Random Nuclear Strikes

In the comments section of my post from yesterday, where I quited the ranting out of respect for those who were murdered on September 11th, 2001, our good man Rivrdog says that even on that day, the fight goes on

You (and quite a few other righty stalwarts) gave up blogging yesterday on principle, leaving the 9-11 field to the enemy, and especially the kool-aid drinkers who think that 9-11 was all a Bush plot.

Can’t do that, my friend. The fight is 24/7/365.

Everyone has the right to their idea of how to spend the day, and I respect his.

I also have a firm belief in the idea that if someone is given enough rope, they will hang themselves.

And since everyone here knows how much I love a good hanging, I present what one of the bigger fish in the leftie pond had to say yesterday

You all know I’m a crank. So let me get cranky: I’m really fucking sick of 9/11.

It’s been six goddamn years. Can’t we move some of our energies onto addressing the devastation of Katrina?

Yes, it has been six years. And, yes, some of the things she finds annoying about what has happened in the US because of the September 11th attacks (airline security theater and delays in reconstruction) annoy me as well.

But I am not tired of remembering that this country got fat and happy and let some peckerwood with an overactive sexdrive and his hyper-ambitious wife run the country, sweeping this Islamofascist problem under the rug for the next guy, with ever increasingly costly results, culminating in the attacks of September 11th.

I give up one day to remember what life was like before that day, and to give those who hate the US more than anything else in the world the front and center of the stage to make asses of themselves.

The day was on par with the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the attack on Fort Sumter, the British burning Washington DC to the ground and the battle of Lexington-Concord. Real, actual shots heard round the world, and this broad is tired of hearing about it?

Well, sorry to choke your cherry dearie, but the stick up your ass has a stick up its ass.

Katrina was a weather event that didn’t even hit at the place whose dry existence below sea-level was only possible because of human meddling with the ecosystem, something I’m currently told is horrible thing by the Global Warming Death Cult Pontiff, AlGore.

September 11th was so monumental that she probably can’t even wrap her silly little head around it. Which is probably why she’s sick of hearing about it.

The problems at Walter Reed that were rightly pointed out a few months back became a club in the hand of the media and their favorite political party. It gave them ammunition to attempt to show how much they care about the men and women who have and currently serve our country.

Of course, they only really used the club to beat the current administration over the head with, but some improvements were made and that is one good thing to come out of the story.

One of the points whipped around at that time was the budget for the VA, with the media and their favorite party bantering about how it needs to be increased. Giving more money to the VA is a good thing, even if the administrative costs are eating much of it up, it eventually trickles down to more vets served better.

So why is the Democrat Party letting their second-most vocal woman in the Senate take $4 Billion away from the VA if they claim to care so much about fully-funding the VA?

Because they think she can do it quietly and get away with it.

The pork here revolves around the West Los Angeles Medical Center, though this is no average veterans’ facility. Donated to the government in 1888, the center is 387 sprawling, prime real-estate acres in the middle of tony West L.A. More than twice the size of the National Mall, it is surrounded by the mansions and playgrounds of the city’s elite, including the Bel Air Country Club and the Beverly Hills estates of Sylvester Stallone, Barry Bonds and Tim McGraw (to name a few).

Huge portions of the facility are also a veritable ghost town. It isn’t just that 387 acres is an enormous space, and far larger than any one veteran’s community in today’s America might ever need. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles County also falls on the lowest end in terms of the percentage of veterans living in the area. Nationally, veterans make up about 12.7% of people over the age of 18; the county’s average is below 8.5%. Of 91 buildings on campus, 21 are today partially or wholly vacant. Meanwhile, the number of enrolled veterans in that facility is expected to decline by nearly a quarter over the next 20 years.

Which is why, when the Department of Veteran’s Affairs set up a process in 2002 to study its infrastructure and rationalize its facilities, it designated the West L.A. center as one of 18 sites that might be downsized, any extra land being used to produce more revenue for veterans’ needs. Under law, 108 acres of the L.A. site can’t be touched, but the remaining 200-plus acres sit in the middle of a highly desirable real estate area and could yield significant financial gain. The VA has yet to make any decisions, but according to government estimates, even a modest reuse of the property–say leasing out excess acreage–could result in an extraordinary $4 billion for better care for veterans everywhere.

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Ms. Feinstein, who in the last election received some of her largest donations from the rich area, has been only too happy to come to its defense. She honed in on the military construction and veterans affairs bill–a sensitive spending vehicle that few Republicans would dare vote against, and that President Bush would be loath to veto. She then slipped in an earmark provision that would bar the VA from disposing or leasing any of the ground. Thus a potential $4 billion worth of help and aid for our nation’s veterans goes bye-bye in the name of preserving a view for those Hollywood actors who play veterans in the movies.

The Dems only care as far as their deep pocketed friends do.

So I’m cruising the latest article that is supposed to induce fright in the members of the Global Warming Death Cult.

Its about how the Arctic Ice Caps are supposedly now melting faster than previously thought because of those of us who are non-cult members. Though not fast enough to save the guy who was going to show the world how Global Warming was creating the long sought Northwest Passage who is now stuck in the ice and is fighting of some of the non-drowned Polar Bears.

I was giggling my way through the article when I reached a paragraph buried in it’s dead-center that made so much sense and was wondering if anyone had shown this to any other cult members or their guru, AlGore?

Melting of the Arctic ice cap does not contribute to sea level rise. Floating ice, like that around the North Pole, already displaces water, like ice cubes in a glass of tea. When the ice melts, sea level remains unchanged, though salinity can be altered.

Duh.

The paragraph ends stating that the only way for the sea level to rise is if water frozen on land melts into the sea, like that on Greenland (which melts and refreezes depending on the seasons) or Antarctica (which is actually thickening).

AlGore and his Gaia-hadists can go smoke fat monkey-pole.