Savage Republican

I received a call on Monday from the MN GOP, telling me that there was a ticket for me to the RNC on Wednesday. Later that day , I talked to Savage Republican and he told me that Ron Carey, Exec. Chair of the MN GOP had arranged for the ticket and the call.
I’ve been invited to a bloggers lunch today by Ed Morrissey. So, though I promised I wouldn’t get close to St. Paul even if a 9mm were pointed at my brain stem. Well, though the MSM would erroneously call this a flip flop, well, I’m using the occasion to introduce myself to people to promote another cause:
On June 6th, 1944, then Lt. Dick Winters (Band of Brothers), in his and the 101st Airborne first day in combat, took a squad of men to attack and silence four 105mm howitzers that were zeroed in on Utah beach and threatened the landings (intelligence first thought the howitzers were 88mm). Lt. Winters took his squad and formulated an attack against a German heavy platoon/light company that were in charge of the artillery battery.
This action is still studied at West Point as a perfect fire and maneuver action.
Lt. Winters was cited and recommended for the Medal of Honor. Lost in the decades of history is the reason that citation was downgraded to a Distinguished Service Cross. Stephen Ambrose wrote that there was a directive that there would only be one Medal of Honor per division in the Normandy campaign. I’ve never heard of any evidence to either support or refute that statement. Lt. Robert Cole was the only man from the 101st to receive the MOH.
What I’ve wanted to do, and Savage Republican is giving great help, is to have that original Medal of Honor citation re-instated. There have been a couple of attempts to have this done. Unfortunately, there were too local and not also not widely publicized.
I also need to be VERY clear: this is NOT an upgrade. This a re-instatement of the original citation! An upgrade would be if the original citation were for a DSC and people are trying to get that citation changed to the MOH. That is not the case here.
We have bought the domain name www.honoreasy.com . We are in the process of getting the website up. It is an informational website only. We urge people to contact their Congressman/Congresswoman to urge them to pass a resolution affirming and re-instating the original citation for MOH for Dick Winters. We urge people to call and write the White House and President Bush to right this wrong.
We will have all the information you’ll need to do this.
If you have a blog, include the link www.honoreasy.com .
Savage Republican and I will be updating you here and on the website.
BTW, here are two scenes from YouTube and the Band of Brothers DVD showing the action that Lt. Winters was cited for.

Like in 2004, Ella the Elephant is attending the convention.
For her daily updates please visit her daily blog at the savage pacer
http://www.savagepacer.com/community/blog/ella

Yah gotta love video camcorders everywhere. This nasty bit of left wing true thought was captured on a flight from Denver to Charlotte (link here-read the comments! The below YouTube is a cleaned version from the Red State link so as to be better able to hear these two heartless creatures)

The speaker is none other than former Chair of the DNC Don Fowler. His companion is Congressman Jon Spratt (D-SC).
Like Michael Moore last week, they are giddy that Hurricane Gustav is going to hit the Gulf Coast during the Repubs Convention. No thought of concern for the misery, suffering, injury and death that a now Category 4 hurricane will cause. Just laughter. What an absolutely despicable lot! Absolutely despicable!
When will the decent people of America finally wake up and dump the Dems and the left?
There is NO compassion there. No belief in liberty, goodness, decency, America. None.
And those of you who vote Democrats into power ignore this bit of wisdom:
“Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.” — The Longshoreman Philosopher
Again, be sure to read the comments in the link from above.

From True North, I came across this link. What I found interesting was the third and second to the last paragraph as a counterpoint to the report of a search warrant served in St. Paul.
Chief states that talking to some MPD officers, he learned that as two uniform officers on bikes approach about a hundred “youths” the “youths” scattered. I wonder why?
The officers went on to say: ” The police said there has been a large dispersal of many hives already, but they will surely re-connect by Monday or Tuesday. They said they have found stockpiles of re-bar rods, 2 x 4s with nails in the ends, buckets of feces, bike locks, hacksaws and other destructive toys of anarchist youth.” Rebar, 2×4’s with nails? Of real concern for me are the bike locks. They would be used to put across door handles to prevent exiting. And what would prevent one or more of these pukes from throwing a firebomb inside, then locking the door with a bike lock?
I am as concerned about about 4th Amendment rights as anyone. I’ve repeatedly spoken out against the USA PATRIOT ACT. I despise McCain/Feingold. However, this sign:

does not give these pukes super 4th Amendment protection when it involves them seeking to harm those of us who seek to peaceably assemble for a legal and legitimate purpose.
Reap what you sow.
Bye-bye anarkids!

From a friend , from Jib Jab, the home of Equal Opportunity Skewering:

Like we need more evidence that the left is evil, supports evil or spreads evil, we have, for your due consideration, the male harpy of the left, the honors graduate of the Joseph Goebbels/Leni Riefenstahl School of Propaganda, his satanically benighted holiness, Michael Moore.
St. Michael commented on Keith Olberman “

I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.” A hurricane. A Category 3 hurricane that has already killed 80 people in the Caribbean. A hurricane that has wreaked havoc, destruction, fear, misery, pain and suffering.That threatens more of the same and is projected to hit the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast where fears from Katrina still linger. And his quackiness proclaims that, in his malicious, malevolent purview, that he’s pleased as he believes that a killer storm is rich in irony as it relates to the Republicans. And he says so shamelessly, but attempts to lessen his gross callousness by saying that he hoped nobody got hurt, completely ignoring the 80 already dead and the misery and injury already caused.

This is the sought out one who was given a seat of honor next to Little Jimmy Carter at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

Further proof the left is not caring, not sensitive, not compassionate.

I assume that most of you know me as a historian. Mainly war and especially WWII. I happened across an article today from the WSJ written by two mediocre Senators who garner great headlines amongst the press and Republicans: namely Lieberman and Graham.
They’ve just returned from a trip to Georgia and scribed an article issuing a warning about Russia and Russian intentions. I agree with the premise that “Russia’s invasion of Georgia represents the most serious challenge to this political order since Slobodan Milosevic unleashed the demons of ethnic nationalism in the Balkans. What is happening in Georgia today, therefore, is not simply a territorial dispute. It is a struggle about whether a new dividing line is drawn across Europe: between nations that are free to determine their own destinies, and nations that are consigned to the Kremlin’s autocratic orbit.” However, what caught my eye and is now sticking in my craw was this sentence two paragraphs down:”The first priority of America and Europe must be to prevent the Kremlin from achieving its strategic objectives in Georgia. ” I stopped at the end of that sentence. What’s the population of Europe again? What is the EU’s GDP? How strong are it’s armed forces? Didn’t America rescue Europe twice in the twentieth century? Didn’t we preserve it for fifty plus years during the Cold War? And yet the armed forces of Britain, Germany and France couldn’t handle the Balkans without the U.S. Air Force? And now, once again, there is the suggestion that Europe can not/will not act in its own long range interests?
In the early 80’s, Ronald Reagan strongly urged the Germans NOT to have or accept the Russians building a natural gas pipeline into Germany. His concern was that the Germans would become dangerously dependent on Russian largess and mercy should the Russians ever need to have Europe back down. Germany now receives a worrying percentage of its energy from Russia. This Russian hammer over Germany and the EU is reminiscent of the first OPEC oil embargo in 1973: the Japanese received a majority of their oil from OPEC. OPEC told Japan to either denounce Israel of face a total OPEC embargo. Japan denounced Israel.
And so the only nearby armed forces that can respond to Russian aggression against say Poland or the Ukraine are based in countries that need Russian natural gas to function.
Not a lot of forward thinking in Europe. Matched neatly by the lack of any forward thinking in Washington as evidenced by $4.00/gal gasoline.
Victor Davis Hanson always has particularly sharp insight. Go here and pick out some of his articles on Russia and Georgia.

Dick A. Heller has finally registered his revolver. Heller is the security guard who was refused a permit to have a firearm in Washington D.C. and subsequently sued. The result was the landmark case “Heller v D.C.” which resulted in the Supreme Court ruling, for the first time, that the 2nd Amendment guaranteed that right to keep and bear arms is an individual right.
However, as I blogged, that ruling is not and will not be the end of the war against the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution, especially the 10th Amendment.
As the heller article reports:”Heller recently sued the city again, saying the registration rules adopted by the D.C. government after the ban was overturned are too cumbersome and violate the spirit and letter of the court’s decision….“I am not surprised at all. As a matter of fact, the NRA has instituted a number of suits based on Heller. And I applaud them for it.
As I warned, the SCOTUS proclamation on Heller means that the fight will continue in the Congress, legislatures and courts. Heller was only a single victory in a single battle, albeit an important one.
The war on and for liberty: It will never end.
But there seems new energy to press the war forward.

I’ll let you go elsewhere to read how well Senator McCain did against the Pelosi anointed one at Saddleback Church on Saturday. I’d give McCain a solid A. I’d give BHO a solid F…minus. Especially now that he has become such an accomplished liar when it comes to killing babies.
And when Senator McCain gives a straight out, solid, eyes on performance, he then comes out with this:

What the H*** are his campaign advisors thinking? “Washington is broken”. Yup. And you helped break it! “The Original Maverick”, “He fought Big Tobacco” and drug companies? He’ll fight Big Oil and Wall Street?

Hey-Congratulations guys! I’ll bet you get a great big thank you card from Barack Obama’s campaign treasurer for saving the BHO campaign a bunch of money by running their campaign ad for them.

Give McCain a huge F double minus for this one.