13 Hours in Benghazi is the "smoking gun"

13 Hours in Benghazi

I watched the Fox News special last night.  It focused on the experience of three contract security men who were on the ground in Benghazi the night of 9-11.  In the entire one hour special, there were only about 2 minutes of politics.  Unless you consider their opinion that had they been dispatched when they were ready to go the Ambassador and Chris Stevens could have been saved political, the men never commented on the politics of the situation.

My #1 take away from it was that there seemed to be no sense of urgency from anyone in a leadership position that was not actually in Benghazi.

#2 I expect that the Left Libs will be out in force this morning trying to discredit the men and justify the decisions or lack there of, of the Dope politicians and their hired yes men wannbe generals in the Pentagon to do nothing while Americans were rather slowly being killed.  Look for the Left libs their lapdog MSM stooges to close ranks and take careful aim at the character of the brave messengers in this story.

#3 is what an absolute farce the video explanation of the assault is. The attack was very well coordinated and had nothing to what-so-ever to do with a video or anything else other jihadis out to kill Americans on 9-11.

#4 is that if they just stick to the truth, the fall hearings into Benghazi now have more potential pitfalls for the Dopes than for the Republicans.  The lack of response, the video, the prolonged cluelessness of Admin officials including TES clinging to BS about spontaneous demonstration due to some video is going to be exposed as the BS it is.  Also while Admin officials claim there was no “stand down order” ever issued to any American force in position to affect a rescue at the mission, the men dispute that claim head on.  If handled correctly, the truth will come out.  The truth, as always, is not a friend of the Dope party.

#5 the skill and courage of the men in Benghazi is breathtaking.  Any Dope who takes on the character of these guys is likely to end up looking like a lying political hack.  That description includes about 99.9999% of the people in this administration, 99.9888% of the MSM, 99.97777% of Hollywood hipsters and about 98% of Dopes in general.  They have so much invested in TES they will be out force today looking to trash these guys.

A split in the Catholic Church?

Near the end of the Catholic profession of faith there’s the line, “I believe in one holy, Catholic and apostolic church.”  This article may indicate an impending split in the church.  We swapped Cardinal O’Conner for Dolan and Pope Benedict for Francis.  Those are worse trades than when Boston sent a player named Ruth to New York so the Red Sox owner could raise money for the Broadway flop No, no Nannette.  I believe the church is headed in the wrong direction.  The only comfort in any of this is Father David Mary's encouragement that in its 2,000 year history, "the Catholic clergy has not been able to destroy the church" so it may continue even through this.   

Along that line, I decided to send my letter on immigration along to Bishop Rhoades.  It was a tough decision.  After reading Father Pope’s letter I’m glad I did.  The finished product is below.

Dear Bishop Rhoades:

I have read and reread your column published in the August 10^th edition of Today’s Catholic.  I wasn’t going to reply because I’m a guy who happens to support the rule of law.  In today’s America, on this issue, to many that makes me hard-hearted and un-Christian.  Weird huh?  Simply for expecting the nation to have a secure southern border and an orderly process to enter the country, I’m labeled some kind of xenophobic racist.

Now that our president seems to be on the cusp of exercising some kind of extra constitutional powers that he has bequeathed upon himself with regard to the nation’s immigration policy, I’ve decided to vent on this issue.  Our president says, “If congress won’t act, I will,” but when congress does act by voting against the DREAM Act, the president ignores them and acts unilaterally.  How are the president’s actions that ignore the wishes of the elected representatives of the people while acting without their consent on a host of other issues any different from many of the corrupt tyrannical governments run by despots that the refugees flooding our southern border thought they were escaping?

We might start by asking ourselves how we arrived at this humanitarian crisis.  We have 60,000 children who have flooded our border since October.  Why?  Haven’t the poverty, violence and gang crime that have gripped the countries contributing to the flow of unaccompanied minors to our southern border existed for decades?  Why are they risking everything to come to America now?

One reason - the main reason in my opinion – is that our president, unconstrained by the congress, the constitution, or any law, natural or civil, simply announced to the world that the policy of prosecutorial discretion — which allows immigration agents to defer deportation of low-risk, non criminal undocumented immigrants — would be expanded to all DREAM eligible youth.  As a result, governments are running ads on radio telling their citizens to get their children to America before this arrangement ends.  In addition many are offering primers to their state sponsored “refugees” on how to access the American welfare system upon arrival.

With no real impediment what-so-ever to their crossing the U.S. southern border, they’ve flooded in.  It’s sort of an “if you don’t build it (a wall) they will come” situation.  The “they” in this case not only includes the needy children but also includes large numbers of drug trafficking gang bangers, human smugglers, probably some Islamic State terrorists, maybe a few ebola carriers etc.  Who knows who is coming in?

Also complicit in this humanitarian crisis, in my opinion, is the US Council of Catholic Bishops.  The USCCB has been an open and loud advocate for amnesty – not only for children but for the 11 million illegal aliens already in America.  Don’t think that the USCCB’s continuous calls for amnesty don’t affect people’s decision to risk entering the country illegally.  I agree.  We are facing a humanitarian crisis, but the sequence of events leading to the crisis are all of our own doing.

I think everyone would agree that America can easily absorb 60,000 children.  That said, no one in government seems to know what the final total will be or when the crisis will end.  Of course reuniting these children with their families ought to be the goal.  When that happens, will that start a chain migration process that will increase the total number migrants entering the country due to this crisis by a factor of five to ten times?  And what about the other children of the world who face similar circumstances but cannot simply hop a train and arrive at an open American southern border?  Do we have some kind of orderly process to address those children?  And not to be too crass, since the focus is on illegal migrant children, I assume that all American children have been fully served by USCCB.  After all the U-S in USCCB stands for…what?

I honestly believe that you and the USCCB don’t see this crisis in political terms.  There is one political party in this country that sees EVERYTHING as political.  For this party sports, the arts, music, TV, movies, every form of entertainment, and local, regional and global news story - EVERYTHING - is political.  While helping these children is an apolitical issue, the undeniable truth is that how this crisis is handled will have far-reaching, long-term political ramification for America.  As has been the case with most issues of my adult life, USCCB chooses to side with Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry Catholics in these political questions.

Governments fail for many reasons.  They become too big, corrupt and unresponsive to the people they are formed to serve then in their final days bureaucrats loot the treasury to line their own pockets, grow the government and buy votes and security.  We are nearly 18 trillion dollars in debt with no hope of this generation or the next ten paying that bill.  That doesn’t even include an estimated 90 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  The IRS, Bureau of Land Management, NSA, DoJ, EPA, VA and the rest of the government alphabet soup seem to be staffed wholly with overpaid corrupt bureaucrats more concerned with their own interests than serving the people these agencies were established serve.  America has 45 million people on food stamps, 11 million on disability, 47% of Americans receive some kind of government stipend and today’s labor force participation rate has not been seen since the 80s.  So it’s not surprising that the US Chamber of Commerce like the USCCB would be calling for an amnesty to provide a replacement work force for the one our government pays not to work.

The ash heap of history is littered with the carcasses of failed societies and governments that thought that they could bend natural, societal and economic law in order to maintain power or achieve equal outcomes among differing peoples.  Today a good portion of Americans, a majority it seems of their elected officials, the Chamber of Commerce and the USCCB seem to believe that simply because America has been successful in the past we are immune to the forces of these laws.  We are not. For good or for ill, those forces will have their way.

America has been a force for good for the last 200 plus years, but anything that cannot last forever won’t.  I think America is reaching that point.  Then what?  Who will do the good works for children world-wide that Americans have done when we are an entire nation that looks like Detroit or California or simply devolves into a corrupt, lawless, one-party state like the ones the children at our southern border are fleeing?  

The solution:

First, of course, the children at our border should be dealt with as compassionately as possible.  That does not include announcing to the world that they will be allowed to stay and invite extended members of their families to join them.  Even if the government does not intend to deport even the vilest of MS 13 drug smugglers entering the country illegally, the public position of the government and the USCCB should be that the overwhelming majority of these children will be reunited with their families in their country of origin.  We should stop all talk of any kind of general amnesty that only acts as a magnet to get into the country under the deadline for that amnesty.

Next, as a further deterrent, the government and the USCCB should advocate securing America’s southern border with high walls and wide gates.  How we deal with people who arrive unannounced at the wall or gates can be debated, but they should not be allowed to simply stroll into America undocumented with 200 pounds of cocaine.  The vast majority of America’s Catholic churches come with locks on the doors.  At some point during the day people are asked to leave the church and the doors are locked.   The position of the USCCB on America’s borders should be the same as for its churches.  When the USCCB advocates that US Catholic churches should remain open 24-7 allowing in anyone and everyone who wants to enter to take up residency in the pews, then their objection to controlled borders and controlled immigration will seem a bit less hypocritical.

Next, USCCB should advocate government policies and tax incentives that encourage families, children and work.  Currently the traditional nuclear family is under assault by the government, Hollywood and the mainstream media.  Babies are looked upon by many as a fashion accessory or a burden, (Recall, when advocating for abortion, the president said that he wouldn’t want his daughter to be “burdened with a baby?”).  The government pays people up to $46,000 a year in cash and “benefits” not to work.  If we do not change these trends the American culture will not have to worry about being taken over by outside forces it will simply die off through a self-inflicted attrition.  What follows will be anyone’s guess.

Last, instead of inviting hundreds of millions of suffering people around the world to America, the USCCB should be working to address their heart-breaking circumstances in their homelands.  The most effective deterrent to poverty in history has proven to be democratic government fueled by a regulated capitalist economy.  If the USCCB’s position is that capitalism concentrates too much wealth in to few hands, what’s their position on government ownership of and redistribution of assets that creates suffocating poverty every single time it is tried?

Bishop, if you have made it this far in this long letter, you truly are a great man.  I know that you are a wise and compassionate man who will, if not agree with the points contained herein, at least give them your consideration.

With great respect and admiration for you and love of our faith,

$15 min wage for burger flippers will automate the industry

I like fast food.  I rarely eat it.  I stop mostly when on a road trip.  I stop because it’s fast, consistent and cheap.  To my horror, fast food workers went on strike yesterday.  The 16 year old high schooler or 40 year old high school drop out apparently thinks a gig a McDonald’s is worth $15 an hour.  Unless you’re the owner of the establishment, it isn’t.

Simple question, if a burger flipper is worth $15 an hour, what’s certified plumber or electrician worth?  It’s gotta be in the hundreds of dollars an hour.  Of course paying $15 an hour to burger flippers would mean an end to the burger house itself.  Who’s going to pay what it would cost for the McDonald’s kid to make $15 an hour to get your order wrong?

These economic realities rarely have an affect on the mind of a Lefty Lib who hears, “raise the minimum wage” and reflexively responds with a “Hell yeah!”   I’ve offered Lex jr. and a neighbor kid $2 an hour to sweep and pick up sticks around the compound.  That is all those two particular tasks are worth to me.  No one has taken me up on it.  One kid said he’d do it for $3.  I suspect he wouldn’t, but I didn’t take the bait.  It’s mindless work worth 2 bucks an hour.  Because it’s mindless, sometimes I enjoy doing it myself.

So with the threat of a $15 an hour min wage for burger flippers - which is only about a step and half up the ladder of success from picking up sticks and sweeping at the compound – the death of fast food loomed in my mind.

Then halleluiah, I read this.  Someone finally put their engineering degree to a good decent use.  I see a Nobel prize in the offing for this humanitarian effort that will save the fast food industry.  They have a robot that can flip 360 perfect burgers per hour.  And – the owner doesn’t have worry about some disgruntled teenager showing up on YouTube spitting on the grill.  If they have a burger flipping machine, you already pour your own drink at most these places, can deep frying machine and smoothy machines be far off?  I see the day where you plug your order into a electronic box and your CORRECT order comes off a conveyor to your place in line within a minute. 

The people going on strike for a $15 an hour min wage to flip burgers cannot be the smartest bunch on the block.  They wouldn’t be 40 years old flipping burgers if they were.  Then they wouldn’t be stupid enough to give the owner good reason to fire their worthless azzes if they had an ounce of common sense.  Besides isn’t the unemployment rate still well above 6%?  Aren’t illegal kids flooding the border?  Do these dumbazzes seriously suppose that if they walked off the job permanently tomorrow it take more than a few minutes to replace them?

I actually heard one idiot woman from NY complaining that she had 5 kids and couldn’t make ends meet on the $8 an hour McD’s is paying her.  Three questions came immediately to mind, where’s dad(s)?  Why did you have 5 kids?  Why can’t you get a better job?  The fact that she’s striking a fast food establishment generous enough to hire her gives some insight to why this woman will always be dependant on government or someone willing to give her something for nothing.  

Sending mixed messages is a sign of being a dope

In the post under Lex once again points out that in addition to being an empty suit The Empty Suit isn’t all that smart.  I’ve always suspected that TES was a dim bulb but when he showed up an event for school children and spoke off a teleprompter all doubt was removed.  The guy uses the teleprompter to avoid speaking like the dope that he is.

TES was off the prompter yesterday when he said our objective is to destroy ISIS.  He was still off the prompter a few minutes later when he said our objective is to reduce ISIS to a manageable problem.  Hmm, seems to me if it’s destroyed it’s no longer a problem. 

Carthage was not a “manageable problem” after its defeat.  It ceased to exist.  The city was razed, its fleet was burnt, its occupants sold into slavery, and salt was plowed into the ground.  There was no Carthaginian Liberation Front bitching about occupied Carthage for the Romans to deal with because there were no Carthaginians left.

I would think after 9-11 we’d be taking the same approach with ISIS as the Romans did with Carthage.  The Phil Robertson approach of convert them or kill them seems reasonable to me.  Since the conversion process cannot be trusted, we should just kill them.

How they are killed is unimportant.  There seems to be more disgust with how the two American journalist - Foley and Sotloff  - were killed than the fact that they are dead.  I suppose cutting off heads and posting the video on YouTube is a bit much, but what really pees me off is that ISIS killed them in the first place.  The way they were killed is a bit irrelevant to me right now.  Dead is dead. 

Like when there were headlines about botched executions.  I had visions of the prisoner on beach somewhere drinking a Pina Colada.  No, he was dead.  So was “botched” really the right word? 

But thank goodness ISIS scum aren’t relieving themselves on the dead bodies.  That would be a bad move on ISIS’s part.  That move might rile up wannabe Marine and wannbe Gen Amos into wanting to crush ISIS.   And unlike America’s punch line - Slow Joe Biden - I don’t want to follow these villains to the gates of hell.  I just want to send them there the sooner the better.   But since I’ve often thought of telling Slow Joe to go to hell, I’m glad he’s volunteered to go.  On second thought, these blowhards NEVER engage in the activities they advocate for the people or the nation.

Like everything else, The Empty Suit "didn't know" about the rise of JV team ISIS, blames poor intell

When the economy didn’t rebound after a trillion dollar stimulus bill, The Empty Suit blamed Bush.  When the shovel ready jobs that much of the stimulus money was supposed to be aimed at never appeared, The Empty Suit laughed it off.  After all what’s a trillion dollars?  When Eric the wad Holder got Brian Terry killed with a harebrained idea to give narco-terrorists guns, The Empty Suit claimed he read about in the papers, same with the NSA spying, same with the IRS scandal which latter brushed aside by claiming there’s wasn’t even a smidgen of corruption in the most corrupt of government agencies.  After six years and an irresponsible exit from Iraq The Empty Suit blames Bush for his decision to cut and run.  Now ISIS is on the rise lopping off heads at rate not seen since the French Revolution.  The Empty Suite blames the unopposed rise of ISIS on faulty intelligence. 

Like the rest of it, The Empty Suit is a liar.  A former intell whistleblower let it be know that that TES got daily briefings on the rise of ISIS far ahead of his stupid JV comment.  Even the smug Pentagon spokesman - wannbe Adm Kirby - admitted that the Pentagon was well aware of the growth and danger of ISIS for months.  So you’d have to believe that they knew about it but kept it from TES – not a likely scenario – or TES is lying.  Well if “you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan” is any indication, TES is a liar.

The reason nothing was done about ISIS in its infancy is that TES - despite what we’re told over and over again - isn’t that smart.  We were assured by the political talking class that TES was the smartest guy ever, but don’t ask for any transcripts to prove it.  So with the cover of the Dopes, the hipster Hollywood know nothings, and the MSM the myth of TES’s mental acumen persists with no evidence what-so-ever to back it up.   If you based your assessment on results, you’d have to come to the conclusion that he’s a blithering idiot.  But there’s more to it than just TES being a dumbazz, he doesn’t seem to care.  As long as whatever goes wrong can be blamed on someone else, as long as the Dopes, the hipsters and the MSM will continue to cover for him, as long as it doesn’t affect the golf schedule, he cannot be bothered?

We few have known this all along.  Just now others are awakening to the fact that TES isn’t up to this job or any other job that requires focus and the ability to do more than just dived the total number of players in your midnight basketball program by four so that you order enough pizza.  Hey this is the guy who over the Labor Day weekend said he’d join a union if he wanted a good job and decent wage.  Fine go to Detroit and join the UAW that’s worked out well for everyone involved.  But at least it’ll give the country a chance.  No.  Wait.  Stay where you are.  He don’t need America’s punk line, aka Slow Joe Biden running anything.

