Category: Politics

  • Planned Parenthood’s chop shops

    One reason it is so difficult to recover stolen cars is that many, if not most, are not stolen to be sold intact but rather to be taken to what are called chop shops, below-the-radar auto body shops that surreptitiously dismantle these vehicles, stripping away every conceivable part that may have resale value in the auto aftermarket. An automobile carefully dissected provides far more value from all those separate parts than it could ever have in its whole form.

    And sadly, such appears to be true with unborn babies. For the past two weeks we have been serially exposed to videos of various officials in the Planned Parenthood organization, some physicians and some not, who have been captured for all time, blithely discussing the means and details of how a fetus delivered into their hands through a government sanctioned abortion program can be carved up, dissected and dismantled, just like those cars in the chop shops, and for the very same purpose, to be sold for its high value parts.

    For Democrat liberals and their mainstream media public relations arm, who will quickly protest that these fetal fragments of what was once a developing human being are not viable human tissue, I would ask a simple question: If the whole of this little being was not viable, then how is it that its tiny parts are? How is it that if fetuses have no value their tender bodies are being routinely dissected and sold for parts, just like in the auto chops shops? You can’t have it both ways, if those parts have value, then the whole from which they came, most assuredly did as well. I would submit that in this case most especially that those tiny wholes are greater than the sum of their parts.

    What is truly frightening about these continually unreeling videos is the blithe, unconcerned attitude of the Planned Parenthood officials in their discussions of the systematic dismantling of miniature human bodies with such care as to not damage the various parts to be obtained for resale. Their expressed concern for the care with which these parts must be handled in the dissection process is delivered in an offhand manner which one imagines was that of those Japanese physicians who observed American POW’s being deliberately frozen to death to determine ways to improve the survivability rate of their own downed aviators; or perhaps the distanced concern of Nazi physicians watching Jewish prisoners being tied to posts and shot with weapons of various calibers so that they could immediately examine the varied damages.

    Planned Parenthood’s physicians can attempt to hide behind the lie that they do not abuse live human beings such as the Japanese and German medical researcher’s did, but that begs the question of whether or not those little humans they chop up for parts would be alive were they left alone to fully develop? Crude as I must be to point out this reality, I am nowhere near as crude as Planned Parenthood’s medical staff, which for all practical purposes is operating a human chop shop.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Scott Losey sentenced

    Scott Losey sentenced

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    Earlier this year, we talked about Scott Losey, the county veterans’ services officer who charged folks for doing his job.

    In one email, dated Oct. 20, 2011, Scott Losey wrote about the hard work he’d done at his own home for one veteran.

    “We will discuss a gentleman’s agreement to compensate for my personal time. I have worked cases for veterans who reside outside Calhoun County over the past couple of years with the same kind of agreement. I will not gouge you like your Social Security lawyer. Perhaps 7 to 10 percent is typically the agreement. I have had veterans screw me over big time as well. Does this sound cool?”

    “Also, where is my Christmas present,” Losey wrote in all capital letters in one email in December 2009. “Just so you know, my wife and I like to go out every once in a while for dinner…”

    On top of the list of crap that he did; he charged a widow $200 for helping her to bury her husband. I heard he kicked puppies and stole candy from babies, too, but I can’t verify that.

    Wayne sends us an update, wherein Losey is sentenced to four months in jail and two years of probation;

    A criminal investigation was opened, and Losey was charged in March with embezzlement. In June, he pleaded guilty to three felony counts of a public official retaining funds from private individuals as part of a plea agreement.

    Losey’s attorney and friend, Anatase Markou, said Losey went above and beyond to help veterans’ families. He said he hopes the case draws attention to the void veterans face in getting the help they need to file for benefits.

    “I think Scott did much more good for the veteran community than any harm that he may have caused,” Markou told 24 Hour News 8. “I do not believe that was justice today.”

    Yeah, use the fact that a fellow who is supposed to help veterans, as part of his job, charges them for his time, on top of his pay, to highlight how hard it is for veterans to get services that they earned.

  • Fight for armed recruiters stymied by complex laws and scaredy cats

    Fight for armed recruiters stymied by complex laws and scaredy cats

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    The Washington Times reports that even though there are members of Congress who want to arm recruiters in the wake of the Chattanooga shooting, the complexity of local and state laws make it more difficult;

    Mr. Hunter and Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, intend to clarify the law to ensure secretaries can grant permission to arm reservists and recruiters with a case-by-case special authorization.

