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Category: Society

  • Get out of Detroit…now!

    Apparently, word of the war against domestic terrorism hasn’t reached Detroit quite yet;

    The guard brought the package into the building and put it in “lost and found” without having it screened, Wright said. It sat until March 18, when someone decided to X-ray the package and found that it might contain a bomb, he said.

    The guards then notified the Federal Protective Service and Detroit police and the package was moved outside the building, where the police bomb squad recovered it, he said.

    Detroit police said they recovered a package on Friday from the federal building and detonated it.

    We can put all of the security measures in the world into place, but as long as we have drooling morons manning those measures, we’re still in danger.

    And the mayor of Detroit demands a recount of the census numbers which places the population of Detroit back to it’s pre-auto manufacturing days before 1910. I guess one person moves out of Detroit every 22 minutes. I wonder why.

    Maybe they can put up a wall like East Germany’s to keep people there.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • Harvard brings back ROTC to campus

    Associated Press reports that Harvard University and the Navy Secretary will sign an agreement to formally acknowledge the Navy’s presence on campus.

    As part of the agreement, a director of Naval ROTC at Harvard will be appointed, and the university will resume funding the program. Harvard cadets will still train at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as they have for years

    Harvard and several other prominent schools, including Stanford, Yale and Columbia, had kept the Vietnam-era ban in place following the war because of what they viewed as a discriminatory military policy forbidding gays from serving openly.

    Yeah, big damn deal. For decades Harvard has taken GI Bill money while not “formally” recognizing the presence of an ROTC detachment on campus. So what’s changed besides the University acting magnanimous and the Navy kowtowing.

    And that bullshit about keeping the ban in place because of the military’s (Congress’) policies against gays – I was teaching ROTC when universities decided to use the gay issue as an excuse – 14 years after Saigon fell. Do you seriously think that anyone cared about gays in the military in 1975? No, I remember when that light bulb came on in the late eighties.

    Harvard banned ROTC in 1969, then defunded the program in 1995, saying “don’t ask, don’t tell” violated its non-discrimination policies.

    Yeah, so why had they kept ROTC off-campus between 1975 and 1995?

    Screw Harvard. Who needs them.Arrogant, pompous shitbags. Making the services grovel for them is unforgivable. I’m sure they’ll think up another excuse to blackmail Cadet Command soon enough. However student reaction to this announcement should be priceless.

  • Youth Crime Rising on Washington’s Metro

    A workmate sent us this link to a Washington Post story about the Washington Metro Transit Authority changing the student passes on trains and buses to ID the users in order to lower the crime rate on trains and buses;

    The transit authority is trying to reverse a rising incidence of crime on its sprawling rail and bus network, authorities said.

    “Unfortunately, our young people are running in groups, and they are taking advantage of people,” Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn said. He discussed the plan Thursday during a meeting of Metro’s board of directors.

    I don’t know how that’ll help much. My solution to their crime problem is to sell off the Transit cops’ SUVs and make them get on the platforms and trains to provide a deterrence to the crime wave.

    I know it’s like I’m ignorant, but I just don’t see the value of having a police force called “transit police” that all ride around from Dunkin’ Donuts to Popeye’s chicken joints to 7-11 for their whole shift in their big, fancy SUVs. I rode the Metro at peak hours for a decade and I’ll wager I saw cops on the trains and platforms (through DC’s northeast quadrant) four times.

    The key to good policing is actually acting like you’re the police.

    Of course, that doesn’t absolve parents of their responsibility to make their kids come home, either. The reason kids are wandering around in felonious packs is largely the fault of parents, but if Metro is trying to do something, kick those cops out on their beats.

  • More idiot hippie crap

    StrikeFO sent us a link to an article in his school’s paper, University of Tampa’s “The Minaret” (Seriously?). The article written by Camilla Chabet is entitled “Military Service Preys On Fragile Minds Of The Youth“. Yes, it’s says what you think it says;

    Although military drafts were banned back in 1973, it is not hard to see instances where military service is heavily persuading and aiming for young people. The army openly stated that it was looking to attract and recruit more young people.

    The draft wasn’t “banned”, cupcake. In fact it may surprise you that the Selective Service System still exists, and all of those 18-year-old men around you at college are supposed to be registered for the draft. And of course the Army wants to recruit young people…cuz old people like me don’t make good soldiers. Dipshit.

    I was perturbed that the minimum education requirement for a person to be recruited into the U.S Army was a high school diploma, while the minimum age requirement was set at 18. Even this requirement has been over looked at times by allowing 17-year-olds to be deployed.At the age of 18, and even with a high school diploma, a person is too young to be recruited into military service.

    Yeah, most of the people in the United States only achieve a twelfth grade education. If teachers would get off their fat asses and actually teach, that’s all of the education we generally need. I went through most of my adult with just a high school education and when I did graduate from college, all I needed was the diploma because I learned more in high school.

    They are young and still fresh. They are yet to be exposed to the real world, or even college, which is a diluted form of the real world. It is during the 18-25 age bracket that a person develops and tests their beliefs, it is at this time that they explore who they are and what they are about.

    College has absolutely nothing to do with the real world. In college, you learn HOW to learn for yourself, your real education happens AFTER you leave college. In fact, college is so unlike the real world, folks in the real world giggles behind the recent grad’s back. The only thing you get from college is the sense that you know something.

    I’d hire a twenty-two year veteran with a high school education before I’d hire a twenty-two year old college graduate.

    t is in college that these beliefs are formed, fully developed and make up a person’s character and personality. People get to see a greater extent of what they hear about, they get to experiment with the process of making a decision by themselves and dealing with the implication of the decisions they make.

