Blue Star Chronicles

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One of my pet peeves is hearing progressives make the statement, ‘I support the Troops, I just don’t support the war.’

That is patently hypocritical and ridiculous. You can’t support the Troops unless you support the mission. As I’ve written over and over again, undermining the mission is the same as undermining the Troops. When you criticize the war for the world to hear you are culpable in getting American Troops killed.

This video shows a little of what the Troops really think. It came from an NBC news story. How often have you seen it played on the MSM??

“If they’re gonna support us, support us all the way.”

“[The Apache Company] worries their country may be abandoning the mission they died for.”

Go vote for it at YouTube and at Digg to keep it up top. Let the world know that Americans really DO support our troops.

This Weeks Hero Was Submitted By Mark Bell

LCpl. Nicholas J. Manoukian
22 years old from Lathrup, Michigan
1st Marines 6th Batallion 2nd Marine Division
Oct 21, 2006

Here is a website that LCpl. Manoukian’s mother set up for her son after he lost his life in Ramadi.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. If you would like to participate in honoring the brave men and women who serve this great country, you can find out how by clicking here.

Do you hear the calls for a challenge to U.S. power? It is everywhere these days. Now that the Soviet Cold War threat has dissolved, who needs the United States to fend off the bullies in the global playground. Those who believe that economic prosperity and life will continue to be merry without U.S. leadership may want to think again. Better yet, can the global economy afford to exist without direction and leadership in general?

Let’s say the U.S. were to gradually lose power and influence to the point where nations either scrambled to defend themselves or formed alliances in a new bid to seize control over territory and precious resources. Sounds a lot like the imperialism of the early 1900s to me. Well, maybe with a few more players.

It is in our time of economic insecurity that the worst humanity is revealed. Whether it is via terrorist attacks, religious extremism, imperialism, civil war, corporate scandal, and so on. The list goes on. I do not purposely mean to ruin the party, stop the parade, or be a contrarian. It is just my nature to question authority and ask the difficult questions that most people are either too bothered or busy to think/care about. We actually make problems bigger than they are by covering up the scars or ignoring the signs. Can we really afford to kid ourselves into believing that no matter what happens everything will be fine?

I think history would tend to argue otherwise…

Over at MSNBC, Fareed Zakaria writes, “The world today bears some resemblance to the 1920s, when a newly globalized economy was booming, and science and technological change were utterly transforming life. (Think of the high-tech of the time—electricity, radio, movies and cars, among other recent inventions.) But with Britain declining and America isolationist, that was truly a world without political direction. Eventually protectionism, nationalism, xenophobia and war engulfed it.

In a provocative essay in Foreign Policy three years ago, the British historian Niall Ferguson speculated that the end of American hegemony might not fuel an orderly shift to a multipolar system but a descent into a world of highly fragmented powers, with no one exercising any global leadership. He called this “apolarity.” “Apolarity could turn out to mean an anarchic new Dark Age,” Ferguson wrote, “an era of waning empires and religious fanaticism, of economic plunder and pillage in the world’s forgotten regions, of economic stagnation, and civilization’s retreat into a few fortified enclaves.” That might be a little farfetched. But for those who have been fondly waiting for the waning of American dominance—be careful what you wish for.” (Source: MSNBC)

In my estimation, Zakaria has hit the nail on the head. He takes into account historical relevance most often forgotten by today’s leaders. Maybe this is just a phenomenon that out of our hands. The problem, specifically within the past century in regards to the global economy lies in the false sense of security and our inability to conduct a sustainable economy. If you think the good times will last forever maybe it is time to put on your reality cap.

I think in general we have been pampered and conditioned to believe that the bullish rallies since ‘82, running massive debt/trade imbalance, wasteful habits, irrational behavior, etc. can go unchecked. Every expansion has a contraction period, although much shorter in length due to the population expansion and progress of man. This global pullback may not happen in the new few years, but something will eventually give when natural forces begin to pull economies and civilizations back into balance. Every major superpower and empire in time has been thrusted into the spotlight only to see internal and external forces become unfavorable and unable to be overcome. Just as the sun rises and sets, heats and cools, and seasons change, so too will the roaring 2000s.

