Category: Politics

 Working as I do in the Military Acquisition area- I do Developmental Test on Navy aircraft mission systems, a few of the buzzwords are familiar to me, as well as the optimistic tone. That being said there’s goodness here too. Firm Fixed Price Contracts should be the norm, but unfortunately the industry heavy hitters can command Cost Plus, which is just what it sounds like. For example, the Navy pays for software, finds faults, and then pays to have it fixed. Lookin’ at you, Boeing. The Army’s being smart, but then again this is a relatively small effort- $39M USD is a drop in the bucket. I also like commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) as if saves tax dollars by freeing components from MilSpec standards, which can boarder on the ridiculous. That’s for another post and another time. For now, Army, meet your new C4I system coming to you via Systematic.

Defense Tech
Army Selects New Battle-Management System
By: Matt Cox

CP CE is one of six computing environments that make up the Army’s Common Operating Environment (COE), a collection of technologies and standards that bring stovepiped systems onto a common foundation, allowing the Army to deliver warfighting capabilities as software applications, according to Army officials.

Several conservative news sources, including Breitbart, have recently reported a story that the liberal media is apparently ignoring because it clearly reflects negatively on the Democrats: a lawsuit that has been filed against the DNC by one of the former candidates to lead that entity. A fellow named Vincent Tolliver, who hails from Arkansas, had recently declared his intent to be one of the ten competing candidates for the job of DNC chair. Unfortunately for Mr. Tolliver, he chose to do something that is highly risky in any Democrat power play: he spoke the truth, a bit of cheeky foolishness that got him quickly and quietly bounced from the competition by current chair, Donna Brazile, another Dem who has had her own problems with truth issues, but for the opposite reason.

Whether Tolliver believed that his own minority status might offer him some freedom to point out a major problem with another minority candidate, we can’t know. But point out he did when he reminded fellow Democrats that their full acceptance of and total support for the LGBT community is a bit out of sync with support for Representative Keith Ellison, a Muslim, to replace Brazile. Tolliver noted that homosexuality is not widely tolerated in Muslim countries and in many can warrant a death penalty. That Tolliver legitimately pointed out a quite logical contradiction in the current Democrat orthodoxy meant nothing to Commissar Brazile, who called for his political defenestration for his religious intolerance, and out the window he went. Tolliver’s intolerable intolerance of a currently coveted religious minority earned him immediate political banishment, if not to the far reaches of Siberia, at least to the eastern reaches of Arkansas, which, for coastal, elitist liberals, is far worse.

The question here is whether this heretical upstart is being banished for what is merely an audacious assault on the usual, widely practiced Democrat hypocrisy, usually a cherished, endearing trait in that party’s candidates, or could it be that he made the far more serious mistake of blaspheming against the party’s increasingly utilized and far more sinister doublethink that George Orwell introduced to the world in his dystopian novel, 1984? Orwell describes that concept:

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

Can you possibly read that paragraph without seeing similarities to the increasingly bizarre behaviors of Democrats in recent years? That description so describes their conduct that it should be included in their party platform. It certainly explains how Tolliver’s offensive observation was so intolerable to such a militantly tolerant and inclusive organization, does it not? Or how universities are bastions of free speech unless you try to practice actual free speech on a campus? Or how Democrats can scream charges of fascism and totalitarianism at Republican politicians who are merely mimicking Democrats’ previous actions? In fact, it even explains their fanatic insistence on calamitous climate change sans evidence, and globetrotting in private jets to protest the use of fossil fuels. For certain, it shows how they can empower the Muslim faith within the party leadership while simultaneously waving their gay rainbow banners.

If I were Tolliver, I wouldn’t file my suit in a blue state – liberal insanity may be recognized there as a legitimate legal gambit. Call it the Doublethink Defense.

Crossposted at American Thinker

See you guys again next year.

/HatersUnite!

About a year ago my wife and I had a disagreement about our house, because everything in it is hers. I literally have no room. So, my wife, being kind and wanting me to have something of my own had this painting framed and sits above my couch in the living room.

Seems this gentleman was paying an unannounced house call. with his firearm. He woke up the resident, and then it got all stabby.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/

JD’s Bunker is the ancestor of JDPendry.com.  The Bunker began in late 1997 on a free web hosting platform named Geocities.  It remained there until Geocities faded away into cyber space.  At that point the transition in my aged cranial hard drive is a little fuzzy, but Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Dan Elder offered to host the Bunker on one of his activities named Virtual Battalion Headquarters (vbnhq.com).  JD’s Bunker continued there and additionally Dan provided me a forum for JD’s Bunker on his popular NCO Website.  Circa 2005, Dan chopped his websites (minus the often politically incorrect Bunker)and much accumulated knowledge and expertise to the Army (I believe that is a correct characterization of it) as they were forming Army Knowledge Base communities which were in their infancy. Fortunately for the Army, Dan had a significant head start was an important part of that.  Dan is a pioneer in that arena.

Following all of that, I started JDPendry.com and continued JD’s Bunker.  That was going full speed with a reasonable amount of subscribers and traffic until December 23, 2008 when I was involved in a serious automobile accident.  From then through 2009, there was no activity at JDPendry.com.  Subscriber base, web traffic, etc all dwindled to nothing.  While I was about to give up on the pursuit altogether, Dan again offered to host JDPendry.com on his webhosting service at Topsarge.com now MILMEDIA.  We began anew in 2010.  Since then JDPendry.com has existed as a place for me to write some when time, my demanding day job, and life in general permitted.  Goes without saying that it was sporadic. There has never been an attempt to commercialize the site, but the times they are a changin’.  On June 30, 2016, I retired from my second career and now hope to embark on a third in the written media and maybe into other platforms as well.  Who knows? Doc tells me I have to keep the cranial hard drive busy otherwise they’ll be fitting me with a drool bib or for a coffin.

As you might imagine from 1998 to 2008 there was a large volume of material posted in JD’s Bunker addressing Army issues, social issues, politics, and Americana.  From this page, I hope to reconstruct and open a door to the old Bunker with the original archived material (except for what might have resided on some long lost floppy disc).  It provides quite a commentary on the times and offers some decent leadership lessons for those interested.

You may find the html coding amateurish and shockingly simple by today’s standards, but in the days these pages were created you were mostly self-taught and hand jammed every page.

As I complete reconstruction of each of the old Bunker Pages, I will put links here. Maybe you will find something you like. Keep an eye out, more to come. Bunker Chapel | Bunker Poetry | NCO Duties and Responsibilities

Romania, as you may recall, was the home of Nadia Comenic, the Olympic preztel – er,  gymnast who never smiled but could twist herself into Silly Putty on legs.

Back when the Soviet Union disintegrated, Romania managed somehow to stay intact and is now running itself. Unfortunately, the Romanian population doesn’t appreciate low-level corruption in politics quite as much as we do here in the US of A and is dead set on putting those wankers in jail. They’ve had low-level corruption for a long time, and people are tired of it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/romanias-long-battle-corruption-181348792.html

The low-level corruption immunity has been revoked, but the people of Romania are protesting the possibility that it is nothing more than a gesture, and the corruption will continue unabated unless they succeed in demanding jail for these jackasses.

https://www.ft.com/content/11de47e4-ebc9-11e6-930f-061b01e23655

What a novel idea: make a bad politician face the consequences of her slimy behavior.  Could we do that here? There’s an empty prison around here some place. The townspeople could use the wages if we sent all those greedy slugs there for a little cooling time.

Just a thought for Tuesday morning.