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  • Generals plot against Obama [Jonn]

    There’s an article floating around the Left side of the web written by a goofball named Gareth Porter in which he claims that the generals are plotting against Obama’s (and Bush’s, by the way) to withdraw combat troops from the cities and towns of Iraq to isolated posts in the countryside.I found a linkable copy of the story in the Asia Times.

    Apparently the plot is to redesignate combat forces as non-combat forces to get around the wording of the status of forces agreement between the US and Iraq.

    By redesignating tens of thousands of combat troops as support troops, those officials apparently hope to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to insist on getting all combat troops of the country by mid-2010.

    General David Petraeus, now commander of CENTCOM, and General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq, who opposed Obama’s 16-month withdrawal plan during the election campaign, have drawn up their own alternative plan rejecting that timeline, as the New York Times reported on Thursday. That plan was communicated to Obama in general terms by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen when he met with his national security team in Chicago on December 15, according to the Times.

    First of all Professor Porter, the goal is to remove the troops by the end of 2011, not the middle of 2010. Please pay attention. Secondly, the generals are subordinates of the President, they are required by law to obey his orders, not find a way around his orders. And believe me, if the job is done, the generals want to get out of Iraq as badly as we want them out. Why would they want to sit around on their dead asses directing public works projects when they can be somewhere else killing jihadists? We are not an Army that likes occupation duties.

    Porter writes that Petreaus and Odierno opposed Obama’s 16-month withdrawal plan without mentioning that Obama first started that blather 21 months before the election. In the nearly two years of the Obama campaign, Patreaus’ and Odierno’s efforts changed the events on the ground for a 16-month withdrawal schedule to be possible. Time marches on, Gareth, situations change and they don’t remain static.

    So what’s Porter’s evidence that the Bushites are plotting to keep combat troops in cities and town of Iraq?

    The determination of the military leadership to ignore the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and to pressure Obama on his withdrawal policy was clear from remarks made by Mullen in a news conference on November 17 – after US ambassador Ryan Crocker had signed the agreement in Baghdad.

    Mullen declared he considered it “important” that withdrawal of US forces from Iraq “be conditions-based”.

    Gasp! Condition-based!? Ya mean, if there’s a war going on, we want to be part of it? Of course we do, ya dumbass. This isn’t a withdrawal for the sake of withdrawing. This isn’t an evacuation under fire, it’s not a retreat. I know you idiots on the Left aren’t used to it, but this is what victory looks like, Gareth, m’boy.

  • In these times [Jonn]

    We have a global war against terror going on, we have severe economic problems, we have enemies trying to create nuclear weapons and point them at us, food prices are rising, fuel prices are unstable, huge American companies are on the edge of bankruptcy, banks have already folded. But what, according to Human RIghts Watch, should Barack Obama be focusing upon?  (Washington Times link)

    The nation’s largest gay-rights lobbying group is demanding that President-elect Barack Obama eliminate the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy covering military service members and immediately tackle a host of other gay issues to repair the damage they say he has done to his image by choosing conservative Christian preacher Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration invocation.

    The Human Rights Campaign on Friday asked Mr. Obama to adopt the group’s Blueprint for Positive Change, a “concrete plan for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) equality” that calles for fixing tax laws that shortchange domestic partners to making hate crimes illegal.

    “Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans,” wrote Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese in a letter sent to Mr. Obama this week. “By inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table.”

    The gay rights people are idiots. Who you have sex with is a choice, it’s not a basis upon which you’re able to form an entirely new set of laws. What does Reverend Warren have to do with gays in the military, for Pete’s sake? Last I checked he’s not even a veteran let alone something to use as a bargaining chip.

    I’ve said it before: there is not a huge untapped reservoir of gays just waiting for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to be withdrawn so they can swell the ranks of the armed forces.  Neither are there hordes of gays waiting for the church doors to open for their marriage (except to rub most of America’s nose in it). Gay rights activists just want an issue to harangue donors over and a theme for their next parade.

    I have nothing against anyone who keeps their sexual behavior in their homes. But as soon as someone makes their choices public knowledge (whatever those choices are) I they lose my attention and support. This is not a civil rights issue – it’s a public deciency issue. If I made demands on the government based on my sexual proclivities, you’d feel the same way about me – like I said,  laws shouldn’t be written just to satisfy people’s choices in life.

    The military isn’t some grand social experiment in which Leftists and their attendent deviants are able to study the behavior of Americans. It’s a tool with which we defend ourselves. It’s like taking your home defense weapon and hanging strings of beads and glitter on it. It might make it more satisfying to own, but can you depend on it to work when you need it? It’s been working fine up until now, so why add stupid crap to it?

  • Talk about your fortuitous timing! [TSO]

    I just got an Email from PETA.

    Are You the Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door? Enter Now!

    Vegetarianism has become synonymous with sexy, and Hollywood has taken notice. Stars such as Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, Natalie Portman, and Alicia Silverstone all follow a vegetarian diet, which keeps their bodies looking hot and helps them sizzle on the big screen. Frontman Anthony Kiedis and sultry songstress Leona Lewis took top honors by being named the hottest of the hot in PETA’s 2008 World’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities poll.

    But it’s time for the celebrities to step aside, because now we’re looking for the sexiest vegetarian “boy and girl next door”—and this year, we’re sending the winners to Hawaii!

    Since I have been receiving copies of all emails sent to Anna, I am submitting this TAH reader, pictured here eating a Tofu burger.  I think he best represents all that is sexy about this blog and our readers.

    No need to thank me ladies.  This is your beefcake for the day.

  • Ya just can’t make this stuff up [Jonn]

    Some of you may remember the clown that TSO wrote about back in July named Cory Glass.

    He is a deserter from the Army who went to Canada and made a big stink and is now known as “The Poster Boy” of deserters. Well, TSO wrote that CBS discovered that he wasn’t being hunted by the US authorities;

    Calling Glass the “poster boy of the war resisters movement,” the American news agency found Glass was discharged from the California National Guard Dec. 1, 2006 — four months after arriving in Canada.

    “He is not considered absent without leave. He is not considered a deserter,” Maj. Nathan Banks, a U.S. army spokesman, told ABC. “He is running for no reason. He is fully welcome in the United States. I cannot believe this is a big deal in Canada.”

    When the news organization reached Glass with the news, he was flabbergasted. “I had absolutely no idea that I had been discharged. This is insane. This is so weird. There are no warrants? No one is looking for me?”

    So it would seem to a rational person that Glass would just return to the US since he’s not a fugitive – and since he’s not broken any laws. Wouldn’t it? Or maybe it’s just me. Regardless, Glass is still seeking asylum in Canada nearly six months later;

    U.S. Iraq war resister Dean Walcott was told on December 3rd that he must leave Canada by January 6th or face deportation to the United States. The decision follows similar ones in the cases of war resisters Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman and family, Patrick Hart and family, and Matt Lowell.

    If deported, Dean will face a court martial, jail time and a felony conviction, all because of his refusal to participate in the immoral and illegal war in Iraq. This decision goes against the expressed wishes of the Canadian Parliament which passed a motion on June 3rd calling on the government to allow war resisters to stay in Canada, and it goes against the will of Canadians who have consistently demonstrated in polls that they want war resisters to stay.

    The Federal Court stayed the removal orders of Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman and Matt Lowell. The Hart family faces deportation January 15th and will be asking the Court for a similar stay.

    Corey Glass has since been granted a new application to stay on Humanitarian & Compassionate grounds. Jeremy Hinzman’s appeal date for his negative decision has been set for February 10th 2009, and Matt Lowell is waiting to hear whether his appeal will be heard.

    Here’s a screen shot of the report from one of those organizations to which I don’t link;

    Ya hafta wonder what the Canadian courts are thinking. The guy is not a wanted criminal – the reason he went to Canada was to escape justice. He’s not going to be court martialed or go to jail or anything when he comes back.  So why is Canada even bothering with it? And why hasn’t the Left even mentioned that he’s not wanted anymore here?

    Seein’s how I know his type, I know it’s one of two things. He has one of those sturdy Canadian women up there in Canada that he can’t trust and he doesn’t want to leave, or he likes the fact that everyone thinks he’s some kind of hero speaking truth to power and his ego couldn’t stand it if he was shipped south and had to become a regular peson.

    Either way, he’s childish goofball. I wonder if he even went AWOL.

  • Medea, Millard and Uranus [by TSO]

    On 13 March 1781, Sir William Herschel announced to the world that he had discovered the heretofore unknown seventh planet in our Solar System.  Now, all of the planets up to this point were named after Roman deities.  This was not an idea which much appealed to Mr. Herschel who believed that such a discovery should be tied with the current King of England.  Thus, he decreed, the plant should be named “George.”

