Our Dying Troops Forgotten

iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom | Afghanistan:

Remember when showing pictures of grieving military families and the caskets coming back from overseas was an extremely high media priority? Remember when each and every loss of a solider was front page news, and when it was in your state, it was both local and national news?

This completely proves that for the left and the MSM, the "anti-war" posture was COMPLETELY politically motivated. Whatever their protestations, they care not one whit for the actual troops -- BO could slaughter as many as he wanted in any way he saw fit for a good long while and they would be silent or even cheering.

Take a look at the following and then try to recall when the last time you have seen ANYTHING on troops lost on Afghanistan? Can we really be SO BRAINWASHED that we as a people get whipsawed about by an MSM intent on bringing down W, so hammering the pain of each casualty home in searing headline reports, yet INSTANTLY putting on a virtual news blackout of loses as BO takes power.

If electing BO a 2nd time didn't make it obvious, this clearly should. We have COMPLETELY lost our ability to govern ourselves.

499 soliders lost in 2010. A congressional election year. I never knew. Each 1K milestone under W was a "story of the week" for the MSM. Casualties in Afghanistan were especially bad ... because W had "taken his eye off the ball" there, and was busy "fighting the wrong war". Kerry and then BO promised "we can do better"! They were COMMITTED to WIN "the right war".

310 Americans lost last year. Be honest, did you have ANY idea??

1577 lost since BO took office. Remember when Kerry was hammering on "who will be the last man to die for a lost cause in Iraq"?  Well?? He is Sec of State now!! Are we "winning" in Afghanistan? Does anyone even care??

"Better" meaning drastically INCREASE casualties with no evidence of increased success against Al Qaeda or the Taliban? I only thought of this today because I'd seen some postings on FB of units that had been especially hard hit the last couple months in Afghanistan and had lost 5 and 10 guys in very elite tight knit units -- they were asking for help and for people to take notice.

I'm ashamed. How hard it is to pay attention to "absence of evidence" and to realize it complete is NOT "evidence of absence". We are ALL, me very much included, so very easily led by the MSM that it is completely humbling and VERY disturbing!

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French Spring??

A French “Oui” for Gay Marriage? Not So Fast | Power Line:

Wow, civil unrest in France? A backlash against "gay marriage" in that most sophisticated of European nations? Why, this would seem to be a story!

No? Interesting ... Powerline covers it superbly here, I love the assertions on what the media is probably up to and thus missing this important topic!

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Gay Cheerleading

A personal sexual preference is headline news? I thought that Gay was supposed to be "just like everyone else, no big deal"?? 

Why this is almost as big a news event as Tiger Woods "coming out" as "completely not monogamous" ... although that also did a good job dissing "tired old Judaeo Christian ethics", so why wasn't it celebrated as heartily?

Not that there as ever any doubt, but we can certainly see that the MSM has no desire that being Gay be in any way "equal" with being heterosexual. Being Gay is clearly supposed to be celebrated and trumpeted from the rooftops -- where being heterosexual, even getting married like Michael Jordan, (ironically on the same page) is much lower priority news well down the sidebar! 

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Wrong About Ricin Case

Ricin case resembles a Mississippi tall tale:

I discovered a strange case where the MSM in the US has decided to NOT make the indication that the alleged perpetrator is a Republican. I had to do some searching to discover the apparent political leanings of Everett Dutschke which something like 90% means "Democrat" when the topic is "something bad". So my rule failed in this case!

It seems that the ricin caper is a comedy of inept and weird southern vendetta. The British tabloid media seems to be enjoying it far more than the US ... feud between an accused child molester and an Elvis Impersonator in Tupelo MS. Hard to beat that for "weird news of the world"!


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Hoping For the Next Newton

Round Two for Gun Control May Take a ‘Next Newtown’ - NationalJournal.com:

Republicans need only try to get the deficit under $1T these days before we get a huge chorus from the MSM saying  "they want the economy to fail so that Obama will be blamed".

No chance someone could believe that incentives for hard work, fiscal responsibility, less inflationary politics, etc could POSSIBLY produce better economic results! Nope, Republicans are mean spirited political ideologues, and even though they tend to be hard workers, investors, and have kids and grandkids, they completely and ONLY care about "making Obama look bad". How could anyone who has invested in the country and a family POSSIBLY care about the future?

We well know that caring about the future is the sole domain of folks that aborted their kids or wrote two autobiographies before they were 50! Those are the folks that care about the future of America more than temporary expediency or personal political gain!!

Why, I'd have to be the insane right wing looney that I am to think any different!

Can ANYONE look at this and not believe that there are not a TON of folks on the left that WANT to see another Newtown?? Heck, they are willing to essentially say that in a HEADLINE!! No chance at all I suppose that there could be some crazy lefty out there that is right now "girding his loins" to head out and shoot up some grade school ... or maybe nursery this time if the committed gun grabbers are "lucky".

