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Spotters, You Have New Orders…
May 15th, 2012 by The Sniper
Regardless Of What your Stance On The Matter Is…
May 10th, 2012 by The SniperThis week President Obama spoke out about his support of gay marriage following North Carolina’s vote to ban it and pretty much all other civil unions. For years the gay community has been disappointed with the president’s commitment to gay marriage especially after his statement during his 2008 campaign wherein he flat out told the country that he did not, in fact, support gay marriage. When then New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey made intimations that Michelle Obama supported gay marriage, her staff answered on her behalf stating that she did not support it. So where did all of this goodwill towards men marrying men come from? Well, it’s an election year.
Obama had a majority in both houses of congress for two years yet he failed to secure gay marriage rights or even try making an attempt to do so. During those 730 days when he and his party had supremacy, nay primacy, to do whatever they pleased to fulfill all of the campaign promises that they said the Republicans were supposedly blocking they did nothing for gay marriage rights. So what changed his mind now? Well, it’s an election year.
Now Obama does not have a majority so he can blame Republicans once again for his failure to act. Now he can rouse the American public to voting action through even more empty promises of future rights that simply will not appear. These same Americans that felt outrage at North Carolina’s ban of gay marriage are the same ones that apparently haven’t been paying attention to Obama’s conspicuous inaction on the subject when he had the chance to fix it virtually unopposed for the first two years of his administration. These same Americans are also apparently oblivious to the stagnant economy, spiked gas prices, and dwindling liberties under the Obama administration, yet will once again rally to his banner for the price of a few empty words. These are the same people that mocked Hillary Clinton when she said something along the lines of “I opposed the war after I supported it” yet they support Obama when he offers the same kind of hollow platitudes regarding gay marriage. How does he think he can get away with this? Well, it’s an election year.
The man flat out stated that he didn’t support gay marriage during his first campaign, did nothing to support gay marriage throughout his first administration, and now he wants to pander to the gay community by supposedly flip-flopping on his position and telling everyone, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, that he supports gay marriage? How could any rational, intelligent person believe this kind of blatant bill of goods? Well, it’s an election year…
Yeah, Yeah, It’s Been A While…
May 3rd, 2012 by The Sniper
On The Recent Civilian Shootings In Afghanistan
March 20th, 2012 by The SniperRobert Bales. There are a lot of people rushing to defend the shooter in what is one of the worst massacres of civilians by US military personnel in recent history. Many people are coming forth to say that this man was a good soldier and a good husband and a good whatever but the crux of the matter is this: he shot and burned unarmed civilian women and children. Good soldiers and good husbands don’t do that.
We don’t do that.
When the Nazis did that, we called it a war crime. When Stalin did that, we called him a mass murderer. When Charles Manson did that, we called him a psychopath. Today if you mention the words Nazi or Stalin or Manson, the terms “good soldiers” and “good father” are not the first or even the 500th words that pop to mind. We do not laud these men because they are not worthy of laudatory comments. They killed innocents and for that they should be and are rightfully condemned. Bales killed innocents and as such, should be condemned if found guilty in court.
I do not condone what Bales did. I do, however, understand how it can happen. I have been over there and I know the frustration that comes with knowing that you are surrounded by bad guys who pretend to be your friends at one moment, only to sell you out or take an active part in trying to bring about your demise the minute your back is turned. I know the supreme frustration of knowing damned well that you’re looking at the guy who tried to kill you last night, but there isn’t a damned thing you can do about it because police-like evidence or a clear, present, and credible threat is necessary before you can take any action and, although you know who the guy is, you don’t have that hard core evidence to back it up. I know the frustration of being ready to roll out to take out the guys that were just assaulting you, but politics interferes and you get recalled because the house you were about to roll up on belongs to a local warlord.
These guys are in a fight with their hands tied. Their greatest asset, strategist, and tactician, General Petraeus, never got the troops he asked for even though it was completely feasable to give him the tools he needed for victory. Why? Early campaigning for reelection. After an ambush piece by Rolling Stone, that same General Petraeus was relieved of duty by the President for the same reason: early campaigning to show he was a “strong” leader. Unfortunately, Obama has no clue what a military leader is or how he or she behaves and let hubris get in the way of sound reasoning: just because your star quarterback said something that might hurt your feelings, you don’t take him out at half-time during the Super Bowl and replace him with someone who clearly isn’t ready to play. Hell, Osama bin Laden understood that and wanted to take out Petraeus himself because he knew that losing him would destabilize Afghanistan enough to force us out. Unfortunately for us, Obama did what Osama couldn’t.
Now we are at a point where the President didn’t send the troops needed to do the job, he did for Osama what he Osama couldn’t do for himself, and he stated a pull-out date without victory terms which only emboldened the Taliban, HIG, and al Qaeda to bide their time and stir the pot. The recent Koran burnings and subsequent assassinations of US troops by our supposed “allies” and the milquetoast response by the President have only served to embolden the enemy further. The bad guys now know that they can get away with murder. Literally. The troops are starting to realize that they may be on their own over there as they await a “Fall of the US Embassy in Saigon” moment in 2014. With that kind of frustration, is it any wonder that one went off the reservation?
Bale is going to get strung up and he should be. I know that sounds cold, but it is what it is. He went off the farm on and went on a murder spree. He is solely responsible for his actions. He is not, however, solely responsible for the situation that put him in that position. Again, I don’t condone what he did, but I do understand it. That being said, his actions were his own, the consequneces should be his own, as well.
We are Americans. We are supposed to be the good guys. The good guys don’t do that, and we should never tolerate or suffer to live those that do.
It’s Steak And BJ Day
March 14th, 2012 by The SniperAnd since I’m not at home at the moment, my Steak and BJ Day has been downgraded to “McDonalds and Internet Porn Day.” So, with the theme of pr0n running strong this hump day, I present a bunch of war pr0n.
First up: Taliban digs in IED. Taliban detonates IED while still emplacing it. Hilarity ensues.
Snake Eaters find bad guys. Call planes. Bad guys go boom. Hilarity ensues.
Danish infantry run into Taliban. One Dane gets a flesh wound to the arm. The five Taliban get flesh wounds to the head, kidneys, spleens, large intestines, small intestines, hearts, lungs, pancreas, shoulders, arms, legs, bladders, etc. Hilarity ensues.
A-10 Warthog gun cameras capture bad Taliban and al-Qaeda becoming good Taliban and al-Qaeda. Hilarity ensues.
Enjoy the rest of your Steak and Blow Job Day.
A Monday Post: Some Stream Of Consciousness Food For Thought…
March 12th, 2012 by The Sniper
Showing photo ID to buy alcohol: totally legal. No problem.
Showing photo ID to buy a gun: totally legal. No problem.
Showing photo ID to pick up a prescription: totally legal. No problem.
Showing photo ID to vote: blatant racism. Wait, what?
Post-Racial America
March 8th, 2012 by The Sniper
Sorry, asking people to vote for you based on the color of their skin is racist. If a white candidate started a campaign called “white people for [insert candidate name here]” there would be a media lynching of that candidate. In this case, if you listen really closely you can almost hear the crickets chirping.
Racism is racism and it’s wrong.
RIP Lex
March 7th, 2012 by The SniperI hate it every time I hear about a soldier, sailor, marine, airman, or vet dying. Sometimes I hate it more than others. This would be one of those times.
The man they’re talking about here is someone you probably have heard of if you know anything about MilBlogs: he’s Neptunus Lex. He was a good guy and a good writer. He beat us out a while back for best military veteran blog at the MilBlog conference and, I must begrudgingly add, rightfully so. He served his country, he served his fellow veterans, and he served up some great writing on his blog. There are many bloggers that knew him a helluva lot better than I did, but if you met him even once his absence from this earth would be almost palpable.
Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. His presence will be sorely missed.
Fair winds and following seas.
This Post Is A Buffer
March 7th, 2012 by The SniperTo keep the previous post from the one that will follow because the frivolity of the previous post doesn’t belong next to the somber tone of the next.
Um, Seriously?
March 6th, 2012 by The Sniper
I saw this in a Target and took a pic because, well, it looked just so wrong. I am thinking it could be titled “Post-Op Belle” or possibly “How Brian Became Belle” or “Disney’s latest movie venture: ‘Thai Ladyboy and the Beast.’”
U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg To Maryland Gun Grabbers: GFY
March 6th, 2012 by The SniperMaryland residents do not have to provide a “good and substantial reason” to legally own a handgun, a federal judge ruled Monday, striking down as unconstitutional the state’s requirements for getting a permit.
U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg wrote that states are allowed some leeway in deciding the way residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms, but Maryland’s objective was to limit the number of firearms that individuals could carry, effectively creating a rationing system that rewarded those who provided the right answer for wanting to own a gun.
“A citizen may not be required to offer a ‘good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights,” Legg wrote. “The right’s existence is all the reason he needs.”
This has been a long time coming. Maryland needs a serious overhaul to its gun laws in general, but this is a good start. Can you imagine if, when you tried to exercise your 1st Amendment rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc etc, the government stepped in and asked you why you felt that you needed to exercise that right before “allowing” you to do so? Oh, you want to say something? Well, what makes you feel you need to say that? Oh, you want to believe that? Well what makes you think you need to believe that? And then after the questioning of you exercising your Constitutional Rights they denied those rights to the vast majority of the people? There would be a shit storm of Biblical proportions. But, for the longest time, everybody just sat back and took it in Maryland because if you fight for your 1st Amendment rights, you’re a patriot; if you fight for your 2nd Amendment rights you’re a deranged gunman or, according to Secretary Holder’s definitions, a possible terrorist.
The gunophobes in Maryland will just have to suck it up and take it because the law is meant to protect law abiding gun owners, not turn them into illegal gun owners simply by definition of a repressive and unconstitutional statute. Good job, Judge Legg. It’s nice to know that some people still read and comprehend the Constitution.
Ahhhh, Wedding Videos
March 6th, 2012 by The SniperThe Russian ones are SO worth the wait.
The Memo
March 5th, 2012 by The SniperSo this whole Koran-burning thing has really chapped my ass. My need for Gold Bond on my bottom doesn’t spring from the Afghans’ reactions to the burning as those were pretty predictable. I mean, let’s face it: anytime you take a bunch of mostly illiterate, gun-toting cavemen with cell phones who see no problem with molesting little boys, honor killings, throwing acid on little girls, and executing women for having the audacity to get gang-raped by their male relatives and then add the figurative and literal fire of religious fervor and extremism, you can pretty much guarantee that the resulting actions will be laced with a liberal dose of backstabbing violence. No, my problem with the reaction to the debacle is OUR reaction.
The first mistake we made was allowing the trash men to get their hands on these things. Of course, they could have been burning cookbooks that were written in Arabic and most of the local nationals working on Bagram wouldn’t have known the difference between Betty Crocker and the seventh Surrah since, as I said before, most of them are illiterate so they think that anything in Arabic is the Koran. Since it was used to write messages, it should have been kept as evidence or intelligence. Either way it should have been treated as classified material. At the very least, it should have been completely destroyed before being tossed in the burn pile.
The second mistake we made was the immediate pro-extremist, anti-Joe sycophancy from our apologist in chief. Our guards saw contraband Korans that had already been desecrated by extremist messages scrawled by their owners (which, by the way, is desecration anyway), seized those books, and disposed of them. Why the hell should we apologize? I don’t see any of them apologizing for burning the Korans that were destroyed when the World Trade Center went down. What do we do next? Apologize for collecting intelligence or killing bad guys? No. Screw that. We don’t need to apologize for helping secure our personnel. And what is the end result of Obama apologizing? Well, a bunch of US personnel getting fragged by their Afghan counterparts. And our response to that? Pretty much nothing. They just killed our guys and the president’s response is to say that the apology avoided violence. Really? Tell that to the widows and orphans and next of kin. You know what we should have done? What the Pashtun understand: exponential measured response. They kill one of ours, we level a town. War is ugly; if you’re going to do it, make it so ugly that nobody ever wants to bring it to your doorstep again. Presenting a weak response to the Pashtuns is just inviting more violence on our guys, not discouraging it.
The last thing we did wrong was this:
So now, our troops cannot even get their hands on a Koran unless they are Muslim. Can Muslims get a Bible? You bet. Book of Mormon? Why not. But Korans are hands-off because apparently the Army doesn’t mind restricting the first Amendment rights of most soldiers as long as it appeases the enemy. And yes, I do consider radical Islam the enemy and anyone that doesn’t is a fool. You cannot appease an enemy that is fueled by radical religious fervor without surrendering to them; you either defeat them or you are defeated by them. Does this policy say that US service members on Bagram cannot own or purchase a Koran? Nope. But it does border dangerously close on violating the establishment clause in the Constitution by providing protected/preferential treatment to one religion over another. Oh, and it really does nothing to protect our troops or prevent more violence form the religious zealots that pervade the forces with which we are supposedly in cooperation over there. If you want to prevent the bad guys from killing our guys because of a holy book, make the bad guys hole-y men.
Dog-Dae Afternoon
March 4th, 2012 by The Sniper
Unfortunately the aforementioned post title is pretty much the most literal title I have ever written.
A husband, his wife and her lover have been charged with conspiracy to commit bestiality after using Craigslist to find a dog for the wife to have sex with.
Shane Walker and his wife Sarah Dae, who describe themselves as swingers in an open marriage, were arrested after an undercover sting operation.
The couple, and her lover Robert Aucker, were held after they drove out to a pre-arranged location to engage in the unnatural sex.
The two men were to watch while Sarah Dae had sex with the dog.
This, to me, is just mind-boggling. I mean, does anybody ever find sex on Craigslist or are they all just police stings? Er, I mean, dude, wtf?
What exactly makes a woman wake up one day and think, “you know what I’m in the mood for? Pooch penis.” Seriously. If you have to resort to Poodle putz, Schnauzer schlong, or Rottweiler rod you have either a) not had any, ANY, luck with finding a guy that knows how to screw, b) you’ve tried, exhausted, and grown bored with pretty much EVERY other form of sex with every other possible human partner, or c) you’re totally, absolutely, and thoroughly batshit crazy. In this case, there is the very real possibility that Sarah Dae is all of the above. Oh, and her hubby has got to be even more of a train wreck. I’ve heard of taking a dog to the pound, but taking the pound to the dog is just wrong.
Oh, and I know I skipped over tons of obvious dog jokes and puns (doggie style, lap dog, Cocker Spaniel, etc), but I decided to avoid most of the obvious ones this time.
Slut?
March 4th, 2012 by The SniperI wrote this earlier but decided to post a video of me reading it instead of just the words because I wanted to add emphasis where I thought it belonged. Mind you, I don’t really care what people do in their personal lives and if you want bang a phalanx of male members or dive into a sea of muff, that’s your business… but don’t politicize it or you might not like what you hear. Do I think Sandra Fluke is a slut? Naw, probably not. Frankly, I don’t care if she is or is not. What she does with her vagina is her business. When she starts trying to force people to pay for what she does with her vagina (in fact, when she tries to make the government and ergo make me pay for it) and goes before congress to testify about it, she makes it everybody’s business.
The bottom line is this: the old mantra “keep government out of my vagina” is total bullshit if you want government to pay for what goes in it.
By the way, here are the links to the US News and World Report and Kinsey Institute reports if you want to check my numbers as well as a SlutWalk link.
