Clintonian* Version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

November 13th, 1999

The Good: President Bill Clinton agrees to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit.

The Bad: Paula Jones' lawyers get the lion's share of $850,000 settlement;
Jones will collect only 200,000

The Ugly: on January 6, 1998, less than two weeks before she was to meet Clinton face-to-face during his deposition, Jones announced that the Justice Department was looking into how she became the target of an IRS audit.

The Clintons were infamous for wielding IRS audits like a weapon against their "enemies".

Amongst the auditees:

Billy Dale, 1993, White House Travel Office Chief - a nonpolitical WH worker who served presidents since JFK; he & 6 coworkers were summarily dismissed on Hillary's orders because she wanted 'those slots for our people'; to justify Dale's firing the Clinton WH accused him of embezzlement (acquitted in less than 90 minutes)-cost to the taxpayers $500,000; Travelgate investigators uncovered Hillary Clinton memo stating IRS commissioner was personally on top of the Dale audit.

and ...

Clinton critics: Kent Masterson Brown (Hillary-care critic); IRS critic Shelly Davis; Patricia Mendoza (who confronted Bubba at a public event after the 1996 terrorist attack on Khobar Towers AF base); Bill O'Reilly (FOX news); Chuck Harder - radio host

Clinton 'women': Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick

Conservative publications: The National Review & the American Spectator,
Conservative Groups: The Christian Coalition, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Oliver North's Freedom Alliance, NRA & Fortress America

Just as Congress was beginning to take note, IRS Commissioner and Yale friend Margaret Richardson resigned in 1997

*Clintonian: referring to any sex act except for penile to vaginal penetration. Most commonly used for oral sex.

Not Forgotten: America's Veterans

If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English, thank a member of the United States military."

"Because as I look around at the state of this nation and see all of the weak little pampered candy-asses that are whining about this or protesting that, I’d be afraid to leave the fate of this nation entirely up to them." -- A US soldier in Iraq on why he re-enlisted.


"We sometimes forget, but freedom isn't free."
-- Johnny Spann, father of CIA officer Mike Spann,
the first American casualty in the war against terror


It is the Soldier, not the reporter who has given us freedom of press
It is the Soldier, not the poet who has given us freedom of speech
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us freedom to demonstrate
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and who's coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
-- Father Dennis Edward O'Brien

Happy Birthday, Marines!

November 10th

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two Battalions of Marines.

Nicholas set up shop that very day in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia. He appointed Robert Mullan, then the proprietor & barkeep of the tavern, to the job of chief Marine Recruiter.

Lured by the opportunity to serve in the new Corps of Marines - and the promise of cold beer - prospective recruits flocked to Tun Tavern.

The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called Airman.
The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called Sailor.
The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called Soldier.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps is proud to be called United States Marine.

America, Home of the Free
Because of the Brave.

The Flag raising on Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945
Iwo Jima was secured on March 26th after a 35-day battle.

Marines suffered 25,851 casualties.

Once a Marine, Always a Marine

The headstone of Lee Marvin, Academy Award-winning actor, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Note the epitaph.

This is what Marvin specified in his will.

Some Famous Names, Also Marines

Don Adams, Bea Arthur, Orville Burrell (aka 'Shaggy')Rod Carew, Drew Carey, Roberto Clemente, Mike Connors, Brian Dennehy, R. Lee Ermey, Don & Phil Everly, Glenn Ford, John Glenn, Scott Glenn, Gene Hackman, Gil Hodges, Harvey Keitel, Brian Keith, Bob Keeshan (Capt Kangaroo), Lee Marvin, Ed McMahon, Steve McQueen, Martin Milner, Ken Norton, Hugh O'Brien, George Peppard, Bum Phillips, Tyrone Power, Burt Reynolds, Robert Ryan, George C Scott, Leon Spinks, Leon Uris, James Whitmore, Montel Williams, Jonathan Winters

and Ted Williams, who served twice- WW II/1943-45 & Korea/1952-53

"I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps."
-- Jonathan Winters

and ... Bugs Bunny

The U.S. Marine Corps was so flattered that Bugs Bunny decides to become a Marine in the 1943 'Super Rabbit' film, they insisted Bugs be officially inducted into the Marines as a private, which was done, complete with dogtags. Bugs was regularly promoted until officially "discharged" as a Master Sergeant at the end of World War II.

"Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue"

296 Marines have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor -and of the 19 double MOH winners, 7 were Marines.

Including the youngest recipient since the Civil War:
PFC Jacklyn H. Lucas, Iwo Jima, 20 Feb 1945. He turned 17 just 5 days before the Battle for Iwo Jima began.


Uncommon valor is still a common virtue.



Corporal Jason Dunham

The latest Marine awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor, January 11 2007,

whose birthday is also November 10th.

Marine Lore:

All men are created equal, then some became Marines.
On the 7th Day God rested. Marines filled sandbags.
Death smiles at everyone, Marines smile back.
The most dangerous place is between a Marine and his country.
There is no better friend and no worse enemy than the U.S. Marine Corps.
U.S. Marine. Your freedom. His life without complaint.
You will die. I will die a Marine.

Now Drop and Give Me 232 !

Katie Couric: Elitist Defeatist

On Sept 25th, Katie Couric, still pretending to be a reporter, spoke at the National Press Club:

“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States ... was just a little uncomfortable.”

The wearing of flag pins is now a cultural thing?

 
This makes her 'uncomfortable'?
Is she kidding?

 
Instead of 'we Americans, what do you say, Ms. Couric? 

You Americans?

I would question Ms Couric's patriotism ... to find if she has any and for what country, because she sure doesn't have any for America.

Greg Gutfield:

"Katie and her ilk are uncomfortable with patriotism because, like religion, it takes the focus off of her. Her kind of patriotism is one of "dissent" and that's the kind our enemies love."

Then Contemptable Couric said on the Charlie Rose Show that she agreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on one point:

“Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture.”

Oh, I think Monkey-Man has made himself perfectly, revulsively clear ... Death to America.

'That particular culture' wants to destroy our society and culture and they are very happy to kill us to do it.

Too bad Ms Couric doesn't understand that.

Hilpocrisy

A new word has joined Clintonesque and Clintonian in our vocabulary:

Hilpocrisy

From Lowell Ponte:

"But one towering figure on today’s left continues to practice hypocrisy so haughtily brazen, disreputable, dishonest, and transparent that it deserves a new word to describe it.

I hereby dub the hyper-hypocrisy of Sen. Hillary Clinton “Hilpocrisy.”

Mrs. Clinton pretends to care about women, while enabling her husband's extramarital escapades.

Mrs. Clinton claims to be ethical, but she arm-twisted one of the law firms coordinating lawsuits against the tobacco industry to let her brother share in their booty, billing up to $7,000 per hour for his legal work.

Mrs. Clinton claims to oppose terrorism, but to help her campaign for a Senate seat, her president husband pardoned Puerto Rican terrorists involved in the maiming and murder of police officers. She then described as “murderers” New York City police officers who had never been convicted of any such crime, thereby fomenting minority hatred and violence against all police.

Mrs. Clinton acknowledge receiving $850,000 in campaign contributions from convicted criminal Norman Hsu and his intermediaries. She told reporters that she will return this money, but then refused to make public the names of any of these middlemen to whom her truckloads of dirty cash purportedly will be returned. No reporter can readily trace or link it to previous donations or corrupt sources or prove that Mrs. Clinton actually returned it.

Mrs. Clinton claims to support Israel. But when she headed a private foundation, Hillary channeled tens of thousands of dollars to the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was actively practicing violence against Israel, and she helped arrange a fundraiser for the PLO.

Mrs. Clinton in a Senate hearing told our commander in Iraq, Gen. John Petraeus, that “the reports you provide to us require the willing suspension of disbelief.” That is, Mrs. Clinton called this commander a liar to his face.

Her entire political career, from her miraculous $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures, to her feigned surprise that subpoenaed missing Rose Law Firm billing records were found next to her living quarters in the White House, has required a “willing suspension of disbelief” by voters.

Mrs. Clinton voted against the Terror Surveillance Act but listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics.

And as those who have followed Hillary Clinton’s career know, this list of her sins and falsehoods could continue for hundreds of pages.

Hilpocrisy now poisons our politics and saps our national will to win. America might not survive another eight years of Hilpocrisy in the Oval Office."

Restoring Voter Confidence

My US Senator occasionally deigns to send me email.

The title of the most recent: "Restoring Voter Confidence"

Oh WOW!

I thought maybe the nincompoop will actually begin listening to his constituents and maybe even do something worthwhile.

Nope.

Dear Friends,

Electronic touch voting machines won’t be used in future presidential and congressional elections if Congress passes a bill I filed today that bans most touch-screen devices and requires all voting machines to produce a paper receipt.

I met this morning with Florida's chief elections overseer, Kurt Browning, here in the nation's capital. As you may know, Florida recently imposed a state ban on touch-screen voting machines, and I modeled my bill, in part, after that statute. The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 would require all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper trail by next year’s presidential election and provides up to $1 billion for states to use for new voting equipment.

But most importantly, the bill would phase out the use of touch-screen voting machines in federal elections by 2012, a measure Browning said he supports.

A companion version of my bill in the House was passed by a key committee and awaits a vote by the full chamber.

Citizens must have confidence in the integrity of their elections. The bottom line is we have to ensure every vote is counted--and counted properly.

Two things, Senator:

1) One Billion dollars for new voting equipment.

   Look at the bottom of the page. That would work as well, and would be a helluva lot cheaper.

Seriously though, if you can't come up with something for lots less than one billion of my tax dollars for new voting equipment, I won't be writing, circling, or punching your name on whatever kind of ballot it produces.

2) "Citizens must have confidence in the integrity of their elections."

  First we need to have confidence in the integrity of our elected congresspeople. And Congress' approval rating is at a record LOW.

Take the hint.

Fallen Hero: LCpl Matthew Snyder

Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, USMC, was killed in al-Anbar province, March 3, 2006. 

Matthew was 20 years old.

“He was a hero and he was the love of my life.” - Albert Snyder, Matthew’s Father.

Those hate-filled, odious folks from the Westboro Baptist Church disagreed. Church members picketed Matthew's funeral, as they do at funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers".  

In June 2006, Albert Snyder sued the fundamentalist church and three of its members individually. The father argued that Westboro’s demonstrations exacerbated his pain and suffering in March 2006 while he mourned the death of his only son. Specifically, he charged that they violated his privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional harm and engaged in a conspiracy to carry out their activities.

 The jury decided in Snyder’s favor on every count and awarded a nearly $11 million verdict. Mr. Snyder is unlikely to ever see a dime of it, but that isn't the point.

"It is the sincere hope of Mr. Al Snyder, Matthew’s father, that this suit will spark similar legal actions against Mr. Phelps wherever he seeks to inflict harm upon the memory of our heroes and their families."

That's the point. To put these twisted religious nuts under a financial hammer. To stop their emotional abuse of grieving families of US service members killed in the service of our country. Thank you, Mr. Snyder. 

 

Requiescat In Pace, Marine