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Monday, 31 March 2008

The official OWD Music Video of the Month
Contributed by Bill Faith

If I could find a way to imbed this one I would but I can't so you'll just have to watch it here.

This post will remain at the top of the site through the end of March.

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You'll like this one, too.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 31, 2008 at 11:59 PM in Music, National Defense, The American Warrior, US Marine Corps | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2008.03.31 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Sunday, 30 March 2008

Crazy Uncles
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

“An influence which cannot evade our consciousness will not go very deep.” – C. S. Lewis

I had several of them. One had a missing eye. There was a skinned over hole of an eye socket where one would expect to normally see an eyeball. He never wore a patch over it. He talked through one of those gizmos implanted in his windpipe. I was sent out of the house to play more than once by my Mother for staring at that empty eye socket or trying to mimic his bull frog like voice. Kids do that. He was ornery and a little bit nuts I was told by my older brothers, those injuries and that nuttiness all courtesy of the Nazis and World War II. Another uncle was quite the sot. The family joke was that if he was around, you must keep an eye on the after shave lotion, vanilla extract and any cough syrup remnants lest they become cocktails. My uncles were not that much of an influence on me mainly because my Father was a better counter influence. Besides when I was a young Soldier, the docs stopped handing out GI gin cough syrup that was 40 percent alcohol and the favorite cold cure of Soldiers.

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Saturday, 29 March 2008

A Decades Deep Treasure Trove
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

Barack Obama’s supporters are quick to level the cherry-picking charge in any discussion of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s video vitriol, claiming that Obama’s critics are selectively condemning the pastor with but a few exceptional sermons out of twenty-plus years of weekly sermons.

The problem with that argument is that the church’s gift shop packaged and sold in DVD format the very sermons that are being used now with such devastating political effect, characterizing them as a “best of” series. One can only speculate as to whose characterization that is, but after seeing the Rev’s rather formidable ego demonstrated in the videos and in television interviews, I do not think he is one who would delegate the task of selecting his best sermons for resale purposes to any subordinate; which leaves us to conclude that Reverend Wright himself holds those cherry-picked videos in very high esteem.

Now, do any of us skeptics out here really believe that if those videos are the Rev’s choice for his “best of” series, that they are the only exceptional examples of thirty-six years of preaching from that pulpit? Are we to accept that after three and a half decades, the Rev can point only to that skimpy handful of videos and say, “There is the sum total of the very best of the fruits of my labors in service to the Lord?”

So what becomes most intriguing here is the question as to just how long the church has been recording and selling the Rev’s weekly exhortations to his flock and just how many of those tapes may be out there in circulation. Obviously, from what we’ve already seen, the church has been taping at least since the week after 9/11, which means there could be hundreds of tapes in just that time, perhaps multiple thousands if one considers that most likely every performance (three services every Sunday) is taped to provide the collection from which a “best of” series can be selected.

Obama’s supporters try to reassure themselves that this will blow over; but I wonder how many of them lay awake wondering just how many more of these tapes are out there and just when one of the Clintons’ opposition research operatives is going to pay some disgruntled, or just greedy, former parishioner a very hefty sum for his extensive collection of the “best of” series? That cannot be a sleep-inducing thought within the Obama campaign, especially if one of those videos should contain audience shots that include an enthusiastic, wildly cheering Barack and Michelle.

And just think there’s only twenty years of possibilities in this potential treasure trove. Once the Clintons get through digging, there may even be a jewel or two left for Republican oppo investigators should Obama win the nomination.

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on March 29, 2008 at 02:14 PM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2008.03.29-30 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Contributed by Bill Faith on March 29, 2008 at 12:10 AM in National Defense, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


Friday, 28 March 2008

2008.03.28 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Thursday, 27 March 2008

2008.03.27 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Wednesday, 26 March 2008

2008.03.26 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

I've been outside watching Spring spring; I'll try to get caught up as soon as I can.

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Tuesday, 25 March 2008

2008.03.25 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Monday, 24 March 2008

2008.03.24 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Sunday, 23 March 2008

But not today...
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

Today, I was all set to inquire of presidential candidate Barack (NMN) Obama what exactly it was that he meant when he described his Grandmother as a “typical white person” with her perceived prejudices “bred into her”, I supposed during her typical white rearing. I also wanted to ask him if his white half was typically white and was his black half typically black and would it be offensive if I referred to him as a Halfrican-American? I wanted to know if his two typically distinct sides were in perpetual conflict or was he just a chameleon capable of suppressing one side or the other as political needs arise. Then I wanted to tell him that if he truly wished to transcend race, he must be something to us that is neither typically black nor typically white. I wanted to tell him that, unfortunately, all he has managed to prove to us typical working class Americans is that he is nothing more than a typical politician.

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2008.03.23 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Saturday, 22 March 2008

2008.03.22 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Friday, 21 March 2008

2008.03.21 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Thursday, 20 March 2008

2008.03.20 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Wednesday, 19 March 2008

I did not have spiritual relations…
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

Haven’t we been here before? Admittedly, the previous denial came from another charismatic political leader wagging his finger in our face as he did his oh so sincere best to convince us that putting a naïve young female intern, almost as young as his daughter, on her knees in the very epicenter of world power to sexually service him, a serial sexual predator, was not sex.

Well, we didn’t buy that and we turned out to be right, didn’t we? Now, we are asked to believe that a twenty-year relationship between a minister and his most celebrated parishioner was one wherein nothing transpired between these two men that had any lasting effect on the political beliefs of the adherent?

As Thomas Sowell says, “Gimme a break!”

Actually, America should feel indebted to the Rev’s rants for exposing one of the major phonies of modern politics.

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on March 19, 2008 at 01:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2008.03.19 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Tuesday, 18 March 2008

2008.03.18 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

For a while I was absolutely elated to see Obama's racist-to-the-core, "God damn Whitey, God damn America" spiritual advisor start getting some belated press. Then it soaked in that none of it's going to damage Obama in the least with his real "base." He'll continue to stand tall among the anti-establishment, anti-America Left, who'll simply be more convinced than ever that he looks at things the same way they do. At least there's hope that some middle-of-the road voters will remember who he really is come November.

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So, Barry O. gave his "You're racist if you don't vote for me" speech, the Libtards all shouted "Amen, brother!" and those of us who've been paying a little more attention didn't. I'm not going to vote against, or for, any man because of his race and I'll be damned if I'm going to vote for a dirty Chicago pol who's promised to pull our troops out of the Mideast, genocide be damned, and invite the mullahs to the White House for tea.

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Contributed by Bill Faith on March 18, 2008 at 12:25 AM in National Defense, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


Monday, 17 March 2008

2008.03.17 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Sunday, 16 March 2008

Where to start...
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

I am not sure I know where to start, but I fear that I know where to end. The constant pounding by the 24 hour news media rarely leaves time to apply any perspective to anything. Nor does it leave much time to search for the roots of the insanity visited upon us daily. One thing for sure is that we have created a culture that is suffering from a multiple personality disorder. It is part politician, part religious zealot and part moral relativist and all of them parsed with some form of hyphenated Americanism that is reported about to us by media suffering from the same disorder. If we do not apply the right therapy to this disorder, it will surely drive us into jumping off of history’s bridge.

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An Obamanation
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

It’s unfair the Obamatons howl,
To charge guilt by association;
Our boy has committed no foul;
He’s just one of the congregation.
While sitting there twenty long years,
As the reverend spewed out his odium,
Naught wafted into those large ears,
But spittle and froth from the podium?

No such tirades did I ever see,
Says Obama now that it’s news;
No rants about AIDS heard by me,
Nor venomous bile aimed at Jews.
You cherry pick dribbles and bites
From sermons of many long years;
You say my preacher hates whites?
My goodness that’s news to my ears!

But a man picks a church like a wife,
As a comfortable mate for his soul,
With commonly shared views of life;
They are parts of the man as a whole.
So Obama is welcome to try
To convince us that his soul is pure,
But it’s just a political lie;
He buys into his preacher’s manure.

Why else then sit in that church pew,
With children and wife at your side?
If you truly do not share the world view,
Of your hate-spewing spiritual guide?
Yet now you denounce Jeremiah,
In your quest for power and station;
He’s a conveniently banished pariah;
Barack, you’re an Obamanation.

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on March 16, 2008 at 07:43 PM in Obamanation, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

2008.03.16 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

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Saturday, 15 March 2008

I'm moving my daily roundups back to Old War Dogs
Contributed by Bill Faith

I've talked thing over with Russ and we've agreed it makes sense for me to start posting my daily Politics and National Defense Roundups at Old War Dogs for the foreseeable future. As I explained when I started posting them at Bill's Bites, my main reason was fear of causing friction within the pack by being too open with my opinions about who should get the Republican presidential nomination. Now that John McCain has the nomination sewn up there's no longer any danger of that. I sense no danger of upsetting any member of the pack by bad-mouthing Billary or that Obama kid -- We sent the only Hillary fan in the pack on his way months ago -- so it's time for me to start contributing more to the main site and restrict my place to "friends and family" items.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 15, 2008 at 12:04 AM in National Defense, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

2008.03.15 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith

Question of the hour: Does Barack Hussein Obama really believe all that "Damn Whitey!" crap his favorite minister's been spewing for years or is he really too f'ing stupid to have known about it? Either way, wouldn't he make a great President? ... ... Let's make that question a little broader: Is Obama really the lying skunk he smells like to me or is he just too damned dumb to run a country?

Worth knowing about today:

Some things from yesterday I want to make sure you didn't miss:

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 15, 2008 at 12:03 AM in National Defense, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


Thursday, 13 March 2008

Sen. Jean Fraud Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II
Contributed by Bill Faith

Don't miss it.

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Monday, 10 March 2008

Just be there!
Contributed by Bill Faith

Via email from William "1stCav" Page:

From Dan in NY...

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

Fighting the Insurgency at Home
Action Alert

Who:    Gathering of Eagles, Eagles Up!, Rolling Thunder, and more!
What:    Eagles Muster to denounce Winter Soldier II
Where:  Washington, DC and Silver Springs, MD
When:  Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15

Have you had it with the left wing organizations demeaning and slandering our troops at every opportunity?  Has the escalation in attacks against our recruiters across the nation, which progressed to the bombing of the Recruiter Station in Times Square last week, alerted you to the fact that we are fighting a REAL INSURGENCY in this country?

In NY City this weekend we held a rally in support of our troops and our recruiters in Times Square.  You can read my after action report here:

http://tinyurl.com/yv34lr

This morning I discover the cretins from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), who are running their program to slander and defame this generation of American Warriors in the same fashion as their guiding lights from the old VVAW did to our Vietnam Veterans, noticed our display of patriotism in Times Square.

Their response:

You are going to eat it if unless you cease and desist from your planned "events".

Their earlier comment on the bombing of the Times Square Recruiter Station was:

Fuck recruiters.

I don't know about you, but it gets my Irish up when someone can, in effect, condone and endorse domestic terrorism against our troops and then threaten more against anyone who supports the troops.

Up until now I have wanted to protest their planned defamation of our warriors at the Labor College in Silver Springs, Maryland, but work requirements were going to restrict my travel only to the Saturday Rally and March in DC.  Now, wild horses couldn't keep me away on Friday.

I condemn in the strongest language the willful terrorist enabling of the AFL-CIO for allowing this group to use the Labor College for their planned seditious  blackballing of our American Troops. 

I strongly recommend that anyone with a union card and patriotism join us in a mass burning of union cards outside the university gates on Friday to demonstrate to the fat labor bosses what we think of their collaboration. 

I demand that any media organization planning to cover the IVAW lie fest explicitly  include in their reports the above IVAW quotes to demonstrate IVAWs true level of support for our troops.
I demand that any media organization who runs anything on the IVAW propaganda campaign specifically use the DUPES process outlined here: http://tinyurl.com/2lmmqq   to perform their due diligence on anything the IVAW may claim.

The agenda for Friday, March 14th is:

Truth Challenge against IVAW Winter Soldier II
National Labor College
10000 New Hampshire Avenue
New Hampshire Ave and Powder Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20903
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/3attuz
Starting 8am, All Day

The agenda for Friday Night, March 14th is:

Support our Wounded and counter Code Pink
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave.
Georgia Ave and Elder Street
Washington DC 20307
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/257qwf
From 7pm until the Troop Bus returns from dinner

The agenda for Saturday, March 15th is:

Eagles Muster and March
Washington Monument
15th St NW south of Constitution Ave
Map Link:  http://tinyurl.com/2jw8wq
From 10am.  March at 1pm to Capital

Bring your flags, signs, banners, whistles, cowbells, megaphones and anything else you think will be required to get our message across.  Never again will one generation of warriors abandon another!

Never Again!

www.eaglesup.us/

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I just realized this information is also posted here on the GOE site.

See also: A bomb threat against the Gathering of Eagles

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Promoted from the comments:

I have just learned of this. I figured Old War Dogs was a good place to post it. Pittsburgh Anarchists Plan Violent Take Over of Military Recruiting Station on March 19th! - Velvet Hammer

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 10, 2008 at 04:22 PM in Caring about our troops, Eagles Muster, William "1stCav" Page | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack


Saturday, 08 March 2008

VA Increases Travel Reimbursement for Eligible Veterans
Contributed by Bill Faith

Thank you Russ Vaughn for emailing me about this. Shame on me for not getting it posted sooner

VA Increases Travel Reimbursement for Eligible Veterans

In a nutshell, the VA will now reimburse you 28.5 cents per mile, up from 11 cents, for travel to a VA medical facility for medical care. At the 11 cent mark I didn't consider the amount I could be reimbursed for a trip to Evansville worth the bother to collect; it requires a stop at the cashier's office, which isn't in the same building as most of my appointments. Under the new rates I received more than enough to pay for the gas there and back last week. Ignoring wear and tear on my car, I can now actually turn a profit on trips to the medical facilities I have to go to. With trips to Marion and St Louis coming up in the foreseeable future the increase will seem even more important to me.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 8, 2008 at 09:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Children of the corn...
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

Since 2001, ethanol production has quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to an estimated 6.4 billion gallons in 2007, with the vast majority coming from corn. In 2005, the United States became the world's leading ethanol producer, and last year, the U.S. accounted for nearly half of worldwide ethanol production. Whitehouse

That is one of the first links I encountered while perusing the Department of Energy website. It is right there with the links that are battling global warming and asking us to change the world by changing our light bulbs. Other things I see on the Whitehouse link are Renewable Fuels Mandate, Vehicle Fuel Economy Mandate, Lighting Efficiency Mandate, Appliance Efficiency Mandate… I really wonder if there are any functioning brains left in Washington, not to imply that there were ever many of them there in the first place. If we Mandate it, then it will be and San Fran Nan, Harry and now it looks like George as well can hold hands and skip merrily through Nan’s California vineyards.

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Contributed by J D on March 8, 2008 at 01:02 PM in J D Pendry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


Saturday, 01 March 2008

He who's middle name shall not be mentioned...
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name …." – William Shakespeare

John Sydney McCain repeatedly reminds us that he has the utmost respect for both of his likely opponents in the general election for the presidency. So much so that he apologized that someone so much as dared to use the given middle name of one of them during a political rally. With that approach, Senator McCain will never lay a glove on Barack Rose Obama, especially if he tries to spar him with political rhetoric and does not try to educate the voting populace about him. Sydney will get waxed while a complicit liberal media, eager to defeat any Republican, even the moderate, liberal leaning John Sidney McCain will turn its collective head in order to help.

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Contributed by J D on March 1, 2008 at 07:21 PM in J D Pendry | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack