Gateway Pundit.com.

Here's what the new generation of Iranian freedom fighters think of Dear Leader's cowardice in the face wholesale murder in the street of Tehran. 

"His (Obama) lack of response will not be regarded lightly. We will watch for how much his response will help the people or the regime. We will know more this week... Obama can hold talks with the regime in Iran if he wants.

Is it morally correct for Obama to support the regime? Does he actually believe the people of Iran will appreciate that? The social movement requires support. If the world really wants the advent of terrorism to disappear in the Middle East, if they want peace with the Palestinians and Israel, if they want nuclear technology to be developed for peaceful things and not nuclear weapons... They only need to support the people of Iran right now. This regime has the most dangerous of ideologies.

"They're killing the opposition."

Meanwhile, despite Iran, the NoKor weapons ship, an economy fast resembling that of the Weimer Republic, unemployment beyond 12% and a well-planned fiscal suicide.... Obama sets up a propagandist's photo op with his kids; proving the adage, that when the going gets tough, the tough buy ice cream.

As HotAir reported:

Obama Snacked, Iranians Got Whacked

Below is a graphing video of the murder of a young woman dubbed Neda ("The Voice") gunned down by Iranian security forces. Now a decade later, this Iranian uprising for freedom has its own martyr.

She went to the rally with her father and died instantly of a bullet to the base of her throat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be a pinnacle moment for the world's oldest true constitutional republic to stand side-by-side with those who face the guns of an oppressive government, just as we did 230 years ago.

It is in our DNA.

All people in the world striving to be free look to America.... the students in Tiananmen Square erected a State of Liberty before it and they were crushed under the treads of communist tanks.

We could once again provide hope for an oppressed people, but we won't because we have a weak and incompetent leader incapable of doing anything but stroking his own ego.

If we actively backed regime change in Iran, make and fulfill our promise of support to the opposition movement and topple the present government of, half the world's terrorist activity or more, would grind to a halt.

But that would take common sense, vision and courage... both political and moral.

Barack Hussein Obama lacks all three, unmoved by people young an old, male and female, facing down automatic weapons with sticks and rocks and guts.

He is a moral and physical coward.

Not long ago I suggested to some folks that "68 million people were responsible for this" meaning the current domestic and foreign tar babies Obama has created in only six months.

Some were actually offended when I suggested that just as words have meanings, votes have consequences.

Lastly, this is the way the current CnC proposes to ferret out the subhumans in Afghanistan and kill them in their numbers:

Shades of Vietnam? New US Rules of Engagement Says Troops Must Disengage if Taliban Enter Homes....

KABUL – The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.

No army ever won a war by giving sanctuary of any kind to the enemy, or by placing concern for civilian casualties above its soldiers' lives. 

Now, courtesy of the cyber patriots at ApacheClips.com (via The Big Zip over at Weaselzipper.com) here's his Monday Morning War Porn which is fast gaining popularity with LM31 faithful readers.... which means soon you will all end up on a fed list of some kind; I've been on it for some time and was getting lonely. 

This would seem to indicate that the remotely-flown UAV involved here might just be better shooter than pilots and gunners on choppers and A-10s which is total logic. And these are the kids who were "wasting their lives playing video games" 15 years ago.

Hell... we're best at everything.

Allah Snackbar!

Talk softly and from your knees…

America’s record as the undisputed world power since the 1940s is remarkable…. as much for what it hasn’t done as for what t has done:

• 1. Saved the world from Nazism, Communism, Fascism.
• Saved more people and liberated more countries that any nation in world history.
• Given more money, forgiven more loans and taken more backstabbing for our trouble than any other people in world history; we’ve never learned that “no good turn goes unpunished.”

Ours is the only flag the rest of the world hopes to see marching into view when things are dark and hopeless, but here’s where we have also failed miserably in modern times…

• 1956---Hungary. The Hungarian Revolution against the the Soviet puppet national government and its Soviet-imposed policies lasted only three weeks. Over 2,500 Hungarians were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. President Eisenhower refused to act immediately and forcefully; he requested one of the UN’s infamous “strongly worded resolutions” with predictable results were predictable. This while our Radio Free Europe encouraged Hungarians to fight the Soviet forces; we misled the Hungarian people that NATO or United Nations would intervene if the citizens continued to resist.
• 1961--Bay of Pigs. We all know what happened there; JKF told the Brigade that U.S. air cover would protect the invasion… he lied; they died. Cuba is still a communist hell-hole, 90 miles off our six.
• 1972-75—South Vietnam. We supported and fought beside the Vietnamese people over four decades and in the end, we left them to be slaughtered, imprisoned, and tortured. The Khmer Rouge genocidal policy killed over one-fifth of all Cambodians. The Pathet Lao overthrew the government of Laos in 1975.  More than 200,000 were South Viet government officials, military officers, and soldiers were sent to “reeducation camps” to face execution, torture, disease and malnutrition.

When it was finished…. millions died because we did not fulfill our promise. And the left still denies and scoffs at Southeast Asia's “domino effect”.

• 1991—Gulf War I. Rather than take Baghdad after a mere 100-hour war and put a bullet in the brains of Hussein and his psychotic spawn, George Bush and Colin Powell (no surprise), turned their backs on the Kurds after telling them to rise up against the dictatorship. Thousands were murdered; there is ample blood on our hands.

Why all this? Because Barack Hussein Obama, who bows to our enemies, embraces dictators and hates our military is repeating this shameful cowardice by not standing by the Iranians who are rising up against the the Muslim subhumans and a stolen election.

It took Obama three days to come up with even this flaccid response which makes JFK, Ike, Bush, Nixon and Ford sound like Patrick Henry.

“It's not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling. I do believe that something has happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonistic postures towards the international community.

“I have said before that I have deep concerns about the election. And I think that the world has deep concerns about the election.

"You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.

“I think it's important to recognize is that the easiest way for reactionary forces inside Iran to crush reformers is to say it's the US that is encouraging those reformers."

If the Iranian protesters do not receive some iron-fisted rhetorical support from Obama and soon, it will give the subhumans a tactic green flag to bring heavy machine guns into the pubic square… and end the rebellion.

I‘m taking all bets that our Fifth Column Commander-in-Chief will not oppose the will of the Islamic butchers with whom he prefers to rub shoulders.

Okay, so I wish it was Friday.....

This is one of those days when I I'd rather go to the range with the driver and five buckets of balls than play 18 holes.

There's something about just knockin' the holy crap outta something and leaving the mental game in the bag.

Shall we begin?

Apparently Obama's Hair Club for Men Czar cannot make up his mind whether the socialist puppet should affect the gracefully aging, gray-at-the-temple POTUS or the testosterone-laden young executive who who has female and male admirers equal numbers who experience "thrills up the leg" just at the sight of him  coming out of the surf.

Some call it man love, others call it "bromance"... I call it---"democrats are a bunch of faggots."

Oh yes, He is The One we've been waiting for:

The various pix of His Highness taken no more than months apart over the last two years reveal the obvious... that instead of the usual---dying the gray to be more youthful---The Big O dyes his hair gray to be seen as a more experienced, seasoned community organizer... more silverback, if you will.

This is just one more example of The Empty Suit's victory of only style over all substance.

For 68 million American voters this is all they require.... talk softly and carry a big flyswatter.

He's like Rock Hudson... looks good on the outside, but inside he wants to give your brother-in-law a make-over for Queer Eye for the Fabulous Guy.  

And just remember, He's not just the president... he's also an asshole.

If you wanna keep up on POTUS--The Hairing Impaired--check out the coverage from US Mag and the NYT via Sweetness & Light.com--click here.

Now turning to orthopedic news:

I understand that Hillary! fell and fractured her elbow yesterday.... are we to conclude that a wise Latina woman would have been able to avoid the clumsiness of The Woman Who Is All But Forgotten? Oh, wait, the wise Latina fell an fractured her ankle just a few days ago. Can you imagine if Hillary had broken her ankle... talk about yer major surgery.

To my knowledge and close reading of  history... I've never heard of a male Sec State being so stupid as to fall and break bones; this proves that females are far more likely to miss work because of health issues... not to mention clumsier than they throw like girls.   

Now for an ADD Update:

I'm going out on a limb here... I support the Iranians (especially those on the left there) protesting Ackmadenawhackjob (right) and the Mullahs.

 

 

 

 

 

She's the only person who could convince me to go "green".... and in a big way.

The Big Weasel via Shawarma Mayor.com has some pertinent questions about those raghead subhumans which Obama, their butt-boy, ordered released to the hell that is Bermuda.

Not terrorists, just good fellahs caught fighting American troops in Afghanistan spend the rest of their lives in paradise. Makes sense

• Proper punishment for those who train with Al-Qaeda... Paradise Island
• The "Change" America voted for.
• Free Obama T-Shirts to all Gitmo detainees
• Not terrorists. Just a bunch of Chinese who happen to train with Bin Laden and caught fighting American troops are now enjoying paradise with a $200 a night room. CHANGE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope they choke on their mahi-mahi... if not, I'd volunteer to take a vaca in Bermuda and slit their gawdamned throats.

But hey, that's just me.

At a sometimes contentious Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), had a request for Army Corps of Engineers division leader, Brigadier General Michael Walsh.

During a terse exchange, as Boxer pressed Walsh on why the levees in New Orleans are still not repaired nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, she said to Walsh:

"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it."

The general's response? "Yes, Senator."

If I was a field grade officer like Mike Walsh I would have said,

"I understand something about the hard work attaining ones goals. So from here on I would appreciate you referring to me as Brigadier General in order to show proper respect to the great men and women who serve in this country's military which keeps you safe at night.

"That meet with your approval Senator?"

But fortunately, I am an eternal Corporal of Marines so I would say....

"Fine with me Bitch; you can call me Dude. Now why don't you shut your pie-hole so I can get back to doing something that matters? The smell in here is getting a little hard to take.

Senator?

And people wonder why there are many of us who would like to storm Congress, block the exits and set it on fire.  

Please, oh please click below to hear her and see her in full Arrogance-o-Vision ................! 

Thursday War Porn

And lastly.... ya gotta love good ole American-made 30mm rounds.... now with new and improved impact and concussion, and enriched Allah Mist for your viewing pleasure

Allah Snackbar!!!!!

trai·tor (trā'ter): One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Obama's "response" to Vice President Dick Cheney's double-barreled condemnation of this administration's flaccid national defense strategy (sic) could not have better contrasted the difference between Real America and the traitors in the White House.

Cheney, who has had more time in the top decision-making levels of government than the entire Obama cabinet, expressed the common sense, vigor and iron will of an alpha male. And in his rambling, droning, platitudinous remarks Obama proved once again that he is nothing but prepubescent, still trusting in the corrupting myths of his socialist mentors.

Effeminate Leader:  "I want to solve these problems, and I want to solve them together as Americans. And we will be ill served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue."

Dick Cheney: "To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger. . . . It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness and would make the American people less safe. . . . The terrorists see just what they were hoping for: our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity."

Another mark of the insecure, panicked imposter was Obama booking his speech for the same time on the same topic as Cheney's which was scheduled first and last week. Naturally, the drive-by media played it's role by covering live Obama's drek-filled whining and tape delaying the Cheney speech broadcast.

Regardless, it actually turned out better to have Cheney follow Obama; as it played out, the timing made the contrast between our traditional values and America enslaved by massive socialist government even greater.

An obvious indication of Obama's rattled nerves was his introduction of SecDef "William Gates"; (uh, Barry---your guy is Robert Gates, an Air Force veteran and the only CIA Director he only career officer in the CIA's history (as of 2005) to rise from entry-level employee to Director; and the other guy is your left-wing butt-buddy... the richest guy most people can name.

No worries... an easy mistake when someone's entire memory is read from a prompting screen.)

Ninety-nine percent of Obama's speech was condemnation of the Bush-Cheney Administration; the government that carried the fight to the sub-humans and kept us safe since 9/11, crushed the enemy in Iraq and supported the establishment of the first democracy in a part of the world still locked in the seventh century.

Cheney on the other hand, forcefully made the case that when, not "if" we are next attacked it will rest squarely on The Quisling's head.

Do I want him to fail in each and every way possible... and soon?.... even with greater fervor than I hope one of my ex's gets cancer.

As I've been before, Rush Limbaugh's off-the cuff, non-Teleprompted CPAC speech video several weeks ago is the best political speech I've heard in the last eight years... perhaps much longer than that. But Cheney's speech (see: full transcript) is a close second.

Simply, the vice-president and Limbaugh speak American and speak for America; Obamanists want to be European but aspire to residency in Utopia... where surrender is peace, massive tax increases and printing money is a way to a strong economics future, and where talking to homicidal mass murderers with a penchant for hacking off people heads is a brilliant defense strategy in "Overseas Contingency Operations", previously known as war.

None of this would have a a chance in hell of succeeding had it not been for the critical weakening of the GOP over the several years, and President Bush's inexplicable belief that a President should not immediately attack... eviscerate his political opponents and the news media (as did Mr. Cheney) on the issues of their total lack of geo-political acumen, experience and love of America.

And those would seem to be the very minimal qualifications necessary for Commander-in-Chief; clearly, Barack Hussein Obama is unqualified for any high office.

We are not in a "war on terror" and we're not defending ourselves from some "overseas confrontation matrix."

We are locked in a death struggle with millions of psychotic religious zealots hell-bent on destroying us by "converting" all Christians through subjugation or the sword.

It is they who declared a religious war on us and have repeatedly vowed to wipe America and Israel from the face of the earth. 

There are millions of Muslims willing to commit suicide for even the slight chance they can murder a Western man, woman or child.

Like the former vice president... they speak plainly and most understandably.

Unlike the traitorous Commander in Chief, sensible people, especially Americans must accept Muslims' threats of Armageddon as a singular and simple truth. We must oppose their aggression and surgically and and kill them in numbers necessary to end their threat of civilization.

If not America, who and if not now, when?

This means that Obama must be blocked and defeated on each and every front and point of decision not built on our national defense America's self-interest... nothing else.