In life you cannot be afraid to ask if something is too good to be true, because it is most often the case. Then again, we do have the ability to change our fortunes. We are not necessarily destined for doom here. Alternative courses are chosen every single day. Could globalization and the Internet bring people closer together? I certainly hope so. Instead of turning on itself, maybe the globe will become flat and its citizens destined for a place of greatness.

Hope for a better life, for love, for freedom because without it…the dream can fall apart.

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I wish I’d written that!

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If we’d been doing this all along the battle in Iraq would have already been over …..

Since her father’s tragic death in September 2006, the precocious Bindi Irwin has emerged to carry on his work. She shares her father’s passion for wildlife and his personality. She is in the process of charming the world in much the same way her father did.

Speaking at the National Press Club in D.C. recently she was asked what she thought of the media. She replied that she didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but, she continued, she likes snakes better.

As they say …. from the mouth of babes …..

h/t Ms. Underestimated

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Enjoy Toby Keith and check out the links below ….

Iraqi forces attacked an army of insurgents who called themselves ‘Soldiers of Heaven’, backed by Americans they killed the leader of the jihadists and killed between 200 - 300 enemy combatants.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials said Monday that U.S.-backed Iraqi troops had targeted a religious cult called “Soldiers of Heaven” in a weekend battle that left 200 fighters dead, including the group’s leader, near the Shiite holy city of Najaf. A military commander said hundreds of gunmen planned to disguise themselves as pilgrims and kill clerics on the holiest day of the Shiite calendar.

The Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said the raid on Sunday in date-palm orchards on the city’s outskirts was aimed against a group called the Jund al-Samaa, or Soldiers of Heaven, which appeared to have had links to Saddam Hussein loyalists and foreign fighters. Officials said the cult was hoping the violence it planned would force the return of the “hidden imam,” a 9th-century Shiite saint who Shiites believe will come again to bring peace and justice to the world.

This cult apparently has the same or similar belief system as the president of Iran, Ahmadinejad. This belief system has to do with creating chaos in order to hasten the return of the 12th Iman.

This was one of the largest battle fought in Iraq to date. It was certainly significant in the fact that the Iraqi Army took the lead in planning and executing an attack on intelligence that this group planned to assassinate pilgrims and clerics on a Shiite holy day pilgrimage.

Provincial Gov. Assad Sultan Abu Kilel said the insurgents had planned to attack Shiite pilgrims and senior clerics in Najaf during ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar commemorating the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

The fighting went on all day. The Iraqi army called for backup from American and British troops who backed them up.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mysterious group of religious zealots who fought a fierce battle with American and Iraqi troops on Sunday were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and five anti-aircraft machine guns rigged on tractors - raising questions about how a group with no known ties to Iraq’s current cast of political organizations came to be so well equipped and trained.

“They fought according to a military arrangement, and they moved as platoons and companies,” Abdul Hussein Abtan, the deputy governor of Najaf, said Monday.

Ali Nomas, a spokesman for the security forces in Najaf, said the militants, who numbered from 1,000 to 1,500, had purchased farms and surrounded them with a dirt barricade and a bulldozed trench. More than 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 700 rocket-propelled grenades were recovered after the battle, Nomas said.

Among the 300 or so militants killed in Sunday’s fighting was the group’s leader, Iraqi authorities said. As many as 400 others were arrested, including some dressed as Afghan fighters, Iraqi spokesmen said. U.S. officials put the number of arrests at more than 100.

This was a significant battle, a huge victory for Iraqi and American Troops and it’s not hardly mentioned in the news. When it is mentioned, it is mentioned in terms of the American helicopter shot down (so there can be more added to the MSMs obsession with body counting), a sappy NYTs article on the effect of one bullet, that a mortar hit a school yard (it actually hit the school yard the day before, but they make it sound like that was part of the battle).

It’s sad to me that we can’t celebrate the victories of our Troops and only focus on the sensational, emotional stories that will help to garner discontent and a sense that we are losing the war. Further proof that the progressives really do want us to lose this war and weaken America.

