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  • Hate Group SPLC to smear troops in Congress

    On the heels of the Salon rush job report on racists in the military, the Southern Poverty Law Center is up to it’s old tricks again. They’ve determined that the military is rife with racists (they found 40 out of how many people serving?) so they’re marching their hate-filled asses to Congress today to tattle according to Stars and Stripes;

    “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right, we urge your committees to investigate the threat posed by racial extremists who may be serving in the military to ensure that our armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists,” Morris Dees, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel, wrote to the legislators. “Evidence continues to mount that current Pentagon policies are inadequate to prevent racial extremists from joining and serving in the armed forces.”

    Added Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, a magazine produced at the law center: “The Pentagon really has shrugged this off and refused to look at this in any serious way.”

    See that quote: “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right….” I don’t see Potok (the punk asshole SOB) getting exercised about the murderof two soldiers by that Muslim hate group member a few months back – but one octogenarian at the Holocaust Museum and Potok demands that the military purge their ranks. Because they found 40 people on Facebook who CLAIM to be members of the military.

    You remember that Southern Poverty Law Center also named the American Legion a “hate group” recently. Of course, their greasy lawyers will come here and deny that they called AL a “hate group”, which may be true in the greasy lawyer sense, but here’s a screen shot of their report of the AL under their column heading “Hate Watch”;

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    We have to ask ourselves how many of these dildos are really members of the military. S&S quotes one in their article;

    One participant under the username “WhitePride85,” who said he is a 24-year-old staff sergeant from Madison, Wis., wrote: “I have been in the Army for over 5 years now … I am a SSGT … I have been in Iraq and Kuwait … I love and will do anything to keep our master race marching. I have been a skinhead forever.”

    How many Army Staff Sergeants write their rank using the Air Force form “SSGT”? If he was an Army staff sergeant, he’d write it “SSG” like the several thousand of us who wore that rank in the Army and filled out paperwork everyday using the abbreviation.

    To quote that greasy-assed lawyer Mark Potok, who has been to TAH in the recent past to defend his ambulance-chasing organization of greasy lawyers who couldn’t find real jobs in real law firms, by the way, they don’t really know if these people are in the military or not;

    “We can’t verify these things,” Potok said, because his group does not have access to military personnel records. “We feel that clearly military investigators could.”

    So the military should stop what it’s doing and chase ghosts because the drama queens at SPLC smell money. Even if there are racists in the military (and I don’t doubt that there are, the military is a product of society), how is the military supposed to investigate if they’ve broken no laws? Isn’t that a violation of the soldiers’ civil rights? Maybe the ACLU can instruct their fellow travelers at SPLC about that aspect of their unreasonable demands on the military.

    And, it’s all speculation by SPLC and other anti-military groups;

    In 2006, the SPLC released a report asserting that “thousands” of active-duty troops like clarkpatrick88 could have hate group affiliations. The law center said that some military officers conceded that recruitment and retention pressures forced them to look the other way when presented with overwhelming evidence of hate group membership.

    “Since we issued our 2006 report, the problem may have worsened,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote to Gates.

    By this spring, a Department of Homeland Security report said law enforcement groups should beware of extremists coming out of military duty or groups trying to recruit susceptible veterans for their combat skills.

    Emphasis is mine. Of course the “retracted” DHS report raises it’s vile head again.

    This is just another attempt by SPLC to paint all of the troops with a broad, racist brush. I think SPLC should be labeled a hate group. In fact, I’m declaring them a hate group right now. Whatcha gonna do about it, Potok?

  • PA’s Rendell to balance budget on veterans’ backs

    The shape of things to come with a federal government run by Democrats? Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania’s governor, has proposed cutting veteran benefits in the state to balance the budget (Public Opinion link);

    “It is a shame that in this environment that we are taking veterans’ benefits from them and using them as a political football in a budget battle,” Rep. Rob Kauffman, R-Chambersburg, said.

    [Rep. Bryan] Barbin [D-Johnstown], who gave an impassioned plea for the bill and its requirement for a study by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs in consultation with those who would be affected before various types of veterans’ facilities could be closed.

    Barbin said such cuts should not be viewed from a partisan perspective, saying that the state should keep its promises to its veterans.

    “This isn’t a Republican issue or a Democratic issue; it’s an American issue,” he said

    According to an email I got this morning, this is what is on the chopping block;

    Eliminated:
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania budget proposal announced by Governor Edward G. Rendell on February 4, 2009 includes no funding to continue operations of Scotland School after June 30, 2009. Scotland School for Veterans’ Children is a tate-owned and operated residential school for children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters of veterans.

    American Battle monuments, armory maintenance and repair.
    ___________________________________________________________________________

    Cut:

    General Military and Veteran’s Affairs operation(s)

    Funeral details for deceased veterans

    Matching funds for education transition

    Funds for nursing home care in PA Veteran’s Homes

    Veteran’s assistance grant funding, or grant funding that provides
    financial assistance to low income veterans

    Funding for the Paralyzed Veteran’s Pension grant program

    Rendell’s alternative is to raise taxes, so it may just be a threat. But in 2005 facing Bush veterans budget cuts, Rendell said;

    “During this time of war, it is absolutely the wrong time for our federal government to step back from any of its commitment to our veterans,” Rendell said. “To do so would be penny-wise but pound-foolish.”

    Did the war end, Ed?

  • Simon: The sins of Sarah Palin

    BooRadley sent me a link to Roger Simon’s hillarious piece yesterday entitled “The Sins of Sarah Palin“. I hope Republicans are paying attention to the caricatures they’ve become. Here’s a sample;

    The Republican Party likes to nominate the next guy in line. John McCain in 2008, George W. Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1996 were all the next guys in line. They had “earned” their place in the party hierarchy. (Or, in the case of George W. Bush, his father had earned it for him.)

    Today, it is hard to see who the next guy in line is, but the party mandarins, the pooh-bahs, are agreed on one thing: Sarah Palin ain’t it.

    She is a dumb hick, a nobody from nowhere. She hunts moose with a chainsaw from the back of a snowmobile or something. Just listen to her resignation speech. It was not slick or polished or written by somebody else. She appeared to deliver it off the top of her head as if she were a real person. What a doofus!

    Doesn’t she know that the highest form of political communication today is to exactly regurgitate a speech written for you by a speechwriter who has crafted, vetted and polled every phrase, line and word?

    Me? I’m pulling for Governor Palin. Not because she’s particularly electable, not because she’s a woman…but because the Republican Party needs to change. Is Sarah Palin the change we need? She can’t hurt. It’s time we started electing our own candidates instead of asking the media and Democrats who they support first.

    Ronald Reagan was that kind of candidate. When he was defeated in the primaries by Gerald Ford (who the media told us we should run against Jimmy Carter), Reagan kept the pressure on Carter on every issue from the Panama Canal to the Iran hostages to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the boycott of the Moscow Olympics. He became the Anti-Carter. The media knew Reagan could win against Carter, so they discouraged us from voting for him by using the same tactic they used against Goldwater a decade and a half before – fear.

    I’m not saying that Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan – that remains to be seen, if we give her a shot at trying keeping our minds wide open.

    If you look at Palin’s principles, she’s a conservative right down the line – the kind of candidate that we’d all vote for – if we could get the media and the Democrats to approve of her.

    Um, but they won’t approve. They’d rather write crap like this from Fkstick Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post;

    Meanwhile, getting real, can we stop pretending that Palin is interested in anything other than her own ambition?

    Can we also stop nodding assent every time she says the media are to blame for her self-inflicted wounds? The media invented Sarah Palin. Before the media shined their light on those no-place-like-home slippers, does anyone recall ever wondering what a governor of Alaska was up to?

    Show me one line in that paragraph that couldn’t be attributed to Barack Obama just as easily as Palin. But, Fkstick Parker wouldn’t dare pen lines like that about Barack Obama. Who runs our party anyway?

  • Tankerbabe and other news

    Tankerbabe has a real cool story to tell you about a guitar. You need to read it. She emailed the story around a few weeks ago, but it hasn’t lost it’s luster when I read it again this morning.

    Something going around and showing up in my inbox is a story about Joe Biden’s speech to 200 new citizens who also happened to be military members and assigned to units currently deployed to Iraq.

    “As corny as it sounds,” he told the troops, “Damn, I’m proud to be an American!”

    Knowledge Is Power has pretty good response from DougM. (Hat tip to Chuck)

    Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley tells a constituent that if they want good health care, they should work for the government…and eat cake, too, I suppose;

    I don’t know why anyone thinks government employees’ health care is so good, by the way. There are a bunch of plans and if you want to pay a lot, you can get a great plan – I’ve had better and cheaper plans from civilian employers. I get the impression that everyone thinks government employees get free health care or something.

    Stars and Stripes reports that tourism is “booming” in Iraq. S&S also does a story about the 3rd Infantry Division “wargaming” the withdrawal from Iraq.

    Michelle Malkin started the story about fallen soldier Aaron Masters, Twitter spread it, and now Fox News writes about him.

    This isn’t news, but the price of oil fell again – just like it falls every year after the 4th of July – and every year, for some reason, it’s news.

    And this is just funny from Genghis at Ace of Spades.

    I’m actually working on something that’s pretty complicated and it won’t be up for awhile yet, so I threw these links together so everyone didn’t think I was in the stupid hospital again.

  • Powell gets voter’s remorse?

    So all of a sudden Colin Powell acts like he never saw the trillions of dollars of debt coming when he endorsed Barack Obama before the election last year. Now, he thinks it might be a problem according to Jon Ward at the Washington Times;

    “I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them,” Mr. Powell said in an interview with CNN’s John King. It was released by the network Friday.