    “As much as we would like to say you have to arm all these guys, it’s too problematic through the huge patchwork of state and local laws, and that creates a huge patchwork of complications,” Mr. Kasper said. “You’d run into problems, and it would be in their interest to have their authorization from Congress.”

    In Mississippi, National Guard recruiters are open for business after several days to think about their next move;

    According to [National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Harris], the addition of the guns isn’t the only security measure that will be changing at the 10 offices statewide. He says there may be some adjustments to the storefront glass, visibility, and general access.

    Veterans, like Chris Overfield, are happy to see the offices open back up so quickly.

    “I think we need to show people we’re not scared to go about our daily lives,” said Overfield.

    Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has done the same thing in his state;

    Bentley’s decision will apply only to the Alabama Guard, leaving recruiters in Decatur for the regular Army, Marines and Navy unarmed for now.

    Yasamie August, a Bentley spokeswoman, said the governor met with state National Guard leaders Monday and approved “arming guardsmen involved in state active duty as well as the four National Guard recruiting locations.”

    She said other details of the changes for Alabama Guard security were classified and would not be provided.

    The same has happened in North Carolina. It beats having those goobers from Oathkeepers protecting them. But there are governors like New Hampshire‘s Maggie Hassan who would prefer that, I guess;

    Hassan said she will follow the Guard’s recommendation against arming recruiters in favor of enhancing security procedures already in place.

    Imagine that, the governor’s military advisors don’t trust the troops in the “Live Free or Die” State. I guess we know what their choice is, huh?

  • The Great Hog Rebellion

    Shorty lived across the ridge from me. We did a lot of things together. Played baseball. Rode his old horse like it was the Lone Ranger’s Silver. Climbed the mulberry tree and ate berries until we were mostly purple. Ate wild persimmons before they were ready and green apples. Painted our faces with poke berry juice and headed off into the woods with our homemade bows. Shorty taught me how to milk a cow. Pretty much the same way Tom Sawyer taught them boys how much fun it was to white wash a fence. I did manage to squirt him in the eye. And sometimes we would have us a smoke from the Salems Shorty pilfered from his Mom’s unguarded cigarette pack.

    One day I was helping Shorty slop the hogs. About three quarters of the way out the path toward the hog pens, Shorty and me decided to stop for one of those smokes. We felt rather grown up in the moment. Menthol Salems. It was a brief moment of exotica within smelling range of hog pens. On that day, Shorty and me learned that hogs are not very tolerant of slow-poke waiters. We looked up just in time to see a herd of hogs, who had just busted themselves out of the pen, barreling down on us. We lit out like the proverbial bats out of Hades leaving our smoldering smokes somewhere along the way. Fortunately, those future smoked hams were interested in the slop buckets and not Shorty and me.

    That was the great hog rebellion of 1964.

    By now you have heard Senator Ted Cruz call out Mitch “Harry Reid” McConnell. There was no equivocation. He called the Senior Senator from Kentucky a liar – and more than once. Stating quite plainly the Mitch and Harry show continues. Reminds me of those great philosophers, “The Eagles”:

    You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes
    And your smile is a thin disguise
    I thought by now you’d realize
    There ain’t no way to hide your lyin eyes

    For consecutive election cycles, Americans overwhelmingly voted to take power from one party and give it to another. We did it by sending men like Ted Cruz to the Senate. For the ears of the world, Senator Cruz made a bold move. Calling out establishment Washington for what it is. When we look back on this time we are likely to see that he endeared himself to the Americans who are mostly sick to death of establishment Washington. Let us just hope that when Mr. Cruz looks back over his shoulder he will not be the Lone Ranger in the great pachyderm rebellion of 2015.

    There is another rebellion of sorts brewing in Washington. The Rainbow House, it appears, is working hard to dethrone the Clintons. Quietly though. Word is that Valerie Jarret (Communist) and defacto dictator is leaking details about Mrs. Clinton’s emails and about the Inspectors General who referred their investigations into the email scandal to the Department of Justice. The Rainbow House Department of Justice, oh my. Reckon they will indict? That would be fun to watch. Especially to see what the Clinton personal destruction team has held back about the Obamas. Would love to be privy to the inside conversations on this one. Just be wary of whoever it is that is being primed to swoop down and save the Democrat party – and the United States of America. Probably not Bernie Sanders.

    One more developing rebellion I think. This one is on the people level. And it is against Planned Parenthood’s little shop of horrors. Will politicians do anything about it? Last I heard, good old Mitch would not allow a vote on defunding them either. So you and I will continue to fund the baby parts business. I think Washington does nothing as it does on most things. That leaves me to wonder how much longer before our streets are filled with fed up Americans, this one maybe being the proverbial straw.

    That probably will not happen either. But you know what? My gut tells me that these past years and whatever happens within the coming months will forever change the political landscape in the United States of America.

    I think Ted Cruz fired the bold shot heard around the political world. Will he stand alone? This country was born out of rebellion. It will take rebellion in some form to save it. Prayerfully a peaceful one.

    © 2015 J. D. Pendry American Journal All Rights Reserved.

  • OPM staffed with feckless boobs

    OPM staffed with feckless boobs

    The Office of Personnel Management is staffed with the most irresponsible, unresponsive, feckless morons on the face of the planet. As you can tell, I have my own issues with them aside from the fact they shared my personal information, along with that of my entire family, with Chinese hackers, me and 22 million other Americans. Their response to that hack, which happened eight months before they bothered to tell us about it, has been to share our information with even more people – those who aren’t as adept as the Chinese, apparently.

    They sent an email to all of us soliciting our PII yet again – that email triggered a phishing warning to Army personnel from the Army Threat Integration Center because it replicates what criminals do when they send out phishing attempts, according to the Army Times;

    The email, a copy of which was posted along with the Fort Meade Facebook warning, has some traits that can serve as warning lights for a potential phishing operation, in which emailers attempt to gain access to private information by sending documents that appear to be from banks or other reputable agents:

    The sender, using a dot-com address, doesn’t match the federal agency represented in the subject line (“Important Message from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management CIO”), who would be more likely to send an email from a dot-gov address.
    The email includes a link that asks the recipient for personal information. Multiple anti-phishing publications carry warnings similar to the one found on OPM’s cybersecurity Web page: “Never click on links you don’t trust and don’t give out your personal information.”
    The email includes a clickable “Enroll Now” button for readers to access the fraud-protection service. Many anti-phishing guidelines include a warning to manually enter all URLs; follow-up versions of the email included the link text.

    The OPM’s response?

    OPM spokesman Sam Schumach said the notification effort’s success rate – 22 percent of the targeted workers signed up for the program – dwarfed that of similar responses to public- and private-sector hacks, which are often in the low- to mid-single digits.

    Still, “there were things that could have gone better,” said Schumach.

    I’m one of the 78% who looked at what they wanted me to do to enroll and closed the window instead. But like I said, I have my own issues with OPM, which I believe is staffed with illiterate drunken hobos that someone, probably Joe Biden, rounds up every morning from the steam grates outside their building. I’ll be developing that story over the next few weeks and share my findings with you at the conclusion of my investigation.

  • No Teleprompter Trump

    No Teleprompter Trump

    Say what you will about the Donald – the man is never at a loss to express what’s churning around in that poorly coiffed skull. It simply flows, freely and naturally, unfearful of media consequences, in a manner that is quickly captivating large numbers of American voters who are sick unto death of mealy-mouthed politicians who parse every word of spontaneous speech for fear that they may say something that the lurking media will pounce upon.

    I have been saying for years here at American Thinker that the real enemy of free speech, especially conservative speech, is the liberal media, a force so powerful and influential for only one side of the political spectrum that Republicans and conservatives have grown to fear it, while Democrats look upon it as their servile public affairs department. Because of that hostile media environment, Republicans have become far too wary of opening up and speaking their minds, comfortable only in conveying their views and positions when leaning on a speaker’s stand and reading from a teleprompter.

    For the life of me, I can’t even imagine Donald Trump using such a constraining instrument as a teleprompter. The man is simply too freely expressive of whatever point it is that he wishes to make to be held back in his delivery by an electronic, computerized device that operates at far slower speed than Trump’s brain and mouth. I can envision Donald trying to do so, and when he finds the instrument falling behind, yelling at it with forefinger, stabbing, “You’re fired!”

    As this 2016 campaign progresses, it will be interesting to see who among the myriad Republican candidates will be able to match the fearless and refreshing spontaneity of No Teleprompter Trump.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Sinking CNN refloats the swift boats

    Sinking CNN refloats the swift boats

    In the media kerfuffle regarding Donald Trump’s stupid remarks about John McCain’s Vietnam service, the ratings-sinking CNN noted that while Jeb Bush had condemned Trump’s boorishness, he had long ago defended the swift boat veterans’ attacks against John Kerry. Had CNN been content to leave their news article with a passing reference to political history, I wouldn’t be writing this. But no, they just had to follow with a couple of pernicious lies that have long been poisonous serpents in that increasingly fetid swamp called the Democratic Party.

    From the article:

    All of the charges were contradicted by official military records and almost all of the men who served with Kerry came out in defense of their former crewmate, praising his courage. Only one of the swift boat critics served with Kerry.

    Kerry received several medals for his service in Vietnam, including several Purple Heart medals for injuries he sustained in combat.

    The CNN writer, perhaps a student at the time, apparently has no real knowledge of those records, or he would know that John Kerry cherry-picked for release those parts of his military records that were supportive of his heroic fairy tales, while refusing to open his entire records for media examination. When called out on that by the many men of the swift boat veterans organization who actually did serve with him – not the one man claimed by CNN – Kerry repeatedly promised to sign an authorization form allowing the Navy to release his full records. The operative words there are repeatedly promised. And then he promised again. And again, and again, and again and again, but guess what! It never happened throughout the course of the campaign, because John Kerry knew that what was in those records would torpedo his prospects as a presidential candidate.

    And what might that torpedo be? Most likely it was a dishonorable or other form of unfavorable discharge given to Lieutenant Kerry for his traitorous behaviors in treating with the enemy. Kerry was still a commissioned junior naval officer when he met with North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris in May 1970, an action that could have brought charges of treason and a lengthy prison sentence. During the 2004 campaign, there was speculation by those investigating Kerry’s discharge that Jimmy Carter had reversed Kerry’s bad discharge in 1977 and issued an honorable version. That would have been an unusually long time between an officer’s separation from service, 1970, and the issuance of his discharge in 1977.

    The fact that John Kerry to this day has never released his military records is quite telling when one considers the fact that upon losing the 2004 campaign, he vowed to sue the members of the swift boat veterans organization for defamation. After all, those sailors who had served with him in Vietnam had publicly challenged virtually every claim to valor and wounds that Kerry had made and ballyhooed during the campaign, effectively calling him a liar and a fraud, a candidate for president who had committed the later to come crime of stolen valor. Those were serious charges, and they were made quite prominently and quite publicly. Most importantly, they likely cost John Kerry the presidency of the United States of America.

    If those swift boat charges were untrue, then John Kerry had himself the biggest, most publicly and financially damaging case of defamation the world has ever seen. There were of course the lost prestige and the need for vindication of character and valor, but more importantly, think of the financial losses. Kerry’s lawyers could point to the tens, maybe hundreds of millions made by Slick Willie since he left office, using that as a template for determining monetary damages. John Kerry could have won the largest defamation lawsuit in history, except for one thing: discovery. In any defamation suit against the swift boat veterans, John Kerry knew full well that first among the documents subpoenaed by the lawyers for the swifties would be his full and entire military records.

    The primary defense against defamation, libel, or slander, any of those torts against demeaning and damaging a person’s character or performance, is truth. If what they say about you is true, then you can’t sue them successfully for saying so. John Kerry knew that not only was truth on the side of the swift boat veterans, but there might also be further disclosures in those records that he did not want to see made public. That has to be the only reason that John Kerry’s long-promised and repeatedly threatened lawsuit against the swift boat veterans never came to be.

    John Kerry is and was a phony hero. Of course, the fact that he lied about his military service and caused truly good and faithful sailors to be demonized by the liberal media actually qualifies him for heroic status in the Democrat party’s pantheon.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Wes Clark wants to segregate “radicalized” youths

    Wes Clark wants to segregate “radicalized” youths

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    Retired General Wesley Clark went on MSNBC earlier to remind us that we have have a history of “segregating” certain people, like the Japanese internment camps during World War II.

    He called for a revival of internment camps to help combat Muslim extremism, saying, “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”

    […]

    “We have got to identify the people who are most likely to be radicalized. We’ve got to cut this off at the beginning,” Clark said. “I do think on a national policy level we need to look at what self-radicalization means because we are at war with this group of terrorists.”

    Yeah, well, that’s what we did at Guantanamo, only we separated the real criminals from the world. The good general didn’t seem to agree with that particular method of segregating real terrorists. But now Clark is advocating for throwing people in his camps for simply disagreeing with the government and culture. How illiberal of him.

    Isn’t Clark a Clintonista? I’m sure he’s got a spot reserved in that administration.