Anti-Obama Group Uses Photo of British Soldiers to Distort Obama's "Bayonets" Remark
This is hilarious.
A Tea Party group already has thousands of likes and shares on FaceBook for this image in response to President Obama's remarks about bayonets at tonight's final debate with Mitt Romney:
First, let's look at what Obama actually said:
But there's more: The soldiers in that photo? They're British. Which means that the über-patriotic Americans who made this image used FOREIGNERS! to make their (completely bogus) point.
Fecking hilarious.
And: the U.S. Army discontinued bayonet training two years ago. Which doesn't mean there aren't still some number of bayonets in our military—which Obama never said anyway.
• Note: As this article clarifies:
A Tea Party group already has thousands of likes and shares on FaceBook for this image in response to President Obama's remarks about bayonets at tonight's final debate with Mitt Romney:
First, let's look at what Obama actually said:
"You mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed," [Obama] said to laughter from the audience.Which makes the message conveyed by the image and text DUMBASS. (Do these dolts know what the word "fewer" means? Crikey.)
But there's more: The soldiers in that photo? They're British. Which means that the über-patriotic Americans who made this image used FOREIGNERS! to make their (completely bogus) point.
Fecking hilarious.
And: the U.S. Army discontinued bayonet training two years ago. Which doesn't mean there aren't still some number of bayonets in our military—which Obama never said anyway.
• Note: As this article clarifies:
But the Army insists it has not abandoned the bayonet. While soldiers may no longer be learning how to fix a bayonet to the end of a rifle and stab an enemy, they are still learning to use the bayonet, just in a different way.
The Army’s last bayonet charge happened in February 1951 during the Korean War, but there were instances during Vietnam when troops fixed bayonets during intense combat, according to the Army.And:
U.S. Army units have not issued soldiers bayonets for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, said Matt Larsen, the former director of the Army’s combatives program.So the real message behind the above image? "Doofuses gotta doofus."
Trickle-Down Citizenship
Imagine this scenario:
• Candidate Bob Ginkel runs for president saying, "All big business owners get a million dollars of taxpayer money every year! For nothing!"
• You, like millions of other Americans, work for a big business.
• The owner says to you, "You've gotta vote for Ginkel. And you've got to donate money to him too. Or I'm going to fire you."
• You've got kids to feed. A mortgage. Jobs are scarce.
• What are you going to do?
What are they going to do?
• Candidate Bob Ginkel runs for president saying, "All big business owners get a million dollars of taxpayer money every year! For nothing!"
• You, like millions of other Americans, work for a big business.
• The owner says to you, "You've gotta vote for Ginkel. And you've got to donate money to him too. Or I'm going to fire you."
• You've got kids to feed. A mortgage. Jobs are scarce.
• What are you going to do?
What are they going to do?
Paul Ryan's WWI Navy Comment [update]
Did you notice that Paul Ryan said during his debate with Vice President Biden last night that because of Obama's military-hatin' ways our navy is on its way to being smaller than it was during World War One? Based on the number of ships?
Does Paul Ryan know that one of our current navy ships—a submarine especially—could obliterate our entire WWI navy - along with the rest of the world's WWI navies, every last ship - without anyone ever even knowing what it was that had hit them?
Here's a really neat graphic that Congressman Ryan might appreciate, showing what you can find inside a modern submarine - and this is actually already an old one:
Is it too much to ask that this kind of stupid get called out by his own party? It really shouldn't be.
Update: Hey! The president reads my blog!
Does Paul Ryan know that one of our current navy ships—a submarine especially—could obliterate our entire WWI navy - along with the rest of the world's WWI navies, every last ship - without anyone ever even knowing what it was that had hit them?
Here's a really neat graphic that Congressman Ryan might appreciate, showing what you can find inside a modern submarine - and this is actually already an old one:
Is it too much to ask that this kind of stupid get called out by his own party? It really shouldn't be.
Update: Hey! The president reads my blog!
"You mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed," [Obama] said to laughter from the audience.
"We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines," he continued.
"So the question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships. It's: "What are our capabilities?"
Martu People Agree to Uranium Operation on Their Land
The crux:
ELIZABETH JACKSON: A controversial uranium mine will be established in the East Pilbara after the traditional Aboriginal owners signed an agreement with a Canadian mining company.
[...]
DAVID WEBER: Environment groups have maintained strong opposition to uranium mining in WA.The Martu People. (Wiki.)
[Martu Leader] Noel Whitehead says they should respect the decision of the Martu people.
NOEL WHITEHEAD: I say to those groups, come to the East Pilbara, sit down with Martu people and hear for themselves the views of the significant majority of Martu who've made the decision that they support this mine.
Martu are not stupid people, they understand it fully, they have made the decision with all of the information before them.
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