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  • Zombie’s “Word salad of hate” in Oakland

    Our buddy, Zombie, sends us the latest from his/her forays into Left Coast culture;

    I just got back from a vigil held this evening in Oakland to honor the victims of the Tucson shooting. The vigil was held in front of Oakland City Hall and was advertised as being “a nonpartisan event” where we would solely “express solidarity with the victims” — which is why I choose this particular event to attend, so I wouldn’t have to endure a lot of malicious blame-mongering.

    Unfortunately, the atmosphere was sullied by speaker after speaker — including Representative Barbara Lee and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan….

    Go read the rest.

  • Speaking of Guantanamo

    One of my ninjas sent me these pictures from DC today where World Can’t Wait (the folks who sponsor Matthis in your kids’ classrooms) along with the ACLU and Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands are out side the White House right now.

    I’ve been to a few of these rallies. Here’s my posts from January 2008 when they marched to the Supreme Court and June 2008 with their “Experience Guantanamo” display.

  • Loosely related stuff about the Tucson shooting

    I’ve been on pins and needles wondering what the VFW thought of the shooting. They sent me an email to let me know that they condemn it. I’ll bet it was a real squeaker in committee.

    Gateway Pundit says that Bob Kerrey claims that Louchner was upset that Republicans were going to repeal Obamacare. Seriously? Does anyone honestly think this pothead even knows what healthcare is let alone worried about who’s going to pay for his?

    Someone somehow connected to the military leaked to Associated Press that Loughner was rejected because he popped hot on a piss test.

    Our president is going to stand for a moment of silence on the White House lawn today. How long did it take for him to acknowledge that the shooting in Fort Hood even happened and already he’s spent three days on this one…I guess bureaucrats getting shot is more important than soldiers preparing to go to war getting shot on their base.

    Hillary Clinton took a leap today and called Loughner “extremist” at a townhall meeting at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed University. I guess she’s the only one who can summon the testicular fortitude. Everyone else passes him off as a run-of-the-mill Republican, minus the monocle, top hat, cane and cigar.

    Speaking of Hillary, the refugees at Hillbuzz have words of warnings for conservatives;

    If you are a conservative and you are reading this, I hope you realize that “taking the high road”, “just ignore them”, and all the other cliches commonly tossed at you to make you sit quietly and take whatever the Left is doing that day are just not acceptable anymore. You must see the Left and its media propaganda wing for what they truly are — and you must realize the two work hand in hand to do whatever they can to help Democrats.

    Old Trooper sent us a link to Michelle Malkin’s lead today. It’s a loooooooong refresher of the Left’s hate over the last decade or so. You’ll want to spend some time reading it.

    You’ll be relieved to know that the Homeland Security Department hasn’t found a link between Loughner and the Right Wing yet…but you can bet it’s not from the lack of trying.

    A suspicious package, which apparently turned out to be nothing, cleared the Metro station out on Capitol Hill today. Another former Democrat staffer was found dead in her burning car in her burning garage this morning.

  • DADT repeal and ROTC

    Ben sent us a link to an article by Daniel Flynn on Frontpage Magazine that recounts the history of the removal of ROTC from some college campuses during, and to protest, the Vietnam War. It reminded me of the events much more recently at the university where I taught ROTC for a few years. It was at the University of Vermont, and if I remember correctly, it was in 1989.

    We were a small unit with about 30 cadets and our office was a two-story house between the campuses and the residences. One morning I came in to do my daily PT and discovered that someone had broken the glass in the front doors and spread red paint over our porch in some weak attempt at intimidation. Like I said, it was 1989 – what pray tell was going on in the world that could inspire such an act of childish endeavor?

    There were usually posters stuck up near our building from Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands about the evil US war machine which was destroying corn crops in El Salvador with mini-guns. At the time each round of 20mm was about $50 a piece, so it always seemed to me that if the Army wanted to destroy a corn field, there were cheaper ways to do it.

    That same year, teachers at UVM shut down my Wilderness Survival class (a half-credit PE class) by complaining that I was abusing the chickens I bought for the students to kill and eat because I’d teach them to pull the heads from the chickens – a method approved by the ASPCA as humane. When that didn’t work, they disapproved of the way the chickens were stored in cages the night before our exercise. The recommendation that came from the board after my testimony was that we take the students on a field trip to a slaughtering facility. So, obviously, we weren’t going to get any rational alternatives and we shut down the program.

    Within a few months of that, the university decided that they needed our building for another department and they made plans to move us off campus – several miles away to the campus of Saint Micheal’s College, a Catholic college, to an ancient set of government quarters. Of course, the best part of being on campus was our access to students for recruiting purposes. Despite our protests, we were forced to move. Our cadets suffered most because they were unable to get our offices for help with their various activities.

    Anyway, this was all before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and it wasn’t until after they’d moved us someone made the connection to the gay issue as an excuse to keep us off campus. So I don’t expect the repeal of DADT to yield much more access to campuses.

  • “Breakthrough victory” for criminals and derelicts

    This is all I can find on this particular, but the sole source seems to be Ward Reilly, so take this with a grain of salt. Apparently, charges have been dropped against the 131 people arrested in front of the White House on December 16th. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true…the gutless courts in DC seem to be frightened of actually convicting these lawless clowns in my experience;

    Maybe if the courts enforced the laws, they’d put an end to this sophomoric behavior. But, that would mean the DC district courts would have to actually do their jobs.

  • Dahlia Wasfi, ditz

    At the risk of attracting the folks who have a crush on Iraqi-born Dahlia Wasfi, who we’ve been told is “scary smart”, one of my ninjas took this screen shot of one of her brilliant comments on Facebook last night;

    Of course, she’s referring to the flag in her Facebook avatar as if it’s some brave statement. The flag is Iraq’s Saddam Hussein-era flag. Obviously, Wasfi, whose family fled Hussein’s Iraq when she was a child, misses the Iraq she never knew. And what the old Iraq flag and the old Iraqi oppressor has to do with Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza two years ago is too “scary smart” for me to figure out. I doubt any of the 48 people who “liked” her vacuous statement could explain it either.

  • Brad Manning: These blankets are scratchy like torture or something

    Like I wrote several months ago, the organization which calls itself “Courage to Resist” is raising money for Bradley Manning, the former PFC who released several hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. From the New York Times;

    Bradley Manning T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers — even whistles — are for sale.

    Jeff Paterson, the project director of the organization, which has supported dozens of service members who have refused deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan, said the group began to raise money for Private Manning’s legal defense after he was arrested in May.

    WikiLeaks was not supporting the 23-year-old private first class “who gave them all this information,” said Mr. Paterson, 42, a lanky former Marine, who was himself jailed for refusing to board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.

    Yeah, a guy who refused to deploy to Kuwait for the Gulf War would belong to an organization called Courage to Resist, wouldn’t he?

    How about this doofus;

    “He has supporters all over the world,” said Adam Seibert-Szyper, 39, a staff member who deserted the Marine Corps in 1996.

    In 1996? Really? What was the Marine Corps doing in 1996 that would cause this courageous soul to desert? Toys for Tots?

    BBC gets right to the torture aspect of Manning’s imprisonment;

    [Manning] complained to Mr House last week that the blankets he is given are so heavy and uncomfortable they feel like carpet squares.

    “He said he would frequently wake up in the morning with carpet burn, a problem exacerbated by the fact that he is required to sleep in his boxers,” the journalist said.

    Ay, Dios mio – pobrecito…it’s just like Guantanamo. I sleepin my boxers, so am I torturing myself?

    Of course, Salon’s resident drama queen, Glen Greenwald is still apoplectic over the tortuous descriptions coming from Guantanamo del Norte en Quantico;

    In addition to confirming the facts I reported, Maj. Coombs added several disturbing new ones, including the paltry, isolated terms of Manning’s one-hour-a-day so-called “exercise” time (he’s “taken to an empty room and only allowed to walk,” “normally just walks figure eights in the room,” “if he indicates that he no long feels like walking, he is immediately returned to his cell”); the bizarre requirement that, despite not being on suicide watch, Manning respond to guards all day, every day, by saying “yes” every 5 minutes (even though guards cannot and “do not engage in conversation with” him); and various sleep-disruptive measures (he is barred from sleeping at any time from 5:00 am – 8:00 pm, and, during the night, “if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him”).

    So, suppose they ease all of these restrictions and Manning is killed or injured when he attempts suicide or gets his ass assaulted by another prisoner. Will the UN, which is threatening to investigate Manning’s condition, or Greenwald admit that they were responsible? Yeah, that’ll be the day.

  • Code Pink and DADT.

    As expected Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin put this out since it was repealed. No really surprised.

    The peace group I co-founded, CODEPINK, has not only been protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the drone attacks in Pakistan, but we have been going to military recruiting stations, high schools and career fairs throughout the country encouraging our youth not to join the military.

    Ok here is the warning. Put down any drinks and keep them there for the entire post. Yes it will be that bad.

    Final warning,

    Ok here we go, considering Code Pinks actions in the past years before reading the next quote.

    We know that the military is one of the only ways many young people can afford a college education these days and that the financial crisis severely limits this generation’s career options. But we still encourage young men and women to look for other opportunities that don’t involved killing or being killed in wars we shouldn’t be fighting.

    It might seem contradictory, then, that CODEPINK was an enthusiastic supporter of the rights for gays and lesbians to join and serve openly in the military. But within our organization, it was never even controversial — we stand up for the rights of all human beings. The decision to join the military or not should be determined by individual choice, not institutional discrimination.

    WTF? Really? So what was all of that going on in Berkley? Yea here is what they really think of individual choice.

    But then it gets better.

    We understand that allowing gay soldiers to openly serve in the military is a crack in the armor of bigotry that will eventually open the way for gay people to marry and be guaranteed equality in the workplace. We understand this victory in the larger context of the march toward full human rights for this oppressed community. And who knows? Perhaps this victory will also serve to strengthen the military’s respect for human rights abroad.

    Yea because we never had any of that before DADT was repealed.

    But is comes down to the real reason Code Pink supported the repeal of DADT.

    We also understand the potential for a powerful alliance between the gay and anti-war communities. We can work together to help young people — gay and straight — find careers that won’t kill them, maim them, destroy them psychologically, or cause them to do harm to others.

    We can jointly reach out to those already in the military to speak out against the violations of the rights of peoples whose land we occupy. We can ask gay veterans to join groups like Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. And we can work together to turn our military from an aggressive force to one that truly defends us here at home.

    So they want them to join so they can have a fresh batch of Soldiers to use and throw away, since the current supply is running low.

    Oh in case your wondering she will be at Fort Benning next year to take part of the SOA protests.

    It it now safe to resume or start drinking.