By now you are probably aware of another “green on blue attack“; politispeak for an Afghan army national, who we train and arm, turning his gun on US soldiers at a checkpoint….  Well, there’s more to the story…. there were 17 of the bastards:

First, the official media report: (Associated Press [AP] Version)  –KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country’s east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan’s army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said Sunday.

The string of insider attacks is one of the greatest threats to NATO’s mission in the country, endangering a partnership key to training up Afghan security forces and withdrawing international troops. (more…)

Sorry for the poor audio quality… but  I think you can understand what she says.

This is humor… well, kinda

(Reuters) – With both presidents facing tight re-election fights, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave a surprise endorsement to Barack Obama on Sunday – and said the U.S. leader no doubt felt the same.

“I hope this doesn’t harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I’d vote for Obama,” the socialist Chavez said of a man he first reached out to in 2009 but to whom he has since generally been insulting.

Chavez is running for a new six-year term against opposition challenger Henrique Capriles, while Obama seeks re-election in November against Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Venezuela’s election is next weekend. (more…)

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Mailboxes along the roads and old barns set back in fields overgrown with weeds often served as landmarks in rural Montana where I grew up.  These landmarks told us where we were, and how far we had to go.  Sometimes they signaled “home”  and the end of the road.  At other times, barely visible through swirling snow, they told us we had miles to go.

When I started compiling word pictures of these memories, I realized they were like those mailboxes and old barns–identifying places on the road.  Here’s one for today…about the plans and thoughts and expectations of Danes who were working toward emigration to America in the early 1900’s.

What follows is a translation of immigration tips for Danish immigrants in 1911, written by Holger Rosenberg in 100 nyttige Raad for Udvandrere.  Each piece of advice was followed by a shorter or longer explanation (which are not included here).  This provides a taste of what immigrants might learn before coming to this country.  At the time, even though American exceptionalism may not have been called that, the immigrants knew something in their hearts about America and knew it was worth the price to prepare themselves for both the journey and the destination.

Our maternal and paternal grandparents had completed their journeys by 1911, but Danes were still coming.

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Remember, the Libyan Consulate was operating under a “US security waiver”. Meaning the Libyan consulate compound did not qualify as secure under the current risk guidelines, which include: minimum height 3 meter perimeter walls, steel reinforced entry doors, blast resistant windows, and 100 foot building setbacks – to name a few.   So someone very high up in the White House or State Department had to sign an “authorization waiver” for the unqualified facility to be used.   Who was that?

What if these pesky peeps keep poking us for answers. What’s an administration to do?

Oh, yeah,…… remember the “Rahm Emanuel File Cabinet”?

That stuffed-full filing cabinet, that “Dead Fish” Emanuel perfected the creation of. The one that holds tons of psy-ops information on not only the opposition, but also, “expendable” administration peeps.

Black-ops files of dirt….. The dark side of political science (more…)

File this study in the same cabinet as “water being wet” and “forks in your eyes are painful”…… We certainly did not need a progressive university computer identification program to figure this one out…… and the inside is even worse.

(HuffingtonPost via Weasel Zippers) Republican congresswomen appear more “feminine” than their Democrat counterparts, according to a new study by UCLA psychology researchers.

“Female politicians with stereotypically feminine facial features are more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and the correlation increases the more conservative the lawmaker’s voting record,” said study author Colleen M. Carpinella, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, in an article posted to the UCLA Newsroom website.

So what makes a woman “stereotypically feminine?” (more…)

April 2011 Hill article:

A top union and a top liberal blog announced Tuesday that they’ll team up to sponsor polling through the 2012 elections. Daily Kos and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said they will join forces to conduct issue and campaign polling in key states and races over the next two years…

…The SEIU/Daily Kos poll will use Public Policy Polling (PPP), a Democratic firm that uses automated polling rather than live, over-the-phone survey methods. Moulitsas contracted with PPP in June of 2010 after severing ties with Research 2000, which faced allegations of producing faulty poll results.

“Either Ambassador Rice was deliberately misleading the American people or she showed and demonstrated such a lack of knowledge and sophistication that she shouldn’t hold that position anymore.  The entire administration has handled this wrong from the start.  They’ve misinformed the American people, misinformed the world.  And, she was their spokeswoman.  She showed such a lack of knowledge and sophistication that she shouldn’t hold that position anymore… Virtually everything she said was wrong.” (more…)