Maybe I’m just getting cynical…or old…or it’s a combination of the ridiculous versus the sublime. Being that I mostly see ridiculous anymore and very little of the sublime, here’s the article from Lifenews.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, has a message for moms: send us more money. Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sent out a fund-raising request this week one pro-life advocate says is grotesque.

Which it is, of course. The organization that was created in order to kill black babies - by Margaret Sanger, a communist…should be embarrassed about fundraising around a day that they deny their clients…MOTHER’s DAY. The clients don’t get to become mothers because their babies are killed, and the babies are killed, and deprived of life altogether. Mother’s day honors women who’ve actually carried babies to term.

Richards honored Mother’s Day by sharing part of an editorial her daughter wrote saying she got her pro-abortion views from her mother and grandmother, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.

“It’s true that I have had lots of rewarding moments in my career. So did my mother,” Cecile wrote in the email LifeNews.com obtained. “But knowing that my daughter is carrying on the legacy of fighting that my mother passed to me trumps ‘em all.”

I’m not sure what that means…at least she LIVED. There is at least a quarter of a generation of people missing from our society now, as a result of their disastrous policy of murdering innocents.

Richard couldn’t wait until the third paragraph of her Mother’s Day letter to PPFA supporters to ask them to open their wallets.

“This Mother’s Day, I’m honoring that legacy with a Planned Parenthood Federation of America Mother’s Day gift. Join me,” she wrote.

“Honor that legacy” with a “gift”???? Tell me what kind of picture that brings up in your mind.

“You can help with a gift to Planned Parenthood Federation of America today in honor of your mother or daughter, and on behalf of all the women,” she added.

Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek called Richard’s exploitation of Mother’s Day for pro-abortion money-making purposes “grotesque” and said she couldn’t believe Richards would stoop to “using her dead mother and daughter as props.”

Read the whole thing.

Compare and contrast

Jennifer Locke, was on assignment with a camera crew to cover the entertainment angle of the event. When Sen. John McCain walked by, the assistant said, “I voted for you in the primary, you’re going to win.”

McCain was overheard saying to her, “You’re not supposed to reveal that.” Locke apparently continued to explain that she is the daughter of a Vietnam veteran.

Insiders who were at the event were surprised and shocked to hear the disclosure, which was recorded on videotape. A Fox News insider called it “journalistically unacceptable.” An FNC spokesperson would not comment on the personnel matter but did confirm Locke is no longer with the company, where she’d worked for a couple of years.

This is a quote from the link above, in case you didn’t notice.

From Cynics Party

A commenter at media bistro calls Fox “biased” for firing this young lady. How you can compare Chris Matthews KEEPING HIS JOB after talking about how he got hot in his nether regions over Obama and kept his job, and Fox firing the young lady for having a dad who’s a Vietnam Veteran, I’ll never know.

Too bad. Rather had talks with CNN, ABC, and NBC in 2006 about possible employment after his departure from CBS, but they refused to hire him because he brought “too much baggage.”
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Newsbusters

So he’s suing CBS for the forged document scandal that put him in this position? I haven’t read the court docs, but it might be good for a laugh.

The fact is, he DOES have an ongoing lawsuit against CBS.

I couldn’t find a satisfactory commie picture of the IVAW alone, so this one will have to do. From The Two Malcontents.

The marxist IVAW plan is to bring their dog and pony show before the House Progressive Caucus, since their original efforts in Maryland didn’t go over so well. The next phase is to go over and sing to the choir in Washington; their dutiful fellow pink-o comrades in the Progressive Caucus. (Rep. Dennis Kucinich, co-chairman)

Take a look at the organizations that support the Congressional Progressive Caucus (Circus). It should give you an idea of the 70 or so Congressional members of this caucus(circus) and how they spend their time:

“An array of national progressive organizations will work to support the efforts of the caucus, including the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation magazine, MoveOn.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice, Peace Action, Americans for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. Also co-sponsoring the kickoff event were the NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention. The CPC has long maintained cordial ties with the Democratic Socialists of America, which hosted its website during the 1990s.”

Until 1999 the Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations’ websites. -Discover the Networks

The eyes and ears of thousands will be inspecting closely every word spoken by IVAW testifiers since, according to IVAW press release, the Congressional testimony is billed as being under “oath”. A few calls for “proof” (date, time, place, witnesses, leadership, and unit involved) would be appropriate…generalities may be satisfying to a gullible media or politically correct congress, but when our warriors and nation’s policies are potentially defamed and distorted, only facts and credible evidence will be acceptable.

