Author: COB6

The Washington Times is reporting that a gentleman named William White is being pushed to the Obama camp to become the next Secretary of the Navy. Of course Mr. White has an exceptional qualification for such a high position.

Some top retired military leaders and some Democrats in Congress are backing William White, chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, to be the next secretary of the Navy – a move that would put the first openly gay person at the top of one of the services.

The secretary’s job is a civilian position, so it would not run afoul of the ban on gays serving in the military, but it would renew focus on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office.

I don’t personally give a damn what Mr. White does in the privacy of his home but to hire a guy to head an organization that he would be disallowed to serve in seems strange to me. He must be one seriously qualified Muldoon!

Fortunately The Intrepid Foundation has his biography posted:

White has been an active volunteer in many organizations. He served for eight years in the Point Lookout-Lido Volunteer Fire Department. He established Fordham University’s student-operated volunteer ambulance service. In 1991 he established a charitable organization, Operation Support, which in only three months raised $400,000 for the families of servicemen and servicewomen lost in the Persian Gulf War.

White worked in his family restaurant and real estate business, which has operated five successful establishments in Manhattan and Long Island. As Senior Manager of his family’s restaurant operation, he helped ensure this 30-year business remained a successful enterprise.

In 1991, following the success of Operation Support, White was asked by Mr. Zachary Fisher, a leading real estate developer and Founder of the Intrepid Museum Foundation in New York, to help raise funds for Intrepid, the world’s largest maritime museum. White formed a volunteer organization, the Intrepid Museum Society, in November 1991. This group hosted several receptions and benefit dinners aboard the decommissioned carrier, raising $500,000 in its first two years of operation.

Let’s review: Volunteer Fireman, Fund Raiser, Worked for mom and dad, Fund Raiser again.

You have got to be kidding me! There is absolutely nothing in this resume to qualify this guy to be Secretary of anything other than a fund raising organization or perhaps a Roman Bath House.

As if the president-elect isn’t enough evidence, I’ll say again that identity politics is a very dangerous thing.

What one generation tolerates, the next will embrace.

Patterico has a great piece up on what should be done with this particular scumbag.

But, speaking as someone who believes the NSA surveillance program was probably illegal –but who recognizes that there are legitimate arguments to the contrary — I think he’s a criminal. And Isikoff’s story reinforces my view strongly. Because the article (together with other research I have done on Tamm, set forth below) shows him to be an anti-Bush partisan who didn’t even know the details of the program, but notified reporters in part because of an anti-Bush bias, and a disagreement with other actions by the Bush Administration, some of which were indisputably legal. Isikoff tells us:

Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies at the Justice Department, including its aggressive pursuit of death-penalty cases and the legal justifications for “enhanced” interrogation techniques that many believe are tantamount to torture.

So he was motivated to disclose a secret program in part because of a perfectly legal aggressive approach to the death penalty that he just happened to disagree with. Hmmm.

Uncle Jimbo, one of my partners in crime from Blackfive, also weighed in:

We now have the name of someone who almost certainly broke a number of laws to salve his own spineless conscience. I vote for flogging then hanging, but I’m a little touchy about national security.

As most of you know I am a very sensitive person and would certainly never condone hanging a US citizen for exercising his freedom of speech.

Stop laughing and work with me people.

The problem is that this wasn’t an act of free speech, it was nothing less than treason.

And treason pisses me off!

Tamm admits in the interview that he didn’t know what the program was all about and that he was upset that Isikoff didn’t run the story in time to undermine the President in the 2004 election.

What do you call it when a “whistle blower” has no idea what a program is but leaks it anyway to influence an election and undermine a Commander in Chief during a time of war? Treason. Fairly simple actually, simple treason.

Treason has always been a fairly big deal in our country. In fact, it is the only crime specifically outlined in the Constitution (Article 3, Section III).

Of course the penalty for treason is death (as it should be) and some states still allow Uncle Jimbo’s recommendation of hanging. Naturally, I view hanging as barbaric and so 18th century.

I was actually thinking more like the 15th century.

Specifically, a solution made famous by Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia. Remember his solution for treason (and even minor misdemeanors for that matter) was impaling.

For those of you unfamiliar with the art of impaling, please do an image search of the good Prince. You will quickly see why I think it would be so appropriate during this festive time of year.

I am unsurprised that Baldi Locks wrapped the incident up so articulately.

The perfect farewell. Throw two shoes at the man who gave you the freedom, paid for in American blood, to attend a press conference in a country that just five years ago was a bloody dictatorship. Fucking ungrateful asshole.

Gotta love a woman’s more demure thoughts.

Quite naturally after his outburst on live television that embarrassed the Iraqi President, he was dealt with by the state.

He was dragged into the street where he was given the opportunity to watch his wife and daughters be gang-raped, sodomized and eventually killed. After which one of his sons was dragged to the scene of the carnage and beheaded on live television. This was followed by being forced to watch his mother slowly inserted into a wood chipper. The grand finale was this intrepid reporter being bound to a table and administered a Drano enema.

Or at least this is exactly what would have happened had this “journalist” ever had the balls to try that stunt with the former Iraqi administration.

I suspect that this assclown has terrorist connections. Might be a good candidate for a rendition.

Matthew Rosenberg writing for the Wall Street Journal reports that the President is apparently not very happy with the United States.

NEW DELHI — Afghan President Hamid Karzai blasted the U.S. and its NATO allies for failing to defeat the Taliban, insisting for the first time that Afghans need a firm deadline to end the war.

Setting such a deadline seems unlikely with President-elect Barack Obama seeking to boost the number of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. But without one, Mr. Karzai said, his government had no choice but to explore a negotiated settlement with the Taliban.

Dear President Karzai

What is the word I am trying to think of? Oh yeah!

ingrate
1393, originally an adj. meaning “unfriendly,” from L. ingratus “unpleasant, ungrateful,” from in- “not” + gratus “pleasing, beloved, dear, agreeable” (see grace). The noun meaning “ungrateful person” dates from 1672.

Look Hamid, you ignorant, terror-appeasing, drug-running G-Damn fool; have you considered what would happen if the US and NATO declared victory and left your backwards-assed, 7th century collection of savages that you call a country?

Do you, damn it!?

Let me enlighten you. Your sorry ass would be dead within 17 minutes! I added two minutes so they could set up the video camera and find a cleric to spew some asinine foolishness from the Koran. In any case, you would be dead faster than an old Seinfeld episode. This would be followed by wholesale genocide of the very people that you claim to lead.

Your idiotic pandering to terrorists would only lead your people to the slaughter. As far as your personal imminent beheading, I could not possibly give a shit less but to desecrate the sacrifice of so many of your betters (read that as American soldiers who died to give this particular shithole a shot at freedom) is unforgivable.

While you are globe trotting around in an American supplied jet, groveling before heads of state, kissing their asses and begging for money, it is America’s youth that is fighting and dieing to give your country a chance at freedom.

So rather than spewing your ignorant bullshit, maybe you should just say thank you and then STFU or grab a weapon and actually walk a patrol to help kill those who want nothing more than to kill you and your people.

In either case, you should consider being part of the solution and if you can’t put your country first at least try to avoid the public beheading that the savages would treat your ass to.

Always,

Nathan R. Jessup
COL, IN
USMC

I don’t think celebrity should disqualify a candidate but it shouldn’t be your only possible qualification.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music singer Hank Williams Jr. said he plans to run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican during the next primary election.

CMT.com said Williams has already talked with Sen. Lamar Alexander and former Sen. Bill Frist about his candidacy.

Williams spent time on the campaign trail this year with Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin.

Then again, we just elected the most unqualified person in history to be president for the exact same reason.

He does have a history of being fairly assertive after all.

APRIL 4–Country singer Hank Williams Jr. today surrendered to cops on a warrant charging him with throttling a hotel waitress last month in Memphis. Williams, 56, is facing an assault rap for allegedly choking Holly Hornbeak during a March 18 confrontation in the Peabody Hotel lobby bar. According to a complaint affidavit, Hornbeak, 19, told cops that Williams (full name: Randall Hank Williams Jr.) verbally abused her and made other inappropriate comments during the bizarre incident. The tirade apparently began after a Williams crony asked Hornbeak if she knew who Williams was. When she said no, Hornbeak recalled, the singer replied, “I’m Hank Williams Jr., bitch.”

I like Hank Williams but please tell me why this is no more ridiculous than Al Franken?

The Jawa Report posted a conspiracy theory this morning that I read as probably tongue in cheek.

What if the Clintons have something on Obama that they’re hanging over his head? Something so destructive and devastating to his Presidency that it could destroy it if made public? What if they’re using it to shoehorn their peeps into positions they want – essentially blackmailing him with whatever it could be? Doesn’t it just seem odd that Obama, who beat Clinton handily and won the campaign convincingly, would have to keep groveling and checking-in with Hillary and Bill? And why exactly are so many Clinton holdovers being seated in the new administration?

Again, I first read this as just making fun of the rookie messiah but now I am beginning to reconsider.

HotAir has the rest of this:

Its turns out that Mrs Clinton’s delay in accepting the president elect’s offer to be his top foreign policy adviser had much to do with her negotiating the terms of the job and insisting on the right to choose her own state department staff and possibly even some of the plumb Ambassador postings. She wanted guarantees of direct access to the president – without having to go through his national security adviser. Above all she did not want to end up like Colin Powell who was completely out-manoeuvred by the hawkish Vice President Dick Cheney who imposed neo-conservative friends like John Bolton on the State Department and steered the US towards a policy of using torture to achieve its aims.

So, what the hell is happening here? Does she not realize that she serves at the pleasure of the President? Or does the President not realize this? Or does he have no choice?

Her insistence on being able to by-pass the National Security Advisor is unprecedented and will likely impact on the pool of folks interested in a job that is essentially subjugated to Hillary Clinton. I can not imagine any military guy with anything close to fuzzy kiwis accepting this with the obvious exception of Wes Clark. But the “fuzzy kiwi” thing probably doesn’t apply in his case. In any case Obama will have no problem finding a bajinga boy to play NSA while Hillary wields the real power of national security.

But her insistence on “right to choose her own state department staff and possibly even some of the plumb Ambassador postings” should be more than troubling for all of the millions of idiots who fell for the messiah’s line of bullshit.

For the benefit of the mouth breathing retards who voted for this empty suit, allow me to make it clear. There is a difference between negotiation and abdication. Don’t believe me? Follow the advice of a fellow champion in your cause Rosie and just google it.

Why would any president give away one of his most valued absolute authorities to a political rival? Think about it. Ambassadorships have forever been a very effective way to pay off political debts. Even FDR appointed Joe Kennedy to a plush posting in England for his help in winning the White House. Of course Kennedy turned out to be a Nazi sympathizer and had to be recalled but the point is that FDR repaid his political benefactors.

Why would Obama give this power to Hillary? Why would he fill his cabinet (even his Chief of Staff) will Clinton loyalists?

He is either an idiot (which is certainly possible) or Jawa is on to something.

Jerry Nadler is a lunatic Democrat congressman from NY. He is also a moonbat, a truther, and a blathering idiot when it comes to the Constitution.

In between buckets of chicken he apparently had time to push back from the trough long enough to write a Bill that is so constitutionally stupid that it boggles the mind.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, introduced a Resolution in the House of Representatives demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his Administration during the final 90 days of office. H.RES.1531 is in response to President Bush’s widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution. The Resolution aims to prevent undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the President’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.

“This Resolution declares that we will not tolerate a last minute attempt by President Bush to shelter his cronies – cronies who may well be guilty of serious criminal offenses – from the full force of the law,” said Rep. Nadler. “President Bush must not excuse his own officials from possibly illegal acts committed outside the context of their official duties. Such pardons would merely obfuscate the truth and amount to a gross miscarriage of justice.”

Given the last Democrat President’s record on pardons, it is amazing that this obese POS has the gall to propose such a thing.

This whole Bill is at the link.

Of course this imbecile’s “Resolution” does absolutely nothing to prevent President Bush from pardoning any-damn-body he pleases. It’s really just feeding his fellow lunatics.

When reading his Bill, I was struck with the following “sense of the House”:

(3) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that James Madison was correct in his observation that ‘‘[i]f the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds [to] believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty’’;

Though not law and the fact that Madison’s opinion has been shot down by the Supreme Court a couple of times, it is still interesting that Jabba included it in his Bill.

So, even if Madison’s opinion had become law, the only remedy would be impeachment.

So maybe that’s why Clinton waited until the night before leaving office to pardon absconded felons, family members and terrorists?

Can’t really impeach a guy who is no longer president can you, fat ass?