TV worth watching

TV worth watching

• Posted by Judson Phillips on November 28, 2011 at 7:24am in Tea Party Nation Forum
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There is very little on TV that is worth watching.  In 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow called television programming a “vast wasteland.”  Not much has changed.   From the reality TV freak shows to the mindless sitcoms, ninety five percent of TV can be ignored and it is no great loss.

However, there are a couple of things on TV that are worth watching, including one that is hidden on of all things a minor channel that is owned by NBC.

What is it?

It is a show called Bomb Patrol Afghanistan.

I discovered this show yesterday.   After watching my hometown Titans pull one out from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I flipped over to the other game, which was the Patriots against the Eagles.  That game quickly turned into a blow up and during the commercial breaks I started flipping around and came across Bomb Patrol Afghanistan.

After that, the football game was history.

Bomb Patrol Afghanistan is a reality TV show that centers on Navy EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) unit 342, which is in Afghanistan.  They are divided into two three-man teams and their mission is to go out into Afghanistan and disarm the various types of bombs the Taliban use against American forces.

The show follows the sailors as they are on their deployment to Afghanistan.  There are the funny moments, as the men play practical jokes on each other or blow off some steam by having robot races.   There are tense moments, such as when one of the teams discovers they have stopped their vehicle right on top of a large bomb and someone needs to figure out what to do about it before the bomb kills them.  There are moments that remind us the men are not just sailors but men with lives and homes.   At one moment, a grizzled Petty Officer talks about his blanket.  His father gave it to him and he has taken it on all four of his deployments.

Then there are the moments where the reality of war is brought home.  The sailors attend a memorial service for a fallen soldier as his body is sent on the final journey home.

Beneath all of that is the message through out the show.  We are the good guys and the Taliban are the bad guys.  

The fact that we have a TV show that shows total support for our guys over in Afghanistan is refreshing.  The fact that it is being shown on a network that is owned by NBC is almost shocking.

During World War 2, the entertainment industry supported the war effort.   However, since then Hollywood has given us a pretty steady stream of anti-American propaganda.   It is amazing, even ten years after 9/11 some in Hollywood still cheer for our enemies.

During World War 2, Frank Capra made an amazing series of films called, “Why We Fight.”  It explained to our soldiers and our nation why we were at war.    Bomb Patrol Afghanistan is no “Why We Fight,” but it is a powerful story of Americans serving their country.

I have always been amazed the George W. Bush did not try to get some of the few conservatives in Hollywood to make a version of “Why We Fight” after 9/11.  Perhaps if he had, we might have countered much of the liberal media and might have been able to win in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That opportunity is gone now.  The only film Barack Obama would make would be called, “Why we surrender.”

If you have a chance to catch Bomb Patrol Afghanistan, it is very much worth watching.

And for the men of Navy EOD Unit 342, well done.

Obama Lie of the day

Ever since I've gotten into office, I've lowered your taxes, haven't raised them.

- President Obama, who has signed into law twenty-one new taxes or tax increases.

Gingrich to OWS

Gingrich To OWS Protesters: "Go Get A Job Right After You Take A Bath."

 

I totally agree with that.  

Occupy Wall Street–List of Negatives

Has Maxine Waters seen this ordered list of Occupy protest "negative kinds of things"?

Someone ought to ask her:

Arson

• Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
• Occupy Portland -  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
• Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
• Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades

Assault/Threats

• Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours
• Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives
• Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face
• Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire
• Occupy Berkeley – Police respond to three assault calls per night
• Occupy Wall Street – Three men threaten the life of a sexual assault victim
• Occupy Lawrence – Punch thrown
• Occupy Orlando – Knife fight sends man to hospital
• Occupy Portland – Multiple assaults within a 24 hr. period
• Occupy Toledo – Man assaults police officer after arrest
• Occupy San Diego – Woman assaults cameraman
• Occupy Victoria – Man dumps urine on city worker
• Occupy Vancouver – Two police officers bitten during near riot
• Occupy Oakland – Death threats
• Occupy Austin – Man in Joker make-up arrested for brandishing knife
• Occupy Oakland – Man sets his dog on reporter
• Occupy Oakland – Man pulls a knife in camp
• Occupy Wall Street – Photographer assaulted

Drugs/Dealing

• Occupy Boston – Two drug busts in a week
• Occupy Boston – Another drug arrest
• Occupy Boston – Heroin dealers busted were living with 6 year old boy directly behind welcome tent
• Occupy Portland – First hand account “Drugs. Selling…Heroin. Meth.”
• Occupy Portland – Video of open drug use in the camp
• Occupy Portland – “I get high“

Fraud

• National Lawyer’s Guild member Ari Douglas pretends to be run over by a police scooter

Illness/Death

• Occupy Santa Cruz – Ringworm outbreak
• Occupy Atlanta – TB outbreak
• Occupy Wall Street – Zuccotti lung outbreak
• Occupy New Orleans – Man discovered in tent had been dead 2 days
• Occupy Portland – Body lice outbreak

There's much more at Verum Serum under categories such as murder, public disturbance, rape/sexual assault and sedition to name but just a few.
Go now and find out what those good people of OWS have been up to.
Crossposted at Wizbang.

Occupy Wall Street–Hit’s New Low

The Occupy mob is pretty much a bunch of loser, but today they took they managed to hit a new low.  The latest target of the Occupy mob is children.

From CBS:

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They were caught in the middle of madness.

Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday.

It was a wild day in lower Manhattan for most everyone involved, including elementary school children who had to brave the mayhem just to get to class on the other side of Wall Street.

In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting — some kicking and screaming – CBS 2’s Emily Smith found little school kids trying to get to class. Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted “follow those kids!”

“These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids,” one father said. “For them it’s horrible. They’re afraid of all the crowds. We’re not even able to get through. They’re just, he’s … very afraid now,” a mother added.

Of course, the mob has no respect for anyone else’s rights and generally wants to make life as miserable for everyone who, well, everyone who has a job.

From Yahoo:

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators blocked a downtown Los Angeles street on Thursday, snarling traffic on surrounding freeways before police moved in to make arrests and break up the rally.

Protesters first marched through the Los Angeles financial district, chanting "Occupy the Freeways, Occupy the U.S.A.", and then a small group stood in a circle and held hands on a major downtown street, blocking it, before police advanced.

At least 26 protesters were arrested in the city in separate marches and rallies, and arrests appeared to be underway at a Bank of America branch in downtown Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles march came as cities across the country have taken police action in recent days to dismantle protest camps set up as part of the Occupy movement against economic inequality and excesses of the financial system.

The march also coincided with a planned day of action that saw hundreds of people take to the streets of several U.S. cities, including New York where at least 177 people were arrested, in rallies seen as a test of momentum of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Across America, hundreds of people were arrested today in violent protests.  That is hundreds more than have been arrested at Tea Party rallies.   In New York, at least one police officer was slashed and another suffered an eye injury.

While I am not a Karl Rove fan, occasionally you have to give him a little credit and he nailed it today.  A speech he made today was disrupted by the Occupy mob.  Instead of sitting there and taking it, he fired back.

Rove told the disrupters, “If you don’t have the courage to stand here and then ask a question, you’re just showing your moral cowardice.   Do not be so arrogant and presumptive to think that you’re the only person who has a First Amendment right that needs to be heard. Who gave you the right to occupy America? Nobody.”

For once, good for Karl Rove.

Obamanomics: your Thanksgiving dinner will cost more

Obamanomics: your Thanksgiving dinner will cost more this year
Posted by Staff

Time Magazine reports:
Thanks to the rising costs of commodities, a Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings will be about 13% higher than last year. No word on the costs of a Turducken.
According to an informal supermarket survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation, everything you’ll need for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for a family of 10 will cost $49.20, up from $43.37 last year.

Herman Cain’s Accusers

Cain's accuser has a history of financial, legal problems
Posted by Staff

The Chicago Tribune reports:
Records show she twice has filed for personal bankruptcy, first in 1991 and then again in 2001. In the latter case, she claimed $5,700 in assets and more than $36,000 in liabilities. Among the creditors seeking payment was a management firm demanding back rent of $4,500, four credit card companies and a lawyer asking for his legal fees.
After the case was discharged, she accused a former boyfriend of harassing her for repayment of a loan, court records in the bankruptcy case show. Bialek borrowed $4,500 from William Concha, though Concha now believes she had no intention of paying him back, according to his brother, Mario.

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Another Cain accuser outed as working in the Obama administration
Posted by Staff

The Daily reports:
Karen Kraushaar currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General’s Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year. She did not return phone messages left by The Daily.

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Cain's accuser lived in same Chicago building as David Axelrod
Posted by Staff

Real Clear Politics reports:
Martha MacCallum, FOX News: "One of the things is that you lived at a 505 North Lake Shore Drive apartment, right? This is the same building, it happens to be the same building David Axelrod lives in. Do you know David Axelrod? Ever have any interaction with him at all?
Sharon Bialek, Cain accuser: "I saw him in the gym. I mean -- everybody nods to each other. It is friendly building but I never had any interaction with him."

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20 Years Old Then and Now

Hussein Obama Has to GO

The Obama Whitehouse nixes prayer at the World War 2 Memorial BUT issues Islamic festival greeting

President Obama today issued greetings on behalf of himself, First Lady Michelle Obama, and the American people to Muslims around the globe who are celebrating Eid, and he offered congratulations for those performing Hajj, saying that thousands of American Muslims are making the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Obama Lie of the Day

The least of my concerns, at the moment, is the politics of a year from now.

- President Obama, the same president who has done over 60 fundraisers this year alone.