There was nothing of substance reported at the WSII National Labor College event so we can expect the IVAW tilted crystal ball to fabricate additional fantasy, if this appearance actually occurs.

Information as to where and when of the testimony is listed below in a IVAW press release.

Media Advisory: May 5, 2008

Contact: Francesca Lo Basso, 215-498-3347, media@ivaw.org

Winter Soldier on the Hill: Iraq Veterans to Testify Before Congress on Failure of Troop Surge

WHAT: Winter Soldier on the Hill

WHO: Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) & The Congressional Progressive Caucus

WHEN: May 15, 2008, 9:30am-12:30pm

WHERE: 2261 Rayburn House Office Building

WHY: To present eyewitness accounts of the Iraq occupation to Congress.

Washington, DC - On May 15, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will testify under oath before Congress about their eyewitness accounts of the military occupation of Iraq. Testifiers will include veterans who served during the surge.

This testimony represents a shift from reports to Congress from high-level commanders and political appointees to direct accounts from boots-on-the-ground soldiers and Marines about the situation in Iraq. Testifiers will detail the ineffectiveness of the “troop surge,” the dehumanization, abuse and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians, and the breakdown of the military as a result of the ongoing occupation of Iraq.

Testifiers will include Luis Montalvan, who served two tours in Iraq as an Army Captain; Jason Washburn, a US Marine Corps Infantry Rifleman who served three tours in Iraq; and Kristofer Goldsmith, who served in the Army as an Artillery Forward Observer in Sadr City, Iraq.

“The time has come for Congress to hear about the occupation from the soldiers and Marines who have seen it first-hand. Petraeus continues to repeat the administration’s talking points while ignoring what the soldiers on the ground know: the Iraq occupation is not working,” said Kelly Dougherty, a former Military Police Sergeant in Iraq and Executive Director of IVAW.

Winter Soldier on the Hill is a continuation of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (WSIA), held at the National Labor College from March 13-16, 2008. Named after Thomas Paine’s reference to soldiers who stand up for their country in its darkest hours, WSIA gathered over 250 members of IVAW and collected over 30 hours of testimony regarding the negative impact of the Iraq occupation on the military - including an overburdened Veterans’ Administration, demoralized service members and a crumbling military infrastructure.

Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded in 2004 to give those who have served in the military since September 11, 2001 a way to come together and speak out against an unjust, illegal and unwinnable occupation. Today, IVAW has over 1,000 members in 43 states, Washington, D.C. and Canada and on military bases overseas.

From Colonel Riley (USA, Ret) through email.

More at the Sniper here and here, here

GOE has created another petition (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ivawtruthintestimony/) asking the CPC to verifiy any info that the IVAW brings to them. This petition reads about the same as the petition that was circulated for the Senate Armed Services Committee. The CPC is more of an ad-hoc group than any sort of official committee, but since we’ve been out in front of IVAW on this, we should probably stay there.

Please circulate this petition among your mailing lists.

Although all things considered, I’m not sure how much good it will do beyond show them that we’re watching every move they make.

Since it’s May day week, the international celebration of communism, Code Pink has declared every day a day for an open assault through to protest on our Marine Recruiting Center in Bezerkely.

From Catherine Moy:

The radical anti-military group, Code Pink, finally shows the world what its membership is made of: witches and crones. Seriously. This week, Code Pink is holding a series of events and street theater to get themselves some more notoriety. You’d think it would be enough that they have attacked the Marine recruiting center and traveled the world coddling dictators and handing out money to terrorists’ families. But nooooooo!!!!

The witches of Code Pink plan to gather at their usual place of harassment, the Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, and cast some spells to chase the recruiters away. From Code Pink’s Website:

“Friday, May 9th: Witches, Crones, Sirens: perform rituals of leaving, cast a spell of peace and love over the station, rendering nil the recruiting of our youth to become fodder for this occupation of Iraq.” I told you I wasn’t kidding.

I wonder if we might be able to come up with our OWN street theater idea…like a “Dorothy” with a bucket of water, or a King Richard, the Lionheart.

Melanie Morgan:

So. It’s gotten down to this. Anti-war activists, frustrated they can’t call off the war in Iraq, are now calling on witches to cast ’spells.’

Michelle Malkin by way of Tel-Chai Nation

Philly Daily News:

The mastermind of the Port Richmond bank robbery was Howard Cain, who was fatally shot by police Saturday while fleeing in a minivan minutes after he fired a once-banned high-powered Chinese assault rifle, killing Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, police say.

