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503rd Infantry Regiment in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge
Ever wonder how American soldiers look to the soldiers of other lands? Here we have an article from a French publication. The author is a French soldier who lived and served with American soldiers in Afghanistan. He describes the U.S. soldiers he served with.
Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins and creatine - they are all heads and shoulders taller than us and their muscles remind us of Rambo. Our frames are amusingly skinny to them - we are wimps, even the strongest of us - and because of that they often mistake us for Afghans.
Here we discover America as it is often depicted : their values are taken to their paroxysm, often amplified by promiscuity and the loneliness of this outpost in the middle of that Afghan valley. Honor, motherland - everything here reminds of that : the American flag floating in the wind above the outpost, just like the one on the post parcels. Even if recruits often originate from the hearth of American cities and gang territory, no one here has any goal other than to hold high and proud the star spangled banner.
As the market for bullshit continues to shrink, a certain news organization that rhymes with Annotated Guess has been hard hit and will begin conducting layoffs.
10% of Annotated Guess’ staff, roughly 400 photoshoppers, plagiarists, and fiction writers, will be let go. While some will find jobs in the fast food service or house cleaning industries, many others will petition the Annotated Guess’s parent companies, The Democratic Party and Hezbollah, for retraining as campaign staffers and suicide bombers.
Mac, what the hell are you talking about? Obama voters are many things, but they would never vote for a candidate who wanted to rush to war in Iraq, that much I know.
Sit up kiddies, we got some learnin’ to do.
Who was the candidate who, in 1993, staunchly supported Bill Clinton’s ruthless cruise-missile attacks against Iraq simply because there was a rumor that Saddam Hussein ordered a hit on former president Bush?
By 1998, this candidate was imploring president Clinton to take extended military action against Iraq. Deeply concerned about Iraq’s “ability to produce the most deadly weapons known to mankind,” this candidate warned that “left unchecked, Saddam Hussein would in short order be in a position to threaten and blackmail our regional allies, our troops, and, indeed, our nation.
Wow. Get that? In 1998, three years prior to 9/11, this blood-lusting madman was telling us that the threat from Iraq was all but “imminent.” And this candidate was just getting warmed up.
…[this candidate] dismissed the very notion that there existed any reliable intelligence on Baghdad’s arsenal. “As long as Saddam’s at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect [that] …any inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out … the entirety of Saddam’s [WMD] program.” Along with that other right-wing hawk, John McCain, this warmongerring candidate agitated for the Iraq Liberation Act, which made seeking regime change in Iraq the official policy of the United States.
Then in December, 1998, this future candidate strongly backed what many in the Angry Left consider war-crimes. He supported Operation Desert Fox, in which Clinton ordered four days of bombing attacks against Iraq, without ever seeking congressional approval or U.N. Security Council approval.
And if Obama really wanted change, if he really wanted to honor progressives who backed him early on and then did the grunt work against McCain, he’d nominate Dennis Kucinich as Secretary of State.
That sure would indicate a welcome departure from empire as usual.
But at this point, progressives are getting absolutely nothing from Obama.
And you know what? The damned sea level hasn’t dropped yet either. What’s the deal with that?
The timing of the talks, between two lame duck leaders with only weeks to go before they leave office, is intriguing. Israel has stated repeatedly that it would be unacceptable for an Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons. Altough Tehran insists that its uranium enrichment programme is for peaceful purposes, President Ahmadinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
During his visit to Washington, which begins on Sunday, Mr Olmert is expected to meet the Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary.
Intelligence sources have told The Times that the prospect of Israel taking preemptive military action to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities appears to have become significantly more likely in recent weeks. Such an operation would require at least tacit US cooperation because it would almost certainly involve Israeli warplanes flying through US-controlled airspace in Iraq.
In a post below I praise Mike Huckabee and his socially conservative followers. I do believe that they are going to lead the march to a resurgent GOP in 2010. I strongly oppose efforts of some to distance the Republican Party from social and Christian Conservatives.
On the other hand, the same applies in reverse. It would seem that Mike Huckabee has a problem with libertarians. Not upper-case Libertarians, but rather lower case, small government libertarians.
In a chapter titled “Faux-Cons: Worse than Liberalism,” Huckabee identifies what he calls the “real threat” to the Republican Party: “libertarianism masked as conservatism.” He is not so much concerned with the libertarian candidate Ron Paul’s Republican supporters as he is with a strain of mainstream fiscal-conservative thought that demands ideological purity, seeing any tax increase as apostasy and leaving little room for government-driven solutions to people’s problems. “I don’t take issue with what they believe, but the smugness with which they believe it,” writes Huckabee, who raised some taxes as governor and cut deals with his state’s Democratic legislature.
Mr. Huckabee and his followers should understand that they will never, ever control the government without the economic conservatives as allies. The conservative base of the GOP has three legs: social conservatives, economic conservatives and foreign policy/defense conservatives. Naturally there is significant crossover in the Ven diagram that encompasses them all, but there are also many who only identify with one leg. That is fine for them but it takes all three legs to support the party.
The winner of the 2008 Iowa Republican Caucus was back in the state today. He was signing copies of his new book at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Cedar Rapids. I took a drive over to, you know, engage him in a deep conversation regarding the future of social conservatism. Yeah, right.
The place was swamped. The store is in a strip mall with at least four other large retailers and several restaurants on nearby pads. I couldn’t even park in the mall lot and had to park at an Applebees and brave a hike in the cold, wind and light snow to get in. Once inside, you could barely move. The line to purchase books and have them signed snaked up and down every aisle between the stacks. Back and forth it went until it ended at a table with Huck furiously signing books as fast as he was able.
“The president-elect’s so-called tax cut,” Mark [Steyn] wrote soon after the election, “will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal tax at all. Just under half the population will be on the dole. By 2012 it will be more than half. This will be an electorate where the majority will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism and innovation over the cocoon of the nanny state….That will be the death of the American idea.”
Shelby Steele:
Right. But you know what’s interesting to me about that? No white candidate in America could have won an election based on those policies. That’s the interesting and insidious thing to me. No white man—John Edwards could never have won an election based on policies like that. So the price America is paying for its racial history is this reversion. And that same racial moral authority is going to be Obama’s biggest weapon as president. Who is going to want to stand in his way? Because whites are still motivated by race, the dummies.
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.
The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
Ramon Air Base, Israel (AHN) - The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday said they are “training like hell” in anticipation of any conflict the Jewish state might encounter anytime.
Colonel Ziv Levy, commander of the Ramon Air Base, the IAF has been conducting day and night mission trainings since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, which has killed over 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, and over 1,200 Lebanese mostly civilians.
Lieutenant Colonel Gil, commander of the Magic Touch (Apache helicopters) squadron, and Lieutenant Colonel Amnon, commander of the Negev (F-16Ifighters) squadron, add the air base had been conducting various military operations and combat simulations to better protect the nation.
Let’s go back to the NFL cheerleaders post, shall we?
Al Franken, unfunny “comedian” and moonbat asshat is running for Senate against Norm Coleman in Minnesota. It is down to “hanging chads” with Coleman leading by just under 300 votes. Here is an example of the type of ballot Al Franken is challenging.
Yeah, it is damn near impossible to tell who that guy voted for.
The market closed below 8,000 for the first time in over five years. It has been on pretty much a constant slide since the night He Who Heals Souls and Turns Back Tides was elected. Apparently investors aren’t so confident in his gifts for healing.
If there is any doubt in your mind that Obama intends to radically change our way of life, just pay close attention to what his surrogates are saying. His incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel sent some signals in his address to a business group in New York last night.
Let’s take a look at some of the ….”yes we can”…… “change”……. we could expect within Obama’s first months after inauguration.
Passage of a massive economic stimulus package. This means a huge infusion of borrowed money into the auto industry (~$50B), extended unemployment compensation, direct assistance to people who contracted for houses they could not afford, and other “help” to the middle class (more “free” checks).
This new administration would indirectly force private businesses to join them in nationalizing our health care system. This would entail more laws/regulations and a coercive taxing structure for businesses. To those intangibles, we could now add the borrowed billions in dollars to be added to the national debt.
The new Chairman of the Central Committee of the Politburo President Elect is still planning to move forward cap and trade, the most massive tax increase in the history of the United States. He knows it will bankrupt power companies. He knows it will cause electricity rates to skyrocket. He almost certainly knows that there is no proof that global warming is caused by the activity of man. He almost certainly knows that there is significant evidence that the planet has been cooling since 1998. He just doesn’t care. He sees himself as a new FDR and this green boondoggle as a new NRA, CCC and TVA rolled into one. What he probably doesn’t know is that the NRA, CCC and TVA made the depression of the 1929 the Great Depression of the 1930s. Brace yourselves. This guy is about to, in the midst of a world-wide recession and financial crisis, impose the greatest, most regressive tax increase in human history.
What we need to do is hire some consultants to help us understand why the Big 3 Automakers are failing. We should also hire some lobbyists to help them get $25 billion of the funds Congress allocated to bailing out the financial industry. Without this help, how will we ever be able to compete with foreign manufacturers?
Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.’s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working — on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits.
“We just go in and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper,” he says. “Otherwise, I’ve just sat.”
As I gradually relaxed, as Michelle strode onto more stages and people started focusing on her clothes and presence instead of her patriotism, it dawned on me — good God, she has a butt! “Obama’s baby (mama) got back,” wrote one feminist blogger. “OMG, her butt is humongous!” went a typical comment on one African-American online forum, and while it isn’t humongous, per se, it is a solid, round, black, class-A boo-tay. Try as Michelle might to cover it with those Mamie Eisenhower skirts and sheath dresses meant to reassure mainstream voters, the butt would not be denied.
Ah, the glamor and romance of the return of Camelot!
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
~Thomas Jefferson~
"[O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome."
~Robert A. Heinlein~ Racist—n.,adj. 1. Any person
who performs any act, holds any belief or makes any statement that negatively
reflects upon or adversely affects Barack Obama or his policies, positions,
interests, conduct, associates, or holiness. 2. Any act, belief or statement
that negatively reflects upon or adversely affects Barack Obama or his policies,
positions, interests, conduct, associates, or holiness. Synonyms:
conservative; Republican; red state; rural; churchgoer; gun
owner.
