Wrong, wrong, wrong....

E.J. Dionne of WaPo:

"For much of our history, Americans — even in our most quarrelsome moments — have avoided the kind of polarized politics we have now. We did so because we understood that it is when we balance our individualism with a sense of communal obligation that we are most ourselves as Americans. The 20th century was built on this balance, and we will once again prove the prophets of U.S. decline wrong if we can refresh and build upon that tradition. But doing so will require conservatives to abandon untempered individualism, which betrays what conservatism has been and should be."

No Sir.....not a moment before Liberals abandon untempered entitlement! The forces at work within our nation are those resolutely arrayed against individualism. Whether they be tax fiends on the left or religious fundamentalists on the right.......those who would mold our society into a groupthinking herd, they are responsible for the decline of this nation.

A Daily Dose of Christian Love.....

Coming fresh off of the heels of North Carolina's Pastor Worley calling for gays to be placed inside concentration camps with electrified wire.....we now have an upstanding, good Christian Pastor from Kansas preaching love and brotherhood:

"They should be put to death. That's what happened in Israel. That's why homosexuality wouldn't have grown in Israel. It tends to limit conversions. It tends to limit people coming out of the closet. — 'Oh, so you're saying we should go out and start killing them, no?' — I'm saying the government should. They won't but they should. [You say], 'oh, I can't believe you you're horrible. You're a backwards neanderthal of a person.' Is that what you're calling scripture? Is God a neanderthal backwards.. in his morality. Is it his word or not? If it's his word, he commanded it. It's his idea, not mine. And I'm not ashamed of it."

Audio at the link.




And just "think of the children!"


From Indiana, we have the Christian version of child abuse, a 4 year old singing: "Ain’t No Homos Going To Make It To Heaven" on the church stage.

To a standing ovation.

Link

Awww.....aren't kids cute?

Sick. Bastards. All of them.

Read this and Remember......

what Memorial Day is really about.

As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt

Rest easy Night Train...your journey is over

A Japanese man’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on the shores of western Canada more than a year after it was swept away by the devastating tsunami will be preserved in a Harley museum in the U.S.

The 2004 FXSTB Softail Night Train motorcycle will be permanently housed in the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., as a memorial to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which swamped several coastal towns in northeastern Japan and left more than 15,000 people dead.

Mark found the motorcycle, still bearing its Japanese license plate, while driving his ATV on an isolated beach on Graham Island on the west coast of British Columbia on April 18. The bike, along with several other items, was inside a rusted cargo van container that apparently drifted more than 4,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

No words are needed

So sad....So true....

From Preparing for Tyranny.

Sunday Funnies

Saw this on Facebook, from fellow rider and former colleague Mark.

Welcome Home Brother....

For years, the family of Gerald "Mike" Kight has wondered: What happened to the handsome 23-year-old who went to war with his three brothers and one brother-in-law, but never came home? He lives on in old photographs and family lore, but he disappeared following a battle along Wylerbaan Road in the Netherlands, between Groesbeek and the little town of Wyler, Germany, in World War II. He was one of 39 Americans who were never found following clashes in the area with German troops in late September 1944. 

The mystery, at last, will be laid to rest at West Klickitat Cemetery in White Salmon, Wash., on May 19, following a noontime memorial service at Gardner Funeral Home. 

A Dutch farmer was turning the soil in his cornfield last September when he saw bones jutting from the ground. That brought out the Royal Netherlands Army's Recovery and Identification Unit, which unearthed two sets of human bones, in what apparently were two depressions about 100 yards apart

Dog tags found in the foxhole in the Dutch cornfield and delivered recently to Frances and Robert Hembree of Southeast Portland.

The remains in one depression, which may have been formed when a shell landed in the battle, were so fragmentary and so incomplete that they haven't yet been identified. The remains in the foxhole were more complete. They belonged to a man lying on his back with his knees elevated -- and they rested with the dog tags of Gerald Kight. 

Link 

Well Damn.....

In May of 2007, the Commander of our Brigade's Field Artillery Battalion had just left our BDE HQ on Fob Falcon to make his way back to his Combat Outpost just north of Route Irish. An EFP prevented him from making it back.

I was in the TOC when the call came into to Dragon X-Ray requesting an Air Weapons Team and for us to clear the route into the CSH. Another bad memory of a bad place.

Things seem to have gone as well as anyone could expect after losing both of their legs; he has been an inspirational honorary member of the New York Giants; he's taken a key role in the Army's Wounded Warrior Program....and I just found out that he's in the cast of the summer action flick Battleship.

Now....just between you and I, I have my doubts as to the cinematic quality of a movie based on a board game...but it's damn good to see a fellow Dragon doing well.

Random thought of the day

If many on the right call the current POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, and slyly justify it by saying "it's just his name..."

Why aren't they calling his opponent Willard Mitt Romney?