Marines Pissing On Dead Taliban Terrorists
Over the last few days the media has been buzzing over the video gone viral of U.S. Marines urinating on some dead Taliban terrorists. The world is full of righteous indignation as people from almost every political stripe condemn the Marines behavior.
Now, keep in mind that we’re talking about the Taliban here. These are the people who rape, beat, mutilate, and stone women to death for having the audacity to accidentally show some ankle or wrist flesh from beneath their full body, tent-like garb or–sin of all sins–actually have the nerve to be a rape victim. The Taliban is also the group of people responsible for skewering men up the ass with large, sharpened wooden poles. It goes something like this: A pole sharpened on one end is planted in the ground, sharp end up of course. Then said sinner (perhaps his beard was not long enough) is then lifted and sat down on the sharp end, sharp end entering the anus. The sinner is then left to slowly slide down the pole, dying a slow, agonizing death, appropriately screaming as members of the Taliban and public look on cheering. The Taliban made it a sport to publicly beat men, women, and children to a bloody pulp for such atrocities as flying kites or walking in public unescorted.
After watching this I’d gladly shoot the assholes doing the beatings (this is comparatively mild) and wouldn’t have a problem with relieving myself on them for good measure because they deserve it. Also, take note on how everyone just stands by and lets it happen. This is indicative of a culture that has no place within the human family. This culture could be wiped from the face of the earth because they deserve it and the world would be a better place. Yes, I’m being judgmental because I’m right. There is nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.
Also, let’s keep in mind that the Taliban were part and parcel to the slaughtering of 3000 people on 9/11.
Now, I’m supposed to be outraged by U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers? I don’t think so.
I’ve never been in the military. I’ve never been at war. I’ll be the first one to state that up front. But I’m smart enough to know that members of the military–in this case the Marines–are like a band of brothers under fire. I’m smart enough to know that you cannot go into battle with your fellow man and not develop a brotherhood. In fact to not succumb to the bonds of brotherhood under fire would be inhumane. These Marines have seen their brothers slaughtered, tortured, throats cut, and decapitated alive, and blasted to bits by road side bombs. To be captured by the Taliban is almost certainly a death sentence. They have witnessed first hand the barbarism of the Taliban under the auspices of Islam. They see it every day.
Yes, a measure of retribution is understandable.
If Leon Panetta really gave two shits, rather than strongly condemn and threaten to punish the Marines to the fullest extent, he’d support the brothers in arms. In a just world the President and Panetta would remind the world of the animals that the Taliban are, pledge support for our Marines and tell the world to get bent.
Corruption You Can Count On
See how this works? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. You and I would call it corruption, but the Obama Administration calls it politics.
Late this week it was big news that Darden’s chain of restaurants would be buckling under to Michelle Obama and revamping their menus.
“This is a breakthrough moment in the restaurant
industryindushtry,” Michelle Obama said as she joined Darden chief executive officer Clarence Otis at an Olive Garden in Hyattsville, Md., near Washington, D.C.
At first glance this may not mean much. Hell, what’s wrong with offering a healthier menu to kids? I have no problem with that, but when you look into it a bit further an aroma begins to fill the air. That aroma is called “stink.” It goes back to that festering ass-raping dealt to the American public called Obama Care. Obama Care is not workable by a large portion of businesses. So, the Obama Administration has been issuing waivers to hundreds of businesses. OK, that’s all and good, but what does a business have to do to get a waiver? How and who decides who gets a waiver? Well, it is worth noting–hold your nose–that Darden got one of those waivers last year.
See how that works?
Of course to any reasonable person this should come as no surprise. You already know that the Obama Administration is perhaps the most corrupt in U.S. history. Remember the promise to “end earmarks,” and debate Obama Care on C-Span? It didn’t happen. What that means is that you were lied to.
