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Showing posts with label average Liberal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label average Liberal. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
What is up with the Left?
I will run with a post before going back to the "Red Storm Rising". postings. I have heard some of the leftist getting real upset about Trump dropping the MOAB on the Taliban. My opinion is that Trump used this to make a statement to the world that it "isn't business as usual" and there are adults in charge. Meanwhile the leftist are besides themselves...
To understand the present day snowflake, they are on the cutting edge of the outrage machine, they are trying soo hard to be relevant with their peers. The average leftist has the attention span of a gnat, they move from cause to cause and outrage to outrage, they are trying soo hard to ride the latest craze or cause to "Matter". to themselves and their friends. The average liberal has nothing else to live for, the politics consume their soul. We conservatives strike a balance, we don't cut off friends if they are liberals, but the average leftist will have a "scorched Earth" policy, if you don't believe like they do, then to the average leftist, "you are a Nazi" and deserve every bad thing that happens to you. They will cut you off, if you are family, they will disown you, if you are a friend, they will denounce you for heresy and try to get you fired from your job because " you deserve it" .
The average leftist view "us" as less than human and we deserve everything bad that happens to us. When people view their opponents and fellow people as "less than Human", this is a basis for genocide, like sending their fellow Americans to a "FEMA camps" for reeducation or extermination.. I truly have grave concerns for the near future and the future that my son will inherit.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Mike Rowe and the "Modern Man"
I ripped this off Mike's Facebook page....The pics are compliments of "google"
After renowned entrepreneur Mike Rowe heard that some feminized schmuck at The New York Times penned an absurd column listing the “27 Ways to Be a [Feminized] Modern Man,” he fought back with a kick-butt rebuttal that explained to liberals what a REAL MAN looks and acts like.
Shoes
NYT: “When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man would not buy shoes for his spouse, or be familiar with the vagaries of various female footwear brands. He might offer to pay for them, and he would definitely compliment her choice. And if he knows the size of her feet, it’s only because he rubs them from time to time.”
Uncertainty
NYT: “The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk. He acts as if everything is going swimmingly until it is.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man feels no shame in admitting uncertainty, because he knows that doing so will make him more certain. He’s transparent about his flaws and shortcomings, and makes no attempt to be more secure or knowledgeable or competent than he actually is.”
Consideration
NYT: “The modern man is considerate. At the movie theater, he won’t munch down a mouthful of popcorn during a quiet moment. He waits for some ruckus.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is also considerate. But he would never consciously time his chewing to coincide with the noisy parts of the film. He does not walk on eggshells.”
Food
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t cut the fatty or charred bits off his fillet. Every bite of steak is a privilege, and it all goes down the hatch.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will clean his plate, assuming of course he’s the one who put the food on it. But he feels no obligation to suck the marrow out of a bone, or eat the bruise on the banana, or consume the cob as well as the corn. He does not equate his manliness with a willingness [to] consume food that’s been poorly prepared.”
Parking
NYT: “The modern man won’t blow 10 minutes of his life looking for the best parking spot. He finds a reasonable one and puts his car between the lines.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows it’s wiser to park closer to the exit than the entrance.”
Self-Reliance
NYT: “Before the modern man heads off to bed, he makes sure his spouse’s phone and his kids’ electronic devices are charging for the night.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows that self-reliance is born of experience. He encourages his kids to look after their own stuff, and suffer the consequences when they do not. The wife is another matter.”
Beverages
NYT: “The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man doesn’t drink children’s beverages. He drinks tap water, wine, coffee, beer, whiskey, or iced tea. He does however, keep soda pop on hand, on the off chance a modern man stops by.”
Words
NYT: “The modern man uses the proper names for things. For example, he’ll say “helicopter,” not “chopper” like some gauche simpleton.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is less worried about using the right word, and more concerned with being understood. But under no circumstance, does he ‘dumb down’ the language.”
Identity
NYT: “Having a daughter makes the modern man more of a complete person. He learns new stuff every day.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is already a complete person. His identity does not depend upon sons, daughters, spouses, friends, or pets. He is not a loner, and he cherishes the relationships he has. But he knows that his ‘completion’ is nothing but a reflection of knowing who he is.”
Dishes
NYT: “The modern man makes sure the dishes on the rack have dried completely before putting them away.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will always volunteer to wash the dishes. He may or may not put them away, but regardless, he understands the phenomenon of evaporation, and doesn’t concern himself with a codified system for drying.”
Never
NYT: “The modern man has never ‘pinned’ a tweet, and he never will.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not know what that even means. But he rarely says ‘never.’”
Soap
NYT: “The modern man checks the status of his Irish Spring bar before jumping in for a wash. Too small, it gets swapped out.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man uses Lava Soap. He uses it until it’s the size of a dime.”
Entertainment
NYT: “The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man watches reruns of Kung-Fu.”
Groceries
NYT: “The modern man still jots down his grocery list on a piece of scratch paper. The market is no place for his face to be buried in the phone.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not make lists. He knows what he likes, what he needs, and what he wants. If he has to write it down, he understands it was not worth having in the first place.”
Flooring
NYT: “The modern man has hardwood flooring. His children can detect his mood from the stamp of his Kenneth Cole oxfords.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is not committed to any particular type of flooring. He doesn’t attempt to communicate with his children through his footsteps, and he doesn’t own oxfords, unless they’re steel-toed.”
Sleeping
NYT: “The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows that a struggle closest to the door will effectively block the exit through which his wife might flee. So he secures the house in a way that keeps intruders out, and sleeps wherever he wants.”
Fruits
NYT: “The modern man has a melon baller. How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?”
Mike Rowe: “The Man’s Man, if he serves fruit at all, prepares wedges, squares, and rectangles. He accomplishes this with a knife.”
NYT: “The modern man has thought seriously about buying a shoehorn.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man doesn’t think ‘seriously’ about any purchase under $5.”
Flowers
NYT: “The modern man buys fresh flowers more to surprise his wife than to say he is sorry.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man picks wildflowers on the side of the road, wraps them with a bootlace, and presents them with an original, hand-written poem.”
Bedmates
NYT: “On occasion, the modern man is the “little spoon.” Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will do whatever’s necessary to please his bedmate – not himself. But he roundly rejects all metaphors, especially those that involve utensils.”
Sneezing Daughter
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t scold his daughter when she sneezes while eating an apple doughnut, even if the pieces fly everywhere.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man would laugh and then say ‘Bless you,’ or ‘gesundheit.’ Then, he’d make sure she wipes her nose and cleans up the crumbs.”
Ambling
NYT: “The modern man still ambles half-naked down his driveway each morning to scoop up a crisp newspaper.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not amble. Moreover, he would have aleady impressed upon the paper boy the importance of getting the morning paper all the way up on the porch. Where it belongs.”
Films
NYT: “The modern man has all of Michael Mann’s films on Blu-ray (or whatever the highest quality thing is at the time.)”
MR: “A Man’s Man doesn’t own films – he rents them. He also values effectiveness over efficiency, and knows that the ‘latest technology’ will be obsolete in a few months. For this reason, he makes no attempt to own the newest of anything.”
Preferences
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t get hung up on his phone’s battery percentage. If it needs to run flat, so be it.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man prefers his gas tank full, his weapon loaded, his pantry stocked, and his checkbook balanced. He also likes his phone sufficiently charged, and takes the necessary steps to accomplish that.”
Guns
NYT: “The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man owns at least one firearm. He knows how to use it, clean it, and store it properly. He understands it’s importance, and sees it for what it is – a tool that can protect him and his family.”
Crying
NYT: “The modern man cries. He cries often.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man cries if he feels like crying. But he rarely feels like it.”
Dancing
NYT: “People aren’t sure if the modern man is a good dancer or not. That is, until the D.J. plays his jam and he goes out there and puts on a clinic.”
Mike Rowe: “People know without question a Man’s Man does not dance. But they also know if called upon, he’ll give it his best shot…”
After renowned entrepreneur Mike Rowe heard that some feminized schmuck at The New York Times penned an absurd column listing the “27 Ways to Be a [Feminized] Modern Man,” he fought back with a kick-butt rebuttal that explained to liberals what a REAL MAN looks and acts like.
Shoes
NYT: “When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man would not buy shoes for his spouse, or be familiar with the vagaries of various female footwear brands. He might offer to pay for them, and he would definitely compliment her choice. And if he knows the size of her feet, it’s only because he rubs them from time to time.”
Uncertainty
NYT: “The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk. He acts as if everything is going swimmingly until it is.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man feels no shame in admitting uncertainty, because he knows that doing so will make him more certain. He’s transparent about his flaws and shortcomings, and makes no attempt to be more secure or knowledgeable or competent than he actually is.”
Consideration
NYT: “The modern man is considerate. At the movie theater, he won’t munch down a mouthful of popcorn during a quiet moment. He waits for some ruckus.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is also considerate. But he would never consciously time his chewing to coincide with the noisy parts of the film. He does not walk on eggshells.”
Food
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t cut the fatty or charred bits off his fillet. Every bite of steak is a privilege, and it all goes down the hatch.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will clean his plate, assuming of course he’s the one who put the food on it. But he feels no obligation to suck the marrow out of a bone, or eat the bruise on the banana, or consume the cob as well as the corn. He does not equate his manliness with a willingness [to] consume food that’s been poorly prepared.”
Parking
NYT: “The modern man won’t blow 10 minutes of his life looking for the best parking spot. He finds a reasonable one and puts his car between the lines.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows it’s wiser to park closer to the exit than the entrance.”
Self-Reliance
NYT: “Before the modern man heads off to bed, he makes sure his spouse’s phone and his kids’ electronic devices are charging for the night.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows that self-reliance is born of experience. He encourages his kids to look after their own stuff, and suffer the consequences when they do not. The wife is another matter.”
Beverages
NYT: “The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man doesn’t drink children’s beverages. He drinks tap water, wine, coffee, beer, whiskey, or iced tea. He does however, keep soda pop on hand, on the off chance a modern man stops by.”
Words
NYT: “The modern man uses the proper names for things. For example, he’ll say “helicopter,” not “chopper” like some gauche simpleton.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is less worried about using the right word, and more concerned with being understood. But under no circumstance, does he ‘dumb down’ the language.”
Identity
NYT: “Having a daughter makes the modern man more of a complete person. He learns new stuff every day.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is already a complete person. His identity does not depend upon sons, daughters, spouses, friends, or pets. He is not a loner, and he cherishes the relationships he has. But he knows that his ‘completion’ is nothing but a reflection of knowing who he is.”
Dishes
NYT: “The modern man makes sure the dishes on the rack have dried completely before putting them away.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will always volunteer to wash the dishes. He may or may not put them away, but regardless, he understands the phenomenon of evaporation, and doesn’t concern himself with a codified system for drying.”
Never
NYT: “The modern man has never ‘pinned’ a tweet, and he never will.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not know what that even means. But he rarely says ‘never.’”
Soap
NYT: “The modern man checks the status of his Irish Spring bar before jumping in for a wash. Too small, it gets swapped out.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man uses Lava Soap. He uses it until it’s the size of a dime.”
Entertainment
NYT: “The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man watches reruns of Kung-Fu.”
Groceries
NYT: “The modern man still jots down his grocery list on a piece of scratch paper. The market is no place for his face to be buried in the phone.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not make lists. He knows what he likes, what he needs, and what he wants. If he has to write it down, he understands it was not worth having in the first place.”
Flooring
NYT: “The modern man has hardwood flooring. His children can detect his mood from the stamp of his Kenneth Cole oxfords.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man is not committed to any particular type of flooring. He doesn’t attempt to communicate with his children through his footsteps, and he doesn’t own oxfords, unless they’re steel-toed.”
Sleeping
NYT: “The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man knows that a struggle closest to the door will effectively block the exit through which his wife might flee. So he secures the house in a way that keeps intruders out, and sleeps wherever he wants.”
Fruits
NYT: “The modern man has a melon baller. How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?”
Mike Rowe: “The Man’s Man, if he serves fruit at all, prepares wedges, squares, and rectangles. He accomplishes this with a knife.”
NYT: “The modern man has thought seriously about buying a shoehorn.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man doesn’t think ‘seriously’ about any purchase under $5.”
Flowers
NYT: “The modern man buys fresh flowers more to surprise his wife than to say he is sorry.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man picks wildflowers on the side of the road, wraps them with a bootlace, and presents them with an original, hand-written poem.”
Bedmates
NYT: “On occasion, the modern man is the “little spoon.” Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man will do whatever’s necessary to please his bedmate – not himself. But he roundly rejects all metaphors, especially those that involve utensils.”
Sneezing Daughter
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t scold his daughter when she sneezes while eating an apple doughnut, even if the pieces fly everywhere.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man would laugh and then say ‘Bless you,’ or ‘gesundheit.’ Then, he’d make sure she wipes her nose and cleans up the crumbs.”
Ambling
NYT: “The modern man still ambles half-naked down his driveway each morning to scoop up a crisp newspaper.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man does not amble. Moreover, he would have aleady impressed upon the paper boy the importance of getting the morning paper all the way up on the porch. Where it belongs.”
Films
NYT: “The modern man has all of Michael Mann’s films on Blu-ray (or whatever the highest quality thing is at the time.)”
MR: “A Man’s Man doesn’t own films – he rents them. He also values effectiveness over efficiency, and knows that the ‘latest technology’ will be obsolete in a few months. For this reason, he makes no attempt to own the newest of anything.”
Preferences
NYT: “The modern man doesn’t get hung up on his phone’s battery percentage. If it needs to run flat, so be it.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man prefers his gas tank full, his weapon loaded, his pantry stocked, and his checkbook balanced. He also likes his phone sufficiently charged, and takes the necessary steps to accomplish that.”
Guns
NYT: “The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man owns at least one firearm. He knows how to use it, clean it, and store it properly. He understands it’s importance, and sees it for what it is – a tool that can protect him and his family.”
Crying
NYT: “The modern man cries. He cries often.”
Mike Rowe: “A Man’s Man cries if he feels like crying. But he rarely feels like it.”
Dancing
NYT: “People aren’t sure if the modern man is a good dancer or not. That is, until the D.J. plays his jam and he goes out there and puts on a clinic.”
Mike Rowe: “People know without question a Man’s Man does not dance. But they also know if called upon, he’ll give it his best shot…”
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Liberal Mindset....
I am loading this post in my scheduler since I will be camping with the Boy Scouts again....I will try to post some pics like I did last week. But we will see.
I snagged some pics that seemed to 'splain liberal views pretty well so I figured I would post them and expound on them.
You noticed that the same people that believe that all cops are racist murderers should be the only ones that are armed.....For some reason there is a disconnect of a higher brain function. They want to be told what to do by the state for they view the state as "Mother and Father" and we as children should do as we are told. They want the "nanny State" but at the same time they disparage the enforcement arm of the nanny state.....It is a cause and effect thing.
You notice that the same people that pilloried "W" for his "Warmongering" has been silent since the "anointed one" has interfered in Libya, Syria and other places....where in the hell is "Code Pink" Those moonbats have been silent since the Democrats have been in charge of the government. That tells me that they are political opportunist. You will see them at a conservative event, but not as a liberal event.
What is with Liberals that believe that we "belong to the state." That totally goes against Western Thought. We the individual is prized. But these people believe that "society" or in their case " The State" has first dibs on us. That is totally against American thought and beliefs.
I snagged some pics that seemed to 'splain liberal views pretty well so I figured I would post them and expound on them.
You noticed that the same people that believe that all cops are racist murderers should be the only ones that are armed.....For some reason there is a disconnect of a higher brain function. They want to be told what to do by the state for they view the state as "Mother and Father" and we as children should do as we are told. They want the "nanny State" but at the same time they disparage the enforcement arm of the nanny state.....It is a cause and effect thing.
You notice that the same people that pilloried "W" for his "Warmongering" has been silent since the "anointed one" has interfered in Libya, Syria and other places....where in the hell is "Code Pink" Those moonbats have been silent since the Democrats have been in charge of the government. That tells me that they are political opportunist. You will see them at a conservative event, but not as a liberal event.
What is with Liberals that believe that we "belong to the state." That totally goes against Western Thought. We the individual is prized. But these people believe that "society" or in their case " The State" has first dibs on us. That is totally against American thought and beliefs.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Modern Rules and Engagement.
I had gotten this email from my father that had this article in it from one of the local papers. I really liked it so I figured I would use it on a post. The pictures are compliments of "google search" since I am a simple person that likes pictures and cartoons to help tell a story.
From the Fayette County GA newspaper, The Citizen on 12/10/13
From the Fayette County GA newspaper, The Citizen on 12/10/13
by Terry Garlock
By my measure, America’s recent wars have been rife with
immorality at the very top, where the well-paid and comfortable and
protected make decisions that profoundly affect the lives, and
sometimes deaths, of the Americans we send to fight.
I’m not referring to the top generals-turned-politician bucking for another star by their sudden yes-man enthusiasm for Obama’s trampling the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Frankly, my guess is George Washington never even suspected which of his troops was gay and that gay troops have been helping fight our wars all along. While keeping that part of their life under wraps was surely a personal burden for them, that secrecy helped avoid the inevitable turmoil of introducing the element of romance where it doesn’t belong, in places we require our troops to bet their lives on unit cohesiveness and effectiveness. The new and enlightened policy, wherein the Pentagon holds gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) celebrations, is bad enough, but I am thinking of other policy failures with mortal consequences.
I don’t mean the Obama Administration’s purge of too many generals who have insufficient sensitivity for sexual and gender issues, resist women in combat, have too much curiosity on Benghazi and not enough affection for liberal ideas. Beyond the issue of fairness to these men, we should worry about emasculation of the armed forces.
I’m not referring to the extraordinary burden heaped on our men and women in uniform by three, four or more combat tours while the rest of us sacrifice nothing, while the White House dreams up new ways to redistribute income with government giveaways to favored groups but nary a thought to special compensation to our troops whose families bear our country’s heaviest cost.
Obama’s public dithering over the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan is closer to my mark of despicable leadership, especially his public announcement to our enemies that we would begin our withdrawal in 18 months. If you doubt that was playing for his own political benefit, that he was appealing the right with his eventual surge announcement and to the left with his simultaneous withdrawal announcement, just ask any seventh grader whether winning a war involves disclosing to your enemy when you will quit. But then, Obama has never to my knowledge even whispered the word “victory.”
I’m
not focused on Obama’s spectacular failure in squandering the victory
in Iraq, a blunder nicely and easily hidden from an apathetic public
who were nearly as eager to end the war as the Vietnam generation. Iraq
had no Air Force. Air superiority was purely American, but Obama
walked away in complete withdrawal without a status of forces
agreement, quite consistent with his priority of ending, not winning,
the war. Nobody is better at blaming others, and Obama blamed the
Iraqis when he offered to leave 3,000 troops after his generals said we
needed 20,000 to do the job and protect themselves, and Iraq’s Maliki
countered with refusal because Obama was not serious. Maliki was right,
and air superiority in the region now belongs to Iran.
So, how are we betraying our troops as they fight our wars?
It began before Obama. By the time he took office it was already a slowly maturing process in which fighting for victory became passé, overshadowed by fighting for world opinion, using our military like an extension of the State Department. By committing to hostilities not directly linked to our true national security, and imposing rules that make combat success more difficult, we send home a higher number of wounded and flag-draped coffins for heart-breaking funerals.
Consider this. Mike King, Skip Ragan and I had dinner a few months ago with some younger combat helicopter pilots, and discovered two astonishing things. First, the Blackhawk helicopter now has a “hover button” that engages an auto-pilot to keep the aircraft stationary, for example at a high hover for a hoist Dustoff (medevac) mission over dense jungle. That is huge, since hovering a helicopter is tedious, like keeping a uni-cycle upright within a circle no larger than a dinner plate. As young men, we never dreamed automatic hover would be possible.
The second astonishing thing was a pair of Dustoff pilots, each with three Afghanistan tours, who had never taken a ground fire hit. They explained the risk assessment involved with each mission that prevented them from flying into an area that was still hot.
I can’t help but think about Wayne Franz, who was trained as a medic and will never forget his first mission in Vietnam. He said he was assigned to a helicopter with no break-in training, very jittery as they took off to pick up wounded. When they touched down in the landing zone, Wayne said grunts urgently loaded wounded on the aircraft with IVs already started and blood splashing all over the place, and just as he started hoping none of them would die before they reached the hospital pad, the aircraft took off while he held on. He sorted out which IV ran to which patient and wondered what he could do on the short flight that might keep each man alive, but they soon touched down, the hospital crew rushed the patients to triage, leaving Wayne in a blood-covered daze standing by the helicopter wondering what the hell just happened when the pilot stepped out and said to him, “Wow, that was a close one!” Wayne asked him what he meant, and the pilot pointed to a few bullet holes from the ground fire they took on the way in or out of the LZ.
Wayne thought, “Holy crap! How am I going to survive a year of this?” But he did, and I wonder how many are alive today because he was there for them.
I can tell you there are countless men alive today who long to identify and shake the hand of the Dustoff crew that flew them out of Vietnam’s hot LZs. I am one of them. Here in Peachtree City, Alan Walsh and Terry Hoffman are two of many Dustoff pilots who risked their neck hundreds of times to pick up wounded and saved countless lives. Combat deaths in Vietnam were roughly the same ratio as in WWII, but Vietnam resulted in three times as many severely wounded. The difference was Dustoff. Our grunts knew if they got hit in the filth of the jungle, in an hour they would be with doctors and operating rooms. Many badly wounded survived when they would have died in WWII without the benefit of Dustoff.
I am certain that today’s Dustoff pilots in Afghanistan are no less brave, and are surely better trained and equipped than we were over 40 years ago. But they are not permitted to fly into areas with risks while our wounded on the ground may turn into flag-draped coffins, and that is only part of the story.
A new report points the finger of blame at new Rules of Engagement (ROE) imposed by the Obama Administration in 2009, rules that were continually tightened as if they were “playground rules.” A soldier cannot fire on the enemy unless he sees a weapon. He cannot enter a dwelling even during combat, or return fire into a house or Mosque or school. Rules govern what can be searched, by whom, and at what times. The air support and artillery that are the lifeline of ground combat units are held in abeyance until cleared by multiple levels of review including lawyers. And so on. The enemy knows about ROE changes and uses that knowledge, sometimes even before the word spreads to our own troops.
Last year our enemy shot down a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, killing 30 Americans, including 17 members of SEAL Team 6. During that Tangi Valley operation, known enemy operatives were spotted but permission to shoot was denied. When the rocket-propelled grenade shot down the helicopter, An AH-64 Apache gunship pilot saw it happen but ROEs prevented him from firing into the building from which the RPG was fired. Just before that incident an AC-130 gunship spotted enemy operators with weapons and could have fired with no risk of collateral damage but permission to fire was denied.
Wayne Simmons, a
retired US intelligence officer who worked in Afghanistan at a high
level, says the ROE restraints have “. . . created a hesitation and
confusion for our war fighters.,” You don’t need combat experience to
know that could get Americans killed.
Former Army Captain William Swenson, Medal of Honor recipient, said he was nearly killed by the Army’s reluctance to use air support. Ryan Zinke, former commander of a SEAL Team 6 assault team, said we either need to fight or go home.
From January 2009, when ROEs were changed, to August 2010, casualties more than doubled. In 2010 casualties were three times the level in 2008 and five times the 2007 number. That this is happening while the rest of us ignore it should be a matter of national shame.
If I had my choice, my strong bias would be to keep our troops at home, withhold military force until an enemy crossed a clear line of American national security, then eliminate the threat quickly and decisively. To regain what Obama has wasted, our allies’ trust and fear in our enemies’ hearts, we should conduct our military actions in a way that makes the bad guys whisper to each other with trembling dread, “Whatever you do, don’t provoke the Americans!”
When we do send our troops into combat while you and I enjoy the comfort and safety of home, there are some things we owe them out of decency. We owe them and their mission our unbridled support and gratitude. We owe them the battlefield tactics that value their life as the highest priority, even over possible civilian collateral damage, and if we can’t accept that then we should pound our war hardware into plowshares. We owe them the commitment to conquer the enemy quickly rather than rules to attempt a gentle war in hopes of world approval. And finally, to avoid the risk of battlefield rules created by liberal weenies who might wet their pants at the sight of a gun, we owe it to our combat troops to let the armed forces create their own ROEs, since they know what the hell they are doing, with White House oversight.
Is it immoral for political staff at home, with no personal stake or consequences, to create ROEs that raise the likelihood of American dead and wounded? It is to me, and even though you and I can ignore it and enjoy life, we have a duty to speak up
I’m not referring to the top generals-turned-politician bucking for another star by their sudden yes-man enthusiasm for Obama’s trampling the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Frankly, my guess is George Washington never even suspected which of his troops was gay and that gay troops have been helping fight our wars all along. While keeping that part of their life under wraps was surely a personal burden for them, that secrecy helped avoid the inevitable turmoil of introducing the element of romance where it doesn’t belong, in places we require our troops to bet their lives on unit cohesiveness and effectiveness. The new and enlightened policy, wherein the Pentagon holds gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) celebrations, is bad enough, but I am thinking of other policy failures with mortal consequences.
I don’t mean the Obama Administration’s purge of too many generals who have insufficient sensitivity for sexual and gender issues, resist women in combat, have too much curiosity on Benghazi and not enough affection for liberal ideas. Beyond the issue of fairness to these men, we should worry about emasculation of the armed forces.
I’m not referring to the extraordinary burden heaped on our men and women in uniform by three, four or more combat tours while the rest of us sacrifice nothing, while the White House dreams up new ways to redistribute income with government giveaways to favored groups but nary a thought to special compensation to our troops whose families bear our country’s heaviest cost.
Obama’s public dithering over the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan is closer to my mark of despicable leadership, especially his public announcement to our enemies that we would begin our withdrawal in 18 months. If you doubt that was playing for his own political benefit, that he was appealing the right with his eventual surge announcement and to the left with his simultaneous withdrawal announcement, just ask any seventh grader whether winning a war involves disclosing to your enemy when you will quit. But then, Obama has never to my knowledge even whispered the word “victory.”
So, how are we betraying our troops as they fight our wars?
It began before Obama. By the time he took office it was already a slowly maturing process in which fighting for victory became passé, overshadowed by fighting for world opinion, using our military like an extension of the State Department. By committing to hostilities not directly linked to our true national security, and imposing rules that make combat success more difficult, we send home a higher number of wounded and flag-draped coffins for heart-breaking funerals.
Consider this. Mike King, Skip Ragan and I had dinner a few months ago with some younger combat helicopter pilots, and discovered two astonishing things. First, the Blackhawk helicopter now has a “hover button” that engages an auto-pilot to keep the aircraft stationary, for example at a high hover for a hoist Dustoff (medevac) mission over dense jungle. That is huge, since hovering a helicopter is tedious, like keeping a uni-cycle upright within a circle no larger than a dinner plate. As young men, we never dreamed automatic hover would be possible.
The second astonishing thing was a pair of Dustoff pilots, each with three Afghanistan tours, who had never taken a ground fire hit. They explained the risk assessment involved with each mission that prevented them from flying into an area that was still hot.
I can’t help but think about Wayne Franz, who was trained as a medic and will never forget his first mission in Vietnam. He said he was assigned to a helicopter with no break-in training, very jittery as they took off to pick up wounded. When they touched down in the landing zone, Wayne said grunts urgently loaded wounded on the aircraft with IVs already started and blood splashing all over the place, and just as he started hoping none of them would die before they reached the hospital pad, the aircraft took off while he held on. He sorted out which IV ran to which patient and wondered what he could do on the short flight that might keep each man alive, but they soon touched down, the hospital crew rushed the patients to triage, leaving Wayne in a blood-covered daze standing by the helicopter wondering what the hell just happened when the pilot stepped out and said to him, “Wow, that was a close one!” Wayne asked him what he meant, and the pilot pointed to a few bullet holes from the ground fire they took on the way in or out of the LZ.
Wayne thought, “Holy crap! How am I going to survive a year of this?” But he did, and I wonder how many are alive today because he was there for them.
I can tell you there are countless men alive today who long to identify and shake the hand of the Dustoff crew that flew them out of Vietnam’s hot LZs. I am one of them. Here in Peachtree City, Alan Walsh and Terry Hoffman are two of many Dustoff pilots who risked their neck hundreds of times to pick up wounded and saved countless lives. Combat deaths in Vietnam were roughly the same ratio as in WWII, but Vietnam resulted in three times as many severely wounded. The difference was Dustoff. Our grunts knew if they got hit in the filth of the jungle, in an hour they would be with doctors and operating rooms. Many badly wounded survived when they would have died in WWII without the benefit of Dustoff.
I am certain that today’s Dustoff pilots in Afghanistan are no less brave, and are surely better trained and equipped than we were over 40 years ago. But they are not permitted to fly into areas with risks while our wounded on the ground may turn into flag-draped coffins, and that is only part of the story.
A new report points the finger of blame at new Rules of Engagement (ROE) imposed by the Obama Administration in 2009, rules that were continually tightened as if they were “playground rules.” A soldier cannot fire on the enemy unless he sees a weapon. He cannot enter a dwelling even during combat, or return fire into a house or Mosque or school. Rules govern what can be searched, by whom, and at what times. The air support and artillery that are the lifeline of ground combat units are held in abeyance until cleared by multiple levels of review including lawyers. And so on. The enemy knows about ROE changes and uses that knowledge, sometimes even before the word spreads to our own troops.
Last year our enemy shot down a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, killing 30 Americans, including 17 members of SEAL Team 6. During that Tangi Valley operation, known enemy operatives were spotted but permission to shoot was denied. When the rocket-propelled grenade shot down the helicopter, An AH-64 Apache gunship pilot saw it happen but ROEs prevented him from firing into the building from which the RPG was fired. Just before that incident an AC-130 gunship spotted enemy operators with weapons and could have fired with no risk of collateral damage but permission to fire was denied.
Former Army Captain William Swenson, Medal of Honor recipient, said he was nearly killed by the Army’s reluctance to use air support. Ryan Zinke, former commander of a SEAL Team 6 assault team, said we either need to fight or go home.
From January 2009, when ROEs were changed, to August 2010, casualties more than doubled. In 2010 casualties were three times the level in 2008 and five times the 2007 number. That this is happening while the rest of us ignore it should be a matter of national shame.
If I had my choice, my strong bias would be to keep our troops at home, withhold military force until an enemy crossed a clear line of American national security, then eliminate the threat quickly and decisively. To regain what Obama has wasted, our allies’ trust and fear in our enemies’ hearts, we should conduct our military actions in a way that makes the bad guys whisper to each other with trembling dread, “Whatever you do, don’t provoke the Americans!”
When we do send our troops into combat while you and I enjoy the comfort and safety of home, there are some things we owe them out of decency. We owe them and their mission our unbridled support and gratitude. We owe them the battlefield tactics that value their life as the highest priority, even over possible civilian collateral damage, and if we can’t accept that then we should pound our war hardware into plowshares. We owe them the commitment to conquer the enemy quickly rather than rules to attempt a gentle war in hopes of world approval. And finally, to avoid the risk of battlefield rules created by liberal weenies who might wet their pants at the sight of a gun, we owe it to our combat troops to let the armed forces create their own ROEs, since they know what the hell they are doing, with White House oversight.
Is it immoral for political staff at home, with no personal stake or consequences, to create ROEs that raise the likelihood of American dead and wounded? It is to me, and even though you and I can ignore it and enjoy life, we have a duty to speak up
Sunday, September 1, 2013
The truth through the generations....of freeloaders
I am visiting my brother down here in L.A. or Lower Alabama and I recently upgraded my phone and I saw a cartoon that I had forgotten that I had on the SD card from my "old" phone. I remember seeing this cartoon in some stuff that my Dad had given me. He as well as I do think disparagingly of "hippies". I consider them freeloaders back when I first remembered seeing them in the early 70's.
I had taken a picture of it so I could upload it and I guess I promptly forgot about it. I see a lot of parallels from the hippie movement of yesteryear to the present "occupy movement" and the other liberal/progressive/democratic followers.
They think liberalism is fine as long as they have access to other peoples money. With the debt that is being racked up I don't think that the spigot will stay open much longer. Now we have President hope and change trying to push us into a war in Syria. I have heard the same bleat..."Well Bush did that?" Actually no...President Bush went through congress and bothflipper John Kerry and Thunder Rodent Thighs Hillery Clinton voted for it before deciding to go against it. Now we have the British saying "no" and they would in the past back anything we did, but I guess that being repeatedly insulted and snubbed by the affirmative action Nobel Peace prize President kinda got old.
I had taken a picture of it so I could upload it and I guess I promptly forgot about it. I see a lot of parallels from the hippie movement of yesteryear to the present "occupy movement" and the other liberal/progressive/democratic followers.
