“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
5. Facebook in real life. I’ve never tried it so I have no clue if this is funny or not. On the other hand, British accents always make things funny.
6. Today, (April 30th) is French No-Spank Day. Fortunately it was about spanking children, for the moment spanking brunette women on the bum is still allowed. Dodges a bullet there I tell ya.
This blogger is very upset that a Macy’s buyer didn’t know what she meant when she asked about Macy’s “green policy.” I do find it amusing that the buyer didn’t know she meant environmental policies, but other than that I have the exact opposite reaction. I love that Macy’s isn’t concerned about green policy. In fact, while I have never shopped at Macy’s before, I am going to go out of my way to shop there from now on. Green policies are sometimes doing more bad than good. Yeah, yeah, I want to protect the environment (and do more than my share actually - if you only knew), but this type of obsession is not a good thing; obsessions rarely are.
2. And speaking of higher education - - I’m a big zombie fan, but let me tell you, if I found out my sons were wasting their time, and my money, on crap like this while in college, they’d be flipping burgers for a living in a heartbeat.
3. They are calling for a draft. The left that is. Since the beginning of the Iraq War is has always been the Democrats calling for a draft. The military doesn’t want one. Nor does the GOP. Why you ask? Because you can’t have a anti-war movement of any consequence unless you are forcing people to fight it. We aren’t. Our guys and gals want to defend their country, and that pisses off those who want to retreat.
Let’s put aside the fact that global warming is still very much in dispute, as is man’s contribution to it, if it does exist at all. The morphing of this iconic photograph of US Marines raising our Flag into a photograph of dyslexic lumberjacks raising a tree while wearing military surplus is insulting and belittles these brave warriors.
The editors who made the decision to publish this horrid photoshop should be ashamed. They aren’t though and more is the pity.
What’s that old saying? “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Gen. David H. Petraeus may be as impressive a military professional as the United States has developed in recent years, but he could use some strategic advice on how to manage his sartorial PR. Witness his congressional testimony on the state of the war in Iraq. There he sits in elaborate Army regalia, four stars glistening on each shoulder, nine rows of colorful ribbons on his left breast, and various other medallions, brooches and patches scattered across the rest of the available real estate on his uniform. He even wears his name tag, a lone and incongruous hunk of cheap plastic in a region of pristine gilt, just in case the politicians aren’t sure who he is.
That’s a lot of martial bling, especially for an officer who hadn’t seen combat until five years ago. Unfortunately, brazen preening and “ribbon creep” among the Army’s modern-day upper crust have trumped the time-honored military virtues of humility, duty and personal reserve.
Matthew Debord, a gnat of a man whose only apparent contribution to society is in the form of that manliest of professions, the wine critic, has removed all doubt.
He’s an ignorant fool too, since he has no knowledge of the rules governing the wear of decorations, medals, badges and insignia on military uniforms. At least none that he communicated in his silly Boone’s Farm-qualityopinion piece.
Envy is more than just a perfume, Matthew. You really should pick a fight with someone in a similarly meaningful profession . . . say a movie critic or Project Runway judge.
You better support Obama or we won’t be your friends anymore. (NOTE: They pulled the post from the Obama’O8 site. Predictable and typical. And what I quoted down below was just a quarter of the ranting that was there. A link to screenshots of what was posted in total down below in the update.)
Enough is enough.
America has suffered enough of Clintonitis.
Americans have spoken loud and clear: they do not want political business as usual that Clintonitis represent.
They want change and they want it fast.
They have chosen and anointed Obama as the agent of change.
He is the new political Messiah who shall continue where JFK stopped.
Americans seem to be in slumber and in complete denial of the present dangerous and volatile world situation.
This is where Jews can help.
By supporting Obama to win, they would cure America of Clintonitis and thereby be able to find a permanent solution to the Arab-Jewish problem in the Middle East.
Jews must support Obama or face grave consequences. You cannot afford not to.
Africans have been nice and helped Jews for more than 2000 yrs.
Now, I say to Jews all over the world, it is time to show your gratitude.
