Ho Ho, Ha Ha, He He We Pay The Taliban Not to Kill Us Now So They Kill Us Latter

What a crock of shit my fellow Americans, what a crock.

Naw, not the fact that we pay the Taliban not to attack our supply convoys. No not that. That should have been expected as a normal operational procedure in an Insurgent based war.

No my dear friends, not that.

The crock of shit is that you didn't know that. The crock of shit is that the news media is surprised by this. The crock of shit is that we are outraged by it.

I guess those 50,000 dead boys and 125,000 maimed and wounded warriors from Vietnam really did die for nothing. We didn't learn shit from all that.

When I was liaison to the Military Intelligence at Phuoc Vinh, RVN we were paying the Viet Cong (VC) a "Tax" not to attack the base when the Screaming Eagles were there. The deal was we paid the Cong and then we were free to attack the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) farther to the North. When the First Air Cav took over the base they came under fire every day and night cause they wouldn't pay the tax.

We paid Sears U.S. tax payers money for every rubber tree we destroyed in the Min Than and Micheline rubber plantations in the First Infantry's area of operation. Then they used the money to pay the Viet Cong and the NVA not to hide in the plantations or engage in attacks there.

The contractor building bridges on highway 13 from Saigon to Lai Khe, RVN paid the VC to not attack the people building the bridges.

Oh, hell people we even paid Shell Oil Corporation when ever we hit one of their ship or facilities in Hanoi or Haiphong.

These are all things I personally knew first or second hand and used in briefings to the Commanding General of the 1st Infantry or his SSO. Yes, we had a daily rubber tree destroyed report. It was briefed right along with the KIA numbers.

So why should you be "Surprised" that we paid the Taliban $6 million last year not to shoot at our trucks.

Jeez people, did we not learn anything from Nam. Of course not.

I am exceedingly tired of all these dumb shits ignoring our immediate prior war experiences as they screw up again repeating the same things over and over again.

(Say, to my Aussie Vet Nam Vet Friends, why you don't tell that old fart Rupert Murdoch to stop messing with our Wars. Next thing you know he'll have you in another one with his lies.)

A JTB Posting: Cozy Dog

It's about time for me to step in and post something sane again I think.
So let me show you the birth place of the corn dog as we know it.



Fatman and I were in Springfield, Illinois last month where we met up with Dr. Lobo who was on sabatical or some such thing.



Dr.Lobo has this thing about Route 66. Thus he met us at a famous Route 66 landmark, the Cozy Dog, to eat. So I got a lecture on the origin of Route 66 and the corn dog on a stick.



Enlarge this picture by clicking on it if you can't read it otherwise. Notice however that the real home of the corn dog was Muskogee, Oklahoma!!!!



OK, even though it was breakfast, Dr. Lobo insisted we all eat a Cozy Dog.



And so I did.



There was Cozy Dog stuff all over the place. Stain Glass Cozy Dogs.




Look at all of this stuff.



Can you really imagine two corn dogs driving a car.



Fatman even took my picture with the Cozy Dogs.



Of course there was a lot of Route 66 memorabilia as well.



Say weren't these guys from Oklahoma.



The root beer was pretty good, but I got some like it at Pop's in Arcadia this summer.




All these car tags remind me of Dr. Lobo's shack-store-studio or what ever it is.



So why the books?

Well, if you are driving along Route 66 and wake up in Springfield, I recommend eating at the Cozy Dog!

Two Ocean Ida One Hurricane In Two Worlds

North Carolina's Outer Bank is about to be hammered by a convergence of two storms. One is the remnants of Hurricane Ida and the other an unnamed tropical depression.

Ida, Hurricane Ida, did you notice that Hurricane Ida started as a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean? No? Yep, instead of turning back west and looping out into the Pacific as she was supposed to do, she crossed over the ismus of Panama and entered the Atlantic tropical storms system.

Welcome to the new weather patterns for America.
No climate change, no none at all.

Just Say No Blue House Dog List

Here is the list of "Democrats" who voted against the Democrat's Health Care Reform Bill.

What the numbers mean:
Representative (State and District) (*** means they are known "The Family" members aka 'C'street)
Percentage margin of victory when last elected
District’s winner in 2008 presidential election and win %
Percent of nonelderly uninsured in the district


Scott Murphy(N.Y. 20)
<1 Obama +3% 12% Bobby Bright(Ala. 2) *** <1 McCain +26% 15%

Frank Kratovil Jr.(Md. 1) <1 McCain +19% 11%

Walt Minnick(Idaho 1) +1 McCain +26% 20%

Eric Massa(N.Y. 29) +2 McCain +3% 10%

Parker Griffith(Ala. 5) +3 McCain +23% 16%

John Adler(N.J. 3) +4 Obama +5% 11%

Glenn Nye(Va. 2) +5 Obama +2% 12%

Chet Edwards(Tex. 17) +8 McCain +35% 23%

Travis Childers(Miss. 1) +11 McCain +24% 19%

John Boccieri(Ohio 16) +11 McCain +2% 14%

Larry Kissell(N.C. 8) +11 Obama +5% 20%

Jason Altmire(Pa. 4) +12 McCain +11% 9%

Harry Teague(N.M. 2) +12 McCain +1% 25%

Betsy Markey(Colo. 4) +12 McCain +1% 18%

Jim Marshall(Ga. 8) +15 McCain +13% 22%

Suzanne Kosmas(Fla. 24) +16 McCain +2% 20%

Dennis J. Kucinich(Ohio 10) +18 Obama +20% 13% (Now this guy was voting because it wasn't liberal enough)

Lincoln Davis(Tenn. 4) +21 McCain +29% 17%

Allen Boyd(Fla. 2) +24 McCain +9% 18%

Heath Shuler(N.C. 11) *** +26 McCain +5% 21%

Tim Holden(Pa. 17) +27 McCain +3% 10%

Michael E. McMahon(N.Y. 13) +28 McCain +2% 11%

Brian Baird(Wash. 3) +28 Obama +8% 15%

Jim Matheson(Utah 2) +29 McCain +18% 16%

Ben Chandler(Ky. 6) +29 McCain +12% 16%

Ike Skelton(Mo. 4) +32 McCain +22% 17%

John Barrow(Ga. 12) +32 Obama +11% 21%

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin(S.D.) +35 McCain +8% 14%

Mike McIntyre(N.C. 7) *** +38 McCain +5% 23%

Dan Boren(Okla. 2) *** +41 McCain +32% 29%

Collin C. Peterson(Minn. 7) +45 McCain +3% 11%

Bart Gordon(Tenn. 6) *** +25% 14%

Gene Taylor(Miss. 4) +49 McCain +35% 22%

Mike Ross(Ark. 4) *** +72 McCain +19% 22%

Rick Boucher(Va. 9) Unopposed McCain +19% 16%

Artur Davis(Ala. 7) Unopposed Obama +48% 19%

Charlie Melancon(La. 3) Unopposed McCain +24% 18%

John Tanner(Tenn. 8) *** Unopposed McCain +13% 16%

Are these guys just place holders? Are they there just to deny Republicans the district? If they vote with the Republicans aren't they just denying true Democrats the district? What about the "C" Streeters?

If It Goes Untreated, Lieberman's Erotomania Can Kill You

Today on Fox "News" Senator Joe Lieberman pulled a very serious symptom out of his rectum.

"If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote, because I believe the debt can break America and send us into a recession that's worse than the one we're fighting our way out of today."

At first I thought it was just the money he was getting from the Health Insurance Companies.

Now I believe he is in love, or wants to be loved, Lieberman is suffering from erotomania.

Erotomaniac



(Wiki): " The core symptom of the disorder is that the sufferer holds an unshakable belief that another person is secretly in love with him or her. In some cases, the sufferer may believe several people at once are "secret admirers." The sufferer may also experience other types of delusions concurrently with erotomania, such as delusions of reference, wherein the perceived admirer secretly communicates his or her love by subtle methods such as body posture, arrangement of household objects, and other seemingly innocuous acts (or, if the person is a public figure, through clues in the media). Erotomanic delusions are typically found as the primary symptom of a delusional disorder"



Will Bunch at the blog ATTYTOOD says it best:
"Some 68 percent of his constituents in Connecticut favor the public option, but Joe Lieberman is instead siding with his campaign contributors: $2,395,369 from the health sector and $1,033,402 from the insurance industry during his undistinguished Senate career. Researchers at the Harvard Medical School say that 45,000 Americans die from lack of insurance coverage every year, so extending that to Connecticut's roughly 3.5 million people, that would be about 1,000 every year just in the Nutmeg State alone. I wish Lieberman could be forced to explain his position to the families of every blessed one of the deceased."

What I haven't quite figured is if Obama is the true object of his affection. If so then Health Care Reform can be saved. Obama can give him some position in the government and soak him in the affection Joe needs. Let's hope that it is not more complicated than that. I mean if it is really Mc Cain that is his object, then we are screwed.

But what if, just maybe, he thinks America admires and loves him. Now that would explain why the nine protestors in front of his office had to be arrested last Tuesday. They were withdrawing affection and had to be punished. How dare they!

Illinois Amish October 2009

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