Thursday, 13 March 2008
 

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

Don't miss it.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 13, 2008 at 12:29 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 21 January 2008
 

Tap, Tap, Tap…
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

The recent New York Times' blatantly misleading attack on the American military, where with rigged data they attempted to portray Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as crazed killers, should serve as a reminder that liberal media treachery against our military is very much alive and as viciously dishonest as ever. As many of us know, this animosity of the Left is certainly nothing new. In their recently published book recounting how a grassroots movement of Vietnam veterans successfully torpedoed John Kerry’s presidential aspirations in the 2004 campaign, To Set the Record Straight, authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler describe how the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s leadership developed a strategy for dealing with the hostility of the very pro-Kerry mainstream media. When their initial press conference in Washington was met by members of the MSM with either yawning indifference or overt hostility, many of the less-politically aware Swift Vets were stunned at the realization that the long-standing conservative complaint of liberal media bias was a very real thing and that MSM’s decision makers intended to erect a high wall between this supposedly few, disgruntled veterans and the American public.

The Swift Vet leaders quickly realized they were going to need an alternative way to get their message out. They likened their situation to that of the American POW’s in North Vietnam who had to develop a tap code to communicate among themselves in spite of the intense efforts of their North Vietnamese guards to prevent any such interaction or information sharing. Regarding this obstructionism by the mainstream media, the authors quote John O’Neill, a leader and primary spokesman of the Swift Vets,

“We had our own set of guards. They were called the mainstream media. We had to have some way to get around them, and we devised a method of doing that.”

Reading those words, I experienced a sudden, flashing insight that the forty years of anger, resentment and conflicting emotions that I and my Vietnam veteran brothers had endured since our return from Southeast Asia was no less than a form of psychological imprisonment, a life sentence of disrepute and dishonor imposed upon us by a left wing media which had been too easily manipulated by America’s enemies. Worse, not only had this leftist media been the prosecutor, judge and jury in charging us with vile war crimes and passing this life sentence upon us, they had since served as the ever vigilant wardens and guards of this mental prison just as O’Neill described them. And just as at the Hanoi Hilton, their Soviet-directed misrepresentations erected a wall of lies around us and kept us within by controlling what America and the world heard of and from us. Just as today, where the New York Times attempts to make crazed killers of returning veterans, positive reporting of successful, well-adjusted Vietnam vets was not permitted. After all, should America discover that the vast majority of her warrior sons weren’t drug-crazed misfits, driven to desperation by guilt-ridden memories of our vicious war criminal pasts, and had, in fact, quietly shed our uniforms, returned to our communities and become productive citizens, just as had our fathers and grandfathers following their wars, might not some folks begin to question that phony, crazed Vietnam vet persona that Hollywood and the mainstream networks perpetuated?

But that didn’t happen because those in control of the MSM would not permit positive images of Vietnam veterans to reach the American public. A liberal media that readily condemns any institution that attempts to stereotype and profile any group based on their race, gender or sexual orientation, felt no compunction whatsoever in doing exactly that to millions of Vietnam veterans. So for years we languished in our psychological prison, silenced by our guards at ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, being force-fed only negative images of ourselves by these media wardens. That is, until, the advent of the Internet, which quickly became our tap code. Because many of us were now in our fifties and sixties, not quick to pick up on the freedom of communication this technology offered, the tapping was tentative and limited at first. But it was steadily growing in volume and with the nomination of John Kerry as the Democratic candidate for president in 2004, that tapping quickly became a booming crescendo. With the Swift Vets leading the way, in the summer and fall of 2004 it led to a full-fledged prison break.

Not that our wardens and guards didn’t do their very best to keep us in our dark cells. The same leftist media elite that had been responsible for the lies that long imprisoned us now called upon a new generation of liberal journalists and broadcasters to put down this Swift Vets-led insurrection. They first tried to contain us behind walls of silent indifference, down-playing the skirmishes and hoping the public would take no notice. When that tactic failed, they attacked our integrity and denigrated our service, all the while blithely ignoring our calls for the one veteran who actually did have something to hide to release his military records, which, by the way, almost four years later, he still refuses to do. You really don’t want America to see that original dishonest discharge do you, John?

I know that by this point I have beaten this media/prison guard analogy to death, but it was one that simply had never occurred to me before reading To Set the Record Straight. I do know that supporting the Swift Boat Vets and doing my small part to help bring about the defeat of John Kerry freed the troubled soul of this Vietnam veteran. One of the many poems I wrote in support of the Swiftees during the campaign is quoted in Swett and Ziegler’s book:

The vindication we’ll accept
In settling up this long-held debt,
Is each of us will do his best
To deny you, John, your life-long quest.