    You’ve obviously never seen a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead a fire team against an enemy. Or a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead physical training. What have you done in your pathetic little college student life? Planned a kegger?

    This is clear when observing the choices made by a freshman at college, compared to those of a junior or senior. As a person is exposed to more, they learn the difference between good and bad and right wrong; it is these that form the basis of what a person chooses to believe in and the path of life they choose to take later in life.

    Yeah, learning the difference between good and bad is different than doing the right thing. Hell, these days, most college students can’t even pick a major in their first two years. Because they don’t have to. Army recruits make their career choices before they even enter the service. They know what they want.

    The main problem with trying to recruit people who are young and mostly fresh out of high school is that they are not fully aware of what they are going to do. Some people’s main motivation for wanting to join the army is the allure of adventure and being exposed to guns and actually being able to use them. A young man is willing to lose his life for a cause that he may not even fully understand.

    Why? Because you were such an immature airhead that you didn’t understand at that age?

    Young people are quicker and more aggressive at defending their decision to join the army as opposed to veterans who will tell you the thick of what it really is, without all the puffed up promises of glory.

    You don’t know any veterans either do you?

    The only redeeming portion of the article is the comments.

  • Detroit schools allow Christian students to bring guns to school

    I know, it’s hard to believe isn’t it?

    A Detroit-area district says it’s allowing Christian students to wear a small, religious revolver to school, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.

    The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December after a fourth-grader at a Canton Township elementary school was found with an unloaded six-shooter.

    The six shooter represents a commitment to fight evil in the Christian tradition. The revolver is a religious symbol that baptized Christian males are expected to carry.

    Oh, wait, I read that wrong;

    A Detroit-area district says it’s allowing Sikh students to wear a small, religious dagger to school, MyFoxDetroit.com reports.

    The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December after a fourth-grader at a Canton Township elementary school was found with a dull, 3- to 5-inch kirpan.

    The kirpan represents a commitment to fight evil in the Sikh tradition. The dagger is a religious symbol that baptized Sikh males are expected to carry.

    No, I don’t advocate that Christians should be allowed to bring guns to school…just the opposite; I don’t think that anyone should be allowed to bring a knife to school, no matter that the blade is dull. We suspend students for bringing toy soldiers to school, but somehow wearing a ceremonial knife is harmless. Sure, a Sihk student probably wouldn’t harm someone, but there are bullies in school who could make good use of someone else’s knife.

    Like Old Trooper wrote when he sent the link to us, “I guess a zero tolerance rule only applies to some students.”

  • Gunman shoots four cops in their precinct

    Late yesterday afternoon a gunman walked into a Detroit precinct and shot four officers before they were able to kill the gunamn, according to the Detroit Free Press. He was using a scary-looking weapon;

    Then the gunman rushed the horseshoe-shaped front desk with his pistol grip shotgun.

    Emphasis mine. Soon the media will be telling us that pistol-grip shotguns were banned during the much vaunted assault weapon ban and this wouldn’t have happened if Congress had succeeded in renewing the ban. The AWB forbade;

    (D) a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of–

    `(i) a folding or telescoping stock;

    `(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;

    `(iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds; and

    `(iv) an ability to accept a detachable magazine.’.

    All four police officers are expected to recover, by the way.

    The most curious part of the story is that officers at that the front desk were below the top of the desk and they couldn’t see if anyone entering the front door had something in their hands. The first officer shot was a woman officer at the front desk. Seems to me that a camera at the front door would be a welcomed addition. There was no bullet proof glass on the front doors either. In the 21st Century, every police station I’ve been in had a buzzer system for controlling entry and bullet proof glass.

    Well, it is Detroit and I’ve heard that gun crimes aren’t real common, well, except that they occur almost everyday.

  • The continuing John C. Wheeler story unfolds slowly

    In regards to the veteran who was murdered last week in Delaware the case is getting more weird and confusing by the day.

    I saw this video earlier today and I’ve been waiting for Fox to put it up. You can see Wheeler in his last hours at about 1:40 into the video. Notice he’s carrying one of his shoes in his left hand and he has no jacket.

    I doubt a rational person would really think he is homeless as Eric Shawn claims in his report. He looks like he needs help, but I guess no one in Wilmington was up for it that day. i guess that’s why Biden kept getting sent back to the Senate – that’s all they got.

  • The folly of crossing a Marine.

    Some of you may have hear this story. But just in case here is the short version. Guy goes into a Best Buy and tries to steal a laptop computer. When confronted by the store employees he ran for the door waving a knife in hand and ran into a few Marines doing the Toys for Tots.

    Outside the door were four Marines and seven volunteers collecting donations for Toys for Tots.

    “(Duggan) clotheslined him, and after that he kind up got up and started swinging a knife around,” Smith said.

    Gunnery Sgt. Robert Richie said Attaway “came over the top and got (Duggan) in the back.”

    Attaway ran again but didn’t get far before Richie, several other Marines and members of the store’s loss-prevention team tackled him in the parking lot and held him until deputies arrived.

    I hate to be that guy, I mean causing a Marine to bled in front of 4 other Marines can only be bad news.

    Fellow Marines identified the injured man as Cpl. Phillip Duggan, 24, who spent part of Black Friday recuperating at Eisenhower Army Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.

    The attacker has been arrested and facing charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife in the commission of a crime.

    The story has been checked by Snopes.