Good to see some things never change

“Your son deserved to die in Iraq if he was stupid enough to go over there.”

It's with great relief we are able to report that the anti-war left that seemed to go into hibernation or at least appeared to have lost a little off their fastball coinciding with President Obama taking office is back.

Debbie Lee the mother of Marc Alan Lee (pictured)* is calling on Jerry Brown to return any money raised for his campaign by Jodie Evans and Code Pink.

The exchange between Lee and Evans occurred back in '08 when Code Pink infamously barricaded the Marine Corps recruiting office up in Berkeley. Our thoughts on the matter at the time, here.



*Marc was killed in action in Iraq back in 2006 and is buried down here at Fort Rosencrans in San Diego.

Your Much-Anticipated Code Pink Update

When this whole thing first flared-up about 3 months ago, we were pretty confident the Marines would be able to handle it without any meddlesome “help” from Congress or anyone else for that matter. (Our thoughts on the subject at the time, here). Turns out, we were right because nothing says “flagging enthusiasm” like witchcraft. The 'Pinkers have resorted to casting spells and encouraging protesters to show up in pointy hats because.... because... they're running out of ideas to make asses of themselves? (no word yet on the appearance of mimes or magicians as that would certainly be the death knell for Code Pink as an organization).

And proving the adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity, this particular recruiting office has actually benefited from this harassment at the hands of the unwashed and unshaven. Here’s Captain John Paul Wheatcroft who runs the store:

"Ironically, it's actually helped us by putting our name out. We're now well known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They've gotten us the publicity that we could've never afforded to pay for ourselves," Story here.

That is perhaps the most heartwarming and uplifting message we’ve heard in days. So inspirational, in fact, we post what is quite possibly the most excellent 5 minutes in television history. We saw it first over at Foxfier’s place and same video was forwarded to us just today by friends. It’s gotta be a sign, right?




Pax and Semper Fi.

You're All on the Clock

Seriously. If you can find more excellence packed into a 5 minute clip we’ll strip down nekkid and streak around the block. The sheer awesomeness contained herein nearly defies the time/space con… con… con… … time/space physics. Whew…

Do Burqas come in Pink?

The gentle lads at Weasel Zippers have an excellent photo essay here of the Code Pink demonstrations and counter-demonstrations up in Berkeley on Tuesday of this past week.

What jumped out at us in looking at the pictures is the overwhelming causal evidence of anti-Americanism and Leftism to Fugliness in its adherents. It was really quite remarkable.

Not to be outdone, we are sending the BwD photo staff out to the mountains and deserts in San Diego's great big backyard to see what all the recent winter storms hath wrought. Hopefully, we will be posting pix later tonight or tomorrow.

Y'all have a great day.

News Flash: Berkeley Leftists hate Marines.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are aware that the city of Berkeley, California issued and then later rescinded a letter asking the Marines who have a recruiting office there to leave town. They have also allowed Code Pink a reserved parking spot in front of the recruiting office to facilitate easier harassment and general ass-hattery of which they are experts.

Not wanting to be left out of the fray, Congress is attempting to pass the Semper Fi Act which will withhold $2 million dollars in hidden earmark funding for the city (hey, we thought Congress did away with those things). The latest here from HotAir.

Are we missing something? The Marines are big boys – they can handle themselves. Do they really need Congress, a collective body which couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with $100 bills hanging out of its pockets, attempting to execute a constructive reprimand or punishment on their behalf?

Don’t get us wrong… tweaking those over-the-hill hippies up there is something that should be done from time-to-time just on principle but it just looks like grandstanding and bullying when it comes from the U.S. Congress.

Besides, isn’t this the natural order of things? Not to stretch an analogy too far but there’s this Book out there, not called the Koran, that warns it adherents that the world will always hate them for what they believe and what they practice. To put it differently, if Code Pink starts holding bake sales on behalf of the Marines… then we’ve got a problem.

School Prayer (thoughts here), the Flag Burning Amendment and now this Semper Fi Act… all examples of some of our right-wing brethren being full of fight for the wrong battles.

Again, we think the Marines will be just fine. The fraternal ancestors of the men and women in that recruiting office have spilled their blood literally around the world in the name of freedom and liberty for this country and others. We think they’ll be able to handle a few pony-tailed dorks in tie-dies. Perhaps they could petition the Berkeley City Council under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to park one of these in front of the Code Pink offices.

So back off, Congress. Let us handle this. Dear readers… you want to do something constructive to show your support for the Corps? Drop a line to the Berkeley Mayor (contact info, here) and let him know what you think. And you wanna cheese-off Code Pink? Visit here, here and here and give as the spirit moves.

Peace Out and Semper Fi!