Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Greeting

Merry Christmas to all, even those who are Jewish, Islamic, atheists, whatever.

Yesterday, a clerk, a young man, working the register at the Walgreens in my neighborhood said he would wish me a Merry Christmas, but he was fearful of doing so, because it might offend those who are not Christian.

How odd, to be afraid to wish someone well which is really what the message is all about.

I told him he should go ahead and do it. Anyone who would be offended by the wish would have to be pretty hateful, and needs the blessings offered by all who would do so.

My Christmas wish, is that we all continue to offer such a greeting, and make sure that the world does not forget that Christ's birth is the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas,
In God We Trust

Monday, December 22, 2008

Homos On The Move

First of all, let's take a perfectly good word back.

I can't sing "now we don our gay apparel" without feeling a twinge of slimy-ness. Why did we let "gay" mean homosexual? Because the term homosexual is awful, even though it perfectly describes what 'gay' people are. Why don't they want to use that? Why'd they have to take such a happy word and make it mean something sexual, stealing it from common lexicon?

I just listened to some homosexual on Hardball telling me that 'gay' people are the real uniters of the world as born out by history. Really? How so? By changing the meaning of words? By teaching children that two mommies or two daddies is ok and natural, in spite of all evidence to the contrary?

He also demanded that Rick Warren convene a sit down with the National Gay and Lesbian/Transgendered/NAMBLA/Crossdresser/Necrophiliac leadership and talk with them.

Why should he do that? So the aforementioned group can get him to say the bible is wrong, or that he has misinterpreted the bible? Maybe they want him to say homosexual marriage is ok.

But is it? Marriage is a religious term. It has always meant the uniting of man and woman. Homos live outside this religious term, but they want to force religions to redefine what marriage means. Where's the ACLU? Homos living in a committed relationship have all the same legal rights that married people have, but the right to call themselves married. They want to force a secular definition of marriage on religious people - in effect causing government to intrude on religious beliefs. Doesn't this violate their precious construct of the separation of church and state.

I'm not a Rick Warren fan, but I hope he tells them to go to hell.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Insurrection?

Given the leftward lurch of the nation's leadership, and the whiny laments of the city dwellers when W won, I wonder if this country isn't too fractured to continue in its present form.

If we read the Declaration of Independence, it seems like we are obligated to tear this broken system down and start over (think it ain't broken? Did you see the video on How Obama got elected? Can you say, "Senator Stuart Smalley"?).

An independent Texas sounds like a great place to live. I have heard rumors that Cascadia (Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, and BC) is already on paper, a shadow government in waiting.

Trouble is, if we tear it down, where would we get the visionary leaders needed to rebuild? Leaders who are willing to risk their lives and their fortunes for an enterprise that would brand them traitors?

Have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The 1% Solution

This http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=115220 brings to mind some history.

Back when Harley Davidson was the motorcycle of choice for the, ahem, 'derelicts' of the US of A, someone said outlaw bikers are just one percent of the motorcycling public.

One Per Cent.

If you clicked on the link and read the story of the outrage going on along our border in Arizona, you might make the connection between the bikers and a solution to the problem.

This is a story.

Fiction.

Make of it what you will.

In country, you went in pairs. Some felt the presence of their better angels when going alone, and couldn't pull the trigger.

But with a partner alongside, pulling the trigger was, well, what you were supposed to do, and a witness made those angels' arguments considerably less persuasive.

Bo Rose had no angels to bother him, and no witness was needed to make him perform his duty. Nor did the cold, the dead of night, or remaining unmoving for hours bother him. The mission was his motivator. Only the mission.

Tonight, he was waiting for a coyote. It would take a while, but, coyotes, like the the NVA he scared so many years before, would learn, if the law ignored their unlawfulness, it would ignore other unlawfullness as well.

And if it didn't, it couldn't very well investigate him without bringing attention to his, uh, well, 'victims', could it.

Bo might have felt the cold creeping into his ghillie suit, but he was sure the coyote leading the herd through Sulfur Canyon wasn't worried about cold, and if he was, well his worried would soon shift from the physical woes of this world, to the more eternal worries of the next world.

"One shot, one kill"

Bo Rose never missed.

Monday, November 10, 2008

ECON 101

From my friend, who must know somebody.

When you read this, think of the oil, car, or computer business that B-HO and the dems want to tax so they'll have some wealth to spread around. Which entity does a better job of wealth spread, business, or government?

To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of

This company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy

Has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the

Good news is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job. What

Does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in

This country.

Of course, as your employer, I am forbidden to tell you whom to vote for

- it is against the law to discriminate based on political affiliation,

Race, creed, religion, etc. Please vote who you think will serve your

Interests the best.

However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help

You decide what is in your best interests.

First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against

Employees, you have to understand that for every business owner there is

A back story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by

What you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You've

Seen my big home at last years Christmas party. I'm sure; all these

Flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.

However, what you don't see is the back story.

I started this company 12 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300

Square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living apartment was

Converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building

A company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.

My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I spent

Went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a

Defective transmission. I didn't have time to date. Often times, I

Stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and

Partying. In fact, I was married to my business -- hard work,

Discipline, and sacrifice.

Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a

Modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy

Cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes.

Instead of hitting the Nordstrom's for the latest hot fashion item, I

Was trolling through the Goodwill store extracting any clothing item

That didn't look like it was birthed in the 70's. My friends refinanced

Their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put

My time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that

Eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my

Friends supposedly had.

So, while you physically arrive at the office at 9am, mentally check in

At about noon, and then leave at 5pm, I don't. There is no "off" button

For me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend

All to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and

Breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is

No weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is attached

To my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of course, only

See the fruits of that garden -- the nice house, the Mercedes, the

Vacations... You never realize the back story and the sacrifices I've

Made.

Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right

Decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who

Didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled

To the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed a decade of my life

For.

Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I've paid is steep

And not without wounds.

Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is

Starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell

You why:

I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don't pay enough.

