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Spotted at Audiworld
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I guess the media forgot to report that the largest re-enlistment ceremony in military history was held on July 4, 2008 at the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad (via Israpundit).
Showing posts with label Protecting America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protecting America. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Photos o' the day: Stuff the MSM Forgot to Show the Rubes
Spotted at Audiworld
I guess the media forgot to report that the largest re-enlistment ceremony in military history was held on July 4, 2008 at the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad (via Israpundit).
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Patriot Micro Chip Breakthrough!
Master Gunnery Sergeant Kirk sent this one.
THE PATRIOT MICRO CHIP is intended to be implanted in terrorists.
The implant is specifically designed to be installed in the forehead.When properly installed it will allow the implantee to speak to God.
It comes in various sizes:The exact size of the implant will be selected by a well-trained and highly -skilled technician.
The implant may or may not be painless.
Side effects, like headaches and nausea, are temporary.
Some bleeding or swelling may occur at the injection site.
Please enjoy the security we provide for you.
Best regards,
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Second Amendment Sentiments
Bernie sends along a missive entitled A Gun in the House.
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental. As John Steinbeck once said:1. Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
3. I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.
4. When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'
6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No Ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have also brought my rifle.'
8. Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!
I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house. I said I did. She said 'Well I certainly hope it isn't loaded!' To which I said, of course it's loaded, can't work without bullets!' She then asked, 'Are you that afraid of some one evil coming into your house?' My reply was, 'No not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching fire either, but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all loaded too.' To which I'll add, having a gun in the house that isn't loaded is like having a car in the garage without gas in the tank.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
You remember Al Qaeda, right?
The Anchoress, who came to kick ass and chew bubblegum.
And she was fresh out of bubblegum.
You remember Al Qaeda, right? Ten years ago this week, they bombed US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Not that we did much about it at the time. But it is worth noting, they haven’t done that to us again, nor have any of these other things, since 9/11. I blame Bush.
You remember Bush, right? The guy who goes to Asia and tells China to free her people, while the press jeers, the guy who, while in Asia also meets with Democracy Activists in Burma and gets ignored for it, the guy who drew enormous and supportive crowds in Korea, while the American press yawned?
Sure, you remember Bush! He’s the guy whose life was threatened along with Barack Obama’s but only the threat to Obama was newsworthy for a very long time at CNN. Bush? You mean the creepy moron who will be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity as soon as congress can figure out how to do that without exposing itself or having to put some of its own members under oath?
Yeah, that guy! The guy who does more than just talk about freedom and progress. The guy who has brought real hope and change to people all over the world, and yes, here in America. But you don’t want to hear it. It’s the wrong and inconvenient narrative, the embargoed one.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The difference between two speeches: watch and be amazed
Eye on the World (via Pat Dollard):
While Obama was telling the German crowd (lured by the free rock concert, free beer and free bratwurst) how much America sucks and how much he is sorry for what [the] American Military has been doing, McCain delivered [a] story that will make you feel yourself a proud compatriot of... Medal of Honor winner US Army Sgt. Roy Benavidez.Watch and be amazed.
As an aside, this sort of coverage is why the U.S. Armed Forces choose to watch Fox News around the world, Barack.
As for deducing what Sen. Obama really thinks about our military?
Why did Barack Obama cancel his visit to see wounded U.S. soldiers yesterday at Landstuhl Medical Center in Ramstein, Germany?
According to the Politico and the Chicago Sun-Times, the Obama campaign is blaming the military, claiming that the Obama campaign was told the visit "would look too political."
But according to MSNBC, Obama and his Senate staff could have visited wounded troops; he simply couldn't bring along his campaign staff and the media.
The campaign's response? They withdrew the request to visit the troops. The official said "We didn't know why" the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn. "He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him."
If he can't use them as props, it seems Barack Obama has little use
for the military. Come to think if it, that is roughly how they factor
into his feckless foreign policy plans as well.
Obama, to his credit, did have time to thank some of the people protecting him.
They just happened to be Germans, not wounded Americans.Linked by: The Anchoress. Thanks! Hat tip: Larwyn
Friday, July 25, 2008
Newsbusters' takedown o' the day
Heather Wilson (R-NM) pulverizes Chris Matthews and Sen. Robert Wexler (he of sleeping on his Mother-in-Law's couch) simultaneously using everything but brass knuckles and a two-by-four.
ROBERT WEXLER: The allegation that Senator Obama has not been effective, yet it is his view in Iraq that is now the prevailing view that the Prime Minister of Iraq has endorsed. It is Senator Obama's view that has been endorsed by the Bush administration in concept in Iran by engaging in diplomacy. It is his view in terms of adding troops in Afghanistan that's winning the day. So it's Senator Obama, before he's even president, that's affecting policy in such a great way.
