General Discussion, Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Stella

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 7, 2019 at 1:01 am

    Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner
    By: Kevin Freking, The Associated Press

    In this July 17, 2014, file photo, Michael Behenna stands on land that he helps work in Medford, Okla. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP, File)
    https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/05/07/trump-pardons-former-us-soldier-who-killed-iraqi-prisoner/

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      May 7, 2019 at 7:32 am

      Good morning, Lucille! And thank you, President Trump. 🙏🏻

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        May 7, 2019 at 4:09 pm

        Good day to you, sand! I’m sort of scattered today. Woke up at 7:00 and couldn’t get back to sleep and having gone to bed at 1:00 AM, that jes’ ain’t ‘nuf!

        I need to be out here listening to the sea lap the shore….

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 7, 2019 at 8:37 am

      I am so glad to hear this.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        May 7, 2019 at 4:50 pm

        I tried to find my email correspondence with Michael Behenna’s mother who worked so hard on getting his release from prison. “indefatigable ” could have been a word coined for her personally. At one point in her life she’d been a prosecutor and knew the ropes of how to get things done. She had a website DefendMichael.com but apparently no longer owns that domain. I thought perhaps that the correspondence would be in the tens of thousands of items stored on my computer but nothing pops up when I do a Mac search; so maybe it got erased at some point. Upsetting!

        Found Michael’s address on my 2010 Christmas list when he was still at Ft. Leavenworth. It’s pretty appropriate that the fort prison’s address is on Warehouse Road. Wonder if they see the irony in that. No one could send anything to him except a card or a letter–and not even inserts in those. It’s a total maximum prison. You could send items to his mother and she’d take them to him personally. He studied a lot while at the fort and read voluminously…a really dear young man.

        I’m so glad President Trump has granted Michael a pardon. I’m sure he is more grateful than we could ever know.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      May 7, 2019 at 10:01 am

      Their expert witness told them the evidence supported his story that he was telling the truth, so they didn’t put him on the stand. They argued the Al-Qaida operative was sitting , which the trajectory of the bullet showed was not true. They kept this from the defense and it was kept from the defense until after the verdict and before sentencing. Then the judge denied a mistrial.
      His jury of peers did not consist of one officer who had served in combat.
      Just a few weeks earlier two in his platoon had been killed and then they ordered him to return what intelligence had proven was an Al-Qaida operative.

      In my opinion no man sent to war and ordered to kill the enemy should ever be charged with killing such enemy. Nobody who has never been in war should be allowed to serve on a jury judging a man making a decision while in war.
      I have talked to many men who were at war in Afghanistan and Iraq who got out of the military not because they were scared to fight and not because they didn’t love the military and our country, but because they were treated like the enemy by our government and military brass while fighting a war. The prisoners were given more rights than our military men guarding them. It began under Bush and became worse under Obama.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 7, 2019 at 11:35 am

        It’s the ‘Calley Syndrome’. They need a straw dog to absorb the sins and media attention so they pick someone and – ZAP. Lt Calley took the heat for My Lai, and the rest of the war by proxy, and Behenna was the lightening rod for our time.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          May 7, 2019 at 12:13 pm

          They screwed up, first for releasing the guy. Then even if he had killed him without it being self defense(which is ignorant imo, he was the enemy), he had just lost two members of his platoon. You should have chosen someone else to do it.

          I have a lot of bitterness towards Bush and Obama, Obama was the worst of the two, but Bush screwed them as well. Yeah he visits them in the hospital, but he sure as hell didn’t stand up for them while they were fighting the war he sent them into to.

          Like one who served under both told me, “Bush tied one hand behind our back and Obama tied both hands.”

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm

            And I go back to serving in Nam under LBJ. Wanna talk about someone who put us in a meat grinder.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              May 7, 2019 at 3:53 pm

              I will never forgive the people in this country who spit on vets coming home.

              This latest war was even closer to home for me though because I had a nephew sent over there who I had watched grow up. I had family members who fought in Vietnam, just a little harder when all you can see is a little boy.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                May 7, 2019 at 4:21 pm

                I lefty thru the civilian airport in Frisco in April, 67…a fun experience.

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                • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
                  May 7, 2019 at 9:11 pm

                  I was getting my ticket home, 30 day leave then back to RVN, when a couple of dirt bags started their BS on me. Then the dirt bag leader of the group, spun me around to face him, then spit on my ribbons….. I took him down, choke hold then heal stomped his face……. got my ticket and was escorted to my gate by two SF police officers…..Korean War vets. Showed them the SKS, and Chi com pistol in my duffel…..and yes the paper work (war trophies) were in order…….

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 8, 2019 at 12:19 pm

                    They pretty well kept the dirt bags away from us, we had over a hundred mixed military ready to board a Braniff 707 for the trip and the SF police didn’t want a blood bath. They were close enough to jeer but not within 11-hole Corcoran boot range.

                    I was in Saigon waiting for a seat when MLK was assassinated. It was the 8th before we got a flight and we were supposed to land at SF again. Due to expected unhappy folks on the ground they last-minute diverted us to Seattle. They weren’t ready for us there though, despite the warning, and they kicked us off the plane into an open sided but covered area in a snow storm. We had to grab our luggage and wait in the cold and snow for customs to arrive. In all we were out there for well over two hours while customs cleared us, basically having us just fill out a few BS forms, and we could go.

                    I had a Russian SKS, pre-64 with the screwed-in barrel and spike bayonet, a Chinese T-54 Tokarev pistol, and two stick grenades that the local EOD folks kindly deactivated for me. I had paperwork from MACV authorizing me to take them back home. When I showed up at the aerial port they confiscated them, despite the paperwork, and was told I could fight it but irt would take at least a week, I’d miss my flight and I’d have to foot my bills in civilian room and food in Saigon out of my pocket while it was adjudicated. I know the guns are in some desk puke’s US collection and I have the paperwork still.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      May 7, 2019 at 5:08 pm

      Then, there is this…(spit)

      “Trump’s pardon of US soldier is an endorsement of war crimes, says ACLU”
      May 7, 2019
      https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/05/07/trumps-pardon-of-us-soldier-is-an-endorsement-of-a-war-crimes-says-aclu/

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 7, 2019 at 8:15 pm

      Bravo, President Trump!

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 7, 2019 at 1:21 am

    While Obama pardoned a transsexual traitor who divulged classified information. (Chelsea
    manning). I won’t even get into the Gitmo trash he repatriated to a life of killing infidels.

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  3. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 7, 2019 at 1:34 am

    Bannon: Today is the most important day of Trump’s presidency
    Fox Business – Published on May 6, 2019

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  4. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 7, 2019 at 4:54 am

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    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Lemon Scones with Vanilla Lemon Glaze

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 7, 2019 at 6:33 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 7, 2019 at 7:08 am

    Lolol…..

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  7. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    May 7, 2019 at 8:39 am

    Th otters have returned to our lake. Czar saw them swimming around, playing chase it looked like. I got home and watched for a while till dusk. Seems they have nothing else to do… eat, swim, make more otters?

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 7, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    What I think is an excellent analysis of social media companies, and their practice of banning speech of those they don’t agree with. This is written by a FB friend, who own a restaurant in Atlanta (Varasano’s Pizzeria):

    “The Tech giants are private companies and can decide who can use their networks and how”

    I disagree.

    For over 100 years the phone company had similar technical capabilities as these internet companies. We did not allow them to use these capabilities and would have considered it criminal and scandalous to do so.

    AT&T could easily have:
    – Listened to content
    – Recorded Calls
    – Sold info about you to advertisers
    – Given all your calls to government prosecutors without a warrant
    – Tracked your whereabouts and pieced together an investigative profile of you
    – Set out rules for what you can and cannot say.
    – Selected a favored political ideology and decided, for example, that only one party can make campaign calls
    – Provided assistance to a political party, such as data on when best to call or which calls were more likely to be fruitful
    – Decided that only favored people could use their network for profit, while others were limited to personal use.
    – Banned people from the network entirely

    ALL of these and more, were within the technical capabilities of the phone companies. But they were never used. Not even criminals were banned from the network.

    In return the phone companies were given limited liability for content: They could not be sued for allowing criminals to plan crimes over their network.

    The internet is now a utility. Con Edison doesn’t get to ban the KKK from using their electric network. If the KKK commits a crime, the govt, and not vendors, steps in to limit rights and impose criminal or civil penalties.

