Sen. Barack Obama

Ok, Barack Obama. You know, the Barack Obama that's running for President? The Barack Obama that's currently the front runner nominee for the Democratic Party. Yeah, that Barack Obama.

I know it's been a really long time since I've last posted. Honestly, I wasn't planning on ever posting here again till my next tour of Iraq but I've been made aware of something that's very disturbing.

Sen. Barack Obama, hates America.

Oh no, I don't mean in the way those other liberals do. You know, There's a tornado..."it's America's fault.", there's an assassination, "it's America's fault", your dog just died..."it's America's fault". I'm not talking about that...those people don't really 'hate' their own nation. Most of those people probably love America they just think unless they are the one's in charge (or by extension, their people) then we're evil. Once they or their people are in charge...we'll be the shining light we always were.

But not Sen. Barack Obama. This guy really does despise America.

Let's start out slow.

The US flag lapel pin. No, Sen. Barack Obama does not wear one. He says it's because he wants to show his patriotism with his ideas (notice not actions) instead of a silly pin. Which, by itself, is all good with me. I understand his reasoning and it makes sense, in a twisted, doesn't understand what wearing such a pin means, sort of way.

Notice how the wonderfully, not really biased towards the left, media writes about it.

Next, lets examine his show of patriotism during one of our nations rituals. The singing of the national anthem.

I guess the National Anthem isn't good enough to show Patriotism either. I mean, he's only running for President of the nation whose flag he won't wear and whose Anthem he won't salute.

Now let's examine this guy's history.

He starts off in true American fashion. Born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and an American mother from Kansas whose father worked on Oil rigs during the depression. All of the America haters and 'blame' America crowd would normally ignore such a beginning because according to them, we all know that a mixed marriage would ever result in a Harvard grad who is running for President...but I digress.

His Parents divorced(or split up) and soon his mother meets up with an Indonesian and at the age of about six, Barack Obama moves to Jakarta.

During that time he supposedly goes to a Wahabi Madrassa (which is School in Arabic). Now we're getting into the stuff that's iffy on facts. According to Snopes that's false, and while Snopes is sometimes wrong, I'm going to have to agree that he didn't go to a Wahabi school. But let's look at Jakarta for a minute.

Jakarta is a city of over 8 million, 86% of which is Muslim, 99% of which is Sunni Muslim. Did Sen. Obama likely meet and befriend radical Muslims? Most likely. Just this alone doesn't mean much to me. You can get along with someone without agreeing with their views, I used to do it everyday growing up in Rhode Island.

Now, according to the man himself, he was an Atheist when he began to attend college but later found God. Which is swell, it happens all the time. But what Church does he belong too?

Trinity United Church of Christ

You can read the original in that link, but I'm going to change the words a bit for you.(changed words in bold)
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We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are a European people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community.

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Now, we have a problem as a whole in our nation. A problem of double standards and racism. You see it every day, but it isn't as the media makes it look. The comedian makes fun of whites...laughter ensues! Comedian makes fun of Blacks...lawsuits and a ruined career follows. If the above paragraph belonged to a real white church and not a black church as it truly does, and Barack Obama was white...you think he'd be running neck and neck with Clinton for the nomination?

No, I don't think so either.

So let's examine what we have so far.

No lapel pin....CHECK
No hand over heart during National Anthem...CHECK
Belongs to a Racist Church...CHECK

I'm not going to bring up the other subject I wrote about because that's doesn't really mean much in my eyes. Growing up in another nation and meeting people from around the world is a good thing in my opinion. The problem is, is that it's coupled with others...it has to make you wonder.

I think electing this man is a huge risk, a risk based his actions and his rhetoric. A risk based on his background and the way he tries to hide it. (I mean, why else would he tell people that Barack means 'Blessed' in African instead of the language where it really means 'Blessed', which is Arabic).

He could be completely honest...I don't know...but what we're talking about here is someone seeking the highest office of our nation, and I'm not willing to stand by silently.

A few things before I end this post. Don't lie about him. All it does is make the truth weaker. Meaning, if you lie and tell people he swore in on a Koran (which he did not) or that he went to a Wahabi school (which he did not)...and they know or find out that it's a lie. Then they won't believe that his Church is racist, or that he doesn't love our nation enough to wear a simple pin or to hold his hand over his heart during the Anthem.

