I encourage healthy debate, even rowdy and bawdy barfights. However, comments in EXTREMELY poor taste and/or regarding someones family, loved ones or uninvolved third parties will be summarilly deleted.
Please keep personal attacks specific to the person you are attacking.
"Look at all the misogyny you've poured out onto this blog, all the hate towards women, and you can sit there and deny the very basis of your anger."
Uhhhhhhhhhh.......right!
Lets examine one of the Mazola Ministers award winning writings that clearly show him expressing his attitude towards women......surely a benefit to influential young people?!
carl wrote:
"He slipped in the door, and congealed behind her. Grabbing her chin with his left hand, he yanked her head up. His right hand slid the filleting knife across her throat slowly and deeply, the tearing flesh sounding like Velcro opening under a mattress, severing her vocal cords so that she couldn't scream, killing her instantly.
Blood spurted out in great gobs on the wall and floor, even the ceiling. Old Faithful, although "faithful" was a word you could never apply to Lisa..."
My 7 psychiatrists told me that, carl, who labels himself a minister, yet writes violent stories of violence against women, needs emergency psychiatric treatment.
I agree.
However, my old friend & associate, worf, once told me violence involving humans torturing other humans is needless sick stuff and holds no benefit for mankind.
Hmmmmmm......wonder if Worf has the courage to tell carl his personal philosophy? I doubt it!
Personally, I would have thought a minister would write childrens books or something?
Sadly, FF, I cannot, as I know they will quickly be deleted.
Communism bumms me right out and I tend to become a little emotional thinking of the millions of innocent deaths attributed to this futile political philosophy that simply does not work.
What completely baffles me is how lydia cornell, the peacemaker, allows carls filthy attacks against other bloggers kids......she even praises him!?
It is this massively phony quality of the good christian, lydia cornell, that gets under my skin......we dont involve her family.
Matter of fact, all of us has agreed Ann Coulters posting of lydias info was inappropriate.
Am I really supposed to believe she cares soooooooo much about war casualties in foreign lands when she shows little respect for other peoples families right here at home? Allowing her thugs to bring kids into a debate is plain hateful.......period!
I fight man against man.
I have no words to describe, with the vehemence and force they require, carls latest trick of posting a link to another bloggers kid.
I'm not selling anything Johnny, much less my boys soul.
But Carl has shot himself in the foot. Worf HAS been civil as of late, and everyone can grow and change.
That's a difference between Conservative and Liberal ideologies.
Liberals in general don't believe that people grow and change, if you've done something in your past that you were less than proud of (and who hasn't?) they will forever see you and portray you as THAT person.
I don't know whether it's at Lydia's behest or on his own, but I think Worf is trying to be better. And until he proves me wrong, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Remember, he said some pretty crappy stuff about my boy too.
And I'm not trying to lecture you Johnny. They've all said some pretty bad things about you and your daughter. I understand that you're mad.
Hey what's gotten into Worf? He seems kinda decent. I think PP's sick antics finally got to him and Ms. Cornell. About time. That slimeball leaves scum on everything he touches.
...if you cannot protect me from the evil troll attacks, then I must take matters into my own hands! Boo hoo hooooo.
Gee I kinda thought PP was gonna start crying or sumpin. What a twinkie boy.
ROFLMFAO!
But hey Johnnie boy ya gotta settle down. You're beginning to sound kinda postal or sumpin. Ya gotta keep cool to make it hot for the libs.
I do get a little spunky when threatining ministers (who write stories of slicing womens vocal chords with fillet knives) involve other bloggers kids while consistently mentioning rape.
Watching libs support/praise this guy like hes cool or something, for their own selfish interests, severely lacks any moral decency.
Meanwhile, call mike fat or cliff Gi Jane and watch the communist blog explode into a tirade of hate.
I feel justified in this case & stand firm.
But, I genuinely appreciate & acknowledge what your tellimg me.......thanx!
Anyways, I need a good nites sleep; havent slept decently in weeks.
However just so we don't appear hypocritical, I think in as much as Worf and Co. clean up their board we should keep it clean here too to the same extent.
I'm not necessarily concerned with "substance", hell I kinda get a kick reading some of your more playful posts. But when it comes to personal attacks, lets see if we can be at least as good as they are.
And if someone over there does post something vile don't jump right away. Give them time to notice and clean it up first. Let's see what they're going to do.
I had a long chat with Worf last night, and he seems like a decent enough guy when you're not talking politics.
