Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Our Commander-in-Chief saluted a member of the Marine Corps today while clutching a coffee cup...click on link to see video.http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2014/09/23/obama-salutes-marines-with-a-coffee-n1895665?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Per the U.S. Military Protocol Saluting, a salute should be performed as follows:
Execution of the Hand Salute is performed as follows: "the right hand is raised smartly until the tip of the forefinger touches the lower part of the headdress or forehead above and slightly to the right of the right eye, thumb and fingers extended and joined, palm to the left, upper arm horizontal, forearm inclined at 45 degrees, hand and wrist straight; at the same time turn head toward the person saluted. To complete the salute, drop the arm to its normal position by the side in one motion, at the same time turning the head and eyes to the front".Furthermore, the protocol adds (emphasis added):
It has been said that a sloppy salute is worse than not saluting at all.This isn't the first time Obama has run into an awkward situation saluting a Marine. Last year, Obama made headlines when he shook a Marine's hand instead of saluting him.
It's been nearly six years, Mr. President. Figure it out.
“Turkish
security forces have fired water cannon and tear gas at crowds which had
gathered in support of Syrian Kurdish refugees on the border,” reports
the BBC.
“It comes after some 66,000 refugees poured into Turkey in 24 hours. Turkey opened its border on Friday to Syrians fleeing the town of Kobane in fear of an Islamic State attack.”
While I like the Kurds in general, I think Turkey is giving us part of the solution to our own border problems: We need to send some of our politicians to Turkey to be tear gassed too. A little water cannon wouldn’t hurt either.
While there would no doubt be civil rights implications—bad for the politicians and good for us-- don't discount the fun factor here. Tear-gassing Eric Holder and Nancy Pelosi would not only help them understand that he have the right to defend ourselves, it would also just be fun.
And you don't even have to be Turkish to enjoy that.
The highlight of navy boot camp for the NCOs at Great Lakes when I went through was when they lined up recruits and had them remove their gasmasks in a chamber filled with tear gas while reciting the Sailor’s Creed:
I am a United States Sailor.
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and I will obey the orders of those appointed over me.
I represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before me to defend freedom and democracy around the world.
I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with Honor, Courage and Commitment.
I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.
Snot ran, we cried, we did not laugh and a good time was had by men, mostly in their 20s, who had been in the Navy long enough defending freedom and democracy around the world for the event to pass as entertainment.
But think how much more fun it would be to tear-gas someone who actually deserved it like Elizabeth Warren or Hank Johnson.
So maybe we can have a similar creed made up for the cretins who decided that the proper response to Russia’s occupation of Ukraine and ISIS occupation of Iraq and Syria was to mobilize feminists in NYC via 550 union-provided buses to STOP GLOBAL WARMING NOW!
You wanna combat global warming? Stop Obama from leasing union buses.
The larger issue could be addressed as well through tear-gassing.
And that larger issue is this: Many countries abandoned by Obama's so-called foreign policy—including our own--are having border problems as a direct result of the president’s Democrat-induced delusions of pander.
Let’s face it: If it weren’t for pandering Obama would have no foreign policy objectives at all.
ISIS?
Created by pandering to the Arab Street’s desire for reform, no matter what form reform takes.
The U.S. Apology tour?
Pandering to Europe and the Arab States.
The Russian Reset?
Pandering to Russia.
Our border policy with Mexico?
Pandering to Democrat pollsters who need to keep Hispanics in line for the next next election, which of course is always only one more election away.
Because while throngs gather at the United Nations this week to hear Obama try to change the topic from his own pandering and shortcomings to even more pandering followed by more Obama shortcomings, keep one thing in mind: If Obama were at the UN to get tear-gassed while reciting the Sailor’s Creed, even more people would show up to see it.
And for the right reasons too.
We wouldn’t even need buses.
“It comes after some 66,000 refugees poured into Turkey in 24 hours. Turkey opened its border on Friday to Syrians fleeing the town of Kobane in fear of an Islamic State attack.”
While I like the Kurds in general, I think Turkey is giving us part of the solution to our own border problems: We need to send some of our politicians to Turkey to be tear gassed too. A little water cannon wouldn’t hurt either.
While there would no doubt be civil rights implications—bad for the politicians and good for us-- don't discount the fun factor here. Tear-gassing Eric Holder and Nancy Pelosi would not only help them understand that he have the right to defend ourselves, it would also just be fun.
And you don't even have to be Turkish to enjoy that.
The highlight of navy boot camp for the NCOs at Great Lakes when I went through was when they lined up recruits and had them remove their gasmasks in a chamber filled with tear gas while reciting the Sailor’s Creed:
I am a United States Sailor.
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and I will obey the orders of those appointed over me.
I represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before me to defend freedom and democracy around the world.
I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with Honor, Courage and Commitment.
I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.
Snot ran, we cried, we did not laugh and a good time was had by men, mostly in their 20s, who had been in the Navy long enough defending freedom and democracy around the world for the event to pass as entertainment.
But think how much more fun it would be to tear-gas someone who actually deserved it like Elizabeth Warren or Hank Johnson.
So maybe we can have a similar creed made up for the cretins who decided that the proper response to Russia’s occupation of Ukraine and ISIS occupation of Iraq and Syria was to mobilize feminists in NYC via 550 union-provided buses to STOP GLOBAL WARMING NOW!
You wanna combat global warming? Stop Obama from leasing union buses.
The larger issue could be addressed as well through tear-gassing.
And that larger issue is this: Many countries abandoned by Obama's so-called foreign policy—including our own--are having border problems as a direct result of the president’s Democrat-induced delusions of pander.
Let’s face it: If it weren’t for pandering Obama would have no foreign policy objectives at all.
ISIS?
Created by pandering to the Arab Street’s desire for reform, no matter what form reform takes.
The U.S. Apology tour?
Pandering to Europe and the Arab States.
The Russian Reset?
Pandering to Russia.
Our border policy with Mexico?
Pandering to Democrat pollsters who need to keep Hispanics in line for the next next election, which of course is always only one more election away.
Because while throngs gather at the United Nations this week to hear Obama try to change the topic from his own pandering and shortcomings to even more pandering followed by more Obama shortcomings, keep one thing in mind: If Obama were at the UN to get tear-gassed while reciting the Sailor’s Creed, even more people would show up to see it.
And for the right reasons too.
We wouldn’t even need buses.
US Thwarts ‘Active Plotting Against Homeland’ By Hitting Al Qaeda Cell Khorasan in Syria
PAMELA GELLER / ATLAS SHRUGSThe Department of Defense has released the following: “the United States also took action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests conducted by a network of seasoned al-Qaida veterans known as the Khorasan Group. The group has established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations, the release said. These strikes were undertaken only by U.S. assets.”
Jihad groups are metastasizing across the region.
Al Qaeda operative Muhsin al-Fadhli is wanted by the U.S. government, with a $7 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Although rewards provide little incentive to the...
US “public diplomacy experts” warn: Government not doing enough to counter Islamic State’s online presence
“Efforts mount to oppose Islamic State in online propaganda war,” by Justin Jalil, Times of Israel, September 23, 2014:
US public diplomacy experts have warned that the government may not be doing enough to counter the Islamic State’s growing online presence.
The Islamic State is widely regarded as the most successful terrorist group of the social media age. Its presence on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter dwarf any of the group’s predecessors, as it actively recruits supporters with grisly propaganda videos.
The al-Qaeda offshoot made headlines this summer when it circulated three high-quality videos that showed the beheadings of three Western civilians: American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines.
American officials are working to counter the Islamic State’s influence electronically with a number of initiatives designed to discredit the rogue caliphate online, the Guardian reported.
The most noticeable effort has been the US’s “Think Again, Turn Away” campaign, headed by a State Department office called the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.
The campaign is a calculated offensive — meant to discourage potential recruits from joining the Islamic State — that produced videos casting the jihadists currently fighting in Iraq and Syria in a negative, anti-Muslim light.
One video uploaded to the account is titled “Welcome to the ‘Islamic State’ land (ISIS/ISIL)” and rapidly displays a series of graphic images of Islamic State fighters blowing up mosques and killing civilians with accompanying text and brooding music.
But not everyone thinks the official efforts are worthwhile.
The American government has been accused of “trolling” the social media accounts of Islamic State members and arguing with them on a variety of online forums.
“I honestly don’t think the government should be in the position of directly engaging jihadis on Twitter. It’s a silly game,” contended Shahed Amanullah, a former State Department employee who left to help to establish programs promoting anti-extremist Muslim voices abroad.Amanullah is right. It is a silly game, because it proceeds from false assumptions about Islam and Muslims.
“[The] tragedy of the US government’s attempts to engage online,” Amanullah said, is that “there’s nothing these people like more than to see the US government specifically acknowledging and interacting with them online. They turn right around to their followers and say, ‘See? We’re every bit as powerful as we say we are, the US government is proof.’”They are powerful enough to hold a territory larger than the U.K. It is doubtful that they think they’re important because the State Department is engaging them online.
Is the Obama administration using bad accounting to hide healthcare failures?
“CMS’s processes are inconsistent with certain federal accounting and internal control standards,” the report states.
GAO officials reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn’t properly track certain data necessary to determining whether the law is working. Part of the problem, according to GAO officials, is that CMS uses an outdated records system incapable of responding to data requests from public officials. Rather than receiving the data directly from the network, officials charged with keeping the government’s budget in check must rely on manually produced spreadsheets that take months for CMS to prepare.
This means that government auditors tasked with determining whether Obamacare is working must do their jobs with outdated and sometimes incomplete information.
A major area of concern with CMS’s data-reporting processes involved its Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, which has worked closely with state governments to implement Obamacare. According to the GAO report, that department was unable to track spending on advertising, polling, staff and travel, among other things, for auditors.
