Sadly, No!

Thank Heaven for those loyal patriots at The Gathering of Eagles! Without them, who would be there to defend to defend our glorious war memorials from unknown people spilling unknown substances on them, doing no noticeable damage that prompts National Park Service personnel to smile politely and make the sort of noncommittal answers they always give to bizarre questions when asked if there is an official investigation of the spillage incident underway – perhaps even on purpose!

Above: Proud culture warriors from GOE respond to freedom’s klaxon!

This weekend, they are gathered in Washington, D.C. to stem the tide of Moorish insolence that threatens to drown our proud republic in a sea of lemon tabbouleh, as the terror supporters in our midst descend upon the Capitol to make their cowardly demands heard. Although it’s hard to find any reports of their presence at all, The Guardian does put the total of counter-protesters at “about a thousand”, which is nearly as many people who were at the last Polish Catholic wedding I attended, or slightly more than the number of people who were arrested for protesting against the war this weekend.

But if this tremendous display of aquiline force does not make you tremble in fear, perhaps this will.

GOE on TV!
By Kit Lange

Recently, Chris Hill has been in discussions with Maria Sheehan, a Cable TV Producer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, about the possibility of a GOE Cable TV Show. After several weeks of discussion, the GOE Board of Directors wishes to announce our Cable TV Show called;

Wait for it…..

The Eagles Nest

Americans Supporting The Troops And Their Mission

Yes! Coming soon to a cable network near you, the Gathering of Eagles will indeed have its own television show, named with no apparent sense of irony “The Eagle’s Nest”.

When your attempt to appropriate the lingo of another group is about as subtle as the choice of haberdashery color in an old episode of The Lone Ranger, you can’t really complain when people start comparing your group to Nazis.

Just a suggestion, guys…..if you want your rallies to look as good as Nuremberg, you’re going to need to find someone with an eye for that sort of thing. Alas, it seems that they will have to go to propaganda war with the cinematographer they have, not the cinematographer they wish they had.

Don’t let that get you down, GOE dudes! Just remember, you’ve still got the support of the greatest Attorney General/recording artist in American history!

Sometimes it is so easy to make fun of Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive that I almost feel sorry for him and feel a little guilty about ridiculing him. It’s almost the Internet version of clubbing baby seals. Except Uncle Jimbo is fully grown, so lets pull out the clubs, shall we?

Now you may not have known this, but Uncle Jimbo doesn’t just sit around in front of his computer all day pulling his pud. No, Uncle Jimbo occasionally actually does things in the real world. In fact, last week Uncle Jimbo filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the New York Times, which meant that he had to forgo a second Taco Bell chimichanga at lunch to give himself enough time to whip up and mail a short letter to the FEC.

It starts off promisingly:

Office of General Counsel
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20463

Dear Folks,

“Folks.” That’s a nice touch. Personally I like to start complaint letters to federal agencies with a somewhat less formal salutation like “Yo Dogs” or “Hey Peeps.”

Sept. 10, 2007 the political advocacy group MoveOn.org ran an ad in the NY Times with the headline, Gen. Petraeus or Gen. Betray Us. … It has been reported that MoveOn paid $65,000 for the ad by ABC News … and the NY Post. …

The rate card price of such an ad on the NY Times political advocacy rate card is $181,692.

Well, I’ll be damned but it sure looks like Uncle Jimbo has the Gray Lady by the short hairs here. Now Uncle Jimbo moves in for the kill by revealing his extraordinary depth of expertise on FEC matters

I sold political advertising for Capital Newspapers in Madison, WI during the 2006 elections.

The media giant Capital Newspapers publishes such notable newspapers as the Baraboo News Republic, the Sauk Prairie Eagle and Wisconsin Dell Events. So Uncle Jimbo knows whereof he speaks. Or maybe not.

We were informed that there could be absolutely no discounts to the rate card prices for political or advocacy advertising based on federal law.

You were, were you? I wonder what the FEC actually says:

The Commission has permitted a number of the proposed transactions on the basis that the discount or rebate is made available in the ordinary course of business, and on the same terms and conditions (e.g., business volume), to the company’s other customers that are not political committees or organizations.

Advertising Age, which probably knows more about this matter than a guy who sold space for the Baraboo News Republic, has this to say about the whole affair:

But MoveOn bought its ad on a “standby” basis, under which it can ask for a day and placement in the paper but doesn’t get any guarantees. Standby pricing doesn’t appear on the Times rate card — but that kind of ad at a standby rate turns out to run about $65,000.

And that’s what the Giuliani campaign paid as well … for its counter ad today berating MoveOn … A campaign spokeswoman declined to say what the Giuliani campaign paid but said it was told by the newspaper that it was being charged the same standard rate MoveOn was charged.

So do you think Uncle Jimbo is firing up another FEC complaint about the Giuliani counter-ad? Or maybe he’s withdrawing his complaint about the MoveOn ad? Or perhaps he’s just going to pretend this never happened at all. Or is he going to barrel on straight ahead, oblivious to the facts, screaming about the perfidy of the New York Times and its illegal discounts?

You be the judge:

If that video of Uncle Jimbo and his friend made anyone else throw up a little in their mouths, I’m truly sorry. Really. I am.

Hmph, Brad. Go ahead – keep supporting the old boys’ network with your suggestion for a new Attorney General. I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised. I am, however, fairly certain that I have a much, much better suggestion in mind.

I want to be the next Attorney General.

Why shouldn’t I be? Oh, sure, I’m not “an attorney.” I’ve never “passed a bar exam.” Nor have I ever “taken an LSAT.” And I’m sure there are plenty of people out there reading this right now who think this makes me somehow “unqualified.” This, however, is just more of your typical pre-9/11 thinking. I think I’m at least as qualified as this guy was for his job – I actually DID graduate from college. In fact, here is my list of reasons why I think I’m qualified to be AG:

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You might wonder whether the President of the United States pays any attention to blogs supporting the war effort.

So says N.Z. over at the Victory Caucus, and he’s right! I have often wondered: “Gee, does the president have time in his busy schedule of jogging four hours a day and not reading the newspaper to meet with a bunch of right-wing cranks?” Luckily, it turns out he does. N.Z. and a handful of other milbloggers got to meet with the Commander in Chief yesterday morning, and it turns out he’s got a lot on the ball! Opinion varied as to whether he’s doing a super-duper-great job or merely a super-great job, but one thing’s for sure: he is easily able to convey his awareness that a war is going on! Let’s check out some exciting excerpts from this meeting of the minds.

Above: “I’m gonna have to disagree with you, Matt; I believe
that the president is, in fact, doing a mega-ultra-great job.”

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Jim Hoft, a motivational speaker and alleged model, is over at his blog The Gateway Pundit getting all riled up about Stewart Zamudio, the former Army National Guard member who once appeared in recruiting commercials but now is having the temerity to speak out against the invasion of Iraq. Hoft is so beside himself that you might imagine that he once served in the military himself but, as is often said around here, “Sadly, No!”

Of course, like many wingnuts obsessed with democracy in Iraq, Hoft is not so much obsessed with democracy and free speech at home in the U.S. and is trying to figure out a way to throw Zamudio’s ass in jail:

Stewart says he is a former national guard soldier. In the video he made yesterday bashing the president with nutty Davis Fleetwood , he is in full uniform. Does anyone know if that is legal?

Does anyone know if that is legal? Gee, I wonder how anyone would figure that out. That seems something that’s probably almost impossible to find out. Oh, wait . . . . . . .

Just feed “veteran legal to wear uniform” to the Great Gazoogle, and your first result is this letter from the Army pointing out that former members who served during time of declared or undeclared may wear the uniform of their last rank if they were honorably discharged.

But Hoft doesn’t want to lock up Zamudio just for the uniform but also for what Zamudio said:

Last year, antiwar deserter U.S. Army First Lt. Ehren K. Watada was charged with

“Two counts of contempt towards officials ([UCMJ] Article 88) – specifically President G. W. Bush, three counts of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman ([UCMJ] Article 133)…”

This was after Watada made a speech to an antiwar group posted on YouTube. Would this apply to poster boy Zamudio?

Hmmm. Would this apply to Zamudio? How could we . . .

Feed the Great Gazoogle and he gives you this, which points out that retired members of the National Guard are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice only when they are receiving hospitalization. So, would this apply to Zamudio? Happily, no!

Ol’ VD Hanson is rilly, rilly upset at a lot of people right now. He’s upset at liberals, first and foremost, for not taking NineEleven seriously enough. He’s upset with Noam Chomsky because….well, when has anyone ever needed a reason to be upset with Noam Chomsky? His name alone is like some sort of evil incantation, upon the recitation of which dread Cthulhu will no longer lie dreaming in his house in sunken Ry’leh or something.

But the people whom Hanson is most upset with right now are apparently the ungrateful wretches who live in Iraq.

The more we push for democratic change abroad, the more the democracy-hating terrorists slander us that we do not. The more we accommodate the religion and culture of detainees, the more the beheaders and bombers cry to the world that we are savage while musing among themselves that we are weak. The more that we tolerate the great asymmetry of reciprocity between Islam and the West; the more we are supposed to apologize for just that tolerance and liberality. The more we pay for outrageously priced oil, the more we are to concede that we are stealing it.

How can they be so cruel to us? Don’t they know how much we’ve done for them? How we’ve sacrificed? All those hours spent slaving over a hot stove every day, just so they could have a nice meal every now and then, and for what? After all….whoops, I’m sorry; I started channeling my Jewish mother/grandmother there for a minute.

But Hanson really isn’t channeling the fine tradition of Jewish bubbies everywhere; he’s tapping into something far more insidious.

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Today Alicia Colon, one of our favorite wingnuts, is making, via the New York Sun, her debut appearance at Sadly, No! Affectionately known as Staten Island’s smartest, and New York’s least intelligent, pundit, Alicia has made a way into our heart for her trademark blend of factual inaccuracy, fractured prose style and lunatic worldview. Think of her as a mash-up of Megan McArdle, Pastor Swank and Tom Sowell.

For her debut here, Alicia is defending Wal-Mart because, of course, Wal-Mart is incapable of defending itself from the scurrilous attacks of liberals:

Liberal New Yorkers can be somewhat elitist and associate Nascar with rednecks and, gasp, Republicans. . . . That same discriminatory attitude is behind the anti-Wal-Mart fervor that scuttled the Staten Island site for the superstore giant.

Hey, people, we’ve been caught. Alicia has single-handedly uncovered the great liberal plot to keep Republicans from shopping. That way all the Republicans will starve (although some will take longer than others) and we can take over the world! Bwahahaha!

Recently, I caught the documentary ” Wal-Mart — The High Cost of Low Price,” and marveled at how manipulative it was. It was truly worthy of a Michael Moore.

Somehow, I don’t think that’s a compliment. But, let’s be quiet for a moment . . . the lights are dimming . . .

A scene opens with the heading, ” WAL-MART DESCENDS ON MIDDLEFIELD!” Bulldozers are shown on the construction site for the town’s new Wal-Mart. The camera pans to a notice in the window of H&H Hardware that reads: “Inventory Closeout Sale. After 43 years, H&H Hardware is closing down.” What does the filmmaker want his audience to think — that Wal-Mart was responsible for this?

I don’t know, Alicia, why don’t you tell us?

The owner, Jon Hunter, has said that he told the film’s producers not to link the store’s closing to Wal-Mart. His business closed because of his own bad business decisions. That’s not explained in the film.

Possibly it’s not explained in the film because it isn’t true. Let’s hear from Mr. Hunter himself:

Wal-Mart’s arrival represented an indirect factor in the closing of H&H Hardware.

At the same time that Wal-Mart announced they were coming to Middlefield, I was counting on a new business plan and bank loan to continue to support my hardware store – the loans depended on the value of my business and the building. When I went to secure the loan, the appraiser devalued the building at a drastically lower price than I expected – this was directly related to Wal-Mart coming into town. The appraiser told me that banks knock the values of other stores down when Wal-Mart opens in town since “sooner or later there will be a bunch of empty buildings.” I was turned down for the loan. So, Wal-Mart was a related factor to my business closing down.

That’s certainly what we call a Megan McArdle moment. Now for a Tom Sowell moment:

Mom-and-pop businesses may go belly up . . . but not necessarily because of competition by a retail giant. The convenience store is called that because that’s what it is — convenient — [Thanks, Alicia, we never would have figured that out! — ed. note] and as long as the economy is strong, customers will pay more for prompt good service and an accommodating environment that they can’t get from the larger merchandiser.

Er, no, at least according to actual studies, like this one, which, needless to say, are rather more reliable than the stuff that Alicia makes up. And, if she really believes that people love to pay more for things at he mom-and-pop stores, what’s she doing jonesing for her very own local Wal-Mart?

Now that we have your appetite for Alicia’s antics whetted, you can find more of her wit and wisdom here.

What The Muslim Brotherhood Means For The U.S.

Above: Scott “Hooty” Johnson, Esq.

• Rod Dreher helps smash the International Kike’s plan to infiltrate America by exposing Mr. Jewy Jewenstein’s secret Elder Zion protocols. Oh wait, time warp: That is despicable anti-Semitism, for I am talking about the global tribe of nickel-nosed yids uh, Great Muslim Conspiracy.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.

This is weird.

It’s like the Jackson 5, except with Michael Jackson on vocals.

Oily Substance Found on the Wall
By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 12, 2007; Page B03

The National Park Service was trying to determine whether an oily substance found late last week on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was the result of vandalism or an accident.

The material, which appeared to be gone yesterday, was noticed along the paving stones and the bottom of some of the panels and reported to U.S. Park Police on Friday evening, Park Service spokesman Bill Line said.

He said that cleaning crews worked over the weekend to remove the substance and that the Park Service is trying to determine what it was. “Until this investigation is completed, it is premature to speculate whether any intentional act was committed,” Line said.

I wonder if we know anyone who spews oily substances. Oh wait:

So the substance is now “potent and corrosive,” such that “huge swaths of the wall have been defaced” [if you photographed them at such an angle that patches of the now-removed oil were, before being wiped off, able to reflect light differently than the bare stone]? This must be the work of those anti-war radicals who are always trying to destroy our national monuments just in time for Gathering of Eagles demonstrations.

Oh wait:

1madpittbull Said:
September 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

Oh dear G_D!

Those Bastards!

They KNEW that they could deface it when we weren’t there!

But how could someone stoop so low…

I have no words to describe my anger at this moment!

We need this story to hit the airwaves big time! Call up your TV and Talk Radio Stations….

Make it known to the world the extent of the vitriolic bile that spews from the left! See how the sacrifice of brave men and women for their freedom means nothing to them!

And if the Park Service has known about this since Friday and are covering it up…they know who did it…they must be trying to keep this situation mum cause they know the reaction they will get.

I will not tolerate these insolent whelps any more…I am bringing everyone I know to the 15th and telling everyone I know about what happened!

THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF ANSWER AND THEIR SYCOPHANTS MUST BE SPREAD! EAGLES, TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS TRAVESTY!

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER I WILL BE THERE ON THE 15TH!

Attendance figures will be wildly falsified, so bring reversible jackets, extra hats, and removable facial hair.