“Two boys in California were killed early Saturday while sitting inside a van in the parking lot of an elementary school when an unknown number of gunmen opened fire into the vehicle, authorities said.The boys, ages 11 and 14, were shot outside Searles Elementary School in Union City, located about 30 miles southeast of San Francisco, Union City police said in a news release.
Multiple residents called 911 and reported hearing gunshots around 1:30 a.m., the East Bay Times reported…”
…has no one asked or wondered what on earth 11-year-old and 14-year-old boys were doing in a van in an elementary school parking lot at 0130 IN THE MORNING?!?
Just sayin’, as inquiring minds would LOVE to know.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as Leah Barkoukis reports at Townhall.com…
“…They crossed paths at an Irish pub, The Dubliner, where they were both attending an event for graduates of Gonzaga College High School. Rather than being able to enjoy his Guinness, however, Cuccinelli was subject to a “passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade” by O’Malley over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
O’Malley was so fired up Cuccinelli said his neck veins were “bulging.”
…Cuccinelli said O’Malley “also inspired one or two of his (apparent) buddies to join in the cussing assault.”
Attempting to deescalate the situation, Cuccinelli left to go order at a different bar within the pub, but O’Malley followed him.“[A]t which point O’Malley pushed his way through the small group to confront me face to face, still cursing me, the President, and my Italian ancestry and he got right up in my face, bumped up against me and invited me to take a swing at him,” he said, adding that he told O’Malley ‘one of us has to rise above this, and it’s obviously not going to be you.’
…“Martin’s behavior was as sad as it was shocking,” Cuccinelli said in the statement. “I learned on the other side of the pub that Martin’s screaming was so loud that people on the other side of the pub heard him.I also learned from others who have known Martin for years that while his behavior was shocking, it was not new to them.”
He described some of the criticism from O’Malley as “odd” given that “they applied to President Obama’s policies, a fact he clearly did not appreciate me pointing out (without screaming it, btw).”
O’Malley seemed to have no regrets about his behavior, telling The Washington Post in a text: “We all let him know how we felt about him putting refugee immigrant kids in cages — certainly not what we were taught by the Jesuits at Gonzaga.”…”
Because the Jesuits…Maryland Jesuits in particular…have always been such a positive force for freedom! Then again, Marty was never the brightest bulb in the pack.
Since we’re on the subject of anal sphincters masquerading as pompous bureaucrats, in a follow-up to an earlier item regarding the only documented attempted naval mutiny of the 21st century, also courtesy of Townhall.com, Bronson Stocking details how...
“Most insubordinate employees would quietly disappear after publicly humiliating themselves and being fired. Not former Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer. After President Trump canned Spencer for repeatedly working against the president’s wishes, Spencer penned anop-ed for The Washington Post titled, “Richard Spencer: I was fired as Navy secretary. Here’s what I’ve learned because of it.” In the op-ed, Spencer appears to have learned nothing from his termination and confirms everything Trump said about him and the deep state.
“It is highly irregular for a secretary to become deeply involved in most personnel matters,” Spencer acknowledges. The former Navy secretary then goes on to say how he inserted himself into the case of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher in order to undermine the president’s wishes.
“Before the trial began, in March, I received two calls from the president asking me to lift Gallagher’s confinement in a Navy brig,” Spencer writes. “I pushed back twice, because the presiding judge, acting on information about the accused’s conduct, had decided that confinement was important.”
Isn’t the chain of command something they teach in the Navy? Spencer ignored the president of the United States twice because he thought some judge’s decision was more “important”? Trump must be so used to dealing with the deep state that he didn’t fire the insubordinate Navy secretary right then and there.
“Eventually, the president ordered me to have him transferred to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks,” writes a defeated Spencer.
When Chief Gallagher was acquitted on all but one charge of posing with a dead terrorist’s corpse, something I feel we should encourage, Gallagher was demoted to [petty] officer and requested to voluntarily retire from the Navy. The former Navy secretary writes that there were important questions for the Navy to consider, like should Chief Gallagher retire at his current rank, should he be discharged honorably and should he be allowed to keep his Trident pin.
Fearing the president might catch on that Spencer was trying to punish the Navy SEAL after he was just cleared of any real wrongdoing, the now-fired Navy secretary had the audacity to write the president and ask himnot to get involved in the Navy’s further punishing of Chief Gallagher.
“On Nov. 14…” Spencer recalls, “I sent him a note asking him not to get involved in these questions.” By Spencer’s own version of events, this is now the third time the Secretary of the Navy had rebuffed the Commander-in-Chief.
Suspecting they had a deep stater in their midst, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone then called Spencer twice to inform the Navy secretary that the president, as commander-in-chief, would continue to be involved in whatever the hell he wanted to and advised Spencer that the president would be ordering the Navy secretary to restore Gallagher to the rank of chief.
“This was a shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review,” writes an angry Spencer. (Except, for example, the cases of Bo Bergdahl and Bradley Manning!)“It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”(Objection, your honor; counsel is introducing facts not in evidence. If such were the case, why did the defendant agree to work for President Trump in the first place?!?)
In addition to the chain of command, add civilian control over the military to the list of things the former Navy secretary doesn’t understand. The founding fathers put a civilian in charge of the military to prevent power-hungry Navy secretaries like Richard Spencer from becoming tyrants who mistakenly believe they answer to no one. Our founding fathers wanted to make sure our number one military leader was held directly accountable to the American people every four years.
In Spencer’s worldview, he doesn’t answer to the duly elected president. The deep state answers to nobody. “Given my desire to resolve a festering issue,” a hard-headed Spencer continues, “I tried to find a way that would prevent the president from further involvement while trying all avenues to get Gallagher’s file in front of a peer-review board.”
Spencer then admits to making one mistake: “I also began to work without personally consulting Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on every step. That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake for which I am solely responsible.”You think?
Then, on Nov. 19, Spencer brazenly told White House staff of his plan to thwart the president’s involvement by sending the case of Chief Gallagher to an independent review board in the Navy.
“But the question was quickly made moot,” Spencer laments. “On Nov. 21, the president tweeted that Gallagher would be allowed to keep his pin — Trump’s third intervention in the case.”(To borrow a phrase from Spencer’s EnviroNazi soulmate, “How DARE he?!?”) Showing how irredeemable of a deep stater Spencer was, the recalcitrant former Navy secretary writes, “I recognized that the tweet revealed the president’s intent. But I did not believe it to be an official order, chiefly because every action taken by the president in the case so far had either been a verbal or written command.”
“The rest,” Spencer concludes, “is history.”…”
And so, thankfully, in the best tradition of his Obama predecessor Ray Mabus, is Richard Spencer.
Sorry, Mr. Secretary scorned: but like Marty O’Malley forgetting the internment camps predated the present Administration, you must not remember either the names or cases of Bo Bergdahl and Bradley Manning.
Besides, as Mr. Stocking records above, YOUR actions were a reminder YOU had very little understanding of the chain-of-command!!!
By the way, Jonah Goldberg recently penned a commentary dismissing the concept of a “Deep State”, incredibly ignoring the undeniable history of what just went down at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and Foggy Bottom (just to name a few of the government bureaucracies which conspired to take Trump out), and focusing instead on the Navy’s rank insubordination in the Gallagher case.
Thus does Goldberg, a die-hard Never-Trumper, appear to define a “coup” only as an armed insurrection against a sitting government, conveniently choosing not to recognize the option of illegally subverting and/or overturning the lawful election of a candidate of whom he personally disapproves as such.
Look, we like Jonah Goldberg, so we’ll dismiss the above-referenced column as his feelings overwhelming his reason. How like a Liberal!
Next up, in a forward from Jeff Foutch, Biz Pac Review‘s Samantha Chang published some polling results which rightly have Progressives soiling themselves, as, in…
“Three new polls indicate that President Trump’s approval rating among black voters has quadrupled since 2016. Emerson and Rasmussen have Trump polling at 34%, while the Marist poll shows Trump enjoying a 33% approval among black voters.
This is significant because President Trump won the electoral college in a landslide in 2016 despite scoring just 8% approval from black voters. If Trump can get even half the figure among black voters that he’s getting now in these polls, he will easily win reelection in 2020.
…Republican strategist Deneen Borelli tweeted: “Rasmussen Poll tracking poll finds Donald Trump’s total black approval at 34%. Democrats’ worst nightmare. Boom.”…”
“Boom” doesn’t begin to say it…which is why the Socialists’ shills in the MSM are pulling out all the stops…
…to dispute these polling results. No racists they!
And in the EnvironMental Moment, brought to us today by Breitbart via Jeff Foutch, James Delingpole relates how…
“In her latest public statement, she says that the ‘climate crisis is not just about the environment’:
It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all…”
And at age 16, Greta KNOWS systems of colonial, racist and patriarchal oppression! Yeah,…like every other propetly indoctrinated…
…EnviroNazi.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this series of unattributed (mainly because, over the holiday weekend, we forgot who sent us what!) bits of Thanksgiving-related humor…
…along with these three keepers from Jimmy Crilley…
…as well as these three incredibly cute critter pics:
As that last one reminds us…
Along with lions!
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with a maritime accident you don’t see every day, as a…
“Rescuers were struggling Sunday to save 14,600 sheep loaded on a cargo ship that capsized in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania, they said. The Queen Hind bound for Saudi Arabia overturned for yet unknown reasons shortly after leaving Romania’s Midia port.
The crew of 20 Syrians and one Lebanese were rescued, together with 32 sheep, two of which were pulled from the water…”
Rumors two of the crew members were…”attached”…to the sheep pulled from the water remain unconfirmed.
Loading ...
You must be logged in to post a comment.