    Now, this would have ruined school children everywhere who would have been required in their yut to memorize the sentence “My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Geraldo Seven Pizzas” which doesn’t quite role off the tongue.  Luckily for 3rd graders and bloggers with a sophomoric sense of humor everywhere, the planet was instead named “Uranus” which my science has proven produces snickers like no other planet name EVER.  Unless planet X should be named “Booger.”

    Nonetheless, I tell this story because it segues nicely with the Jovian sized asshattery I just witnessed down at the White House.  Deciding to scrap a bad idea (George) with a potentially even stupider one (Uranus) always makes me melancholy about Code Pink.  But fear not, intrepid astronomer, because Code Pink has come through again.

    Here’s the short story:

    Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
    Call for his release and tribute to Iraqis who have suffered under US occupation

    WHAT: Peace activists to gather with shoes in solidarity to Iraqi journalist
    WHEN: 11 a.m., Weds. Dec. 17
    WHERE:  In front of White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    And what release would be complete without a quote from a phony CIB wearing PowerPoint Slide Clicker:

    “Having one shoe thrown at George Bush pales in comparison to the suffering that veterans and Iraqis go through everyday,” says Geoffrey Milliard of Iraq Veterans Against the War. “Perhaps if Bush can see some more of these shoes before he leaves office, he will feel some of our pain.”

    So, I braved the elements with my intrepid photographer, and down Ye Olde Whyte House.  Here are some pics, and here you are kids.

    You remember Geoff Millard from Jonn’s post the other day;

    A giant Bush decapitated head – BDS reigns supreme;

    And this guy was in another of Jonn’s posts last month; Jim Goodnow who defended the Impeachment Bus from a gang of wingnut facists (in his dreams);

    The press out numbered the protesters by about 3:1.

    I spoke with this young lady briefly.  She is from a Russian news station, and she is in quite a quandary.  She wants to come to the inauguration, but she has been unable to secure a place to stay.  I don’t want to give out her name, but if you know of anywhere, just email her at youmustbekiddingme@hotchicks.com

    She likes conservative men, bubble baths, frolicking naked, and drinking profligate amounts of alcohol.  Sometimes when she gets really drunk she likes to give massages, make out with other girls, and make samwiches.  If you can find it in your heart to help her out, won’t you please email now?  Because if not you, then who?  If not now, then when?

  • Populist, class warfare drivel

    I found this in my inbox last evening;

    See that?

    In the past, presidential inauguration events have too often focused on wealthy donors and Washington lobbyists.

    This year, every American will have a chance to be part of the inauguration.

    I’m not a wealthy donor or a lobbyist, but I’ve been to the last two inaugurations. Granted I didn’t have the best view and I froze my behind off but so did everyone no matter what their station in life is. It’s just populist bullshit.They even let the stupid protesting hippies and their stupid placards into the inauguration.

    The Secret Service and DC cops estimate that 4 million people will be here next month for inauguration. People are offering their spare rooms to out-of-towners at 2-5000 bucks for the weekend. In a city that loves gouging tourists, we’re gearing up to really gouge tourists. Yeah, all of that Hope and Change BS will end at the city limits. As soon as a resident catches the smell of tourist on you, you’ll be picked clean in no time.

    You can be wearing all of the Obama hats, the Obama jackets, the Obama earmuffs that you want, you’re still going to be walking miles from the nearest Metro station they leave open and stand in the throngs waiting to get through the metal detectors, dogs and bag-searches on street corners so you can stand behind a mile-long line of cops in the freezing-ass cold just like the rest of us. Oh, and then Obama will whip by us all at about 30 miles an hour on Pennsylvania Avenue – and you’ll be wondering “I went through all of that for this?” – just like the rest of us. And he’ll be followed by a line of limousines carrying the Washington lobbyists and wealthy donors on their way to the White House.

    If you think one of those limos is going to stop and take you to the White House, you’re gonna be real disappointed.

  • O’Malley sucks. What was Maryland thinking?

    Today’s Washington Post has the news that Maryland state employees are going to bear the burden of the Martin O’Malley’s misadminstration of state funds.

    For those of you not familiar with Maryland’s recent fiscal history, Republican governor Robert Ehrlich and his Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele turned over more than a billion dollar surplus when they were voted out of office in 2006 and Martin O’Malley took the reins of the State. By the end of 2007, O’Malley was crying “Wolf!” that the State was in danger of cutting public services if he couldn’t raise taxes $1.4 billion.

