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  • U.S. soldiers set to deploy to Egypt for riot control

    I saw in my Facebook thing this scary headline from the Washington Times; “U.S. soldiers set to deploy to Egypt for riot control“, so naturally, I read the story at the link. Turns out that they’re talking about the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping force that has been going on since the Carter years;

    A group of U.S. soldiers are rocked and ready to deploy to Egypt for a 9-month peacekeeping mission aimed at curbing riots.

    More than 400 American troops will ultimately go, as part of the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping force, KDH News reported. Their mission: To man posts and security checkpoints along the Sinai Peninsula. They’re also tasked with reporting violations to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, KDH News said. KCEN reported that they will engage if protests and riots reach the point of threatening Israel’s security.

    Part of their training included how to respond to Molotov cocktails, KCEN reported.

    The force is comprised of soldiers from 13 nations.

    I guess, what with the wars recently and the “Arab Spring” everyone forgot that the US has been deploying troops to the Sinai to keep Egypt and Israel separated since the the two nations and the US signed the Camp David Accords in 1978. The US began supplying troops to the mission in 1982. And they’ve been trained for riots since then, too. But, thanks for finally noticing, Washington Times.

  • Micheal Hastings dead in car crash

    Yeah, folks, I’m not hard of reading, I know the little prick, Michael Hastings, who sank the McCrystal staff died in a fiery car crash the other day. It’s sad, but it’s certainly no great loss for the journalistic community, like the journalistic community is making it out to be. People die in car crashes all of the time. People younger than this 33-year-old. In the McCrystal story in Rolling Stone magazine was just the doing the work for the Obama Administration, giving them an excuse to fire the General who had criticized the Obama Administration for half-assing the “surge” in Afghanistan.

    Don’t forget that Hastings also penned the completely fictitious article about “The Men Who Stare at Senators” when some halfwitted Texas National Guard LTC, Michael Holmes, accused Brigadier General William Caldwell of trying to get his staff to use mind control on visiting Senators because Holmes wanted to get back at Caldwell for ruining his extra-marital relationship with a female O-5 and Holmes’ plans to turn his military job into a civilian endeavor.

    Yeah that was Hastings, eager to turn on the military establishment for a glimpse at fame, not;

    “Hard-charging, unabashedly opinionated, Hastings was original and at times abrasive,” Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor, said in an obituary. “He had little patience for flacks and spinmeisters and will be remembered for his enthusiastic breaches of the conventions of access journalism.”

    It is in honor of Hastings and his article on the McCrystal staff that we continue to call the Vice President Joe Bite Me, so let that be his legacy.

  • Shannon Rogers Guess; the anti-gun terrorist

    Shannon Rogers Richardson, also known under her stage name Shannon Rogers Guess was arrested for sending ricin-laced letters to the President and Nanny Bloomberg under the guise of a pro-gun, right-wing terrorist. But according to Weaponsman, she was vehemently anti-gun, a point of contention with the husband she was trying to divorce and framed for the poisoned letters. This is what she wrote to Bloomberg;

    You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional right and I will excersice [sic] that right til the day I die. whats in the letter is nothing compared to what ive got planned for you.

    When Guess turned in her husband, Nathaniel Richardson, for the crime that she committed to the FBI in Shrevesport, LA, the FBI was ecstatic;

    Nathaniel was dangerous. He had lots of guns. He didn’t like the President. He was a combat wounded veteran, and he was employed in the defense industrial base (these are all things the FBI has been directed to consider warning signs). The FBI swarmed him at work.

    He fit the profile, but they found him to be cooperative with their investigation, which eventually led to the arrest of his wife. You can read the arrest affidavit here.

    But since her arrest, the media has just about stopped talking about it. I wonder why. I guess since it was an anti-gun Leftist trying to frame a peaceful pro-gun veteran, it’s not newsworthy anymore. The crazed pro-gun vet fit the profile that the media harbors in their pointy little heads, but when the man bites a dog it’s not a story any longer with the media types we’re burdened with these days.

  • Rajiv Chandrasekaran doesn’t like you

    This won’t surprise anyone, but in an article, in the Washington Post that is supposed to be about shutting the commissary system down, it turns into a thing about how well the troops live and, of course, it’s a class warfare thing.

    In an era when private employers are reducing health care and pensions, the military continues to offer generous retirement benefits, including to service members who have never spent a day in combat. For troops who remain in uniform for 20 years or more, the military provides an annual pension immediately upon retirement — even if the retiree is 38 years old — equivalent to at least half of their final-years salary. Enrollment for an entire family in a military health-care plan that operates much like a private health maintenance organization will cost a retiree just $539 this year, about one-ninth of what the average non-military family will pay out of pocket in HMO premiums.

    Those on active-duty also have bucked national trends. Over the past decade, military salaries have grown at a faster rate than those of civilian workers. The average enlisted soldier now earns more than 90 percent of Americans who have less than two years of college. Most Army captains — the third-most-junior rank of officer — will take home more than $90,000 this year.

    That compensation does not take into account a raft of other services subsidized by taxpayers: commissaries, child care, schools on domestic bases, and morale and recreation programs. The tab for those will reach about $5 billion this year.

    Surprise! Civilians think that we have it too good. The thing is, if it’s such a great deal, where aren’t these f**knuts lined up to join the military to take part in those rich benefits we’re being given. What’s that “service members who have never spent a day in combat” bullshit? How many days has the author, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, spent in combat in the military so that he can be so judgmental? According to his Wiki, he covered the war in Iraq, but not in the military, obviously.

    See when I joined the Army in the paleolithic era, I didn’t have to shove someone out of the way to get through the door first. I also don’t remember the Washington Post publishing any articles about how I was only making $258/month and how the commissary and PX were the only places I could afford to shop. I never took Food Stamps, but that was a pride thing – I certainly qualified. Our abject poverty wasn’t an issue then, I guess because they figured we deserved it, but now that pay is good, suddenly we’re a drain on government spending.

    I abso-f**king-lutely dare Chandrasekara to do a piece in the Post about welfare recipients living too well with their cable TV, their 50 inch screens, $2600/month apartments (that’s the maximum housing allowance they were getting in DC last I checked about 5 years ago), their new cars, etc…. No, it’s much easier to take shots at the military who will just sit and take it, rather than piss off half the population of the District.

    And, oh, the reason I shop at the Commissary when I get a chance is because of the selection of foods that I’ve become accustomed to – like my Tschibo German coffee that I can’t find in civilian supermarkets. There’s no real savings attached to it, anymore except that we can buy brand names at the same price as the generic store brands. And it makes me happy to screw the state governments – even though the prices are the same as they are outside the gate, the part that would normally go to state taxes, goes to the morale and welfare activity in the particular community. It made me happy to screw O’Malley out of a couple of bucks when I lived in Maryland.

    So, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, instead of complaining about how well we have have it, go sign your name on the dotted line, if we have it so damn good, you should willing to join in the whole package that comes with the military lifestyle, you jealous, crybaby.

  • 50,000 illegal guns recovered in DC Metro area since 2000

    Of course, everyone knows that the nation’s capital has among the most restrictive gun laws in the country, they have since they all but banned firearms within it’s borders nearly thirty years ago. So, how’s that going for them? According to the Washington Post, between the District and neighboring Prince Georges County, police have taken over 50,000 illegal guns off of the streets in the last 13 years.

    Still, a Washington Post analysis shows that the guns keep rolling in. District police recovered about 2,000 guns last year, and Prince George’s collected about 1,200. That compares with 700 guns recovered in Montgomery County and about 600 guns taken in Fairfax County. Arlington County police confiscated 60.

    Funny how that works, huh? Virginia has less restrictive gun laws than either the District or Maryland and fewer illegal guns on the street. Sounds simple to me what the solution would be, but, the Post, instead of blaming criminals carrying guns, blames legal gun owners;

    The recoveries reflect a gun-saturated society in which an estimated 300 million firearms are in public hands, by far the highest level of gun ownership in the world. In the national gun-control debate, a salient fact often has been overlooked: Legislative efforts aimed at curtailing the availability of the most lethal weapons merely play at the margins of this huge gun population.

    The Post keeps on cranking out statistics which would convince a rational person that less restrictive gun laws would make for fewer illegal guns, but the truth goes right over their pointy little craniums;

    In Chicago, police seized 2.2 firearms that year for every 1,000 residents. In Baltimore, officers confiscated 3.8. The District’s rate was 2.5, and Prince George’s was 1.5.

    Nearly 70 percent of the handguns seized were semiautomatic pistols, most often 9mm models, with magazines of varying capacity. The rest were mostly revolvers, typically .38-calibers, which hold six rounds. Handguns by Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Taurus and Glock were most common. Confiscated handguns ranged from .380-caliber Bryco pistols that can be purchased secondhand for less than $100 to brand-new polycarbonate Glock 17s that cost $600.

    “Handguns are easy to conceal,” said Mike Campbell, an ATF spokesman. “Somebody walking down the street with a rifle or shotgun is going to get noticed.”

    Yet, most of the legislation that has been proposed and passed recently has been to restrict rifles and shotguns. Probably because the image of a scary black long gun is easier to sell to the public than an innocuous handgun.

    So the gun grabbers are grasping at straws, and that’s why they’ve been ineffective getting any new gun control laws through the various legislatures. Until they start proposing stuff to deal with the criminals instead of the law abiding gun owners, no one is going to pay attention. It’s not the fault of the NRA, it’s the gun grabbers’ fault for not having a coherent, feasible policy. And their spokesmen are morons.

