I Will Always Remember...

I will always remember the sight of people jumping to their deaths instead of facing the hell of burning.

I will always remember the firefighters and police officers who died doing their job in the most trying of circumstances.

I will always remember the people who were forced to die at the hands of terrorists who hijacked their plane.

I will always remember those who chose to fight back on Flight 93.

I will always remember that it was not a "catastrophe" but a planned operation that was aimed at killing as many of my fellow countrymen and women as possible.

I will always remember that they have every intention of doing it again.

I will always remember that some in this country believe a sitting president ordered it or let it happen.

I will always remember that we had a a president that did not allow it to happen again.

I will always remember what the Twin Towers looked like as I passed them on a daily basis.

I will always remember that nearly 3,000 men and women died there.

I will always remember that my brothers in arms have fought and died to kill those responsible and do everything to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I will always remember that there are those who want nothing more than for me to forget.

I will always remember the loathing I have for them for wanting me to do so.

I will always remember...

What the Van Jones Saga Tells Us About the Left

If you get your news from the Internet and not the >NY Times, Washington Post or the networks, you were not the least bit surprised yesterday morning to wake and find that Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" has resigned amid a growing scandal. Left wing sites are chastising themselves for not responding more forcefully, which is amusing because they have stopped taking anything we on the right say seriously simply because they live in a bubble whereby they still think that America went from center-right to left wing and the clear evidence of that is in the win by Barack Obama, but I digress.

Anyway, we have a plethora of pundits and assorted lefties writing what have to be some of the lamest posts we've seen in awhile. Take this one from Carl Pope, the leader of the Sierra Club. Note that he uses all the buzzwords to make his point:

This was a lynch mob (racial reference) and, when it started forming a month ago, we didn't take it seriously enough. When I saw the first Glenn Beck (attack Beck) piece on Van Jones and the Apollo Alliance as the new vast left-wing conspiracy, I could not take it seriously. Silence enabled Fox (evil right-wing news) to keep pushing. The statements for which Jones apologized -- the reference to the right as "assholes" and saying that Bush was talking "like a crack-head" were such ordinary political discourse (minimizing the offenses)-- think Rahm Emmanuel, think Dick Cheney saying "fuck yourself" to Senator Leahy, think Tom Friedman dubbing Bush "the addict-in-chief" -- that I didn't understand why an apology was necessary; I assumed it would blow over.

Cheney telling Leahy to fuck himself is probably typical discourse. However, Friedman calling Bush the "addict-in-chief" was not. It's just that to Pope, it seemed as if it were no big deal since other elements of the formerly fringe left were calling Bush a Nazi, comparing him to Hitler at every turn and blaming him for 9/11 ala Michael Moore. These charges--seen by normal folks as not only insane but another sign of the elitism of the left--were so widespread and normal in liberal circles; a place where I'm guessing Mr. Pope gets his news that they became normal. Many people outside of New York and San Francisco were outraged by the "truthers" and have not forgotten it. The fact that Van Jones signed a petition calling for an investigation and essentially blaming Bush for the attacks by terrorists was all that was needed to open the floodgates of criticism and lead to his ultimate dismissal. Normal people don't buy into the "Bush knew" meme but a good deal the left does so it's difficult for Mr. Pope to understand that outside of his coccoon, the very idea is repulsive to many. That and the fact that Pope doen't even list it as a reason for his departure when it was indeed the main reason says it all.

So the clueless liberal elites continue to kick and scratch like a girl while telling themselves they know the One True Way. Meanwhile, the folks in fly-over country that these same elites believed was theirs for the taking have seen liberal policies and have decided they really don't like them at all.

I can understand how liberals can be really mad; I mean they have a veto-proof majority in the Senate, a huge majority in the House, they have the White House and unfortunately for them, have no leadership in any of the aforementioned so they remain a flailing, rudderless mess while losing any goodwill they gained and possibly losing a gaggle of seats in the mid-terms.

Update: Go read Ace.

Update: The scum of the Internet show themselves to be even scummier than previously thought.

Thursday Night News and Notes

Here's what's news on this night where Michael Vick will play QB for the Eagles and Tim Lincecum faces my Phils.

-Moveon.org jerkoff supporter bites off pinky of 65-year old anti-socialist medicine protester. Thank goodness Obamacare hasn't passed or the old fella would have had to wait three months to get it replaced.

-Obama "Green Jobs Czar" (whatever the hell that is) is a full-blown truther who believes Bush and Cheney were behind 9/11. This has got to be the most America-hatin' administration ever.

-Some dude with no arms is denied check cashing services because he lacks thumbs to provide a thumb print.

-The Brits do have a way with words, don't they?

-The lovely and eloquent Terri writes about events in Honduras and the shameful way the Obama folks have been treating another democracy.

-Our musical interlude this evening has us enjoying the excellent Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmore wailing and Joe Lynn Turner stretching his pipes and sporting painted on pants that were laughable then and remain so. An 80's flashback:

Sunday Morning News and Notes

My son is still playing in the USSSA World Series having played four games in less than sixteen hours yesterday. A win this morning puts them in the championship later today.

Here's what's news:

-The New Jersey gubernatorial race is heating up and Republican Chris Christie has a commanding lead in every poll over incumbent Jon Corzine. This may be an outlier for the 2010 congressional and Senate elections.

-Via Jersey Nut, we have this CNN host looking somewhat dumbfounded that the light of The One does not outshine that of the redneck cowboy living in Crawford, TX:



-Obama heading down the Carter highway? When the WaPo asks, it's time to reassess your policies.

-We all knew it and the Paulistinians voraciously denied it but Ron Paul is a Truther.

-Destroying the economy to save it.

Obama Retakes Oath of Office

Supposedly at 7:35 this evening.

Anyone who'd push that as an issue is a loser...kinda like stalking a Governor and claiming her child is actually not hers or saying 9/11 was an inside job and being bitch-slapped debunked by people who actually have a brain.

Like I said, losers.

Scumbag Truther Alex Jones Attacks Michelle Malkin

To cries of Kill Michelle Malkin! Alex Jones showed just how manly he is when he's surrounded by his supporters against a five foot nothing female reporter:



The supreme douchebag Jones sounds exactly like the raving lunatic he is as he rails on about "new world order" and calling MM a "fascist" who "supports torture". I wish I was there to pop the dude right in his truther face. He's the worlds loudest and unmanly pussy.

More here and here .

Al-Qaeda Vs. Truthers

An epic Onion video:


9/11 Conspiracy Theories 'Ridiculous,' Al Qaeda Says

Some of the best satire on the web.

Via Hot Air.

Debunking the Truthers Again

We've all read the Popular Mechanics study on the collapse of the Twin Towers, they painstakingly explained in plain English how the towers fell floor upon floor. That's not been enough for the "Truthers" who still are fixated on the collapse of both towers and WT 7.

Another magazine--Structure (link in PDF)-- has joined in the debunking and shows in perfect detail the "kinking" of the penthouse on the north side and the subsequent dropping of the penthouse that started the entire collapse. I'm no engineer but the explanation makes sense as to why the buildings collapsed inward and down and didn't fall over or fall in some other manner.

Of course the idiot Truthers will not buy into this because, just as global warming zealots have done, they've developed a cottage industry and they aren't about to agree with any rational explanation that would be presented.

Is it any surprise that these morons and Ron Paul supporters have united?