To Serve and Protect Identity Politics: Police Chief Kafka: "It Was Racism Only, Not Terrorism! He Didn't Say 'Allahu Akbar'--He Said 'In God We Trust'!"

Mixed Motives All Around

Why are so many police chiefs and other officials acting as bodyguards for Islamist motives and defense lawyers for Identity Politics?

Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer: "This has nothing to do with terrorism in spite of the statement he made. We believe this is solely based on race." Based on what--wishful thinking?

Kori Ali Muhammad screamed "Allahu Akbar" when arrested. According to former Homicide Detective Rod Wheeler, the shootings were both racist and ISIS-inspired, as Muhammad posted that he was killing for the "kingdom", that is, the Caliphate.

"We will continue to bring destruction and wrath on America until we establish a Kingdom."

Chief Dyer--and the #FakeNews Media--went on to say that Muhammad shouted "God is Great!"

NO HE DIDN'T. HE SPEAKS PERFECT ENGLISH AND COULD HAVE USED THOSE WORDS IF HE WISHED. HE SHOUTED "ALLAHU AKBAR!" INSTEAD.

This is the Ethnic Cleansing of the Actual Language to hide his Islamist motive. It seems like only a matter of time before our officials start translating 'Allahu Akbar' as "In God We Trust".

Yes, he was clearly a racist killer also. Yes, he targeted four white men. But he also had an ISIS-inspired terrorist motive as well. And there is a large overlap between white Americans and infidels anyway.

If Dylann Roof hated both Christians and black people, what would you think if police insisted the Charleston Shootings were strictly a case of religious bigotry?

If Chico's drug-dealer sleeps with his girlfriend, Chico might rob him for money--and revenge!

They're called "mixed motives", Officer Krupke. And the good guys seem to have them, too.

If an Islamist goes to his meat-packing job in Oklahoma and beheads a co-worker because of Islamism and a job dispute, it's still terrorism, not just "workplace violence".

That was the Kafka-esque claim at Fort Hood, where Maj. Hassan was repeatedly promoted upwards because officials were more scared of the PC Thought-Police in Washington D.C. than the Terrorist Down the Hall.

And from way, way back in 2015: "At the time, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said it appeared that Mohammad had carried out the attack as retribution for being kicked out of a study group. Nothing suggested terror, he said at the time. But Thursday the FBI said at the time that among the myriad items found in his backpack — zip ties, glass breaker and a knife — they located a photocopy of an ISIS flag."
College Fix: "Echoing the feds’ contradictory statement, UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland sent an email Thursday to the campus community that also downplayed the role ISIS played..."

Here's a related story: Wife-beater's delight: Authorities shield abuser from justice to keep him from being deported
"Assistant District Attorney Steve Fein, described the plea deal to The Daily Beast as a fair outcome, noting that accessory after the fact is also a felony, though not a violent one that would place Gattani at risk of being deported back to his native India. Fein indicated that his boss, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen, seeks to avoid such deportations.".......

Just this week, South Dakota authorities punted on a gun-waving, threat-spewing Saudi AINO (American in Name Only), while police in Berkeley hide from leftist skinheads, aiding and abetting their Klanish crimes. Even yesterday's Paris cop-killer terrorist had just been released by authorities for his previous crime: planning to be a Paris cop-killer terrorist.

Police, military, D.A.s, judges, administrators, legislators, mayors and media--all committed to calling things what they aren't or ignoring Inconvenient Truths or pursuing Careerism or extreme runaway Identity Politics.

To Serve and Protect...Who? ...or What?

We're All Bostonians Today

Boston Strong, Boston Proud

From Brookline to Southie, let the word go forth; ask not what your country can do for you; ask "What is Wicked Pissah?"

A: These guys:


 Marine Jose Luis Sanchez of Texas



National Guardsman Earl Granville carries his running partner Andi Piscopo

Turkey Day: Democracy--It's What's For Dinner

Basting Away

"Not only did these European Turks vote far more heavily in favor of Yes than their countrymen back home, they also voted more heavily Yes than just about any other Turkish expatriate community. Life in liberal Europe is not having the impact people hoped—Turks in Europe are not any less nationalistic, less authoritarian or less Islamist than their compatriots at home—rather they are more of all these things. If assimilation is failing with long established Turks in affluent, full employment Germany, what can we expect with other communities in less prosperous European countries? Europe...a continent that recently thought it had left history behind."--The American Interest

Mark Steyn: "As they used to say way back when in the long Ottoman twilight, the Turk is the sick man of Europe. Following this weekend's Caliph-for-Life referendum, the Turk is sicker than ever. But he's no longer of Europe, and instead is exiting for a destination dark and catastrophic for almost all his neighbors.
Sultan Erdoğan - who, a mere 15 years ago, was banned from holding political office - has now succeeded in dismantling almost every defining element of the Kemalist republic. What replaces it will be a crude strongman state in service of Islamic imperialism. ... In fairness to the new Caliph, ever since he emerged from his semi-pro footballing career to run for Mayor of Istanbul, he's played a more cunning game than the stan-of-the-month loons. As he said in one of his most famous soundbites, democracy is a bus you ride to the stop you want - and then you get off. And he was quite happy to take the scenic route, stop by stop by stop. ...
The fundamental problem is not Turkish democracy, but Turkish demography. Whether or not demography is always destiny, it certainly is in a democratic age. You can have a functioning democracy in a relatively homogeneous society in which parties compete over tax policy and health care. But, when a nation is divided into two groups with fundamentally opposing views of what that society is or should be, then democracy becomes tribal, and the size of the tribe determines the outcome. ...
As you'll recall, Kemal Atatürk was born Mustafa Kemal. The new moniker was a title bestowed on him by the post-Ottoman parliament. Atatürk means "Father of the Turks". Alas, he wasn't father of enough of them. ...What lessons does Turkey offer for France or Germany, Sweden or Britain? Look at, say, French natives as Rumelian Turks and French Muslims as Anatolians. In 2012, the Muslim vote for M Hollande was larger than his margin of victory over Sarkozy. On those numbers, it's asking a lot of a candidate to forego identity-group pandering. Ultimately, in Turkey as elsewhere, demography trumps democracy.".......

Rigged elections also trump democracy--and Erdogan rigged this one. What kind of strongman would allow an honest vote in a "Make Me a Strongman!"-election?

Steyn's demographic point still holds, though. In this follow-up Steyn Post #10 video, Fun For Young and Old, Mark notes that in contradiction of the Conventional Wisdom, Marine Le Pen is doing very well among younger French voters. The Right was supposedly for the old and stodgy, and young voters are supposedly Property of the Left, but many of them see their country slipping away.

I'm sure I would disagree strongly with Le Pen on many things, but the reigning Leftist Establishment has so thoroughly wrecked the world that I can't fault any European electorate who feels their national existence is hanging in the balance. It is.

I wish President Trump hadn't congratulated Erdogan on his "victory", but it's probably just a Realpolitik nod to someone who can make trouble for us in Syria and flood Europe with "refugees" again. Regardless, Trump will never be Erdogan's Boy Toy like Comrade O was.


"Yes, We Can, my sweet, sweet pet."

If only we had someone who had thought deeply about these issues...

Ronald Reagan's Commencement Address at Eureka College:

"So we worry a little about the class of '57, we who are older and have known another day. We worry that perhaps someday you might not resist as strongly as we would if someone decides to tell you what you can read in a newspaper, or hear on the radio, or hear from a speaker's platform, or what you can say or what you can think. So there are terms and conditions to the will, and one of the terms is your own eternal vigilance guarding against restrictions on our American freedom.

You today are smarter than we were. You are better educated and better informed than we were twenty-five years ago. And that is part of your heritage. You enjoy these added benefits because, more than 100 years ago near this very spot, a man plunged an ax into a tree and said, "here we will build a school for our children." ...

Now today as you prepare to leave your Alma Mater, you go into a world in which, due to our carelessness and apathy, a great many of our freedoms have been lost. It isn't that an outside enemy has taken them. It's just that there is something inherent in government which makes it, when it isn't controlled, continue to grow. So today for every seven of us sitting here in this lovely outdoor theater, there is one public servant, and 31 cents of every dollar earned in America goes in taxes. ...

Class of 1957, it will be part of the terms of the will for you to take stock in the days to come, because we enjoy a form of government in which mistakes can be rectified. The dictator can never admit he was wrong, but we are blessed with a form of government where we can call a halt, and say, "Back up. Let's take another look." Remember that every government service, every offer of government financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom. I am not castigating government and business for those many areas of normal cooperation, for those services that we know we must have and that we do willingly support. ...But in the days to come whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forego in return for such service.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity. ... 

Democracy with the personal freedoms that are ours we hold literally in trust for that day when we shall have fulfilled our destiny and brought mankind a great and long step from the swamps. Can we deliver it to our children? Democracy depends upon service voluntarily rendered, money voluntarily contributed. ...

This democracy of ours which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows once it is destroyed where or when he will find its protective warmth again.".......

Good idea!

"Last Night in South Dakota": The New York Times Goes Full-Goebbels, WaPo Goes Dark

To Our Self-Neutering News Media: Does Anybody Remember "Truthiness"?



"News, news, news, news..."

Here's the Times' new motto:

Daily Caller: "The New York Times has given precious space on its op-ed page to a Palestinian man leading a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. But the essay, from Marwan Barghouti, leaves out one crucial fact: he is in prison because he was convicted of killing five Israelis in terrorist attacks more than a decade ago. A footnote to the op-ed describes Barghouti only as “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian,” omitting any reference to his 2004 terrorism conviction. ...
He was convicted in 2004 of orchestrating three separate terrorist attacks in Israel in 2001 and 2002. He was implicated in several other attacks, but was acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
Barghouti is reportedly the head of Tanzim, a military offshoot of Fatah, the party founded by Yasser Arafat. He is also reported to be one of the founders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a militant group that operated during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli government which left more than 4,000 Israelis and Palestinians dead between 2000 and 2005.".......

If you are going to let a New Holocaust advocate use your Editorial Page, maybe you should mention he's a terrorist killer. Especially when you heroically proclaim "The truth matters more now than ever".

Springtime for Sulzberger: Carlos and Pinch at an Editorial Board Meeting

Meanwhile, back at the Post, where "Democracy Dies in Darkness!"...

Ace of Spades: "Yesterday the Detroit News published a story about a woman who wears a hijab being arrested for performing female genital mutilation on two girls. Those girls' culture was not mentioned, but there's only one large culture that practices this butchery. Here's what the Washington Post has to say about it: 

@clminakowski                          

"Democracy dies in darkness" Imagine that's your paper's motto then you publish this paragraph.".......

Ah--the Unbearable Irony of Self-Castration in a story about Forcible Castration.

This is the surgical removal of facts from their reporting, not to facilitate debate, but to stifle debate of real, live actual Inconvenient Truths. The Post is actually leaving its readers knowing less than when they began reading.

The Washington Post--Subtracting From the Sum of Human Knowledge!

The worst thing about this: It's a half-step to simply not reporting these crimes at all.

"The Washington Post: Democracy Yada, Yada, Yada."

Meanwhile, from the Tribal Badlands of Pakistan South Dakota, here's a story that neither paper is covering. Via Pam Geller:

Brannon Howse: "On Sunday night, April 9, 2017, we held our Worldview Weekend rally in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ... Apparently an Islamic group in Sioux Falls held an event about 10 days before we arrived. The local paper reported that: 'Taneeza Islam, a local immigration lawyer and organizer for the local Muslim community, mentioned the upcoming talk during a panel on hate crimes Thursday at the downtown library in Sioux Falls. She cited speakers like Howse and Hadian as part of a prejudicial undercurrent that inspires fear among ethnic minorities nationwide.'

We were informed by the Sioux Falls Police Department that the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls South Dakota had filed for a permit to protest outside our Worldview Weekend rally. Joining me would be my friend, Shahram Hadian. Shahram is a former Muslim from Iran. One of our off duty police officers approached this man that was holding a Koran, filming our event and wearing a T-shirt that said he was a Muslim. The officer asked the man to stop filming as we had announced at the beginning of the conference that no audio or video recording would be permitted. Upon being approached, the man announced immediately that he was leaving. The officer asked him if he had a concealed weapon on his person to which he said he did. The man also told the officer he was live streaming on Facebook. When the officer asked his name he told the officer “John Smith, the Muslim John Smith.” The Muslim man then proceeded out to his car in the parking lot where he filmed two more Facebook live videos. He was clearly angry and discussed that Shahram and I were promoting books. He seemed very upset with the resources he saw on our resource tables. He then began showing the camera 3 pistols, two assault weapons, and what appeared to be an extended magazine. With the brandishing of each weapon to the camera he said “be afraid” or “be terrified.” In fact, he said “be terrified” twice. Now how is that not a terroristic threat? Please remember, he is in the parking lot of our Christian conference that is being attended by some 500 men, women and children. The attendees included a state representative and a state senator. ...

When I called the Sioux Falls Police Department to file a formal complaint and obtain a case number, I was discouraged from doing so. The officer informed me that the local prosecutor or state prosector was not going to charge this Muslim man with anything and he was not going to go over their head and file my complaint. I could hardly believe what I was hearing. I believe my civil right was being denied so as not to upset the political chain of command? It took over 24 hours before I was allowed to file a formal complaint that was taken by a higher ranking officer. ...Action Point: We have been told the Attorney General of South Dakota has seen the videos made by this Muslim man. Please call the Attorney General of South Dakota and ask him to charge this Muslim man with making a terroristic threat. Steve Haugaard, an attorney and State Representative has shown us the South Dakota law (See below) that he believes justifies such charges being brought.  Please call the office of the Attorney General and voice your concerns about this incident and the lack of legal action if you feel so led. Please be polite. The AG’s office number is number is (605) 773-3215.".......(Update: "Police chose not to charge the man with any crime. The state’s attorney says he’s still investigating but didn’t see anything criminal in nature on the videos.
The Muslim man, Ehab Jaber, a self-described former resident of Saudi Arabia who works as a server at a local steakhouse in Sioux Falls, was questioned by police and the FBI..."

Why is South Dakota law enforcement failing to enforce the law against threatening? Would they be so cavalier if this nut showed up at one of their events? Why do we need more gun laws if we won't even enforce these? And do we really want to "Let Them In!" as the airport mobs recently howled, if this is the result? And what good is an AWOL Press that hides the identities and actions of terrorists and extremists just when we need truth and light the most?

Democracy does indeed die in darkness. And truth does matter more now than ever. If only they believed their own mottos.

It seems like we only have two parties in America--and not Democrat and Republican. We have one that is acting like a Murder/Suicide Cult and one that wants to Live Life.

Weggies for Truth, Justice and the American Way: We'll do it without you, then.

Letter From a Birmingham Maternity Ward: Genius Babies Prove Conclusively That Grown-Up Liberal Researchers are Obsessed With Race

The Science is Settled!

"Thanks for teaching me about Liberal Shinola, Dad."
"No, son--thank you for teaching me!"

Legal Insurrection: "One of the enduring evils of the regressive insistence that all of society’s ills are rooted in racism is their repeated attacks on children. ...Racist six-month-old babies were the topic of a recent Tucker Carlson interview with one of the researchers involved in the study.

Tucker: “Now, I’m not a social scientist or a researcher, but it seems unlikely that you could measure the racial attitudes of a three-month-old, beyond like my diaper is dirty kind of thing, or I want some milk. ...From a non-expert point of view, this suggests that these attitudes are not learned behavior but a product of evolutionary biology, but I guess you would know. As someone who would cover politics, though, I’m pretty certain that your study is going to lead to new government programs and government control over babies.”".......

Stop the Racist Babies! Clearly we need Common Sense(tm) Racist Baby Control.

Who is the Real Jerk? Confirmation Bias is still Bias.

The Resurrection Day Good News

John 20:1-18 The Message Bible (MSG)

Resurrection!

20 ^1-2 Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, breathlessly panting, “They took the Master from the tomb. We don’t know where they’ve put him.”

^3-10 Peter and the other disciple left immediately for the tomb. They ran, neck and neck. The other disciple got to the tomb first, outrunning Peter. Stooping to look in, he saw the pieces of linen cloth lying there, but he didn’t go in. Simon Peter arrived after him, entered the tomb, observed the linen cloths lying there, and the kerchief used to cover his head not lying with the linen cloths but separate, neatly folded by itself. Then the other disciple, the one who had gotten there first, went into the tomb, took one look at the evidence, and believed. No one yet knew from the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead. The disciples then went back home.
^11-13 But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she knelt to look into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there, dressed in white, one at the head, the other at the foot of where Jesus’ body had been laid. They said to her, “Woman, why do you weep?”
^13-14 “They took my Master,” she said, “and I don’t know where they put him.” After she said this, she turned away and saw Jesus standing there. But she didn’t recognize him.
¹⁵ Jesus spoke to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Who are you looking for?”
She, thinking that he was the gardener, said, “Mister, if you took him, tell me where you put him so I can care for him.”
¹⁶ Jesus said, “Mary.”
Turning to face him, she said in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” meaning “Teacher!”
¹⁷ Jesus said, “Don’t cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I ascend to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.’”
¹⁸ Mary Magdalene went, telling the news to the disciples: “I saw the Master!” And she told them everything he said to her.

Thank You, Lord Jesus, our Redeemer! Hallelujah to the Risen King!

Trump Enforces Obama's Red Line, Degrades and Destroys ISIS with MOABs and Does Obama's Asia Pivot, Too--Unless You Count Rescuing the Ayatollah as an "Asian Pivot".

All the Policies Obama Only Promised, Trump Delivered: Leadership at Last.

 

President Trump had no choice but to bomb Syria.

But Obama had no choice, either. He couldn't bomb Syria because the Ayatollah forbade it.

The Number One Foreign Policy Goal of the Obama Administration was to rescue the Iranian Mullahcracy from nascent democracy by Iranian students and the young, secular middle class.

Repeal the sanctions, fund the regime, have Russia provide the uranium and the anti-aircraft missiles, provide a clear path for the Iranian Bomb and establish the Shia Crescent. Mission Accomplished.

(Secondary Foreign Policy Goals: Rescue Cuban Military Dictatorship, Gut our Military, Advance the Muslim Brotherhood and Strengthen Russia.

Obama's Number One Domestic Goal: Keeping the economy suppressed as a way to weaken America and put millions on government assistance. Other Domestic Goals: dissolve our borders, Fight a War on Cops, shred traditional marriage law and wreck healthcare for single payer--but I digress.)

Obama's Real Red Line in Syria was Whatever it Takes to Help the Russians Help the Mullahs. His "Degrade and Destroy" was mostly Delay and Employ. His Asian Pivot wasn't to China, but to Iran and it wasn't a pivot: it was all planned before he even took office. And continues to this day with his moles in the bureaucracy.

We call all that failure--but Obama calls it success. Judged by his own metrics, Obama was a stunning success. And thereby handed a world in flames to his successor.

As I said, Trump had no choice in Syria. It is America's vital interest that the use of Chemical Weapons be forbidden. We have treaties and the Geneva Conventions that may as well be torn up if not enforced.

And who is going to enforce them? The UN? Don't make me laugh. Like Spicer said, "If Adolph Hitler were alive today, he would probably be head of the UN Human Rights Commission." Kidding, Sean.

Was Trump supposed to have a long, public and partisan debate in Congress while Assad protected his weapons?

Stephen L. Carter: "George Washington fought the so-called Northwest Indian War to subdue the native people of Ohio. James Monroe sent forces to conquer Amelia Island, off Florida. James Buchanan sent Marines to halt the civil war in Nicaragua. In 1893, U.S. forces overthrew the government of Hawaii, although apparently without White House permission. Still, the overthrow stuck. On the eve of World War I, Woodrow Wilson ordered the Marines into Mexico. Half a century later Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada. Most prominently, in the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy took the nation to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. ... For better or worse, however, it’s been our practice for a very long time. Clinging to the long-dead notion that Congress must first declare war might be comforting, but it has nothing to do with reality."

It's been bandied about that Obama went to Congress about Syrian WMDs and they wouldn't co-operate.

Obama went to Congress to prevent action, not facilitate it. His proposal had more caveats, limitations, exclusions and restrictions than a United Boarding Pass. It actually subtracted from America's existing options. Sadly, there were less than ten thousand deaths at that point--now a half million.

While Obama was constrained by his Mullahs' plans for Syria (where there are now 100,000 Iranian troops) and the need for Russia's help in the Iran Deal, President Trump is free to act in America's interest. He is degrading and destroying ISIS, not America. His Red Line appears to have stopped Syria's use of human insecticide. And President Trump has already gotten more cooperation from the Chinese in eight days than Obama did in eight years--the Chinese have pivoted towards him.

Recall that the Chinese wouldn't even give Obama his stairs for Air Force One. Putin despised Obama, too; nobody wants to be lectured by their doormat.

But they listen and respond to real leadership--President Trump's leadership. Even when they hate it, they have to take it seriously.

To quote Sean Spicer and Billy Joel: "That hasn't happened for The Longest Time."



Completely gratuitous Christie Brinkley photo; you're welcome!

The Real Scandal: Silent Night for a Silent Spring

Sing For Life, Children

Sad: "ABC allowed the ['Scandal'] scene. And, as before, the media applauded the abortion – this time happening with Aretha Franklin’s “Silent Night” playing in the background.
“It was a Christmas episode, and we played Christmas music,” Rhimes defended. Young also chimed in on the “balls to pick that song.”
But it wasn’t just Rhimes and Young who approved of the song. Aretha Franklin did too.
“I kept going back to our music supervisor, ‘We sure Aretha Franklin is OK with this?’” Rhimes couldn’t believe her luck. “I wanted to make sure Aretha knew what the scene was about.”
Franklin was more than “OK” with it, according to Rhimes.
“Her people said I was fine and to stop asking,” Rhimes said. “It made me love her forever because then I could be like, ‘Aretha Franklin, who sings a lot of gospel music, is very supportive of this.’”".......

"Quit asking--you're pricking our consciences."

"Gospel" means the Good News and the Truth, who is Jesus Christ; the Way, the Truth and the Life.

That is not Gospel, but a lie. But this is Artistry in the service of Life:

By the Babe Unborn --G.K. Chesterton

If trees were tall and grasses short,
As in some crazy tale,
If here and there a sea were blue
Beyond the breaking pale,

If a fixed fire hung in the air
To warm me one day through,
If deep green hair grew on great hills,
I know what I should do.

In dark I lie; dreaming that there
Are great eyes cold or kind,
And twisted streets and silent doors,
And living men behind.

Let storm clouds come: better an hour,
And leave to weep and fight,
Than all the ages I have ruled
The empires of the night.

I think that if they gave me leave
Within the world to stand,
I would be good through all the day
I spent in fairyland.

They should not hear a word from me
Of selfishness or scorn,
If only I could find the door,
If only I were born.

MOABS: Most Ordnance Any Body's Seen! (Updates)

Promise Made

Promise kept. Check.

No--not that Moab! This MOAB:

AP: KABUL, Afghanistan -- The attack on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Afghanistan with the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military left 36 Islamic State group fighters dead and no civilian casualties, Afghanistan officials said Friday.

The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that several IS caves and ammunition caches were destroyed by the giant bomb...

"I want a hundred times more bombings on this group," said Hakim Khan, 50, a resident of Achin district, the site of the blast. ...

The bomb, known officially as a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon, unleashes 11 tons of explosives.

Inamullah Meyakhil, spokesman for the central hospital in eastern Nangarhar province, said the facility had received no dead or wounded from the attack. ...

There was no immediate comment from the Islamic State group or other militants regarding the U.S. bomb attack.".......

I'll bet they didn't comment. Especially the ones sealed in tunnels and not counted.

That old horse-thief Hamid Karzai commented, however--and he's thrown in with ISIS. I guess he's mad that he can't rob the US taxpayers blind anymore. You picked the wrong horse this time, Hamid.

As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would do this, and so he is.

Good job, Mr. President and great job, American service-members.

BTW, when a president makes the decision to trust his commanders and not micro-manage them with 30-year old leftist grad student lawyers like the last administration, that is still "civilian control of the military". It's just not "idiot civilian control of the military", which we've had for at least eight years. Their failed policy was "Strength Through Peace".

This is "Peace Through Strength" and Hoo-Rah!, it's about time.

TheyPaidThePrice-UPDATE: Two wounded warriors debate Rules of Engagement:


Johnny "Joey" Jones:

"I lost my legs because my gov't was afraid to use the tools they had and saw me as expendable. I wish I'd had this admin. We begged to use bombs on the minefield ghost town I lost my legs clearing. I believe more of us would've come home alive and whole if we'd used bombs to eradicate enemy safe havens- It is important to me that people understand the consequences of not allowing generals on the ground to make decisions that benefit troops."

CNN #FakeNews-UPDATE: "(CNN)The US military on Friday defended its decision to drop its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS positions in Afghanistan, describing it as a "tactical" move."

"Defended"? Defended its decision from who?

"The US military was quizzed Friday on whether the 21,600-pound behemoth, known as the "mother of all bombs" for its extraordinary force, was necessary for that particular target."

Ah--defended it from CNN's reporters.

Stephen Green: "What’s there to defend? This was a textbook perfect case of Mission Accomplished."

Here's another recent CNN headline:  Dhaka hostage standoff: 2 dead, ISIS claims credit

Why does America "defend" and ISIS "take credit"? That's exactly backwards. ISIS admitted guilt and our troops deserve the credit for punishing the guilty.

CNN continues: "The bombing...marks a dramatic change in attitude for Trump, who advocated an isolationist, "America first" foreign policy during his election campaign."

Bombing the hell out of ISIS is a dramatic change from promising to bomb the hell out of ISIS?

"This...is CNN." Pathetic.

Rule #1: Never Compare Anyone to Hitler--Except Republicans

Rule #2: If You Break Rule Number #1, You Vill Show Me Your Papers, Please



"Guten Morgan, boys und girls. Reichsmarschall B.Hussein Tehrani here.
As you know, Herr Spicer really goose-stepped in it recently."
 

"He made an innocent remark contrasting one blood-thirsty dictator with another,
and my loyal, leg-humping #LeniRiefenstahl Press Corps twisted it into something bad.
As everybody knows, only Democrats are allowed to make Hitler analogies.
Why? Because It's Different When We Do It(tm)."



"For instance, The Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC to name but a few
all routinely refer to President Trump as Hitler. And don't even get me started on the #Bushitler Years.
No, Hitler references are Property of the Democrat Party and our #FakeNews Division, and may not be used without our express written consent--in the original German."



"Mussolini comparisons are okay, however."




"Now let's see how I compare to other notable rogues and dictators."

"Nein--no resemblance there."

"Again, no resemblance."

  

"Nope."




"There is Freedom of Speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."
--His Excellency, President-for-Life, Field Marshall, Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC,
Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth, Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire
in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular

"Eat-y Amin? I don't see it."

"Ah--now that's more like it."

"Hey...wait a minute..."

"Okay--that's it! This is getting out of control! Verboten! Verboten!"

"I don't care if you compare to my hero Che, but the Joker is too much."



"For a psychopath, Che was kinda' cool--just like me!"

"Sorry, Polly; there's no crackers in Venezuela.
Everybody's eating out of dumpsters--except at the Presidential Palace."

"Many have compared  me to my el Jefe. Remember when I went to Cuba?
I tried like hell to keep from re-enacting the iconic photo below--Raul almost blew my cover!"

"Funny thing is, I met with Fidel while I was there--yet I didn't get one question
about our secret meeting from our #HeroicTellersOfTruth in the Press Corps.
Nobody even asked for the photographs of our meeting. It's kinda' odd, huh?"



"Umm...is this some kind of Ted Kennedy comparison?"




"Okay--this is going south on me again! Who's writing this, anyway?
But since you asked: Mary Ann." 

"And speaking of Lowly Females and hausfraus, I would appreciate it
if you didn't compare me to Confederates like Jeff Davis, John Wilkes Booth and Hillary Clinton."

"By the way, Granny Clinton asked that you not compare her to Maj. Klebb of the KGB."



"Still She Persisted(tm)!"




"And please don't compare me to the Marlboro Man."
























"Or Colin Kaepernick, either."




"Okay, let's review the rules, kids;
Democrats can call Trump "Hitler" and Republicans "Nazis" all day long,
but Republicans are not allowed to even use an analogy,
or we will rain down the Faux Outrage on them like the Polish Blitzkreig!"




"This is Reichsmarschall B. Hussein Tehrani bidding you "Auf Wiedersehen!" 
--but let me add one observation before I go: 



At least Hitler never gave Heavy Water to the Grand Mufti...

...the way I gave Uranium, missiles and money to a bunch of blood-thirsty, Holocaust-Denying Mullahs in Iran."



"Just sayin'."