Black XXV: "More Than $2 Trillion!!"

To: jaugust; A+Bert; Corin Stormhands; AdSimp; poet; Landru; sultan88

Hey there, jaugust...I'm not sure how much of an "honor" it really is, but I enjoyed making the acquaintance of a fellow "curmudgeon" on that Hannity thread and figgered I'd ping ya on over to Black. This is a common redoubt fer any number of curmudgeons, young and old alike...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

161 posted on 04/02/2004 8:00:02 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

"Conflicting messages, the smarmy "kill innocent yadayadayada" & a "LOL," y'know?"

Yeah, I reckon that "LOL" shouldda been a "SHEEESH!!"

"...it's either war or *no* war & ya can't have it both ways, Mud. You seem to desire *sterilizing* war, somehow."

Are you being intentionally obtuse, my FRiend?! I believe in Unleashing HELL upon our enemies when the decision is made to take up arms and fight. However, going after innocent women and children is terrorism, not War!! What is most despicable about these Muslim extremists is their gutlessness in using their own women and children to massacre our women and children...that's pure EVIL!! We should not be so quick to return the favor, imho. We can win this War on Terrorism despite maintaining the High Moral Ground...nay, I would say a big part of our winning is BECUZ we are maintaining the High Moral Ground!!

Surely you understand that POV, right?

FReegards...MUD

BTW...that POV does NOT make me a "pacifist"!!

162 posted on 04/02/2004 8:10:06 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

To: Slick_Willie; dwbh; MurryMom

"Mr. EX-Prez'dent"
(To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Mr. Banker")

Oh yeah...oooh...

Mr. EX-Prez'dent...Slick Willie...
How much does Power mean?!
Won't you reconsider, Willie?!
Won't you do this thing fer me?!

RESIGN right now!! Be gone, you whore!!
Nixon did, Slick...Even the Score!!
Sir, won't you RESIGN, Mister EX-Prez'dent...
Won't you RESIGN 'fore we RE-IMPEACH?!
Oh Mister EX-Prez'dent, please...
Slick, listen to MUD's sound...

(MUD harpin' fer his dinner and The Big Man puttin' a hurtin' on his Les Paul)

Now, I'm plum pissed off...Slick Willie...
Said hey, Mister EX-Prez'dent...you've damaged MY Country!!
Won'tcha reconsider, Willie...
Won't you just RESIGN fer me?!

I told ya, Willie...
Said, "Git outta my House...you Chi-Com Whore!!
Slick, YOU killed them Waco children...you left a scar!!
Oh, won't you RESIGN, Balkan Butcher...
Won't you RESIGN afore I git MEAN?!
BOY, won'tcha RESIGN, please?!"

FReegards...MUD

4 Posted on 09/25/2000 10:07:09 PDT by Mudboy Slim

163 posted on 04/02/2004 8:15:01 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

To: Cyber-Band; stand watie; sauropod; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; GunsareOK; kristinn; jla

"A Great Soldier Died Today!!"

"Aaron Bank (born November 23, 1902 in New York) is the founder of the US Army Special Forces, commonly called Green Berets. Before the Depression young Bank was a bon vivant, traveling the world and serving, ultimately, as chief life guard at an upscale resort in Biarritz. But in 1939, he joined the military. When the United States entered World War II, Bank, by then an officer, was inevitably drawn to intelligence and special operations work (in his forties, he was "too old" for combat). He spoke good French and fair German, and he was athletic.

He served in the U.S. Army as a Captain in the Office of Strategic Services (which would be disbanded by Harry Truman in 1946 but in less than a year provide much of the cadre and expertise for the new CIA). The OSS conducted both espionage operations (SI Branch) and "special operations": sabotage and guerrilla warfare (SO Branch). Bank was assigned to SO Branch, and led one of the OSS's Jedburgh operations into France. In that operation, Bank and two Frenchmen, an officer and a radio operator, parachuted into southern France in July 1944, and linked up with French guerillas of the Gaullist FFI. They liberated a number of towns, despite tense relations with the Communist Francs Tireurs et Partisans. In September, Bank left, mission accomplished, and reported back in to London.

In late 1944 and early 1945, Bank led "Operation Iron Cross", which evolved into a plan to capture or kill Adolf Hitler. The original plan was for a company of men disguised as German soldiers to jump in near Innsbruck in present-day Austria. There they would conduct sabotage and induce German soldiers to desert. The leaders of the unit were OSS men: Bank, a lieutenant, and two sergeants. The rank and file were prisoners of war from Nazi Germany who volunteered to fight against the Nazis. Many of them were Communists; in the end, Bank had weeded out 75 of his original 175 volunteers. They were paid sixty cents an hour, and a promise of a death benefit if they were killed.

Bank could not pass as a German, so his cover called him "Henri Marchand," a French Nazi from Martinique. The hope was that any Gestapo men asking questions wouldn't recognize a Martinique accent. When General William Donovan, head of the OSS, was briefed on the progress of Iron Cross, he changed the mission. Hitler had been threatening that the Nazi leaders and armies would withdraw into the National Redoubt -- the mountainous area on today's German-Austrian border. This was exactly the target of Iron Cross, and Donovan ordered a new mission: "Tell Bank to get Hitler." The men of Iron Cross began training in raid and snatch techniques -- their goal was to capture Hitler alive and deliver him to a war crimes tribunal.

Iron Cross was canceled almost on the eve of execution: intelligence showed that the National Redoubt was a figment of Hitler's imagination, that Hitler was not in the target area, and that Nazi resistance was collapsing across Europe. A disappointed Bank had to thank his men for trying -- and send them back to their POW cages. Bank thought that one problem with Iron Cross was State Department aversion to setting so many armed Communists loose in an area destined for Allied occupation. From Europe, Bank traveled to China, where he trained for an abortive mission into Indochina, and later, in September 1945, did parachute into Laos with a combined SI/SO team. During these postwar mopping-up operations, he met Ho Chi Minh, for whom he always retained great respect.

After the war Bank remained in the Army. In the period after the war, there was a debate about whether the Army needed an organization for guerilla warfare and sabotage, like the SO branch of OSS (it was understood that the duties of SI branch were covered by the CIA). Officers like Russ Volckmann, who had been a guerilla in the Phillipines, and Bank were instrumental in convincing the Army it needed such a force. The primary place such elements would be deployed, they thought, was Europe -- this time, behind Soviet lines, in the event of a new war. Then-Colonel Aaron Bank became the first commander of the Army's first Special Forces unit, called the 10th Special Forces Group (hoping to confound the Russians with suspicions of nine more), in 1952. In establishing the 10th, he was as flexible as he had been with Iron Cross, drawing upon former members of the "1st Special Service Force" known as the Devil's Brigade, as well as veterans of the OSS, the Parachute Infantry units, and guerilla elements in the Pacific. Using the training and strategies and the lessons learned during World War II, Bank created an elite unit of men skilled in the art of hand-to-hand combat, stealth tactics, the use of explosives for demolition, amphibious warfare, rock climbing and mountain fighting, and as ski troops.

Special Forces today are still organized into teams, as Aaron Bank organized his men in the 10th Special Forces group in 1952, with two experts in every specialty. They still must volunteer and undergo a difficult training process in which large numbers of men fail or quit, as Aaron Bank required of the men of Operation Iron Cross. Special Forces today acknowledges the paternity of Col. Bank. Aaron Bank was commended by George W. Bush in 2002, the year he celebrated his hundredth birthday, for developing the unconventional warfare programs and techniques that had been used in toppling the Taliban. Aaron Bank retired from the Army in 1958, and has suffered from declining health in recent years. He lives in California, with his wife Catherine, whom he married in 1948. They raised two daughters, Linda and Alexandra. He is the author of the book, From OSS to Green Berets: the Birth of Special Forces, which describes the foundation of the Special Forces.

Another hero has passed on...MUD

164 posted on 04/02/2004 9:19:16 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

To: EdZep; dead; AuntB; PhiKapMom; Common Tator; Elle Bee; Scholastic; Victoria Delsoul; MoJo2001

"Right's Battle Against Left's Whore"
(To be sung to Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore")

The King of Lyin' smugly bows...
"Respect EX-Prez," we're told...
"Protests shall cease...he'll be gone soon...
Just leave Ol' Slick alone!!"

Has the Right lost its mind?!
DETHRONE LEFT'S WHORE!!
Lib'rals kill with great delight...
The Right must fight this War...
Folks, throw down the gauntlet now...
Rest not 'til Slick's DETHRONED!!
Side-by-side, we'll FReep and fight...
Right shall win this Culture Wa-a-a-ar!! Ohh-oh-ah-oahhhhh...

Hey...RATS gotta wonder...
How far protectin' Slick they'll go!
I'm waitin' fer some Righteous Republicans...
To stand up and RE-IMPEACH Left's 'HO!!
The Wisdom of the Forefathers told...
"Preserve Equal Justice!!"
Imprison Slick 'cuz Law don't care...
'Tween Knave or President...No nooooo!!
This Country is worth the fight...
Truth shall CONDEMN Left's Blight!!
Lib'rals enslave folks brown and black...
The Med'yuh feeds their dread...ohhhh...
Fear is the Lib'rals' Plight...
Publik-skewl-ignorantized!!!
This World is filled with Good and Bad...
How will our children know?!
Ohh...now...ohh-oh-ohhh...

Orwell, yer book wuz WRONG...
Bold FReepers taught me so...
Fine time fer an uprise...
RE-IMPEACH THE CHI-COM 'HO!!
The Pain of War cannot exceed...
Waco's burnt stench of Death!!
Our drums shall shake Congressional Halls...
Our guitars shall steal Slick's breath!!
Fight on...sing fer our Nation...Fight on...
VOTE RIGHT...the Left shall fall!!
No need for Fear...we'll set things Right...
Our Might'll transform the World!!
Dance with the FReepin' Right...
Sing 'til the mornin' lights!!
History looms...be Strong and Bold...
We'll bring Truth'n'Justice back!!
Bring it back...

At last, Reagan'll be smilin'...
At Guv'ment small and nice.
We'll have caged The Butcher of Christians...
Sic Semper Tyrannis!!!!
Ahhh...ee-eye-ohhhh...ahhh-ah-ahh...

Bring it back...RE-IMPEACH...bring it back...then CONVICT...bring it back...INDICT Slick...bring it back...then CONVICT...

Oh now...oh now...oh now...YES, NOW...oh now...oh now...oh now...
Bring it back...RE-IMPEACH...bring it back...then CONVICT...bring it back...
Ooh now...ooh now...YES, NOW ooh...
Ooh now...ooh now...YES, NOW SING IT!!
Sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it........

FReegards...MUD

7 October 2000...March For Liberty...Washington, DC (Lincoln Monument)...Be there if you still think this Country's worth Fightin' Fer!!!

24 Posted on 09/26/2000 13:19:25 PDT by Mudboy Slim

165 posted on 04/02/2004 9:24:38 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

"The filthy bastards -- and the "innocents" who've aided & abedded the filthy bastards -- who murdered those civilians are just such people who're the product of just such peoples..."

Lotta hate building up in dem dere werds, mi amigo...a loathing that is quite understandable considering recent events. Still, you recognize that these filthy bastards are people, and they will eventually bow to the recognition that peaceful democratic representation and individual liberty is inherently preferable to their totalitarian impulses...it's simply human nature, folks yearn to be FRee!!

FReegards...MUD

166 posted on 04/02/2004 9:38:54 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

BTW...saw you pledged a C-Note to FR...reckon I'll do the same.

YO, MO...check's in the mail...MUD

167 posted on 04/02/2004 9:40:27 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

"FReepers"
(To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "FReeBird")

Left will steal, beg, or borrow...
To protect Ol' Slick Willie!!
But Bill must be travellin' on now...
'Cuz his Treason threatens our Liberty!!
If we condoned Slick's Corruption...
Country wouldn't be the same!!
Righteous must retake this World, now...
And this World shall be remade...oh-oh-oh-ah-oh-ohhhh...
And the Left shall feel our ra-a-a-age...
Lib'rals, bow yer heads in sha-a-a-a-a-ame...
Lord knows, World must cha-a-a-ange...........

[Guitar weepin']

Realize, Willie, you'll go to prison...yeah, yeah...
You're just a Tyrant, you can't change!!
Oh, please don't act like the Victim...
'Cuz Lord knows you're to blame.
Slick, if we condoned your crimes, boy...
Nation wouldn't be the same!!
So we FRee-eep fer the Truth now...
And this World we shall now change...ohh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ahhhh...
And Lib'rals we'll now de-Fame...
And the Medyuh shall be shamed!!!!!
Lord knows it shall change...
Lord, help us, we must cha-a-a-a-a-ange...
Folks, we must change...
Won't ya join the FRee-pers?!! Yeah-eah-eah!!

[Guitar Jammin' to close]

Mudboy Slim

168 posted on 04/02/2004 10:09:18 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

To: cherry_bomb88; 88; sultan88; XXXXX88XXXXX; MJY1288

"Pictures of Ziang Zemin"
(To be sung to Camper Van Beethoven's "Pictures of Matchstick Men")

When Slick was called to Viet Nam...
Bill spewed his lies and turned a shade of yellow!!
Rush feeds my head...I FReep with dead...
When we meet Slick's spine shall turn to Jell-O!!
He'll quake...he'll tremble...RIGHT's day's dawnin'...
Slick'll curse my face...but I'll be his Shadow!!

Posters of Jiang Zemin and you...
Images of chop stix, yen, and nukes...
All Bill's TREASON'll be made clear to you!!

Right rejected yer election...
Next, we'll start an insurrection...NOW!!!
Slicks' rapings' haunt the FRee...
My Faith won't let me leave Bill alone!!

Posters of Waco's dead, you fools...
Images of Kosovo's dead, too...
Why can't the Med'yuh tell us the Truth?!

Willard...you'd best RESIGN...
And face yer crimes...do yer Jail Time!!
Willie...IT'S JUSTICE TIME!!
Sic Semper Fi...you'd best RESIGN!!!

(hauntin' formal fiddle)

Let MUD take CarVile, men...
Take Whorealdo fer a spin...
Headbutt ol' Sweet Jennin's...
Slap BrokeJaw 'til it stings...
Jack Rather on the chin...
Handcuff O.J. Simpson...
Endoscope Perky Kate...[ewww, yuck!!]
Next, Ol' MUD will legislate!!!

FReegards, all...MUD

P.S. "All experience ever is is confirmation anyway." Robert Frost to Theodore Morrison...27 June 1930

169 posted on 04/02/2004 12:43:08 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

To: Mudboy Slim; sultan88; Corin Stormhands; jla; Flora McDonald; AdSimp; society-by-contract; ...

Richmond ping-

Gwen Hedgepeth was found guilty on all counts except mail fraud. She faces up to 45 years in jail. For once, justice has been served.

170 posted on 04/02/2004 1:32:22 PM PST by iceskater (No nation or state ever taxed itself into prosperity.)

To: FreeTheHostages

"This is Hilarious!!"

We gotta party more, FTH...MUD

171 posted on 04/02/2004 1:33:36 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

To: iceskater; sultan88; jla; P8riot; AdSimp; maxwell; Corin Stormhands

"Gwen Hedgepeth was found guilty..."

Did I ever tell ya my first boss outta college was Louis Salomonsky?! And I dated Davis's daughter...LOL!!

Richmond's a very small town...MUD

BTW...the rumor that Gwen's carrying Sultan's love-child is unsubstantiated.

172 posted on 04/02/2004 1:37:10 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

To: Mudboy Slim; iceskater; sultan88; jla; AdSimp; maxwell; Corin Stormhands

BTW...the rumor that Gwen's carrying Sultan's love-child is unsubstantiated.

I thought it was Corin's

173 posted on 04/02/2004 1:39:14 PM PST by P8riot (A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body.)

To: ForGod'sSake; A+Bert; Taxman; stand watie; Tinman

"Fool Left, Overthrow RATS' Chi-Com HO's!!"
(To be sung to the Highwaymen's "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road")

How many Lib'rals...reject the Real World...
'Cuz they love Bill Clinton and RAPE?!
RATS stand by their man...through Slick's Treasonous Scams...
And still keep RATS' Bile in his place!!
And how many tarts...will suck Slick Willie's wee wood...
Fer Bill...RATS' re Dolts!!!

Truth, Libs, hurts ya but it must be told!!

Slick is a strange one and Left's Goals in Danger...
RAT fools kneel when they're told!!

Truth, RATS, hurts ya but ya must be bold!!

Lib'rals sell fears...market hard times and tears...
That only makes Right's Resolve Grow!!
Folks, we'll rise together...
Yes, WE Shall Retard...Guv'ment's Growth!!
Not once have I seen Libs'...fool eyes fill with anger...
Or say, "Re-Impeach...RATS' Chi-Com Whore'd!!"
Truth, Libs, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, RATS, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, Slick, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, Libs, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, RATS, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, Slick, hurts ya but it shall be told!!
Truth, BOY, hurts ya but it shall be told!!

FReegards...MUD

146 posted on 11/25/2002 11:45:27

174 posted on 04/02/2004 1:39:51 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

To: P8riot; Corin Stormhands

Corin gave up FReepin' fer Lent, so we shouldn't FReep him unmercifully 'til after Easter...MUD

175 posted on 04/02/2004 1:41:22 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

Father forgive me, for I have sinned. It's been 48 years since my last confessional.

176 posted on 04/02/2004 1:42:46 PM PST by P8riot (A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body.)

Yeah, I like the title. "The Ultimate Vanity Thread." Hee hee. I'm so bad.

177 posted on 04/02/2004 1:57:14 PM PST by FreeTheHostages (Be a Free Republic monthly donor -- small monthly contribs are painless!)

To: P8riot; Mudboy Slim

>BTW...the rumor that Gwen's carrying Sultan's love-child is unsubstantiated.
"I thought it was Corin's."

This is terrible, totally uncalled for & completely outa line you tasteless, classless jerks.

Everyone knows full well.

...it's MurrayMom.

178 posted on 04/02/2004 2:17:54 PM PST by Landru (Indulgences: 2 for a buck.)

"BTW...the rumor that Gwen's carrying Sultan's love-child is unsubstantiated."

Thank you for publicly clearing that up!

179 posted on 04/02/2004 2:23:16 PM PST by sultan88 ("I went down Virginia, seeking shelter from the storm...")

"Thank you for publicly clearing that up!"

That's what I'm here fer, the relentless pursuit of the TRUTH...thanks fer tellin' me about that vasectomy of yers, it cleared up a lotta rumors...MUD

BTW...tell Gwen I said, HOWDY!!

180 posted on 04/02/2004 3:09:55 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Become a monthly donor...it's an excellent investment in the future of our country!!)

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