And with that, we discover that the remains of some of our finest service personnel — our American Soldiers — have been dishonored, abused, lost and — worse yet — possibly even dumped in a landfill.

From The Washington Post:

Remains of war dead dumped in landfill

By Craig Whitlockand Greg Jaffe, Wednesday, November 9, 3:19 PM

The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of some dead troops’ body parts by burning them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burying the remains at sea.

The Dover mortuary, which is the main point of entry for America’s war dead, sent remains to the landfill from 2003 until 2008, according to Air Force officials. The manner of disposal was typically withheld from the relatives of fallen service members. The disclosure comes in the aftermath of several federal investigations into

Federal investigators said Tuesday that they had uncovered “gross mismanagement” at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary that cares for America’s war dead after whistleblowers reported horror stories of lost body parts, shoddy inventory controls and lax supervision.

The Air Force admitted that the Dover mortuary misplaced a dead soldier’s ankle and another set of remains that had been stored in a plastic bag. Employees also sawed off the damaged arm bone of a Marine so he could fit in his uniform and coffin — but did not tell his family.

Military officials said the incidents resulted from the strain of handling thousands of dead bodies, some with gruesome injuries that made it difficult to prepare remains for burial.

But the sloppy handling of troops’ remains at Dover painfully undercut the military’s commitment to treat war dead with the utmost honor. “There is nothing more sacred, there is nothing that is a more profound obligation than treating our fallen with reverence, dignity and respect,”

The two camps that actively fight for Americans:

• 1. The military soldier, and
• 2. The law enforcement officer.

Because there are sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. And I am PROUD to still be a SHEEPDOG after 40+ years in service. In my department, I am a Silverback.

This is the 236th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps.

But, under its current administration and perhaps even that of the one before — and even stepping back to the 60s and 70s — the American Soldier, one of the most pure of essence — has been thrown into situations from which they cannot escape or even overcome. Politics frequently trumps assignment and logic.

And still:

We find young American males who wish to shore up and literally, physically, fight for their country.

I’ve got to stop writing now. The tears are cascading down my cheeks.

Semper Fidelis.

“Always faithful.”

God bless all who served and who serve now. Military and civilian.

Where would we be without you?

BZ

From InfoWars.com:

Oil at $300 or $500 per Barrel If Israel Attacks Iran

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 8, 2011

Brent crude futures are up $1.17 a barrel to $115.73 on continued word that Israel may go it alone and bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. It is their highest level in nearly two months.

Read further, particularly regarding the Strait of Hormuz:

But it would be nothing compared to the cost if Israel attacks. In 2006, as Israel and the U.S. began to rattle sabers over Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deployed bottom-tethered mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a defector.

“The plan is to stop trade,” the source told Newsmax. One third of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

The deployment was mentioned in a plan produced by the Strategic Studies Center of the Iranian Navy in 2005. It also called for a single operational headquarters integrated with Revolutionary Guards missile units, strike aircraft, surface and underwater naval vessels, Chinese-supplied C-801 and C-802 anti-shipping missiles, mines, and coastal artillery, according to the intelligence office of the Ministry of Defense in Iran.

Revolutionary Guards missile units have identified “more than 100 targets, including Saudi oil production and oil export centers,” the defector said. “They have more than 45 to 50 Shahab-3 and Shahab-4 missiles ready for shooting” against those targets and against Israel, he added.

It’s no secret that Iranian missiles can strike Israel. From GlobalPost.com:

The Tehran Times quoted Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force, as saying: “The range of our missiles has been designed based on American bases in the region as well as the Zionist regime.”

He added that if provoked, “We can hit [Israel] from Damghan or Semnan with our missiles.”

And: “America has made things easier for us by stationing its garrisons and camps in neighboring countries… We can attack all American facilities in the region by these missiles.”

The Israeli border is 745 miles from Iran and U.S. bases in Afghanistan are within their 1,242 mile range, but not Europe. Hajizadeh said Iran had the technological capability to build longer-range ballistic missiles but had chosen not to.

Specifically, the U.S. has bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a presence in Bahrain and Qatar and aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf.

That said, continuing from InfoWars.com:

On November 1, a group of 13 generals and admirals produced a report warning that a “sustained disruption” of oil “would be devastating – crippling our very freedom of movement.” The report, entitled “Ensuring America’s Freedom of Movement: A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence,” was sponsored by a San Francisco-based Energy Foundation.

“Under a worst-case scenario 30-day closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the analysis finds that the U.S. would lose nearly $75 billion in GDP,” reports National Defense Magazine.

Last week, the Rapidan Group predicted oil prices over $175 per barrel if Iran is attacked. According to a survey conducted by the group of oil industry specialists, oil prices would rise on average by 23% in the first hours of the attack.

Arnaud de Borchgrave, writing for the UPI, suggests the price of oil would go much higher. “One bomb on Iran and oil prices could shoot up to $300 or even $500 a barrel,” he writes. “The Strait of Hormuz, between Oman and Iran, is the world’s most important oil chokepoint with a daily oil flow of 16 million barrels, roughly 33 percent of all seaborne traded oil, or 17 percent of oil traded worldwide.”

“While many experts in the market believe that a war on Iran would send oil prices soaring high between, at least, $200 and $300 for each barrel, the most optimistic analysis of the impact on oil markets of an Israeli attack on Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz said oil prices could spike by as much as $175/bbl,” reports the Fars News Agency, Iran’s official news outlet.

Gird thy loins, ladies and gentlemen. Our strategic oil reserves have already been tapped numerous times, our refineries need attention and, of course, the Leftists of our nation have consistently refused to allow us to build and create further refinery capacity, electrical generation stations, or allow us the capability to further tap the assets laying beneath our very feet.

Lack of real “energy independence” — the ability to tap our own abundant sources? Purposely curtailed by Leftists, Demorats and the Religious Left?

That policy is soon to bite us right in our national ass.

BZ

I had two very important posts all cued up for today because, after all, the news is cascading all about our shoulders — very important news and developments, I might add. Literally: world-shaking events.

Still and all, I put those posts aside for this one.

And I readily admit up front:

My wife may not care for this post, nor might the bulk of my readers who are female.

That said, I feel absolutely compelled to express my thoughts, considering they are based upon being raised in a household that didn’t distribute hugs and love willy-nilly, but instead distributed high expectations and the two core, key phrases:

• 1. Just wait until your father gets home, and
• 2. If you want to cry, I’ll give you something to really cry about

In today’s context, those phrases would have CPS knocking on your door and parked in your driveway.

But let’s get serious for a moment and be realistic:

I actually did fear my father. And I feared my mother. I knew my parents held sway over my future. Mom was more immediate; Dad came home now and then but was the threatened Shadow That Lingered if I misbehaved.

That said, me and my two brothers grew up strong. I was the youngest. Our beginnings, our parents, our neighborhoods, created who we were. We all grew up in the same house for 60 years. You either grew strong and you learned from your lessons, or you were told you weren’t a member of the family. An A____.

And I was told, some years later (because I was “unexpected” and further quantified as: a “mistake”) that I would follow on the heels of my two previous brothers. Large shoes to fill, with a 10+ year gap.

That said, we all learned “reality” rather quickly.

Years later, only now do I appreciate that my mother would, in today’s context, be considered to sit completely alone and adrift in a household dominated by males: her husband and three sons.

Yet, then, in her mind: she ruled the house and brooked no transgressions. Simple as that. Her word was Law.

Life for her was immediate. Life was the 40s and the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and the 80s and the 90s. Yet she not only survived those decades but thrived and excelled.

My mother was popular and sought-after and social and networked before there was such a thing.

But make no mistake: she could be tough as metal. If there was hammering to be done, she was not the nail.

Which brings me to Herman Cain.

And his so-called “accusers.”

You were “sexually harassed.” In three words: “boo-fucking-hoo.”

Did he throw you down? Were you physically assaulted? Did he rape you? Did he overcome you with force? Did you fight back? Was his skin to be found underneath your nails? Did you scratch and scar him so you could identify him?

No. Not.

Yet, today, this is more than enough to take down a political candidate. Of any sex. But mostly male.

In my mother’s day, if a man got what was called “fresh,” the man was slapped or hit back or kneed in the groin. His balls swelled for days. And he learned a very important lesson.

Had something akin to that occurred in her kitchen, my mother would have slit the man from his nutsack to his throat with a blunt butter knife, no matter how long it took to carve.

Yet, now, women can allege damned near anything and not be held accountable for time nor position nor lack of situational awareness.

And let me be even more obtuse — for want of two things:

• Victimhood, and
• Money

Taught by our loving Demorats.

In my 40+ years of law enforcement, I’ve seen every politically-incorrect statistic that was meant to be buried. For one: almost 40% of alleged rapes of women — in the stats I held in the 1990s — are based upon lies. In my area, 50%+ of robberies are committed by young black males.

But no one wants to know the Truth. Because the Truth Hurts. And it is completely inconvenient.

We all have our crosses to bear. You. Me. Everyone.

You either learn to deal with it, or you become a perpetual victim.

Unfortunately, in our current Western American society, Victimhood is an awarded, cultivated and sought-after status.

Whilst those who are stoic, who “stick it out,” are cast aside.

Additionally, these days, as an “extra added attraction — BONUS — Victimhood also PAYS.

Finally:

You may have won, Demorats.

Herman Cain is likely done. On any number of levels.

But, Conservatives, if you think that Cain is the “exception” — then you must realize: he’s only what’s coming.

If they came after Cain, they’re coming after every other potential GOP candidate.

I predict: any future excoriation of a black GOP candidate will be referred to being “Cain’ed.”

BZ

The swords have been shaken, on both sides.

It is becoming evident that Iran is on the cusp of becoming an actual nuclear power. There are currently eight nuclear-armed nations, to include the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan and, of course, Israel. North Korea conducted a nuclear test in 2006 (though it was a small yield) but is working to further its program.

Words and statements issued previously may be coming home to roost.

And it is a political axiom that: “You answer words with words, and actions with actions.”

Iran has stepped beyond words and has taken action. It may, in fact, not be far from potentially taking the largest action imaginable.

Anyone with a molecule of common sense knows that Iran’s leaders — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in particular (the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, since his election in 2005) — range from the hardest of lines to bordering on psychotic.

From The Times of India:

Ahmadinejad, in an interview with Egypt’s state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper, lashed out at Israel after its president, Shimon Peres, warned at the weekend that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely.

Israel, Iran’s arch-enemy, was “bound to collapse,” Ahmadinejad said.

“Iran’s capabilities are increasing and it is progressing, and for that reason it has been able to compete in the world. Now Israel and the West, particularly America, fear Iran’s capabilities and role,” he said.

“Therefore they are trying to gather inte3Cp>Ayatollah Mahmoud Alavi, a senior Iranian cleric, Sunday dismissed talk of a military strike by Israel as empty propaganda, taunting the Jewish state for screaming “like a cornered cat” rather than roaring like a lion.

Alavi, a member of the Assembly of Experts, a body that appoints and supervises Iran’s supreme leader, said Israel would not dare attack Iran. “If they make such a mistake they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic,” he told the official IRNA news agency.

Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 and launched a similar strike against Syria in 2007 — precedents lending weight to its veiled threats to take similar action against Iran if foreign pressure fails to curb its atomic activities.

But many independent analysts see any such mission as too much for Israel to take on alone. Israel lacks long-range bombers that could inflict lasting damage on Iran’s widely dispersed and fortified facilities.

One point is clear: “sanctions” against Iran haven’t worked and won’t work.

Israel has made it plain that it can’t tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. Possible targets inside Iran are between 930 to 1,400 miles from Israel proper. It is, for example, 1,240 miles from Los Angeles to Dallas.

The sides have lined up.

Will Israel unleash an attack at Iran’s nuclear power sites?

And what will be the response from Russia, and the rest of the Islamic world?

BZ

Those young individuals inhabiting the OCCUPY DC, New York, Atlanta and other locations are reflected in this young man, the prototypical representative of the philosophy behind not only the movement but youth itself: give me something for “free.”

I write the word free in quotation marks because any clear-thinking person realizes there is no such thing as “free.” The government does not create that money — except to inflationarily print it. It’s created by all the people that work and pay taxes who enable the government to possess and dispense that money back as they see fit — not necessarily as the taxpayers themselves see fit.

The money those people want for themselves — for “free” — is that money which was earned and then confiscated from their government by payroll and a myriad of other obvious and hidden taxes through multiple levels of governments and agencies.

I too wouldn’t mind having “my share” of “free.” Except that I am cognizant of one fatal flaw: if every other taxpayer were like me, demanding his or her share of the same “free” so demanded by the youth of today (something they were taught by American education and their parents — but that’s a post for another time), there would be no sustaining that paradigm; my “share” of “free” would diminish and stall.

And yet, the Demorats have done this to the Occupy movement:

Please allow me to ask a final question, if I may:

Do you think that any of the involved government agencies, local, city, county or state, would have allowed any physical occupation of any given area for any slightly-extended period of time whilst simultaneously producing tons of trash, feces, urine, loud continuous noise like drumming, banging, amplified music, amplified chanting and speeches, naked and crazy persons, insulting signs, assaults, rapes and other crimes if the movement had been even remotely associated with anything resembling a vestige of the TEA Party?

I think I know the answer. And how long anything negative, involving the TEA Party, would have been pounded down the throats of American viewers 24/7 by the DEM/MSM.

BZ

P.S.
From The Daily Caller, here is how lovingly the Occupy movement treats not only a black man with his two-year-old in the car, simply attempting to go home, but how Occupy treats a black law enforcement officer in DC: