This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Obama race-baiting in Miami

    I guess Obama didn’t get the message from Martin Luther King, Jr about the content of character being the measure of a person and not the amount of melanin pigment in their skin;

    “Our separate struggles are really one,” the Illinois Democrat declared, quoting a telegram Martin Luther King Jr. sent in 1968 to farm-worker activist Cesar Chávez.

    Mr. Obama compared last year’s massive immigration rallies led by Hispanics to the civil-rights marches of African-Americans in the 1960s, and called for the two groups to stay the course in a common fight for equality. To rousing applause at the convention of the National Council of La Raza, he alluded to “one dream” for blacks and Latinos. Later, he cited his Kenyan-born father as an example of an immigrant who came here in pursuit of the American dream.

    Hey, Obama, you racist SOB, there’s supposed to ONE DREAM for all Americans not just the brown ones. And how can you compare your particular situation to Hispanics, any-damn-way? Your father came here a LEGAL immigrant – your mother was born here. The rallies last year were about protecting ILLEGAL immigrants.

    And judging by the way my Latin wife is treated by the majority of Black residents in this area, I think you need to get the word out to your Black supporters that your “struggle” is one. More racist behavior I’ve never seen and it’s perpetrated by majority Blacks on minority Latins.

    “The Hispanic and black elites may be singing ‘Kumbaya’ together. But at the neighborhood level, they’re duking it out,” says Paula McClain, a Duke University political scientist who studies black-Latino relations. “Obama needs to understand the nuance and not assume a broad-brush coalition” between them.

    But I guess any race in a storm, huh?

  • DEA report: Arabs immitating Mexicans

    According to Sara Carter of the Washington Times (upon whom I’m developing a crush, though we’ve never met, based purely on her journalistic production in the national security area in recent weeks), the DEA has released a report that Mexican drug smugglers are assisting Arabs to infiltrate the US;

    Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.

    “Since drug traffickers and terrorists operate in a clandestine environment, both groups utilize similar methodologies to function … all lend themselves to facilitation and are among the essential elements that may contribute to the successful conclusion of a catastrophic event by terrorists,” said the confidential report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.

    But the main reason that the Homeland Security Department was formed is still an ongoing problem;

    Lack of information sharing between U.S. intelligence agencies is creating a blind spot in the war on terror and has left the U.S. vulnerable to another attack, the report states.

    So what, exactly, is Homeland Security doing? This is discouraging, to say the least.

    According to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report obtained by The Times, nearly every part of the Border Patrol’s national strategy is failing.

    “Al Qaeda has been trying to smuggle terrorists and terrorist weapons illegally into the United States,” the 2006 document states. “This organization has also tried to enter the U.S. by taking advantage of its most vulnerable border areas. The seek to smuggle OTMs [other than Mexicans] from Middle Eastern countries into the U.S.”

    So where’s our wall?

  • Iranians working in concert with Democrats

    In this Fox News story, US forces officials are admitting that many of the roadside devices that are killing our troops are manufactured in Iran;

    High-tech bombs allegedly supplied by Iran were used in 99 roadside bomb attacks in Iraq last month, American officials say.

    The powerful weapons, known as explosively formed penetrators or EFPs, accounted for a third of combat deaths suffered by coalition forces, the New York Times reported.

    Well, that’s not news, is it? We’ve all known it for a while (except for some commenters here who think that Pakistan should be bombed instead of Iran), so what exactly are we waiting for? The news report does bring up one interesting point, though;

    Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 commander in Iraq, told the Times he believes Shiite extremists have stepped up attacks in anticipation of Gen. Petreus’ upcoming progress report to Congress on the war.

    In other words, the Iranians know they can force a US withdrawal by making Iraq appear hopeless in a relatively short period of time by playing to the Democrats’ surrender dreams. We had Harry Reid calling the surge a failure before it’s even begun – how far will Iranians have to push him before he falls over? Not far, I’m guessing.

    And with the slow withdrawal of British troops around Basra, sectarian violence is increasing behind them;

    As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq’s Shiite-dominated national government will turn on one another once U.S. troops begin to draw down.

    Three major Shiite political groups are locked in a bloody conflict that has left the city in the hands of militias and criminal gangs, whose control extends to municipal offices and neighborhood streets.

    Which is pretty much what will happen if we withdraw too soon – unless we clamp down on Iran…now! The Iranians know that Democrats are their best chance for turning the Middle East into a charred ember, for forcing their perverted form of extremely cruel brand of religious zealotry on the people that have been kept in the Dark Ages for a millenium by the backwards “religion of Peace” adherents.

  • Rakkasan: SGT Aguina is mentally ill

    Robin at Chickenhawk Express sent me this link to the comments section of the Daily Kos  from the Angry Rakkasan, otherwise known as Brandon Friedman, one of Jon Solz‘ strokin’ buddies in the VoteVets front organization for attention-starved former Army captains who couldn’t make the Majors’ list.

