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NBC, WTF?

NBC News Labels Iraqi Conflict a 'Civil War'

It appears the NBC has taken it upon themselves to define what is going on in Iraq for the rest of us. Thanks guys, we trust the MSM and need for you to make us understand things and see them your way!

I now refuse to turn the tv to any channel where Matt Lauer's face is appearing. I don't look to him or the left wing MSM to define or to educate me on a damn thing.

After all, we have seen time and again how the MSM, tv and print, educate us correctly!

Looking at Islam

Captain's Comments takes several looks at Islam:

A Look Into Islam: Shi'a and Sunni
A Look Into Islam: Uncovered Meat
A Look Into Islam: Islamic Fascism

More great comments

American Legion Wants Apology

The National Commander of The American Legion called on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) to apologize for suggesting that American troops would not choose to fight in Iraq if they had other employment options.

“Our military is the most skilled, best-trained all-volunteer force on the planet,” said National Commander Paul A. Morin. “Like that recently espoused by Sen. John Kerry, Congressman Rangel’s view of our troops couldn’t be further from the truth and is possibly skewed by his political opposition to the war in Iraq.”

Read the entire article

If it weren't for the fact that we homeschool our children, we would be looking to move to Juneau.

Thankfully we can do the same type of outdoor education at home. Thankfully we are free to make this choice for our family.

Yes, I think guns are good when used responsibly.

H/T Free Republic

Video

The video clip Political Poet from Dennis Miller is a must see!

Now if someone on the left would just listen up!

The Draft

Based on the recent comments by several ill-informed individuals about reinstating the draft, I thought I might put my commander thoughts out there. I don't think anyone would argue that we have the best military in the world. Not just the best equipment, but more importantly the best Soldiers. Smart. Tough. Dedicated. How did we get this kind of a military? How did the USA get so lucky to have the greatest military power? Did we just put rocks behind really good equipment and it just happens to work?

We have this military because men and women that want to serve their country joined voluntarily. Not only are they people that want to serve their country, but they are smart and dedicated. They really TRY to do the best they can. Soldiers have pride in their jobs. When a lot of civilians (don't take this as you if it doesn't apply, just going off what I've seen) have things messed up at work, it is someone else's fault, or they just don't care. Soldiers get pissed. Really pissed. And they get pissed because of the pride they have for their responsibilities to the unit.

If you force people to join the military, the reasons we are great will disappear and we will become a mediocre mess that once was the greatest collection of hero's ever assembled. As a commander, I'll take the unit of volunteers, keep your draft for somewhere else.

Let the military fight the bad guys already..

Can't everyone just shut the hell up and let the military handle the bad guys?

It is their job, they are good at it and it comes without all of the political shit that undermines our entire country.

Janet Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law...

Last weekend, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the nation's handling of the detainees. He said they are afforded more rights than required.

"What is extraordinary, in other words, is how much _ not how little _ our law protects enemy combatants," he said.

H/T Drudge Report

The D word

Right Wing Rebel has a good post on reinstating the draft.

He also links a super great article by Thomas Sowell and I concur!

Just what we need

You know what we need?

more civil rights groups.....

Thousands Protest Ga. Military School

John Kerry to run for President in 08.......

Kerry: 'Botched' war joke won't hurt me

Wicked pissed...

Why is it so difficult for the middle east and a portion of US Citizens to realize that things that go on over there really don't have that frickin much to do with oil? Idiots.

The UN is not worth too much in my book, but when they were finally forced to wake up and smell some coffee on Darfur, you then get other idiots chiming in and making comments that have no relation to what the hell is going on. It asses me off that stupid people are everywhere and when they speak, it gets printed! Tell me exactly what Libya has done to help Darfur and it appears that the Sudanese government has done about squat! Example: U.N.: Sudan 'terrorizing citizens' - This kind of crap makes me wicked pissed!

Gadhafi: U.N. Darfur force is ruse to grab Sudan's oil

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Sunday accused the West of trying to grab Sudan's oil wealth with its plan to send U.N. troops to Darfur and urged Khartoum to reject them.

"Western countries and America are not busying themselves out of sympathy for the Sudanese people or for Africa but for oil and for the return of colonialism to the African continent," he said.

It’s Buy Ammo Day!

Celebrate your 2nd Amendment rights!

