The Afghan Plan

So last night Obama rolled out his new plan for Afghanistan. Paraphrased it was, "We're going to send a bunch more of you military types over there to die before we surrender." Obama was also very careful to not give his handpicked General the number of troops he asked for. I mean god forbid that it look like he was bowing to the military. He saves that for foreign royalty. Well royalty and the far left of his party that is.

I would really like to know what the hell happened to the Roosevelt Democrats. I fear they are an extinct species. Here I thought the libs were all over preserving endangered species... Guess you all dropped the ball on that one huh?

The Final Nail in the Coffin

You know nothing surprises me any more. At some point last week, someone breached the servers at Britain's Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and released about a thousand incriminating archived e-mails between a virtual who's who in the global warming community. The authenticity of these e-mails has been corroborated and definitively proves that global warming is an unmitigated hoax. The e-mails provide documentation of a long litany of data altered to match desired results, forged data, changed dates, out right lies, obfuscation and attempts to lead skeptics astray.

Here is one representative snippet written by Phil Jones:

The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here! ... The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick. Leave it to you to delete as appropriate!

- Cheers Phil

PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!

Phil Jones yet again:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Another snippet from Kevin Trenberth:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

And this one from Mick Kelly:

I’ll maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again as that’s trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years.

Ladies and gentlemen this is a world governed by fads. Society demands so much effort and expense from each of us to slavishly follow the latest fad the comes down the pipe. Now, all of us are supposed to have our IPods. God forbid we should walk down the street without a Starbucks cup in our hand. We are all supposed to be good little herd creatures slavishly treading the worn trail with our nose pressed under the tail of the beast ahead of us. More and more those of us who refuse to slavishly toe the line are unjustly ridiculed and ostracized. We are supposed to embrace diversity and yet it is only the diversity of pet protected classes that matters. True diversity, diversity of thought and belief is shunned.

I have long said that science does not occur by consensus. Science occurs by the scientific method. Now I am vindicated.

We are now expected to follow this global warming fad and it is a fad because its numbers, facts and figures are utter fictitious offal! Our congress is looking at bankrupting each and every home with a cap and trade bill based upon this vaporous foundation. Our president will soon meet in Europe to obligate us to a treaty that will strip us of our preeminent position in the global community. All of it based on nothing but lies. You won't see these leaked e-mails divulged anywhere on the mass media because they are a complicit tool in the deceit.

What is it all about? Why is so much emphasis placed on conformity? Greed for power, plain and simple. The so called "progressives" have no real lust for the progress of mankind. The only progress they seek is the progression of their power into a monopoly.

Imagine the true progress that could be made were we unencumbered with the need to tend the liberal's lust for power and chase our tails slavishly following their herd fad tactics. Imagine how many starving people we could feed and how many illnesses could be healed. It isn't they who do those things you know. For example, it's not the liberals who care for the masses suffering from AIDS and starvation in Africa. Go have a look and you'll find thousands of religious missionaries out there doing the work. You'll find that George W. Bush sent more money there to ameliorate suffering than any liberal ever has.

Ask yourself this... How much money could be contributed toward "universal health coverage" if it weren't squandered paying for studies in global warming that isn't occurring or salaries for people who claim to be scientists, but clearly aren't?

The deceitfulness of this recent revelation lays all of this bare and the fact that they will ignore it and simply attempt to continue as if it hadn't ever occurred proves their dishonesty.

We've handed the Huns the keys to gates.

Global warming is just the latest unveiled Madoff scheme.

All of the released emails are available for download here.

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It now turns out that the University of East Anglia's "climate scientists" (note: I use the title quite loosely in this case), "accidentally" destroyed all of their raw data, making corroboration of their conclusions, impossible... How handy for them. Imagine how surprised I am to hear this.

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Phil Jones, head of the climate change program at East Anglia has resigned in shame due to the revelation of this scandal. The more people start looking into things the more clear it is that Jones and his colleagues have been "cooking the books", massaging figures in order to support a preordained conclusion. This man and this institution is supposed to be teaching our youth the scientific method, what hope do we as a race have of truly furthering scientific knowledge if the ones who are supposed to teach the youth do not understand the very basic foundations of that which they aspire to teach. What these people are practicing is not science and never will be. It is a belief in a religion... a self fulfilling prophecy. It is much like the Catholic Church's insistence that Galileo recant his belief in a sun centered solar system. Despite the scientific proofs, let the "climate change" inquisitions begin!

The Peaceful Religion Strikes Again

The news is still evolving, but it appears that an Army Major, one Nidal Malik Hassan murdered 11 and wounded 31 others at Fort Hood. Early reports indicate that Hassan had advocated Muslims rising up to kill American soldiers. This man was a psychiatrist who had been assigned to care for soldiers returning from combat who suffered from PTSD or addictions. Now I have to ask, what genius allowed that?

Questions still remain. It was reported that the murderer was armed with two 9mm handguns. Anyone who knows firearms knows that causing death or injury to 42 persons with two 9mm handguns would take quite a bit of effort. It is not something that an Army doctor is normally trained to do. Army doctors are not combat troops, They are not trained to engage in combat operations. How were so many injured or killed with such meager arms?

Further, it has been reported that Hassan had come to the attention of army officials 6 months ago for internet blog postings that equated muslim suicide bombers with soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades to save their comrades.

Hassan was shot dead by a security contractor, ending his murder spree. The officer was also mortally wounded in the exchange.

I hope this pig died a long slow painful death.

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It appears that Hassan is not dead! He was wounded and survived. Would someone in that hospital that holds him please feed him some bacon and salve his wounds in rancid pig fat! Further news is that a female MP was the one who took him down.

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The heroic first responder that ended this fanatic's murder spree, Kimberly Munley is not deceased. She too survived the ordeal. All I can say is I wish she had aimed better!

Changing Values

Isn't it peculiar how some things that used to have tremendous value, now seem so utterly cheap and devoid of value?


I'm sure there are some liberals out there heralding Obama's Nobel award as proof positive that their man has brought about a foreign relations renaissance... and indeed it has. Our fainéant allies have indeed experienced a rebirth of our foreign aspirations. The pointed demands that they live up to their obligations have indeed ceased, allowing them to lapse back into their slothful ways. There's no more George W. Bush holding their feet to the fire. Instead he's been replaced with this new fellow that requires instruction on delivering pointed demands from the French President (of all people). So far his timid, self-aggrandizing voice hasn't delivered a single thing from our allies... not even the selection of Chicago by the World Olympic Committee.

Check Out This Quote

Check out this unbelievable quote from Michelle!

Gitsum!

Get ready to rock your face off!

...and Again Today

Twice as a matter of fact...

...and the hits just keep on coming!

So while I was observing the anniversary of 9/11 and going on about my life, it appears that our government felt a need to pay me a couple more visits:


Now, I'm normally happy to entertain just about any ol' visitors but I do have to be curious about what justifiable excuse there could be to spend my tax money and government resources to visit my humble blog... Beyond that... the Government Printing Office for Christ's sake? What in the hell are you printing off of my site without my permission? Do I have to put on my boss hat and yell at you guys to get back to doing real work?

9/11 + 8

Source

I rose this morning, fully steeled to commemorate the passing of another 9/11. Going about my morning as I usually do, I rolled out of bed, rubbed the grit from my eyes and then switched on the television in the bedroom to the news channel. That is what I do every morning, listen to the news as I prepare for my day.

This morning however, I was struck with an unexplained melancholy, a wistful inexplicable ache. For me there was something I couldn't put my finger on... Something more amiss than on previous 9/11's.

I resolved to find and wear my traditional "Remember 9/11" lapel pin as I pondered what was effecting me so oddly.

Then I sat transfixed as Barack Obama's commemorative address at the Pentagon issued from the television. His words meandered and danced artfully around issues and possible phrasings that might offend one group or another. The sentences seemed hours long, intricate and complex; a woven tapestry of platitudes and side steps with a very sparse smattering of periods.

It was then that the difference hit me square in the face. This is the first commemoration of 9/11 that has not been presided over by George W. Bush. It just felt odd.

I hope that all but the most partisan can lay down the criticisms for a moment and realize that in this moment eight years ago, President Bush became the most popular president in American history. When he surmounted that mound of rubble at ground zero and resolutely pronounced, "I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon"; his approval rating skyrocketed to levels that no other president in history ever enjoyed. Sure, he did a lot of things that some disagree with. (He even did things that I disagree with!) But in this moment, eight years ago, he was the man that unified the resolve of this nation and voiced our collective sorrow and rage.

I have to admit to getting teary eyed at the realization. President Obama's lack-luster speech somehow lacked George's simple steely resolve. That is another thing that all but the most partisan must admit. You never had any doubt in your mind that when he spoke, he was speaking from his heart and truly meant what he said. He may not have followed through. He may not have been expressing sentiments that you shared, but GWB was a man who said what he meant and meant what he said. There wasn't room for flowery rhetoric and relying on a teleprompter, like his successor might have saved him from more than a few fumbled words or phrases... but everyone knew the man believed in what he was saying. I miss that.

My wife tearfully interrupted my work preparations on several occasions this morning. I think she was feeling it too.

President Obama never mentioned the word terrorism in his speech, but renewed his commitment to pursue Al Quaeda. I remembered hearing the words of Master Sergeant Bernard, the father of the fallen hero Lance Corporal Joshua Bernand. He criticized the irrational R.o.E. (Rules of Engagement) the President had saddled his son with, and blamed them for his son's untimely demise. I have to wonder if the president is going to combat Al Quaeda by embedding those same artfully crafted platitudes, intended to offend no one into the rules of engagement thus tying the hands of our valiant troops abroad.

In the end, many things have remained unchanged since Obama took the oval office. P.O.W.'s are still housed at Guantanamo Bay. Al Quaeda still lurks in the seedy underbelly of the trash heaps and dung piles of third world shit holes, plotting acts of atrocity. Our troops are still dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some things however have changed and drastically so... All those protesters that once feverishly hounded the president for housing P.O.W.'s at Guantanamo and having our troops in Iraq & Afghanistan... They've fallen largely silent. The rules of engagement that recognized the priceless value of the lives of our troops and the inherent right to defend one's self when fired upon... gone in a vaporous spray hero's blood.

As I made my way into the door at work, I resigned myself to the thought that my tiny little lapel pin was probably again, going to be the only outward sign of recognition of the date that I'd see. Then, as I was speaking with a coworker however, I noticed a odd smattering of small battery operated candles dotting the dividers between the cubicles. There was one on the desk of D. (who's pretty much my right hand, utterly indispensable). So I asked her, "What's up with the candles?" "Well Duh!" She replied, "they're for 9/11!" That made my day... Well that and DI's comment to my post, "The Voice of Consent".

The Voice of Consent

Some of you may have noticed that I've added a quote to the side bar:

"While it is true that a government rules only by the consent of the governed. Too many of us have not considered that silence might easily be construed to be consent."

These are my own words. I made the statement over on DI's blog when commenting on the latest post there. I've tweaked it slightly when compared to what I posted there because Haloscan doesn't allow a poster to edit their comments to refine their language and I am a compulsive word tweaker. I added it to the side bar because it impressed me as being a rather deep statement. Not that I'm saying that I am some sort of font of wisdom or anything, but even an idiot can occasionally happen upon a statement of great profundity by accident.

On its face the statement speaks affirmatively about the tumult we have been creating at the townhalls of late. We are making our lack of consent on that topic clearly known and it seems to be working.

I then began to think about the statement and the context in which it was made. DI and Miradena's post was comparing the many similarities of the actions of our current administration to the actions of Adolf Hitler and National Worker's German Socialist Party (NAZIs) when they siezed power in Germany. We have I'm sure, all heard the contention that as soon as you evoke the NAZIs you've lost the debate because it just isn't politically correct to compare someone to Hitler.

Now we have hit upon a far more important meaning for my statement. George Orwell once wisely posited that controlling the use of language is the avenue for controlling the mind.

Political correctness is an insidious device! Look at the out cry over the administration's attempts to control our health industry... We have all raised our voices and then turned surprisedly to realize that we are not the only ones decrying it. We have suddenly discovered the might of our voices when raised in chorus. Political correctness prevents the organization of political opposition. It stifles the chorus of discontent. It does this because it masks the thoughts of masses. How can we know that we all oppose a thing if we are afraid to voice that opposition? Instead we stand there like islands of solitude, afraid that the unacceptability of voicing our inner thoughts will garner us rejection from those around us.

We must not fear voicing our thoughts. If we allow even the hideous thoughts of lunacy to be untremblingly voiced then it makes the vocalization of the valid but hard questions all the more easy. That is the true gift our founding fathers granted us with the first amendment. The ability to stand basked in the naked light of our thoughts. Our forefathers are often described as rugged individualists. They thought what they thought and freely shared those thoughts, regardless how novel or heretical those thoughts may have been. Over the intervening years we have grown fearful of stating even the obvious; "yes, the emperor is indeed naked", and peer pressure is the instrument of our demise. We are but a shadow our outspoken fore-bearers and more's the pity.

While we as conservatives reside in the acceptable silence, our opponents feel no such compunction. The full tenor of the national voice must be heard in order to set the mid-line. How do you define the middle if one side monopolizes the discourse? The carriage of the melody slips to the sopranos when the baritones fall silent and the piece becomes shrill as it is deprived of the fullness of tone. Suddenly we have laws being proposed to ban "hate" speech but "hate" is defined as only that which is objectionable to one side.Allow me to return to the post on DI's blog. The left has felt no impediment to comparing George W. Bush to Hitler. Why then should DI and Miradena be apologetic when comparing Obama to Hitler? The standard argument I have heard is that until the person has murdered millions as Hitler did, that the comparison is ill-advised. But a very wise man once said that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Should we wait until millions are marched off to the gas chambers before we sound the alarm? That sounds like the standard liberal tactic when dealing with terrorism... Wait until the act occurs, then prosecute the perpetrators rather than acting proactively to prevent the act.

I suppose what I am saying my friends is fearlessly raise your voices. Speak proudly and without timidity. I, at the very least, will not shun you as a thought leper. I may disagree, but I prefer independent minds as they are far less tedious and boring than their cookie cutter alternatives:

Orwell said that political prose was formed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." (Source)

This Screamed Repost Me

David from Camas Washington is a real American hero, every bit as eloquent as any marine can be expected to be and 100,000 percent correct! Semper Fi!

H.T. for this vid-clip to my pal over at Right-Wing Extreme.

Thundering Silence

If you click the title of this post you will be taken to the news article that served as the impetus for this post. The title of the article reads, "July, August deadliest months of Afghan war for US". Ever since we as a nation rolled into Afghanistan following 9/11 and later in Iraq the liberal masses lined the streets protesting the war. They claimed that they were "supporting the troops".
At the time, I insisted that they did not really care about the troops in the least. I was lambasted by them. They wondered how I could say such a thing. Clearly they cared about the troops because they just wanted to get them out of danger. Where are you now my hypocritical liberal friends? Where are your protests against Obama's inept handling of the war? Our troops are still dying in Iraq and now they are dying in greater numbers than ever before in Afghanistan. Where is your outrage and concern for their welfare now? Where are the poorly crafted facsimiles of Obama being burned in effigy? Why is Cindy Sheehan not camped outside Obama's house in Chicago?

Nowhere! That is where your protests are. I am thus vindicated. You do not care about the troops in the least! Not only that, but I am also vindicated in asserting that you have no idea how to handle troops. Your man's fat fingered efforts to fight "the right war", the one in Afghanistan is proving that. His ineptitude has bathed his hands in the blood of patriots.

This is News?

The AP wants you to know that no crime occurred today, but one could have. It's been everywhere on the news lately. It appears that there is a trend of people showing up outside town-hall meetings bearing arms. The usual cast of clowns and their complicit dupes in the mass media are over reacting exactly as these protesters are betting they will. Here's a sampling of some of the quotes from the post title-linked article:

"It actually becomes quite scary for many people. It creates a chilling effect in the ability of our society to carry on honest communication."

"The larger the gun, the more menacing the situation,"

"To me, this is craziness. When you bring a loaded gun, particularly a loaded assault rifle, to any political event, but particularly to one where the president is appearing, you're just making the situation dangerous for everyone."

Here's what the police had to say:

"Phoenix police said the gun-toters at Monday's event, including the man carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, didn't need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested."

So all this outrage with no broken laws, no threats, no carnage... You see, the problem is that the mere sight of a firearm is scary to the left. The fact of the matter is, our nation was founded acknowledging a person's inalienable right to keep and bear arms. They of course spew the normal things they always spew... if a gun looks scary, it must obviously be more dangerous.

As a public service for any of my ill-informed lib readers, let me cue you in to a little piece of truth... an AR15 is not all that powerful. There is a reason why gun aficionados call them "poodle shooters" and it's not because we are cruel bastards that use them to shoot small dogs, but because the 5.56mm round that it shoots is only adequately powerful enough to engage an animal the size of a poodle. Sure, it is based on the same gun that our troops are issued. But you see issuing our troops a "poodle shooter" is another proof of the hatred you, our liberal friends have for the military that defends you. Intentionally sending someone into combat with an inadequate firearm doesn't exactly show love. Oh and one more thing... an AR15 is NOT an assault weapon/rifle you silly poltroons! Calling an AR15 an assualt weapon is just as indicative of ignorance as calling a mouse pad "software" because they're soft.

Now, let me speak common sense to my fellow conservatives and particularly the ones showing up at these events with firearms. We all know you have a god-given right to do this but you and I both know you are doing this especially because you want to evoke a reaction. You also want to express the serious deep seated nature of your disapproval with these displays. You know it will be controversial, that's the point. But as I think of it, the only thing that comes to mind is my mother's oft repeated wisdom:

"You attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."


By all means, go to the town halls in droves. Boisterously raise your voices in well reasoned, polite dissent. But, we need to have realistic situational awareness. We will never convince our liberal population of the folly of their ways. They are not the target of our words and deeds. Recent polls have shown us that only 20% of Americans identify with the left and 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservatives, so that means that the remaining 40% are independents or "moderates". Those are who we need to and can convince. If we hand the left ready-made imagery of a person with a pistol strapped to their hip carrying a sign that states, "It's time to water the tree of liberty". We are handing them ready-made propaganda to broadcast far and wide on their complicit mass-media outlets. We are handing them the raw materials for exaggeration and mis-characterization to use against us. We do not need to engage in hyperbole to win these folks over. We need to make it abundantly clear that it is the left who are the extremists, not us. When they point at peaceful, thoughtful, sensible Americans engaging in civil discourse and evoke imagery like Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, our fellow Americans are smart enough to recognize hypocrisy when they see it. Let the left send in their plants for the propaganda pictures and then let's expose them for the plants they are. For example:

(HT - ALa)

You see, fights are more often won with brains, than with blind fists and overt bravado. Be smart and be safe my friends and we will leave the field victorious.

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BTW, does anyone know if the guy with the "tree of liberty" sign in the picture above is truly one of ours or is he another La Rouche or SEIU plant? Who is he?

A New Solidarity

I've gotten a number of questions in my email about this banner that I recently decided to add to my sidebar. This banner is of my own making. To begin with I blatantly stole Lech Walesa's Salidarnosc logo from the Polish democracy movement of the 1980's. Droves of Poles marched under this banner and eventually won freedom from communism for themselves.

It is my belief that we here in the USA desperately need our own Lech Walesa. We need some dynamic leader to inspire us to free ourselves from the depredations of communism. So I overlaid the American flag over Lech's Solidarnosc logo to add context.

Lech led his people to freedom in a peaceful revolt and that is my hope for this nation as well. I have heard and seen so many otherwise patriotic people lose hope lately and start entertaining thoughts of revolt. I've even seen a few talking about the possibility of revolution.

Flying this logo on my sidebar is my form of quiet revolt against the tyrannical direction this country is headed.

It is my hope that it will not only display my discontent but also help remind myself and others that change can be arrived at without resorting to violence.

This banner also represents my fervent wish for a true leader to arrive on the scene. How many election cycles have you had to hold your nose and vote for the least objectionable candidate? I long for a candidate that I can wholeheartedly support.

So as you can see, my motivations and its meanings are manifold.

If you feel the same way that I do, I invite you to borrow and fly my simple banner on your side-bar. All I ask, is that you drop a message in the comments to let me know that you too feel like I do.

Oh and one other note... DO NOT believe that I am a pacifist. I just believe that before one resorts to directing bellicosity toward one's brother that they ought to contemplate that act long and hard. It should be a last resort, not the first one. I say this because war should never be entered into without the willingness to utterly decimate your opponent to secure victory.

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Wow, I'm Flattered

Lookie here what I found in my blog's visitor report:


Looks like someone must've turned me in to Obama's little narc line. So, which one of you was it?

As for the White House visitor, hope you enjoyed your visit. Y'all come back now hear? Honestly though, do you people not have anything better to do these days? Might I suggest tending to the out of control unemployment perhaps? Hmmm?

Remember When...

Do you remember when George Bush was in the White House and the libs were pissed off because he wanted the ability to intercept the conversations of terrorists in foreign countries? So you think they're better than ol' George was? Well dash right out to www.cars.gov and see if your car qualifies as a clunker under the "cash for clunkers" program. If you are a democrat I dare you to!

After clicking on a "privacy" disclaimer, you are informed of the following:

This application provides access to the AoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S. Government. Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign.

So not only is the Obama Whitehouse interested in eavesdropping on the conversations of terrorists, they're interested in siezing your computer records and turning them over to foreign governments.

You just can't make this shit up!

H.T. to the Glenn Beck show for pointing it out to me!



Sure he's a bit melodramatic at times, but if you doubt his words... TRY IT OUT! I dare you!

Where's the liberal outrage? Where's the ACLU law suits?

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Like cockroaches scurrying to hide when the light is unexpectedly switched on, the Obama administration quickly removed the offending disclaimer and is working to "replace it with more appropriate wording". I wonder, how does one word a proclamation illegally seizing private property better? Your guess is as good as mine.