Well, the wedding of the century is over and it went off perfectly. I saw more photographers than at an ANSWER rally, so I figured I’d just better be first with the pictures, So here they are at my Flickr Photostream.
So in a couple of minutes we’re headed to downtown Indianapolis to try and drink the place dry.
Since you’re not here, these are photos from the night before the wedding.
Blackfive chaperoned the Farm Team;
And The Sniper is not helping;
Thanks to Tankerbabe for the pictures.
I hinted in the TAH Facebook Fan page about this the other day. Those peckerwoods at VoteVets have decided that President Obama’s endorsement of the building of the Cordoba House is the greenlight they need to weigh-in on the issue. First Tony Camerino, VoteVets member who blogs at VetsVoice writes in the Huffington Post;
Imagine an al Qaeda recruiter attempting to sway a potential charge by citing an imaginary American war against Muslims but having to face the counterargument that Americans built a Muslim community center near the site of the former Twin Towers.
Yeah, that’s just how any al Qaeda recruiter would phrase the situation. Or maybe, more likely, an al Qaeda recruiter would point out to a prospective recruit that they’re winning against the Americans since we acquiesced on this important issue. But this isn’t the first time Camerino has used his former profession as an interrogator to lend credence to the president’s policies using his position at the Soros Foundation.
Then we have little Jon Soltz, also writing in the Huffington Post about the issue – of course, the Army captain who attacked a young sergeant at the Yearly Kos three years ago pleads with veterans to sign his petition and support the project;
when we signed up for service, we swore to uphold the Constitution. For all the talk these days from some quarters about the importance of protecting the Constitution and allowing the free market to work unfettered, those same people are fighting against a person’s right to buy property and worship freely. Our duty to protect the Constitution doesn’t end when our service does. It’s up to us to stand up for the right for all Americans to enjoy the Constitutional freedoms that so many around the world don’t have.
Aside from the fact that the issue isn’t about religious freedom (the Bill of Rights was written to protect citizens from the government…not from each other…so far the government hasn’t interfered, so Soltz should really avoid a career in law), it’s about common decency and mutual respect.
The letter Jon Soltz wants veterans to sign is addressed to Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the planned Cordoba House – yes, it’s a letter of support to the intended beneficiaries of the facility. Quoting from Tony Camerino Soltz writes in that letter;
…allowing the Community Center to move forward will deal a blow to the propaganda of al Qaeda and Islamist extremists….
Isn’t that logic so naive that you just want to run out and buy Soltz a teddy bear?
And for an added bonus, Vets Today’s Robert Hanafin urges his robots to sign the VV letter to deal a blow against the Judeo-Christian Crusade;
And Hanafin hopes that IVAW will take up the mantle of Vote Vets, too, with their “thousands” of members. And all the crazy intersects at Tony Camerino and Jon Soltz. yeah, let me sign that letter and be associated with those clowns.
In the slowly-clearing dust of his last poll, John Hawkins of Right Wing News publishes his latest poll; Conservative Bloggers Select The 25 Greatest Figures In American History. COB6 and Operator Dan combined mental forces to represent TAH in the poll. Their choices were;
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Eli Whitney
John D. Rockefeller
Abraham Lincoln
John Browning
Robert H. Goddard
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Douglas MacArthur
Babe Ruth
George C. Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ronald Reagan
Bill Gates
Chesty Puller
Barry Goldwater
John Boyd
George Patton
Booker T. Washington
COB6 put special emphasis on John Browning, “a brilliant and extremely lethal man”.
Now, we’ll just sit and wait for Allahpundit and Rick Moran to tell us how stupid we are and how we should have included some obscure figure they pulled out of Wikipedia.
TSO adds:
This was my list, which should make it easier on AP and RM. Jonn never lets me get involved in these things.
Captain Mal Reynolds
Mosiula Faasuka Tatupu
Li’l Jimmie Norton (NSFW)
Dennis Miller
The dude who writes The Superficial (Probably NSFW)
Yaz
Ron Jeremy
The Horse that beat down Nick Morgan
The bartender who made the Ketel One Bloody Mary’s for Rhandy Rhodes before she fought the pavement (and lost)
Greased up Deaf Guy
Shawn Spencer
Michael Morhaime
Kevin “Greek God of Walks” Youkilis
JR Salzman
Dale Peterson (farmer, businessman, cop and a marine during Viet Nam, so listen up)
David Bellavia
Whatever dolphin it was that scared the shit out of Tyra “Fatty Pig Fatty” Banks
El Presidente
Miss Teen SC, Caitlyn Upton
And any veteran.
I forgot to add Adrianne Curry as well. She plays WoW in the nude, and dresses like Princess Leia. Superbowl6Romeo is protesting this one as he does the same thing, but I’m still adding her.
I don’t consider myself a fuckstick, but I imagine if I was a fuckstick, I’d write some stupid shit like this;
From time to time I take a break from maritime affairs to focus on the the potential toll the “winking-at-anti-government-violence” rhetoric that is, for some milkook blogs, their stock-and-trade.
Why do I scorn milblog armchair revolutionaries? Because I think the “community” they foster encourages their desperate and dumb members to turn to violence.
Milblogs should worry. Sometimes the perpetrator is a veteran. But, almost every time, the victims are law enforcement officers–a community where veterans are highly represented. Let’s think about them, and tone down the anti-government, pro-violence rhetoric.
The above quote is taken from the virtually unknown blog Next Navy; Future Maritime Security and written by Craig Hooper. Now this “expert” who, as far as I can tell draws his expertise from reading books at Harvard and no real military service. So, I’m sure his vision of the future Navy are real relevant and include big parties with lots of requests of the Village People songs – but he probably knows more about the Navy than i do. I’m convinced it involves a lot of water and I learned that in my two weeks at the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare School at Little Creek, VA over three decades ago.
That’s why I don’t comment much about the Navy. Hooper should take a lesson from my example, but I figure it’s too late. See in the post I quoted from and linked above, Hooper is trying to make the case that milblogs are somehow responsible for a career criminal to strap on body armor, steal his Mom’s handguns and have a street shoot out with LEOs.
Of course, there’s nothing to connect this felon to milblogs, but because he was headed to his local ACLU office, who else but milblogs could have influenced him? In the comments, Hooper names names;
I don’t have great hatred for blackfive and the others. (Where’s your concern for, oh, extremist blackfive guy Jim Hanson “Uncle Jimbo”. That guy goes and spams blogsites he is ideologically opposed to! The this ain’t hell guys call people they disagree with all kinds of names and heap all kinds of nastiness upon em…so, I think they’re a bit less tolerant.) But do I scorn them? Yes. Hold ‘em in slight regard? Check. Hate ‘em? No. They’re countrymen, after all.
I checked the two posts we wrote about Hooper and in neither did TSO call him any names. Although TSO did suggest that Hooper should eat a steaming bag of dicks. But no names.
And it’s not just people with whom we disagree – I call all of you names when I see a zero count on my blog ads for the day. You mostly agree with me, but you’re a bunch of dicks when it comes to making me rich.
But back to Hooper; in the comments he complains mightily that Hanson along with us disparage his home town – the SF Bay Area. I’ll give him that one – San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Berkely suck. There I did it again.
But anyway, in his initial post Hooper says that the violence that milblogs incite was really brought home to him in the aforementioned shoot-out between a career felon and LEOs because it happened blocks from where he USED TO LIVE! Oh, goodness. Mercy! He could have been caught up in the shoot out if he’d been walking his dog miles from his house and the shooter had decided to do his dirty deed years sooner.
Fucking dork! THAT’s why you get called names, Hooper. Not because you disagree with us (hell, I’ve never read your blog so I don’t know if we disagree or not) but because you’re SUCH A FUCKING PUSSY! (That’s not name calling, it’s an adjective – what, you find a better one)
“Oh, Matt Burden is mean to Michael Yon”. “Oh, Jim Hanson wants to talk nasty about San Francisco”. “Oh, TSO, says I should eat a steaming bag of dicks”. “Oh, Jonn Lilyea says I’m a vagina.”
Fuck you, Hooper, stick to writing what you know…of course, you may starve given such narrow parameters.
There’s another poll at Right Wing News that John Hawkins conducted among bloggers. This one entitled “Conservative Bloggers Select The 25 Worst Figures In American History“.
These were my choices in no particular order; Bradley Manning. Karl Eikenberry, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, General George McClellan, Woodrow Wilson Franklin Roosevelt, Noam Chomsky, John Kerry, Al Gore, John Murtha, Jimmy Carter, Eugene V Debs, Ted Kennedy.
Blackfive emailed us a video of the the entire interview that Uncle Jimbo did with CNN. Some fuckstick editor thought he could homogenize the essence of the interview out – you can compare the two for your own edification;
As Jimbo exonerates the US military of any war crimes, CNN conveniently edits his facts out to appease the Wiki-traitors and their supporters.
Jimbo did a much better job than CNN shows in the video on their website – and praise for Jimbo doesn’t come easy for me (I kid). Hanson states clearly that he doesn’t think Manning should be put to death, and just as clearly lays out the case that there’s nothing that rises to the level of a “war crime” in the documents or the video – a rational and balanced response. But I guess those are things that an editor at CNN wants to avoid presenting to the public. I’m sure they were pretty upset that Hanson didn’t start slinging snot and drool while calling for Manning’s head.
While we watch videos, poor Blackfive is dealing with emails from the Left in regards to the Wiki-traitors..
It seems that Rethink Afghanistan is claiming that it has a exclusive story that prove that NATO forces were responsible 50 civilian deaths to include women and children. But given that the first images of the area are from Al Jazeera is enough to give pause considering their past actions. DC wrote a post about it that talks about it in more detail.
The video goes into several interviews from people that claim that say what exactly happened/ But considering what the Taliban does to people that oppose them I find that these are suspect. Like the video of Al Jazeera recording the Taliban arresting people who voted in the 2009 Afghanistan election. In this case the fate of the people is not good. Also considering the Taliban is threatening to behead anyone who it considers a “informer”
The Taliban in Afghanistan has threatened to behead informers who have been revealed following the explosive disclosure by WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has put out over 90,000 uncensored intelligence documents, causing a security scare.
So is this still a victimless crime now?