H/T Traction Control

The good news just keeps coming...

The Clinton Battle Plan

-a dinner at the Four Seasons in New York for the 20th anniversary of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Portentous Ivy League professors, Upper East Side gazillionaires, Precambrian media pooh-bahs; Dan Rather and Al Franken and Paul Pelosi, spouse of the Speaker-elect. Almost all in attendance cheer the results of the midterms while bemoaning the demise of old media. Suddenly, shimmering over the tabletops, comes a vision of what was and might yet be again: in full plumage, arriving and departing separately per their insane schedules, Bill and Hillary Clinton—"two for the price of one," as the Arkansas governor liked to say back in 1992, before Dogpatch went global.

This audience knows about the ex-president's ability to put other people's money where his mouth is. Big money. At the second annual Clinton Global Initiative in September, he extracted more than $7 billion in commitments to address world problems. Hosting a conference of the Slate 60 largest charitable givers in the United States last week at his presidential library in Little Rock, he joked to the assembled billionaires, "I looked in the mirror and realized I'd become an NGO."

Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible

Thanks a lot Mr. Kissinger! NOT!!

The Hypocrisy Of The United Nation And The World

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Right Wing Guy calls it like he sees it!

Things to know about...

Guardsmen hero exhibit
An Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom exhibit honoring guardsmen opens Dec. 6 in Washington, D.C. www.ngef.org or www.ngaus.org

Army OKs war-zone fitness waiver
the Army announced Nov. 9 that it was cutting some slack on Army physical-fitness-test requirements for soldiers deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

“The APFT requirement is waived for soldiers deployed in units unable to administer the Army physical fitness test due to mission or conditions,” the Military Personnel message reads. “Those soldiers may be recommended, considered by a board and placed on the promotion standing list, if recommended.”

The announcement follows one in October in which the Army granted a six-month grace period for soldiers who fail the tape-test standards for body fat. The Army at that time also raised weight limits for women and clarified taping procedures for all troops. Those changes apply to the entire force but only deployed troops can take advantage of the new guidance on the APFT.

Searching for bone marrow
A chief warrant officer 3 serving in Iraq is trying to find a bone marrow match for his ailing father and has turned to fellow soldiers for help.

Retired Reserve Staff Sgt. Charles Miller has been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of pre-leukemia.

Miller’s son, Ty, arranged with an Army surgeon for a bone marrow registry drive among soldiers in Iraq. So far, 150 soldiers there have registered.

Details about the military’s marrow donor program is online at www.dodmarrow.org

Survivor benefits extended for children
Children of service members who die on active duty will get enhanced health care coverage from the Defense Department under a new policy that took effect Nov. 1.

Children of service members who die while on active duty will now stay in “transitional survivor status” for health care at active-duty payment rates until they marry or reach age 21 (age 23 if they are enrolled in school full time).

Previously, children of those who died on active duty received benefits at the active-duty payment rates for up to three years after a member’s death, after which the benefits package shifted to higher retiree payment rates.

The three-year limit on active-duty payment rates remains in effect for surviving spouses.
More details at www.tricare.osd.mil/survivors/default.cfm

via www.armytimes.com

Read this.......

Iraq Now questions, have we lost our minds?

The way to defeat the insurgency is to force THEM into a last ditch effort. For all we know, influencing the elections in the United States was their last ditch effort - their final gasp of strength.

If they recieve an unmistakeable message from Washington that we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will never sell out our allies in Iraq - ever, ever, EVER - that their herculean effort to influence the midterms was for naught, and that both parties in the United States are united in their commitment to prosecute the war, uphold Iraq's fledgeling democracy, and find and kill these bastards where they live, you will see the momentum begin to change.

Read the rest of the story...

Attention Military Kids

Toy Summit with Santa

H/T Love My Tanker

This is just the left wing beginning folks........

'San Francisco kills JROTC program'

"San Francisco values" prevailed last night. Some 1,600 students of all backgrounds will now be robbed of a valuable training program that immunized them against the anti-military hatred that infests the Bay Area

Sex play and the Patriot Act

Talk about a waste of time, resources and energy.............

Mid-flight sex play lands couple afoul of anti-terrorism law...

A couple's ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years.

H/T Drudge Report

Watch this...

'Exposed: The Extremist Agenda'

We know exactly what Islamic extremists are planning to do. How? We've seen the video. On Wednesday, you will too. Tune in Wednesday at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET for a one-hour "Glenn Beck" special event.

It ought to be an interesting show and Glenn Beck is saying that it will show things never show before on American TV and open our eyes!

Helping Darfur

Not that I have a lot of faith in the U.N. - but at least they might now be doing something..........

U.N. Pledges $22 Million to Help Darfur Forces

How to piss off this military wife......

Just to name a few.....

Democrats set to seek Iraq troop withdrawals

Bolton's Chances of Confirmation Are 'Nil,' Official Says

Pelosi backs Murtha as House Democratic leader

'Waging war on JROTC'

The realists take charge in Washington

Mayor admits he did not serve in Green Berets

Veterans' Bill of Rights

Have a look at Veterans' Bill of Rights and sign on if you are willing to support this concept.

**UPDATE**Also linking the Military.com "Bill"~ OPFOR

Iraq the Model shares an opinion

The American elections from a middle eastern perspective

It was obvious that a majority here were in favor of a change, not because they think the democrats have a better agenda but because folks here wanted to see Bush and his party lose.

2007 DePuy Writing Contest

Writing Competition

The topic for the 2007 Gen. William E. DePuy Writing Competition is “Consolidating victory: Stabilization and reconstruction operations.” Entries are due April 1.

The Combined Arms Center (CAC), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is pleased to announce its second annual Special Topics Writing Competition, now named for General William E. DePuy, a visionary Army leader, educator, and promulgator of doctrine. The focus of this year’s competition is post-conflict stabilization operations (SO).

$2500 in prizes and publication in Military Review

Go here for more details

Border Watch

Texas Border Watch

Moonbats at it again

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan demonstrates outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday. AP

Activist Cindy Sheehan, Two Others, Arrested for Interfering With a Government Function at White House

Good, Bad and Ugly...Gates related articles

Bush taps Gates to replace Rumsfeld

Gates seeks to resuscitate policy in Iraq

Rumsfeld move means U.S. troops may leave Iraq sooner

Gaining Military's Trust Is Early Step for Incoming Defense Secretary

In Gates, Bush taps one of his father's trusted advisers

Bush makes right move by removing Rumsfeld

More Resignations Expected at Pentagon After Rumsfeld's Departure

Gates increased number of minorities on campus

DEFENSE SECRETARY Nominee is 'old school,' 'pragmatist'

Robert Gates, the anti-Rumsfeld?

Gates lacks defense experience, views on Iraq unknown

Gates served 6 presidents, including the first President Bush

Robert Gates, a cautious player

Defense nominee can do the job without 'having rocks thrown at him ...

Will Gates Nomination Revive Old Scandals?

The 'realist' at the helm

Robert Gates: Profile Aljazeera.net

Who Is Robert Gates

Robert M. Gates Profile Washington Post

Robert Gates, from a Colleague's Viewpoint

How Will Robert Gates Work Out at the Pentagon?

What will this mean for our forces?

GOP says Rumsfeld stepping down

I received this via email today....

This is a great photo of an Air Force training squadron flying in a never-done-before "USA" formation over the control tower "Taj Mahal" (HQ building) of Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

WELCOME TO HELL!

Good analysis!

BEAST MEDIA: GOOD MORNING AMERICA! WELCOME TO HELL!

Is there one star, maybe......

One star in the universe about the Dems takeover: hopefully the Dems elected will actually help the President on the immigration issue. Some of the Dems have more in common with the President on this one issue than several Republicans. We will see.

Other than that issue, I am very dismayed at the results and the decision of American voters. I think that many voters made their decisions based on anger and/or false hope. I will be waiting for the Dems to actually voice their plans. Right now they can't or won't tell me any plans for anything, they are all lip service. All I can do now is complain about it, write about it and hope like hell that they either stand up and do the right things by America and by our troops over the next two years OR they show their true colors often enough (without driving America totally into the ground in the meantime) that the American voters that chose them, will wake up and smell the coffee before the 2008 elections.

I am concerned about what decisions are going to be forced on Iraq, GWOT, minimum wage, education, gun rights, and these are just to name a few.

We shall see, we shall see!!

Vote America, Vote!

We are voting Republican.

If you aren't, we won't tell you that you are (too) wrong. What matters the most is to just get out and vote, PERIOD!

Troops speak

Move out and read A plea from the battlefield over at Hillbilly White Trash.

This is as close as soldiers on active duty can come to making an outright political endorsment. But make no mistake that is what they are doing. They are begging the folks back home to not to stab them in the back by voting for the party which is on their enemy's side.

Marines have pulled ahead of Army

As of right now the Marines have pulled ahead of Army in the 2006 Project Valour-IT Competition.

The real winners are our wounded military heroes. Lets keep the competition going!!

GO ARMY! HOOAH!

Are you a Veteran?

It seems that Contact Right is not really a Veteran! I suppose that means that my husband isn't one either?

H/T Love My Tanker

Military Times Editorial

Greyhawk has some good comments about Military Times vs Rumsfeld.

I was duly unimpressed to learn that the Military Times had published an
editorial calling for the scalp of Donald Rumsfeld - but I see the issue has
gotten some attention, mostly from those who would like to believe (or have you
believe) that the Gannett publications aimed at the military are somehow actual
military publications.

Saddam Hussein Guilty

Saddam Hussein SentencedTo Death by Hanging

Saddam Urges Iraqis to Not Take Revenge on U.S. Forces

Fast Facts: Key Figures in the Saddam Hussein Trial

Videos:
Former Iraqi dictator launches tirade upon hearing death sentence
FOX News' Courtney Kealy at the courthouse
Saddam Hussein Guilty

And there was cake.....yummy

Emanuel's take on the Iraqi nuclear program: the Left wants to have their cake and eat it too

Um, excuse me.....WTF

Britons wary of Bush more than Kim Jong-il-poll

Questions....

Do you think that it possible to be Right Winged on all things except:

Stem cell research, abortion and God?

Do you think it is possible for a Right Winged person to believe that Stem Cell Research should move forward (with certain limits) to benefit the living, breathing human being that desperately need this research to be done?

Do you think it is possible for a Right Winged person to believe that abortion is an individual choice and that aside from partial birth abortion; the government should stay out of it?

Do you think it is possible for a Right Winged person to be an atheist or to be agnostic and not be offended by the Ten Commandments being on public and/or government property and that is not offended by public prayer?

Do you think there are other Republicans out there that only claim to be in the middle or on the left on these particular issues?

Are you one of them?

Do you think that only people who support the left can have the above views?

Do you criticize Right Wingers that have a few different views than the larger part of the Republican Party?

What are your thoughts??

Will they be keeping tabs on me too??

GOOGLE 'will be able to keep tabs on us all'...

My question.........Why the hell would anyone want to know what I am doing at 0230 on any given day? I AM BORING and not worth the effort, really!

H/T Drudge Report

The wild herd theory, why drinking helps

As I progressed through college I had many weekends (and some weekdays) to pontificate about my drinking. And, as many people do, I came up with a reasoning as to how my drinking was helping me in some way (granted I was 20 at the time). Now, even though I do realize it has some flaws, I refuse to believe it's not true.

As we all know, wild herds are thinned out by predators. The weakest and slowest are the animals taken. This feeds the beast, but also allows the herd to function more efficiently. The herd can now move more quickly and protect itself better. Well (I think you can see where I'm heading with this), drinking does the same thing. We all know that alcohol kills brain cells. But, I believe drinking kills off the weakest and slowest brain cell; thus improving the overall function of the brain. You are now able to think more quickly and efficiently because you're drinking!! Hey, it sounded good on a Saturday night in 1996.

Honor the Fallen

Oregon Army National Guard’s Sgt. Nathaniel “Brad” Lindsey

Oregon Army National Guard Sgt. Nathaniel “Brad” Lindsey made the ultimate sacrifice for his country on Sept. 9, 2006. After serving in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina he volunteered for duty in Afghanistan.



Sgt. Lindsey and his convoy were attacked when Taliban fighters set up a false checkpoint in Afghanistan on Sept. 9, 2006. The enemies hit the convoy with either a roadside bomb or a rocket-propelled grenade, and then opened up small-arms fire on the vehicles. Lindsey, a gunner who had recently switched from a desk job at a secure base in Kandahar to a job training Afghan soldiers, died in the attack. He had volunteered for deployment to Afghanistan after having already served in Iraq and during Hurricane Katrina to protect an officer he had driven for since June 2004. Lindsey was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Meritorious Service Medals on Sept. 22, 2006.

They are everywhere.......

'The Latest Liberal Attack On The Military' from Right Wing News.

Dennis Miller

H/T Enlisted Swine

The Darfur Genocide

I have recently learned of this situation through Right Wing Guy and I am disappointed with myself for not picking up on it sooner. Though I do pay more attention to sub-Saharan Africa, I should have caught this. Kudos to Right Wing Guy for bringing it to my attention.

If you go to any site about this atrocity, you won't go far without seeing the data of over 450,000 killed and over 2.5 million displaced Darfur citizens. Just a bit of background: Darfur is an area of western Sudan with borders of Chad on the northern side and Central African Republic on the southern.

According to Genocide Intervention the situation has been on going since 2003. The Darfur region, about the size of Texas, contains racially mixed African tribe peasants and Arab nomadic herders. The majority of people identify as Muslim. Due to years of poverty and neglect, two groups began an uprising against the ruling Sudanese government in the north, the Khartoum government. The government's response has become the Darfur Genocide. (There are two ruling entities in Sudan, one in the north and one in the south, which was a war of its own. You can get a brief run-down at the Sudan Tribune.

The Sudanese Government began killing and raping Darfurians and enlisted the help of Arab nomadic tribes, the Janjaweed, to continue the onslaught. Remember, the Darfur region is in the west of Sudan, and Chad is the northwestern border of Darfur. The Sudanese government is helping Chadian rebels to conduct the same types of attacks, thus enveloping the Darfur region with atrocities.

The Darfurian area rebels have banded together somewhat to form the National Redemption Front (NRF) to counter the Sudanese government. The NRF did reportedly have a cease fire, but have since called it off due to rapes allegedly by the Janjaweed. The UN sent Special Envoy Jan Pronk to talk to the Sudanese government, but he was expelled from the country. The US, EU, African Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have all weighed in on this topic.

Now, all this being said, I must put aside some of my own personal feelings to support something I think needs it. A lot of the information and voice on this issue in the US is coming from some of my least favorite places (The Washington Post, The New York Times, Lieberman, and General Kofi Annan). But, I'm willing to look past the source when right is right. Let's see if we can't help.

A female view on gun rights

Our household believes in The Second Amendment.

We use our guns for hunting and recreational range shooting. We collect guns. We also believe that we reserve the right to protect ourselves and our children in our own home, should the need arise. We are trained and educated in the use of our guns.

When the horrible hurricane rocked New Orleans, many residents were forced to hand over their weapons. I blame the Mayor and the New Orleans Police Superintendent . I assume that they were attempting to contain crime. What they did instead, was to keep law abiding citizens from protecting themselves when 911 was not working and the police were nowhere to be found. State "Emergency Powers" vs. The Right to Arms

Take a look at:

Brutally Disarmed, Victims and Give Them Back.

I am a female, I believe that guns rights are important. I believe that the guns that kill people daily in our country are rarely used by law abiding citizens. They are used instead by thugs and criminals that do not own guns legally and seek only to harm others.

I reserve the right to protect myself against those types of people and to protect my family.

Maybe you don't hear from a lot of females with my views. But you should. Women should be standing up in droves for gun rights.

IraK

H/T Drudge Report

Original photo and story can be found here.

More on the left

This is a worthy read.

More today here and at Vent.

Searching for 'failure'

Here is a little something for you to do..................

Go to Google.com and search the word 'failure' -

What is the first thing you see?

President of the United States - George W. Bush

Shall I personally boycott Google.com? I think I will!

Blah, Blah, Blah.....

House Democrats Propose More Spending for Military and Education

As part of their midterm election push, House Democrats are promoting a wide-ranging legislative agenda that would add tens of billions of dollars a year to the federal budget for the military, homeland security and education yet still impose a new budget restraint that would make it harder to widen the annual deficit.

Republicans and budget experts doubt that Democrats could do both simultaneously. When price tags are attached to their six-pronged agenda -- named Six for '06 -- critics say the Democrats will be forced to choose between keeping their pledge of fiscal rectitude and their promises of federal largess.

"There's a trade-off that's being left unspoken here," said Robert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan opponent of deficits. "To pay for their new spending, they would have to cut programs, raise taxes or be unable to do what they want."

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