In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.
-Ann Coulter
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Religion Of Peace? MY ASS!
Nope!
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In Memory of
Capt. Ernesto Blanco
KIA Iraq - Dec. 28th 2003
"We'd follow you to Hell, sir, but you damned sure didn't go that direction."
Years ago, I used to hear a saying that went, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The terrorist, as the saying implied, was the violent guy with whom you disagreed. He was really no different from the freedom fighter, the violent guy with whom you agreed. It all depended on whose side he was on. I would eventually come to the opinion that this saying was horse-manure. The difference between the terrorist and the freedom fighter could be determined from their behavior. The first picture and its caption, which recently appeared on several blogs that I read, helps to explain the difference. Just substitute the word “freedom fighters” for “good guys” and “terrorists” for “bad guys”, and you’ll see what I mean.
The second picture appeared on a message board that I read, used in a “caption the pic” type of post. From its URL, I could tell that it appeared in the Baltimore Sun, but I haven’t found the corresponding story (not even with Google), so I can’t entirely explain what’s going on. Read the rest of this entry »
“There are tanks all over the forest, abandoned,” an unnamed reporter on the video says. “If you need one, come and get it.”
On the other hand, at least one person says that they are not abandoned.
A military spokesman claimed the tanks were in fact being guarded by special patrols and were in the process of being dispatched to a military base. But military prosecutors appeared sceptical about his claims and opened an official investigation.
So, are they abandoned or not? Seems like it might depend on whom you talk to. But if they are, I have another question. Can we bring one back for Michael Dukakis?
Retired 4-star General Alexander Haig, who served in the administrations of three presidents, has died at age 85, from complications from an infection, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
A graduate of West Point, Haig served on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, before seeing combat duty in Korea, and later in Vietnam. During his military career, he also served as the Commander of the Third Regiment of the Corps of Cadets at West Point and as the Commander of NATO forces in Europe.
In the Nixon administration, Haig served as Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs (the Presidential Assistant being Henry Kissinger), Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and White House Chief of Staff. He briefly remained in this last position under President Ford after the Nixon resignation. He was appointed Secretary of State by President Reagan in January, 1981. He often clashed with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Advisor William Clark, and decided to resign after only 17 months.
In his later years, Haig hosted the television programs World Business Review and 21st Century Business. He served on the boards of various institutions, including the founding board of America Online. In 1992, he published his memoir Inner Circles: How America Changed the World. He is survived by his wife Patricia, their three children, and his brother, who is a Jesuit priest.
As U.S. troops fight their way into the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, some say the fighting is as intense as in Falluhah, Iraq. I certainly have respect for anyone who fought in both of those battles. More on the fighting in Marjah from Holger Awakens.
At a surfing event in Half Moon Bay, California, two huge waves sweep away spectators standing on a seawall.
D’OH! A “tagger” tries to put graphiti on a door in an aquatic center in Commerce, California. On the other side of said door are 100 Los Angeles County cops.
Former Marine Ilario Pantano is BACK! This time not as a Marine, but as a candidate for US Congress. Pantano was accused of killing Iraqi’s but was acquitted. He was doing his job. And now he’s going to seek a new job.
A former stock broker, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Deputy and Marine is trying his hand at a new profession. Ilario Pantano wants the Republican nomination for the 7th Congressional District.
Pantano served in three wars, and in 2004 shot two men in Iraq. He was accused of murder, but all charges against him were dropped a year later.
This is Pantano’s first run for public office. He says his experiences tested his character, and make him an ideal candidate.
Then the angel said…”Fear not: for behod I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” – Luke 2:10-11
On this Christmas eve, let us remember our soldiers who are living away from family and friends, many in far off places defending our freedom and freedom for the peoples of the nations in which they are serving.
Merry Christmas to Raven, Duncan, Bigfoot, and our family of readers!
The Big Picture feature at Boston.com has 120 photos looking back at the events (so far) of 2009: Part 1Part 2Part 3
Meanwhile, in other news, opinion and humor:
The Fort Hood shooting suspect’s condition has improved, enough for him to be moved from intensive care into a private hospital room.
Andrew McCarthy at National Review explains why Gitmo, contrary to what the Obama administration and Sen. Dick Durbin might think, does not cause terrorism.
Speaking of Copenhagen and socialists, the Obama administration appears ready to offer $100 billion to a fund that would help developing nations deal with climate change.
Sixty-eight years ago, the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. Soon after learning of the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, calling that day “a date which will live in infamy“. America would soon enter World War II, allied with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, and eventually defeat Japan and her allies Germany and Italy within four years.
On a personal note, during the 1990’s I travelled to Hawaii, being lucky enough to have a friend who lived there. The first thing I did after getting off the plane and renting a car, even before finding my friend’s house, was visit the Arizona Memorial. The ship has never been de-commissioned.
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 … so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers,” Obama will say, according to excerpts from his speech at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Obama will say that the additional U.S. forces “will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011,” according to the excerpts released by the White House.
The president has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of his current term, senior administration officials told CNN Tuesday. Obama’s first term ends in a little more than three years.
The President is planning to get those 30,000 troops into theater in six months, which gets his “surge” to full strength around June 2010. The President then plans to begin the withdrawal of American troops in July 2011, with the majority of troops to withdraw by the end of 2012.
They have ONE year to do the job, and the message is loud and clear to the Taliban and Al Qaeda that all they have to do is hold out ONE year, and the U.S. will then declare VICTORY, and then get to enjoy “peace with honor”, much like our experience in Vietnam.
I remember our Veterans, who serve and have served. In particular, I want to thank my grandfather, who served in the Pacific on the USS Storm King during WWII, and my Uncle Martin, who went ashore on D+1 with the 2nd Infantry Division and was wounded four times liberating France from the Germans, and my Uncle OJ, who perished in that same fight taking Hill 192. I thank my father, who as a young man stood guard at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, staring at the Communist Horde across the wall.
May God continue to bless America and our Veterams
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep΄s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd
as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. – Abraham Lincoln
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