Senate RINO introduces a noble piece of legislation

Eternal Rest for Veterans Act of 2011

"The United States Supreme Court ruled that Fred Phelps’ actions are protected under the First Amendment. But the SERVE Act protects the rights of families to mourn the loss of a loved one at a military funeral with the dignity and solemnity appropriate for the occasion. Senator Snowe testified before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing and also spoke with Military Families United about the SERVE Act."



Where will they picket next?  The Westboro Baptist Church's site is often the target of hackers and has been offline, but for now you can check them out.

WBC photos

Here is a current list of their planned targets.

May God bless the Patriot Guard Riders who stand between those who mock our soldiers' funerals and the families who mourn the loss on their soldier.



Fact-Checking Limbaugh's Seminar Caller

American Thinker  " On Thursday, a victim of the Reid-Pelosi recession -- an out-of-work lawyer -- phoned Rush Limbaugh's conservative radio show, suggesting a revival of Depression-era Keynesian spending. Here is the transcript. On the fly, Mr. Limbaugh responded quite well to the caller's claims, which also are fact-checked below.

"Sensing that it was a "seminar caller", Limbaugh adroitly refused to accept the caller's premises. (After the call, the host explained that Clinton aide Dick Morris produced seminars many years ago, training Democrats to get on conservative shows and parrot Democrat talking points)."

http://politicalwire.com/aggregator/

Leftist Hollywood; Not just unashamed, but proud of their bias

Where Are You, Norman Lear?  "Unfortunately, Di Bona  is a high-ranking member of the Caucus. Disgusted by Di Bona's admissions, Lionel quit the Caucus. He was soon joined by mega-producer Norman Powell. "I knew most of my fellow members looked upon [conservative] political positions ... as distasteful,"

Chetwynd wrote in his resignation letter. "What I now understand is the disgust was not for their views, but for their very person. Such people, Mr. Shapiro's sources make clear, must be silenced, and it is therefore proper to make them suffer discrimination."

"The fallout was immediate and intense. The New York Times covered it. So did The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.

"But was Hollywood upset? Of course not." More...    By Ben Shapiro in Big Hollywood

Lionel Chetwynd’s Letter of Resignation to Caucus for Producers, Writers [and] Directors
..."I realize, now, the enormous special obstacles put in my path by my supposed colleagues, obstacles that over the years made earning a living or a quiet pursuit of my trade so unusually onerous, were not a matter of political difference; they were a declaration of my unworthiness to be one of them. The rejection was not of my ideas, but of my person." Via A Hollywood Republican

The exception that proves the rule? "Law and Order" does the right thing?
Surprisingly sensitive portrayals of pro-life views . . . on network TV?  "“I am used to seeing pro-lifers marginalized and dismissed as narrow minded religious zealots. This was one of the most fair-minded and even-handed presentations of this critical and persistent legal and moral issue.""

The above is a surprise because L and O usually does stuff like this: "Law [and] Order": another TV show that sucker-punches half the American population "  From the Tunnel Wall, Feb 28th, 2011.

More obscene revelations from Washington

By Rich Terrell at terrellaftermath.com

Americans Will Suffer Under New Obamacare Mandates

Heritage  "Many businesses affected by Obamacare—those not lucky enough to receive the coveted waivers—now view their slimming insurance options with extreme caution.

"A shocking new study out by McKinsey and Company finds that 30–50 percent of employers who currently provide health insurance for their employees are likely to drop their coverage. Yes, that’s right. Even if you like your insurance, you will not be able to keep it, as President Obama often and famously promised.

"Obamacare offers subsidies to low- and middle-income workers who don’t have employer coverage while fining employers that do not offer coverage. But for employers, paying the fines will be a lot less expensive than continuing to offer coverage."

Britain, forgive him for he knows not what he does!

Our next Republican president should make an apology tour of our allies' capitals, bowing to them and apologizing for their treatment at the hands of the Obama administration. TD

Obama Top Ten Insults Against Britain 2011 "The American people must understand that the president of the United States does not have our good intentions. Obama is destroying the very fabric our founding fathers put forth onto this land. From the economy to national security, America is losing our exceptional status and maintaining world security. By alienating our allies like Great Britain and Israel, Obama is emboldening our enemies like Iran, Syria, Argentina, Nicaragua, North Korea, al-Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Top 10 Obama Insults to Great Britain."...

Obama States the Falklands Does Not Belong to the British   "In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua.
"The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. "

As in the case of Israel, it it just Obama being Obama. He's scary enough, but the real terror is knowing that Americans are capable of electing someone like this man, merely because he is nothing more than a celebrity. TD

President Obama Should Side with Britain over the Falkland Islands  "The Special Relationship is vital to the interests of both the United States and Great Britain, and its preservation is of paramount importance to the defense of freedom and liberty across the world. It is time for President Obama to put his words into action by recognizing and supporting British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and standing by America’s closest ally."  Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. via Heritage
 Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., is the Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.

President Ali Bongo

Related, if you stop to think about it:

Obama Welcomes Thieving African Dictator to White House…   "Jack Blum, a United Nations consultant and expert on offshore banking, said that the invitation sends a disturbing message. Blum estimates that in years past the Bongo family and its cronies have “siphon[ed] off 25 percent of the gross domestic product of the country. And it’s made them incredibly rich.”

Kirsten Powers, Anthony Weiner's Ex: He Lied to Me

The Daily Beast  "Anthony Weiner’s former girlfriend, Kirsten Powers, defended him on TV to millions of people after he insisted to her that he didn’t send lewd photos on Twitter. Now she takes him to task for his rampant misogyny—and says he must resign immediately."

It seems there was nobody he didn’t lie to. The New York Times reported this morning that he told donors a week ago that the scandal was the result of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” and that “everything [would] be fine.” 

Kirsten Powers is a columnist for The Daily Beast. She is also a political analyst on Fox News and a writer for the New York Post. She served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1998 and has worked in New York state and city politics. Her writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Observer, Salon.com, Elle magazine, and American Prospect online.


Kirsten Powers is a liberal whom I respect for her ability to add to a dialog rather than destroy it. It is always such a relief to see her on "Fox News Watch" rather than the haranguing Alan Colmes.

Our Free press; watchdog against corruption!

2006 issue

Time, Newsweek Offered Cover Stories, 15 Pages to Mark Foley in 2006; But About 160 Tiny Words on Weinergate  "Obviously, there were no Anthony Weiner cover stories this week (dated June 13): Time had Dr. Oz, and Newsweek mocked Mitt Romney’s Mormonism as they promoted the vulgar South Park musical "The Book of Mormon." How many Weinergate pages inside? Do you have to guess? There's not a "page" at all.

"Time magazine was funnier: try reading the whole issue for any mention of Weiner. There’s no news story, no funny quote from Weiner about “certitude” in the “Verbatim” feature. Then on page 83, in tiny six-point type in the “Pop Chart” feature, there are these tiny words: “A college student received a lewd picture from his allegedly hacked Twitter account.”

"Thirteen words and an tiny, upside-down picture."



townhall.com/political-cartoons/natebeeler

 Notable Quotables  "Need "Courage" to Raise Taxes; Tea Party Nothing But "Haters"" An assortment of liberal talking points spoken by our press members. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Land of the Lawless

Victor Davis Hanson  "In that regard, an administration is sworn to uphold the established law; why, then, was the Defense of Marriage Act arbitrarily rendered null and void without legislative appeal, simply because it was considered illiberal by those now with executive power? "
....

"The Left simply disregards its former purported role as guardians of constitutional law, and grows quiet, again on the apparent logic that the rare progressive presidency is simply too precious a commodity to endanger by maintaining any consistent criticism in the manner it once went after the Bush administration.

"Imagine the reaction of the New York Times, NPR, or a Senator Obama, had a President Palin decided to bomb Iran off and on for 70 days without congressional consultation, or had she decided to throw open the US border to any from Europe who could fly in, or had she violated union contracts to favor junior Wall Street creditors, or had she demanded that an Al Gore organization plop down several million in a contingency fund for the damage it had done oil workers by obstructing efforts of companies to gain oil leases."

Obama: Hope, Change, and the Occasional Sex Dream

Ann Coulter  ...""We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."

A Democrat

"Someone who was listening to Sharpton later decided to storm the store and start shooting, wounding several employees, and setting a fire that killed seven people.

"Of course, after all this, Sharpton became a pariah -- oh wait! In the opposite of being exiled, he became famous, ran for president as a Democrat and Al Gore kissed his ring, after these events.

"In January of this year, Sharpton was repeatedly rolled out as the expert commentator on civil discourse -- on NBC's "Meet the Press," NPR, CNN and MSNBC. As MSNBC's Ed Schultz said in introducing him, "Al Sharpton is on a crusade against hate speech on talk radio.""

The last thing Osama bin Laden saw

"A couple of things to notice:

50 caliber sniper on the right.
Knee, knuckle and forearm protection.
Various plastic/wire ties.
Absolute identity denial to protect their families.
Free choice of footwear.
Fourth from the right has three artillery simulators and CS gas grenades on his belly. He’s the 'shock and awe' guy.

Group Photo of Seal Team Six, . . . . . . .

and you can imagine the look on Bin Laden's face when these guys came through the door?"

Sent to the Tunnel Dweller by Bob Hope, a Marine who was stationed with the Dweller at Marine Barracks; Hawthorne, Nevada back in '58. The photo label does not specify they are from SEAL Team Six- only that they are SEALs. But I think we can say with certainty that those SEALs who said goodbye to OBL were not dressed in sport coats and white buck shoes.

 

American youth and their nation's history; a dialog between bloggers; Update: Betraying Our History

This was an exchange of comments between fellow blogger/ mentor Ron Barbour and the Tunnel Dweller regarding recent TW posts on D-Day . I found Ron's account to be of great interest and wanted you all to see what he wrote about his father. (Link repaired)

Ronbo:

Thanks for posting the excellent article on D-Day!
My dad was in the Navy and there on D-Day as a driver of a landing taking the soldiers into "Bloody Omaha" - a German 88 managed to put a shell into the middle of his boat just after the G.I.s had cleared off. He was blown up in the air and landed in water just feet off the beach and under machine gun fire.
He said by this time he was very P.O.'d at the Germans (who turned out to be Poles, as they found out later) and started shooting back at them with an M-1 from a dead soldier. The ship wrecked sailors joined up with the infantry and attacked the German machine gunners, since it was clear that if they didn't kill them, the Krauts would get them.
Anyhow, long story short, he and his fellow sailors spent several weeks on the beach, (although no combat after the beach was secured) as the wounded had priority on shipping back to England, and the beachmaster needed all the help he could get...for example, putting the wounded on landing crafts and pulling the dead out of the water.
Did you see, "Saving Private Ryan?" The first part of the movie very accurately followed what dad told me years before about his part of D-Day. The thing dad said he would never forget about Omaha was the sound the machine gun bullets striking the landing crafts made, which was portrayed in the movie as well.
They were tough old birds in those days! I think dad should have received a medal for D-Day, but on D-Day at that little piece of hell they were all heroes. My dad passed away in 1989 from a heart attack that took him out in an instant, but I'm sure he wouldn't like the Navy these days - They did away with the traditional "sailor suit!" Can you believe it? The bell bottoms and Dixie cup hat! Dad loved that uniform and that's why he joined the Navy just after Pearl Harbor!!!

Tunnel Dweller:

I read another account of captured Poles defending Omaha Beach who told our guys they were deliberately trying to miss. That didn't seem to be the case here, but German foreign units usually had a German NCO leading them. He might have put a gun to the Poles' heads.
Of course, If you'd captured me there, I'd probably have told you and your buddies that I was trying not to hit you.
Not many of those guys are left now.  Bill

Ronbo: 

The WW II veterans are dying at the rate of hundreds per day.
Speaking of which - Saturday a young 20 something guy here in Seattle, after checking out my grey hair, asked me if I'd been in WW II when I told him I was an Army veteran.
I told him no..."Vietnam War veteran."
"Did we win that one?" he asked.
I said, "When I left, we were."
Cheers, Ronbo

TD:

Great answer. Typical northwest teenager? Hey, dude, let's vote for Obama, he's like, really cool and stuff.

Ronbo:

As a former high school teacher history teacher (1986-89), I can tell you from first hand experience that history is not taught in government schools anymore.

This is the reason about 10% of the population send their kids to private education, opt for home schools and/or Internet education.
I could tell stories about how ignorant my students were of basic historical facts, such as the girl who believed the London Underground was [were] resistance fighters against the German occupation in WW II, or the boy who thought Florida fought on the UNION side in the civil war.
Cheers, Ronbo

TD:

Well educated history students would learn that Lincoln in the civil war was plagued by slave-tolerating Democrats who were anti-war and ready to sell out the Union for peace at any price.
And that Z-Big Brzezinski wanted the US to fire on Israeli planes just as the Vichy French in World War 2 fought the British and Americans for their German masters. There must be something in American food that keeps our people's frontal brain lobes from developing; they will not learn - cannot be made to learn - anything from History.
Semper Fi,
Tunnel Dweller

Meanwhile, airhead celebrities and  journalists self-righteously pontificate against those who defend America, then sleep the sleep of the secure thanks to the sacrifice of people made from so much better stuff than they.

http://www.clker.com/clipart-24318.html

Warriors of Vietnam, please forgive us for the way we either treated you or allowed others to treat you.  I consider the chicken-foot "peace"symbol- now back in style- to be a slap in your face.   TD 

Update: Betraying Our History "A nation has to have a collective memory of the events that shaped it and a collective knowledge of its most important, essential documents. If the statistics about more recent generations passing through our schools are any indication, they do not.

"That is an act of betrayal. I can’t prove that it is deliberate, but it surely does not bode well for a nation so poorly led by its elected representatives since June 6, 1944 that it constitutes an insult to the sacrifices and acts of valor that day represents."  Alan Caruba; Warning Signs blog

This is the perfect companion article to the former.