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  • CPL Jonathan Ayers tribute

    In case you didn’t know, there was a ceremony for awarding a Silver Star posthumously to 173rd paratrooper Corporal Jonathan Ayers this weekend in his hometown, Snellville, GA. Uncle Jimbo from Blackfive was there to capture the ceremony on video including the breifing Ayers’ company commander gives on Ayers’ part in the battle of Wanat where he lost his life.

    Jimbo is one versatile guy – last weekend with TSO and me surrounded by ANSWER moonbats, and this weekend surrounded by heroes. I recognize at least one of the paratroopers on stage from our Silver Spring adventure last summer with Jimbo, concretebob and tankerbabe.

    McQ, also from Blackfive, was there as well and writes his account.

    I’m still waiting to hear from tankerbabe who was there, as well. She has a video at her place From Cow Pastures to Kosovo, of the tribute to CPL Ayers that his own high school enacted. I sure wish I lived in a town like that.

  • More on the Medal of Honor Ceremony

    You may remember my post yesterday about Brandon Friedman piteous BOFO (that’s Bend Over For Obama for those unfamiliar with the lexicon here) performance when the president actually attended an event for honoring Medal of Honor winners.

    Well, Greyfox at Mudville Gazette noticed that the entire media BOFO’d for the story;

    Resulting in national (AP) coverage – with the story morphed into an Obama praise piece:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made an unannounced stop at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday to pay respects to recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award.

    Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. He was joined by several living recipients of the medal, which was first awarded during the Civil War.

    …without a word about why the Medal of Honor recipients had gathered there.

    This is clearly about making amends for missing the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball – the story that we broke here. That’s why Friedman made a point of posting it – probably on marching orders from the Oval Office.

    But go read Greyhawk’s entire post and you’ll see why I’m so convinced it’s a slobbery kiss to vets. Greyhawk did an excellent job of pulling all of the pieces together. And he does it without the use of Muppet characters.

  • Today’s shocking headline

    Well, it’s not so shocking as it is completely expected. Not to mention nauseating and completely unnecessary. Jon Soltz spends nearly 600 words telling us what we already knew – he prays at the alter of Barack Obama, loves the smell of Barack Obama’s feet, and wishes he could be Michelle Obama and bear Barack’s children.

    The Motor Pool Queen who dispatched trucks and drivers from the safety of Kuwait to Iraq for four months has the nerve to write;

    For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq….

    Fought what? Gerbil and dung beetle invasions? Boredom? The overwhelming sense of self satisfaction at being an insufferable prick?

    Oh, and to show the types of people who pray at the altar of Jon Soltz, this bonehead, Jim Staro, (a VFP loudmouth, by the way – more evidence of the incestuous relationship between IVAW, VFP, VoteVets, etc…) in the comments quotes one of the biggest military failures of recent history;

    Yes, Lyndon Johnson is in vogue again as a military philosopher. That’s how I got this red mark on my forehead.

    Now, I’m not saying that I disagree with the President, I don’t on this particular issue – I told Kokesh that on video last week. But coming from Soltz – it just sounds like “Duh”.

  • VetVoice makes it a point to tell us that Obama actually attended an MOH event

    The above pictured dork wants to start a blog war with This Ain’t Hell, and I’m up for it. Really. I am.
    Brandon Friedman writes at VetVoice, the blog of VoteVets, the Democrat Party’s koolaid-drinking veteran “organization” of Jon “Motorpool Queen” Soltz. Friedman wrote this in today’s snot-blower;

    President Obama attended the wreath-laying for Medal of Honor recipients at Arlington yesterday. And not only did he not blow off the event, but he even placed his hand on his heart. Uh oh. Looks like our anti-Obama friends will have to find something else to complain about now.

    Of course the “anti-Obama friends” was linked to our report of Obama not attending the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball. This is the third time in three weeks Friedman has mischaracterized my posts in regards to the President.

    First of all, Friedman, I have a long standing rule that I don’t have any friends that look like the Muppets’ Beaker so you don’t qualify.

    Secondly, all I did was report that the President didn’t attend the event. I dare you to find one judgmental comment in that post. Thirdly, every time Obama actually does something to prove to vets that he likes us, are you going to write about it? It’s going to be a long four years for both of us in that case. Dingus.

  • Obscuring the facts

    Wondering what I’d write to you about this morning, I opened my inbox and found this little nugget awaiting my attention;

    name = amerifag
    email = amerifag@osamaisgreat.com
    comments = dude you need to devote a homage to Osama on your site… 9/11 was FRICKIN SWEET… i was laughing the whole morning… fuckin americans jumping to their deaths…what could be sweeter (and funnier)???

    good times, good times…. cant wait for round 2

    have a nice day
    REMOTE_HOST: 38.103.144.42

    I shrugged and deleted it, because I often get little things like that in the morning from the meth-crazed freaks who can’t get to sleep. Then, I found more that had been sent to the spam folder – I deleted them as well, since it’s a fairly common occurrence, too. Then I saw jeffersonlives‘ comment. I wondered why the sudden surge, until I looked at incoming links, and I knew right away where the mental midgets were coming from.

