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Category: VoteVets

  • Steamiest turd in the bowl gets accolades

    While I was just over at VetVoice, i was scrolling around to see what I missed this weekend since I had a free five minutes this morning and I almost gagged when I saw that NPR’s Thomas Ricks named Kayla Williams’ book Love My Boobs More Than You, or something like that, to his list of top five books about the Iraq War. Of course, he had to name “House to House” by our friend David Bellavia. But to put Bellavia and Williams on the same list is like having steak and turd balls on the same menu. No? Well, some kind of amusing and vastly different comparison…just insert your own giggle here. And click my Google ads.

    Anyway, how can Ricks even compare a real-life book that ends with a guy killing a jihadi with his Gerber multi-tool to a book about an overly sexually active girl who joins the Army, screws more guys than Stacy Valentine and whines that guys treat her like a sex object? How do they even wind up in the same bookstore let alone the same list?

    You might remember my review of Kayla Williams’ book – I never finished it – the only book ever written in human history which I started and never finished. If that’s what Thomas Ricks honestly believes, I’ll never trust his opinion on anything ever again.

  • VoteVets: Now the timeline is Bush’s fault

    I’ve been reading Vets Voice for the last few days and Dicksmith has, oddly enough, criticizing the drawdown in Iraq and the so-called change of mission to an advisory role. Since I had a running gun battle with former Vote vets frontpager Chris LeJeune, which resulted in his journalistic suicide over this same subject (LeJeune tried to give all of the credit for the timeline withdrawal from Iraq to Obama), it was curious that dicksmith would begin to criticize the withdrawal here and here, finally give the Bush Administration credit for the withdrawal.

    Well, I finally figured it out this morning (it must’ve been the 7-11 coffee). Obviously, the jihadis haven’t heard that the war is over and their attacks on Americans have become marginally successful. Americans have begun to die again in Iraq. Sensing that the timeline withdrawal was probably a bad idea, VoteVets is getting ready to blame it all on Bush. That’s the only explanation – cuz heaven knows that VoteVets wouldn’t criticize the Obama Administration – they sold their souls to the Devil to put Obama in office. they can’t admit they were wrong.

    Well, if that’s not it, you tell me what it is.

  • Soltz wants Simpson fired

    For once Jon Soltz said something right;

    VoteVets.org, which often works with liberal groups, seized on Simpson’s statement this week questioning a recent Obama administration rule that would expand medical benefits for Vietnam veterans and cost $42 billion over the next decade. The rule calls for disability awards for veterans exposed to Agent Orange and suffering from heart disease.

    But then he promptly whipped out his junk and stomped on it;

    …Jon Soltz said Thursday that his group had been concerned about Simpson since he started calling for changes to Social Security; last month, he compared the entitlement to a “milk cow with 310 million tits”…

    First of all, I appreciate Soltz’ concern for veterans benefits. if i believed for one minute that he would throw himself in front of MoveOn march against veterans’ benefits, I might shake his hand (even though I’m not sure where that hand has been), but Soltz tipped his hand when he started mumbling something about cows and tits. The real reason Soltz wants Simpson fired is because Simpson actually wants to reform social security – something the Democrats are afraid to let happen.

    Solz has proven in the past that he’s only concerned about promoting a Democrat agenda, not about veterans. That’s why he’s spent millions trying to promote the Clean Energy bill when that money could have gone to non-partisan funding of veteran candidates for Congress. Show me a veteran of each party being funded at all by VoteVets. Thank you.

    No, Soltz wants Simpson off of the panel for partisan reasons, not to help veterans. Or maybe Soltz thinks we’re talking about Grampa Simpson.

    Thanks to ponsdorf for the link.

  • Jon Soltz’ giant leap

    Today on VetVoice, head bomb-thrower Jon Soltz takes a giant leap in hastily assembled logic by blaming those of us who didn’t heed his warnings to support the president’s economy-killing Clean Energy bill for the floods in Pakistan;

    Yes, we were warned. At VoteVets.org, those of us who served in Iraq and Afghanistan joined the fight, running ad after ad after ad supporting a Clean Energy Climate Change plan — one that gets serious about reversing global climate change. The forces of the status quo (read: “Big Oil”) won the most recent battle, by successfully delaying consideration of the bill in the Senate.

    Unfortunately, for them and for us, no amount of campaign cash and lobbying will stop the coming humanitarian and national security catastrophe we’re getting a glimpse of this summer.

    Is there even an iota of evidence that the floods in Pakistan were the result of “climate change”? Even more importantly, is there any evidence that passing the Clean Energy bill would have effected “climate change” in the few months that it’s been sitting in Congress?

    Even the most indoctrinated climate change adherents must be shaking their heads at Soltz’ partisan rantings. No person with any measure of common sense could take such buffoonery seriously.
    Yes, the Taliban and al Qaeda will try to exploit the flood with some success, but they’ll not be able to buy the loyalty of Pakistanis anymore than we can. It’s a constantly changing price tag.

    Soltz is no more an expert on climate science than he is on the Iraq war. Pieces like this one are notheing more than partisan rhetoric coming from a supposedly non-partisan organization with partisan money. I wonder when VoteVets is going to get down to the business electing veterans from across the political spectrum and get off the George Soros teat.

  • VoteVets on Cordoba House

    I hinted in the TAH Facebook Fan page about this the other day. Those peckerwoods at VoteVets have decided that President Obama’s endorsement of the building of the Cordoba House is the greenlight they need to weigh-in on the issue. First Tony Camerino, VoteVets member who blogs at VetsVoice writes in the Huffington Post;

    Imagine an al Qaeda recruiter attempting to sway a potential charge by citing an imaginary American war against Muslims but having to face the counterargument that Americans built a Muslim community center near the site of the former Twin Towers.

    Yeah, that’s just how any al Qaeda recruiter would phrase the situation. Or maybe, more likely, an al Qaeda recruiter would point out to a prospective recruit that they’re winning against the Americans since we acquiesced on this important issue. But this isn’t the first time Camerino has used his former profession as an interrogator to lend credence to the president’s policies using his position at the Soros Foundation.

    Then we have little Jon Soltz, also writing in the Huffington Post about the issue – of course, the Army captain who attacked a young sergeant at the Yearly Kos three years ago pleads with veterans to sign his petition and support the project;

    when we signed up for service, we swore to uphold the Constitution. For all the talk these days from some quarters about the importance of protecting the Constitution and allowing the free market to work unfettered, those same people are fighting against a person’s right to buy property and worship freely. Our duty to protect the Constitution doesn’t end when our service does. It’s up to us to stand up for the right for all Americans to enjoy the Constitutional freedoms that so many around the world don’t have.

    Aside from the fact that the issue isn’t about religious freedom (the Bill of Rights was written to protect citizens from the government…not from each other…so far the government hasn’t interfered, so Soltz should really avoid a career in law), it’s about common decency and mutual respect.

    The letter Jon Soltz wants veterans to sign is addressed to Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the planned Cordoba House – yes, it’s a letter of support to the intended beneficiaries of the facility. Quoting from Tony Camerino Soltz writes in that letter;

    …allowing the Community Center to move forward will deal a blow to the propaganda of al Qaeda and Islamist extremists….

    Isn’t that logic so naive that you just want to run out and buy Soltz a teddy bear?

    And for an added bonus, Vets Today’s Robert Hanafin urges his robots to sign the VV letter to deal a blow against the Judeo-Christian Crusade;

    And Hanafin hopes that IVAW will take up the mantle of Vote Vets, too, with their “thousands” of members. And all the crazy intersects at Tony Camerino and Jon Soltz. yeah, let me sign that letter and be associated with those clowns.

  • Throwing money away at the VA

    I found this story at Vets’ Voice and although dicksmith is exited about it, I think it’s the worst waste of money in the Federal government. The VA is sponsoring a NASCAR participant in the name of the new GI Bill;

    The idea, according to Veterans Affairs Department officials, is to get the GI Bill plastered on a racecar and frequently mentioned by broadcasters to spread the word about the availability of the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

    Really? Is there someone out there who is eligible but isn’t aware of the post 9-11 GI Bill? If I remember correctly, people had trouble GETTING the new benefit…and they all knew they were eligible. Then, after the VA gave them their money, they had to go around and collect the advance payment back.

    So the problem isn’t letting people know about the new GI Bill, it’s paying them the benefit they earned.

    The combined cost of sponsoring a car and the race will be about $420,000, a significant part of a $1 million advertising campaign that also includes buying ads in college newspapers and in online publications to try to reach eligible service members and veterans, VA officials said.

    What a ginormous waste of money. Give me the fucking million bucks and I’ll personally knock on every door in America and tell residents about the GI Bill whether they’re eligible or not.

    Of course dicksmith would think it’s a good use of government funds – he pees himself everytime VoteVets does a million dollar ad buy for the energy bill. And Rick Maze wrote the Army Times article, so my two favorite propagandists are involved in this story told by idiots.

  • See? See?

    dicksmith at VoteVets has an irritating habit of pointing to everything that President Obama does right as some sort of validation for dicksmith’s vote for the president. Today is no different as dicksmith points to the successful forced ventilation of a Taliban/al Qaeda chief after they attacked an Afghan police station.

    The incompetent intelligence and national security policies of the Presidential Administration of Barack Obama have once again rendered America and Americans less safe by killing a “dual-hatted” commander with both the Taliban and al-Qaeda organizations:

    A Coalition air weapons team killed an al Qaeda commander who also served as a Taliban leader in the volatile northern Afghan province of Kunduz.

    Abu Baqir, who was described as “a dual-hatted Taliban sub-commander and al Qaeda group leader,” was killed along with another Taliban operative after he and other members of his cell attacked the police station in the district of Alibad. Two other Taliban fighters were wounded in the airstrike, and were captured at a hospital while receiving treatment for their wounds.

    That’s an awful lot of credit to give a president who, by all accounts, is only continuing the strategy of his predecessor. Somehow, dicksmith finds a way to mention Dick Cheney as the big loser in this big score.

    Although it’s good news that another terror leader has departed this earth, I fail to see how ignoring the actual Americans who perpetrated the act can be overlooked in favor of someone who probably on vacation at the time.

    I’m sure that soon we’ll get an article from dicksmith describing the delicate and flowery aroma of the President’s turds.

  • VA Budget Insanity

    A couple of weeks ago, the House was debating a $77.3 billion dollar appropriations bill that included the 2011 budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA). While the bill was being debated in the House Rules Committee, John Boehner and other Republicans introduced three amendments that would have cut $52 million dollars from the budget request for 2011. Democrats of course did not hesitate to accuse the Republicans of selling-out veterans.

    Louise Slaughter of New York said the following (emphasis is mine):

    “I thought it was extraordinary that someone would want to cut the VA budget to the bone,” said Rules Chairwoman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.

    This article from the AP quotes Democrat Bob Filner:

    “I couldn’t believe it. You’re coming into an election and you’re taking money away from veterans,” said Veterans Committee Chairman Bob Filner, D-Calif. “I guess that’s their definition of supporting the troops.”

    Of course, the toolbags over at VoteVets did not miss the chance to chime in and bash Republicans:

    Not only do they not want their pimps, the wealthy, the corporations, whoever else they get on their knee’s for, to pay for veterans issues, and more, but they keep trying to Cut VA Budgets by millions while pushing Defense and their Wars of Choice Spending to the limits!!

    So what exactly did the Republicans want to cut from the DVA’s budget? More below the fold…

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