It’s official, the “it’s for the children” canard has finally jumped the shark. This has to be the most foolish, infuriating thing I have read in a long while. Littleton Colorado wants to pay tribute to a soldier who bravely, valiently sacrificed his life fighting to defend freedom in Afghanistan. Sounds pretty straightforward, I mean who wouldn’t support that?
Parents protest military statue
Parents oppose image, location of memorial
A Littleton group says the depiction of Navy SEAL Danny Dietz, killed in ’05, glorifies violence and is too close to three schools… They say the statue, depicting Dietz clutching an automatic rifle, glorifies violence. In Berry Park, it would be within blocks of three schools and two playgrounds.
“I don’t think young children should be exposed to that in that way – unsupervised by their parents or any adults,” said Emily Cassidy, one of the mothers.
Here is the offensive statue, you tell me, is that statue, and the story behind it, something children shouldn’t be exposed to? I think the story of Danny Dietz is something every kid who goes to Littleton public schools should be taught, for generations to come.
Photo:Denver Post (Hat Tip:Michelle Malkin)
Back on September 17, 2006, we told you the story of Danny Dietz as part of our weekly collaboration with Blackfive, the #1 milblog. Each week we bring his series called Someone You Should Know to the radio. These are the incredible true stories of the heroics of the men and women fighting for us around the world.
You can listen to the amazing story of three special men, Lt. Michael P. Murphy, Navy SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson and Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz right here.
From the Navy Cross awarded to Danny Dietz:
…Operating in the middle of an enemy-controlled area, in extremely rugged terrain, his Special Reconnaissance element was tasked with locating a high-level Anti-Coalition Militia leader, in support of a follow-on direct action mission to disrupt enemy activity. On 28 June 2005, the element was spotted by Anti-Coalition Militia sympathizers, who immediately revealed their position to the militia fighters. As a result, the element directly encountered the enemy. Demonstrating exceptional resolve and fully understanding the gravity of the situation and his responsibility to his teammates, Petty Officer Dietz fought valiantly against the numerically superior and positionally advantaged enemy force. Remaining behind in a hailstorm of enemy fire, Petty Officer Dietz was wounded by enemy fire. Despite his injuries, he bravely fought on, valiantly defending his teammates and himself in a harrowing gunfight, until he was mortally wounded. By his undaunted courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and absolute devotion to his teammates, Petty Officer Dietz will long be remembered for the role he played in the Global War on Terrorism…
Is Time right – conservativism is dead? Now that Republicans are liberalized, evangelicals seem to be following. Dr. Albert Mohler, evangelical spokesman (and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), rebuked Ann Coulter for using the dictionary word “faggot.” Mohler was so “horrified” at Coulter’s use of “the new ‘F’ word,” that he dubbed her “the evil queen of mean.” Furthermore, he declared, “She has a tawdry record of cheap shots, crude slurs and indefensible attacks.”
Well, don’t forget, President M, she also has been one of the most effective defenders of Bible-believing Americans by exposing the left wing hate campaign that made anti-Christianism the only respectable bigotry.
But thanks for giving her enemies a nice big club. Just out of curiosity – what does her being single and dating Bob Guccione Jr. have to do with anything? That wouldn’t be a “cheap shot, crude slur or indefensible attack,” would it? Rev. M titled his Jeremiad “Recovering Civility…and Refusing to Deny the Obvious.” Excuse me for stating the obvious, but how exactly is calling someone “the evil queen of mean” recovering civility?
We all remember Slick Willy’s ridiculous parcing that “it depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.”
Well now the Republican John Kerry himself Mitt Romney is taking a page out of the Clinton playbook.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking a second shot at describing his hunting experience.
The former Massachusetts governor has called himself a lifelong hunter, yet his campaign acknowledged that he has been on just two hunting trips—one when he was 15 and the other just last year.Campaigning in Indianapolis on Thursday, Romney said he has hunted small game since his youth.
“I’m not a big-game hunter. I’ve made that very clear,” he said. “I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times.”
In Keene, N.H., on Tuesday, Romney had said: “I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.” The next day, the campaign said Romney hunted rabbits in Idaho with cousins as a teenager and shot quail with GOP donors at a game preserve in Georgia in 2006.
Campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Wednesday that Romney wasn’t trying to mislead anyone, and he promoted Romney’s support of gun- ownership rights.
It’s not the fact that as governor Mitt supported gun control laws such as the Brady bill that is upsetting to me. It’s the fact that Mitt is intentionally decieving voters to gain the Republican nomination. As I have said before the only difference between Romney and Rudi is that at least Rudi is honest about what he believes.
If Romeny will prevaricate about something like this, he should not be trusted to be Commander and Chief and leader of the Free World where the stakes would be much more significant.
All the guy had to say was that even though he has never been an avid hunter that he had been a few times but that, as president, he would uphold the Constitution and 2nd Amendment. Period.
But the “I’ve been a hunter pretty much my entire life” reminds me of “where can I get me a huntin’ license?” Meant to intentionally convey something that just is not true.
He looks and even sounds presidential. But he has a real problem with staking out consistent positions and telling the truth.
Like I said… he’s a Republican John Kerry Flip Flopper and not what this country needs in the perilous times in which we live.
Before a mostly conservative audience of 1,000 people in Washington Thursday night, the Media Research Center — the parent organization of CNSNews.com — roasted the “most outrageously biased liberal reporters of 2006.
The MRC’s “God, I Hate America Award,” presented by Neal Boortz, went to New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.In a May 21 graduation address, Sulzberger apologized to students at the State University of New York for the sorry state of America:
“You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it’s the rights of immigrants to start a new life, or the rights of gays to marry, or the rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight relentlessly for every gain. You weren’t. But you are. And for that, I’m sorry.”
While the Domestic Insurgent Democrats continue to thwart every effort for military victory in Iraq by settng retreat dates, engaging in “slow bleed” strategies, and claiming that we have already lost, the Generals who are actually fighting the war remain bullish.
From today’s article in the Wall St Journal entitled “The Democrats’ Surge” by our friend Daniel Henninger (subs req)
A report filed last week by retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey gets the political-military dynamic just right. He notes that we are “in a position of strategic peril there. But he then describes in detail how since early February the situation on the ground has “measurably improved.” Thus the conclusion: “We now need a last powerful effort to provide to U.S. leaders on the ground the political support . . . and military strength it requires to succeed.”
Did you hear that Dems. The military who you say you support “needs your support.” I wonder how Nancy Pelosi would justfiy her retreat legislation and calls to cut funding to the troops by other Dems to the General? Perhaps somebody from the press corp will ask her. I won’t hold my breath.
Fred Kagen had this analysis:
Testifying last Wednesday to a House Armed Services subcommittee, military historian Fred Kagan, who has criticized administration policies, noted that the Iraqi army is “now larger than the standing armies of France and Great Britain.” The nine Iraqi army battalions called for in the surge have arrived, at over 90% of programmed strength. “They are taking casualties, inflicting casualties on the enemy and helping to maintain and establish peace for the people of Baghdad.”
Democrats should applaud this progress (after all they call themselves “progressives” now that liberal has become a mostly pejorative term), especially the War’s most vocal critics such as Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry who have said that the Iraqis need to take on more military/security responsibility. I have not heard much in the way of praise for the Iraqi Army’s steady progress Mr. Kagen describes here, but perhpas such plaudits will be forthcoming. Not!
If the Democrats really “support the troops” then they will also support the commanders on the ground and their actual mission. But it is obvious that the Democrats, as we have said all along, are invested in our defeat in Iraq. Any success for our troops and the mission in the “central front on the war on terror” (Iraq) means vindication for the Bush administration and GOP war supporters and bad news for the Dems in 08′. We will soon see if success in the war on Islamo Facism- specifically in the Iraqi theater is more important to Democrats than their maniacal quest for pure polical power.
Reason # 8 million why my son will never attend a govt run indocrtination camp (i.e a “public school”)
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
By LAURA CLARK – More by this author »Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades – where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem – because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
Via the Patriot Post:
“The fact is that the United States military answers to one commander in chief in the White House, not 535 commanders in chief on Capitol Hill.†—Vice President Dick Cheney
“The threat from radical Islamic terrorists will not vanish when President Bush leaves office, or if funds for the Iraq war are cut off in 2008.†—Victor Davis Hanson
“Why would Al Qaeda choose the past several days, just as Democrats in Congress were voting to run up a white flag and commit the United States to defeat in Iraq, to launch a bloody wave of terrorist atrocities?… The answer… is that this is how totalitarian aggressors react to faintheartedness… The smell of irresolution doesn’t satiate the totalitarians’ appetite; it makes it keener.†—Jeff Jacoby
“In Middle Eastern warfare a classic tactic has been to retreat in the face of strength, but to attack when your enemy withdraws or shows signs of weakness.†—Ralph Peters
“It has been painfully clear that Speaker Pelosi was serious only about scoring political points. Her big grin when she won a narrow vote for a non-binding resolution was grotesque against the background of a life-and-death issue. You don’t grin over a political ploy that you have pulled when men’s lives are at stake.†—Thomas Sowell
“The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to reason, truth and, ultimately, an all-powerful God, is not a threat to liberty but its best defender.†—Judge Janice Rogers Brown
“No small concern of those who created the Constitution was the prospect of legislative tyranny, the exercise of power for illegitimate purposes carried out in the name of the majority.†—Gary McDowell