It’s Monday, December 10th, 2017…but before we begin, as our eldest son Major Jon observed in this meme…
Although we must note The Black Knights’ success was greatly aided by the inexplicable breakdown of Navy’s offense on the Midshipmen’s final drive: one premature snap, one fumbled snap and two consecutive false starts which put the Navy kicker at the literal limit of his range on a sloppy, slushy field. Though to his credit, he had the distance, but was just a titch wide to the left.
Regardless, we still owe Major Jon $10!
Far more disturbing than Navy’s collapse in football discipline was the significance of this disturbing story which came to our attention only after Army’s second victory in a row was secured:
“…Three weeks into the 2014 school year, Lewis, who was still on crutches and needed surgery, says she met Ahmad Ali Bradshaw, a West Point quarterback who was best friends with her roommate. One night, as Lewis later told West Point investigators, she came back to her room after a shower. Bradshaw was there and, she claimed, he raped her.
Bradshaw denied having any sexual contact with Lewis at all, according to an internal investigation report obtained by The Daily Beast. Bradshaw also chose to not render an official statement and invoked his right to remain silent.
West Point’s internal investigation concluded that a consensual sexual relationship between the cadets had occurred, and a second investigation, by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the Staff Judge Advocate, found there was “insufficient evidence” to charge Bradshaw with sexual assault.
Just so we’re all straight on this, two…count ’em, two…separate Army investigations concluded while Bradshaw didn’t commit rape, he definitely engaged in sexual intercourse with a female cadet, itself a serious breach of conduct punishable by expulsion. Yet, as previously noted, according to an internal Army investigation obtained by The Daily Beast, he “denied having any sexual contact with Lewis at all.”
Look, we understand what the meaning of “is” is, so we cannot but conclude Bradshaw’s denial of any sort of sexual contact with the young lady in question unequivocally constitutes a LIE!
“…According to a document provided by the Army source, Bradshaw has been the subject of numerous negative conduct reports besides the one involving Lewis—even violating West Point’s famed honor code for cheating in 2016, which should have seen him benched for the 2016 fall season but did not. (After all, there was that 14-game Navy win streak to break!)
West Point’s honor code—“A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do”—is at the “center of the very being of the United States Military Academy,” it says.
West Point separated 56 cadets in 2016, 10 for honor violations and 18 for other misconduct conduct. Bradshaw was not among them despite being found guilty of “lying/cheating” by a Cadet Honor Committee at West Point in May 2016.
…A day after he was caught for an honor violation, Bradshaw’s tactical officer, wrote in his file: “Cadet Bradshaw struggles with grades, but always attends the football study sessions and strives to help his peers within the company, militarily. His military performance has improved this term, and he is doing well in the company. Pending the results of the honor investigation, I would recommend retain.”
Bradshaw’s file shows the commandant imposed a series of standard sanctions, including a reduction in rank to private first class, loss of all privileges, and a suspension from “representing the Academy through participation in corps squad and or club squad activities, including participating in games and competition.”…”
Though not, to West Point’s lasting disgrace, varsity football, particularly when it came to Bradshaw’s potential for ending The Streak.
All we can say is the politically-correct moral equivalence with which the Obama Administration infected the U.S. Military has ruined the reputation of yet another once-proud institution…and Red Blaik and Matthew Ridgeway must be rolling over in their graves.
Lest anyone believe the Navy to be any different, this item from FOX News should serve to dispel that particular misperception:
“A U.S. Navy sailor who claimed someone had written a racial slur on his bed has been disciplined after he reportedly staged the incident. Marquie Little, 27, an African-American crew member aboard the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier, used a pseudonym to post photos of the slur Nov. 15, the Navy Times reported.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducted an investigation and found inconsistencies in Little’s account, a naval spokesman said Friday. Little denied staging the incident. (So he’s lied twice!)
The sailor was reportedly not charged with a crime but faced disciplinary action and additional counseling and training. Despite having disproven Little’s claims, the Navy provided additional crew training and reemphasized that racism would not be tolerated…”
Notwithstanding the fact falsified claims of racism evidently will!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, we’re taking a different tack with this edition, largely due to a certain amount of discomfort we’re experiencing while typing, the result of recent surgery to correct a variety of issues in our right elbow. So today, rather than providing linked headlines and highlighted articles accompanied by our usual insightful and (hopefully) humorous commentary, we’re going with a photo, cartoon or meme we believe appropriate to the respective item, which can be accessed through the link at the end of the quoted section.
So, without further ado, submitted for your perusal:
““Some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others, I remember very differently.” In other words, Mr. Franken thinks some of his eight accusers are mistaken and the others may be lying. His only admission is that he is a great advocate for women.” – the WSJ
“Liberals who inhabit the Beltway swamp say they want to have a national conversation about assault victims now that the Clinton political operation is no longer useful.” – James Freeman
“Moore will win his Senate race as well because Washington Republicans have declared him the enemy – and these days, the only thing the Republican base hates more than Democrats are the Washington Republicans who beg for their votes and then break their promises.” – Erick Erickson
“‘How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly?” a seemingly emotional Today Show host Savannah Guthrie said after learning that her colleague Matt Lauer had been fired for inappropriate sexual conduct. “I don’t know the answer to that,” she said, fighting back tears.
…And speaking of people not living up to standards, the Today Show hosts apparently were merely feigning surprise at Lauer’s behavior. According to reports, they already knew of his antics. – Nancy French
“It’s not clear why they would be so fixated on defeating Moore that they’d work behind the scenes to get a bunch of women who don’t know each other to lie about him. It’s a lot of effort to defeat a man who is arguing he should be elected to provide another vote for corporate tax cuts.” – Rich Lowry
“As for me, I’m done with giving government employees the benefit of the doubt. Want me to have confidence in your fairness, prudence, and good judgment? Refrain from violating your marriage vows (an act, by the way, that makes an FBI agent vulnerable to blackmail) and texting inflammatory political content to your mistress. Or, in the case of Barbara Bosserman, the Obama donor and DOJ attorney who helped oversee the IRS Tea Party–targeting investigation, make a choice: Give money to your favorite politician, or lead the then most-contentious investigation in American politics.” – David French
“Judicial Watch this week released an email in which Mr. Weissmann gushed about how “proud and in awe” he was of former acting Attorney General Sally Yates for staging a mutiny against the Trump travel ban. Of 15 publicly identified Mueller lawyers, nine are Democratic donors — including several who gave money to Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Jeannie Rhee defended the Clinton Foundation against racketeering charges, and represented Mrs. Clinton personally in the question of her emails. Aaron Zebley represented Justin Cooper, the Clinton aide who helped manage her server. Mr. Goldstein worked for Preet Bharara, whom Mr. Trump fired and who is now a vigorous Trump critic. The question isn’t whether these people are legally allowed (under the Hatch Act) to investigate Mr. Trump — as the left keeps insisting. The question is whether a team of declared Democrats is capable of impartially investigating a Republican president.” – Kimberly Strassel
“This is a choice on the part of the Palestinians, one of many bad ones they’ve made, time after time. Back in the 1990s, they had President Bill Clinton desperate to reach a deal, and Yassir Arafat walked away from the table and the best offer his people were probably ever going to get. Barack Obama was about as tough on the Israelis as any American president is ever going to be, and the Palestinians still didn’t show any real effort to reach a deal. They need to learn, the hard way, that good opportunities don’t keep coming back over and over again.” – Jim Geraghty
And never, ever forget, as Jeff Lord notes at Newsbusters.org, when is comes to the MSM…
Then there’s this helpful reminder from NRO‘s David French to any future would-be Peter Strzoks:
“…We’re confronting a crisis of confidence in America’s public institutions. Negative polarization is through the roof. This is the worst time for careerism in the civil service. It’s the worst time to watch public servants grasp at power. There’s a path through the darkness, but it requires the kind of virtue that the military demands from its members. It demands selfless sacrifice. It asks a person to say, “I’m not the man for this job.” I’ll have greater confidence that a public servant can lay aside their partisan bias when they’ve already done so thoroughly enough that I can’t discern their partisan leanings.
Many years ago, at the start of my Army career, I met an Army lieutenant colonel who told us that he not only didn’t give to political candidates, work for political candidates, or discuss politics at work — he refused even to vote. He wanted the men under his command to know that the identity of the commander in chief was irrelevant to his commitment to his duties.
I’m not saying that our public servants need to go that far. Refraining from voting is too extreme. But it is time for our bureaucrats — before they engage in partisan expression or partisan giving — to ask, “What would a reasonable partisan opponent think of my conduct?” It’s time for bureaucrats to apply a governmental version of the Golden Rule. Should I inflict on others the kinds of suspicions that I’d feel myself if the roles were reversed?
Applying that rule would mean that a certain number of talented, honest civil servants would pursue other projects or maybe even other jobs. But our nation doesn’t suffer from a lack of lawyers or investigators. It suffers far more from a lack of integrity and confidence in political institutions. Americans are no longer giving bureaucrats the benefit of the doubt. Good public servants shouldn’t ask us to.“
And those who do…
…should be prosecuted and imprisoned to the full extent of the law, regardless of position or political party. Along with Lois Lerner and John Koskinen.
Finally, on The Lighter Side…
Magoo
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