Murtha's "strategic vision"?

When it comes to assessing the readiness of our military, it appears that Jack P. Murtha, head Al Qaeda cheerleader, knows not of what he speaks (emphases mine):

WASHINGTON — Army officials angrily defended the capability and competence of the service Thursday in response to criticism from a pair of House Democrats who said the fighting force’s readiness is dangerously low.

Outspoken war critic Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., on Wednesday again called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for what they said was his failure to keep the military properly staffed and equipped.

They also released a 12-page report compiled from their staff’s examination of Army reports and congressional information requests, which said funding shortfalls and poor planning have led to “the very real prospect that Army readiness will continue to erode, undermining its ability to meet the theater commanders’ needs …”

But Army officials called the detailed report inaccurate and the conclusion of the congressmen off-base.

“Today’s Army is the highest quality Army this Nation has ever produced — it has not ‘gone south,’” according to a statement released in response to the report. “To imply otherwise is an insult to the young men and women who have volunteered to protect our nation’s freedoms.”

Remember, in his quest for political power, Jack Murtha is no stranger to the concept of gratuitously insulting the integrity of the military.

I am sure the voters of PA-12, 18 percent who are active and retired military voters (not to mention their families and friends), will remember that as well.

Regarding laughing matters...

Any of you who are Monty Python fans will remember the sketch called, "The World's funniest joke"

Well... I think it's been outdone.

I read this today, and the interjected comments are my well-thought out responses to these matters:

Democrats rebut soft-on-terror rap (heh--)

By Charles Hurt and Christina Bellantoni
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 14, 2006

Capitol Hill Democrats said yesterday they will not be "swift-boated" by Republicans who accuse them of being soft on national security and coddling terrorists. (heh heh...)

"Democrats stand ready to protect and defend the American people," (Heh SNORT blrft Bwah-ha--bwah-ha-ha-ha!! giggle) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said. "We will not be swift-boated on the issue of security, and that is what the Republicans are trying to do." (heh-heh-heh-heh gleekbrrrf BWAH-Hah-Hah-Hah!)

Part of national security, said the House's top Democrat, is protecting the environment. (Gfffaw blrpwwwwnnnnaaa BWAH-HAH-BAH HAH-HAHAHAHA!!!)

"We are advancing tough and smart national security policies to keep the American people safe," (Gleepschewglawww ffft SNORT SNORT BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!) said Mrs. Pelosi, adding that Democrats' national security agenda aims "to fight terrorism and defeat it, (Oooohgawd :::sides hurt::::::) stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, (Awww p-p-pleeeeeeaaaasse GWA-HA-Ha-ha-haha-ha-ha-ha!) to stop global warming and any other threats to the safety and security of the American people." (WILL-DIE-FROM-LAUGHING--CAN - NOT -READ -ANYMORE!--SNORT--BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!)

Sorry folks--couldn't go through with the whole thing. Read the rest .. if you dare.

Up and Coming BDS...

Not only is Keith Ellison flanked by fruitcake Louis Farrakhan; not only did he support our little Minneapolis-based SLA terrorist Sara Jane Olson, but it would seem that Mr. Ellison, if elected, is hellbent on impeaching Bush.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: “Let me ask you about our current politics. You are running for Congress. … Would you like to use your membership in the House to begin an impeachment proceeding against the President.”

KEITH ELLISON: “I would be supportive of that.”

(MSNBC’s “Hardball,” September 14, 2006)

Yep. A vote well spent, eh?

Pole dancing gone awry...

Pole Dance Gone Wrong It was a little bit sexy until...

In yet another blow to terrorists...

Islamofascists aren't the only ones we need to worry about. It's about time some action was taken against a different kind of "home-grown" terrorist (all emphases mine):

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A federal court in Trenton, N.J., is sentencing a group of animal rights activists for their part in a Web-based campaign of violence and intimidation against a company that conducts medical experiments on animals.

Three members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or SHAC, an international network of campaigners, were sentenced Tuesday, and a fourth Wednesday, receiving jail terms of between three and six years.

All four are also liable to pay a million-dollar restitution order against their group, awarded to the target of their campaign, Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British medical research facility owned by New Jersey-based Life Sciences Research, Inc. (emphasis added)

Six members of the group, all in their late 20's and early 30's, became in March the first defendants convicted of offences under the Animal Enterprises Protection Act -- a 1992 law that made it a federal crime to engage in "physical disruption" of animal research facilities, farms, circuses, fairs or other businesses using live animals.

The six were also convicted under federal anti-stalking and telephone harassment laws.

