One bad-ass soldier

Hell yeah!

And as a bonus, this bad-ass soldier has freaked out Tony Perkins.

 

Washington Update 

The Star-Strangled Banner

Ooh, good one! I see what you did there! Star Strangled? Zing! someone's wearing the clever-boy pants today! I mean, it doesn't make any sense, because who's the star, and what banner is he strangling? But still. . .

The Obama administration doesn't typically run its agenda up the flagpole, but at a military base in Afghanistan, the soldiers did it for them. There, in the dusty desert of war, an Army outpost saluted the colors of the homosexual lobby by flying a rainbow flag in place of Old Glory. Back home in America, a woman named Nicole Jodice posted the picture on Facebook, praising her husband for promoting, not the stars, but these stripes.

Okay, see, if anything, it seems like maybe you meant to say the stripes are maybe strangling the stars? Or something? Forget it. Anyway, it's not like the Obama administration has exactly been all that secretive about their agenda. You folks have spent the last 3+ years complaining about Obama "shoving" his agenda "down your throats."

Sound Familiar?

To some, like Mstr. Sgt. Corey Wade, these displays are an uncomfortable reminder of the open policy that few of the troops support.

Okay, now that's just a lie. In the run-up to the repeal of DADT, surveys consistently showed a majority of active-duty military personnel in favor of repeal. Most soldiers have served alongside gay brothers in arms and have found them to be every bit as brave and heroic as straight GI's. (and maybe even a bit more fierce!)

In response to the picture of a Marine with his legs wrapped around his boyfriend in Stars and Stripes magazine, Wade wrote a stinging letter to the editors, explaining that the military's rules on homosexuality may have changed, but the troops' reservations about it had not. 

And of course, Mstr. Sgt. Corey Wade is representative of all soldiers. That's what's called a scientific sample.

 And the troops aren't the only ones feeling the whiplash of the military's new policy. Just three weeks after President Obama publicly apologized for offending the Islamic community with the accidental Koran burning, this base is pledging its allegiance to an act that is nearly as incendiary. Where is the concern now for angering Afghan Muslims, who vehemently oppose homosexuality?

Seriously? You're suddenly worried about offending Muslims? Okay, let's pretend for a second that you actually give a shit about Afghan Muslims. Are you really equating the raising of a rainbow flag with the burning of their holy book?  Do you think that someone burning a Bible would be equivalent to someone saying "here's an area in which we believe differently"?

The decision to fly the flag is even more of a head-scratcher when you consider the Defense Department's obvious scorn for the Christian cross.

Um, only if you think that Gay is a religion or Christianity is a sexual orientation.

  

Or some combination thereof.

Last November, in Afghanistan's Camp Marmal, soldiers were ordered to tear down a cross that marked the chapel's entrance because it was, in Commander William Speaks's words, "a distinctly religious symbol." The camp's occupants were stunned. . . "I really don't understand why Christians are always attacked," said a service member. "It if was a crescent moon on top of a mosque, it would never be taken down."

Yeeeeeahhhh. . .  um. if it were a crescent moon on top of a mosque, it wouldn't have been on a US military base, genius.

Unfortunately, it appears this flag is just one way the President is taking his hostility toward religious freedom to new heights. 

Jeezus Christ, you people really don't understand the word "freedom" do you? I mean, you really seem to think that freedom means the exact opposite of what it means. Which wouldn't be so bad if you weren't constantly going on about it.

Oh, and also this:

Adorable Ocelot Kittens try to figure out what Rick Santorum was trying to call Barack Obama

A Knicks fan?

 
A Nicaraguan?



A Nicotine addict?


A  Niçoise salad?

 

A Nick-at-Nite watching, Nickelback listening, Nicholas Cage watching. . . oh, hell. You know what he meant. 

Santorum Calls Bullshit

This is my tough-guy face, mister! Plenty more where this came from!

Here's a sentence I never ever expected to type:
Rick Santorum is right.
Not about anything else, just about this. That was a bullshit question. And if anyone knows bullshit, it's Rick Santorum.

But he did say that Romney was the worst Republican to run against Barack Obama, not the worst Republican in general. So Santorum called Bullshit. What's the reaction from the righties?

Rick Santorum's 'Bullshit' Comment Is No Big Deal

March 27, 2012 Former Sen. Rick Santorum used a mild expletive to chastise a journalist recently. And despite all the media and political attention the episode has received, it's really not a BFD.

To me, Rick Santorum usually comes off as aloof and, well, like the proverbial 'goody-two-shoes'. The guy is, or appears to be, very clean-cut. Non-controversial.

Call me crazy, but I tend to like a candidate more if they can show a little (or a lot of) emotion. The fact that Santorum got so frustrated with Zeleny that he cussed at him shows me that Santorum is a normal guy. He gets worked up about stuff. In an era when people increasingly put candidates on a pedestal, something like this humanizes him.

On Monday’s “On the Record with Greta Van Sustren,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reacted to Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum referring to the premise of a question posed by New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny as “bullshit.”

“Santorum’s response to that liberal leftist in-the-tank-for-Obama press character really revealed some of Rick Santorum’s character,” she said. “And it was good, and it was strong, and it was about time because he’s saying enough is enough of the liberal media twisting the conservative’s words, putting words in his mouth, taking things out of context and even just making things up.”

So, if you're keeping score at home, Santorum using the word "Bullshit," it:
A) Humanizes him
B) Shows his strong character
and
C) Is no big deal.

Vice-President Biden using the term "big fuckin' deal" is, ironically, a big fucking deal. It is potty-mouthery of such biblical proportion as to be more alarming than even Janet Jackson's nipple!

Vice President Cheney telling Senator Leahy to go "fuck himself" on the Senate floor? A charming piece of curmudgeonliness.

Theresa Heinz-Kerrey telling a reporter to "shove it," however, is a moral crisis the likes of which has not been seen since NYPD Blue showed David Caruso's doughy, amorphous buttocks on television.

Bush and Cheney referring to a reporter as a "major-league asshole?" Just keepin' it real!


This?
 

Youthful playfulness. Oh, Georgie, you're incorrigible! What a child-like love of life you have!