National Day of Prayer

Let us remember and give thanks for His many Blessings and pray that we may continue to do so as a Nation united under God.

Friday Frolic

Is gravity moving to the right?

I was walking back from the corner store still smiling about how little kids can still come running for the ice cream truck in my neighborhood and walk the streets safely, I passed one little girl returning from the truck. I heard the word;"bitch", as I passed her and glanced back to see she had dropped something, a critique that would seem odd from a 4-5 year old, then I was floored. A friend saw her, a little older maybe 6, and greeted her, then this child let out: "Get over here ho and hep me". I shouldn't be that surprised, there is a pair of early teen boys that like to walk down the street yelling the f-word and verbally abusing and taunting adults, they remind me of the loonbat bloggers and commenters, knowing nothing can really be done except to ignore them and let them be the fools they are. The sadder part of it is that they do it with a little brother(5-6) in tow, worse, their baiting is about graphic gay porn and their words echo what they have watched. It didn't matter who it was whatever adult was available to target. They unfortunately live on my street so I get a front row view, since they were largely ignored and banned from the local markets they have shut up. I heard a couple guys in their 20s across the street fall for their crap and it was sick the words that came from these young folk's mind. Is it to late?
A couple related articles from a pair of the great gals at Townhall, here and here

Mitt Romney clearly won the debate last night on style points alone, as that is what this debate was really about, the candidates and their ability in the spotlight, their style, so to speak. Duncan Hunter also did extremely well on that point, Rudy was hurt and so was John McCain. The rest need to return to their day jobs, good men all, but not up to snuff. Mitt was by far the most comfortable and open, he will always be the best researched, and none of them knows big budgets and accounts like Mitt. GOP insiders and political junkies all know this and the race has just begun. I would call the first debate an appropriate starting gun with 'all' candidates on stage. As I said last night if Fred and Newt had been there instead of Ron and either Tom, it would have been better by far.
I think Newt wants a policy position more than he wants the catbird seat, same with Rudy, he would be an awesome Attorney General, probably one of the best ever. Gov. Huckabee would be perfect to head Health and Human Survices. Personally, I would appoint 'Tank' Tancredo to head ICE, I have contributed to his PAC, solid rock-ribbed conservative and would enforce the law.
What say you?

Update: A petition to sign, "We win, they lose".

UpdateII: New found friend of the Barnyard, Amy Procter, has some great video clips up. I like this one best, our 'cowboy' President Bush digs in his heals and ropes the defeatocrats . Hey moonbats, thanks again, I guess they are good for something, LMAO.

First GOP Presidential Debate

Hey we have vast beautiful horizons in our future.

I am a Mitt Romney supporter and the debate did not change that but I am very proud of all the candidates. No one fell for the barbs thrown by Chris or the Politico write ins, they had fun while showing their serious side as well.

Remove Tancredo, great guy and congressman, same with Ron Paul and add Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson and it would have been real fun.

WSY: POTUS and VP??? My VP with Mitt would be, short list, Duncan, Rudy, and Fred and give McCain 'Foggy Bottoms' to clean up.

They all will have their own appeal to the GOP base and all are very well qualified in my revised list of candidates. I have seen some "oooh" appeal for Mitt among the ladies comments at the blogger row.

They seem to have that "Reagan Pact" to not speak ill of a fellow Republican instead deferring to ideas and policy, a major plus is the eyes of the base. This will be a great primary year as all the candidates will be pushed to the edge, GOP and DNC in all races.

PS: I would like to thank again my hate filled detractors for introducing me to a classy Milwife blogger, Amy Procter, she runs Bottom Line Up Front and should be on your regular check list

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

What the hell are those old school fools thinking?!?
Military brass is cracking down on the MilBlogs and other electronic media from the front. This is so idiotic in a war that is fought on the propaganda front as much as on the ground. Those guys were our voice from the front, the real news not the biased milquetoast we get from the MSM, and as many as I have visited and some often, Blackfive, OpFor, and Mudville Gazette being some of the best. I have never seen any OpSec violated once, in fact all are very careful not to post anything that could because it could jeopardize them and their friends. I have read some great battle tales, and acts of incredible courage and great kindness. Mike Yon has to be cleared before he can post a dispatch from the front and usually a week or two after it happened. I have read a few of these guys stories that were unloading after a bad firefight and they only spoke of the fight not tactics, or where they were only very vaguely as to their surroundings. We need their stories get to us and they need to know they are being heard.

Its been about a month since I went on a wild ride through the Milblogs, I will after I post this though, after I call my Congressman and his SoCal fellow Rep. Duncan Hunter, Senior GOP on the Armed Services Comm. and POTUS aspirant.

Every conservative bloggers should be all over this, you know what to do, do it now! I know Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin will spearhead the effort to reverse this protocol. Put down a few basic rules and the GIs will comply, the rogue few wouldn't/won't anyway. It will be up to the company commanders, and I would assume most NCOs would agree just from what I heard on Hugh's show tonight.

Update :Lefty racism at its best, check out this rant about Dr.Sowell.and his lefty cohorts.

I am Sobbing: Updated

Sunset

Oh boo-hoo,boo-hoo Moonbat WASP (Geoff) has removed me from his blogroll because he can't handle the heat in the Barnyard. To bad he does not understand the game and that blogging in many ways is a game, a strategic one, my favorite kind. Chess, Stratego, Battleship and golf are all strategy games and so is politics and political blogging, he took offense that I was hammering his buddies into the dirt by millions while he is ahead of me, such honor. Where is his honor when it comes to supporting the innocent folks of Iraq? It is nowhere to be found. He claims to be an intellectual but won't acknowledge fact that does not fit his talking points, loony ones. I love to reduce these fools to sputtering wrecks and this one is out of gas. I added a few great links though thanks to he and his buddies hatred. Lets see some easy math, I am up several and down a tenth seems like that still leaves me ahead. They have major problems with the truth it seems.
Update:
Hey folks thanks for the help I made my goal plus some in less than a week, top 300,000 is my next goal, time to go begging for more links, lets smash these dirtballs into the mud where they belong. Go USA!

Tuesday Tidbits

Michael Yon has the second part of his latest dispatch from Bagdad "Desire's of the Heart"posted and what a story the pictures of the Iraqi people paint, Shia, Sunni and Christians living around the Seminary and returning to their neighborhood now that security is staying. They are genuinely happy the Americans have returned and it shows in their faces as they show of their children. Mike will tell you truth about what he sees and hears and he his seeing more glimmers of hope than despair as services slowly return, garbage is collected and hauled away, buildings are repaired and the 'death squads' have largely been stopped. I challenge the skeptics to look at those kids and their proud moms and tell me you want to desert them and leave them to the brutal thugs that had run the neighborhood. I want you to tell me those children wouldn't then grow up the resent America instead of as a great friend that came to help them have a better life. The kids look up to our GIs as the heroes they are and are eager to meet them and hang out with them. As Mike so poignantly points out that building relationships with the people will have a long lasting affect as many friendships have been built among the troops and police that fight side by side for a better Iraq and with friendship comes trust and honor both of which are highly valued by the Arab culture. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should be forced to read Mike's dispatches as they are clearly deluded and ignorant about our efforts.

While it appears we have al least one major battle yet to fight clearing the Diyala province as Al Anbar is quickly being pacified as the tribes join the coalition forces to hunt down Al Qaida and kill them. Bill Roggio has all the news you can use on the GWOT. I am seeing reports the AQ head Al-Masri has been killed by one of the tribes that have turned on them, it has not been confirmed though. He also reports on a major offensive that killed or captured hundreds of terrorist thugs over the weekend. The Iraqi people are sick of being blown up just for existing and as their trust grows in the GIs, MNF and Iraqi, to provide them security, tips are pouring in with actionable intelligence. We can win, we are winning and we must win for the sake of the average Iraqi citizen, not just for us and our troops know this, the Iraqis know this and so should our elected officials.

Yeah, Tony Snow is back, and thankful for our support and prayers, in an appearance on Mike Gallager's show I just heard. He was also saying the same thing I am here.

