Day: October 22, 2009

Is It Propaganda?

To preface my post I need to include a bit of personal history….I was a grunt in Vietnam…wounded a couple of times….and found NOTHING positive about my experience in combat…with the exception that it gave me a burning desire to see that Americans would not die needlessly for some vague concept issued by the government…my concept was the “Domino Theory”.

The Army Times is reporting on the “positive” aspects of combat:

Research appears to show that many people can emerge from traumatic experiences with greater self-confidence, a keener sense of compassion and appreciation for life, says Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, director of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program. Cornum and other experts call this concept post-traumatic growth.

Although the military focuses attention on troops who develop mental health conditions in combat, Cornum says, the majority of war veterans do not suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other problems.

During remarks at the American Enterprise Institute recently in Washington, Tedeschi said some servicemembers found the changes in their lives so profound after combat, they expressed gratitude for having gone through it — even if it cost them permanent physical damage.

The experience forces survivors to “try to figure out ‘Who am I now? … What’s my life supposed to be about?’” Tedeschi says. “We certainly would like to find ways of helping people move in this direction, because it’s a way of mitigating the affects of this trauma.”

All this study was given to a gathering of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and it therefore smells like propaganda……they are attempting to try and put some sort of positive spin on the war…..let me state for the record….THERE IS NOTHING POSITIVE ABOUT WAR!

Could this be a response to the latest poll that shows Americans are all for the invasion of Pakistan to get the bad guys?  Americans also overwhelmingly do not think that Afghanistan is another Vietnam, that from the same poll…let me ask….I already know how short the American memory is….but does the names Laos and Cambodia mean anything to them?  (I pause here for reflection)……thought that it would not mean anything….let me help…..Laos and Cambodia were countries that bordered on Vietnam and we crossed the borders in pursuit of the bad guys….remember how well that went (another pause for reflection)…..please do not hurt yourself…it did little to change the outcome of the war in the end.

“Those who do not remember history are destined to repeat it”…….sound familiar?

How Progressives were DUPED!

It began at the ballot box…the primaries….the ads…the election……

Back in the day there was a candidate that brought such hope to the progressives, they had found their champion….a fresh face….a winning style and an oratory like no one could ever imagine….progressives joined in and cheered and voted for a soon to be a great man and  thge sun will shine again on the Democratic Party.

Sorry guys……but you were DUPED by bullsh!t!

Read:

10 Things To Consider In The Voting Booth

NO Change Is Coming!

What Change?

Read those and you will see that I have said that NO real change is coming….so far I have been proven correct…..look at health reform…

Somewhere I recall Pres. Obama saying, “I woill not sign a health reform bill without the public option”…….strong words and a delight to the ears of us liberals…..but…just yesterday the trained monkeys of the admin had this to say…….

Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Obama believes the public plan is still the “best possible choice,’’ but she said he’s not demanding it.

“It’s not the defining piece of health care. It’s whether we achieve both cost control, coverage, as well as the choice,’’ Emanuel said.

Now Progressives is that the man you voted for in 2008?

So the strong hard words of the past are just that…..from the past…..looks like the Progressive Obama has made his deals with the insurance companies.

I have said “I told you so” but it does not seem to set in to the mind of the voter…..they continue to vote for the person or they have no freakin’ idea how Washington and politics work.

They delude themselves that they are well versed on the issues….but all they really have is the talking points given to them by the 30 second story on the tube.

The American voter would do better if they spent less time watching the nauseating crap billed as “Reality TV” and check into the issues that will control their lives….But as usual I am pissing into the wind….why?…..I am dealing with low information voters listen to the morons on the air….

Health reform is NOT the only area that they were duped on….look at war…look at energy….look at special interests…..nothing is changing…..business as usual…just as and others said would happen…..someone needs to remove their heads from their anal cavities…that pie in the sky just hit you in the face…..happy?

Now I ask the Progressives…how you like him now?

Eat Well…Stay Fit….Die Anyway

First it was Ewell Gibbons, the health food advocate, did some ads for Raisin Bran or something back in the 70’s or 80’s…..that is the eat well part….he died from a bleeding ulcer.

Second was Jim Fixx, the running guru, the man who single handed (almost) made jogging a way of life in this country…..I Believe that was in the 80’s also….that is the stay fit part……he died while jogging.

Now in Detroit….another dig at the stay fit part….as reported in the Free Press:

In the span of just 16 minutes, three men collapsed and died while running the 32nd Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon.

The first to collapse was Daniel Langdon, 36, of Laingsburg, at 9:02 a.m., said Rich Harshbarger, vice president of consumer marketing for the Detroit Media Partnership, which handles business operations for the Free Press and Detroit News. Langdon was on Michigan Avenue between the 11- and 12-mile markers.

Rick Brown, 65, of Marietta, Ohio, collapsed at 9:17 a.m. near where Langdon went down, Harshbarger said. And Jon Fenlon, 26, of Waterford collapsed at about 9:18 a.m., just after finishing the half-marathon in 1:53:37.

And now that brings us to the part of the “die anyway”…..no matter how good you are at eating properly or staying fit….you will DIE!  No one gets out of this life alive…sorry dudes….