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  • The Left and their irrational babbling

    Now, I’m no expert on national security planning, but I’m pretty sure I’m smarter than Crooks and Liars’ John Amato and FireDogLake’s Eli based on today’s readings. Amato is upset that Cokie Roberts said what has been known about Democrats since the Korean War – when it comes to national defense, Democrats are idiots;

    ROBERTS: Well, it’s always politically difficult for Democrats when they are dealing with an issue like terrorism. It remained the Republican’s only winning issue through most of President Bush’s second term, and it’s a particular problem for a Democrat who hasn’t served in the military. But the policy problem is that it takes up a great deal of the administration’s time, and will from here on out – particularly when the Senate Intelligence Committee starts hearings in a couple of weeks.

    Here you have it. So sayeth Cokie, queen of the gasbags. All Democrats are weak, weak, weak on national security. It’s fine with Cokie and the Villagers that most of the Bush and Cheney team refused to serve in the military when they had the chance, but during the Bush years the Villagers never questioned Republicans over their military experience or commitment to national security. Yet, it’s just Jim Dandy to question a Dem’s military creds.

    Nevermind the fact that Bush was a fighter pilot in the National Guard and that Cheney was too old to be drafted for combat service in Vietnam. But no one ever questioned the Bush administration’s military experience or commitment? Really?

    Did I dream the 2004 election campaign? The whole misinterpretation of Bush’s DD214 and his performance evaluations which were read and commented upon by obviously illiterate baboons every night? The flocks of Democrats who tried to tell us that John Kerry’s Vietnam service trumped Bush TXNG service? The same dorks who placed such a high value on Cheney’s pre-Vietnam draft deferments who won’t even mention Biden’s deferments during Vietnam?

    So Eli from FDL explains to us how Obama can become a national defense expert;

    …what really makes someone a Serious Qualified Expert on national security is a little voice in their head screaming “AAAAAHHHH!!! The scary brown people are coming to kill us we have to kill them first OMG OMG OMG!!!” 24 hours a day, and the ability to bedwet on command.

    If Obama can develop an appropriately irrational fear and hatred of Muslims, then no one will care that he’s never served in the military. I suggest that he pretend that all Muslims are, alternately, health industry CEOs and progressive bloggers – that should make him a respected national security expert in no time.

    An irrational fear of Muslims? Really? The scary brown people? How naive and immature. Just days after an attempt on the lives of hundreds of folks peacefully flying into Detroit from Amsterdam, and countless others beneath their flight path. Weeks after one of those “brown people” shot scores of his comrades at Fort Hood. Months after a Muslim shot two Army privates catching a smoke break in Little Rock.

    Here’s my advice for those two if they want to be national defense experts; abandon the childish baby crap and act your freakin’ age.

  • Morons of the highest order

    David Brooks of the New York Times inspires Glenn Greenwald and Alan Colmes to call Americans names for demanding that our government do it’s best to keep us safe. Brooks first;

    History is not knowable or controllable. People should be grateful for whatever assistance that government can provide and had better do what they can to be responsible for their own fates.

    That mature attitude seems to have largely vanished. Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t.

    Greenwald’s echo;

    …the national reaction has been to this latest terrorist episode, egged on — as usual — by the always-hysterical American media. The citizenry has been trained to expect that our Powerful Daddies and Mommies in government will — in that most cringe-inducing, child-like formulation — Keep Us Safe. Whenever the Government fails to do so, the reaction — just as we saw this week — is an ugly combination of petulant, adolescent rage and increasingly unhinged cries that More Be Done to ensure that nothing bad in the world ever happens.

    Colmes just nods like a good Leftist bobblehead.

    I’ll just remind the three morons that the Constitution charges the government to “provide for the common defense” – it doesn’t say to pass out food stamps or had out cash from one part of our society to another. It doesn’t tell the government to determine the minimum width of theater seats. It certainly doesn’t tell the government to tax the living shit out of people in California to pay for new guard rails in Maryland’s hinterlands. Nor does it mandate that the federal government stick it’s fingers in huge car companies and huge banks.

    How. Dare. You. Three. Retards. Call. Us. Names?

    When the government was warned no less than twice (once by the bomber’s own father…by name) that this shit stain was planning something, and the government couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to actually stop him. When they were following Hasan’s trail to terror, when they were trailing Carlos Bledsoe and couldn’t stop him. This isn’t a case of one terrorist slipping through – it’s the latest in a series that have slipped through since January.

    Brooks, of course, thinks that Napolitano is innocent because it’s the system that’s flawed;

    There have been outraged calls for Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security to resign, as if changing the leader of the bureaucracy would fix the flaws inherent in the bureaucracy.

    Well, it’s a start. Napolitano’s demonstrated incompetency over the last year certainly doesn’t deserve one more penny from the tax payers.

  • Thank goodness it’s a new year

    I’m with my buddy Val Prieto at Babalu Blog, I just couldn’t wait for 2009 to end. But all-in-all it’s been a good year for This Ain’t Hell thanks to all of you.

    Our biggest stories of the year were;

    1. The Inauguration Ball that (a) Obama attended (b) Obama didn’t attend, but so what, Joe Biden did, (c) was cancelled.

    2. The Fort Hood shooter’s Officer Record Brief which stopped the media and the Army in thier tracks trying to paint him as a multi-tour combat veteran who went berserk at the thought of returning. Apparently we revived him, too.

    3. Who can forget TSO getting pissed at the DHS memo?

    4. COB6 holds the long-term traffic record for a picture he posted of Angie Harmon – we still get about 1200 hits/month to that picture.

    5. We can hardly forget Carl Webb and Matthis Chiroux who generated a lot of traffic for us. Thanks for being such sociopaths, guys.

    There was the time I saw Michelle Malkin and she remembered my name. And the time I posted a video of Joe the Plumber at a Tea Party and Hot Air and Breitbart linked it (without giving me credit). Smoking cigars with 509th Bob, (then LT) Nixon and Hooper at a Tea Party. Jimbo and me going to give grief to Lyndie England and she chickened out – so we drank beer instead. The time we raffled off Jamie.

    I got to drink gallons of beer with Tankerbabe and Olga this year. I got yelled at by Genevieve Chase. I finally got to tell the USO Girls exactly what I think of them to their cute faces. I got to give Bill Roggio a drunk hug. I got hauled off to jail with furry handcuffs by Mrs. Grayhawk. We got to welcome Sporkmaster back from his tour of Iraq. I smoked cigars with Ponsdorf and Scott Swett.

    You guys got TSO a new job. And we were in the funny papers;

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    We went over a million unique visitors in October and you guys have made about 20,000 comments. Oh, and we came in fourth in the Milblog portion of the Weblog Awards behind the three best milblogs on the net – who could ask for more than that?

    Matt Burden, Blackfive himself, wrote about us in an industry magazine “Sometimes hillarious, sometimes deadly serious, This Ain’t Hell writes tough about tough issues.” I want that on my tombstone.

    Yeah, it was a pretty good year, but I’m glad it’s over. Thanks to all of our readers for sticking it out with us and thanks to the bloggers who think that what we say is important enough to repeat to their readers. Most of all, thanks to COB6 and TSO for taking the time to help me build this tiny corner of the internet.

    I hope your new year will be as great as I expect mine to be. Here’s mud in your eye.

    The following is reposted from last year – give love to the folks who link here;

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  • TSA goes after bloggers

    Yeah, TSA is shown to be a bunch of incompetent boobs by a third world nincompoop so what’s the first thing they do? They target bloggers – read the story at Blackfive written by Laughing Wolf and at The Washington Times.

    So what does this have to do with us, besides the fact that we’re also bloggers? Well, the same thing happened to This Ain’t Hell early last month. While they should have been investigating the Fort Hood shooter, Army Criminal Investigation Division agents were flying around the country with a search warrant signed by a Federal judge trying to solve the mysterious and life threatening case of Major Hasan’s Officer Record Brief making it to the internet.

    Keep in mind that when we posted the ORB, Hasan was dead according to reports, and soon after we posted it and made it clear we weren’t taking it down, he was reanimated. Funny how that worked.

    The Army CID showed more interest in tracking down the electronic route of an unclassified document than tracking down Hasan’s connections with terrorism. One of us had all of his computers confiscated and the hard drive was copied by Army CID, just like the two bloggers in the TSA incident. He noticed that the screen names of the other two bloggers of TAH were on the search warrant – but neither was visited by CID.

    So, apparently, this government is more interested in bullying bloggers to keep our traps shut than they are in keeping us safe from terrorists.

    Expect more on this story in the future.

  • 40 best political quotes of 2009

    Right Wing News has released the 40 best political quotes of 2009.

    You can read ’em all here

    Here are some sample quotes from the article:

    31) As I said repeatedly during the campaign: Obama only appears “cool” and “even-tempered” because he’s never challenged. His “vetting” by the media consisted chiefly of juicy-mouthed nether-kissing.

    It’s not difficult to appear “cool” under those circumstances. Anyone who freaks out and goes to pieces because he’s being praised too much is a lunatic. — Ace

    21) There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs. — Thomas Sowell

    12) Isn’t food important? Why not “universal food coverage”? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us “free” food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the “food crisis” in America, and you’d be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan. — Ann Coulter

    3) If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.’ — Peter King

    Once again, you can read it all here.

  • Milblogs Go Silent

    This post will remain on top until Saturday, Dec. 19. Scroll for newer posts.
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    The Army has been doing a lot stupid crap and this is just the latest. This Ain’t Hell has had to deal with some stupid shit from the Army lately that we’re not ready to talk about yet. So as a show of solidarity with CJ and a few other blogger friends who have been persecuted by the Army lately, we’re going silent today.

    If you’ve got a few loose bucks throw it in CJ’s direction for his legal defense.

    The following was written by Mr. Wolf of Blackfive and expresses the sentiments of this blog.
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  • The 8th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards

    John Hawkins’ Right Wing News has polled 49 bloggers to recognize the work of other bloggers. The results can be found at the link. For some reason, Hawkins thought our opinion was important and This Ain’t Hell was among the bloggers polled.

  • Still under fire

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    I know I wrote about this yesterday, but here’s an update – CJ has a lawyer and he’s going after the school system. He needs about 7 grand for his lawyer and he’s got almost half of that just since yesterday. You guys are doing a great job, now get your friends involved. It shouldn’t be hard to find someone who wants to screw over a school district.

    There’s a PayPal button at Bouhammer’s blog or you can go to PayPal directly and donate to his email address; dj_chcknhawk (at) yahoo (dot) com (thanks to CodeMonkey for dropping that off last night).

    More from Laughing Wolf at Blackfive.