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Spotted this ‘WikiLeaks War Crime Scene Investigator Unit’ vehicle in my area recently.
I wonder what war crimes could possibly be taking place in here hipsterville, USA.
And speaking of crimes and criminals…
AMERICAN TRAITORS IN THE NEWS!:
A U.S. Military Judge is set to rule later today on a motion to dismiss all charges against Bradley Manning, who is charged with sending thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks–the largest U.S. military intelligence breach in American history.
(Cross Posted @ Urban Infidel)
The little catamite should hang!
I was hesitant about putting a “Romney/Ryan” sticker on my car-I’ll bet these people had no such concerns with this display. Therein lies the problem.
a motion to dismiss all charges against Bradley Manning,
Yeah, didn’t happen. All together now……awwwwwww
re-post:
The Bradley Man
—apologies to “The Candy Man”
Who can take state secrets?
Send them to Wikileaks?
Justify himself no matter what havoc it wreaks?
The Bradley Man
The Bradley Man can
The Bradley Man can because he’s a soldier fighting for equality
Who can join the service?
Then betray his oath?
‘Cause he’s just pursuing his own personal growth
The Bradley Man
The Bradley Man can
The Bradley Man can because he’s a soldier fighting for equality
The Bradley Man betrayed his uniformed comrades
While working in a war theater
Burned CDs to distribute later
That’s what people call a traitor
Who can ride a rainbow
Into his own hell?
Who is the new posterboy for don’t ask and don’t tell?
The Bradley Man
The Bradley Man can
The Bradley Man can because he’s a soldier fighting for equality
The Bradley Man betrayed his uniformed comrades
While working in a war theater
Burned CDs to distribute later
That’s what people call a traitor
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Who can ride a rainbow
Into his own hell?
Who is the new posterboy for don’t ask and don’t tell?
The Bradley Man
The Bradley Man can
The Bradley Man can because he’s a soldier fighting for equality
Yes, the Bradley Man can because he’s a soldier fighting for equality
Bradley Man, Bradley Man
Bradley Man, Bradley Man
Bradley Man, Bradley Man…
@ eaglesoars:
No, but this did:
In other news, a Post-Structuralist professor carrying farm implement was arrested for defying the ban on semiotic mattock weapons…
He and Assange should have been quietly liquidated a very long time ago.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Would that be “udder” news?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
What do you get when you cross a Post-Modernist with a Mafioso? An offer you can’t understand.
As bad as it is what Manning did, what about John Kerry?
Yet he won multiple elections to the Senate, almost became
President & now is slated to become Sec of State.
The man is a walking disgrace.
RIX wrote:
See what Bradley Manning missed out on by leaking classified information instead of merely meeting with the enemy and marrying money?
@ RIX:
Bradley Manning made poor career choices, unlike John Kerry. If he’d thought ahead a little bit, he could have been in line for Secretary of State sometime along about 2033.
You beat me to it. Bradley was just ill advised.
RIX wrote:
With all the anti-DA/DT agitation, and Manning’s open flouting of it while on duty, he could have completed his tour and become a political figure. In these times, a “war queer-o” would have it all over a “war hero”, politically speaking. He’d have been a political darling instead of looking at a life sentence less 112 days.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Bradley has this coming.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
He still might be. All he needs is a pardon from the prez.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Need to try him on about half of what he leaked.
Save the rest for a second life sentance after his pardon.
That Manning ought to be hanged.
RIX wrote:
Kerry, Hagel, and Brennan -- a more leftist trio at the foreign/defense /intelligence portfolios we have never had.
@ Speranza:
Hipsters are Obama’s true base. He came out of that culture.
Rodan wrote:
Hipsters and ignorant, low information voters.
@ Speranza:
They created the Obama phenomenon.
@ 18 Speranza: I’m probably ok if they cut 200 days off his execution date.
This is Obama flipping the bird.
The people have spoken & they did it twice.
We have never had a man this radical as President.
He is an entitled jerk with a grudge.
@ lobo91:
yes, and since his crimes carry a possible death sentence, should the prosecution seek such, which they said already that they won’t, those 112 days coming off probably won’t see Manning watching any more sunsets during his entire life. He may get 112 years, and those 112 days coming off won’t amount to a hill of beans. Even if he does get out, I wouldn’t expect him to get a warm reception from society as a whole, beyond the wiki crowd that is.
Rodan wrote:
RIX wrote:
I have one question for the folks.
Fair enough that the voted for Obama.
But will they fight for him?
And I don’t mean talking real loud either.
unclassifiable wrote:
Oh, yes. The cry will ring throughout the land: “Remember the Obamaphone™!”
Hugo declares himself cancer free July 10, 2012
Hugo too sick for inauguration
@ unclassifiable:
What I mean to say is if B. Manning is the new “hero” to the military, why should conservative military personnel continue in our Armed Forces.
Obama is going to get us in a shooting war. This will be the only distraction he will have from a domestic insurrection when things get awful.
Why should conservative military men and women support him?
I am not suggesting going AWOL but I might be suggesting “sudden conscientious objector status”.
Speranza wrote:
As an attorney you may find this offensive, but his kind should be dealt with extrajudicially, i.e. made to disappear.
RIX wrote:
I’m sure there is rejoicing in Teheran right now.
@ Moe Katz:
I disagree, see the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution.
In Bradleys case that is, Assange aint no American citizen.
Prebanned wrote:
Okay. Assange liquidated, Manning an unfortunate fatal accident while serving his country.
Rodan wrote:
Hipsters are only one part of Obama’s base. Don’t forget the Afro-Marxists and other Third World Anti-Colonialists.
I just saw Ted Cruz on Sean Hannity’s show. Why can’t the public face of the Republican Party be people such as Cruz, Nikki Haley, Susanna Martinez who are articulate, forceful, likeable, knowledgeable, and low key instead of screachers, in your face types such as Santorum, Bachmann, and Angle or self promoters such as John McCain and Miss Lindsey Graham or the patrician Bush’s?
Moe Katz wrote:
“I see nothing”
Sgt. Schultz
@ Speranza:
LOL! You have the right to remain silent!
Moe Katz wrote:
No man, no problem. Death solves all problems.
Allegedly said by Stalin but he never actually said it.
The Osprey wrote:
And the huge mass of ordinary liberals that buy into a lot of those beliefs without actually carrying the ideology as such.
Moe Katz wrote:
One of my liberal friends at work today was complaining to me about the fact her paycheck was $100 less then the last check she got in December.
Bwaaaah
Moe Katz wrote:
They are vocal about Hagel. He’s their guy.
@ Speranza:
Good line, anyway … belongs in a war/spy movie.
Good night all.
RIX wrote:
And the question that needs to be asked him (Hagel) is “Why do you suppose that two anti-Semites named Andrew Sullivan and Pat Buchanan are fervent supporters of yours?
Speranza wrote:
Heh, as they say at NASA, there’s no such thing as a free launch.
Moe Katz wrote:
Like Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” -- it is purely fictitious. Stalin did not consider any death outside of his own (and not his son Yakob who was killed in a German POW camp) to be a problem.
@ RIX:
Night Rix.
@ Speranza:
You know, I had the idea for using that Marie Antoinette thing for a French-language commercial for packaged cakes and pastries, and I did eventually see it used for an English-language commercial for Sara Lee or some such thingy.
@ Speranza:
Interesting story.
Dan Patrick is a GOP State Senator here in the Houston Area. He got in a fairly heated argument with Cruz because Cruz WOULD NOT BE A GOOD SENATOR BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT COMPROMISE (Patrick was a Dewhurst supporter and is what Rodan calls a social conservative).
Wolf Blitzer repeated the same accusation several days ago on CNN.
1) Pretty damn lazy on Wolf’s part
2) Pretty damn lazy intellectual thinking on Dan Patrick’s part.
There is NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING in the constitution that says a Senator has to compromise.
And as far as I am concerned the GOP Senators have compromised enough!
@ unclassifiable:
What does the Constitution have to do with our government?
//
@ The Osprey:
No question and actually there is an overlap of those groups.
@ Speranza:
It’s funny how Raimondo and Sullivan who are gay, love Buchanan who hates gays.
@ unclassifiable:
I am highly impressed by Ted Cruz.
Rodan wrote:
They hate Jews more.
@ Rodan
I just spoke to Carolina Girl.
The threesome is on for Sunday.
Heh, I had to throw that in to see if people were awake. We are talking about a three-way phone conversation.
From a former classmate:
Next time someone tells you welfare is bad for the economy, show them this. If they say it again, they’ll know they’re lying.
Biggest spenders on welfare: Denmark (1) Sweden (2) Switzerland (6) Finland (8 ) Netherlands (9).
Most competitve capitalist economies Switzerland (1), Finland (3), Sweden (4), Netherlands (5), Denmark (12)
I’d hardly consider some of those economies ‘capitalist’, for one thing.
@ mfhorn:
And, it also has the virtue of being complete bull shit.
@ mfhorn:
Putting on my racist hat, I would point to the demographic nature of the countries mentioned, in contrast to that of the USA.
@ Moe Katz:
You can afford a good safety net if you have a population that basically wants to work and have good skills.
Obama claims we ‘don’t have a spending problem.’
We need some Republican members of the House & Senate to explain just what level of income would have to be taxed at 100% to pay for all this spending.
@ mfhorn:
i’d just start by asking a simple question: What year do you plan to stop borrowing money and start paying the debt off?
@ mfhorn:
Why not a VAT, which even Paul Ryan was proposing?
@ Moe Katz:
*face palm*
@ Calo:
Yeah, that’s what we need…more taxes.
Or we could stop the federal government from spending 25% of our GDP.
That’s pretty low compared to other large, developed countries.
@ Calo:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/04/vat-pack-some-republicans-supp
lobo91 wrote:
It would replace some other taxes, mainly lessen the need for higher marginal tax rates.
@ Moe Katz:
I’m all for a flat tax, just not a VAT.
Did I tell you how much time I spent this week trying to pay my sales tax on a new and improved website? Really, it was obscene.
And, how much time I spent on my US Business Census Form that I had to fill out or I was going to be imprisoned if I didn’t send it back accurately filled out (15 pages worth of data)?
And, how much time I had to spend documenting to our insurance company why certain Full-Time employees refused health care insurance? (they are under their husband’s plan)
I guess that is what I see in a VAT tax -- more useless paperwork, more time out of my hands that I could spend doing constructive things for my business, and more taxes for me.
But, I do live in a small world. It’s just my perspective on a VAT.
@ 56 mfhorn: If welfare is that good for the economy then it would be even better if the whole population was on welfare. Classmate seems to be lying.
@ Calo:
FWIW I’m no economics maven, far from it. My perspective is just that the rest of the developed countries seem happy with their VAT systems, including Canada, which has a 6% federal VAT.
What kind of a business do you run? Is your husband involved in it too? I’d been meaning to ask you about that.
@ Moe Katz:
Oops, it’s 5%.
@ Moe Katz:
I can’t answer that online, stalkers and such from other places.
But, no hubby isn’t involved in my business.
He has been in the printing industry for 40? (damn, he is so old, I forget how many) years now.
Ask the admins for my email if you want to know, I’m pretty much an open book via email.
@ Calo:
Will do, Calo. And on that note, goodnight.
And goodnight Lobo and any lurkers that don’t hate me. And if they do hate me, goodnight anyway.
@ Moe Katz:
Night Moe.
It was a long day. I didn’t mean to appear to be such a grump.
ADMINS, if someone is around, toss Moe my email.
“Real” gun-free zones v “Pretend” gub-free zones. By David Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy. A rather critical distinction I don’t believe I’ve heard anybody else make in recent discussions…
http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/09/how-to-stop-school-shootings-right-now-abolish-pretend-gun-free-zones/
The fact of the matter is that you or anybody else can freely take a gun into a “Pretend” gun-free zone, because absolutely nobody is going to even check to see if you are doing so. There is no enforcement methodology employed.
@ Mike C.:
@ Mike C.:
good read, thanks
@ heysoos:
I consider The Volokh Conspiracy required daily reading.
@ Moe Katz:
@ Calo:
I would prefer a consumption tax to a VAT, as long as income is no longer taxed.
I’d welcome it with open arms.
@ Bumr50:
Wondeful. But that’s not going to happen, now is it? If enacted, it would be on top of all the other taxes. This isn’t an episode of “My Little Unicorn”, you know.
Bumr50 wrote:
The poor people would suffer most.
@ Guggi:
The way we work it in Canada, the poorer people get their VAT back at the end of the year as an income tax rebate.
@ Moe Katz:
No doubt with extra thrown on to redistribute income. NO thanks. What we have is bad enough. There need to be no new taxes. There needs to be significant spending cuts. One place to start would be cutting out the budget of the BATF completely.
Iron Fist wrote:
No, the rebate is less than what they actually pay out.
@ Moe Katz:
Still, we don’t need another tax. We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. If we increase the revenue, the government will just spend that much more. It’s like giving a junkie a free heroin conduit.
Sales taxes are regressive. Period. Only so-called “flat taxes” are inherently neutral.
And that’s not going to happen, either. I’m sick of hearing about utopian tax plans until one of the proponents can explain exactly how we’re going to get from A to B. “Explanations” that basically consist of waving some sort of magic wand need not apply. We have a huge and intricate economy structured in large part around a truly Byzantine tax code. YOu want to simplify that? Great! But don’t just tell me where you want to go -- anybody can do that. Tell me how you’re going to get there, in practical terms.
@ Mike C.:
There’s too much vested interest in the current system. My mom works at H&R Block. A flat tax puts her out of work. No tjust her, but hundreds of thousands of others like her, plus tax attournies (something the lawyers on Capitol Hill will be concerned about), CPA, and others who’s livelyhoods are based in the current system. The flat tax is a nice idea, but I don’t see how we get there from here, either, at least until the current system collapses. Once that happens, all kinds of modifications that were “impossible” before become not only possible, but mandatory That most especially includes entitlement reform. I don’t think that latter is going to happen until the entire system comes apart.
@ Mike C.:
@ Iron Fist:
There really is nothing we as individuals can do to change what is going to happen in DC Town. All we can do is watch as the wheels come flying off of their socialist wagon. Just make sure you have plenty of beer and popcorn* on hand. You’re going to need it.
(*Beer and popcorn, another dog whistle meaning guns and ammo.
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