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Olliver North rips Andy Rooney a new one in this op-ed, They’re heroes to me. I wrote about Andy’s article here, the original article is no longer online.

May 1 marks the start of Military Appreciation Month. Millions of Americans will show their gratitude for the troops in a variety of ways. When Lance Corporal Conyers appeared with me the other night on Fox News’s “Hannity & Colmes,” Sean Hannity showed his appreciation to Conyers by promising to buy him a big, thick, juicy steak from Ruth’s Chris steakhouse when he gets home. What are you going to do for them, Andy, other than criticize? One thing you could do to show your appreciation for our troops who are defending your right to speak is to shut the hell up.

Amen.

I happened across this via two blogs, Busy Mom led me to No Quarters which led me to this article Most lawn mower accidents result of human error. The good news is you don’t understand the why of the article until it’s too late. Good stuff.

We’ve been down this road before. Explaining how if we can get the dominoes to fall the right way in Iraq, the rest of the Arab world could very well follow, bringing stability to an unstable place in the world. Iraq Key to Arab World Democracy explains what is going on.

Let me quote the important part of the article:

Just as Americans toughed out the dark days of the titanic battles with Nazism, fascism and communism last century, so must we tough out the titanic battle with Islamic fascists this century.

Look at the enemy in Iraq. His savage tactics — killing civilians and soldiers alike, Iraqis and coalition forces indiscriminately — indicates what Iraq would be like should we cut and run.

The barbarians would again wreck havoc there. Rather than sickening torture and brutality being inflicted by Saddam’s regime, it would now be inflicted by local power brokers.

No great improvement for a lot of American prestige, blood and treasure spilled.

The enemy now fights in Iraq with fierce determination. But for what? To end American occupation? That’ll happen in 90 days or so, with Iraqis assuming sovereignty. To restore Saddam? The coward — who sent millions of young Iraqis to die in battle, and himself meekly surrendered with a rifle in his lap — would be torn to sheds were he not incarcerated, and protected, by American troops. To establish a mullah-cracy, as in Iran? Just go next door and ask Iranians how they like life under their corrupt, incompetent and vicious mullahs.

No, the enemy’s purpose is to end any U.S. attempt to spread decency and, yes, democracy in the Arab world. The stakes are high in Iraq. If it goes right there, peaceful transformations can go right in Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states –even Saudi Arabia and Iran.

If Iraq goes even wrong-er, the more reasonable Arab countries will be on the defensive, getting even worse than now. Our own battles against Islamic fascists (search) will be even more isolated and difficult than now.

Sure, we’re doing all this for Iraq’s future. But we’re doing this for our own future, too. We must stay the course, lest increasingly dark dots paint our future.

This is important to remember. We make or break the next hundred years right now in Iraq.

I bring this up because there are people who wail about “all the deaths in Iraq.” I want to bring some perspective onto this subject.

First of all, we have lost approximately 527 soldiers in the year since we brought down the statue of Saddam. We are currently attempting to pacify a section of Iraq that Saddam couldn’t pacify.

We lost 17,401 people last year, just from DUI accidents. That’s about 1,450 people a month. 47 a day, every day. And these deaths are young and old, male and female, black and white. Children are dying in these cars because some idiot thinks he can drive better drunk than sober.

Here’s another statistic. We lose about 5,000 babies a year, all under the age of three. If losing a soldier is a tragedy, then losing a child is a catastrophe.

These soldiers are dying for something. They are dying to provide a peace that the world may yet see. Dying in a DUI accident, or in a diaper pail is a wasted death.

Please, make the distinction and don’t let our military deaths become wasted deaths.

Another article on Air America, suggesting that nobody is listening. America Tunes Out Leftist Hate Radio.

No numbers are given, but anybody who isn’t already a deep liberal is quickly tired of the diatribe coming from those stations. I tried giving it a listen, I really did. But the constant cutting-down of everybody made me feel like this was a multiple-hour comedy show, or I was in the 8th grade all over again.

The only thing they did was ridicule: the CIA, the military, the cops, President Bush, you name it. This is Hate Radio.

With hate speech like this, you’re only going to get the already converted, and alienate any moderates and certainly not win any conversions from the Conservative side of the aisle. At least when Rush puts something down, he puts the action down, not the person and he backs it up with facts. This wins people over from both the Liberal and moderate camps.

Liberals and Democrats have a tendency to only talk to each other. According to their ratings, no one else is tuning in. The Democrats should heed the maxim, “Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” And no one tunes in. The overwhelming popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and conservative websites such as FrontPage Magazine prove where America really stands. It does not stand with the Left, and it certainly does not stand with Air America.

The party of diversity has none. They refuse to listen to any ideas other than their own. They refuse to look at facts. I can’t blame them, when you’re as wrong as often as they are, you’d ignore the plain, clear facts too.

It seems this town of wealthy people are over-reacting a bit. Florida town will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver.

This is going too far, but then again they have the money to pay the taxes to make their little town an electronic fortress, most likely to the same standard that their own houses are wired up to.

This is the hard way that they will find that computers are as fallible as people. All that needs to happen is one plate gets misread and get crossed with either a stolen car or a car of a violent felon. Then a felony stop gets performed on a rich lady and that security system for the town will be tossed out so fast it will make your head spin.

Freedom is like air. You never notice how valuable it is until it’s gone.

I thought this was about high blood pressure.

…he’s done.

When the Village Voice, that last bastion of Liberalism says that Kerry is unelectable, you better believe it. John Kerry Must Go and there is no doubt about it.

With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton’s triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.

I love the smell of burning Liberals in the morning. When they set themselves on fire by making stupid mistake after stupid mistake, it smells like…victory.

Oh, sure, the fight hasn’t begun yet, we’re still firing ranging shots. A brilliant move at the Democrat convention would be to actually nominate somebody else instead of Kerry, which would screw up the GOP machine. We’re so invested and set-up to devastate Kerry that if they elect an Edwards/Clinton ticket (or Dean/Edwards, etc., you get the idea) instead, there will be some grinding of the gears as we reset to take care of the new contender.

Don’t take it for granted that Kerry will make it. The GOP has done such a good job of burning Kerry at the stake and he is such an uninspiring candidate, that the majority of people voting for him are doing it because he’s not Bush. Imagine if they found a truly popular candidate.

Don’t take it for granted that we’ll be facing Kerry in November.

I found this article, It’s Morning After in America, and my spirits are buoyed.

If you listen carefully, you can hear something shifting deep beneath the manic surface of American culture. Rap stars have taken to wearing designer suits. Miranda Hobbs, Sex and the City’s redhead, has abandoned hooking up and a Manhattan co-op for a husband and a Brooklyn fixer-upper, where she helps tend her baby and ailing mother-in-law; even nympho Samantha has found a “meaningful relationship.” Madonna is writing children’s books. Gloria Steinem is an old married lady.

Yessiree, family values are hot! Capitalism is cool! Seven-grain bread is so yesterday, and red meat is back!

It is a somewhat long article, but it provides example after example that things are looking up in the old US of A. The bad things are down, the good things are back. It looks like the nuclear family is reforming and so on. It did my heart good to read these things and it should do the same to you.

Happy day to you!

4 Mile Creek, run by an Army officer currently in Iraq, lends his commentary in the debate over Ribbons vs. Medals. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

(Update) I’ve earned all my medals and I’m damn proud of them. The ribbons I wear on my uniform, that represent those medals, also represent the pride I feel in what I do for a profession, the sacrifices my family has made during my deployments, and the recognition I’ve received for being a good soldier.
Throw them away?
Hell, I better be buried with ‘em on.

Amen, brother, amen.

Well, well, well. It seems that the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court was the keynote speaker at an MLGBA (Mass. Lesbian and Gay Bar Association) event. It’s still being hashed out as to whether it was a fund raiser or not. Author of Homosexual Marriage Ruling is Under Fire, Won’t Budge.

This new information shows that a conflict of interest exists with Justice Margaret Marshall, whether she admits it or not. She should have recused herself from the case, which would have resulted in a 3-3 tie and thrown the case out. Instead, it passed 4-3 and Justice Marshall wrote the majority opinion.

Shame on you Justice Marshall.

This article brought up some interesting points. Kerry’s kiss of death.

Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, had some rather, um, strong views on parenthood back then.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood had this to say about blacks, immigrants and indigents: “…human weeds, ‘reckless breeders’,’spawning…human beings who should never have been born.’ (Pivot of Civilization).

On the extermination of blacks: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she said. “If it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” (Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon).

Like advocates of population control at the United Nations, Sanger believed that couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, as she wrote in her Plan for Peace Birth Control Review, April 1932.

I lost the quote, but it said that Hitler got his idea for exterminating the Jews from the American eugenics movements. I know the laws against Jews were nothing more than an expanded set of Jim Crow laws. Which would explain why Hitler thought America would join him in his war.

The 30’s was an, interesting, period of our history. While it has been romanticized, I don’t think I would want to go through it. Between the Depression, racism and a build up to a world war, it must have been even more scary time than now. Too bad I can’t ask my parents about it any more. They died three months apart about two years ago.

To get back to modern times, if word of Ms. Sangers manifesto (especially if PP still uses it) gets out, it could really hurt Kerry. I hope it does.

In another display to show that Europeans are out of touch with reality, US Air Marshals are being denied on trans-Atlantic flights. U.S. Lets Europe Veto Air Marshals.

We are up against an enemy that understands nothing but the use of open, naked force. That’s what they want to use on us and we must be willing and able to inflict twice as much back on them to either wipe them out or get them to realize that it’s not worth it.

But these Europeans, who all just want to get along, don’t want armed people (even if it is police) on airplanes. Of course, should a 9/11 happen to them, then they will arm the planes better then the Israel’s airline (the name escapes me).

Some people just don’t see the train coming at them.

Jessie Jackson, that ever loved shake down artist, has been denounced for his comments about Iraq. Black Activists Denounce Jesse Jackson For Calling War in Iraq ‘Murder’.

The murdering bastards in Iraq are not the American troops, but rather the cowardly insurgents they are fighting. It is the homicide bombs that are killing the children and other innocents in Iraq, not our soldiers.

Another Liberal suffering from Cranial-Rectal Inversion. (That’s medial-speak for he’s got his head up his ass)