Viral Tater Via Conservative Wisdom United. Entire article quoted below. "Well, it seems the Marines have drawn the ire of the Obama administration via the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dempsey. "As reported by the Washington Times, “Two years ago, Army General Martin Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should not be lowered. "Today, the “Dempsey rule” appears to have its first test case. The Marine Corps just finished research to see if female officers could successfully complete its rigorous Infantry Officer Course. The IOC diploma is a must to earn the designation of infantry officer. Of 29 women who tried, none graduated; only four made it through the first day’s combat endurance test.”
“Marine Corps public affairs said it did not have the data on which tasks proved the toughest for women. But one particularly demanding upper-body strength test is climbing a 25-foot rope with a backpack full of gear. A candidate who cannot crawl to the top fails the test. Traditionalists see the 0-29 performance as a call to arms by those inside the Pentagon who are determined to have significant numbers of women in the infantry. They are on the lookout for standards they believe are no longer relevant in today’s battlefield.” “The pressure is on the services from the White House’s politically correct crowd vis-a-vis Obama’s Pentagon appointees, who will force the services to accept degraded standards,” said Robert Maginnis, a retired Army officer and author of the book “Deadly Consequences: How Cowards Are Pushing Women Into Combat.” So will the U.S. Marine Corps be forced to justify why its IOC training is so hard? Will they have to go before the Sanhedrin of the Pharisees of political correctness and explain why anyone needs to be able to climb a rope with a full gear pack? Will the Commandant of the Marine Corps be called into General Dempsey’s office and be forced to explain every single standard of the Marine IOC and justify its existence? Will the Corps be forced to surrender its standards of excellence? “General Dempsey laid down the law this way: “If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?” Am I making this stuff up? Sadly, no. “Capt Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman, said the ongoing review of standards is a double-check to make sure each one is specific to a particular job, is relevant to the operation and is “gender-neutral” — meaning each one must be the same for men and women. “We’re looking at all of our standards for the ground combat arms right now to ensure that they hit all three of those requirements,” she said. There you have it folks, we are moving towards a military that is gender-neutral — the objective of social egalitarians. To them, the military is just like any occupation. Everyone should have equal outcomes and equality of access regardless of the mission. Anything else just isn’t fair. What is not fair is that we have a bunch of absent-minded civilian ideologues who want a ground-breaking, historic moment. You can just bet there will be a female to pass Army Ranger School — and she will be on the cover of Time magazine, all over the mainstream media, and of course will get a Rose Garden ceremony. Recently I spoke to a young man, an Infantry officer, who was to attend Ranger school but was told there wasn’t an available slot. I wonder why? ISIS is beheading Christians and driving civilians from Ramadi. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is questioning the standards for the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course. Unbelievable.
"After attacking a village, [the
Islamic State] splits women from men and executes boys and men aged 14
and over. The women and mothers are separated; girls are stripped naked,
tested for virginity and examined for breast size and prettiness. The
youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices
and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold.
We know the family is supportive of Josh and one prays especially that they have done much to heal those whom he molested.
Josh Duggar and the left's schadenfreude "In a statement, Duggar admitted wrongdoing and apologized. He also resigned from his position at the Family Research Council. As for the Duggar family’s television show, well, it may get canceled.
"Not surprisingly, the liberal media are having a field day with this story. Remember: if you’re outspokenly conservative and desire to be in the public eye, you’d better be squeaky-clean. The left will still despise you, but at least they can’t ruin you." . . .More... Inside Edition seems to love this.
Update: The Liberal Demonization of Josh Duggar"When it comes to sexual orientation, abortion, and childhood sexual exploration, the left demands to arbitrate the rules. The problem for the rest of America is that if one dares express an opinion alien to the guidelines set forth by the left or risks imposing moral standards via a chosen lifestyle, liberals focus like a laser on obliterating the offender." "That’s exactly what Josh Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting is living through right now. " . . . "Speaking of Arkansas, don’t the Duggars hail from the same state as a former president who, as far as we know, never fondled his alleged half-sister Sharon Lee Blythe but was accused by several women of rape, molestation, exposing himself, and preying upon White House interns?
"Yet many of Josh’s critics adore America’s infamous saxophone-playing pervert, because letting someone like Bill get away with using a cigar as a sex toy must somehow subdue the sex-induced self-reproach liberals apparently feel.
"For Josh, admitting his indiscretions and actually changing his behavior underscores the message that although our weak carnal natures tend toward wanton depravity, and despite attesting faith in Christ, no one is exempt from the need for God’s forgiveness.
"Secular liberals can’t have that!" . . .
In reality, for the left, Josh Duggar’s greatest offense wasn’t molestation; it was showing remorse after the fact, which imposed unwelcome conviction on a segment of society that is often guilty of worse.
. . . There’s no sign that Ted Cruz actually said anything publicly about Josh Duggar.
"There are also memes with fake quotes from Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin, the Duggar parents (who definitely did not say “if you follow our advice on family values, you too can be the proud parents of a sexual predator”), and Josh. There are also memes claiming that Josh is getting a new show called 19 Victims And Counting co-starring the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
. . . "'He has to the present day attested to the reality of his repentance and faith by living above reproach.
" 'In
their efforts to salvage the wreckage that these transgressions
brought, and bring healing to all involved, Jim Bob and Michelle are to
be commended.
"'It
pains me to see that they are now having to relive the nightmare that
had been laid to rest well over a decade ago with Josh’s repentance and
reformation, but I feel compelled to bring some context and reason to
the bloodletting that many are engaging in and to come to the aid of our
dear friends and family.' " . . .
. . . "Obama manufactured what Rhodes called an opportunity by pursuing a deal with Iran and dangling all kinds of carrots in front of the mullahs.
"And why? Because he wants a foreign-policy legacy to match the size and scope of his key legacy in domestic policy.
"And who can blame him? After the failure of the Arab Spring, the collapse of Libya, the failure to act on his self-imposed “red line” in Syria, Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and the terrifying rise and forward march of ISIS, the only unmitigated positive on his foreign-policy spreadsheet remains the killing of Osama bin Laden.
. . .
"If you answer these questions in the affirmative, then you are likely to be the sort of person who’s kept your 2008 Obama “Hope” poster on your wall and your 2012 Obama bumper sticker on your car.
"Alas for America and the world, a poster and a bumper sticker do not a legacy make."
You can make a persuasive argument there was a mistake. But there is a kinda line going on that Bush and the other people lied about this. I spent 18 months looking at how Bush decided to invade Iraq. Lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tenet the CIA director, don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD. He was the one who was skeptical. If you try to summarize why we went into Iraq, it was momentum. The war plan kept getting better and easier, and finally at the end, people were saying, ‘Hey, look, it will only take a week or two.’ Early on it looked like it was going to take a year or 18 months, so Bush pulled the trigger. A mistake certainly can be argued, and there is an abundance of evidence. But there was no lie in this that I could find…
"I recall from a few months ago that there was much concern in the conservative blogosphere over the Obama campaign seal. I understood what the campaign was trying to do – they wanted the people to get used to the idea that Obama could be president. Of course, The Weekly Standard opined that this seal was somehow a misappropriation of the seal of the President of the United States, and thus, a violation of 18 USC Sec. 713. In actuality, it was simply a stylized seal. The same cannot be said for the seal of the “Office of the President Elect”, pictured in the image [at right]: . . . " Looking at that seal, and the logo present on the change.gov non-government web site, it is clear that the seal presented is actually the Great Seal of the United States."
He knew that the media would not care if he was funny, only that he carried forward its agenda. If he didn’t, it would call him a sellout and a hack. If he did, it would pretend to laugh at all his jokes. Most of all he realized that politically correct comedy needs an edgy façade to mask its cowardice.
Daniel Greenfield "David Letterman’s departure isn’t the end of an era. The era of late night talk shows ended a while back. In Johnny Carson’s final week in the nineties, he played to an audience of twenty million. Lately, Letterman has been lucky to get 2 million. His final shows have played to around 5 million viewers.
"Late night talk shows still exist, but their intended audience mainly watches viral clips from them the next day. The average age of Letterman’s audience is 54. CBS hopes that the equally smarmy Stephen Colbert will be able to bring his younger audience demo with him, but even Jimmy Fallon couldn’t bring down the average age demo all that much. Colbert will shave a few years off and then spend his time getting old and stale. Even before then, the networks will collapse and take his new job with it."
. . . "Like the leftovers of the media, Letterman’s job had become a comfortable sinecure. He said all the right things about how awful Republicans were, even if no one was paying attention, and in return his colleagues in the media avoided asking too many uncomfortable questions about his sexual harassment, the resulting manufactured blackmail incident and the toxic environment behind the curtain."
. . .
" Letterman survived his lean years by fawning over Democrats. He could be counted on to pitch softball questions to Hillary Clinton or ridicule every objection to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Now he is being replaced by Stephen Colbert who embodies Letterman’s sole virtue of mocking Republicans. Colbert exists entirely in the negative space occupied by Letterman’s humorless sneering." . . .
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Catholic League: Glad to see David Letterman depart airwaves . . . " 'Letterman's gall is limitless. Consider his obsession ridiculing predatory priests. Yet he is an admitted predator – he preyed on his female staffers," the Catholic League stated.
"The 68-year-old Lettterman – who has admitted he engaged in affairs with adult, female staffers in 2009 – has ridiculed the Catholic church for instances when clergy sexually molested youngsters. Other comedians have also skewered the church in the wake of the sex scandal." . . .
Mr Obama approved of Letterman mightily.
"David Letterman cheerfully discussed his highs and lows with reporters covering his farewell to TV. In recent years, David survived an adulterous sex scandal involving several women staffers and he was given the Kennedy Center Award in Washington. The Kennedys also saluted him for his comedy." Comedian Argus Hamilton
"This rumor raises two important questions with no clear answers, but both issues will have serious impact on our nation’s future.
"Talk of Castro topping Hillary’s veep list generates the first question: “How much experience is really needed to be president of the United States?” — keeping in mind that the vice president’s main duty is to be ready to assume the presidency if the awful-awful were to happen.
" Second: “Why is our nation so obsessed with the identity politics of candidates’ race, gender, age and heritage?”
"Let’s start by attempting to answer the latter question as it applies to a potential Clinton–Castro ticket." . . . Read more at:
INHERENTLY, HUSSEIN Obama is “sitting on his hands” re ISIS’s onslaught and it is not for nothing!
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. . . "INTRINSICALLY, this anti-American strategy ensures that ISIS will catapult from strength to strength. Assuredly, they are unimpeded due to a dearth of U.S. hyper-power. Not only that, but they are winning via a treasure trove of American weaponry lifted from the battlefield – with upwards of 52 155mm M198 howitzers back in 2014 – and enumerable more platforms since then!
"IS it not treasonous to abandon the epicenter of the west’s struggle to global hegemonic Islamic monsters?". . .
Islamic State fighters have executed at least 400 people in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago, Syrian state media said on Sunday. . . .
In ISIS fight, Team Obama puts spinning ahead of winning If
Baghdad Bob and Hillary Clinton had a love child, he’d probably be hard
at work for the Obama administration, denying the importance of ISIS’s
gains in Iraq. Bob was Saddam Hussein’
s mouthpiece during the 2003 liberation of Iraq. As coalition forces advanced on the capital, he kept insisting, “All is well.”
Hillary, meanwhile, evaded questions about the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi with the infamous line, “What difference at this point does it make?” Team Obama combines the two tactics. The loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, is a distinct sign that President Obama’s anti-ISIS strategy is failing. And all the efforts, from the president on down, to pretend otherwise won’t make it so.
Victor Davis Hanson "What happens when the public does not wish to live out the utopian dreams of its elite leaders? Usually, the answer for those leaders is to seek more coercion and less liberty to force people to think progressively.
"Here at home, President Barack Obama came into power in 2009 with a Democratic Congress, a sympathetic press, and allies in Hollywood, academia, unions, and philanthropic and activist foundations.
"Yet all that support was not sufficient to ensure “correct” public attitudes about Obama’s agenda on health care, entitlements, taxes, guns, abortion, and cultural issues.
"How, then, do politically correct planners force the people to think and act properly when they push back?
"Extra-legal executive orders can help a president bypass supposed troglodytes in Congress and among the public.
“We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues.”
— President Obama
"Obama granted blanket amnesties, proposed rules that would lead to the closure of many coal plants, and arbitrarily chose which health or labor statutes should be enforced and at what times. A filmmaker was even jailed on a trumped-up probation charge after making a video about Islam that was deemed unhelpful to the official administration Benghazi narrative. The IRS hounded nonprofit groups considered insufficiently progressive.
"In a recent rant about conservative Fox News — which has a fraction of the combined audience of the liberal mainstream networks ABC, CBS, and NBC — Obama warned that the media are going to have change the very way they report news. Presumably, Obama believes that Fox tricks the unknowing masses into thinking wrong thoughts, especially about the relationship between the poor and government assistance.
"As Obama put it: “We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, and how people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy looks like.”
"Given the First Amendment, how can the president “change” the media? Should the Federal Communications Commission pick and choose acceptable news outlets in the same manner that Lois Lerner ran her exempt-organizations division at the IRS?" Full article here.
Bare Naked Islam "The English anti-Obama signs (some of which are posted below) in Egypt because of his support for now deposed and sentenced to death former president Mohamed Morsi are virtually free of racist language, but apparently not so in the Arabic media. "
. . . "So popular is this title, that it is given to Obama in Egypt, which the Jerusalem Al-Qudscirculated, that in one mainstream national television program, Al-Rasd, it did not condemn or censor one interview on the streets of Egypt calling Obama even worse terms than just the ‘N’ word. The scene with posters of Al-Sisi in full view of the camera, one women says that having a military man like Al-Sisi in Egypt is best since he can be a terror to Al-Kalb, El-A’bd Obama, in English: “Obama the Dog the N----r”. . . " Epithet redacted by TD
. . . "The top ranked Yom7 mainstream TV in Egypt, the view on President Obama from the streets of Cairo using vile terminology is neither condemned or censored, the Muslim woman dressed in Hijab speaks in English, except in the end, knowing that this is only for Arabs, she says a few words in Arabic calling President Obama Jild Al-Hantour Obama, Arabic for “brown skinned carriage mule.” Video in English: . . .
"But one brave collegiate-looking lad straight out of Hillary Clinton for President central casting came to the rescue with this amazing save:
She’s been at a high level in numerous offices for about 25 years now. I mean, it’s either going to be that or it’s going to be Scott Walker and, you know, by taking away, you know, destroying America’s unions, and there’s just, you know. She’s not perfect, um, but she’s been in the eye for a long time, the public’s eye, and you’re going to have some stuff on her. But, you know, she has great policies and she knows how to get stuff done.
Clinton's Friday document dump . . . "State Department Releases First Round of Clinton Emails (All 298 Of Them)"
. . ." The State Department announced plans earlier this week the rest of Clinton's emails, which were hosted on a personal server before they were deleted
. . . "Within hours, the Obama administration was forced to concede that at least one of the emails contained classified information.
. . . "Yet it is already clear that, as secretary of state, she did
business in a way that was, at a minimum, grossly irresponsible … and
quite possibly worse. She had to have realized the near certainty that
an official of her stature would have been targeted for surveillance of
her private emails by foreign intelligence services. Yet, in her
determination not to leave a paper trail that might damage her political
prospects, she ignored the risks. The Justice Department, which has
prosecuted high government officials for mishandling national defense
information, should be investigating – and that includes acquiring
custody of Mrs. Clinton’s private server."