He even apologized for the remarks he made awhile back regarding my boy. (He'd probably do the same for you Johnny, but you keep pushing his buttons...LOL)
I just got this great book called "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. It is about how the Islamists are quickly taking over Europe demographically.
It is No. 14 on the NYT Bestseller list and it has 314 reader reviews on Amazon.
While the libs are overwrought about global warming, civilization is on track to descend back into the dark ages within a couple generations.
If Iraqi War had been a success, Dubya woulda been a big hero. But when the Sunnis and Shiias turned on each other instead of pulling together for democracy, it became a debacle and Dubya is now being demonized as hitler or the devil.
In retrospect, I believe the Iraq war was probably a step backwards in the struggle.
"I just got this great book called "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. It is about how the Islamists are quickly taking over Europe demographically."
FF, heres a short video clip I seen a few weeks ago. It supports your viewpoint about Islamist takeover in Europe.....very disturbing!
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/4767/
I 100% agree with your statement that had the war been successful, Bush would be regarded as a hero. However, I am convinced that a massive build-up of forces, sweeping the entire country, would have have produced a short war promoting both stability in the occupation zone and at home.
I will never understand small forces; this is a recipe for disaster inevitably producing a long drawn out war, dissent at home, & low moral among the troops.
You guys may get a kick out of this? I recently found an old high school journal buried at the bottom of an old box. I will exactly reproduce one of my writings word for word for your reading pleasure.
You guys may want to rip my turban after reading this.........please be gentle!
Cruise missiles
by JMM
I think the cruise missile testing in Canada should be banned because we are helping the United States find better ways to blow up the world everyday.
The cruise missile could turn out to have bad results. It flys not far above the ground and can out do any radar. This type of missile tends to make Russia very edgy. This only makes Russia more mad and gives them more reason to find and research into more modern deadly weapons?
The cruise missile is a useless missile because its only a thing for destruction and death. I think that Canada should not let the United States test their cruise missile here because were are not a country of power or destruction. We are a peaceful country.
JMM, I voted for Carter in '76, when I was younger, but, as you have demonstrated, we all have the capacity to change. I should go back and read what I was writing. I think I wrote something for a science class about global warming.
Of course, Reagan turned me around and really got me thinking about the direction of this country.
We may not have had a Reagan-like figure since, but we still can't throw the baby out with the bathwather.
I implore all clear thinking Americans (and one Canandian) to 1) get the best GOP nominee we can get, and then 2) vote for the GOP nominee whomever it is.
Reagan may be as close to the perfect candidate we may ever have known, but ANY GOP candidate is better than ANY Dem candidate.
USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq) February 1, 2007 URL: http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/e_jeffers/02012007.htm I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.
I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again...and yet, I too, am just a boy....my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid...because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.
There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own...but that are necessary for survival. I've made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets...who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not.
And to think, I volunteered for this...
And I am ignorant to the rest of the world...or so I thought.
But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.
Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.
It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.
America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.
But it affects us. And when it is over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.
We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.
Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.
Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news and let's stand and fight!
Regarding past political persuasion, I come from a long line of democrats on both sides of my family. Although I have always voted Republican, I'm the first in my family to do so. My parents and their parents were decent and proud people, but turned to the government because of the terrible experience of the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal which they believe fixed it (I don't).
Now the libs want to lead us down the socialistic path taken by Europe, and there may now be no escape. But one of the many interesting things in Mark Steyn's book is that the European/Canadian big government socialist model depends upon the willingness of subsequent generations to pay for the largess of previous generations. This will be an impossibly crushing burden because the birth rates of most European countries are far below replacement levels.
So it is ironic that the liberal attitudes of the West towards atheism, abortion, homosexuality, the demise of traditional families and having fewer children in general, will gradually lead to a mass extinction of much of the people who embrace Western culture in Europe, as Muslim immigrants replace them and bring in their own theocracy, misogyny and intolerance of 7th century Islam.
This is why it will result in America standing alone in defense of Western values.
The destruction of Western Europe is already taking place and will progress rapidly. Civilization will be in peril far before it has to worry about the global temperature rising a couple of degrees.
If we can resist the liberal agenda long enough, perhaps attitudes will eventually change as everyone witnesses the self-destruction of Europeans who heartily embraced socialism. If not we will join them in the tar pits of a fading civilization.
"My parents and their parents were decent and proud people, but turned to the government because of the terrible experience of the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal which they believe fixed it (I don't)."
In 1939 a man walked into a Canadian bank and happily held up his first pay-cheque in years and said:
"Thank god for Hitler."
Also, the muslim immigrant problem in Europe almost doesnt seem real....but it is!
Soon, there will be copies of the koran in every Canadian shopping mall?
Don't know if it's true or not, but at the time there was a rumor going around that the engineers at Bell Helicopters actually thought they'd strapped a couple of jet engines to a Bell 222. Supposedly they wrote the producers of the show telling them that they were severely over stressing the airframe...
Oh, did anyone else catch this little paragraph from the LC blog?
"God helps those who help others. "God helps those who help themselves" is not mentioned in the bible anywhere. We must replace the idea of "rugged individualism" with "helping others within your community" because no one ever really made it on his own without a helping hand."
Where I worked in Culver City was right across the road from Hughes Helicopters, (our biggest contractor) and LAX was just south. Every morning when leaving work, Airwolf would fly over on it's way to Universal Studios...LOL
They had to get a permit for it to fly with guns exposed for fear of alarming the public.
(Hughes moved their operations to Mesa, AZ. in 1985 and we lost their business. Part of why I returned home)
"I was reliving old memories and thought I'd share the joy...LOL"
Cool Volt....interesting story! Too bad you never got to actually fly in that chopper. Although, I must admit, Im not so sure if I could trust you with those mini-guns.......lol!
I remember the show but never really got into it.
Well, the weathers getting nicer so I,ll be taking a break from political blogging. However, I will check in from time to time.
Take care everyone and good luck with the communists.
Wow, Volt. I just discovered that if you want to stir up libs, just make fun of Fwance. The outraged libs will call you every vile name in the book.
Fwance is like an entire nation of American liberals.
In Fwance they despise Americans as well as Western culture in general and even themselves; they are too lazy to work more than a 35 hour work week with 2 hour lunches, they are too cowardly to defend themselves against aggressors like the Islamists. They routinely vote against the U.S. in the U.N., and luv our enemies like saddam.
If you want to see where hillary will take the U.S. just look at socialist Fwance.
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It should be about ideas and world views, not THEIR worthless arses.
Thanks Volt. I did make a copy of his pictures and address, just for fun, tho.
LOL, DAMMIT!
You know me too well FF.
It looks like Cliffy is trying to bury us FF...
I do. You're a great guy, Volt. Now let's kick some booty you Ruffian you!
By the way FF, I found new hope for the younger generation.
Wish I were about 30 years younger myself...heh heh
Mazola Minister said: (regarding FF)
"Look at all the misogyny you've poured out onto this blog, all the hate towards women, and you can sit there and deny the very basis of your anger."
Uhhhhhhhhhh.......right!
Lets examine one of the Mazola Ministers award winning writings that clearly show him expressing his attitude towards women......surely a benefit to influential young people?!
carl wrote:
"He slipped in the door, and congealed behind her. Grabbing her chin with his left hand, he yanked her head up. His right hand slid the filleting knife across her throat slowly and deeply, the tearing flesh sounding like Velcro opening under a mattress, severing her vocal cords so that she couldn't scream, killing her instantly.
Blood spurted out in great gobs on the wall
and floor, even the ceiling. Old Faithful, although "faithful" was a
word you could never apply to Lisa..."
My 7 psychiatrists told me that, carl, who labels himself a minister, yet writes violent stories of violence against women, needs emergency psychiatric treatment.
I agree.
However, my old friend & associate, worf, once told me violence involving humans torturing other humans is needless sick stuff and holds no benefit for mankind.
Hmmmmmm......wonder if Worf has the courage to tell carl his personal philosophy? I doubt it!
Personally, I would have thought a minister would write childrens books or something?
Wow, the Crisco Kid sure is enjoying the immense power of his cowardly delete button at the Lydia Cornell Communist Blog.
Not surprising considering he allowed a guy to pick on his girlfriend in Vegas causing her to run out of the club weeping & very upset.....LOL!
Mike didnt even make an attempt to defend her???
:|
Strange, he has no courage to confront Volt in here.........ahhhhh......the comfort of the delete button.
BTW, mike, I thought you didnt defend other bloggers?
Volt,
That sicko PP, just posted this:
I found these on an old California sex offenders' web site:
Member of NAMBLA
His Most Recent Victim
-PP
They are links to pictures of you and your son. I retract what I said earlier. I really don't care what you do to this fetid piece of garbage.
Meanwhile, JMM excellent comments. Permit me to repost.
FF said
"Permit me to repost."
Sadly, FF, I cannot, as I know they will quickly be deleted.
Communism bumms me right out and I tend to become a little emotional thinking of the millions of innocent deaths attributed to this futile political philosophy that simply does not work.
What completely baffles me is how lydia cornell, the peacemaker, allows carls filthy attacks against other bloggers kids......she even praises him!?
It is this massively phony quality of the good christian, lydia cornell, that gets under my skin......we dont involve her family.
Matter of fact, all of us has agreed Ann Coulters posting of lydias info was inappropriate.
Am I really supposed to believe she cares soooooooo much about war casualties in foreign lands when she shows little respect for other peoples families right here at home? Allowing her thugs to bring kids into a debate is plain hateful.......period!
I fight man against man.
I have no words to describe, with the vehemence and force they require, carls latest trick of posting a link to another bloggers kid.
Well, I gotta hit the hay.
Goodnight everyone.
Mike's a Dick
While your cause may be worthy, you have just destroyed weeks of reasonably civil hard work.
Stay frosty man!
Politics..........LOL!
:D
I'm not selling anything Johnny, much less my boys soul.
But Carl has shot himself in the foot. Worf HAS been civil as of late, and everyone can grow and change.
That's a difference between Conservative and Liberal ideologies.
Liberals in general don't believe that people grow and change, if you've done something in your past that you were less than proud of (and who hasn't?) they will forever see you and portray you as THAT person.
I don't know whether it's at Lydia's behest or on his own, but I think Worf is trying to be better.
And until he proves me wrong, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Remember, he said some pretty crappy stuff about my boy too.
And I'm not trying to lecture you Johnny. They've all said some pretty bad things about you and your daughter. I understand that you're mad.
Well, Volt, its hard to forget the subject when admirable christians like carl & cliff keep bringing up the subject with cornells consent.
If theres any change......its coz of my efforts.......period!
Hey what's gotten into Worf? He seems kinda decent. I think PP's sick antics finally got to him and Ms. Cornell. About time. That slimeball leaves scum on everything he touches.
...if you cannot protect me from the evil troll attacks, then I must take matters into my own hands! Boo hoo hooooo.
Gee I kinda thought PP was gonna start crying or sumpin. What a twinkie boy.
ROFLMFAO!
But hey Johnnie boy ya gotta settle down. You're beginning to sound kinda postal or sumpin. Ya gotta keep cool to make it hot for the libs.
FF
I do get a little spunky when threatining ministers (who write stories of slicing womens vocal chords with fillet knives) involve other bloggers kids while consistently mentioning rape.
Watching libs support/praise this guy like hes cool or something, for their own selfish interests, severely lacks any moral decency.
Meanwhile, call mike fat or cliff Gi Jane and watch the communist blog explode into a tirade of hate.
I feel justified in this case & stand firm.
But, I genuinely appreciate & acknowledge what your tellimg me.......thanx!
Anyways, I need a good nites sleep; havent slept decently in weeks.
Im sorry Volt.
I need a vacation!!!
JMM,
Do you have a link to PP talking about slicing vocal chords?
No need for apologies Johnny.
However just so we don't appear hypocritical, I think in as much as Worf and Co. clean up their board we should keep it clean here too to the same extent.
I'm not necessarily concerned with "substance", hell I kinda get a kick reading some of your more playful posts. But when it comes to personal attacks, lets see if we can be at least as good as they are.
And if someone over there does post something vile don't jump right away. Give them time to notice and clean it up first. Let's see what they're going to do.
I had a long chat with Worf last night, and he seems like a decent enough guy when you're not talking politics.
He even apologized for the remarks he made awhile back regarding my boy.
(He'd probably do the same for you Johnny, but you keep pushing his buttons...LOL)
Let's see how it goes OK?
FF, It was a sex/murder porn story he wrote...
http://www.purrmag.com/Purr12/waters.htm
Hi Guys,
Just checking in. Been busy with work and rehearsals for some musical gigs this weekend. You ruffians have a great weekend.
You're not mad at me, are you Johnny?
Volt,
I just got this great book called "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. It is about how the Islamists are quickly taking over Europe demographically.
It is No. 14 on the NYT Bestseller list and it has 314 reader reviews on Amazon.
While the libs are overwrought about global warming, civilization is on track to descend back into the dark ages within a couple generations.
If Iraqi War had been a success, Dubya woulda been a big hero. But when the Sunnis and Shiias turned on each other instead of pulling together for democracy, it became a debacle and Dubya is now being demonized as hitler or the devil.
