I have long been tired of the Paulbot meme that he receives most of the support among military affiliated donators. Looking at the despicable display of an Army Reserve Soldier at the Ron Paul rally in Iowa was the last straw for me. It was disgraceful to the uniform and embarrassing to me a service member.

First off Iowa and New Hampshire lack a large military presence. South Carolina and Florida do not (hint hint, I will follow up on this after Florida). Here’s the South Carolina active military population:

Ft. Jackson (Columbia, Richland County): 4,000 active military (Note: Ft. Jackson is largely a training base with transients who do not have SC voting privileges).

Joint Base Charleston (Charleston, Charleston County): 7,000 USAF Active and Reserve personnel; 11,500 US Navy and contract personnel supporting former Naval Weapons Station Charleston.

Marine Corps Bases- (Beaufort, Beaufort County): 4,000 USMC at MCAS Beaufort & 2,500 Marines and Sailors at Marine Corps Recruiting Depot-Beaufort.
This is a rough total of 29,000 active military personnel in South Carolina from all branches of the service (minus Coast Guard). As of this time is a safe bet to say Congressman Paul lost the primary with approximately 13% of the vote. Respectable under most circumstances and he certainly has his support. What I want to point out is Ron Paul’s percentages in the above counties is an average of 13.1%. Adding in Aiken County (neighbors Ft. Gordon in Augusta, GA) it lowers to 12.3%. Fact is Congressman Paul never got above 20% in any county other than Abbeville County and then he only lead Romney by 130 votes.

Let me state this clearly: there is no definitive proof that Ron Paul’s alleged military support translates to actual donations or votes among active military personnel or even affiliated personnel. How do I justify that statement versus the balance sheets released by the Paul campaign? Easy, I’ve been active military since Paul has been running for the Presidency and have yet to come across a single supporter. Only recently did I find one former Soldier who was a Paul supporter and he was on Twitter. I won’t lie, I see the appeal that his message has with families and some service members: the message of appeasement appeals to those who love us and to those of us who want to ride behind the oceans. Frankly I’d call them the ill-informed and ignorant of world affairs.

Another likely scenario is Ron Paul’s supporters are jamming the donation boxes with false statements about who their employers are. If you’ve donated to any campaign you know that you can put down anything in the “occupation” box. I’m sure Ron Paul also leads in donations among people who work for Starfleet Command.

So there is is.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

- Declaration of Independence

These words mean a lot to Americans. They should, they spurred the American revolution and helped establish the nation we now enjoy and strive to support. Many of us carry the entire text on our person, despite being labeled as potential terrorists, extremists, and nutjobs by the socialist left and/or the current administration. But this isn’t about us, its about Egypt and why I’m not as worried as a lot of others about who takes over the country.

I know I know… as a conservative I should and I am concerned about the possibility of Islamic radicals taking over our ally in Egypt and owning several thousand pieces of American military hardware. For one, the country isn’t as uneducated as much of the Middle East’s more susceptible extremist breeding grounds. That may not be saying much but a lot has changed since Anwar Saddat has was in power. Israel and Egypt have a standing peace treaty and Israel is still undefeated in the many wars it has fought for survival. Along with that Egyptian Army officers have trained side by side with Americans in their own country and ours to a much further degree than the Iranians prior 1979.

So all that being said the people of Egypt have the inherent God given right to self-determination, we believe we do and so do they. No matter their political or religious affiliation. Now what remains to be seen is if the Egyptian people are truly guiding this revolution or are they prodded? Are they looking to establish a representative or democratic style government? I got it… they might be headed for a radical Islamic government… a “second Iran/Syria”. Well… so what?

We need to deal with it. Be Americans. If they attack us or our interests or allies we respond. Just do it. I know its simple but be rational. We can withdraw all the foreign aid to in protest and that will be fine (I’m all for removing most foreign aid we give anyway). But we have to consider the fact that if a radical government is in charge in Egypt means we may be at war with them in the future. That will be costly and not something I’m advocating but that is the price of defending our way of life, our commerce, and our allies. We have to be resilient and and ready to strike at the first sign of threats to our commerce in the region. We’ve done it before and that is what our military is for.

So let Egypt choose who they want to lead the country or let whoever takes over. Unless we have word of a budding Jeffersonian democracy developing in the Land of the Pharaohs then we shouldn’t take sides. We should encourage a peaceful transition to whatever government is seated in Cairo but we shouldn’t attempt to dictate who goes where. We should be prepared though to be at war with a radical government of any religion or ideology that threatens our commerce and allies.

This has bothered the hell out of me since I’ve been back. Day and night even. But now more so because its 20 minutes past midnight and this place is lit up like a Christmas tree. I opposed the very idea of a “stimulus” because I’ve been on the receiving end of a federal pay check for ten years now. Now the liberals and some libertarians of you will say that’s living off the government dole and how dare I not agree with socialism. Big difference, I actually work for my paycheck.