WILSON: It's amazing that you can skew things that far. Senator Obama has been dead wrong when it comes to the policy in Iraq. He opposed the surge and he is now in a situation where he's trying to deny that the surge was successful. I don't think that's particularly presidential.
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WILSON: To say that somehow there is a wall in NATO that's running somewhere down the Atlantic shows Senator Obama's inexperience when it comes to understanding where we are. You see that on a number of other things. I mean, look at his platform. He has these kind of message-tested, poll-tested things like, we should, Barack Obama will make sure we take -- he'll negotiate with the Russians to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert. It's a great idea: it was done 20 years ago. He seems to be unaware of American history. And that's inexperience which causes people some real concern about whether he's ready for the Oval Office.
Rumor has it that Matthews needed a hanky and Wexler an ice pack after this segment was over.
The video is priceless and is well worth the time to download (WMV, ugh... but that's PMSNBC for you).
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Charlton Heston's Basement
This is the late, great Charlton Heston's gun vault. And this isn't listed in Snopes, so it must be real! Clickety-click to zoom.
I thought my Y2K bunker was pretty cool until I saw Heston's gun-vault.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
An underreported story from July 4th
Gateway Pundit highlighted an underreported story on July 4th.
But... But... They're broken and worn out.
Didn't they listen to Barack?... There's no military solution!
This can't be happening.
They're just depressed. They're medicated.
They're too stupid and ended up in Iraq. And, now they're too stupid to know they're fighting a lost war.
Don't they know it's a failure?
The stress has made them cold-blooded killers .
Today 1,200 US troops reenlisted in Iraq- at a former Saddam Hussein palace
This was one for the record books... More than 1,200 US troops serving in Iraq signed up for extended service in the military to mark America's Independence day on Friday.
General David Petraeus led the airmen, Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers in their oath to defend their country against all enemies both foreign and domestic.
Democrats were wrong.
Well, they were wrong about Communism; wrong about welfare reform; wrong about how to fight terrorism; wrong about charter schools; wrong about trial lawyers; wrong about energy policy; wrong about
So this doesn't exactly come as a surprise.
Oh, and Harry Reid could not be reached for comment.The video is here, courtesy Bob Krumm.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Photo o' the Day: Why we're there
Spotted at Bronze Blog.
U.S. Army Task Force Regulators 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment Staff Sgt. Fred Hampton, of Lexington, Ky., kneels on a knee to talk with a young Iraqi boy at the future site of Regular 6 Park in the Thawra 1 section of the Sadr City District of Baghdad on June 20. Photo: Tech Sgt. Cohen Young, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.
I love this photo.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Happy Fourth of July!
Thomas Sowell asks "How relevant is patriotism?"Update: Pookie points us to a couple of great images.
Linked by: Gateway Pundit. Thanks!
What would Limbaugh do?
The New York Times discovered Rush Limbaugh's Platform:
A Limbaugh administration would seek to:
1. Open the continental shelf to drilling.
Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
2. Establish a 17 percent flat tax.
3. Privatize Social Security.
4. Give parents school vouchers to break the monopoly of public education.
5. Revoke Jimmy Carter’s passport while he is out of the country.
6. Abandon all government policies based on the hoax of man-made global warming.
No. 5 was a joke.
I think.
Who can blame him for being jovial? A $400 million contract tends to raise the spirits a bit.
In related news, Al Franken just re-upped with Air America for two snow tires and a bottle of A-1 Steak Sauce.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Must-read of the day: Point of no return
The must-read of the day is Thomas Sowell's Point of no return.
...While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world-- Iran -- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb -- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.
All the options that are on the table right now will be swept off the table forever. Our choices will be to give in to whatever the terrorists demand-- however outrageous those demands might be-- or to risk seeing American cities start disappearing in radioactive mushroom clouds.
All the things we are preoccupied with today, from the price of gasoline to health care to global warming, will suddenly no longer matter.
Just as the Nazis did not find it enough to simply kill people in their concentration camps, but had to humiliate and dehumanize them first, so we can expect terrorists with nuclear weapons to both humiliate us and force us to humiliate ourselves, before they finally start killing us...
The terrorists have given us as clear a picture of what they are all about as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did during the 1930s-- and our "leaders" and intelligentsia have ignored the warning signs as resolutely as the "leaders" and intelligentsia of the 1930s downplayed the dangers of Hitler.
We are much like people drifting down the Niagara River, oblivious to the waterfalls up ahead. Once we go over those falls, we cannot come back up again...
Read it now. And forward it to everyone -- everyone -- you know.
Hat tip for the Thomas Sowell picture: the excellent Carpe Diem.
