Here come the pitchforks and torches

Time to throw some more Americans under the bus.

Get tossing donkey bloggers! Don't worry about getting any details, just throw! We'll figure it out later and then ignore it completely, but for now, go man go!!

Still Missing the Point

In the Washington Post article published on the 26^th, Joshua Partlow talks to a soldier who believes that Iraq isn’t worth another soldiers life. The left-wing bloggers in response decide that Neocons all over the world will call this a “phony soldier” because someone who is actually fighting it disagrees with it. What they refuse to understand is that THIS is not Jesse Adam Macbeth, who is a phony soldier. Sgt. Alarcon is actually enlisted in the United States Army. Big difference.

A phony soldier would be one who tells lies about actually being a soldier. News flash for all the lib donkeys out there: If you do not graduate from Basic Training, you are not an American soldier. Please try to allow this one tiny fact sink into your minds. I beg you. I have taken all the other facts you want to ignore about what Limbaugh said so that you might be able to digest it. Once you understand this one small fact, the rest is pretty easy to follow. Baby-steps little donkey, baby-steps.

It is okay to not like the war. It is okay to be miserable fighting it. Let me give the donkeys that have never been in the military and gone to war another little fact I learned by going. War sucks. It sucks every single day that you are on the other side of the world away from your wife and children. Some days suck less than others but it sucks. It sucks driving down "IED Alley" avoiding the potholes from previous bombs to get to Isk or having to take the long way, because EOD shut the road down that morning. Sorry, another IED went off and they have to clear it first. Sgt. Alarcon at least had a favorite street to go down, I hated every part of Iraq I saw. (Admittedly, it was not as much as some but it was enough.) If I owned property in both Iraq and Hell, I would rent out Iraq and live in Hell.)

Iraq may not be worth it, but America is. Let the facts about who the players are in Iraq slip right on by. http://pressmediawire.com/article.cfm?articleID=3033

Let the good things we are doing there just fade into obscurity. I won’t go over the reasons we need stability there, because donkeys don’t care anyway.

Strangely, it does surprise me that the donkey bloggers who cares so much about people would use the soldier who says that these people are not worth it as an example of why we should leave. Of course, the dead civilians are worth it, just not the live ones. Or maybe if they were a spotted owl or some rare fish they would be okay with it.

Washington Post Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602402.html

Crooks and Liars insightful reaction: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/28/iraq-soldier-sgt-victor-alarcon-i-dont-think-this-place-is-worth-another-soldiers-life/

Press Media Wire: http://pressmediawire.com/article.cfm?articleID=3033

Why are you opposed to freedom?

I am trying desperately to figure out the arguments against vouchers here in Utah. Someone please help me out. I got a flyer in the mail saying (dang I wish I had it with me) something about how it does not help reduce class sizes and takes needed funds away from schools. Huh?

No wonder these schools suck, they can’t do basic math themselves. (I am terrible at math by the way, so again, help me understand!) Let’s figure this out.

10 kids at 7000.00 per kid, is 70,000.00. Let’s say 4 kids leave because their parents want to send them to a new school that just opened up that has uncertified teachers who are not protected by the union. (We will talk about this more in a minute) Two are poor as dirt and 2 are as rich as Trump. The poor kids take 3,000 of the 7,000 they are allotted. The rich take 500.00 each. That is a total of 7,000 they are taking out of the school.

Now you have 6 kids who took off and took with them 7,000 between the 4. There are 6 kids left (6 X 7,000 = 42,000) and add to their totals the balance of the 4 (42,000 + 21,000 = 63,000) now divide that by the remaining kids, (63,000 / 6) now you have 10,500.00 per student in that class. Where is my logic flawed here???

The other argument I hear all the time, is that the teachers are not certified by the state. Uh, GOOD! That also means the bad ones are not protected by the state. I can fire you if you think that a good class consists of at least one hour of Ty-Bo a day. (yes, I know that teacher, and I want her fired! She makes about 55,000 a year to teach kids NOTHING.)

They argue, “Who’s going to get your kids to that school? They will want the state to do it.” The parents who care enough to use vouchers will take care of getting them there. It’s so dumb.