I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes.

Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes. Taxes on

Taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess

What? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and

Regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of

My time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000

For quarterly taxes. You know what my "stimulus" check was? Zero. Nada.

Zilch.

The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy

Who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000

people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single mother

sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next

welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the economic

stimulus of this country.

The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you'd quit

and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? That's nuts. Who

wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree which

is why your job is in jeopardy.

Here is what many of you don't understand ... to stimulate the economy

you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly government

mandated to me that I didn't need to pay taxes, guess what? Instead of

depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I would have

spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic

growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in

the form of promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.

When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don't

defibrillate and shock his thumb thinking that will bring him back to

life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the

heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate

it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the

mud of America are the essential drivers of the American economic

engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of

change you can keep.

So where am I going with all this?

It's quite simple.

If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be

swift and simple. I fire you. I fire your co-workers. You can then plead

with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child's

future. Frankly, it isn't my problem any more.

Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and

retire. You see, I'm done. I'm done with a country that penalizes the

productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to

provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, will be my citizenship.

While tax cuts to 95% of America sounds great on paper, don't forget the

backstory: If there is no job, there is no income to tax. A tax cut on

zero dollars is zero

So, when you make decision to vote, ask yourself, who understands the

economics of business ownership and who doesn't? Whose policies will

endanger your job?

Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable

of saving your job. While the media wants to tell you "It's the economy

stupid" I'm telling you it isn't.

If you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will

be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this

country, steamrolled the constitution, and will have changed its

landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me in South Caribbean

sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.

Signed,

Your boss

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Voter Fraud

My computer screen is unresponsive. I scream at it constantly: "Wake Up, Dammit! The election is a hoax perpetrated by government!", but it doesn't hear me, it doesn't respond, it just keeps showing me the evidence, voter registrations, poll results that are so obviously fake that not even Goofy in a Disney cartoon would be able to miss it.

The Dems are planning a super majority in Congress, B-HO's 'transition' team is already meeting, the media are reporting that it will be a B-HO landslide. How do they know that?

Fraud.

When I first got the right to vote, you had to be 21. You had to register well in advance of the PRIMARY election (you couldn't vote in the General otherwise), you had to show your registration card at the polling place, only military and certain citizens living abroad could vote absentee, and the ballot had to be cast within days of the actual election date, note months before hand.

It isn't ACORN that is responsible for this, it's government, government that abets fraud, and we, my friends are the losers. No matter who wins next month, he will be bathed in the stink of fraud, and no election can ever be considered fair until we the people get control over the voter registration process once again.

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/10/17/acorn_voter_fraud_in_nm

I find it curious, also, that in spite of the evidence, not one politician, state, local or otherwise, has made voter fraud and election reform an issue.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Econ 101

The beauty of the current 'crisis' is that it shows who has an understanding of the economy and who doesn't.

First, let's take the Democrat Party. They have been saying that 'Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy' are the cause of economic woe.

Well then, why is B-HO saying he'd leave them in place if the economy is bad? People! Please! This about it. If the tax cuts caused the problem, shouldn't rescinding them fix the problem?

Second, the notion that something has to be done or the economy will crash. Um, just go go here and read Walter E. Williams' lesson on the economy:

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/09/24/scaring_us_to_death

In God We Trust,
Liberty Card

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Where's B-HO

Well, now that Sarah, ah, Gov Palin, is on a ticket, the luster has come off B-HO's star.

Haaaa haaa haaa.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Sarah!

At last, there is some good news for conservatives and the country. Since this whole process began, it's been "Obama this" and "Obama that". Why to vote for hism and why to vote against him.

John McC was just like an old grandpa, safe, there for ya, but not energetic enough to go surfing with, or join The Marines with, or go rock climbing, or any of the things leaders do with their flock.

Well that's changed now. Sarah has changed the dynamic. Now the talk is about why to for some her. It's like a big weight has been lifted from the public dynamic.

And in one brilliant master stroke, Johnny Mac has ushered in a new face for the Republican Party, fresh, young, dynamic, and yes, articulate in a way that pundits ought to see makes B-Ho look like a middle school debate student.

We are pleased.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Charity not Handouts

Here's teh sage and witty Walter E. Williams quoting the anti welfare meaning in the Constitution:

GOVERNMENT

“Edgar K. Browning, professor of economics at Texas A&M University, has a new book aptly titled ‘Stealing from Each Other.’ Its subtitle, ‘How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit,’ goes to the heart of what the book is about. The rise of equalitarian ideology has driven Americans to steal from one another. Browning explains that certain kinds of equality have been a cherished value in America. Equality under the law and, within reason, equality of opportunity is consistent with a free society. Equality of results is an anathema to a free society and within it lie the seeds of tyranny... [Browning]... reminds us of the biblical admonition ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that’s what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality. Browning’s solution is captured in the title of his last chapter, ‘Just Say No,’ where he proposes, ‘The federal government shall not adopt any policies that transfer income (resources) from some Americans to other Americans.’ He agrees with James Madison, the father of our Constitution, who said, ‘I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents’.”Walter Williams

Monday, August 4, 2008

All A Twitter

Just signed up for twitter. Gonna get messages from Congress on the Oil Flapex.....

Friday, August 1, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Safe Extraction

All those of you who think B HUSSEIN is having it both ways in his 'support' for the troops by saying he's going to end the war immediately, but will cover the withdrawal with troops to make sure the withdrawing troops are safe, are forgetting Slick Willy and Kosovo.

Those of you with memories long enough to have been paying attention during the glory days of the Clintonistas, will recall that Der Schlimeister had to sen peace keepers over there but promised to bring them home by Christmas.

I'm sure you remember that, Law and Order had several episodes covering the behavior of those blood thirsty bastards on both sides of that little dust up - our guys and their guys.

Do you remember that Slick Willy made good on his promise to bring the troops he sent over there home by Christmas? He did you know. All the troops he promised he'd bring home by Christmas did come home by Christmas.

