America

The consequence of our common humanity is our responsibility to one another, to our fellow Americans foremost, but also to every child of God. It is an obligation which is fulfilled by Americans every day, here and across the globe, without regard to creed or race or nationality.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America’s sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century’s terrible wars — no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty. America’s resolve in the defense of liberty has been tested time and again. It has not been found wanting, nor must it ever be. America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom.

Mitt Romney at College Station, Texas, 12/6/2007

 

Why are we even bothering to hold an election? 
On one side, we have a bitch who is a lawyer and is married to a lawyer, 
campaigning against a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is also a lawyer.
On the other side we have a war hero married to a  

woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship. 

What was the question? 

 

Science

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

- Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi

 

Is this really an Oboma-nation?

 

Obama baby

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, speaking of his daughters, said, if they “make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

I suppose it’s true that one woman’s blessing might be another’s curse, but it does shed new light on a mindset that supports partial birth abortions.

 

Poor, poor pitiful me...

John McCain says “Americans are hurting today.”

Barack Obama says Americans are “bitter.”

 

Why do these politicians think it’s good strategy to make us feel sorry for ourselves?  What makes them think stroking my self-pity will make me want to vote for them?

 

Irrelevant or irreverent?

Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services "is not a relevant question in this debate”.

 

Let's 'Surge' Some More

This is an excerpt from an outstanding article.

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Let's 'Surge' Some More

By MICHAEL YON
April 11, 2008

It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.

I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.

The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers. Yes, young Iraqi boys know about "GoArmy.com."

As the outrages of Abu Ghraib faded in memory – and paled in comparison to al Qaeda's brutalities – and our soldiers under the Petraeus strategy got off their big bases and out of their tanks and deeper into the neighborhoods, American values began to win the war.

Iraqis came to respect American soldiers as warriors who would protect them from terror gangs. But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic, school or a neighborhood. They learned that the American soldier is not only the most dangerous enemy in the world, but one of the best friends a neighborhood can have.    [full article]

 

Happine$$

Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities.
And it's his job, I suppose--nay, his duty--to fan the flames and make them feel even worse?

Here's a question and a thought experiment for all those angry, bitter people:

QUESTION: Can money buy happiness?

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: What if there were two doors...

• Behind door #1 is $1,000,000...tax free...guaranteed.
  
• Behind door #2 is happiness...for a lifetime!...guaranteed.

It's your choice--pick a door.

Why Iraq Matters

This is an excerpt from a great article by a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.  It demolishes every argument put forward by the Defeatocrats.

 

Unless the advocates of defeat can show, as they have not yet done, that the consequences of losing are very likely to be small not simply the day after the last American leaves Iraq, but over the next five, ten, and 50 years, then what they are really selling is short-term relief in exchange for long-term pain. As drug addicts can attest, this kind of instant-gratification temptation is very seductive — it’s what keeps drug dealers in business despite the terrible damage their products do to their customers. “Just end the pain now and deal with the future when it gets here” is as bad a strategy for a great nation as it is for a teenager.  

 

From Why Iraq Matters   [Link]
by Frederick W. Kagan on NationalReview.com

 

 

Bad to the bone!

On April 18, coming to a theater near you:

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Dimocrat dishonesty

Just three minutes long.
http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv