Number of comments: 3 My friends at Code Pink are looking out for me - they even shop for an anti-war cell phone network for me.
Assembled by hairy-legged hippie chicks in the Code Pink House basement sweat shop. [...]
Number of comments: 2 John Hawkins’ Right Wing News has polled 49 bloggers to recognize the work of other bloggers. The results can be found at the link. For some reason, Hawkins thought our opinion was important and This Ain’t Hell was among the bloggers polled. [...]
Number of comments: 7 The five Americans who were picked up in Pakistan this week on their way to jihad will probably be deported says Pakistani officials to the Associated Press;
The men have allegedly told investigators they tried to connect with al-Qaeda-linked militant groups in Pakistan and were intending to cross the border into [...]
Number of comments: 5 I got this from my BFF, Mitch Stewart at Organizing for America urging me to write my Senators with my holiday wishes;
So here’s my holiday message to the two Maryland Senators;
One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. In 2008 roughly 3,000 million-dollar income tax returns were filed [...]
Number of comments: 3 Twelve Republican congresspeople held a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court this morning to protest sending Kalid Sheik Muhammad to New York City for trial. They were Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Andrew McCarthy (Former Federal Prosecutor), Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Charles Stimson (Former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary [...]
Number of comments: 5 On the front page of the Washington Post is the link to an EJ Dionne piece that says that gun owners want more gun laws, despite what the NRA says;
The opinion piece is about a Luntz poll. Says Frank Lutz;
The survey, which will be released soon, wasn’t conducted by some [...]
Number of comments: 10 1stCavRVN11B sent us a comment written by a Steven Ray Jones from one of the militia websites which sounded way over the top of anything rational.
He calls himself the Commander of the Lousiana Home Guard - I hope this isn’t why he’s their commander;
I see on here that everyone [...]
Number of comments: 7 This one could leave a mark:
Gelbaum also announced he was halting some $12 million in yearly gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation and about $50 million a year that he’s been giving to an organization serving veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I hope it is VoteVets and not [...]
Number of comments: 3 “Bitches!!!”
I’ve never really understood the method of discourse that revolves around drowning someone else out. I’m certain that somewhere my side has done this as well, so I disavow those attempts as well, but I don’t remember Jonn and I ever showing up at a IVAW rally and trying to [...]
Number of comments: 9 TSO just sent a link to a Politico article that Oliver North has been hospitalized;
Oliver L. North, host of FOX News Channel’s documentary series “War Stories,” is temporarily off the air while he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer, POLITICO has learned.
North’s prognosis is excellent, according to sources.
North, the Iran-contra figure, [...]
Number of comments: 9 Another phony pleaded guilty in California yesterday of making claims to service he never had;
Kenneth Jerome Nelson was once celebrated as a war hero and the unofficial caretaker of a monument dedicated to Vietnam veterans in the shadow of the California State Capitol.
Now, he’s known as a liar.
The veterans activist [...]
Number of comments: 10 The Wall Street Journal has an Op/Ed from Salam Al-Marayati, from the Muslim Public Affairs Council in which he says we should allow a cluster of Muslim clerics to explain to Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood murderer how he was wrong to think that he was justified in murdering us [...]
Number of comments: 9 I love lefty commenters. Just love ‘em. Our commenters from the Left come on here, make absurd accusations and then bitch that we aren’t answering their absurd comments. But, the second brand of trolls are the ones that go on a lefty blog and leave comments like this one:
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Sarah [...]
Number of comments: 2 The Washington Times reports that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is sick of pussy-footing around with DoJ lawyers and has decided to subpoena them to answer questions about the New Black Panther Party case;
David P. Blackwood, the commission’s general counsel, said Tuesday in a letter to the Justice Department [...]
Number of comments: 10 There is no chance that either of these headlines is an accident. I am not sure what this trend toward using words like this is, but I really don’t like it. I long ago stopped believing that FoxNews and CNN gave a crap about the news, but this just seems [...]
Number of comments: 6 Old Trooper sent us this video about the Swiss model of a national defense force;
I think it was interesting that the gentleman in the video still had his father’s and grandfather’s rifles from their time in the service. Four generations of battle rifles. [...]
Number of comments: 10 Master Chief Jeffrey L. Sparenberg recited his experiences aboard the USS Cole at the time of the terrible bombing of that ship on October 12, 2000 to the Navy Times;
Master Chief Jeffrey L. Sparenberg, the highest-ranking enlisted crewman aboard, was testing oil in the midship lab with Ensign Andrew Triplett.
Sparenberg [...]
Number of comments: 10 You probably remember Col. Van T. Barfoot, the 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient who was being harrassed by his homeowners’ association. Well, this was just passed over to us;
From the Richmond WTVR Channel 6 website:
HENRICO COUNTY - The Sussex Square Homeowners Association Board has just released the following statement regarding [...]
Number of comments: 10 One of my spies who has infiltrated Chiroux’s inner circle on Facebook (he won’t “friend” me for some reason he can’t explain) sent me this video that he linked;
In the beginning of the video, Chiroux says “I know from experience that [the war in Afghanistan] is genocide” - “From experience”? [...]
Number of comments: 10 So, while his popularity falls because unemployment is rising (against his promises), manufacturing continues to decrease, the President decides that he must be doing something right so he proposes more of the same unrestrained government spending;
President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must [...]
Number of comments: 10 My son’s redeployment ceremony was yesterday.
That’s him in the 1st Squad Leader position.
Here he is at work a few weeks ago; [...]
Number of comments: 10 Contrary to what some would have you believe, I am not the dogmatic Republican that some keep accusing me of. I have been very careful to spread my campaign contributions around, with equal amounts going to GOP, DEM and Ind (Liebermann.) To save you the looking it up, I kept [...]
Number of comments: 9 I’m backed up with real work this morning, so here are some links to keep you busy;
American Power blog has the story of some dildo tossing tomatoes at Palin and the Democratic Underground’s predictable reaction.
Our buddy, Bubba took pictures at the rally for the SEALs in Norfolk yesterday.
The RNC sent [...]
I know I wrote about this yesterday, but here’s an update - CJ has a lawyer and he’s going after the school system. He needs about 7 grand for his lawyer and he’s got almost half of that just since yesterday. You guys are doing a great job, now get [...]
Number of comments: 5 The Washington Times and Associated Press report a series of four coordinated attacks in Baghdad which has caused at least 300 casualties this morning;
At least 103 were killed and 197 wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than a month, authorities said.
A total of four [...]
Number of comments: 10 Despite the Washington Post trying to equate the Obama Surge to the Bush Surge this morning, in ways that really matter, Obama is a far cry from Bush. Last week, Bush-sounding Obama announced an anemic introduction of 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan with a proviso that they’d begin [...]
I hope Jonn will forgive me posting this and sending you over to The Sniper, but my good friend and fellow trigger-puller over there has one of the best caption contests ever:
My favorites that he came up with:
-Snoopy’s Crotch Sniffing Christmas
-That’s A Class III Felony Charlie Brown
Go add your own. [...]
Number of comments: 6 Thanks to Bouhammer for the photo.
Among other things, the MilBlog community has been watching the case of MSG CJ Grisham closely to gauge the Army’s attitude towards active duty bloggers. CJ, in addition to being a senior NCO and a groundbreaking milblogger, is also a parent. When he opposed a [...]
Number of comments: 4 Since Casey Porter left IVAW, he’s been focusing on cars, and here’s a trailer for his latest video about SEMA 2009 in Vegas. Needs more scantily clad models;
You’ll notice my criticisms are consistent. [...]
Number of comments: 1 I saw it on Fox News Channel, but no links yet. However, there’s a short AP article;
Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Coleman Headley were charged in October with plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten out of revenge for a dozen cartoons printed in 2005 depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Authorities [...]
Number of comments: 1 Our buddy DanNY at Gathering of Eagles; New York sent us a link to his report of the rally in New York City this weekend to protest bringing terrorists here to give them the trial they don’t deserve. Uncle Jimbo stopped by there, too. Another buddy, El Marco, was there, [...]
Number of comments: 3 Today in Norfolk, VA, supporters of the 3 SEALs who’ve been put on trial for fattening the lip of the terrorist, Abed, who was responsible for the murder of four contractors in Fallujah. Here’s an interview Fox did with retired SEAL Don Shipley who’ll be on hand for the protest.
Watch [...]
Number of comments: 2 Jerry920 sends us a link to a FoxNews story about the launch of a new reporting system at AMVETS for reporting Stolen Valor cases.
The Stolen Valor Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush in December 2006, amended the provisions of previous laws concerning unauthorized usage, manufacture or sale [...]
Number of comments: 1 So says this jihadi assclown:
“In 2009, in January or February I met this friend of mine. He said he had come from meeting Sheikh Osama, and he could arrange for me to meet him,” he said.
“He helps al-Qaeda people coming from other countries to get to the sheikh, so [...]
Number of comments: 4 The fifth annual Milblog Conference has been scheduled. This will be the fouth year in a row that This Ain’t Hell will be participating. The announcement reads;
Milblogging.com will be the official website of the Milblog Conference, so I’ll be communicating all the details here. Bookmark this URL for the latest [...]
Number of comments: 5 The Washington Post’s Anne E. Kornblut, Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung try to portray President Obama as a pragmatic leader on the issue of the war in Afghanistan in their total tonguebath of the president in the Post entitled “Obama pressed for faster surge” subtitled “AFGHAN REVIEW A MARATHON; ‘What [...]
Number of comments: 10 Is there a global warming conference going on somewhere? I was just wondering because this is what my backyard looked like yesterday;
Big conference…big snowfall in West Virginia. [...]
Number of comments: 10 A couple of our resident IVAW refugees sent me screen shots of the entire statement that Geoff (Stolen Valor) Millard wrote and posted (somewhere) on their website explaining why the board voted to expell Carl Webb. Here’s the first part;
Millard goes on to explain why they banned Casey Porter for [...]
Number of comments: 10 Zedechek was the first to send us this link last night about a Medal of Honor recipient who is locked in a battle for the his right to fly an American flag in his front yard;
Col. Van T. Barfoot says he erected the 21-foot flagpole in September, raising the flag [...]
Number of comments: 4 DrewM at Ace of Spades writes that the the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which unleashed a firestorm last week when they announced that women between the ages of 40 and 49 don’t need breast examinations, has retracted the statement.
“The recommendation about breast cancer screening for women 40 to [...]
Number of comments: 10 One of my readers took up my challenge to “friend” Chiroux and returns with this intel. Of course, Obama drove Chiroux to this - Obama must be feeling like Nixon about now;
So it’s come to this. Obama’s gotta wage his war, and I gotta sit in the street.
It’s not [...]
Number of comments: 4 The Wall Street Journal (link might require subscription) writes that the Islamic Republic’s regime now reaches outside it’s borders to stifle dissent;
Interviews with roughly 90 ordinary Iranians abroad — college students, housewives, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople — in New York, London, Dubai, Sweden, Los Angeles and other places indicate that people [...]
Number of comments: 9 The UK Telegraph trumpets the headline “All men watch pr0n, scientists find”.
Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pr0nography with regular users.
But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single [...]
Number of comments: 10 The word out on the street is that another combat veteran member of IVAW quit recently. Jesse Hamilton, who has been through This Ain’t Hell a few times (especially on this post about the Army Experience Center protest).
Hamilton says that the IVAW leadership was too slow to act on [...]
Number of comments: 2 According to Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, the Washington Times is planning to draw down their staff and make some changes in subscriptions and purchase rates;
Nearly three decades after its founding by officials of the Unification Church, the Times said Wednesday it is laying off at least 40 percent of its [...]
Number of comments: 5 So, happily, we can put behind us the tragedy of a rich golfer crashing his Cadillac into a fire hydrant and the deep mystery of how two attention whores sneaked into the White House when no Republicans cuoould get an invitation. Can we please discuss our national security? Please?
How about [...]
Number of comments: 3 Joe Biden took time out of his busy day to blow smoke up my ass this evening in his personal email (Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any [...]
Number of comments: 8 The Far Left smells weakness in the president’s speech last night (or money) and they’ve decided to have an “emergency” protest at the White House next Saturday, December 12th. It promises to be some real entertainment;
Speakers include: Cynthia McKinney, Sen. Mike Gravel, Kathy Kelly, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Phyllis Bennis, [...]
Number of comments: 3 As it’s been pointed out across the blogosphere today, President Obama’s speech last night was generally a cut and paste job from some early GWB speeches interspersed with apologies to the Left for making the politically expedient decision. And today, Obama sent out his minions to apologize even further to [...]
Number of comments: 8 Our buddy DanNY, from Gathering of Eagles; New York sent along this report from Gathering of Eagles who faced down the anti-war crowd last night as they swooned outside of the gates of West Point. He found this video which includes our two friends Elaine Brower and Matthis Chiroux (who [...]