Well, now, if I were Jewish that would certainly sway me. I just love friends who threaten me if I don’t do what they say. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
This is posted on the official Obama’08 website, which I assume means he approved it. If so, how sad. If not, does he have any control over anyone in his own campaign?
I’m not sure how long it will be up, though, once people start hammering him on it. So check it out now. There’s lots more.
They pulled it from the site. What did I tell you? However, if you want to see screenshots of what this anti-semitic screed looked like check em out over here. (Click the link and then scroll down some to see links to the screenshots.)
** BTW, I don’t like this title. It grates on me for some reason. But it conveys the attitude of the moron who wrote this now “disappeared” post over at Obama08.
1. Michelle Unbound. Best line, “I’m constantly reminded that I will never be smart enough to be a Democrat.” I know the feeling.
2. The Ten Most Hated People on the Internet. I don’t know many of them, and it’s a shame that one is a military member (although he deserves the scorn), but I wish Rachael Ray were higher than number 10. She makes brunettes look bad. And no wonder her voice is so raspy - she is a chain-smoker.
3. The French do love their fries. Eco-friendly since you could bring it with you when you go to McDonalds.
4. General Petraeus kicked Democrat butt yesterday. Well, that’s my interpretation anyway. What he did was answer every question they had with facts and reason and watched them make fools of themselves giving speeches about surrender. If you’re interested The Global Times has lots of video. Just scroll down to see them.
Every time I promise myself I am going to take a break from posting about Barack Hussein Obama, I end up breaking it because of stuff like this.
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”
Only a man who has a profound ignorance of and, dare I say it, a deep-seated contempt for our military would say something like this.
“McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”
Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, West Virginia, and Barack Hussen Obama supporter, appears to be that man.
Keep it up Dems. I simply cannot see attacking McCain, a man who served his country honorably and spent five fricken years in a hell-hole of a prison camp, in this way as a winning strategy in the general election.
It’s been said that during the Vietnam War the Viet Cong “owned the night.” Well, this is just another way that this war differs from that one. Now not only do our guys own the night, they’ve make it their bitch.
A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement,” Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government “the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000–80,000 forces) by the end of 2010 (although the specific timelines should be the byproduct of negotiations and conditions on the ground).”
Mr. Kahl is the day-to-day coordinator of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq. A shorter and less detailed version of this paper appeared on the center’s Web site as a policy brief.
Both Mr. Kahl and a senior Obama campaign adviser reached yesterday said the paper does not represent the campaign’s Iraq position. Nonetheless, the paper could provide clues as to the ultimate size of the residual American force the candidate has said would remain in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat brigades. The campaign has not publicly discussed the size of such a force in the past.
Color me confused. I thought Barack Hussein Obama was going to withdraw all troops from Iraq. And didn’t he just misrepresent McCain’s “100 year” statement by implying that McCain would keep the war going for that long, instead of just stationing US troops there just like we have in Germany, Japan, and Korea? I’m pretty sure he did. So which is the truth? Is Obama going to withdraw all troops like his far-left anti-war supporters want, or is he going to keep troops there much like McCain has stated he would do?
Which is it, Senator?
In or out? This is not a tough question.
No tougher than whether you believe what Reverend Wright believes, anyway.
Then again, that was a tough one for you, too, wasn’t it?
Navy Seal receives the Medal of Honor, only a few months after being awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third highest honor for gallantry in combat and the fourth highest military honor overall.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor fought dozens of battles in the streets of Ramadi, shouldering his MK48 machine gun without complaint in the 130-degree heat of Iraq’s violent Anbar province.
In May 2006, only a month into his first deployment to Iraq, the 25-year-old Navy SEAL from Garden Grove, Calif., ran under fire into a street to drag to safety a wounded comrade who was shot in the leg, earning a Silver Star for his courage.
On Sept. 29, 2006, another act of valor would cost Monsoor his life — and save the lives of three comrades. For that act, he will posthumously be awarded a Medal of Honor on April 8, the White House said yesterday.
Monsoor “distinguished himself through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life,” said an official summary of action. He is the first sailor and the third service member overall to receive a Medal of Honor for actions in the war in Iraq.
That September morning, Monsoor and a group of SEAL snipers took up position on a residential rooftop as part of an operation to push into a dangerous section of southern Ramadi. Four insurgents armed with AK-47 rifles came into view, and the SEAL snipers opened fire, killing one and wounding another. Loudspeakers from a mosque broadcast calls for insurgents to rally, and residents blocked off nearby roads with rocks.
Insurgents shot back at the SEAL position with automatic weapons from a moving vehicle and fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the building. The SEALs knew that more attacks were inevitable but continued their mission of protecting the troops clearing the area below, according to an official account.
Monsoor’s commander repositioned him in a small hidden location between two SEAL snipers on an outcropping of the roof, facing the most likely route of another insurgent attack. As Monsoor manned his gun, an insurgent lobbed up a hand grenade, which hit Monsoor in the chest and bounced onto the roof.
“Grenade!” Monsoor shouted. But the two snipers and another SEAL on the roof had no time to escape, as Monsoor was closest to the only exit. Monsoor dropped onto the grenade, smothering it with his body. It detonated, and Monsoor died about 30 minutes later from his wounds.
“He made an instantaneous decision to save our teammates. I immediately understood what happened, and tragically it made sense to me in keeping with the man I know, Mike Monsoor,” said Lt. Cmdr. Seth Stone, Monsoor’s platoon leader in Ramadi.
WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) — Young Americans have a reverence for national institutions, traditions and family values, a U.S. survey indicates.
A survey of so-called “millennials” — those between 21 and 29 — revealed the group overwhelmingly said they support monogamy, marriage, the U.S. Constitution and the military, The Washington Times reported Sunday.
“We were completely surprised. There has been a faulty portrayal of millennials by the media — television, films, news, blogs, everything. These people are not the self-entitled, coddled slackers they’re made out to be. Misnomers and myths about them are all over the place,” said Ann Mack, who directed the survey and is the official “director of trend-spotting” at J. Walter Thompson, the nation’s largest advertising agency.
In addition to indicating 94 percent of millennials respect monogamy and parenthood and 84 percent revere marriage, the survey found 88 percent said they respect the U.S. Constitution, 84 percent respect the military and more than three-quarters believe in the “American dream.”
The survey of 1,250 adults was conducted online throughout January. No margin of error was reported.
Or doesn’t care. Even the article at the link in the preceding paragraph shows Hollywood trying to explain away the bad box office on anything but the fact that people do now want to see our military played as evil or incompetent or both. They want to see them as winners, which, by the way, is what they are.
So whatever the reason - willful ignorance, plain stupidity, or leftist agenda - Hollywood keeps making these losers and losing money in return.
If you want true inspiration, don’t look to Barack, “Mr. Inspiration” Obama, or most politicians for that matter (McCain being a notable exception as a actual hero in his own right), look to these men (and one woman), who have recieved our nation’s highest honor.
1. Oregon man says he is pregnant. I thought this was some big scientific breakthrough (or more probably a National Enquirer story) until I found out it was just a woman who had chest reconstruction and grew a beard.
2. Nancy Reagan is endorsing McCain. Good news for McCain which can only help his image with the Republican base. What with Obama and Hillary making fools of themselves, McCain is looking better and better.
3. Yeah, that’s what he says in public, but in private you just know da Pope and the Cardinals were exchanging high-fives and doing the baby-circle dance. Take that Mohammad.
5. If you do nothing else today, check out this video and have a good cry. Or at least tear-up like me.
6. And this woman differs from every woman on Earth in exactly what way?
7. Long story short - the Vets for Freedom were giving a presentation to some high school kids in Minnesota. The anti-American, anti-military members morons of the Democratic Underground and some equally suspect parents scared the wimpy principal into cancelling the presentation, so the local community showed up in force to welcome the Vets along with some good kids who skipped school to see them. Good on the community and the kids who skipped school. Shame on the DU, the complaining parents and the school officials who cowed down to this pressure.
