It seems pretty clear that the success of the Iraq War may mean a victory for Democrats.

That's because the news media has all but forgotten about Iraq now that blood isn't filling streets and filling news time.

Instead, they have moved on to the next "quagmire: The Economy.

Recession, Recession, Recession. They say it enough it will happen.

Nonetheless, FREE TRADE is becoming a huge issue. 

Republican presidential candidates seem to be assuming Republican voters will buy their pro free trade arguments without arguments because it's the "conservative" position to take.

Got news for them: Americans don't care what label they're branded with. They want to know why their neighbors are hurting and whether they are next.

And let's face it, Democrats who talk about the dangers of free trade will win in November.

Yes, it's Hilarious how Hillary talks tough on trade when it was her husband who pushed NAFTA.
But the media always misses liberal irony.

Democrats will win on this issue because because while most Republican candidates--like Giuliani--continue to tout the magic of free trade, most Republican voters don't trust it.

The WSJ, ahead of the latest "sky is falling" economic reporting, documented the anti-free trade sentiments HERE. 


Pat Buchanan, meanwhile, has basically given Democratic candidates a playbook for humiliating Republican free trade addicts. Here's the full playbook.

Let's face it: Pat is considered a leftist on the issue of trade.
But so are the Founding Fathers, who gave Congress specific powers to regulate foreign trade. The Founding Fathers surely had no intention that it would be such agencies as the World Trade Organization, and not our own Government, establishing critical trade policies for our country.

 

Here are a few quotes from the Buchanan piece. Whether we agree or disagree with these statement Americans will rightly expect the issue to be talked about by all major candidates.
If anti-free traders are wrong then they need more evidence that what Republican candidates are offering.

"the dollar is plunging because America has been living beyond her means, borrowing $2 billion a day from foreign nations to maintain her standard of living and to sustain the American Imperium."

"The prime suspect in the death of the dollar is the massive trade deficits America has run up, some $5 trillion in total since the passage of NAFTA and the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994."

"As nations realize that the dollars they are being paid for their products cannot buy in the world markets what they once did, they will demand more dollars for those goods. This will mean rising prices for the imports on which America has become more dependent than we have been since before the Civil War. "

"China — growing at 10 percent a year for two decades and now growing at close to 12 percent — is willing to take losses in the value of the dollars it holds to keep the U.S. technology, factories and jobs pouring in, as their exports capture America's markets from U.S. producers.

The Japanese will take some loss in the value of their dollar hoard to take down Chrysler, Ford and GM, and capture the U.S. auto market as they captured our TV, camera and computer chip markets."

"Other nations that have kept cash reserves in U.S. Treasury bonds and T-bills are watching the value of these assets sink. Not fools, they will begin, as many already have, to divest and diversify, taking in fewer dollars and more euros and yen. As more nations abandon the dollar, its decline will continue."

"The oil-producing and exporting nations, with trade surpluses, like China, have also begun to take the stash of dollars they have and stuff them into sovereign wealth funds, and use these immense and growing funds to buy up real assets in the United States — investment banks and American companies."

 

 

Both the Radical Left and Ron Paul supporters--whose only commonality would be their addiction to whoring for terrorist propagandists--both celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th.

Guy Fawkes, as you may know, was a terrorist who believed that murderous and violent rampage against your own government and fellow citizens was justified as long as you were sufficiently pissed.

Fawkes tried to kill King James I on Nov. 5th 1605 and failed.

The creepy and cynical dude from the movie "V for Vendetta" was modeled after Fawkes.

The character's main contribution to political philosophy? You can kill anyone you want as long as you feel wronged enough.
Abortion clinic bombers, the V-Tech massacrist, and even James Earl Ray can kill away.

You starting to figure out why Radical Lefties and Paulites find it so easy to slough off 3,000 American deaths at the hands of Jihadists? Good.

So Fawkes, complete with "V for Vendetta" movie cuts, is celebrated by the basement dwelling underwear clad typists at www.crooksandliars.com in a post like THIS.

There's also a link to such buffoonery as a Harper's "poem" about Fawkes, laughingly headlined "Happy Counterterrorism Day" (my emphasis added). Read it here.


Across the political aisle there's Ron Paul. He actually raised $4.2 Million dollars celebrating a terrorist.
Here's the story.

Paul surely has plausible deniability on the matter. Heck, he's honoring a "revolutionary" right? So why do his supporters liberally use the movie clips and glorify violence as the answer to a non violent threat--particularly against ones own government?

Spare me the rehashing of the Iraq/Iran/Jihadists stuff. They were and are bona fide threats and no sane people--not even liberals--disagree.

But take those international threats off the table. Review the Crooks and Liars and Ron Paul message. It's not about Iraq. It's about a ton of other stuff, all using the violent "V For Vendetta" character to articulate it.

Guy Fawkes Day isn't about standing up to an outside threat from another country. It's about killing your own leaders and countrymen. It's about targeting your neighbors first.

Be ready.  

For the first time in a long time I looked at a Kieth Olbermann editorial, cocked back my head and said "
I think this is about waterboarding. What, you don't wanna talk about Iraq?

Here it is.

Mr. Olbermann. You sir, are a comic brilliante. You sir, are a Mr. Olbermann this country has not seen. Mr. Olbermann, unhand my words and giveth me another funny diatribe, dear sir and mister. You sir, are a wordsmith and a polesmoker, Mr. Olbermann. I....sir...want...to...know...what...your secret is sir knight of the template nobledor.

Apologize, Mr. Olbermann, for you sir, just keep on keeping on as our country mires in MSNBC and all of your phony gallantryismistilates.

Traitor may not beith youeth but dear sir you are comical. 

Goodnight and good luck.

Democratic Party Shill-In-Chief Frank Rich has seemingly run out of "blood and treasure" diatribes, Halliburton monologues, Valerie Plame dramas, gay Republican blotter sheets, and penis size comparisons with Cheney. 

Now The Queen of the NYT is fluttering his fake eyelashes and telegraphing the defeat of Democrats in 2008 and laying the blame at the hands of George Bush!

Frank Rich lied, the Democrats died!

Read his greased up crap right here.

What an embarrassment: Democrat pundits so spooked they wind up waving white flags before a Republican nominee is named. We're 12 MONTHS away from the election! 

Rich--who is often more illuminating than most liberal shills-- phones his column in this time with a strategy we've already heard in the Democratic debates a week earlier: There's good news in Iraq, so let's simply invent a war with Iran.

In pure comic magic, Rich takes it a step further by declaring that if there is NOT a war with Iran then it's bad news for Democrats. I don't know. I lost Madame Rich about 32 paragraphs in.  

I'll never forget seeing Carville speak the day after Kerry's drubbing. There wasn't a candidate in the world who could lose to Bush in 2004 with all the constant pounding of the mainstream media and the questionable success of the war in Iraq.
But the incompetent and insufferable Kerry managed to get his rear handed to him, proving Democrats are just too dumb for their own good.  But there was Carville, up on stage blaming Americans for just not "fully understanding" the Kerry message. BWAAAAAAAAHHH!



Rich is aided in his "we'll lose but it's your fault" campaign by some fop named Jonathan Darman at Newsweek, who is surely in need of some specialists to untwist him from his lame attempt at intellectual calisthenics comparing Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth I.

Oops, sorry. He's comparing Hillary to A MOVIE about Elizabeth I.

It reads like a high school sophomore trying to bullshit his way through a comm arts paper at ten minutes to midnite.
Suffer through it here.


 

Stay Classy Ron Paulites!

My buddy over at www.Parametersecurity.com , the ethical hackers, sent me an email today saying they discovered a new website called www.jamesallmansucks.com and it's all about how I suck because I don't worship Ron Paul.

It even says I suck because I happen to like Rudy.

But like any good men who wear jeans and white socks and black orthepedic shoes and wait for the second coming of their wives down the stairs to their basement lair, the proprieter of the site, too cowardly to identify himself, says --go figure--it's ALL A CONSPIRACY! (bonus points added for reference to the "Saudi Prince")
From the site:

"Guiliani's lobbying client = Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. = Fox News
97.1 FM = Fox Radio Affiliate
97.1 FM = Jamie Allman's Employer

Jamie Allman's Opinion:
Rudy Guiliani isn't pro-abortion.

How convienent.. "

Baby that's comedy gold!

Maybe he's for Ron Paul because "Paul" is easier to spell than "Giuliani" but I can safely say I am not supporting anyone named "Guiliani".

But I think both Giuliani and Guiliani combined have done more than the anonymous website owning tool has ever done to decrease abortions in this country. Just a guess.

Anyway, the fun stuff involves how wrong I am that it is NOT Republican tradition to oppose foreign involvement and, as I have said, what was a model in 1950 doesn't work today. Most people who can spell Giuliani know that.

People who ignore modern day realities and the need to adjust are simply foolish.
Ron "Rumpelstiltskin" Paul needs to wake up from his Goldwater era slumber. 

But the facts about Iraq and progress there should wake him up soon enough. Presumably Paul would also advocate doing nothing while terrorists seize Pakistan's nuclear asrenal as the government falls. Foolish. 

The website owning guy may be content to let his men and women lay spread eagle for the next Hitler, but most Americans are not.

Either way, there's plenty of desert space for these folks to bend over for the Mooj and I suggest they set their tents up there.

To get your tent setting up tool kit click here:
 

You may as well simply call us after Tuesday in November. The election is over.

The wicked witch from the west just strapped herself with explosives and blew the Democrats to smithereens with her Hag-araffic diatribe on President Bush and the war's "total failure".

Click HERE and see why the Democrats are simply too stupid to pull off 2008. 

Pelosi must be a paid operative of Republicans. 
No one in their right mind would try to pass that jive off on Americans who simply are no longer seeing headlines to match what the likes of Pelosi are saying.

The Democrats have had to INVENT a war with Iran to just to keep the anti-war machine breathing.

The only thing left for some of the leading Democrats is to talk about how socialist they want to turn the country.

The new Democratic theme song: 99 Lead Balloons.

Wow.

It's great to see our American soldiers happy in Iraq.

I troll many military websites for prep for the show. For the past three years I have seen American men and women getting killed in IED and sniper attacks, courtesy of terrorists who post on the sites.

Lately, in a very welcome turn, I am seeing postings of American soldiers enjoying themselves and even trying to fend off boredom.

It is so great to see so many of them smile.
Click on each link for video.

The Ladies
The Guitar Boys
The Rappers
The Country Dudes
The Humvee Sing-a-Long

Enjoy. 

Let's face it.
This is an easy one to get excited about if you don't read the entire story.
Here's the freak out headline:

Furor After Ceremonial Flag-Folding Readings Pulled From Military Funerals

BUT click here for the entire story

What the story says is that the readings are no longer ALWAYS delivered at EVERY military funeral. If a family wants the reading a family gets the reading. If a family does not want the reading, it doesn't get the reading.

Is this "secular cleansing" like someone in the story claims? Not at all.

Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Buddhists, (don't give me crap about the order here it's just what comes to mind), Wiccans, Deists are all fighting and dying in our wars. If the families of those who gave their loved ones to our country don't want to hear a Christian reading then they darn sure shouldn't have to. Their loved ones died for the right to say no.
******

So while we're busy keeping it real on BMA let's enjoy a great video of our hot female heroes in Iraq.
HERE IT IS!
It's followed by a testament to what you probably already know--these women are not just looking good, they're kicking ass:   

 ACTION REPORT: Raven 42
action in Salman Pak:??On Sunday afternoon, in a
very bad section of scrub-land called Salman Pak,
on the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad, 40 to 50
heavily-armed Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy
of 30 civilian tractor trailer trucks that were
moving supplies for the coalition forces, along an
Alternate Supply Route. These tractor trailers,
driven by third country nationals (primarily
Turkish), were escorted by 3 armored Hummers from
the COSCOM*. When the insurgents attacked, one of
the Hummers was in their kill zone and the three
soldiers aboard were immediately wounded, and the
platform taken under heavy machinegun and RPG**
fire.
Along with them, three of the truck drivers were
killed, 6 were wounded in the tractor trailer
trucks. The enemy attacked from a farmer's barren
field next to the road, with a tree line
perpendicular to the ASR***, two dry irrigation
ditches forming a rough L-shaped trenchline, and a
house standing off the dirt road. After three
minutes of sustained fire, a squad o f enemy moved
forward toward the disabled and suppressed trucks.
Each of the enemy had hand-cuffs and were looking
to take hostages for ransom or worse, to take
those three wounded US soldiers for more internet
beheadings.??About this time, three armored
Hummers that formed the MP Squad under call sign
Raven 42, 617th MP Co, Kentucky National Guard,
assigned to the 503rd MP Bn (Fort Bragg), 18th MP
Bde, arrived on the scene like the cavalry. The
squad had been shadowing the convoy from a
distance behind the last vehicle, and when the
convoy trucks stopped and became backed up from
the initial attack, the squad sped up, paralleled
the convoy up the shoulder of the road, and moved
to the sound of gunfire. ??They arrived on the
scene just as a squad of about ten enemy had moved
forward across the farmer's field and were about
20 meters from the road. The MP squad opened fire
with .50 cal machineguns and Mk19 grenade
launchers and drove across the front of the
enemy's kill zone, between the enemy and the
trucks, drawing fire off of the tractor trailers.
??The MP's crossed the kill zone and then turned
up an access road at a right angle to the ASR and
next to the field full of enemy fighters. The
three vehicles, carrying nine MPs and one medic,
stopped in a line on the dirt access road and
flanked the enemy positions with plunging fire
from the .50 cal and the SAW machinegun (Squad
Automatic Weapon). In front of them, was a line of
seven sedans, with all their doors and trunk lids
open, the getaway cars and the lone two story
house off on their left.??Immediately the middle
vehicle was hit by an RPG knocking the gunner
unconscious from his turret and down into the
vehicle. The Vehicle Commander (the TC*****), the
squad's leader, thought the gunner was dead, but
tried to treat him from inside the vehicle.
Simultaneously, the rear vehicle's driver and TC,
section leader two, open their doors and dismount
to fight, while their gunner continued firing from
his position in the gun platform on top of the
Hummer. Immediately, all three fall under heavy
return machinegun fire, wounded. The driver of the
middle vehicle saw them fall out the rearview
mirror, dismounts and sprints to get into the
third vehicle and take up the SAW on top the
vehicle. The Squad's medic dismounts from that
third vehicle, and joined by the first vehicle's
driver (CLS trained****) who sprinted back to join
him, begins combat life-saving techniques to treat
the three wounded MPs. The gunner on the floor of
the second?vehicle is revived by his TC, the squad
leader, and he climbs back into the .50 cal and
opens fire. The Squad leader dismounted with his
M4 carbine, and 2 hand grenades, grabbed the
section leader out of the first vehicle who had
rendered radio reports of their first contact. The
two of them, squad leader Staff Sergeant and team
leader Sergeant with her M4 and M203 grenade
launcher, rush the nearest ditch about 20 meters
away to start clearing the natural trenchline. The
enemy has gone into the ditches and is hiding
behind several small trees in the back of the lot.
The .50 cal and SAW flanking fire tears apart the
ten enemy in the lead trenchline.??Meanwhile, the
two treating the three wounded on the ground at
the rear vehicle come under sniper fire from the
farmer's house. Each of them, remember one is a
medic, pull out AT-4 rocket launchers from the
HMMWV and nearly-simultaneously fire the rockets
into the house to neutralize the shooter. The two
sergeants work their way up the trenchline,
throwing grenades, firing grenades from the
launcher, and firing their M4s. ??The sergeant
runs low on ammo and runs back to a vehicle to
reload. She moves to her squad leader's vehicle,
and because this squad is led so well, she knows
exactly where to reach her arm blindly into a
different vehicle to find ammo-because each
vehicle is packed exactly the same, with
discipline.??As she turns to move back to the
trenchline, Gunner in two sees an AIF***** jump
from behind one of the cars and start firing on
the Sergeant. He pulls his 9mm, because the .50
cal is pointed in the other direction, and shoots
five rounds wounding him.****** The sergeant moves
back to the trenchline under fire from the back of
the field, with fresh mags, two more grenades, and
three more M203 rounds. The Mk 19 gunner
suppresses the rear of the field. ??Now, rejoined
with the squad leader, the two sergeants continue
clearing the enemy from the trenchline, until they
see no more movement. A lone man with an RPG
launcher on his shoulder steps from behind a tree
and prepares to fire on the three Hummers and is
killed with a single aimed SAW shot thru the head
by the previously knocked out gunner on platform
two, who now has a SAW out to supplement the .50
cal in the mount. ??The team leader sergeant--she
claims four killed by aimed M4 shots. ??The Squad
Leader--he threw four grenades taking out at least
two AIF, and attributes one other to her aimed
M203 fire. ??The gunner on platform two,
previously knocked out from a hit by the RPG, has
now swung his .50 cal around and, realizing that
the line of vehicles represents a hazard and
possible getaway for the bad guys, starts shooting
the .50cal into the engine blocks until his field
of fire is limited. He realizes that his vehicle
is still running despite the RPG hit, and drops
down from his weapon, into the drivers seat and
moves the vehicle forward on two flat tires about
100 meters into a better firing position. Just
then, the vehicle dies, oil spraying everywhere.
He remounts his .50 cal and continues shooting the
remaining of the seven cars lined up and ready for
a get-away that wasn't to happen. The fire dies
down about then, and a second squad arrives on the
scene, dismounts and helps the two giving first
aid to the wounded at platform three. Two minutes
later three other squads from the 617th arrive,
along with the CO, and the field is secured,
consolidation begins.??Those seven Americans (with
the three wounded) killed in total 24 heavily
armed enemy, wounded 6 (two later died), and
captured one unwounded, who feigned injury to
escape the fight. They seized 22 AK-47s, 6x RPG
launchers w/ 16 rockets, 13x RPK machineguns, 3x
PKM machineguns, 40 hand grenades, 123 fully
loaded 30-rd AK magazines, 52 empty mags, and 10
belts of 2500 rds of PK ammo.??The three wounded
MPs have been evacuated to Landstuhl. One lost a
kidney and will be paralyzed. The other two will
most likely recover, though one will forever have
a bullet lodged between second and third ribs
below his heart. No word on the three COSCOM
soldiers wounded in the initial volleys. Of the 7
members of Raven 42 who walked away, two are
Caucasian Women, the rest men-one is
Mexican-American, the medic is African-American,
and the other two are Caucasian-the great American
melting pot. ??They believed even before this
fight that their NCOs were the best in the Army,
and that they have the best squad in the Army. The
Medic who fired the AT-4, said he remembered how
from the week before when his squad leader forced
him to train on it, though he didn't think as a
medic he would ever use one. He said he chose to
use it in that moment to protect the three wounded
on the ground in front of him, once they came
under fire from the building. The day before this
mission, they took the new RFI bandoliers that
were recently issued, and experimented with
mounting them in their vehicles. Once they figured
out how, they pre-loaded a second basic load of
ammo into magazines, put them into the bandoliers,
and mounted them in their vehicles---the same
exact way in every vehicle-load plans enforced and
checked by leaders!??Leadership under fire-once
those three leaders (NCOs) stepped out of their
vehicles, the squad was committed to the fight.
??Their only complaints in the AAR were: the lack
of stopping power in the 9mm; the .50 cal
incendiary rounds they are issued in lieu of ball
ammo (shortage of ball in the inventory) didn't
have the penetrating power needed to pierce the
walls of the building; and that everyone in the
squad was not CLS trained."

The true mark of support for our troops fighting overseas will be how we support them when they are home.



Many of them will have ended their usefullness to the American Left. Unless their name could be scrawled on a mock tombstone at Moonbat U. or their assasinations shown on CNN our men and women will have to look hard to find support.

Future government help will not come easy either. Democrats seem to be committing the Government to paying for handouts to lazy people, college education for everyone, medical care for mid-wealthy Americans, and continued checks written to foreign interests in hopes of buying favor. Republicans seem to be committing the Government to going after gays who want to be married and immigration laws that don't need to be changed (simply enforced).

So GI Joe--injured or well--must not be relegated to scrambling for crumbs while politicians ply their trades.

There are a lot of ways to help.

I am on board with the USO http://www.usostl.org/ and will be emceeing their "Salute to Heroes" event November 10th.

We at 97.1 FM Talk are also embarking on a new alliance with www.OperationHomefront.net.

And my buddy Uncle Jimbo at www.Blackfive.net is part of a huge effort that began over the weekend called "Project Valour-IT":

Here's Uncle Jimbo's Direct Link for the effort:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/10/its-time-to-giv.html

"Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss (Captain Chuck Ziegenfuss' father), provides voice-controlled software and laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations at major military medical centers. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone, our wounded heroes are able to send and receive messages from friends and loved ones, surf the 'Net, and communicate with buddies still in the field without having to press a key or move a mouse."

This is a great micro-focused fund drive for those of you interested in pinpointing your dollars.

 

As promised...the awesome video from Trinity vs. Millsap.
I counted 14 laterals.
CLICK HERE

Robert Caplin/NYT

And in baseball, the New York Times just couldn't resist getting wonky with the World Series.
Here's the story.