So onto this project. I have no earthly idea what the project number is because the Recovery.gov site set up by the Obama administration to track the projects, its not there. But it is listed at Recovery.org , which analyzes how government is spending YOUR money. By the way, here is the difference in location:

The project is to expand the Snyder Dental Clinic on Ft. Gordon by a few rooms. OK? Great… but tell me why do you have the lights on at midnight when no one is working on this “shovel ready” project. If the left is so supportive of this and the government is run by leftists, why aren’t they demanding environmental concern over their projects being environmentally conscious

So what does one do? I have no idea who to really complain to or point out the hypocrisy but its asinine. The government told you this project was ESSENTIAL (its not) and that it was crucial to our economy. Government printed money, YOUR money and used YOUR money, to start this project and pays for the worker’s salaries, fuel used on site, and these lights that are on at midnight… every night.

So… who cares about cutting down energy consumption?

Posted on my WordPress blog too

No secret, I’m in the US Army and normally I leave the military related posts to the WordPress blog. But this is not just about the military.

The failure of Harry Reid to get the Defense budget for 2011 past a procedural blockade succeed in holding the firewall against a massive push at social engineering by proxy. So for the rest of this blog, lets assume DADT was repealed on its own and homosexuals are allowed to serve openly with no repercussions:

Tom and Harry are having a lunch at the Post Exchange on Ft. Swampy holding hands as any other “normal” couple. Next to the couple is a young mother and her two children, ages 5 and 7, who see the two men kiss like mommy and daddy… get used to it.

Tom lives in the barracks while Harry is a civilian living off post. However, Tom invites Harry over for a night of movies and drinks and results in a domestic dispute. The responding barracks or staff duty NCO must intervene and submit a serious incident report to his command which shows that the couple got into an altercation… get used to it.

During one of the spats over California’s gay marriage law, they authorize it, and Tom and Harry get married in California. Possessing a valid marriage license Tom returns to Ft. Swampy and wants to enroll Harry into the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System to ensure that TRICARE, the military’s HMO, will give his new dependent government/taxpayer paid health care services and subsidized dental treatments. But the Defense of Marriage Act restricts the federal definition of marriage to a man and woman. However, Tom and Harry are legally married by the State of California… what to do what to do.

Ultimately many other troops nor myself care about DADT. We care so little about it that it could stay in effect and have ZERO impact on the military’s effectiveness to operate. Removing it and do so without properly assessing it, you will harm the United States Armed Forces and have no chance to repair. Logistically speaking repealing DADT will likely require new barracks built or at least strict adherence to ensure servicemembers are not attacking one another for rooming with a gay guy. Yes security for individual troops will have to be considered because someone’s not going to like rooming with a homosexual. If we force the issue and mix the sexual preferences then we might as well mix the genders. Why? Because sexual attraction is why we segregate women and men in barracks and bathrooms, you won’t find many unisex bathrooms in the military (hint: its usually the woodline).

I repeat, DADT doesn’t matter to many of us. But it will matter to you as a citizen if it is repealed improperly. We will face many socially awkward situations and be force to consider events that will challenge faith and patience for many. I’m not scared of some homosexual staring at me in a shower. I don’t fear being gang raped by a gaggle of gays. I do fear my Army being ripped apart because the social fabric that we’re made of, which is what America is made of, will be dismantled without any care by those who are forcing this rather insignificant issue.

Shocker, I know.

I was stoked to see the Defense budget fail the cloture vote because I oppose the attaching bills to others that have nothing to do with one another. This was doubly disturbing because it attached two hotly contested issues to the only Constitutionally mandated federal department. You know by now that DADT and the DREAM Act were attached to the Department of Defense’s budget for FY 2011 (see above link).

What we all expected and what Senator Reid (and the other leftists) want happened. The Democrats and the left are already pouncing on the “Republicans hate troops” or “troops will die because of the vote”. Look to Twitter to see the lemmings march behind their leader. I first noticed with a twit who goes by PaulaInTulsaOK and said this:

If my #USMC son dies in combat cuz we didn’t hv medics,translators & Marines to cover him due to #DADT,r u ok w that? #tcot #p2

Really? You’re going to go there and say that a corpsman (err, corpse-man) won’t save the life of the Marine’s he’s attached to? You’re saying that your son’s Marine patrol won’t have the translators needed for work in the field? You’re saying that Marines won’t do their jobs to provide covering fire for your son? Talk about using your own blood for a political football… just like Harry Reid wanted. Then the retweets started rolling in and they started parroting the mother who uses her son as a political nuclear bomb. What person out there won’t be sympathetic to the tears of a mother in front of a Democrat politician who’s comforting her and saying “If only…”?

