This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Usual Suspects

  • Mountains from molehills

    The other day I wrote about Brandon Neeley, a former guard at Guantanamo and currently the President of the Houston chapter of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (probably because he ate the previous president) who has come out to tell us how he’s ashamed of his conduct and what he was forced to do at the tropical resort we built for terrorists in retirement.

    Like I wrote before, nothing in his testimony rises to the level of an atrocity in any shape of form. But that didn’t stop Rachel Maddow from interviewing him on her absolute waste of a cable show. I found a video of that show but I have to warn you – out of a nine minute video, you have to sit through 3 minutes of MadCow’s blather and BDS. The six minutes that follow are of Neeley describing two events at Guantanamo. One story was of him slamming a prisoner to the concrete floor when he tried to resist when Neeley removed his cuffs. The story leaves the viewer wondering what the problem was.

    The second story is of a medic trying to force feed a can of Ensure to a detainee and then punching him in the face. I can’t imagine any medic doing that, but even if it did happen, so what? And why didn’t Neeley report the incident when it happened instead of half-a-decade later when the cameras are turned on?

    MadCow then tries to get Neeley to blame the Bush Administration for not giving the troops in Guantanamo adequate training and Neeley agrees with her. I’m pretty sure some of our commenters who were there will dispute that.

    Anyway, here’s the video below the jump;
    (more…)

  • Geezers for Peace at Daytona 500

    I can’t think of a worse venue for the Veterans for Peace latest protest than the Daytona 500 – yet there they were;

    In the blog post about the event, they raved about the resounding success of their presence. You can tell from these pictures, race fans weren’t much interested in the smelly hippies.

    It might have had something to do with the truther message and the worn out “war for oil” cliche.

    Keep it up, guys, you’re doin’ a bang-up job.

  • Coward Shepherd critiques the surge

    Andre Shepherd, the US deserter who is requesting asylum from persecution in Germany has a blog. In his post from last week, he takes the time to critique the surge from the German refugee detention center where he awaits the decision of the German government;

    I don´t know about the rest of you, but since when does sending in more military personnel equate to LESS war? Please do not talk to me about the “success” of the Iraqi surge, because upon closer inspection you will find that is a fantasy perpetuated by the Pentagon and the Lame Stream Media. An increase in the troops in Afghanistan at this stage is going to trigger more battles and more casualties. I also suspect that the bombing campaign that has increased in recent years will continue unabated, thus creating even more civilian casualties for the Afghanis and Pakistanis.

    This insightful observation is written from hundreds of miles from Iraq by a depot-level helicopter mechanic who hasn’t set foot in Iraq since the surge started, yet he knows it’s a “fantasy” that it’s been successful. I wonder how he arrived at these conclusions, having neither the technical or tactical expertise to make such a judgment.

    He also tells us something we never thought possible;

    Soldiers and Marines will be further killed and maimed as well.

    I wonder how someone can be “further killed” than they might already be killed. but, hey, Shepherd has the power to see through the walls of that detention facility and conduct BDA from hundreds of miles away, so he must know something we don’t know.

  • Everything is officially racist

    Some Republican Southern governors are planning on not accepting stimulus bill money, remaining true to their conservative principles. They have said they’re worried about restrictions and “strings” the Federal government would impose are unacceptable to the sovereign States. (Washington Times)

    Republican governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas expressed reservations this week about accepting their states’ shares of the stimulus package because they are worried that the federal government will impose conditions on how it can be spent.

    As a self-styled staunch conservative, Mr. Sanford, the new head of the Republican Governors Association, aggressively opposed the stimulus plan. However, in a Thursday morning interview on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Mr. Sanford said his state would accept money from the stimulus bill. Opposing the plan “doesn’t preclude taking the money,” said Mr. Sanford.

    Well, like everything else in the past month, not excepting the money from the federal government would be considered racist and a “slap in the face” to Black America according to Jim Clynurn, congressman from South Carolina (Fox News);

    The highest-ranking black congressman says opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern governors is “a slap in the face of African-Americans.”

    Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina said Thursday he was insulted when the GOP governors of several states said they might not accept some of the money from the $787 billion stimulus package.

    How silly is that? And how racist is it to insinuate that these funds are targeted to help Black Americans? Are the only people who’ve lost their jobs and their homes Black? Is Obama just the President of Black America? Is all of his legislation just to benefit Blacks?

    Of course, if you google Clyburn, you’ll find everything that he says is somehow an indictment of someone being a racist somewhere. Just another race pimp.

    Thanks to Ray for the links.

  • This has been eating at me all day

    One of my workmates thought she really had something to cheese me off this morning when she waved this cartoon in front me (I hate days I work in the office);

    Of course, I’d already written about it, but you know how the Left needs graphics to have stuff explained to them. But anyway, she kept telling me how racist the cartoon is, and I kept telling her how it was racist of her to think the cartoon was about Obama. She told me that the target of the police should have been a pig – I told her that made no sense. Impasse. I didn’t have time to dredge up graphic representations of even more racist crap from the Left.

    Well, anyway, I read this article this evening;
    (more…)

  • The return of Darnell Stephen Summers

    A few months back I wrote about some of the more benign stuff about the life of Darnell Stephen Summers when writing about Andre Shepherd. Darnell came around and told me to stop calling him a commie, even though that’s what he is – he even admitted as much in the comments. Well, he’s back and before he beclowns himself more and lies to us all again, let’s take a look at some of the things Darnell has admitted to in the recent past.

    He belongs to “Vietnam Veterans Against the War – Anti-Imperialist”, a group that even the VVAW calls “ultra-Left” and warns its members away;

    How do I know Darnell is in VVAW-AI? Well he gave this speech in which he told the crowd he is in VVAW-AI;

    And he brags about it in this profile he wrote himself;

    And, oh, he keeps linking to a collection of articles about his arrest for murdering a State Trooper;

    His story was that another cop shot the trooper. But a further look into his history puts the killing in a different light. Darnell brags on another web page that he was held in the US Army’s Long Binh jail in Vietnam in 1968;

    A quick check of Wikipedia, tells the tale of what happened in Long Binh jail in 1968 at about the same time Darnell claims he was held there;

    And here’s a screen cap of a video he produced and put on his MySpace page about Amerikkka;

    Anything you want to add, Darnell?

  • Marcus missing the point completely

    Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus tries to explain the near victory the Republican Party scored in the recent over the stimulus bill last week by chalking it up to “peer pressure”. To recap, the Republicans attracted six Democrats while losing only three Republicans to the Democrats;

    Still, the ability of House Republicans to maintain their united front — twice — came as an unpleasant shock to the White House. Even after the first rebuff, the administration anticipated 20 to 30 Republican defections.

    Instead, the vote demonstrated that everything you need to know about Congress you learned in middle school: Peer pressure works wonders.

    She misses the whole point completely – it wasn’t peer pressure at all. The whole point of contention is the definition of “compromise”. Neither the White House nor the Congressional Democrats attempted anything resembling compromise. Republicans didn’t bite. What divides Republicans and Democrats is IDEOLOGY not some stupid grade school game of gotcha. It’s not whose team you’re on, it’s what you believe. What kept Republicans together was their refusal to participate in Democrat patronage to unions and liberal strap hangers.

    It’s not your team versus my team, you silly clown of a woman. Marcus is the one playing at grade school antics.

    Regardless, I wrote this last night, so I screen shot the POS column she wrote in case she changes it by the time I post mine.

  • AG Holder: Nation of cowards

    Little Green Footballs and Gateway Pundit have an MSNBC article that reports that the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder says we’re a “nation of cowards” because we don’t talk about race.

    Holder said average Americans “simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

    Holder maintained that Justice Department employees have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding throughout the country.

    Funny, I thought the Justice Department was supposed to enforce our laws, not act as some sort of gypsy caravan of traveling minstrels crisscrossing the country singing the praises of various skin pigmentation.

    As far as being “cowards” for not talking about race with each other, maybe its because 1) some of us don’t think melanin levels in various people is important enough to talk about; 2) We’ve pretty much been forbidden to discuss race, unless we’re willing to sing the praises of darker people and criticize lighter people – so what’s the point?

    Maybe if some people talked less about it, realized that we’re all Americans with a common culture, a common heritage and common goals, instead of niggling over the tiny irrelevant details that don’t much matter to anyone except those who think that an accident of birth qualifies them for special consideration, we wouldn’t have the problems in which we’re mired today.

    Cowards hide behind those accidents of their birth instead of facing their problems. Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, AG Holder.