Hurricane Matthew

Thirteen deaths in the US are attributed to Hurricane Matthew in the US.  In comparison, hundreds are killed in Haiti from the same storm.  It should be noted that the path of the hurricane only touched the western most tip of the island nation.  Many more are expected to die as a result of cholera.  Since 2010 over $650 million in European and over $700 million in US aid has gone to Haiti for obviously no good use.  Over a 13 billion dollars and this small island nation is no better off in disaster preparation.

What should we expect when the desired action is to throw money at an obviously corrupt and inept government?  Hell, the average 15 year old female is he mother of two from different fathers.  If a girl reaches 16 and is not a mother, they think something must be wrong with her.

Third world country status here, only insults third world countries.  Yet we continue to throw money into this sinkhole.  I understand humanitarian aid, but this is a farce.  We are so stupid.

Trump really is a guy

So it seems that Donald J Trump is the latest victim of stupidity of a “hot mic”.  These celebrities never figure out that the microphone is always recording just like the camera is.

Trump is caught in a locker r0oom quality conversation talking about how he is able to bed married women at will.  “They let you do it.”  “But nothing you wouldn’t hear in a football team locker room, or your standard sex-themed joke.  And it was ELEVEN years ago, long before Trump announced any political aspirations.  And the world is shocked.  The guy has a pecker and at times it takes over the speaking part of his brain.

On the other hand, his opponent is a career politician.  She, just three years ago, in a speech where she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to give, Hillary told the attending audience how she dreams of a world with free trade, and open borders.

I’ll pause while that sinks in.  Hillary dreams of a world with no taxes on trade between nations.  Even those (like China) that manipulate their own currency to give the an unfair advantage.  She dreams of open borders where anyone can travel to and reside wherever they want without regard to immigration laws.

She even stated that she squares her belief by realizing that one has to have “public and private positions”.    Another pause.

She just admitted that she speaks with a forked tongue.  She says one thing for public consumption.  But what she says when she is paid is what she really thinks.  How very political and two faced.  She admits that what she says at public rallies is a lie–just what she thinks you want to hear–the acceptable position.  But she really thinks something else.

And people are aghast at what Trump said, and people aren’t even told what Hillary said.  They want Trump to withdraw from the race.  Hillary’s comments are yawned at by the media.

I’m not a Trump fan.  I think the country is screwed no matter who wins.  But the sheer duplicity in the double standard is so damning as to make one want to recoil from the whole process.

Put down your God damn phone

Every single day, I encounter some moron so absorbed in their digital world that they aren’t paying attention when the traffic light turns from red to green.  Many times I am number two in line.  I used to politely honk my horn to prod people back to this world and remind them the look up from that 4-inch screen and pay attention to the world outside their windshield.  It was like it became my fucking job to reel them in so that they step on the gas and move along so I could get to work.  I’m sorry, but that falls too much into the description of being a personal assistant.  I’m not doing anything like that without getting paid.  No thanks.  I just wait.  If the light turns red again, that’s just the way it is.  I plan extra time into my trips just for idiots like this.

The United Nations Concludes the US pay reparations to the black population.

A sub-panel of foreign bleeding heart liberals has come to the conclusion that the US owes reparations to the black population currently residing in the US.  The panel suggests reparations could come in the form of “a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities … psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation.”

Wait, aren’t we already doing these things?  What are welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, and loan subsidies?  Didn’t we nearly destroy our own economy with the sub-prime mortgage collapse?  That was when we gave people (of all color, mind you) really high dollar loans knowing that they would never be able to pay it back.

A family on government assistance can make as much as $49000 (in Hawaii) in value of program benefits, per year just for breathing.  It varies state to state, with the average being about $35,000.  These blood suckers “earn” less from Uncle Sam as their own real job income increases, so the incentive to work harder and make more decreases.

What about the UN paying for all of the sexual slavery scandals they’ve been involved with?

The allegations come amid one of the biggest scandals to plague the United Nations in years. Since the U.N. peacekeeping mission here began in 2014, its employees have been formally accused of sexually abusing or exploiting 42 local civilians, most of them underage girls.  Only one criminal charge has been filed in relation to any of the 42 cases of sexual abuse or exploitation that have been officially registered in the Central African Republic, according to U.N. officials.

It is not the first deployment in which U.N. forces have been accused of sexual abuse. In Bosnia in the 1990s, peacekeepers were accused of soliciting sex from women who had been trafficked and virtually enslaved in local brothels. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 2000s, more than 150 allegations of abuse and exploitation were registered against peacekeepers, and U.N. investigators found that many of the alleged victims were orphans. U.N. missions in Kosovo, Haiti, Liberia and other places also have been tarnished by such allegations.

(Previous two paragraphs by Kevin Sieff, February 27, 2016, Washington Post.)

So don’t come lecturing us on who we owe money to based on our “transgressions”.

Navy Female Sits Out the National Anthem.

Janaye Ervin, a Naval Reservist sat down during the playing of the National Anthem.  Naturally, she says she was defending the Constitution.  Never mind that she was disrespecting the flag as well as those who fought and died for her “right” to free speech.  The Navy quickly pointed out that regulations require military members, on off duty to stand and face the flag during the National Anthem.  If in uniform they salute.  Out of uniform they can either salute or place their right hand over their heart.  If the flag is not visible, they render the hand motions in the direction of the music.

She faces disciplinary action under Article 92 of the UCMJ.  This is a “catch all” article that will carry little serious weight, probably only a small financial penalty and maybe a rank reduction.  As she is a Reservist, she faces no restrictions on her movement or confinement.  Depending on her time in service and how fast or slow she has achieved rank, it may have a bearing on her ability to reenlist.

I say boot the bitch out.  Go be a community organizer.

College Marching Band Kneels While Playing the Anthem

Eastern Carolina University’s marching band had several members kneels during their playing the National Anthem.  Some knelt and did not even play their instruments.  They were promptly booed off the field by many in the stands.  That sentiment continued when the band returned at halftime to play.

Good for that crowd.

I think the similarly thinking alumni should remember this when they are next asked for a donation to keep the school afloat.  Vote with your checkbook.  Maybe the dean and school board members can go ask that fool Kapernick to make up the difference in what the charitable contributions are from what they need.  He started this nonsense, after all.

 

 

Starbuck’s goes political (again).

I get notice that several activists, who probably have never had a single thing bad happen to them beyond not being able to match up their socks from the dryer, have decided to change their order names when they go to Starbucks from “Muffy” or “Biff”, “Brandi” or “Dirk”. They’ve decided to have their name be “blacklivesmatter”. This way, when their cup of overpriced, hot muddy water is ready for their silver-spoon fed lips, the Barista has to call that out for all inside the coffee heaven to hear. Worse, I’m told that it came down from on high (the CEO) that doing this is a condition of employment—to NOT read it aloud will get you fired.

I wonder if I went there and wrote my name as “horsesasslivesmatter”. Will they call that out loud, too? Or is it just the anti-white social activism that is mandated? Are we that absorbed in white guilt? The “other side” of this social whack-a-mole is professing that they will just deface every bill they pay with BLUE LIVES MATTER written on the bill, (in big blue bold Sharpie). Do they think that will matter? The coffee artist isn’t going to care that the money is written on. They don’t even have to accept it.

No, the better method is to frequent a different coffee house. Dazbog makes and sells coffee. Dunkin Donuts does too. Seattle’s Finest. I could Google more. Probably every Starbucks has a place within 100 yards of it that sells coffee. Is theirs so good that you can’t grimace and swallow another brand down? Starbucks has a history of left-leaning, stupid activism.

It is well past time to punish them for their stupidity. If I drank coffee, it would be because I like coffee—not because I want a social lesson on how I should feel bad about myself for being able to afford buying one in a fine, clean, crime-free, police patrolled part of town. But I don’t drink coffee. I can’t punish them. I think I have spent less than $10 in a Starbucks my entire life—on hot chocolate. And it wasn’t even that good.

 

France learns another lesson the hard way, while the liberal media pointing fingers everywhere but where they should

France, during a celebration, witnessed carnage not seen since wartime last week. Another Muslim got a hold of a truck, instead of an AR-15 “assault rifle”, and used it to plow through a crowd of people for over a mile before being killed. More than 80 are killed, hundreds injured. The driver, a Tunisian born ISIS follower, was also a drug user, and obviously bi-sexual. His phone contained pictures and numbers of both men and women he had slept with. (One might recall a previous post of mine where I mention that Iraqi police stated that women were for babies—men were for pleasure.) So, extra-marital sex with both sexes, and drug use. Both things strictly forbidden by the Quran/Koran (however you want to spell that terrorism guide book), were apparent staples in this goon’s life. And they want to preach to me about being impure.

Worse, the media blames the truck! CNN CBC and the NYT all had headlines featuring that the truck did the carnage—not the ISIS inspired, Muslim crazed murderer driving it.

MSNBC referred to the event as a “truck crash”, Thursday evening. CBC ran this: “Children feared killed in Nice as a truck attacks ‘family event’”. NPR reported that “Scores dead after a truck plows in Bastille Day Crowd in Nice”.

While some may be forgiven for not specifically pointing out the nationality or motivation of the driver early on, the truck blaming continued even hours after French police and political leaders confirmed it was a terror attack. The Hill reported that dozens were dead after a truck drives into a crowd on Friday morning. NBC News wrote that 80 were killed in a truck attack. Reuters finally added the terror theme but did so haltingly by saying a truck ‘terrorist’ killed 80 in an attack in Nice.

No, he wasn’t a ‘terrorist’. He was a terrorist. No dicing. No word games. No soft pedaling.

CNN kept up the ruse for several hours—even after news of the driver and his social media divulges became public by headlining that “Truck Rams Crowd; 84 Dead in Nice.”

Since B. Hussein himself won’t call them radical Muslim extremists (or terrorists), why should we expect the media to?

We need to get these assault trucks off our streets. It is too easy to get one. It is easier to get a truck in some cities than it is to get a book. No civilian needs a truck that big. More government regulation is required. In the trucking industry, that is. The media? They’re already in the bag.

 Hard time to be a cop; killed or refused service

Lucky’s Teriyaki is a small diner, probably seats less than 40 in small town Sedro-Woolley, Washington. Last week they because nationally famous for telling 4 deputies eating there that they were not welcome to come back—that local customers do not like law enforcement. The police department called back and confirmed it. So they said they would oblige. They’d still respond to emergencies, being as that is their job and duty.

Odd isn’t it? The cops would still respond since that is what they’ve sworn to do and it is their job. The liberal “blacklivesmatter” idiots at Lucky’s don’t want to do their job—serve food. And they aren’t even sworn to do it. Now I don’t know if that is the prime reason the morons banished the cops, but given where they are, the piece fits in the puzzle quite well.

If I were a cop, sure I’d respond to a disturbance call there. Right after I fixed the flat, or replaced the headlight on the cruiser, or changed the batteries on the door lock remote. And I’d have to park off sight and wait for back up.

The owner’s son, turns out is more pragmatic and business-minded. He quickly apologized and offered LE free lunch if they’d come back. He said it was a “misunderstanding.”  If someone came tableside when I was eating and told (not asked), told me I was not welcome and to not come back, I’d say that was pretty clear.  There is only one word there more than one syllable. 

If I could be persuaded to ever go there for food again (and I doubt I could be—after all, SOMEBODY working there with saliva glands doesn’t like me for what I do for a living), I would insist on paying for my meal. Let them fail. Small businesses in Washington state have a fairly high failure rate (40% after 3 years). After that, we can just call the fire department to put out the flames.

Then there is Dallas, and Baton Rouge, and Milwaukee, and any number of places where cops are being shot at or killed.

The Dallas killer said he wanted to kill white people—especially white police officers. He did. Killed 5 wounded 7 more. The media nearly lauded his marksmanship skills. If he was that great a shot, all 12 would be dead…and he’d have 18 rounds left in the magazine.

Baton Rouge: The guy pissed off at white police officers kills a black one. He kills 3 officers in an ambush and wounds three others before graciously being put down like a rabid dog. The killer, also a former Marine posted several hints that he was losing it.

He posted that in revolutions, the only way to win was to fight back-to shed blood. It is the only way the bully knows to quit. So cops are bullies, and this crime fighting—at least to him—is a justified revolution. He even equated targeting and ambushing officers to the behavior of George Washington. Really?!? THE founding father would have approved of the killer’s revolutionary tactics?

I’ve said it before. You could not pay me enough to wear that uniform. I wore enough of them in my lifetime. Never that one. I tried once. In Cincinnati. I remember applying. When I turned my application in to the overweight black female corporal, she drew a big “+” on it. In the left upper corner she wrote a “W” (white). In the upper right corner she wrote an “M” (male). This was in 1985. I didn’t get the job. I can’t imagine how many more letters they have to choose from now. “G”, “H”, “T”, “Q”. All to appease a fringe minority who see themselves as deserving more.

No thanks. I’ll pass on being a cop.

 

 

A good friend of mine sent me a very long text yesterday after the memes about Hillary Clinton started flying back and forth.  You know the ones about laws being for the little people or the poor people…  He called it his Rant du Jour.  I called it a masterpiece.

Kenneth Baldwin is a former Marine and Army dog.  He was a co-worker until he got railroaded.  He’s smart and prepared.  He’s one of those guys that after you meet him you sit back into the protective pillows of your recliner and whisper, “Shit.  I never thought of it that way.”  Like I said, he’s a good friend.  He’s one of about five people who if they called for help, I’d go on a leave of absence to come assist.  Here is his take on the FBI “investigation” and their conclusions.

Ken’s Rant du Jour:

The FBI Director is often touted as the “Top Law Enforcement Officer of the Land” and is supposed to be a super cop. I am not a super cop; I am a reformed cop. However, since 1984, I have been through more than a few classes on criminal law, substantive law, and procedural law.

I recall from my studies Mens Rea- you know, Culpable Mental State- whereas we would consider such a thing in determining whether a crime had been committed in order to validate our probable cause.

So, if I recall from the school house, those mental states are:
Knowingly, Intentionally, Recklessly, or With Criminal Negligence. Been a while, am I close?

I also recall that those mental states are mutually exclusive, meaning that if one committed an act With Criminal Negligence, then by definition they could not have had Intent. And, though a negligent crime usually has a lesser degree and lesser penalty attached, IT IS STILL CHARGED! That is why we have DEGREES of crimes!

So, when The FBI Director said that Killary did in fact show criminal negligence in her actions and inactions, but he didn’t recommend prosecution because she didn’t show intent…
How? Is? This? Not? Criminal?

A crime of negligence does not require intent; in fact if intent were present, it would then not be a negligent crime, but a higher level crime due to the INTENT.

Prosecutors are supposed to be on the side of Justice, and they are the ones who recommend and proffer charges. Law enforcement officers do not make recommendations of charges, they impartially investigate and report. If the act is in-progress or “fresh” they will arrest on probable cause and write a detailed report of their findings. Still, the prosecutor makes the call on charges.

For Comey to even publicize his opinion is possibly a malfeasance, and he should be looked at for sanctions and censure. His duty was only to report on the investigation, not to pull a publicity stunt for the Heir Apparent to Emperor Hussein.

End of Rant

Sentry’s thoughts:

I told you, he is a smart guy.

How odd it is that only days after an unpublicized highly unethical, unrecorded, unphotographed, yet highly planned meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, that this finding is arrived at.   The Navy is putting the screws to a Reservist who did exactly what Comey said Clinton did–careless handling of classified material.  Yet she just gets a few days of bad press.

Do you think maybe that a few years from now that Comey and Lynch both retire comfortably with the buried and filtered millions they will receive from the Clinton Foundation?  The fix is in?  It always was.

Orlando now that we’ve all simmered down a bit.

So we knew it was going to happen. Another wacked out Muslim was going to get his hands on a weapon or two and go hunting Americans. I don’t know why so many people are shocked at this. We let anyone inside our borders from places that preach hate of Americans, without the faintest scratch of vetting them. Then, if they do spout off– in college, its free speech. Nothing is done. On social media, my account might have been hacked. Nothing is done. In the workplace, the average white Christian has long since learned (been cowed) to say nothing else be labeled as a racist. Nothing is done. All that is missing is the open season hunting license to be handed out with their green card. Here’s your visa and the tag limit is pre-set to 75 infidels.

This one targeted a gay night club. That he frequented. A lot. Of course, it was for research in the name of Muhhamad, his historical religious figure and prophet who was notoriously a pedophile and rapist. So, he’s really just doing as his religion preaches. It’s okay to be gay, just kill them. It’s okay to defile children. Just kill them. It’s okay to beat women. They have no rights anyway. I heard numerous times from the Arabic police I had to work alongside in Iraq, “Women are for babies. Men are for pleasure.” So this is hardly foreign to them (pardon the pun since they are foreign to us.) We fired several policemen for raping a male criminal trapped in a jail cell. The cops were like, “What? He liked it.”

He said he didn’t drink alcohol, yet went to this gay bar a lot. Surely there is a cover charge or some type of membership fee. So he was willing to pay these to go to a place where he sought no standard-fare refreshment. Right. He was there looking for the pipe.

His ex-wife even said he was gay. I haven’t heard any reports or interviews where she came out and said that he liked candles wedged up his ass, or that he avoided her sexually. But if there is a person outside of his immediate family that would know, it’d be her. They only reason she is an ex-wife at all is because she is in this country. Over there, she’d be wearing burlap, and getting smacked around.

He’s a multiple times failed wanna-be cop. As far back as 2006 he’s been trying for this department or that. Multiple states. His own life story inconsistency probably did him in. He never told the complete story each time. He’d leave this part out, or add in some other incident he hadn’t included before. That was the fastest was to be kicked out of the Defense Language Institute that I attended in 1995. You told one story and stuck to it. This guy couldn’t grasp that. Can you imagine if he’d made it? Some department in NYC would have to have a sharia-only cafeteria, he’d want a place (locker room, shower) separate and apart from the Jewish officers. Then imagine if he used department weapons during his rampage.

Then there is the media. Naturally, the gun was the first item to be blamed. It was an “assault weapon” (whatever that is). And just as naturally, the media got it wrong. They called it an AR-15. It wasn’t It was a Sig-Sauer MCX rifle. The handgun was a Glock 17. The rifle looks about as much like an AR-15 as a cucumber does to a carrot. They can use the same magazine, but the operating system is totally different and exactly zero parts (aside from the magazine) are interchangeable. (Maybe the pistol grip, but I haven’t tested that theory.) But AR-15 is a known acronym now. MCX is not. Just doesn’t have the same anti-gun zing to it rolling off your lips.

The sum balance is that he is not the first crazy Arab who has killed in the name of his peaceful religion. He will not be the last. What he has done is set the bar higher for the next crazy camel jockey. 49 killed and more than 50 wounded is a fair amount of carnage. He had time, resupply, and a captive audience. His level of training is not in question—he didn’t have any. But then inside a 20×20 room, you don’t need any. Especially if no one is shooting back at you. For all the resistance he met, he may as well have been shooting at Zombie posters on a range. He’d never have had that kind of tally if he’d met a prepared audience anywhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. No, from here I think we get into explosive devices to get those kinds of numbers. You heard it here first.

 

 

DHS to spend $100 million to educate millenials

The Department of Homeland Security wants $100 million of our tax dollars to hire experts to develop materials and educate the up and coming generation against saying words like jihad and sharia. It seems these words have an unfair and negative connection to things like death, terror attacks, killing, oppression, and, wait for it… Islam.

These social media experts, fresh off their successful gambit to allow sexual deviants and predators to wander into whatever bathroom they choose, are now setting their sights on limiting an avenue of thought that would ultimately protect the child against becoming raped or sodomized themselves. Given the predilection of those faithful to the very roots of Islam are also uncannily attracted to the younger generation of their own sex, this new government policy will result in an entire generation of feeble, spineless, bed-wetters who are afraid to do anything but condemn their parents and the way they wanted to raise them.

The professed reasoning behind this gold mine request is to teach young people to NOT join terror groups. But by not calling them what they are, or describing how they are so effective in recruitment, we limit our ability to combat them. Social media is far more an effective parenting tool than the parent anymore, we should be exploring ways there to expose these kids to what lies ahead if they continue in the ways set out by the government their parents elected.

The program itself, euphemistically called CVE or Countering Violent Extremism goes out of their way to avoid using any terminology whatsoever that slanders or portrays Islam in its natural light—that be violence. When was the last time you saw someone slaughter dozens of people then go online during the event and praise Buddha, Christ, or even Reverend Moon for that matter? No, only these Islamic cretins do this.

I get warned from time to time about my content—that I may incite someone. As Tim Kennedy, the MMA fighter says…who cares? They can send whomever they like—so long as they don’t want them back.

 

Attorney General and DOJ to strip terrorist ISIS/Islamic comments from released documents

So apparently, ole’ Omar went on FB and declared his allegiance to ISIS while he was shooting unarmed people in a gay nightclub. He must have felt so manly.

The administration is releasing a redacted version of the transcripts of his calls and other communiqué forms. They are removing references to Islam, Allah, ISIS, or any particular individual who inspired him to act. They think they is a good thing. They say they are doing it because “those people don’t speak for Muslims, rather follow a perverted form of Islam.” They’re doing it to help us, you see.

Bullshit. They are doing it because they don’t want you to know the full depth of how our culture and theirs is at war. They don’t want you thinking about hunkering down, arming yourself, or hardening your home against an attack. These things tend to bolster one part of the economy (weaponry/prepping) while hurting other parts (general discretionary spending). The wheels stop turning.

The government does not want you doing anything to learn how to protect yourself and family, or realize that things are happening around you that require your attention in to doing just that. If you saw the full transcript, you might wonder how many other Omars are out there. You may wonder if you have enough ammo, food and water stored in your home in case you have to bug-in for a while.

No, the government wants you to remain as dumb as a lemming so that you remain (or worse, become) dependent on them for protection and information. If they control the information flow, they feed you want they want, you learn what they want you to, and everything else gets filtered away. You stop thinking, questioning, discovering.

The government is rightfully scared of you. Remind them why.

Robots are coming, and with good reason.

A former CEO recently announced why many retailers and food chains are entertaining using robots instead of human workers. He was gracious in only saying that it is cheaper in the long run to pay $35,000 for a robot to bag French fries than to pay an inefficient human $15 (the new baseline for a “living wage”) to do the same work.

When I started out going to college, the basic return on investment period (ROI) that a business should even entertain was three years. Meaning, you had to recoup your investment through recovered wages, increased revenues, or reduced expenses within three years to make it worth doing. That is probably lower now.

A $15 full time worker costs the employer $30,000 a year, in wages only. ($15 x 40 x 50 weeks) The employer is also paying for their vacation time (at least a week). The employer also has to foot the bill for at least basic health care if they have more than 50 employees. A large McD franchise just might. So, buying a $35,000 robot to scoop fries is almost instantly worth the investment. Look at the tangibles.

A robot is not going to call out sick. It might need repairs, but any robot manufacturer is going to bend over backwards to get it fixed. They want to sell more robots. Having them break easily is bad for business. With basic, regular maintenance, the robot is going to save the employer money by always showing up for work. A savvy employer is going to have a maintenance package included in the purchase price–or he shouldn’t be in business.  A human gets paid a benefit (sick time) for NOT coming to work.

A robot is never going to demand Family Medical Leave Assistance (FMLA). It is never going to have a sick mother, or a wife that gives birth so that the robot needs paternity leave. FMLA benefits include 12 weeks—that 3 MONTHS—of unpaid, protected leave time during the 12-month year.  You can’t fire the loafer who is impacting your business.  Sure, you can hire someone in the interim–only to have to spend the time and wages training them–to let them go when the FMLA spongue returns.

A robot is never going to steal from the employer. It is going to do what it is programmed to do. If it is a fry scooper, that is all it will do. It isn’t going to give its friends free fries. It isn’t going to skim cash out of the register. Given that 40-50% of all retail losses stem from internal activity, this could save an employer thousands over a year.

The robot is never going to file a Workers Compensation claim. It isn’t going to cut its finger, or slip on the floor. It’ll never bang its head, stub its toe, spray cleaning chemicals into its eye or anything else on those equals.

The robot is never going to risk a liability claim against the employer by, say, spitting into someone’s food because they are a policeman. It will never refuse service because the customer is wearing a uniform.

So, given the litigious nature of our society, the “me-first”; give me free stuff mentality this young generation is showing us, it should not come as a surprise that employers opt for technology over teenagers. It is our foot. We shot it ourselves. Learn to limp.

Survey proves most civilians are self-absorbed idiots

Mark Dice is the guy who goes around doing “man on the street” interviews, asking people about giving up the Second Amendment for the good of the economy, or the First Amendment because people need to learn to curb their thoughts and speech.

This weekend he did it again in San Diego where he asked several people what they were doing for Memorial Day, or how they were celebrating, or if they thought it was right for the government to cancel NASA’s long standing celebrating of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon for Memorial Day. Another angle was how this was the day we celebrate the end of slavery or that the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

It is amazing to see people in their 30’s and younger who simply have no concept of what the “holiday” is for. The final interviewee, clearly military nailed it.

But there was one who refused to answer because as an American she didn’t have to. She’s right, but what a convenient time to invoke that privilege. Another was “all about” the LGBT community and joining them in their celebration. Another female just saw it as a day off work on a Monday.

So, clearly, the majority of American civilians do not understand the meaning and purpose behind it. It is NOT just a holiday, a reason to gather with family/friends, have a BBQ and get sunburned drinking too much beer during the park volleyball or horseshoes tournament.

It is a distinctly military honoring holiday, but even then, most civilians get it wrong. I receive several “Happy Memorial Day” salutations during the day from those who know I served in the Army. I gave up correcting them.

Memorial Day is about remembering and honoring those who fought AND DIED during the wars protecting us and our freedoms. I am still very much alive.

Veteran’s Day is the day to thank everyone who served—regardless of the length of their service.

We are a society in full cratering mode.

A crowd of 300 Muslims beat and strip naked a Coptic Christian woman of 70 years.

You see this pattern over and again in every Muslim country. Christians are singled out and accused of some infraction. Usually it isn’t even true. But the truth is irrelevant to Muslims—only their ideology. This woman managed to hide under a wagon and was helped by another woman who gave her clothes—allowing the woman to escape.

When she did complain to the police, she was harassed and threatened before they did nothing to help.

In Pakistan, a 28-year old pregnant woman was stripped nude and forced to parade through the market by two Muslim brothers. She miscarried during the event. Her crime? She is Christian.

An 8-year old Christian girl was kidnapped, beaten, and left on the street. The girl’s crime? Her uncle was pursuing a relationship with a Muslim woman. The girl hadn’t done anything beyond being related to her uncle.

So you can see where the battle lines are drawn. ANY Christian is a target for retaliation to ANY crime real or perceived against ANY Muslim ANYWHERE.

What would happen if I got a group of my golf buddies, none of whom are Muslim by the way, and headed down to the Parker mosque and single out some female attending there? What if we started taunting, then surrounded them, pushed them around, stripped them, and made them march down to, say, the biker bar a mile away? We’d be hunted down, arrested, and charged with federal hate crimes—that’s what.

We self regulate ourselves to the point of strangulation. Our society’s white guilt is all powerful. Our elected officials abdicate decision making to the voice of polls and the loudest of minorities. It will be our ultimate undoing as a free society.

One dead, 3 hurt in rap concert shooting.

A man, somehow connected to rapper Troy Avenue was shot and killed at a rap concert in New York. Three others were injured, presumably by stray bullets as the gunman demonstrated his unerring handgun prowess. Rapper T.I. (whoever that is) was scheduled to appear at the concert as well, so there could be your motive. The best part? The rapper Avenue, who’d publicly spoken out against gun violence was the one arrested.

Police Commissioner William Bratton perhaps best described it by saying, “The music, unfortunately, oftentimes celebrates gun violence, celebrates the degradation of women, celebrates the drug culture and it’s unfortunate that as they get fame and fortune, that some of them are just not able to get out of the life…”adding that many witnesses were unwilling to talk with police.

You never hear of shootings at a Joe Bonamassa concert. I never encountered a fracas between fans of Robert Cray and Stevie Ray Vaughan when I attended that concert. Cream and Birds fans didn’t hassle one another when I attended an Eric Clapton concert. No, this only seems to happen at rap concerts. Pattern?

Two are killed and five injured—three critically outside of two separate rap concerts, one in New Jersey, the other, Toronto. (August 2015).

Rapper Young Jeezy arrested after a shooting at a rap concert late August 2015. Jeezy and five crew members were arrested with several weapons including an assault rifle (whatever that is).

I’ve always said, it takes three to make a pattern. I found three in about 2 minutes of searching. I could go on, but maybe my point is made. I agree with Commissioner Bratton.

Glenn Beck has lost his marbles

Glenn Beck has endorsed Ted Cruz for President. This was likely a kiss of death for Ted. Glenn called for a “day of prayer, fasting and humility” before the Indian caucuses. “Beg the Lord not to remove His hand from us. To turn to Him and ask that He heal our land.” I guess the only thing missing was communion and a passing of an offering plate. Maybe an animal sacrifice was planned but it never happened. That would have led to roasting an eating the flesh—and we were fasting after all.

Glenn recently shoved his face into a bowl of crushed Cheetos to protest Donald Trump. He had others on his TV set do the same.

Glenn Beck falls on his knees in front of a rally crowd…

“Real Christians don’t support Donald Trump.”

‘Ted Cruz has been anointed for this time.”

Bonkers. Out of his Gourd. Bizarre. I don’t own any of his books anymore. The guy is scary.

Political Correctness and the Judicial System

1. Hussein set out to make his mark on the criminal justice system. Just as he won’t say “War on Terror: or “Islamic Extremist” or “Islamic Terrorist”, Obama’s Justice Department coined the phrase “Justice Involved Individuals” rather than say criminals or felons.

This is the same Justice Department that dreamed up and enacted The Second Chance program and Juvenile Reentry Assistance Program which seals or helps expunge the criminal record of people up to the age of 24 so that they might apply and qualify to live in tax-payer funded public housing. I guess you can’t if you have a record. But if it is sealed or wiped clean, you can suck off the government teet for the roof over your head. Over 1.75 million tax payer dollars have gone to these programs to help criminals get jobs and housing.

Rather than build more jails to house them, the administration was you to pay to house them and train them for work in the hope—the HOPE that they will stay on the straight path and not revert back to the more immediately lucrative pay scale of crime. Yes, that $10 McDonald’s job where I have to work, be on time, is so much more enticing that just whacking some guy on his way to the bank from the same McDonald’s with the deposit bag.

French authorities are speculating why they found an explosive vest near where the last sighting of Saleh Abdeslam was known.  They wonder if he “abandoned his mission”.  They ponder if he ditched the vest because of a technical issue.

I’ll tell you why.

He poses for macho pictures in military gear and cold icy stares.  But he doesn’t have the spine or resolve to go through all the way.  He likes other morons to do that.  He talks a tough game.  But he’s a little short in the cleats when the game whistle blows.

He’s a pussy.

Headline from the NYT:  Who made the most ridiculous comments in the Republican debate?  They got over 600 responses.  They didn’t get any comments about the same question for the Democrat debate—because they didn’t ask it.  And Fox News is surprised and aghast at how the liberal mainstream media protects and coddles the left?  Calling them out on it—that supposed to shame them into behaving?

News flash:  The NYT, LA Times, the (insert liberal rag newspaper name here) doesn’t care what Fox News, or any other right-wing pundit, Congressman, Senator, preacher, Soldier, etc. think about their obvious and overt shilling for the left.  The only people buying their newspaper are the people already in their tank.  They know what the deal is, agree with it, and support it with the subscription dollars.  It isn’t going to change by claiming media bias.  They know it.  We know it.  Everybody knows.  They don’t care.  We are the only ones who do.

Another example:  Quentin Tarantino.  He’s a flaming liberal movie producer and part-time actor.  (Sorry actors, that was an insult.)  He makes movies with lots of guns and violence.  Some of it from the bad guys, some of it from the cops.  Then he sides with the Black Lives Matter movement and against cops.  Police departments in New York, Lose Angeles, and Philadelphia have called for boycotts of his work.  His own father came out and said that Quentin was wrong.

News flash:  He doesn’t care.  Until the time comes when some big executive producer won’t pony up the cash for his next violence movie or once he’s made the 75 million people in his genre decide to not go see it, he doesn’t care.  He probably blames his father for some childhood wrong anyway.  He was spanked too many times, grounded for staying out late, or made to eat too much spinach or helpings of peas and lima beans.  He doesn’t care what dear old Dad says either.  If it doesn’t impact his wallet or get him removed from some insulated A-list party invite, he will say anything he thinks will increase his viewership.  In other words, financially, he is a whore.

Another example:  The moderators themselves at the third debate—they were obnoxious and rude.  They tried pitting candidate against candidate.  They tried shaming Rubio into retiring (and Jeb Bush fell for the bait.)  They ask if the government should regulate fantasy football.  How about fantasy media-fairness?  The RNC, the candidates, and many other news organizations all slammed CNBC (and by extension, their mom and dad) NBC.  The RNC even canceled the debate in February that was a joint NBC/National Review Magazine production.  (The National Review is NOT a liberal publication.)

News flash:  The moderators don’t care and neither does their employer.  The moderators all scored points with the 23 people that cumulatively watch them and that is all that matters to them.  NBC probably got a few more advertising dollars from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, or some other liberal leaning, sniveling business mogul.  That people who were interested in a fair and powerful debate were left hanging?  These three idiots don’t care.  Liberals, by and large were not watching the debate.  The Kardashians probably had some special on or Kaitlyn Jenner was showing the joys and pitfalls of shaving around an Adam’s apple.

The lesson here?  Republicans should just stop with the continual whining about how unfair the media is in their coverage of liberals versus conservatives.  It is not going to change because they do not care what we say.  They are still on the air, employed, or otherwise buttressed by government subsidies or some other form of financial backing.