There has been a larger story the last few weeks, though, regarding corruption from the Obama Administration. That would be the Solyndra scandal. It hasn’t really been brought to the forefront yet because of a mostly compliant mainstream media, but it is kicking and screaming its way to the surface. This has the potential to be huge. It should be huge.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration restructured a half-billion dollar federal loan to a troubled solar energy company in such a way that private investors — including a fundraiser for President Barack Obama — moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment in case of a default, government records show.
Nice, huh? Wait, there’s more.
The White House faced mounting political complications as a second top fundraiser for President Obama was linked to a federal loan guarantee program that backed a now-bankrupt Silicon Valley solar energy company, and as two California lawmakers called for investigations of a state tax break granted to the firm.
Steve Spinner, who helped monitor the Energy Department’s issuance of $25 billion in government loan guarantees to renewable energy projects, was one of Obama’s top fundraisers in 2008 and is raising money for the president’s 2012 reelection campaign.
See how this works?
Oh, but we’re just getting started.
The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help of the Obama White House over the objections of federal budget analysts.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden got a nice photo op. They got to make speeches about being “green.” But then Solyndra went bankrupt. Americans lost jobs. Taxpayers got stuck with the bill. And members of Congress are now in high dudgeon and making speeches.
I’ll ask again, see how this works? It may have something to do with giving a half billion of YOUR dollars to a company that everyone knew was failing, but who cares because that company has given your campaign millions of dollars and has promised to give you millions more for your 2012 election.
Wait, I can hear it now from some of you, “But all politicians are corrupt!” To such insipid banality, I’d like to point out that Solyndra pressured the Bush Administration, but were told to get bent. In fact this link is especially interesting because it points out how Democrats released emails showing that the Republicans were engaged in negotiations with Solyndra too as if that would somehow negate the corruption of President Obama. But they forgot one pesky narrative:
Obama administration officials provided the new emails to Fox News to show that Republicans on Capitol Hill have misrepresented other emails released earlier this week to suggest the Bush administration tried to cut off Solyndra’s chances of getting a government loan.
Earlier this week, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a Jan. 13, 2009 email in which Bush Energy official Lachlan Seward wrote, “After canvassing the [Energy Department's credit] committee it was the unanimous decision not to engage in further discussions with Solyndra at this time.”
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., a member of the House committee, used that email to charge Friday that the decision to no longer “engage” on the matter meant that Bush officials wanted to pull the plug on the Solyndra deal altogether and the Obama administration improperly moved forward on it later.
Ouch.
What, Sarah Palin Has A Point?
In this begrudgingly positive NYTimes op-ed piece the author acts as if Sarah Palin has changed her message.
…something curious happened when Ms. Palin strode onto the stage last weekend at a Tea Party event in Indianola, Iowa. Along with her familiar and predictable swipes at President Barack Obama and the “far left,” she delivered a devastating indictment of the entire U.S. political establishment — left, right and center — and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political divide.
She made three interlocking points. First, that the United States is now governed by a “permanent political class,” drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut off from the concerns of regular people. Second, that these Republicans and Democrats have allied with big business to mutual advantage to create what she called “corporate crony capitalism.” Third, that the real political divide in the United States may no longer be between friends and foes of Big Government, but between friends and foes of vast, remote, unaccountable institutions (both public and private).
The message hasn’t changed, this person is just finally listening past the banality of the established yet completely wrong narrative. This so called new message from Palin is what she’s been saying all along and exactly how she governed Alaska. To those who are self aware enough to actually think on their own, this message has been Palin’s bread and butter since the first day she became Governor of Alaska. It has been her message in almost every speech she’s given since she arrived on the scene.
The real problem with Sarah Palin is not Sarah Palin, it’s the intellectually simplistic and unsophisticated approach towards her by those who hate her. Think about it, because of a regional dialect or perspective she is continually panned as stupid and unsophisticated. An example from the op-ed piece:
There was plenty of the usual Palin schtick — words that make clear that she is not speaking to everyone but to a particular strain of American: “The working men and women of this country, you got up off your couch, you came down from the deer stand, you came out of the duck blind, you got off the John Deere, and we took to the streets, and we took to the town halls, and we ended up at the ballot box.”
I’ll give you slightly kitschy, but I won’t give you stupid. If that passage not relevant to every working class American, I don’t know what is. If this person actually believes that Sarah Palin is only addressing deer hunters, duck hunters, and farmers who own John Deere tractors, then they are a blithering simpleton. This is a message relevant to a vast majority of middle class Americans but delivered from the perspective of someone indigenous to so called Middle America. It’s every bit as applicable to the middle class working stiff living in New York, L.A., Boston, Seattle, our Houston.
Much of the left is either too intellectually lazy, or limited to take on Palin with real ideas. Instead they rely on bigoted, misogynist stereotypes to create and foster the lie that she is stupid. In fact they do that with just about every real political adversary. It’s gotten to the point where it’s as predictable as rain in Portland, Oregon.
To be sure, I’m not saying that Palin is deserving to be President or whatever. All I’m saying is that she is indeed a relevant political thinker. Yeah, she’s smart, too.
If one were to place Sarah Palin and Barack Obama inside of a giant corn maze and have them race to the exit, my money would be on Palin. Yeah, yours might be on Obama, but you’d lose.
Government “Investment” Nonsense
Vincent Ferrari says this:
…governments don’t invest for economic return. They invest for political return.
The fact that more people are not aware of this very simple truth is actually shocking. Governments have no reason to behave as a money making venture. Governments are not designed for it. The only income that governments have is what they take from tax payers.
The Myth of Different Truths For Different People
One of the biggest myths propagated by the liberal mindset is the notion of different truths for different people. It’s up there with the myth that alcoholism and drug addiction is a disease, and the Christian Crusades were simply an offensive attempt to conquer Muslim territories; both of which are complete nonsense. The reality is that alcoholism is not a disease and the Christian Crusades were a defensive response to centuries of Muslim incursions into traditionally Christian territories. In other words, the Muslims started it. To claim otherwise on both examples is not a different truth, it’s an untruth. In fact, the alcoholism is a disease myth was originally conceptualized by the same person who claimed that political dissension and being black were diseases. At the risk of beating this pony to death, here is another good read articulating why alcoholism is not a disease and why the myth has been propagated by special interests.
Yes, the world does contain some gray area, but for the most part it’s strikingly black and white. The problem that many people have with this reality is that it requires effort and requires great personal intellectual honesty to admit it and many people, especially ideologues, have a difficult time with intellectual honesty. Many ideologues embrace the different truths myth because needlessly imposed complexity makes it easier to obfuscate the truth. And that is the real goal.
Obfuscation comes in very handy in matters of politics because it allows ideologues the convenience to change perceptions under the guise of truth is subjective. But the problem is that perception does not equate to truth. To say this is so simplistic that it borders on banal, but it needs saying because people seem to embrace perception as the almighty barometer of truth. So much so, that people will embrace “common knowledge” as truth with surprising ease when even a cursory critical look would reveal the not so hidden absurdity.
“But what is reality?” Oh, come on. Don’t make me slap you. Outside of Quantum Physics and Schrodinger’s cat, in our world as we live in it, reality is pretty cut and dry.
According to Terry Goodkind:
The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.
My response would be that perception doesn’t mean jack when your head is getting crunched between the jaws of reality. At that point, reality becomes a real bitch. In other words, reality is all that matters.
DOJ Attacks Man For Protecting Children From Grizzly
My boy from the Bronx over at Insignificant Thoughts, Vincent Ferrari, weighs in on the bullshit DOJ persecution of an Idaho man who shot a grizzly bear out of safety concerns for his family.
It’s amazing to me what the DOJ has time for and what they don’t. No time for the Black Panthers intimidating voters. Plenty of time to go after fathers protecting their kids and Gibson Guitars.
If this kind of story doesn’t represent a grossly out of control federal government to you, you’re part of the problem.
I’m from Idaho; born and raised. If he’s tried by a jury of his peers the likelihood of a conviction are slim to none. But, still, the idea that the DOJ would go after this guy really is indicative of the absurd leadership coming from D.C.
Tale of Two Governors
While Gov. Jerry Brown makes California even less hospitable to business thus further stifling job growth for his state, New Mexico’s Gov. Susana Martinez scores a perfect score on the renewal of her concealed carry weapon permit.
If this isn’t a metaphor for two different world views, I don’t know what is.
Global Warming And Global Violence
Not too long ago, Nature Journal added to the global warming maelstrom by publishing a thesis claiming that global warming increases civil global conflicts. When I saw this claim trumpeted by just about every major media outlet it seemed a bit dubious to me.
It turns out that I may have been correct in my apprehension. Climate extremes aside, if one were to postulate a connection with climate change and civil unrest, the evidence seems to point in the other direction.
Z.B. Zhang and others cited in Heartland’s report compared proxy climate records with historical data on wars, social unrest, and dynastic transitions in China from the late Tang to Qing Dynasties (mid-ninth century to early twentieth century). Their 2005 research revealed that war frequencies, peak war clusters, nationwide periods of social unrest, and dynastic transitions were all significantly associated with cold, not warm, phases of China’s oscillating climate.
Specifically, all three distinctive peak war clusters (defined as more than 50 wars in a ten-year period) occurred during cold climate phases, as did all seven periods of nationwide social unrest and nearly 90 percent of all dynastic changes that decimated this largely agrarian society. The researchers conclude that climate change was “one of the most important factors in determining the dynastic cycle and alternation of war and peace in ancient China,” with warmer climates having been immensely more effective than cooler ones in terms of helping “keep the peace.”
And then there’s this:
Tol and Wagner note that “the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007 was partly awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore for their contribution to slowing climate change and thus preventing war.” However, they observe, “scenarios of climate-change-induced violence can be painted with abandon,” because there is “little research to either support or refute such claims.”
Consequently, and partly to fill this research void, Tol and Wagner conducted an analysis of the subject for Europe. As with the scientists who studied China, their results indicate that “periods with lower temperatures in the pre-industrial era are accompanied by violent conflicts.” However, they determined, “this effect is much weaker in the modern world than it was in pre-industrial times.” All of this suggests, in their words, “that future global warming is not likely to lead to [civil] war between [within] European countries.”
Therefore, they conclude, “should anyone ever seriously have believed that, this paper does put that idea to rest.”
Alas, in Al Gore’s mind these people are no better than racists.
Cambridge History of the American Novel
Joseph Epstein disguises a rant as a book review.
English departments have tended to become intellectual nursing homes where old ideas go to die. If one is still looking for that living relic, the fully subscribed Marxist, one is today less likely to find him in an Economics or History Department than in an English Department, where he will still be taken seriously.
Read the whole thing.
Media Bias And The Presidential Vetting Process
Most people are not even registering that there is a vetting process going on right now concerning Republican Presidential candidates. For those that are, most of you are probably only aware of Perry, Bachmann, Romney, Cain, Huntsman, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul as being candidates vying for the Republican nomination. But, did you know that there are other Republicans in the race, too?
There are and the reason you don’t know about them is because the establishment media is ignoring them.
One of the more intriguing is former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. From what I understand, he’s sort of like Ron Paul without the knucklehead factor.
When I say “being ignored by the media establishment” I’m talking about the fact that CNN told Johnson to stay home from their debate held back in June, and that he’s being excluded from the upcoming debate on September 7th. Keep in mind that this debate is being hosted by NBC and Politico.
The media manipulation is quite blatant.
If you’d like to see an actual interview of Gary Johnson, go here.
Keep in mind that I’m not endorsing Gary Johnson. I, like everyone else, don’t know anything about him. The reason I don’t know anything about him is because the political and media establishment are purposely suppressing his campaign. Think about it, Sarah Palin who has not announced a candidacy, is getting much more attention as a possible candidate than Gary Johnson who IS a candidate.
Yep, that is screwy.