Wednesday - March 10, 2004

Surprise News Headline

BUSH WINS!

Well, DUH!

   Monday - March 01, 2004

From My Cold Dead Fingers

Whether you agree or not, here is an interesting lesson in history.

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In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. >From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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China established gun control in 1935. >From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Uganda established gun control in 1970. >From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.

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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent!) In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!) While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns."

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The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.

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You won't see this data on the American evening news or hear our president, governors or other politicians disseminating this information.

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Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

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Take note my fellow Americans.....before it's too late!

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The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

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With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.

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If you value your freedom, join the NRA today!

   Wednesday - February 25, 2004

A Reminder That They Don’t All Hate America

Postings will be kind of spotty until we get moved to our new server (not yet completed).

In the meantime we thought we should share this picture with you from Iraq as a reminder that not every Muslim is a suicide bomber and not every Iraqi hates America. This kind of friendship between US soldiers and Iraqis is happening all over Iraq many times a day, according to the word we get from troops over there in "the big sandbox". Never forget that the majority of people in Iraq, like the majority in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan and other MidEast nations are just plain honest God-Fearing (Allah Fearing) decent people just trying to get by in a world gone mad. The problem is not them, but their leaders and a few fringe groups. Keep that in mind, America.

"Gimme five, Clive ... and no jive!"

   Friday - February 20, 2004

A Fresh Look At An Old Favorite

The late Dr. Isaac Asimov has always been one of my favorite authors. I grew up reading "I, Robot" and "The Foundation" series. Thanks to Dr. Asimov's science fiction novels, essays and short stories I was introduced to the astounding world of Science Fiction at an early age. His writings were more science than fiction thanks to a PhD. in Biochemistry. Thanks to his works, I was able to understand the complexities of space travel a decade or more before we put a man on the moon.

He was also an uncommonly brilliant thinker with a great sense of humor.

He was born in Russia and came to this country at an early age. He loved America dearly. Take a look at his interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner (all four stanzas).

Sadly, they don't make 'em like Dr. Asimov anymore.

   Thursday - February 19, 2004

The Robin Williams Peace Plan

I found this over at Strange Cosmos. Methinks Robin has come up with the perfect plan ......

1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosovich and the rest of those 'good ole boys, 'We will never "interfere" again.

2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the fence.

3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.

4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" (for "deport") and it's back home baby.

6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE...

Now, ain't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, "You want a piece of me?"

   Wednesday - February 18, 2004

Great Story From Our Troops In The Field

I got this story just a few minutes ago from one of our troops "in the box" as he calls it. Priceless, simply priceless.

.... so we are up in the mountains at about 0100 hrs looking for a bad guy that we thought was in the area. Here are ten of us, pitch black, crystal clear night, about 25 degrees. We know there are bad guys in the area, a few shots have been fired but no big deal. We decide that we need air cover and the only thing in the area is a solo B-1 bomber. He flies around at about 20,000 feet and tells us there is nothing in the area. He then asks if we would like a low level show of force.

Stupid question. Of course we tell him yes.

The controller who is attached to the team then is heard talking to the pilot. Pilot asks if we want it subsonic or supersonic.

Very stupid question.

Pilot advises he is twenty miles out and stand by. The controller gets us all sitting down in a line and points out the proper location. You have to picture this: Pitch black, ten killers sitting down, dead quiet and overlooking this about 30 mile long valley.

All of a sudden, way out (below our level) you see a set of four 200' white flames coming at us. The controller says, "Ah-- guys-- you might want to plug your ears". Faster than you can think a B-1, supersonic, 1000' over our heads, blasts the sound barrier and it feels like God just hit you in the head with a hammer. He then stands it straight up with 4 white trails of flame coming out and disappears.

Cost of gas for that: Probably $50,000

Hearing damage: For certain.

Bunch of bad guys thinking twice about shooting at us: Priceless.

   Friday - February 13, 2004

Required Reading

Tony Blankley, at the Washington Times gives us an insight into a new book coming out soon. The book is entitled "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience" and is written by John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale University and the Boston Globe has issued a report on the forthcoming book. According to the Boston Globe, Mr. Gaddis is at "the pinnacle of the liberal Ivy League academic establishment".

As Mr. Blankley says however, "If you hate George W. Bush, you will hate this Boston Globe story".

Why?

" ....because it [the Boston Globe story] makes a strong case that Mr. Bush stands in a select category with presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and James Monroe (as guided by his secretary of state, John Q. Adams) in implementing one of only three grand strategies of American foreign policy in our two-century history."

The more I read this, the more I doubted my eyes. Here is a liberal Ivy League professor and a newspaper in Boston (home of John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam) saying George Bush is one of the greatest Presidents in our nation's history.

I guess they finally figured out what Bush really meant when he used the word "strategerize".

That'll teach 'em to "misunderstimate" President Bush.

VOTE BUSH/CHENEY-2004!

   Sunday - February 08, 2004

Meet The Press

President Bush was on Meet The Press this morning. The full transcript is available here. I must say Tim Russert was very respectful and had quite a few good questions. I thought President Bush came across very well. Here are a few choice excerpts (and a few comments of my own):

   Saturday - February 07, 2004

So these are our friends? (part 3)

For your befuddlement and consternation I bring you this. It is another example of doing something that, as sure as God make little green apples, the future will see democrats and liberals everywhere using this incident as cannon fodder for fusillades of accusations as to why we did nothing to penalize Pakistan for nuclear proliferation. It's wonderful how hindsight can be so 20-20 to these bootlickers.

Yet, this is a classic case of "dammed if you do and damned if you don't" to those who study foreign affairs and are somewhat aware of history.

And to many Americans it raises a visceral feeling of detestation for a class/type/race of people who would do such a thing and feel proud about it.

Once you start to peel the layers of this onion, however, what our administration has done so far is the right thing. I'm still pissed about it but sometimes we have to just let it go in the hopes of later on getting some benefit from it. Will the strategy work? Who knows? It did not when we armed Iran and they turned on us. It did not when we armed Iraq years ago. But when the strategy works, the advantages gained far outstrip the disadvantages. Just look at how we handled the USSR and East Germany---political calculations by President Reagan that resulted in their complete annihilation as a threat to us.

But allow me to bring to your attention only one layer of this onion.

What if it were one of OUR scientists that did this? What would the world have said and done? I'll tell you: we'd have been pilloried, trade agreements might have been voided, foreign payments suspended, boycotts galore. What has the world done so far against Pakistan? All I hear is those embarrassed clearing of throat noises and all I see are those furtive eye glances in all directions minus the one where it ought to be pointed when one is caught out in a hypocrisy. The UN? Neutered eunuchs incapable of much except pushing pieces of paper and wetting themselves with fear. After all, soon as one of theirs was attacked in Iraq they turned tail and ran. Yellow bellied coward bastards!

But this Paki assclown sells completely out and not only does he get pardoned, he is considered a hero!!

Why? Because a country smack in the middle of a bunch of other Muslim countries was able to develop a nuclear weapon. Because they felt they had something to prove. As Allan mentioned in a previous post, with 20 percent of the world's population, just what, EXACTLY, have Muslims contributed to the betterment of the world in the past 400 years?

This is what we have to deal with. Of course, we may never have found any of this out if we hadn't invaded Iraq and begun a cascade of events that led to this moment. Korea would not have relented. Libya would not have opened their country to inspectors (resulting in a paperwork trail that confirms the confession), etc.

So we are on the right track. As they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

P.S. you gotta love a guy who's name has "perv" in it: Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf

So these are our friends? (part 2)

Here's a follow-up to my last rant concerning our "friends" the Canadians.

Just how in hell can you expect to feel safe when your military is so stoned it can not deploy? Obviously, liberalism is having a deleterious effect on Canada's military readiness and ability to take on its enemies. Liberalized sexuality laws, liberalized drug laws, liberalized liberalism. This is what you get for it.

Or is it, like I said, still a country living under the skirts of its Mommy, the US, wherein it feels it has a right to satisfy all its craven desires with no repercussions for its actions? Stuff like this makes you wonder just how prepared Canadian forces are and if we really were at fault for accidentally bombing the crap out of one of them a couple of years ago. Could they have been all stoned and not realized what was going on? After all, given the Canadian propensity to raise ludicrous issues concerning our government, this one is no more so.

So these are friends we WANT to have?

For some reason I thought the Canadians were our friends especially after that cretin, Chretien, left office and was replaced by Paul Martin. But obviously I was wrong.

I guess it is too easy to act like the little girl baby sister (Canada) who is always picking on her brother (USA) and complaining to her parents (the world and the UN) about how he treats her badly yet whenever the shit hits the fan and the bullies come after her, who does she turn to?

I guess Canada, by virtue of its good fortune to live under the blanket protection and good auspices of the US has never truly suffered tragedy. Yeah, sure, it sends a few soldiers off to some engagements but what did it EVER really risk?

But as sure as shit rolling down hill, soon as Canada suffers a massive terrorist attack it will come sniveling back to OUR president collective tail tucked between its legs, trailing a thin stream of urine asking for protection because it does not have the forces, equipment, nor wherewithal of its citizenry to do the right thing.

And then the article writer interviews a student, for fuck's sake! What the hell do those wet-behind-the-ears, sell you to the devil for a piece of ass idealistic fuckwits know about foreign policy, threats to a way of life, and national security? They are a bunch of snothead weenies who've lived their whole lives under their mother's skirts, probably never had to fend for themselves, have never had to work for a living, always had everything given to them.

Worse still was the interview with the physicians who could only criticize Bush's inability to pronounce words and for that the world considers him stupid. Yeah, stupid as a fox who graduated from Ivy league schools AND has an IQ higher than 90 percent of the population. Um, huh! Really stupid.

I guess Canadians just can't stand the cowboy machismo, swaggering walk of a confident man who knows who he is and where he is going. Could it be that this jealously is derived from an apparent lack of testosterone in Canadian men? Maybe they've been so feminized they have no idea what balls are for anymore. Poor twits!

Oh, Canada! Indeed!

I will give the author credit for his spot on conclusion as to where all this Canadian angst comes from. Just remember---The USA is the big dog. We rule!!! Don't fuck with us. We are armed. We are crazy as loons. We don't mind hosing you down with lead if you piss us off. We are COWBOYS!!!

GOD BLESS THE USA!!

   Wednesday - February 04, 2004

Go To Hell

I'm going after one of Vilmar's favorite targets today, our ignorant Moonbat government schools. Schools ruled by the liberal National Education Association (don't get me started on that Moonbat bunch). These schools get more and more insane in their rules for students. Today's entry takes the cake.

Now, it appears you can get suspended for telling someone to "GO TO HELL". Even if you're just a tiny little second-grader who believes good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.

As for our educators: they can all GO TO HELL as far as I'm concerned.

GO TO HELL!

Preparing For Deployment

I know you've all read about the high suicide rates among our soldiers in Iraq and units that fought at the outset of the war and who are now home are preparing to rotate back to the field. Whether or not you believe the war is right or wrong and regardless of whether you are a Republican or Democrat, these brave young men and women deserve your support, love and admiration. After all, it's because of them that you can sleep peacefully at night and enjoy the privilege of living in a free society.

I encourage all of you to click on the link at the right and send an e-mail to some of our troops. Strike up a conversation and make a new friend. They will appreciate it greatly.

Bear in mind that even with all the high-tech weaponry our military has, war is still a dirty, nasty business and the word "sacrifice" does not measure up to what these young men and women have to endure. Would you like to get a small idea of what they're going through over there? Well, I'm glad you asked. I had a very interesting list forwarded to me today from a retired Air Force puke (and I mean that in a friendly manner).

Take this list called "Preparing For Deployment", follow all 40 of the instructions and you will have a reasonable idea of what life is like for our troops in combat. Then send one of them an e-mail. You can thank me later ....

-- (Thanks to Don R.)

   Wednesday - January 28, 2004

Houston We Have A Problem

"Columbia's Final Minutes" is a very sobering look at what happened during the re-entry of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle. The article is an excerpt from an upcoming book, "Comm Check ... The Final Flight Of Shuttle Columbia" by Michael Cabbage and William Harwood.

While reading it, I tried to put myself in the position of the brave astronauts in those final minutes and found I couldn't. During the final two minutes they were aware of what was happening and yet they remained calm. They left us with a true definition of courage.

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