    Here’s a video of the interview;

    He claims he “never would have believed” that Obama would have expanded the deficit as large as it’s become in the last few months. Where was Powell during the election? Did he mute his TV every time Obama spoke? Ray Charles could have seen this deficit expansion coming from space. Well, that was probably true, that Powell did mute his TV – all Powell wanted was a Black president.

    Too little, too late. Well, Powell accomplished everything he wanted – he rehabilitated his image in the Black community after being called vile names for the years he worked for Bush – so it’s a personal victory for him – he made friends with the Democrats again. At what cost to the rest of us?

    Personally, it’s been a very long time since I’ve had any respect for Powell since he insinuated a long time ago that Conservatives aren’t compassionate. I wasn’t surprised when he turned on President Bush and then the rest of us, too. And this doesn’t surprise me either – he seems to want his cake and eat it, too.

    Anyone who welcomes him back into the party is just asking for another disappointment. Colin Powell has always done what’s best for Colin Powell, and screw the rest of the country. That’s why we didn’t finish the job in Iraq in 1991 and that’s why we went back to Iraq in 2003 – we did it all for Colin Powell.

  • McKinney languishes in Israeli jail

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    Removing American moonbats from society that Americans won’t, the Israelis have shown good sense by locking up our looniest loon according to Fox News;

    Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.

    In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit of Humanity, a Greek-flagged relief boat carrying 21 activists, medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys en route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and trespassing the country’s territorial waters.

    “We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship,” she said in a statement, adding that they were immediately taken into custody.

    “Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to keep us, but we remain imprisoned,” she said.

    Cynthia McKinney has been complaining about the Jews and Israel for years. I hope she takes advantage of this wonderful opportunity to immerse herself in the traditions and culture and build bridges between the moonbat lifestyle and the Jewish world. I’ll bet cash money that they don’t want to keep her – but we don’t either. Sorry, Israel.

  • Hippie half-assed research

    TSO sent me a link to a POS article from Michael Moore’s empty head, apparently it originated at The Progressive and was written by Elizabeth DiNovella concerning what she calls  “The School of the Americas”.

    It’s actually called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation – it’s been called that for eight years since the Clinton Administration changed it. But I guess it’s too expensive to change their signs and T-shirts when they protest it, so the hippies still call it the School of the Americas.

    Ms. DiNovella tries to link one of the School’s graduates to the Honduran problem;

    The general at the center of the military coup in Honduras has a connection to the U.S. military—General Romeo Vasquez attended the School of the Americas (SOA).

    The School of the Americas…is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. General Vasquez attended trainings at least twice–in 1976 and 1984, according to the watchdog group School of Americas Watch.

    Graduates of the School of the Americas/WHINSEC have a long history of repression and anti-democratic actions. The School has produced at least 11 Latin American dictators, including SOA grad General Juan Megler Castro who became military dictator of Honduras in 1975.

    Actually, while it was called The School of the Americas, 61,000 Latin American officers graduated from the course. Have there been 61,000 dictators in Latin America? So 11 out of 61,000 is a pretty good ratio.

    Now Honduran General Romeo Vasquez was imprisoned by President Zeyala last week for refusing to collect ballots printed and shipped to Honduras by Hugo Chavez – counter to the Honduran Constitution. He was then reinstated by the Supreme Court and the Honduran Congress, then commanded the troops who sent President Zeyala packing to Costa Rica.

    Even though he had the means to control the government in Honduras since he had most of the guns, immediately turned the government back over to the Honduran Congress.

    He was working on orders from the Congress and the Supreme Court who, in turn, were following the dictates of their constitution. Now, if he learned that while at The School of the Americas, it looks like they did a good job. General Vasquez didn’t turn into a dictator, like the 11 people Ms. DiNovella mentions, so I don’t know what her point was. Maybe she was just spouting off more hippie nonsense.

    Michael Moore gets twitchy every time someone mentions The School of the Americas (which was founded by a Democrat President and a Democrat Congress, by the way) and he thought posting that crap would make him look smart.

    But actually it just makes the Left look dumber for only doing half of the research. Now I can’t find anything on Hugo Chavez attending School of the Americas or the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, but I know for a fact, up until a few years ago, he sent his officers to Fort Benning to the school. So does Correa (Ecuador) and Morales (Bolivia). I’m not sure about Nicaragua these days.

  • Comparative Politics

    Compare two similar political situations;

    This from Huffington Post by way of Babalu Blog;

    Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to protest the coup d’etat in their country. They have been met with tear gas, anti-riot rubber bullets, tanks firing water mixed with chemicals, and clubs. Police have moved in to break down barricades and soldiers used violence to push back protesters at the presidential residence, leaving an unknown number wounded.

    Now compare that to this from the Jerusalem Post by way of Little Green Footballs;

    As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

    Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday.

    Tear gas and rubber bullets versus hangings and full metal jacket bullets.

    Which one does our president decide to condemn? The same one that shows respect to him and our flag (in this picture from Weasel Zippers, by way of Ace of Spades) and with popular support the media won’t cover (in a photo at Babalu Blog). The government which treats their dissenters with a bit of humanity.