This'n'That;September 28th[Vultures;McChrystal;Firearms;Lyin'Bastards;Rush-isms]

The "Dust Is Settling" Our lives are in the process of "coming back to earth" after the death of the family matriarch. My mother-in-law had fallen on her 87th birthday and broke her hip. After surgery and already frail, she passed away last Wednesday evening. The funeral was yesterday. Of her five children, we now have three "waiting like vultures in a tree" for the disbursement of her assets. Those three always depended on the remaining two to see to her care, only visiting when shamed into it; one's idea of a visit was to shove restaurant coupons through the mail slot!! Those two who actually cared will be inline for sainthood, having tended to her every want and need for the past eleven years since the death of her husband. Fluffy To Fire This One?? [I think it will happen, Fluffy's handlers only want him surrounded by like-minded fascists; this general isn't one of the "KoolAid Drinkers!!" General McChrystal needs the Pentagon support today-NOT after Fluffy administration and half of the "yes-men" in that five-sided building weigh in by passing memos all over hell's half acre!! Without considering the difference in the timespan involved, there's a 5-to-1 difference in civilian body counts between McChrystal and the head of the UN; who's right?? I tend to lean toward the General; he's the one with his "boots-in-the-dirt," plus he has no ulterior motives while the guy at the UN has to pacify all the world's socialists, liberals, fascists and marxists-a greater combined number than America's military and civilian "patriots!!" ] The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan bitterly complained in an interview Sunday about the Pentagon bureaucracy that was hampering his efforts to fight insurgents. On one of those "KoolAid Media, talking-head" shows Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he faced pressure to move quickly from Defense Secretary Robert Gates while the Pentagon had moved slowly to get officers assigned to his staff. "The secretary talks in terms of 12 to 18 months to show a significant change and then we eat up two or three months just 'getting the tools out of the tool box'," McChrystal said, "That really hurts." The four-star army general, who was appointed to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan in June after the previous commander was sacked, demanded the Defense Department had to move with more urgency. "The average organization when someone asks when you want something, they pull out a calendar," he said. "But in a good organization, they look at their watch and we really got to get that way." McChrystal said he was slightly surprised by the strength of the insurgency when he took over his post. "I think that in some areas that the breadth of violence, the geographic spread of violence -- places to the north and to the west -- are a little more than I would have gathered," he said. He also repeated his warning that if the NATO-led mission was perceived as an occupier that posed a threat to civilians, the war would be lost. "If the people view us as occupiers and the enemy, we can't be successful and our casualties will go up dramatically," he said. McChrystal said 265 civilians had been killed by U.S. or allied forces in the past 12 months. In a quarterly report released Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said 1,500 civilians had died between January and August, with August the deadliest month so far this year. Military officials have credited McChrystal with reducing civilian casualties in recent months by ordering a change in tactics, including scaling back the use of air strikes and artillery fire, as well as requiring soldiers to exercise more caution when driving on Afghan roads. A Firearms Refresher Course [This is an email circulating around the 'net complete with many copies of the photo above:]

• 1. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who did not." ~Thomas Jefferson 2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams 3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms. 4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. 5. Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens tries to control them. 6. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control. 7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for. 8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety. 9. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive. 10. Assualt is a behavior, not a device. 11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday. 12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791; all rights reserved. 13. The Second Amendment is in place incase the politicians ignore the others. 14. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you NOT understand? 15. Guns have only two enemies: Rust and politicians.

Lyin' democRAT Bastards [After you read the article below, you'll understand the headline; if you're working inside the D.C. Beltway, you're a lyin' Bastard!! If you don't understand a legislative title or can't define some words in that title-how do you know that your plan is not the previous plan-the title of which, you don't understand?!?!] Ending some nine months of closed-door deliberations, Sens. Barbara Boxer (d-Calif.) and John Kerry (d-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader Senate negotiations and an eventual conference with the House. "I hope what we've done is constructive and well-received," Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Thursday. "I have no pretensions, and neither does Barbara, that this will be the final product. It is a starting point, a commitment, full-fledged, across party lines to do what we need to do to protect the planet for the next century." The Boxer-Kerry bill will build in large part off H.R. 2454 (pdf), legislation approved in June by the House following several marathon months of negotiations that involved lawmakers representing coastal and industry-heavy districts. Exactly what is the same in the two bills remains to be seen. As for differences, Senate democRATic aides say they expect the legislation to divert from the House bill's 17 percent emissions target for 2020 and go with an even more aggressive 20 percent limit. The bill also will stay silent on exactly how the Senate should divide up emission allowances. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (d-N.M.) has already approved legislation (S. 1462 (pdf)) out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that includes a nationwide renewable electricity standard and a raft of other energy incentives, including a provision that could bring oil and gas rigs closer to Florida's Gulf Coast. Bingaman is also planning a hearing Thursday on several competing cost estimates associated with the House-passed climate bill. The session, which was postponed once earlier this month, now gives senators an early public forum to sound off on the Boxer-Kerry bill. Kerry last week sought to change the vernacular surrounding the climate bill and sell its concepts more broadly, insisting it is not a "cap and trade" proposal but a "pollution reduction" bill. "I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does," Kerry said. "This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it's a pollution reduction bill" (E&E Daily, Sept. 25). But a leading GOP opponent to the Senate climate effort quickly pushed back on the democRAT's strategy. "No matter the semantic games employed, or the extent to which democRATs wish to hide the truth from the American people, cap and trade will mean more job losses, more pain at the pump, and higher food and electricity prices for consumers," said EPW Committee ranking member James Inhofe (r-Okla.)." Both Brown and Stabenow said they would welcome the release of the Senate bill even though it will give critics something tangible to target. "It always does," Brown said. "There is always something to shoot at. But I think it is the right step, and then we start working to improve it." Senate democRATic leaders, including Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (d-Ill.), have said that they do not know if there will be enough time to get to the climate bill on the floor this year. But Rep. Ed Markey (d-Mass.), one of the lead authors of the House bill, said that he is not giving up yet. "At this stage in the House no one was predicting we could be successful," Markey told reporters. The lawmaker said he expected the Senate to closely follow the House bill's outlines, especially "once people sit down and begin to understand we have dealt with the major interests in the country. Some "Rush-isms"

• "This is the Media Tweak of the Day: You have to be brainwashed or mentally deranged to think that Barack Obama is good for America."
• "Every time a poll comes out and Obama's down, he does something. I was thinking how there's still that judge seat on American Idol. How about another round of Sunday shows? Or how about hosting Letterman this time with Ahmadinejad as a guest?"
• "Jay Leno talked to me about all the money these Wall Street people make… You know what I should've said? 'You own over 200 cars, Jay. Don't you have enough?'"
• "Left-handed underwear for left-handed men? This reminds me of the time that I called a bunch of sporting goods stores in Pittsburgh asking for a left-handed baseball bat. Now, that was funny."
• "I'm now being asked if I have any predictions on Iran and how it's going to end. Yeah, I do: they're going to get a nuke."
• "Obama says he's stunned that Iran built a second nuclear facility without notifying anyone. What are we talking about here? Did Jesse James call the bank and say, 'Hey, I'm on the way'?"
• "Hugo Chavez said at the UN that now 'it smells of hope'. Would somebody tell me what hope smells like? I want to go buy some and spray it in the bathroom."
• "Now, if I'm Barack Obama and I've got Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying, 'Hey, Obama agrees with me,' I'm thinking: 'I've got a problem.' But I don't think Obama's bothered by it at all."
• "I wonder if Obama heard Netanyahu's speech, because it was a real teaching experience on right and wrong, good and evil, leadership and sucking up. And I noticed that those who were the most embarrassed by Obama were the most inspired by Benjamin Netanyahu."
• "Actually, I would say Obama is worse than a broken clock. A broken clock is right at least twice a day. Obama isn't."

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