Listen carefully John to what we say,
November 2d is Veterans’ Day.
(Veterans' Day)

That fateful election day was also Liberation Day for many Vietnam veterans; we took a stand against the leftist ideologues of MSM and we beat them and their anointed, phony war hero. Moreover, we are outside our prison walls now and we’re never going back. Interestingly, there’s an irony here of Greek tragedy proportions: it was the unbridled arrogance of the same man whose self-serving, treacherous perjury before a Senate committee created the insidious libel that put my brothers and I behind those media prison walls for forty years, that enabled us to free ourselves by his audacious run for the presidency. Trying to portray himself as a hero of the very war for which he had condemned us, his brothers in arms, John Kerry set in motion the movement which would bring us out from behind those media walls of lies and misrepresentations and make us free men, free patriots and free Americans once again. I think even Martin Luther King, Jr. would have appreciated the sweet justice of that.

Free at last, free at last; thank you, John Kerry, we’re free at last.

John, when you close your eyes at night in whatever mansion, I hope you hear that tap, tap, tap. I would wager that if you put your ear to that long black wall in Washington and listen closely, you will hear that tap, tap, tap. Should I outlive you, Senator John Kerry, I promise I will seek out your burial site and with the old G.I. spoon from the mess kit I carried in combat, tap out my victory signal upon your gravestone, tap, tap, tap...

Russ Vaughn
Vietnam 65-66
Presidential Campaign 2004, the last battle of Vietnam

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on January 21, 2008 at 01:12 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 02 January 2008
 

R J Del Vecchio: "Setting The Record Straight"
Contributed by Bill Faith

Del emails:

You have already heard from me about this book, but I could only refer in general to it and its value.  But my own copy arrived Monday, and I am about 2/3 through it now.

Well, it's even better than I anticipated.  The authors have dotted every single i and crossed every single t in their presentation of the real events with a degree of meticulousness that most PhD theses in History cannot match.  This book will blow the blood pressure of many radicals and leftists through the ceiling, and they will not want to see it publicized anywhere.

But the book serves not just to help people understand who the Swifties were, what they really did, and why, but it paints a crystal clear and amazingly deep picture of the media bankruptcy and the nefariousness of the Kerry organization and other people that is a major education in itself, and an important one today.  It gives us all good news in showing how the Internet and independent bloggers and others can and have worked very effectively to bring out truth even when the mainstream media act as if in a conscious conspiracy to suppress it.  It also provides, in passing, a wonderful base of pride for all Vietnam vets and others both in the meaning and conduct of the war, and in the willingness of vets 30+ years later to stand up for truth and all the rest of us.

You will not see it reviewed in the NYTimes or probably any of the big papers or magazines.  They will try to do to this book what they tried to do to Unfit For Command, which is to bury it under a blanket of silence. But anyone who wants to understand the real history of the Swift Boat vets, and the awful failings of the media, and behind that, the phoniness of the antiwar activities going back to 1971, will find this a fascinating and very useful read.

Did I mention I like and recommend it?

The website below has more about it, and where you can buy a copy and maybe some extras for friends or the library.  I hope you decide to check it out for yourself.

Del

http://www.tosettherecordstraight.com/

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 2, 2008 at 09:46 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, R J Del Vecchio, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 08 November 2007
 

Re-sinking John Kerry
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

I’ve been too busy to write anything lately but when I saw this, Kerry says he’ll be ready next time, the old animus came bubbling up once again.

Re-sinking John Kerry

From Davy Jones’ locker a zombie emerges,
A Purple Heart phony with political urges;
Assuring the press he regrets his Swift boating,
John Kerry believes his boat is still floating.
He readily admits that he got torpedoed,
But he’s up on his sail board, defiant and Speedo’d.
The arrogant fool believes his wife’s riches
Is enough to trump all of us Swift sons-of-bitches.

But John is a zombie, a dead sailor walking,
His brain is long dead but his mouth is still talking.
He needs a torpedo through his political heart,
Reducing his speeches to a bubbling fart.
Though Kerry pretends that his life isn’t haunted
By Vietnam vets he slandered and taunted,
The younger among them will bury this knave,
And stand waiting in line to piss on his grave.

If I were John Kerry I’d consider cremation,
Lest I lie in the soggiest grave in the nation.

Russ Vaughn
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on November 8, 2007 at 10:21 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 19 April 2007
 

Are Swift Boat Charges “Unsubstantiated”? (Updated)
Contributed by Bill Faith

The Proper Definition of "Swiftboat" the Verb
Lorie Byrd

There is a definition those on the Left and many in the media have been using for the term "swiftboating." They use the term to refer to a smear of a political opponent with unsubstantiated charges. Many in the media even specifically refer to the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about John Kerry as unsubstantiated. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If I were to use the term "swiftboating," (which I don't) I would use it to refer to whistle blowers who organize and use both paid and free media to spread the truth about a person or issue that is being ignored by mainstream reporters.

Bruce Kesler knows more about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth than anyone I know and he sets the record straight on the whole "swiftboating" issue. He even goes so far as to give the dictionary definitions of "substantiated" and "unsubstantiated" since so many don't seem to be using them properly. Bruce removes any doubt that the majority of the Swift Boat Vet claims were substantiated. (I know I will get tons of disagreement from those on the Left over that statement, but I think the evidence is that compelling.) ...

Read the whole thing, follow the link to Bruce's piece.

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A word from the Swift Boat Vets et al.
Scott Johnson

Michael Barone takes note of John Hinderaker's post "Ineffective, even for a liberal" responding to Eric Boehlert. In his response John recaps the contribution of the Swift Boat Vets to the 2004 campaign. Barone comments:

John Hinderaker at Powerline skewers the claim, often made in mainstream media and the left blogosphere, that the charges made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against John Kerry have been "discredited." To the contrary. There can be disagreement about their characterization of Kerry's service, and some factual dispute about the way in which he earned at least one of his decorations, but nothing has been proved false. On the contrary, it was Kerry who had to abandon the claim, "seared, seared in my memory" as he said on the Senate floor, that he was in Cambodia at Christmastime 1968.

Barone is the peerless commentator on the American political scene. It doesn't get much better than that.

The indefatigable leader of the Swift Boat Vets was John O'Neill. In February 2004, O'Neill was lying in a hospital bed after contributing a kidney for transplantion to his wife. He answered the call of his former commanding officer Roy Hoffman to serve our country one more time by leading the veterans' effort opposing John Kerry. It was the most dramatic story of the 2004 election campaign, now smothered in a welter of lies foisted on the public by the likes of Eric Boehlert. Bruce Kesler is a Vietnam vet who himself commented on John's post at Democracy Project. John O'Neill wrote Bruce "RE: Your blog and the Powerline blog's summary: Thanks--always be grateful for both of you." ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on April 19, 2007 at 06:55 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 05 April 2007
 

Bush OutFoxes Kerrycrats (Updated and bumped)
Contributed by Bill Faith

Bush Uses Recess Appointment Power to
Install GOP Fundraiser Sam Fox as Ambassador

WASHINGTON —  President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election.

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency. ...

Continue reading "Bush OutFoxes Kerrycrats (Updated and bumped)"

Contributed by Bill Faith on April 5, 2007 at 01:02 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 28 February 2007
 

Kerry & MSM Continue To Contaminate History
Contributed by Bill Faith

Why is it when John cooks no one is eating?
Why is it when he grills that no one dines?
This fool can’t stop his foolish self-defeating,
He skews himself quite nicely on his tines.
John boldly grills this Bush selection;
This Ambassador to Belgium he will roast;
Flogging his post-election erection,
For the Swift Boat guys who made him toast.

Heh, heh….God, I love those Swift Boat Veterans: true American heroes, all.

Russ Vaughn

So, electile dysfunction leaves you with a post-election erection? Gonna have to remember that one.

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John Kerry Grills Belgium Ambassador
Nominee Over Swift Boat Donation 

WASHINGTON —  A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., grilled nominee Sam Fox about why he donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential race. The group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated [Like hell! -- BF] allegations against Kerry — then the Democratic presidential nominee — and charged that Kerry did not deserve the medals he won in the Vietnam War.

"Might I ask you what your opinion is with respect to the state of American politics as regards the politics of personal destruction?" Kerry asked near the end of the hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ...

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Kerry & MSM Continue To Contaminate History
Bruce Kesler

Hardly anyone pays any serious attention to John Kerry anymore, having repeatedly demonstrated his buffoonery.

However, John Kerry is still a United States Senator, holding powerful committee positions for the Senate’s majority party. The liberal allies of his points of view in the media are still the dominant chroniclers and influencers of public views. Thus, Kerry still has substantial influence on current policies and opinions that will shape our future.

The latest example is the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the nomination of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium. John Kerry demanded that Fox, who donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, renounce “the politics of personal destruction." According to the Associated Press report, “Kerry said the incident raised questions about Fox's fitness to serve as an ambassador.” The AP report continued:

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a presidential hopeful and chairman of Tuesday's hearing, said he found Fox's responses "unsatisfying." He said he would have preferred if Fox admitted it was a mistake to contribute to the Swift Boat group.

The AP reporter inserted his view that the Swiftee charges against Kerry’s military record in Vietnam were “unsubstantiated allegations.”

Kerry, Obama, and the AP reporter, thus, perpetuate one of the most egregious misrepresentations of history in modern journalism.

With extremely little exception, the major media refused to investigate the testimony and depositions by almost all of the veterans who served with Kerry in Vietnam. Despite certain Kerry claims, like his invented Cambodia excursion, being absolutely proven false, and substantial evidence that many of his other self-exaggerations were also false, the major media during the 2004 campaign and since have adopted the word “unsubstantiated” to describe the Swiftees’ charges and evidence.

Investigative columnist Thomas Lipscomb detailed much additional evidence substantiating the Swiftees’ charges. Lipscomb, who was also the founder of Times Books, which published the hardcover edition of the Pentagon Papers, brings an important perspective to this media malfeasance. In an interview with me, Lipscomb says: [Read the whole thing.]

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Tom Maguire: Surely This IS Not The Ass-Kicking He Promised?

Contributed by Bill Faith on February 28, 2007 at 09:29 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 06 February 2007
 

The Ugly American
Contributed by J D

Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic candidate for president, is at it again with another rude gaffe, this one providing an unintended glimpse of the way many contemporary cosmopolitan elites characterize their homeland when abroad.

In the past, Kerry has said that our soldiers were "terrorizing" Iraqi civilians in their homes. He has also warned that uneducated Americans "get stuck in Iraq" — a supposedly botched joke. Now, he assures an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the United States is a "sort of international pariah."

Read Victor Davis Hanson's analysis of OWD's favorite Senator.

Contributed by J D on February 6, 2007 at 05:56 PM in J D Pendry, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 24 January 2007
 

Life just ain't fair, is it Johnny? Bwu-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Contributed by Bill Faith

Kerry won't run for president in '08
By Rick Klein, [Boston] Globe Staff  (H/T: Michelle)

I would never have started blogging and this site would never have existed if it hadn't been for Johnny's delusions of adequacy in '04. I have a computer system and home network to set up but I'll have lots of gloating and blogger reactions at Bill's Bites as I get to it.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 24, 2007 at 05:29 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 09 January 2007
 

Hold your breath: Kerry still undecided
Contributed by Bill Faith

Still Delaying The Inevitable 
Ed Morrissey

I'm not sure how many more of these stories the American media can produce, but the Boston Globe seems intent on telling us -- again -- that John Kerry still has not decided to run for President in 2008:

After sending strong signals for two years about a second run for the presidency, Senator John F. Kerry has held no public political events in more than two months, even as his potential rivals ramp up their own campaigns. 

Jim Addison  has more here.

Here's laughin' at ya Johnny. Dumb ass.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 9, 2007 at 11:05 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 08 January 2007
 

Hey, hey, lib-er-als
How many kids will you kill through withdrawal?
Contributed by Bill Faith

Thanks go to J. D. Pendry for emailing to make sure I knew about this one.

How many people will the peace movement kill this time?
Don Surber

Last time out, Cindy Sheehan and her ilk led to the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. Michael Dickey put the carnage since 1975 by the North Vietnamese government and its proxies at 7.5 million people including up to 3 million in the killing fields of Cambodia.

The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam also cleared the way for the Hanoi-backed Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to win a 5-year civil war against a military coup.

Peace Pledge Union also put the Cambodian carnage at 3 million and noted:

“Under Pol Pot’s leadership, and within days of overthrowing the government, the Khmer Rouge embarked on an organised mission: they ruthlessly imposed an extremist programme to reconstruct Cambodia (now under its Khmer name Kampuchea) on the communist model of Mao’s China. The population must, they believed, be made to work as labourers in one huge federation of collective farms. Anyone in opposition - and all intellectuals and educated people were assumed to be - must be eliminated, together with all un-communist aspects of traditional Cambodian society.“So, at short notice and under threat of death, the inhabitants of towns and cities were forced to leave them. The ill, disabled, old and very young were driven out as well, regardless of their physical condition: no-one was spared the exodus. People who refused to leave were killed; so were those who didn’t leave fast enough, and those who wouldn’t obey orders. ...