One thing I don’t like about vouchers is that it may cause the private schools to raise tuition. However, if that happens, it won’t matter; poor kids won’t be able to go anyway. So really, the point is moot.

The school board and the teachers unions don’t want this because it will likely take the good students out of the schools and leave them with troublemakers and problem learners (for the most part.) leaving them with parents who don't care or are too busy to help their kids at home. Teachers can't do it alone, not even the best ones. Here’s my logic:

Who will use this? Parents who care what happens to their kids.
Who helps the most in the public schools? Parents who care what happens to their kids.
Who does the best in school? Kids who have parents that care about their education.

So the parents who help their kids at home, making things easier for the teacher (LIKE THEY SHOULD) are the ones who want the best education they can get. Some may believe that their kids are not getting the best they can from TyBo teachers instead of Math teachers.

There are fantastic teachers in the public schools. I have never had a bad experience with one of my kids teachers (except the head-start program. I will NEVER do that again, but we were in a bad way and I was in Iraq.) and I have loved them all. I used to substitute in the local school here and made many great friends here. I also met Mrs. TyBo there. (am I even spelling that correctly?)

I want teachers to be held accountable, and I want to have some power over my kids education. More than picking the lesser of two or three evils when I pick a teacher I may or may not even get.

I want to choose!

I know why the school board doesn’t want this to go through, but why do YOU the private citizen with kids want to stop this?? Please tell me because I am missing something if 61% are against having the freedom to make a freaking choice!

People Suck

Losing faith in humanity one story at a time.

Dennis Kucinich

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/10/kucinich_see_ufo_new_book_clai.html

Actually, I think Mr. Kucinich IS an alien. It would explain sooooo much.

Congrats Alcalde Gore

I have fallen into a dimensional wormhole or something, because the things happening in the United States make less and less sense all the time.

Alcalde Gore winning the noble peace prize (you’ll notice I didn’t capitalize it, it's a joke and has been for a long time.) for trying to scare us all with .7 degree change in temperature that has been happening since the world began, for example.

(http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58146)

It wouldn’t be quite so bad if the man really gave a crap about it enough to do something besides buying “carbon offsets.” I mean honestly, how stupid does he think we are?!?!? (Actually, in this strange dimension, we seem to be pretty stupid indeed.)

Well, at least he is going to donate his portion of the 1.3 Million dollars to charity, so that is good. The Alliance for Climate Protection is his charity of choice. Don’t let the fact that the Alcalde is the Chairman of the Board of that great non-profit organization bother you. It’s noble purpose is to tell the world about global warming, get them to believe in something, join their cause and spread the word. Missionary work, in other words.

This is a great new religion mainly because it only has 7 commandments and nothing about all that stupid “god stuff” and being “moral.”

1 To demand that my country join an
international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution
by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the
next generation to inherit a healthy earth.

2 To take personal action to help solve
the climate crisis by reducing my own CO₂ pollution as much as I can
and offsetting the rest to become "carbon neutral".

3 To fight for a moratorium on the
construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity
to safely trap and store the CO₂.

4 To work for a dramatic increase in the
energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of
transportation.

5 To fight for laws and policies that
expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and
coal.

6 To plant new trees and to join with
others in preserving and protecting forests.

7 To buy from businesses and support
leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a
sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century

.

My favorite is #2. Offsetting. Paying our way out of hell. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pretty sweet deal for the Alcalde though, eh?

1,2,3 stretch.....and hold it......

I love this stretch of logic:

A few nights ago I heard Glenn Beck discussing the Bush veto and asking why people with household incomes of $80,000 should “be able to have their children covered” by government healthcare. His choice of words was interesting: “be able to have their children covered” implies that children are a possession and not individuals in their own right. Beck implies that Bush is vetoing a benefit for parents and not for the kids themselves. He, and George Bush, presumably see children on the same terms as people’s cars. We don’t pay for car servicing for the middle-class so why should we pay for their kids’ health care?

Kids are unable to vote and arguably unable to fend for themselves, they do not choose their parents and have no choice whether their parents provide health insurance for them or not. This is not a parental income thing, it is a parental decision thing. If your parents don’t care, then “tough luck” — you are part of that burgeoning child underclass that is without health care.

Wow.

So now, I suppose we are going to knock down the doors of crappy parents everywhere and force them to get health care for their kids. If the parents are making 80 large a year (NOT the middle-class) and DON'T have health care, then they either a) have their priorities VERY screwed up, or b) Pay cash when they need health care. (it does happen believe it or not, in fact my doctor will give me a discount if I just pay him.) Stop trying to force people to do what YOU want them to do.

The point, is that parents making much more money than I do, can AFFORD IT THEMSELVES! I have health care for my kids and I make a lot less than 80,000 a year. I don't need a damn handout, and don't want to pay for someone else's health care. Am I a big jerk? Maybe. But it doesn't really take a village.

Even if free health care is available to all children, I accept that will not ensure equal access to health care for every child. What it will do is increase the chance that, when a kid is sick or in need of innoculation, their parents will get them to the doctor rather than risk it by putting off treatment because they chose not to insure them for financial reasons.

I disagree, and here is why; If parents don't care now, why would something "free" make them care later? It won't. Crappy parents are crappy parents. That is why they call them that.

Maybe Glenn Beck should try supporting a family of four in Eagle County, complete with health care for all, on just $80,000 a year. Maybe President Bush should think before using his veto just to support his political dogma. Maybe they should both start thinking of children as rather more important to society than a Chevy truck.

Maybe you should step back into reality and realize that 80,000.00 is a lot of money for a lot of Americans. There is already a funded health care program, maybe you've heard of it, it's called CHIP and it is actually reasonable. Did you LOOK at the proposed plan? It is completely outrageous and out of the realm of reality for most Americans. The median income in Utah is about 62,000 with 2 earners! What is it where you live?

I submit that you must be paid way too much for what you do to think that 80,000 is not a lot of money. How funny that Glenn most likely makes much more than you and yet has a better idea of what the common man goes through day to day.

Ding Dong the Witch Lives!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8S5R35O0&show_article=1

Clinton said the accounts should not be used to replace any part of Social Security and that she is committed to addressing the long-term challenges of that program.

"We have to fight and finally bury the idea of privatizing Social Security," she said.

So that we can create a whole new program sucking more money. Tax the hell out of the rich baby! I hate her so much.

Beating a Dead Horse With a Broken Record

Ah Media Matters.... These idiots can't come up with anything new to say about Glenn so every time he brings out a Muslim, they bring up Keith Ellison. I love this shocking headline:

Beck to Muslim-American guest: "How do we know the difference between you and those that are trying to kill us?

Oh brother, are you serious? This is a horrible question to ask? Isn't it important to recognize people who are trying to kill you from people who are not? Oh, wait, I forgot, no one is trying to kill us. But wait wasn't it our fault they are trying to kill us? no, that was... man... I am just so confused about what liberals want me to believe nowadays.

You might be able to smoke a bag or two and come to the same conclusion as K.H. does, but for an honest man, that is a real stretch.

Rush Limbaugh -What did he say?

Let's get it from the horses mouth...

LIMBAUGH: It's just, it's frustrating and maddening, and it is why they must be kept in the minority. Look, I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much. I gotta -- let me see -- got something -- here is a "Morning Update" that we did recently talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. And they have their celebrities.

One of them was Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a "corporal," I say in quotes -- 23 years old.

What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart. It wasn't his being affiliated with post traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, though. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage in their view off the battlefield.

Without regard to consequences, he told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq: American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account translated into Arabic and spread widely across the internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way:

'We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.'

Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, a poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court, and you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs' claim and his Army discharge record.

He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly -- 44-days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger. Never was. He isn't a corporal. Never was. He never won the Purple Heart and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen."

You probably haven't even heard about this, and if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template of the drive-by media and the Democrat [sic] Party as to who a genuine war hero is.