Detroit is the perfect backdrop for a Dope Labor Day speech

If you’d like to see what happens when big labor and the Demo-Dope party are put in charge of something over an extended period of time visit Detroit.  Detroit is a shining example of what happens when a population thinks it is voting itself largess from a city treasury by voting Dope.  The people can vote themselves benefits paid for by others, but the “others” in this case can vote with their feet by moving themselves and their tax dollars elsewhere.  That’s what happened in Detroit. 

In the 50s Detroit was a model for what could be accomplished under regulated capitalism.  Economic stability left Detroit with the exit of the last Republican mayor in 1962.  Dopes have been running the city ever since.  The city has been in decline ever since.  Coincidence?  No.  I don’t think so.  You can see the model played out across America’s large metropolitan areas.

Dopes get elected in these areas by promising to “fight for public sector unions.”  So the unions pour money into the Dope campaign.  Fight for the union against who?  Fight for the union against the taxpayer who pays the union members salary.  How is that not a conflict of interest?  The Dope takes union money to fund his campaign then negotiates a sweetheart deal for the union who then puts money back into the corrupt Dope’s campaign.

The result of such BS situations is higher and higher taxes.  That leads to the middle class moving elsewhere and a dwindling tax base in the city.  But the Dopes are always too slow to recognize what’s happening and continue to raise taxes to make up for the shortfall created by their own stupidity.  That accelerates the flight.

When the city begins to rots it’s always the poorest neighborhoods that suffer first.  That’s Detroit today. It is a shell.  In 1950 Detroit boasted of a population of 1.8 million people.  Today it has about 700,000. 

What little growth and stability idiotic government policy wasn’t able to kill off in Detroit the UAW finished off.  Once the automobile manufacturing envy of the world the, UAW has reduced the big three US auto makers to companies that spend more time negotiating health and pension benefits than they do making cars.  The big three now have one company able to stand on its own.  Chrysler goes from a subsidiary of one European car maker to another.  GM makes cars that catch fire and roll of the manufacturing line only to be immediately recalled for some major foul up.  Right now GM has nearly 29 million cars under recall orders.  As a result, anyone who is looking to build a car in the US these days moves to union free shops in the south and as far away from the UAW and Detroit as possible.

So if you’re a potential Dope presidential candidate where would go for your Labor Day speech?  If you’re America’s punch line – slow Joe Biden – you go to Detroit.  That’s like opening “The AlGore Center for Green Energy” at the abandon Solyndra building.   Might as well go to Detroit though, where is there a single success story of insane Dope politics and big labor thugery?

What might be dumber than going to a failed bankrupt US city on Labor Day?  Well if you’ve been the vice president for the last 6 years you go to that city and talk about “taking America back.”  Taking it back from whom?  You’ve been in charge for the last SIX EFFING YEARS you moron.   But yeah it’s crazy Joe.  So…    

 

 

 

 

Thank goodness The Empty Suit does not have a strategy for ISIS

“I don't want to put the cart before the horse.  We don't have a strategy yet.  [The news media is] getting a little further ahead of where we're at than we currently are [on confronting ISIL in Syria.]”
That’s The Empty Suit on his ISIS strategy

ASIDE:  You mean like the MSM got ahead of the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin shootings?

Seriously, is anyone surprised that The Empty Suit does not have a strategy for ISIS?  Actually, given the way things have turned out for issues he did have a strategy for, we should beg him to continue to vacillate on ISIS. 

He had a strategy for Libya.  Except for Benghazi and the lawless nation state that now exists in Libya, that’s going well.

He and the Shrilldabeast had strategies for Syria and Russia.  The Beast announced that Bassar Assad was a “reformer” and they had the famously mistranslated “reset button” with Russia.  Syria, after crossing any number of TES’s redlines, gave birth to ISIS and Putin handles TES like Ray Rice handles his fiancé in a casino elevator.

We poured a trillion dollars down the crapper stimulating “shovel ready jobs” that TES later learned, after all the money was gone, “were not so shovel ready.”

We poured additional money down the crapper with a “cash clunkers” program that destroyed the used car market for the next ten years.

We poured money into “green energy” and got cars that spontaneously combust, windmills that, when they run, kill endangered bids, catch fire and provide the most expensive energy available to the grid; we got Solyndra that briefly produced solar energy panels until they learned that China could do the same job for about 1/10^th the cost; we got an obscenely expensive solar mirror project that is far more efficient at wiping out the local bird population than providing reliable energy; We got an ethanol program that contributes to an incompetence twofer: because we insist on burning our food, we got the highest food costs especially beef prices America has seen while gas prices hover between $3.50 and $4.

While TES was investing in all of this green weenie BS, the EPA is doing their level best to shut down or make prohibitively expensive all forms of carbon based fuels – especially coal.

So call me crazy, but it might be in the nation’s best interest that TES remains clueless on what to with ISIS less he decide to issue some kind reset button with them, invite them to set up training facilities in America while demanding DHS and ICE do nothing to prohibit their entry into the country.  No.  Wait.  He’s already doing that last one.

Shrilldabeast

If King SFB was relabeled The Empty Suit in another era of new tone on Lex, should the Shrilldabeast become now become The Empty Pantsuit (TEPS)?   The editorial board will take that one under advisement.

NFL domestic abuse policy

After Ray Rice knocked his fiancé out in a casino elevator, the NFL suspended him for two games.  The crowd went wild.  In a classic case of over correcting, the NFL now says anyone who commits a second act of domestic abuse will be banned from the NFL for life.  Now mind you this is the same NFL that saw nothing wrong with Ray Lewis lying to police in a double homicide case.  So will the NFL come out with a policy that says obstructing a second investigation into a double homicide will lead to serious consequences?

Putin's lobster strategy in Ukraine

At the outset of WWII the German army pioneered an offensive strategy that became known as the blitzkrieg or lightening attack.  The Germans employed a method of warfare whereby an attacking force would be spearheaded by a concentration of armor and mechanized infantry formations, backed up by close air support.  That heavy concentration of armor and mechanized forces would create a break in enemy’s defensive formations allowing the rest of the more conventional German army to pour through.

If the Germans employed the “lightening attack” in WWII, what do you call Russia’s slow motion military assault on Ukraine?  Way back in February, Russia annexed Crimea.  The Empty Suit retorted to no one in particular, “Cry-me-a?  As in ‘cry me a river?’”  The world yawned.  Crimea is gone.

Now Russia is actively supporting a Ukrainian separatist/revolutionary movement in eastern Ukraine.  After initial setbacks, the Ukrainian army has been able to retake much of what the Russian proxies captured and has managed to bottle up what’s left. 

Russia’s real leader - Vlad Putin - will not take that sitting down.  He is moving the front south and using Russian forces and material to do so.  But it’s all in slow motion.  As more and more Russian soldiers and equipment get captured by the Ukrainians, the Russian excuse of soldiers getting lost and paratroopers getting blow into Ukraine by the prevailing wind are sounding more and more absurd.  There are no warnings against intervention into Ukraine from any of the usual cabal of impotent tough talkers.  The Empty Suit and his parade of Pentagon GOFO sycophantic yes men are more worried about haircuts than national security.  The UN, busy passing hundreds of resolutions condemning Israel for protecting itself, cannot be bothered.  NATO, sans US leadership, is now a powerless bunch of semi-socialist states with France taking the military lead.

So what do we call this military strategy being employed by Russia in Ukraine?  During the Civil War the North tried what was called the “Anaconda Strategy” whereby the North tried to blockade the South while advancing armies down the Mississippi river to cut the South in two.  The idea was to strangle the South into submission.  While the plan achieved many of its goals, it didn’t force the South into submission.  So Putin probably is not a fan of calling his meddling in Ukraine an anaconda strategy.

Maybe he’d prefer the lobster strategy whereby heat is applied slowly so as not to alarm the lobster but by the time he figures out that he’s what’s for dinner it’s too late to anything about it.  Ukraine knows exactly who Putin wants to have for dinner.  The rest of the world either doesn’t care or as in the case of Europe, is hiding under the bed sheets hoping not be Putin’s next snack.  Even if the world were to wake up to what’s happening, I don’t think Putin gives a crapola.  It would barely change his calculus.  Who’s going to stop him?  

Finally someone is addressing Sam’s showering habits

I’m not sure where, but somewhere in a post under Lex made a tongue in check  prediction that the showering habits of Ram’s rookie Michael Sam would become a more interesting news story to the homosexually obsessed MSM than any talent he may possess on the football field.  Truth is stranger than fiction.

Lower the standards, ignore the results

That’s one of Lex’s favorite expressions when dealing with any kind of affirmative action, social engineering, diversity quotas etc.  Read Ann Coulter’s account of this phenomenon when applied to policing - here.  To sum the results up in a word – incompetence.  Will we ever learn?  No.  We won’t.  It’s better to go down in flames as a “diverse society” than live in prosperity as a meritocracy that values personal responsibility.

It's for the children

In an Aug 10^th piece in Today’s Catholic, my bishop urged us to support the wave of children crossing our southern border illegally. I’ve been toying with a response:

Dear Bishop Rhoades:

 

I have read and reread your column published in the August 10^th edition of Today’s Catholic.  I wasn’t going to reply because I’m a guy who happens to support the rule of law.  In today’s America, on this issue, to many that makes me a hard-hearted, anti-Christian, racist bastard.  Weird huh?  Simply for expecting the nation to have a secure southern border and an orderly process to enter the country, I’m labeled some kind of xenophobic racist.   

We might start by asking our selves how we arrived at this humanitarian crisis.  We have 60,000 children who flooded our border since October.  Why?  Haven’t the poverty, violence and gang crime that have gripped the countries contributing to the flow of unaccompanied minors to our southern border existed for decades?  Why are they risking everything to come to America now? 

One reason - the main reason in my opinion – is that our president, unconstrained by the congress, the constitution, or any other law simply announced to the world that the policy of prosecutorial discretion — which allows immigration agents to defer deportation of low-risk, non criminal undocumented immigrants — would be expanded to all DREAM eligible youth.  As a result, governments are running ads on radio telling their citizens to get their children to America before this arrangement ends.  With no real impediment what-so-ever to their crossing the southern border, they’ve flooded in.  It’s sort of an “if you don’t build it (a wall) they will come” situation.  The “they” in this case not only includes the needy children but also includes large numbers drug traffickers, human smugglers probably some Islamic State terrorists, maybe a few ebola carriers etc. 

Also complicit in this humanitarian crisis, in my opinion, is the US Council of Catholic Bishops.  The USCCB has been an open and loud advocate for amnesty – not only for children but for the 11 million illegal alien already in America.  Don’t think that the USCCB’s continuous calls for amnesty don’t affect people’s decision to risk entering the country illegally.  I agree it’s a humanitarian crisis, but the sequence of events leading to the crisis are all of our own doing. 

I think everyone would agree that America can easily absorb 60,000 children.  Do you happen to know what the total will be or when the crisis will end?  Nobody in government seems to be capable of answering those questions.   When we reunite these children with their families, will that start a chain migration process that will increase the total number migrants entering the country due to this crisis by a factor of five to ten times?  And what about the other children of the world who face similar circumstances but cannot simply hop a train and arrive at an open American southern border?  Do we have some kind of orderly process to address those children? And not to be too crass, since the focus is on illegal migrant children, I assume that all American children have been fully served by USCCB.  

I honestly believe that you and the USCCB don’t see this crisis in political terms.  That said, the undeniable truth is that how this crisis is handled will have far-reaching, long-term political ramification.  As has been the case with most issues of my adult life, USCCB chooses to side with Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry Catholics. 

Governments fail for many reasons.  They become too big, corrupt and unresponsive to the people they are formed to serve.  In the final days, they use the treasury to buy votes and provide their security.  We are 17 trillion dollars in debt with no hope of this generation or the next ten paying that bill.  The IRS, Bureau of Land Management, NSA, DoJ, EPA, VA etc. seem to be staffed wholly with overpaid corrupt bureaucrats more interested in lining their own pockets than serving the people these agencies were established serve.  America has 45 million people on welfare, 11 million on disability, a labor force participation rate not seen since the 80s.  So it’s not surprising that the US Chamber of Commerce would be siding with the USCCB calling for an amnesty to provide a replacement work force for the one our government pays not to work.

 

America has been a force for good for the last 200 plus years, but anything that cannot last forever won’t.  I think America is reaching that point.  Then what?  Who will do the good works for children that Americans have done when we are an entire nation that looks like Detroit or California?

ISIS will capitalize on troube in Ferguson

Ain’t AlGore’s invention - the Internet – great!  Anyone from nearly anywhere in the world can log on to get their daily dose of Lex.  It can have its draw backs though.  A friend recently ran across an article about “peace-loving Muslims touting Adolf Hitler in London.”  My friend entered the conversation with this beauty:

“Not exactly news. Adolf Hitler is quite popular in the lands of the medieval Muslims. And why not; a genocidal maniac responsible for exterminating six million Jews would naturally be praised and beloved by a people so ignorant that they actually believe the God of the universe wants them to murder Jewish school children. It is obvious the Muslims are too stupid to recognize their peril. They are determined to go too far, and will. The United States, Israel or Great Britain will suffer a catastrophic attack; and at that point the hateful, medieval Muslims will reap what they have sown. No matter the degree to which the leftists in the West hate their countries; and no matter the desire of the barbaric Muslims to live in the 12th century, when our cities start to disappear beneath mushroom clouds, the same civilization that destroyed the Nazis, and the militarists in Japan, will rid the world of these grotesque, despicable, misogynist animals. God is great!”

Not too much later, my friend received the first ominous and anonymous threat on his person.  Until recently I’d have blown such threats off.  Until this.  The Daily News reports that ITF murdering freak Ali Muhammad Brown gunned “down at least four men in two states…as revenge for Muslims killed overseas.”

Why isn’t this national news?  Three reasons, 1) “ITF kills 4 innocent people” isn’t exactly a headline that gets anyone’s attention any more. It has been going on since Muhammad hooked up with his first under aged concubine.  The only thing that might strike people as remarkable about that headline would be: Only four?  2) “Angry black man kills four white people” is another dog bites man scenario.  There’s nothing to see here.  Move along.  The police chief assures us, “This is definitely not a hate crime.”  3)  It does not fit the template being established by race baiting, race hustling scoundrels like The Empty Suit, Eric the wad Holder, Revs? Al and Jesse and their lapdog MSM that racist America has a war on innocent black men.

 

I think it is a big deal.  We have a perfect storm brewing here.  We have an unsecure southern border.  TX Governor Rick Perry advises that ISIS has probably already infiltrated operatives inside the US.  We have an incompetent federal government that considers the Tea Party a greater threat to the country than ISIS.  The government can rally the IRS, DHS, EPA, BLM and all manner of federal agency against law abiding Americans wearing funny hats and carrying clever signs.  That government cannot (more likely will not) secure the southern border.  For this particular group of incompetents ISIS is the JV.  The real enemy is a free America.

For this bunch of race baiting buffoons, a dead black kid in Ferguson, MO, who may or may not have been shot in the line of duty, is far more important than four Americans gunned down by a truly hate filled black ITF.  It’s much easier to stir racial animus than cure it.  It’s much easier to make political hay while dancing on the grave of a dead man than confront ISIS or even just establish a coherent strategy and message to confront ISIS. 

The Empty Suit has done none of that.  ISIS has lopped the head of an American off in front of the world.  TES grieved the loss of Foley while playing golf.  An ITF murderer killed four Americans.  Not a word from TES.  A black kid is killed in MO and the world stops.  TES, the DoJ, the governor of MO all condemn the police before the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting are announced.  TES ducks the memorial for Foley and the four murdered Americans but sends 3 representatives to Ferguson for Michael Brown’s funeral. 

What if the investigation and/or trial prove Michael Brown provoked his own death?  What if as a result of the federal government’s heavy hand in the case and the governor’s insane statement about a “vigorous prosecution” the trial has to be moved to a lily white county for a fair trial?  I’d remind the race baiters, “justice” does not necessarily mean that Michael Brown was not responsible for his own death.

When all hell breaks loose after one of those scenarios, you can bet the ISIS ITF will be standing by to recruit the acolytes of the race baiting, race hustling anti-American black “leaders.”  I feel we are on the cusp of troubled times.  The post racial empty suit does more to provoke the trouble than calm the waters.  The Empty Suit is totally clueless how to deal with an inspired enemy that will not back down because the MSM called them racist for opposing The Empty Suit.  ISIS cannot be talked out of their mission.  The MSM meme of calling everyone who opposes TES a racist will have no effect on ISIS.  They wear that label proudly.

Things to ponder

Ponder this

The Left Libs think that…no wait.  Left Libs don’t think.  Make that:  The Left Lib emotional reaction to Ferguson, MO is to blame it on the cops’ war on black men.  They site statistics that black men are far more likely to have run ins with law enforcement - be stopped, arrested and incarcerated – as proof positive that the cops have it out for black men.

Using the same statistics to point out to the Left Lib race baiting crowd that black men commit crime at a much higher rate than white, Hispanic and Asian men is like trying to teach a dog to play rag-time on a piano.  Because the dog's paws can’t reach the piano pedals, everyone just gets frustrated with the process.

But maybe we should try turning the tables on our Left Lib airhead friends by agreeing with them.  Then when they’ve accepted that we’ve accepted their boneheaded theory we take that theory one step further.  We tell them that not only do the cops have it out for black men, because statistically the cops arrest far more men in general than women, the cops have it out for men in general.  What this country really needs to do to balance the scale is for the cops to arrest more women or let more men go.

When you see the Left lib’s head tilt like the RCA dog at that idea, you’ve got him.  If the arrest statistic of black males is, in and of itself, proof of biased policing, then clearly the statistic of the number of males arrested compared to women proves that the cops are far more biased against men in general than in black men in particular.  Tell your lefty Lib friend, “Who is it the cops are always gunning down?  It’s men that’s who.  Until the cops either start to shoot women at the same rate as men or stop shooting men there will be no peace.” 

How sad is it given the cops’ war on men that we are not marching in the streets demanding justice?

Then we complain that of white men not being arrested, Mormons and Amish men are some kind of protected subset inside an already protected class – and, and, AND that statistically, white men in commas are hardly ever in trouble with the cops.  What’s up with that?  It’s racism, pure and simple.  

Rev? Al Not-So-SHARPton black “leader”

The title of “leader” for Rev? Al should be enough to make every informed American cringe.  For black Americans it should be an absolute embarrassment.  First, it should be an embarrassment for the reason Dr. Thomas Sowell pointed out not long ago:  What other racial community has self-appointed “leaders?”  Who is the Hispanic or Asian “leader?”  I cannot think of a single one.  Why is it that the black community is the only racial community represented by “leaders?’ 

Let me take a stab at Dr. Sowell’s question.  The black community has leaders because the Dopes don’t want to deal with black people.  The Dopes just want to deal with Revs? Jesse and Al.  It’s far easier to pay off two race-baiting, race-hustling charlatans to get the black vote out for the Dopes than to actually improve the lot of blacks through education, jobs and personal responsibility.

Second it pre-supposes blacks can be led by any race-baiting pied piper to vote for the Dopes as long as the Dopes promise to pour just enough money into the black community to keep fatherless black homes afloat, while the pied pipers live like royalty.

Sadly, so far the Dopes have been proven to be correct.  The black community is the most monolithic vote in America for the last 40 but it has not one thing to show for its loyalty to Dope party.

Racial profiling alive and well in Ferguson

In the minds of many race hustling black “leaders,” Darren Wilson is guilty for being a white police officer.

A Dope congressman is promising trouble in the streets if there isn’t justice in Ferguson.  By justice he, no doubt, means the arrest, trial and conviction of white police officer Darren Wilson.  Anything less, according to Rep. Clay, is not justice.  The statement alone is enough to demonstrate that the last thing Clay is interested in is “justice.”  He’ interested in a lynching to assuage the hurt feelings of the black community.

 

In that sense these leaders are no better than the leadership found in Hamas, ISIS, al Qaeda etc.  The problem with these radicals is ALWAYS with someone else.  The reason Muslims in Gaza are living like it’s the 12^th century isn’t because their leadership think as if it’s the 12^th century, it’s because the Jews and West have stolen everything from them.  According to the race hustlers, the reason the welfare state is a bare subsistent living isn’t because of education, drugs, gangs, out of wedlock babies, absent fathers and welfare itself.  It’s because of racism.  Asians and Hispanics can make it, but racism makes it impossible for the black ghetto kids to break the cycle of despair.  It’s all BS.  Voting Dope in lockstep is why the black ghetto cannot break the cycle despair.

Can a guy really be that dumb and still be SecDef? Yes. Yes he can.

One of the most endearing qualities about Forest Gump is that he knows that he is “not a smart man.”  In spite of Lex’s haranguing of nearly everyone in public life as some kind of “dumbazz,” I rarely actually believe that I’m smarter than anyone.

When I was stationed at the Pentagon as a lowly LtCol I attended many meetings where I was not only the most junior member but the most junior member by far.  I recall after one meeting, my boss asked, “How’d the meeting go?”  I told him, “It’s a terrible feeling to walk into a room with that many people in it and know instantly and for sure that you’re the dumbest guy in the room.”  With a notion of apprehension, the boss asked, “Did you say anything?”  “No sir,” I replied.  “Did you take good notes?”  “Yes sir.”  The boss smiled a relieved smile.  “Good man.  That’s why we pay you.”

I still get that feeling of being the dumbest guy in the room – even in my own house - when the conversation ever turns to cooking, checking accounts, where the blender is stored, laundry detergent, colleges for Lex jr. or just about any subject other than what I had for lunch that day.  I go to church on Sunday and I know positively that, except for the kid picking his nose and wiping the residue on the back his sister’s sweater, I’m the dumbest guy in the building.  I go to the hardware store, and except for the old lady reading from a list prepared by her son that includes something called soldering flux, I’m the idiot in the store.

I recently hired a guy to seal my driveway.  The guy was tattooed and pierced in a way that can only be described as “freakish.”  He talked like something out of Huck Fin.  I was going to hire him for the summer just to keep him around as an example of someone who knew less than I did.  Then the conversation turned to blacktop and blacktop sealants.  The guy was an absolute savant.  While it was difficult to get the guy to state his name clearly in conversation or offer an opinion on the weather, when the conversation turned to blacktop you could not get him to stop talking.  So, after sealing the driveway, I had to let him go.

That all prefaces this simple statement: I am smarter than Chuck Hagel.  Chuck Hagel is like the result of some weird science experiment that spliced the genes of Slip Mahoney, Professor Erwin Corey and Hank Kimball.  Need proof?  Try this glittering jewel of colossal idiocy:  

“This operation, by the way, was a flawless operation but the hostages were not there.”

That was Chuck Box-O-Rocks Hagel yesterday on the Foley rescue operation.  He followed that with, “I won the Powerball, except for the 5 numbers I didn’t have.”

OK call me a perfectionist, but if your rescue operation were a ship, the hostages not being there seems like a Titanic like gash in the hull of that ship well below the waterline and a pretty huge flaw.  No doubt ol’ Box-O-Rocks thinks that the Denver Bronco’s Super Bowl game-plan was flawless – if Seattle hadn’t scored so many points and the French Maginot Line was a sound military theory – if the Germans had just cooperated by impaling themselves against it instead of just going around it.  I think what Hagel meant to say was, “As always, our servicemen performed magnificently in this effort.”  

Here’s my theory:  The day the intelligence was delivered to The Empty Suit it was, to use a Hagelism, flawless.  The Empty Suit vacillated on the decision in order to endlessly weigh the political consequences that might ensue.  When the mission was finally given a go, the intelligence was useless.  As always with TES, a day late and 17 trillion dollars short.

Several things to ponder

The minority rules a lot of things

In Gaza we’re told that a small minority of Hamas dopes elected by the Palestinian people are ruining everything for the Palestinian people who elected them.  Writ large, we’re told a small minority of Muslims are engaging in the wonton slaughter of anyone not in total lock-step with their backward way of thinking.  Yet destruction and murder are the only things ever heard from the “religion of peace.” In Ferguson we’re told only small percentage of the people there are engaging in unlawful activities there.  Those activities are the only one filling the TV cable news feeds and the nightly news. A minority of Americans support the Affordable Care Act.  It is the law of the land.  The tiniest minority of Americans supports an open southern border but we do NOTHING to secure that situation. 

I don’t know.  Maybe the best strategy is let the loons take over – I know, as if they haven’t already.  Declare yourself an oppressed minority.  Demand your “rights.”  That strategy seems to work in everything from having your neighbor pay for your birth control to allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens stream across our southern border unfettered.

I worry that we’re like the lobster dumped into a pot.  We don’t know we’re being cooked until it’s too late.  Can we ever extricate ourselves from the mess that we’ve allowed a minority to get us into?  I dunno.

Fergusson = Gaza

In the post under Lex compared Ferguson to Gaza.  The pictures are not all that dissimilar.  We get a steady diet of destruction in Gaza and in Ferguson.  Stores destroyed, militant Islamo-Terror-Fascists calling for the destruction of Israel, militant rioters calling for the murder of police officers, reporters taking sides – the wrong side I might add, calls for peace that are ignored by one side.  Ferguson rioters have also been seen with Palestinian flags and “ISIS is here” signs.  So…

Mike Brown

He may have been a heck of a nice guy.  From the limited info available about him, I doubt it.  There’s the convenient store robbery.  There’s the altercation with a police officer that led to his death.  There is the less than flattering photo montage of Brown giving the camera the finger when he’s not flashing a Bloods Gang signs.

Darren Wilson is sooooo screwed

In spite of lapdog MSM BS artist’s attempt to suppress it, we’re getting a none too flattering picture of Mike Brown.  In an effort to put the 6’4” 300+ lbs Brown in the best possible light, he is called a gentle giant,” a teenager and even a “boy” in the MSM.

The story is that the MSM is peddling is that poor Mike was minding his own business walking home (in the middle of the street with box of stolen cigars) when a cop started to harass him (harassment here is a request to get out of the middle of the street).  Then the cop implausibly tries to pull poor 300+ lbs Mike into his squad car through the driver’s side window.  Poor Mike breaks a way and tries to make a run for it when the cop shoots poor Mike down in the back in cold blood (two autopsies show all shot fired either were front to back or inconclusive).

With few of the facts fully know, but at least enough for Mo. Gov Jay Nixon to call for Wilson “vigorous prosecution,” the streets of Ferguson have been lit up for 10 days now.  The Attorney General of the United States shows up in Ferguson to not to ensure a fair investigation but rather to proclaim he was a black guy who had experienced racial profiling.  Well, if ending up like the wad or The Empty Suit is a result of racial profiling, sign me up.

It’s pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain (No. Dopes won’t get this point.) that Wilson is being strapped into a coach class seat on a runaway train for what is lie to be the most obvious railroad job ever.  When you have the governor of the state and the US Attorney General taking sides against you, justice is the last thing anyone is interest in here.

The MSM and glitterati do not care.  Celebs, MSM and even some A-hole politicians will side with guilty as hell cop killers but will not wait for the facts to come from this incident.  America sucks.  Cops represent America.  Cops suck.  All of the reporting on Ferguson – just like in Gaza - is from one perspective.  Mike Brown good.  Cop bad.

Give cops .45s

This crossed my mind while installing fence yesterday.  What if the first or second shot from Officer Wilson took Brown down without killing him?  Probably the exact same riots and looting etc.

I don’t know what kind gun Officer Wilson used to shoot brown.  I suspect it was a 9mm.  Had Officer Wilson had been armed with a .45 Brown might be alive today.  Four shot apparently hit Brown before the fatal shot was fired.  Had Brown been hit in the arm and shoulder with a .45, I don’t think he be on his feet to continue what some witnesses claim was his attack on Officer Wilson.

.45s fell out of favor because they are heavier lack the magazine capacity and accuracy of many of the more popular 9mm models.  Well accuracy is a function of the guy shooting the weapon not the weapon itself.  As for magazine capacity, if one shot knocks a guy down you won’t need the other 14.

The Empty Suit

Reaction to Foley execution was pathetic.  I’d have bombed their effing azzes off.  Whatever the intensity of that bombing it would pale in comparison to what would follow if they killed the second reporter.  As Mark Levin once colorfully opined, if they want to live in the stone-age we ought to accommodate them.

 

Releasing info on a failed military operation to save Foley and others earlier this summer is pure politics.  It served no purpose other than prop up The Empty Suit.