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Category: I hate hippies

  • Brain freeze in MN

    One of our loyal readers sent me a link to his local “progressive” rag from up in Minnesota called “mnpACT” See how it almost makes a word, but then it doesn’t…clever hippies. Anyway, the author Alan Anderson starts right off letting us know that he hasn’t got an original or clear thought in his adled skull;

    Recent revelations about the killing and turmoil in Iraq and the corruption and dysfunction in Afghanistan should reinforce in the minds of most Americans that the wars in both countries have turned into some of the biggest disasters in the history of our nation. Yes, I remember that a group of Saudi radicals attacked the World Trade Center with airplanes. Of course that was a tragic day. No one disputes that.

    That “tragic day” after thought really gets me – it’s the same thing the Left did after Clinton left office – “Oh, I hated him, too” they always said right before they’d tell us how he was a great president. It’s just something you say, ya know, to establish your creds in the discussion. of course he doesn’t think 9-11 was a tragic day…he thinks we deserved it. Besides what we did to Iraq and Afghanistan was much worse, right?

    But, even more tragic is that we responded in dumb ways, declaring war on a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 event (even President Bush acknowledged that), a country that didn’t have weapons of mass destruction (as we were told in order to sway public opinion to back the war), a country that has had to endure 7 years of war, the loss of hundreds of thousands of civilians, a country decimated by the exodus of more than half their doctors and other professionals, a country that has millions of children orphaned by death of parents, and a country in political disarray that can’t even select their own leaders and run their own government.

    Oh, yeah, NONE of that shit happened before we arrived in March, 2003, right? Then why do I remember a few hundred Iraqis in front of the White House in 1999 protesting the US/UN sanctions against Iraq? All of them wearing the finery of this country and their ample stomachs hanging over their Italian made belts? Iraqis have been fleeing Iraq and made orphans for decades. Does that justify any of the unnecessary violence that might have perpetrated against some of them? Nope. But it would have been nice if they’d helped us drag their country into the 19th century.

    It is time to stop this craziness and begin to realize that only through a removal of the war option will any healing be possible.

    Yeah, tell that to those doctors who were murdered in Afghanistan this last summer. They didn’t even have guns…all they brought was help to the locals. And they paid for it with their lives. I’d like to see Alan pry his fat ass out of his La-Z-Boy and do something besides flap his gums (or bang his keys) to bring this war to an end. Nope he’d rather sit in the comfort of his trailer and fan the flames with his uneducated blather.

    Make no mistake, if you are an American you have blood on your hands. It is time to begin to cleanse ourselves of the horrors we have perpetrated on the world and move to a place where we honor life….to become really pro-life, and not just worry about whether fetuses survive, but whether children in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan will ever have a chance at a normal life.

    Feel guilty about “the blood on your hands”? Me neither. That line about children over there having a “normal life” is real killer. Girls are afraid to go to school lest someone throw acid on their faces for the crime of learning.

    After Desert Storm, my unit went back to Iraq to man a screen to protect the Shi’ites who were fleeing from Saddam’s armies in their own country. If that wasn’t horrible enough, a busload of Shi’ites would pull up to our checkpoint loaded with fleeing women children and men. Some were wounded, others were not.

    One of my men threw a box of oranges we had left over from breakfast down on the ground, because even though we weren’t supposed to, it was part of the American soldiers’ nature to be kind to other people who aren’t shooting at us. Of course, the nimble kids made it to the box first and wolfed down the juicy fruit. As the men caught up, they tossed the kids aside like rag dolls. They tore the fruit from the hungry tiny mouths and smacked the kids brutally.

    Of course, my guys wanted to interfere, but I wouldn’t let them. Our yelling and gesturing brought a bit of calm to the moment. We took the oranges from the men forced them back on the bus and we never handed out any of our food to any more refugees to prevent the abuse we’d just witnessed.

    I think there’s a moral to that story somewhere, but since I’m unable to articulate it…GFY, Alan. When you drag your fat ass out of Minnesota and look at that shit yourself, you might have earned a right to preach to us. Until such time, STFU.

  • Strange bedfellows

    Saturday, 400 groups will converge on Washington, DC in what they call the “One Nation” rally. Of course, I’ve seen Leftist rallies which claimed 30 groups were represented and twenty people were there, so the number of groups isn’t really that important – it’s the types of groups that are showing up and intertwined for what they think make up the majority of Americans.

    Code Pink and the National Education Association? Really? Our teachers are proud to stand along side the post-op trannies of Code Pink? The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees standing alongside Maoist-inspired ANSWER? In fact, every anti-war group you can think of is included and every union organization is right there along with them. So if you’re in a union, your dues money was spent to send people to this political rally. What do I mean? Well, the unions and the NAACP are giving thousands a free bus ride to DC.

    And unlike Glen Beck’s rally earlier this month, this rally is purely political;

    Unlike Beck’s rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes, the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees to vote in the midterm elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.

    “We have heard a lot about frustration and anger leading to apathy. What we are finding is that anger is now turning into, ‘Okay, let’s act,’” she said. “We can either sit here and not move forward or we can go backward.”

    Holt Baker considers the rally a first step toward more closely unifying the progressive movement, which has often splintered into niche causes.

    Organizers told the Washington Post what their focus will be;

    Organizers say they are focusing on three unifying ideas: jobs, justice and education. They define those ideas in a set of principles that also lays out a list of causes largely supported by liberals, such as ending discrimination in the criminal justice system, protecting Social Security, spending federal money to create jobs and improving public education.

    “These are the bedrock issues that define who we are and why we march,” Jealous said.

    Oh, really? Then why is the anti-military recruiting organization Ya-Ya Network coming? Why are The Geezers For Sitting on Our Hands (otherwise known as Veterans For Peace) slated? The National Center for Transgender Equality? American Friends Service Committee (otherwise known as Quakers – big anti-war protesters). US Labor Against the War? AIDS Walk Washington? The Trans-Africa Forum? Iraq Veterans Against the War (of course there are many contradictions just in that 5-word title)? US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?

    Many of those groups have come out against Obama and certain policies of his administration. Gays don’t like that he hasn’t used his bullypulpit to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Code Pink, Vets For Peace and IVAW have all criticized him for continuing Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan – their reason to exist as organizations. In fact many of the members of those organizations have told me that they didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 – yet here they are at what is essentially a rally to encourage people to vote for Democrats in November.

    This isn’t America. Maybe it’s Washington, DC’s perception of America, but no one I know out here, just the other side of the Beltway, belong to any of those groups. And maybe the union leaders think their membership’s dues are justly spent on carrying smelly busloads of hippies who want a free trip to DC, but I’m pretty sure many of you would disagree.

    If that rally is an accurate portrayal of America, Those of us who aren’t there ought to buy more ammo.

  • Terrorism warrants served on “social justice” activists

    Several of you sent me links to the story last week about the several “social justice activists” who had their cribs searched by the FBI (Huffington Post link). As the FBI searched their homes, these clowns whined to the press that they’d done nothing to cause this kind of scrutiny.

    Well, that’s not exactly true. They belong to a group called Freedom Road Socialist Organization, they were organized in 1985 because the Maoist organizations of the 70s were fracturing and the FRSO tried to rejuvenate the Communist movement. I call them communists because they themselves refer to the organization as Marxist/Leninist – so what else should I call them?

    Of course, they would call my characterization of them as “red-baiting” to recall images of Joseph McCarthy’s hearings in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. That’s because they love to play victim – similar to the way Muslim extremists play the victim tune when they get busted. Using our justice system against us is a trait that communists share with jihadists.

    Their websites are full of their own propaganda over the raids – the Freedom Road Socialist Organization is actually two organizations – they both threw hissy fits over the direction of the club and split – each claiming the FRSO mantle. Leave it to commies to confuse the perception of them One facet is in Chicago, the other in New York.

    One of the detained “activists” is Mick Kelly who edits their periodical “Fight Back!” touted as “news and views from the People’s struggle”.

    Here’s an interview with Mick while the FBI was rummaging through his apartment above a coffee shop.

    He plays the victim well. I guess he didn’t figure anyone would read FRSO’s website. For example in their mission statement they say “We Exist to Organize for Revolution and Socialism”. That doesn’t seem so docile, does it?

    “Fight for full equality of oppressed nationalities, including the right to self-determination for the African American, Chicano and Hawai’ian Nations ” Yup, I’m all for full equality – but that statement of self-determination means, according to their own websites, that the US needs to cut wide swaths in our country to give those minority groups their own countries within ours. I’m pretty sure that their intent to establish these areas as self governing elements, they don’t intend to make them self-sufficient. Not exactly a basis for establishing “equality”.

    “Building a strategic alliance of the national movements and the working class to overthrow imperialism and establish socialism” doesn’t sound too peaceful does it?

    Anyway, the Chicago Tribune reports that last night 350 “activists” protested in the streets outside of the FBI’s office. There is good news in all of this for our side;

    Jim Fennerty, an attorney representing Abudayyeh, who is an American of Palestinian descent, said Monday that lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild will represent those who are being investigated.

    The communist lawyer association is also the home of James Branum…so it looks like all of the “activists” will end up doing time in jail thanks to their activist lawyers.

    But they’re not exactly innocent bystanders.

    “We aren’t doing anything differently than we have in 20 years,” said Weiner, a teacher at Wilbur Wright College. Iosbaker is a staff member at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a union steward for Service Employees International Union Local 73.

    Burke said he received a grand jury subpoena requesting records of payments to Abudayyeh’s organization as well as two groups among the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

    Yeah, I don’t think the FBI has time to harass poor little protesters eeking out a meager living while they have meetings and read passages from Trotsky.

  • Hippies are sissies

    The above picture is of Doug Zachary handing a check to a member of the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands. Doug was busted for skimming money from the Austin Chapter of VfP and booted from the chapter. That was stuff I dug up on him last year while we were trying to put the hammer down on a Zachary acolyte you may remember; Carl Webb.

    Zachary was in the Marines in the late sixties and got bounced before he could be deployed to Vietnam, so he fits right in with the IVAW in that regard. He tells the media that he was bounced because of his anti-war views, but he tells friends that he was tossed because he was a gen-you-eye-n shitbird.

    Lately, he’s been the inspiration of one Bobby Whittenberg, head buccaneer at Under The Hood and chief server at the Hu-Man Chinese restaurant (I think…maybe the tattoo means something else).

    Well, anyway, about the picture; the VfP convention is being held this week in Portland, Maine, so that picture was taken this week (and smuggled out to me) and it shows Dougie attending and in good standing, even though he absconded with charitable donations intended for the Austin Chapter.

    I’m confused…are hippie geezers really so stupid that they’ll let thieves near their money again? Such sissies that they’ll let Zachary back in their number without so much as a stern warning?

  • Today’s lecture from the Left

    So I got this email this morning from someone I’ve never heard of before now. Apparently she thinks I used one of her articles in discussing serial terrorist Bradley Manning. I can’t find where I ever used her tripe. A quick Google search turned up her masters thesis on saving some bids somewhere, but nothing on her Brad Manning article.

    In any event, here’s her vacuous lecture;

    name = Charlotte Sheasby-Coleman
    email = xxx@xxx.com
    comments = Hi “thisainthell”.

    Re your comments on Bradley Manning and the article “Please Don`t Shoot the Messenger“, I wrote the article and so I am happy to respond, although I do not, of course, speak for Bradley Manning. We don’t know if he is the source of the leaks but, if he is, I support him and hope that the sharing of real information about the wars will help to end them and usher in a better future. As for the message from Bradley, or whoever is responsible for the leaks, how’s this — rather than bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and security to the United States, the invasions have further destabilized the fragile Middle East, have created a breeding ground for terrorists and have ensured that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of hitherto peaceful Iraqi and Afghan citizens now hate the U.S. and may embrace radical Islamic sentiments that they never would have before. The fact that thousands upon thousands of those people have died and suffered because of American/coalition action and that thousands of young coaltion soldiers have died needlessly is abominable. The message being delivered is that arrogant American foreign policy as well, as the apathy of the people who vote for the people who deliver it, is responsible for death and destruction and hatred that completely overwhelms the horrors of what happened in New York and elsewhere on 9-11. The ultimate message being delivered is that acknowledgement of our shared humanity, respect and the desire to work towards a peaceful co-existence on our planet, is the only thing that will ensure that our children and grandchildren and this earth we live on will survive. How’s that for a message?

    In peace, Charlotte

    I’m pretty sure that dear Charlotte would never see a legitimate reason for the US to apply force of arms to any situation. And I’m not sure who she thought she was talking to, that’s why I shared this with you – because her message is wasted on me. So you can respond to her.

  • Credit where credit is skewed

    Last week we watched as Vote Vets gave credit to Barack Obama for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq today. Of course, we know that it was the so-called surge and the Bush Administration that made today’s news possible. But you know who’s taking credit? None other than those screeching harpies at Code Pink and the peace movement. This is from my email;

    Yes, they want credit for ending the seven-year war – the war that would have ended seven years ago if it wasn’t for them. if it wasn’t for the peace freaks who volunteered to be human shields for Saddam Hussein. If it wasn’t for those three congressmen standing on the roof of Saddam’s palace declaring him a more honest broker than our own President. If it wasn’t for seven years of childish antics and useless protests, shoe-throwing, cardboard cemeteries, fake Guantanamo prison cells and so many countless demonstrations of imbecility and mental masturbation.

    Yeah, this shit ended the war;
    (more…)

  • Brit soldier refused beer

    Ben sent us a link to a story about a British engineer, Anthony Walls, fresh off the plane from Afghanistan, still wearing his uniform, who stopped to buy beer on his way to his nephew’s birthday party;

    But when he arrived at the till to pay he was met with a blank stare from the cashier, who refused to serve him and called for her manager.

    The manager then refused to serve Sapper Walls and told him he “couldn’t do anything about it.”

    I wonder how this story would have been treated if a Muslim had been refused service in a grocery store?

  • Execute Manning?

    Last night, a lot of people thought Ace had lost his mind when he wrote that Wikileaker and DADT advocate Bradley Manning should be hanged;

    Kill him. Make it a cause celebre, and make him an example to the next leaker.

    String him up and choke him until he is dead, dead, dead.

    This morning a Michigan Republican Congressman is advocating for his execution, too;

    “I argue the death penalty clearly should be considered here,” [Republican Rep. Mike Rogers] said. “He clearly aided the enemy to what may result in the death of U.S. soldiers . . . If that is not a capital offense, I don’t know what is.”

    Now, I really don’t believe in the death penalty, not for the reasons you might think. In my opinion, I don’t trust the government to take anyone’s life. I mean, would you put your life in the hands of Charlie Rangel or Maxine Waters? Anyway, I’m opposed to Manning’s execution regardless of how his trial turns out.

    But you see while I’m lifting my chin and feeling morally superior to the rest of you, I come across nimroddery like this from Michael “are you going to finish those fries” Moore;

    Moore thought that Manning “is exactly who we want in our armed forces,” and deserves the Profile in Courage award for helping to make the WikiLeaks public knowledge. “You can’t just line up and be a good German and do what you’re told to do,” Moore said in defense of Manning’s audacity.

    At that point, I realize that the only way to make sure Manning serves out his sentence without some pompous and arrogant windbag like Moore advocating for his undeserved early release from his 90,000 life sentences is to kill Manning.