The two remaining defendants will be sentenced next week, bringing to a conclusion a case that has drawn widespread attention, both because of the novelty of prosecutions under the 1992 act and because of the enormous success of the anti-Huntingdon campaign, which continued even after the arrests of its leaders and which last year forced the New York Stock Exchange to cancel a scheduled listing of Life Sciences Research, Inc.

According to evidence in the trial, the campaign included the posting on the SHAC Web site of individual employees' personal information, including their home addresses and phone numbers; the names and ages of their children and where they go to school; their license plate numbers and the churches they go to.

Victims of the SHAC campaign have been assaulted with baseball bats, had their homes and cars vandalized, have had obscene messages painted in their street, received late night telephone calls threatening the lives of their family and subjected to non-stop bullhorn protests in front of their homes.

Kudos to the Court on this one.

(Also posted on Blogs for Bush)

Coming to a moonbat candidate near you...

To all our Minnesota and Western-Wisconsin readers:

Congressman John Murtha (D-Penn.) will visit Minnesota to support Second District Congressional Candidate Coleen Rowley on Sunday, September 17th. Congressman Murtha, Minnesota’s senior Congressman, Jim Oberstar (D-MN 8th) and Ms. Rowley will meet U.S. military veterans and the public at the V.F.W. Post No. 9433, Highway 3 at 120th Street West in Rosemount at noon. This represents a change of venue from previous announcements.

Northfield, MN (PRWEB) September 12, 2006 -- Congressman John Murtha (D-Penn.) will visit Minnesota to support Second District Congressional Candidate Coleen Rowley on Sunday, September 17th. Congressman Murtha is a 37-year Veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who has served in the U.S. Congress since 1975. He has taken the lead in Washington by proposing to redeploy American troops in Iraq with a resolution widely known as “The Murtha Plan.”

[SNIP]

Rowley noted, by way of contrast, that Kline’s continued praise for and defense of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld is not playing well in the district. “Bush and Kline’s cumulative refusal to admit mistakes by “staying the course” comes at too high a cost to the country. So the race here in Minnesota’s 2nd District is shaping up as a key one that could help John Murtha re-take the Chairmanship of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and Jim Oberstar become the next Transportation Committee Chair.”

The public is invited to call Coleen Rowley’s campaign headquarters in Northfield at (507) 664-3850 for more information about Congressman Murtha’s visit.

Additional Media Information:

Candidate Coleen Rowley and Congressman Jim Oberstar will introduce Congressman Murtha to the press at the Homewood Suites Hotel, 22610 Killebrew Drive in Bloomington, at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 17th. Members of the press and media are invited to join them after the press conference at V.F.W. Post No. 9433, Highway 3 at 120th Street West in Rosemount, when they meet local veterans and the public.

I was thinking, why don't us folks in Minnesota show up to Murtha's little soiree, and give Mr. Murtha a "warm" Minnesota welcome. Email me at psycmeistr at fastmail dot fm if you're interested.

***UPDATE****

The venue for Murtha's visit has changed:

The site for the event is at the VFW Post
Place: V.F.W. Post No. 9433
Highway 3 at 120th Street West in Rosemount

(MAP HERE)

Like taking away your right arm...

From here:

Elbow shelves Twins' Liriano for season

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
AP Sports Writer

AP Photo/ANDY KING MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota Twins will have to make thei

r playoff push without Francisco Liriano. A strong Rookie of the Year candidate, Liriano walked off the mound because of elbow trouble Wednesday in his highly anticipated return to the Minnesota rotation. After a 1-0 loss to Oakland, manager Ron Gardenhire said Liriano was done for the year.

"Obviously he won't be pitching again," Gardenhire said. "Something is in there bothering and continuing to stop him. ... Obviously when he gets in a game and puts a little extra torque in there, something is not right. We have to make sure we stop it and do what we have to do."

The Twins' lead in the AL wild-card race was cut to 1 1/2 games by Chicago, which beat Los Angeles 9-0.

Liriano slumped off the mound in the third inning. Trainers and Gardenhire immediately rushed out to attend to the All-Star lefty and a hush fell over the crowd that had been so excited to see him back in action.

"The last two pitches I threw, I felt a pop and it really hurts," Liriano said.

(Read the rest)

I still think that the Twins will take the AL Central; but it would have been a heck of a lot easier with Liriano.

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What hath communism wrought...

Kim Jong Il: Let them eat rabbit.

North Korea Encouraging Rabbit Breeding

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is encouraging its people to breed rabbits for food, the regime's official media reported Wednesday.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that rabbits were "the most economically profitable domestic animals" for the mountainous country's limited arable land.

"Rabbit-breeding farms have been built to rapidly increase parent rabbits which have a high fertility rate, grow fast and produce much meat with less feed," KCNA said. "Rabbits are being raised by collective and widespread methods at factories, enterprises, cooperative farms and schools, to say nothing of stock-breeding farms."

North Korea is again proof positive that Communism and socialism do not work:

The communist North has been suffering from food shortages since the mid-1990s, when natural disasters and mismanagement devastated its economy and led to a famine estimated to have killed some 2 million people.

The country was hit by heavy floods in July, which are believed to have caused the loss of some 100,000 tons of food, deepening the chronic shortage.

Kim Jong Il's quest for absolute control and self-aggrandizement, to the detriment of and up to the destruction of his own people, is proof positive not only of his own lunacy, but of the lunacy of communism and its equally ugly sister, socialism; which together have resulted in more death, misery and destruction in the world than any other ideology since time immemoriam.

Why the left continues to embrace despots and despise America is beyond my ability to comprehend.

The Party of Ellison?

As today's primary results show, the party of JFK has become the party of Louis Farrakhan...

Just how far to the left has the Minnesota DFL gone? I submit their chosen congressional candidate for Minnesota's 5th District, Keith Ellison.

In case you weren't familiar with Mr. Ellison, the MN GOP has done some factfinding:

THE FACTS ABOUT KEITH ELLISON



Ellison Embraced Notorious Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan:



Ellison In 1995: "Minister Farrakhan Is . . . Not An Anti-Semite. He Is A Sincere, Tireless And Uncompromising Advocate Of The Black Community And Other Oppressed People . . . Around The World." (Tim Jones, "Candidate Finds Past Ties A Real Bind," Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2006)



Roll Call: "In Law School, Ellison Wrote An Opinion Piece Defending Louis Farrakhan And Also Helped Bring A Speaker To The Campus For A Lecture Titled: 'Zionism: White Supremacy, Imperialism Or Both?'" (Dan Rasmussen, "Minn. Party Designee May Be in Some Trouble," Roll Call, June 27, 2006)



Ellison Supported Convicted Murder Kathleen Soliah:



Chicago Tribune: "Minneapolis-Area Blogs Have Dug Up Past Statements By Ellison, Such As His Defense In 2000 Of Symbionese Liberation Army Member Kathleen Soliah, Who Later Pleaded Guilty To Murder." Tim Jones, "Candidate Finds Past Ties A Real Bind," Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2006)



Ellison In 2000: "We Need To Come Together And Free Sara." (Tim Jones, "Candidate Finds Past Ties A Real Bind," Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2006)



Star Tribune: "Minneapolis Resident Greg Lang, Whose Website, www.soliah.com, Focuses On Olson's Case, Uncovered And Transcribed Several Audio Recordings Of Speeches Ellison Gave Supporting Soliah/Olson, A Federal Fugitive Who Was Found Living The Life Of A Soccer Mom In St. Paul." (Rochelle Olson & Mark Brunswick, "Ellison's Past Views, Ties Drawing Scrutiny;" Star Tribune, June 28, 2006)



Ellison Criticizes Prosecution Of Convicted Cop Killer:



Star Tribune: Ellison Criticizes 'Political' Prosecutions Of A Former Black Panther Activist Convicted Of Killing A New Jersey Police Officer." "In one 2000 fundraiser speech, Ellison makes reference to the prosecution of Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, as retribution against Farrakhan. He also spoke about the 'political' prosecutions of a former Black Panther activist convicted of killing a New Jersey police officer." (Rochelle Olson & Mark Brunswick, "Ellison's Past Views, Ties Drawing Scrutiny;" Star Tribune, June 28, 2006)

The democrat party has truly gone to hell in a handbasket. There appears to be no rescuing it.

JFK is doing 360s right now.

9-11...a day to hate America first!

Of course you knew you'd see this coming... the dhimmi left never misses a chance to diss the good ol' U.S. of A.

World remembers 9-11 but many not crying

By ELAINE GANLEY
Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP) -- The nations of the world joined Monday in solemn remembrance of Sept. 11 - but for many, resentment of the United States flowed as readily as tears.

Critics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France's Le Monde newspaper to proclaim "We are all Americans" that somber day after the attacks, and that the Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since 9/11

...And not to be outdone, the Ol' reliable Al Qaeda propagandist, The Boston Globe chimes in:

How safe a world?

September 11, 2006

THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 attacks is a day of remembrance and special sadness for the nation, and all those who knew any of the 2,973 victims. Yet in the long run, the reaction of the Bush administration may prove more harmful to the national interest than even these horrific attacks.

No--the problem isn't the terrorists-- the problem is the United States and George W. Bush, in particular. In fact, in the eyes of many, the terrorists' actions were completely justified, given the "imperialist" bent of the United States.

The leftist media has absolutely no clue regarding the threats that we face and continue to face from the Islamo-fascists that seek to rule the world. To the elitist liberal media, George W. Bush is the real enemy, and any chance whatsoever that they have to undermine him and the war effort is fair game. The possibility of the loss of American life is secondary at best, and is worth the risk to them to see the end game to fruition: The poltical defeat of George W. Bush.

The line that I've been paying a lot attention to lately is thus: Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

And such a notion has no better example than our own leftist media.

The reason for remembrance on this day, IMO, is twofold.

One, to memorialize the victims

Two--to remember just who it was who did this to them, and gain from the memory of what happened the will to annihilate the bastards.

But, given the Nancy-Krats tendency to "smooth over" history, what is the chance of the latter coming to fruition?

There is no point to "just remembering", unless the remembrance moves one to action.

Like "Remember Pearl Harbor" was the rallying cry in our defeat against our enemies in WWII, "Remember 9/11" needs to be the rallying cry of this generation to defeat the Islamist threat.

Dementee has a post about why we must never forget.

I suggest that every man and woman in America takes a good, long, hard look at it.

September 11, 2001---we remember...

As part of Operation 2996, I will remember and pay tribute to the life of Scott Jeffrey Weingard, who was killed in the dastardly attack on the World Trade Center:

The Man on the Trapeze

A fantastic athlete he was, but "a gymnast trapeze stuntman he was not," Marc Shapiro recalled about his friend, Scott Weingard. But being the daring sort of person who would squeeze in an adventure whenever he could, Mr. Weingard gladly volunteered to fly with the professional trapeze team while on vacation at a Club Med resort a few years ago.

"There he was, swinging along, doing his thing with his lanky body while we were cheering him on," Mr. Shapiro said, laughing.

Friends began to call Mr. Weingard "First Time Scottie" because he was so often in the position of doing something totally out of the ordinary and new. He was also known for making friends, and keeping them. While still at the resort, Mr. Weingard, a trader at Cantor Fitzgerald who would have been 30 on Sept. 23, disappeared for a while.

Where did he go? "We found him befriending the whole island," recalled Mr. Shapiro, a buddy since their kindergarten days in Dix Hills, on Long Island.

His girlfriend, Julie Kaufmann, called him an angel. His cousin, Jeff Honigstock, interviewed on a recent Thursday, said: "I'm missing him today. It would have been a perfect day for happy hour with Scottie."

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 11, 2001.

Some comments left on his memorial website here, include

From: Scott Of Flandreau SD
Date: 11/14/2003
Message: hey scott , hello i'm just going to say i'm sorry i wish you could of got out.. you are a true insperation to all of us because what had happened i send out my heart to you Scott of Flandreau SD GOD BLESS THE US

From: Chad Kalle
Date: 09/30/2005
Message: scotty - although im sure you wouldnt have remembered me... you were my basketball coach at camp wayne back in the day --- u were a great person and ill miss u even though i didnt know u too well --- live on brother - best

From: Jeff Honigstock
Date: 07/07/2006
Message: Chad - Scotty had a perfect memory of every camper that ever went to Wayne. And, I can't think of any better way to discribe him than that. Especially if he coached you. To know that he left a lasting impression on your life is a beautiful thing to see. He left an indelible impression on my life also. Jeff Honigstock

Pris

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06/06/2003 12:57:17 AM
So young...and a very beautiful face!Hope you may be in peace!

Barb and Lew Horvitz

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09/11/2004 8:43:17 AM
Remembering Scottie today as we have for the last three years. We miss you and hope your family is able to remember all the good.

"Strange" Dave Rosenberg

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04/18/2006 2:51:32 PM
Scottie Weingard was one of those camp councelors that seemed more like an older brother than an authority figure. When I learned of his demise, I absolutely couldn't believe it. Rest in peace Scottie, lord knows there must be some reason why this terrible tragic thing happened.

To Scott and others who passed ad astra on that fateful day, our prayers continue to be with your families, and WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

A hero is laid to rest...

I attended the funeral of a hero today. In terms of describing the character of Sgt. Joshua Hanson, I could pay no better tribute than that put out by the family:


The funeral, though somber and humbling, was beautiful.

The Patriot Guard Riders, at least 200 of them, were there as escorts and flag bearers..




Since there were over 700 in attendance, way too many for a procession, school buses were on hand to take mourners to the cemetary... The Patriot Guard riders were at the cemetary to greet the mourners



Joshua's comrades in arms render a 21-gun salute... and then "Taps" is played...

Right now I'm too drained to write anything profound...

Just suffice it to say, All gave some; and some gave all...





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