Category Archives: Obamalot

Not a good time to be a soldier

Posted on February 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Not a good time to be a soldier

The soon-to-be-former defense secretary has decided that the military will get the smallest possible pay raise while King Putz has already submitted a fat hike for civilian federal employees.

As Darkwater so eloquently quotes from Kipling:

“God and the soldier we adore/In times of trouble, not before/When trouble’s gone and all things righted/God’s forgotten and the soldier slighted.”

Not that our unwise withdrawal from Iraq means “trouble’s gone” nor our impending skedaddle from Afghanistan, either. Both are starting to smell a lot like our defeat in Vietnam. To my old ‘Nammie’s nose, at any rate. Which brings to mind this other appropriate quote from Kipling:

“When you’re wounded out on Afghanistan’s plains/And the women come out to cut up what remains/Then just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains/And die like a good British soldier!”

Or an American one.

Meanwhile, back at Fort Hood, where 13 were killed and 32 others wounded in an obvious 2009 jihadi massacre, the civilian cops who stopped it have been laid off and are p.o.’ed that King Putz still insists that it was a case of  “workplace violence” with no politico-religious overtones.

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The feds don’t trust their own palace guard

Posted on February 11, 2013 | Comments Off on The feds don’t trust their own palace guard

Little ruckus here over discovery that Marines marching in King Putz’s inaugural parade had their rifles disabled so they couldn’t be fired. Apparently, according to a commenter here, the move isn’t unique to Obutthead. Lots of other presidents have done it, too.

I do recall sitting in an armory in full kit at Nixon’s inaugural in 1969. Our rifles were not disabled but we weren’t marching. Our squadron of the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment was detailed in case there was a riot. There’d been quite a few the previous year after the assassination of Dr. King. We’d been thoroughly trained in riot control and would only have used live ammo as a very last resort. A menacing display of fixed bayonets was first, tear gas was second. But we had copper-jacketed 7.62 mm. And, like the Marines in January, we also carried M-14s.

Nothing happened in 1969 and we all went back to the barracks at Fort Meade and turned in our weapons at the troop armory. The troopies wandered off to Fiddler’s Green to pig out on beer. I went to the O club for a round, then back to the BOQ and went to bed. It had been a long, boring day.

Via Instapundit.

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Race obsession’s malarkey

Posted on February 9, 2013 | Comments Off on Race obsession’s malarkey

I don’t really care whether Queen Michelle has (or hasn’t) a fat butt. It’s interesting, however, that getting caught saying so can get you suspended without pay (though the conjoined anti-gay diatribe probably was the decider in that case). There’s a double racial standard here. Saying Mrs. Bush-the-elder has a fat fanny likely wouldn’t garner more than a laugh.

I recently encountered this double standard in an Amazon book review I wrote. Call King Putz our first black (half-black, actually) president and his supporters glow with satisfaction. Refer to his racial makeup in calling him a thief, as I did in the review, and they pile on, insisting that I am a racist.

But, getting back to Queen Michelle, there is this further professorial nonsense to consider: supposedly referring to her fat ass is “a code to racialize Michelle Obama and remind people that she’s black.”

Remind them? You mean they would otherwise doubt the truth of their lying eyes? What malarkey our race-obsessed academic loonies purvey.

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Good luck, Charlottesville

Posted on February 8, 2013 | Comments Off on Good luck, Charlottesville

Charlottesville, Virginia, is the first U.S. city to ban drones in its air space as as one councilman put it “pretty clearly a threat to our constitutional right to privacy.” Hey, no kidding. Not to mention our very existence if the drone is armed. But will the feds comply? I doubt that even the state government is likely to pay any attention.

UPDATE:  Other cities and some states, including Texas, also are considering such bans. Could be because the cops these days look so much like soldiers that we already feel that our neighborhoods are under siege.

MORE: Speaking of cops, did you catch how the LAPD shot first and asked questions later on two women delivering newspapers in a truck that did not even fit the description of the killer’s truck they were after? They peppered the neighborhood with bullets. Imagine what these “professionals” could do with drones.

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Wind and solar mean burning trees and smog

Posted on February 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Wind and solar mean burning trees and smog

Reliance on wind and solar, both heavily subsidized by tax money but still undependable and ruinously expensive for consumers, is denuding parks in Germany and Greece and creating air pollution.

“Both countries are reporting that trees are disappearing from forests and parks as ‘impoverished residents, too broke to pay for electricity or fuel, turn to fireplaces and wood stoves for heat.’

“In Germany, Der Spiegel blames high energy costs for a rise in tree thefts and wood-burning stove purchases: ‘Germans bought 400,000 such stoves in 2011, the German magazine FOCUS reported this week. It marks the continuation of a trend: The number of Germans buying heating devices that burn wood and coal has grown steadily since 2005.’

“Similarly, the Wall Street Journal reports that in Greece: ‘As winter temperatures bite, that trend is dealing a serious blow to the environment, as hillsides are denuded of timber and smog from fires clouds the air in Athens and other cities, posing risks to public health.'”

We can expect these trends to come to the USA when King Putz and his Progressive and Green cronies get finished banning coal-fired power plants, thereby significantly raising the price of electricity.

Smog and denuded parks, coming to a town near you. Fortunately, here in Centex, we have plenty of mesquite to burn. A more or less endless supply, but the air won’t be so breathable anymore.

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Locking the barn door

Posted on February 2, 2013 | Comments Off on Locking the barn door

Or, maybe, I should say the garage door. Anyhow, this move of the Newtown school district to put an armed guard in their devastated school is better late than never I suppose.

I was interested to see that the guard is called a “school resource officer,” which I suppose besides being typical government-speak is intended not to rattle the easily upset. And Barry’s magic wand order a few weeks ago talked about funding “school resource officers” which I didn’t understand at the time. So even King Putz is backing the NRA idea that he and his party decried. Whatever.

This will be a subject for the Texas Legislature this session which just opened here in Lefty town, the only such in Texas. I still think it would be simpler to a) remove those stupid “gun free zone” signs that are invitations to the deranged and b) train and arm a teacher or administrator to be the guard. But it’s good to hear something besides idiot arguments about disarming the law-abiding.

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Bad bosses: Texas Democrat Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee

Posted on January 31, 2013 | Comments Off on Bad bosses: Texas Democrat Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee

Lee has always been, as Amy Alkon puts it, a honking moron, but now we know the imperious Houston b***h is also a terror to her employees and the ranking congressional rep in terms of staff turnover.

“I’m a queen and I demand to be treated like one,” the Washington Times quotes one of her former congressional staffers quoting Lee in a characteristic hissyfit. Each year, the paper reports, “an average of [more than] half of Mrs. Jackson Lee’s staff quits, and one year, all but six of 23 staffers quit.”

Insufferable she may be but at least Barry has yet to nominate her for anything serious. The paper reports that his Secdef nominee Republican Chuck Hagel is described by some former Senate staffers as paranoid and abusive “who would rifle through staffers’ desks and berate them for imagined disloyalty.”

I do find it dismaying that third on the paper’s calculated congressional staff turnover list, at an average of 46 percent (well above Hagel’s 33 percent], is Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann. I expected more from her.

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