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Catching Up on the News with Quick Takes

Posted by: Mike's America @ 10:05 am in Roundup

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Quote of the Week:

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
 –Winston Churchill
 

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket This is How Democrats Support Our Troops

Readers will recall when John Kerry made that joke about making good grades in school or you get sent to Iraq (Dem quotes slamming our troops here). Kerry’s “joke” is just the tip of a very large iceberg. And of course those insults from top Democrat leaders create a culture of indifference, even hostility, towards our troop’s achievements and their abilities. For instance, take this cartoon from the infamous troop hater Ted Rall:

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No matter how many times we show troop hating lefties this study from the Heritage Foundation which demonstrates higher socioeconomic status among our troops than the average popultion they persist in their insults. No matter how much anecdotal evidence there is of soldiers who are working on advanced graduate degrees, or are graduates of West Point, all serving in Iraq. No matter what the facts are, like so much disinformation in lefty land, truth is the first casualty.

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket No Surprise: Presidential Candiate John Edwards Would Cut Pentagon Funding!

Considering how Democrats despise the military and denigrate the troops it’s no wonder that Dem presidential candidate John Edwards is adapting that mindset to his presidential campaign.

He is proposing across the board cuts in defense spending including the Missile Defense technology which has shown to be working and desperately needed to deter missile threats from nation’s like Iran and North Korea. He would cut or cancel new advanced weapons systems like the F-22 that may protect us from future threats and he would cut weapons and training and supplies that keep our troops safe and help us fight with less risk to civilians.

Here’s the video of his plan.
Here’s the text.

Edward’s would instead take the money and spend it on health care, education and the usual laundry list of rat hole social spending that still leaves us with the problem, but we feel better knowing we spent trillions. But what good will that feeling be if America is seen to be weak? What good is health care or education spending if America’s children aren’t alive? And aren’t we doing this “for the children?”

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Government Sudsidized Health Care for All
So it’s not just “for the children?”

Bonnie Frost, the mother of 12-year-old Graeme Frost who was so vilely used in a transparent Democrat effort to lie about the need for massive new spending on “children’s” health care has now come out of the closet and is actively campaigning for government subsidized adult health care.

Apparently, the Frosts, who live quite well by all reasonable standards choose not to buy health insurance. And why should they when they think they can shame the government into providing it for free.

This reminds me of the line by P.J. O’Rourke cited by Mitt Romney in the Florida Debate: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Thank God for Joe Wilson!
no, not THAT Joe Wilson… the other one!

it’s a great thing when you have an elected official, a man for whom YOU actually voted that performs his duties in office the way you want him to and the way you would if you were there instead of him.

I’m very pleased to say that Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) is my Congressman. Every time I see him interviewed on television or speaking on the House floor I applaud!

Last week he went to the House Floor to assail the smear against Rush Limbaugh by elected Democrats and to praise Rush for turning this nasty episode into a huge positive by auctioning the letter Senate Democrats sent condemning him as “unpatriotic” for $2.1 million and donating it along with another $2.1 million of his own money to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

Joe: I’m glad I voted for you. I’m glad I donated to your first campaign. I’m glad you are my congressman!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Backfire on the Big Lie!
How Democrat’s latest politicization of tragedy blew back in their faces!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Here’s how the big lie works: Whenever there is a tragedy like the California Wildfires you’ll see Democrats knock each other over in a rush to the nearest microphone to say “It’s Bush’s fault.”

That’s exactly what they did when the wildfires broke out in California by making the false claim that if we weren’t in Iraq California National Guard units would be available to help.

Usually, that kind of story line gets some legs and as the quote of the week reminds us, it’s late when the truth catches up, if at all. But by the time President Bush visited the afflicted area it had become clear to all but the most deranged Bush hater that the effort to combat the fires and aid those left homeless was being managed superbly!

This time the big lie failed to work. But that won’t stop Dems from trying again. What else have they got?

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Reflect on the Sublime, the Beautiful, the Innocent

With so much violence, anger and hatred in the world it’s sometimes easy to forget why we daily struggle to bring light, peace and justice to the world.

This video I found by way of Sunlit Uplands is a reminder. Do yourself a favor: Watch, Listen:



Libera “Sanctus”


Sanctus, Sanctus

Benedictus qui venit in Domine


Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth,

Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloria


Benedictus in nomine

Qui venit in nomine

More Libera here in streaming audio.

The following are summations of posts you may have already seen at Flopping Aces. At Mike’s America we thought they deserved special emphasis.

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketBravo Wordsmith!

I was just getting ready to chide Wordsmith for light blogging and he goes and posts a perfect triple trifecta!

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The Neocon’s Best Friend: Code Pink Circus Freaks

Wordsmith started on Thursday with this look at the Code Pink Circus Freaks who have recently become even more disruptive (if that’s possible) at Congressional hearings. The woman with fake blood on her hands physically confronting Secretary of State Rice in the hearing room in front of Committe Chairman Tom Lantos was frightening. It’s clear by now that Democrats give these freaks a wink and a nod to engage in this fascist behavior then perhaps a slap on the wrist. They pay a fine and they’re back the next day.

Jihadi’s Angry with Al Jazeera and bin Laden “Mistakes” Tape

On Friday Wordsmith spread the news that Al Jazeera was being attacked online by Jihadists who were angry the Arab news network had run excerpts of Osama bin Laden’s latest audio tape where he admits “mistakes were made” by the Jihadis in Iraq. Don’t the jihadis know that ole OBL is just trying to curry favor with the American media who years ago demanded President Bush admit mistakes?

Friday was Wordsmith’s Daily Double and the Best for Last!

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In a brilliant tour de force presenation Wordsmith lays out all the good news in Iraq: increasingly lower violence, accelerating political reconciliation and the bad news this means for the Jihadis and U.S. Democrats. He tops it all off with photos of Iraqi children whose lives will be saved and made brighter by the presence of U.S. forces.

Great lines from the piece include: Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

  • “Message to Code Pink and company: This is what you are fighting against” followed by the photos of happy Iraqi children mingling with U.S. troops.
  • “The anti-war movement has lost the war.”
  • “Who wants to be the last mujahidin to die for [bin Laden's] mistake?”

I would only add one thing: When bin Laden is seen to be defeated by the American forces after all their bluster about a Muslim jihad uprising throughout the Middle East Al Queda is finished as a worldwide movement. They will have increasing difficulty in recruiting and their inability to find safe havens will grow. Bringing about these conditions has been one part of the Bush strategy all along and now that the Petraeus surge strategy is unassailably seen to be working a cascade of improvement in other areas is possible. Al Queda will still be dangerous and many homegrown jihad-Johnnies will need to be dealt with. But the organization will be dealt what is later seen as the fatal blow. Defeat in the capital of their “Caliphate.”

Good work Wordsmith! You have a three day pass to resume cartoon blogging!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Ron Paul: The Favorite Candidate of White Supremacists!

Meanwhile, Curt is back from Las Vegas with a vengeance. He posted “White Supremacists Love Them Some Ron Paul”. And you should see the comment thread on this one. Radio talk show host Michael Medved entered the fray on Friday with an open letter to Ron Paul asking him to repudiate the support and ideology of the white supremacists. No response yet!

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JustADude
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The big lie about the equipment in Iraq got slapped down the last time they tried it during the Greensburg Kansas Tornado.

Stupid fools went back to the well too many times.

October 28th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
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JustaDude: There’s a long list of the “big lies” that sweep the headlines world wide and where the correction gets buried on page A13 if it’s printed at all. Just in Iraq the Haditha “massacre” by Marines or the Scott Thomas Beauchamp lies in the New Republic are just two more recent examples.

You can’t blame Dems for trying to politicze tragedies. Just look at how successful they were in blaming the Katrina mess in New Orleans on President Bush and FEMA and taking the heat of Mayor Nagin and Governor Blankwit.

October 28th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
JustADude
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Mike

That stuff has backfired on them and the Bobby getting elected as the new Governor points it out so well.

In other news in the you can’t make this $hit up department try this one that just popped into my RSS reader

In a series of posts this week on HuffPost, author Barry Sanders discusses one of the least-explored but significant consequences of the Iraq war: the amount of pollution - including radioactive pollution — produced by the U.S. military and its effect on global warming. Here is the first installment:

October 28th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
JustADude
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I guess all those Tiki Torches / Smudge Pots Saddam lit on the way out of Kuwait have all just gone down the collective memory hole.

October 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
ChrisG
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JustADude,

No links showed up, but I can guess at what this useles idiot Sanders was saying on the mother of all useful idiot websites:

The Depleted Uranium rounds are causing radiation posioning and the *evil Americans*(tm) must stop using them now. The US Military must only be allowed to use inneffectual weapons against its foes (who are really good people and “minute men” standing up to the “rich West”. Just ask the multi-millionair Micheal Moore).

Am I far off?

The truth is that many nations (Russia and China included) use DU rounds. DU is self sealing (it does not leak radiation) so long as you do not play with it, grind it into dust continually, and snort it. The Left HATES DU but only when it is used by America. We would have had to use a whole lot less of it had Saddam not illegally rearmed after 1991. And actaully, the DU Sabot rounds took a back seat to the HEAT and MPAT rounds since a tank hit by an American Sabot does not often look “destroyed” (it is still in one piece), but when a HEAT/MPAT round hits a T-72/T-55 the turret pops off. Also, HEAT and MPATS are better much against infantry than DU tipped darts.

And the rivers in Iraq are STILL polluted with chemical weapon agents in 2007 from Saddam dumping them in 2003. Also, Iraq had no pollution control systems or policies on anything. Even now, there are very few (most of the rest of the world is the same in this). Oh, but the left cannot say that… Just blame *evil Americans*(tm) as usual.

October 29th, 2007 at 8:12 am
ChrisG
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As for the moronic Ted Rall cartoon, he gets nothing but my contempt and disgust at his lies and bile.

So what am I toady to the left? Am I one of America’s “best and brightest” who cannot be “wasted” in a war or am I a uneducated, barbarac bufoon who needs to be culled from the pack so the elite, “enlightened” left can rule over humankind in a “perfect” socialist “utopia”?

Really, this is like being in an abusive relationship. One minute the left ‘hugs’ us and the next they slap us. Yet the words they say never change.

October 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
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Chris G: Despite all the boo hooing from the left about the death toll in Iraq they don’t really care about the troops OR the innocent Iraqis killed by bloodthirsty jihadis.

Some even go so far as to celebrate the deaths of U.S. soldiers (and I’m not just talking about the sicko satanists at the Westboro “Baptist” “Church”).

Our blog sister Skye at Midnight Blue has reported the vile news of a person who confronted a woman in her local community that had a bumper sticker on her car that said something about her son who was in Iraq. The loon told her “I hope he comes home in a box.”

This attitude is nothing new. When I was living in Washington after Bill Clinton took office I remember the story of a General who had a meeting at the White House and said hello to a young female staffer. She responded “I don’t speak to military” and stormed off.

The coming election will offer a clear choice between Democrats who actively undermine our military and Republicans who do everything they can to support the troops, their mission and provide them the defense infrastructure to get the job done as safely as possible.

October 29th, 2007 at 10:41 am

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