2010 Foot in Mouth Award goes too...

Actually, there are tooo many nominees this year. From Maxine Waters wanting to 'Socialize' the banks to Biden's gaffe of the day -- to Nancy's "pass it before you can read it'. Obamanation is in a class by hisself.. If 'W' made on half of the verbal stumbles that BO makes, the Press wouldn't have space for any thing else!

But the winner, hands down, has to be Dingy Harry Reid, who said on the floor of the US Senate:

I know most of you good folks have been tied up in Christmas and Hannaka activities...

...and haven't been following the news as close as usual. When you get caught up, take a trip on the Internet and catch up on what Mayor Bloomberg and Imam Rauf (him of the monster mosque at Ground Zero are up to.

I'm not gonna repeat or cut and paste any of it here cause it's been well covered in many places, starting with The American Thinker Blog. Mikey B, the wannabe POTUS is sure building an ugly resume` for hisself...

The MSM isn't covering it, just like they didn't cover the demonstrations by thousands of good people in New York City the last few months ... After your Christmas dinner has rested, give it a look see!

By the way, this same Imam Rauf, NY Slumlord to some, is about to make a pre-victory lap around the colleges and universities..... you might want to check and see if he's coming to your town... and give him a salute!

Sure hope some of those new GOP senators bring some heart resuscitation kits with them. Help is needed!

Or at least a couple of orthopedic specialists who concentrate on correcting backbones!!

'Tis the season of giving......

........That is -- our lame duck 'shellacked' congress decrees --- and we give!

Or as Ann Coulter said today: 'Scrooge Was a Liberal'

It's the Christmas season, so godless liberals are citing the Bible to demand the redistribution of income by government force. Didn't Jesus say, "Blessed are the Health and Human Services bureaucrats, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"?

Liberals are always indignantly accusing conservatives of claiming God is on our side. What we actually say is: We're on God's side, particularly when liberals are demanding God's banishment from the public schools, abortion on demand, and taxpayer money being spent on Jesus submerged in a jar of urine and pictures of the Virgin Mary covered with pornographic photos.

But for liberals like Al Franken, it's beyond dispute that Jesus would support extending federal unemployment insurance.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Bible, but it does nicely illustrate Shakespeare's point that the "devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

What the Bible says about giving to the poor is: "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." (2 Corinthians (9:7)

Being forced to pay taxes under penalty of prison is not voluntary and rarely done cheerfully. Nor do our taxes go to "the poor." They mostly go to government employees who make more money than you do.

The reason liberals love the government redistributing money is that it allows them to skip the part of charity that involves peeling the starfish off their wallets and forking over their own money. This, as we know from study after study, they cannot bear to do. (Unless they are guaranteed press conferences where they can brag about their generosity.)

Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks' study of charitable giving in America found that conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than liberals do, despite the fact that liberals have higher incomes than conservatives.
(Go here for the rest of this great column)


Oh my, the hand wringing over the First Responders Bill of $7.400,000,000! Oh, the hand wringing over the Omnibus spending bill..... But I didn't see a single Kerry, Schumer, Pelosi or Durban reaching for their own wallet...... Oh No!!

Bubba Clinton used to take tax deductions on his worn out boxer shorts, Obamanation just doesn't give...... The FLOTUS has government employees plant corn, while she takes a limo and six escort cars to buy organic veggies...... oh my!

Never forget Pilgrims, never forget..... 'cause Nancy and her ilk are already planning their comeback....

Keep your eyes open and your powder dry.........

CIA has a sense of humore? Who knew???

The Central Intelligence Agency has established and put into operation a task force to assess the impact of the 250,000 Wikileaked US Diplomatic cables.

Being an typical government agency buried in acronyms .... their very curious choice of a name for this task force has been designated - WikiLeaks Task Force......

But we will all know it and will hear of it by it's acronym.......WTF ?

(Thanks for the heads up to a fellow Vet, Rob - from water swept California)

Obfuscation, thy name is National Intelligence!!

In the next post (below) Big Sis points out that Homeland Security is on the job 24/7, 364 days a year!!! If that statement isn't scary enough for you, here is another quote from that same interview...... Diane Sawyer interviewing Secretary Napolitino, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper, and Chief Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan

Keep in mind, this interview took place on Dec 21st, the same day as the twelve bomb plot arrests in London --

"First of all, London," Sawyer said. "How serious is it? Any implication that it was coming here? ... Director Clapper?"

"London?" Clapper said, before Brennan entered the conversation explaining the arrests.

Later in the interview, Sawyer returned to the subject.

"I was a little surprised you didn't know about London," Sawyer told Clapper.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't," he replied.

After the interview, Clapper's office declined to say whether he knew about the specific disrupted plot but issued a statement:

"The question about this specific news development was ambiguous. The DNI's knowledge of the threat streams in Europe is profound and multi-dimensional, and any suggestion otherwise is inaccurate."

Now then Pilgrims, I don't know about you, but having these three "see no, hear no, tell no" empty suits as our 'sentries at the gate' just scares pure hell out of me. Especially the gob'mint speak obfuscating Clapper feller.

Just in case you think Clapper's response was an anomaly, go to the original video here, zip up to the 2:50 minute mark and listen to 40 seconds of absolute gob'mint liberal gibberish in his response to Diane's question regarding home grown terrorists....

This man takes the words 'clueless bureaucrat' to a whole new Olympic level.

Well I'll be durned!!

Now we know how that Christmas underpants bomber almost got away with it!! He picked the day when Homeland Security doesn't work -- apparently they only work 364 days each year. Listen to Big Sis carefully!

Whatta Country we live in!!!

I read this morning on the Internet that as of yesterday --- 151 Banks have gone belly up in this country just this year. Yes - one hundred and fifty-one banks have failed....

Is our gob'mint concerned? You betcha!

Just this week the Federal Bank Examiners inspected a bank in the small town of Perkins, OK, and although they found it to be well managed and sound --- they found it in non-compliance. It seems they have Christmas decorations up.............. oh my!! Specifically,

"And the team from Kansas City deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us." were inappropriate. The Bible verse of the day on the bank's Internet site also had to be taken down.

Specifically, the feds believed, the symbols violated the discouragement clause of Regulation B of the bank regulations. According to the clause, "...the use of words, symbols, models and other forms of communication ... express, imply or suggest a discriminatory preference or policy of exclusion."

The feds interpret that to mean, for example, a Jew or Muslin or atheist may be offended and believe they may be discriminated against at this bank. It is an appearance of discrimination."

Needless to say, bank customers, good citizens of Perkins OK, are outraged --- as should we all be!!

Meanwhile, I note elsewhere, that although TSA is frisking Grandmas, and grabbing little kids in their 'no no' areas --- folks are going through the security system with guns, make believe bombs and more..... I'll bet nobody sneaks onto a plane with a Santa pin on their lapel though!!

The Mysterious 13%

I read this morning that Gallup's latest numbers reflect the lowest approval rating of a congress since they started keep ing record. 83% disapprove - 13% approve. Who knew that the SEIU and congressmen's relatives could make up 13% of a poll?

I found this on one of my military sites this morning -- felt like sharing it!!

I am an American.


I owe you no apologies nor will I accept

those apologies made for me by others.


If you dislike me, you dislike me not for what I am, but for what you are not. By my own sweat I have created a lifestyle
which I desire for all men.


To the world I have shared my wealth and

given my blood, not because of obligation,

but by my free will. I have fed the hungry of the world…

Many have bit my hand;

I used the other hand.


I defeated my enemies in battle, then pulled them up from

the ashes of defeat. Once strong , they again attacked;

I turned the other cheek.


Though I am strong, I have never used my strength
to rule others. But do not misjudge me, I will not allow the fear of my own strength to become my weakness.


If you wish to rise, I will give you a helping hand…

But by the grace of God, and I’ll first be damned,

will I let you drag me down so that we may be equal.


D. Ault

From Bob Ariail's lips to God's ear I hope!

The Supreme Court rejects lawsuit for larger House of Representatives!

Hear Hear!!!

Here's my High Five for the SCOTUS on this one ---- if 435 Reps can interfere with the several states, squander money like they do, and generally foul the air inside the Beltway -- just think what damage 870 or 1740 of those rascals could do.

If we need to make a change, let's limit the Congressional Calendar to the first three months of each calendar year -- let them get the business of the country done..... and then return to their Districts for the other nine months.

Then we'd see some real representative government!!!!

Here is the release in TownHall

Supreme Court Justice Breyer bares his soul, his ego, and his bent thinking --

--- all in one interview on Fox news yesterday!!

........Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer opined just yesterday in his not so humble opinion, on Fox News Sunday ---- that the 2nd Amendment was only included by Madison and the rest, "reluctantly" and thus, therefore, and ergo -- this he. Stevens, Souter, and Ginsberg were on the side of the angels when they dissented on the recent court opinion on handguns in DC.. When you have a minute - read this short column - it's not only scary that a justice would think this little of the Constitution, but that he would abrogate his oath and rule that way! It also provides a little insight on what makes these quacks tick.... http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/13/breyer-madison-wrote-2 nd-amendment-to-appease-the-states/ They were only ONE VOTE AWAY FROM A MAJORITY! Be vewy vewy afwaid!!

Mr (POTUS) Humble .....

......in his usual modest way made sure we remembered his award last year and opined on the award of the Nobel Prize award to China's Mr Liu Xiaobo this week:

"One year ago, I was humbled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- an award that speaks to our highest aspirations, and that has been claimed by giants of history and courageous advocates who have sacrificed for freedom and justice."

Lest we forget that He hallowed those halls last year, he added:

"I regret that Mr. Liu and his wife were denied the opportunity to attend the ceremony that Michelle and I attended (at US taxpayer's expense) last year."

Whatta guy - whatta POTUS, whatta TOTUS! Whatta load of crapola!

Michelle Malkin pulls the trigger!!!!!

I think Michelle Malkin's in (Townhall.com) column is too 'on point' for all my fellow Vets, to cut and paste in pieces. I hope she forgives me for posting it in it's entirety --- I will also link you to your original piece.

Homegrown Hate Crimes Against our Troops

By Michelle Malkin, 12/10/2010

When jihad-bent American Muslims target American soldiers on American soil, why does America yawn?

The Fort Hood massacre has faded from view. The Little Rock Army recruiting station ambush barely registered on the national radar screen. And the arrest this week of a Baltimore-area bomb plotter, intent on blowing up a military center and murdering our troops in the name of Allah, was met with a collective shrug. It's pointless to rally citizens around "never forget" when their heads are in the sand.

Civil liberties absolutists are more outraged by the alleged "entrapment" of Muslim convert Muhammad Hussain than by his bloodthirsty scheme to blow up an Army recruitment office in Maryland. According to the FBI affidavit, Hussain "indicated that if the military continued to kill their Muslim brothers and sisters, they would need to expand their operation by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live. He stated that jihad is not only in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but also in the United States." Hussain explored using rifles, gas, propane tanks and vehicle bombs to maximize death. He planned to "shoot everybody in the place" and burn down the building to "instill fear" and to send a message that "(w)hoever joins the military, they will be killed."

In tape-recorded undercover conversations, Hussain praised Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan -- even though he "only killed 13 soldiers" (and one unborn baby). The admiring Hussain had far more ambitious designs. He planned to "blow one recruiting center up ... then we hit another ... and just keep it movin'. ... Insha' Allah. ... Insha' Allah. ... Do it for jihad."

Next, Hussain told informants, he would take on Andrews Air Force Base, blow it up and then take over the homes of military personnel. Hussain wasn't bluffing. He followed through with his plot and was arrested in an FBI sting on December 8 outside the Army center. Hussain had attempted to detonate what he thought was an explosive device parked where soldiers had gathered deliberately.

If Hussain's targets had been abortion clinics, we'd hear no end of denunciations of the hatred and intimidation. Indeed, when Little Rock jihadist Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad was arrested in June 2009 for the murder of Army Pvt. William A. Long, 23, and the shooting of Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, it took three days for the White House to issue a limp, politically correct statement expressing "sadness" over the attacks, which President Obama opaquely described as a "senseless act of violence" (instead of the intentional systematic act of Islamic terrorism that it was). In the same week, the Obama administration issued an immediate condemnation and statement of "outrage" over the shooting death of late-term abortionist George Tiller.

Some enemies get Obama a little more "wee-wee'd up," to borrow his phrase, than others.

How many more arrests of U.S. military-hating Muhammads will it take for "sadness" to evolve into genuine indignation? The latest Baltimore plot comes as the Beltway area remains under alert for an unknown shooter targeting recruitment stations and other military targets. Over the past two months, the D.C.-area Marine Corps Museum, the Pentagon, a vacant Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., and a Coast Guard recruiting station in Woodbridge, Va., have all taken shots from a high-powered rifle linked by ballistics tests. The feds say the arrest of the Baltimore jihadist is not related to these still-unsolved acts of terror.

Our soldiers, God bless them, carry on without protests or grievance-mongering because that's just how they roll. But it's a damned shame more Americans can't muster as much anger over troop-targeting "Allahu Akbars!" as they do over "Dancing with the Stars."

After you read her last paragraph one more time.... click here to go to the original piece in Townhall.com.

RUN, SARAH, RUN!!!!

No, not for President ..... at least not in 2012 ...... throw your hat in the ring for Chairman of the Republican National Committee election next month!!

You've often said that you would go where you are needed, serve our Country however you can. This is the opportunity - the time to demonstrate that willingness to serve. There are a fistful of RNC Chairman wannabe's of varying qualities --- but nobody like a Sarah Palin, among them.

You are a fund raising magnet, you would attract conservative candidates across the Nation, you would scare hell (and moderate tendencies) out of the RINO's in our midst! You and the Tea Party have started the Party and the Country on the right track..... step up now and finish the job. Don't get caught up in the Dwarf Dozen of 2012.

A 'rain maker' for the Party's coffers, a recruiter, a motivator, a crowd gatherer -- you are all of these things..... step up and grab the mantle. The fact that it would add to your resume` for 2016 and beyond doesn't hurt, but for the next two years , you could be the catalyst that brings the Republican party to it's full conservative potential.

Go for it Sarah! Republican National Committee Chairman! It's a job worth doing.

Special Education Class????

An ugly illegal immigration story with a Happy Ending!!

..... First the story:

Last year, a 17 year old Mexican youth 'walked' across the border illegally and took a bus to Richmond VA. In Richmond, he was picked up by police -- and in keeping with the times, didn't get put back on a bus to Mexico --- They placed him in a foster home there in Richmond. Isn't that nice.

In April, 2010, five days after turning 18, while foster-pop was asleep upstairs, young Arturo grabbed a knife and raped his 55 year old foster mom. He was arrested, and convicted by a jury in September. The jury recommended that he be sentenced to twenty years for the rape, and ten years fort the abduction.

Hold on now - I told you there is a happy ending to this story......

On Wednesday, Dec 1st, the judge set aside the sentencing guidelines which called for a sentence of 9 - 21 years. Instead he sentenced young Arturo to Fifty years in prison, with twenty of those years suspended if he behaves well the first thirty.

Now isn't that a heartwarming Christmas story....? A true DREAM ACT!!

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/illegal-alien-sente
nced-to-prison-for-raping-foster-mom

Annie nails it again - PFC Manning - Poster boy for DADT!!

BRADLEY MANNING: POSTER BOY FOR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
by Ann Coulter
December 1, 2010

The two biggest stories this week are WikiLeaks' continued publication of classified government documents, which did untold damage to America's national security interests, and the Democrats' fanatical determination to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" and allow gays to serve openly in the military.

The mole who allegedly gave WikiLeaks the mountains of secret documents is Pfc. Bradley Manning, Army intelligence analyst and angry gay.

We've heard 1 billion times about the Army translator who just wanted to serve his country, but was cashiered because of whom he loved.

I'll see your Army translator and raise you one Bradley Manning.

According to Bradley's online chats, he was in "an awkward place" both "emotionally and psychologically." So in a snit, he betrayed his country by orchestrating the greatest leak of classified intelligence in U.S. history.

Isn't that in the Army Code of Conduct? You must follow orders at all times. Exceptions will be made for servicemen in an awkward place. Now, who wants a hug? Waitress! Three more apple-tinis!"

According to The New York Times, Bradley sought "moral support" from his "self-described drag queen" boyfriend. Alas, he still felt out of sorts. So why not sell out his country?

In an online chat with a computer hacker, Bradley said he lifted the hundreds of thousands of classified documents by pretending to be listening to a CD labeled "Lady Gaga." Then he acted as if he were singing along with her hit song "Telephone" while frantically downloading classified documents.

I'm not a military man, but I think singing along to Lady Gaga would constitute "telling" under "don't ask, don't tell."

Do you have to actually wear a dress to be captured by the Army's "don't ask, don't tell" dragnet?

What constitutes being "openly" gay now? Bringing a spice rack to basic training? Attending morning drills decked out as a Cher impersonator? Following Anderson Cooper on Twitter?

Also, U.S. military, have you seen a picture of Bradley Manning? The photo I've seen is only from the waist up, but you get the feeling that he's wearing butt-less chaps underneath. He looks like a guy in a soldier costume at the Greenwich Village Halloween parade.

With any luck, Bradley's court-martial will be gayer than a Liza Minelli wedding. It could be the first court-martial in U.S. history to feature ice sculptures and a "Wizard of Oz"-themed gazebo. "Are you going to Bradley's court-martial? I hear Patti LaBelle is going to sing!"

Maybe there's a reason gays have traditionally been kept out of the intelligence services, apart from the fact that closeted gay men are easy to blackmail. Gays have always been suspicious of that rationale and perhaps they're right.

The most damaging spies in British history were the Cambridge Five, also called "the "Magnificent Five": Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross. They were highly placed members of British intelligence, all secretly working for the KGB.

The only one who wasn't gay was Philby. Burgess and Blunt were flamboyantly gay. Indeed, the Russians set Burgess up with a boyfriend as soon as he defected to the Soviet Union.

The Magnificent Five's American compatriot Michael Straight was -- ironically -- bisexual, as was Whittaker Chambers, at least during the period that he was a spy. And of course, there's David Brock.

So many Soviet spies were gay that, according to intelligence reporter Phillip Knightley, the Comintern was referred to as "the Homintern." (I would have called it the "Gay G.B.")

Bradley's friends told the Times they suspected "his desperation for acceptance -- or delusions of grandeur" may have prompted his document dump.

Let's check our "Gay Profile at a Glance" and ... let's see ... desperate for acceptance ... delusions of grandeur ... yep, they're both on the gay subset list!

Obviously, the vast majority of gays are loyal Americans -- and witty and stylish to boot! But a small percentage of gays are going to be narcissistic hothouse flowers like Bradley Manning.

Couldn't they just work for JetBlue? America would be a lot safer right now if gays in an "awkward place" psychologically could do no more damage than grabbing a couple of beers and sliding down the emergency chute.

Look at the disaster one gay created under our punishing "don't ask, don't tell" policy. What else awaits America with the overturning of a policy that was probably put there for a reason (apart from being the only thing Bill Clinton ever did that I agreed with)?

Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose.

Why do we have immigration laws? What's with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards -- why not make heroin legal? Let's take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!

For liberals, gays in the military is a win-win proposition. Either gays in the military works, or it wrecks the military, both of which outcomes they enthusiastically support.

But since you brought up gays in the military, liberals, let's talk about Bradley Manning. He apparently released hundreds of thousands of classified government documents as a result of being a gay man in "an awkward place."

Any discussion of "don't ask, don't tell" should begin with Bradley Manning. Live by the sad anecdote, die by the sad anecdote.

Washington will be a safer place!

I don't know about you Pilgrims, but yours truly is most at ease when we have partisan gridlock inside the Beltway. I sit back confident that they are collectively smart enough to act on those items serious enough to demand immediate action, but divided enough to spend the rest of their time arm wrestling and posturing for their respective constituencies.

And I reckon I save money and damage to my country when they are arm wrestling with each other instead of working together twisting all of our arms and emptying our wallets.

Happiness is a warm puppy, a glass of warm milk, and a Congress with different parties running each of the two houses.

Suspicions Confirmed!!

Back in the days of yore, the Druids, the Witches, the Warlocks, the Werewolves would gather at night and in their own ways - pray, play or bay at the Moon!

Now here we are in 2010, and the Chicken Littles of UN Global Warming chicanery have gathered in Cancun, Mexico, to figure anew a way to jump start world panic about global warming after the truths leaked out during Warming-Gate. And what do they do? Why they start praying and baying at the Moon of course...... as reported in the hardly conservative, Washington Post:

Cancun talks start with a call to the gods

By Juliet Eilperin

With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."

I'll give these Moonbat heathens some credit however. When deciding where to hold a world meeting on global warming in December, they chose nice warm Cancun for their meeting location, not Greenland or Labrador!!