Heading Home…

Been in Iraq for the last eight months and my tour is coming to a close.  In a few days, I’ll be hopping on that outbound helo for Kuwait.  Not sure when the next post will be as I’ll most likely be trying to catch up on some sorely needed family time.

Until then!

Filed under: Thoughts

Obama commits more troops to War on Fox News, still awaiting Afghan troop surge. People’s Cube

THE WHITE HOUSE – Despite the President’s promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama’s War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. 

Ha, just a little humour for the day…

Filed under: Politics

Obama Listens to Generals Just Like Mr. Bush…

Okay, take yourselves back to March 2008.

Obama said that while President Bush has said that he follows the advice of his generals regarding Iraq, when they give the president advice he doesn’t like — cautioning against the War in Iraq, for example — Bush doesn’t listen to them.

Let’s move forward to September 2009.

The top military commander in Afghanistan warns in a confidential assessment of the war there that he needs additional troops within the next year or else the conflict “will likely result in failure.”

And here we are today…

Several weeks worth of war cabinet meetings have not made Obama’s staff and NSC advisers any more comfortable with Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s troop request.
They say that President Obama continues to be skeptical about the true applicability of the Iraq model, even allowing for McChrystal’s insistence that it can be modified enough.

Filed under: Democrats, Foreign Policy, Global Threats, Military, Politics

Breaking: Top Commander’s Killed in Iran

Finding it just now coming out.  http://enduringamerica.com/2009/10/18/the-latest-from-iran-18-october-semi-normal-indeed-khamenei-bahari-hajjarian/

and below which says it was a suicide bomber…

http://blog.taragana.com/n/report-suicide-bomber-kills-5-top-revolutionary-guard-commanders-in-southeastern-iran-199094/

Filed under: Iran

Balloonatics!

Is it just me or are they really making too much out of this “balloon” story?

Filed under: Thoughts

The Ego Has Landed – Chicago Dropped in First Round.

Drudge cracks me up.  The headline maybe be a little over the top, but the reactions of CNN and other media to the choice of the IOC is pretty funny…

Filed under: Global Affairs, Sports

ACORN going down!!!

Thank God!

Bank of America Pulls Back From ACORN Work
In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has "suspended current commitments" to ACORN Housing, an affiliated group, and "will not enter into any further agreements with ACORN or any of its affiliates," pending assessments by the bank of the organization’s operations.

It’s about time these shysters get cut loose!  Plenty of other good reads here: Michelle Malkin…

What I said before…  And here…  And here too…

Filed under: Ass Clowns, Socialism

Getting short of Ground Hog Days…

Been a very busy seven months here in Iraq.  Been a great job, but everyday has started to seem like Groundhog Day…  But, now I’m about 30 days out of going home.  Makes it pretty hard to focus on still getting the job done.

Now maybe I can get back to blogging…

This was a recent trip to South-Eastern Baghdad area.  Behind me are the ruins of the Osirak Nuclear Facility; bombed by Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, Israel in the 1980’s and by the U.S. Forces during Operation Desert Storm.

I’m standing on a berm that surrounds the facility and what you see behind me are Iraqi workers and clean up crews clearing away the debris.

Filed under: Thanks, Thoughts

Is “Green Jobs Advisor” Van Jones for real?

"I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of,’" he said in a 2005 interview with the East Bay Express. Jones told the newspaper he stayed in San Francisco, and for the next 10 years worked with a lot of the people he met in jail. Months after the King verdict came down, Jones said, "I was a communist."

Is this really who Mr. Obama needs for assistance in “Green HopenChange”?

Filed under: Democrats, Politics, Science

I’m a little teapot…

Somewhere in Babil Province, a very large person lost a very large teapot…

Filed under: Iraq

Why So Serious?

Drudge linked to it at Newsbusters, but the links seems dead.  Found this story here at BedlamMagazine…

Folks are getting pretty harsh now.  As his popularity drops, the attacks are rolling out stronger…

Filed under: Democrats, Politics, Socialism

I shoulda been a geek…

and gone to comic-con!

Filed under: Fun, Thoughts

Busy, busy, busy…

My bad for not spending more time blogging.  Just having a hard time finding the time to post.  Between conducting classes and traveling, the time is tight.  Appreciate those die-hards who keep coming by.

Filed under: Business, Iraq, Thanks

House Democrats Health Plan

House Democrats are preparing to advance legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to remake the nation’s costly health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured by taxing and penalizing the wealthy and employers.

Amazingly simple isn’t it?  And guess what, you and I who are Joe Taxpayer don’t have to be taxed for it, only the rich.  They don’t need all that money do they?  Oh wait, not so easy?

Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

Here’s the plan for universal health care…

Filed under: Democrats, Politics

Your Vote: Will Sotomayor be Confirmed?

Filed under: Politics, Supreme Court