Of course Kosovo was still a dangerous place, and precipitously withdrawing our blood thirsty, I mean, peace keeping troops would expose them to un necessary danger.

So Slick Willy made sure those troops could come home safely. He sent another set of troops, ok, a one for one replacement set of troops, to Kosovo to cover the safe withdrawal of the troops he brought home for Christmas.

I think those troops are still there.

Watch B Hussein do the same thing in Iraq, if he wins....

If you loved Clinton, you'll be ecstatic with B-HO.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Rattle Snake Etiquette

I enjoy a good hard run. I have always maintained that it will cure a cold, the flu, whooping cough, Liberalism, and many other common maladies.

Sick? Go for a good hard run. A good run of five or so miles gets the old heart rate up and flushes your system of toxins more quickly than a bike ride, unless the bike ride is a six per cent six mile climb at 3,000 feet. When you get oxygen debt, you get close to God, which in itself is therapeutic.

Trouble is, a bike ride takes time if you don't have a life sucking mountain near by. I have no time, and no life sucking mountain.

So I do the good hard run when I am sick, or when I need an attitude adjustment.

Around here in the South OC, there is a great trail that runs from Cook's Corner in the foot hills to the Top of The World on the coast. I run or ride parts of it at least three times a week.

There are side benefits to running the trail. Little blessings from God, I call them. The first time I ran it, I saw an odd looking dog jogging down the trail ahead of me. It had a short tail and orange and black fur. When it ducked off the train and into the brush, I realized it was a bobcat, not a dog. Funny, though, how its gait was just like a dog's.

Another time, I rounded a curve and came across a red tailed hawk, wings spread, feinting at a coiled rattler. The hawk no doubt was timing the snake's strikes, and would hit it on a recoil when it got the timing right.

Trouble is, I was already in both animals' fight or flight zone. The hawk took off, the snake uncoiled and slithered into the brush, and I cursed my lack of a helmet cam.

One little blessing I always enjoy, I mean besides the murders of crows, the buzzards overhead, and the rabbits and squirrels running for cover every few yards, is the mothers and fathers I see jogging with the strollers that are holding their babies. OK, I enjoy seeing the mothers more than the fathers, but what says 'daddy' more than a father willing to take a baby for a jog?

My last run there, I started around 0730 to avoid the social riders and runners who think the paved two lane trail is there so they can run or ride 47 abreast and scare the hell out of solo runners who they meet on curves. I don't know why there aren't more head on crashes. Anyway, I run about a quarter mile on the paved trail, then take a dirt path that circles down by the creek and up over a hump that must be 30 or 40 yards of 11% or 12% grade. I was coming up on the dirt trail when I came upon one of the treats God always has for me.

There was a young woman jogging behind her stroller and she had a dog running with her, a double blessing. I passed her just as the dirt trail came up and as I ran up the little hill at the trail's start I heard some, I don't know, was it yelling? behind me.

I didn't think anyone would be hailing me, more likely it was a group carrying on as if they were driving with a cell phone at their ears, so I kept on.

The dirt trail runs parallel to Aliso Creek, then loops around and ends up rejoining the paved trail at its far end. I always take the paved trail back, using it more as a cool down run than the more rigorous dirt trail. About half way back to the start, I again came across the mom with babe and dog.

As I passed her, I again heard something, only this time I could make out "Rattlesnake" as one of the words. I turned around and could tell it was the woman, and since no one else was around, I figured she was talking to me.

"Pardon?" I said.

"You took the snake trail," she said. "I used to go that way, but I saw way too many snakes."

No wonder she ran with the dog.

"Did you see any?" she said.

"No," I said, "Not today. But, you shouldn't be afraid of them. They are way more afraid of you than you are of them. Besides, you probably saw corn snakes rather than rattlers," I told her. "Look for their tracks. The rattler makes a very pronounced 'S' trail, the corn snake's track is a lazy 'S', more like a slight squiggle in a line than an 'S'."

"Are corn snakes dangerous?" she asked.

"Naw, no poison, and they eat rattlers.... So, well, don't let them keep you from a good jog," I said.

"OK, thanks," she said. "I didn't know all that."

"Oh, you're welcome," I said. "God bless you for being a mom and taking your baby with you. Have a great run."

I took off again, a little faster, a little more energetic.

Personally, I think I got the blessing.....

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

What ARE You Thinking?

Ya think B-HO's the bomb?

Well here's another example of how clueless, ignorant, and dangerous he is:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg070108.php3

Bad Moon Arising

If ever there was an example of out of control liberalism, this has to be it.

Via Hot Air: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hP3NgWlUJNbAbMthMB8oZ-tKh2Yg

Not that I think we here in the USA are too far from this....

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Fire them All

Tell me, why do we pay for this?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/28/video-louisiana-legislators-working-darned-hard-for-that-pay-raise/

If you don't think this is a common practice at every level, well, kiss me quick.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Slaves To The Tax Man

Here's something I've been saying for years, just not as well.

From Walter E. Williams, one of my favorite economists, via Town Hall:

Let's do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might say, "What are you talking about, Williams? We fought a war that cost over 600,000 lives to end slavery!" To get started, we might find a description that captures the essence of slavery. A good working description is: slavery is a set of circumstances whereby one person is forcibly used to serve the purposes of another person and has no legal claim to the fruits of his labor.

The average American worker toils from January 1st to the end of April, and has no legal claim to the fruits of his labor for that period. Federal, state and local governments, through the tax code, take what he produces. A small portion of the fruits of his labor is used to provide for the constitutional functions of government. Most of what's taken, up to two-thirds, is given to some other American in the forms of farm and business subsidies, Social Security, Medicare, welfare and hundreds of other government handout programs. As in slavery, one person is being forcibly used to serve the purposes of another person.

You might ask, "Williams, aren't you a bit off base? Slavery means that you are owned by another person." Who owns a person is not nearly important as who has the rights to use that person. In other words, a plantation owner having the power to force a black to work for him would have been just as well off, and possibly better off, not owning him. Not owning him means not having to bear medical expenses and loss of wealth if the slave died. During World War II, Nazis didn't own Jews, but they had the power to force them to labor for them. Not owning Jews meant that working and starving them to death had little cost to the Nazis. The fact that American slaves were owned, with prices sometimes ranging from $800 to $1,300, meant that owners had a financial stake in the slave's well-being and they were not worked and starved to death.

You might argue that my analogy is irrelevant because unlike American slaves and Nazi concentration camp inmates, we can come and go as we please, live where we want, buy a car, clothes and other things with the money left over after the government gets four months' worth of our earnings. But, does that make much of a difference?

During slavery, visitors to the South often observed "a great many loose negroes about." Officials in Savannah, Mobile and Charleston and other cities complained about "nominal slaves," "virtually free negroes," and "quasi free negroes" who were seemingly oblivious to any law or regulation. Frederick Douglass, a slave, explained this phenomenon when he was employed as a Baltimore ship's caulker: "I was to be allowed all my time; to make bargains for work; to find my own employment, and to collect my own wages; and in return for this liberty, I was … to pay him (Douglass' master) three dollars at the end of each week, and to board and clothe myself, and buy my own caulking tools."

There are some benefits to being a quasi free person such as Frederick Douglass. There are two ways U.S. Congress might force me to serve the purposes of another American. They might force me spend a couple of hours each day actually working, without compensation, for another American. Or, they might forcibly take a portion of my earnings so that American can hire someone. I see myself as being better off with Congress doing the latter -- taking a portion of my earnings and giving it away.

Some might be put off by my thought experiment and consider it an illegitimate use of the term "slavery." At what point should we consider ourselves a quasi free American -- when government takes two-thirds or three-quarters of our earnings?

Friday, June 6, 2008

BHO Fatigue

I speak only for myself, of course, but isn't the constant obsessing about B-HO, Sir Shrillarly, and McClinton getting just a little bit wearisome?

There is a strange connection between this and a new book that is all the rage in jolly Olde England.
Nick Davies has written a book about the lack of intellectual integrity in the new media (as if we didn't already know THAT!) which you can find out about here: http://www.flatearthnews.net/

There are plenty of reasons why BHO is dangerous for America and the world, but the media is studiously ignoring those things and concentrating on the personalities of the candidates.

Like running for high school class president, this election is all about popularity, and in true flat earth fashion, since we can't see beyond the horizon, and now reporter is willing to go there and look, that's all we get.

Somebody wake me up when it's over.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Truth Comes Dribbling out

First we have a Democrat admitting that the anti war campaign premise that 'swept' Dems to power is '06 was a fraud, a lie, a blatant deception.

Now the news has become Anti-Hillary, Anti-Clinton in full voice, though it was was always there, a pimple on the Clinton Legacy.

Well, now the pimple's become a boil, and all the Liberal weenies are lining up to squeeze it, flinging the oozing pus about as if they just figured out what defective humans the Clintons are.

Didn't we tell them, over and over, ad naseum, years ago?

Cheers!

PS If the '08 campaign was to be Rudy v. Sir Hillary at the start, can anyone really say what it will be in Nov?

Friday, May 16, 2008

Saying It Best

Not much to add to this:

http://patriotpost.us/

Monday, May 5, 2008

Lies, Damned Lies, And Poiticians

If you cruise over to Hot Air, you can see the Fox News clip of Chris Wallace grilling and flambe-ing Howeird Dean. Hot Air says Fox won the debate, but I don't think so. Repeat something nine times and it becomes a fact to the listener. How many times did Howeird repeat the DNC's lies?

On a lighter note, in case you missed it, here's the photo essay of the May Day march and DNC rally in LA:

http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20080501

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Carrier v. BB Rules Of The Road

Reminds me of an incident we had while I was on the USS New Jersey.
We were conducting ops in the SoCal OpArea when we suffered a steering and engineering casualty. The battleship when under full steam (eight burning and four turning) is quite manuverable and quick (over 40 kts at flank), but down to one boiler, one screw, and one rudder, we are worse than a garbage scow.
We sent out the mandatory NOTEMs saying that we were limited to bare steerageway when one of the carriers out there with us, came up to flank, turned into the wind, CBDR - Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range (collision course) - with us and told us to get out of their way, they were going to flight ops and we were the burdened vessel.
Our CIC sent them a msg to check the NOTEM, to which they reminded us of the Rules of the Road governing carriers lauching or recovering air craft.
Ahem.
The Jersey's OOD got on the bridge to bridge radio with the carrier's OOD. "Kitty Hawk, this is New Jersey, you are CBDR with a 68,000 ton class A armored battleship. We are unable to comply, so unless you want the bow of your carrier to be shoved into your bridge, I suggest you change course - IMMEDIATELY!"
The carrier suspended flight ops and moved 100 nautical miles away from us before coming up to flight ops again.

Monday, April 28, 2008

BB v. Carrier Pt II

Ops briefed the skipper on their plan while Sam crawled into his rack and got some sleep. Ops didn’t mention it was Sam’s idea, though he did say the LDOs contributed to the plan. No sense in condemning the lot of them to op’s planning meetings – they’d just cheat the nuggets out of an opportunity to learn by making fools of themselves in front of Flags.

The skipper added a few details and tasked Ops with writing the op order, which meant the Ops Department JOs would be tested.

Monday morning, 0300, T-Time minus five, the New Jersey was steaming northeast at a leisurely 10 knots, EMCOM Charlie set, and her topside lit up like Times Square. They were close enough to the Ranger CTF that the cans’ protecting her were painting a nice picture of their search and fire control radars for the Jersey’s spooks. From the ecm gear, it was easy to see the cans were all clustered around Ranger, nice targets for a Surface Launched Cruise Missile with a low yield nuke to take them all out in one launch.

Though New Jersey could do it, so could the missile ships in her task force, and that really wouldn’t prove the BB’s worth. No, Ranger would suffer a more painful, personal fate.

At 0500, she had closed to 30 nautical miles, close enough that Ranger’s ECM guys would be wondering about the Furuno and Decca 2100 radars sweeping around among the Sperrys and Ratheons on the fishing boats. Those were passenger boat radars, and though it was a commercial waterway, there wasn’t usually any cruise ships steaming that close to the op area. They made a report to the CIC Watch Officer, and logged the contact.

But then, the Ranger’s spooks suddenly had bigger fish to fry. They were catching an SPS-48 3D F/C Radar off in the east. And moments later, an SPG lit off. Missile ships, the Orange force! Two minutes was all it took and they had them vectored.

“Combat, ECM, we have racket, vampire fire control radar bearing 275 degrees .”

“Combat, Aye”.

A second later the CIC watch officer threw back the curtain to the ECM room and strode inside. “You got the Orange Force already?” he said.

“Looks like they lit off their fire control stuff, probably just testing it. The exercise doesn’t start for another hour,” said the ECM operator.

“Yah, but what a fuck up. They tipped their hand and gave away their position. We’ll have fast movers on them before they know what’s hit them.”

He looked at the WRL10’s display as if he knew what it meant. “That’s them, right?” he said pointing at the racket coming from the south.

“Yes Sir, that’s them,” said the ECMO.

The CIC officer made his report to the bridge, along with his recommendation that they dispatch the cans to the south to intercept the BB and her brood before they got too close. It didn’t occur to any of them that the BB’s signature was missing from the racket burst.

New Jersey was now on the horizon, and the Ranger’s look out could see her lights.

The New Jersey’s look outs could see the Ranger, too. Aircraft carriers don’t care about darken ship, the flight deck is a dangerous enough place without having to stagger around in the dark. She looked like a Christmas tree.

Jersey’s CO was already the 05 level main battery control station. The guns were manned, and optical fire control solutions were being inputed to the Mark 1 Able fire control computer. She could fire now, and inflict sufficient damage to put Ranger out of commission for a month or two.

But the plan was humiliation, not annihilation. They were to get closer, much closer.

At 15 nautical miles, T minus 30, the New Jersey’s signal bridge reported a signal from Ranger. “Bridge, Sigs, Ranger’s Alfa-ing us”.

“Bridge, aye. Stand by.” Sam looked at Ops and smiled. “So they don’t recognize us. Ha!” he said.

Ops hit the bitch box switch and said, “Sigs, Bridge, ignore the Alfa.”

“Sigs, aye.”

“Let’s see how long it takes them to use the Bridge to Bridge”, said Ops.

“My money’s on 10 miles,” said Sam.

Ops turned his binoculars on the Ranger. He had to hand it to their signalmen, they kept up the Alfa interrogative tirelessly.

12 nautical miles out, the bitch box from CIC crackled to life. “Bridge, Combat, Ranger’s calling on Pri Ci. They are asking us to ID ourselves.”

“Combat, Bridge, you have them on ‘Ignore’ right?” asked ops.

“Combat, that’s a Roger. ECM says we’re being painted, but not any shooter radars.”

“Very well. Let me know if any fire control radars come up.”

He turned to Sam, “So far so good.”

9.5 nautical miles, the Bridge to Bridge’s Motorola broke squelch briefly, then crackled to life.

“Vessel to my west, this is the US warship, USS Ranger. Identify yourself”.

Sam laughed, “Oh hell, not a ‘US Warship’! What will we do?”

Ops waited a full minute, then keying the mic on the Bridge to Bridge, “USS Ranger, this is SS Azure Seas, cruise ship of the Princess Line returning to San Pedro from Mazatlan.”

“SS Azure Seas, this is Ranger. We are conducting a military exercise in this area and may be changing course without notice to conduct flight quarters. Be advised, you will be the burdened vessel.”

“Flight quarters? Will you be launching air craft?” asked Ops. “Could we watch?”

“This is Ranger, you may, but please maintain 10,000 yards off our beam, and no closer than 5,000 yards off our stern.

“Welcome. Ranger, out.”

“Azure Seas out, thank you, our passengers will be so excited!”

The Captain’s circuit crackled to life. ”Like taking candy from a baby. How long till first light?”

“About 20 minutes before they’re able to see the guns,” said Ops.

“OK, let’s take station 5,000 yards off their stern. It’s a natural blind spot for them. Two minutes before first light, bring her up to flank speed and make our run up her starboard side, between her and the can. At COMEX I want to be blowing holes in her side.”

Sam took the con so Ops could coordinate the missile ship strike without worrying about rules of the road. He gave ruder orders to the master helmsman to take them slowly to Ranger’s stern.

It was now five minutes before first light, and 40 minutes to COMEX. The 5MC from sigs crackled to life, “Bridge, Signal Bridge, Ranger’s showing meat balls, she’s turning into the wind and going to flight quarters.”

“She’s cheating – getting ready to launch a strike against the missile ships at COMEX,” said Sam.

Ops punched the Gun Fire Control button. “Captain, OOD, recommend we execute the strike. The missile ships are in position, solutions plotted, on my word they’ll illuminate Ranger with incoming SLCM racket. Should cause the screen force to sortie, giving us our shot.”

“Good call, Ops. Make it happen, but mind the plane guard can”.

“Roger.”

“Sam, order up flank.”

In rapid order, OPS ordered the missile ships to ‘fire’ their cruise missiles. The radar signal from the simulator was immediately interpreted on Ranger as an anti ship missile launch from North and West, two totally unexpected directions due to the misdirection signals sent out first by the tin cans.

The Ranger came up to flank speed as she turned into the wind. The plane guard destroyer, in position off Ranger’s stern to rescue luckless aviators who couldn’t catch the wire and splashed moved into position while the rest of the screen split to move against the Orange Force threat.

New Jersey was moving up on the Ranger. She’d killed the deceptive lighting pattern, and went to EMCON ALFA, complete emission silence. No one was paying her any mind, she was in Ranger’s and the plane guard’s blind spots, and any radar that painted her would show her to be a fishing boat or other small craft – her rounded shapes, an inadvertent byproduct of the artistic craftsmanship of WWII builders, and low freeboard, gave her a stealth advantage modern designers were still working to attain in modern warships.

At 40 knots New Jersey was bouncing like a pogo stick. She wasn’t used to such speed, and the main shaft bearings weren’t cooperating. She was going to wipe a bearing. The Chief Engineer, the Ops O, and the captain all hoped it would happen after she sunk the Ranger. “Eight burning, four turning”, a good day for the blackshoe navy.

As Ranger steamed past the plane guard, the secret was out, but it was too late. The plane guard wasn’t at GQ, and even if she had been, her 5 inch gun wouldn’t slow the New Jersey down, and New Jersey was so close to her that the plane guard’s missiles wouldn’t even arm before striking the Jersey. The Ranger suspended flight quarters and took an evasive turn, but Jersey was on her like a cheetah on an antelope.

Try as she might, Ranger couldn’t shake the Jersey. New Jesey was too fast and too maneuverable com[ared to the lumbering carrier. The Jersey slowly came along Ranger’ s port side, just so the whole flight deck crew could see. Her nine 16 inch guns were aligned to her starboard and level with Ranger’s waterline. As Pri Ci announced, “Now commence FLEETEX 2-87” Ranger’s bridge to bridge was receiving a message from the “SS Azure Seas”, “Thank you for your hospitality, Ranger. Please enjoy your break from the action. Azure Seas out”. The Jersey gunners fired air slugs at Ranger for emphasis while the New Jersey’s signal bridge was flashing “Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf, Golf” signifying that New Jersey had fired her nine 16” guns into Ranger’s hull, a decidedly fatal attack as judged by CINCPACFLEET’s referees.

POSTEX:

New Jersey had ended the exercise before it started, and while it was a brilliant tactical victory, it wasn’t appreciated. The whole point of the exercise was to test Ranger and her battle group, not NJ.

CINCPAC sent New Jersey back to the Southern Edge of the SOCAL OPAREA, and reset the exercise clock.

Ranger had her CAP on station, and the airborn E-2C Hawkeyes were patrolling the outer perimeter of her layered defense zone. The screening cans were also dispersed, spreading the task force from horizon to horizon per the nuclear defense plan.

Of course, Ranger passed her ORE, with lessons learned. In the restarted exercise, the Orange Force was never a real threat. Though they attacked from missile strike distances, their positions had been noted and the minute they ‘launched’, Standard missiles and Sea Sparrow missiles knocked the incoming SLCMs out of the sky, and F/A 18s roared in on the tin cans and the BB pickleing Hellfire Missiles and LGBs, ‘sinking’ them repeatedly.

New Jersey was never again given an Orange Force role.

But she did get to participate in another carrier battle group’s ORE, as part of the battle group, with interesting results.

Next episode.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

BB v. Carrier Pt I

Lt Barlow needed a nap, just a short one would do. Sailors develop the ability to refresh themselves from the barest bit of shuteye from years of 25 hour days, three section watches, and the occasional trip ashore for liberty in an exotic port. He’d stood his four hour watch, done his Div O admin work, counseled his wayward sailors, now needed to sleep, just enough to get at least one REM cycle.

But the nap’d have to wait. The Captain had called an AOM for 1300. Some NAVEX was no doubt in the battleship’s future and Charlie Oscar would be giving them the straight scoop.

Sam dragged himself up to the wardroom for a cup of coffee. It was like walking around with wet cement hanging from every square inch of his body. And sand scratching his eyes. He’d go to sleep immediately if he could find a spot to crash, but it would be wrong to say he was sleepy. Bone weariness never feels sleepy.

At 1302, the XO announced “All rise” as the CO and MPOC strode into the wardroom. The assembled officers all rose in unison and stood at attention.

“As you were, Gents”, said the Captain. They all sat as the MPOC assumed parade rest at the Skipper’s left.

After some obligatory jokes about wardroom chow and the XO’s jogging skills – how could someone so slow pass the PFT? - the Captain got down to business.

“Gentlemen, we have a unique opportunity to highlight the Jersey’s capability. We have been assigned to sortie against the USS Ranger Battle Group as Orange Force flag. We’ll have two missile ships with us.

“It’s the Carrier Battle Group’s ORE for deployment, and while I have the utmost respect for the Task Group Commander, and wish him all the best, I am not about to let some hot jock in an F18 send us to the time out box.

“We are to ComEx is 0800 Monday morning and I want to be on station and ready to attack them at zero plus one. So we will go EMCOM Alpha at midnight tonight and steam to the eastern edge of the SOCAL Op area. I expect an attack plan by 0800 from each department. Be creative gents. They have rules, beyond not using live rounds, we do not.

“I have tasked the cans’ SOPA to work up an attack plan and present it at 1600 here. Ops O is coordinating our plan, the cans’ attack will be tangential to our own.

“They won’t take us lightly again. We’ll get together again at 2000.”

The XO rose and barked another, “Attention on Deck”. MPOC snapped to attention as the officers rose again. The CO and MPOC left the wardroom.

The XO rose and, said, “OK, Ops, bring me your plan by 1930.” He issued the usual edicts about beans, bullets, and gas and dismissed the officers, who all waited for their department heads to tell them to muster in their offices.

Lt Barlow didn’t need to be told. He took his coffee and headed up to the Ops office, as if his getting there first would somehow shorten the meeting.

The other officers in the Ops department straggled in, followed by the Ops O. The discussed the Ranger’s order of battle, the layered defense, the wicked Standard defense missile, the NATO Sea Sparrow, and the Marine Detachment’s little surprises, dual 5”50 mounts, 20mm AA guns, and their fifties. It wasn’t gonna be easy.

The Real Live Officers who gone to knife and fork school, not to mention some of America’s better institutions of higher education discussed attack plans, feints, high speed hit and runs, over the horizon SLCM attacks, sacrificing the small boys. Each had a favored plan and each lobbied hard to get his approved.

Sam and the other LDOs weren’t expected to participate, they were just overpaid enlisted pukes in the eyes of the other RLO JOs. But Sam needed his sleep, especially since he’d be the GQ JOOD for the whole attack. It moved him to speak.

“I gotta idea Ops. Lets dress this lady up and take her to a dance.”

The ops office fell silent, for an instant. “What the hell kind of plan is that?” asked the Ops O.

“Well, we’re at EMCOM Alpha right? Nothing to id us as a combatant, right? Why not go to EMCOM Charlie, rig deceptive lighting for a cruise ship, and sail right up on her before first light? As they are eating chow and briefing their flight crews, we come to flank speed and take out with guns. The main battery will put her to the bottom in a New York Second.”

The CIC officer said, “What about the missile ships? What do we do with them?”

Wily Strong, the ECM Officer, another LDO, said, “Missiles are high tech. They are countered with high tech. Doncha think the airdales will be looking hard for them? We can send them to the Southern edge of the OpArea while we steam West from the Southern edge. Let ‘em make some noise, the Wild Weasels will pick em up and distract them while we saunter on up on them. If their skippers are good, they can evade long enough for us to sneak up on the carrier.”

All the JOs looked at Ops. He was staring hard at Sam and Willy. There was a long silence before he said, “I like it.

“OK, Willy, get the lighting plan set up. Weather, get me a weather forecast for east and south OP Area. A Ops, gen up an opord for the cans to go ISE and attack Blue at will.

“Sam.

“You look like shit. Get some sleep. You and I are going to have a long day.”

Redeemer v. Meglomaniac

Both Democrat candidates (I'm excluding the Democrat running as a Republican) think they are due the Presidency as opposed to wanting to serve.

JWR has a piece by Caroline Glick that runs it down nicely. Obama is just as arrogant and demanding as Sir Hillary.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/glick042208.php3

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Slacker

Hey, it's political junkie nirvana time, and the next chapter of BB Tales is still marinating between my head and the keyboard. It's going to be a fictionalized account of a BB attack on a carrier battle group, one that actually happened (Blue forces v. Orange forces). Oh what fun we had....

Friday, April 11, 2008

Big Stick II

During WWII, the Viet Minh built fortified tunnels on a small island off the coast of Viet Nam. They used it to shell Japanese ships. The VC used it to shell navy ships cutting donut holes in the ocean on North SAR and PIRAZ station. It was an annoyance, rather like a mosquito buzzing around. But, American airmen needed the advanced warning provided by the PIRAZ destroyer and the SAR assets at North SAR.

Not all missions north were successful, if the had been, the ordinance we dropped on NVN would have bombed them back to the stone age. When weather or some other mission cancelling event stopped an aircraft from dropping its load on target, they’d bring it back with them. That meant bombing Flipper or the island.

Tons of ordinance would be unloaded on the island.

To no avail.

Then one day, the VC fired on the New Jersey. Suffice it to say, that put an end to that island as a source of annoyance to the navy.

Another argument for the value of a capital ship that carries a big stick.

And tough luck for Flipper.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Racist America

From Larry Elder's piece in today's Town Hall:

In 1911, former slave Booker T. Washington prophetically wrote about "black leaders" like Cleaver, Jackson and Sharpton: "There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. … There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The Big Dog

For the projection of power ashore in a littoral conflict, nothing beats naval air. It gets there fast, and pounds the hell out of the enemy before he knows what hit him, and today’s navy has sophisticated electronics packages that puts ordinance right on target and causes SAMs to bite the hand that fed them.

Nice.

But what if your enemy is, say, a mujahedeen who don’t have a SAM system, and couldn’t use it if he did? Naval air still rules the battlefield, but a fifty cal machine gun shooting straight up into the air will rip the belly right out of a F/A 18 coming in hot to lay down ordinance in support of besieged grunts.

A 16” shell, on the other hand, is impervious to a puny 50 cal round. Even if it did somehow succumb to a low tech weapon, it wouldn’t have a pilot punching out to be caught by an enemy who would use him for political and propaganda purposes. Nor would it give up secrets like a downed Predator.

In political parlance, a 16” shell is as PC as you can get. It don’t care who it blows up, and it ain’t gonna roll on its brothers if it falls into the wrong hands.

Viet Nam, a political war as much as anything else. The generals and admirals running things all gambled on their service being the one that could whip the enemy better than any other service. In the navy, the conventional forces had little to impact. Sure, the brown water navy was there. Swifts and PBRs and LCUs, mikes and zippos all did their part, but there were no naval battles to win, no dramas on the high seas to write home about. That’s not to say that the SEALS didn’t do their part, but SEALS terrorizing some terrorist VC didn’t win big dollars in the defense budget sweepstakes.

Enter the New Jersey. Able to reach 90% of targets in North and South Viet Nam without coming within range of a shore battery, it was a beautiful thing in the surface navy’s thinking.

But not so fast. Airdales (only half a word in the black shoe world – brothers you know what I mean) were running the show.

New Jersey deployed to Viet Nam to support combat operations. North Viet Nam was off limits. A 16” round isn’t Precision Guided Ordinance. The first few rounds are fairly accurate, but as the guns heat, the accuracy gets worse. You could aim at the Hanoi Power Plant and take out a hospital, school, or POW camp. (The brass hats wouldn’t fund radar guided RAP rounds – no, they’d rather risk a multimillion dollar A-6 and a pilot who cost Uncle Sugar untold sums to train – but who am I to tell them what to do?) So NJ found herself supporting Operation Market Basket, gunfire support for troops under attack.

She slipped into the op area unannounced.

A FAC called for a fire mission from a small boy off the coast. A platoon of Marines was under attack from a mortar squad. The FAC had the mortar squad’s coordinates.

“Alfa Whiskey, this is Tango Golf two six. I have a fire mission. Coordinates Bravo Bravo Two Eight, Xray niner eight Foxrot. Over”

On Alfa Whiskey, the bridge to bridge circuit snapped, “Alfa Whiskey, this is Big Dog we’ll take this mission”. Then on the fire support circuit, “Tango Golf, Bravo Delta, roger. Confirm coordinates ‘Bravo Bravo Two Eight, Xray niner eight Foxrot’”.

“Bravo Bravo Two Eight, Xray niner eight Foxrot, roger. Fire one salvo for effect.”

“Bravo Delta, roger salvo.”

Well, a salvo from a Battleship is an entirely different thing than a salvo from a small boy with some 5”/38s.

Nine 16” HE rounds whistled over the small boy’s head from 20 miles away. They impacted the target area with such force that the mortar squad’s position was reduced to a smoking hole. The pressure from the impact spun the FAC’s plane around. He examined the effect of the navy’s effort once he reoriented himself for just a minute.

“Jesus Christ! What did you use? Target destroyed”, the FAC reported in a high pitched, girlish scream.

“Bravo Delta, Target destroyed. Roger, out”

Who really needs Naval Air in a littoral war?


Tomorrow, another victory for BB power over air power.

“Fire Power For Victory”.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Battleship Tales

It's been said that a soldier with fixed bayonet has a certain calming effect on belligerents. Well, the same can be said for a capital ship sitting at anchor in a belligerent nation's harbor.

An aircraft carrier with all those airplanes looks bad, but what's it going to do sitting there? It's got to go to sea, turn into the wind, and launch the sortie, which, a flotilla of fishing boats can cause a CANC EX without too much trouble.

A Battleship is another thing entirely. Even the duty dog catcher can envision that serenely anchored bad boy turning those three turrets with the nine 16" guns in his direction and letting loose with a salvo of baby killer sabots or HE rounds that would ruin his and his town's day for an eon or two.

A battleship has a certain calming effect on petty despots when it is detected off said depot's coast.

The Iowa class BBs were built to take a direct hit from the Japanese navy's biggest guns, 18 inchers on the Yamato which fired one ton shells. The class A armor in the Iowas' 'citadel' was 18" thick, and if the bridge got blown away, the CHENG could run the ship the ship from main control.

While the Yamato never came up against an Iowa class BB, it's worth mentioning that US Naval Air sent her to the bottom, dooming perhaps, all the big capital ships as effective surface combatants.

Or did it?

Stay tuned. Just as a note, the Jersey took a direct hit on her number one turret from a shore battery during her tour off Korea. While the round's shrapnel killed one of the crewmen, the damage to the ship was cleaned up during evening sweepers.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Liberals We Can't Stand

Look who's on the list:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWvtlut8izs

Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Real BHO

Another American speaking truth to the racists:

Ken Blackwell

(Image from nogw.com)

By Ken Blackwell, 2-14-08, Opinion, NY Sun, here.

"Civilizational War is real, even if political leaders and polite pundrity must call it by another name," Robert Kaplan, here .

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.

We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics..

It's time America takes a closer and deeper look at Obama.

Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.

Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.

So why is Obama not behind in the polls?

Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty."

Then what about the issues? Like security?

Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s.

Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.

Then what about economic policy?

Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes.

How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

What about social issues?

Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium ra lly by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction.

In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.

Look beyond the eloquence and veneer to the issues.

Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.

But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.

It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

Ken Blackwell was formerly Secretary of State of Ohio, and unsuccessfully ran for Ohio Governor in 2006. He was the first black candidate for governor in Ohio.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Dusty Reid: Redefining Stupid

Please watch this video. This is a leader in the Democrat party.

http://www.freeliberal.com/blog/archives/003277.php

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Campaign Ad

Over on the Taxman blog there is this very slick video. It's done by the Dems!

Ouch!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Mind Set

Who in the world but a self centered egotist would ever consider a baby "punishment"?

I'll tell you, BHO doesn't send shivers up my leg, he sends shivers down my spine....

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/30/the-obligatory-punished-with-a-baby-post/

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Oh Please - Don't Throw Me In That Briar Patch

It seem to me that the smartest possible choice for the Dems is to run Algore for reelection. I mean he won the first time he ran, didn't he? Shouldn't he win again?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/30/wuspols130.xml

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Serious Business

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4vadl_fitna-the-movie-dutch-official-rele_news

Friday, March 28, 2008

The Cruel World

Oh oh, even Slate Magazine has a Sir Hillary Death Watch.

Pity, I was so looking forward to the national dialog about Madam President Sir Hillary....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120663639483768965.html?mod=todays_columnists

Make sure you read GI Joe's comments from Afghanistan, they're a hoot.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Commies, One and All

Sir Hillary and B-HO two peas in a pod? Who didn't know that?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/27/change-you-can-xerox-obama-lifts-a-line-from-hillary/

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

There's A Pattern Here

It's beginning to look as if there is something fundamentally wrong with the whole HO campaign.
What to make of this:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/26/obama-adviser-war-the-fault-of-american-jews/

The fish stinketh from the head down.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Cold Water

So you like BHO, eh? Why? Maybe you should tell Pastor Manning.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOBDU

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Barak EUGENE Obama

He don't like you to use his real middle moniker. Maybe he should change it to Eugene:

Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.


We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.


The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the front runner, and it's time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.

Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.


Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential front runner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost.


Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty."


Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong Il, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.


Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.


Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.


The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs .


But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and yes they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.


It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.



Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think


Remember--God is good, and is in time, on time--every time.


According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is:

The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??


I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it!


If you think I am crazy..Im sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate