Army of Dog

Hot Air has the story of a newspaper interview from the Charleston Gazette with West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefelller in which he said the following:

“Senator McCain does have a temper. But today, he speaks in a monotone on the campaign trail.”Rockefeller believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues. “McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit.

“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”

This has made the rounds on the political blogs today and the ridiculous factual errors have been pointed out, so I really have no in-depth analysis to add. I will simply say this, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of American Air Force, Navy, and Marine pilots who went to an early grave because they were committed to engaging in tactics that minimized civilian casualties as much as possible. For Senator Rockefeller (Fucknugget - WV) to denigrate not just McCain but every one of the men who died because they cared about the lives of people they never met makes him a world-class son of a bitch.

I’ve been sitting through this torturous Senate Armed Services Committee hearing for at least a couple of hours now, or maybe it’s been three days, it’s hard to remember. Michelle Malkin has a good roundup here. McCain did a serviceable job with the exception of his Shia/Sunni flub. Carl Levin and Ted Kennedy were dicks, I’ll give you a moment to recover from the shock. Lieberman managed to excoriate his former party members in a way that would be effective if Democrats were capable of shame. The most impressive performance that I’ve seen so far was Lindsay Graham. He was very clear in making the case that Iraqi and American long-term security are intertwined. I have no real affection for the man for a variety of reasons, but he was the star of the show as far as I’m concerned.

Hillary Clinton made her case for why progress isn’t really progress and that we should just quit because that would really help her out in the election. Right now I’m listening to some angry school marm lecturing two career public servants who are trying to build something out of a world-class hellhole. The label under her chin says that she’s Claire McCaskill (D-MO), but I can’t help but think that she may be the lady from The Weakest Link. Whoever she is, she’s scolding a four-star general like he’s a three-year-old.

I pretty much reached my daily dose of stupid about an hour ago, but this stuff is history, so I muddle through. I keep going back in my mind to the title of P.J. O’Rourke’s book, Parliament of Whores.

A mere week or so after his speech proclaiming opposition to bailing out homeowners and lending institutions that are suffering the consequences of their own poor judgment, John McCain evidently released this statement:

ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement:

“Some people lament privately, others are brave enough to take their call for change to the public arena. Martin Luther King III has done his father’s legacy proud this week by courageously insisting that our nation’s next leader do something about the poverty that ensnares over 36 million of our citizens. I will answer his call, and tell him and the American people today that I will make the eradication of poverty a top priority of the McCain Administration. A strong and vibrant America, one in which people can move up into the middle-class, put their kids through college, work hard and one day retire in dignity, is critical not only to our economic future but to the very security of our nation. As President, I will set aside the needs of the special interests to advance the interests of the American people, especially those 12 million children who deserve every opportunity to achieve the American Dream.”

“The eradication of poverty?!” Aside from carpet bombing the poor, how do we propose to accomplish this? Oh, we don’t? It’s just a ploy to make people think you really give a shit? I see, carry on.

I really love this part:

A strong and vibrant America, one in which people can move up into the middle-class, put their kids through college, work hard and one day retire in dignity, is critical not only to our economic future but to the very security of our nation. As President, I will set aside the needs of the special interests to advance the interests of the American people, especially those 12 million children who deserve every opportunity to achieve the American Dream.

Honestly, if I hear the phrase “special interests” one more goddamn time in this election cycle, I’m going to grab an evil assault rifle and start shooting a member of an endangered species for every offense. I shit you not, say “special interests” and the Jaguarundi gets it.

I predict that Obama will show up on the wire services in a photo holding a dead bird that he “killed.” Otherwise, this effort is going to look a little thin.

Barack Obama did not hunt or fish as a child. He lives in a big city. And as an Illinois state legislator and a U.S. senator, he consistently backed gun control legislation.

But he is nevertheless making a play for pro-gun voters in rural Pennsylvania.

By highlighting his background in constitutional law and downplaying his voting record, Obama is engaging in a quiet but targeted drive to win over an important constituency that on the surface might seem hostile to his views.

The need to craft a strategy aimed at pro-gun voters underscores the potency of the issue in Pennsylvania, which claims one of the nation’s highest per capita membership rates in the National Rifle Association.

The Junior Senator, who has voted for almost every gun control measure to come before any legislative body he’s belonged to, is looking to get the typical white people in the rural areas of Pennsylvania to vote for him. These particular useful rubes happen to be more likely to own guns than the average person, but Obama refuses to concede their votes to Hillary. Instead, he’s going to try to blatantly bullshit them by highlighting his support of the right of sportsmen to own guns for the purpose of hunting. Not homeowners for the purpose of keeping some criminal piece of shit from raping their daughter mind you, but if you want to go duck hunting, you’ll be allowed to get your 12-gauge out of the mandatory gun safe, remove the federally mandated trigger lock, travel to the nearest government designated hunting area, and shoot the federally determined bag limit of the non-protected avian species of your choice. Cuz he’s a pro-Second-Amendment candidate like that.

This seems to be part of a larger effort by “progressive” policy advocates to try to “take back” the gun issue. The article goes on to talk about the “pro-gun” Democrats who are backing Obama. How in hell anyone who has the slightest affection for gun ownership could contemplate casting a vote that would give the Democratic Party more control over government power I don’t know, but the article lays on a healthy helping of the idea that the gun issue is about the freedom to hunt. It’s a painfully obvious and familiar tactic to anyone who has followed this issue at all, but it doesn’t have to work on the die-hard pro-Second-Amendment contingent. Gun control advocates only need convince enough of the “sportsmen” that they should support “common sense” gun control by pointing out that it won’t effect their precious shotguns and hunting rifles and they can get enough legislation passed to force defenselessness on the law-abiding populace.

I would wager every dollar I have to my name that when the Constitutional Congress gathered in Philadelphia and debated the issues surrounding the Second Amendment, no one in that room had so much as a single thought about using firearms to shoot a fucking duck for recreation. Not one goddamn flicker of an idea.

The Tank Cartridge, 120mm, Canister, XM1028, is a tank round comprised of 1150 (est.) tungsten balls, which are expelled upon muzzle exit. There is no fuse on this round. While the dispersion pattern increases with range as the velocity of the balls decreases, the dense tungsten balls are used to minimize the velocity fall-off

Yet another reason why messing with the US Armed Forces is such a bad idea.

(found via Ernie’s House of Whoop Ass, a very NSFW site)

In keeping with my stated goal from my earlier post (this is sooooo NSFW) :

Q: Why are your posts so sporadic?

A: I run a brick-and-mortar business so my spare time tends to vacillate between sparse and non-existent. I generally post when there’s something I should be doing that I really want to avoid.

Q: Did you expect anyone to read this blog when you started it?

A: Yes. I posted my first couple of entries and then set in motion a cunning plan to have the coolest blogger on the entire internet link to me within the first 24 hours. It was executed to perfection.

Q: Seriously?

A: No.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?

A: I hope that I can offer my unique insight on political issues of the day and amuse people with my wry humor, but mainly I want to see the realization of my lifelong dream to bring the word “cocksucker” into the mainstream of American political discourse. For example:

Senator Obama: I believe that we are facing a unique opportunity to heal the deep wounds of our past and begin a journey to a united America ready to face the challenges that lay before us.

Senator Clinton: That sounds wonderful, but I think the real question on the minds of Americans is why you still maintain your relationship with that racist cocksucker who pastored your church for twenty years?

Q: Why “Army of Dog?”

A: Because it’s hard to get links for a blog called “Army of Cocksucker.”

for this.  Book them on one count of felony creeping me the fuck out.

is Jewsillade.

A whole internet full of people blogging their hearts out and sifting through a mountain of Viagra comment spam, just praying for someone to leave a legitimate comment. My first comment on the other hand… Rachel Lucas, yes the Rachel Lucas. If people are actually going to be reading this, I’m going to have to get a lot better at it.