Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day

Special thanks to everyone who has kept this country safe and free!

(We're taking off until Wednesday.)

35 comments:

Tennessee Jed said...

Agreed!

Anthony said...

The Obama administration continues the casual incompetence that has become its hallmark.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/26/cia-cover-blown_n_5393154.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an embarrassing flub, the Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA's top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president's surprise Memorial Day weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.

The officer's name — identified as "chief of station" in Kabul — was included by U.S. embassy staff on a list of 15 senior American officials who met with President Obama during the Saturday visit. The list was sent to a Washington Post reporter who was representing the news media, who then sent it out to the White House "press pool" list, which contains as many as 6,000 recipients.

The Associated Press is withholding the officer's name at the request of the Obama administration, who said its publication could put his life and those of his family members in danger. A Google search appears to reveal the name of the officer's wife and other personal details.

White House officials realized the error after the Post reporter notified them, and sent out a new list without the station chief's name. Other major news organizations, including the Post, also agreed not to publish the officer's name.

AndrewPrice said...

Anthony, Wasn't that what the Plame scandal was supposed to be about?

In any event, I'm glad the issue is solved with the largest papers not printing the name... which is now available to anyone who cares to look. Nicely handled, Obama. Nicely covered, newsdudes.

Anthony said...

I don't get the sense the latest killing spree is going to change anyone's mind about anything, but it is giving nutjobs another way to embarrass themselves.

Some American Thinker columnist apparently thinks the fact that an angry, antisocial, unemployed compulsive masturbator who spent his life gaming (I like gaming, but it should be a hobby, not a lifestyle) couldn't get laid is a powerful indictment of the shallowness of modern woman, who in more moral times would have lined up at his door.

What I love is that the writer then describes the sort of man woman should be looking for, but the shooter fits none of his descriptors.

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Whether or not this is a flaw in humanity, the phenomenon Rodger described is real. As Dr. Seth Meyers and Katie Gilbert argue in a recent Psychology Today article, “The literature has widely established that women prefer tall men to short men.”

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This was a sickness that infected men and women equally. A generation or so ago a woman might have looked for a man who was kind, loving, pious, generous, faithful, hard working. The women in Rodger’s circle, as he saw it, looked for men who were hot, hunky and/or rich, none of which he was.

Anthony said...

Oops. Forgot to include a link to the article.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/the_twisted_world_of_elliot_rodger.html

Anthony said...

Andrew,

Yeah, people should be going to jail over the leak (it is a clear violation of the law), but it doesn't look like anyone is even going to lose their job.

Anthony said...

Also to no one's surprise, an MSNBC journalist has spouted evil idiocy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378773/tour-holocaust-and-hashtagosophy-tom-rogan

Early Saturday morning, the MSNBC host/hyperventilating philosopher Touré again enlightened the world. Facing a tweeter who mentioned that his parents had survived the Holocaust and then found the American dream, Touré responded, “The power of whiteness.”

AndrewPrice said...

Anthony, Laws are only meant to protect Democrats... not punish them.

On the masturbator, to be perfectly frank, sexual dysfunction is the cause of so many problems. The root cause of whackos, modern feminism, men's rights whiners, Islam, and most fundamentalism is sexual dysfunction and an inability to deal with the opposite sex. It is the one thing that binds them all together and which makes them all so dangerous because it makes them feel inferior, so they invest in a belief system that makes them feel superior and powerful and they seek to impose their will on others... like rapists.

AndrewPrice said...

On your last point, the left is making a big mistake trying to turn this into an anti-white thing. Micheal Moore is trying that too... must be a talking point. The public will lose sympathy fast for that.

Anthony said...

Yeah,

The anti-white thing does seem to be a liberal talking point. I really don't see it working, but in fairness, stoking up racial resentment makes more political sense than campaigning on the administration's record.

I doubt they expect it to work, they are probably just seeking to put the ugliest spin possible on what looks to be another Republican sweep of the midterms.

Kit said...

Touré is quite possibly one of the most race-obsessed/opportunistic pundits I've seen. I remember him claiming that stating "Our rights come from God" is racist because black people got their rights from government.

Kit said...

The shooter was a wacko. I won't deny that California, and Los Angeles in particular, are bastions of self-entitled liberal idiocy. But to pin the blame on women for the deranged actions of some misogynistic wacko is stupid at best and borderline cruel at worst.

His statements are filled with misogyny, nihilism, and, most of all, narcissism. Though the misogyny has gotten the most attention the strongest running theme, in opinion, a deep narcissism.

AndrewPrice said...

Kit, It's self-loathing turned to rage because he was inadequate. Any philosophy he's added to it is just a defense mechanism to help him think this wasn't his own fault.

AndrewPrice said...

P.S. So my point is, there is no point to be found in the ramblings of these crazies because they are lying so they don't need to face the truth.

Kit said...

Andrew,

So, misogyny may have been the car he was riding, but behind the wheel was a narcissist with a deep self-loathing inferiority complex?

To mask his sense of inferiority he took up an ideology that told him that he was not the problem, they were. He did not need to earn their trust and their devotion, he was entitled to it. And since he was entitled to it and yet did not receive it, he had been wronged.

BevfromNYC said...

No, he was someone who was mentally ill who needed to be institutionalized or medicated or both.

As I see so much about "this is the NRA"s fault" floating around the blogs and newscasts, it makes me sick. It's NOT the guns, it's the CRAZY that did this. If not a gun, it would have been an incendiary device (Boston) or car or Samurai sword or whatever.

There is a through line to all of these mass shootings - Mental Illness + steady diet of violent images/video games + isolation + parent/guardian desperately trying to get over-18 child help or intervene before they KNOW something is going to happen + laws that do not allow the involuntary institutionalizing of people over the age of consent = lots of dead people. Thanks to the Kennedy's who helped shut down rall our public mental institutions because they were poorly run rather than improve them.

BevfromNYC said...

So, I keep forgetting. We are or are NOT supposed to reveal the names of our CIA operatives to members of the press in a mass email? It's so confusing...

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, Like all crimes, it depends on who you are. If you are a Democrat, then you released the information to save lives and end AIDS among the homeless. If you are a Republican, then you released the name because you are evil and you want to kill brown people who lack penises. Simple.

AndrewPrice said...

Agreed on the mental health stuff. But the truth is that sexual inadequacy/discomfort seems to be the driving force behind most hate ideologies like liberal feminism, "men's rights", religious fundamentalism, whackoism, etc. It seems that being incapable of relating to the opposite sex causes these people to want to punish the opposite sex and those who are able to relate to them.

Lookin' at you Rick Santorum... Mohamed... Andrea Dworkins... Ted Haggard... Hitler... etc.

Kit said...

In America, it seems without the mental illness he would likely be some troll tweeting (empty) rape threats or wearing t-shirts that say I Like Fangirls How I Like My Coffee, I Hate Coffee."

This might be because America is actually not a terrible country and misogynistic asshats must be confined to the miserable life of trolling. Whereas in places like Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone, Serbia, and other places there are plenty of organizations willing and waiting to recruit young men to commit savage acts of cruelty.

Kit said...

Forgot a quotation mark. "I Like Fangirls How I Like My Coffee, I Hate Coffee."

AndrewPrice said...

Kit, There is something to that. There aren't any organizations you can join in this country that will let you rape and pillage your way across the countryside - there are a lot of whiner groups, but none who act upon their twisted beliefs.

But if you live in a third world "paradise" like Pakistan, then you can get your revenge by joining any number of groups who stone women or burn schools for teaching to girls, or who rape and pillage their way around the country. You can also just get an arranged marriage and then rape and beat your wife because the law is on your side. Very enlightened.

BevfromNYC said...

Well, you are right. We could cut out most crimes like these by just instating government-funded arranged marriages and laws that require no one over the age of 13 be unbetrothed. They could still stay on their parents health insurance until they are 27 though...;-)

Kit said...

And if she runs away, you can hire other like-minded fellows to do a Picasso on her face!
LINK

I've heard that some move to Thailand because of the massive sex industry there.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, That would do it... especially the insurance bit. LOL! What a world.


Kit, If she runs away, then Uncle Jerry Bob the Sheriff or Allah will bring her back.

BevfromNYC said...

Hey, why do you assume that the women will run away? What about the men? They do their fair share of running away too...well, that has been my experience anyway. ;-) There should be a law, a LAW, I tell ya'!

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, This is the future! We should do all of this by computer. If they can put a man on the moon, surely they can invent a computer which can pair us all up and then the law can make that permanent! I can't see a single problem that would cause!

BevfromNYC said...

Yeah, you're right! What could possibly go wrong?? It could be like a national/government-run E-Harmony or Match.com!! And it could be done by DNA/Genetic testing to find the best genetically compatible mate! Oooh, there is money to made here....er....I mean, people to make happy on a national level. No longer would you need to waste time and money and emotions on choosing a mate. The Government and "Science" can do it for you!

Anonymous said...

I don't have much to say about the shooting, other than that if the kid was so desperate to get laid, he should've hired an escort. It's not that hard.

(Is that what she said?) :-)

And why is this asshole still relevant?

Kit said...

Scott,

He also got to attend a party hosted by Katy Perry. And he got to attend the Hunger Games premiere. You know, the one starring Jennifer Lawrence.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, Given the high level of skill with which the government handled Obamacare, administering the borders, and managing its financial affairs, I can't imagine a single problem that could possible arise with creating a computer to assign mates throughout the US.

And seeing as how liberals love amazingly stupid overbearing solutions to tiny problems they've blown out of proportion, I think they will embrace forcing the entire population into this computerized mating service... it's a small price to pay to stop three or four crazed gunmen every couple years.

AndrewPrice said...

Scott, Same reason Micheal Moore is relevant.

Kit, I blame Katy Perry.

AndrewPrice said...

Had to pass along this quote from a true genius... an inspired genius... a giant among donut connoisseurs.

"The problem with liberalism is that liberalism tells stupid people that they aren't really stupid and encourages them never to learn from their mistakes."

- A Blogger

tryanmax said...

IDK if anyone bothered to watch the Snowden interview. (I did not.) But I had to laugh when I read parts of John Kerry's response. Amidst repetitious scolding that Snowden must "man up" Kerry at one point accused him of "taking pot shots at his country." Hmmm.

tryanmax said...

Another random comment. President Obama is absolutely incapable of not making everything about himself. Now he's reported as saying that he's probably had multiple mild concussions. Ugh! He reminds me of those WebMD hypochondriacs.

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