On the '08 campaign trail Mitt Romney is burning up the straw polls in several states which is far more important than national polls as they represent the party activists willing to walk precincts and man phonebanks in the crucial primaries, CPAC being the first of such straw polls. South Carolina's imortant county straw pollws he won easily and is in a great position in many others as his ideas continue to win people over and he gets some name recognition for his many accomplishments in the private and public sector. Like Matt Lewis at Townhall, I am thinking a Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson ticket may just be the perfect combo.

Want the dirt on the Dems, including squeaky clean B. Hussien Obama? You can find plenty here at No Agenda. He has some shady land deals and long relationship with a convicted Chicago slumlord, Tony Rezko from his former State Senate district and his Pastor Jeremiah Wright is quite the ethno-centric, anti-American, african-american. No Agenda has lots on Nancy and Harry as well. Umm, can you say Culture of Corruption? We all know Hillary had to rent a warehouse for her skeletons in the closet. Wouldn't it be nice if this stuff was reported as widely as any appearance of a misdeed in the GOP or if the DNC took the same punitive measures against its members that the GOP does? Wouldn't it be nice indeed to get rid of all the corrupt bastards in the Swamp? Can you say Term Limits?

Questions For a Lefty Academic

Geoff is a civil lefty and his wife is clergy so I left him some questions after an anti-war/hate Bush rant on his blog.

I know you don't like our POTUS, Geoff but I think you should read alot further than lefty blogs, maybe Michael Yon, Bill Roggio or Michael Totten, neither are GOP. Why can't you take pride in the fact we freed millions of people from tyrany? Why is it so hard to support our noble efforts there? There are brutal terrorist thugs that want to beat the Iraqi people into subnission , why would you aid them by pulling our security blanket? As a Christian why would you subject your felloow Christians to extinction under islamo-fascist law? Do you believe there is real evil we must fight beyond your percieved evil in the Bush administration? Should we fight against the evil of islamo-fascism and sharia law? Should we protect ourselves and our communities from that threat by all means possible? Should we fight or become dhimmi slaves? Tell me professor, you claim to a Christian apologist, tell me sir how you would reconcile this with your view of the war? Should we abandon the good people that Mike Totten and Mike Yon speak of? Would we really be better off if we ran like beaten dogs in the face of their beliefs? These questions will be posted at my site as well so they won't be lost

I wonder what his answers will be?!?

I can't block the moonbats, the next best thing is to engage in hand to blog combat. The cannon are in place and the barrage is just beginning. Time for the assault of ideas that our founders engendered in America , Free, Brave and Powerful.

Weekend Roundup

As I have written here before that the 'Global Warming ' hysteria from the left is less about the environment and more about controlling people through regulation and taxation. I am not denying that the earth maybe warming a bit considering Chicago was once under an icesheet a mile thick as little as 10,000 years ago and who really knows if a few degree rise in average temperature will be good or bad? What is the mean temperature for a millions of year old piece of space rock anyway? I know one thing is for sure that anytime the socialist left declares anything as settled scientific concensus one's hackles should rise and wonder why all the huff and puff to silence critics. They screech and wail and threaten those that don't agree, threatening "Nuremburgh" style trials or lack of creditation to meteorologists that don't kow-tow to their line. That should ring all bells that it is not settled science and give clues as to their real agenda, controlling the masses.
NRO's Planet Gore blog is always a great place to go to find these suppressed critics and loads of other information on the environment. They lead me indirectly to a great piece in Reason magazine on how the people of the earth are healthier, wealthier and cleaner than ever before by Indur Goklahany. He excerpts some pices from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" describing Chicago's stockyards at the turn of the last century and rivers that would burn. Young folks today have no Idea how filthy the air was just 35-40 years ago, or that many rivers were near lifeless and a Great Lake, Erie, was near extinction. I remember well rivers you could not eat the fish or swim and they were covered with sores, they now hold Bassmaster tournments on those same waters and million dollar homes dot the shorelines. Growing up in the South's coal and iron ore belt near Birmingham, Al. the Pittsburg of Dixie, I remember the orange gray haze that would cloak the city in the 60s and early 70s by the 80s they were largely clear and we still produced steel. We have more parks, forests that were largely clear cut have returned and along with them their fauna. Yes this happened in part thanks to early activists like Rachel Carson though wrong in many of their assessments sparked a cleaner future, though deadlier for those in the third-world by banning the use of DDT to fight mosqitos and malaria.
I saw a utube video the other day by Penn & Teller after they sent petitioners to a Global Warming rally on Earth Day to gather signatures for a ban on dihydrogen monoxide saying it was used in everything from pesticides to nuclear reactors which is of course true if you know what dihydrogen monoxide is. They had folks signing up left and right to ban it showing how stupid, uninformed and gullible the alarmists and their sheep are. Would you sign a petition to ban this hydro-carbon? Do you know what it is? It is responsible for untold thousands of dead. Should it be banned?

Weekend Rambler

An interesting day for me on the religious front, I have a regular visitor from the local Jehovah's Witness organization, not church. He is a nice guy and knows his job as a JW well and since I am always open to Bible talk, I am polite and chat with him and he stopped by again today. Later, Frank Pastore's latest article at Townhall was posted on "Mormonism: Religion, Denomination or Cult?" in it he also mentioned the JWs as a cult of Christianity as he does the Mormons. An ex-JW agreed and linked to a site from other ex-JWs, Free Minds, so I had to check it out. What I found out is why I called it an organization not a church and now I know how to witness Christ's Salvation to my door knocking friend, that it is open and inclusive to all that believe, not a select few, for Christ died for all of us so that we may Live and that I must gently lead him from the Watchtower. I am the last person their leaders would want in their 'Bible study' as an anti-authoritarian, slightly heretic, free thinker that has read extensively on questions of faith and dogma from Nitzsche to Pope Benedict and was reborn in Christ through intellectual insight rather than emotional search or man's dogma. Christianity does not seek to control or threaten, it seeks to teach the Word of God, it seeks to bring salvation and hope to all that seek His word, not man's doctrine. I work hard, play hard, and pray hard and believe with all that I am and can witness that once you truly believe and let Him in to your soul and take your sin upon Himself, you do your best not to sin . He is there to help, its not a license to sin but a barrier against it as you do not want to increase His burden. Moseanic Law as spelled it out in the Torah lays out what sin is quite clearly and I am a sinner without a doubt and I will have Christ at my side when I cross St. Peter's gate. How do I know this? It's called faith, not religion, and the Bible tells me so. Believe in Christ the Son, worship The Holy Father and be filled with The Holy Spirit. I guess you could call me a pre-church Christian/Jew in my view of the Bible's teachings as a former atheist.

PS: Frank's article was about Mitt Romney's Mormon religion, frankly, it concerns me little as a Christian conservative. I like Mitt's ability to do the job given him and he is very coservative or the Mormons would disown him. Frank could vote for Mitt and so could Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptists.

From The Front:Updated

The best reporter in Iraq, Mike Yon, has his latest dispatch posted from Bagdad about a Christian University in the heart of the war zone, abandoned nearly a year ago. It is surreal, unscathed, with all books, valuable electronics inplace and untouched since they were left under threat of death. Mike definately deserves a Pulitzer or two for his writing and photography while embedded with our troops, no other journalist has spent as much time walking the line at the front. Go read his post and let the pictures take you there, like him, I believe the prayers of the Seminary staff protected their school, yes, miracles do happen.

My other favorite independant journalist, Michael Totten and his travelling partner Patrick Laswell also have further reporting from Kirkuk, Iraq and their interview with Kurdish Gen. Mam Rostam, Peshmerga strongman, and some more insight into a culture so different than ours. Why doesn't the MSM pick these guys up as stringers? Michael does get a few pieces out through Tech Central Station but not at the level that it should be. This one is a must read about a trip to "Hizbulluhland". in southern Lebanon.

Jed Babbin at Human Events has a great piece up after talking with Gen. Petraeus on what is really happening in Iraq. Progress is slow but moving forward and reflects what I consider our biggest mistake in the prewar planning, a gross underestimation at how eroded the infrastructure had become under Saddam.

My man for POTUS, Mitt Romney, continues to roll out the ideas and has an agenda forming, only Newt Gingrich can compete on this level. I added his sons' blog to the blogroll and requested a crosslink. They just bought a RV to travel the campaign trail and are looking for name suggestions, I posted that it should be "Mitt Romney's Spirit of America". It is a moderated blog so the moonbat trolls need not apply. Wow, what dynamic, energetic family effort can be matched by the other candidates.?

Update: Hmm, my favorite detractors, are way behind me in rank as far as blog popularity by nearly a million according to technorati, several mil in some cases of the most profane moonbats, they have a long way to go to even break the top 1 million. So moonbats, how does that make you feel? I am beating your brains out by hundreds of thousands, I guess playing golf does make sense. They have chased my little white balls around for over a year and still don't understand the game by coming in way over par, the goal is to score low not high in this game. ROFLMAO, they attack me for lack while smelling my exhaust, go figure. Sorry, I do not link moonbats especially stinky ones.
Update:
Bill Roggio reports on a major Al Qaida leader's capture, just chipping away at the infrastructure.

Michelle Malkin has some more moonbat madness, with video.

Don't miss Mary Katherine Ham's awesome Dr. Seuss Parody of Harry surrendercrat Reid to Green Eggs and Ham. One thing is for sure, the GOP ladies are hotties.

Update: I have to wonder why rebuild New Orleans if is going to be fifty feet underwater according to Al Gore in a few years, so why waste taxpayer money rebuilding it? NO is already below sea level, go figure? Call it Socialism at its best, soak the taxpayer for idiocy. That is Al Gore in a nutshell, socialist dictocrat.

Politically And Civically Ignorant

I saw an article today that actually surprised me very little, by Jonah Goldberg, in it he discusses how folks who don't even know who their VPOTUS, 31%, are asked their opinions of politics in random polls. Heck, majorities don't know who the majority leaders are and their opinion is so important these leaders must lead by them. Its sad but I know its true, most folks can rattle of sports, music and TVland trivial gossip and follow their stars with an unbridled passion and for what, entertainment. Is it any wonder then most folks that claim to vote for the democrats tend to be celebrity followers and folks like me that vote republican have never seen an episode of Seinfeld, Friends, or any of other of the slop served by the networks. I have to be really bored to even turn on the TV let alone watch it unless it has a purpose, ie. sports, news, or educational.
These mindless TV drones are then of course going to come to think of their stars as real heroes with an educated opinion and adopt their soundbite talking points as if they were facts. Since they have never seen real experts or heard from them they of course don't exist and should thus be dismissed, nothing illustrates this better than the flap over global warming/pollution. Ah, socialists have always been the masters of propaganda over the mindless held immobile by screen with pretty pictures and ideological voices. Conservatives understand that life does not begin at Cheers and end with Friends and that Sheryl Crow, whoever she is, and Babs Streisand etc. ad nauseum are not diplomats, scientists, or experts and that most are dropouts and failures in the real world so they become caricatures, making a living as poseurs to their adoring public in search of nirvana.
My childhood heroes were folks like Nathaniel Hale, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Geronimo and Sitting Bull as I read their biographies. In later years I have met many celebrities mostly from the rock and roll world and never asked for an autograph, they were just like me nothing special other than being good at their chosen trade. I admit that I have never understood celebrity worship or the gossip mill that surrounds it.
The elites that I do care about are the ones that have real power, the power to make and decide the law that I must live under. I know the folks I help elect and they know who I am because I call and email in support of real policy and against any form of socialism and I get responses except from my lefty senators, Boxer and Fienstein.
My fellow conservatives we have a mighty tough row to hoe and the weeds are thick and high, time for slingblades and an aggressive swing to clear the way. Hmm, I have to wonder if the urban moonbats even know what a slingblade is while I know every redneck and hillbilly out there does. I am a redneck political junky and believe me we need Mitt Romney, Rudy, John, Newt, and Fred all in the next administration. I am a Mitt Romney supporter for POTUS because he is by far the best qualified, I could care less if he hunts or not as long as he supports my right to. He knows money and can manage our unreal budget, he knows what we face abroad in islamo-fascism and does not shrink from telling it straight up. He is a family man and knows the value of marriage as it should be, man and woman. He is prolife but understands the POTUS really has no voice in the matter unless a bill comes to his desk for signature. Mitt is the man no matter what the pundits tell you.

PS: Out of 100 million blogs, I am in the top 1 million, no. 655 thousand and something, better than being in the bottom million, LOL. I guess I have some work to do, go begging for links, LOL. As a citizen journalist,I am actually happy that I have that standing. Goal is to gain the top 500,ooo bloggers, can you help by placing me on your blogroll, I will reciprocate unlesss you are a complete lunatic.

You Better Sit Down

Beale AFB towers in the background, cows and horses if the fore, they fly the U-2 recon planes out of here and the biggest cargocraft, on the rare occasion you can witness the fighter pilots practicing, a very cool site.

I found a use for the shrieking moonbats, I look at who they are currently having a hatefest over and go check the site and as a result have met a couple charming conservative bloggerettes. They can be found at Hillbilly Politics and Bottom Line Up Front. I guess the moonbats, like vultures, have a certain use though they tend to circle the wholesome and conservative rather than the dead and decaying. I have found in my couple years running the Barnyard and a couple running around various message boards beforehand that liberal moonbats are incapable of debating/discussing viable solutions to the many problems we face as a nation if they disagree. Instead they seek to destroy the messenger of the solution they have no viable alternative to with insults and derision. I guess we can make them into useful pawns as those they scream their hate against join together. This is what the left so fails to understand is that us rednecks and hillbillies have roots much deeper than urban liberals though we may be slow growing, oak trees are stronger than weeds and last for generations not political seasons.
I am part of America's heart as a small business owner and the moonbats want to move folks like me to government care and not the self reliance bred from a farming background. I am very fortunate to have that footing that a life on a farm can bring, the basic horse-sense to do the right thing guided by Christ. We know where our roots are and that is in America and we are damn proud of it. We believe that America is special as the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave and we won't take its denigration sitting down.

Some Promised Pictures

I went back to the Yuba Gold Fields today, it is an interesting area.
A couple old scoops from the dredgers, about a 1/4 the size of my truck, a Dakota.

Lake Tahoe is up there, and pushing my telephoto to the limit That is California.

There once was a town named Hammonton down there back when gold was king here. I am standing atop a slag heap, one of hundreds in the area, a man made foothill.

A typical road side sample.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels
were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on
government would be necessary. In framing a government which is
to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in
this: you must first enable the government to control the governed;
and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 51

Congressman John Cambell, a CPA by trade, brings an interesting fact and summation on some of our obscene federal budget and spending practices.

Last Thursday, I wrote a post that provided a telling example of how unwilling the Democrats are to even entertain the idea of spending accountability. During their time in the majority, they have shown an innate ability to question and investigate just about everything going on in Washington, except the prudent use taxpayer dollars.

On the heals of this, a report has been released by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University that shows 87 percent of federal appropriations, $2.18 trillion, are going to government agencies that score "below satisfactory." Not surprisingly, the worst scoring agency in the federal government - the Department of Housing and Urban Development - will probably see one of the greatest, if not the greatest, increase in spending this year under the new Democratic majority. To view the report, click here

That is a big pile of cash just being shoveled like some kind of manure, 2.2 trillion dollars going to overly wasteful and inefficient agencies. That is probably the largest factor in my support for Mitt Romney for POTUS is his ability to make sense of this kind of mess and fix it not expand it or grow it. The lunatic left want to add more agencies, more programs, free healthcare, and save the world from freedom and opportunity to help themselves since the government can do it better for them.

The Democrats have truly become the party of whiny little children with zero foresight only 'feel good now' regulation and litigation in the hopes the courts will side with them since they are unable to win the votes on the merits of their arguments. I for one hope the Democrats keep up the pace, five of the conservative base's biggest issues have come to the forefront, winning the war, abortion and the courts, 2nd Amendment rights, flagrant over spending and grossly draconian leviathan of a tax code.

John is a congressman on our side as chair of the finance committee for the RSC, and a good eye on what kind of thievery hard core pols are willing to attempt, I miss him here in Sacramento, though not from my district, he has my vote and voice. Flag his site and check it weekly at least, especially if you are fiscally conservative and believe the government doesn't need more money it needs reform.

2.2 TRILLION dollars is a lot of greenbacks to cover up a pile of bureaucratic bull droppings and incompetence. The unions must be removed from government, they have undo influence and hurt the free market competition that could bring the cost of government way down and help more than a select few union members known for their corruption. Do it the Reagan way, if they strike, fire them for dereliction of duty and hire private replacements happy to work. The unions are killing California and many of its cities as I type and threatening to release many tens of thousands criminals back onto the streets or not show up for work if they don't get their way and the Democrats here are their bought and paid for pawns.

That once "flower" of American cities, San Fransisco, is now wilted and decaying and a perfect example of failed socialist policies for other cities to look at. Families of all races are fleeing if they are able, the streets have been taken over by the homeless and smell like it, homosexual activists are plentiful and uninhibited to where they do whatever it is they do in the open. Would you want to raise your family there? I have had to work there on occasion, state, city and private, and it is sad. My mother lived there in the glory days and met my father there back when the cool hangout for the ladies was the Officer's Club and the officers were gentlemen, just before the beatniks moved in. It is even radically different since her last visit there in 1980. We don't go there when she visits now, there is still plenty of 'quaint' remaining in California and ample beauty. The Golden Gate will maintain its beauty despite the rot that lies beneath the glow.

Update:(hat tip to Hugh Hewitt) The al qaida jihadi islamo fascist's are planning and want a Hiroshima sized attack on the West. Would you submit or be more determined to fight? Japan was close to defeat, and is a small island nation with few natural resources and we are not. We stood down the Soviets, we can stare down the Persian theocrats. Funny, there once was a time when the French Foreign Legion was the refuge of true freedom loving mercenaries. Hugh's follow up broadcast links are here.

Update: Thanks to a moonbat's hatred I found a fellow conservative blogger, Amy Proctor, with a very good site! It had to be, my detractors hate her as much as me. Hey Amy, they are cowards when confronted.

Searching the Great Unknown

So moonbats, you were crying about my moderating my comments section, brownshirt and communist were a couple invectives thrown at me for moderating your insanity, funny that when I drop the fence they fail to show. They know that their posts will prove me correct in my assessment of them, cowards that they are.
Us rednecks call it catfish bait.

Weekend Rambler

An Old Wells Fargo station from the Gold Rush.

I took a little exploratory trip to the Yuba Gold Fields a few miles away, it was a gray and misty day and I had cabin fever so why not, besides why own a 4x4 if not to go splashing down unmaintained roads in the rain. Access was more limited than I had hoped for from looking at the maps of the area.Wild flowers were abundant on the piled tailings of the dredging operations that took place in the Yuba river during the gold days and I will go back on a more photogenic day for some pictures as this rain will help the flowers along even more. It is an interesting contrast.

Meanwhile back in the present exploring that information frontier of cyberspace I came along this great piece by Fred Kagen at the Weekly Standard, it is long but worth the read for anyone interested in progress in Iraq. His answer to both questions "Can we win?" and "Can we lose?" is yes and lays it out by the facts on the ground. I know we can win and we must for it is pure evil we are facing and that is what our troops are saying as well, that is why they volunteer to go back time and again even the wounded fight to heal so they can rejoin the battle to protect the innocent from the horrors of that evil that has become islamo-fascism.

Michelle Malkin has been taking emails from the military community in response to Sen Harry'Retreat'Reid and his "We've lost" comment and posting them, fun reading if you are a right thinker.

Hugh Hewitt is all stoked and full of steam at the airing of the psychopathic murderer's final tirade of evil by the MSM, most notably NBC. I agree as we got a copycat in my county and a lockdown of two school districts here in California soon afterwards, after some meth-head threatened to beat the VT atrocity. The authorities got the psycho and my applause to them. This insane sicko will now be a poster boy for the sick evil that will come from it. I for one would rather be charged with unlawful gun possession on campus than be gunned down without a fight.

My man Mitt Romney, keeps impressing voters as they get to know him through his truelly modern and unique web outreach and impressive stump speeches. Rudy and Mitt were both well recieved in Greensboro, SC. while Sen "no show"Mcain skips another important GOP convention in an important early state. His supporters were not happy. The Townhall fox Mary Katherine Ham has an interview with Mitt posted as well.

Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard also highlights Steve Hayward's video "A Convenient Fiction" that I linked to via NRO last night. I could not say it better.

Have a good week end!

PS: A Barnyard welcome the The Huntress

On Climate Change

NRO has a great video link up in The Corner and Planet Gore, here, and here,

Eyes In Iraq

Well another pair of eyes to be exact, as last night was my first visit to Patrick Lasswell's site, Moderate Risk, some impressive independant photo-journalism if you ask this Goat. I love reading posts from folks like this that actually risk something to get out a story with out putting a target on their back either, to an extent. I don't look to the MSM for stories like those told by independant 'real' journalists living with the Iraqi's and Iraqi bloggers themselves. Its the least I can do for these folks like Patrick, Michael Totten, and Mike Yon that have spent years abroad absorbing the culture of their surroundings, to spread their stories. Their reporting is as important if not better than that from the MSM. Visit their sites and contribute if you are able, they rely on private funding not the MSM so their story won't get filtered and distorted.
Michelle Malkin and her "Hotair" project is also an awesome source of info, as anybody that would come to the Barnyard should already know.

Hey moonbats, I threw the gauntlet down, do you have the cajones to pick it up? I somehow doubt it as every post you make will only prove me correct. I challenge you, go for it. Do you have what it takes? I will ignore inane snipes, have you got an argument? You want to be a critic, go for it, if you have the balls.

Posts From Iraq

For a while now I have felt Mike Totten provides some of the best Western insight into Middle-Eastern culture, something many of us in the West have so little knowledge of. Mike will take you into the streets, souks, and bizarres and show you the Iraqi countryside, so much like California's. In his latest post he takes you to Kirkuk, an oil rich city that could rival Dubai, Bahrain, or Kuwait as a glissening modern city and instead thanks to the rot of Saddam's tyranny is nothing but a vast bombed out slum. It is Kurdish and if they get their way it will become that shining city for all Iraq to look upto.
Though I greatly admire Mike Yon and Bill Roggio for the work they do as independant journalists, they imbed with the military and are thus under their cloak of protection, Totten ventures out into the public with an interpreter and driver and little else though he sticks to the calmer regions. He has lived in the Levant and knows the customs and how not to stick out as an American so he gets stuff other MSM jounalists will never get and delivers a feel of the people that goes way underreported.
Mike Totten's compatriot Patrick Laswell has posted video while wondering around a souk, an open market like those favorite Al Qaeda targets in Bagdad, in Suleimaniya. From what Mike has posted about Kurdistan it sounds more like NoCal and our quaint towns and villages replete with history though ours is far less deep and intriguing. I must say that Iraq has moved into my top five countries that I want to visit along with Israel, the British Isles, Australia, and Thailand, as repository of unimaginable history from the earliest days of the written word. Egypt should be included in any Mid-East tour as well, I should add. My reasoning, Britain for golf and history, Austalia for eco-tourism, Thailand for culture, food and eco, Israel and Iraq, history and Christian religious pilgramage but alas that is still a dream.

I have been watching the "America at a Crossroads" series on PBS and have been impressed so far with how it has dealt with radical islamist, neo-fascist jihadism. They have not tried to gloss over it to much at least as I expected them to being as liberal as they are at PBS. Tune in, it is worth watching.

Update: Sadly tonight's is anti-semitic and fails to recognize there was never a Palistine and Israel fits within their historic region. I take my fairness compliment back!

PS: A tale of two houses, one green gasbag Al Gore's, the other President Bush's Crawford Ranch, from The American Thinker.