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Month: September 2012

History Will Repeat Itself…God Help Us.

History Will Repeat Itself…God Help Us.

“The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt

A Nod to Jon E. over at Aces place for the quote.

Former Democratic Pollster Rips The MSM

Former Democratic Pollster Rips The MSM

Must watch: A Nod to Theo for the clip.

Pat Cadell has worked for Democratic presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, Joe Biden in 1988, and Jerry Brown in 1992. He also worked for Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff in 2010.
He has served as a consultant to various movies and television shows, most notably the movies Running Mates, Air Force One, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, and the serial drama The West Wing. He was also a marketing consultant on Coca-Cola‘s disastrous New Coke campaign.
In 1988, Caddell left the Democratic Party after an acrimonious lawsuit with a Democratic consulting firm, Caddell, Doak and Shrum. Republicans would often cite Caddell’s tirades against the Democratic Party when they spoke on the floor of the House and the Senate.
According to researchers, Caddell had wide influence in the Carter White House, and was the chief advocate of what later became known as Carter’s “malaise speech“.

A Ranchers Wisdom

A Ranchers Wisdom

An oldie but still good!

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany …
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”

“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government”, says Bud.

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy.” You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.”

“Now give me back my dog.”

 

 

 

 

Rules Of Engagement

Rules Of Engagement

Have we not learned anything?

We have been through how many wars? We have built the largest, most well-trained military in the world. We have the most advanced weaponry known to man. So how can it be that our soldiers are being shot at close range by Afghan forces that we are training? With all of our knowledge, armor, and weaponry, how do we allow our troops to be murdered by the same people we hope will police their own country?
Every other day it seems there is an attack on American or allied troops in Afghanistan by  “green on blue” attacks. I don’t understand. I thought we were there to fight terrorists, not train, clothe , and arm an Afghan police force, who are turning those weapons on unsuspecting U.S. soldiers.
After all the wars and conflicts that the United States have been involved in how do military leaders allow this to happen? Isn’t there a better way?

In Iraq we attacked with frightening speed and force. In a matter of weeks we amassed on the Iraqi border and days later we are in Baghdad. Saddam had disappeared and his army was retreating, surrendering, or taking off their uniforms and going home. So what could possibly go wrong with our amazing victory? What could possibly stop or even reverse the course of such an apparent successful mission? How could someone screw up such a decisive victory?
Fuckin’ politicians that’s how.  Let’s train their police force. Let’s throw a butt load of money at them and they will love America. Let’s change the rules of engagement for our troops, instead of hellfire missiles, A-10’s reigning 50 cal on the rat bastards, M1 Abrams decimating known insurgent locations, let’s make them go door to door, shack to shack in an urban warfare environment with their Humvees and body armor. What could go wrong?
Holy shit! How long did it take the insurgents to improvise and adapt to our new rules of engagement? Not very fucking long! Why? Because they knew that American politicians do not have the stomach for total battlefield casualties. They knew that if they were patient, the American politicians would change the rules and put their own troops in harm’s way in the name of civility. So Iraq became….an unwinnable war. Sound familiar?

Afghanistan has become, due to political correctness, an unwinnable war. A very unpopular war. But our sons and daughters are still dying at the hands of those we are tasked to train and protect. At what price do you put an American life in battle? What are we to gain for the incredible senseless loss of Americans in a country that does not want us there? What is the end game? My short answer…. there is no end game.

So unleash the hounds of hell and show the Taliban that we are willing take out an entire village if necessary……..or withdraw completely. I hate to say it because of the disrespect it shows for the fallen soldiers in the “War on Terror”. But we are no longer fighting a war that we can win considering the rules that our leaders have placed on our troops.     That is all.

UPDATE: Letter from the front in Afghanistan

“To the second point: I don’t think that the American citizens would be happy if they knew that their soldiers were being prohibited from defending themselves in any way because of politically driven orders, but that is precisely what is happening in this war right now even as I write this letter. The soldiers of the U.S. never engage the enemy unless we know that we have will always have the tactical advantage in defending ourselves, that advantage is the use of close air support and air weapons team. To take those weapons away from us is to level the playing field for the enemy and thus exposing our soldiers to more danger. In the school house they teach us that the minimum ratio that we are to engage the enemy with, is a 3:1 ratio. In other words, we have the highest probability of winning because we don’t fight fair. The sound tactical principles behind this teaching have saved lives. The very presence of aircraft over our foot patrols has also saved lives and now our chain of command is being told by our political leadership that this is now not allowed.  If we are not partnering with the ANSF and we are not actively patrolling to prevent our enemies from massing their attacks on our COP and we can’t drop a bomb on the enemy that we have positively identified, than what the hell are we doing here?”
Read it all here…..just sayin. A Huge Nod To Weasel Zippers for the story.

Obama’s End Game Should Scare The Hell Out Of You

Obama’s End Game Should Scare The Hell Out Of You

A very well written expose on Obama and his administrations goals. Well done with a startling and scary summation at the end.
Enjoy and consider yourself warned. A Nod to Theo for the link.

On October 9, 2009, barely nine months after his inauguration on January 20th, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama. At the time, the committee said it was being awarded “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.”Only a fool would say that Obama’s international diplomacy has worked. The siege of our Cairo embassy hoisted the flag of al Qaeda. Our Ambassador to Libya has been killed. Syria’s dictator kills his own people with abandon. The Iranians have not stopped working toward being able to make their own nuclear weapons and from Morocco to Indonesia, in a large swath of the world there are rallies whose slogan is “Death to America.” While President Obama’s performance in office will be dissected by future historians, those of us who have to live through the experience day to day are often left wondering why he chose to pursue various policies.

A big part of the answer is that Obama is a dedicated Marxist. The recent tape of his 1998 discussion of the “redistribution of wealth” is pure Communism. It isn’t garden variety Socialism. A large part of the U.S. population has had some difficulty understanding what Obama was doing because they have never encountered Marxism so directly before.

To read the entire commentary, click here
Skin Art

Skin Art

I have always considered tattoos to be kinda for goth chicks and girls that live a bit on the wilder side of things. One of our bar maids has a bunch and I am kind of coming around to thinking maybe they don’t look that bad. That being said, I wouldn’t want my daughters to get any. But that’s just a a Dad being Dad.