War is Hell!

West To Pundits & Armchair Quarterbacks: "Shut Your Mouth"

No doubt you have heard about the latest "Abu Ghraib" incident -- a video of Marines allegedly urinating on the bodies of Afghan terrorists. Our media and political elites have offered their effusive apologies. As always, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) had some choice words of his own. Here is West's statement, courtesy of our friends at The Weekly Standard:

"I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

"The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

"As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell."

I suspect Rep. West speaks for many Americans

                                         Just be fair to my brothers!

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Facts about Obama and Health Care

     A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very 
interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International 
Health Organization. 
  
            Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years 
after diagnosis: 
  
             U.S.                    65% 
  
             England              46% 
  
             Canada               42% 
  
  
            Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received 
treatment within six months: 
  
             U.S.                     93% 
  
             England              15% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it 
within six months: 
  
             U.S.                     90% 
  
             England              15% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within 
one month: 
  
             U.S.                     77% 
  
             England              40% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million 
people: 
  
             U.S.                     71 
  
             England             14 
  
             Canada              18 
  
  
            Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are 
in "excellent health": 
  
             U.S.                    12% 
  
             England               2% 
  
             Canada               6% 
  
  
            And now for the last statistic: 
  
  
            National Health Insurance? 
  
             U.S.                     NO 
  
             England            YES 
  
             Canada             YES 
  
            Check this last set of statistics!! 
  
            The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked 
in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. 
You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a 
government job.  Here are the percentages. 
  
  
            T. Roosevelt.................... 38% 
  
            Taft.................................. 40% 
  
             Wilson ........................... 52% 
  
            Harding........................... 49% 
  
            Coolidge......................... 48% 
  
            Hoover............................ 42% 
  
            F. Roosevelt................... 50% 
  
            Truman........................... 50% 
  
            Eisenhower................ .... 57% 
  
            Kennedy......................... 30% 
  
            Johnson.......................... 47% 
  
            Nixon.............................. 53% 
  
            Ford................................ 42% 
  
            Carter............................. 32% 
  
            Reagan........................... 56% 
  
            GH Bush......................... 51% 
  
             Clinton .......................... 39% 
  
            GW Bush........................ 55% 
  
            Obama..................... 8% 
  
  
            This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: 
only 8% of them have ever worked in private business! 
  
            That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the 
last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big 
corporations how to run their business? 
  
            How can the president of a major nation and society, the one 
with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk 
about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has 
never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff 
and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, 
government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should 
have been in an employment line. 
  
Send your friends to this Blog because you'll  NEVER see these facts in the main 
stream media.

EPA attacks coal plants!

As our lawmakers are grandstanding and whining and complaining about the other side of the aisle in regard to saving the working class Americans' money, the real hit to our pocketbooks is taking shape.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Jan. 3 new mercury restrictions on coal power plants that will impose anywhere from $10 billion (EPA's estimate) to $200 billion (third-party estimates) in new costs on energy production. On a per household basis, that imposes anywhere from $100 to $2,000 in additional energy costs upon the average U.S. household each and every year.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims that while the regulations will cost electricity producers $10.9 billion annually, they will save 17,000 lives and generate up to $140 billion in health benefits.

Earlier in 2011, Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, released these comments that were printed in the Wall Street Journal: "There is no factual basis for these assertions. To build its case against mercury, the EPA systematically ignored evidence and clinical studies that contradict its regulatory agenda, which is to punish hydrocarbon use."

U.S. electricity prices have already increased by nearly 50 percent during the past decade and the EPA's new restrictions will merely accelerate that trend. All of this is supposedly being put into place to "improve the environment," right? Many, many newspapers are reporting this story with similar headlines such as, "Finally, we will get clean air."

How about studying the quality of our air first? The EPA reports that mercury emissions in the United States have declined by approximately 60 percent since 1990.

So what is the real objective here?

Even President Obama once stated, "There will be 1 million electric vehicles on the highway by 2015."

Excuse me, sir! Electricity does not just come from an outlet in the wall. Over half of the electricity generated in the United States today comes from coal. And that, by the way, is a great thing because we have a couple hundred years' worth of coal available for our use. It is a tremendous resource that God granted us use of in order to improve human lives.

If the current EPA regulations go unchecked, by rational thinking it is reported that 60 percent of the coal-fired electricity generating power plants could be shut down. If that happens you can forget about plugging your electric car in. We will be back to running around the pastures searching for "buffalo chips" to heat our homes.

Nobody wants a dirty environment, but everybody should have a greater grasp on common sense and take a look at the big picture. All of this nonsense can be traced back to the flawed United Nations plan to make all nations equal when it comes to quality of life. And that, my American friends, means that you and I give up the essentials of life that we have worked so hard to accomplish since 1776. We aren't going to try to bring other nations up to our standard of living, we are going to drop down to theirs, according to the elitists at the UN.

Coal reserves are spread over almost 100 countries. Proven coal reserves are estimated to last over 200 years with current production rates. In contrast, proven oil and gas reserves are equivalent to around 40 and 60 years. Coal will continue to play a growing role in meeting U.S. energy needs because America's coal-based electricity providers have invested close to $100 billion in technologies to reduce emissions.

Once again, as is the case with most of these initiatives we fight on a daily basis, I do not believe the misguided individuals attempting to put an end to the use of coal as an energy source are the majority. However, it is quite clear that if we are going to continue the low cost custom of living that we have enjoyed in recent years as American citizens, we will have to fight to keep the lights on with real facts and not just warm and fuzzy emotions.