The above picture was distributed on pamphlets by a North Carolina legislator to remind voters that he supports the troops. The problem is that they’re dressed as World War II German soldiers. The story from BBC.
A North Carolina state legislator says he supports the military, but a flyer prepared by his campaign could lead some to question which country’s.
Democrat Tim Spear’s campaign has apologised after inadvertently sending voters a leaflet showing actors in World War II-era German uniforms.
Now, you have to wonder how much this guy supports the troops when he doesn’t even know what they look like or even that their weapons aren’t wooden Mausers and MP 40s. Now, I’ll admit that K-pots look a little like the German helmets…but not that much.
The phrase on the photo says “In combat, you always want another soldier covering your back.” It’s especially nice if that soldier covering your back is in your own army.
Thanks to COB6 for sending the link from his undisclosed location.
Gordon Duff made perhaps the stupidest comment on the internet made by any veteran ever. First of all let’s look again at who is talking. According to his records, Duff reported to basic training, or boot camp, or whatever you Marines call it, on February 28, 1969, on August 22, 1970 he was in Fort Living Room waiting for someone to invent cable TV. 18 months of military service. Of that time, he was in Vietnam August 5, 1969 until August 5, 1970. Out of those twelve months he spent from August 5, 1969 until Christmas day as a rifleman – the rest was spent as a gopher in the S-3 shop. I’m not disparaging his service – majors need someone to fetch their coffee and fluff their pillow, too.
But you’ll see where I’m going when you read his idiot comment;
Bobby,
Rather than “liberal” I would point out we were better educated, more independent, and fought a brutal war with less “down time” than any American army since the Revolutionary War.
g
Duff spent 18 months in the Marines. There were Marines in the Pacific that were there on Dec. 7th, 1941 and didn’t see home until after August 1945. Now unless the Revolutionary War was fought after the Second World War, his math might be off a bit. The same comparison could be made for soldiers in the Civil War who marched off to war in 1861 and didn’t get home until the summer 1865 – that’s longer than a year, too – but I didn’t need to tell you that, because you’re better at math than Duff.
And I have to tell you, candidly, that list of awards on Duff’s FOIA is REAL light for a TOC Rat. Battalion pogues usually get medals for an especially good job of tightening tent ropes on the officers’ toilet. Couldn’t get the hang of that, Gordon?
Those of you who know me know that I highly respect Vietnam veterans, that on countless occasions I’ve credited the training I got from some of the toughest and smartest warriors whoever wore the uniform in Vietnam for my survival and the survival of my soldiers. And I’m pretty sure that most Vietnam vets would credit WWII and Korean War veterans for their success and return home.
No, Duff, you’re a fucking Liberal, you aren’t tougher or smarter than anyone, maybe that mouse you keep in your pocket…but that’s it. That’s your whole problem, dipshit. We’re all veterans no matter how or why we served, or how long, or what our jobs were. I don’t think there’s more than one or two real veterans I’d throat punch, but you just joined that list Gordo.
And yeah, the VFW disrespected Vietnam veterans by disallowing them in the organization. But, your generation taught them a lesson…they came to my door and offered to pay half of my life membership dues if I’d join. So be a fucking man for a change and get over it – you limp-wristed pussyboy.
Next time you want to measure dicks, go measure them with Code Pink, you might come out ahead.
According to the American Broadcasting Corporation News, the Democrat National Committee has filed a Freedom of Information Act query for any communications the Department of Defense has had with any of the nine potential Republican contenders for the 2012 presidential elections;
An internal Army e-mail obtained by ABC News indicates that the DNC has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for “any and all records of communication” between Army departments and agencies and each of the nine Republicans — all of whom are widely mentioned as possible challengers to President Obama.
Obviously, a big fishing expedition on the part of the DNC for grammar and misspellings. So the 2010 elections haven’t even happened and the mud slinging will begin in the next few weeks in preparation for the next election. Is there any doubt as to why the American public is weary of politics?
Newsbusters’ Geoffrey Dickens writes about a moment on the Chrissy Matthews show (whatever channel and time it’s on) during which Chrissy Matthews, the teenage girl of the Leftist media twice makes the point that the “Tea party” (whoever that is anymore these days) resembles the Nazi movement in the 30s.
“…we saw from hoodlums in the thirties in another country I will not mention” and added: “I mean it isn’t far from what we saw in the thirties, where all of a sudden, political parties started showing up in uniform.”
He went on to say that what Tim Profitt did to Lauren Valle was “right wing by its very nature.”
So let’s look at the video that has been making the rounds thanks to a tipster at Red State. What you’re looking for is Valle bolting from the right side of the video and pushing her way through the crowd…quite violently, in fact, if I was a prosecutor, I’d probably charge her with assault;
About the video, the LA Times, that bastion of conservative reporters, quotes Red State describing the action on the video;
“Toward the end of the video, you see several Paul supporters asking a police officer to come intervene. It was Paul supporters who told Profitt to back off,” RedState Insider blogged. “It was Paul supporters who brought the police. Contrary to the growing narrative on the left, this video clearly shows that Valle was not the victim of a conspiracy to ‘take her out.’ “
But let’s go back to Matthews’ comment about brown shirts and the tea party for moment. After his “right wing by its very nature” line, matthews says;
Name the last liberal progressive candidate who hired a private army, the last one that was stomping his political, her political opponents in the street?
How about Bill Clinton, Chrissy? I seem to remember something about members of the the teamster union in Philadelphia providing security at a Clinton event who stomped a man and his sister in the street in 1998.
Am I justifying Profitt’s actions? Not in the least. There is no good reason to put your feet on a woman…unless she asks. And, oh, there was no “head-stomping” going on in the video.
VoteVets biggest “superstar” is Patrick Murphy, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania’s eighth congressional district. For those of you don’t know, Murphy is an ex-Army JAG officer who served in OIF with the 82nd Airborne in 2003 and 2004. He was also was the first OIF veteran elected to Congress in 2006 and VoteVets has been his biggest cheerleader since assuming office. However, it appears that he hasn’t used his Army JAG training to teach his campaign staff about voter fraud:
New reports are emerging that could spell trouble for Patrick Murphy’s campaign after it was revealed that his campaign manager controlled a post office box where voters were being instructed to send their absentee ballots. The ballots were then re-mailed to the county Board of Elections.
A letter from a fictitious agency, the “Pennsylvania Voter Assistance Office,” was sent to an unknown number of residents across the 8th district in southeastern Pennsylvania warning them that their ability to voter could be jeopardized unless they returned an enclosed absentee ballot in a pre-paid envelope that went to a private post office box in Bristol, Pa.
At issue is whether Rep. Patrick Murphy was directly involved, and whether absentee ballots were tampered with or discarded as they were proceeded through the post office box maintained by Tim Persico, his campaign manager.
More info here and here. Now to be fair, there is no CLEAR evidence that Murphy is directly involved in this obvious attempt to commit widespread voter fraud. However, if he were still an Army Captain and there was illicit activity going on involving his subordinates, he would be held accountable and it would reflect on his leadership. There is no reason why in this case he shouldn’t be held accountable either.
Of course, our good friends over at VetVoice are all over this……not.
Last week, Julian Assclown sat down for an interview with a CNN Europe reporter regarding Wikileaks’ new document releases. When the reporter started asking relatively softball questions about turmoil within Wikileaks and about Asslcown’s personal life, Julian walked off the set like a little bitch:
So Julian Assange is all about secrets…. just for Wikileaks and his personal life. The couple questions the reporter even give Assange a chance to blame the whole thing on a conspiracy by the Pentagon. Larry King interviewed him a couple of days later:
First of all, Larry King needs to get off the air, seriously he has completely lost it. He honestly believed Assclown walked off the set when he was watching a clip of his previous CNN interview. Yet again, Assclown can’t take the heat and whine likes a little girl.
So here is a proposal (and I am too lazy to act on it but whatever)… Wikileaks for Wikileaks. Wikileaks for Wikileaks (WfW) sole purpose will be to leak internal emails, memos, phone calls, and text messages from Wikileaks staff-both work-related and personal.
ROS sent me a link to this morning’s bladder venting from Frank Rich entitled “What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?“. It begins like he wants to praise Obama for the our recovering economy and he’s not getting enough credit for being the miracle worker that Obama is;
PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none of these good deeds, no matter how substantial, will go unpunished….
But what Rich actually does is start bashing Bush and Wall Street and demanding that there be an investigation…that heads roll;
Asked in “Inside Job” why there’s been no systematic investigation of the 2008 crash, [economist Nouriel] Roubini answers: “Because then you’d find the culprits.”
We can blame much of this turn of events on the deep pockets of oil billionaires like the Koch brothers and on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which freed corporations to try to buy any election they choose. But the Obama White House is hardly innocent. Its failure to hold the bust’s malefactors accountable has helped turn what should have been a clear-cut choice on Nov. 2 into a blurry contest between the party of big corporations and the party of business as usual.
Yup, see it’s Obama’s fault because he didn’t go ahead with investigations…but Rich implies that the investigations would find the culpability in the nefarious circles of Bush/Wall Street cronies who plotted to bring down the economy. To what benefit we have yet to hear. Seems to me that a strong economy would be more beneficial to rich folks and corporations. And since when does “Hope and Change” include kangaroo courts and show trials for the political benefit of Democrats at election time?
But Rich might get his way and the culprits may still get their just desserts. After all, we’ve already got rid of Chris Dodd in Connecticut, Barney Franks is floundering in Massachusetts. It seems to me that the voters have conducted their own investigation and are prepared to mete out some justice next Tuesday. Be careful what you wish for, Frankie.
