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Category: Bloggers

  • Zombie: Losing, the new winning

    Our buddy, Zombie steps out from behind the camera and sent a link to the latest post at Pajama Media entitled “Losing is the new winning” about the declining importance of actually winning something;

    What do Canadian soccer scores, the Gaza Flotilla Incident, Marxism, and the origins of Christianity have in common? Simple: They all rely on the notion that winning is bad. The triumph of the downtrodden.

    The search for equality from cradle to grave has become ridiculous and bred a political movement;

    The whole goal of sailing ships toward Gaza is not to “break the blockade,” but rather to seek out and initiate a conflict with the Israeli military. And here’s the key: not merely to enter into a conflict with the Israelis, but specifically to lose a conflict with the Israelis. Because only by losing can the activists and militants claim the victimhood mantle and declare a moral victory. So, just as in a Canadian soccer game, by losing they win.

    Go read the whole thing.

  • Love Myself More Than You

    For those of you who don’t know, Kayla Williams is one of the front page authors at VoteVets VetVoice blog. She was a soldier and wrote a book entitled “Love My Rifle More Than You” about her experiences in the Army and Iraq.

    I’d hinted that I was looking into Williams background in a post over a year ago (I wasn’t really, I just wanted to shake the bushes and see what fell out), but a couple of good friends warned me away from her because of some problem she had in regards to her civilian life. So anyway, I figured after several months of letting the subject cool down, I’d better look into this chick because she was so worried about me and my famous skill. I guessed that the best place to start is this book. Everyone was giving it rave reviews and praising Williams for her honesty – so what could it hurt, right?

    Well, I’ll tell you right up front that I couldn’t finish the book. It’s been sitting on my nightstand for three months haunting me after I spent another three months trying to slug my way through the book. Finally, last night I decided that the book is such a piece of shit, if it has any redeeming value in the last half, it’s not worth shoveling through the shit in the first half.

    It’s clear to me that Kayla Williams thinks very highly of herself – especially her tits, which get mentioned very often as well as her mind-numbing descriptions of her love life and, oh, how much the guys love her tits. Now we’ve never met, but I’ve seen pictures of Kayla Williams (you can Google her name and see the pictures yourself) and I’ll admit she’s not plain, but she’s not what I’d put in my “knock-out” category either, but it’s obvious from reading the book, she thinks she is definitely on the top of the heap.

    The book begins with her pot-smoking father and her stereo-typical Republican Victorian Age mother and the conflicts she faced in that relationship. One thing I’ve learned being a middle-aged man is that you’re only a victim of your parents if you want to be, and Kayla seemed bound and determined to make her parents the excuse for her bad behavior.

    After shacking up with several guys through college, she then joins the Army and complains that guys are always hitting on her. No shit? She’s laying out this tramp image in the book, I can only imagine what she talked about with her fellow soldiers. Now, I’ll admit that I’ve worked with very few women in my career, but I never hit on them and I tend to believe that most of the men in the Army are the same way. But, Williams seems determined to prove that all men are pigs – so we get all of these stories of guys hitting on her within the first moments of meeting her.

    Holy shit, if I’m reading a book about war, I don’t want to read about how her roommate’s ass and Williams’ tits combined in a single female form would make a perfect woman.

    In addition she was a soup sandwich as a soldier. You know how combat arms troops are always saying that pogues cry about the sand in their pussy? This bint actually whines in her book about having sand in her pussy. I don’t mean to be profane, but holy shit, how cliche can you get?

    And then there was a dust-up between Williams and a female sergeant, SSG Moss, Williams thought her squad leader was a buffoon. OK, most of us do, but apparently, women deal with this with little fits and getting into a snit. Williams wouldn’t obey her squad leader without a sneer, or little display of anger, or a smart alecky comment. So SSG Moss finally breaks down and cries – a staff sergeant in the US Army cries because a subordinate is mean to her. This isn’t a book about war, it’s pilot episode of another bad Lifetime Channel series for women. There wasn’t even a hot lesbian story about them making up. WTH?

    So, do you see the pattern here? Everyone in the Army is screwed up…except Kayla Williams. All of the men and anyone else who happens to be in charge of Kayla Williams. See, that’s the problem when a private writes a book about the military – privates only see the little picture right in front of their goofy faces, they can’t see why the decisions are being made, so they make everyone look like idiots because the leaders don’t make the decisions that Joe thinks are the proper decisions. I guess they think privates should be in charge.

    I apologize for not finishing the book for you – but hardly any of you pay me money, and I’m not reading the rest of this piece of shit. Besides, nothing pisses me off more than listening to privates whining and in this case, I paid to read a private whining almost endlessly.

  • Kos excludes information on Kirk

    As I was writing about Mark Kirk and Tim Walz yesterday, Kos was writing more about Kirk’s supposed deception;

    So I checked Kos’ source which is this page at National Defense Magazine. The paragraphs before the one Kos quoted reads;

    Mark Kirk, of Illinois, holds the rank of Navy lieutenant commander in a naval reserve officer aviator unit called the Star Warriors, which flies the EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft, based at Andrews Air Force Base.

    In December 2000, just after he had been elected to Congress, Kirk was called back to reserve duty to patrol the no-fly zone in Northern Iraq, as part of Operation Northern Watch. Kirk also was called to combat in Yugoslavia, during Operation Allied Force in 1999, and served as the Joint Chiefs of Staffs’ senior force analyst during Operation Sharp Guard over Bosnia in 1995. He served as an analyst at the office of the chief of naval operations during Operation Support Democracy in Haiti in 1994.

    Well, that’s a little bit more than Kos portrays of Kirk’s career.

    Kos continues whining that the Army showed good sense by not letting him near a shooting war;

    I was in the Army during Desert Storm, but am not a veteran of that war. Why? Because I was stationed in Germany and never deployed to Kuwait or Iraq. Kirk might argue that his efforts aided the war effort. Well, so did mine. I spent weeks shuttling supplies from depots in Germany to Frankfurt, where they were loaded onto transport planes to the Gulf. I lugged around everything from ammo to toilet paper (no joke). I spent weeks more working on my base’s post office, helping the small office handle the crush of letters and care packages being sent to deployed soldiers by their families. Seems trite, and it kind of is (and tedious as shit), but there’s little more important to a soldier than mail call. Trust me on that.

    Funny how the guys that ship toilet paper whine the loudest. Since Kirk flew Northern Watch, I guess he could argue that he’s more of a Desert Storm veteran than Kos. Enough so that Kos chose to leave that right out of his attack on Kirk.

    I don’t know what Democrats are trying to pull, but if they’re going to exclude information from their charges, it’s going to bite them in the ass. Kos should know better, but then he’s never let the facts get in his way before. I’ve seen him use that toiletpaper repairman line as some sort of excuse to make him an expert on military affairs – as much an expert as Gordon Duff.

  • RWN rates the 20 hottest conservative new media women

    John Hawkins of Right Wing News has compiled a list of the 20 hottest conservative women in the “new media”. Of course, since I’ve only met three of them in person, I’ll only vouch for Skye, Michelle Malkin and Mary Katherine Hamm and their reported hotness.

  • Win “War”

    Our buddy Kanani is having a drawing for Sebastian Junger’s book “War“;

    # You must have a blog or be on Facebook. If you review books already, all the better.
    # You can’t have already been sent or have bought this book.
    # Just leave your name and blog URL in the comments below. (I enjoy checking the blogs! I even add good ones to my sidebar).
    # Share this link with others on Facebook, Twitter, or on your blog.

    The drawing is at 6PM today, so don’t waste anytime getting over there and paste your comment.

    Thanks to tankerbabe for the link.

  • That video from yesterday

    Yesterday, TSO wrote about a jihadist propaganda video which he thought was fake. Our expert analyst, The Sniper spent hours last night with the video and found this image when he slowed the missile down;

    So, of course the video is proved to be the real thing. I’ll bet TSO’s face is red – well, besides the sunburn.

  • Congrats, Skye

    Our buddy, Skye, who blogs at Midnight Blue and a frequent commenter here wrote to tell us that she won her committee seat against an incumbent in Pennsylvania last night.

    It seems there is hope for Pennsylvania.

    Tonight, I won a contested committee seat in the 57th ward, 10th division of Congressional District 13. In doing so, I ousted an incumbent committee person for this seat.

    Not bad for a rookie!

    Nope, not bad at all, doll. Congratulations and good luck.

  • Sluffing off

    I’m wrapped up in a little thing at the paying job for the next two days and I’ll do my best to get blog work done when I can. In the meantime, go watch the video at Mudville Gazette in which 30 of the 91 surviving Medal of Honor recipients do their part to stem the rising suicide rate among the troops.

    Jimbo has some of the same thoughts on the new Miss America as mine at Blackfive.

    Otherwise, feel free to start your own discussions or drop off some links in the comments.