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Chest candy

Posted on January 30, 2013 | Comments Off on Chest candy

Probably a photoshop joke, although this is North Korea, and police states do tend to do power things like this to excess. But it’s one reason why I’m having trouble getting very exercised about Barry’s plan to downsize the Pentagon.

We haven’t seen anything quite this ludicrous by American military officers (altho we have plenty of sheriffs and police chiefs who seem to think they are four-star generals) but I do recall that General Petraeus’s chest candy climbed up to and almost over his shoulder. And most of his medals were for pencil-pushing, the kind that senior officers award each other. Now that old Betray Us has been retired, hopefully some of his pals will be downsized.

Via Simply Jews.

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Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!

Posted on January 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!

It’s pretty common nowadays to compare politicians you don’t like, especially presidents, to Adolph Hitler. It’s not often that the politician does it for you by repeating two-thirds of the Nazi’s favorite slogan of “one people, one nation, one leader.”

From Barry’s inaugural speech on his collectivist, statist aims of more spending, more entitlements and more regulation: “Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.”

But, as PJMedia’s Michael Ledeen says, neither Barry nor many other American politicians today fit the old Fascist mold of charismatic old warriors leading anew:

“Fascists don’t change the world by ‘leading from behind.’  They take charge in front of the troops….we are a long way from the cult of personality that dominated Italy and Germany in the fascist epoch.”

Taking charge in front of the troops is one thing we’ll likely never see Barry do, not even in rhetoric, much less in practice. Could you imagine him in Patton’s movie uniform of shiny helmet and jodhpurs? Of course not.

He likes his speeches pedestrian, his socialism comfortable, and lots of expensive vacations and time for golf. Which is why, as Ledeen says, the jihadis consider him “a weakling, a loser and a pushover.”

For us, however, Barry’s inherent laziness and refusal to negotiate for what he wants might well be his most redeeming qualities.

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What the Hillary was going on?

Posted on January 24, 2013 | Comments Off on What the Hillary was going on?

Marco Rubio and most of the other Republicans took the Hildabeast through one boring boilerplate recitation after another at yesterday’s senate hearing on Benghazi. No wonder they can’t win the presidency. As my mother-in-law said of Romney before he was nominated: “No balls.”

Which goes double for McCain, the first loser to King Scold.

Whatever you think of his Texas father (and I don’t think much) young Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only one with any guts who simultaneously sounded intelligent:

“I’m glad that you’re accepting responsibility,” Paul said to our multiple cuckolded secretary of state whose idea of taking responsibility is mouthing empty words with a furrowed brow but without suffering any consequences.

“I think that ultimately with your leaving, you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that. Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador Stevens [requesting more security], I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable.”

It is but it won’t stop her from running for president in 2016. Meanwhile, next up on the Democrat state department responsibility-with-no-consequences circuit: the Catsup King, better known as Lurch, who may finally show us his magic hat.

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Infantry’s oldest enemy: mud

Posted on January 10, 2013 | Comments Off on Infantry’s oldest enemy: mud

“Afghan peanut butter turns treads into sleds,” is war correspondent Michael Yon’s caption on this photo of a combat vehicle stuck in the mud in his post Amber of War. It’s an old lesson the Pentagon seems never to have learned.

I slept in the mud in Vietnam a few times on night ambush in ’69 and recall once trying hopelessly to get a jeep that had slid off the road out of the mud, but I was lucky not to have to hump through it hour after hour, day after day.

I’m not surprised there are books about it. None, however, seems as focused or as complete as Mud: A Military History, which Yon recommends and I am reading. Whoever invented body armor, heavy packs and persnickety machinery like M4s that need constant cleaning should as well. (But probably won’t.) It’s not the soldiers who have lost our recent wars, but the leadership—so-called.

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The courage of conventional wisdom

Posted on January 8, 2013 | Comments Off on The courage of conventional wisdom

I’m wondering about all the negative hoorah over Sen. Hagel. Is he for-real evil or just another hack pol who can’t remember to tell the truth, if he ever knew it? Brett Shephens, at the link below, shows how he prefers to ride on bandwagons.

The fact that he’s a former Vietnam grunt with two Purple Hearts is interesting but hardly dispositive of anything (so is that creep Kerry) because he’s been a pol for several decades now, a line of “work” that doesn’t require being courageous or smart, just “flexible.” Hence:

“Moving forward, in 2008 Mr. Hagel endorsed engagement with Syria’s Bashar Assad and North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, and he was especially keen on engagement with Iran, enthusing at one point that ‘Iran had rights for women long before many countries in the world. Women could vote, I actually think before they could vote in America.’ (He’s wrong: Iranian women were enfranchised only in 1963, thanks to the Shah.)”

That he’s a liar or a fool doesn’t surprise me. That he might withhold military aid (i.e. bombs or ammo) from Israel at some crucial time worries me. On the other hand, does Barry think Hagel’ll be denied confirmation and have someone worse (like Samantha Powers) waiting to benefit from a consolation quicky follow-on approval? Or is that too paranoid?

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‘Only a clod would say the clot is a plot’

Posted on December 31, 2012 | Comments Off on ‘Only a clod would say the clot is a plot’

On the other hand, Clinton’s latest medical excuse for not testifying on the Benghazi murders is curiously unexplained. Their Democrat loyalty often blinds the Old Media, but not even a high school journalist would accept unchallenged a spokesman’s refusal to elaborate on something like this.

Via Althouse.

UPDATE:  Someone badgered them, because they finally released the info and it does sound serious even though they expect a full recovery.

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More Arab Insults

Posted on December 30, 2012 | Comments Off on More Arab Insults

Bernie is at it again.

And (drumroll) my personal favorite.

Q: Why don’t Arabs take their wives to soccer games?
A: Because they jump the fence and eat the grass!

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