Stay strong on this vote. Don’t worry about my brothers and sisters in Afghanistan and Iraq (remember them) not doing their job for their comrades and we’ll still hire translators, even if they can’t speak the dialect.

I have asked this question for years. First it was just the musings of a grumpy Soldier and then out loud on Twitter and to my rather disturbed leftist “friends”. There is a lot to be said about the progressive movement and how it affects our nation and its history. We have a lot to “thank” the Progressives for: Prohibition, AFL-CIO, The New Deal, Great Society, Jimmy Carter, Community Reinvestment Act, SCHIP (yes, yes, yes), Obamacare, Financial Regulation Reform, Obama’s foreign policy, and more to come I’m sure. That being said, some of that has benefited the United States of America, namely the consumer and worker protection laws to ensure safe, secure, and sustainable commerce. The rest… ties to to the government that holds the Sword of Domiciles above the citizenry since the entitlements are paid in cash not backed by anything more than a failing credit rating for what as once the world reserve currency.

So… what are Progressive progressing towards. I want to avoid the small guys, or else we’d be here all day, so let’s look at the main leftist/progressive message boards and the mission statements they give themselves:

Moveon.org: “…we work together to realize the progressive promise of our country” “MoveOn.org Political Action, one of the largest Political Action Committees in the country, brings real Americans into politics to fight for a more progressive America and elect progressive candidates.”

What does “brings real Americans into politics to fight for a more progressive America…”? Who’s a “real American?” Sounds familiar to the Sarah Palin comment about “two Americas”, but the left threw a hissy fit over that now didn’t they?

Media Matters.org: “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”

Again, I am puzzled as to what a “progressive research & information center” actually consists of. I know a thing or two about analysis (namely intelligence type) and I know that you can’t effectively give an analysis of anything without finding both sides of the issue. So they acknowledge they neglect the actual substance of what conservatives and right wing pundits and politicians say to further their “progressive” agenda. Again, what are you progressing towards?

We see here Hillary Clinton, then a candidate for President in 2008, prefers the word “progressive” to “liberal”. She is accurate in that the word liberal now means that one supports big government, a government knows best, government is good and fair, government is here for you. She goes on to say that she calls her self a “modern American progressive” who feels that we work better as a society when we work together. She leaves out the government part though. So I have to find someone else who can define for me what a “Progressive” is and what they want. I turn to “The Progressive” a left-wing magazine in publication since 1909:

It steadfastly stands against militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, and the disenfranchisement of the citizenry. It champions peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy

Finally, I’m getting somewhere. This makes sense. Even sounds good. Great actually. Don’t we all want these things? But something is scratching at the back of my skull about the word “progressive” and these feel good phrases, I want to believe but something just won’t let me. A link on The Progressive’s site is titled “McCarthyism Watch” and I know from my rather exceptional Georgia public school education that McCarthyism could only mean Senator McCarthy’s evil Red Hunts of Hollywood and higher education for communists.

So this means to me that I can link being “progressive” with being a communist right? Or why else would a magazine who calls itself “The Progressive” dedicate a whole page to watching out for another Red Hunt? So let’s look to the founder of communism which grew from socialism (don’t let your leftist friends fool you). Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels derived the idea of a Worker’s Paradise that removed the means of production from the aristocratic power elites to the workers of the New Age of Machines in the Industrial Revolution. Most are familiar with the tenants that Marx and Engels challenge their readers, the “workers of the world” to achieve and they demand the following:

• Central banking system
• Government controlled education
• Government controlled labor
• Government ownership of transportation and communication vehicles
• Government ownership of agricultural means and factories
• Total abolition of private property
• Property rights confiscation
• Heavy income tax on everyone
• Elimination of rights of inheritance
• Regional planning

Is this the end of the progressive movement? To achieve these goals all for the betterment of society as Hillary Clinton put it? What does all this government control mean? It means enforcement, fines, penalties, consequences for not obeying the rule of law of the land. This is nothing more than enslavement to a faceless bureaucrat or soulless central government who bribes the masses with tidbits of the comfort.

To the progressive, the socialist, the progress seems to never end. All socialist (i.e. communist) regimes have come through violent revolutions which, in the last hundred years have killed an unknown number of people the world over. To some of these regimes, they have not achieved their “Worker’s Paradise” that Marx had attempted to achieve so to them the revolution, the progress, is never over. They must constantly work to achieve a perfect utopia for their citizens, their workers. In reality it is nothing more than the crush of a rich, power elite who created an aristocratic class to rule a nation, by any other name… its slavery. Socialism/Progressivism kills the human soul it kills initiative and denies man’s passion for life. Why? Because there cannot be a utopia, there can not be a fairness if one is happy. TheSophist wrote a great RedState blog about it earlier this year and how socialism has begun to fail in Sweden. Captain’s Quarters compared Germany’s GDP and how it relates to Arkansas’ and how the Germans, despite being known for their engineering prowess and industrial might (and home of Karl Marx) are neck and neck with the state known best for pretty wooded mountains and Bill Clinton.

Now President Obama has come along. He talks of progress. The leftists all talk of how we’ve progressed to having a black President and how Obama is going to move America into a new era… So far this era has looked a lot like those 10 Principles of Communism previously listed.

So take this blog with you. Its got some minor points of argument to make with your leftist friends and those who went along to get along in 2008 by voting for Obama. For the love of this sacred Republic don’t let them make that mistake again. Ask the progressives who are doing this what they want to progress towards. When they respond with all those “feel good” initiatives and ideals from “The Progressive” you should respond simply by saying, “Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Laos, Vietnam, Mexico, Cuba, Venezeula, a good 1/2 of Africa, Eastern Europe…” they are all socialist nations that have come and gone or are around and are failing. But they all have one single thing in common: progress has come at the expense of freedom and the liberty to enjoy life as free human beings.

So… again, progressives, what are you progressing towards?

That is the slogan I created yesterday on Twitter to show the extremes the new Obama administration is going to placate its liberal base. By in large he campaigned on a few themes and most of those of course wound up being centrist and acting as a “uniter”. I am not naieve enough to think that he’d actually govern that way but its something to hold his feet to the fire. To that end we have a rather interesting prospect unveiling before us on Ogasm TV every day 24/7. President Obama will apparebtly close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba via Executive Order issued today in front of the world.

From Sec 2: Findings:

(c) The individuals currently detained at Guantánamo have the constitutional privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. Most of those individuals have filed petitions for a writ of habeas corpus in Federal court challenging the lawfulness of their detention.

Personally this is a mistake for our nation but what’s done is done. According to the EO we’re going to afford terrorists caputred on the field of battle the full legal safeguards of the United States of America. That’s basically equating a man who may have killed American service members in Afghanistan or elsewhere is the same as the guy that broke into your house last week to steal your stereo. We are not living in reality, we are living in fairytale land. President Obama’s EO goes at great lengths to ensure this by granting the detainees access to a concept they’d never heard of until a lawyer said it in their ear: habeas corpus.

This first arose back on June 13, 2008 when the United States Supreme Court allowed for the Guantanamo detainees could apply for a writ of habeas corpus to seek their release from captivity. Now Obama’s Executive Order is providing full executive branch support behind such applications and its unknown how vigorous a stance the prosecution will really stand. Basically it will be the Justice Department attacking the Defense Department and how it handled the situation. Obama orders a prompt review of all detainees but also orders the closing of the prison, so what to do? Well that’s another story.

This goes into the abortion issue. I am not a pro-life activist by any means. I simply believe it should not be done except to save the life of the mother among other certain circumstances. I have a history with abortion that if you ever got to know me we might share. That said I do not understand the false argument behind liberals and other leftists that believe we should have unrestricted abortion practices, federally funded here in the United States and abroad. Now Obama plans to reverse President Bush’s implementation of the Mexico-City policy:

The Mexico City Policy announced by President Reagan in 1984 required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations. This policy was in effect until it was rescinded on January 22, 1993.

It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad. It is therefore my belief that the Mexico City Policy should be restored. Accordingly, I hereby rescind the “Memorandum for the Acting Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Subject: AID Family Planning Grants/Mexico City Policy,” dated January 22, 1993, and I direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to reinstate in full all of the requirements of the Mexico City Policy in effect on January 19, 1993.Mexico City Policy should be restored. Accordingly, I hereby rescind the “Memorandum for the Acting Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Subject: AID Family Planning Grants/Mexico City Policy,” dated January 22, 1993, and I direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to reinstate in full all of the requirements of the Mexico City Policy in effect on January 19, 1993.

So what is happening is clear to me. We are going to spend federal dollars, yours and mine, to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay that house some dangerous men. Spend more money to ship them to another facility somewhere and at some point, after the Department of Justice makes a plan, they will be housed, fed, clothed, cared for, and generally sustained by your money and mine all with the judicial backing of the United States government.

All the while, more of your money is going to be supporting and quite possibly opening abortion clinics world wide in an effort to provide “reproductive choices” to the masses of the world. So the priorities of the new administration seem very slanted in my eyes. We’re going to trade the lives of unborn babies the world over for the lives of terrorists who would see you and me dead. Under President Clinton in 2000 this amount hovered around $340 million before he requested 41% increase in 2000 USAID budget request. Another modern twist to this horrid tale that is about to unfold is that in 1996 then First Lady Hillary Clinton proudly supported family planning efforts all over and specifically South America. It should be expected that now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to support this expanded mission of USAID and support the administration’s position whole heartedly with regards to abortions at our expense.

So our money will go to close Club GTMO and open abortion clinics.

Sad. Ironic. Morbidly funny… if it wasn’t so sad.

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One is going to live… while the other will die.

On Thursday, the Georgia Association of Educators requested that the incoming Obama administration provide a bailout for the Georgia public school system. There isn’t much to this other than to say that this is obviously the tip of the iceberg. The UAW lead this charge with the $17billion being asked from Congress that was denied by the Senate (thank God) and then the President went ahead and ignored the will of the people and that of Congress. Here’s the brass tax of the request:

• Initiatives to help boost pre-k education, including a limited-time program of federal matching funds designed to help states maintain pre-k services, while creating incentives for them to maintain existing investment levels. We also suggest funding programs to ensure that job training and assistance programs provide displaced workers who want to become early educators¡ªparticularly those who already have college degrees¡ªaccess to the education they need to teach PK-3 students.
• Job creation through investments in infrastructure, including school construction. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has pointed to more than $100 billion in needed repairs to U.S. public schools ¨C well-defined projects that can be quickly implemented. EPI estimates that $20 billion in such infrastructure repairs would create 280,000 jobs.
• An increase in the federal share of the costs of educating students with disabilities. The federal funding shortfall for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is straining state and school budgets and diverting resources from other critical programs. According to the National Governors Association, as a result of the subprime meltdown, the steady decline in housing values, and the rising costs of health care, state and local education budgets are under siege to cover basic operation costs, such as teacher salaries, transportation, and educational programming. Proposals to create a new glide path to attain the 40 percent federal commitment for special education cost about $19 billion over two years. This funding would go a long way to protecting elementary and secondary education from planned cuts over the next two years.
• Funding to close the Pell Grant shortfall. The credit crisis has made it more difficult for families to qualify for student loans and access higher education. At the same time, a large and growing number of people are going back to school as a way to increase their skills and earning potential. More than 786,000 applicants used the Pell Grant program than at the same point last year. As a result, the estimated Pell Grant shortfall is $3.5 billion in FY09, even after Congress provided $2.5 billion in the Continuing Resolution. At the current rate of increase, there will be 1.2 million more Pell Grant students. Congress could fund the Pell Grant shortfall and ensure adequate federal resources are available for all eligible students.
• Increases in food stamp benefits and other nutrition assistance for families struggling to survive in the face of rapidly rising food prices. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, food stamp caseloads have increased dramatically in recent months, rising by 2.6 million people or 9.6 percent between August 2007 and August 2008, the latest month for which data are available. In 25 states, at least one in every five children is receiving food stamps.
• An extension of unemployment assistance to those who have exhausted their benefits.

• A temporary increase in the federal Medicaid match (FMAP). According to the National Governors Association, 17 states have experienced FMAP declines over their federal FY 2008 FMAPs. Twelve of these states had also experienced FMAP declines in the previous fiscal year. Fourteen states are projected to have FMAP decreases in federal FY 2010. A temporary FMAP increase is a proven, effective way to provide relief to states and protect the health care of millions of Americans. In fact, Congress used this same approach to help states during the 2001-02 recession, when states facing high unemployment and weak tax revenues, combined with unexpected Medicaid growth, were forced to seek serious cutbacks in Medicaid costs.

GA Congressmen & Senators

GA State Assembly & Senate

Let’s start the new year off with a bang

The Status of Forces Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America was signed November 17, 2008. The war is over and we will leave Iraq proper within three years time of this agreement, provided no amendments to the SOFA are made. The SOFA reads just like the one between the Republic of Korea and the USA reads, it establishes the manor in which we will carry out military operations and designates authorities over personnel within the country.

Even the Green Zone is now controlled by Iraqi forces and we will wait and see the results of how this works out. There is much to be done between now and 2011 but we will begin to see the American footprint shrink exponentially over the coming months, regardless of Obama’s decisions.

Despite all the traitorous rhetoric from the left and because of the lives lost we have defeated the former regime of Saddam Hussien, denied terrorists safe haven, prevented a budding WMD threat, brought stability to the people of Iraq, and enabled a government to take hold and secure its people. We will of course likely enter into a defense agreement with Iraq within the next few years and begin holding bilateral defense talks to establish permanent military contacts.

There will be fighting from here till 2011 and we will see some more casualties. However, they will drop in numbers, severity, and increase in significance. I want to thank my brothers and sisters in arms, my comrades, a job well done. I personally saw the sacrifice of Iraqi troops and the people who heroically opposed insurgents, terrorists, and Iranian Quds force to enable their nation to stand on its own.

Fight On.

