Solve the Problem!!

When are we going to finally take care of this international problem called North Korea? These guys are doing nothing more than holding the world hostage so they can get the food they need for their army (they give none to the general population) and fuel for their military. The picture I show here is what North Korea is all about.

For the past few years we (our government) has been hiding from the truth behind a delusion that the North Koreans want good relations with us and will drop their nuclear ambitions for food and energy subsidies. The "Six-party talks", created by these fools, were supposed to bring about a peaceful solution and get the North Koreans to stop with the nuclear activity. For all of these years they have led us around by the nose. It is time we stop dangling the carrot and whack them with the stick!!! How do you have productive talks when only one side is talking? That is called a monologue!

These people understand nothing less than brute force. If we REALLY don't want them to have nuclear weapons...then stop talking and show them that we mean business! We have gone to war to stop countries from supporting terrorists, yet we are afraid of upsetting a country that will not hesitate to give those very terrorists nuclear weapons to use on us.

Our government needs to stop fooling themselves, take off the rose-colored glasses and stop thinking that a bunch of talking and diplomacy is going to work. Oh by the way...don't think for a second that the Iranians aren't watching this!

A Reason For This Day

Happy Memorial Day! The traditional beginning to "summer" and the travel season has unfortunately become mainly that...just another long weekend we can use to have a BBQ. Don't forget, this day is about so much more. This is a good day to remember not only those who have died in service to this great nation or after their lives have come to their natural ends, but also those who are still living...many older gentlemen who proudly wear a hat showing what ship they served on...or that they are a Vietnam Vet. Go up to one of them...thank them for what they did for our country...for YOU! Shake that Vietnam Vet's hand and tell him....tell him you really do think that what he did in that horrible place many years ago was appreciated....because he did what his country asked of him and didn't run away. Remember all those who have served and are serving....even their families who sacrifice so much so their loved one may serve. This is NOT a day about hot dogs and hamburgers or getting ready for summer. There is a reason our flag flies at half-staff part of the day.

There is a God!!!

Tony Kornheiser is leaving Monday Night Football! The biggest buffoon on MNF since Dennis Miller is finally gone! Why did MNF insist on constantly putting one non-football idiot in the booth the past few years! This guy was worse than Miller, and I did not think that was possible. At least Miller knew football! Kornheiser wasn't sure what sport he was watching half the time. Here is a column on Yahoo that is pretty good.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Kornheiser-out-Gruden-in-Monday-Nights-are-now?urn=nfl,164086

Finally! Someone calls a spade a spade!

This is an exact republication of an article by retired Army Colonel Ralph Peters, one of my favorite journalists. He is not afraid to tell it like it is! And oh by the way, he took President Bush to task too!

The Casualty Con
Bam Falling For Taliban Tricks

By Ralph Peters

THE most effective weapon terrorists have found to wield against us isn't the headline-grabbing suicide bomber or even the deadly roadside bomb, the IED.
Such weapons can harm us, but they can't stop us. Terror's super-weapon is the lie.
Lying about civilian casualties is the one sure way to impede or even halt US (or Israeli) operations, to force such tight restrictions on our troops that they can't win.
The casualty con's so effective as both propaganda and tactic that terrorists everywhere have adopted the technique. It's been so successful that our enemies long ago transitioned to the next phase: creating civilian casualties and blaming us.
It works. The media love the charge. Our troops and pilots are always guilty -- even if proven innocent. Because so many on the left want us to be guilty.
Few journalists bother to investigate. If the Taliban, al Qaeda, Hezbollah or Hamas says it, it must be so. In Media Wonderland, terrorists never lie. Now every successful strike on a Taliban target generates the instant claim that the dead were all civilians.
And it isn't just the media who back the Taliban. The Obama administration -- a case study in instant foreign-policy ineptitude -- signs up, too.
This week, Taliban terrorists publicly beheaded three civilians in Afghanistan's Farah province, then herded women and children into compounds from which they fought government forces and US advisers.
With a vicious ground battle under way, the Talibs knew attack aircraft would appear. According to military sources, they set up the target. And, just in case, they slaughtered those women and children with grenades before any aircraft appeared. The entire massacre was a planned media event.
And who gets blamed? Not the Taliban. Before the smoke cleared, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was apologizing. (Apologizing is one thing this administration does with real enthusiasm.)
Our SecState played right into the Taliban's hands. It was instinctive on her part. Clinton and her new Cabinet peers know that our military's evil. No need to say a single word about the Taliban's atrocity.
A few hours later, President Obama stepped up to his mike and read a prewritten statement about his meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's bookie-in-chief, President Asif Ali Zardari.
We'd need to comb the historical records, but it's just possible that no American president ever read a statement so out of touch with on-the-ground reality. The platitudes were thick, the substance was thin and the vision was pure fantasy.
No criticism of Karzai for consistently playing the populist card and backing Taliban claims. No criticism of Zardari for cowering while the Taliban overruns his country and its huge military twiddles its thumbs, dreaming of a war with India.
No, our president announced that he's going to bring civilian resources to bear now, sending $1.5 billion a year to Pakistan. Yet self-impoverished Pakistan has more than 170 million angry Muslims. Our president's going to make them our pals for an annual nine bucks a head?
It wouldn't matter if we poured in $90K for every Pak. Multi-year development projects are useless against an insurgency that's 60 miles from the capital. We're turning a home fire extinguisher on an inferno.
The Pakistanis have to fight. If they're not willing to fight to save their own country, there's nothing we can do.
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan, the Taliban strategy of creating civilian casualties -- and lying about who the casualties are -- is undercutting any potential effectiveness of the 21,000 more troops we're sending to that worthless, hopeless country.
At the end of the day, the Taliban strategy works because our own government sides with the terrorists against our troops.
Instead of begging for forgiveness, Clinton needed to take a firm position. She should have said: "The deaths in Farah province were entirely the fault of the Taliban. To punish these terrorists and better protect Afghan civilians, we're loosening our rules of engagement. We will not tolerate this cynical use of women and children as unwilling weapons of war. These war criminals will be hunted down and killed."
Instead, Hillary blamed our military. Again.
This is war, Madame Secretary. Tragic mistakes happen, but the incident in Farah province wasn't an error -- it was a brutal, cynical set-up. And you stabbed our troops in the back. Again.
If the Obama administration doesn't want to fight, it should bring our troops home now. And let's see how much good those civilian-aid workers do.

Is This the Best "Change" We Get?

President Obama campaigned on his "Change" for Washington politics. As we have seen, very little has changed...whether it be from his inability to affect change or his lack of desire. He has made some changes, usually the easy ones that he knew he could get away with such as anything that has to do with murdering babies. He also fought off the doubters of his Christian upbringing...claiming he was Christian and showing that he practiced his faith. Well...here is another one of his "changes. He is so proud of his Christian upbringing...and so willing to make sure we know about it...that he has cancelled what has been a traditional non-denominational prayer breakfast at the White House held on this day...the National Day of Prayer. All of the presidents prior to him since it was brought about by I believe Truman, have had the breakfast. But "change" is needed and he wouldn't want anyone to think he is pushing his religion! Funny, none of the other presidents pushed theirs. So what is it that our "Christian" president has against sharing a belief in God with others? The more I see of his "changes", the less I like this president.

Very Interesting

This is the second time I have seen a story about former porn star Stormy Daniels considering running for the Senate. It has been quite fun to read the stories. The best part has been the comments by people who said things like it is time to get some of the lawyers out of Washington, she won't be any different than the other Senators who screw their constituents, and they get more colorful as they go on. Personally, I think it would be nice to see someone without the "good-ol boy" syndrome behind them. The only requirement should be that the person is educated and has an idea of what they are doing on the issues. I would think that some sort of past experience in politics would be nice, but there have been wives of killed congressmen placed in their seats without any kind of experience. It will be interesting to see if she actually runs...right now she in on a listening tour.

A Sad Day Indeed!

Today it was announced that Dom Deluise has died at age 75. This is why getting older stinks...all the people I grew up watching on TV and in movies are now at the age where they begin to die off. I loved watching Dom Deluise in Smokey and the Bandit II and in the Canon Ball Run movies. You know, I never realized how sneakingly dirty those were until I let my son watch one with me for the "humor" that I had remembered. I loved in when Deluise's character would become "Captain Chaos!" He was so much fun to watch. There are so few actors today that touch people like those of his age.