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Category Archives: Veterans
More SPITE from our oh-so-mature Democrat “leaders”
The Spite House decided a government shut-down meant that extra cops and resources needed to be allocated to Barry-cade the open-air monuments in DC lest expected World War II and Vietnam War Honor Flight veterans get in and … you know … look at them, have pics taken, lay a wreath or two.
But just so we are all Very Clear that Øbama Democrats believe they can shove their thumbs in our eyes whenever and wherever they choose, they’ve given the go-ahead to a planned protest called “Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform” on the otherwise Barry-caded National Mall.
The event is hosted by several immigration activist groups, plus the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO, all big contributors to Democrat war chests. About 30 members of Congress are expected to attend the rally, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
This is impossible to justify in terms of any “government shutdown.” However, if you assume that Obama and the Democrats regard illegal aliens as their constituents and WWII vets as NOT their constituents, then it makes a kind of sick sense. Emphasis on SICK.
Source:
- http://washingtonexaminer.com/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-on-closed-national-mall/article/2536908
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/07/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-on-closed-national-mall/
Filed under Armed Forces, Democrats, Republicans, Veterans
Another Veterans’ Memorial Barry-caded
Yet another open-aid monument to America’s finest has been “shut down” because President Petty-Pants is an effing schmuck.
UNBELIEVABLE Police force Vietnam veterans to vacate Vietnam Veterans Memorial [:57]
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial requires absolutely no security. As John McCormack commented, “It takes more manpower and costs the government more money to close down an outdoor wall than to let people walk past it and pay their respects.”
Source:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/police-remove-veterans-vietnam-memorial/
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Filed under Armed Forces, Government Shutdown, Veterans
Barricade Barry attempts to close the Iwo Jima Memorial to veterans
From a blog posting by Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard:
Another open-air memorial in the Washington area is closed and barricaded off: the Iwo Jima Memorial, just across the bridge from D.C. in Rosslyn, Virginia. A source sends along this picture of the barricade set-up at the memorial, which is also called the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial:
“I took the picture yesterday afternoon. Those barricades had been there at least a day. People can still walk into the Memorial area, but for many elderly and disabled vets, it is important they be driven and park right next to the statue,” the person who took this picture emails. […]
“This picture is from North Marshall Drive (100 yards up the hill from the 110) facing the only road in and out of the Memorial for cars. There are parking spots for cars and buses right next the Memorial that can only be accessed via this road.” […]
The stop is a popular destination for veterans and tourists alike, and, in my observation, is usually completely unmanned and unguarded. But, for some reason, it’s closed to the public during this federal government shutdown.
An Honor Flight of World War II veterans from Syracuse was being taken on a tour of Washington DC, and they paid as much heed to the barricades at the Iwo Jima memorial as an earlier group of veterans had paid to the barricades at the WWII memorial. Here’s a photograph of the group:
These guys stormed the beaches of Normandy, and Barricade Barry thinks he can scare them off with a flimsy portable barrier and some yellow tape?
Filed under Armed Forces, Government Shutdown, Veterans
“Caring” Democrats?
Yesterday, the Senate voted down a House joint resolution entitled Honoring our Promise to America’s Veterans Act.
Today, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said they will also vote down the bill to provide funding to NIH which helps children with cancer:
Reporter: But if you could help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?
Reid: Why would we want to do that?
Please keep in mind that:
A. Democrats have flatly refused to negotiate in any way whatsoever, despite the Republican “obsession” with this bill that a majority of Americans did not want WHEN IT WAS PASSED and which a BIGGER majority of Americans do not want NOW.
B. Ever since Obama first took office in January 2009, Democrats have blocked every attempt by Republicans in Congress to fulfill the ONE JOB the Congress is legally required to do … PASS A BUDGET.
C. All this haggling over Continuing Resolutions is about keeping the money (debting) flowing at the ridiculous rate that Democrats established in 2009, a rate that is very rapidly sending the United States of America into bankruptcy.
Filed under Budget, Democrats, Harry Reid, Obamacare, Republicans, U.S. Senate, Veterans
The shamefulness of “Barrycades”
The National Park Service confirmed that they had been INSTRUCTED TO CLOSE OFF ACCESS to the open-air, ordinarily unmanned World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall and POST GUARDS to prevent an expected group of World War II veterans from visiting the monument and laying their wreath. Many of the veterans are in their eighties and nineties.
Ten other states are expected to bring veterans to the nation’s capitol this week. Honor Flight organizers said that planning for each once-in-a-lifetime veterans tour takes months to organize and tens of thousands of dollars in donations. They have no intention of abiding by this ridiculous restriction.
