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A rare exception to my blogg'n Sabbath - but this is too good to pass up. The power, and joy of the Internet exemplified.
Remember the Democrat, yawn, "debate" the other day where the Wolf was a lamb? Well, it seems that the "CNN is scared of the big bad witch ... " is the least of their problems. Get the details from Jawa, and Allah - but the best summary is at Doug Ross' place;
CNN presented questions from six "undecided voters" during the debate - you know, regular Joes and Janes off the street. Who were they?
Plant #1: LaShannon Spencer, whom Blitzer introduced as an "undecided voter", was tagged by Dan Riehl: in truth, she served as the political director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas.
Plant #2: Khalid Kahn, who expressed concern about profiling and the Patriot Act, asked "[m]y question is that -- our civil liberties have been taken away from us. What are you going to do to protect Americans from this kind of harassment?" Classical Values notes that Mr. Kahn is the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, who has hosted conferences like this one (with guest speakers like Muzzamil Siddiqi). In fact, Kahn in no stranger to CNN, appearing on a show called Keeping the Faith in Sin City.
Plant #3: Suzanne Jackson -- mother of a three-term Iraq war veteran -- is aso a well-known antiwar activist. She appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal protesting -- with a poor monkey, no less -- outside of Harry Reid's office in May. ... She's active on the site of Soros front group Americans United for Change and hangs out at Dem site Think Progress. She also had a harsh antiwar letter published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Plant #4: Maria Luisa -- the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" -- wrote that CNN forced her to ask the "frilly" question instead of a pre-approved query regarding the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility.
(Plant #5:) ... the "50-ish lady who 'asked" her memorized question was a union offical. Gee, lucky she got in!" Judy Bagley, a 27-year cashier at Fitzgerald's was quoted in RGT Online (a gaming magazine) in an article about Culinary Workers Union Local 226's collective bargaining agreement. ... Judy Bagley was definitely a fifth plant. An anonymous email alerts me to this portion of the debate transcript:
Obama: Well, first of all, Judy, thank you for the question, and thanks for the great work you do on behalf of the culinary workers, a great union here.
(Planet #6:) ... George Ambriz is an Executive Director of the ¡Sí Se Puede! Foundation and is a recruiter at UNLV. His bio states:
George joins our team from Douglas, Arizona, having earned his associate’s degree in administration of justice from Cochise College in 2000. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in political science and criminal justice from Western New Mexico University. He is currently completing a master’s degree in ethics and policy studies at UNLV. He plans to pursue doctorate and law degrees, practice corporate law, and become active in politics.
Care to guess which party's politics George is active in?
Ambriz was just before my time at WNMU, but I later met him in Las Vegas at a model United Nations conference. Like me, Ambriz was heavily involved in student government and other clubs while at WNMU — he served as president of MEChA...
What ic MEChA? According to this website, "The official national symbol of MEChA is an eagle holding a machete-like weapon and a stick of dynamite... The acronym MEChA stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan... [it] is an Hispanic separatist organization that encourages anti-American activities and civil disobedience... [they] romanticize Mexican claims to the "lost Territories" of the Southwestern United States -- a Chicano country called Aztlan. In its national constitution, MEChA calls for self-determination by its members to liberate Aztlan."
Do we really want the Clinton-MSM axis to run the country again? Also, imagine what would happen if Fox did something like this at a Republican debate?
I will give CNN one last out here - this was a Democrat debate. Neo-Marxist, Racist Revolutionaries, Illegal Aliens, Anti-war Moonbats, Union Bureaucrats, and Islamist Apologists; heck I guess that is the Democrat base. I am sure this cold just be a random sample. I am sure that the Wolf was as nice to Clinton as she would be to Romney or Rudy. I am sure.
Liked the idea when I saw it last year - looks like Israel does too.
The US Navy has recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.3 m contract to work on the Israeli Navy's Littoral Combat Ship known as LCS-I.
Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will work with the US and Israeli navies to develop a technical specification and acquisition cost package for the LCS-I combat system, CNN reported.
Lockheed Martin would examine the combat system performance of LCS-I using two different radar options: the advanced radar under development by Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Lockheed Martin's SPY-1F radar.
The MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS), Typhoon gun and Barak missile are among other weapons the team has planned to install on the combat ship.
Maybe they will do the right thing and call it a Corvette. If nothing else, you have to give LMT some credit for a sense of humor. How do you like the LCS-I patch?
Speaking of USNI, I am not going to rant about the post-Rainbow editor or some of the directions the magazine has taken - no, I am going to be selfish. I have been thinking of another project that I don't have time for, to be specific - a fully working RC model (real cannons et al) of the CSS Virginia to scale, made from scratch by me. Hard to find the right plans, anywhere outside Richmond it seems.
Anyway, dig around until I found a recommendation for a book published by USNI, Ironclad Down: USS Merrimack-CSS Virginia from Design to Destruction. USNI member price, $31.50. Amazon.com price, $29.70.
The city that's home to Harvard and MIT solidified its nickname as "The People's Republic of Cambridge" when it put a stop to a Boy Scout troop's Election Day drive to collect care packages for American soldiers in Iraq, claiming it was "political."
“We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy,” Scout Patrick O’Connor told the Boston Herald.
The big-hearted Scouts from Cambridge Troop 45 had placed donation boxes at the city's 33 polling stations in hopes of collecting toiletries, magazines, candy and other items after one of O'Connor's relatives was injured in an IED explosion while serving in Iraq.
But someone complained to the city, allegedly claiming the boxes were a “political statement,” and the boxes were removed.
A good video report here. The USNI did a nice bit on the Marines at Harvard. I know the active duty folks have to steer clear - but I would be interested in what Nathaniel Fick has to say. I know he has time to get involved in macro issues (he played around with Wesley Clark's Lefty VoteVets, one time a member of the Board of Advisers. Just to give you are reference point - along with such pro-victory types as Lawrence Korb, Bob Batiste - pushing types such as retired Rear Admiral Joe Sestak (D-PA).)
This is in his backyard. He is one of the higher profile veterans of the Long War (it has too many names now - I am reverting to the most accurate description.) One would think he might have a comment. He may. I have not seen it - but he may. BTW, I don't have a beef on Nathaniel Fick - I actually promoted him when I was in a position to do so a few years ago right when his book came out (did it here too).
I am sure you will have a welcome committee at the border, airport, or wherever you show up. That our you could be a, ahem, man and turn yourself in.
Two Americans who deserted the U.S. Army to protest against the war in Iraq lost their bid for refugee status in Canada on Thursday, and the Canadian government made it clear they were no longer welcome.
The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear appeals from the two men, Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, over decisions by immigration authorities -- backed in two subsequent court rulings -- that they were not refugees in need of protection.
Opposing the war on the belief that it was illegal and immoral, the two deserted when they learned their units would be deployed to Iraq, and came to Canada.
If deported to the United States, they say they face a court martial and up to five years in prison.
Sure, you may be able to draw it out in the Canadian legal system or wait for President Hillary Clinton to pardon you - but that is OK. Keep waiting. Some families will always wait - some perhaps for a son or daughter that had to take your place.
Sink the Tirpitz!!No way for such a ship to go - but you have to do what you have to do. A good cautionary story that if you focus on having a few expensive top notch ships - the opportunity costs of those ships may cost you your ability to attack the enemy's Strategic Center of Gravity, or Operational CoG at sea. Imagine how many Type VII or Type IX U-boats that could have been made for the effort that went into the Tirpitz.
Plant #3: Suzanne Jackson -- mother of a three-term Iraq war veteran -- is aso a well-known antiwar activist. She appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal protesting -- with a poor monkey, no less -- outside of Harry Reid's office in May. ... She's active on the site of Soros front group Americans United for Change and hangs out at Dem site Think Progress. She also had a harsh antiwar letter published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
