OBAMA AND THE DEATH CAMPS

Dear Leader put his foot in his mouth again referring to "Polish death camps."

The Poles stated the obvious which the American MSM will never say. "It's a pity that such a dignified ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence." That's Obama and his Regime in a nutshell.

That whole history thing gets Obongo in trouble all the time, especially the Nazi Death Camps. All quotes come directly from the horse's...mouth. From the '08 campaign, just in case you didn't happen to catch all the MSM coverage of these whoppers.

"Uh-I had an uncle who was one of the um first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."

Whoops. He "misspoke". Among other things, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz and, more importantly, his "uncle" was completely fictional.

Whoops. Misspoke again. He meant to say that his Great Uncle Charlie liberated Buchenwald. (Charlie was in the NAVY.)

Whoops. Well, but, "He heard the stories of fellow troops who had entered Auschwitz and Treblinka." Fellow troops? Red Army troops? And the Nazis razed Treblinka in October 1944 after a large number of the prisoners rioted and escaped.

Whoops. Yeah, but Grandpa Dumham signed up for the military the day after "the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor." (Enlistment date: 8 June 1942.)

Whoops. Well, that's what happens when you deal with "countries like Europe."

Somebody call a Navy "Corpseman."

Lord Monckton Gets "Schooled"

Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, (no relation to Lord Vader) is one my favorite modern-day limeys.  He has traveled the world challenging global warming orthodoxy.  Unfortunately, Lord Monckton sometimes finds himself outclassed by the "intellectually superior" global warming arguments.  In this video, Lordie tries to present the "ignorant, flat-Earth" ideas of the global warming deniers to a group of climate change protesters.  He quickly finds that he can't compete with the more "enlightened" positions of the hot air gang.  (Examples: "I can't talk to you." "The moon is green cheese.")

CAN ANYBODY ID THIS AUSSIE VIETNAM SLR SCOPE?

VERY BAD MOVIE REVIEW...BORDER!

 Actual scene from the movie Border!

The Battle of Longewala occurred during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. On the night of 4-5 December, the Pakistani Army’s 18^th Division crossed the border into Western India intending to reduce the Indian Army’s Longewala defenses and then make a long blitzkrieg thrust on into two further towns located at strategic crossroads of the local road network. Strategically, this would be a shocker with the Indian forces focused mainly on the East.

Two infantry brigades and two armored regiments were involved in the attack, some 2,800 men, 65 tanks, and 138 assorted other vehicles such as armored personnel carriers, all supported by artillery. The only thing standing in the way of a potential stab deep into Indian territory was a single company of the Punjab Regiment, about 120 men. They were entrenched on a high dune, behind three strands of concertina wire and a few anti-tank mines, possessing only a single jeep-mounted 106mm anti-tank recoilless rifle. Given the choice to retreat or stay by higher headquarters, the CO chose to stay and fight to hold the position.

In a battle that raged literally all night long, the Punjabs managed to hold their defensive positions against repeated and overwhelming attacks by armor and infantry. At first light, four Indian Air Force Hawker Hunters, which had previously been unable to operate in the dark, caught the Pakistani forces in the open desert and inflicted such heavy casualties in men and armor that the Paki Army was forced to break off the attack.

This battle was truly one of the most epic military stands ever made, as magnificent as Rorke’s Drift or the Alamo, and worthy of a good movie.

With that being said, the movie about the battle was asinine and almost unwatchable. I rented the Indian-made Bollywood film based on the battle, entitled Border, hoping to see a good war movie from a non-American and/or non-Hollywierd perspective.

Instead, I saw one of the worst war movies ever. Mind you, it wasn’t quite as bad as Pearl Harbor (Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle?!?!) or The Last Drop, but its right up there with those turds.

Yes, I know, artistic license and developing drama and compressing scenes to make the action plain to the viewer and all that. But this thing was so cartoonish, outrageous, unbelievable and militarily incompetent as to be nauseating.

Ordinary, I would heartily enjoy scenes of large numbers of Muslims getting blown up. And I’m always up for a war movie with militarily correct hardware (T-55s rather than the old standby M48s with a German cross on them), although the entire Pakistani Army is inexplicably armed with Indian 1A1 FALs. But this film manages to make even the battle scenes boring and utterly unbelievable at the same time.

            Think Sam Pekinpah meets Bugs Bunny meets WWII Propaganda film (“Joe! The dirty Japs got Joe!”). If there was ever a movie made for Mike and the ‘Bots at Mystery Science Theater 3000 to slam, this would be it, except that it runs three hours.

            Both the characters and the plot are utterly cartoonish and predictable. The only thing unpredictable is just how many different times the same predictable thing happens. The CO manages to personally man every weapon on the perimeter, make dozens of patriotic speeches, and inspire every man in his command. I lost count of the individual soldiers who run out of the trenches and across the desert to make “heroic” single-handed attacks on the Pakistani tanks.

            This must be the director’s first experience with squibs. Most of the heroes take about fifty 7.62mm rounds to the chest but still manage to drag themselves back to the firing line to give a less than subtle patriotic speech with their dying gasps. Again and again and again. The extras, of course, die instantly from one shot. While the Punjabs lost only a couple of men in the real battle, this movie makes you think they suffered about 350% casualties.

And then there’s all the fuel-air explosions, particularly from the special Shrapnel-Free™ artillery, which make even a 1980’s Schwarzenegger action flick look like kids playing with sparklers. Maybe it was the director’s first experience with squibs and fuel-air explosions.

            The Flag-Waving He-Man Macho Chest-Beating Country Uber Alles is so heavy-handed, overbearing and repetitious it gets actually sickening. And this is before the battle. Yes, you can make a point of patriotism, of the harshness of a soldier’s duty, and the sacrifice and emotional turmoil it brings. But do you have to have a dozen different characters make the exact same point, with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer blow to the forehead, over and over and over again? Does the director think we missed that message the last 17 times?

            Did I forget to mention it’s also a flippin’ musical? That’s right, there’s nothing like a war movie with The Sound of Music interspersed between the explosions, screams and fake blood. These musical scores are mostly about falling in love with “the girl I left behind me”; deliriously happy young couples cavorting hand in hand through the admittedly beautiful Indian countryside. Here, at least the subtitles provide some pretty good entertainment. “Since I found you, emotion of adequacy is improved.”

            Just when you think it’s over, the soldiers, with the enemy practically within sight, have a huge male-bonding drum-circle-type festival and sing of glory and comrades and country, in case we missed it the first 27 times. You can cut the testosterone with a knife. For this particular musical score, I kept expecting something like, “Kill the Pakis! Kill the Pakis! With my spear and magic helmet! Spear and magic helmet!”

            The “climactic” battle scene lasts about an hour, and actually gets pretty boring after awhile. Both sides line up in neat rows, dress-right-dress like toy soldiers, and just keep blasting away at each other endlessly. More rounds were apparently expended in this single battle than in the entire Second World War. In numerous scenes, they’re not even shooting blanks and all the guns, of course, have no recoil. When they do shoot blanks, they apparently don’t have blank firing adapters as the soldiers keep having to rack the charging handle after every shot. Except for the CO. At one point he magically manages to turn his semi-automatic 1A1 SLR into one of those endless-magazine full-autos and sprays the Pakis from the hip in true action hero tradition.

            Once more, the subtitles provide more entertainment than the action scenes. “Those rascals vex me! Make them expire painfully!”

Of course, all the explosions and gunfire lapse into complete silence occasionally for yet another character’s last gasp speech of duty, honor, country. Alright already! We get it!

Multiple redundant cut scenes jump to the Indian Air Force CO waiting impatiently for daylight so his squadron can provide air support to the beleaguered infantry. I don’t know many times we see him either checking his watch or asking the pilot beside him what time it is; it seems like about a hundred. Along with checking the time and cursing the night, he keeps telling his pilots, “We attack rapidly when the sun brings forth light to the sky!”

When the IAF does fly to the rescue, arriving like the cavalry at the last moment, in good old WWII Propaganda movie fashion the same model tank keeps getting blown up. As a modern special effects touch, the Hunters come flying in on the deck. And I mean on the deck, like about five foot altitude. Low enough to be knocking tank commanders’ helmets off, clipping bayonets off the infantrymen’s rifles, and flying through their own gigantic fuel-air explosions.

At the end…well, I had dozed off in my La-Z-Boy and my wife shut the movie off.

Roger Ebert probably liked it, but I give this one Zero Stars. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

HOW THE AMERICAN MILITARY BUYS STUFF

 

One extreme or the other, either way common sense is verbotten.

The “Trapdoor” Springfield .45-70 used by the US Army in the aftermath of the Civil War had the main virtue of being cheap…the many existing examples of old muzzle-loading rifles could be converted inexpensively to breach-loading. So, when civilians were running around with 7-shot Spencers and 16-shot Henry repeaters. To add an extra headache for the soldier, early .45-70 cartridges were made of copper, which liked to expand in the chamber and not eject. The friggin’ MANUAL advised the soldier to buy a pocket knife to pry out jammed cases. One shudders to think what would have happened to the Brits at Rorke’s Drift if they had Springfields rather than Martini-Henrys.

 Model 1873 Springfield Trowel Bayonet: You can dig a hole, lay bricks, stab people...you can even cut a tin can with it...but you wouldn't want to.

If that weren’t bad enough, someone designed the “trowel bayonet”; you attached it to your rifle muzzle to use the gun as a shovel. Teddy Roosevelt took one look at it and said, “Get rid of that POS!” Our current Command-in-Chief would take one look at a bayonet and say, “What is it?”

WWI showed the vital necessity of the machine gun in a modern army. In 1911, an American Colonel by the name of Isaac Newton Lewis truly “built a better mousetrap” in the form of his Lewis light machine gun. The US Army wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole, mainly because Chief of Ordnance General William Crozier didn’t like Lewis personally. Lewis resigned, took his machine gun design to Europe, and became a very wealthy man. First Belgium adopted his gun (the Belgian Rattlesnake) and then the United Kingdom. It proved to be an awesome, reliable, versatile and relatively compact (for the day) weapon that saw service as everything from a light infantry MG, to aircraft armament, to anti-aircraft armament, to tank armament and soldiered on through WWII.

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 The Gunny evaluates the Chauchat.

Lacking automatic weapons and artillery when they arrived in France, the American Expeditionary Force chose to use…not the Lewis gun. No, the US Army opted for the French Chauchat, whose claim to fame is still “the worst machine gun ever.”

Flash forward to WWII. The fledgling Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex sent the US Navy to war with faulty torpedoes with an even faultier detonator made by (surprise!) GE. The Mark 14 torpedo NEVER HAD A LIVE-FIRE TEST. Rather like buying a plane without flying it.

No one knows how many American sailors and airmen died because of this wonder turd. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, submarine skippers found out the awful truth in wartime conditions. Sargo fired twelve torpedoes as four different Japanese ships on December 24, 1941, approaching to close range and setting up perfect tracks. None of the torpedoes hit anything. Soon after, Seadragon got one hit out of eight fish fired. Tunny had a chance to sink three Japanese aircraft carriers and fired all ten tubes at them; seven of the fish exploded prematurely and the carriers sailed away. Tinosa fired nine torpedoes from perfect position and a range of less than half a mile (rock-throwing distance in naval warfare) at a stationary Japanese vessel…all nine were duds. Tullabee fired a Mk 14 which circled back and sank the sub itself. Some theorize that at Midway, Torpedo Squadron 8, which bored in on the Japanese carriers at close range and lost all 15 Douglas Devastators (one man alone survived from the whole squadron), may have achieved some hits with their torpedoes but they failed to explode or didn’t run true.

 "The fish is running hot in the tube again, Chief!"

"Beat on the back of the tube with a sledgehammer!"

(true incidents.)

The Big Whigs, of course, tried to blame the dumb-ass squids. The Mark 18 electric torpedo which replaced it wasn’t a helluva an improvement either. Of the Mk 18’s she fired, Spearfish reported that one sank, one broached and ran wild, three fishtailed at launch and hit the outer doors before disappearing, and seven missed astern.
 
Korean War-era: see Light Rifle Trials.

Pre-Vietnam: There's a reason they call the M-60 machine gun "The Pig".

Vietnam…don’t get me started on the M16 series.

 

"Well, at least it's not locked onto the exhaust fan in the latrine this time."

(True incident)

In my day, it was the M247 Sergeant York self-propelled AA gun. God only knows how many billions were spent on this wonder turd before it was finally nixed in 1985. I’ve referenced this before HERE. Meanwhile, the 1962-vintage Soviet ZSU-23-4 Shilka and 1973-era German Flakpanzer Gepard, with upgrades, are still soldiering on.

 Just recently, several firms submitted weapons for the Army’s new SASS Semi-Automatic Sniper System. After “exhaustive testing”, the Army picked the “winner”. Of course, they wouldn’t release anything about the testing,, methods, performance or criteria. Remington even filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see the test records; it was denied. Shades of the Light Rifle Trials again. Things that make you go hmmmm. 

Now, the United States Air Force is going to:
 “Choose a winner in its troubled Light Air Support competition without actually flying the two contending planes, the Embraer Super Tucano and the Hawker-Beechcraft AT-6, and it will even disregard what it has data from the limited 'flight demonstration' it conducted last year.” 

Yeah, who needs to actually fly a plane before purchasing it in large quantities.

“A chagrined Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz has publicly pledged ‘we'll work our asses off’ to get it right."

By getting it right, I assume he means which company will offer him the highest three-figure salary as a “consultant” after he retires from the military. I’ve mentioned Pentagon Wars, with Kelsey Grammar and Cary Elwes, before. If you haven’t seen it you really owe it to yourself to put it on your Netflix list.

 My ex brother-in-law is a now-retired senior NCO who had to pull a tour at the Pentagon (“The worst two years of my life!”) and he claimed it was the most accurate depiction he’d ever seen of how things really work behind the curtain of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.

OSAMA: THE LOST INTERVIEW

Captured al Qaeda memorandums made public in a recent attempt to bolster President Obama’s floundering re-election numbers revealed that al Qaeda’s Press Secretary Adam Gadahn, member of the Keith Olberman and 60 Minutes Fan Clubs, advised Osama Bin Laden on which American news networks to manipulate to give his public image a ‘make-over.’

 

Gadahn was quoted as saying (we don’t even have to make this shit up):

"In general, and no matter what material we send, I suggest that we should distribute it to more than one channel, so that there will be healthy competition between the channels in broadcasting the material, so that no other channel takes the lead. It should be sent for example to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and maybe PBS and VOA. As for Fox News, let her die in her anger."

He also batted his eyes and coyly added, “Chris Matthews makes my leg tingle.”

Here at Das Blog, we dug a little deeper and found an unreleased pre-recorded CBS News interview with Osama bin Laden himself. In preparation for al Qaeda detonating an Iranian-made nuclear device in Washington, D.C. during the 2010 midterm elections, Katie Couric interviewed bin Laden to discuss his reasoning behind the attack. However, while American intelligence agencies were knitting ‘diversity quilts’ and distributing free assault weapons to Mexican drug runners, Israeli Mossad agents intercepted and killed the suicide bombers before they could detonate their device.

While the segment never aired after that embarrassing development, BBB managed to obtain a transcript of the unreleased interview.

 

Katie: Joining us here live in the CBS News Room is our very special guest, Osama bin Laden. Good evening, Mr. bin Laden, and thank you for making yourself available at a time when you must understandably be very busy.

Osama: Put a veil on, will you bitch?

Katie: Tee-hee. It is crucial that we inject a little levity at a time when our nation mourns.

Osama: We would stone you to death for wearing that skirt, slut.

Katie: Mr. bin Laden, your team of peace-loving Muslim Community Organizers recently exploded a nuclear bomb in Washington, D.C. causing, at last count, some ten million casualties. Would you care to elaborate on your reasoning behind this legitimate if somewhat extreme protest demonstration?

Osama: Of course. Why do you think we booked this interview? As you know, the Great Satan must be wiped from the face of the earth and all you filthy Infidels killed or converted to the One True Religion. We figured ten million of you imperialist Yankee pig-dogs was a good start.

Katie: Aren’t you worried that your actions may make it more difficult for the American Mainstream Media to portray Islam as the Religion of Peace?

Osama: Do you honestly believe I give a camel’s scrotum what you Infidels think? Besides, your MSM is so biased and self-flagellating we know you’ll make sure this protest does not tarnish our image.

Katie: Those bastards over at Fox News are making allegations that certain key American leaders were warned beforehand of the attack.

Osama: Fox News die! Die! DIE! Infidel capitalist sons of a motherless goat!

Katie: Yes, I think we can all agree on that point. But what about their allegations?

Osama: Nonsense. It was mere coincidence that the president, his cabinet, Congressional Democrats, and members of the MSM were invited to a curdled camel milk tasting and Kalashnikov demonstration to mark the grand opening of our new line of Grind ‘n’ Roast Yankee Coffee Shops in Detroit at the time.

Katie: Well, your word is good enough for me. Thank you for joining us here this evening. After the break, we’ll bring you a few gratuitous and obligatory slaps at the Tea Party and another of my personal jabs at Sarah Palin.

BARACK OBAMA...THE MOVIE

Coming soon, 99% of Hollywood, in association with the Mainstream Media, presents the dramatic tale of the daring young American President who put an end to the War on Terror—single-handedly!

Based on true events.

OPERATION RE-ELECTION RESCUE

INT. THE WAR ROOM—NIGHT

Be-medaled GENERAL, looking like George C. Scott as Patton, rushes into room wringing hands and squealing like a school girl. Faces silhouette of shadowy figure smoking a cigarette.

GENERAL

(terrified)

Mr. President! We have big trouble!

POSTUS

(snubbing out cigarette and reading from TOTUS)

Unemployment numbers again? I told you, just move a couple of decimal points around and issue a press release.

GENERAL

(wringing his hands and trembling)

No, sir. It’s Afghanistan!

POTUS

(bored, reading from TOTUS)

No problem! We’ll invade Pakistan, like I said during the campaign.

GENERAL

(weeping openly now)

You don’t understand, sir. Osama bin-Laden has risen from the grave and is leading an army of zombies to attack the UN. Our troops and all the peace-loving Muslims of the land are powerless to stop them!

POTUS

(hugging general and patting him on the back, reading from TOTUS)

Looks like I’ll have to handle this myself! Good thing I’m in command and not Romney. That radical right-wing extremist fascist Mormon pussy wouldn’t have the guts to take this one on.

GENERAL

Oh thank you, Great One! Thank you for saving us!

POTUS

(Rips off suit to reveal oiled naked chest. Stands in front of mirror and flexes mightily. Pouts.)

Damn! I wish I had arms like Michelle’s.

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

Quick! To Batmobile One!

INT. CHEESY REPLICA OF C-47 FUSELAGE--NIGHT.

Hulking SEALS with cammo-painted faces and scads of weaponry everywhere huddle nervously around POTUS.

POTUS

(Snapping Blackberry shut and reading from TOTUS)

That’s my plan. It’s utterly brilliant, if I do say so myself, but risky, and some of you may not come back. But I’ve got to do it. The next four years lie at stake!

SEAL DEMI

I thought you said bin Laden had to be captured alive and given a fair trial?

POTUS

Shaddup. That was ’08 when I was pandering to the Far Left vote.

SEAL ROCK

I’m scared Mr. President!

POTUS

(Compassionately, patting ROCK on shoulder, reading from TOTUS)

We’re all scared the first time around, son…It’s that second term that’s a real bitch. But don’t worry. Stick with me and I’ll get your through this.

LOUDSPEAKER

Drop Zone approaching. Jump in ten seconds. Ten…nine…eight…

SEAL NORRIS

(stands up, hooks up, shuffles to the door)

For God and Country!

POTUS

(Draws ridiculously huge silver-plated .50 Auto-Mag and shoots SEAL NORRIS in the head. Reading from TOTUS.)

A traitor in our midst! The mission must be sabotaged! Jump now!

EXT. DARK SKY—NIGHT.

SEALS dropping through the darkness; tracer bullets and flak bursts keep narrowly missing them all around.

SEAL AHNOLD

(shrieking and crying)

Help me, Barack! Help me! My chute didn’t open!

POTUS

(Reading from TOTUS)

Here, take mine. I can ride my ears the rest of the way down.

SEAL AHNOLD

Oh thank you, sir! You saved my life! What a hero you are!

POTUS

Damn, I wish I could remember my lines like that.

EXT. BARREN MOUNTAINSIDE ROCKS--NIGHT.

SEALS huddle behind cover of boulders, ducking from endless swarms of bullets, grenades and RPGs hitting all around them.

SEAL DEMI

Dear Leader! We’re pinned down, sir! What can we do?

SEAL ROCKY

I want my mommy!

POTUS

(Reading from TOTUS)

 If I can take out that tank, we can break out of this trap!

SEAL ROCK

 But SEAL NORRIS had our only bazooka.

POTUS

(Chuckling, reading from TOTUS)

Leave that to me. I’ve been known to shoot a little hoop in my time.

POTUS unpins grenade, lofts it in a high arc right into the open commander’s hatch of the al Qaeda Zombie T-72. Tank explodes in giant mushroom cloud of fuel-air special effects.

SEALS

Yeah for the President!

POTUS

(Reading from TOTUS)

Turn left and follow me!

SEALs blast their way through hundreds of al Qaeda zombies with endless-feed full auto weapons and lots of explosions.

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

This is it! This is bin Laden’s secret cave hideout.

SEAL ROCK

Are you going to sit down and speak face to face with him and work out our differences?

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

No time! November is coming!

SEAL ROCKY

(gasping)

You mean…you mean…you’re going to take him out yourself?

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

I have to. It’s the only way. You extras stay here and cover me.

INT.—DARK CAVE. POTUS CHARGES INTO CAVE. KILLS SEVERAL DOZEN AL QEADIA ZOMBIES WITH A COMBINATION OF MACHINE GUNS, STALACTITIES AND KUNG-FU, LOSING ALL WEAPONS EXCEPT FOR A GIANT GLEAMING RAMBO KNIFE IN THE PROCESS. OSAMA SLIPS FROM THE SHADOWS, AIMS AN RPG AT POTUS.

OSAMA

So, we meet at last American Yankee capitalist imperialist Pig Dog

POTUS

(bowing to OSAMA and reading from TOTUS)

 I apologize for the evils of my country, the Great Satan. But I need just four more years to turn it into the perfect Socialist utopia and Muslim caliphate. I’m not going to let you or anyone else stand in my way.

OSAMA

Hell, that’s a cause worth dying for. You can do a lot more damage than I can. Here I come, virgins! Allah Ahkbar!

OSAMA PUTS RPG DOWN HIS PANTS AND PULLS THE TRIGGER. GIANT EXPLOSION.

POTUS

(chuckling)

How convenient. No body.

SEAL TEAM runs into the cave, sweating and staggering, battered and bloody.

SEALS

“You did it! Hoo-ray!”

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

You’d better get those wounds looked at soon with your own money. I’m cutting Active Duty and VA medical care to provide it for Unionized Defense Department employees instead.

SEAL AHNOLD

Help me! My leg! I can’t walk!

POTUS, easily throwing a crying AHNOLD over one shoulder, leads the team to the helicopter LZ. SEALS struggle onto Blackhawk gasping with relief.

SEAL DEMI

(wiping brow)

That was the toughest mission ever! Thank God that’s over!

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

 Don’t thank God, thank me!

SEAL WILLIS

(relieved)

We can go home in peace! The War on Terror is over!

POTUS

(reading from TOTUS)

It ain’t over till I say it’s over. Now we face an even more perilous threat from within…the Hutaree Militia!

FADE TO BLACK 

Watch for the exciting upcoming sequel Operation Re-election Rescue II: Tea Party Terror. Coming to your television newscasts well before November 8^th.