Today is January 26th. On this date in 1837, Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States. Fast forward to this year, and “them people is living in ‘Mad Max’ times,” according to noted scholar Moe Syzlak. Also, on this date in 1969, after days of flooding and landslides, California was declared a disaster area. And nothing has changed since, amiright? Eh? Hey they can’t all be gems. These are my jokes, and I stand by them. Links!
Marine’s career threatened by controversial rules of engagement | Washington Examiner
“Waddell is just one of hundreds of cases of troops who have suffered under stringent rules of engagement, said Jeff Addicott, a former senior legal adviser to U.S. Army Special Forces.”
Reuters’ hit on Rubio contains errors | Matt Lewis
“Reuters is out with a tough story on Sen. Marco Rubio today, arguing that, the senator ‘has had significant financial problems that could keep him from passing any vetting process as a potential vice presidential choice…’ Unfortunately, it appears many of the facts are either wrong or exaggerated. By my count, there were at least 7 errors or exaggerations”
Fast and Furious: Issa calls for second prosecutor to testify | Hot Air
“Undaunted – and perhaps even spurred on – by recent charged developments, Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today demanded that the Department of Justice make a key federal prosecutor available to testify before his Committee as a part of its investigation into the lethal gun-running program Operation Fast and Furious.”
Think Progress Scrubs Troubling Rhetoric from Website | Weekly Standard
“With the Center for American Progress’s Think Progress blog under scrutiny for publishing what some would consider borderline anti-Semitic content, it would seem likely that bloggers over there might be careful about the content.”
Today’s word of the day comes from Wordsmith.org.
sybarite (SIB-uh-ryt): noun A person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
Moe Lane
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Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
Holeee Crap!! Lawrence Kudlow is giving Newt
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, January 26th at 7:13PM EST (link)the absolutely toughest, interview I have ever seen! I wish other so called journalists would grill politicians as tough as that! He tore him a new one, that’s for sure.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
If you gauge WW ll mass bombing to today
johnt Thursday, January 26th at 7:37PM EST (link)where our sodiers and marines must show more caution than an inner city policeman, you may use that as a gauge of this nation’s slow decline and death. It is the ultimate in ugly PC But it’s a great platform for the degenerates in the media.
Think Progress, where the Martian John Podesta shows that not all prostitutes walk the gutters.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
An excellent point
aesthete (Diary) Thursday, January 26th at 8:38PM EST (link)but when your strategy and reason for committing troops is “nation-building”, you can’t effect the strategies that you note. In WWII, Doolittle’s bombing of Tokyo killed more people than either of the atomic bombings, and left Tokyo a husk. Both of our atom bombs leveled cities. Those were all policies carried out in the aim of achieving an unconditional surrender from Japan. They would not work — in fact, they’d be counter-intuitive — in a campaign designed to get the people in a given country to like us or to establish secure, stable governments in their respective regions. Our army is essentially made up of young men in their 20s and 30s armed to the teeth and supervised by a core of career military folks. Letting them run amok doesn’t do us any favors in the “winning hearts and minds” department.
(Of course, this also illustrates some of the absurdities of using the armed forces to establish said stable, democratic governments aligned with us, which is why I’m against continued occupation of either Afghanistan or Iraq.)
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
aesthete, there are situations where normal fire response
johnt Friday, January 27th at 10:21AM EST (link)is negated or criticized. If i may go back a few years; after the cities of Iraq were occupied, the enemy, if I may use that word, were initially referred to as resistance fighters, does that ring a bell? The “resistance fighters had the cute habit of taking up positions inside mosques & firing from them. Naturally a fire fight ensued,
Our media scummy as always, took to referring to these repeated occasions as taking place in “one of the holiest shrines of islam”, no matter how often, no matter which mosque. Do you get the idea?
Do you see the underlying pupose?
In time such moral filth was called out by Normal People & exposed.
What did go on for a while after were the inane questions about U S military operations continuing during ramadan, another of “the holiest”etc’s.
Today of course a favorite tactic is to occupy a building or home where un armed civilians are, in some cases not only to fire from there, but when convienent to drop the weapons there and saunter out and away. I do not think it is asking to much to make allowances for this, to temper the R of E, or where punishment is appropriate to also mitigate as a general rule. Repeat, as a general rule.
Nowhere did I insinuate, hint at, or remotely suggest that our over burdened soldiers & marines “run amok”.
May I add that you are confusing Doolittles raid from the carrier Hornet, 16 medium bombers, with the much later bombing campaign of Curtis LeMay.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville