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I’m John Wayne!

July 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I don’t care who he says to blame, I blame Double Tapper for my finding this quiz and wasting part of my morning
Turns out I’m a John Wayne Western Bad Ass, but I also scored 100% for Clint Eastwood. I’ll take that result! :thumb:
Head on over and take the quiz yourself [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · Cool Stuff · Guns · History Lessons · Humor · Media · USA

TB Infected Illegal Enters U.S. 76 Times In The Past Year - Why The Silence?

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Official: Mexican Infected With TB Used Alias to Evade Capture - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the federal government has failed to stop a man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis from traveling to and within the [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · Government BS · Immigration · Insanity · Media · Mexico · Politics · USA

Credit Where It’s Due - Scott Thomas Beauchamp Redemption

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Michael Yon : Online Magazine » Blog Archive » Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances
Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · GWOT · Iraq · Media · Middle East · Military · Sierra Hotel · USA

Al Gore’s Nobel “Peace” Prize - How Is “An Inconvenient Truth” Related To Peace???

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize First Ever Given That Has Nothing To Do With Peace
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. According to the Nobel Foundation, the award was given “for their efforts to build up [...]

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Tags: General BS · General Stupidity · Insanity · Media · Politics · Science · USA · Weather

Credit Where It’s Due - Bravo, Bill Maher, Bravo!

October 20th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Bill Maher Helps Security Remove Protestor During Live Broadcast - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
Maher was talking science during one of his weekly panel discussions when a protester in his audience stood up, held up a smuggled-in sign reading “9/11 is a cover up fraud” and shouted comments to [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · GWOT · Media · September 11 · USA

YouTube - Slanted?

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » YouTube: A Terrorists Best Friend…
Funny how militant groups linked to Al Qaeda can post fund raising videos and they stay up while anyone posting something against Al Qaeda gets their video pulled down rather quickly.

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Tags: Complete BS · GWOT · Iraq · Media · Middle East · Politics

Someone With A Clue

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Michael Yon : Online Magazine » Blog Archive » Listening Respectfully
This writer disagrees with much of what Sanchez says about the current state of Iraq, but what he says about the media seems spot-on.
I couldn’t agree with Michael more on this. He has Gen. Sanchez’s entire speech on his site. I highly recommend [...]

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Tags: GWOT · Media · Military · Politics

Challenging The Politicians - Support The Troops!

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah’s Military Guys..
I challenge the Senators involved…
…to match the high bid. *Each of them.*
While going through my daily reading of the blogosphere and in particular The Castle Argghhh!!!, I found something that made my day

It turns out that Rush is turning the controversy over his recent comments [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · Cool Stuff · GWOT · Government BS · Media · Military · Politics · USA

Example - Why I Don’t Trust The “Mainstream Media”

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Al Qaeda In Haditha: The Battle The Media Ignored
If this exclusive is completely accurate then it is a bombshell story that the media completely ignored or overlooked. It probably didn’t line up with their narrative for the war. According to the report, the Time reporter that broke this [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · GWOT · Iraq · Media · Middle East · Military · Politics · USA

Valuing the “Scoop” Over National Security

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

EagleSpeak: Leak, leak, leak - and kill the intel programs
One more example of how leaks by government officials, who have, in theory, some sort of responsibility to not give out classified information (especially relating to sources and methods) put a halt to a successful effort to monitor al Qaeda, spelled out at Jihad Watch: Intel [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · GWOT · Insanity · Media · USA

Terrorist Suspects Arrested Sneaking Into U.S. Highlight Need For Better Border Security

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Texas Homeland Security Chief: ‘Terrorists Crossed Border’ — MSM Ignores News
Shouldn’t such a report be running through the MSM like wildfire? Yet, the MSM seems to be ignoring this explosive report with only local Texas news sources and a few Jihad watchers, and bloggers having picked up the [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · GWOT · Insanity · Media · USA

No, They Weren’t FORCED to Open a Whorehouse

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

WCBSTV.com - wcbstv.com - Housing Market Slump Forces Couple To Open Brothel
(CBS) NEW ROCHELLE The downturn in the housing market appears to have driven two Westchester homeowners to desperate and illegal measures.
New Rochelle Police raided a 3-bedroom home on North Avenue Friday night after undercover officers responded to a Craig’s List posting offering dominatrix services [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · General Stupidity · Media · Politics · USA

New York Times - Laws & the Move On Crowd

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

BLACKFIVE: Complaint filed with FEC over Betray Us ad
Sure, there’s Freedom of Speech. There’s also Freedom of The Press. But there are also checks on both of those in certain circumstances.
You see, there are laws on what can be sold and how sales can be conducted all over the nation for [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · Humor · Media · Military · Politics · USA

Michael Vick Suspended by NFL Indefinitely and Without Pay

August 26th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - NFL Suspends Michael Vick Indefinitely, Without Pay - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the Atlanta Falcons quarterback indefinitely without pay…
This is great news if you ask me. I’ve made my feelings known about this case in an earlier post, but I’ll sum them [...]

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Tags: General BS · Media

Rant: $6,000,000 Federal Grant to Soundproof Houses Near LAX

August 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

.:: Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World’s Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service ::. FAA’s Blakey Announces Grant to Soundproof Houses Near LAX
I’ll be right up front in this post just as I was in the title - If you don’t want to read a rant about SIX MILLION FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS going to soundproof [...]

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Tags: Aviation Stuff · Complete BS · Government BS · Insanity · Media · USA

Racism Suit Verdict Makes News - Because of Race

August 24th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - White Man Awarded $150,000 in Racism Lawsuit - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A federal jury awarded a white man $150,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit Wednesday.
Mark Pasternak, who is white, said he was dismissed from his state job helping troubled youths because he [...]

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Tags: Media · Politics · USA

First Guns, Then Knives

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

From the British press we read:
Stab-proof school uniforms go on sale to protect pupils from knife attacks | the Daily Mail
Parents are sending children to school in stab-proof uniforms to guard against knife crime, it has emerged.
They are paying a firm which makes body armour to line blazers and jumpers with a stab-resistant material called [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · Complete BS · Gun Rights · Insanity · Knife Rights · Media · Politics

NEWS ALERT!!! ANN COULTER - SHE DEVIL! And a foxy one at that!!!

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Report: John Edwards Calls Ann Coulter ‘She-Devil’ - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
An ongoing feud between Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and conservative political commentator Ann Coulter elevated after Edwards referred to Coulter as a “she-devil,” Editor & Publisher reported Friday.
This one had me laughing my butt off [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · Humor · Media · Politics · USA

Reeboks For MANPADS - Surface to Air Missile Exchanged for Shoes

August 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Cops ask for guns, get missile launcher — OrlandoSentinel.com

The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Florida Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter.
I’m not of the mind that “taking guns off the street” is going to make the streets all that [...]

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Tags: Insanity · Media · Military

Media Needs Firearms Classes - More Propaganda From Iraq

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I was reading my daily dose of Neptunus Lex when I found this story.

According to Blackfive and The Autonomist, the original caption for the photo read (the link has, mysteriously, gone dead):
An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · Complete BS · GWOT · Media