In retrospect, I believe the Iraq war was probably a step backwards in the struggle.
FF, I've always said I believed in the war but not the way it's being fought...
If you wanna get an idea of what's going on in the Scandanavian countries, check out "The Gates of Vienna" from the main thread page.
I kinda like the "Holger Danske" thing...LOL
FF said
"I just got this great book called "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. It is about how the Islamists are quickly taking over Europe demographically."
FF, heres a short video clip I seen a few weeks ago. It supports your viewpoint about Islamist takeover in Europe.....very disturbing!
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/4767/
I 100% agree with your statement that had the war been successful, Bush would be regarded as a hero. However, I am convinced that a massive build-up of forces, sweeping the entire country, would have have produced a short war promoting both stability in the occupation zone and at home.
I will never understand small forces; this is a recipe for disaster inevitably producing a long drawn out war, dissent at home, & low moral among the troops.
Volt/FF/TT
You guys may get a kick out of this? I recently found an old high school journal buried at the bottom of an old box. I will exactly reproduce one of my writings word for word for your reading pleasure.
You guys may want to rip my turban after reading this.........please be gentle!
Cruise missiles
by JMM
I think the cruise missile testing in Canada should be banned because we are helping the United States find better ways to blow up the world everyday.
The cruise missile could turn out to have bad results. It flys not far above the ground and can out do any radar. This type of missile tends to make Russia very edgy. This only makes Russia more mad and gives them more reason to find and research into more modern deadly weapons?
The cruise missile is a useless missile because its only a thing for destruction and death. I think that Canada should not let the United States test their cruise missile here because were are not a country of power or destruction. We are a peaceful country.
...............
BLUSH
Maybe, Im not a moderate afterall.....LOL!
And, no Volt, Im not mad at you. In fact, I believe your right about Worf.
He has been acting rather peculiar these last few months?
"You have your way - I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
Friedrich Nietzsche
JMM, I voted for Carter in '76, when I was younger, but, as you have demonstrated, we all have the capacity to change. I should go back and read what I was writing. I think I wrote something for a science class about global warming.
Of course, Reagan turned me around and really got me thinking about the direction of this country.
We may not have had a Reagan-like figure since, but we still can't throw the baby out with the bathwather.
I implore all clear thinking Americans (and one Canandian) to 1) get the best GOP nominee we can get, and then 2) vote for the GOP nominee whomever it is.
Reagan may be as close to the perfect candidate we may ever have known, but ANY GOP candidate is better than ANY Dem candidate.
Hope Rides Alone
USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq)
February 1, 2007 URL: http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/e_jeffers/02012007.htm
I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.
I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again...and yet, I too, am just a boy....my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid...because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.
There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own...but that are necessary for survival. I've made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets...who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not.
And to think, I volunteered for this...
And I am ignorant to the rest of the world...or so I thought.
But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.
Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.
It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.
America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.
But it affects us. And when it is over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.
We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.
Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.
Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news and let's stand and fight!
Isn't that what America is about anyway?
Thanks for that article, Tall Texan.
Regarding past political persuasion, I come from a long line of democrats on both sides of my family. Although I have always voted Republican, I'm the first in my family to do so. My parents and their parents were decent and proud people, but turned to the government because of the terrible experience of the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal which they believe fixed it (I don't).
Now the libs want to lead us down the socialistic path taken by Europe, and there may now be no escape. But one of the many interesting things in Mark Steyn's book is that the European/Canadian big government socialist model depends upon the willingness of subsequent generations to pay for the largess of previous generations. This will be an impossibly crushing burden because the birth rates of most European countries are far below replacement levels.
So it is ironic that the liberal attitudes of the West towards atheism, abortion, homosexuality, the demise of traditional families and having fewer children in general, will gradually lead to a mass extinction of much of the people who embrace Western culture in Europe, as Muslim immigrants replace them and bring in their own theocracy, misogyny and intolerance of 7th century Islam.
This is why it will result in America standing alone in defense of Western values.
The destruction of Western Europe is already taking place and will progress rapidly. Civilization will be in peril far before it has to worry about the global temperature rising a couple of degrees.
If we can resist the liberal agenda long enough, perhaps attitudes will eventually change as everyone witnesses the self-destruction of Europeans who heartily embraced socialism. If not we will join them in the tar pits of a fading civilization.
Airwolf? WTF?
TT
It would be interesting if you could post some of your early high school writings......no cheating though!
BTW, who do you suggest should be the next GOP nominee?
Also, that was a good story by Eddie Jeffers but it seems to be suspiciously well written.