Hey.

Hi Bonzo.

Alito and Campaign Finance.

I've had a chance to watch a lot of the Alito hearings. I think the guy is some sort of computer/human hybrid....I mean, how the hell does this guy remember all those cases? Some Senator asks about some obscure case from WW2 and the guy just answers the question. I guess it's like me and history. Maybe we all have an area we love and we're able to memorize many details. I don't know, the guy is definitely a genius.

I've had some conversations with people about the term limit thingy, and one really smart liberal I know said she believes that it would dissuade people from going into politics...that the best and brightest wouldn't be the ones running from office. She also said that since it takes a lot of money to run for office then only the people who can afford to spend that money on a short term deal would be able to do it.

I don't know, when I watch Boxer or Kennedy asking questions they don't really seem to be the most intelligent to begin with...or even close to our 'best and brightest'. And I only see rich people running for office now as well.

I think to remove money as an issue maybe there should be a limit on how much can be spent on campaigns...though I don't think that's the answer because Soros will still be funding Moveon and they'll still have other organizations spending money on getting people elected with out the candidate ever touching that money.

It's an awfully tough question.

So...I haven't been writing much.

First, thanks for the Merry Christmases and Happy New Yearses.

Next, I'm going to write what's been on my mind lately.

1) After this Abramoff thing, I think the only way to stop this BS is to amend the Constitution and put in some term limits. A few Congresspeople have promised this type of thing but once they're elected I think they like the power so much that they never follow through.

I'd say it should be between 12 to 20 years in Congress. So if it's 18 years then they person could do 2 terms as Senator and then 3 terms as a Representative. The closer to 12 the happier I'd be though.

2) We're kicking ass in Iraq. In less than 11 months, it went from only 70ish% of the country taking part in elections with full Coalition security to 100% of Iraq voting with pure Iraqi security.

The Sunni's are telling Al Qaeda to go screw themselves and are forming a coalition with the Kurds and secular Shia.

If those two things aren't a slap in the face to all the, 'We can't win' crowd, I don't know what is.

3) They're moving me from Ft. Drum...and that stinks for me and my family.

4) I have the feeling that if the President nominated Michael Moore to the Supreme Court, the left would still threaten to filibuster.

5) Oh yeah, Filibusters are still unconstitutional in my book. The practice doesn't allow our elected officials to vote without their being a 2/3s majority and the Constitution already lays out what types of issues require a supernumerary...laws and advising and consenting to nominations aren't the reasons.

6) I need to do more physical training, I've really haven't done any in a long time and I'm getting fat.

Alright, that's it. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up. A lot of stuff is going on so I'll have enough to say...it's just spending the time to put it down that's stopping me.

What does google think about Bush lying?

A friend from New Orleans.

An internet buddy of mine that I know from gaming (Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft...yes, I'm a geek.), posted this on a board for his gaming friends to read. I haven't asked his permission to post this, nor the editing(It's going to be edited for spelling, grammar and some bad words). I'm going to keep him anonymous for now.

What it is though, is a first hand account of the type of things that were going on in New Orleans after the Hurricane and the levee broke. It is an eyewitness account, though he does throw in a few opinions here and there. I hope it enlightens.

Lets just say that the storm was impressive and I hope I never see its like again.

Ya ya, I was nuts for being there but being in the National Guard and a full time federal employee its sort of my job to be there. The damage just from the winds were extensive and there are simply places that are no longer there. The water damage from the hurricane itself was negligible for the New Orleans area. The water damage from the hurricane for the west bank areas such as Gretna and all over St. Bernard parish especially Chalmette was extensive.
( water went over the levies in these areas). Parts of Slidell are simply not there as are many parts of SE Louisiana and gulfport )

Well how do I start? I was on telephone standby for the hurricane since I'm guard. About 4 am Monday morning the power went off, so I went back to bed woke up at 7 AM opened my sliding doors and watched the hurricane. The winds were beating the apartment behind me so all I got through my doors was a cool breeze and a hell of a show. At 1030 once the hurricane had lessened a small amount I geared up and went to see if I could help people. You would be amazed at how many fools are walking around in a hurricane when they shouldn't be, once again though its sort of my job.

At about 1 pm I found a Jefferson Parish sheriff and started helping JP. Oh yeah, my phone died so I had no way of reaching out to contact my unit so I did the beat with what I could.
The two of us helped people as we could but it wasn't too bad. As I said the storm didn't kill New Orleans it survived Katrina in good part.

Around 3 or pm (I cant remember) we came upon a few New Orleans Police officers. So since they needed more help, I went with them deeper into the city. All was calm all was great into Tuesday morning. Everything was getting back to normal until the levee broke late morning.
The storm didn't kill New Orleans but she weakened her defenses enough for the Mississippi and the Ponchatran to get there just dues on us.

Tuesday evening all hell broke loose, the water rose and a lot of people lost there lives because it rose quickly. NOPD and JP were not prepared for what happened next but JP did adapt fast and took control of the situation. NOPD became locked in a war with no means of communication with one another.

ALL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION WERE F'D UP!

No phones, No cellphones, the repeater for the walkie talkies was borked. Then it happened New Orleans has about three major Gangs each of which vie for control of the drugs in the city. This explains the huge murder rate in NO. They wanted to defend the turf and the drug stashes even if most of it was not lakefront property. So they came in number and the war began.

1st district was locked in a siege at there own building and they ran out of ammo which had to be brought to them by helicopter. 6th district took control of several key locations such as Harraih's Casino and endured a siege there. JP sheriffs office in the Oak Villa mall was over run and burned to the ground which also was burned the entire mall to the ground.

* They now had assault weapons *

When I speak of they I'm not referring to people, the things these animals did I don't even want to repeat. But they did not act as humans, they acted with no remorse, and no respect for life.
Murder, Rape, assault they did not care about age or gender. Children died, elderly died, and the things they did to the women both young 9-15 and old 50-70+ was unspeakable.

Of what Happened in the superdome and the Convention center I will not tell because if you have a heart you don't want to know because you would just cry.

But on the streets where I was it was a war. They attacked and we fought back as best we could. Most of us, including myself, had nothing but personal sidearms. I had my Sig 9mm. 98% of the LANG was not issued a weapon. We simply did not expect such an outcome to happen.

By Wednesday night 50% of the NOPD had quit. The guy I was with had a nervous breakdown the last time we came under fire, leaving me to be the only shooter. After it was over I got him out of there he was stable enough to drive so I told him to drive us out of the city. He dropped me about 3 miles away from my house.

The things I saw from Tuesday morning to Wednesday night were just astounding. Lots of floaters were around and I'm having a ton of nightmares about zombies now but I can accept that. One neat thing I saw a a 5 foot bullshark swimming on Bourbon street.

Of NOPD the 50% who stayed got rotated a bit at a time for 2 days off. Most didn't come back.
NO is a dead city with about25-30% of its police force left.

Thursday until now I was on helicopter ops. I got some sleep and cleaned my gun some Wednesday night and found a JP officer who told me LANG and FEMA was at Zepher field.
When I got there I found my unit, thank God.

The Helicopter ops was awe inspiring in 4 days we pushed more helicopter sorties then they had performed in iraq in the past 3 months. I believe it was something like 51 million cases of MRE's and 50 million cases of water dropped off to those who needed and over 3k saved( close to 4k), I think I remember hearing last.

The death toll though is catastrophic.

FEMA is worthless, by the way. The organization did nothing but drag its feet and fight us whenever we tried to get an operation running. To those who say the military shouldn't have been involved, F off. It's my city and it's my state. Those are my people who needed help. I'm with the National Guard and you can come to me personally if you want to spout such crap, but you wont like the result.

Gov Blanco was worthless. She fell apart and didn't ask for federal aid until it was to late. FEMA wouldn't do anything until it was to late and we simply couldn't get into the city to give out food and water until we won that war.

But I'm safe, and wanted you to know what happened from first hand rather then listening to that liberal damn media which wont tell you the real story.

I had no idea that there was that much shooting going on. I'm glad there were people there like him, or it could have been a lot worse.

You need to read this.

This has to be the most well written blog article that I've ever read.

It's like this guy is in my head but is so much more competent a writer than I'll ever be. Please, what ever you do, read it.