Who, at this point, would be your top three GOP candidates for the presidency? Not in terms of strategy or tactics, but in terms of reflecting views closest to your own.
Mine would be:
– Cruz
– Walker
– Rubio
In no particular order. Yet.
BZ
Politics: Marines looking to deploy on foreign ships because the U.S. doesn’t have enough
by Dan Calabrese
Enough what?
Oh yeah: ships.
And leading from behind.
Faced with a shortage of U.S. Navy ships, the Marine Corps is exploring a plan to deploy its forces aboard foreign vessels to ensure they can respond quickly to global crises around Europe and western Africa.
The initiative is a stopgap way to deploy Marines aboard ships overseas until more American vessels are available, said Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.
The Marines will be able to respond quickly to evacuate embassies or protect U.S. property and citizens, a need highlighted by the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
“There’s no substitute for U.S. amphibious” vessels, Cooling said. “We’re looking at other options” in the meantime, he added.
The Marines have been working with Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and other close allies to determine the suitability of the foreign ships for U.S. personnel and aircraft.
The units would be designed for limited operations and not major amphibious assaults. A ground force of about 100 to 120 Marines would be deployed along with three or four Ospreys, which fly like airplanes but can take off and land like helicopters.
The U.S. Navy has 30 amphibious ships but says it needs 38 to fulfill war fighting requirements. It won’t reach that level until 2028 because of budget constraints, according to the Navy.
One would ask: are you kidding me?
We kid you not.
So now we don’t have enough ships for the Marines to do their jobs, and they’re seriously having to seek space on foreign ships.
Thanks ever so kindly, you who voted for this ignoramus.
BZ
Just saying.
BZ
It just keeps getting worse for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She just recently spoke to eBay personnel in Fornicalia on Thursday, for roughly $200,000. The eBay team wanted her speech to be “off the record.”
Repeat: for $200,000.
That said, FoxNews weighs in with an amazing article on her e-mails:
Hackers, probing Clinton server, cite security lapses
by James Rosen
Stirred by the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, a determined band of hackers, IT bloggers, and systems analysts have trained their specialized talents and state-of-the-art software on clintonemail.com, the domain under which Clinton established multiple private email accounts, and uncovered serious lapses in security, according to data shared with Fox News.
The findings call into question Clinton’s confident declaration, at a hastily arranged news conference in New York on Tuesday, that “there were no security breaches” in her use of a private server. One prominent figure in the hacker community, bolstered by long experience in the U.S. intelligence community, has undertaken to build a virtual “replica” of Clinton’s server configuration in a cyberlab, and has begun testing it with tools designed to probe security defenses. This individual has shared details of the Clinton system not disclosed publicly but legally obtainable.
So hackers are interested in vetting Hillary’s claims? I find this most interesting.
“There is a very strong indication that the clintonemail.com server is in Manhattan,” the source told Fox News.
But the best paragraph of all in the story:
Just the original decision to use a private email account, with Clinton’s own surname embedded in it, has baffled the hacker community. The analyst with experience in the intelligence community, a “white hat” hacker — the kind corporate firms retain to conduct “penetration testing” that exposes businesses’ cybersecurity lapses — told Fox News: “If we learned that the foreign minister of a major foreign country was using her own private server to send and receive emails, and was relying on outdated commercial software to operate and protect it, that’d be a hallelujah moment for us.”
You don’t conduct sensitive government e-mail communications on a private server. Period.
But what about this?
Arrogant, entitled, insulated, insular. Hillary is all of those things.
And what about this, from FoxNews.com:
No one read Hillary emails before destruction
by Chris Stirewait
NO ONE READ HILLARY EMAILS BEFORE DESTRUCTION
How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal? Did she or even her staff scroll through her sent items scanning emails about “yoga routines” or “family vacations” before deleting them? Nope. No one looked at them. The Clinton campaign said those emails that did not crop up in a keyword search performed by her team were automatically deleted. No eyes. No one to be subpoenaed. Just highlight all and press delete. That method seems better for missing emails than to finding them. And it would sound reckless and haphazard coming from another politician. In this case, though it sounds like a woman covering her tracks in preparation for a long and bloody legal fight over subpoenas to come.
Further:
DID HILLARY SIGN ON THE LINE?
WashEx: “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, like all departing federal employees, was required to fill out and sign a separation statement affirming that she had turned over all classified and other government documents, including all emails dealing with official business. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly reported Wednesday evening on the requirement and that a spokesman for Clinton had not responded to a request for comment, including an explanation of when the former chief U.S. diplomat signed the mandatory separation agreement or, if she didn’t, why didn’t she. The Washington Examiner also asked Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill for comment late Wednesday but had received no response from him early Thursday.”“Every employee at the State Department has to sign this little piece of paper when they leave the State Department. And it says I certify basically under penalty of perjury that I have returned all official records that were in my possession while I was an officer of the Department of State. So where is that document, Megyn? And if there isn’t, if [Hillary Clinton] didn’t sign that, why not? There are a lot of questions to be answered.” –Former DOJ Attorney Shannen Coffin on “The Kelly File” Watch here.
There was a clear and present intent to deceive the federal records act. Plain and simple. Hillary Clinton believed she was above the law.
As an aside, I should care to mention this pertinent tidbit:
Dead. Broke. – Politico: “By Election Day 2016, taxpayers will have paid out more than $16 million to fund Bill Clinton’s pension, travel, office expenses and even the salaries and benefits of staff at his family’s foundation, federal records show. Since he left the White House in 2001, Clinton and his office have received more money through the Former Presidents Act than any other ex-president, according to a POLITICO analysis of budget documents.”
The Clintons: taking advantage of every penny, every copper, every dime of American Taxpayers throughout the nation. They Live Large at your expense.
Because, after all, you owe it to them for their immaculation.
BZ
In a naked attempt to eliminate the most common American long gun extant: the AR-15 rifle chambered in 5.56 mm caliber.
And let there be no mistake.
Why are all of these issues and topics being pushed and steamrollered all at once?
I submit: easy. Because the current Obama Administration and what the Leftists believe will be the next Clinton Administration are in the process of, yes, fundamentally transforming this nation into what they believe will be, finally, the new global paradigm of Socialism.
Each Socialist regime believes that it can “do” Socialism much better than their predecessor — if only they were given the opportunity. Never mind that Socialism has never worked for any country at any time in the entire history of this planet.
Obama and fellow Leftist Demorats believe they can “do” Socialism better than anyone else — despite the fact that Socialism isn’t working for Europe.
Question: what do you call doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results?
Of course you know that answer.
From the WashingtonExaminer.com:
by Paul Bedard
As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
The question is: will Congress do it? And will they have the cojones to actually move against the president’s imperial actions via BATFE?
“The Obama administration was unable to ban America’s most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it’s trying to ban commonly owned and used “ammunition through regulation,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, the group’s policy and lobby shop. “The NRA and our tens of millions of supporters across the country will fight to stop President Obama’s latest attack on our Second Amendment freedoms.”
At issue is so-called “armor-piercing” ammunition, an exemption for those bullets mostly used for sport by AR-15 owners, and the recent popularity of pistol-style ARs that use the ammo.
This AP ammunition, because it was (past tense) so plentiful, is popular with American shooters. You’ll notice, Leftists, per the top photo, these are not “dum-dum” or “hollow point” rounds.
The inexpensive 5.56 M885 ammo, commonly called green tips, have been exempt for years, as have higher-caliber ammunition that also easily pierces the type of soft armor worn by police, because it’s mostly used by target shooters, not criminals. The agency proposes to reclassify it as armor-piercing and not exempt.
Please read the rest of the article here.
This is, frankly, an excuse for the proverbial “foot-in-the-door” trick. The goal? To chip away at the Second Amendment in the US Bill of Rights.
Why the push to regulate the internet? Why the push to eliminate firearms?
It’s all about control and the elimination of pushback, opposition to policies that people believe to be Socialist in nature. Eliminate the Second Amendment and you can readily eliminate the First Amendment.
I’m a cop; at least for a few more months until I retire. And there isn’t a rifle round that already won’t go through my vest, from .223 to .308 and most all points in between. How about some graphics?
Obama knows full well: he who controls the ammunition, in truth, controls the firearm.
If you can’t eliminate the firearms, eliminate their ability to shoot.
BZ