In fact, the GAO auditors reported that the only verifiable data CMS was able to provide consisted of “estimates for total obligations for fiscal year 2014, which was $3.7 billion; the number of staff as of September 30, 2013, which was 347; and total salary expenditures from March 2010 through fiscal year 2013, which were $79.8 million.”
Outgoing House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who ordered the GAO report, slammed the Obama administration in a statement Tuesday.
“After promising transparency and then ignoring repeated requests from Congress, we now find out that the administration is not even keeping track of how many taxpayer dollars are going out the door,” he said. “Worse yet, the administration won’t even account for how much it spent on public relations campaigns promoting their unpopular law.”
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Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby's statement to the media as air strikes over Syria began.
Done without the Constitutionally required Congressional authorization, late Monday night EST, Tomahawk cruise missiles led the way as bombers and fighters were launched from U.S. destroyers in the northern Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. And so the campaign...the limited campaign...against the terror group known as ISIS started. Bombing specifically chosen ISIS targets in Syria, five Arab nations assisted in that bombing as U.S. war planes lead the way. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Jordan were involved in the actual bombing with Qatar doing surveillance work. Odd though isn't it that none of our European allies...none of our NATO partners...flew with this 'supposed' coalition. And odder still is that the U.S. Central Command attacked Khorasan...a network of highly trained and extremely loyal al-Qaeda operatives (more on them later)...separately without the Arab countries joining in.
And also don't for a minute think Bashir al-Assad didn't know these attacks were forthcoming...he did.
Five Arab nations took part...four of the five (Jordan being the exception) have supported and funded ISIS in the past...and now they are helping to bomb them...to run 'limited' air strikes...'pin-prick' air strikes if you will...with targets picked to inflict as little damage as possible both collateral and to ISIS itself. So how can these air strikes be successful in destroying ISIS...simply, they cannot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sorHHNEyK8
And why now...why are these air strikes being conducted now...it's really quite simple for to save political face as November looms large is paramount above all else for Obama's losing the peace when George W. Bush had won the war bodes very poorly even with the party faithful.
Now let's understand that while last night's mission looks good on the surface... these but 20 or so air strikes primarily done on Raqqa, ISIS' self-declared capital in eastern Syria...is, in fact, limited in scope as it will NOT destroy ISIS when if done right it could...especially when our military leaders have said that about two-thirds of the estimated 31,000 ISIS militants are currently in Syria. To destroy ISIS you must 'carpet' bomb from the air and put 'boots on the ground'...period. Without 'boots' you might destroy some 'targeted' command and control centers (centers that have long been evacuated as Obama again told the world basically when we would be taking action thus giving their occupants time to melt into the civilian population), training camps, and weapons caches but you will NOT inflict the much needed body count and that alone would be what cuts the head off the snake so to speak. In fact, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported this morning that only about 70 ISIS fighters...70 out of 31,000...were killed in last night's raid with 300 being injured.
So the snake still lives but remember, even if the head is cut off the body remains to morph into a different animal, yet at the same time an animal that is really quite the same.
And with rape, torture, beheadings, and death being the calling card of ISIS...there are other groups with the same blood lust waiting in the wings ready to continue on in the quest to kill us all.
And now some in our intelligence community are sounding the alarm about yet another Syrian based group...an al-Qaeda affiliate group known as Khorasan...a group that operates under the cover of Syria's ongoing civil war but who, unlike with ISIS, we really don't know their numbers nor their possible weaknesses.
And this is the group Obama claims was getting ready to attack American and western interests, even though there appears to be NO definitive intel of any sort to back that up.
And why do we need to be concerned about this little known group especially with the air strikes now ongoing...the why is because Khorasan shows decidedly more interest in attacking our country than ISIS does even with their social media campaign of videos of beheadings...videos made to threaten and instill fear in we infidels. And even with ISIS' known blood lust and brutality there are differences between these two groups for while ISIS continues to push hard for establishing the regional islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria and spreading outward from there, actually attacking the U.S. homeland is more of an afterthought for them...words spoken for shock value and for diversionary purposes to take the world's eyes off the atrocities committed in the lands they control. Khorasan, on the other hand, shows little political interest in either the war in Syria or in Iraq nor are they particularly active in ISIS' and al-Nursa's joint quest to overthrow the government of Bashir al-Assad...their goal is to wage jihad on America and the west...period.
And acting as 'lone wolves' is one very serious possibility as these young jihadis can't wait to blow themselves up...to be martyrs in the name of allah.
Also a group to be feared and watched while ISIS gets 'selectively' bombed is Jabhat al-Nusra...the only faction in position to actually benefit from these air strikes that might weaken ISIS somewhat. But what threat do they pose to our homeland as it would be them who would fill the immediate void if ISIS was able to be taken out.
And so now we wait to see what tonight and tomorrow will bring, and we wait to see if this 'supposed' coalition will hold together. But even if it does these 'limited' air strikes will NOT get the job done and ISIS' anger will grow strong...strong enough that other terrorists groups might very well merge with them to fight back...to fight back en-masse so that even American 'boots on the ground' might NOT be able to stop them...and if that's the case God help us all.
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