    In the dead of the night in November last year, O’Malley coerced the legislature into raising taxes under the threat of cuts to public safety services. At the same time, he added 100,000 Marylanders to the State healthcare system. He raised income taxes, corporate income taxes, sales taxes and the tobacco tax.

    A month later, an audit of the welfare system found nearly half-a-billion bucks had been paid to recipients who hadn’t supplied or didn’t have a Social Security number.

    In January, we discovered that O’Malley’s purported “lean budget” in which he had promised to increase year-over-year spending only 4%  actually increased 6% from the year before.

    By March, he had created a new Maryland State Employee pay grade which he awarded to his closest staff along with $600,000 in new salary expenses for taxpayers.

    And now today’s news that Maryland State employees will be furloughed in the coming year to cut state spending;

    Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) today announced a furlough plan under which state employees will lose the equivalent of two to five days of pay by June, an attempt to generate savings in a worsening budget climate.

    The announcement came in advance of a meeting of state panel that is expected to lower state revenue estimates by $415.3 million for the current fiscal year, which ends in June, and $963.5 million for next fiscal year.

    “In the midst of this deepening national recession, there are some difficult decisions before us that we wish we did not have to make,” O’Malley wrote in an email to state employees.

    Yeah, it’s the recession, Marty. It’s not your continued mismanagement of the State’s treasury to buy votes and pay off cronies. We have two more years to suffer this fool, and any working Marylander who votes for him in 2010, no matter who is running against him, should just sign their checks over to O’Malley personally for the remainder of their working lives.

  • Robert Dennen: Phony sailor in West Chester, PA (UPDATED)

    Several weeks ago, someone sent me some pictures of Robert Dennen, a frequent anti-war protester in West Chester, PA. This person told me that Dennen claimed to be a Navy veteran and asked me to identify the medals he was wearing;

    The only one I could identify is the American Campaign Medal – it was a World War II medal awarded for service between Dec. 7, 1941 and March 2, 1946. The other two medals I couldn’t find anywhere on the internet. So I ran the guy’s name through Military dot Com and came up completely empty.

    You can tell by the black T-shirt, he’s a member of the Delaware Valley Veterans for America, he appears on their website protesting John McCain and Sarah Palin in Philadelphia. That’s him on the viewer’s far right;

    The Delaware Valley Veterans For America’s website is unsurprisingly plastered with pictures and events of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Vets For Peace.

    Someone sent me another picture of Dennen wearing the same medals and a Vets For Peace pin on his cap;

    And a picture of him claiming to be a gay veteran in West Chester, PA demanding “whats due” gays;

    In this picture from Skye, that looks like his hat and his trademark woodland camouflage, but he’s hiding behind a very confusing sign;

    I’m told his distinctive hat with the buttons stuck in it have earned him the nickname “Pinhead” from the West Chester Sheepdogs.

    So there’s really no doubt that he’s trying to pass himself off as a veteran, but his medals and the lack of a record say otherwise. So I sent his information to our new friends at POW Net. This is what I got back;

    Instead of listing him as “discharged” it says he was “released from active duty” and about half-way between his third and fourth year. That indicates some sort of malfeasance. His rank is SR – Seaman Recruit, an E-1. Again, indicative of some bad behavior – no one stays an E-1 for 3 and a half years.

    In the awards section, it lists none – not even fire guard ribbons. Now as I previously mentioned, during his participation in protests, he wears an American Campaign Medal which is for service between 1941 and 1946. His actual service is from 1956 to 1960. I still don’t know what the other two are, if anyone has a clue, please let me know.

    His sea assignments were on the destroyers  USS Courtney in the North Atlantic and USS Hull in the Western Pacific.

    But there’s a common thread running through many of these anti-war veterans – they all seem to be malingerers and common criminals who can’t conform to the good order and discipline of the military – no matter when they served. And apparently, they can’t help but wear medals they didn’t earn.

    I can’t wait to get back some of these FOIA requests.

    Added: Someone sent me a close up of Pinhead’s hat. Click it;

    UPDATED: Someone sent me a closer look at Pinhead’s medals;

    It looks like an older version of the Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal;

    So, we’ve got this dork wearing one medal that was issued while he was in grade school and a Coast Guard Medal – he was in the Navy.