January 30, 2012

No wait!

A judge in Detroit has ruled that the decision by police in neighboring Dearborn to arrest a Christian pastor who wanted to hand out Christian tracts at the city’s Arab fest in 2009 will cost the city some $100,000.

...That’s the decision following a request from the pastor’s attorneys that the losing side in the First Amendment argument over expressing religious perspectives on city streets be required to pay them for their work on behalf of Christian Pastor George Saieg.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Hat Tip: Pat.

January 27, 2012

Goes to Josh White of WAPO:

Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of the nation’s most recent heroes, aiming to desecrate the stones with Arabic statements and leave handfuls of explosive material nearby as a message.

no one knows for sure what led Melaku — a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ethi­o­pia, local high school graduate and former Marine Corps Reservist — down that path or what message he was trying to send.

How about Allahu Ackbar! dumbasses.

January 25, 2012

NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a fucking retard deluxe.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has severely criticized the New York Police Department (NYPD) for using a controversial movie The Third Jihad, to portray American Muslims as terrorists in their training of police officers.

Here's one

Daily Mail reports the video showed the White House with a black flag flying over it, and the message "Islam will dominate."

No, one of the featured Muslims in that section of the film is Younes Abdullah Muhammad who is currently being held on terrorism charges.

Here's the next complaints

The movie which was played to police recruits in counter-terrorism training seminars, also showed Christians being shot in the head by Muslim extremists and car bombs set off by Islamic militants. According to Huffington Post, it included footage of the Beslan school massacre in Russia, and the Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, saying that he believes the entire world must be ruled by Islam. The video shows other scenes of Muslim violence and a narrator saying: "This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America. A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America...This is the war you don’t know about."

Was there a massacre of Children in Beslan? Of course there was. Has Abu Yaha al-Liby actually said that? Well hell yes.

WTF were they thinking? Its madness! Why We can't have the people tasked with protecting us and fighting terrorism actually study the truth about Islamic radicals. That's totally outside of CAIR approved public discourse!

Here is an abridged version of the film. See for yourself.

Part II
Part III
Part IV.

You can purchase the full version here.

January 24, 2012

November 28, 2011

Thought Barney Frank was bad? Look who's set to replace him as the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee.

Maxine Waters!

November 18, 2011

Curses! He's onto us! Someone silence this fool before he ruins everything.

August 04, 2011

There were major objections by the Obama Administration over Rep. King's hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in America. Every Democrat on the committee used the hearings as an opportunity to condemn the whole notion of radicalization of Muslims in the US as inherently Islamophobic.

But yesterday the Obama Administration released its own strategy for countering -- homegrown radicalization.

So, if I'm understanding the logic here correctly: when Republicans try to counter homegrown radicalization, that's Islamobhobic. When Democratics do it, that's just national security. Or something.

The hypocrisy gets even thicker as the crux of King's hearings were that various Muslim communities needed to do more to counter radicalization because they are in the best position to stop it. And the crux of the Obama strategy? That Muslim communities need to do more to counter radicalization because they are in the best position to stop it.

One of these things is like the other. The only difference? When Republicans say it, they are bigots.

Because, you know, Republicans are bigots. That's a fact jack!

July 06, 2011

These were not the terrorists we were looking for.

Last week we reported that the Department of Homeland Security Israel on a list of 36 nations which “have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.” That's right Israel, who had been on the front lines of the war against Islamist terror almost since its creation 63 years ago was named a supporter of terror by the Obama administration.

The reaction to the report was immediate and wide-spread. After a week of feeling the pressure, the DHS announced today that it was all a bad mistake.

June 13, 2011

A tip to the Jawa from an anonymous source

Time Warner Cable here in New York is airing commercials from a 9/11 "truther" group calling itself "Remember Building 7." I was a little shocked when I saw their commercial on CNN of all places.

Just reviewing this group's stuff, WTC 7 is actually still standing, because you know, fire cannot melt steel.

Of course the groups is hoping to prey on the common sense of ignorant uneducated conspiracy theorists who see Jewish conspiracy behind every tree. But then serving up junk alarmist science to brain dead viewers is about half the cable channels' bread and butter, no?

What I find most disturbing is that for a few bucks, these companies help promote a world view this not only false but dangerous. In the Muslim world often conspiracy theory is used to justify terrorism or blamed for terrorism itself.

The Muslim world would much rather blame all its problems on the world wide Zionist conspiracy than to face them on their own. Time Warner and CNN are making it easy for them.

I guess it sells Cheetos though, so its all good right up until people start dying. But they will get to cover that too. So see, its all good.

Here's the ad that's running in major East Coast US markets.

I think I want to vomit.

In fact I wish I could vomit into an email and send it.

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June 04, 2011

As you may have heard by now, San Francisco will be voting this November on whether or not to ban circumcision in the city.

Defenders of the measure say it’s all about “human rights” and “protecting babies” from unnecessary procedures.

But critics suspected there was something vaguely anti-Semitic about the whole proposal, since among Jews (and Muslims, as well) circumcising male babies is a religious duty...

...Well, any doubt that they were lying have now been dispelled, with the publication of new campaign literature for the upcoming circumcision ban. The campaign comic book, called “Foreskin Man,” after its baby-saving superhero, features a litany of evil Jews doing battle with blond Nordic saviors.

Both me and my son are, you know, and we're freaking Baptists.

I tell you what, you hear all the time about the "mysterious bond of motherhood", and I don't want to take anything away from that.

But I was "in the area" as they came in to do the boy infants for the parents who had selected circumcision.

When my child cried I recognized the sound of my own, I had been a father for all of half a day. Amazing.

We seem to be none the worse for wear.

June 01, 2011

Salon:

Then there was the tale of the New Black Panther Party poll-watchers who "intimidated" Fox cameras in Philadelphia. You can imagine how much Drudge enjoyed that one.

Since Obama actually took office, though, Drudge has seriously stepped up his "scary black people" coverage. There was, in September of 2009, the story he heavily publicized of a kid on a bus in Illinois getting beaten up. A kid on a bus in Illinois getting beaten up is not really national news -- until Drudge makes it so.

I mean Drudge only runs links to stories that other media writes. So who's fault is that?

Or is it because they hate every iota of the white devil?

I would really like Rush Limbaugh to be attacked, beaten, and stabbed in the stomach. I think I would feel OK about that.

Personally we love Drudge, especially if we get a link.

Salon not getting any Linky love from Drudge?

And also Salon runs the same type of stories, its just their server sucks so badly, that you can't get there from Google.

They even reference Media Matters in their story. Now that's an objective source for you.

The only Open Season is the one that Media Matters and Salon have opened on Matt Drudge.

That's what gets me about lefties. They would dutifully report that there is a lot of violence in the black community due to the social and economic conditions in that group. Because it serves the leftist narrative.

But if other news reports on incidents of violence, and the perp is a person of color. Then they play the reayyycist card.

Is there anyone who would argue that there is not more violence in poor black communities?

It seems to me that a more violent community would result in more incidents of violence reported, but that's just me.

April 19, 2011

I know it's politics, but in the world I swim in when you attribute all results to the same cause we call you superstitious. Or an idiot. Take your pick. You know, like .... it's hot today because of God. But when it gets cold you also blame God. Or the pixies. Or the gremlins. Take your pick,.

When all variations in your dependent variable are not linked to variations in your independent variable, then normally we say your theory has been falsified.

So, what can we say about an administration that blames every bad thing on the last administration ... regardless of whether or not they have changed course or not?

Blaming Bush, it's just what they do:

House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder inquiring about the details of our report. In the letter dated Friday, April 15, King asks for Holder’s reasons for dropping these terror finance prosecutions.

In his letter, he goes beyond my own reporting and states that the DOJ decision was made:

…over the vehement and stated objections of special agents and supervisors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas, who had investigated and successfully prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation case.

But now we’re starting to get wind of the Obama administration’s response. Fearful that this could easily turn into “Holdergate,” the administration is trying to spin its way out of this potential morass by returning to an old standard: WE BLAME BUSH!!

April 18, 2011

March 22, 2011

Did I mention there is a Neo-Commie in the White House?

Protein Wisdom:

What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal. Michael Medved might not like to hear this; Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg likely won’t, either — concerned, as they both are, about the “rightwing” “bash Obama” industry (which isn’t helping “the folks”); Jeb Bush surely doesn’t, if such a revelation means that his standing on stage with Obama in the swing state of FL to burnish his “pragmatic centrist” bona fides then looks like either betrayal of conservative principles, or a real lack of discernment and judgment; and of course, the establishment GOP, who has built its entire political strategy on the idea that Washington is and always will be business as usual (and it is — for them) probably want to skip this as well.

But those of us who met the election of Barack Obama with cries of opposition knew what was coming — all one had to do was bother to look — and we reluctantly pushed the GOP back to power in November to fight the attempt by the left to finish its takeover of our country.

March 14, 2011

Boo-friggin-hoo!

Wiping tears from beneath her dark-rimmed glasses, Anne Moser, 47, who works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's science-based Water Library, said, "People know that violence doesn't get you anywhere. The attack the Republicans have made is violent and a violation of human rights. It is an attack on the middle class. We teach our children to follow rules and to sit at the table and work it out, but that certainly hasn't happened here."

Obligatory video below.

Update: OH, boy! Ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy! Here is the public contact page of Anne Moser, 47, who works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's science-based Water Library. Feel free to send her a sympathetic note and let her know you feel her pain.

And keep it as civil as the Wisconsin union protesters kept it during their month long siege of the Wisconsin Capitol building.

Please, just keep it civil. Don't disrespect the Bing!

February 28, 2011

"L.A. Police Union Urges Members to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ with SEIU and MoveOn.Org"

Thanks to Cannoneerno4

Related:

Wisconsin cops take sides with leftist protesters inside capitol building

February 20, 2011

It's for the children!!:

"Hello Vicki,

I am a triage RN at a clinic in downtown Madison. Reports of teachers calling and scheduling appointment at clinic for doctors excuses is absolutely true. On Thursday and Friday last week both my clinic and our UC apts were completely booked. MANY of these people had very vague symptoms and happened to need a work excuse. There were patients that I had to send to the ER because I could not get them an appointment in a timely manner. This cost both the patient and the insurance co. a lot of money!

Honestly, I would rather teachers find themselves a fraudulent excuse on the street instead of using up all our clinic appointments and taking up my time to triage them on the phone. They have put doctors and nurses in a very frustrating position.

This is yet another example of the utter selfishness displayed by our public employees last week. cannot imagine how anyone could justify taking a doctor’s appointment away from someone who is truly sick to cover their own butt!

BTW, I removed her identifying information--frankly to protect her from a possible (likely!) backlash

h/t Mellisa

February 17, 2011

If we do ever catch bin Laden or Zawahiri, let's just hope the Obama administration also changes their mind on enhanced interrogation techniques, too. I'll bring the ball gag, you bring the jumper cables.

December 30, 2010

No wonder he turned teh bad ghey....

Peace groups outside the main gate of Beale Air Force Base today are protesting the treatment of the private suspected of handing secret reports over to WikiLeaks.

They are also calling on military personnel at the base to resist war and the use of the drones.

Protesters from Veterans for Peace, CodePINK and other groups are asking for "basic constitutional principles and human rights" be extended to Pfc. Bradley Manning.

And if you really really want too. That image above is clickable.....oh my...

Hat Tip: Barry.

December 23, 2010

(Hat Tip: JammieWearingFool)

A middle-aged man was beaten to death allegedly by his four wives at village Kabirpur under sadar upazila of the district early Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Yunus Bapari, 46, an auto-rickshaw driver and resident of Mulalidaha under sadar upazila.

The police said that at about 11:00pm Monday, Yunus went to a village fair at Brahmankanda near Faridpur town with his two wives where he ran into his third wife that triggered a family row as his first two wives did not know he had a third wife.

At one point the three women came to know that Yunus even had a fourth wife living in another village. The three women then took him to the residence of his fourth wife at Kabirpur where the four women together beat him up mercilessly, locals said.

Yunus was admitted to Faridpur Medical College Hospital in a critical condition where he died at 4:50am. The body was sent to the hospital morgue for post-mortem examination.

At least he avoided the dreaded Christmas STD!

November 15, 2010

Also do not look at the hot chick's behind while in line or it may subject you to special attention.

“Your groin was blurred,” he explained.

We went into a little room, where he put on blue gloves and explained that he was going to touch me in various private places. He was very specific not only about the places, but also about when he would be using the front of his hand, and when he would be using the back of his hand. (I honestly don’t think it’s any less creepy either way, but I did not say this, for fear of being viewed as an international terrorist.)

OMG its a Khinspiracy!

Oh no! Don't tell me you fell for the blurred groin scam?

They tried to catch me with it but I explained that the batteries in my cloaking device were beginning to run down.

November 02, 2010

Indian Express:

A woman journalist from Canada, who was abducted by militants in November 2008, has died following prolonged illness in the custody of the Taliban somewhere in northwest Pakistan or Afghanistan, sources said on Tuesday.

Khadija Abdul Qahar, 55, who was known as Beverly Giesbrecht before she converted to Islam, was abducted along with her translator Salman Khan and cook-cum-driver Zar Muhammad while travelling to Miranshah in the restive North Waziristan tribal region.

UPDATE by Rusty: I'm bumping and updating this because I think some of you probably don't know Bev and don't know the backstory.

Geisbrecht once published a website called "Jihad Unspun" under the name "Khadija Abdul Qahaar". The website was pro-Taliban. I don't mean this in the sense that many on the Left are pro-Taliban -- they support any opponents of the US -- I mean this in the literal sense: she and the website supported the Taliban.

A few years ago Beverly and a collaborator who had done work with al Jazeera began showing up on a forum that I once moderated asking for help contacting "the mujahideen". They wanted to do a documentary on "the resistance" in several countries, including Afghanistan.

So, I knew Beverly. She was not a "journalist" as the MSM is reporting. She was an activist on behalf of terrorists and Islamofascists.

She and her collaborator eventually tried to make it to Afghanistan to make contact with the people she supported, the Taliban. But, as it turned out, her own pro-Taliban narrative -- that the Taliban were freedom fighters protecting Muslims from the brutality of the Americans -- turned out to be wrong. The Taliban took her hostage and threatened to behead her.

Let her sad life story be an example to all Muslims who think that America is the cause of their troubles and the Islamists the solution. This is objectively false.

Beverly knows this now. Too bad she had to learn this lesson the hard way.

Previous:
The Jawa Report: Next Step in the Beverly Giesbrecht Scam
Time Up: Did Taliban Murder Pro-Taliban Activist
Video: Taliban Threaten to Behead Pro-Taliban
We Told You: Taliban Decide Not to Kill Pro-Taliban Canadian Traitor
Taliban Wants $375,000 For Kidnapped Canadian Taliban Supporter

More here.

See Also:
jihadunspun unhinged
Abu Izzadeen chats about Jihad Unspun
Jihad Unspun: Allah's own wartime profiteers

October 29, 2010

Via Jim Hoft

RepubliCorp™ is a Soros-funded MoveOn.org creation.

I would have pressed charges against that douchebag!!

RepubliCorp™ Facebook
RepubliCorp™ Twitter
RepubliCorp™ YouTube

October 21, 2010

Who knew?

Differently NSFW: Video "Eat Da Poo Poo":

Related:
Good News: Obama "Safe Schools" Czar Recommends Child Porn to Kids

October 20, 2010

Michelle has a rejoiner to Maureen Dowd's hit piece "Mean Republican Women:

My column today is a rejoinder to Maureen Dowd’s plaintive wail about Republican Mean Girls in the NY Times on Sunday. I’ll take a GOP mama grizzly who wants government to leave you alone over a Democrat bully bureaucrat any day. As yesterday’s failed attacks on *Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and Sharron Angle showed, the ladies of the Right have the harridans of the Left in a frenzy. If you’re catching flak, you’re over the target.[Read the rest..]

Related:
*Daily Kos: Markos Is Sew Smert!!
White House, When You Do A News Dump Get Your Stories Straight[Carol Browner]
Obama Buried Damning Report[Kathleen Sebelius]
"Don't Drop the Soap" Board Game[Kathleen Sebelius]
Obi One Reaching Out Quiety To Muslims Of America[Valerie Jarret]
Envoy: Obama Is America's "Educator in Chief on Islam", Will Support Criminalizing Defamation of Religion[Valerie Jarret]

October 18, 2010

Good news. But the problem is only half fixed. Since the board won't meet until after the election, it looks like the endorsement of Reid, Boxer, et al will stand. For now.

But this is what you get when the every day members of an organization stand up to its institutionalized leadership.

October 11, 2010

Click image to listen or download here

Today[yesterday...ed], on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, Aaron refrences the Democratic rally held this past Saturday. Aaron is joined by legendary stand up comedian Jackie Mason. Klein and Mason dive into a discussion over the tea-party movement.

Is Eric Holder the most dangerous man in America?

October 10, 2010

My replies, when one isn'tenough:

Meh......

October 06, 2010

It seems the Neo-commies are the establishment now!

Huffpo:

Reports of Tucker's Tea Party affiliation aroused mixed feelings from fans -- on Prefix magazine's story, comments ranged from plenty of support to some disappointment.

Obama Is Carter noted: "What a total shame that a musician is not walking lockstep with the liberal left. I guess the part about punk musicians being anti-establishment only applies when that establishment is not being run wholly by left-wing Democrats."

hells littlest angel writes: "Just goes to show no matter how cool you are when you're young, you can still end up a bitter old crackpot."

September 29, 2010

Yesterday evening I posted a video regarding a assault on citizen journalist: Ohio Gov Strickland Supporter, Scioto County Sheriff Looking For You. Outrageous linked to another video regarding a assault on citizen journalist:

I checked the youtuber's channel. In comments, I read this: "We now know that the thug in the video is former Democratic Portland Mayoral Candidate James Posey".

Simple Google turned up this from Examiner-Portland

Chicagoland: Former Portland mayoral candidate assaults activist at Kitzhaber meet and greet[...]

At an open-invitation public meet and greet which included Oregon gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber on Thursday, a local activist with a camera met that violent reality face to face. Or fist to face, as it turned out.

The activist, whose name is being withheld from this report due to fear of further reprisal, showed up for the event at Immanuel Temple Church in N.E. Portland on Thursday ready to film the event and post it on the internet as he had done at multiple political events this Summer[...]

It didn’t turn out that way.[...]

The first man to try to forcibly take the camera was Charles McGee, one of the event’s planners. After some discussion, McGee told the activist “You’re going to stop filming and you’re going to leave.” Soon after, McGee reaches out, grabs the camera but fails to get it from the activist. McGee efforts were joined by James Posey, a 2004 candidate for Portland Mayor, and the two men flanked the videographer on opposite sides. At some point, Posey reaches up swiftly and smashes the camera into the activist’s face.

After the assault, the activist removed himself from the church building and called the police, who are, as of Friday, investigating the incident.

Posey did take our call but declined to comment on the specifics of the incident saying that there may be “legal ramifications in doing so”. [...]

Posey, who garnered about 5% of the vote in Portland’s 2004 primary race for Mayor, has been outspoken in the past about violence, theft and intimidation tactics. The following is an excerpt from his 2004 voter pamphlet:[Read the rest]

September 10, 2010

Every assmaggot is crawling out from under rocks to get in on all the free publicity, but this group also joined in to warn the Pastor or he will be a target or something....

Thanks to Jim Hoft

September 09, 2010

Wow, the offer is actually a pretty good move on Jones' part. It's a good bluff. So good I'd hate to have to face this guy across a poker table.

And if those who are offended by this or that have veto power over the actions of private individuals or groups, then why not just swap the offensive actions out? We could start a Craig's list page: you promise not to do that and I'll promise not to do this.

Personally, I'd force Howie to stop posting all the hot lesbian pics which I know offend some of you in exchange for the Atlantic firing Andrew Sullivan and replacing him with someone less inclined to the vapors.

Question: If and when Terry Jones and Imam Rauf meet and shake hands, will they both instantly vaporize? You know, like when matter and anti-matter collide. Because it seems to me these guys are pretty much the same douchebag only on opposite ends of the spectrum.

August 25, 2010

Wait, did I say Tea Party activist? I meant to say Talking Points Memo blogger, left wing activist, and ... GZ Mosque supporter.

He won, she lost. Yada, yada, yada, yada ..... yawn.

July 07, 2010

I think I'll put the Alvin Green action figure right between Han Solo (Hoth outfit) and Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.

July 06, 2010

Oh, wait, did I say Tea Partiers?

On Friday April 9, 2010, GOP official Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown attended a Republican dinner at Brennan’s restaurant in New Orleans. When they left this event the young Republicans were followed from the restaurant by a group of five white men who hurled insults at them calling Allee a “little blond bitch” and calling Joe a “f**king f*ggot.” They savagely beat and stomped on the young Republican couple just blocks from the restaurant.

Thanks to J.

June 23, 2010

UPDATE headline stolen from jcrue in the comments. I think it pretty much sums up McChrystal's firing. I don't have much time to add to the already lengthy post below, but if someone was going to take over then I agree with Patrick and I'm glad it was Patreaus. Let's hope he straps on a pair and he and Gates can gang up on the small-footprint people, like Biden, to get 'er done.

UPDATE II: I suspect all the outrage over McChrystal's so-called insubordination are coming from people who have only read the pull quotes from the Rolling Stone article and didn't actually bother to read the article itself.

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I honestly don't get this whole McChrystal thing. I've read the Rolling Stone article. There's nothing in there that could possibly be considered insubordination. The worst diss in it is against Vice President Biden, which isn't really that bad in my mind. Juvenile? Maybe, but not nearly as bad as it's being portrayed. But besides that Biden isn't even in the chain of command!

Sure, McChrystal says some stuff about Ikenberry, but this is, er, news? We've known about the McChrystal-DOD feud with the Ikenberry-State Department for many months now. I didn't hear any one call McChrystal insubordinate back then.

And, again, Ikenberry isn't in the chain of command either.

The only criticism of Obama -- who is clearly in the chain of command -- is from an aide. And the criticism isn't nearly as bad as it's being portrayed in the media. It's rather, well, humanizing. Which is kind of the point of these lame human interest articles: our military leaders are human.

It's like The Oprah Winfrey Show in print, only with a couple of dirty jokes and obscure references thrown in there to make the readers think they are in some kind of cutting edge and exclusive hipster club.

But the second-hand and mild criticism does one thing that neither the media nor the White House can tolerate: it suggests that Obama isn't the lazer beam focused genius that they like to portray him as.

In fact the criticism, if we can even call it that, makes him seem rather disengaged. Which is the narrative the media had for Bush, not Obama.

Saying that McChrystal was disappointed because Obama once seemed disengaged because a meeting with a politician turned out to really be a photo op isn't insubordination, it's just a human reaction. More than that, it's the proper reaction. McChrystal finds out that the guy he supported, The One, really is just another politician. Imagine the disappointment.

But it is a cardinal sin with the thin skinned feckless Obama Administration to point this out. One cannot compare The One to Bush, even if only mildly and indirectly. His public image is too important.

All this posturing about McChrystal is really just that: posturing.

It seems to me that the White House just needed something to make Obama look tough in the aftermath of, well, everything, and this rather lame article trying to humanize McChrystal was the first opportunity to do so after the failed get-tough-with-BP posturing of last week. And the failed get-tough-with-corporate-America posturing of the months prior. And what was it that he was getting tough with before that? Oh, those meanies in the health care industry.

Let's face it, Obama is a pussy. A thin skinned one at that.

He's Jimmy Carter, and someone in his staff just told him to take off the elbow-patched sweater and grow a set. With polls down, something has to be done. Anything. And anything includes taking McChrystal to task to make him look like he has something between his legs.

And the media? Lest we forget when real policy objections and criticisms were reported by top Pentagon officials against Bush's Iraq policies, those critics were lauded as brave whistleblowers.

Once again the media shows that it's not so much committed to the leftwing values they learned in journo school, it's just that they are a bunch of partisan hacks.

Look, I'm not a big McChrystal fan. Not because of this, but because I think he sold out when he compromised with Biden on the number of troops needed to finish the job in Afghanistan. If we use Iraq as the model, it is my estimation that far far more troops need to be sent to Afghanistan than McChrystal requested. Compromise may be a political virtue, but in military strategy it can sometimes be a vice. We have too few troops in Afghanistan for proper COIN, and too many for proper CT.

That might be grounds for firing. But this? This? Come on: this is nothing. Literally no big deal.

Unless you consider expressing disappointment that Obama didn't seem as engaged as you thought he would be a big deal. Which apparently the White House and the partisans of the Left do. Hell, even some on the right have their panties all in a wad over this non-event.

It gives them the vapors.

In my estimation the thin skinned maidens in the White House wanted to take the time to remind the American people -- at a time that more and more of us are seeing the President as a Carter like beta -- that Obama really is an alpha male. Tough guy number one.

But it only makes him look weak. Like the nerd hall monitor picking on the captain of the football team in a lame attempt at impressing some cheerleader with his authority.

The only thing this shows me is that Obama is a grade-A wuss. A think skinned one at that. And that the White House is grasping at straws. So don't believe the insubordination narrative. It is complete and utter bullshit.

June 14, 2010

Bob Etheridge has some 'splainin' to do.

May 04, 2010

Tea Party activists on short list of suspects.