I heard that Obama threatened to have anyone trying to enter the World War II Memorial area ARRESTED and one site reported that seven officials were dispatched Wednesday morning to keep vets out. That would be two more security officials than the State Department had in Benghazi a year ago on the night of the terrorist attack that killed four, including the U.S. ambassador.
But the latest word is that the park police have decided to call visiting the memorial a “First Amendment” activity. ::snort:: Good save, guys. The White House declined to comment, leaving the flunkies on the front lines to take all the heat … AS USUAL.
How totally petty and political was the “Barrycading” of the WWII Memorial? Check out what they put up at the World War I Memorial. Anybody can walk in there cuz you know … those vets are all DEAD. Democrats only care about pissing on LIVING veterans.
Sarah Palin posted: “The President is treating our veterans the same way he treated school kids when he cancelled their White House tours. When times called for obvious government belt-tightening, he took it out on kids rather than look for anything that would affect him personally.
And while our vets are barricaded from the memorial they built with their heroism, the government “slim down” won’t affect Obama’s golf game or his family’s White House chefs.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are attempting to fund the Veterans Administration and other essential functions, but Democrats are blocking them because they want to make any slim down look as awful as possible in order to deflect from what this whole slim down thing is about, which is their Obamacare train wreck.
Good Congressmen are fighting for average middle class Americans to get the same breaks that Obama gave Congress, his pals, union bosses, and crony corporations who financed his campaign and snookered the media into putting him in office.
It is a sad day when We the People have to go cap in hand to the president begging him to give us the same relief he gave his friends by fiat. Thank God we have bold leaders willing to fight for those who can’t afford to pay powerful lobbyists to make Obama and Harry Reid listen.”
Sources:
- http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/10/01/elderly-veterans-banned-from-ww-ii-memorial-n1714080
- https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151905956858588
- http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/confirmed-obama-admin-deployed-more-guards-at-the-wwii-memorial-than-benghazi/
- http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/10/01/House-Democrats-To-Deny-WWII-Vets-Access-To-Their-Own-Memorial
- http://freebeacon.com/wwii-vets-knock-over-shutdown-barrier-to-visit-wwii-memorial/
- http://www.sunshinestatesarah.com/2013/10/shutdown-doesnt-stop-wwii-veterans-from.html#.Ukyy2lNZlGo
- http://www.stripes.com/news/wwii-veterans-storm-dc-memorial-closed-by-government-shutdown-1.244447
Filed under Barack Obama, Benghazi, Obamacare, Republicans, Sarah Palin, U.S. Congress, Veterans
Dems to Vets: SCREW YOU!
Current make-up in House:
- 232 Republicans
- 200 Democrats
- 3 seats vacant
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Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, U.S. Congress, Veterans
Army combat veteran and cop tells it straight
An impassioned and rational statement against New York’s so-called “Safe Act” by Aaron Weiss of Poughkeepsie [2:58]
I especially like his statement at the end about what the legislators who support this vile law would be willing to do to enforce it. My guess is … nothing. The Left sends better men and women into harm’s way while they sit back in their padded chairs and sip their expensive whiskey.
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Filed under Armed Forces, Veterans
Shame on you indeed!
Above: Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill, lost both her legs and the use of her right arm as a helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004. She has chronic pain and may still lose her right arm altogether.
In video: Braulio Castillo broke his foot at the U.S. Military Preparatory School, between high school and college. Then he went on to play football in college. Thirty years later, he claimed special “military disability” benefits for his company based on chronic pain in says he has in his foot.
Castillo told Duckworth that the pain is “due to my service to our great country and I would do it again to protect this great country.”
Duckworth replied, “I’m so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school again to protect this great country.”
She went on.
“Shame on you, Mr. Castillo. Shame on you. You may not have broken any laws … but you certainly broke the trust of this great nation. You broke the trust of veterans.”
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Weakening us at home and abroad
It’s all part of Obama’s promise to fundamentally transform America.
May 26, 2013: Vet Arrested for Defending His Home from a Wanted Felon
Corey Thompson,36, a United States military veteran, discovered 40-year-old Johnathon Kinsella, a wanted felon, attempting to break into his home around 11:30pm on Sunday evening. He attempted to stop Kinsella by warning him verbally that he was armed and then providing a warning shot into the ground near him. Ultimately he stopped the intruder, but police didn’t think Kinsella made the right call and charged him with unlawful use of a weapon, menacing and reckless endangering. Then they confiscated his AR-15.
Source: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/06/us-veteran-stops-wanted-felon-police-confiscate-his-gun/
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Filed under Barack Obama, Gun Control, Terrorism, Veterans
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