    Companies have fiduciary responsibilities – that is they are given technical capabilities needed to perform functions, but where those capabilities can lead to their personal gain or other uses outside of an agreed to scope, they are legally obligated to limit their use of those capabilities. The bank can’t sell my transaction data or insider trade based on what they learned. No bank could opt out of the current banking rules. We disallow business models all the time. A bank cannot say “well, I’m not going to charge my customers. I’ll make my money, like facebook does, by selling my customers’ transaction data. Therefore, since I’m not charging, and since customers signed on for my free checking knowing this, I’m exempt from banking privacy laws.” Can Fedex scan my boxes, collect data on me and sell that to advertisers. Can McDonald’s photograph everyone’s license plate and sell that data.

    Both legally and culturally, we’ve previously set up boundaries. These separations are vital and not at all new. The tech giants are hardly the first or only companies to have more data and capabilities than we want used. We limit others as a matter of routine. It’s the other side of the argument – “if the tech giants want to use our civil network, such as our police, courts & infrastructure, then they have to abide by our rules”.

    Without this, bedlam would ensue. What if the electric company was Republican and decided that it wouldn’t service Google. “Hey, the electric company is a private enterprise.” You see? It would never end. These powers we cede to courts and political institutions with checks and balances. Those are hard enough to control.

    While FB, Twitter, Alphabet (google/YouTube) and Apple are not monopolies, they are certainly oligopolies and when they act to ban Alex Jones in a 12 hour period, act as a coordinated monopoly or cartel.

    Letting the tech Giants ban people should not be allowed without a court order.. Courts, and not companies, can limit rights.

    New industries are often unregulated, as problems may not be obvious at first and legislation has to catch up. These tech giants push for a large regulatory state. It’s time to regulate them.

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    • jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:
      May 7, 2019 at 1:48 pm

      There is a big push for Net Neutrality now and that is what is behind banning of Conservatives. imo. Big Tech is behind it. Conservatives are all Muh Principles and scream for no regulation, so Conservatives are the target. Recall, the Apple guy or some other Big Tech gazillionaire called for more regulations.

      Steve Bannon called to make all these companies to be regulated as utilities a very long time ago, an idea whose time has come. imo
      All Net Neutrality does if stop competition and protect their monopolies/cartels. Banning Conservatives is the way to achieve Big Tech’s fondest hopes and dreams – Net Neutrality.. imo

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        May 7, 2019 at 1:51 pm

        Good thoughts. I am trying to formulate my own thinking on this subject.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 7, 2019 at 2:58 pm

          My thoughts so far are: too much power in private hands and their systems, at some point, go interstate and use government controlled broadcast media. If the Feds can control ducks and steel because they move interstate than what keeps them from going after providers?

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      May 7, 2019 at 2:38 pm

      Good points, Stella. If these social media entrepreneurs were honest brokers, we wouldn’t have to worry. Alas, lefties CANNOT be trusted to do the right thing because to them the right thing is to rule over the rest of us.

      On the other hand, government regulating SM (hmmm…SM also equals sado-masochistic)
      also makes me squeamish. The least intrusive remedy must be found and quick.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 7, 2019 at 3:10 pm

        Oh heaven, if the government starts controlling sado-masochism…oh wait, they do, it’s called politics.

        Some of it’s moneyed Leftists buying media outlets but just about all media does marketing studies to increase market share. The providers like Facebook, Google, and other popular social media sites cater to their market, younger users, and most younger users don’t have the wherewithal to be conservative. Those providers pander to their largest user audience and we ain’t it.

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  9. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 7, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    What’s happening in Sri Lanka…


    Sri Lanka Muslim Terrorists Used Farm for Terror Training
    May 6, 2019 by Daniel Greenfield
    The objective is to find a place that’s out of the way where the Islamic activists can practice their skills and prepare for an attack. How many places like this ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts-camp-idUSKCN1SB0HU )
    exist across America?
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/sri-lanka-muslim-terrorists-used-farm-for-terror-training

    Sri Lanka expels 600 foreign nationals including 200 Islamic clerics
    May 7, 2019 7:00 AM By Christian Douglass-Williams
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/sri-lanka-expels-600-foreign-nationals-including-200-islamic-clerics

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 7, 2019 at 3:14 pm

      Y’all might remember when I said, some years ago that in late 2001 two of us kicked a report upstairs regarding jihadis buying farm/ranch/rural land in the US to create training areas. It was kicked back downstairs with a note that this wasn’t in our area of responsibility it was the responsibility of a Bureau I won’t name. We should drop the issue.

      Coffee bets on if they’ve already done it?

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 7, 2019 at 3:17 pm

        That is, outside of the already known Islamberg/Jamatt-ul-Fuqra and NoI enclaves.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        May 7, 2019 at 4:25 pm

        I did a post about this at some point …

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 7, 2019 at 4:37 pm

          Yours probably got stuck somewhere in that Bureau’s ‘Things We Might Not Do’ basket also.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              May 7, 2019 at 5:30 pm

              Yeah, operant word is…OK, there ain’t one.

              The issue is the definition of ‘watchful’. The JuF (now known as Muslims of America) was watched closely but NY State rang the ‘watchful’ closing bell a few back when they declared Islamberg, after they were treated to a mentored walk-thru, a wholesome and healthy model American city.

              The 22 MoA encampments are not the only Moslem enclaves and most of MoA’s sites are closed so without warrants (OK, FISA warrants don’t seem that hard to get) their surveillance is limited to what a civilian could do.

              Islamberg is some 40 years old and by now the residents have the idea that their job is to make the place look like Mayberry. The MoA compounds in Virginia that we know – and don’t yet know – about are of greater concern.

              Just because the Bureau’s out there saying they’re watching doesn’t make me feel all that warm and fuzzy. They were on duty on September the 10th too and look where that got us.

              The Bureau’s putting everything on its plate it can, domestic terrorism is, according to it, solely in the Bureaus domain and no one else can play. Yes DHS has a hand in it but you can bet the Bureau’s got it its hands on the DHS throat over jurisdiction when and if.

              I’m wondering what their next excuse will be when we get hit.

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            • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
              May 7, 2019 at 6:56 pm

              Stella, perhaps you should post that at CTH as a retrospective view (coming true what with the jihadis now in Congress). Everywhere a muslim steps becomes part of the greater unseen caliphate.

              The ummah–the worldwide muslim community which knows no national borders–aims to have America. They are willing to permanently remove us all to get it.

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 7, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    I made mozzarella this afternoon, and I’m really pleased with the results. I did it just because I wanted to see if I could, so I bought some citric acid at the store, and animal rennet on line. A gallon of milk (pasteurized or raw – NEVER ultra pasteurized for cheese) and some good salt (kosher or sea salt. I used Himalayan pink salt because I had it.)

    Messy and lots of dirty dishes, but worth it, I think.

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  11. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 7, 2019 at 6:35 pm

    Well, well, Mitch finally says something…

    “Case Closed!” Mitch McConnell Slams Unhinged Democrats Using Mueller Report to Attack President Trump, Bill Barr (VIDEO)
    May 7, 2019
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/case-closed-mitch-mcconnell-slams-unhinged-democrats-using-mueller-report-to-attack-president-trump-bill-barr-video/

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  12. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 7, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    Hallelujah! And maybe we can assist in getting the Panama Canal out of Chinese hands, too…

    Trump administration forces China to sell the Port of Long Beach, CA
    By Chriss Street – May 7, 2019

    The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security has forced China’s state-owned Cosco* to sell the Port of Long Beach over security concerns.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/trump_administration_forces_china_to_sell_the_port_of_long_beach.html

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 7, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 7, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  15. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    May 7, 2019 at 9:46 pm

    We’re taking the kids and grandkids on a mini vacation this week to Branson. My grandson is so excited, he just keeps asking when we’re leaving and telling me he just is so excited. Hopefully the rain will break long enough for them to enjoy Silver Dollar City and him to race the go carts.

    Kiddos can make you excited about something you normally would dread doing. lol

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      May 7, 2019 at 9:53 pm

      I hope y’all have a wonderful time. I’ve never been, but my parents used to go every year and loved it. And having the littles with you will make it extra special!

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        May 8, 2019 at 12:48 am

        When our kids were growing up we went every year and sometimes two or three times a year.
        It’s not that far for us and was a place we go away for a few nights, about all we could ever do while having a farm.

        It wasn’t as busy back then as it is now and was a lot smaller.

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