Mumbling Republican Blog

I had a great deal of anticipation that Obama would do great things as President.  I voted for him with great expectations.  How cool that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  It was an honor that defined the high point in his term thus far.  But now he has gone and accepted it.  He [...]

 “I Feel-Like-I’m-Fixing-To-Die-Rag” Country Joe MacDonald and the Fish, (1965)  Yeah, come on all of you, with all ur’ ken, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He’s got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in ‘Ghaneestan So put down your books and pick up a gun, We’re gonna’ have a whole lotta’ fun. And [...]

I found it rather interesting that in the same time frame as the military is asking for more resources to conduct the war in Afghanistan we all of a sudden have another terrorist threat materialize on American soil.  Najibullah Zazi his father and some other folks have been singled out as planning to make bombs [...]

“Resources will not win this war, but under-resourcing could lose it,”  this is  a direct quote of what we are being told by General Stanley McChrystal as he is asking for more troops.  I see a ‘not win’ and a ‘lose’ in the statement, where is the win?  Shouldn’t we, in sending the most precious [...]