…you blame America last.
…you kinda like it when terrorists are made uncomfortable.
…you think a Senate majority leader who constantly tells us how things are doomed while a war is still ongoing needs a good bit**-slapping.
…you think it’s great if a murderer finds God, but that doesn’t mean he should be let out of prison.
…you think America’s sovereignty is kinda important.
…you think anyone who talks about how the rich aren’t “paying their fair share” is a whiny little Communist.
…”great hair” is low on your list of presidential requirements.
…call you crazy, but you’d prefer a presidential candidate who actually shares your conservative views.
…you think it’s time someone did something about the hippies.
…you think someone didn’t draw those border lines on a map just for fun.
…you prefer movies where American troops are the good guys.
…you suspect the Iran might actually be up to something.
... you do not think eight years of looking the other way qualifies you to expect citizens will "trust" you to be on top of obvious problems.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
BTW
"That would be a real big problem for us, no question about that."
-- Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), on what good news regarding the surge strategy in Iraq would mean for Democrats.
THE SURGE IS WORKING !!!!
Members or the Demorat party, committed only to protecting all of the people of the DEMORAT PARTY, please open the appropriate vein.
-- Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), on what good news regarding the surge strategy in Iraq would mean for Democrats.
THE SURGE IS WORKING !!!!
Members or the Demorat party, committed only to protecting all of the people of the DEMORAT PARTY, please open the appropriate vein.
Tattooed eye whites
Latest and from the easily bored and mentally challenged
From the top
Pink or Lime Green spiked hair
Pierced eyebrows
Tattooed, formerly whites of eyes
Pierced ears (all over the place)
Pierced noses
Pierced lips
Split tongues
Tattoos (all over the place)
Pierced navels
Pierced labia and penis (oowch!)
Ankle and toe bling
I’m sure I’ve missed something and I’m also sure I don’t want to be apprised of what.
You would think that with all the important stuff going on on reality and tragedy TV, the zombies would be pretty well “occupied”.
That war action is just a distraction…Dude.
gm
From the top
Pink or Lime Green spiked hair
Pierced eyebrows
Tattooed, formerly whites of eyes
Pierced ears (all over the place)
Pierced noses
Pierced lips
Split tongues
Tattoos (all over the place)
Pierced navels
Pierced labia and penis (oowch!)
Ankle and toe bling
I’m sure I’ve missed something and I’m also sure I don’t want to be apprised of what.
You would think that with all the important stuff going on on reality and tragedy TV, the zombies would be pretty well “occupied”.
That war action is just a distraction…Dude.
gm
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Live from Topeka
I just e mailed the wife of one of our fallen protectors who is promoting putting as severe a set of constraints on the Westboro Caliphate of Hate as possible. She was on the local news tonight and it was good to see her fighting the good fight, that is, keeping the drooling, knuckle dragging homophobic pustules of ignorance as far away from the funerals of our soldiers as possible.
I attended Sgt. Dominic Sacco’s funeral and witnessed the despicable protest the trolls put on. Thankfully, between the Patriot Guard and the throng of veterans and respectful folks from the immediate community, the unexplainably deranged actually looked a bit fearful. Good. Reaping what they HOPE to sow.
The next time you see a soldier in uniform or see that white sidewall haircut, give ‘em a hug and a word of thanks. The lady warriors…be careful with them, but of course respectful. They might really hurt you!
gm
I just e mailed the wife of one of our fallen protectors who is promoting putting as severe a set of constraints on the Westboro Caliphate of Hate as possible. She was on the local news tonight and it was good to see her fighting the good fight, that is, keeping the drooling, knuckle dragging homophobic pustules of ignorance as far away from the funerals of our soldiers as possible.
I attended Sgt. Dominic Sacco’s funeral and witnessed the despicable protest the trolls put on. Thankfully, between the Patriot Guard and the throng of veterans and respectful folks from the immediate community, the unexplainably deranged actually looked a bit fearful. Good. Reaping what they HOPE to sow.
The next time you see a soldier in uniform or see that white sidewall haircut, give ‘em a hug and a word of thanks. The lady warriors…be careful with them, but of course respectful. They might really hurt you!
gm
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Legals -1, Folks who just don't get it -0
The U.S. Senate finally put the ill-constructed Immigration Reform Bill out of it's misery today. Teddy Kennedy, "The Liberal Lyin'" just can't believe it. (John & Bobby rolling over in their graves one more time no doubt) I've a rule of thumb about keghead, if he likes it, somebody is about to get soaked. For some strange reason most folks are just a teeny bit dubious that the gummint' can, all the sudden, control the border. Go figure.
Once again, Mary Jo Kopechne, could not be reached for comment.
gm
Once again, Mary Jo Kopechne, could not be reached for comment.
gm
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Love letter
A Love letter I sent to "Dancin' Sam Brownbackstabber"
Sam,
On the issue you call “immigration” (your tepid little website is devoid of an offering of “ILLEGAL immigration” in the subject categories) what are you guys thinking! Don’t give me the “What would Jesus do” business; I can Catholic with you right to the mat.
Our men and women sacrifice themselves to protect this country from the islamofascists and for the liberty of the people of Iraq. You and your little cadre of elitist panty waists, meanwhile, are giving away the sovereignty and economic future of their country for prospective voters. Are you proud of that?
66% of those polled think the McKennedy plan stinks and guess what…We’ll be watching. Have you clowns decided that democracy is passé as well?
Well, ta ta for now, by the way, you can take that silver fork from the Senate dining room and, well, you know what to do with that at least.
T1
Sam,
On the issue you call “immigration” (your tepid little website is devoid of an offering of “ILLEGAL immigration” in the subject categories) what are you guys thinking! Don’t give me the “What would Jesus do” business; I can Catholic with you right to the mat.
Our men and women sacrifice themselves to protect this country from the islamofascists and for the liberty of the people of Iraq. You and your little cadre of elitist panty waists, meanwhile, are giving away the sovereignty and economic future of their country for prospective voters. Are you proud of that?
66% of those polled think the McKennedy plan stinks and guess what…We’ll be watching. Have you clowns decided that democracy is passé as well?
Well, ta ta for now, by the way, you can take that silver fork from the Senate dining room and, well, you know what to do with that at least.
T1
Honesty About Iraq
Once again Victor Davis Hanson drives it into the cheap seats.
Presidente George Calderon Bush (AKA The great Non-Communicator) has failed monumentally in explaining ANYTHING to this country and I ‘m beginning to think it’s because he doesn’t understand what’s really going on anywhere. Damn it!
Anyway…
Honesty About Iraq
How are we doing?
By Victor Davis Hanson
The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public at home that such losses are simply not worth the envisioned aims.
So how are we doing?
As expected, many of our traditional advantages are being nullified.
How can Americans use air superiority against an enemy that hides among civilians and dares them to destroy infrastructure essential to our friends?
We create sophisticated communications at great cost and investment; the parasitical terrorists simply bore into them and use them at no cost and sometimes with greater effect than do their inventors (e.g., Why are not jihadist websites deemed as dangerous as IEDs, but not attacked in similar fashion?).
Money and know-how can rebuild Iraq along the designs of Western material society — but that only makes it more vulnerable as a single transformer blown up or a pylon brought down can suddenly take away the newly found improved life. It’s not just that a suicide bomber with a $100 vest can destroy $1 million worth of electrical infrastructure, but in the gruesome equation cast the American engineers into the role of the incompetent or sinister by their failure to repair and rebuild faster than an illiterate can destroy.
The globalized media is an American epiphenomenon, but the narrative of the war is still the IED, not the purple finger. We apparently have no way of convincing the world that the primordial enemy commits daily something far worse than the sexual humiliation of the entire Abu Ghraib fiasco. Somehow “thousands have been killed” is never qualified as those mostly butchered and blown up by insurgents — since the loose use of the passive voice lends a general sense that somehow Americans are directly involved in, or responsible for, the killing.
Our soldiers are fighting brilliantly, and history will record they are defeating the enemy while suffering historically low casualties. But if the sacrifice of American youth is not tied — daily, hourly — to larger strategic and humanitarian goals by eloquent statesmen who believe in the mission, then cynicism follows and, with it, despair.
The establishment of consensual government in Iraq, with the concomitant defeat of jihadists, will have positive ripples that will undermine Islamism and help to cleanse the miasma in which al Qaeda thrives. But again, unless explained, most Americans will not see a connection between the ideology of the head-drillers and head-loppers we are fighting in Iraq and those who try to do even worse at Fort Dix and the Kennedy airport. The war to remove Saddam was won and is over; the subsequent and very different war in Iraq that followed is for nothing less than the future of the Middle East — and now involves everything from global terrorism and nuclear proliferation to the world’s oil supply and the future of Islam in the modern world.
We need to confess that the jihadists are not only keen students of insurgency warfare, but good observers of the American psyche. We think their kidnapping, childish infomercials, gruesome tactics, and horrific websites are primordial and counterproductive; but they are more likely horrifically simple in inciting the most basic fears and self-preservation instincts of ordinary people. Precisely because decapitation belongs to a different century makes it more gruesome now, not less. Because the al Qaedists steal many of their talking points from the Western Left does not make them unimaginative as much as eerily familiar. And because we can daily predict the serial barbarity of the jihadists makes it not so much unimaginative as savagely inevitable.
So what to do?
We can quibble and fight about tactics on the ground, manpower numbers, strategic postures toward Iran and Syria, the need to prod the Iraqis, but our problem is more existential. Either stabilizing Iraq now is felt critical to the United States and the West or it isn’t. If the Left is right that it isn’t, then we should flee; if they are wrong, and I think they are, then we must start using our vast cultural and media resources to explain what is at stake — in a strategic and humanitarian sense — and precisely what it is costing America and why it in the long run is worth it, and how we have adjusted to counter our enemies who in the last four years have not won in Iraq or anywhere else either.
By our relative inaction on these critical informational fronts, we are only raising the bar impossibly high for General Petraeus when he reports back to Congress in the autumn. For election-minded Republican senators and representatives (whose defection alone can end the war) the barometer of success unfortunately may be soon not be improvement in six months, but only an impossible demand for absolute victory in 2007.
So more explanation, less assertion; more debate with, rather than dismissal of, critics. And the final irony? The more brutal honesty, the less euphemism and generalities, the more Americans will accept the challenge.
Presidente George Calderon Bush (AKA The great Non-Communicator) has failed monumentally in explaining ANYTHING to this country and I ‘m beginning to think it’s because he doesn’t understand what’s really going on anywhere. Damn it!
Anyway…
Honesty About Iraq
How are we doing?
By Victor Davis Hanson
The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public at home that such losses are simply not worth the envisioned aims.
So how are we doing?
As expected, many of our traditional advantages are being nullified.
How can Americans use air superiority against an enemy that hides among civilians and dares them to destroy infrastructure essential to our friends?
We create sophisticated communications at great cost and investment; the parasitical terrorists simply bore into them and use them at no cost and sometimes with greater effect than do their inventors (e.g., Why are not jihadist websites deemed as dangerous as IEDs, but not attacked in similar fashion?).
Money and know-how can rebuild Iraq along the designs of Western material society — but that only makes it more vulnerable as a single transformer blown up or a pylon brought down can suddenly take away the newly found improved life. It’s not just that a suicide bomber with a $100 vest can destroy $1 million worth of electrical infrastructure, but in the gruesome equation cast the American engineers into the role of the incompetent or sinister by their failure to repair and rebuild faster than an illiterate can destroy.
The globalized media is an American epiphenomenon, but the narrative of the war is still the IED, not the purple finger. We apparently have no way of convincing the world that the primordial enemy commits daily something far worse than the sexual humiliation of the entire Abu Ghraib fiasco. Somehow “thousands have been killed” is never qualified as those mostly butchered and blown up by insurgents — since the loose use of the passive voice lends a general sense that somehow Americans are directly involved in, or responsible for, the killing.
Our soldiers are fighting brilliantly, and history will record they are defeating the enemy while suffering historically low casualties. But if the sacrifice of American youth is not tied — daily, hourly — to larger strategic and humanitarian goals by eloquent statesmen who believe in the mission, then cynicism follows and, with it, despair.
The establishment of consensual government in Iraq, with the concomitant defeat of jihadists, will have positive ripples that will undermine Islamism and help to cleanse the miasma in which al Qaeda thrives. But again, unless explained, most Americans will not see a connection between the ideology of the head-drillers and head-loppers we are fighting in Iraq and those who try to do even worse at Fort Dix and the Kennedy airport. The war to remove Saddam was won and is over; the subsequent and very different war in Iraq that followed is for nothing less than the future of the Middle East — and now involves everything from global terrorism and nuclear proliferation to the world’s oil supply and the future of Islam in the modern world.
