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Contributed by The Gray Dog on January 19, 2009 at 05:19 PM in Best of Old War Dogs, Bill Faith, Bill's Bites, Coming home, Current Affairs, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on November 20, 2008 at 11:22 PM in Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Semper I
A Russ Vaughn classic in honor of the fact it looks like Mad Jack's really going down this time. Originally posted 2006.07.23. Semper I
Murtha portrait courtesy of BootMurtha.com. |
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Contributed by Bill Faith on November 1, 2008 at 01:15 AM in Mad Jack Murtha, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn, US Marine Corps | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Support the Wright Ad
A conservative organization, the National Republican Trust PAC is at this late hour in the campaign finally and belatedly taking the gloves off and hitting Obama on the issue of his hate-spewing minister, Mr. Jeremiah Wright. I will not dignify that racist hatemonger with the title of reverend. |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on October 31, 2008 at 12:04 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Bill Faith on October 19, 2008 at 12:41 AM in Bill Faith, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on October 3, 2008 at 05:17 PM in Clueless Joe, Politics, Russ Vaughn, Sarah Palin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 27, 2008 at 07:32 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 26, 2008 at 02:02 PM in Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Campaign’s Over?
Did anyone else happen to find it strange that Bill Clinton twice Tuesday night in his interview with Greta Van Susteren made reference to the campaign being over?
Was that an incautious mental slip indicating that in the Clintons’ minds this campaign is indeed over, or was Bill signaling the Obama folks that if they want the Clintons’ support they better think about dumping Jivin’ Joe? Certainly does have to make one wonder just how concerned the Clintons are about getting Obama elected. |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 25, 2008 at 03:22 PM in Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Ominous Obanomics
He’s already told us he’s going to raise our taxes, but Barack Obama tries to make that a more palatable pill by reassuring us that he’s only going to raise taxes on the rich. To a working stiff like I’ve been all my life that is supposed be appealing: yeah, stick it to all those rich ba**ards and let them feel the pain for a while. Sounds good, hmmm? Except that my life experiences have taught me that the rich ba**ards have long ago devised diverse ways of passing that pain on to others. And if tax extractors like Obama should prove to be so relentless in exerting pain on the powerful that it cannot all be passed along, guess what, Bubba? Those rich ba**ards are going to close down operations, eliminate your job and move somewhere to a more amiable business climate. Two Wall Street Journal pieces today prove out this obvious truth. The first, discussing the huge state budget deficits in California and New York, makes this observation: “If taxes don't matter, then maybe someone can explain the divergent economic paths of California and New York and America's two other most populous states, Florida and Texas. The latter two states have no personal income tax. Personal income has been growing about 50% faster in Florida and Texas than in California and New York. (See chart.) This year Texas became the No. 1 state for Fortune 500 corporate headquarters. About a dozen of those 58 corporations once called New York or California home, and taxes are one reason they departed.” The second article, aptly entitled, “If You Like Michigan’s Economy, You’ll love Obama’s,” substantiates the findings in the first and shows that right to work states, like Texas, Florida and Arizona, where state government has not been corrupted by the undue influence of powerful unions, have vigorous population growth and vibrant economies. Their northern counterparts like Michigan, Illinois (anyone from there come to mind?) and Ohio are in much worse shape, some of which could possibly be explained by such union created foolishness as auto workers being paid $65,000 per year, with excellent benefits for doing nothing as described in this Detroit News article of a few years back. That’s right, Bubba, zilch, nada, not one damned thing but showing up. Think that might account for those northern states losing 83,000 jobs in the auto industry while 91,000 jobs in that same industry were created in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Texas, all states where unions and high-taxing liberals haven’t subverted the government process? Oh, and Red States, by the way. Both articles should be required reading for all Americans still unsure as to whom they want for president for the next four years for one very simple but profound reason: the jobs and the companies in these articles were able to relocate to other states where the business atmosphere is more realistic and reasonable. If an Obama administration should extend the economic policies that have failed liberal dominated Blue States to the entire country, just where do you suppose all those job creating rich ba**ards will head next? Can you spell offshore, Bubba? |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 15, 2008 at 01:14 PM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
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But Can He Find Iran on a Map? (Bumped)
[Bupded by the webmaster. Originally posted 2008.06.26] In a CQ Politics column, David Korn snidely asks, “Can a Guy (McCain) Who Doesn’t Know How To Use a Computer Become President?” Reading the column my first thought was, “Can A Harvard Educated Lawyer Who Doesn’t Know Elementary School Level Geography Become President?” My second was, “Can A Harvard Educated Lawyer Who Doesn’t Know How Many States Are In The Country He Wants To Govern Become President?” Considering their candidate’s demonstrated disregard for the finer points of geography and history, the Democrats and their media minions might want to think twice before poking fun at McCain for lack of knowledge. Personally I find it far less disturbing that McCain, in his seventies, has little knowledge of computers than the fact that a supposed young genius in his forties is so evidently ignorant of basic geography. I will wager that a lot of other senior voters share my feeling that a president can perform his duties quite well without computer skills. It’s like asking, “But can he type?” Of more concern to folks like us is, “But can he find Iran on a map?” My personal experience with the Internet has taught me that this medium, especially on the liberal side, is heavily populated with technical whizzes who are long on computer skills but very short on judgment. Shallow, in other words. And guess who their candidate is… |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 12, 2008 at 03:16 PM in Obamanation, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 12, 2008 at 12:37 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
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Matt Who?
Hey Matt Damon, congratulations, genius, you just made my do-not-watch list with your dumb denunciation of Sarah Palin. It's taken you a little longer than most of your dim-bulb colleagues, but let me tell you, Matty, you are there now, Bubba, you have arrived, and guess what boy? It's a lifetime achievement; once there Matty, you are on that list forever. Even crawling into the Vice-President's residence and giving Sarah a sole-licking pedicure couldn't get your smug Hollywood butt off my list, ever. You got that, Matt? See, Matt, I'm pretty lenient with you Hollywood dips and tend to give you a lot of leeway because I understand that you're really not a bunch of Will Huntings. Nope, you're just a pack of photogenic dopes who can stand in front of a camera and recite memorized lines. Yeah, yeah, Matt, I've heard all about your vaunted Ivy League academic achievements and I think they are just more Hollywood hype dreamed up by some little weasel who's taking a bigger percentage of your income than a truly smart man would willingly pay? Something I just can't figure, Matt, about you and the industry you are part of. I spent my whole life in marketing and I just can't get my business brain around an entire industry that insists on pissing off more than half its potential customer base as a matter of routine. You Hollywood flakes base all your success on box office sales, yet you consistently come into my home via my TV set, my computer and newspapers and personally insult my intelligence by snidely telling me I'm some sort of political Neanderthal because I don't want to vote for your communist candidates. And in the process, you are relentlessly driving me, and the millions like me, away from local theaters, putting yourself on my never go see again and never order list from Netflix. Really great deep thinking there, Ivy League Genius. Your career success depends on box office receipts, especially from the opening weekend, but you take it upon yourself to spit in my face about my political beliefs and guarantee that no one from my family ever will be sitting in the seats watching your latest insipid performance on opening weekend. Yeah, boy, that is marketing genius, Matt. Just by keeping your mouth shut you could double your box office but no, you just insist on insulting me and mine. Brilliant! Just freakin' brilliant, you Ivy League genius! Wonder why your industry is going down the tubes just slightly less precipitously than the New York Times, Matt? Perhaps it's because you, the entertainment industry, are mildly amusing and still hold some appeal for children. But little Pinch and his dying Grey Lady aren't read by too many children, Matt. Hell, they're not read by all that many adults anymore. Hey Matty boy, you're a big union supporter aren't you, like all Hollywood limousine liberals? So, do you have any harsh words for little Penny-Pinch putting over 400 union workers on the street this week? Nah, I didn't think so, because you need one of Pinch's snotty little tight-pants reviewers to make your latest piece of America-bashing trash sound good to the gullible, don't you? Keep it up, Matt, you and all the ostriches in Hollywood, the newspaper industry and the network broadcasting industry. You fools just keep right on alienating more than half your potential market and we'll see where you end up. You and others like you are so out of touch with the America that made you that your cavalier dismissal of the beliefs and feelings of that very same America will someday see you as nothing more than Matt who? Wanna guess how long it's been since I bought a theater ticket, Genius? And if it weren't for John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Stewart and their like, I'd cancel Netflix too. It's true I am about to break my long-standing boycott of Hollywood trash as I intend to go see An American Carol as soon as it's available. So, what do you think about that, Matt who? *** See also [BF]: Matt Damon, Genius. The Website that Created The "Sarah Palin Quotes" Even Identified Them as Parodies That Had Been Made Up |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 11, 2008 at 03:01 PM in Dem Dumbness, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 10, 2008 at 02:24 PM in Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn, Sarah Palin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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The Loony Left Hemisphere
James Lewis in his September 6th posting, ‘The End of Boomer Weirdness,” sent me scrambling to Wikipedia to find the meaning of the term hebephrenic. What I found there led me to this: A form of schizophrenia in which affective changes are prominent, delusions and hallucinations fleeting and fragmentary, behavior irresponsible and unpredictable, and mannerisms common. The mood is shallow and inappropriate and often accompanied by giggling or self-satisfied, self-absorbed smiling, or by a lofty manner, grimaces, mannerisms, pranks, hypochondriacal complaints, and reiterated phrases. Upon reading that, the first light bulb that popped on was, Alan Colmes! followed closely by, Ellis Henican and Bob Beckel!” But then with further reflection, I realized that many, if not all, of these diagnostic terms could be applied fairly to far too many of the liberal spokespersons we see on television, in particular the references to self-satisfied, self-absorbed smiling, or by a lofty manner, grimaces. Just think of all the smug, smarter-than-thou, liberal talking heads those words describe: Olbermann, Matthews, those View broads, all through the major networks, ad infinitum. And consider how the self-satisfied smile usually comes at the end of a successful rattling off of a string of memorized DNC talking points. The lofty manner and grimaces accompany the rebuttals from their conservative counterparts. Think about what you’ve been watching for the last few years and tell me I’m wrong. Now he’s not one of my favorite talk show hosts because of his bombastic style but, to his credit, Michael Savage has been saying for several years that Liberalism is a mental disorder. I believe I’m beginning to agree with him. Suddenly, expressions like Loons on the Left and Kool Aid Drinkers are beginning to take on new meaning. Lewis, in his AT article cites Polish scientist and author, Count Alfred Korzybski who coined the term unsanity to describe this sort of collective, unhinged behavior by entire segments of society. By the Count’s accounting, they may not be certifiably, committably insane but they are definitely operating with far too many screws loose. That’s not the Count’s medical terminology, by the way, but mine. When I talk to family members and friends who are readily sucking up Obama’s version of Jim Jones’ purple, Flavor-Aid cocktails, I am aware that no amount of reasoning is going to sway them from their feelings that Obama is The One. What does provide a ray of hope and sanity is that those truly unsane are still in the minority and suddenly an antidote has arrived for those only minimally afflicted: Sarah Palin. The Glamorous Gov, possesses an oft-noted, naughty librarian look that conceals an iron-willed political competence that when they get glimpses of it in her public pronouncements is turning the unsane on the left totally insane. Just when Us magazine, with their frothing denunciation of McCain’s butt-kickin’ BatGirl thinks they have her teetering on the edge of the topmost floor of the New York Times Building, they look down and its their own toes they see tottering feebly on the edge of the abyss. Holy Palony, Pinch!!! What mystical powers are we up against??? And Pinchy Boy’s New York Times, which is the institutional exemplification of full-blown, beyond treatable hebephrenia, has deployed a battalion (or is it a brigade? Libs have problems with math and military terms, you know) of investigative reporters to the Far North to dig up dirt on the Gov which could explain their lack of manpower to send any investigative reporters to Chicago to conduct any sort of professional journalistic probe of the nefarious Daly Machine which has seemingly produced a presidential candidate out of thin air with an even thinner résumé. All of which leaves me to ponder: Has the whole damned world gone crazy? Nope, just the freakin’ Left Hemisphere. |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 8, 2008 at 02:04 AM in Dem Dumbness, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Barry’s Flag Flap
The flag flap that is unfurling on FOX News right now is developing quickly into a huge embarrassment to the Obama campaign. The callous, disrespectful disposal of some 12,000 handheld American flags left behind at Invesco Field following the Barackopolis speech is being skillfully manipulated by the McCain campaign which rescued them before they could be dumped at a landfill and is now in the process of redistributing them to attendees at a McCain/Palin rally in Colorado Springs. There are federal rules for the disposal of flags, rules which do not include hauling 12,000 of them off to a landfill in plastic garbage bags. But then, isn’t that just so Liberal, waving thousands of flags for the network cameras then tossing them as soon as the lights go down? One thing to be alert for here is how Barack Obama will respond to this colossal blunder. If history is any guide, Obama will try to divert responsibility to his staff, but then wasn’t it Barry who just this week has been reminding the world that he is the executive responsible for running his giant campaign organization? See also (BF): |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 6, 2008 at 03:05 PM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 6, 2008 at 12:04 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM in Obamanation, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on September 2, 2008 at 01:28 PM in Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn, Sarah Palin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 28, 2008 at 02:33 PM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack |
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Obama’s Swift Boat?
A week ago an old Marine buddy sent me a link to a You tube video that after viewing it, caused me to sit momentarily stunned by the horror of what I had just seen and heard. The video was that of nurse, Jill Stanek, who had in a completely straightforward and highly effective manner related how she had cradled a dying infant that had been dumped in the dirty laundry room of the Chicago hospital where she worked, following an abortion procedure the unfortunate baby had just survived. Stanek’s wrenching account of how that baby had fought for forty-five minutes to live but finally died in her arms, is one of those rare experiences that reaches into you and grabs you like a heart attack. If you have not seen it by now, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch? If you come away from that video with less than a heavy heart, I don’t think you’d be someone I’d care to number among my friends. Do not, however, think that I am some kind of hard core, under any and all circumstances pro-life conservative because I’m not. However, I am adamantly opposed to the cold, heartless infanticide depicted in this video and I am totally opposed to any politician who would permit it to be public policy as Barack Obama apparently did while serving in the Illinois Senate. While watching Sean Hannity interview Ms. Stanek, it suddenly occurred to me, Jill Stanek could very well be Obama’s Swift Boat Veteran. Her recounting of how Obama coldly disregarded her heartfelt testimony regarding the issue of these induced labor abortions and the horrifying consequences which she had personally experienced as a result, gives us a glimpse into the heart of this so-called Messiah that is nothing less than chilling. I believe every American who views that video can’t help but come away from it with questions about whether or not this is the kind of man we want as the leader of our nation. But then, we must realize, he was merely a state senator and not a presidential candidate so decisions about leaving live infants alone in a hospital’s cold, dirty laundry room to helplessly die without any human warmth, love or contact were obviously above Mr. Obama’s pay grade. Last week at Saddleback, he reminded us they still are. |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 21, 2008 at 03:42 PM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 17, 2008 at 12:19 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 14, 2008 at 12:12 AM in Obamanation, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 9, 2008 at 11:41 AM in Dem Dumbness, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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MSM in Freefall
Take a look at the financial performance of the three biggest (in terms of sales) American newspaper companies here, and note that their precipitous decline began after their performance peaked in the spring of 2004. Isn’t that, quite coincidentally of course, about the time the mainstream media decided to end the farce of pretending to be objective in their reporting and went totally in the tank for the Democrats and John Kerry? Was that slippery slope perhaps made more so by the way the drive-by’s dismissively dissed a grass-roots organization of true American war heroes, the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, as they frantically tried to bail Kerry’s sinking scow? This abysmal business stewardship comes from the hands of liberal elitists who are absolutely certain they are privy to truths unknowable to those of us comprising the loutish masses, clinging to our God, our guns and still eating iceberg lettuce rather than arugula, for crying out loud. How bourgeois (how’s that for some Frenchy talk, Obama?) of us to notice that these brilliant elites may have just misunderestimated something about those who buy their products? |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 7, 2008 at 06:41 PM in Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 1, 2008 at 02:49 PM in Obamanation, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM in Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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The REAL Obama Birth Certificate
Good news! Document certification specialists at that renowned think tank for progressive thought, The Peoples Cube, have finally uncovered the true, authenticated birth document of Barack Obama. You can find it here: http://www.thepeoplescube.com/ For any of you smug, conservative skeptics who may be thinking of disproving this final version of the candidate’s birth certificate, be forewarned that it has already been verified and certified by the Rather-Mapes Institute of Document Authentication in Poteet, TX. |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on August 1, 2008 at 12:19 AM in Obamanation, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on July 30, 2008 at 01:13 PM in Obamanation, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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Contributed by Russ Vaughn on July 27, 2008 at 10:38 PM in Music, Obamanation, Poetry, Politics, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack |
