The past fortnight has really been a microcosm of what Barack Obama is really about.
The media went off in an orgasmic explosion this morning, practically wetting themselves to jump on the “story” about Rush Limbaugh calling Georgetown Law student/professional activist Sandra Fluke a slut.
Now, in the interest of fairness, I will say that I think Mr. Limbaugh made a poor choice of words in the matter. The proper term for a person who expects his or her sex life to be subsidized by, well, anyone, is “whore.” But I digress.
Not one to miss a moment like this, our dear President reportedly called Ms. Fluke personally to make the sad, sad puppy dog eyes with her over the phone. (I guess asking her over for a beer would have raised too many eyebrows.) And in so doing, we find Mr. Obama yet again offering his Presidential condolences to someone who, in all actuality, owes us a massive apology.
I’m referring, of course, to what Sarah Palin brilliantly dubbed the President’s “naive apology to savages” in Afghanistan. For anyone who was stuck under a rock as these events unfolded, here’s the short version: Our troops in Afghanistan disposed of desecrated Korans – desecrated, I might add, by Taliban prisoners they were holding – in the manner proscribed by Islam, which is burning them. For our troops’ heinous act of respecting the religious traditions of a country in which people are still trying to kill them, there were riots in the streets and some of our troops were murdered by Afghani soldiers. In what has got to be the most dickless move of the 21st century, President Obama apologized. And when his initial apology precipitated more riots and more murders of our troops, he apologized again.
What was the definition of insanity again?
Now, I live on a military base. My husband is in no immediate danger of deployment, but I do have two neighbors who were recently deployed to Afghanistan, leaving wives and children back home. Another neighbor is expecting her husband to be home soon. I spent some time chatting with one of those wives, a friend of mine, yesterday, and found out that she won’t even ask her husband if he’s near all the rioting. She’s already dealing with some mild insomnia, you see, and has no desire to make it worse.
These are good people, brave men – one of whom, judging by the bumper sticker, actually voted for the guy whose spineless, pantywaist penchant for inappropriate apologetics has now put him and his comrades-in-arms in even more danger of coming home in a box.
Just when I thought my indignity meter could go no higher, Obama dropped another bomb on the military in the form of his budget proposal, in which he outlines his desire for enormous increases to Tricare premiums for veterans, active duty military, and their families.
It was back during the New Deal era that companies started offering benefits as part of employee compensation packages, mainly as a way to get around FDR’s arbitrary salary caps; as such, it is now common for people to take a lower-paying job because the benefits make up for the cut in pay. It’s no secret that military personnel receive a fraction of the take-home pay that they would be getting in the private sector, but this is offset somewhat by housing benefits and Tricare, the military health care program. (Also, the fact that the military paid for your training in the first place.)
Anyone who’s had to deal with the labyrinth of red tape that is Tricare can tell you that it’s not ideal. This is not because of incompetence – these aren’t graduates of BillyBob’s Online School of Self-Medicatin’ or anything – it’s the result of the unholy trinity of massive bureaucracy, lots of patients, and cushy, cushy job security. My most recent experience in military healthcare was actually pretty decent, but previous ones have ranged from facepalm-worthy to out-and-out infuriating. It’s a pretty clear-cut case of “You get what you pay for” — and now the Dumb Bastard wants to jack up premiums by up to 300% while cheerfully whistling past his union buddies??
(As an aside: my favorite question that I got from ObamaCare supporting friends was, “Well, Tricare is better than nothing, right?” Yes. Yes it is. And dog food is better than starving; that doesn’t mean you force everyone onto the Purina diet.)
In one of the speeches Michelle Obama gave on the 2008 campaign trail, she promised something to the effect of, “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.” I think we can count this as a promise kept …
NOTE: I am cutting this off far enough in, but before the end so you’ll be hooked and just HAVE to go visit Angela’s blog to read the rest. It’ll pump up her numbers. While you’re there, surf around. She’s a tremendous writer!
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t said much about the situation in Afghanistan, it’s because I’ve got kids over there. IN. HARM’S. WAY. I had to take four breaks to get this graphic done. I can’t even look at the headlines about that other thing without feeling the veins on my neck bulge alarmingly.
NOTE: My family has had numerous contacts with good, peace-loving Muslims. I do not condemn all Muslims any more than I condemn all priests for the sins of the tiny number of pedophiles who have caused so much damage to individuals and to the institution they were sworn to serve.
I think the good people who practice Islam are in a tough place and I pray God will grant them the graces they need to combat the extremists who violate the rights of others to live and worship freely.
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“The Quran’s that were burned had been written in by inmates. That in itself is a violation of the Quran. The only sanctioned mode of disposal for a defiled Quran is to burn it. Which is what they did.”
In May 2009, military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans.
Did Christians riot? Did any of us murder anybody?
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said President Obama “surrendered” Thursday when he apologized to the Afghan government for the burning of several Qurans at an American military base near Kabul, noting Obama had not called on the Afghan government to issue an apology for the deaths of two NATO soldiers who were killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform.
“There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama’s attention in a negative way,” Gingrich said, “and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States, period.”
“If Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn’t feel like apologizing, then we should say, ‘Goodbye and good luck, we don’t need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn’t care.'”
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The man who secretly filmed this video has had his life threatened for doing it.
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“In Dearborn Michigan it is like being in a Middle Eastern Country. The Islamic call to prayer blasts out all across the city on loud speakers several times a day. The Christian churches around Dearborn cannot ring their bells because it offends the Muslims.”
I am always glad to see people sharing their thoughts here.Hopefully it will get more lurkers to get off the bench and get in the game.
I promise I will try not to be whiny,grumpy,cynical,depressing or bitchy….no guarantees
OK,CHRISSY:HERE’S THE STORY
When I was about 23 my sister and her roommate(cute,as I recall)decided to have a Halloween party.The caveat was men had to be dressed as women and vice versa.Frankly,I never wanted my vice versa.I wanted to use one of my mom’s dresses(she was a big woman) but she talked me into putting on one of my sister’s dresses.She borrowed a wig from her neighbor and gave me one of her bras with the…uh… ‘foam rubber enhancements’.I think they were called “falsies.” I put on a pair of sis’ pantyhose,but they only came up to the top of my thighs so I had to keep reaching down to yank them up.Why did people give me funny looks when I did that?I was driving a 1971 Barracuda with vinyl seats and tried driving without sitting all the way down because they were cold as hell.
There I was,smoking cigars and shooting pool trying to look as macho as possible under the circumstances.It’s really a challenge to play nineball with foam rubber missiles always in your way.Anyway,sis’ neighbor staggers in not in costume,and starts watching me.As my grandma would put it,he was so drunk he didn’t know if he was afoot or horseback.Finally,he came over and said, ‘who are you,sweetheart?’
I told him I was twice the man he’ll ever be and more woman than he’ll ever get.I decided it would be better to leave the party early than to have this creep wake up the next morning thinking a girl beat his ass.Although I still appreciate a beautiful woman in heels,that was my first and only foray into the twisted world of crossdressing.That’s it.True story.
FIRST,THEY CAME FOR THE CATHOLICS
There was a discussion on the radio this morning about Bozo cutting off Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to non-compliant Catholic hospitals.Judging from the initial outrage Barky may have bitten off more than he can chew.
Excerpt from The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings:
After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad.
He’s asked to go out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers. He’s asked to sign copies of his book. “He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me.
“Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take fucking pictures with them?”
To put the likelihood this is an accurate quote, keep in mind that Michael Hastings is a Leftist and NO FAN of the military. Remember the Rolling Stone hit piece that got General McChrystal canned? Hastings wrote it.
To put Obama’s dismissive attitude toward personal meet-and-greets into perspective, note that he’s “grateful” for soldiers’ service to him as a backdrop to his speech.
I have heard from many sources, including my own kid who met George Bush a few years ago, that HE didn’t just bother himself with such courtesies. He relished the opportunities.
AND … again from personal, first-hand, word of mouth … he put all the emphasis on the soldiers, NOT on himself. My kid reported three things in particular.
She was whelmed at how personally he greeted them, really looked into their eyes and thanked them effusively and genuinely for their service.
He told them he’d just come from a difficult meeting and was so grateful there were Marines on the South Lawn to greet him, because it cheered him up so much to see them. (I looked up his schedule. He’d been talking to Democrats.)
He personally reminded his staffer to be sure and get each warrior’s name and address so they would be certain to receive a copy of the official photograph.
Some people are really good at lying — i.e., being convincing with the language that comes out their mouths. But convincing body language is a whole other thing. It’s what separates the really talented actors from the rest of us.
Obama and Bush are not actors; they’re politicians. Even more compelling, they’re presidents who were photographed hundreds of times a day for years. I have learned all I needed to know about these two men just from studying photographs like these.
Sorry for the late post;took a long nap.One of the joys of life at my age.
THREE MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL FWOTUS’S BIRTHDAY–SHOP EARLY
(First Wookie of the US)
COMMENT FROM LT.COL. ALLEN WEST
I know he’s a congressman,but he deserves more respect than that.
I.LOVE.THIS.MAN.
“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I am in one hundred percent agreement with Allen West on this one. Our soldiers are our on-the-ground ambassadors and representatives abroad, we can’t have that kind of behavior, they were wrong, and they should be punished internally. But this was an isolated incident, so unless you’ve witnessed the horrors of the battlefield while fighting a vicious enemy, you have no room to talk.
MEGHAN McCAIN COMPARES HERSELF TO RONALD REAGAN
Uh,girlfriend,like if your daddy wasn’t like a senator and like your mama hadn’t inherited hundreds of millions from your grandpa’s business, like you’d be schlepping drinks at Hooters,sweetie.
RON REAGAN:ROMNEY ISN’T AUTHENTIC; “HE’S ALWAYS CALCULATING.”
OK,Ron.Your dad was a great man.We get that.Now put on your slippers and pirouette your ass out of here.
OBAMA COMPLAINED ABOUT TAKING PICTURES WITH THE TROOPS
REMEMBER THIS?
I GOT NEWS FOR YOU,BOYO;I’LL BET THEY WOULD JUST AS SOON BE SOMEPLACE ELSE.
THEY KNOW YOUR HOMEBOYS ARE THE CAMEL-HUMPING,BATHROBE-WEARING MAGGOTS THAT ARE TRYING TO KILL THEM.
READ THIS–IT’S SHORT
Any idiot can copy and paste a bunch of links,but what fun is that?
GRAPHIC VIDEO OF MARINES URINATING ON DEAD TALIBAN SOLDIERS GOES VIRAL
This is the edited version.The graphic version requires signing in to youtube.
COMMANDER VOWS TO INVESTIGATE
The only question I have is why did these Devil Dogs wait until the scum were dead?
MESSINA SCOLDS SLACK OBAMA DONORS
It must be terribly difficult to con people into giving money to a fool who’s as useless as tits on a boar hog.
OBAMA: ‘EVERYTHING WE FOUGHT FOR IS NOW AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTION’
The Usurper was in Chicago last night to spread manure and rake in cash.I thought I smelled something.
WANT TO KNOW WHY DEMOCRATS VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE VOTER ID?HERE’S WHY;
THERE’S A WARD MODERATOR NEAR THE END THAT LOOKS LIKE THE COWARDLY LION.
BABY ABANDONED BY #OCCUPY DC PROTESTER
A Prince George’s teacher retired at 36?I’d like to have a word or two with him.
Hint:when I’m done he’d be singing an octave higher.
DC’A WALKING,TALKING BUZZKILL DOES IT AGAIN
I swear,y’all,I’m not trying to be mean(much) but every time I see this anorexic emu I’m reminded of a happier time when I went to the Piggly Wiggly store with my grandma.She would buy 5# tubs of Oscar Meyer Pure Lard to fry our hamburgers,pork chops and our own chickens in.I wondered why they don’t sell it anymore.Debbie Downer hoarded it.
REPUBLICANS TO ACT AFTER OBAMA REFUSES TO APPROVE KEYSTONE JOBS PROJECT
I suppose they’ll draft a letter strongly urging him to approve the project to provide jobs and help lower energy prices.I’m sure Obama will be so moved he will abandon his dreams of converting America into a socialist utopia.Then again I’m still looking for the unicorns crapping skittles.
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