    Yesterday, I referenced Brandon Friedman’s post at VetsVoice in one of my posts about the President’s attempt to charge vets for their service-connected treatment and Freidman tracked the link back here and wrote another Obama tongue bath and linked here. The Obama-bots and border-line psychopaths at VetVoice dutifully flocked over here to spam this blog with their immature and vile comments.

    But here’s a post TSO did on VoteVets in July which includes a debate he had with Friedman and here’s one I did on Soltz and Vote Vets after the election when Soltz emailed Melanie Morgan and called her a “stinky hag” keeping the debate civil. So now we’ve established a baseline on what I think about VoteVets, let’s look at Friedman’s post.

    Right in the title of his post, Friedman lies. “Administration Listens to Vets; Backs Off VA Insurance Plan”. Now if it was a timeline, it’s accurate because the Administration did back off after they listened to veterans – but they didn’t back off BECAUSE they they listened to the VSOs. Before the 1PM meeting yesterday, the last time the President had listened to VSOs, the meeting ended with him, in effect, telling the VSOs “pound sand, I’m doing it anyway”. He wasn’t even at the meeting yesterday, according to The Hill;

    Jim King, the national executive director for American Veterans (AMVETS), said that the meeting with Rahm Emanuel lasted all of 15 minutes and that the health insurance issue was the only topic discussed. The representatives of the 11 veterans organizations told Emanuel they were not willing to back down, and the chief of staff told them that he thought the issue was “off the table,” but that he needed to talk to Obama.

    Something that had happened between the end of the Monday meeting and the Wednesday meeting changed his mind. Nothing he “heard” from VSOs changed his mind – except that he was facing another Bonus March.

    The Administration was dictating to the VSOs what policy was going to be in regards to this issue. I have a theory as to why the Obama Adminsitration thought they could get away with it, and it’s related to the Salute to Heroes Ball dust up in January, but I can’t say anything about that. Yet.

    The only organization which took immediate action was the American Legion. The Legion had the good sense to make an issue of it, instead of taking the VoteVets approach of bending over for Obama (from here forward referred to as “BOFO”) and spreading their cheeks. While VoteVets was telling everyone to not worry, the American Legion mobilized the troops. That’s what changed minds. It wasn’t the media, either – it took two days for for the media to notice, well, except for McClatchy and no one reads them anyway.

    So Friedman is just wrong that we should just assume Obama has our best interests in his heart – the VSOs need to be vigilant, not BOFO like VoteVets.

    By the way, I have this picture so I’m using it;
    Perry Soltz
    It’s VV’s Jon Soltz meeting on a runway somewhere with VFP/VVAW member and IVAW advisor Bill Perry.
    And here they are inside the airport with more VFP/VVAW/IVAW members;
    VV IVAW VVAW VFP group hug

    Don’t tell me you have veterans’ interests in mind when you cavort with the mindless drones of IVAW who care about nothing except where they can score some pot and babe-age. VoteVets is a partisan organization that falls under aegis of MoveOn.org. Even John Bruhns, the former soldier – turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets because they were too much in the pocket of the Democrat party.

    And, Friedman, this isn’t an anti-Obama blog. I started this blog before Obama started running for President, so it can’t be an anti-Obama blog. I’m against his policies but mostly I’m against buffoons and charlatans who are climbing over the bodies of their former comrades using their motor pool dispatch credentials to lead this country down the road to ruin.

    I guess you can say I’m anti-dipshit.

  • Kos throws Murtha under the bus

    I guess since it’s not Bush’s War anymore they don’t need John Murtha’s portly shadow cast over them;

    Here’s the link if you want it, but you’ve got to paste it into your browser (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/12/122212/162/186/707656) The really amazing part is that nearly all of the commenters agree. Of course, I recognize it as hypocrisy because they were scrambling to save Murtha a scant few months ago when it looked like he might lose his seat. So now that they control the Congress and the White House, they want to shed themselves of a potential embarassment. Personally, I don’t care – just so long as he’s gone.

    On a tip from 1stCavRVN11B

  • Milblog Conference online registration is open

    Some of you may have noticed the Milblog Conference button in the sidebar. Clicking it will take you to the links where you can register for attendance at the conference (online registration just opened last night) and to get your hotel room (at the stinkin’ non-smokin’ hotel which I’ve already complained about). It’s all first come, first served – so sign up early.

  • Washington Tea Party live blogging

    I’m at Lafayette Park, doing my photography thing. Here are some of the first pictures. I’ll be updating this post all afternoon with pictures, videos and commentary when I can.

    Joe the Plumber is here;
    Tea Party 030
    He was a big hit, but he said he was there to do interviews for Pajama Media and he did – he probably interviewed ten people between shaking everyone’s hand.
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