Freedom comes in bright colors

Purple fingers and orange scarves & ties: ain’t democracy great! (well, as a fashion statement, perhaps a bit loud)

Great symbols for the new century, gained by the bravery and honor of the few for the many.

One day, probably many days, Ukraine and Iraq will oppose us now and then like Germany, France, Japan, South Korea and other representative governments. And that is just fine.

No Senator, I don't need anything. Thank you for visiting.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a hand is just a hand. Sometimes things are photoshopped, sometimes things are not.

Oftentimes, the expressions on Soldier's faces say it all. More often than not, in a situation where you are forced to act under coercion it helps to remember hand signals.



Specialist Lacourse, I like your style. Remind me not to piss you off.

Hat tip to Backfive.

Generation "X" and "Y" go to war-The Movie

Gunner Palace is the name of the movie (documentary really, no actors-The Reality Show). Don't know the spin, if any, but the trailers look like what you would get if you had a camera follow you around for a year of combat.



Having not seen the movie, I get the feeling that it will bring home the truth that the folks in body armor, aircraft, ships, and at the front gate of your neighborhood military base are the kids your children grew up with, the high school party kids you yelled at last year, or the friend from your youth you have not seen in 20yrs.

I hope this brings honor to the soldiers, it looks like it will. Remember the Soldiers on the cover of Time last year as the "Persons of the Year" or such? Well, this is (by chance) their unit, the 2/3 FA, an artillery unit from Germany. Looks like they did a quick infantry upgrade.

It has been a concern of mine for awhile that Hollywierd has not made any effort to tell the story of this Global War. From early on there have been many opportunities, heck the cavalry charge in the start of the Afghanistan operation would make a great movie. But I think we all know why; Hollywierd does not like putting a good light on the military. Our hope is for Indy films like this. Again, I am assuming this brings honor and isn't a Michael Moore like creative edit. Heck, if someone followed my life through the Brit Club in Diego Garcia, liberty in Souda Bay and Palma, it wouldn't look pretty.

BTW, they are making a movie of the FAILED (why not the follow up victory) seige and storming of Falluja with, wait for it, wait for it, Harrison Ford playing Major General Mattis.



BAAAAWAAAHHAAAHAHAAA!!! I know the good General and have had the honor of serving with him during OEF-A, and Mr. Ford, you ain't it. You are too tall, too pretty, too smooth, and your balls are WAY too small. I don't think there is a Hollywierd actor that is fit to carry General Mattis's laundry bag. What a hoot. On a serious note, if you look at the politics and past of the owners of the movie and its major players, don't hold your breath that this will bring glory to the USA. I'm not.

Anyway, check out Gunner Palace and watch the trailers.


Hat tip: COUNTERCOLUMN.

Quick, show your young children Europe-while you still can

Building on posts here, Pavel Kohout of the Center for Economics and Politics (CEP), Prague, writes at TechCentralStation in his article "Where Have All the Children Gone?" and knocks it out of the ballpark on the historical, political, economic, cultural and security implications of the cultural suicide going on in Europe.

Read it all, but this will give you a taste,

The international demographic context will see huge changes: in 2050, Yemen will have more population than, for example, Germany. These people will quite understandably long for the standard of living that currently prevails in Europe. The immigration pressure on Europe will be immense. Given the European liberal laws on family reunification, the exodus from Middle East and North Africa will have enormous dimensions.

Instead of integration of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa into a majority European society, the opposite will occur: the immigrants will integrate the existing European culture into their own civilization. After some time, it will be their civilization that will become dominant. One does not have to be a supporter of Jean-Marie Le Pen to feel a little anxious about that. It is not a problem of ethnics and their mingling. It is a matter of society, its values, and democracy as such. European tolerance competes with Islam, which is not always a religion of peace, as many Europeans would like to believe. Radical Islamic preachers openly condemn democracy. They interpret it not as a social system but as a pagan cult, which prefers the voices of people to the voice of God. This and other theories of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and his conservative fellow-believers are proclaimed in many mosques throughout Europe.

If you don't have a firm grasp why Europe is a "dead man walking," this will show you in one of the most brief, direct, and effective ways why.

If you don't think demographics show your destiny, talk to an American Indian.

UPDATE: Everyone should visit Rusty more often, he has a great round-up on World Peace and other items that are a must read. He pointed the way towards another case of the growing Islamofascist elements in Europe. Oh, want to peak a bit at your future if we don't destroy the cancer of retrograde, Medieval, fundamentalist Islamofascism? Check this out. (No, keep the hate mail to yourself. Islamofascist have about as much to do with American Muslims and other mainstream Muslims as the Branch Davidians or the Christian Identity Movement has to do with Christianity). Coming to a neighborhood near you. Then again.....it is! You know it is bad when Frontline is on the case. DutchReport has a nice overview of Dhimmitude in the Dutch classroom. Yes, my little wooden shoed brothers, let the mad Morroccan youth attack your teacher and do nothing. Your sister is next. If Anne at PalmTree Pundit was Dutch she would say, "Dit is waarom ik onderricht mijn kinderen thuis."
Deacon at Powerlineblog takes on the issue from a socio-economic perspective here and addresses the pathetic Dhimmitude in the post-Van Gogh slaughter here. Not good news.

Winston, you are missed

Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill. A great man at the right time. It would be difficult to make up a bio this good.

There are many ways to show affection for this true Anglo-American (Father Brit - American Mother), the U.S. Navy named a Destroyer after him, USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).


..... but I like to remember him thus: "The Tipsy Tory with Gun and Cigar"



Hat Tip Jonah Goldberg at The Corner and An Englishman's Castle.

Too bad the Army got hold of you first…..

What is an Army guy doing in a quasi-Navy focused blog……well….because, as Klye would say, that kicks ass.

1Lt. Prakash just about fills the bill on the Phibian's cool things about America's military that drives the Moonbat Left nuts:
1. He comes from a well to do (everyone but him is a MD) family.
2. He is highly educated (went to Johns Hopkins University).
3. He isn't a Southerner (raised in Syracuse) - NB: No one is perfect, wish he grew up in Charleston, but being a Southerner I will say that any family worth a salt would be happy to have him as a son-in-law, take duck hunting, and share a pecan pie with.
4. He loves his country.
5. He is an immigrant (born in India).
6. He chose to do this.
7. He has no problem smiling after killing a metri-butt-ton of the enemy.

8. He is a blogger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A hearty "Bravo Zulu" from the Phibian. Now, everyone read the story about his Silver Star, go visit 1Lt. Prakash's blog Armor Geddon, and thank the Lord we have such men as these.

I just wish he wanted to be a S.E.A.L., but they don't have cool hats and spurs......except on liberty.

The Fascists of Higher “Education”

Often it bears repeating that Fascism, irrespective of what one may learn at “school”, is not a creature of the Right. Fascism, especially Nazism, is a creature of the Left.

National Socialism….. mmmm …. Lets see … Socialism is of the Left, you think?

I digress. With as little comment as possible, this picture tells the story well by itself. It just builds on the themes I have talked about before here and here.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Do any of these Brownshirts know what it takes to be a Sgt. 1st Class? Do they have a concept of the freedom, wealth, and safety we enjoy in this country that is so rare in the world; that is guaranteed by the likes of Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due?
Note the faces, note the violence, smell the ignorance. I can hear The PalmTree Pundit now,

"Why I Homeschool: Reason #2510"

UPDATE: The Mudville Gazette has a better take on these asshats. I shouldn't have given them the pleasure of making me mad. To think I let them live rent free in my head ... but then again, they are probably all living rent free at home - no change for them.