Friday, June 25, 2010

The Runaway General

The more I learn about the Gen Stanley McCrystal fiasco, the more I like him and dislike the Obama experiment.
Sucky baby got mad at someone openly scolding him, and fired him. And then put Gen Patreaus in charge. Well good for Petreaus that he came out with a positive remark about Stanley.
Stan was put in charge of making Afghanistan a positive experience and when the gov't put up roadblocks around him, he spoke his mind. We all know the leadership loyalty bull shit, but there comes a time when you have to speak your mind. This will endear Stanley forever with the troops, and dishonour him around the Pentagon and Washington. The true leader knows who to take care of, and will put himself into the breach for his men. He will have a relaxing, rewarding retirement. He will sleep at night knowing he did the right thing for his Troops, and for his country by shaking things up and refocusing efforts on the conflict in Afghanistan.
Of course I could be totally wrong. This COIN stragety could be bunko. But it worked in their last quagmire, Irag - so why shouldn't it work in Afghanistan. After 9 years of stalemate - they have to try something, yes?





http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236?RS_show_page=0

Thursday, June 24, 2010

On Afghanistan

A comment by Big W on Afghanistan on CBC website :

By all the thumbs-downs to intelligent comments it seems people are not willing to accept the drug reality, the pipeline reality or the reality that we’re no longer there because of 9/11 or people’s or women’s rights or stability.

DRUGS
When a Canadian officer says that we’ll be eliminating poppy fields, he is ordered by our government to retract his statement. Afghanistan is now the world’s number one narco-state – You think that can happen without military complicity? And how profitable are illegal drugs?

PIPELINE
The Taliban were visiting Texas before 9/11 for the specific purpose of a pipeline from the Caspian Basin. Humanity is scrounging every drop of energy from the Earth. It's amazing that Rght Wing enery whores are the people saying we won't be taking that energy.

9/11
Less than a year after 9/11 Pres. Bush said they were no longer looking for Osama bin Ladin. Is he invisible? Capable of inter-dimensional jumping? How is this man so elusive? Answer - no one is looking for him.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Passage of Wife Rape Law, ‘nuff said.

PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
No one gives a sh#t about people being slaughtered in other countries. What makes this 85% illiterate, misogynistic society so special? (2,000 Uzkeks were slaughtered last week – anyone care?)

STABILITY
Afghan police are given 5 days training, if they can read, or 1 day if they are illiterate (85% are illiterate). Your Subway Sandwich Artist has more training.


Only one truth remains..
It’s all BS. All of it.


(I really need to cheer up)

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/24/afghanistan-obama-petraeus.html#socialcomments#ixzz0rnmeYFmL

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sentencing act to cost billions: report

New legislation limiting the credit given to prisoners for time served in custody before and during their trials will cost taxpayers $1 billion to implement and billions more to maintain, the parliamentary budget officer said Tuesday.

The construction of new correctional facilities alone will cost about $1.8 billion over five years, the PBO said in a report quantifying the implications of the Truth in Sentencing Act. A further $618 million will be needed annually for capital appropriations and operations and maintenance costs.


This is a ridiculous amount, don't you think? I originally thought what was the difference whether they spend time before or after the trial, as long as it all adds up to their total due.

But in reading the comments from this story, it seems that prisoners are credited 2 days for every day spent in prison pre-trail! What kind of idiot devised this plan? Their lawyers delay the trail again and again to get a smaller sentence for their criminals!

Build simple and secure new prisoners to get these people behind bars for their proper amount of time they get sentenced with. Have no entertainment facilities or the like, and feed them KD and baloney sandwiches. And make them do something worthwhile when they are in prison; I know that some prisoners make office furniture now (as we got some of it in my office before I got out) so make more programs like that.

I know it will cost a little more, but I would think many of these people end up on some kind of government assistance anyway, that pays for their smokes, booze, and drugs.

"DO THE CRIME - GET READY TO DO THE TIME"

Taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy

Twisted Taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him high.

That outrage drew immediate condemnation from the Afghan president, who called the execution a "crime against humanity."

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that, that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Hamid Karzai said Thursday. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy."

The execution happened Tuesday in the embattled Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

"The innocent boy was not a spy, but he may have informed the police or soldiers about planted explosives," Ahmadi told Central Asia Today.

"If this is true, it is an absolutely horrific crime," added British Prime Minister David Cameron, while on a stop in Kabul. "I think it says more about the Taliban than any book, than any article, than any speech could ever say."


Well here we see what the Taliban is capable of.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

On the Kyrgyzstan problem.

A comment from J-Practical:

I sense something’s missing. The report tells us that 400,000 are refugees and over 189 killed by militia. The violence is between the majority Kyrgyz population and minority ethnic Uzbeks.

According to the CIA World Factbook, the populations look like this:
Kyrgyzstan: Muslim 75%, Russian Orthodox 20%, other 5%
Uzbekistan: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%

Muslims and others are dying, being dispossessed, and are involved in murder and violence against the minorities.

So where are the riots in the streets in Turkey (and other Muslim states), denouncing the terrorism and violence against civilians?

Where are the riots and demonstration in the streets of other countries?

Where are the threats of retaliatory violence from Imams, and their public denouncements of such violent behaviours against civilians?

Where are the strongly worded condemnations from world leaders?

Where are the UN General Assembly and Human Right Council debates, special emergency meetings, and resolutions where other countries denounce this heinous crime and compare it to the worst massacres of the 19th and 20th centuries?

Where are the demands for an international commission of inquiry?

Why are Ban Ki Moon and Navi Pillay silent?

Ooops. Sorry. Wrong population group. My mistake.


So 9 people died after instigating violence against soldiers. They’d been amply warned and given the choice to take a peaceful route. But they chose violence. And that dominates the news and the action item agenda of the UN.

189 dead, 400,000 refugees in Kyrgyzstan, apparently, we can ignore. And so can the Muslim world. Because Israel is such a big deal.

“We’ll make the world abandon reason”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Yd3aOj55E

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/17/kyrgyzstan-uzbek-refugees.html#socialcomments#ixzz0r8d3cKwP

Monday, June 14, 2010

Quebecers don't honour veterans enough: minister

ripperjack wrote:Posted 2010/06/14
at 6:23 PM ET

I recall that the night of the referendum the R22er (van doos) tore the Canadian flags off their uniforms in anticipation of seperation. Most units such as the PPCLI or the RCR hate when they have to go in and relieve them as most of the time they have left the whole operation in a mess and all the progress that was made by the previous units has to all be redone.

The final straw that broke the camels back for the Airborne Regiment was the hazing vidio...it was blamed on 2 Commando (PPCLI) but was actually 1 Commando (Van Doo).

The commander of the Airborne Regiment in Somalia was a Van Doo.

Menard, the General that was just sent back from Afghanistan...you guessed it, a Van Doo. Baril, who was probably the worst Chief of Defence we ever had...yup...him too.

The recent negligent discharge of the tank round at CFB Gagetown that injured 12 soldierswas in a tank from the RBC (Quebecs best tank regiment)

The Combat Engineer regiment from Quebec was so ill prepared that when they had their recent readiness evaluation it was recomended that they not be deployed to Afghanistan ( the people doing the assesment were overruled)

The media constantly refers to them as "legendary" or "world famous"...when in fact most soldiers consider them to be essentially a bunch of clowns.


Now most of this is trueish. We often thought of the vandoos as a bunch of clowns indeed. I never took over on tour from a french Battle Group (2 of my tours being the first in), but have heard stories of it.
It's no wonder the Quebecers have no time for the Military; their background back to France is mostly stories of French Army Defeats. No one celebrates more defeats more than the French Military. They got kicked around in North America, got kicked in the groin in Mexico, lost the Franco-Prussian war, got pushed back by the Germans in 1914,got pushed back by the Germans even quicker in 1940, and got their ass kicked in Dien Bein Phu in Vietnam. This is what the Quebecers have to go on.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

P.E.I. man guilty of possessing child porn

A Prince Edward Island man pleaded guilty Friday in Charlottetown provincial court to possessing nearly 3,000 images of child pornography.

Leslie Andrew Hood, 27, of Milton, will be sentenced Aug. 23 on the charges.

The court heard that Hood did not produce any of the images, rather he collected the photographs and videos from the internet, and they could have come from anywhere around the world.

Crown prosecutor Valerie Moore said the images Hood downloaded, were "graphic, terrible and disturbing."

The images are of boys and girls, of all ages — included infants.

Moore said the pictures include graphic sexual acts with adults and other children, and also show children being restrained and raped.

The court heard that last October a police child pornography investigator from Halifax identified Hood as a possible downloader of child porn, and contacted Island police.

When police obtained a search warrant for Hood's computers, they found he was living in his parent's basement, the court heard.

Hood told officers he knew what they were looking for, and pointed them to his computers where they found more than 2,600 photographs and 150 videos.

Investigators and lawyers had to review the images to ensure they met the definition of child porn under the Criminal Code of Canada.

Outside court, Moore said many of the children had disturbing expressions on their faces — many had a "dead look" in their eyes.

Judge Nancy Orr ordered a pre-sentence report for Hood.


He should be brought out to a field with pork chops tied around his neck to let the coyotes eat the chops, have sex with him, and then eat the swine.

Kembo guilty of 4 murders: B.C. jury

A B.C. Supreme Court jury has found Charles Kembo guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a series of killings committed over a three-year period.

The verdict was delivered Friday at 6:15 p.m. PT in Vancouver after four days of deliberations following a nine-month trial.

The jury found Kembo, 41, guilty of killing his business associate Arden Samuel; his stepdaughter, Rita Yeung; his girlfriend, Sui Yin Ma; and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found.

The killings occurred from 2002 to 2005.

The Crown alleged that Kembo committed the murders to profit from insurance policies or from fraudulent use of the victims' identities.

During the trial, Kembo testified that he did not kill anyone.


Well this savage should have been blocked access to Canada and women and kids.

Japanese PM warns of debt 'collapse'

Japan could face a financial mess like the one that has crippled Greece if it does not deal urgently with its swelling national debt, the country's new prime minister warned Friday.


Good for those yellow devils. Why they should be profiting in this day and age after getting their butts kicked so soon is not right. They shouldn't be profitting from anything but fishing nets and donkey carts. How they got a hold of major car sales with Toyota, Honda, and Nissan and such is a fucking disgrace. These are the criminals that tortured our veterans. Now the average Jap veteran is living the high life while the Allied vets have to fight for all they are supposed to get.
The Japs have proven that they are sub human by their treatment of out POWs. Anybody that buys a Japenese vehicle just buys into that principle..

Friday, June 11, 2010

NBA Basket Ball

I tried again last night to watch the finals. I would have to say I like the Celtics for some obscure reason.
Every game I seen includes the chant - boom boom Defense! Then there are some guys that dribble around a bit and when there is seconds left in the shot clock the either pass it to some shcmo or try a long range shot.
Why didn't they try that 20 seconds ago. Especially when it is in the last quarter and time is of the essence.
And why don't these strechies know what is a foul and what is not? I'll admit I have no idea what the fouls are about, but these guys have played the game for at least several years and should know what to do and not do.
I can't understand why the don't immediately try a 3 point shot or a alley oop; it save time and it just as high a percentage play as the typical dribble around the court until panic sets in.

Monday, June 7, 2010

The others

What is the good of today? Do we believe the US of A's side of the story? Do we take into consideration the Palestinian's view? Where did we go wrong with sending the Eastern Europeon Jews to the middle East? At the time we know what a conflict that would bring. Why not send them to someplace in Eastern Europe? That is where they are from. What is so wrong with giving them a place in Poland or some other eastern country?
Who is the idiot that decided to send the Jews to a place in the middle east that some other folks thought was their country. The onslaught that led to Isreal should have taken place 10 years sooner and the Jews would have made it to the US. Surely the President would like to have millions of Jews in his backyard instead of them in the country of Palestinions.

The Jews have survived the holocaust. Big Deal. There are plenty of killings that are also a part of history. The killing would have gone on with or without the Jews. They are an opportune enemy that the Bundesfolk, the poeple could blame. The same kind of hatred should be riled up in the US against the Muslims.

The best bet is a government who leaves the Israelis on their own and takes no quarter to the muslims.
They don't think like us, they don't live like us, why the fuck do they want to live like us. Send everyone of those bastards back to where they come from.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Afghan deployment past 2011 possible: MPs

A group of MPs visiting Afghanistan has left the door open for an agreement in Parliament to keep some Canadian troops in the country after the current mission ends next summer.

Comment by "NickKakyakas" on CBC website:


Enough is enough, I don't want another tax dollar wasted on this country that clearly has no desire to pick itself up and accept anything resembling democracy. Nor has anything to offer us but hard drugs.

How about a referendum on the ballot if to stay or let them figure it out. Let Canada choose if it wants to throw more money down this bottomless money-pit.
Every Empire from Alexander the Great to the British Empire to the USSR have failed and then fell. But if Canadians think they can turn it around, and foolishly vote to do so, so be it.

Without speaking the local languages nobody over there from Canada has a clue other than what the mostly shady drug dealing allies we have gotten involved with choose to translate.
No MP speak the local dialects. they could be making jokes about them to their faces they will be none the wiser.

Waste of money and time when apparently they claim we don't have any money for Health, fixing infrastructure and stopping urban decay at home.

Take a good look at Afghanistan, look how it is deeply surrounded all all sides by other countries
Not our problem. Its Europe's and Russia's. Really not worried about them developing WMD's unless somebody BIG is actually helping them.
Britain is pulling out before us. this makes no sense since it is in their backyard and it is BP (British petroleum) and Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) that want to build this pipeline. It will not benefit us in any way.

Let them figure it out, we simply cannot afford to subsidies them any more. After this many years if they, the people of Afghanistan are not going to take up democracy and freedom and protect it themselves, its not happening. EVER!
Lets get over it. we spent more time there than WWI and WWII. and nobody is grateful with this one

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/03/mps-afghanistan-military-2011.html#socialcomments#ixzz0pq2Rr6q7


I think I pretty much agree with everything in his comment.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Look what the cat dragged in.



Sam caught this little fellow last night. I heard him crying from the front deck and rescued him from the cats.
I did some research on baby wild bunnies, and it seems the best thing to do is return it to the area of the nest and hope that mommy will find it. I'm not sure where the nest area is. And I suspect if I put him in the woods, the cats or dog will find him. Jan already had a baby bunny for a snack this afternoon.
Baby bunnies need stuff from mommy to survive. Both her milk and feces are important for the babies digestive system and others. I'm hoping that he got enough from mommy to survive.
He is pretty healthy now, but if he starts going downhill I think I will have to put him out in the woods and hope for the best.