FF said
"My parents and their parents were decent and proud people, but turned to the government because of the terrible experience of the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal which they believe fixed it (I don't)."
In 1939 a man walked into a Canadian bank and happily held up his first pay-cheque in years and said:
"Thank god for Hitler."
Also, the muslim immigrant problem in Europe almost doesnt seem real....but it is!
Soon, there will be copies of the koran in every Canadian shopping mall?
Volt
Whats with the weird video? Was this your favourite episode or something.,...LOL?!
Hey! Airwolf was the best TV show ever!
I was in California at the time doing art for the manuals for the AH-64A Apache. It was my favorite show!
I was reliving old memories and thought I'd share the joy...LOL
Don't know if it's true or not, but at the time there was a rumor going around that the engineers at Bell Helicopters actually thought they'd strapped a couple of jet engines to a Bell 222. Supposedly they wrote the producers of the show telling them that they were severely over stressing the airframe...
Oh, did anyone else catch this little paragraph from the LC blog?
"God helps those who help others. "God helps those who help themselves" is not mentioned in the bible anywhere. We must replace the idea of "rugged individualism" with "helping others within your community" because no one ever really made it on his own without a helping hand."
-Oh really???
I think they actually believe that.
Where I worked in Culver City was right across the road from Hughes Helicopters, (our biggest contractor) and LAX was just south. Every morning when leaving work, Airwolf would fly over on it's way to Universal Studios...LOL
They had to get a permit for it to fly with guns exposed for fear of alarming the public.
(Hughes moved their operations to Mesa, AZ. in 1985 and we lost their business. Part of why I returned home)
Volt said
"I was reliving old memories and thought I'd share the joy...LOL"
Cool Volt....interesting story! Too bad you never got to actually fly in that chopper. Although, I must admit, Im not so sure if I could trust you with those mini-guns.......lol!
I remember the show but never really got into it.
Well, the weathers getting nicer so I,ll be taking a break from political blogging. However, I will check in from time to time.
Take care everyone and good luck with the communists.
Sincerely
JMM
I understand Johnny, I may be a tad scarcer during the summer months as well.
You have a good summer, and come back whenever you feel like it. You're always welcome here.
A little bit of trivia...
The real helicopter used for the action sequences in Airwolf was stripped and sold to a German med-evac company.
During a severe thunderstorm it was struck by lightning and crashed, destroying the helicopter and killing all three people aboard.
So alas, Airwolf is no more...
I once ate lunch at a sidewalk cafe in Avalon next to Jan-Michael Vincent.
Cool FF,
I saw him on Howard Stern awhile back. He was in an accident or something and I think he has brain damage...
I know you're in California FF, do you live in the great inland empire?
Well I'm toast. Goodnight FF.
I saw him on Howard Stern awhile back. He was in an accident or something and I think he has brain damage...
-Volt
Yeah, I heard something about that.
Wow, Volt. I just discovered that if you want to stir up libs, just make fun of Fwance. The outraged libs will call you every vile name in the book.
Fwance is like an entire nation of American liberals.
In Fwance they despise Americans as well as Western culture in general and even themselves; they are too lazy to work more than a 35 hour work week with 2 hour lunches, they are too cowardly to defend themselves against aggressors like the Islamists. They routinely vote against the U.S. in the U.N., and luv our enemies like saddam.
If you want to see where hillary will take the U.S. just look at socialist Fwance.
I noticed that FF.
As much as Worf was touting the French Foreign Legion, I notice even THEY won't hang out there...
Maybe we should just send all our liberals to France, that's where all the rich ones claim they're going when a Republican president gets elected.
Yeah Volt. Wasn't Baldwin bailing to Fwance? Why is that loser still hangin roun?
Hey, I just found this link showing how many lives the Iraq war has saved!
I'm pretty sure that wharf rat and leisure suit will be thrilled at this good news.
Maybe you oughta tell 'em about it FF...
I'll hafta watch and see how it goes...LOL
I'll bet they'll find excuses why it can't possibly be true and call you a liar.
What ya wanna bet?
Volt, I wanted to put up a new post but it said my invite had expired. Is it okay to post something? If so email with the particulars me dude.
Let me check it out FF.
It's nothing I did.
You should be good to go,
Nothings changed.
Try it again.
(If it doesn't work, I'll delete you and then reinvite you)
I went ahead and removed then reinvited you FF. Reply to the email and I'll put you back in.
Looks like you're good.
Cool. Thanx Volt.
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