Cain apparently realized he couldn’t hold up a bank where he was known, so he and Floyd donned Muslim women’s clothes - a hijab covering their heads; long dresses, called an abaya; and face veils, called nik-ab - to prevent detection, the source said.

Warner, of Westminster Street near 54th, wore a dreadlock wig and dust mask, the source added. Then, the trio marched into the bank, and Sgt. Liczbinski responded to the bank robbery alarm at 11:26 a.m.

The trio hopped in a blue Jeep Liberty. Hearing flash information about the Jeep, Liczbinski chased the vehicle, which stopped twice before hitting a pole. Cain jumped out and fired the high-powered SKS assault rifle five times at the officer, hitting his left trunk and leaving him in a pool of blood, at Schiller and Almond streets, police said.

Liczbinski’s car had one bullet hole on the driver’s side door.

I’ll be commenting on this later, but Fareed NuMan, an “Islamic researcher” claimed “They couldn’t be practicing Muslims, no way. The Quran forbids a man to imitate a woman.” More apologetics from a liar, since there are many documented cases of muslims dressing up as women in order to escape.

Men disguised as Muslim women rob bank from 2007 (Reuters)

Red Mosque leader captured while trying to escape … in a burqa from 2007 (Hot Air)

The Niqab and Burqa as Security Threats, November, 2006 (Daniel Pipes)

Attacking a church: Two assailants in burqas threw a grenade among worshippers at a Christmas Day service on in the village of Chianwala, northwest of Lahore, killing three and wounding thirteen. (December 25, 2002)

Burqa’ed commandos capture burqa’ed Al-Qaeda fugitive: On the plus side, a group of Pakistani commandoes disguised itself as women to wait out a ranking Al-Qaeda operative, Abu Faraj al-Libbi. And why were they in burqas? Tim McGirk of Time explains: “U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to [the town of] Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract a hostile mob, the commandos had donned female garb and accosted the suspect as his motorcycle crossed a graveyard.” (May. 8, 2005)

Afghan suicide bombers hides under burqa: Five Afghan soldiers were killed and four wounded when a suicide bomber, whom the police think was a Taliban member, disguised himself as a woman and sat in the backseat of a car, then set off a bomb hidden under his burqa at an army checkpoint in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan. According to Mohammed Ayub, the regional police chief, “The bomber probably wanted to go into Khost city for a suicide attack there, but panicked and blew himself up when the soldiers started checking.” (February 2, 2006)

Al-Qaeda leadership in Iraq: Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, eluded Western forces over a three-year period through wiliness. In the description of Bill Powell and Scott MacLeod of Time, “al-Zarqawi was a maddeningly elusive target—a master of disguise who could pass as a woman in a burqa one day, an Iraqi policeman the next.” (June 11, 2006)

Palestinian gunmen escape Israeli forces in Gaza: The IDF suspected that Palestinian gunmen dressed up as women to escape a 19-hour standoff with the IDF that tried to dislodge them from a mosque where they were hiding.

Etcetera, Etcetera.

At Victor Davis Hansen’s website, by Bruce Thornton, is a review on Peter Schweitzer’s Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, (Doubleday, 2005, 272 pp.).

Interestingly enough, I received a forwarded email that held similar content.

Naom Chomsky, called capitalism a

“‘grotesque catastrophe’ and a doctrine ‘crafted to induce hopelessness, resignation, and despair.’” Yet Chomsky is “himself a shrew capitalist, worth millions, with money in the dreaded and evil stock market, and at least one tax haven to cut down on those pesky inheritance taxes that he says are so important.” Apostles of economic redistribution via the income tax like Chomsky are very clever at making sure that somebody else’s nickel will fund their utopian schemes. Chomsky has set up an irrevocable trust to shelter his money, with his tax attorney and his daughter as trustees.

The examples continue in the email regarding Schweitzer’s book:

Michael Moore denounces oil and defense contractors as war profiteers. He also claims to have no stock portfolio, yet he owns shares in Halliburton, Boeing, and Honeywell and does his postproduction work in Canada to avoid paying union wages in the United States.

Ted Kennedy’s closets are chock full of hypocrisy. For example, Schweizer reveals how Ted and the Kennedy clan have protected their assets from estate taxes – as Kennedy fights to keep this tax on other Americans! Kennedy also has fought an environmental program near his Cape Cod home.

Noam Chomsky opposes the very concept of private property and calls the Pentagon “the worst institution in human history,” yet he and his wife have made millions of dollars in contract work for the Department of Defense and own two luxurious homes.

Barbra Streisand prides herself as an environmental activist, yet she owns shares in a notorious strip-mining company.

