No 1983 Action for Officer Wilson, per DOJ

Darren WilsonThe residents of Ferguson, Missouri won’t be be terribly pleased.

From the NYTimes.com:

Justice Dept. to Recommend No Civil Rights Charges in Ferguson Shooting

by Matt Apuzzo & Michael S. Schmidt

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager in August, law enforcement officials said.

That would close the politically charged case in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

This therefore lends much credence to the chronology of events as portrayed by ex-Ferguson Police Department Officer Darren Wilson, who indicated that suspect Michael Brown did in fact attempt to disarm him and did in fact strike him, requiring the application of force which, in that case, was Officer Wilson’s sidearm.

Think about this: ex-Officer Wilson was forced to resign and he and his family subject to death threats locally and nationally, despite his actions being upheld in two separate legal venues: the Grand Jury failed to indict, and the US Department of Justice will fail to charge.

Officer Wilson’s actions were scrutinized for months by, literally, hundreds of persons, one sitting jury and the US DOJ.  He was exonerated in both instances and still his professional and likely his private life was destroyed.

For responding properly to a threat.

Don’t think for a moment there wasn’t great pressure on the DOJ to find something, anything on Darren Wilson, with said pressure coming directly from the Oval Office and the Racial Pimps, NYC and DC chapters.

On a professional and clinical level, justice was done.

On a personal level, one good man’s life was changed forever.

BZ

 

The next true generation of Sheepdogs

Next Generation of SheepdogsWhat is a Sheepdog?  I am a Sheepdog.  I am a Silverback.  And I am very proud, extremely proud, of both appellations.  Leftists are sheep.  I tend them and keep them safe in their beds at night.

Read this.

The Next Generation of US Sheepdogs is coming, despite the best efforts and affronts of Leftists.

God bless the US soldier, the last and best hope of this nation and, by extension, the entire planet.  And God bless the US law enforcement officer who keeps us safe at home locally.

Let freedom continue to ring.

BZ

 

60 years ago: a barrel roll in a Boeing 707?

Correct.  And it was done 60 years ago, in 1955, by Boeing test pilot Alvin “Tex” Johnston.

Boeing 707 TaxisFirst, the craft was an early model test bed utilized prior to actual major line production.  Here, the craft taxis at Boeing Field, south of Seattle, at the Boeing plant.

Boeing 707 Over Puget SoundAbove, the aircraft flies over Puget Sound.

Boeing 707, InvertedFinally, here is a one-in-a-million photograph, recently unearthed, of that same 707 in the midst of said barrel roll, taken from inside the aircraft.

The rest of the story:

Actually, the aircraft utilized for the barrel roll wasn’t strictly a 707, but what Boeing called a 367-80 or “Dash 80.”  And the clearest photo of the event came from inside the jet via the late Alan Terrell.

From Plane Talking:

Captain Terrell was a distinguished Qantas pilot and a former general manager of operations.

Shortly before he died in March this year he bequeathed the photo, possibly given to him by ‘Tex’ Johnston and shown at the bottom of the page, to his friend and aviation historian and author and former director of public relations for Qantas, Jim Eames, who has permitted this reproduction of an astonishing split second in commercial aviation history.

Another take on the story:

Amazing, simply amazing.

BZ

 

Why do Hollywood Leftists hate Eastwood’s film “American Sniper”?

This question was recently raised when morbidly obese do-nothing American “director” Michael Moore (an insult to the morbidly obese) sent a Tweet out regarding the real American Sniper, Chris Kyle, calling Kyle a “coward.”

Michael Moore Chris Kyle Coward TweetWhilst this sat agreeably well with Leftists, not so much on the other end of the spectrum, to include people of significant accomplishment and sacrifice — which would logically exclude Mr Moore himself.  Michael Moore was never in the military, was never in law enforcement, was never in the fire service and was never an EMT.  [Sacrifice for Mr Moore is denying himself a second pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after breakfast.]

Resultingly, there was a resounding explosive ka-boom in social media over that completely daft and thoughtless Tweet-from-a-Twit, and Leftists haven’t been bathed in the loving pablum of an adoring public.  Neither, properly, has Mr Moore.  And Rightly so.

An entire cottage industry replete with an assload of various hashtags has, essentially, grown out of that Tweet — too damned many to mention here.  And Rightly so.

Michael Moore Michigan MansionThis is a Man of the People who promotes Occupy events and portrays corporations as execrable.  [But wait, Mr Moore; you have incorporated for tax purposes.] This is the man who would rather live in Cuba and promotes it over the United States.  Above, that is Mr Moore’s 10,000-square foot mansion in Michigan near Forest Home Township, which has no black residents.  Not loving on your black brethren, Mr Moore?  Another heaping helping of Leftist Hypocrisy, Mr Moore?

Finally, let’s point out that Michael Moore acquired fame and cash via his Leftist documentary entitled “Roger And Me,” which is predicated upon a lie.  According to his documentary he only saw GM CEO Roger Smith in a shareholders’ meeting.  In truth, Michael Moore had two actual sit-down interviews with CEO Smith but decided they did not fit the meme of his small-minded film.

Hollywood dislikes American Sniper because, as far as it is concerned, any remotely pro-American film by a Hollywood director can be nothing but jingoistic.  Period.  Even if Clint Eastwood, the doddering old fool, directed it.  [Just check out Leftist reactions of Clint and The Chair.]  Problem is, the “doddering old fool” is beloved by Hollywood Bean Counters because he doesn’t shoot twenty takes of one scene and has a reputation for bringing his films in on time and under budget.

Therefore, Leftists believe if American Sniper exists it must be, by its nature, jingoistic, warmongering, hawkish and angry.  It will necessarily glorify killing little innocent brown people on foreign soil utilizing unfair American technology by brainwashed young American soldiers who are nothing more than killing machines working for Halliburton and Dick Cheney, dangling on strings controlled by the Koch Brothers.

Another reason Hollywood hates American Sniper is that it is kicking the ass of the movie Selma at the box office.  When good Americans should be honoring MLK on MLK’s weekend, the sponge-minded have chosen to watch American Sniper.  In fact, American Sniper has made more money in its first weekend than any other Clint Eastwood movie, at $90 million dollars.

Daily Caller wrote:

Seth Rogen compared the movie to fake Nazi propaganda, and the UK paper The Guardian asked, “The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero?”

One member of AMPAS has submitted that Chris Kyle was likely a “sociopath.”

A large reason moviegoers aren’t flocking to see Selma: people have had it up to here with the deification of the relentless thuggery of black males as perennial victims in the media, to include film.  Poor timing, Selma.

Oh golly gee, that’s right, Selma was also snubbed during Oscar nominations.  That evil, evil AMPAS, chaired by a black woman.  She’s surely going to Leftist Hell.

But here’s another reason people will now be paying more money to see American Sniper, including myself.  [Oh wait, I mean twice.  I’ve paid to see it twice now.Chris Kyle is dead, and can’t speak for himself.  So not only is Michael Moore the coward, he is the most craven of cowards for attacking a man who cannot in any way defend himself.  Michael Moore knows this.

So in a way, thank you Mr Moore.  American Sniper has six academy award nominations and Selma has one.  Plus, it’s only the first weekend for American Sniper.  And I have lots of disposable cash in my wallet.

I think I need some more popcorn later this week.

BZ