They think liberalism is fine as long as they have access to other peoples money. With the debt that is being racked up I don't think that the spigot will stay open much longer. Now we have President hope and change trying to push us into a war in Syria. I have heard the same bleat..."Well Bush did that?" Actually no...President Bush went through congress and both
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Executive Order fail....
I got this from JPFO. It is well researched and doesn't bode well for Obama's Junta and the ever popular call for gun control that seems to echo out of the halls of Federal Government. You notice that they want US we the people to disarm but they can keep their bodyguards and special security arrangements whereas US the people are defenceless. That is the dream of the average liberal. Gun control is never about stopping the violence caused by people that can't own guns anyway, but disarming the average law-abiding citizen. Without guns that we would use to defend us and our family, we would have to depend on the government to defend us and in return for the government to defend us, we would have to surrender more of our freedoms "in our best interest"
If
you recall, back on January 16, 2013, standing with little children,
Barack Hussein Obama tried to pull a fast one on the American people and
issued 23 executive orders pertaining to gun control. Among those was number 14: Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence. Well friends, that study did happen and it destroyed Obama's position on guns and gun violence.
Actually,
that's exactly what it did. In fact, not only did they not hold any
water for Obama's claims regarding gun violence, it poured it on him,
pretty much backing every Second Amendment lover's argument that has
been made.
While
everyone recognizes that there will always be crime and violence and
yes, even gun violence, the fact of the matter is that gun control is
not the answer, except to make sure you control your own gun and hit
your target. For sure there will be more data added as the study
continues, but already what they do have from the past indicates
something that is completely opposite from what this administration has
presented and there is no doubt that any information that comes out of
the study will be thoroughly scrutinized.
Anyone
wondering why Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein aren't
running to the state run media to air out this little report? It's
because they have egg on their face.
Article Source
Well like all things in government, the
people tasked with the study simply directed the study to the Institute
of Medicine and National Research Council. However, many people have not
heard about the report. Could it be that much of the information in the
report didn't quite "jive" with Obama and the anti-gun crowd?
The report, titled Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence, which identifies the particular topics of gun violence to be researched over the next few years, made the point that the majority of deaths that take place annually by the use of a firearm are not related to crime, but to suicide.
"Between the years 2000-2010 firearm-related
suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups,
annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who
died from firearms related violence in the United States," reads the
study.
That's obviously not a good thing. However,
it indicates that many Americans suffer from both a spiritual and mental
health issue. With that said, let's not then run to government to deal
with mental health issues. I've warned before and I'll warn you now:
That would be a very bad move.
Here's the great
news in the report though. It points out that virtually every study
which "assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns" discovered
the same thing. Those using their guns for self-defense "consistently
lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims
who used other self-protective strategies."
Oh and remember how we've been told by the
Obama administration and the socialist gun grabbers that guns aren't
used that often in self-defense? Well, the report shows that isn't true
either.
"Defensive uses of
guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number
remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a)," the study
reads. "Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun
uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals,
with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3
million per year (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent
crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010)."
Yeah, not as uncommon as the propagandists would have us believe.
In all fairness, the report does point out
that "some scholars point to radically lower estimate of only 108,000
annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey
(Cook et al., 1997)."
July 2013
While the report does maintain that this will
always be a controversy in the field, the study does state that "the
estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an
extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19
national surveys," while the "estimate of 108,000 is difficult to
interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about
defensive gun use."
"A different issue is whether defensive uses
of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in
preventing injury to the gun-wielding crime victim," reads the report.
The report does have a downside. It indicates
that we have the most firearm related deaths of any western nation.
However, the good news is that the study claims that is rapidly
declining.
"Overall crime rates
have declined in the past decade, and violent crimes, including
homicides specifically, have declined in the past 5 years." However,
"Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of firearm-related violent
victimizations remained generally stable."
Additionally, the report goes on to inform about other declines. "Firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009," the report continues, adding that accidental shootings were declining as well.
Additionally, the report goes on to inform about other declines. "Firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009," the report continues, adding that accidental shootings were declining as well.
The report also states that "Unintentional
firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century.
The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents
accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in
2010."
The report also referenced video game
violence to see how it might contribute to gun violence, but said that
more research would need to be done and no research to the present has
been conclusive.
One last question that is on my mind is, how much did will this study end up costing the American taxpayer?
I added this in the end of the article, I ran across this picture and got a chuckle out of it and realized that there was a lot of truth to it.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Friday, September 7, 2012
MIndset of the angry liberal
I ran across this surfing around the web. Very interesting perspective.....
I kinda want her to go back to Africa........see what it is like there...it isn't the paradise that she makes it out to be.
Friday, June 29, 2012
President Reagan owns a heckler
I just got back into town after being gone for 3 days. I figured I would post something light until I get my email caught up and some great pics I have taken uploaded for a post I will do.
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