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A Ranchers Wisdom

A Ranchers Wisdom

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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

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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

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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
Give Me A Month

Give Me A Month

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If you were allowed a month to fix the shit happening in our country and around the world…what would you do?

My fix:
1. A few well placed bombs to let the barbarians know the U.S. does not put up with shit from second world countries. Or any country for that matter!
2. A couple of federal agencies cease to exist.
3. Everyone works, if not, no money.
4. Government plays by the same rules as the average American, and gets the same benefits.
5. China gets reigned in for its cheating.
6. Government collective bargaining is abolished at every level.
7. Lobbyist are now extinct.

OK…. that took me a week, what to do with the other three. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR “LEADERS”?

Warnings 48 Hours In Advance

Warnings 48 Hours In Advance

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I don’t give a shit about the 48 hour warnings. I would think that anybody who works in an embassy in the middle east would consider 9/11 a potential “hot date” for violence against….um…Americans. Why the United States emabassies were not prepared for something like this is beyond reproach.
Mr. Obama…American blood is on your hands for this one. Your administration is in charge of diplomatic relations and security of our interests over seas and in any country that we have a an embassy.
Your administration was in charge! Don’t try and blame some stupid amatuer movie for what has happened….this was and is implicitly on YOUR WATCH!

Take the blame…fix the immediate problem…and pray the American people can ever forgive you for your incompetence.

Arab Sprung

Arab Sprung

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Get it now?

Barbaric animals that can’t think for themselves, raised in a culture of hate, whipped into a frenzy by Islamists extremism, and given an opportunity to kill, the muslim world once again shows its true colors. The Obama administration blusters about justice for the four Americans killed, but maybe they should, as a footnote to the political bullshit, do something substantial.

Drop all financial aid to the countries that have attacked an American embassies…. DONE…no money…..indefinately. And the money saved goes directly to American military spending to make up for the shortfall of the budget agreement that was extorted from Republicans back in 2011.

I doubt any American polirtician has the balls or political gall to do it, but they should. It’s terrible enough that we are losing soldiers in the “war on terror”, it is another that we should sit back when our embassies are attacked for just being American.

Personally I would not lose any sleep if they were wiped from the face of the earth…..just sayin.

TAKE BACK THE MONEY…..Idiots!

In Recognition Of The Chicago Teachers Union Strike

In Recognition Of The Chicago Teachers Union Strike

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Chicago teachers have the highest average salary of any city at $76,000 a year before benefits. The average family in the city only earns $47,000 a year. Yet the teachers rejected a 16 percent salary increase over four years at a time when most families are not getting any raises or are looking for work.

Chicago Public School already teachers enjoy the highest average pay of any district in the nation—$76,000 a year, plus benefits. (The CTU argues it is only $71,000 after taking out contributions for their pensions and health care.) The union wanted a 30 percent raise but has indicated it could settle for the 16 percent the city is now offering (raising average annual pay to $88,000).
Teachers pay only 3 percent of their health-care costs and out of every new dollar set aside for public education in Illinois in the last five years, a full 71 cents has gone to teacher retirement costs.
Monday morning, teachers showed up in force on picket lines as parents dropped their children off at 144 contingency elementary and high schools across the city, as well as at parks, libraries and YMCAs. (Daycare paid for by taxpayers anyone?)
Even as a chemistry teacher in Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis made her students work hard to find answers, according to one of her former principals. In 2010, Lewis defeated Marilyn Stewart, vaulting from the rank and file to union president. Teachers union officials declined to provide information on Lewis’ salary. But Stewart made $211,119 in 2009, her final full year in office. Lewis took over as president for part of 2010, and was paid $71,330 by the teachers union that year, records indicate. Lewis also is eligible for compensation from the Illinois Federation of Teachers, and in 2011 she was paid $64,157 by that group, records indicate.

The union has a great deal of leverage in its strike. It can prevent more than 350,000 children from receiving an education. It has forced parents to find other ways of caring for their kids while they work. Many children will wander the streets—police are beefing up patrols to forestall trouble.

The union prefers having children pay this price to letting the district fire bad teachers. This is not exactly surprising. Unions serve their members’ interests first. No union would sacrifice its members’ job security to spare parents from a strike.

This is why collective bargaining does not belong in government—and why more states should emulate Governor Scott Walker’s (R–WI) reforms. No competitors exist to pick up the government’s slack. Unlike in the private sector, a government strike shuts down vital services entirely. The government exists to serve the common good, but unions exist to serve themselves. They should not have the power to shut down the government to get their way.

FDR agreed:

Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.