SO, WHO'S YOUR NAZI

From AofSHQ, these words: "Right out of the box. The state here -- Pelosi, Reid, Obama -- are claiming that they can imprison people for behavior that has never before even been hinted as being a crime, on the theory that such behavior constitutes unpatriotic economic behavior which is detrimental to the state's balance sheets." What is this talking about? THIS! The legislation is very fair!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkzV8h3Wp0&feature=player_embedded#

White House Afghanistan policy a growing clusterflop. POTUS, Ambassador, and US Commander not on same sheet of music. http://washingtonindependent.com/67521/inside-this-mornings-white-house-afghanistan-meeting-anger-with-eikenberry-beef-with-mcchrystal   Hey, we can call them the A Team- what do you think?

Uncle Jimbo goes off on POTUS. Bad Word alert. http://minx.cc/?post=294655

Outstanding comments from a serving Army Major re the folly of political correctness and the Ft. Hood terrorist attack. "Hasan's radical ideology grew to the point that he committed mass murder because too many leaders were too afraid to lead out of fear of harming their career or the image of the Army. If those leaders don't have the intestinal fortitude, moral conviction or personal courage to stand up, speak up and protect soldiers, then retire, resign or get out of the way and let somebody else do it for you."
Shawn Keller is a Major in the United States Army stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/12/why_i_am_angry.html

VETERANS DAY

My plan for a free hamburger at Applebee's did not work. I got there at 5:30. The Marines, National Guard, Boy Scouts, etc., had already landed. Not an empty seat in the place. Not a spot to wait and the waiting would have been looonnnnnggg. Oh well. Maybe next year.

Now, on a positive note, from Blackfive, Mike Royko's celebrated Vet's Day column.

I just phoned six friends and asked them what they will be doing on Monday.
They all said the same thing: working.
Me, too.
There is something else we share. We are all military veterans.
And there is a third thing we have in common. We are not employees of the federal government, state government, county government, municipal government, the Postal Service, the courts, banks, or S & Ls, and we don’t teach school.
If we did, we would be among the many millions of people who will spend Monday goofing off. Which is why it is about time Congress revised the ridiculous terms of Veterans Day as a national holiday.
The purpose of Veterans Day is to honor all veterans.
So how does this country honor them?
By letting the veterans, the majority of whom work in the private sector, spend the day at their jobs so they can pay taxes that permit millions of non-veterans to get paid for doing nothing.
As my friend Harry put it:
"First I went through basic training. Then infantry school. Then I got on a crowded, stinking troop ship that took 23 days to get from San Francisco to Japan. We went through a storm that had 90 percent of the guys on the ship throwing up for a week.
"Then I rode a beat-up transport plane from Japan to Korea, and it almost went down in the drink. I think the pilot was drunk.
"When I got to Korea, I was lucky. The war ended seven months after I got there, and I didn’t kill anybody and nobody killed me.
"But it was still a miserable experience. Then when my tour was over, I got on another troop ship and it took 21 stinking days to cross the Pacific.
"When I got home on leave, one of the older guys at the neighborhood bar — he was a World War II vet — told me I was a ----head because we didn’t win, we only got a tie.
"So now on Veterans Day I get up in the morning and go down to the office and work.
"You know what my nephew does? He sleeps in. That’s because he works for the state.
"And do you know what he did during the Vietnam War? He ducked the draft by getting a job teaching at an inner-city school.
"Now, is that a raw deal or what?"
Of course that’s a raw deal. So I propose that the members of Congress revise Veterans Day to provide the following:
- All veterans — and only veterans — should have the day off from work. It doesn’t matter if they were combat heroes or stateside clerk-typists.
Anybody who went through basic training and was awakened before dawn by a red-neck drill sergeant who bellowed: "Drop your whatsis and grab your socks and fall out on the road," is entitled.
- Those veterans who wish to march in parades, make speeches or listen to speeches can do so. But for those who don’t, all local gambling laws should be suspended for the day to permit vets to gather in taverns, pull a couple of tables together and spend the day playing poker, blackjack, craps, drinking and telling lewd lies about lewd experiences with lewd women. All bar prices should be rolled back to enlisted men’s club prices, Officers can pay the going rate, the stiffs.
- All anti-smoking laws will be suspended for Veterans Day. The same hold for all misdemeanor laws pertaining to disorderly conduct, non-felonious brawling, leering, gawking and any other gross and disgusting public behavior that does not harm another individual.
- It will be a treasonable offense for any spouse or live-in girlfriend (or boyfriend, if it applies) to utter the dreaded words: "What time will you be home tonight?"
- Anyone caught posing as a veteran will be required to eat a triple portion of chipped beef on toast, with Spam on the side, and spend the day watching a chaplain present a color-slide presentation on the horrors of VD.
- Regardless of how high his office, no politician who had the opportunity to serve in the military, but didn’t, will be allowed to make a patriotic speech, appear on TV, or poke his nose out of his office for the entire day.
Any politician who defies this ban will be required to spend 12 hours wearing headphones and listening to tapes of President Clinton explaining his deferments.
Now, deal the cards and pass the tequila.
- Mike Royko

Carter Redivivus. Round Two! AoSHQ links to "Malaise" citing and suggests it is time to break out the cardigans! http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BTBTVO0&show_article=1&catnum=0

POTUS doesn't like War options for Afghanistan. Wants other options. I don't like getting old and falling apart. And I don't like dying. I want other options. I also want a million dollars in my bank account and majority ownership in the Johnny Walker distillery. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqyaFh_efr-brDq0rMLF1hkop0tgD9BTNA700

Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places? Maybe this is your cure! Or maybe not. Check under the hood/chador/hijab. http://www.singlemuslim.com/gallery.php?Gender=2&gclid=CN_qjYTGhJ4CFRtO2goduU0HqA

Barney "Is that really marijuana?" Frank says gays in the military coming in next defense authorization bill. http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2009/11/11/DADT_Likely_To_Be_Part_of_Defense_Bill/

Lindsey Graham smacked by county GOP for unauthorized dallying with the enemy. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BTDPE81&show_article=1&catnum=-1

Physicists believe the Hadron Collider has been sabotaged by "time travelering bird." That's right. PhD physicist types. Time traveling birds. Me, I don't buy this at all. Rather, I am convinced that these physicists are androids from planet Xyklon sent here to delay completion of the Hadron Collider because this device is the critical path to the ultimate domination of space by earthlings. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091111/wl_time/08599193737000

No Christian license plates. I don't see the problems. Seems to me you can have other license plates for other religions. Samples for other religions include: "What goes around, comes around." "Die, Infidel." "Out, out damned Thetans." http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/10/federal-judge-finds-christian-license-plates-unconstitutional/

Have a nice Veterans Day! And, yes, I had to work.

EXTRA!

ALMOST HUMP DAY!

Here is an interesting post from AoSHQ. "As everyone here keeps saying: If a white Christian reader of this blog was in the military and began writing letters to White Supremacist groups and openly stating his first loyalty was to "his race" with his country and constitution placing a distant second and third, it seems rather likely that investigations, and dishonorable discharges, would ensue. So why not this guy? Because the Muslim lobby screams bloody murder and goes on lawsuit jihads whenever a correligionist gets so much as three seconds of Stink Eye from anyone. And this is killing people. People are being murdered due to hurt feelings being elevated above human life."  As I say, an interesting post.

Pro Iranian Asshat now the man with the plan. Somehow this seems completely consistent with everything else we see in this administration. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_new_iran_man_at_the_state.html

"Costly and open-ended commitment." Obamacare. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_new_iran_man_at_the_state.html

Happy Birthday to the Marines. They have always been and always will be the best. http://www.marines.com/main/index/winning_battles/history/missions/founding_of_the_marine_co

DC Sniper executed tonight. Bye. Hope your new digs work out for you.

PC'd to Death: The Army Must Give Answers. Amen to that. Political correctness has paralyzed the Army on way too many occasions. http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=PC%27d%20to%20death%3a%20The%20Army%20must%20give%20answers&articleId=d457c387-cd55-46a3-ac9d-186ce540f2c9
Speaking of politically correct: LTC Ralph Peters does a number on, among others, the Chief of Staff of the Army. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_denial_nta2v3RwY9bjnkRWrAyoJP  Sample from Ralph Peters:  "Liar, liar, uniform on fire: A dirty big secret in our Army has been that officers' promotion boards have quotas for minorities. We don't call them quotas, of course. But if a board doesn't hit the floor numbers, its results are held up until the list has been corrected. It's almost impossible for the Army's politically correct promotion system to pass over a Muslim physician."

Attention all Global Warming Nutbags: http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2009/11/october-2009-a
mong-coldest-on-record.html

Look, in order to have PTSD, you have to have a trauma after which (post) you have stress. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmY0MmE5MjY4NWFlODk0NjI4ODM0M2QzMDJmNmY2ZTY=

Therapy instead of simple, common sense analysis. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/opinion/10brooks.html

Well, enough happy stuff for tonight. Have a nice day.

MISC

Lefty UK newspaper takes swipe at POTUS for failing to show up Berlin. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100016207/not-enough-about-him-barack-obama-skips-berlin-wall-ceremonies/

Meanwhile, memories of past glories when we had a real leader running the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8

Anyone who has spent a little time in the Army is aware of the political correctness that permeates the culture. "Diversity" is celebrated for diversity's sake, as though any manifestation of a "variety" of anything is good. Diversity can be very important on a battlefield. You need infantry, field artillery, special forces, aviators, CAS, loggies, docs, JAGS, chaplains- the whole crowd. But you employ them in a disciplined, unified effort, not as some willy-nilly rolling circus of individuals, each doing his own thing and marching to his own drummer. The most important thing for the Army is accomplishing the mission, and if you can use men, women, whites, blacks, Latinos, Christians, Jews, Muslims- that's all fine and dandy. However, if suddenly there is an outbreak of communism among Southern Baptists, you can be sure I will have my eye of everyone from Alabama named Billy Bob. Meanwhile, we have a Muslim psychiatrist who regularly spewed hatred towards the US and the US mission in Iraq and Afghanistan- all the while wearing the uniform. This was not "diversity" to be celebrated, but treason to be stopped dead in its tracks. It wasn't, and now 13 soldiers were stopped dead in their tracks. http://shiradrissman.com/2009/11/cultural-sensitivity-gone-mad.html

A plea for dropping the political correctness. Here's a little sample to whet the appetite:  "President Barack Obama's display on Thursday made my point more clearly than it usually can be made, for he turned on a dime. He assumed the 'presidential grieving tone' over the Fort Hood massacre, the moment after he'd just done an equally scripted segment of light joking banter for the benefit of the Tribal Nations Conference he was addressing. Millions in the television audience must have watched this incredibly cynical 'quick flip.' I wonder how many noticed it? We should not allow ourselves to be moved by the cold hearts of professional tear-jerkers because when we reward that kind of thing we help perpetuate an emotional order that is dangerously false. We should instead be annoyed by attempts to manipulate us."  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/09/fort_hood_99072.html

What is the world coming to? The Washington Post worries that Obamacare may bankrupt the nation. This is startling on a number of levels. "Not one dime to the deficit." Are you stoopid enough to believe that promise? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110817808.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Have a nice day!