Useless Idiots

Hillary and Obama lovers, take note of your party. This is why most Americans don’t trust the Democrat Party with the defense of this country. The House of Representatives left for a full week of President’s Day recess without authorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization, a law that permits the government to monitor terrorist communications. The law will expire tonight. Thank you for your service to our country.

Even though President Bush pleaded with the House to quickly pass the Senate version of the bill that was agreed upon with bipartisan support, the House Democrat Leadership refused to call a vote on it. Instead of doing something to help protect this country, the Democrat leadership (if you call it that) decided to have a debate that led to charges of contempt of Congress against White House aide Josh Bolton and former White House counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to answer questions before the House Judiciary Committee.

Contempt of Congress???? How about we charge them with Contempt of America? Or, impersonating an American? YGBSM!!!

In the middle of a war against our civilization, the Democrat leadership would rather let a critical capability used to defend this country lapse so that they can charge two administration officials with contempt? This is not leadership, this is TREASON!

Yesterday, President Bush warned in a press conference, “Failure to act would harm our ability to monitor new terrorist activities and could reopen dangerous gaps in our intelligence,” And if you don’t think the enemy is ready to exploit this gap you are gravely mistaken.

Just when I think the Democrat Party cannot act any more ‘anti-America’ they prove me wrong. After it was found that the Bush administration had engaged in covert surveillance activities with cooperation from phone companies like Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth, a debate has erupted, largely on party lines, over whether or not to protect those companies from prosecution under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Disputes over the phone companies’ decision to cooperate with government requests has resulted more than 40 multi-billion dollar lawsuits. This is a collossal waste of time and money!

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a Washington Post op-ed today, "We are already losing capability due to the failure to address liability protection."

Do you hear that America? National security should not be a partisan issue but time and again the Democrat Party tries to thwart us from protecting ourselves.

The Senate version of FISA reauthorization would grant immunity to those phone companies, but liberal Democrats in the House were staunchly opposed to doing so. Democratic Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Silvestre Reyes (Tex.) wrote in a letter to President Bush on Thursday, “I see no argument why the future security of our country depends on whether past actions of telecommunications companies are immunized.”

Of course you don’t, Congressman Reyes, anyone that helps defend the country IS your enemy. I don’t know any other conclusion to draw.

Thank God for one intelligent Democrat. Senate counterpart Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.V.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged his Senate colleagues to vote in favor of the immunity provision in the Senate bill.

On the Senate floor Thursday, Rockefeller said that without FISA reauthorization, "the quality of intelligence we are going to be receiving is going to be degraded. It is going to be degraded. It is already going to be degraded as telecommunications companies lose interest."

House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi argued that a FISA lapse “does not mean that surveillance activities will cease.” WHAT??? Madam Speaker, read the law!

If FISA is not reauthorized, the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence would be stripped of power to authorize new certifications against foreign intelligence targets, including international terrorists, abroad. This removes a very valuable source of intelligence against these terrorists.

After the current FISA bill that permits the government to quickly obtain communications records expires, the law will automatically revert to a previous version that requires the government to prove probable cause of terrorist communication before communications may be monitored. In a world where actionable intelligence is of great importance, the anti-American party again proves that they are not the people to trust with the security of this country. They keep crying about our civil liberties being eroded.

And here is a question I have been asking for so long: Exactly what civil liberties have I relinquished? Perhaps their 60's LSD trips are returning.

If after listening to Pelosi you don’t get the clue that she does not give a damn about the security of this country, then perhaps you, too, are experiencing the same flashbacks as the 60's burnouts. The Democrat Party does not care about securing America - they are too busy burning incense on the alter in hopes of a recession; praying for more doom and destruction anywhere so they can blame the current administration; and hoping that they can find anything to prove their worth - even dipping down to MLB investigations in congress to let us know that they are on top of everything.

Everything but our security – the Useless Idiots!

A-6Dude

Chocolate Pharaoh
1 part B&B liqueur
1 part white chocolate liqueur
1 part Disaronno Originale

Shake over ice and strain into a COLD cocktail glass. Garnish with chocolate shavings.

Boulder, CO Experiencing the Effects of a Rocky Mountain HIGH!

Boulder's elected leaders are expected to decide next week whether to draft and vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. For the past few weeks, activists have been showing up at Boulder City Council meetings, carrying signs, handing out "impeach" pins and asking City Council members to take up such a resolution. Similar measures have passed in cities across the country, including Detroit and Telluride.

By activist, I think they mean unemployed hippies.

Liz Robinson, one of the organizers of the effort, said people hoping to see impeachment proceedings have given congressional Democrats — who won a majority in the fall of 2006 — plenty of time to act. “But since they haven't,” she said, “locally elected officials should take up the slack. Whether or not it's the city's business directly, like potholes, I feel this affects all of us. We're the ones who are paying the taxes to support this administration's depredations, especially the war."

Liz also feels that impeachment proceedings would be worth doing even if they only put the last few months of Bush's eight years in office at risk. She said, "We need to send a message that this all matters to us, whether it's last-minute or not."

Is this what geriatric hippies do in retirement?

The group appears to have some support among the City Council, although it's not clear if it has the five votes it would take to get a resolution drafted and subsequently debated. City Councilman Macon Cowles (right) wrote in a memo to his colleagues that he'll likely make a motion at the Feb. 19 meeting asking that a resolution be drafted. "I believe that these citizens deserve a hearing," Cowles wrote to the council.

This isn’t the first time Boulder has weighed in on matters far outside the city's physical boundaries. In 2006, the council approved a resolution calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and in 2003, the council passed a resolution opposing the invasion.

Liberals are a good example of what inbreeding does.

They are always on the wrong side of issues. It’s like a disease.

Deputy Mayor Crystal Gray (left), who helped draft the 2006 resolution, said Boulder has a tradition of debating big-picture issues. "I'm a believer that the council should be responsive at the level of local government to issues that the residents raise, just like the Iraq war resolution," she said.

Crystal, perhaps after you geniuses impeach Bush and Cheney you can eliminate hunger in the world. Or better yet, stop global warming by holding your breath. Think of the hot air that will be eliminated.

Thank God that there is at least one sane member. City Councilman Ken Wilson (right) said he's not on board. During a recent retreat, the City Council agreed to priorities ranging from fixing structural problems in the budget to doing better land-use planning. That doesn't leave much time for issues over which the city doesn't have direct jurisdiction, he said. "We did not identify national issues as a priority for work by council and staff. We are already seeing scheduling problems trying to address our priorities and the immediate needs of the city," he said. "Hours spent discussing national issues will reduce the amount of time we can spend on city issues."

Not only that, Ken, you aren’t elected to worry about national issues.

And Liz, in case you forgot your civics lessons from so, so long ago, Article 1, Section 3 of the United States Constitution says, "THE SENATE shall have the SOLE POWER to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present." (Emphasis mine)

Once again we have liberals that think they are more important than they are. Why else would a bunch of pompous government officials waste time and Government money for something which they have no authority?

There have to be other issues of importance to the citizens of Boulder that are more relevant to their city, and are actually within their jurisdiction. Or, has the "recreational" brain-fry damage of the 1960s taken its toll?

Or, maybe, it is that they are trapped out there in the thin air (Boulder’s elevation is 5,344 ft above sea lever). Air does get thinner at higher altitudes.

They must feel trapped like cornered rats. They have the mountains on one side of them and reality on all other sides. And since this city council can’t seem to grasp reality they have no place to go but into the higher elevations where the air is even thinner.

As a result, they must be experiencing the effects of oxygen deprivation. How else can you have a city where Ward Churchill, an anti-Semitic, anti-American professor is considered a hero while a president and vice president who free two nations from dictators and create democratic societies should be impeached?

Thank God they’re so open-minded. So open-minded, that is, that their gray matter is falling out.

The Boulder City Council

Back row: Macon Cowles, Suzy Ageton, Lisa Morzel, Angelique Espinoza, Deputy Mayor Crystal Gray

Front Row: Matthew Appelbaum, Mayor Shaun McGrath, Ken Wilson, Susan Osborne

And since when does a man sit while a woman stands?

A-6Dude




A drink from liberal Mecca

California Martini
3 ounces Vodka
1/2 ounce Red Wine (see, only a liberal would put red wine in a martini)
1 tablespoon Rum (Dark)
4 dashes Orange Bitters

Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

Is the MSM Vested in America's Defeat?

General Vo Nguyen Giap

General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi:

"What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!"

General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew. The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam -- it was lost at home.

The exact same slippery slope, sponsored by the US media, is currently well underway. It exposes the enormous power of a biased media to cut out the heart and will of the American public. Who is the real enemy?

A truism worthy of note: Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honor.

Is the MSM vested in America's defeat?

A-6Dude

Great Ceasar's Martini
3 oz vodka
1/2 oz dry vermouth

Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an anchovy-stuffed olive.

Update: Berkeley Backs Off On Banning Marines

In an update to my earlier post, yesterday the Berkeley Mayor (pictured left) apologized to Marines over the recruiting center flap that occurred recently. I wonder if it would have occurred if the six Republican senators in Washington had not devised a plan to yank $2.3 million in federal funding for Berkeley programs. Or, perhaps the backlash by real Americans that love and support the men and women who serve to protect our freedoms.

In addition, two city council members vowed to soften their stance on the issue as well. Doesn’t that just make you warm all over?

At their Tuesday council meeting, leaders will discuss scrapping a letter that might be perceived as targeting the center or the Marines. The letter said that the recruiting center was not welcome in Berkeley and that the Marines were “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”

In the world of liberals nothing is more uninvited and unwelcome than freedom and those that secure it. Well, maybe an opposing viewpoint would be more unwelcome. That might be a toss up!

I won’t rehash my previous post on this but I am glad to see that the Berkeley City Council is backing off, even if I don’t believe that they are really sincere.

"That letter will probably be pulled back and maybe more moderate language will be put in place which is appropriate I think," said Berkeley mayor Tom Bates.

MAYBE more moderate language will be put in place? Ya think? How about getting rid of all of it if you’re really sorry?

Berkeley City Councilman Laurie Capitelli (right) had this to say: "Subtly stated in the resolution is perhaps an impugning of the soldiers fighting for us in Iraq and other places and that was never the intention but that really needs to be cleared up. As I walked to my car that night I realized I regretted it and I had made a mistake." SUBTLY STATED?

I have learned in the business world that one rarely apologizes. Instead, one ‘regrets’. So Councilman Capitelli, since ‘perhaps an impugning of the soldiers’ was a regrettable action how do you make up for it? You people are way too wrapped up in your hatred for anything good about America. And unless the six Republican senators in Washington had threatened to take punitive action you would have continued your unpatriotic letter.

But I take comfort knowing that Mayor Bates and the city didn't mean to offend anyone in the armed forces and feel that the focus should have been on the war not the troops.

Your TRUE colors came out Tom. You liberals always say you support the troops but not the war. I have always thought that was a BS statement and this action shows what you really think about the troops. And worse, mayor, you claim to be a retired Army captain. You disgust me and dishonor those that have served and are still serving if that is true.

And it took the threat of losing federal funds for schools, water ferries and police communications systems to get your attention. The Republican plan would give the funds, intended for a school lunch program, UC Berkeley and ferry service, to the Marines instead. Now there is a good idea! But knowing the Marines, they would have donated it to something for the city like Toys for Tots , or something like that.

Bates went on to say, "We apologize for any offense to any families of anyone who may serve in Iraq. We want them to come home and be safe at home." How about apologizing to the Marines too? Let me get this right: spit on the Marines and apologize to their families. Give me a break!

Even better, Council members have said they would replace the "intruder item" with words expressing their support for the troops but not the war in Iraq. Don't waste your time, no one believes it anyway, much less you worms.

"Patriotic American taxpayers won't sit quietly while Berkeley insults our brave Marines," said one of the senators. Last week, as I said in a previous post, the council passed resolutions giving Code Pink a place to park out front. In doing so, the city is giving the group a place to continuously protest the Marines.

"What we're doing is we're announcing a bill that we intend to get on the floor to strip transportation from the city of Berkeley," said East Bay Republican Assemblyman Guy Houston. "What they have done in Berkeley is they have set aside a parking spot and in my opinion a public right of way, a public transportation corridor, specifically for a private organization -- in this case Code Pink -- to harass and annoy the United States Marine Corps and their recruiting efforts. We think that playing around and having an agenda with the public right of way is subject to ramifications. There is $2.3 million in proposition 1B transportation dollars. We think that should be in jeopardy." Amen!

Don’t get too giddy over the ‘regrets’ by the city council. Others on the Berkeley City Council seemed quite firm on their stance and Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Barbara Lee said they plan to fight the Republican bill. I would expect that. But where is there rebuke of the city's actions?

And Code Pink announced they would have what they called a "24-hour peace-in" leading up to Tuesday's city council meeting. They will have a lot of company. A group of pro-troop protesters will also be there too.

"I was under the impression that we have the right of free speech," said Xanne Joi of Code Pink. "To me, I thought free speech meant you get to say what you want without recrimination." Xanne (what kind of name is that, anyway), all freedoms come with responsibilities. That is something you liberals seem to forget. Actually, in your morally relative paradigm no one should have to be burdened with any responsibilities. I think freedom of speech ends at libel and slander and things like that.

Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak (right) extended an olive branch to the Marines. He went to breakfast with a recruiter Thursday morning. Wozniak said he does not support the harsh language of the letter to the Marines originally authorized by the city.

"Berkeley is supposed to celebrate diversity and free speech and we welcome homeless people here. We welcome illegal immigrants. We give them sanctuary. We should welcome the Marines. I mean they're basically dedicating their lives to protect their country."

That’s right, Gordon, they’re protecting this country so you spineless pansies can ‘say what you want without recrimination” and ‘welcome illegal immigrants’. And that may totally sum up the way liberals think…let’s welcome illegal immigrants to our city but get rid of the Marines. YGBSM!!

Ann Cooper (below) with the Berkeley Unified School District wants both sides to play nice.
"Senators sitting 3,000 miles away are trying to take food away from the children of Berkeley," said Cooper. "Why? Because the Marines and the city aren't playing nice -- and that's just not OK."

No, Ann, it’s the city that’s not playing nice. The Marines aren’t out there counter protesting Code Pink or the fact that you’d rather have illegal aliens in your city than United States Marines. They are going about their jobs protecting invertebrates like you with Honor, Courage and Commitment – qualities you liberals cannot fathom and certainly don’t possess.

A-6Dude

NO Martini recipes for you liberals today!

Is America Ready for Socialism? Hillary is!

Hillary Rodham Clinton is DANGEROUS. Today she said she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

Watch out! This isn't a 'might be willing' statement. She is broadcasting her punches and if you don’t see it, you deserve to be hit. This is a stunning revelation for the presumed nominee for the Democrat Party. She usually speaks in vague terms but this is as blunt as she can be.

And this is not the way to run a Republic. This is blatant socialism. She is finally revealing what she really stands for, and she is not for choice – except when it comes to killing unborn babies.

Hillary has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. In the past, she has not really specified the enforcement measures she would use, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."

Of course, Hillary said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, "it will be affordable for everyone."

As I said, she is DANGEROUS for America. This would be worse than any ‘supposed’ violation of our rights by the Bush administration. I’ve always beleilved she was a Socialist but for her to put it out there so openly is just remarkable.

First of all, I don’t want the government involved in health care. Take a look at Canada and Great Britain, or any other country with government run health care. I don’t want the government deciding what treatment I can get and when I can get it. And I don’t care if it’s FREE! But of course, it’s never really free.

Hillary…what if I can afford it but prefer to pay as I go? How are you to determine that I can afford it anyway? You can’t do it by salary. A person living in Arkansas that makes $100,000 a year enjoys a much higher standard of living that someone with the same salary living in the Washington, DC area.

Maybe I have other things that my hard earned money needs to be spent on rather than your ridiculous universal health care. You have no clue as to what priorities I must set each day for the money I make.

This is a dangerous precedent and I guarantee you it won’t stop here. Once she is able to do this, she will expand this to other socialist agendas.

I hope you see what she just revealed about herself.

Hillary Clinton is a Socialist.

Are you ready for socialism?

A-6Dude

For Hillary:

The Witch's Whiskers Martini
1 part Gin
1 part Dry Vermouth
1 part Sweet Vermouth
1 part Orange Juice
½ part Orange Liqueur
2 dashes Bitters

Shake ingredients over ice and pour into half salted cocktail glass. Float bitters on top.

Berkeley Declares War on Marines

Among the classifications that liberals use to describe conservatives and republicans are: intolerant, narrow-minded, racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic and mean spirited, and the list goes on. Basically, we are not tolerant of alternative and different points of view.

Here’s what I’ve noticed about liberals: the very same people that accuse us of being any one or more of the above adjectives exhibit those traits FAR beyond that with which we are said to do. It starts with their intolerance of any opposing viewpoint and spreads out from there.

So, we shouldn’t be surprised by a story coming out of Berkeley, CA today. It appears that the local government wants the Marines out. We’re not talking about a Marine Corps base or airfield or supply depot. We’re talking about a recruiting office. The recruiting office opened in Berkeley a little over a year ago. They were quietly doing their business of recruiting volunteers to become Marine officers. That is, until about four months ago when Code Pink began regular sidewalk protests against these baby killers.

Then, the Berkeley City Council passed a measure by a vote of 8-1 to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests."

Who would make better guests then? Perhaps Osama bin Laden or three or four of his followers? Or maybe they could turn the place into a day worker site. As long as it’s something that is against America I’m sure it will be acceptable.

The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. This is where they expose their hypocrisy. Remember the tolerance and inclusion that they say we don’t exhibit? Well, I don’t see it on display by them either. In fact, I see bigotry, intolerance, discrimination and absolute un-patriotic behavior.

Liberals are HYPOCRITES! They are all for tolerance and diversity as long as you are agreeing with them. Just ask the liberal that keyed my car during the 2004 election because I had a Bush sticker on it. I had to check my Webster’s dictionary to make sure I new where to send the updated definition of tolerance to for inclusion in their next edition.

Then, in a separate 8-1 vote, the council voted to give protest group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week.

Now, I wonder if they would have voted to give a pro-war group that same type of privilege to protest in front of City Hall. Or, would they give Pro-Life group the same deal to protest in front of a baby killing clinic.

And then, it gets even more telling about who these people are.

"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates.

Mayor Bates, you are entitled to your opinions. And you are free to express them regardless of how idiotic you sound doing so. But do you know why you are able to say these things and make a fool of yourself? Because the very Marines that you so despise and want out of your city are the same ones that freely put their lives on the line so that you can express your 1st Amendment rights, you ungrateful piece of s**t!

And now Code Pink is circulating petitions to get a measure on the ballot in November making it more difficult to open military recruiting offices in Berkeley if they are near homes, parks, schools, churches, libraries or health clinics (read: baby killing clinics) or anywhere else that anyone of the very tolerant citizens of Berkeley might find themselves having to endure the offense of the presence of a United States Marine.

Code Pink has the right to protest. And though I don’t agree with them I wouldn’t begrudge them their constitutional right to protest, even against the very people that secure that right. But they are protesting the wrong people.

Marines, or any other service for that matter, do not determine whether or not we go to war or when. Their job is to execute policy. That policy is set by the government. The President decides on taking us to war and the Congress must approve it. Like it or not, that is what has happened.

So, if these sheep want to protest, they should be outside of the White House and Capitol letting the politicians that approved this war know what they think. Insulting and impugning the honor of the Marines that protect their right to protest is ludicrous and deplorable.

Some business owners aren't happy with the weekly protests. "My husband's business is right upstairs, and this (protesting) is bordering on harassment," Dori Schmidt told the council. "I hope this stops."

Dori, you have just as much right to counter-protest if you wish. Why not do it? At least you’d be protesting against the right people – Code Pink.

These people, the Berkeley liberals and Code Pink, have no honor or courage. As far as I’m concerned they can protest all day long. They are hypocrites and cowards and do not represent what is good in America.

But at least they are not trying to convince us they support the troops like their liberal counterparts in Congress.

A-6Dude

Here’s an appropriate martini for this post:
Pink Gin Martini
2 parts gin
Bitters to taste

Shake over ice until COLD and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist.

The Enemy’s Scorekeepers

In sports there are people that keep records of scores and statistics. They live and breathe this data so that they can publish for our consumption.

In the mainstream media (MSM) they also have people who keep scores and statistics. And just like in sports, there are consumers out there to digest it all. But the statistics that the MSM publish are not whether or not the home team won, or which left-handed hitter bats better than .300 on Tuesday evenings against a right-handed pitcher in a dome stadium while it is raining. To them it doesn’t matter if the home team wins, what matters is the Body Count!

In fact, there is no report of victory, only casualties.

The MSM just released a story that shows who they really are – they are the Enemy’s Scorekeepers!

The AP announced that as of January 31, 2008 there have been 3,942 members of the military that have died in Iraq since March of 2003. For the last almost five years the death count has been as keenly reported as the box scores for professional sports – without the mention of who won. The MSM have a fascination with death. They report it like a sportscaster reports scores of sports events, but without any pretense of objectivity. But at least it jived with the DoD statistics.

I wouldn’t have an issue with this so much if they did it out of, and with, respect for our fallen military members. If they would honor the sacrifice that these young men and women have given for our country and for others it might be different.

But they don’t. They live for the body count. These fallen men and women mean nothing to them. They are just statistics to be used to demoralize our troops and the American public, and to do everything they can to further their belief that America is bad.

And don’t think that the enemy doesn’t read this. They do so with the same fascination that we have regarding the outcome of our sporting events.

It also provides a service to our enemies. It let’s them know how they’re doing.

The American public has every right to know the cost of our actions here and overseas. If the MSM was doing this in an honorable and objective way it would be different. But they are in the business of selling newspapers and sensationalism sells.

And the way they report body counts is meant to achieve sensationalism. They treat the men and women that die in the service of our country as nothing more than a statistic to further the action line of the day – America is bad and is responsible for all of the world’s ills.

If the death count is so important then why aren’t they reporting the number of murders across the country each year with the same voracity? I know for sure it exceeds the almost 800 men and women that sacrifice their lives each year in Iraq. Wouldn't that make America look bad?

How about the tens of thousands we lose each year in vehicle accidents, or the 7, 000 or so we are said to lose to poor penmanship of doctors? Wouldn't that make America look bad?

Let’s put it in perspective. In 2007 there were 1,200,000 abortions in the U.S. That comes to about 3,288 babies killed per day. In any six hour period in America there are more babies killed (822 based on these numbers) than there are military members killed in Iraq in a year!

Why isn’t that body count making headline news? Does that make America look good?

All of those men and women we lose in Iraq are terrible losses. They leave behind fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, kids, loved ones and friends. Their sacrifice is not in vain and it is worth more than a statistic to achieve a sensational headline.

How does Iraq compare to other places in the U. S. and the world relative to violent deaths? You can see from the chart below that there are more dangerous places in America. Even the MSM's hero Hugo Chavez's country is more dangerous than Iraq.

Based on the number reported to date, we have been averaging about 800 men and women dying in Iraq each year. In Vietnam it was more like 5,800 per year. And though every life lost in Iraq is terrible, isn’t the fact that we are losing less of our brothers and sisters a good thing?

One would think so. About a year ago (I think) the MSM did a report showing how advances in medicine are saving lives on the battlefield. What does this mean? It means that less of our men and women are dying in combat than ever before. That should be great news!

But, damn it, having lower body counts is not good for headlines. So they even spin that fact that we are saving more lives as a negative. They see that because fewer military members are dying, there are more wounded to deal with. And this puts a drain on our already failing health care system. You can’t win with these people!

The MSM used to be pro-American? Wouldn’t it be nice to see them that way again?

I’m not holding my breath. And just watch, the Enemy’s Scorekeepers will be gleefully reporting the build up to the orgasm they’ll have when they get to report the 4,000th fatality in Iraq.

A-6Dude

Churchill's Martini

2 parts Gin

Dry Vermouth

Pour Gin over ice in a shaker. Look at the Vermouth and shake the Gin until COLD! Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with olives.