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Powell: Not So Much

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Colin Powell came out this past weekend in support of Barack Hussein Obama.

If, perhaps, we had both those men hold their wrists up to the light, would their melanin count match?

I suspect it would. But — of course — that’s not my point so much.

Is this the “startling revelation” made by the DEM/MSM?

But wait; hold for a moment. Why is it that the current Bush Administration happens to have appointed more so-called “minorities” to cabinet and other posts than any other presidential administration in history?

Oh, wait, yes, that’s true. Demorats like minorities only insofar as they can hold to the Proscribum Demoratus.

Colin Powell endorsing Barack Hussein Obama? Unanticipated? A shocker? Perhaps a wrist comparison?

How about, now, an endorsement of John McCain by Joe Liebermann and Zell Miller?

Wrist comparisons, anyone?

BZ
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Why He Served: From A Soldier’s Blog. YOU MUST READ THIS POST.

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The soldier who wrote this post in his blog on August 30th was killed on Monday, October 13th of this month by an IED. US Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato, 25, of Beverly, Massachusetts, was killed — in a terrible irony — on his first day back on patrol after a 19-day leave in Massachusetts to visit friends and family.

He writes of his service in a way that is at once blunt, shocking and baldly honest. I’ll let his writing speak for him posthumously:

If I may …

I’d like to say something….Just to get it out there so it is clear.To all the pampered and protected Americans who feel it is their duty to inform me that I am not fighting for their freedom, and that i am a pawn in Bush’s agenda of greed and oil acquisition: Noted, and [expletive deleted] You.

I am not a robot. i am not blind or ignorant to the state of the world or the implications of the “war on terrorism.” i know that our leaders have made mistakes in the handling of a very sensitive situation, but do not for one second think that you can make me lose faith in what we, meaning America’s sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers in uniform are doing.

I am doing my part in fighting a very real enemy of the United States, i.e. Taliban, Al Qaida, and various other radical sects of Islam that have declared war on our way of life. Unless you believe the events of 9/11 were the result of a government conspiracy, which by the way would make you a MORON, there is no reasonable argument you can make against there being a true and dangerous threat that needs to be dealt with. i don’t care if there are corporations leaching off the war effort to make money, and i don’t care if you don’t think our freedom within America’s borders is actually at stake. i just want to kill those who would harm my family and friends. it is that simple. Even if this is just a war for profit or to assert America’s power, so what? Someone has to be on top and I want it to be us. There’s nothing wrong with wishing prosperity for your side.

I am a proud American. i believe that my country allows me to live my life more or less however i want to, and believe me, i have seen what the alternative of that looks like. i also believe that our big scary government does way more than it has to to help complete [expletive deleted]-ups get back on their feet, a stark comparison to places where leaders just line their own pockets with gold while allowing the people who gave them their power and privilage to starve. I have chosen my corner. I back my country, and am proud to defend it against aggressors. Also, if you dare accuse us of being inhumane, or overly aggressive because we have rolled into someone else’s country and blown some [expletive deleted] up and shot some people, let me remind you of just how inhumane we COULD be in defending ourselves. Let me remind you that we have a warhead that drops multiple bomblets from the stratosphere which upon impact, would turn all the sand in Iraq to glass, and reduce every living thing there to dust. Do we use it? No. Instead we use the most humane weapon ever devised: the American soldier. We send our bravest (and perhaps admitably craziest) men and women into enemy territory, into harms way, to root out those whom we are after and do our best to leave innocent lives unscathed.

…One last thing…a proposal. i know it has been stated time and time again but i just think it is worthy of reiteration. If you find yourself completely disgusted with the way America is being ran, and how we handle things on the global stage, you can leave. Isn’t that amazing? No one will stop you! If you are an anarchist, there are places you can go where there is no government to tell you anything. That’s right…you are left solely to your own devices and you can handle the men who show up at your door with AKs in any way that you see fit.

Just don’t try good old American debate tactics on them because you will most likely end up bound and blind-folded, to have your head chopped off on the internet so your parents can see it. However if you insist on staying here and taking advantage of privilages such as free speach and WIC, keep the counter-productive [expletive deleted] to a minimum while the grown ups figure out how to handle this god-awful mess in the middle east.

After I read that post, I was emotionally wrung out and the corners of my eye were wet.

This soldier, though young and relatively inexperienced back at home, implicitly understood the Larger Picture that so many Americans of all ages and stripes simply, apparently, cannot.

Joe the Plumber. Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato.

Two mere men, two commoners, two drones, two groundlings, two proles, two of what the Left would offhandedly typify as unwitting dupes — somehow inherently know much more about how the world actually works than Barack Hussein Obama, potentially the President and Commander-In-Chief of the United States of America, that Great Experiment in Progress, the strongest nation on Earth, the savior of millions of people, the Last, Best Hope For The Entire Planet.

I ask you: go back and read Spc. Fortunato’s post again if you dare.

And tell me you don’t think 1) he was infinitely wise beyond his years and 2) that his views aren’t yours.
God bless you Stephen Fortunato; may you rest in eternal peace knowing you served your country and that there are still some people in your homeland who understand and honor your sacrifice.

BZ
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Let’s Just Examine “Joe the Plumber” And Small Businesses

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First, you need to understand that, under Barack Hussein Obama, you’re one of the Dirty Wealthy Elite if you happen to make more than $250,000 a year.

[And even before I go further, I should like to interject at this point: who is the “party of the poor” — Demorats or Republicans? As I wrote in November of last year, The Washington Times indicated: “Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation’s wealthiest congressional districts. In a state-by-state, district-by-district comparison of wealth concentrations based on Internal Revenue Service income data, Michael Franc, vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation, found that the majority of the nation’s wealthiest congressional jurisdictions were represented by Democrats.”]

That in consideration, there’s been much made of Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher’s interaction between Barack Hussein Obama and himself, documented on YouTube and the subject of numerous media points this past week.

But the main point is Joe’s specific question: “I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year. Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”

To which Barack Hussein Obama responded: “I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

This is “income redistribution.”

This is, essentially, Socialism.

Even a buck an hour increase on the minimum wage equates to $12,000 to $15,000 wages paid a year for a business that employs a few workers, and you’ve just lopped off 20% of the profit on a business that might nominally have yielded $60,000 a year in profits.

Further, small business profit margins aren’t predictable by any means. You need to bank away the good years in order to anticipate and survive the rough years.

Everybody want to make more money. Employees want to make more money; businesses want to make more money. That, on its face is not wrong — except as viewed by Leftists/Socialists/Demorats.

Growing a business increases taxable income. Growing a business is good for the economy.

Obama’s tax plan in re his $250,000 “wealthy” line will put small business owners into the 54% tax bracket. That means over 50% of whatever profits occur will be confiscated by the government.

Obama and his ilk throughout the nation, the DEM/MSM, have disdain for “Joe the Plumber.”

McCain has embraced “Joe the Plumber.” And finally, though post-debate, John McCain just now becomes Captain Obvious:

CONCORD, N.C. – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of favoring a socialistic economic approach by supporting tax cuts and tax credits McCain says would merely shuffle wealth rather than creating it.

“At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives,” McCain said in a radio address. “They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it’s just another government giveaway.”

It is clearly acknowledged that “small businesses” employ the greatest number of persons in the country. If you hurt small business, you hurt the country. Obama has no grasp of this clear concept whatsoever.

Businesses aren’t in business to lose money. It is not their job to “take it on the chin” for the government or the populace in general. Businesses operate on a principle with which Barack Hussein Obama and government in general have no clue: incentive. More risk for more gain. Those who take the risks should reap the gains!

Once Obama’s tax plans are set into motion, businesses won’t slap their foreheads nationwide and exclaim: “Shucks, looks like we’ll just have to lose money for a few more years — but that’s fine because, after all, we’ll know we’re ‘doing our part’ for Obama.”

No. Businesses will take one or more of the following paths:

  • Raise prices on their goods and services;
  • Lose employees by attrition;
  • Fire employees outright.
  • And expect themselves and those remaining to do more with less;
  • That is, if they can even afford to stay in business.

That puts more people into the unemployement lines. That creates a greater hardship on individuals and families. It impacts family budgets. It reduces or eliminates consumer discretionary spending.

“Joe the Plumber” indeed. How about The Individual American?

BZ

P.S.
Apologies for the late post; this was written last night and about to be published until, of course, the number on the opposite end of my dial-up was, of all things, busy for hours and hours. Heavy sigh.
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BUT: GUESS WHAT??

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GALLUP’s ‘traditional’ likely voter model shows Obama with a two-point advantage over McCain on Thursday, 49% to 47%, this is within poll’s margin of error… Developing…

PLUS:
The Demorats, in the form of ACORN, finally were sufficiently egregious in their actions so as to actually acquire official attention regarding voter fraud.
This election, as I’ve been stating, is far, far, far from over.

BZ
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Justifiable Homicides UP

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I am not interested, just now, in the final debate.

Instead, I offer that a recent FBI reports says (via USA Today):

WASHINGTON — The number of justifiable homicides committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two years to their highest levels in more than a decade, reflecting a shoot-first philosophy in dealing with crime, say law enforcement analysts.

I have some very serious thoughts about this topic in general, predicated upon my 33 years in law enforcement (I am still a sworn LE officer). I made this comment a few weeks ago with regard to the use of force as a general issue on American And Proud:

Well, here’s the deal:

Law enforcement went to the Tazer and beanbag shotguns because they were quantified as “less than lethal” force but NOT “non-lethal” force as some in copdom write. History is obviously showing that Tazers CAN be lethal dependent upon the individual’s health, history and, at the moment of impact, what is known as “drugs on board.” There is also the adrenaline affect known as “excited delirium” which also comes into play.

As Rangemaster of my department, I told my department that suits would become such that there would be little reason to spend all the extra dollars on “less than lethal” force as it would soon prove to in fact BE lethal in SOME cases. But, of course, that’s all it takes for the ACLU and various other “humanitarian” organizations to object TO “less than lethal” force. I said in an Exec Staff meeting that money would be better spent divesting of LTL and, instead, investing in more range time, rounds, placement and gun handling skills.

I am being proven correct. An injury tort settlement yields almost the same amount of liability exposure or money as a “wrongful death” suit. You may as well shoot them. Again, I am being proven correct.

All trainers in firearms state that officers do not utilize firearms to wound, “wing” or kill. They shoot to STOP the offender from the actions requiring the utilization of the firearm. We train to stop ONLY when the OFFENDER’S deadly or harmful actions STOP.

There is some serious re-thinking and re-consideration going on in the law enforcement training communities throughout the nation. Too many “stops” in the Force Continuum (Officer thinks: “Hmm. Should I use harsh language? Sarcasm?Empty hand? Baton? Tazer? ‘Found’ objects? Beanbag? Pepperball? My sidearm? My shotgun? My long rifle?”) result in muddy thinking or late thinking in human beings.

In truth, this is a very bad time to be stupid. It is a bad time to invade someone’s home, particularly someone of modest means who happens to be armed with an aluminum bat, large caliber handgun or even a very nice Spyderco.

It is a bad time to do so because people are fed up. They are fed up with society’s predators. They are fed up with “diversion programs” and “22 years on death row” and Mumia Abu-Jamal (see this excellent monograph about Jamal on Accuracy In Academia). They are fed up with watching the takers continue to take and the givers continue to be taken. They are fed up with the Predators’ Philosophy of “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine unless you’re strong enough to stop me.”

Worse yet, people are going to be a tad bit more irritable come November 5th, should Obama win the election. THE DEMOCRATS LIED AND THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES ECONOMY DIED plays into the hands of those of find that Life is difficult enough to live without having one’s daughter date-raped, without having one’s sacrosanct home burglarized, without having one’s vehicle damaged or gas tank purged of fuel.

The NRA and other analysts say most laws allowing gun possession have existed for years and would not likely account for a recent spike in self-defense killings.

Instead, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president and chief executive officer, says the 9/11 attacks and the widespread looting and violence after Hurricane Katrina spurred some people to take more responsibility for their own safety.

Immediately after those events, LaPierre says, the group’s gun-safety trainers reported “big increases” in NRA-sponsored courses. “Americans are simply refusing to be victims,” he says.

I completely concur. This trend will continue and rightly so. Juries and their potential nullifications may become a rule with regard to violent suspects, rather than an exception.

There is the slight smell of actual revolution fomenting in the air, my dearest readers. If there is one thing with which Shoprat and I manifestly agree, it is this.

BZ
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