Hillary Clinton supports the right of thirteen-year-old girls to have abortions without parental consent, yet she forbade thirteen-year-old Chelsea to pierce her ears and enrolled her in a school that would not distribute condoms to minors.

Nancy Pelosi received the 2002 Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farm Workers, yet she and her husband own a Napa Valley vineyard that uses nonunion labor.

Schweizer’s conclusion is simple: liberalism in the end forces its adherents to become hypocrites. They adopt one pose in public, but when it comes to what matters most in their own lives-their property, their privacy, and their children-they jettison their liberal principles and embrace conservative ones. Schweizer thus exposes the contradiction at the core of liberalism: if these ideas don’t work for the very individuals who promote them, how can they work for the rest of us?

Black & White On the Grey Matters 3 (Gay marriage / abortion

This guy is kind of funny, but don’t watch if you’re offended by extreme language. If you can get past that, he has some good points.

From see-dubya over at Michelle Malkin’s.

Interview With Carol Platt Liebau About Her Book, Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) at Rightwing News.

Marines demonstrate against Code Pink. That article along with the pictures gives me some hope and brought a smile this morning. Thanks to Rurik for the link.

Code Pink isn’t just a bunch of professional feminist activists-they are cowards - and left behind signs that they were ’sorry they missed the marines’ but they were ‘off saving the planet’. That’s probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard of.

The bottom line is - those moonbat marxists aren’t willing to have a dialogue with anyone who disagrees with them, and that gets back to the ‘freedom for me and not for thee’ that they are stupid enough to support.

Their version of “Utopia” has murdered millions over the last century and it’s time that they woke up to that simple fact and constantly faced opposition in their silly efforts to achieve it.

More and more people are waking up to what’s happening here, and I pray that it’s not too late for America.

See also this post at Ohio dot com regarding the ‘change’ they’re seeking.

Reading the headlines and looking at the news lately makes me wonder just what the heck is going on out there.

First, it was the man carrying the baby story…the “man”, is pregnant! But as it turns out, “he” is really a woman who elected to become a man so she could legally be declared a man, even though her DNA says she’s a woman and she kept her female reproductive organs. She had a mastectomy, but she still has her reproductive organs, so it appears to me that no matter what gender you are - if you take the right hormones, enough of the right changes will happen so that you could be passed off as someone of the opposite gender. It’s all confusing to me.

And I’m sure it will be very confusing to the child, which apparently is a girl. Why does daddy look like me? Why is it that society is trying so hard to redefine what is normal and force is all to accept it?

And around the same time, was the polygamist rogue Mormon group that was raided by the government, where they took into custody over 400 children-mostly girls. On that story I have to wonder why the perps are left to run around loose, and why the government thinks that taking the children is a good idea. I just read that rangers talked to the guy who supposedly knocked up the girl who started this whole thing off with allegations of abuse. And they didn’t arrest him.

If this group was or are matching girls up with old men when the girls are of childbearing age (like 13), why isn’t something done about it? Why are the girls taken into custody and having their lives disrupted? Why aren’t the men arrested for child rape?

Why are the courts making decisions that should be left to the families? If polygamy is illegal, why not stop it?

This has got to be one of the most stupid complaints from a leftist of all time. Naturally, it’s a complaint coming from a civilian point of view, because in general, leftists don’t know or understand military culture, and seem to be - not only afraid of what they don’t know - but have citicism, contempt and disdain for it. And they have particular disdain for General P. But what do you want from a clueless moonbatty journalist, anyway? We’ve come to EXPECT this.

Curt, TSO at the Sniper John at This Ain’t Hell and others have made comments about this LA Times article Petraeus’ ‘ribbon creep’

There he sits in elaborate Army regalia, four stars glistening on each shoulder, nine rows of colorful ribbons on his left breast, and various other medallions, brooches and patches scattered across the rest of the available real estate on his uniform. He even wears his name tag, a lone and incongruous hunk of cheap plastic in a region of pristine gilt, just in case the politicians aren’t sure who he is.

That’s a lot of martial bling, especially for an officer who hadn’t seen combat until five years ago.

Can’t you just see a person saying these words with that superior intellectual elitist sneer on their face? This is yet more evidence of how far away a leftist is from military culture.

The military has rules and regs about what you’re supposed to do with your uniform, and where awards are placed on it. You wear what you earn; there’s a specific regulation on it, in fact; AR 670-1 “Wear and Appearance of Army Uniform and Insignia”..

What is amazing to me is that someone would write an article, in effect patting himself on the back for being so intelligent; who is using pop culture as a basis for comparison to someone who has earned the Ranger tab, for example; and German jump wings. You can’t hold a candle to men who’ve served who’ve collected this sort of experience; there is nothing in the civilian world that compares to it - even in a remote way.

Badges you earn in Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are also to be worn in a certain way, those are outlined in the the manuals–and I always thought it was a natural progression from childhood in scouting and earning your badges, wearing your uniform, etc.- to serving in adulthood in some military capacity.

“Bling” doesn’t exist in military culture. When you have medals, ribbons or commendations, it’s because you earned them.

Bling is civilian excessiveness- something you pick up somewhere at some high-priced store like celebrities do–ordering 16 pairs of a designer something-or-other in every color available. Our culture is so riddled with this nonsense that mothers are taking their grammar-school-age daughters to spas for a bikini wax, for microderm abrasion and to have their hair colored. And that says nothing of a culture that glorifies rape, cheapens sexuality and glorifies material THINGS.

This individual is mistaking General Petreaus and the Army for Michael Jackson and the world of theatre, rap and “bling”. There is no “bling” in military culture - it’s about duty, honor, country.

It’s an orderly world, where you can see at a glance exactly what someone’s rank is. And as I’ve witnessed at events, there is a pecking order, and a chain of command, that causes certain uniformed passersby on the street to salute a commanding officer.

This is evident no matter what style of dress someone is wearing - combat uniform, army green, service uniform, or dress uniform. (I don’t think you wear anything identifying your rank when you’re in your PT gear.) Here’s the tip for the idiot who wrote that article: Petraeus is required to wear his dress uniform when testifying in front of Congress…and that’s the other thing. There are a number of styles of dress, and they’re all for different utilitarian purposes.

You don’t have to be military to know this - it’s easy to look up!!!!

The earth is cooling; climate scientists have known it for at least the past 7 years.

More here.

From a commenter at Error Theory:

It has been over nine years now and atmospheric carbon dioxide level has continued to increase but temperature has gone down. Apparently no one did any real research before or they would have discovered that 440 mya the planet plunged into the Andean-Saharan ice age when atmospheric carbon dioxide was over ten times the present level.

It’s no wonder moonbats are blaming insanity on global warming:

“Psychosocial illnesses are a part of the various health issues associated with climate change,” Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Deputy Regional Director, WHO, said.

The World Health Organization, is a tentacle of the UN, one of the world’s leading promoters of the global warming myth. First, it should come as little surprise that the eco religionists would have mental problems, as it requires some serious mental acrobatics to buy into it. Some are so determined to prop this myth, they don’t care about the facts. My complaints about global warming are 1) the fact that CO2 appears in the atmosphere AFTER warming, not before, so in a logical world of reason, it couldn’t possibly be the cause of warming, anyway, and 2) that carbon dioxide is a naturally produced fertilizer that is used in agriculture for increased crop yields. Very little of man’s contribution goes into the atmosphere, so the call to restrict fossil fuel production is a load of hogwash based on modern day mythology rather than science. Sounding the alarm about a nonexistent threat in order to promote more governmental restrictions is simply in sane.

Van Helsing:

Considering that it hasn’t gotten any warmer since 1998, moonbats may soon have to confess that there unfortunately is no global warming, manmade or otherwise. But they’ll have a ready excuse for years of telling lies about the weather: global warming baked their brains, causing them to have delusions that there is such a thing as global warming.

But as many have surmised already, Global warming alarmists knew cooling was coming, were hoping to secure restrictions on economic activity first.

Let’s hope that common sense prevails, and soon.

With thanks to Hoosier Army Mom.

Robin writes about the “star”, Eliot Ruiz, of this piece of trash, entitled “Battle for Haditha”, here.

She has another post on it here.

You know you’re a hit with the anti-war, anti-American, anti-military crowd when you get a review on the World Socialist website.

In that post she talks about Cpl Roel Ryan Briones, a Marine that admitted he didn’t know what happened at Haditha, but is used anyway by the film maker Nick Broomfield as a source for “facts” regarding the incident. Broomfield hopes from his website that “Battle for Haditha” will turn into a modern-day “Apocalypse Now”, a Vietnam-era anti-war movie made by Francis Ford Coppola.

But today, versus during Vietnam, the anti-war movement is facing a countermovement, since more and more Americans across the country have awakened to this frightening, vicious and destructive internal threat and are doing something about it. Move America Forward, American Legion, Patriot Guard Riders, Eagles Up, Gathering of Eagles, and a number of other pro-troop organizations have risen to the task. In addition, we have a legion of honorable military men who are pulling for a “win” in Iraq–the other unreported side of the popular anti-war media blitzes showcasing Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans against the War and Veterans for Peace as though they’re mainstream. Vets for Freedom are now on the last leg of their “Heroes Tour” across the country, which will finish in Washington DC. It is in DC where they will encourage our leaders and lawmakers to ’stay the course, stay the mission’, until we WIN.

Lastly, we even have the Liberty Film Festival, which features movies that don’t fit the Hollywood leftist activist agenda template.

But none of that discourages the moonbats; they just find another way to put out more anti-war propaganda. Idiotaria is a depressing world where there is nothing left to live or die for; where America hating, and donning Che Guevera t-shirts, pink berets or sporting a Keffiyeh scarf is propped as “fashionable”. What they particularly relish is producing anti-war America-hating rants in a vacuum where the lies they tell aren’t questioned or held up to scrutiny in any way. If “Redacted” and films like it aren’t enough, they’ve found a real story to spin, which as Robin points out, is little more than slander against the Haditha marines and their families; and another slap in the face for everyone serving and their families.

The REAL story of Haditha and the Pendleton 8 is a despicable example of political correctness run amuck. It has involved families having to mortgage their homes in order to defend their honorable family members who had done what they were trained to do. Instead of thinking the best of our boys, it’s not only the anti-war movement who thinks the worst of them - it is our own government, and politicians who are adored and lavished with praise by the terrorist aiding and abetting Code Pink; like John Murtha.

This movie, “Battle for Haditha”, assaults the men involved in the Haditha incident with a Hollywood production aimed at making another cheap political shot at the Iraq war; at the expense of the reputations of those who are trying to rebuild their lives after having had to endure this BS-which should never have occurred in the first place. Robin points out just one of the issues that makes it despicable:

The movie was filmed prior to the completion of the first Article 32 hearing so there was no review of the facts in the cases before presenting this atrocity of a movie to the public.

But leftists don’t care about “facts”, anyway, because as we saw with the Jack Idema story, they are perfectly willing to fit the facts to their political agenda, reject those that don’t, or simply manufacture those to fit the pre-conceived storyline.

Since the Article 32 hearings (where prosecutors put a lid on access to witnesses and evidence), 7 of the 8 have seen the murder charges dropped. The only one left now, is Staff Sergeant Wuterich. But that’s after the Pendleton 8 and their families were all dragged through the mud in the press, and emotionally and financially disabled by a government that you would think should support them for doing a tough job they were not only trained for, but SENT TO DO. Our own government has dragged them through the courts with government-paid counsel on flimsy evidence produced by a questionable terrorist-affiliated journalist and terrorist sympathizing Iraqis. And they’ve had to raise their legal fees on their own.

Diplomats, politicians and anti-war lawyers should have no place in this, yet those unqualified and in many cases military-hating people in government are constructing impossible rules to make it more difficult for our success. For example, you can’t shoot first against the enemy, you have to wait until you are shot at; and you shouldn’t return fire if it will result in civilian casualties. Because terrorists camouflage themselves within the civilian population, this makes things all the more difficult. So if you survive the bullets, THEN and only THEN are you allowed to respond–and only IF there are no civilians in the area. The Rules Of Engagement also prevents firing in the direction of the sniper shots for fear of civilian casualties. Terrorists know all about the ROE:

On the day of the firefight, Rooney said, Marines came under an attack that included both gunfire and explosives. One Marine in a Humvee was killed and two more were injured, and the resulting house-to-house battle between the outnumbered 4-man Marine “fire team” and the insurgents resulted in 24 Iraqi deaths, including 15 civilians.

Testimony also showed terrorists in strongholds such as Haditha had set up bases in a school, a mosque, and a hospital to be used to attack U.S. forces, and documentation showed that one terrorist suspected in the Haditha battle was tracked by an aerial drone to another house, from which he emerged a short time later holding a baby.

U.S. troops cannot return fire not only when the target could be in the proximity of non-combatants, but also when they are not actively sporting a weapon. So the combatant becomes a noncombatant as soon as he drops his weapon!

Whatever the response to terrorist sniper fire, IEDs or RPG rockets-rest assured it will be held under the greatest scrutiny. The assumption seems to be that our guys are monsters; because after they engage the enemy, they’re interrogated by the Pentagon about torturing people and killing civilians.

If you let the dogs out to attack an intruder, you take the leashes off. The leashes should be off our guys! Hollywood elitists should know by now that anti-war propaganda doesn’t sell; people aren’t interested in watching a Hollywood America-hating depiction of our military men and women as criminals and losers who are dependent on a broken system. America still loves a WINNER. What the anti-war moonbats are responsible for is a system which every day is infused with more political correctness. This one point in itself is getting our own people killed; a system the anti-war people are intentionally trying to break.

Even though the moonbats in Berkeley are fighting a loosing battle with the Senate as federal money previously flowing to Berkeley will be cut off, military loving Americans are boycotting businesses there, Code Pink was thrown off their corner in front of Walter Reed, the Iraq Veterans against the War failed in their mission at the Winter Soldier II Investigation, anti-war movies are tanking at the box office and regular Americans are taking a stand in our streets against people like Cindy Sheehan, they aren’t deterred. Their mission is to intentionally inflict more damage on our war effort, and to that end anti-war zealots created another piece of fictional propaganda in order to make their political point, and then stamped it as a ‘documentary’; to spin the Haditha marine story to fit their agenda.

Eliot Ruiz, a native of Philadelphia, portrays Cpl. Ramirez (Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich) in this movie. He claims to have been an Iraq war veteran himself, as part of the team that rescued Shoshona Johnson, and other POWs. (Jessica Lynch was rescued on April 2.) The only problem with that is…his dates are incorrect. He claims to have been ‘preparing to rescue American POWs’ on April 14, but the rescue occurred on April 13th. Additionally, he takes an anti-war stance, and is on record as congratulating an old Quaker woman who was sent to jail for ‘protesting’ the war in Iraq.

Lillian Willoughby, a Deptford Quaker¹ who will turn 90 in January, went to jail Wednesday to protest the war in Iraq. A young Marine from North Philadelphia came to speak with Willoughby. “I wanted to thank her for resisting this war,” said Lance Cpl. Elliot Ruiz, 19, who spent 5 1/2 months in Iraq before he was wounded when a car ran a checkpoint he was guarding near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown. “It tore the back of my leg open,” said Ruiz, who had two decks of campaign ribbons, including a Purple Heart, on the chest of his blue, full dress uniform.

One has to wonder if those medals are real, and what the real story is.

It might be more instructive to find out if Ruiz is, in fact, a member of Iraq Veterans against the War, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party, the International Socialist Organization, International ANSWER, United for Peace and Justice, or any other of these rabid and malicious socialist revolutionary “peace” or anarchist organizations. Or he could be just a ‘useful idiot’.

1. A quick look at flyers posted on the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) website gives one a clear understanding of where these people stand. Grassroots Voices, the explicitly radical-activist wing of the AFSC, sponsored their 2002 Conference On Justice And Global Security. In addition to the slew of anti-American workshops and classes held during the conference, the event was co-sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the Communist-founded National Lawyers Guild.

   Without question, the facts disprove the AFSC’s longstanding denial of a pro-Communist orientation. While not Communist in name, they espouse and endorse every plank of the Communist party platform. They hide behind the religious shield of Quakerism and non-violence. Their background in the Quaker Society of Friends provides a Divine legitimization for card-carrying Communists and their fellow travelers. The American Friends Service Committee is and has always been committed to undermining Western democracy, propping up Communist regimes and working for the total disarmament of the United States in the face of her enemies.-Gordon Lamb, (June 5, 2005) American Friends? Hardly-Frontpage Magazine[back]

Stealth Jihad Update: Indianapolis Airport to get footbaths by fall-Robert Spencer at Dhimmi Watch points this article out from the Indianapolis Star, starting out with this synopsis:

Why is this a Stealth Jihad Update? Because it is yet another example of Americans accommodating Sharia law. The Airport would spend money to accommodate no other religious group in this way. And…there is always more Sharia to accommodate, now that the precedent has been set.

Holy Cow. And I thought the only glaring example of that was the Flight 93 Memorial.

Floor sinks to accommodate prayer requirements for Muslim taxi drivers will be installed at Indianapolis International Airport by fall.

David Dawson, a spokesman for the airport project, said this week that two bathrooms, one for men and one for women, will have the sinks. Both will be in a 900-square-foot building where taxi drivers gather before picking up passengers at the terminal.

Many of the taxi drivers are Muslims who pray five times a day. The prayer involves many rituals, including washing the feet.

Drivers now use hand sinks at the existing terminal, which has caused safety hazards.

“The result of that is there is standing water on the floor and structural stress on the sink,” Dawson said.

That created a sanitation problem and was the main reason the floor sinks were proposed, he said.

Osmand Djama, 44, a taxi driver who uses the facility, said about 180 taxi drivers, most of whom are men, use the bathroom, making it unsanitary.

According to Dawson, the cost of the sinks is estimated at $750 each. They are expected to be installed by the end of October, the same time construction on the new midfield terminal should be completed….

Spencer’s original post on the footbath issue at Indianapolis airport is here.

I’m sure R. Kevin Jacques (one of the ‘experts’ cited in the Flight 93 white paper) is feeling all warm and fuzzy about tjhis. After all, his solution to 9/11 is for us to accept Sharia law.

While multicultural liberals cheer, frightening signs of willing dhimmitude are going up all around us.

The cost of being anti-military

The Cost of Being Berkeley Part II - San Francisco Chronicle:

Berkeley is finding that having its own foreign policy isn’t cheap. The city’s recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they’ve been slammed by related protests.

And that’s on top of the $1 million the city spends annually on domestic and foreign policy matters hatched by its 45 citizen commissions, which outnumber those in virtually every other city in America and debate everything from regime change in Iran to the plight of nonneutered dogs.

They don’t seem to understand that when you attack the military, you attack ALL OF US.

But some business owners, residents and officials say the Marines dispute, which brought international headlines and boycotts, is a perfect illustration of why Berkeley should spend less money on foreign policy and more on filling potholes.

duh. It’s high time Code Pink was put in their place…they should receive consequences for aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war, and we should stop fooling ourselves into thinking that what they’re doing is ‘free speech’. What they’re doing isn’t ‘free’. Obviously.

From Move America Forward:

We’ve put out the call to help us raise the $25,000 to pay legal fees to ensure that the laws against those who deliberately seek to impede the work of military recruiters are enforced.

We’re not going to allow people like Medea Benjamin and Code Pink or the Marxists of International ANSWER to interfere with the work that our military men and women are doing here in America.

We’re already about 1/3rd of the way in there. CLICK HERE (or on the crazy picture of Medea Benjamin) to DONATE.

Rurik has the last installment, and his observations are worthy of notation.

What I saw at the Circus - Part 2 – Carnival of the Moonbats

The second panel of Friday morning devoted to The Crisis in Veterans’ Healthcare, chaired by Martin Smith. This panel could have been entitled “Let’s slap the VA a bit.” Or it could have been called “War, Our Chance For Castroite Healthcare”.

This is a damning admission.

Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C. His experiences there only reinforced his reasons for jumping into politics.

“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” he said. “There was a profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives.”

It’s too bad the white self-loathing former Black Panther, Terry Bisson can’t make THAT claim…but I’m sure he wishes he could:

It’s not fair. The Panthers are not America’s only political prisoners; there are scores of American Indians, MOVE militants, Puerto Rican Independentistas and white radicals serving draconian sentences for what can only be deemed “political” crimes.

What a stupid sweeping generalization. Leonard Peltier is in jail for the murders of Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.

Not satisfied with the terrible injuries they had inflicted, Peltier and two other men walked down the hill toward the ambushed officers. Three shots were heard. Williams, kneeling and apparently surrendering, was shot in the face directly through his outstretched, shielding hand. He died instantly. Coler, still unconscious,was shot twice in the head at close range. He died instantly after the second shot. Before leaving the murder scene, Peltier and his criminal associates stole the two dead agents’ handguns and the .308 rifle Coler was going after when shot.

The crime scene examination testified to the brutality of the ambush. Coler and Williams had little chance to defend themselves. They had fired only five shots. In contrast, over 125 bullet holes were found in their two cars.

“Political” and “draconian” my ass. But we can rely on guys like Ramsey Clark to defend lowlifes like Leonard Peltier…just as he defended Saddam Hussein. Rest assured Terry Bisson sides with Clark on the definition of ‘criminal’…our society still condemns cop killers and genocidal dictators, much to their dismay. Mumia, another person that the likes of Farrakhan and Bisson support, is in jail for murdering Danny Faulkner (another evil white guy who was helping a homeless man) in a similarly ruthless, heartless, cold-blooded manner. Of course, they characterize Mumia as being a ‘political prisoner’, too. We shouldn’t be much surprised, as back in the day, the Black Panthers were on trial in New Haven for killing one of their own…Alex Rackley….after hours of torture while he was tied to a chair (much like we’ve grown accustomed to seeing from the Al Qaeda terrorists). But in the minds of moonbats, sickening crimes like this are ‘political’, and the perpetrators are ‘victims’.

Up until recently, the “New” Black Panthers were featured on Obama’s website. It’s no wonder that Bisson’s lookalike at thinkingmeat.net is so blindly defending Obama…they are ideologically cut from the same radical cloth.