Category Archives: Troops

The stupid party

Turns out it’s not the Republicans. Not when the subject is Benghazi terrorism.

“Think of that. They can’t give answers when the story’s fresh because it just happened, they’re looking into it. Eight months later they don’t have anything to say because it all happened so long ago.”

The titular heads of the Democrat Party left an ambassador and three other Americans to die rather than contradict themselves by trying to save them. They didn’t even try. And as a Vietnamese character says in my novel The Butterfly Rose: “the roof leaks from the top on down.”

Your Coexist sticker will not save you

Amusingly enough, one of them was on the back of the Massachusetts SUV hijacked by the baby-faced monster and his boxer brother in which they would later shoot it out with the police. Shocker. You mean the Jihadis weren’t interested in sparing an obvious person-of-appeasement?

Nope. Your Coexist sticker is not an avoid-the-Jihadi guarantee. On the contrary, I bet they picked out the vehicle when they saw the sticker. A useful idiot, they may have thought or said to themselves, one of those dupes who believes in moderate Muslims. He surely won’t be armed and he’ll surrender his car without a fuss. And sure enough.

Not that they would have minded killing him. They killed the MIT security guard, after all, apparently for his gun. Didn’t have time for a background check. Sorry, Barry. But all that blood on the driver’s side seat makes for a sticky experience. Much easier to have the keys handed to you before the leftist owner (who else would have one of those stickers?) swoons with pleasure at having been approached by an actual, you know, Muslim.

UPDATE: The Powerline bloggers think the report of the sticker on the hijacked SUV was a conservative or libertarian prank, but they like Mark Steyn’s take: “…if it weren’t for that Islamic crescent [the letter C on the sticker] you wouldn’t need a bumper sticker at all.”

Follow the wounded, dammit

It’s a truism of the snooze media’s behavior that, even in the worst of times, they count the severity of a disaster by its number of dead. They tend to ignore the merely injured. Hopefully, not this time:

“All of us at the hospital have been left with an overwhelming sense of sadness. The lives that we touched will never be the same. Many of these victims will never walk. Some may not survive.”

The permanently maimed, crippled, and disfigured, like the handiwork of Jihadis everywhere, deserve their fifteen minutes, if only to underscore what the baby-faced monster terrorist of Boston and his boxer brother did.

Police frustrated, citizen finds their prey

The lesson of the capture of the second Boston bomber couldn’t be clearer: you want to find a fugitive, don’t treat a community like an obstruction. Encourage its initiative.

Shortly after the “authorities” admitted defeat in their day-long imprisonment of an entire city, a homeowner finally released from his “lock down” found their prey for them.

Going outside to check on his trailered boat, he found blood on its ripped cover, peeked inside and discovered the wounded teenage Jihadi. One phone call and the hundreds of police who’d spend the day fruitlessly cruising around clinging to their armored personnel carriers in their SS-black uniforms, body armor and helmets, had “their” victory. “We got him,” the mayor crowed.

But they didn’t. One alert and cooperative citizen did. Just one.

Benghazi probe hotting up?

Could the Stupid Party be actually, truly, you know, “investigating” the Benghazi murders?

There’s a new warning from House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to the legal offices of CIA, Defense and State to start helping their tattling employees lawyer up for anticipated Democrat revenge in public hearings to come. Remains to be seen whether it’s more than hot air.

Via Instapundit.

Cop’s right, veteran’s wrong: open carry is restricted in Texas

I admire most of what I find in National Review. There aren’t that many good conservative publications in America which is swamped with Leftist newspapers and magazines that only pretend to be impartial.

But National Review is just as capable of screwing up. And such is NR’s championing of a belligerent veteran who lives near Temple, which is just up the road from the rancho: “Texas Soldier Arrested for Rudely Displaying Weapon.”

Seems to me the self-described soldier is the rude one, smarting off to a cop who questioned his presumed right to carry a loaded AR-15 on a hike with his young son out in the countryside. He reportedly told NR: “I was legally exercising a right, especially in Texas where we have a right to carry weapons openly….”

That is not true and it’s really lazy journalism to publish it unquestioned and base much of a story on it. NR ought to know better than to publish any assertion of law without a simple Google verification.

Open carry is not legal in Texas, except when hunting or in a sporting event or on your own property. And arguing with a cop (legally called a “peace officer” in Texas) is pretty stupid behavior anywhere at any time no matter how dumb or venal the officer seems to be. It sets a really bad example for a child.

Via Instapundit.

Benghazi coverup

The White House (and snooze media) cover up continues, but now 700 retired special operators (including two Medal of Honor recipients and five   retired lieutenant generals) are urging the Republican House to investigate.

Makes sense to me. I’m only surprised the Stupid Party hasn’t started doing this already. If the sheer size of this group of 700 doesn’t impress them enough to get moving, nothing will.

UPDATE:  This additional campaign for the truth will help:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/benghazi-9-11