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  • When They Came For Kavanaugh’s Kid

    When They Came For Kavanaugh’s Kid

    The following was published by The American Conservative

    From editorial cartoonist Chris Britt. How can a man do this to another man’s child? How can editors allow this to pass? What corrupt and wicked hearts they have.

    UPDATE: For some reason, this image is being passed around to some people as if I approved of its message. If you’re going to send it around, please point out that I *abhor* this image.

    UPDATE.2: Still getting e-mails from people denouncing ME for drawing that cartoon. Wild.

    UPDATE.3:     WILL YOU RIGHT-WING IDIOTS WHO THINK THAT I, ROD DREHER, DREW THAT CARTOON AND/OR APPROVE OF IT PLEASE GET A FREAKING CLUE?!

    I’m closing comments on this thread, because I’m tired of dealing with these morons.

    UPDATE.4: This just came in from the publisher of the Illinois Times:

    There appears to be a great deal of confusion surrounding the recent Chris Britt cartoon featuring Judge Kavanaugh’s daughter. I saw that you shared it on your website and I know it has been shared on various other social media sites and attributed to our publication. However, we did not publish this cartoon, either in our paper or on our website. Chris posted it to his own Facebook page and tagged us in it, which we asked him to remove as soon as we became aware of it.

    Chris Britt is not an employee of ours, he is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. While we have published other cartoons of his, we had not seen this particular one and had no knowledge of it until the death threats and hate mail started pouring in. I saw it for the first time myself yesterday.

    I would be glad to speak with you about this situation if you would like to talk directly, but I am hoping that you will be willing to issue a clarification on your site. If people have issues with the cartoon, they can certainly take it up with Chris, but we had no knowledge of this cartoon and were not a part of promoting it. I happen to agree with you that children should be left out of political discussions.

    So stop writing to them about it. The fault is Chris Britt’s, not the newspaper’s.

    Death threats and hate mail…WTF did they expect?  We are much better than that here at TAH.    Please consider sending something like this instead.

  • Justice to convene meeting on whether social media companies are ‘intentionally stifling’ free speech.

    Justice to convene meeting on whether social media companies are ‘intentionally stifling’ free speech.

    In a statement issued right after executives from Facebook and Twitter finished testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Department of Justice (DOJ) also suggested that the platforms were running afoul of antitrust laws.

    “The Attorney General has convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general this month to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms,” DOJ spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement issued near the end of the congressional hearing.

    I can save them a bit of time and money, Of course they are thwarting a free exchange of ideas.   Those companies are not in the business of protecting Free Speech, they are in the business of making money and to that end…protecting their domination of the market.  I have several friends that stay Booked in Face Jail.  They probably deserve it simply for being on my “friends” list.  Those companies are all to quick to pull down the speech by Conservative leaning people.  The list of those that have had it happen grows every day.

    The DOJ’s move is the first sign of the administration taking concrete action to address alleged bias following President Trump’s public accusations against tech companies last week. It also comes at a time of tension between the president and his top law enforcement officer. Trump has repeatedly chastised Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, faulting the attorney general in August for not taking control of what he sees as “corruption” at the Justice Department. And on Monday, Trump blasted Sessions on Twitter over recent indictments against two Republican congressmen.

    The announcement also signals that the Justice Department is paying attention to the growing movement to challenge Facebook’s and Google’s market power.

    I am not sure how they might apply Anti-Trust Law to stop all this.  Brighter minds than mine must be at work.  I can’t hate on them too much because The Book of Face is one of the primary sources of Stolen Valor evidence.  Without the blowhards posting all their bloviated bullshit our job would be much harder.

    The entire story is HERE.

     

  • Ty Cobb at TAH official burger bar

    Ty Cobb at TAH official burger bar

    The media noticed that Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb was spotted rocking out at the TAH official burger bar Slash Run Saturday night;

    D.C. photographer Chris Stewart spotted the man, who became an Internet sensation because of his curly mustache, at Slash Run, which according to its website is a “rock n’ roll burger joint, bar and music venue” in the Petworth neighborhood.

    According to the Washington Post, Suspect was told that Cobb was part of a wedding group, and afterwards they stopped in for the Copstabber performance still wearing formal attire.

    While Cobb didn’t get up and dance like the other members of his party, he did put his hands in the air and particularly seemed to enjoy a song called “I Like Cocaine,” according to Suspect.

    Good lookin’ group. Thanks for your patronage.

  • Marketing and myths hurt recruiting efforts

    Stars & Stripes reports that the Department of Defense is worried about the “myths” and misconceptions that younger Americans have about military service which are hurting recruiting efforts.

    For example, 63 percent of youth ages 16 to 24 believe it is “likely” or “very likely” that a person leaving the military today has psychological or emotional problems. “They hear about post-traumatic stress disorder and all the challenges faced by service men and women post-conflict, and believe that’s indicative of the vast majority of individuals who serve,” Hebert said.

    The same survey found 61 percent of youth believe it likely or very likely someone getting out of service today will have difficulty readjusting to everyday life. Forty-eight percent believe it is likely or very likely that a person departing the military has a physical injury.

    Absent any other information, Hebert said, the public has no way to put in context the many ads they see soliciting donations to support injured veterans.

    DoD complains that money which went towards their marketing efforts is now spent on training and real world operations because of sequestration, the use by the previous administration to cut government spending on the back of national security.

    During the OIF and OEF missions, the Pentagon reached out to military bloggers to overcome the negative information, a cost effective solution. When the wars wound down, so did their outreach.

    Many milbloggers folded their tents and went to social media to reach a more friendly audience. In my opinion, they missed an opportunity. The veteran-free outlets like “Task and Purpose” and “Popular Military” filled the gap, mostly just perpetuating the misconceptions with “click bait” National Enquirer-type stories.

    The New York Times is bringing back their “At War” column, the Washington Post has begun hiring real veterans to their regular staff, but the DoD is still cash-starved and doesn’t have an operations to feed milbloggers with the words to get the Pentagon’s message out to them.

    At the last Milblog Conference, some representatives of the New York Times and the Washington Post told the assemblage that the media didn’t need milbloggers to explain to them the realities of war like they did in the early years of the war, and it seems that many milbloggers took that as gospel and left the business, but obviously we need them back as much as we needed them during the early war years.

  • The State of the Blog; 2017

    The State of the Blog; 2017

    According to our web traffic counter, we had more than two million unique visitors last year. Their number one destination was our Stolen Valor page.

    The most popular valor thief, was Tracy Marrow aka Ice-T, the next most popular was the perennial favorite, the late, great, “Soup Sandwich” Nick Androsky.

    Following Soup is Travis Wade with Dan Rather hot on his heels.

    We added 242 valor thieves to our pages this year between us and our partners, so the problem doesn’t seem to be going away, which means we aren’t going away either.

  • Poetrooper’s duty status

    A number of people have asked where Poetrooper has been lately. He is actually fighting that bitch, throat cancer, these days. He sends this message last night;

    Initially I thought I was a goner with an untreatable tumor based on what my GP had told me, but that stupid bastard was totally wrong about everything.

    I’m now under the care of an ENT surgeon who is really good. He thinks we can beat it without disfiguring surgery so I just had my first chemo this past Tuesday and will begin targeted radiation after New Years. I’ll lose my hair and some teeth but not my tongue and vocal cords as the surgery might have done.

    I’ve lost thirty pounds and we’re just getting started but the tumor itself, being in the back of my throat killed my appetite weeks ago and now the chemo is making me too queasy to eat anything but ice cream. The painkillers have kept me too spacey to organize my thoughts enough to write anything worth reading and overall, I just don’t have any strength at all, mental or physical. The best news we’ve had lately is that it hasn’t metastasized which increases my odds considerably.

    It looks like it may be a while before I get back to writing but I’ll be back. So far though, I haven’t even felt like sending you any old pieces like we discussed previously. Tell everyone I said Happy New Year and that I look forward to getting back into the discussions.

    The NVA couldn’t get him, so I doubt that cancer can. I’m sure he’d appreciate your prayers, though.

  • David Wright sentenced

    David Wright sentenced

    According to Time, David Wright plotted with his uncle, Ussamah Rahim, to behead blogger Pamela Gellar for her campaign against jihadists and her “draw Mohammad” contest. His uncle abandoned plans to behead the blogger and instead decided to go after “those boys in blue”, a decision that cost him his life when he tried to assault two Boston police officers with a knife who shot him dead.

    In court yesterday, Wight’s lawyer asked for 16-years in prison for their client, Gellar asked for a life sentence, the judge gave him 28 years.

    Wright, who was more than 500 pounds when he was arrested, testified during the trial that he started sharing Islamic State propaganda because he was desperate for attention and an escape. But he said the plan to kill Geller was just “trash talk” and claimed he never believed his uncle was serious about attacking police.

    The third man charged, Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy, testified against Wright and is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking 15 years behind bars.

    Well, he got the attention he craved, so he’s got that going for him.

  • TAH on the radio

    I’ve got an interview scheduled for this morning at about 0830 with the good folks at CBS Radio’s Connecting Vets. Listen in if you can.