Haiti AAR…

This from a friend…

To All,
I just returned from Haiti with Hebler. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other.

Port o Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact. Our team was a rescue team and we carried special equipment that locates people buried under the rubble. There are easily 200,000 dead, the city smells like a charnal house. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money.

The ones I ran into were either incompetents or outright anti American. Most are French or french speakers, worthless every damn one of them. While 1800 rescuers were ready willing and able to leave the airport and go do our jobs, the UN and USAID ( another organization full of little OBamites and communists that openly speak against Americana) These two organizations exemplar ed their parochialism by:
USAID, when in control of all inbound flights, had food and water flights stacked up all the way to Miami, yet allowed Geraldo Rivera, Anderson Cooper and a host of other left wing news puppies to land.

Pulled all the security off the rescue teams so that Bill Clinton and his wife could have the grand tour, whilst we sat unable to get to people trapped in the rubble.
Stacked enough food and water for the relief over at the side of the airfield then put a guard on it while we dehydrated and wouldn’t release a drop of it to the rescuers.

No shower facilities to decontaminate after digging or moving corpses all day, except for the FEMA teams who brought their own shower and decon equipment, as well as air conditioned tents. No latrine facilities, less digging a hole if you set up a sh**ter everyone was trying to use it.

I watched a 25 year old Obamite with the USAID shrieking hysterically, berate a full bird colonel in the air force, because he countermanded her orders, whilst trying to unscrew the air pattern. ” You don’t know what your president wants! The military isn’t in charge here we are!”

If any of you are thinking of giving money to the Haitian relief, or to the UN don’t waste your money. It will only go to further the goals of the French and the Liberal left. If we are a fair and even society, why is it that only white couples are adopting Haitian orphans. Where the hell is that vocal minority that is always screaming about the injustice of American society.

Bad place, bad situation, but a perfect look at the new world order in action. New Orleans magnified a thousand times. Haiti doesn’t need democracy, what Haiti needs is Papa Doc. That’s not just my opinion , that is what virtually every Haitian we talked with said. the French run the UN treat us the same as when we were a colony, at least Papa Doc ran the country.

Oh, and as a last slap in the face the last four of us had to take US AIRWAY’s home from Phoenix. They slapped me with a 590 dollar baggage charge for the four of us. The girl at the counter was almost in tears because she couldn’t give us a discount or she would lose her job.

Pass that on to the flying public.

God Bless America and the U.S. Marine Corps

Bleg for Mary and Densey Cole…

8 days for Mary and Densey Cole

Mary and Densey Cole have 8 days to go to show a HUGE lead in the contest that Mary has entered into with Crate and Barrel for a honeymoon. They have a lead, let’s make sure they keep it!

Please pass this along on your blogs and ask others to do the same. Let’s make their dream come true!

Here is the link where you can vote, read their story in Mary’s own words and VOTE! Thanks for all your continuing support…

http://www.ultimateweddingcontest.com/entries/33527?sort=votes#33527

h/t CPDcoppurr

An Interesting Video…

The Horsemen come to P’cola in three F-8F Bearcats and fly with the Blues…

Six minutes of video well worth watching! Sit back and enjoy!!!

Remember in November…


Well, tomorrow will, I believe, prove to be a black day for the USA…

We had the culmination of bribery, strong arm tactics, outright lies and social engineering at its finest last night in the so called House of Representatives…

BUT they passed a bill over the objections of 64 to 71% of the public they supposedly represent, and I really don’t believe half of them had ANY idea of what they were doing other than responding to a variety of pressures…

The only bi-partisanship I saw was in the opposition to the bill, and had the President not agreed to an executive order to prohibit abortion (Is that even legal???) it would have gone down in defeat.

Anyone who can do basic math knows this is going to cost ALL of us more than we really can afford, not only in taxation, but in increased costs for insurance… I had a doctor’s appointment this morning with my regular doc, and she told me the practice has decided to no longer take Medicare/Medicaid patients, as they are not being reimbursed at a break even cost, and do not see anything but bad news with what happened yesterday.

Where are the doctors going to come from to support 31 million new patients? Beats the hell outta me… that is 8 years of training…

How long will it take to get an appointment? If Mass is any indication, 17-31 days, e.g. you will be dead before the appointment arrives if you have a critical problem…

But wait, you can go to the ER, right??? Um… maybe… but THOSE wait times are already 3-6 hours depending on the hospital and day of the week…

$500M cut in Medicare/Medicaid- so… we add 31 million and CUT reimbursement???

And most ‘benefits’ don’t kick in until 2014, but the taxation starts immediately…

Turk Turon has a good post up HERE with some additional information that bears thinking about…

JayG has his take up HERE

TOTWTYTR has a good post up HERE

Pamela Hart has a different view up HERE

Granny has her take up HERE

Gay Cynic has his take HERE

All variations on the theme of basic unhappiness and dissatisfaction with congress…

Yep, they have fundamentally transformed the US alright. Right into the poor house…

AND they have also taken over all Student Loans…

We lost this battle, no question; but I firmly believe this is only the first battle in what promises to be a long war against the progressive/socialist agenda this president and the dems are trying to ram down our throats…

I do believe the States will go through with their suits against the government, and I do believe at least parts of the bill(s) will be declared unconstitutional as this infringes on States Rights in a major way.

I propose our rallying cry be “Remember in November” and VOTE THEM OUT!!!

Pics from the road…

A few pics from the latest go-round of travel to the mid-East…
They don’t call it the sandbox for nothing…


(and this is one of the ‘good’ roads)

Now THIS is a hotel room 🙂 This was my room in Kuwait…

A family of five could fit in this place with NO problem… Off to the left, out of picture is the kitchen area, all top of the line appliances too!!!

The beach side of the hotel…


Our own patrol boat, if you look straight up from the post in the bottom middle, the dot between the umbrella tops is a PG…


And from Bahrain, an interesting anomaly… The Tree of Life!

The Tree of Life , also known as Shajarat al-Hayah, in Bahrain stands alone in the desert about 1.2 miles from the Jebel Dukhan(Smoking Hill-gladly dormant), the highest point on the island. It is almost of monumental proportion and has been aptly named as it seems to epitomize the very essence of life. It is said that this mesquite tree is a least a 200 and possibly as much as 400 years old, and considered to be one of Bahrain’s natural treasures.

The source of water on which this tree thrives is unknown and remains an enigma, serving to increase the lure of the place. As a side note, we figured out the tree sits roughly 300 feet above sea level, so the tap root has to be a least that long… Who knows…

This is as we were driving up, just to show the bareness of the landscape…



Up close, and yes, people drive up and literally park right against the tree…
And there is graffiti all over the tree…



And from under the tree, looking toward the Arabian Gulf about 4 miles away…


And now back to the regularly scheduled BS…

No blog for you…

Now in another location, lousy internet connectivity, what there is, is dog ass slow… Won’t be blogging or commenting until Saturday…


Sorry Folks…

Blog roll adds…

Go check out the new adds to the blogroll!


Mule Dung and Ash, Granny with a Pitchfork, The Right Idea and Lagniappes Lair are all good reads, with different perspectives, but ALL are worth the time!!!

On the travel front, first time back in Kuwait since 1991, LOTS of changes- The lights are on (everywhere), traffic is heavy, and as usual, those in charge do nothing and the ‘contract’ workers do everything… lots of Philippine and other Asian workers seen everywhere…

My body clock is now back in screwed up time, e.g. I have NO idea what time my body thinks it is, so sleep is gonna be ‘fun’… sigh…

A Good Cause…

CDPcoppurr has a post up HERE about Densey Cole and his chance to get a real honeymoon…


It helps that people know who he is and what he was put through in his own words. The REST of Densey Cole’s story of what happened…HERE

HERE is the link where you can vote… It will only take you a minute and it IS for a good cause!

Michael Murphy MOH…

Crucis has a post up HERE on Lt Mike Murphy’s MOH won in Afghanistan. This is the team leader that Marcus Luttrell refers to in his book ‘Lone Survivor’.


Go take the seven minutes and listen to the video…