HOOAH!!!!! Our Troops ROCK!!!!

LindaSog has video of the battle.
MSN has some video

Where’s the Outrage calls this a bold move on the part of the insurgents. He states they obviously thought they could pull it off. I wonder where they would have gotten that emboldened?? Can’t imagine!

More: Outside the Beltway, Iraq the Model, Common Sense America, PAXALLES, STACLU

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Presidential Candidate John Edwards is building his presidential campaign on the values of socialism, redistribution of wealth and the like. He talks about the two Americas, the very wealthy and the very poor. He has pledged to alleviate poverty and help the working poor.

He has gotten off to a good start by giving a whole lot of people jobs in construction. Surely it was Americans that built his house. They had jobs anyway.

The Breck Girl candidate has built himself a 29,000-square-foot mansion. TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND SQUARE FEET!!!!

Elizabeth Edwards says it’s not pretentious though ….

She said there is nothing ‘grandiose’ about the house and that it was designed to be a functional home with room for her children to play outdoors and a large kitchen to entertain friends and family.

‘This house is a truly fabulous family home,’ she said. ‘The house has one fireplace, no grand staircase. Its not unlike our lives in smaller quarters for over 30 years, starting with John’s apartment in Oakwood.’

She portrayed their lifestyle as lacking pretension.

‘We don’t take fancy vacations,’ she said. ‘When the kids were young, we used frequent flyer miles to take a trip to Europe. We don’t have jewelry. We don’t have furs. We don’t have fancy cars. Those kinds of accoutrements don’t matter to him. What matters to him is home.’

That’s good - it’s just a nice family home

From the Carolina Journal Online

The rambling structure sits in the middle of a 102-acre estate on Old Greensboro Road west of Chapel Hill. The heavily wooded site and winding driveway ensure that the home is not visible from the road. ‘No Trespassing’ signs discourage passersby from venturing past the gate.

Ambulance chasing has obviously paid quite well!! I hope he doesn’t lose votes on account of this. I’m thinking the tree huggers are going to be a little upset because of all the trees that had to be laid to waste so that he’d have enough room for this non-pretentious structure. And what about PETA?? Think of all the displaced animals who’ll have to find another home somewhere to make room for the Edwardses’ new digs.

One thing I have not ever understood about socialism in America, the people who want to re-distribute wealth the most are the wealthiest. I would think that was noble on their part except they don’t seem to ever be thinking of re-distributing their own wealth.

They just want you and me to pay more to help alleviated poverty. I guess their contribution is in telling us how much we are obligated to give to other people.

The upside is that no one in the family will ever have to see anyone else in the family if they don’t want to.

tiara tip: Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Rep. Keith Ellison’s political stunt, in which he took his oath of office on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, garnered lots of adulatory reviews from the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media. They saw it as an excellent put-down of right-wing Christians and other conservatives who objected to Ellison using a Koran, and as a political maneuver there’s no doubt it worked well.

But Christopher Hitchens points out that we still have not heard an unambivalent repudiation from Ellison of his long association with the Nation of Islam hate cult—and the ultimate irony of the Koran stunt is at Ellison’s expense: What Jefferson really thought about Islam.

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More:
America’s Earliest Terrorists
From the Median Sib: If Thomas Jefferson were President Now
The Random Yak: Learning from Islam: War is the Only Solution, per Thomas Jefferson

What does the Marine anthem say? ”From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country’s battles on the land and on the sea.”

America’s military defeated Islamic terrorism in the early 19th century, and if Thomas Jefferson were leading the Democratic Party today he would despise their cries of appeasement and submission (which is the meaning of the term “Muslim”)and he would support the war in Iraq against Islamic terrorism today.

The article below is actually on Huffington Post. I had to read it twice to be sure I wasn’t mis-reading and missing the punch line that everything wrong in the world is Bush’s fault. It wasn’t there. It’s a reasonable and I believe, right on target article about how the progressives are contributing to the demise of our once great nation.

Greg Gutfeld writes:

Whenever I visit this lovely blog, I usually run into someone - a “leftist,” if you will - who finds pleasure in things that make our country or the President look bad. I suppose I could say these angry types are no better than cheerleaders for terrorism. After all, both entities - the left and terrorists - seem to share the same desire: to put the US, humiliatingly, in its place.

But I would be wrong to say such things. Very wrong. Of course, “dissent is patriotic,” and the left is only critical of America because it simply loves our country much more than I do.

Yes - we’ve all heard the ‘dissent is patriotic’ meme. I’ve been told that several times just today.

That’s why calling them terrorists would be intolerant and pretty shameful.

But what about “patriotic terrorists?”

That’s kinda neat.

What is a patriotic terrorist?

I think he might have just coined a new phrase!!!

It is an American who claims to love his or her country while enjoying the enemy’s success against said country. It is a person who gets deeply offended if you question their patriotism, while also appearing to share the same ideals of the more spirited folk who like to blow up innocent people.

WOAH!!! And there’s more…..

Patriotic terrorists love America with so much intensity that it appears to the untrained eye that they hate it. But it’s actually the most powerful form of “tough love” known to man, woman and Rosie O’Donnell. Patriotic terrorists love America so much that they realize it needs an intervention - and real terror is the only way to enable that intervention. In fact, to keep a mammoth, arrogant superpower like America in check, terrorism is the only thing we’ve got. Noam Chomsky knew this from the start, making him a patriotic terrorist of the highest order.

This is why he gets the chicks.

Hey, I bet you’ve probably wondered why Al Qaeda hasn’t struck in the US since 9/11. They don’t have to. It has its own offshoot franchise here at work already. Patriotic Terrorists.

My Beloved Curmudgeon has made this assertion many times and I’ve agreed with him. There is no need for another attack at the moment. We are being torn apart quite nicely by our enemies from within. The leaders of al-Qaeda and other terrorists groups (whether Osama is still alive and running things or not) know very well that if they attack us directly again, it will only serve to unite us. They are much better off sitting back and letting us tear ourselves apart. We are appearing weaker to the world every day.

He goes on to list what the groups have in common…

Think about how much both groups have in common!

-Both patriotic terrorists and Al Qaeda want the US to abandon Iraq, for that reveals Bush and America to be monstrous, laughable failures. It does not matter to either group that the withdrawal from Iraq will make post-Vietnam look like an afternoon at Ikea shopping for a Hoggbo innerspring mattress.

-For patriotic terrorists and real terrorists, car bombs going off is music to their ears. It proves that you can’t offer democracy to troubled countries, as long as you’ve got terrorists standing in your way. And that’s great news for everyone who believes in checks and balances between the haves and the have nots! (Note: “haves” means the US. “Have nots” means those who hate the US)

-Patriotic terrorists and the more committed terrorists both believe that infractions at Guantanamo Bay are far worse than anything a genocidal dictator could muster, and such horrors possess far more PR potential in denigrating the US than anything involving Ed Begley Jr.

-Both patriotic terrorists and Al Qaeda terrorists believe the US desires to control the Middle East, empower evil Israel and expand it’s power base at the expense of innocent Arab lives. But both groups also realize that the US is too stupid to achieve these goals - and that makes being a patriotic terrorist loads of fun!

Can a progressive evaluate him/herself honestly?

Are you a patriotic terrorist?

If you are intensely critical of the US, while tolerating homicidal enemies who condemn everything you previously claimed you are for - human rights, voting rights, gay rights, women’s rights, porn - then you’re a patriotic terrorist.

If you talk about tolerance constantly - and hilariously tolerate genocide and suicide bombers because those actions undermine your more intimate opposition, the American right - then you’re a patriotic terrorist.

The only difference between a patriotic terrorist and a real one? Real terrorists are simply patriotic terrorists who’ve taken the extra step - choosing to actually die for their beliefs - rather than simply talking about them at Spago. If Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and their ilk had real cojones, they’d all be wearing cute black vests - but stuffed with more than dog-eared copies of Deterring Democracy.

I’ve been called a coward and many other things by that ilk on this internet. And here, right off the Huffers very own blog they are being asked if they have cojones.

