Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for June 3, 2013
Robert A. Hall
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Worth Reading : The Expectations of a President. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
It's not a diss but an over time observation - I don't believe Barack
Obama understands America .
At all. A president who does not understand country? How does that
happen? How do Americans allow that to happen?
Guest Post: Why We Still Fight
IRS Employee: D.C.
Told Us To Target Tea Party
Excerpt: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) revealed new testimony from IRS employees on
CNN's State of The Union on
Sunday. According to transcribed excerpts released by the Committee, a
Cincinnati IRS employee made it clear they were told by Washington , D.C.
personnel to give extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups:
Excerpt: On Friday, Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory
switched his party affiliation from the Democrat to the Republican party,
becoming the first black Republican in the Louisiana legislature since
Reconstruction. "I am as of this day joining Frederick Douglass as a
Republican," he said.
Snaking the Scotch. By David P. Goldman
Ethnocentrism is the snake in Christianity's garden, and
last week it slithered into the Church of Scotland. It took the form of a
screed denying the special claim of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel .
(One historian has pointed out that Scotland
claims to be the only country in Europe that
never had a pogrom against the Jews. But that was because, he said, the
Christians were too busy slaughtering each other over ever-smaller pieces of
doctrine to worry about the Jews. ~Bob.)
Suspected pirates face unprecedented trial in U.S. court
Excerpt: Since 2005, heavily armed Somalis in jury-rigged
speedboats had hijacked scores of oil tankers, cargo ships and private yachts,
holding hundreds of crew members hostage for lucrative ransoms. The brigands
had crippled shipping in some of the world's busiest sea lanes, costing
companies an estimated $5 billion a year. But as three accused pirates face
trial Tuesday in Norfolk ,
Va. , on charges of murder in the deaths of the
four Americans, the first U.S.
trial of its kind in modern times, Somali piracy is in sharp decline. (What was
wrong with the old way: shipboard courts-martial and hang’em from the yardarm
if found guilty? [Yes, I know most ships no longer have a yardarm, but I bet
the chips’ carpenters could improvise, and indeed would be delighted to do so.]
Ron P.)
Seriously Jacked Up:
Obama Admin Cuts Hot Meals for Afghan Troops
Excerpt: Marines at Camp
Leatherneck in Afghanistan
will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot
breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food,
according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials. (The danger is
they will get too weak to stand in the rain holding umbrellas over elitist one
percenters. ~Bob.)
Former Obama Aides
Cashing In On White House Access
Endemic to Washington --they
all do it. Republicans too, alas. ~Bob.
Middle East
genocide: We do nothing as Muslims eradicate the last vestiges of
Christians and Jews from nation after nation. By Ralph Peters
Excerpt: We are witnesses to murder, and our governments are
accomplices. The relentless destruction of the last remnants of the Middle East ’s Judeo-Christian civilization is well under
way. And we are silent.
5-Star Reader Reviews
of The Hand of the Prophet
This short novel is riveting. It takes place in 2053, but
the recent beheading of a British soldier, and the attempt to do the same to a
French soldier by Muslims shouting "Allahu Akbar," warns us that the
future of 2053 has already arrived. The story is graphic, and will not pass
Politically Correct censors as bedtime reading for children. But then, under PC
thinking, the historical facts of Islam's past and present atrocities in Europe
and the Middle East are not bedtime reading
for kids either. Or is it? Perhaps it is high time to tell our children -- and
each other -- what the imposition of Shariah Law would mean, and what daily
life under the rule of Muslims means to anyone who does not subscribe to their
beliefs. And the practice of their beliefs is horrible indeed. Set in a simple
farmland community, the story clearly describes what it is to be an infidel --
a Christian or Jew or even an atheist -- living under Islamic rulers who are as
cruel, fanatical, cynical, and corrupt as those in Islamic countries today.
Beware. The subjugation and sexual abuse of women, the institution of slavery,
and the barbarous punishments mandated by the Koran, are all shown in this book
in detail. What particularly struck me was the description of how members of a
modern American farming community could be reduced to a crude medieval life by
the institution of Islamic teachings. It shows Americans in the sad state of
Muslim peasants everywhere: sunk in mud, blood and horror for the benefit and
luxury of their Islamic rulers. Read this book. It will not take long unless
you stop too often to catch your breath when you read about what Islam,
"the religion of peace," truly means. You will find yourself cheering
for the few who resist.
Roll the timeline back by about 200 years and this could
very well be our future. I thought this was a well-written story that does a
good job of portraying the Islamic obsession with sex and punishment. It also
paints a larger picture of the degradation of progress under theocracy. Some of
the more brutal images were disturbing, but then I remembered that this is
exactly how the early Muslim community is presented by its historians. Devoted
Muslims pattern themselves on the life of the prophet - and this is what the
spoils of war look like.
Excerpt: I don't know how many of you read those "well
scrubbed" talking points that Jay Carney and Ambassador Rice were ordered
to present in the Benghazi Scandal Road Show in the aftermath of the tragic and
unnecessary deaths of four Americans. But I did....and I was damned impressed! When
the policy wonks got through scrubbing the field reports from the "boots
on the ground" this debacle didn't look too damned bad! Obama's minions
were able to scrub out the weeks old request from the Ambassador to beef up his
security detail.
Washington Post: The
Justice Department has allowed us to say AG Holder supports press freedom
Excerpt: Among those who did
attend was the Washington Post. Today’s Post has an account of the
meeting — sort of. That is, they have a story
about what the Justice Department allowed them to say about its efforts to
protect press freedom. The result is just beyond parody (All emphasis is
added):
Recall effort against
Arizona 's
Sheriff Joe Arpaio fails
Excerpt: On Thursday, members of Respect Arizona and Citizens for a Better Arizona --
who launched the recall effort against Arpaio -- failed to gather the necessary
335,000 valid voter signatures by the 5 p.m. deadline. The aim was to force a
recall election.
What Search Warrant? Your
Facebook Messages and Private Emails are Not Safe From FBI Surveillance, Says
ACLU
Excerpt: Warrants? We don't need no stinking warrants. According
to new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, government
officials may not always obtain warrants when they snoop through our emails,
Facebook messages and other electronic communications and the FBI apparently
doesn't even believe it's legally required to do so.
US drones kill 8 AQAP fighters in Yemen strike
Excerpt: US
drones launched the first strike in Yemen
in 12 days, killing eight "militants" in an attack on an convoy in a
southern town controlled by al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula .
P1 Gun Control
Survey: Top 10 reasons for gun violence
Excerpt: As part of the recently-conducted PoliceOne Gun Control Survey, we asked law enforcement
officials what they believed was the biggest cause of gun violence in the U.S. — and
unlike some questions that received landslide majority answers,
this section brought to light strong opinions of many diverse causes.
The majority — which in this case was only 38 percent of the 14,700 officers
who answered the survey — blames the decline in parenting and family
values.
Brawl breaks out at Ohio kindergarten
graduation
Excerpt: A brawl that started over spilled punch at
a kindergarten graduation ceremony Friday resulted in the arrest of eight
people, authorities said. Police were called when one participant pulled out a
pipe and another a hammer. (Wow! Back when I to kindergarten, we didn't have
cool stuff like this going on! As a matter of fact, I barely remember
kindergarten at all. I'll bet these kids will remember theirs, though. - LLW)
Black mob violence —
in Kindergarden? In Cleveland ?
By Colin Flaherty
Excerpt: And the cops even charged 8 black people with
rioting. Started at a Kindergarten graduation, next thing you know a “very ugly
brawl” starts, then spills outside.
Excerpt: "Why did they not produce for it four
witnesses? And when they do not produce the witnesses, then it is they, in the
sight of Allah , who are the liars." -- Qur'an 24:13 The Council of Islamic Ideology rejects DNA testing as
primary evidence because it isn't mentioned in the Qur'an. The Qur'an mandates
that four witnesses are required to establish sexual crimes
-- zina -- and that's that. Women are victimized by this ridiculous
and impossible rule? Who cares? It's the will of Allah. (Teen rape victims have
been stoned to death for adultery because they didn't have four witnesses.
Ain't Shari'a wonderful? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: A NEWPORT
shopkeeper has been forced by police to remove a T-shirt from his shop window
because they felt it “could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.” Matthew Taylor, 35, the owner of Taylor’s clothes store on
Emlyn Walk in the city, printed up and displayed the T-shirt with the slogan:
“Obey our laws, respect our beliefs or get out of our country” after Drummer
Lee Rigby, 25, was killed in near Woolwich barracks in London last week.
Excerpt: It took Tampa
jurors only two hours to return a not guilty verdict in the two-day murder
trial of a retired Army lieutenant colonel who shot and killed his wife's
lover. The incident that led 70-year-old Ralph Wald
to be charged with the second-degree murder of 32-year-old Walter Conley was
impeccably described by the Tampa Bay Times as "a tragic
and inimitably Floridian morality tale involving sex, liquor, self-defense law,
erectile dysfunction and a man shot to death with his pants around his
knees." ... She later added: "Because my husband puts me first, he's taking me to the Waffle House." (Due to
circumstances too long and boring to go into, I once had Christmas Dinner in a Waffle
House. Some called it the "Awful House." ~Bob.)
Kindergartener
interrogated over cap gun until he pees his pants, then suspended 10 days
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/31/kindergartener-interrogated-over-cap-gun-until-he-pees-his-pants-then-suspended-10-days/#ixzz2UsIMpCbB
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/31/kindergartener-interrogated-over-cap-gun-until-he-pees-his-pants-then-suspended-10-days/#ixzz2UsIMpCbB
Excerpt: School officials at Dowell Elementary School in the town of Lusby proceeded to
question the five-year-old for over two hours before finally calling his
mother, whom The Post also does not name. The principal eventually called the
boy’s mother at 10:50 a.m. By that time, the five-year-old had wet
his pants (which the mother called highly unusual). (Kindergartner? If I was
the father of that little boy, I would immediately pull him out of that
government indoctrination center and enroll him in a private school if
possible, or home school him, if not. Then I would sue the school, all the
school officials involved, the school board, and the city for bullying,
traumatizing, and humiliating a five year old boy to the point where he peed
his pants, and who obviously didn't understand why they were so mad at him for
playing with a harmless toy cap gun. I'm sure the school has a "no tolerance"
policy when it comes to guns (you know, no pointing fingers, drawing guns,
saying "bang", chewing a pop tart into a shape that, if you held it
at just the right angle and squinted, might look a little bit like a gun).
Well, I have no tolerance for people who have no "common sense".
That's my policy. - LLW )
Syrian Rebels in Trouble: German Intelligence Sees
Assad Regaining Hold: By Matthias Gebauer
Excerpt: Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted
Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency
instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make
significant advances, it predicts.
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