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From the diaries by Jeff

Let me be the first to congratulate Representative Paul Broun to be the first to fire a shot at the Obama Agenda! Damn proud to be a Georgian! Congressman Broun points to the “civilian security force” as examples of his agenda and how it follows Marxist principles. He even takes it a step farther to remind people of how Hitler came to power and what Nazi Germany was like for the Germans:

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

So we have some rhetoric that will be called “over the top” and “outrageous”. But we need men willing to step out there and get some media attention to them. And those in safe seats are just the candidates for it. So the Guerrilla Congress begins its shots at the Dear Leader’s Agenda and the best that one of the Simpletons comes up with is how “stupid” Governor Sarah Palin is? Come on.

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Yeah I know it won’t happen but why the hell not. I did this as a counter group to a bunch of idiots who id the same for Fox News… so why not turnabout?

Here’s the link:

I WANT TO BAN MSNBC

This video really says it all (warning: it is a cell phone video, choppy and from what I think is a 9/11 toofer, but worth the watch)

The video, from Canadian Freed Press and Atlas Shrugged illustrates the shear racism that was injected into this race by the simple fact that Obama was black and a democrat. There aren’t many wealthy or middle-class voters, hell maybe not even voters, in this video but there are plenty of young blacks in the Philly area. Going back to my earlier post about Dwight Lewis of the Tennessean we’re going to see a more prevalent pattern develop of how the racial divide continues and where it is most noticeable.

This election, of aesthetics over function, flash over fortitude shows how a culture driven by pretty slides and slogans can be persuaded with very little input into the message. This isn’t limited to black people but to all of the silly liberals who voted for Dear Leader. We have to sit back and analyze this objectively to see how we can either:

1. Win their votes. Not likely considering the indoctrination is in place

2. Counter their votes. More likely but requires gaining access to another population segment that they have easier access to.

I’m not sure what the end result of this hysteria will mean for the United States of America as a whole. But it can’t be healthy

It has become apparent that Russia, now growing strong on petrodollars and new trade with China, will antagonize the West over every issue it can. It started years ago with small trade disagreements with Poland and Germany. Moved to natural gas supplies with the Ukraine and Europe. Then we have the Russian/Georgian War of 2008. There is also Russia’s massive military sale going to Venezuela and their upcoming wargames. Not to mention Russia’s continued prodding the west over Iran’s nuclear facilities and growing military contacts with China. The Russian Federation has now replaced the Soviet Union of old and acts accordingly.

Now Dear Leader Obama is faced with what will be his first international crisis (Biden’s Prophecy when he takes office in January. President Bush will work to enhance the US/Polish alliance but he’s politically hamstrung by being in the lame-duck status. The United States of America now faces a challenge that is the equivalent of a modern day Cuban Missile Crisis.

Our ballistic missile defense shield in Poland looks to be operational by 2011 but Russia has said they will move mobile TBMs to Kaliningrad. President Medvedev proposes the following in response to our ballistic missile defense:

Russia would post mobile Iskander missiles — tactical weapons designed for use against targets like long-range artillery and airfields, in addition to missile defense systems — around Kaliningrad, an enclave at Russia’s western border. He also said Russia would use radio equipment to jam the Western missile defense system.

What a shock… again, Russia behaving like the Soviet Union. Now we have Russia becoming more entrenched in South America to include Cuba and we have a what will understandably be a weak American President. Dear Leader will not want a war with Russia (hell, who would?) and does not fully support ballistic missile defense.

So where does that leave the Polish? Out on a limb all alone it appears because we now have Dear Leader Obama saying this:

Obama foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough said Obama had had “a good conversation” with Kaczynski about the American-Polish relations and discussed missile defense, but “made no commitment on it,”

It appears Dear Leader Obama has voted “present” once again.

I was never a racist until today, or more realistically this campaign. I did not know that until a black man ran for President I would be a racist.

I’m being sarcastic

This is my letter to the article written by Dwight Lewis that is summed by by saying: if you’re a wight Southerner, you’re a stupid racist.

Mr. Lewis,
I’m appalled that that you feel incumbent on throwing pity on Dixie because the majority of the citizens don’t feel Obama was or is the correct choice for President. Its apparent you harbor more racist sentiments than I’ve ever considered in my life. Your article is insulting and disingenuous because it lacks the completely rational thought for voting against Mr. Obama. Have you considered that we (white, Southerners) voted for Sen. McCain because of his policies? No, of course not. Just like your ignorant pen would not consider that most black Southerners voted for Mr. Obama because he is black? I’d like to point out that a friend on my Facebook profile changed her status after it was announced that Sen. Obama won the election: “My president looks like me”. Is that not a racist comment in itself? According to your cheap whorish definition of the word it is. I would appreciate your objective (I know, its a stretch) investigation into why many blacks voted for Sen. Obama? Don’t worry, I won’t hold my breathe.

Now, I am not pleased with the election. But I am an American and will work to see my views are represented and respected as all of us should. But I’d also appreciate a little intellectual honesty from Southern writers. Race isn’t a card you throw because you feel the need to. You’re calling me a racist and I find that abruptly hilarious considering my past and present. You insult millions on a base level with your rhetoric and vile. None the less, when Obama takes office he’ll be the President and my Commander in Chief maybe you should of given President Bush the same courtesy? Again, I won’t hold my breathe.

A bitter, God-loving, gun-clinging, and now apparently racist,

JBM

Now I’m getting angry…

The way my uneducated mind sees it, this election was lost because we failed to provide a quality leadership who could speak a clear message. When they tried we heard their results with disaster. The media forced a candidate on us that many were not happy with, nevermind I was happy to vote for him, but he was not my first choice. The media also relegated our message to the back of the bus and nowe we’re faced with the unFairness Doctrine.

So it is incumbent upon new media and namely the conservative new media to develop a message that is part-populist and all conservative. Our philosophy works and it won World War II and it won the Cold War. I’m not talking about government initiatives I’m talking about personal responsibility and individualism that creates rewards for you and yours. We have to formulate a message and we have to do it now. We have to make it viral and send it out through all forms of media until 2010 when we put in a majority again. We have two years Red State… two years.

So I propose now that we, conservatives, start creating a sort of manifesto in order to explain ourselves. With this we can create the litmus test for our leadership and shape the debate. We have to scream from the mountain tops or our small voice will get smaller, to steal the words we have to “get in their face”.

So use this diary message to create the manifesto:

1) W*e believe in self reliance, objective thought, and rugged individualism with charitable heart or those who are unable. But we do this as citizens of this Republic and not as subjects who bring an army of lawyers and legislaters *

that’s all.

But I was told today by a somewhat gloating self-denying lefty that I “had a new boss”. In my view my boss never changes and so I told him “Obama’s not my boss, he’s just the next President”. The Constitution is my boss and the President is the person who I hope will exercise good judgment in the use of my brothers and me. I hope Obama will surround himself with decent advisers… I’ll take Colin Powell for instance. But if we start seeing Alinksites pop up in the nominations I know that we’re in for a rough road.

I do agree that we need to prop up the current crop of Senators and Congressmen. But we need to look forward at what the next four years will likely bring and that has been hashed out here before. We need leadership.

Leadership akin to Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal and yes, Sarah Palin. True conservative leaders who can articulate our message and lay it on on the line for the people to understand, even in bubble gum language. We need John Boehner and Roy Blunt. We need Jack Kingston.

Steel yourself gents and damn the torpedoes and hoist the black flag. We sail into a harsh sea that has no safe harbor until we create one. We’ll have to take it by force and make the inhabitants understand what happens unless they allow us refuge. The Republic needs saving… and only strong, principled, conservative leaders will accomplish that.

Any thing else? I’m too terrified to think about it.

I’m sitting here in Arizona waiting to sleep as I’ve done for the pat 27 years of my life. The “waiting to sleep” part, not always in Arizona. For my entire adult life I’ve spent it at the service of the republic we know as the United States of America in the form of a US Army Soldier. I’ve done that for eight years now and will continue that for at least the next three. My field is a rather small specialty focused on technical matters related to national security, that for the sake of my anonymity I won’t go into. Needless to say my job in the Army has what I term “its moments”. I’m nothing special, I’m like many of you who may read this: a parent (my son is six), a Christian (though I attend no church), an imperfect human being (see last item), and an American.

I was born in Georgia and lived there all my life. I was first able to vote in 2000 for then Governor George Bush and I did so in the primaries in a voting booth in a subdivision of Savannah. That would be the last time I voted in any election in a voting booth. The general election came when I was in my first visit to Arizona, some eight years ago. I was in a building very much like this with a TV that spewed the confusing results to us all night until 3am when we couldn’t take it no more and had to go bed or the Drill Sergeant would have our ass. He let us stay up because of what we were watching…

Over the years I’ve cast votes from Hawaii and Iraq. However, I’ve been to Korea as well and watched the 2004 campaign truly ramp up. I was excited about voting again then but wanted very much so to do it from a voting booth, simple things please me. But alas, I went to Hawaii and watched President Bush continue as President for the next four years. Then I went to Iraq.

It was there I saw why I voted. Not in anger at President Bush, I was the one who volunteered for this job, not him. It’s my call to answer and as I was told by many veterans who came before me, “if not you? then who?” So why not… I’ll keep going and do my duty. Initially it was very cush but it wasn’t what Iraq was about for me. That changed on November 14, 2005.

The Iraqi Parliamentary elections were held that day. Earlier that week I had volunteered to help another unit with assisting the Iraqi government with securing the ballots for transport and ensuring no undue pressure was being placed on the election officials. Our role as Americans was very hands off and we only looked in from afar- this was an Iraqi operation. Some things changed and the site was changed. Now we were told to secure and unsecured building and await the ballots. When we got there, the ballots had already been there for some time as more came in and the officials were counting by flash light. This was the Iraqi “Continental Congress” as I viewed it. What must it of felt like to see a nation born in the night as its elected officials were being chosen? All through the night we covered alley ways, intersections, streets, and were on guard for car bombs, suicide bombers, and anything threatening this sacred process.

By the morning the ballot counting was finished and the Iraqi Army was loading the their trucks up with plastic boxes. Paper. Simple paper. With ink, stamps, marks, and footprints on it as some laid on the floor almost forgotten. An aware Iraqi ran through the auditorium the ballots were prepped for shipping and collected some that were strewn about. He hurried because every waiting moment meant a moment for those who wanted to destroy this process prepared and planned an attack. But nothing…

So a long story, yes? So why do I vote? Its a simple process: voter, voting booth, paper (now touch screen), and a box for it to go into. Someone counts it and there is a winner and loser. So why do I vote? Because I’ve seen first hand the sacrifice people are willing to make for simple paper that says: “I like this guy”. Who are willing to strap hundreds of ball-point ammunition, drive over 60 miles along IED pockmarked highways… just to deliver a plastic box, with votes. I vote because there are men who came before me who sacrificed their lives so that I might be able to have that God given right to press a touch screen. I vote because its simple and all I need to remember is the hard part was done for me, as it was done for the Iraqis, by those willing to sacrifice their bodies and soul for something so simple: a ballot.

I’ve already voted in this election. Yes it was in a voting booth but sadly it was not on election day. Nothing is more significant than doing this duty on this day. I had to vote early because once again I’m in Arizona and will likely be up till 3am watching results come in. So no excuses today for those of you who find it too hard or ask “why bother”, the hard work was done between June 14, 1775 and November 3, 2008: Go vote.

This blurb on Yahoo! scares the living hell out of me. In the caption next to the photo it describes the man working at the computer to be a Palestinian “refugee” working for the Obama campaign via the web-based call center. Where is this refugee? He’s in a Gaza refugee camp… known breeding grounds for Hamas and recruiting base for Palestinian terrorists. Am I making a bit of conjecture here? Yeah, but how much are you willing to be there isn’t some semi- or fully organized undertaking by these people to conduct these cold-calling operations? How much do you think Hamas wants Obama in office? Hell what the world? We’ve seen nothing but contempt by the international community with regards to strong American politicians.

Obama had this to say about Hamas:
““We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel’s destruction,” Obama said. “We should only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and abide by past agreements.”

And Hamas had this to say about Obama:
“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election …“

People, I spend every day looking at patterns, evidence, and compiling it together for a meaningful picture regarding the enemy’s activities. Based on this small amount of information its very probable that there is a Hamas directed cold-calling operation utilizing web-based call programs to support Obama. This is bad news for Israel and considering we would probably be having Camp David Accords left and right with them over chai and falafels. Sadly, Jews still support Obama over McCain.
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Harold Philby said it best, “to betray, you must first belong” and certainly there are a plethora of politicians. Looking at the Saturday Night Live parody of Representative John Murtha (D-PA) I became more disgusted with this man, despite his otherwise honorable career as a U.S. Marine. His remarksafter the Haditha incident where he accused Marines of war crimes was the tip of the spear for me regarding any modicum of decorum from the Democrats in Congress. It was May 17, 2006 and I was still in Iraq conducting combat patrols through remote towns in eastern Diyala Province. We would come back from our four or seven hour missions and head to the chow hall for some rest and food. What do we see? A Congressman, a former Marine calling us all war criminals. When approached by a citizen who was asking for an apology for two of the Marines who had been acquitted of the crimes that Murtha brought up he refused to answer and ran into the elevator . This alone would disqualify him from office in Georgia and it should do so in Pennsylvania.

But he’s not alone, no far from it. His allies in the Senate, Congress, and other political offices are attacking the service members, my brothers and sisters, for doing our jobs… for the sake of votes and campaign contributions. Let’s start at the top:

Barack Obama
John Kerry
Harry Reid

Now what amazes me is that these people will continue to get elected no matter what because America is at the shopping mall, the military is at war. When we can effectively use their words against them I think we can see a change in the make up of the legislative body. For the most part their words are ignored by the mainstream media and buried in below the fold middle pieces in news papers. When liberal outlets like Salon take up a rather obscure incidentand blow it into a full on assault on the American service member. The Salon piece is nothing like a mention of Abu Garahib prison and the crimes committed there but when you take something like this and say its all a war crime you diminish the real crimes and mitigate every bit of good we do over there.

We in the military face an uphill battle againstour own population at times and of course the media at all times… so to them I’ll always say “no comment”. It may be that they are small minuscule parts of society but they are a cancer that infects the majority and cause others to questions our objectives, missions, purposes, and eventually our character, morality, and honor.