I’m telling you, strange things are afoot! Is it the end of days? Don’t worry too much, he’s being viscously abused in the comments to the post, so there are still some constants we can count on.

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Not much has changed for JANE FONDA …..

She shows her true anti-American, traitorous colors again today in a pathetically attended ‘peace rally’ in Washington. The attendance was primarily 60-somethings reliving the 1960s. People who had one claim to fame and now want to get in front of the cameras again in what they THINK is a welcoming climate for sedition and treason.

WRONG!!!!

The democrats didn’t win the House and Senate because Americans want to retreat and lose the war. The democrats got into office because the American people want our leadership to show a scintilla of GUTS AND COURAGE!!

WE ARE SICK of PUSSY-FOOTING around and politicians who can’t take a stand on ANYTHING and who USE OUR SOLDIERS for their own POLITICAL GAIN.

Now, these ignorant hollywood elitists think they have an audience for their worn out slogans and sayings.

Read what this vermin, Jane Fonda, has to say now ….

`I haven’t spoken at an anti-war rally in 34 years because of lies about me that were used to hurt the anti-war movement,” [source]

LIES???? Then it was our imagination that you recorded propaganda footage for the enemy back then? It was our imagination that you SAT on an anti-aircraft gun that was used to shoot down AMERICAN planes??? You LIED about the condition of American POWs held in Hanoi??? We just imagined all that.

You can only get away with calling everyone else a liar, Jane, when your audience is people who are living in the same delusion or a bunch of college students who don’t REMEMBER what you did!

She tells the crowd she is ’saddened that we haven’t learned from the Vietnam War’. I say to YOU JANE that it’s pretty dadgume sad that you haven’t learned how to be a decent human being and YOU are still making the same mistakes you made during the Vietnam War. You are still a traitor and you still go out of your way to do HARM to American Soldiers.

Janie makes a passing comment of ’support for the troops and the mother’s of Soldiers’. WELL - KEEP YOUR KIND OF SUPPORT TO YOURSELF. You speak of support and try to give a passing disingenuous moment of sensitivity to the feelings of Soldiers and their Mothers.

Let me tell you JANIE - I don’t want your FAKE sensitivity and concern. You aren’t a good enough actress to pull off sincerity.

YOU and all the others who repeat the mantra that they support the Troops but don’t support the mission are fools and liars. It is IMPOSSIBLE to support the Troops and not the mission. As you undermine the mission, you undermine the Troops and you get more killed. JUST LIKE YOU DID IN VIETNAM YOU PIECE OF LYING NARCISSISTIC WHITE TRASH!

Jane - you were stupid white trash then and you are stupid white trash now.

Go get your hair and nails done and leave matters of importance to people who have an IQ above room temperature.

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Israelated has a much more coherent article about this and reminds us of Jane’s semi-apology. But here she is, doing it again.

Howard County Maryland Blog wonders if John Carry will be there too?? You know, for this publicity stunt protest.

Sweetness & Light has photos and commentary. It’s funny how the SAME faces are in all these protest pictures. I feel like I’m getting to know all the Code Pink fanatics, I see them in all the pics from all these protests. Not just that - but the same people are in all the photos to show the ‘crowds’. Gee, couldn’t they have gotten different faces from the crowds?

Michelle Malkin notices how much attention this rally gets versus the TENS OF THOUSANDS of Pro-Life marchers.

Little Green Footballs has photos of the anit-war protest with the new anti-war slogan ‘Just Poop’. You figure it out.

The American Pugilist Citizen is taking notes and lessons on PR from the moonbats.

The Median Sib notices the MSM referred to the ‘peaceful protest’ that was not too peaceful with 300 rushing the Capital and scuffling with police who were trying to restrain them.

UPDATE: The best line I’ve seen in regards to the Hanoi Jane raising her nasty head again comes from Southern Sass -

I find you lower than a yeller belly suck egg dog

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

She also starts out her post with a line from SNL, ‘Jane, you ignorant slut’. EXCELLENT! Even better, she reminds us of the facts surrounding Hanoi Jane’s treason and disgrace from the Vietnam era. Just in case someone doesn’t remember - we do have short attention spans.

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