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[Valin]

 

But how do you really feel?

[Geee]

 

 

But how do you really feel?

 

PC she is not!!!

[SrWoodchuck]

Active Army Special Forces member’s Jaw-Dropping letter to America’s politicians

 

http://woundedamericanwarrior.com/active-army-special-forces-members-jaw-dropping-letter-americas-politicians/#comments

 

 

The writer of this letter is still an active US Army Special Forces member therefore, his name is being withheld. However, his opinion is the farthest thing from being held back- Via The Havok Journal.

 

 

“To the political leaders of America,

 

I write to you today regarding my concerns about the current state in which we find our beloved planet and your efforts in resolving the many issues we face.

 

Over the last decade, we have managed to allow our mighty position at the head of the table to dwindle down to a seat at the kids table, with our counsel being received as if it were that of a child making a suggestion on how to cure the world of evil: everyone thinks it is adorable, but no one takes it seriously.

Understanding that you have the attention span of indigenous forces undergoing rifle training, I give you the options of either reading this letter in its entirety or simply skipping to the last two paragraphs.

 

Sadly, you neither get the reference about indigenous forces (ask your college educated SMEs and think tanks) nor are you capable of making a decision on what to do next. Go ahead and post a tweet asking for thoughts/advice and hashtag this out with the others. #hashtaggingworldproblemsisabsurd #noseriouslystopit #itisridiculousandembarrassing You have time, this letter will still be here.

 

Due your ineptitude in your decisions with regard to who we back with foreign aid, and your complete lack of a spine in dealing with global threats, we find ourselves, for the first time in ages, being looked at with eyes filled with disdain and disrespect.

 

The mere mention of ‘America’ leaves a bad taste in the mouths of our friends and allies. The prospects of being saved by our once-great nation are now nothing more than a fleeting thought in the hearts and minds of Third World Country natives who dream of a life with fewer hardships than ones they currently face—hardships that could be vanquished by the hands of a great nation and its allies.

 

We have entered into a time in which it is not only possible to spread one’s hate filled rhetoric, it is also actually profitable and protected. Your understanding and misinterpretations of our founding freedoms are being used and twisted to further your own political agendas without any consideration for the people you are meant to represent.

 

Your understanding (or lack thereof) of our Constitution contributes to the complete madness of a country that is run where someone’s rights to desecrate the flag that represents these very freedoms is more important than the patriotic peoples who stand to protect it. Allowing people to lose houses or be fined for flying the American flag on their property due to it offending someone or being against a housing covenants is beyond ludicrous. It’s both absurd and frightening. These are just a few examples of countless rights that are being used to tear the very fabric of which this country is founded.

 

You see, all of you have forgotten the very key that makes this country work. You fight for one’s freedoms to express their beliefs regardless of where their loyalties lie. Using our very own founding documents, you argue that it is ones right to speak and act freely on their beliefs, regardless of their view of this great nation.

 

For fear of offending someone to pure political motivations, you stand up for the very people that wish to tear you down. What you, as well as most Americans have forgotten is this: Those individual rights end where others begin! It may be ones right to protest a certain religions display or another’s stance on certain political views, however, it is also the others right to display and have those stand points.

 

If one is offended by a shirt displayed with an image of a gun, a flag of our nation, a statue representing their faith in their chosen religion or any other example; that is their right to be offended and speak out. However, it is the others right to wear that shirt, fly that flag, display that statue or whatever else they wish to do. Freedom cannot be one-sided. The complete madness of political correctness is overwhelming.

 

You have stripped away our 1st Amendment rights by disguising it as political correctness and making the very people that make this country great afraid of offending any and everyone. I use these examples in our own country as the catalyst that has spawned our current position on the global stage.

 

Through political motivation or just complete incompetence, your methods of governing our country have clouded your views and thought processes for helping forge a united world. We stand at the table, with weak knees and shivering hands. Our word as a nation holding as much weight as that of our President doing curls in the gym. We have all seen the video…

 

We live in a world where you can contest our very lands with flyovers without consequence. A world where one can sweep through two entire countries, massacring everyone along the way with no fear repercussions. One where sanctions and empty threats are wielded as a mighty sword against the very enemies that threaten our existence. You fail to see that in today’s world, the pen is not mightier than the sword.

 

You have demonstrated this time and time again over the last 13 years. Take Afghanistan for example. Politics alone have been the source of Taliban resurgence. How could this be? Let me school you. In 2001, a mixture of CIA, Special Forces and other Special Operations Forces (SOF), in very limited numbers, swept through the entire country of Afghanistan, demolishing the Taliban forces that stood in its way. Thinking that the back had been broken, we backed off and brought more and more ground forces in the country.

 

As time went on, more and more troops arrived and operational control was taken away from the Special Operations types, to make way for conventional commands. Along with this came more and more restricted Rules of Engagement.

 

Fast forward to 2006. Following more political moves and further NATO control, we found ourselves in an Afghanistan where the freedom of movement for the insurgents is unprecedented in Operation Enduring Freedom—a freedom of movement that not only limits NATO troops ground movements, but also has even the hardest of SOF elements avoiding a drive into Kandahar City. So, NATO asked the US to help. Enter into the timeline, Operation Medusa.

 

US Special Forces demolished the insurgent forces to the point that insurgent operations in the entire country dropped. The morale of the insurgents also dropped to an all time low, the grounds upon which the new Afghan Government stands, are once again sturdy. Now, fast forward to present day…

 

What has happened? Are the insurgents in Afghanistan fleeing and backs broken? Far from it. All of this due to your politics. The war effort drawn down to a near standstill due to more and more pointless commands and approval process. All, in which serve to help some pointless commander to further his career and push some pointless political agenda.

 

You see, the current world in which we find ourselves isn’t one that can be tamed by the pen. The evils of the world find protection behind the shield of your politics. This is due to one simple fact. You have no clue how to play this game. You listen and make decisions based of your Subject Matter Experts who read about war in a book. You base your strategies on the opinions of ‘Think Tanks’ and conventional wisdom. The answers to these problems being spoken by the men on the ground only to be silenced by ‘yes men’. Due to this, you will continue to fail.

More at site.....

 

 

WoundedAmericanWarrior via TheFeralIrishman

[SrWoodchuck]

Take note of the last sentence for this Navy advertisement video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_L-phaTEYY&feature=player_embedded

 

From WeaselZippers with this comment:

 

Wait for it, last sentence of the video. It says “we are committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all”. This video was made in 2013 and I saw it yesterday on T.V.

 

The Constitutional duty of the U.S. Navy, and the rest of the military, is to ensure for the “common defense” of the United States and its people, it is not to be committed to the “fair treatment of all”.

 

In the course of this constitutional duty, the Navy may have to kill people and break things, and quite frankly not be fair to people or things that get in the way of this obligation.

 

Indeed, seeking to ensure the “fair treatment of all” will ensure that they do not adequately provide for the common defense. As we see with the case of James Foley, dithering around, thinking about who you might offend by acting, ensured that Foley would not be rescued.

 

Fairness is a direct result of the policy our commander-in-chief, a policy which will endanger our military and can lead to failure, no matter how fine the soldiers.

 

Emphasis mine.

[Valin]

The St. Louis Rams HATE Gays...or something

 

Hatred is just rampant in Missouri!

[SrWoodchuck]

Unicorn Governance http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/unicorn-governance

 

Our problem is that we have to fight unicorns.

 

 

Unicorns, of course, are fabulous horse-like creatures with a large spiraling horn on their forehead. They eat rainbows, but can go without eating for years if necessary. They can carry enormous amounts of cargo without tiring. And their flatulence smells like pure, fresh strawberries, which makes riding behind them in a wagon a pleasure.

 

For all these reasons, unicorns are essentially the ideal pack animal, the key to improving human society and sharing prosperity.

Now, you want to object that there is a flaw in the above argument, because unicorns do not actually exist. This would clearly be a fatal flaw for the claim that unicorns are useful, if it were true. Is it?

Of course not. The existence of unicorns is easily proven. Close your eyes. Now envision a unicorn. The one I see is white, with an orange-colored horn. The unicorn is surrounded by rainbows. Your vision may look slightly different, but there is no question that when I say "unicorn," the picture in your mind corresponds fairly closely to the picture in my mind. So, unicorns do exist and we have a shared conception of what they are.

 

Problem: "the State" is a unicorn

When I am discussing the State with my colleagues at Duke, it's not long before I realize that, for them, almost without exception, the State is a unicorn. I come from the Public Choice tradition, which tends to emphasize consequentialist arguments more than natural rights, and so the distinction is particularly important for me. My friends generally dislike politicians, find democracy messy and distasteful, and object to the brutality and coercive excesses of foreign wars, the war on drugs, and the spying of the NSA.

But their solution is, without exception, to expand the power of "the State." That seems literally insane to me—a non sequitur of such monstrous proportions that I had trouble taking it seriously.

Then I realized that they want a kind of unicorn, a State that has the properties, motivations, knowledge, and abilities that they can imagine for it. When I finally realized that we were talking past each other, I felt kind of dumb. Because essentially this very realization—that people who favor expansion of government imagine a State different from the one possible in the physical world—has been a core part of the argument made by classical liberals for at least 300 years.

Some examples help illustrate the point.

Edmund Burke highlights the unicorn fallacy neatly. The problem is not bad people, or systems that need reform. Come the next election, we'll have a Messiah! The next reform will lead to Utopia!

 

No.

 

No, we won't, and no, it won't.

 

 

In vain you tell me that [government] is good, but that I fall out only with the Abuse. The Thing! The Thing itself is the abuse! Observe, my Lord, I pray you, that grand Error upon which all artificial legislative Power is founded. It was observed, that Men had ungovernable Passions, which made it necessary to guard against the Violence they might offer to each other. They appointed Governors over them for this Reason; but a worse and more perplexing Difficulty arises, how to be defended against the Governors?

Adam Smith put it this way in The Wealth of Nations:

 

It is the system of government, the situation in which [people] are placed, that I mean to censure, not the character of those who have acted in it. They acted as their situation naturally directed, and they who have clamoured the loudest against them would probably not have acted better themselves.

Smith was talking about the employees of the East India Company in this passage. But the insight is a general one: The failure of a system of organization often arises from the incentives, the logic of action, or the inconsistencies inherent in that system. The people who work in that system probably act in much the same way that other people would act if they found themselves in that system. So, while it's true that one can imagine a State that works differently, there are no actual human beings who can work in that system and deliver what statists can imagine.

More recently, Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek recognized the problem of unicorns rather deftly. In Epistemological Problems of Economics, Mises said:

 

 

The FreeMan via BorePatch

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Well I feel safer now:

 

Dozens of police agencies report loss of Pentagon-supplied military weapons

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Unleash the hashtags of war:

EU orders preparation of 'urgent' Russia sanctions as Ukraine troops give more ground

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that strategy?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where does that policy lead to?' And you may say to yourself, 'How the hell did we get here?'"

[Valin]

"And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that strategy?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where does that policy lead to?' And you may say to yourself, 'How the hell did we get here?'"

Shades of Talking Head!

[SrWoodchuck]

"And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that strategy?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where does that policy lead to?' And you may say to yourself, 'How the hell did we get here?'"

 

Emperors new retirement suit...."are you ready for some feetball?"

 

Size 48" jacket----------on a 36" round shouldered frame. Size 13 neck. Size 5&1/16th hat.

 

Shoulder pads & flak jacket.

 

Fore-arm pads, elbow pads, knee pads [the best that money can buy] kidney pads, hip pads & peeny pad.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via TheFeralIrishman

[Valin]

Calif. HS Ditches Fighting Arab Mascot, Genie Companion

 

Coachella Valley High School will still be the Arabs, but the schools longtime mascot is no more. After complaints from the America-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, covered by Al Jazeera America, USA Today, and other outlets, Coachella Valley Unified School District decided to retire the mascot a hook-nosed man with beard, mustachio, and keffiyeh (headscarf) and his companion, a midriff-bearing genie.

 

Here is the pair raising school spirit:

 

 

(Snip)

[WestVirginiaRebel]

NBC's Engel: Military leaders apoplectic over Obama's "Freudian slip":

 

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Democratic revolt continues: Key senator calls for Obama to arm Ukraine

 

On Sunday, Menendez told CNN’s Candy Crowley that it was past time for the United States to begin providing Ukrainian forces lethal aid in support of their resistance toward Russian aggression.

 

“We should be providing the Ukrainians with the type of defensive weapons that will impose a cost upon Putin for further aggression,” the senator said. “We have to give the Ukrainians the fighting chance to defend themselves.”

[Geee]

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Hugo Chavez elevated to godhood:

Lord's Prayer in Venezuela invokes Chavez

[Geee]

Just read that Andrew Klavin will be writing the script for the Gosnell movie.

[Rheo]

[SrWoodchuck]

The job of the Vice President....is to be a "cheerleader" [of sorts] for the pResident.

 

Nobody works harder than Crazy Uncle Joe!

 

 

Via iOTW

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via MyMuseShankedMe

[mozartlover]

With all due respect, Mr. President, we do not need to make ISIS "manageable". We need to make ISIS "disappear."

[Rheo]

 

BREAKING: Before He Died Fighting For ISIS, This American Held A Trusted, Security-Sensitive US Job

 

He may have worked on an airplane you’ve flown on.

 

A Minnesota TV station is reporting that the second known American killed while fighting alongside ISIS terrorists in Syria used to work at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. KMSP-TV reports that Abdirahmaan Muhumed held a job that gave him “security clearance at the airport, access to the tarmac and unfettered access to planes.”

 

Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-before-he-died-fighting-for-isis-this-american-held-a-trusted-security-sensitive-us-job/#qbxB3DAeEH2xzRg6.99

[Valin]

WARNING A Large Tumbler of Whiskey or 47 is recommended before hitting play.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

American Reporter Killed By ISIS Hid His Israeli Background, Pretended To Be Sick In Order To Celebrate Yom Kippur http://weaselzippers.us/198512-american-reporter-killed-by-isis-hid-his-israeli-background-pretended-to-be-sick-in-order-to-celebrate-yom-kippur/

 

Steven Sotloff, the kidnapped journalist who was beheaded by a masked ISIS militant in a gruesome video released Tuesday, held dual Israeli-US citizenship.

 

Details of his connection with Israel had been kept secret for fear of endangering his life.

 

“Cleared for publication: Steven Sotloff was Israel citizen RIP,” Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Paul Hirschson tweeted Wednesday.

 

The 31-year-old Jewish-American journalist briefly lived in Israel

 

Via WeaselZippers