  • Gawker’s Ken Layne; Don’t steal glory from living veterans

    I don’t like Gawker. They steal my stories without giving me credit, and since traffic is the currency of blogs, they are taking food out of my mouth (not that it’s a terrible thing, but still…). Now they published this POS article that some dingus in San Francisco named Ken Layne wrote telling us veterans that Memorial Day isn’t our day; On Memorial Day, Don’t Let Living Veterans Steal Glory From the Dead.

    Gawker’s military affairs desk is angry because year after year, the lamestream media puts out a bunch of pictures of 100-year-old veterans having a BBQ or wearing their old war hats. This is not the reason for Memorial Day. Memorial Day is to remember the dead, and to open the swimming pools for the summer, and to get a new mattress if necessary.

    Well, let me ask you, Mr. Ken Layne, who should the media be interviewing? Tombstones? That would make a very boring news day, wouldn’t it, dumbass. The memories of our honored dead reside in the words of the people who lived and fought beside the interred – where else would the media go to hear the stories of those heroes if not those who have survived.

    It’s hundreds of thousands of living veterans who are streaming through the streets of Washington, DC today on their motorcycles, to memorialize their comrades in one of the greatest tributes ever conceived.

    till, it’s Memorial Day, not Alive Veterans Day.

    Unless the veterans profiled around this weekend’s special advertising sections by America’s Media are zombies, this practice is unpatriotic and morally wrong. It is Memorial Day.

    Celebrate this day with the proper solemnity. It is “okay” to exclude living veterans from your parties and trips to Mattress Land.

    Yeah, Ken, well if it wasn’t for the living veterans who tell the stories of our departed comrades, you’d quickly forget…I’d bet money on that. It seems to me the whole point of your idiot article is that you’d rather not be reminded by the visages of living veterans of their fallen comrades. So, keep your $.02 to yourself and complain about all of the living veterans to your neighbors while you’re doing your level best to forget about us this weekend.

  • The end of “perpetual war”?

    The New York Times, with it’s own little immature, retarded and stunted worldview, applauds Obama’s speech yesterday as “the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America” because Obama announced that the war against terrorists can’t continue;

    While there are some, particularly the more hawkish Congressional Republicans, who say this war should essentially last forever, Mr. Obama told the world that the United States must return to a state in which counterterrorism is handled, as it always was before 2001, primarily by law enforcement and the intelligence agencies. That shift is essential to preserving the democratic system and rule of law for which the United States is fighting, and for repairing its badly damaged global image.

    Yeah, the way “counterterrorism” was fought before 2001 resulted in those horrendous attacks that year. And, oh, we had a “badly damaged global image” before 9/11. Electing Obama was supposed to cure that. Our “badly damaged global image” goes back to the early days of the Cold War, and it really doesn’t matter, any-damn-way. Who cares what the third world thinks of us as long as they continue to buy Coca-Cola and McDonalds’ franchises.

    There’s no one calling for “perpetual war”, but what good does it do if one side says the war is over and the other continues to fight? That’s what we did in Iraq. the media and the pointy-headed imbeciles told us nightly that when we left Iraq the killing there would end. So tell me how it happened that more than 100 people died in bombings across Iraq on Monday.

    Terrorism doesn’t stop just because one side stops fighting. As we withdraw from Afghanistan, the war comes to our shores, like it’s done in the US (Boston), Great Britain (Woolwich) and France (Toulouse) in the last year.

    No, we don’t need a perpetual war, we only need one to which we are committed to being victorious without the domestic hand-wringing and moralizing press telling us how to repair our damaged image. And, oh, we need a leader – one who doesn’t weigh his actions with his popularity. Radical Islam has been at war with us since 1979, and I don’t hear them complaining about their own “perpetual war” with us. In fact they’ve done pretty well, since we haven’t even acknowledged that there’s a war going on.

    Thanks, New York Times. Don’t you have some military secrets to reveal, or something?

  • So, do teachers need Power Point Training, too?

    The UK’s Daily Mail, by way of Dan Riehl reports that 24-year-old Amanda Brennan, until recently an English teacher at Foothill High School in Henderson, Nevada was caught cuddling with a 15-year-old boy.

    From the Nevada Review Journal;

    When confronted by police on Friday , the student said he and Brennan loved each other and had only kissed twice. The teacher said the same in a recorded interview with police, admitting that she knew the relationship was wrong but loved him.

    So, is the Department of Education going to require Power Point Presentations for teachers explaining that sex with students is wrong like the Department of Defense is planning on doing? Here’s 13 pages of teachers who have been arrested for having sex with students from WND not including little Amanda. I didn’t bother to count, but if there are at least 10 teachers on each page – that sounds epidemic to me. But, will any of them lead the news in the morning like that one Sergeant First Class lead all of the morning news shows this morning?

    It would seem to me that America should be more concerned about scores of teachers preying on our children rather than a couple of people in uniform who are acting foolish with people their own age. But, then, the media likes teachers, so….