Don't look for any retractions, by the way, not from the anti-war left, the anti-military drive-by media or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth of the left is fiction, is what serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities 'cause they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the U.S. military.

In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

Now you be the judge.

Sen Harkin says, "Boo-Hoo-Hoo; You're a big meany!"

"Are there wonderful Americans who happen to be homosexual serving in the military? Yes," he told the Senate Appropriations Committee during a hearing focused on the Pentagon's 2008 war spending request.

"We need to be very precise then, about what I said wearing my stars and being very conscious of it," he added. "And that is, very simply, that we should respect those who want to serve the nation but not through the law of the land, condone activity that, in my upbringing, is counter to God's law."

Anti-war protesters sitting behind Pace jeered the four-star general's remarks with some shouting, "Bigot!"

This makes me laugh, If you don't want to know what someone believes, don't ask them...

This makes me cry:

Pace noted that the U.S. Military Code of Justice prohibits homosexual activity as well as adultery. Harkin said, "Well, then, maybe we should change that."

Harkin, you are a genius. Further proof that the demonrats have no respect for what the military stands for.

I really ought to start an S-List.

The socialists are coming, the socialists are coming!

I have to admit it kills me how Demonrats are furious about America’s huge deficit and the Evil (note the caps) Bush tax cuts.

AND YET… They want to socialize health care, (which costs a ginormous crapload of cash) and give every child born in the US, 5 large to invest, (do the math on that Devil-woman! -- 4 million * 5,000 is a lot of zeros) and basically create as many new programs as they can that, yep, you guessed it, COST MONEY.

Where do they think this money comes from? Oh I forgot; The Rich. (Unless of course you are a politician. So glad I can afford to send my kids, to private schools… Oh I can’t because my taxes pay for politicians kids to go to private school) and don’t forget the taxes from “global warming” that Dingle(berry) has in mind for us all. (just a side note, go to hell socialist pig!) It isn’t enough that we pay our power bills and buy gas (along with all the tax money on gas.) Carbon taxes are the stupidest idea in the world, unless of course you are a politician. It is amazing to watch all this happen. Amazing, and so painful, because America doesn’t see it.

I consume for America, (hey, it’s good pinhead! It keeps the money flowing!) I will fight for America, (been there, done that) I will even die for America. (or I wouldn’t have VOLUNTEERED) But I refuse to pay for the stupid and the lazy in America. I wish politicians wouldn’t try me, but I know they will. We need to start over and the only way that will happen is if it all goes to hell. So buckle up, America.

Wake up, it's 19.. I mean.. Holy crap, 2007?!?!

When will we as a nation realize just who it is we are dealing with, and how they think?

They do not treasure life as we do, and believe that it is the fight itself that matters. Americans want to win, and we want to live.

According to Khomeini, life is worthless and death is the beginning of genuine existence. “The natural world,” he explained in October 1980, “is the lowest element, the scum of creation. “What is decisive is the beyond: The “divine world, that is eternal.” This latter world is accessible to martyrs. Their death is no death, but merely the transition from this world to the world beyond, where they will live on eternally and in splendor. Whether the warrior wins the battle or loses it and dies a Martyr—in both cases, his victory is assured: either a mundane or a spiritual one.

This attitude had a fatal implication for the Basiji: Whether they survived or not was irrelevant. Not even the tactical utility of their sacrifice mattered. Military victories are secondary, Khomeini explained in September 1980.

This gives them the freedom to throw wave after wave of men, women and children at you with bombs strapped to them. They don’t care and want to die because they can then live “eternally in splendor.” I have been to the Middle East. I visited only little cities in Iraq but they were all rat holes. Kuwait was a little better, but was nothing like what we are used to here.
After a couple thousand years of this religion being force-fed from the government, its roots are deep. You cannot convince someone whose family, for generations, has believed that God wants them to kill as many Israelis (or even better; Americans) as they can before they die.

When will liberals lift up their heads and look at the enemy and understand what it is we face? Will they do it in time? Unlikely, and this country will be torn apart, and somehow libs will find a way to blame it on so-called “NeoCons” or the religious right, or even just Americans.

Good luck everyone.

http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons