Found one just for you.
Come on down and bring your gun(s) with you.
Originally posted 2022-06-21 15:59:51.
Found one just for you.
Come on down and bring your gun(s) with you.
Originally posted 2022-06-21 15:59:51.
Wow, there is so much “stuff” going on in our world today, most of which is taking us away from the important items that we Americans really care about, or perhaps I should reword that and say that I as an American really worry about. e.g., immigration, inflation, election credibility, demise of our 911 Force, lies and treachery by all our elected officials, especially in the intelligence community, and so much more.
I make no apologies for my not worrying at all about Ukraine vs Russia. Let them slug it out and may the best and strongest win. I am concerned more about China than Russia, but that’s just me.
Much of the BS going on I cannot do a damn thing about, so at my age and station in life, I simply ignore it, albeit I will say some of it does bother me. For example:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/03/30/complete-list-of-military-items-named-for-confederacy-is-more-than-750-long/
Or what about the criminals of criminals, Bill and Hillary, having to pay fines that amount to squat considering how much they squandered, But then they are the Clinton’s
What about Trump? Is he back on the attack? Wayne Root thinks so.
Oh, let’s not forget about our one-time mighty military force. What happened to it?
Finally, you hear the MSM pundits talk about our national debt and pontificate how it may be paid off someday. Have you any idea exactly what that big number equates to per American taxpayer? How about $242,500.00. Got that much hanging around in you bank accounts to help pay that off? Do any of you believe our current national debt will ever be paid off? If you do, you my friend, are smoking some strong stuff. As an Economist, I side with the group that laughs at that question and says no only no, buy “Hell no, it’s impossible; it will never be paid off even in your great, great grandchild’s lifetime.” Check out this website, browse around, it is filled with interesting data; go to it often and watch how it changes.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Other than that. all is going swimmingly well in the deep bowels of Washington, D.C.
PS. Today laws are made not for justice, but for justification.
Have a great day! Sgt B
Originally posted 2022-03-31 11:10:59.
Go Morning Folks, here we are on a Monday; took the weekend off to relax and take in some TV. Meanwhile the swamp creatures were hard at work doing what they do best e.g., create anger, divisiveness, hate, tell lies, and BS gullible Americans. And of course puppet Joey continues to react to his string puller – Obummer. Anyway, here is another good one from my friend Greg. If you looked at the “Shopping – California Style” post and then read this one, it becomes obvious that sooner rather than later that style of shopping will be prevalent throughout our Third World shit hole, once referred to as United States of America. Just walk into a store pick out what you need (or just want) and walkout. I mean isn’t that the ultimate goal of defunding the police?
In the mid-1980s, it was perhaps the nation’s most anticipated civil service exam. After a series of layoffs, retirements (my Dad being one of them) and a hiring freeze courtesy of the late ‘70s malaise, the NYPD was looking to replenish their diminished ranks.
Despite a sweeping crack cocaine epidemic and a record number of homicides, there were many more applicants than openings. Aspiring candidates hailed from not only the city’s five boroughs, but throughout the country. Having taken the test on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it was quickly evident that the test site, Seward Park High School, was for those from outside the city. And we were there in droves, classroom upon classroom.
Today, the NYPD is shedding officers like a Siberian Huskey in late June.
Last year, over 5,300 either retired or quit, a 75% increase from the year before – 15% of the total department. Nearly 1,000 officers have left in the first half of 2021.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “The Philadelphia Police Department has 268 vacancies, and are expecting plenty more.” The New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association said their state is also facing a recruiting crisis as they usually receive up to 20,000 applications – this year only 2,023 qualified applicants applied.
As the summer policing season heats up nationally, the stories of how police departments are dwindling are legion. Recently, a Portland, Oregon volunteer rapid response police unit resigned en masse. Many city halls are seemingly defunding their police through attrition.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said police officers suffered 295 on-duty deaths in 2020 – the most ever since they started keeping records in 1786. When a city is not supporting their police, the working conditions become nearly impossible. When police stand-down, criminals step-up proving that criminality abhors a vacuum.
When you vilify every police officer for another’s poor decision, who wants the job? The “defunding the police” crusade and the endless negative media coverage of law enforcement has made anti-police sentiment mainstream. Such overt posturing has only fueled a police shortage nationwide. Provided a cop killed Hitler, the national media would mourn the loss of a promising Austrian artist and vegetarian.
This anti-cop virus has become a pandemic in high-crime neighborhoods that are in most need of policing. It remains a deterrent for police to act and most of all, it is a disincentive to remain on the job.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) prefers community watches, preferably Omega, Tag Heuer and Rolexes. Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown, a defund the police disciple, had his Mercedes stolen and it took police over an hour to respond. The BLM communities that support defunding deserve a year of no policing.
This universal defund movement is a logical incoherence with French Revolution overtones that underscores how critical the Second Amendment is as a constitutional right.
How far left will the anti-cop pendulum swing and disincentivize good people from pursuing a career in law enforcement and what will be the long-term damage to our communities?
Once upon a time in America, the police were to be respected. You cannot expect law and order when you malign its enforcement, while at the same time failing to hold certain groups responsible for their criminality. We demoralize police by treating criminals like victims and cops like criminals.
Apparently, nothing justifies deadly force. That’s what future victims hear, and it will only encourage more recklessness. The left beatifies as paragons of humanity those who resist arrest. For those who disagree with this woke ideology: fear and intimidation and perhaps loss of their job.
Feckless leadership that ended quality of life “broken-windows” policing, imposed no-bail laws, disbanded street-crime units, while adopting policies to empty prisons. Catch and release may work while fishing, but it is a lousy way to police a community.
The protagonists of the defund movement reside in communities where crime is not much of an issue. To people living in crime-ridden neighborhoods, having an effective police department is a crucial part of daily life.
Make no mistake our freedoms are in jeopardy as the facts are difficult to ignore. We must respect the law and those who work to enforce it because any war on policing puts everyone at risk.
No exceptions!
Okay, what’s say we go shopping this week, California Style? LOL. Of course I jest, but you just watch, so many companies have made rules about non interference, under the guise of protecting their employees. When they do that, the invitation is out, “Come and get what you want or need. Hell hire us old farts, arm us, and we will lower your shoplifting stats immediately! What say you guys?
Originally posted 2021-06-28 11:19:16.
Received this in an email from a highly respected retired Marine Colonel friend of mine. They are his words, not mine, but I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment.
“I wonder how much longer this Marine will be tolerated by the present “leadership.” When they see he is an attorney maybe they will be careful as to how to shut him up. What’s going on is very difficult to believe.”
From an opinion piece in Newsweek, Saturday 20 March 2021
In the Marine Corps, we don’t have quotas, but we do have goals. And Marines accomplish goals,” my officer-in-charge told me and a few other brand-new second lieutenants, each of us assigned to temporary recruiting duty while awaiting orders to Quantico. The captain then told us we had to sign up a certain number of college-enrolled racial minorities and females. No need to be too strict on physical fitness or academics, he said. Just bring them in.
That was in 2009. Discrimination of this sort has been an ingrained yet lamentable part of the military’s recruitment, retention and promotion practices for many years. But my fellow officers and I couldn’t have imagined that, 12 years later, our disagreement with these policies would get us labeled “racist,” “sexist,” “bigoted” or “extremists” worthy of “eradication” and “elimination” from the USMC. Yet the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps said as much in his February 22 “core values” memo.
I’m now a major in the Marine Corps Reserve and a member of a formerly all-male infantry battalion.* This past weekend we had our monthly drill period. A few days before drill, the command told us that all scheduled training on Sunday morning was canceled and replaced with a “stand-down to address extremism in the ranks.”
It was left-wing political programming, as direct as it sounds.
We were instructed that there is a Taliban-like threat in the United States called “domestic terrorism.” These terrorists are characterized in part by “anti-government,” “anti-authority” or “abortion-related” extremism and various “supremacist” ideas. None of these terms are defined. The Marine Corps entrusts the government’s HR department to figure that out.
Reporting requirements are key. Do you suspect someone supports an “extremist ideology?” Alert the chain of command. Have you heard a Marine express “contempt toward officials?” Notify the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Don’t handle anything on your own. Just rat them out. After all, “service is a privilege” and it’d be a shame to lose that privilege for failing to do your part to stamp out “extremists.” One PowerPoint slide posed this imperative in stark terms: “Do you want to be a Marine or do you want to be part of an organization that sows disunity and hate. You cannot have divided loyalties.”
Where did all this come from? Soft liberalism has taken root in the military over several decades. These alarming trends are already well documented in James Hasson’s book Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military. But in the wake of President Joe Biden’s election—and more precipitously since the January 6 “insurrection”—bureaucratic progressivism has hardened into iron-fisted wokeism.
January 6 provided the pretext that the government, media and Democratic Party needed to drum up paranoia about white-nationalist domestic terrorism. A month later, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo to all Pentagon leadership laying the groundwork for my unit’s Sunday morning indoctrination.
In his memo, Austin announced that the Department of Defense “will not tolerate…actions associated with extremist or dissident ideologies” and ordered all 1.4 million personnel to receive “extremism” training. And he promised it was just the beginning: the “stand-down is just the first initiative of what I believe must be a concerted effort to…eliminate the corrosive effects that extremist ideology and conduct have on the workforce.”
Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker followed with his own memo. He announced the objective for the entire Navy Department: nothing short of “eradicating extremism.” How? By rooting out “actions that betray our oaths” like promoting “ideology” or “doctrine” that challenges the “gender identity and sexual orientation” agenda or advancing efforts that allegedly “deprive individuals of their civil rights.”
In other words, advocating for the Biblical view of sex and marriage in law and policy is, according to today’s armed forces, tantamount to oath betrayal.
Then came the Marine Corps’ turn to mouth the right things about “extremism.” In late February, the highest-ranking enlisted Marine issued a memo to all hands condemning our institutional failure to “completely eliminate,” “eradicate,” and “conquer” all “racists, bigots, homophobes, and bullies.” Those people “are not welcome” in the military. “It is impossible,” the memo says, “to be both a good Marine and be any one of those things at the same time.” Again, specifics of “those things” are undefined. The author of the memo and the four-star Commandant leave that to the military’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.
Finally, on March 5, the Marine Corps released an official directive: no later than April 2, all “commanders and supervisors at all levels will conduct and document a leadership stand-down in order to address issues of extremism in the ranks.” The commandant included a video with the directive, saying, “We must continuously strive to eliminate any division in our ranks.”
We all know what that means: any dissension on any issue that Biden-appointed top brass says is racist, sexist or homophobic will not be tolerated.
There is no doubt as to where all this is headed. The Pentagon’s swift and coordinated “smiting” of Tucker Carlson, who had the gall to “diss” the idea of sending pregnant women to war—an obviously absurd idea to all but the most politically correct officers grasping for a promotion—makes it very clear.
How did we get here? The truth is that today’s military is running on the fumes of our vastly superior forefathers and the ever-shrinking proportion of each branch that still does truly heroic work and accomplishes truly extraordinary feats. The rest is a bloated military-industrial complex given over to Fortune 500-style corporate progressivism.
And if it’s bad in the Marine Corps, imagine how much worse it is in the other services.
America’s enemies are laughing at us. Frankly, we deserve it. But it doesn’t need to be this way. To get back on top, our military must reject “extremism” training, reverse all the progressive policies enacted over the past several years, return to a true meritocracy and focus exclusively on the only thing that matters: winning wars.
We need a military fit for real warriors—not the social justice kind.
Aaron Reitz is a Major in the USMC Reserve, an Afghanistan War veteran and the Texas Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy.
* I prepared this article off-duty and in my personal capacity. The views I express here are solely mine and do not reflect those of the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy or the Office of the Attorney General of Texas.
For the life of me I cannot understand how a dedicated hard charging Marine, Enlisted or Officer could stay in a Marine Corps such as this?
I agree with my friend’s comments in that I also wonder how the leftist leaders in our once great Corps will handle this Major. Bravo Zulu for him speaking out. Get em’ Major.
Originally posted 2021-03-20 16:25:07.
Ouch! This, folks, is a must read, but I have to warn you of something. One can easily tell he is, in fact, a professor at Berkeley. I mean, I have a BA and an MA, and consider myself able to read. LOL I had to stop and go to my dictionary so I could get the full grasp of his comments. LOL. So don’t feel bad if you have to as well. This professor — gender unknown — has his/her stuff all in one bag. I received it as a link and I went to the website and read it and many of 100’s of comments, so it is legit. Should you want to read it yourself and see all the comments, mostly favorable and many from blacks, I have provided you with the link at the end.
Anyway, another piece of truthful facts about the true BLM organization and surprisingly where the donated money goes to; you’ll be shocked, at least I was. Read and learn, and pass it on to friends and family who think this is a worthwhile organization to support. Many blacks themselves are finally seeing it for what it is and condemning it.
As always look fwd to hearing from you.
Open letter from a professor of history at the University of Berkeley (UBC) against BLM, police brutality, and cultural orthodoxy
Dear teachers X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley. I have met you personally, but I do not know you closely and I am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I fear that writing this email publicly will cause me to lose my job and possibly all future jobs in my field.
In your recent ministerial emails, you mentioned our commitment to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the lack of diversity of opinion on the subject of recent protests and community reaction to their regard.
In the extensive links and resources you have provided, I have found no cases of substantial counter-arguments or alternative narratives to explain the under-representation of blacks in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. . The explanation provided in your documentation, to the virtual exclusion of all the others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by white people, or, when white people are not physically present, by white people. infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism in America brains, souls and institutions.
Many convincing objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or “Uncle Toms”. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative which strips blacks of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community to foreigners. Their point of view is completely absent from the departmental press releases and from the UCB.
The claim that the difficulties facing the black community can be explained entirely by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic assumption that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its deep faults, or its disturbing implication of total black helplessness. This assumption transforms our institution and our culture, with no space for dissent outside of a narrow and strictly controlled discourse.
A counter-narrative exists. If you have time, please consider reviewing some of the documents that I enclose at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and its allies is either essentially anecdotal (as in the case of the essential of the undeniably moving article of Ta-Nehisi Coates) or if it is motivated in a transparent manner. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black Americans incarcerated. This proportion is often used to describe the criminal justice system as anti-black. however, if we use the same precise methodology, we should conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.
Could we qualify criminal justice as a systemic misandrist conspiracy against innocent Americans? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is imperfect and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Blacks Are Not Imprisoned at Higher Rates Than Their Implication in Violent Crimes Predicts. This fact has been demonstrated repeatedly in several jurisdictions in several countries.
And yet, I see my department reproducing indiscriminately a narrative which diminishes the black agency in favor of an explanation centered on white which appeals to the ministry’s apparent desire to shoulder the “burden of the white man” and promote a white guilt tale.
If we pretend that the criminal justice system is white supremacist, Why are Asian Americans, Indian Americans and Nigerian Americans incarcerated at much lower rates than white Americans? It’s a funny white supremacy. Even American Jews are less incarcerated than Gentile whites. I think it is fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of the Jews. And yet these so-called white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at much higher rates than the Jews. None of this is discussed in your literature. None of this is explained, except waving the hand and ad hominems. “These are racist whistles”. “The model minority myth is the white supremacist”. “Only the fascists speak of black crime on black”, ad nauseam.
These types of statements are not counter arguments: they are just arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress speech. Any serious historian will recognize them for the orthodoxy tactics that silence them., common to suppressive regimes, doctrines and religions across time and space. They aim to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are called upon to comply with and subscribe to Problematic view of history by BLM and the ministry is presented as unified on the issue. In particular, ethnic minorities are actively brought together in a unique position. Any apparent unity is certainly a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly result in expulsion or cancellation for those of us who are in a precarious situation, which is not a small number.
Personally, I dare not speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of the alleged unity being mass produced by the administration, tenured professor, UC administration, US companies and the media, the punishment for dissent is an obvious danger in an era of widespread economic vulnerability. I am sure that if my name was attached to this email I would lose my job and all future jobs, even if I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by blacks. There is practically no march for these invisible victims, no public silences, no sincere letters from UC regents, deans and heads of departments. The message is clear: black lives only count when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and requires a solution. Please look into your hearts and see how truly sectarian this formulation is.
No discussion is allowed for non-black victims of black violence, who are proportionally more numerous than black victims of non-black violence. This is particularly bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black attackers has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief advised Asians to stop hanging lucky charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of the invaders (overwhelmingly black). Invaders like George Floyd. For this real, lived and experienced reality of violence in the United States, there are no marches, no tearful emails from department heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History Department, our silence is not a simple abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intra-racial violence is the product of redlining, slavery and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is therefore up to historians to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jews did not lead to equivalent rates of dysfunction and poor SES performance among Japanese and American Jews respectively.. Arab Americans have been demonized since September 11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. however, both groups outperform white Americans on almost all SES indices – just like Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is the responsibility of historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. however, no real discussion is possible in the current climate of our department. The explanation is provided to us, the disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore the ways in which the explanation is also correct. This is a mockery of the historic profession.
The most disturbing, our ministry seems to have been entirely captured by the interests of the National Democratic Convention and the Democratic Party in general. To explain what I mean, think about what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization that UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the BLM official website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily engaged in funding the election campaigns of Democratic candidates. Donating to BLM today is making an indirect donation to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is preposterous considering the fact that American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police on black are overwhelmed by an overwhelming majority of Democrats. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for more than five decades; “systemic racism” was built there by successive democratic administrations.
The condescending and condescending attitudes of Democratic leaders towards the black community, illustrated by almost all of Biden’s statements about the black race, everything except guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty and the resulting grievance policy which destroy both American political discourse and black lives. And yet, Donating to BLM means funding the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who have seen their cities turn to violence. This is a grotesque capture of a bona fide movement for the necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there is practically no possibility of dissent in academia. I refuse to serve the Party, and so do you.
The total alliance of the big companies involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning signal to us, and yet this overwhelming evidence goes unnoticed, deliberately ignored or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the richest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other current, real and modern slavers. Starbucks, an organization using literal black slaves at its coffee plantation suppliers, supports BLM. Sony, an organization using cobalt from even more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, supports BLM. And apparently so do we. The absence of a counter narrative allows this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There is also a wide range of what can only be called “race scammers”: hawkers of all colors who take advantage of racial conflict fires for administrative jobs, charitable management positions, academic and advancement jobs, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department seems to be moving away from any commitment to the truth, we can think of ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake oil sellers. Their activities are corrosive, destroying all hope of a harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are irrational segregationists.
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he was talking on our campus today. We are training leaders who explicitly intend to destroy one of the only truly prosperous ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As a PRC, a national ethno-nationalist and aggressively racist chauvinist regime with zero immigration and without the concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the United States, I ask you: is this wise ? Are we really doing the right thing?
Finally, our university and our department have made several statements to celebrate and praise George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple criminal who had once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant belly. He terrorized the women of his community. He fathered and abandoned several children, playing no role in their support or education, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug addict and sometimes a drug dealer, a con artist who attacked his honest and hardworking neighbors.
And yet UC regents and historians from the UCB history department celebrate this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual holiness. A man who hurt women. A man who injured black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB History Department, American business, most mainstream media, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged elites who shape opinion in the United States. United, he became a hero of culture, buried in a golden coffin, his (recognized) family inundated with gifts and praise. Americans are under social pressure to kneel because of this violent and abusive misogynist. A generation of black men is forced to identify with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.
I am ashamed of my department. I would say that I am ashamed of you two, but maybe you agree with me, and you are just afraid, like me, of the repercussions of telling the truth. It’s hard to know what it means to kneel down when you have to kneel down to keep your job.
This should not affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family has been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democratic Party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements for moving forward in life, is familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it would not be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be direct in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The soft bigotry always presents low expectations and the permanent assertion that the solutions to the fate of my people rest exclusively on the good will of the whites rather than on our own hard work are psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are taught that it is only by begging, crying and shouting that they receive documents from guilty whites.
No message will more surely devastate their future, especially if white people are short of guilt, or even if America is short of white people. If it had been done for Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would certainly be no different from the more rugged parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The history department of UCB is now a full institutional promulgator of a destructive and disparaging error on the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this post. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrats’ grievance program and the undisputed Party capture of our department. I do not argue that the Party co-ops my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, saying that voting for democracy and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the way George Floyd died and join you in calling for greater accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who had a predictable brutal end..
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is not a rampant handmaid for politicians and businesses. Like us, she is free.
Here is the link:
https://dateway.net/anonymous-berkeley-professor-shreds-blms-tale-of-injustice-with-overwhelming-facts-and-logic/
Originally posted 2020-06-14 15:57:06.