    Freidman accuses the young buck sergeant, David Aguina, who confronted “Lil Mac” Clarke and his half-witted poodle Jon Solz with the facts of the surge at the YearlyKos Convention, of suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome because he doesn’t stand with Rakkasan, Clarke and Solz on the facts of the “surge”;

     We need to get to the bottom of this.  This is a soldier who needs some help–whether it’s more training in military bearing and discipline or treatment for complex PTSD, we just don’t know yet.  Either way, he’s being exploited by the right-wing blogs.

    Yeah, like the Left wing blogs aren’t using Friedman, Clarke and Solz  – at least their mental problems are more easily recognizable – penis envy. Now I haven’t seen a picture of Brandon, but I think Solz and Clarke must’ve got waivers for their height and weight in order to join the military – they’re the shortest little peckerheads I’ve ever seen to have worn a uniform. Since I can’t find a picture of Freidman, I gotta guess he’s the tall one – he has to be.

    As far as Aguina’s bearing and discipline, I think you’d better start with that gelding Solz. Aguina acted entirely professional, his bearing and discipline were just fine. It’s that pussy Solz that needs to be taught how to be a leader and not some power-starved lap dog for a retired diminutive general. If I had been in SGT Aguina’s shoes that day, the maintainence crews would still be picking pieces of Solz out of the ventilation system.

    Robin also tells us that Friedman gave the opposing response to a presidential radio address back in July. I guess he doesn’t think the Left is using him like a two-bit whore for that, huh? Those fat cows over at Code Pink must be falling all over their worn out udders to get seen with him. 

    And Friedman apparently plans on stalking young Sergeant Aguina;

     I would like to get contact information for Sergeant Aguina, if anyone has it.  I’m also working through VoteVets.org to get it.  I want to speak with him, Iraq veteran-to-Iraq veteran without any consideration of rank.  I’m willing to listen to him, as well as to give him some advice.

    Yeah, Brandon, I’d like to get your contact information, too. You ain’t worth listening to, but I’ve got some advice for you. Probably the same advice your first platoon sergeant had for you.

  • Beauchamps; it ain’t over yet

    I pretty much put the Beauchamps story behind me, it was worth a lot of traffic, I met some new people and I made my point – an indisputable point. My last word on Scott Thomas Beauchamps was “Told ya”.

    Well now I read from Little Green Footballs that The New Republic can’t believe its lyin’ eyes;

    We’ve talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. Lamb and asked about an anonymously sourced allegation that Beauchamp had recanted his articles in a sworn statement, he told us, “I have no knowledge of that.” He added, “If someone is speaking anonymously [to The Weekly Standard], they are on their own.”

    And the left still clings to the fairie tales of Beauchamps; from the Washington Post;

    Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at George Washington University, called the Army’s refusal to release its report “suspect,” adding: “There is a cloud over the New Republic, but there’s one hanging over the Army, as well. Each investigated this and cleared themselves, but they both have vested interests.”

    See, the Army is “suspect” more than the New Republic is suspect for their shoddy journalistic procedures – especially if you check with “journalism” teachers. Um, I wonder why that is?

    Even the New York Times gets a quote exhonerating the troops;

    “We are not going into the details of the investigation,” Maj. Steven F. Lamb, deputy public affairs officer in Baghdad, wrote in an e-mail message. “The allegations are false, his platoon and company were interviewed, and no one could substantiate the claims he made.”

    And yet, the NYT still doubts the Army’s statement. Why? Well, for the same reasons they think President Bush did cocaine and went AWOL – there’s no evidence supporting it, so it must be true.

    Any halfwit who spent even a day in the Army knows that those stories Beauchamps wrote are false. Especially since some of the stories were written before Beauchamps even got to Iraq (even New Republic admits that the melted-face contractor story supposedly happened in Kuwait while Beauchamps’ unit was staging for deployment to Iraq- if it happened at all). The Onion called it Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome back in November.

    Regardless, the damage is done – both to our troops reputation and to the New Republic. The Beauchamp Tales will be spun at every anti-war rally from now until the troops come home and repeated millions of times on the internet as reasons we shouldn’t support the troops – just like the “Bush was AWOL” and “Bush the coke-head” tales get repeated ad nauseum.

    Personally, I’d really like to take the high road, like Baldilocks – one of the classiest ladies on the internet – but I’m afraid if I ever bump into Beauchamps…well, he’d better practice begging for mercy now. And falling down and ducking.

  • You can lead a DC child to free breakfast…

    Apparently, the District of Columbia can’t force the poorer children of the city to eat their breakfast, according to the Washington Examiner;

    The District of Columbia’s public schools reach fewer than half of low-income students who qualify for free breakfast, despite a “universal” program aimed at feeding all eligible children, according to a report released Tuesday.

    […]

    Alternative methods include serving breakfast in classrooms rather than in a cafeteria or “grab and go” plans in which students can take food items from carts or the cafeteria with them to the classroom. Studies have found that children who eat breakfast fare better on standardized tests.

    Well, you can also hook ’em up to a feeding tube or start giving them breakfast enemas, or intravenous feedings. or you can just cancel the damn program and make their parents feed them before they leave the damn house and stop spending my damn tax money on useless crap. For pete’s sake…

  • Paranoid…or just cautious

    I read with interest the Wall Street Journal online opinion piece by Ion Mihai Pacepa this morning. I was going to comment on it here, but as I looked around, I noticed it was being covered broadly. I’ve always been a Cold War buff, having spent time on the bayonet point of Western Democracy in the old West Germany and spent some time studying and writing about the US foreign policy of those days.

    This evening I stumbled onto Gateway Pundit (one of my favorites, by the way) and read his take on it. Of course, it focused on John Kerry’s shameful performance in Congress back when I was 16 years old. GP noted the stunning similarities between Pacepa’s piece and Kerry’s testimony.

    But at the bottom of GP’s post there was a link to somewhere I’d never been – Maggie’s Farm. Maggie wondered aloud in her post “Paranoid” that in light of GP’s highlighted text, perhaps we should be concerned about Bill Clinton and his trip through the Iron Curtain countries of the era. Well, I’ve always thought that was suspicious.

    But then I remembered the foreward of a book I read a few years back. The book was The Haunted Wood, by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev. I met Weinstein lately, but I wasn’t able to bring up the question that had plagued me since I read the book the first time in 1999.

    Weinstein wrote the book directly from research he conducted personally in the Soviet KGB archives in the years immediately following the collapse of our old enemy. He had intended to clear Alger Hiss’ name by proving he wasn’t on the Soviet payroll – unfortunately for the life-long Democrat, he couldn’t infact he found records that proved that the Soviet Union was paying not only Hiss but also other employees of the Federal government, congressmen and actors.

    Being a rare type of researcher, Weinstein wrote the book the way the research led him. Of course, there was quite a bit of furor in academia.

    His research was dismissed – not because of the lack of proof, but because when Weinstein reached the part of the archives that stored the records of the 1960s and forward, Weinstein was abruptly banned from the archives and the archives was closed to western researchers. With no explanation from Russian officials. With the archives closed, no one could verify Weinstein’s research, so it was largely dismissed by the Left.

    But, I’ve always wondered what other secrets remain in the KGB archives and what caused them to suddenly curtail Weinstein’s research. And who’s skeletons are buried there. Of course, there’s plenty of room for speculation and I’ll just keep my speculation to myself.

  • Bloggers’ Union? Wha…?

    The first I heard of this bloggers’ union thing going around was at Fausta’s Blog and I thought she handled it pretty well, so I had no comments to make. I’ll admit that the reason I missed the whole discussion was because I’ve been frittering away my time at this job-thing I’ve got going here. Apparently, I missed alot – but back to the blog union thing.

    So, there’s nothing really going on today, suddenly and I went back to see what the Hell this union thing is all about (not that I want to join a union – but because it’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard…well, since Sean Penn went for a ride with Hugo Chavez and peed along the road for the cameras). But anyway, I come across this thing from Machinist entitled “The Bloggers Union That Isn’t“;

    Susie Madrak, proprietor of the blog Suburban Guerrilla and the AP’s main source for its story, is not calling for a labor union for bloggers…..What Madrak is organizing, instead, is very different: a kind of grass-roots insurance pool to pay for health emergencies of progressive bloggers — people without whom, she says, Democrats would not enjoy the political success they’re now seeing.

    Well, that makes sense. Being “Progressive” means you expect someone else to do all of the things you don’t want to do, and pay your way, too. But the article takes an odd turn;

    Madrak’s fight was inspired by the death last month of Jim Capozzola, one of the founders of lefty blog the Rittenhouse Review. Madrak, who calls Capozzola her “fairy blogfather,” argues that if he’d been a Republican, Capozzola would be alive today. “He would have been in a well-paid think tank job, living the high life (He did, after all, have a masters degree in foreign policy,)” she wrote recently in the Huffington Post. “Most importantly, he would have had health insurance for the past six years.”

    Hey!

    Where’s my high-paying think-tank job? Are all Republican bloggers supposed to get one first…or do we get it later? Is someone else going to pick up the whopping $12/month I spend on this blog? How come no one told me about this  – I went to the MilBloggers’ Conference and no one told me about it there.

    Am I being treated like this because of my wishy-washy stand on immigration?

    Maybe it’s because I oppose the death penalty. Look, guys, I’ll sell my principles down the river for one of those think tank jobs. Who do I contact?

    But, look, I’m not joining a union – I already talk to too many people I don’t like.

    Fausta had the best advice for these “Progressive” bloggers, though;

    If you want medical insurance, talk to a lawyer, incorporate as a small business, talk to an insurance agent, and pay your own premiums, you wuss. If you’re not making enough money as a blogger to do this, get a job that does.

    You can always join the Army, too – but it may cut into your blogging time. Ask Scott Beauchamps.