We need to confess that the jihadists are not only keen students of insurgency warfare, but good observers of the American psyche. We think their kidnapping, childish infomercials, gruesome tactics, and horrific websites are primordial and counterproductive; but they are more likely horrifically simple in inciting the most basic fears and self-preservation instincts of ordinary people. Precisely because decapitation belongs to a different century makes it more gruesome now, not less. Because the al Qaedists steal many of their talking points from the Western Left does not make them unimaginative as much as eerily familiar. And because we can daily predict the serial barbarity of the jihadists makes it not so much unimaginative as savagely inevitable.
So what to do?
We can quibble and fight about tactics on the ground, manpower numbers, strategic postures toward Iran and Syria, the need to prod the Iraqis, but our problem is more existential. Either stabilizing Iraq now is felt critical to the United States and the West or it isn’t. If the Left is right that it isn’t, then we should flee; if they are wrong, and I think they are, then we must start using our vast cultural and media resources to explain what is at stake — in a strategic and humanitarian sense — and precisely what it is costing America and why it in the long run is worth it, and how we have adjusted to counter our enemies who in the last four years have not won in Iraq or anywhere else either.
By our relative inaction on these critical informational fronts, we are only raising the bar impossibly high for General Petraeus when he reports back to Congress in the autumn. For election-minded Republican senators and representatives (whose defection alone can end the war) the barometer of success unfortunately may be soon not be improvement in six months, but only an impossible demand for absolute victory in 2007.
So more explanation, less assertion; more debate with, rather than dismissal of, critics. And the final irony? The more brutal honesty, the less euphemism and generalities, the more Americans will accept the challenge.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Cindy, Cindy, Cindy
Cindy, Cindy, Cindy,
I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system? However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used… The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing… I am going to take whatever I have left and go home.
Darling? DARLING? “Tool”…Well maybe, but certainly not a sharp one.
What’s devastating is her profound ignorance. Her brave son died for one of the most valuable things on this earth, freedom.
gm
I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system? However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used… The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing… I am going to take whatever I have left and go home.
Darling? DARLING? “Tool”…Well maybe, but certainly not a sharp one.
What’s devastating is her profound ignorance. Her brave son died for one of the most valuable things on this earth, freedom.
gm
Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day
It's a great day for the first post.
Kicked back today after a pretty hectic couple of days getting things done around the farm.
I got an e mail from my first born wishing me a good day and thanking me for my service in Vietnam.
It's heartening to see that, for the most part, our returning warriors are being treated with respect and honor. What's not heartening is that the media and politicians are giving away their sacrifices and giving away the very country they served to ILLEGAL interlopers.Our troops will not loose in Iraq, but like Vietnam, they may LEAVE Iraq at the behest of lesser men and women (using those terms very loosely).
I would call the lefties, most politicians and the msm prostitutes but I don't care to demean working people. The ignorant, ill informed and incredibly naive amongst us will only learn when they are picking up dead children on OUR sidewalks, playing home games instead of road games.
Memorial Day is for remembering loved ones departed, sacrifices, past and present, while trying to make sure we don't have to make any in the future that we can honorably avoid.
The best to you,
galensmark
Kicked back today after a pretty hectic couple of days getting things done around the farm.
I got an e mail from my first born wishing me a good day and thanking me for my service in Vietnam.
It's heartening to see that, for the most part, our returning warriors are being treated with respect and honor. What's not heartening is that the media and politicians are giving away their sacrifices and giving away the very country they served to ILLEGAL interlopers.Our troops will not loose in Iraq, but like Vietnam, they may LEAVE Iraq at the behest of lesser men and women (using those terms very loosely).
I would call the lefties, most politicians and the msm prostitutes but I don't care to demean working people. The ignorant, ill informed and incredibly naive amongst us will only learn when they are picking up dead children on OUR sidewalks, playing home games instead of road games.
Memorial Day is for remembering loved ones departed, sacrifices, past and present, while trying to make sure we don't have to make any in the future that we can honorably avoid.
The best to you,
galensmark
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