Latest intelligence on the world situation, updates on US military capabilities, news that affects Military retirees, and news that will probably never be reported by the "Liberal American Media!"

Military Newsletter

 

Latest intelligence on the world situation, updates on US military capabilities, news that affects Military retirees, 

and news that will probably never be reported by the "Liberal American Media!"

 

Edited by Lt Col Kent Vasby, USAF, Ret

 

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After vowing to end two wars, Obama may leave three behind

 

President Obamas decision to expand the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Syria is a reflection of the conflicting pressures on a commander in chief.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-promising-to-end-two-wars-obama-may-leave-three-behind/2015/10/31/01f3f70a-7fe3-11e5-beba-927fd8634498_story.html

 

 

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US Troop Deployment to Syria Frustrates Anti-Assad Rebels

 

You'll help the Kurds but you won't help us?  Did you work a deal with Putin?

 

ISTANBUL - Washington's decision to dispatch U.S. commandos to northern Syria to help coordinate the fight against the Islamic State terror group is roiling increasingly tense relations between the Obama administration and the main Western-backed Syrian political opposition, as well as Sunni Arab rebels whose priority is to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

 

http://www.voanews.com/content/us-troop-deployment-to-syria-frustrates-anti-assad-rebels/3031092.html

 

 

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Talk is preferable to.............

 

 

China, Japan, S. Korea Agree to End Diplomatic Stand-Off

 

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - In Seoul Sunday leaders from China, Japan and South Korea met for the first time in three-and-a-half years to restart stalled regional cooperation and end their diplomatic standoff over the contentious issues that divide them.

 

President Park hosted Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for talks that all three leaders described as in-depth and frank.

 

http://www.voanews.com/content/asia-trilateral-summit/3031702.html

 

 

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Turkey, Roiled by War and Insecurity, Votes Again for a New Parliament

 

For the second time in less than six months, Turks on Sunday began voting for a new Parliament in an election likely to harden deep divisions in a country facing challenges on many fronts

 

If Turkey chooses Erdogan at the polls this weekend, Isis will gain strength and the refugee crisis will worsen

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-turkey-chooses-erdogan-at-the-polls-this-weekend-isis-will-gain-strength-and-the-refugee-crisis-a6715491.html

 

 

 

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Immigrants caught crossing border think they can stay in US and collect benefits

Thanks, Dave

 

Hundreds of immigrant families caught illegally crossing the Mexican border between July and September told US immigration agents they made the dangerous trip in part because they believed they would be permitted to stay in the United States and collect public benefits.

 

The interviews with immigrants by federal agents were intended to help the Obama administration understand what might be driving a puzzling surge in the numbers of border crossings that started over the summer.

 

http://nypost.com/2015/10/30/immigrants-caught-crossing-border-think-they-can-stay-in-us-and-collect-benefits/

 

 

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The Death of the American Welfare State

 

The welfare state has been spending more money with an unsustainable demographic imbalance. 

 

There are fewer working families supporting more elderly, immigrants and broken families. 

 

The Russians invest money into increasing the native birth rate. Instead we fund Planned Parenthood because liberal economic eugenics dictates that we should extract "full value" from working women as a tax base to subsidize the welfare state while discarding the next generation. 

 

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-death-of-american-welfare-state.html

 

 

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Germany: "20 Million Muslims by 2020"

 

 

Muslims were angered at this depiction in a German carnival parade -  Reality versus Cliche.  As the saying goes, if the shoe fits, put it on!

 

"We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples, as well as a different understanding of society and law." From a leaked German intelligence document.

 

"The migration crisis has the potential to destabilize governments, countries and the whole European continent. ... What we have been facing is not a refugee crisis. This is a migratory movement composed of economic migrants, refugees and also foreign fighters" 

 

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6793/germany-20-million-muslims

 

 

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GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory

Thanks, Dave

 

A leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real.

 

Every candidate that joined Ted Cruz in the phalanx against the media Wednesday seemed like an anti-establishment outsider bravely fighting the powers-that-be. 

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/gop_media_takedown_a_recipe_for_victory.html

 

 

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Putin Says Global Warming Is A Fraud

Thanks, Dave

 

Putin believes there is no global warming, this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia. That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/29/russias-putin-says-global-warming-is-a-fraud/

 

 

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Why Liberals Identify with Criminals

Thanks, Dave

 

Liberals hate cops, honest citizens with guns, and hard sentencing laws because liberals identify with criminals. When visiting a Federal prison Obama summarized the view of liberals when he said: These are young people who made mistakes that arent that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made."

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/why_liberals_identify_with_criminals.html

 

 

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Why California is a state of death

Thanks, Dave

 

Shortly after signing a bill allowing assisted suicide in California, Democrat Governor Jerry Brown signed another measure that forces pregnancy crisis centers to "offer information about affordable contraception, abortion and prenatal care."

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/30/why-california-is-state-death.html?

 

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California Is Dying

 

The great American land of opportunity is devolving into something that resembles feudalism, a society dominated by rich and poor, with little opportunity for upward mobility for the states middle- and working classes. 

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/19/big-idea-california-is-so-over.html

 

 

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VIDEO: This 7th Grader Was Forced to Deny God or Fail. What She Did Will Inspire You.

Thanks, Tom

 

http://americanactionnews.com/articles/video-this-7th-grader-was-forced-to-deny-god-or-fail-what-she-did-will-inspire-you

 

 

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Memorable football quotes throughout history

Thanks, Dave & James

 

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football." 

John Heisman

 

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game." 

Bear Bryant / Alabama 

 

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!"

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.  That costs money, and we don't have any." 

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern 

 

"After you retire, there's only one big event left, and I ain't ready for that." 

Bobby Bowden / Florida State 

 

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." 

Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

 

"When you win, nothing hurts." 

Joe Namath / Alabama

 

"Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

 

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." 

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame 

 

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." 

Woody Hayes / Ohio State 

 

"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation.  I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." 

Bob Devaney / Nebraska

 

"In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant." 

Wally Butts / Georgia

 

"I never graduated from Iowa .  But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." 

Alex Karras / Iowa 

 

"My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor." 

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee 

 

"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades." 

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

 

"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." 

Shug Jordan / Auburn 

 

"They cut us up like boarding house pie, and that's real small pieces." 

Darrell Royal / Texas 

 

"They whipped us like a tied up goat." 

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech 

 

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me.  "He said, "Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren't any good."

Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

 

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel." 

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

 

"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport.  Dancing IS a contact sport." 

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State 

 

USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was, "All those who need showers, take them." 

John McKay / USC

 

"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education." 

Murray Warmath / Minnesota 

 

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.  To be a back, you only have to be dumb." 

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame 

 

"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon." 

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech 

 

"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking." 

John McKay 

 

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The Editor's Winter Soup Recipe

 

I  make this soup throughout the winter months.  

 

Usually have a pot of it on hand from November thru March. 

 

Ingredients:

 

1 to 1 1/4 lbs of lean hamburger,

1 large onion - chopped.

2 large carrots - sliced.

2 large rib/stalks of celery - sliced thinly.

1 large potato - diced - about 1/2 inch pieces or 14 oz.can of Del Monte diced new potatoes.

1 inch wedge of cabbage - chopped - Optional

2 - 14 oz cans Redgold diced tomatoes.

1 - 14 oz can Swanson chicken broth.

1 - 14 oz can water.

3 shakes of Tabasco sauce - about a 1/2 tsp.

1/2 tsp black pepper.

1/2 tbsp salt - some might prefer less.

1/2 tsp dried basil.

1/4 tsp thyme.

1/4 tsp marjoram.

1/8 tsp garlic powder.

1/4 tsp ground bay leaf or 2 whole bay leaves.

Might need a TBsp of sugar or two if you find the soup too "tart".

 

I've found over the years that the ingredients listed in bold type are the best for the recipe.

 

Brown the hamburger in an 8 qt. stock pot, breaking it up so it cooks evenly.

 

When hamburger is about half cooked add the chopped onion.  Cook until meat is done.

 

Throw in everything else and bring to a boil.  Turn heat down and simmer for 20 minutes.  Veggies get a little "mushy" if cooked longer than that.

 

Let soup cool and skim fat from surface - unless you want to leave it in.  

 

Soup is usually better the next day and is great for lunch w/o a whole bunch of calories.

 

Takes about 45 minutes to prepare and serves 6 to 10, depending on size of your soup bowl.

 

Enjoy.

 

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Married 50 years

Thanks, Robert

 

After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa-bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV. But hey I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl!

 

Now ... I have a $750,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 73-year-old woman.  So I said to my wife "it seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things." 

 

My wife is a very reasonable woman.  She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV! 

    

Aren't older women great? 

   

They really know how to solve an old guy's problems!

Mando Único of Morelos: Organization That Most Violates Human Rights Father of Ayotzinapa Normalista honors his son by running in NY marathon Member of musical group killed in Sinaloa Tombstone filled with 22 kilos of marijuana found in Mexico City Airport...

Borderland Beat

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• Mando Único of Morelos: Organization That Most Violates Human Rights
• Father of Ayotzinapa Normalista honors his son by running in NY marathon
• Member of musical group killed in Sinaloa
• Tombstone filled with 22 kilos of marijuana found in Mexico City Airport

Mando Único of Morelos: Organization That Most Violates Human Rights Posted: 01 Nov 2015 08:57 PM PST By: José Carlos Moreno | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat October 8, 2015— Just two days ago in Cuernavaca, the Human Rights Commission of the State of Morelos (CDHEM) stated that the figure of the Mando Único in the state, relentlessly pushed by the state government despite its low popularity- according to a survey during the past two weeks in all the municipalities of Morelos, which yesterday revealed the results indicating that only 1% of respondents approved the continuation of the measure while 99% condemn it, is the body that most violates human rights in the state. (Valor: Mando Único (Single Command) is the unifying of municipal and state forces.) This was expressed by the president of the CDHEM, Lucero Ivonne Benítez Villaseñor, who noted that the Mando Único is the protagonist of most complaints filed by citizens to the institution in charge, which are mostly related to the violation of due process, emphasizing arbitrary arrests, torture during detention, and the fabrication of guilt, and even some police members have complained about money quotas imposed on them by their superiors. The president of the CDHEM delivered a report with all the information to the local congress where it was brought to the Commissioner of Public Security, Jesús Alberto Capella Ibarra, at a conference described by some media as evasive, and even ridiculous at times, because in it the commissioner said that the idea of insecurity in the state is mostly bad “perception” of the citizens, because, according to him, violence has decreased and it takes quite some time for this public perception to be corrected. However, the numbers contradict the version of the report of Commissioner Capella and exposes another reality: in the first eight months of this year, there have been 17 cases of torture (just over two cases per month), while in 2014, the figure for the same type of violation was 12, or an increase of 30% in a few months.  It also states that from 2014 to date, complaints from citizens accumulate to a total of 450. It should be recalled that already in the public, some elements of this figure monopoly of authority has shown its procedures with members of the public, including its treatment of students from UAEM (Autonomous University of the State of Morelos) with aiming weapons at them for distributing flyers with political content.  The case of a denunciation of the murder of a young student just over a month ago should also be recalled, a sordid case that exposed the misrepresentation of factual information, concealing and holding it, as well as negligence in the investigation process, according to the same denunciation. Journalism and its freedom of expression in the state has also suffered by the Mando Único and its repressive measures, since several cases of journalists from the most contested violation reported in the report, arbitrary detention; 146 incidents were reported in 2014 and 93 so far in 2015 of this particular form of human rights violation by the Mando Único, and to top it off, cases of burglary, theft, unlawful exercise of public function, and injuries. Since it was approved as a proposal during the former administration to the current governor Graco Ramírez, the extent of the Mando Único was questioned, but the PRD member applied it the same, and from January 2013 to date, disapproval has registered and reluctance to approve this figure that is the majority in the state councilors, beginning and openly promoted by Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Municipal President of Cuernavaca by the PRD, who at the time mentioned this: “Unfortunately we are first in crimes.  The Mando Único doesn’t work.  (If it worked) things wouldn’t be as they are in Cuernavaca.  It hurts to know that we are the first in crimes.  I find it an injustice that they are going into the homes of the elderly; I find it an injustice that they are robbing people.” Other mayors have said that the hoarding of resources (approximately 400 million at the time) granted in order to run the Mando Único, creates an economic vacuum for the municipalities and that this, combined with the same impairment of the organization, is what causes their rejection of it.  Consequently, they have also come to express their fear of reprisals for their position of rejecting the figure, by the aforementioned Security Commissioner, Jesús Alberto Capella Ibarra, because intimidation has existed towards mayors who have not wanted to join the Mando Único. Source: Morelos 3.0

Father of Ayotzinapa Normalista honors his son by running in NY marathon Posted: 01 Nov 2015 04:15 PM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat The massive New York marathon kicked off today with one of the 50,000 participants being a heart broken father, running in honor of his son. In 2001, José Antonio Tizapa, left his native state of Guerrero in hopes of making it to the United States to secure a job to support his family.  At the time, the father of three was 33 years old when he left to the U.S. without the benefit of documentation. One of his three children, only 5 years old when Jose left Mexico,  his son Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño.  The father says despite the distance from NY where he settled, and Guerrero, he was able to keep in close contact with his son, thanks to the technology of today.   Jose was very proud of his son, who he says was studying to become a rural teacher, he was a student teacher, “a normalista”, who a year ago was attempting to decide, if he was going to remain in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, or transfer to the State of Mexico. Jose recalls that on the night of September 26th, 2014, he sent an electronic message to his son, but received no reply. He says that drew concern as he knew his son was travelling to Mexico City to protest against the lack of funds the schools were promised and never given. Later, his daughter telephoned Jose to tell him of the deadly attack against the normalistas as they Shirt reads;  Your Son is My Son, and  My Son is Your Son" Ayotzinapa 43  traveled through Iguala, Guerrero.  “That’s when I knew something very bad had happened,  I felt powerless because I couldn’t do anything about it.” José began his life in New York as a construction helper, who became a plumber and lives in Brooklyn.   He proudly points to the relentless determination of his wife Hilda, who, last February, with the support of NGO’s and Non Profit Orgs,  was able to travel to the UN Office in Geneva Switzerland. She spoke to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, asking them  to investigate the ex-governor of Guerrero, Ángel Aguirre,  and the negligence of the Mexican government in prosecuting  the former mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, for their role in the killings and disappearance of the 49 on the night of September 26.   She and the Guerrero delegation explained how for two years people of Guerrero had traveled to D.F. asking for help of the federal government in the killings and disappearances in Guerrero, and that the feds had directed them back to Guerrero saying “it is a state and municipal problem.” Jose said of the Switzerland trip, “my child’s mother is the one standing tall for justice, the impunity of the powerful is simply incomprehensible”.  The father says the last time he had a conversation with his son was on the 23rd.   “I like to run, so I sent him some pictures, telling him: Son, I’m going to run this 5-mile section. That was when a  marathon coming up,”  “I told him: ‘When I’m done, I will send you pictures." Hilda on left “I want them to bring back my child. Many people say that the kids are dead, but we do not see it this way,” said the anguished father, who pointed out that the students were neither activists or opponents. “The Ayotzinapa school receives few subsidies, that’s what prompted them to put pressure on the government,” he said. The father, has also participated in many demonstrations organized in New York in solidarity with the struggle of his wife Hilda and other Guerrero parents. In the photo at top,  Jose is with athlete Miguel Castro, who with Jose organized the  “Ayotzinapa 43×43”: a 43-mile run between New Jersey, and New York. “At this finish line, there were no trophies, “said Castro.  “It’s was a nameless, silent run that symbolizes México’s pain.” “No parent can endure the pain of months of uncertainty, not knowing what happened to your child, the rage and frustration of living in Mexico, a country of so much injustice”.   Hilda at home where she raised her three children The real hero of this story, Jorge’s mother Hilda I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the true and tireless hero of this story, Hilda Ledigeno, mother of Jorge, and the wife left behind to raise three children 14 years ago.   It is she who struggled against poverty and racism in Guerrero, a state which I know well and one of the southern states in which people struggle the most, with little help from any level of government.   It is far and away from Brooklyn New York.  Perhaps it is unfair to judge, and certainly I have no inside knowledge of the personal story of this family.  But I have been up close and personal to dozens of families living the story of dad leaving Guerrero, or Michoacán and travel north for jobs, with a plan of sending money back south to their families, and one day returning to Mexico.   And sometimes this does happen. But often the father assimilates to life in the U.S., acquires a new "wife" and family, discontinues sending support and closes the chapter of his life in Mexico. I am not saying that is what has happened in this story. And obviously Jose remains close to his children, but it is what kept nagging at my mind when writing this story.  I see Hilda’s humble home with cooking facilities outdoors, and it is Déjà vu for me, having just visited Guerrero and the very cities highlighted in the story of the normalistas.  Seeing how many fatherless homes, mothers struggling, working wherever work can be found,  for dismal pay, when the money from up north stops.   Those “fatherless” sons are not unlike the fatherless children of the U.S.  “Idle hands are the devils workshop” as the old proverb says.  It is an easy walk to the life of crime for children in these circumstances.   Hilda parented well, her children cared about education and making a difference.  All the texts, skypes, snapchats in the world never replaces a hands on parent. I will say, at least Jose kept a connection to his children, but he is not the hero of this story, it is all about Hilda. Some  material used in this post was accessed from: reforma, el diario, village voice, voice of ny

Member of musical group killed in Sinaloa Posted: 01 Nov 2015 10:26 AM PST A member of a musical group called The Cardinals of Sinaloa was executed by armed men. According to the first police reports, the victim was traveling with his companions from the Tatemas, Sinaloa town when they were intercepted by an armed group. The musical group were allegedly returning from a fifteen year old party. The subjects forced the accordionist out of the car, identified as Marcos Felix Bojorquez, 30, and shot him dead. The assailants forced the rest of the musicians to go on their way and then they left the body of the victim on a breach. According to the newspaper El Debate, at 8:30 am agents of the Municipal Police arrived at the crime scene. The musician's body was located eight kilometers from Sinaloa de Leyva, on a dirt road, face up and at first sight at least nine bullet wounds can be seen in the chest. The newspaper reported that next to the musician's hat on his right hand next to his had a was a rope with which he was tied, to stop any resistance. Bojorquez was wearing a red uniform, black boots and hat. The experts also located six R-15 rifle shells and three AK-47. The body was taken by a funeral home and transferred to Guasave where he underwent the necropsy. This article was translated from Proceso

Tombstone filled with 22 kilos of marijuana found in Mexico City Airport Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:48 AM PST With the help of a dog trained to detect drugs, elements of the Federal Police discovered a tombstone that had more than 22 kilos of marijuana hidden at the Mexico City International Airport. (AICM) The tombstone, stored in a wooden box came from Zapopan, Jalisco, and had as the recipient an address in the United States. On the tombstone the written words were "In loving memory Pedro Huerta. To live in the hearts of Those we love is never to die ". Additionally, the dates of birth June / 15/1945 and died February / 04/2015 Pedro Huerta appear. Inside the box detected by the dog, federal agents found a black plastic package containing more than 22 kilograms of marijuana. The tombstone and the drug were made available to the prosecutor of the Mexican city. This article was translated from Proceso

To All Libtardians, Democrats, and Those who support them!

Lazy Gun? ...

Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30.06 on the deck rail. I left six cartridges beside it, then left it alone and went about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, my neighbor across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of my house. After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there, right where I had left it.  It hadn't moved itself off the deck rail. It hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had presented to do so. In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself. 

  You can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the Left and the Media about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people. Either the media is wrong or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.

  The United States is third in murders throughout the World. But if you take out just four cities:Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans, the United States is fourth from the bottom, in the entire world, for murders.

  These four Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the U.S. 
  
All four of these cities are CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS. 

It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data - correct? Well, I'm off to check on my spoons. I hear they're making people fat.

William Gough

DUPLICITOUS BASTARDS IN THE SENATE PASS BI-PARTISAN BUDGET ACT OF 2015 BILL AT 3 A.M..WE HAVE LOST THE WAR WHEN LAWYERS ARE INVOLVED IN COMBAT MISSIONS ...

One Citizen Speaking...

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DUPLICITOUS BASTARDS IN THE SENATE PASS BI-PARTISAN BUDGET ACT OF 2015 BILL AT 3 A.M. Posted: 30 Oct 2015 03:23 AM PDT In the dark of night, once again the corrupt and lying Senators from both parties have perpetrated a fraud upon the American people … Remember all those promises to reduce spending and curb waste, fraud, and abuse – they were lies. Remember all those months when the Senators did little or nothing with the budget, thus creating an artificial “do or die” deadline that provided cover for all of the spending they secretly plan to divvy up amongst themselves – that is fraud. And, let us not forget the President who holds Congress hostage with the threat of vetoing the bill and disrupting the government and funding for critical programs such as the entitlements and the military – that is coercion and extortion. They do this year-after-year, hiding in the dark of night to pass bills that nobody fully reads nor understands. In this case the 144-page $80 billion spending bill known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was written late Monday, October 26, 2015 and the final Senate vote (64-35) came at 3 a.m. Friday, October 30, 2015. Insuring that Obama’s programs are funded until he leaves office. As for fiscal prudence, this bill includes $40 billion in NEW spending for 2016 and 2017. The vote details will be published here as soon as they are available so you can see how your Senator voted. Bottom line … A financial crime against the American people and there are few willing to hold the culprits accountable for stealing money from “We the People.” -- steve

WE HAVE LOST THE WAR WHEN LAWYERS ARE INVOLVED IN COMBAT MISSIONS Posted: 28 Oct 2015 03:47 PM PDT There is an old saying that lawyers are only good for three things: delaying decision you do not want to make, providing a reasonable explanation for a questionable action, and shifting the embarrassment of a failure. They are not impartial arbiters, but advocates for those who pay them  -- hence the ability to switch sides at a moment’s notice. In the case of federal lawyers, they are not responsible to their nation, “we the people,” but to their political overlords, making their findings and decisions suspect. And, in the case of combat, any decision that needs to be considered and vetted by an attorney, means that someone has screwed the pooch and forgotten that war is about killing people and breaking things until you have achieved a decisive victory over your enemy. One that makes them incapable of further aggression, terrorism, or stealth political action. Only a feckless and incompetent pussy like President Barack Obama would need to consult a lawyer to set the stage to kill or capture the man most responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attack – an act of war against the United States. Creating four targets for al Qaeda … [my comments in bracketed blue italics] How 4 Federal Lawyers Paved the Way to Kill Osama bin Laden Weeks before President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011, four administration lawyers developed rationales intended to overcome any legal obstacles — and made it all but inevitable that Navy SEALs would kill the fugitive Qaeda leader, not capture him. Stretching sparse precedents, the lawyers worked in intense secrecy. Fearing leaks, the White House would not let them consult aides or even the administration’s top lawyer, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. They did their own research, wrote memos on highly secure laptops and traded drafts hand-delivered by trusted couriers. [Does anyone else note the absolute stupidity of the New York Times in naming the lawyers involved – pictures included -- thus putting their lives at risk from retaliation for their part in sanctioning the killing of the al Qaeda leader?] Just days before the raid, the lawyers drafted five secret memos so that if pressed later, they could prove they were not inventing after-the-fact reasons for having blessed it. “We should memorialize our rationales because we may be called upon to explain our legal conclusions, particularly if the operation goes terribly badly,” said Stephen W. Preston, the C.I.A.’s general counsel, according to officials familiar with the internal deliberations. [Perfect, like any other corporate villain, President Obama wanted to cover his ass should things go bad and interfere with his domestic political agenda of getting re-elected and fundamentally transforming America. The same reason generally given by those who reported that Valerie Jarrett scrubbed previous missions to kill or capture bin Laden.]  While the Bin Laden operation has been much scrutinized, the story of how a tiny team of government lawyers helped shape and justify Mr. Obama’s high-stakes decision has not been previously told.The group worked as military and intelligence officials conducted a parallel effort to explore options and prepare members of SEAL Team 6 for the possible mission. [In retrospect, it is apparent that the high-stakes mentioned do not refer to the loss of American lives in a failed mission, but the reputational damage that would be suffered by Obama and his cadre of military-hating progressives should the mission fail and the men and materiel be captured and displayed on the world stage.  There is absolutely no justification for revealing the details of the mission, the combatants involved, and the people who provided mission support. But, then again, there was the Obama Administration leaking details to Hollywood for the sole purpose of glorifying Barack Obama’s”heroic” decision to kill bin Laden – something that would have given little or no pause to former presidents like John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, or the Bushes. Making the decision was not heroic and the use of lawyers to justify the action proves just how cowardly Obama really is when called to action.]  The legal analysis offered the administration wide flexibility to send ground forces onto Pakistani soil without the country’s consent, to explicitly authorize a lethal mission, to delay telling Congress until afterward, and to bury a wartime enemy at sea. By the end, one official said, the lawyers concluded that there was “clear and ample authority for the use of lethal force under U.S. and international law.” [Pakistan was harboring a high-level war criminal and should have been sanctioned for their duplicity. Unfortunately, their sole strategic importance is that they are a Muslim nation with nuclear weapons. One owing their existence to the fact that their sworn enemy is India and not Israel. And, by definition, any action against our enemies should be a lethal one.  As for burying a wartime enemy at sea, the fact that bin Laden was given a respectful religious military funeral is abhorrent to me when there are American citizens that were vaporized and no funerals possible. Then there is the question of why the details were not released that would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was bin Laden that was killed. Personally, he should have been buried wrapped in such a manner as to deny him any heavenly reward and as a message to our enemies.] Some legal scholars later raised objections, but criticism was muted after the successful operation. The administration lawyers, however, did not know at the time how events would play out, and they faced the “unenviable task” of “resolving a cluster of sensitive legal issues without any consultation with colleagues,” said Robert M. Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin who worked on a Justice Department detainee policy task force in 2009. [Lawyers have already been responsible for the deaths of numerous Americans who were hobbled by restrictive rules of engagement that favored our enemies and disadvantaged American combat personnel. All to insure that the optics of war were not creating a public relations nightmare for the pussified Obama Administration. The old soldier’s saying: “kill ‘em all and let God sort them out,” seems to work well with the Islamic enemy we face. Because those who do not directly want to kill us, openly fete those that do, or pray that all infidels are expunged from the Earth.] “The proposed raid required answers to many hard legal questions, some of which were entirely novel despite a decade’s worth of conflict with Al Qaeda,” Mr. Chesney said. [There is nothing new and novel about war, the need to kill our enemies and break their infrastructure. What is novel appears to be the cowards in the White House who refused to go to Congress as required and to cover their sorry collective asses if the mission failed.] The officials described the secret legal deliberations and memos for a forthcoming book on national security legal policy under Mr. Obama. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were confidential. [The truth emerges … either the administration is seeking cover prior to the publication of this book or they are seeking to glorify the lawyers – including the so-called “constitutional scholar” President Barack Obama.]  Read the rest of the story at: How 4 Federal Lawyers Paved the Way to Kill Osama bin Laden - The New York Times Bottom line … Like most things coming from the progressive New York Times and the White House, one must ask, it this the truth or another example of the smoke and mirrors used to conceal the fact that President Obama is perhaps the worst President of modern times – even worse than former President Jimmy Carter, the father of Islamo-fascism – and that this White House is the least transparent and most corrupt administrating in history. You cannot trust the progressive socialist democrats to protect America or ALL Americans. The fact that the democrats would run a corrupt, lying, military-hating wench like Hillary Clinton is proof positive that they have become the neo-communist party of the United States of America. Remember the safety and security of yourself, your family, your community, and your nation when you vote. And, the fact that the progressive socialist democrats want to disarm you and create an even bigger pool of potential victims for the enemies we are directly importing from the battlefield. We are so screwed. -- steve