Back in the United States in the 1970s, the hippie movement gave way to disco and cocaine. Jane Fonda received a 2nd Oscar for “Coming Home,” about a disabled Vietnam veteran coping with, well, coming home. In her 2005 autobiography, she wrote:

“The suggestion is that because of my actions against the war my career had been destroyed … But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed.”

I point this out not to demonize her, but to show that those who professed to care so much about the Vietnamese during the war could not give a twit about them once they got what they wanted: The defeat of the American military.

So what will the price be this time and who will pay it? ...

Read the whole thing.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 8, 2007 at 09:17 PM in Bill Faith, J D Pendry, Jean Fraud Kerry, Peacenik Stupidity, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Monday, 01 January 2007
 

"No Punches Pulled Here"
Contributed by Bill Faith

I excerpted and linked a couple of J.D.'s recent blog posts a few days ago but totally spaced out and forgot about another one I intended to mention soon. Fortunately it's been making the rounds by email and 1stCav spotted it on the Free Republic site this morning and mailed the pack. Now that I've been reminded, something I should have done last week:

On Your Hands
J.D. Pendry

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us.  You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it.  Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers.  Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute.  You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam.  Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact.  You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq.  You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam.  You’re a fake.  You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken.  You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq.  You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof.  And said we should redeploy to Okinawa.  Okinawa John?  And the Democrats call you their military expert.  Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume?  You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician.  You’re not a Marine sir.  You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt.  You’re a phony and a disgrace.  Run away John. ...

Please, people, do read the whole thing. You'll either enjoy it or learn from it, maybe both. After you've read it, comment here, in our forum, on the Free Republic thread 1stCav saw, or all three places if you're feeling verbose.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 1, 2007 at 12:59 PM in Bill Faith, Dem Dumbness, Islamism Delenda Est, J D Pendry, Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Sunday, 31 December 2006
 

Stuck in Iraq on dial-up?
Contributed by Bill Faith

You may want to just skip past this one unless you're willing to wait 313 kb for a good laugh. Everyone else click "Continue reading ..."

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Contributed by Bill Faith on December 31, 2006 at 03:26 AM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 28 December 2006
 

One is the loneliest number ... (Updated and bumped)
Contributed by Bill Faith

But, but, but ... I was in Vietnam! ... Wanna see my hat?

The Lonely Senator   
Bryan Preston

Heh.

Sen. Kerry found himself all alone while he was over here. He cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same time), and he found himself eating breakfast with only a couple of folks who are obviously not troops. ...

Scott Johnson has more, including a bigger picture, here.

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Michelle: Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely

*** Update and bump. Original timestamp 2006.12.27.09:02

Questions? (And answers. Click the link.)

"A Soldier, a Sailor, and a Marine walk into this bar, see ... Where'd everybody go?"

I'll dance on your grave, Johnny. I live for the day.

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The Lonely Senator, Update

***

Michelle's correction is here.

I guess since I'm posting corrections I should bump the post? Hmmm. What would AP do?

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 28, 2006 at 04:02 PM in Bill Faith, Iraq, Jean Fraud Kerry, The American Warrior | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 27 December 2006
 

Quote Of The Day
Contributed by Bill Faith

[E]very time we get frustrated that Bush isn't doing better, Kerry shows up to remind us that the country could have done a lot worse. -- James Taranto (Helmet tip: Russ Vaughn)

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 27, 2006 at 08:10 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Damsel in distress. Sic 'em, Dogs
Contributed by Bill Faith

Dogs, check out Cao's post here then drop her a kind comment. She's up to her ass in shitheaded lefties and could use a friend or three. Go there. Now.

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 27, 2006 at 07:04 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Sunday, 24 December 2006
 

Just can't stop digging, can you Johnny?
Contributed by Bill Faith

I will not break up the Christmassy mood on this site for anything short of a major jihadi attack or continent-swallowing earthquake, but that does not apply at my place. Join me there? (Read Zero's post here first.)

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 24, 2006 at 04:41 AM in Bill Faith, Iraq, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 21 December 2006
 

Teherani Johnni
Contributed by Russ Vaughn

The gift that keeps on giving,
That’s what John Kerry is;
As long as that fool’s living,
He’ll keep us blogs in biz.
Big John’s too dumb to ever get
His big foot from his mouth;
So at ease, relax, you Swiftvets,
His campaign’s headed south.

He began his long tradition,
While still wearing Navy blue,
Of practicing sedition,
Against vets like me, like you.
As a second john in Paris,
He courted Madame Binh,
Who hooked her nail in his naris,
And sent her songbird home to sing.

And now he’s right back to it,
Lurching into media light;
Again he says he’ll do it,
So damn sure he is right.
He’ll go see Imawhackjob,
To plan how we’ll surrender,
Another stab us in the back job,
The only plan Big John can render.

They’ll fete him sure in Teheran,
Perhaps with parades and floats,
A happy, winning, waving John,
So far from those Swift boats.
His treason will put a big smile
On the face of many a Teherani,
So proud of Imawhackjob’s guile,
In creating Teherani Johnni.

Russ Vaughn

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on December 21, 2006 at 12:18 AM in Iran, Islamism Delenda Est, Jean Fraud Kerry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Friday, 15 December 2006
 

Ho, Ho, Ho (Chi Minh)! Kerry, Kerry, Christmas!
Contributed by Bill Faith

I wasn't going to post any more Christmas stuff on this site. In the case of this particular item, I'd even decide to take Zero's advice and just  let lying dogs sleep and not post this one at all  this year. Dumb ass hasn't learned a thing.

The Night Before Christmas (Cambodian Version)

Twas the night before Christmas and we were afloat
Somewhere in Cambodia in our little boat.
While the river was lightened by rockets red glare
No one but the President knew we were there.

The crew was all nestled deep down in their bunks,
While the Spook and I watched the sampans and junks.
Our mission was secret, so secret in fact,
No one else would remember it when we got back.

When out on the water there arose such a clatter
I leaped down from the bridge to see what was the matter.
The incoming friendly was starting to flash
And I knew that the ARVN's were having a bash.

The snap of friendly fire on the warm tropic air
Convinced me for sure no one knew we were there,
On a clandestine mission so secret it's true
That I'm still convinced only Tricky Dick knew.

While I huddled for safety in the tub on the bow,
I thought of a title, "Apocalypse Now."
To give to the films I was I making each day
To show all the voters when I made my big play.

As I sat there sweating in my lucky flight jacket,
Spook said, "Merry Christmas!" and tossed me a packet.
And what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a new lucky cap, which I still have right here.

I keep it tucked here, in this leather brief case,
Just sharing with the press its secretive place
As I regale them again with my senate refrain,
That Christmas in Cambodia is seared into my brain.

Don't bother to quibble with history my friend,
By pointing out Johnson was President then.
Don't listen to Swiftees who try to explain,
For I tell you that night is seared into my brain.

Down Hibbard, down Lonsdale, and you too O'Neill,
So you don't remember? Well it's something I feel.
I don't need all you Swiftvets to support my campaign,
Cause Christmas in Cambodia is seared into my brain,

Into my brain, into my brain, into my brain...

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 15, 2006 at 10:18 AM in Bill Faith, Christmas, Jean Fraud Kerry, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
 

Speaking frankly about Abu Carter -- Update (Updated)
Contributed by Bill Faith

See previous: Speaking frankly about Abu "Holier than das Juden" Carter.

The third post in my series is up:

• Speaking frankly about Abu Carter -- Update

Plagiarism's just the beginning. Not only did Abu Carter steal maps from another author, he relabeled them to make them fit his own personal "truth." It's long piece, which excerpts and links to an even longer piece, but I think you'll find it interesting reading.

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Those of you who love Johnny like I do may also enjoy Kennedy Backs Away From Kerry

*** Added 2006.12.10:

• Speaking frankly about Abu Carter -- Update 2

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 12, 2006 at 12:43 AM in Bill Faith, Books, Dem Dumbness, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Sunday, 10 December 2006
 

A father's letter to Jean Fraud Kerry
Contributed by Bill Faith

Thanks go to 1stCav for sending me the link to this Friday night. I promised him I'd take care of posting it then spaced out and forgot till just now.

A letter from John Kerry
Leo J. Pusateri

This is not a joke. When John Kerry delivered his so-called "botched joke," I made it a point, as a parent of a deployed soldier, to send him an email signifying my outrage at his comments. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect a response:

December 7, 2006

Mr. Leo Pusateri
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Dear Mr. Pusateri:

Thank you for writing to me about the botched joke about President Bush I made on October 30th. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify my statement.

First, it was a dumb joke and I slipped up, dropped a couple words, and made it worse. I take responsibility for my misstatement. ...

Sincerely,

John F. Kerry
United States Senator

After reading this correspondence, I felt compelled to respond:

Dear Senator Kerry:

Thank you for your response.

I wish that I could tell you that I accept your "apology," but I could not begin to do that in good conscience. For to accept an apology is to accept the notion that the person making that apology is sincere.

Your insincerity is apparent immediately at the outset of your correspondence. You continue to maintain that the incident in question was a "botched joke." Mr. Kerry, if you had a history of true support for our troops, I may accept that explanation at face value; but your very history, both short- and long term, screams otherwise. Rather than support our troops, you are someone who has repeated ad nauseum that their mission has been a mistake (at least as soon as you found it politically advantageous to do so). Given also the grave disservice you did to our brave Vietnam veterans during your "Winter Soldier" testimony, I have no choice but to question the veracity and depth of your alleged sincerity.

I have seen the videotape of your "botched joke." Usually, when one tells a "botched joke," especially one so potentially damaging, one usually gets a sheepish look on one's face; and in recognizing the folly takes immediate measures to correct the verbiage on the spot. What I saw on the video was a man who told a joke, smiled, and waited for rimshot laughter connected to the punchline (which, thankfully, never came). No attempt was made to correct nor clarify. While I have no doubt that the dearth of positive accolades in response to your "botched joke" made for an awkward moment, I nonetheless am led to believe that you meant every word you said. ...

... Freedom of Political Speech, a gift given us not only by our Founding Fathers, but by the lifeblood of every Soldier, Sailor and Marine since the founding of our Nation, is a multi-edged sword that can cut in varying directions. A prudent, judicious American will recognize that with such an awesome freedom, comes an equally awesome responsibility to use it wisely. You sir, have wielded it with a reckless abandon befitting not a statesman, but a brigand.

Once again, Senator Kerry, at the very least, I wish to thank you for taking the time to respond to my correspondence. But accept your apology?

Thanks, but no thanks.

Sincerely,

Leo J. Pusateri

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 10, 2006 at 02:17 AM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Peacenik Stupidity, William "1stCav" Page | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Thursday, 07 December 2006
 

Jean Fraud Kerry In Secret Talks With Hamas? (Updated 2006.12.11)
Contributed by Bill Faith

I wasn't going to mention the "secret talks" rumor on this site till I realized who I think's involved. Check out my post here for information.

We haven't forgotten, Johnny. We'll quit kicking you while your down when you quit trying to get up. I'll dance on your grave, Johnny; it's what keeps me going.

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See also: Top Palestinian advisor: Yes, Hamas really did meet with the Democrats

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 7, 2006 at 12:20 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Thursday, 30 November 2006
 

The Shadows of Enlightenment
Contributed by The Gray Dog

The shimmer of Enlightenment glowed brightly through the land,
The promise of fulfillment was most certainly at hand,
What started as a flicker, quickly brightened like a flare,
Alas, the poor Enlightened Men were blinded by the glare.

Tolerance and diversity became their clarion’s call,
But the path lit by Enlightenment would lead them to their fall,
Forgetful of their birthright and neglectful of their duty,
Enlightened Men still failed to see our nation’s stately beauty.

A beacon of liberty once shined throughout the world,
A star filled banner stained with blood once proudly flew unfurled,
It now is nothing more than a Common Man’s lament,
A flag that hides in shadows cast long by Enlightenment.

-- The Gray Dog

Continue reading "The Shadows of Enlightenment"

Contributed by The Gray Dog on November 30, 2006 at 09:30 PM in Current Affairs, Dem Dumbness, Iran, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Jean Fraud Kerry, Patriotism, Peacenik Stupidity, Poetry, Politics, The Gray Dog, War? What war? | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 29 November 2006
 

Beating a dead horse and/or stating the obvious
Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf

As Bill noted here.  Kerry is now  one step back from a Presidential wannabe. Every iota of energy expended concerning him is wasted!!!

Please folks... allow common sense to reign. Kerry is a trivial thing. We do have a plethora of issues that have more merit.

1 - Will congress turn the next two years into a pool of muddied water?
2 - Will Sharia law sneak in here as it has in Britain?
3 - Will you be speaking Spanish?

Those are but a tiny enumeration of very real issues facing us.

Reality sucks! Want the government to decide who gets health care? Want the government to decide what your kids are taught?

Move on... if Kerry gets nominated,  or worse Edwards, we will deal with that. But please stop wasting energy on Kerry for now.

Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf on November 29, 2006 at 04:21 PM in Current Affairs, Dem Dumbness, Jean Fraud Kerry, Zero Ponsdorf | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Wun, Johnny, Wun!
Contributed by Bill Faith

Dear John
Posted by Tom Bevan

At the HuffPo, Stephen Kaus writes an amusing open letter to John Kerry begging him not to run again in '08:

Dear Senator Kerry:

I write as a supporter of yours in 2004, from way before the convention, to suggest that you do yourself a favor and announce now that you are not running in 2008 and will devote your full efforts to helping the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. Ironically, this may be your best bet to be considered Presidential material again some day.

They say that when you are in a hole you should first stop digging. If you keep running for President, please write me from China.

Kaus's final piece of advice to Kerry: ...

Read the whole thing, and do follow the HuffPo link, as much as I hate linking to them.

Contributed by Bill Faith on November 29, 2006 at 01:28 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 27 November 2006
 

Kerry finishes dead last in Quinnipiac presidential poll
Contributed by Bill Faith

Wun, Johnny, wun! Hey, I know! How about a Kerry/Rangel ticket. Yeah, that'll work.

Contributed by Bill Faith on November 27, 2006 at 07:23 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Making Bets Your Body Can't Cash!
Contributed by The Gray Dog

“I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.” – Charles Rangel.

My mind shudders at the image of what contortionist position was achieved yesterday to allow John Kerry’s foot to fall out of Charlie Rangel’s mouth.  This feat is perhaps even more stunning due to the fact that Charlie’s head has been on tour of his large intestine since the Democrat House victory earlier this month.  Add Murtha to complete this Capitol Hill ménage à trois of ex-military malcontents and soon our troops will simply be seen as a marauding band of drooling, cross-eyed misfits that cannot be trusted to carry anything sharper onto the battlefield than the crayons they used to mark their “X” on the enlistment papers. 

Yeah, I’m sure the elitist, east coast, blue-blood, trust fund babies are statistically underrepresented in the military.  So what?  I’m not sure I would want to be stuck in a fox hole with someone with a hyphenated last name followed by Roman Numerals.  But, I digress.

Continue reading "Making Bets Your Body Can't Cash!"

Contributed by The Gray Dog on November 27, 2006 at 06:46 PM in Caring about our troops, Current Affairs, Dem Dumbness, Jean Fraud Kerry, Mad Jack Murtha, Politics, The Gray Dog | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Monday, 20 November 2006
 

Tivo alert — “Winter Soldier,” tonight at 9
Contributed by Bill Faith

Poll: 51% of Dems don’t want Kerry as nominee;
Update: Tivo alert — “Winter Soldier,” tonight at 9

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A new CNN poll shows 51% of Democrats do not want Kerry to be the party’s nominee in 2008, while only 7% currently support him.  ...

... Tonight on the Sundance Channel, relive America’s golden age.

Contributed by Bill Faith on November 20, 2006 at 04:31 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 17 November 2006
 

The Land of BLOG
Contributed by The Gray Dog

Appearing yesterday before two conservative groups, always hopeful John McCain delivered speeches liberally peppered with invocations of “Ronald Reagan”, while telling his audience that, “Republicans must return to their conservative convictions.”  Poor John, haven’t any of his handlers advised him that he’s asking Republicans to return to a home he’s never visited?  Perhaps if McCain clicks his ruby slippers together three times and repeats, “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…”

As the house came to an abrupt landing, McCain awoke with a start.  Obviously shaken, our hero began to pan the surrounding room before his eyes stared into mine.

McCain:  “Heh, heh.  I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore, right Toto?”

TGD:      “Actually, Senator, that’s exactly where you are.  Right smack dab in the middle of the conservative heartland.  And the name’s Gray Dog.”

McCain:  “But how? Why?  What’s this all about?”

Continue reading "The Land of BLOG"

Contributed by The Gray Dog on November 17, 2006 at 12:56 PM in Current Affairs, Dem Dumbness, Jean Fraud Kerry, John McCain, Politics, The Gray Dog, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 15 November 2006
 

Dems to Kerry: Get Off Our Team!
Contributed by Bill Faith

(Dogs, please forgive me. I know we just talked about pictures and bandwidth and dial-up connections and all, but this is just too priceless. )

Dems to Kerry: Get Off Our Team!
John Hinderaker

Well, that may be a little too harsh. But this UPI story is pretty entertaining:

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer appeared to kick Sen. John Kerry out of a Democratic leadership walk in Washington, a reporter who witnessed the event said.

An ABC News reporter said the incident occurred Tuesday outside of the Old Senate Chamber as members of the new Democratic leadership, of which Kerry is not a part, left the chamber en route to the Ohio Clock Corridor to discuss leadership elections, the incoming majority's agenda and Iraq. ...

You are so over, Johnny. But I'll still dance on your grave.

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See also: Kerry watches Dem leaders pass by

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Thank you 1stCav for the link on another good article and a larger copy of the above picture here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on November 15, 2006 at 05:34 PM in Bill Faith, Jean Fraud Kerry, Politics | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack