Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
— Hilaire Belloc’s “Epitaph on the Politician.”
You can imagine who I’d like to see here. But you’ll have to imagine. I’m not going to sic the feds on myself.
UPDATE: Clarence Darrow was more circumspect: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, Obituaries, The War, Troops
Tagged Clarence Darrow, Epitaph On A Politician, Hilaire Belloc, Losing Iraq, Obamalot
This year we have the sad duty to observe Memorial Day in remembrance of two generations of American soldiers whose lives were thrown away on distant battlefields by American politicians: In Viet Nam and Iraq.
As Richard Fernandez explains: “The collapse in the Middle East feels like Black April, 1975, the month South Vietnam fell. And it should, because just as the collapse of Saigon did not happen in Black April, but in a political American decision to allow South Vietnam to fall after a ‘decent interval’, so also is the ongoing collapse rooted, not in the recent tactical mistakes of the White House, but in the grand strategic decision president Obama made when he assumed office…”
Militarily, the good old USA is not what it was and may never be again. Nobody, certainly not in the Middle East, trusts us anymore. Nor should they. Today, only about one half of 1 percent of the American population serves. Soldiers have no political clout whatsoever.
Indeed, joining the micro-managed, all-PC American military today—for any reason other than to repel a direct attack on the homeland—really isn’t advisable. It’s just slow-motion suicide. Deployment, perhaps, to the latest short-lived “commitment.” Some civilian flag-waving back home for a minute or two and then…forgotten.
Via ChicagoBoyz & Belmont Club.
UPDATE: Kept hearing Happy Memorial Day Weekend, a civilian salutation bespeaking bar-b-ques and whatnot. Memorial Day really is about dead soldiers. So it’s like hearing Happy Dead Soldiers day. Disgusting.
Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Forgotten American soldiers, Iraq, Islamic Fascism, Viet Nam
Even when American presidents do
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Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, The Culture, The War, Troops
“…the United States will burn ‘in the flames of an eternal and terrifying fire,’ says the observant Muslim mother of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted Boston Marathon bomber who was sentenced to death but will probably never meet the hangman.
This is Little Barry’s Justice Department, after all. If they didn’t screw up the case so it will be overturned on appeal—a big if—their federal appeals judges will find a way to let him off with prison, until he’s eventually paroled.
“Predictably, [federal] prosecutors assured the public that the bombers were not motivated by religion—despite what the bombers themselves believed,” notes the Religion of Peace blog, in linking to this personal affirmation of Tsarnaev’s religious intent.
Much like the Fort Hood killer who shouted Alley Who Quackbar over and over as he pulled trigger but the feds ignored it and wrote off his crime as “workplace violence.” It’s their clarity of purpose that strengthens our religious enemies such as the ISIS terrorist army against our often hapless, secular defenders.
Which is why being armed is a very good idea these days.
Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, Obamalot, Texana, The Culture, The War, Troops
Tagged Boston bomber's mom, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
“Juan Williams accused Pamela Geller of causing the deaths of two people in Texas… This was after two Islamic terrorists linked to ISIS were shot dead outside a cartoon drawing contest.”
Mr. Williams and his cronies, including Little Barry in the White House, would prefer we all kept quiet. So, like Mo Atta told the passengers on 9/11, we’ll be okay. Me, I think Ms Geller is to be congratulated for ridding the planet of two scumbags.
The cartoon is by Bosch Fawstin, the winner of Geller’s cartoon drawing contest. Which lured the scum to their deaths, which Mr. Williams wants us to mourn.
Via Gateway Pundit & The Volokh Conspiracy & Instapundit.
UPDATE: Turns out there was some confusion by the Volokh Conspiracy (whom I copied here) over which of Fawstin’s cartoons won the prize. The above is not the actual winner, which is here, though I think the above is much the better of the two.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, Texana, The War
Tagged "Stay quiet and you'll be okay", Islamic Fascism, Juan Williams, Mohammad Atta, Pam Geller, The Volokh Conspiracy
This fetching Israeli politician, who looks her best from certain angles, is the scourge of leftists around the Middle East and beyond. Heckuva recommendation in itself. In addition to her other, er, qualities.
I have to say that running a public contest to see who could draw the most infuriating cartoon of Mighty Mo wasn’t all that bright. But, of course, it shouldn’t have drawn gunfire from Muslim nutjobs or their hangers-on.
Best of recovery to the security guard who was shot (he seems to have been released from the hospital already) and condolences to the innocent for whatever lasting stress the wouldbe killers may have caused them.
As for the slain Jihadis, well, they surely got what they deserved. They shouldn’t have messed with Texas.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: The 1st Place tie in the cartoon contest. Heh.
AND: It’s a bit academic why Elton Simpson, one of the dead Mofos, wasn’t put away in 2010 by the FBI. Fart, Barf & Itch didn’t do a good job. Where have we heard that before. Happily, he’s a dead one now.
MORE: Simpson’s skipping prison apparently had more to with the judge than the FBI, says Sultan Knish: “Judge Mary H. Murguia, a Clinton appointee who has been bandied about as a possible Obama Supreme Court nominee, chose to believe a claim by his public defender that when he was taped talking about Jihad, it might have meant ‘an internal struggle to maintain faith’, instead of killing non-Muslims.” Liberals are so credulous. They keep the Jihadis laughing up their sleeves.
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