Posts Tagged ‘Military’
Friday, February 13th, 2015
Still recovering from this cold. Enjoy this Friday LinkSwarm compliments of the management:
ISIS on the run? Not so much. They just took over the Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, where U.S. troops are training Iraqi troops.
45 “Asian” men arrested on UK child sex charges. And by “Asian,” they mean “Pakistani Muslim.” Et tu, Daily Mail? (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Yemen turns into yet another Obama Middle East foreign policy triumph.
“The United States has accepted two new immigrants for each additional job created since 2000, according to federal data.”
Will that stop the drive for Obama’s illegal alien amnesty? Of course not, since that amnesty will make it easier for illegal aliens to vote.
“Who wants to read the inside story of Obama’s ’08 campaign if you know the writer is committed to being kind to Hillary?”
What’s behind the most recent uptick in job growth? Stingier unemployment benefits. Insisted on by Republicans.
If Putin really wants to subsidize the Greek welfare state, I say let’s kick them out of NATO and let him…
Indicted Democratic Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price asked for taxpayers to pay for his corruption trial defense…that is until the judge demanded a complete accounting of his net worth, and which point he dropped the request.
The Ghosts of Auschwitz in the Middle East.
“The Daily Show always had limited appeal; it just happens that the appeal included the New York media elite.”
A look at Greg Abbott’s data-driven gubernatorial campaign.
So Obama’s State Department had another one of their dog-and-pony show #AskJen events, where users all over Twitter send questions in to State Department spokeslephrechaun Jen Psaki, which are then summarily ignored in favor of trivial questions from pro-Obama plants. But I was happy to do my part:
Tags:2014 Governor's Race, al-Baghdadi, amnesty, Ann Althouse, Border Controls, Crime, Dallas, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Greg Abbott, Hillary Clinton, Holocaust, Illegal Aliens, Jews, Jihad, John Wiley Price, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Military, Texas, Yemen
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015
This week haw been incredibly busy, so enjoy a briefer-than-usual LinkSwarm:
Eric S. Raymond on how Social Justice Warriors use Kafkatrapping, which presumes you are guilty until you are proven guilty or admit your guilt.
Instapundit on why Jews are leaving France. “Because they don’t feel welcome, and because they don’t feel safe.”
More about Europe’s jihadist “no go” zones.
New York Assembly speaker and longtime Democratic Party power-broker Sheldon Silver arrested for taking over $4 million in bribes.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence” says billionaire who flew his family to Davos on his private plane.
I have nothing significant to say on the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah’s “reforms” were so small as to not be worth talking about, the Saudis are not our friends, they continue to export violent, backward Wahhabism, and they are occasionally useful but untrustworthy allies in a region where sometimes they are among the least horrible of possible alternatives.
“Hillary Clinton Is George Costanza. Every decision she’s ever made in her entire life has been wrong.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Marco Rubio is in. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt.)
Boy does the liberal media hate American Sniper.
Related: Chris Kyle Derangement Syndrome.
Like father, like son.
Guess what happened at a concert against violence? Go ahead. Guess.
Dilbert via Twitter:
Tags:Crime, Democrats, Dilbert, feminism, Foreign Policy, France, Glenn Reynolds, Hillary Clinton, Instapundit, Jews, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Marion Barry, Marion Christopher Barry, Media Watch, Military, Republicans, Sheldon Silver, Social Justice Warriors, victimhood, Wahhabism
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Thursday, January 8th, 2015
“Boko Haram fighters burnt down almost the entire town on Wednesday, after over-running a military base on Saturday, Musa Alhaji Bukar said.
“Bodies lay strewn on Baga’s streets, amid fears that some 2,000 people had been killed in the raids, he added.”
Let’s hope those numbers are exaggerated, as early reports frequently are.
Also remember that the full name of Boko Haram is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad). Perhaps we could take up a collection for one of the learned members of our ruling class to fly over and explain to them how they’re not actually Islamic…
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Tags:Boko Haram, Foreign Policy, Islam, Jihad, Military, Nigeria
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Sunday, November 16th, 2014
Just Friday I reported on how wounded Army Spc. Brent Grommet had his war dog, Matty, taken away from him in violation of the law.
Good news! The story has a happy ending.
Days after The Post exposed the military’s wrongful, 16-month-long separation of injured Army Spc. Brent Grommet and his war dog, Matty, the two were finally reunited on Friday.
Tags:dogs, Follow-Up, Military
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Friday, November 7th, 2014
A Friday LinkSwarm after a very eventful week…
So exactly when was it that the UK became the child rape capital of the Western world? First Rotherham, now Manchester.
Government of Burkina Faso falls. Evidently people there thought that 27 years of rule for President Blaise Compaore was more than enough…
Russia sends more tanks into Ukraine. Looks like we’ll dealing with the fallout of Obama’s “flexibility” for decades… (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty).
The Pakistani version of Axe Cop sounds a whole lot less entertaining than the American version.
DSCC head blames Obama for Senate loss.
The DSCC decides that they’ll stop pouring money down the rathole that is Mary Landrieu.
“Salon Writer Condemns Arithmetic As Racist.” Or how Jonathan Chait ruthlessly used his Mansplaining Male Math Privilege to oppress Jenny Kutner.
Because their attacks on Koch were so successful, Democrats double-down on stupid.
U.S. hits targets in Syria. Not ISIS, but “the Khorasan group.” For such a reportedly “small” group, we seem to be bombing them a lot…
Fatah and Hamas thoughtfully take a break from trying to kill Jews in order to blow each other up.
I’m shocked, shocked that there’s abuse and fraud in the “Obamaphone” program.
In addition to national and statewide outbreaks of sanity, there was even an outbreak in Austin, where voters defeated a proposal to expand Capitol Metro’s toy trains.
Tags:2014 Election, Austin, Blaise Compaore, Burkina Faso, Democrats, Elections, Fatah, feminism, fraud, Gaza, Hamas, Jihad, Jonathan Chait, Koch Brothers, Manchester, Media, Military, Pakistan, Rotherham, Russia, sex offender, Texas, UK, Ukraine, waste, Wendy Davis
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Monday, October 20th, 2014
I was at a writer’s workshop this weekend, so it’s slow going getting back into the swing of things:
Early voting in Texas starts today. Find your polling place here.
ObamaCare is failing to control costs.
Sure, it’s screwed over the many people who have lost their policies or seen their rates skyrocket, but besides Democratic Party functionaries, is there anyone who is happy with ObamaCare? Why yes, there is: Insurance companies
Department of Defense hid discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq. In other words: Bush was right, and his critics were wrong…
Looks like U.S. air power is finally making a difference in Kobane.
On the other hand: “U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS: Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.” Let’s not do that…
A sign of how deadly Ebola is: “That Science article written by 58 medical professionals tracing the emergence of Ebola—5 of them died from Ebola before it was published.” (Hat tip: Jerry Pournelle via Instapundit.)
The Democratic talking points that “Republican budget cuts” helped create the Ebola outbreak are such obvious lies that the Washington Post gave it four Pinocchios.
Speaking of Ebola…
“Having Jimmy Carter out-hawk you is like having Joe Biden attack you for being verbally undisciplined…Doing nothing about the Islamic State was Obama’s foreign policy until the domestic political situation made his foreign policy untenable.”
Another Democratic Senate candidates refuses to say she voted for Obama. Hey, remember when all those Republican senate candidates refused to say whether they voted for Reagan? Me neither.
So just how much did Kay Hagan’s family get from a USDA energy program? USDA: We’re not going to tell you.
Democrats bringing in Marc Ellis is pretty much a sign they know they’re already breaking the law.
Tom Harkin is not pissing his campaign contributions down Bruce Braley’s rathole of a campaign.
Why should blacks turn out for the Democratic Party?
Real rape vs. “rape culture”:
Why Ezra Klein supports “An Enabling Act for the Salem Rape Culture Trials.”
Then Klein doubled down on stupid, proving how deeply over his head he’s in. Again.
FIRE‘s VP also takes a wack at Klein’s stupidity.
Is there any doubt that, under these new kangaroo court procedures, the innocent Duke lacrosse players would have been expelled labeled sex offenders? I suspect that for Social justice Warriors, this outcome isn’t a bug, but a feature…
MoveOn.org has a “Get the money out of politics” ad contest. Unexpected conservative landslide ensues.
World’s least shocking news: New York Times reporters follow liberal Twitter feeds almost exclusively. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
The #GamerGate Hate Hoax. But it’s not like Robert Stacy McCain knows anything about online death threats…
Has PETA reminded us what insane lunatics they are recently? Well, they’re complaining about Google View using a camel.
ISIS kills ISIS.
Is your religion approved by the City of Houston, comrade?
All about the man recreating the 1918 flu strain that killed 40 million people
Remembering Aitazaz Hassan Bangash, whose sacrifice saved hundred from a suicide bomber in Pakistan.
This looks like it could be an interesting book.
Holly Hansen has the rundown on Round Rock ISD board candidates.
SXSW would like to to keep the peasants from exercising their annoying freedoms during their festival. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
What every President drank.
Tags:#GamerGate, 2014 Election, Aitazaz Hassan Bangash, Archer, Austin, black, Books, Bruce Braley, Democrats, Duke lacrosse case, Ebola, Elections, feminism, Holly Hansen, Houston, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Jimmy Carter, Jonah Goldberg, Kay Hagan, Marc Ellis, Military, MoveOn.org, Natalie Tennant, New York Times, Pakistan, PETA, Round Rock ISD, Steve Crowder, Syria, Texas, Tom Harkin, video
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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Here’s your Friday LinkSwarm of semi-random linkage goodness:
ObamaCare’s war on women: higher premiums, cancelled plans, fewer options.
ObamaCare has already cost $73 billion and counting.
And the Healthcare.Gov website cost 2.5 times what the Obama Administration told us.
The inequality police are worried that we are living in a new Gilded Age. We should be so lucky: Between 1880 and 1890, the number of employed Americans increased by more than 13 percent, and wages increased by almost 50 percent. I am going to go out on a limb and predict that the Barack Obama years will not match that record; the share of employed Americans is lower today than it was when he took office, and household income is down. Grover Cleveland is looking like a genius in comparison.
The middle class is poorer today than it was in 1989. Thanks, Obama! (Hat tip: Instapundit).
World Health Organization refuses to approve experimental drugs for Ebola patients. Because they might get sick…
CDC chief thinks a ban on travelers from Ebola-infected countries would be “wrong.” Wrong for who? People who won’t get infected?
Real Salon or parody Salon? “The problem with ‘Ebola’: The troubling, xenophobic language of disease.”
And if Ebola wasn’t bad enough, Enterovirus D68 has been found in four people who died.
And that Enterovirus D68 outbreak may be related to Obama’s decision not to deport illegal aliens.
Even 60% of Democrats think Obama is a wuss when it comes to ISIS.
U.S. troops fighting in the warkinetic overseas contingency engagement against ISIS are not eligible for campaign medals.
NRA’s Political victory Fund has released their ranking of candidates. That’s the one for Texas, but you can select all the other states as well.
Liberals are hypocrites when it comes to big bucks “dark money” fundraising.
“The places where our self-appointed elites congregate are turning into precisely the places where actual voters are getting thinner and thinner on the ground.”
Despite what radical feminists would have you believe, sex crimes on campus are going down, not up.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott: voting fraud is real.
Appeals court finds Texas abortion laws constitutional.
“‘He’s from Texas, honey,’ I yelled at the television, startling the cats, ‘That’s not “armed”, that’s “dressed”, you island-dwelling herbivore! Jesus, you cud-chewing Eloi, how do you people open packages? With your teeth, like an animal?” For a bonus, try to work “cud-chewing Eloi” into your next conversation… (Hat tip: Dwight.)
More domestic violence in the MSM than the NFL: ESPN, ABC, CBS, NBC and the New York Times.
Bill Maher goes after liberals being soft on Islam. “Saudi women can’t vote or drive or hold a job or leave the house without a man. Overwhelming majorities in every Muslim country say a wife is always obliged to obey her husband. That all seems like a bigger issue than an evangelical Christian bakery refusing to make gay wedding cakes. ”
What happens when you bail out of an SR-71 at Mach 3 and 78,000 feet.
Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, but something about this film has “suck” written all over it…
Two words: Homemade flamethrower.
Tags:Bill Maher, Crime, Democrats, Ebola, economy, Enterovirus, feminism, Foreign Policy, fundraising, Greg Abbott, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, knives, Media Watch, Military, NFL, ObamaCare, Texas
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thanks to the Obama Administration’s feckless and spineless responses to terrorism both here and abroad, Americans feel less safe than ever:
The exclusive poll reveals that 47% of Americans believe the country is less safe now than before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That’s a significant increase from even a year after the twin towers fell when in September 2002 just 20% of the country said the nation was less safe. The level of fear across America also is up substantially from last year when 28% felt the same way. In fact, just 26% of Americans now feel the nation is safer than before 9/11.
Americans are worried about America’s safety because Obama seems manifestly disinterested in national security concerns. Americans are being killed by jihadists abroad and Obama can barely trouble himself to break away from his golf game to address the issue.
Tonight Obama is going to give a speech (in Obama’s Big Pop-Up Book of Governing America, “Give A Speech” provides the same universal panacea as “Shoot” does in the Far Side’s book on equine medicine) on ISIS.
Here’s one thing I don’t expect to hear addressed: What is the Obama Administration doing to protect America tomorrow on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. America’s jihadist enemies have frequently observed this anniversary by launching attacks, such as the 2012 embassy attacks on Benghazi and elsewhere.
This is especially worrisome given reports of missing Libyan airliners possibly in the hands of jihadists.
When it comes to foreign policy (or, really, anything beyond electoral politics and advancing a left-wing agenda), Obama shows a distinct inability to learn from his own mistakes. Will there be heightened security at American embassies tomorrow? While their be fighter planes in the air flying CAP, or at least fueled and ready for takeoff on the ground, in case of another 9/11 attack? This piece suggests that government officials are “bracing” for possible attacks, but fails to give any details. If there is another attack, are we going to see another roundup of all the security lapses like we did after the Benghazi attack?
The most essential job of government is protecting the lives, liberty and property of its citizens from enemies both here and abroad. What I want to known is: What is the Obama Administration actually doing on Job 1?
Tags:9/11 Attacks, Benghazi, Foreign Policy, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Military, Obama, terrorism
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
More pictures from the Bovington Tank Museum, this time of British tanks from World War II.
The Tortoise, an experimental prototype of a super-wide, super-heavy assault tank (actually a self-propelled gun) that made it off the production line too late to fight in World War II.
Matilda I infantry tank. I think most of the Mark I’s were destroyed in the fall of France.
Cruiser Tank Mark I…
…and Mark II.
Maybach tank transmission.
The Valentine Archer.
Valentine Mark II.
The Churchill tank. Not sure why the main barrel was off.
Black Prince, an experimental wider, heavier Churchill.
Churchill Mark III.
Centurion Mark I.
Centurion engine.
Cruiser Comet.
Cromwell Cruiser.
Tank gearbox.
I think this is a Mark VI light tank.
Tags:Bovington Tank Museum, Military, pics, UK
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Thursday, August 28th, 2014
Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after Ukrainian forces retreated in the face of superior firepower, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The two Russian columns, including tanks and armored fighting vehicles, entered the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov after a battle in which Ukrainian army positions came under fire from Grad rockets launched from Russian territory, according to the spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko.
Well, thank God for Hillary Clinton’s reset button, and Obama’s “flexibility” and smart diplomacy. Who knows what sort of mess that bungler Bush would have made of the situation.
And the UN Security Council is meeting. Since Russia still has a Security Council veto, don’t expect even the usual strongly worded letter.
Tags:Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Military, Russia, Ukraine, UN
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