How (Not) to be a politically correct feminist

"It doesn't matter what you have done for women; what matters is whether you are or are not pro-Obama and anti-Israel."


Prof. Phyllis Chesler, writing in Israel National News  "Invariably, almost without exception, when I speak about any subject, not necessarily about Israel, or Islam, or about Iran--always, always, my reputation precedes me. Once left-liberals "hear" the word Israel, even if only uttered once, they will focus on that, and that alone. As if I have committed a thought crime of horrendous proportions.

"My passion for the Jewish state or my analysis of Islamism. Jihad, or Islamic gender and religious apartheid, my non-support for President Obama's foreign policies which are, in my view, disastrous and dangerous, means that I am no longer who I am or have been, that I am a traitor and no matter what else I may be speaking about, it is always and only politically incorrect.

. . .

"This time, a very honorable group of women--all feminists, wanted to honor me. The owner of the local newspaper, The East Hampton Star, wrote it up in the strangest of ways. Here, is my letter which she published in her newspaper. Her name is fairly unknown, but she represents the ruling feminist, Democratic Party, and socialist point of view." . . .

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Tech company sees no indication that Hillary's server was wiped

HopeNChangeCartoons.com

WaPo   "The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.

"Clinton and her advisers have said for months that she deleted her personal correspondence from her time as secretary of state, creating the impression that 31,000 e-mails were gone forever.

"There is a distinction between e-mails being deleted and a server being wiped. If e-mails are deleted or moved from a server, they appear to no longer exist on the device. But experts say, depending on the condition of the server, underlying data can remain on the device and the e-mails can often be restored." . . .

Laugh in the Fast Lane

. . . "As far as spontaneity goes, we assume this means that the former Secretary of State will try to be slightly less obvious about robotically repeating the exactly memorized lines scripted to keep her out of the hoosegow. Where she once stammered, "I never sent...or received...any...material...by email... which was...marked...classified... at the time," she'll now spontaneously declare, "I'm pleading the 5th Amendment" and cue her traveling drummer to play a rimshot as she wiggles a straw hat in the air and tapdances out of view." . . .

Winner! Weasel of the Week

Nice Deb  "Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…


"DNC Head, Congresswoman And Dumb Blonde Poster Girl Debbie Wassermann Schultz!"

Schultz!

"The Noisy Room : I nominate Debbie Wasserman Schultz this week for backing the horrendous Iranian nuclear deal and weeping while she did it. Those that vote for the Iran deal are not only traitors to the American people, they are traitors to Israel. Shame on them. They will go down in history as enabling those who would slaughter other Jews. These liberal Jews vote for anything and everything that undermines America and for the literal destruction of Israel. How dare Wasserman Schultz call herself Jewish. She announced today that she would become the 16th Jewish Democrat to support Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal, which gives the Islamic terrorist nation every thing they could dream of and arms them to the teeth. She says she did this for national security. Whose, Debbie? Certainly not America’s and definitely not Israel’s. I think someone made her an offer she couldn’t refuse… one that was worth selling out her brothers and sisters. I hate to break it to her, but selling your soul damns you.". . .

JoshuaPundit writes: The 34 Democrat senators who decided pleasing Barack Obama by supporting his Iran appeasement is more important than America's national security are all despicable in their own way. Ironically, most of them, like Delaware's Chris Coons were on record as saying they would oppose a bad deal - and then announcing their support by saying that Obama and Kerry's Iran deal is flawed and imperfect, but they support it anyway...even though every condition they said would constitute a good deal has been tossed aside.

Such men and women are unworthy of being called Americans, let alone holding office. Their allegiance is to something else.

The other nominees of this week were...

American intelligence pros begin a revolt against this administration

Somewhat like NY cops did when they turned their backs on Mayor DeBlasio?

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.

"More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.

"The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.

“ 'The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.

Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim." . . .

Blackfive reports:  Shaded Intelligence? Shocked, Shocked I Am   "It is damning that fifty (or more) analysts are going on record.  A small group might have political reasons of their own to cause a problem (and that has happened before).  For such a large group to be willing to go public raises serious questions of competence and intent on those higher in the chain.  At this point, whether any "shading" that may or may not have been done was done to make things more palatable for the President, or more, needs a full and thorough investigation."

LSTs and The Return of LST 325

History of these strange ships  (1944)

The Return of USS LST 325    "A short documentary about the LTS class of ships in WW2 and the ship LST-325 in particular, following the history of the war ships from the war and after."

The Proud Voyage of USS LST- 325

"PREAMBLE: During World War II there were 1051 LST's (Landing Ship Tank) built to carry troops & supplies to American & Allied troops fighting in Europe and the Pacific theaters. When WW II ended most of the LST's were scrapped, modified, or given to Navies of other countries. Some remained in service and saw action in Korea, Viet Nam, and even the Cuban Blockade.

Now one proud 58 year old LST -- returns home to America from service with the Greek Navy - crewed by heroes with an average age of 72 years old. These men are giants! One giant has now fallen -- read below. (Capt. McD)

LST History & Background from The Cargo Letter

Hat tip to Mike Stricklin; Fort Worth, TX

A tour of LST 325

Here is a documentary of the LST 325: US Navy USS LST-325 Normandy Landings
You will enjoy the films at least unless you speak Spanish.

The History of LST 325

WW2 LST training film