Why is it that the often MSM makes me sick again??

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How Politics Works

Michael Ramirez Cartoon:

We have all seen this happen locally. The classic is the school when short of money starts cutting athletic or music programs that have heavy emotional support, and explains "that's what cuts mean". They don't cut monstrous administration salaries, reduce administrative personnel, increase some of the class sizes at Jr High and HS, etc. They take actions that are guaranteed to get people up in arms ASAP. 

Local government is much the same. Hold some key local need hostage until the pet bonding or tax levy that allows pork and featherbedding as usual to go on or even increase. Just go take a walk through your local courthouse, county government center or other similar facility and think about the thought that "government has been cut to the bone". 

This is why our founders worked so hard to LIMIT the Federal Government. They had studied human  nature and history, and they were dealing with a government ruled by a King. They knew government was necessary, but realized that it was very difficult to control, even at the LOCAL level. 

The BO FAA ploy is classic. Refuse to deal with the elected representatives of the people, suggest the idea of sequestration, get the tax increases on the wealthy that you had indicated were what you were after, and then continue to refuse to deal on spending. When the sequestration that you wanted comes to pass and really doesn't make that much difference after all, push in any way you can to make it as painful as you possibly can, independent of the harm it causes to the economy or to individuals. 

You are just going to successfully blame it on the other party anyway and probably even pick up control of the House in the next election because,  just as in 1776, lawless despotism works!

 For the despot!

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FAA Furlough Fact Free Fury

FAA furlough reprieve: 'No fair!' - Apr. 26, 2013:

First, let's get the salient point out, this quote is in response to the claim that the BO admin is just trying to make things as painful as possible for political purposes:

The FAA’s budget backs that theory. According to FAA budget documents, the agency’s budget request for the 2013 fiscal year was $15.146 billion. The FAA’s actual, post-sequestration budget for FY 2013 was $15.371 billion — $225 million more than requested, as Phil Kerpen at American Commitment noted Thursday.

So, there are two potential reasons for the supposedly sequestration caused furloughs: 

1. Gross incompetence. The FAA requested over $225 million less than they needed to operate, and that ONLY came to light after the sequestration. 
2. This is a political ploy to make people "feel the pain" of sequestration. 

What I find even more interesting is the left screaming "no fair" on even the phony "deal" to get the controllers back to work. They want "all or nothing". Either ALL the funding comes back, or NONE of it!!

With that logic, we can't possibly govern ourselves. The whole idea of budgets is making intelligent choices about where and how much to spend based on priorities and trade-offs. Take that away and one would get a government spending trillions, borrowing trillions and taxing the economy into oblivion on auto-pilot. 

Oh, wait ... 




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I Miss W

CURL: W outclasses Barack and Bill, without even trying - Washington Times:

Had to throw in a little rah rah after the W Presidential Library opening. Reagan was certainly better, but no question that W was the 2nd best President of my lifetime. From 2000-2006, America still had hope for a better tomorrow, but we let ourselves down in '06 and elected Democrats to both houses of congress, and it ias been downhill HARD ever since.

My sense is that we have no hope of pulling out of this decline without domestic violence of a sort not seen since the Civil War, economic collapse to a level we have never seen -- making the Depression seem mild by comparison, and probably a major war with more loss of life than WWII ... it could be worse than that, but I'm somewhat of an optimistic realist.

But we had one final shot, W did his very best, we just blew it as a people.

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MA State Support of Terror

Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records | Boston Herald:

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!  Provide folks room and board, they take a vacation in Russia and come back and bomb you.

Remember, the reason that people hate America is because we are just not "generous and caring enough"!

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NY Mag Classy Insights on W

Bush: Terrible President, Also Not a Smart Man -- Daily Intelligencer:

On the very day of the opening of your enemies Presidential Library, when four ex-pres, two of which pretty much hate him (Carter and Omama) are willing to show up and be civil (KUDOS!!) , it make a significant statement to be out beating the "W is a dummy" drum!.

Since it is obvious that W is stupid and was a terrible president, completely obvious that the NY Rag and old J Chait are super intelligent, urbane, and immensely competent, I can only imagine what is on tap for tomorrow!

Earth not flat, penis enlargement pills fake???

Since they wanted to put in some cherry picked videos to prove their point on the stupidity, here is the master of numeric intelligence waxing eloquent ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjO8Qc5s1fY


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Congress Angles for BOcare Exemption

Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption - John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com:

"Shocking". Here is BOcare, the greatest boon to healthcare in the history of mankind and our elected officials are looking for a way out.

No big story here,  move along!

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Not All Terrorists are Muslim

Government Wants 45 Years for Would-Be Mass Murderer | Power Line:

No, some are left wing homosexuals that attack people that disagree with their beliefs.

Had this attack been on an abortion clinic or a left-wing organization, "Floyd Corkins" would be famous, and we would know A LOT about this attack and trial.

I can't possibly see how any of the press could be held accountable for rhetoric relative to Chick-fil-A that could have precipitated an idea like killing the folks and then rubbing a Chick-fil-a sandwich in their face.

Not nearly so clear as Sarah Palin using "targeted" in an ad relative to "causing" the Gabby Giffords shooting ... those Republicans REALLY have to clean up their militaristic rhetoric!


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The Defense of the Indefensible

Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid? | Power Line:

I happened to touch on the main column covered by PL in this blog.

This is worth a read. The point that PL does NOT make here is that if the bombers had turned out to be in  ANY way "right wing", or even if they had just been nuts, and opened up with an AK-47 at the finish line the inability to deal with evil and thus the fall to incoherency would not have happened.

If the bombing had in any way been "right wing", **EVIL**!!!!!!  would be shouted from the rooftops and COMPLETELY connected with "Fox News, Talk Radio, Conservative Bloggers, Republicans, the NRA, Christians hating gay marriage, etc, etc" ... now? There is just no way for a liberal to understand the complexity of it all.

In fact, as we saw in both the bombing and ricin case, the MSM could barely contain their hopeful rage in either case that it WOULD turn out to be "right wing". They MUCH more enjoy being able to pound on what they see as the SOLE source of evil in the world, rather than having to drift into inconsolable incoherency in defense of the indefensible.

MSM Discovers % of GDP

Deficits are falling. For now - Apr. 22, 2013:

Wow, the MSM is using deficit as a % of GDP, things must be REALLY bad! Of course, bad old me has always declared that a number without context is meaningless ... if I say 1 Billion, and it is the size of your bar bill, then that is on the large size. If it is the size of your hard drive, today it is minuscule, in the early '90s it would have been big ... etc.

The chart I included shows why they nearly never use it ... Because it puts things in context, and when all you want to do is beat on your "enemies", the Republicans, the LAST thing you want to do is put something in context!!

The very sad part of looking at my chart is to realize that the "trend was our freind" after the massive fix it took under Reagan to get the country moving again. The trend in deficits as a % of GDP was generally DOWN ... because of GROWTH! When the economy sputtered, another wave up happened, but when it grew, we produced revenue that allowed the trend to continue DOWN!

YES! That is very much a "rosy view", so shoot me.  It would have required continued pro-growth policies, difficult entitlement reform like Newt and company pushed through in the late '90s, etc, BUT we HAD A FUTURE!!

CNN's chart leaves out historical context and is "rosy and on LSD". They would like to believe that some "minor BO tweaking" to entitlements will right the ship, but the real problem is the anti-growth for anything but Government agenda. Government is an EXPENSE!

The chart in the story is made as rosy as possible because of projections. Even 2013 is PROJECTED on that chart, and I'd like to see the date from 11 and 12 show up on the site I got this from http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/  They even mention SIXTY YEAR HIGHS in the article, wow,  CNN must be off their propaganda feed this fine Monday AM!



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They Didn't Use Guns, So??

The Boston Bombers Were Muslim: So? - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

The pain of finding the bombers were Muslim Immigrants as opposed to home grown anti-government "Right Wing Extremists" is palpable. It feels for the media as feels for me seeing the snow fall again here in MN on the 21st of April.

If this had been another shooting tragedy, the Atlantic would be pointing to the OBVIOUS problem of "guns in America". Come on, you KNOW that to be true!! How can one be rational at all, even with leftward views and not see that???

Why?

To be left thinking is to completely lack the capacity for self reflection. Here are some of the reasons I surmise, written in my "lefty guise".  No real lefty even seems to care, they simply treat Islamic Terrorism and Gun Violence as completely different things.

1. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Islamists hate Christians. Christians tend to vote "the wrong way" and have moral ideas "incompatible with modern thought", so I'm OK with Islamists, at least for now. (Note: Major problem, Islamist thinking is FAR more incompatible with "modern thought" than Christian theology and practice ... but as a lefty, I ignore that)
2. Immigrants are "Unregistered Democrats" -- a little violence, even mass violence from a few immigrants is acceptable. 
3. Guns are personal, bombs are corporate. If someone is shooting at me or those I love with a gun, I might wish I had one to try to protect myself or them. If a bomb goes off, I won't be bothered by any thoughts like that.
4. I don't like the foreign and independent thought of the "right wing" -- the government is my god, and those guns are an obstacle to the kind of control that we may need to apply to insure that our nation is "fair". It may be important to forcibly transfer assets from "conservatives" to the rest of us as the situation continues to decline. Guns make that harder. 
5. I get really sick of having to listen to "the right". I boycott all their media, unfriended any I can both virtually and physically, but I know they are still out there. Knowing they tend to be armed makes me VERY nervous. I don't really trust myself with a gun, I'm not sure why they trust themselves. I find both the guns and the conservaties very scary, together I completely can't stand it! I have a RIGHT to not have to feel this way!

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