"You will never be the best version of yourself if you allow other people to convince you, that you can't be better because of your skin color, because of your sexual identity, because of the community you came from... you must resist those narratives at all costs if you truly want to be successful in America." - Charley Kirk
Given the opportunity, I would engage in that quaint old Japanese custom of boiling this scumbag to death.
But this decision goes to the heart of what's happening to the Armed Social Service of the United States (Formerly, the Armed Forces of the United States) until that empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot got into the White House.
Reading this re-enforces the wisdom of my success in talking my now 21 year old out of joining the Marine Corps and going into college, instead. Between this, getting rid of DADT and this women-in-combat garbage, enlisting in the military is completely insane.
The rulings are moronic, politically correct bullshit, the same kind of thing that allowed this scumbag to keep his commission in the first place, when he actually wasn't good enough as a soldier to put air into a tire.
By Angela K. Brown - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 3, 2012 20:58:46 EST
FORT
WORTH, Texas — The military’s highest court ousted the judge in the
Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the
suspect’s beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial.
The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Col. Gregory Gross
didn’t appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal
Hasan, who faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on
the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two
dozen others.
But the court said it was not ruling on whether the
judge’s order violated Hasan’s religious rights. Hasan has argued that
his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, although facial hair
violates Army regulations.
“Should the next military judge find it
necessary to address (Hasan’s) beard, such issues should be addressed
and litigated anew,” judges wrote in the ruling.
Hasan appealed
after Gross ordered that he must be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved
before his court-martial, a military trial.
The court-martial had been set to begin three months ago, but it remains on hold pending the appeals.
As a community, we are cursed that we're stuck with a despicable rag... a horrific cancer on our county.
They lie. They cheat. They censor. They avoid any facts when it suits them. If you oppose them, they silence you and frequently attack you.
They use their soap box to try and destroy those wise enough to oppose them.
And that is unforgivable.
Their latest crime? Doing a story on a child who had just begun to grow up.... who fought valiantly and with grace... only to lose her fight.
The details are important to those who knew her and her family. The raw pain of their loss like a fresh, open wound.
So, what did that festering sore of a newspaper do?
They unnecessarily publicized many of the agonizing details. They did so in a brutal manner, typical of the thoughtlessness that marks their disgusting efforts... so eager to amplify this family's suffering... while they do their best to defraud this community on their agenda.
Liz
was my twin sister and best friend. It is hurtful to me that I as her
caregiver and best friend was not even involved or NOTIFIED in this
article when I have been involved in all the others. This feels like
cruel and unusal punishment. I lost her only 4 days ago. If the reporter
would have asked me what I would've said about liz, I would have
stated, "That liz told me, she never gave up that she fought even up to
the last second when she took her last breath" This could've BEEN a
fantastic article as a testament to her fight with real quotes and real
meaning instead this is heartless page 2 filler thank you cruel
columbian for helping such a broken and hurt family in this time.
sicerely,
I
am so sorry Julia. After such a terrible loss u shiuld not have to deal
with heartless ppl, much less media. You and your Fatger are in our
thoughts and prayers..always. l
Julia,
please accept my sincere condolences for your loss. I had my bone
marrow transplant on Sept 4, and in that spirit of understanding, please
accept my Thank you for being both her caregiver and best friend. It
oftentimes seems to me that the struggle is harder on those that love
us than on us, the inflicted. But they (you) matter so much. smiles
and laughter in the face of such a monumental fight I can only imagine
was truly cherished. Though we do not know one another, please accept
my family's love, respect and prayers. May Liz find some peace finally.
Thank
you Rick! And also a sincere congratulations is due to you and your
fight. It is difficult, but it sounds like you have jumped the biggest
hurdle and thats a cause for celebration. Liz was an amazing person with
crappy genetics. I've been so lucky to see how she touched the
northwest and so many other onlookers that I plan to share a book with
the world.. (one day). So her legacy and story will touch so many others
like she would have wanted.
As
a writer, this is in fact a horrible article. Liz led such a rich life,
they could easily publish a better one. Or better yet, a more deserving
publication. ;) Message me after you've had some private time, I want
to discuss this idea with you.
Julia,
you know, I wouldn't mind (if you are willing) to read more about you,
and your sister's battle with cancer. Perhaps, you and your family
could use the comments section to provide what should have been in the
article? Shame on them for not putting this story on the front page
with quotes from family and friends. Perhaps the columbian can correct
this grievous error?
thank
you julia, your kind words and generosity of spirit are an inspiration
to us all. I can not fathom how such a wonderful young woman could, in
the face of such a battle, set aside her suffering to be a voice for
others. That is a book worthy of reading, and I encourage you to do so.
sorry for so many posts, this story is both sad and beautiful, and I
find myself captivated.
Julia,
I'm so sorry for your loss. I know how close you and Liz were. I
exchanged emails with you dad Friday and today. I asked him if he or
anyone else in the family would be willing to talk to me for this story.
He told me the family had no comment and did not want to be involved in
any articles. I was just trying to respect what I thought were the
family's wishes.
you
contacted my dad asking if we had comment... she died 4 days ago. We
don't know what to say other then we miss her. I wait for her to come
home each day.. I have to walk by her room and miss her. I smell her in
the clothes she used to wear. I stand in her room trying to talk to her
and you found it acceptable to post an article while my dad and I are
hurting so. You told my father you were posting this no matter what we
said and you did.
When I heard about Liz's death on Friday, I contacted your dad. He
asked for privacy and for me not to run a story. I respected that. But
over the weekend, news of her death was posted to her blog. Since her
death had been made public, we felt we needed to run a story letting the
people who followed Liz's story know. So I contacted your dad again
today, and told him what I just told you. He said the family had no
comment.
Marissa,
no matter how you try to justify your actions the fact remains that
although you claim to have been trying to respect a family's wishes, you
obviously have no sense of decency nor do you understand the process of
mourning that is taking place. The shock-wave that is felt by Liz's
passing is a true testament to the impact that she made on bother her
family, other cancer patients/survivors, and those surrounding her. It
is a terrible shame that you chose to take a shot towards journalistic
opportunity rather than truly paying homage and respect by allowing the
family time to collect a culmination of their thoughts and experiences
with Liz before publishing such a crude and vague article. I'm sure you
will sleep soundly tonight but it is that fact that makes me the most
sick. I will remember Liz and many others will too because of the positive impact she
made and while her story will live on, this poorly written and ill
planned piece of garbage will be nothing more than something that will
illustrate you as uncouth and uncaring.
Julia and Rod, please
remember that while Marissa was uncaring, there are many friends and
members of family around you who are not and who support and love you
all and will continue to be inspired by Liz every day by how she lived
her life and her courage up to the moment of her passing. My heart goes
out to you and I know as disrespectful as this article is, it will not
be that which defines how she is remembered or how we all remember her.
Having been the object of the rag's biased, slanted and inaccurate attacks, as well as having felt the sorrow of the death from leukemia of someone we held dear, I have some small idea of what Julia is feeling.
There's no excuse for this kind of garbage. But it's what we've grown to expect from this sewage pond cess pool of a paper.
By now, most sentient beings are aware of the Jevon Belcher tragedy. Only God knows what causes anyone to slaughter anyone they allegedly love... or at least loved at some point, but the mother of one's children (Or 3 month old child, in this case) should, you might think, get special dispensation.
Many, if not most reading this, have "ex" horror stories. Many, if not most reading this have, perhaps, thought about the act as an outlet of revenge or anger. Some have even had their ex's make their lives a living hell.
But no one reading this has ever shot their spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend/bearer of their child(ren).
Reading about Jevon Belcher is reading about a stereo-type of the college/professional football player.
Their bodies are their tools... their instruments. The expectation is that they will be 100% all the time.
I played football for a lot of years, never once giving a thought to the cumulative physical damage or emotional toll of a violent game.
No matter what element of society one considers, there will ALWAYS be those in that segment who are, essentially, damaged. Jevon's actions would tend to show that he was one of them.
I don't know for sure if his actions in this matter were a result of his involvement in football, but it may have had some impact. After all, over the decades the game has been played, how many of its players have ever done this? If football at this level was a proximate cause, you'd think it would happen with much greater frequency.
Many out there, looking for the cheap and easy fix of a way to explain his actions will undoubtedly make the claim. Drudge's headline puts a stereo-typical pro-football paint job on it:
Make no mistake: With the possible exception of wrestling with alligators or divorce lawyers, few sports are more painful... and fewer still have the life-long, crippling effects.
The joke of wondering why more players on the Chiefs don't off themselves given their utterly abysmal record of 2/10 aside, I was a tackling dummy for the Huskies for a brief time in 77 and that was as far as I got. But there was a lot of military ball, and park ball and flag and so forth. And I have leg whip scars on my shins, every finger on both hands has been broken (some, repeatedly) knees that should be left at Leif's Auto Collision for repair, a broken wrist, fractured collar bone, dislocated shoulder AND toes and at least 3 concussions.
That recitation of injury may seem a lot to those who don't play the game. But to those who do, it's a fairly standard, long term list... but it doesn't include much college or pro ball: imagine what those people have sustained physically; injuries amplified by the demands of the game and the team that you play hurt, even if by playing hurt you make what would otherwise be temporary injuries much more permanent and long lasting.
During the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2000 season, Bettis rushed for 1,341 yards -- and did it despite playing with turf toe, a lump the size of a cue ball in his lower left leg, injured ribs and a bad left knee.
On game week I would only practice on Thursday and Friday, sometimes only on Friday.
Saturdays weren't any fun, though. Even with the limited practice schedule, my knee would swell. So every Saturday a team doctor would come in and drain the knee. The needle was as long and thick as a No. 2 pencil. Think about that for a minute. Then the doctor would extract all sorts of pus, blood, and little pieces of cartilage.
Yeah, it hurt. Damn right it did. But if I wanted to play, that's what I had to do. Pain is part of the game. It's as much a part of the game as the crowds or the Miller Lite commercials or the TV cameras. If you can't endure pain, you can't play in the NFL.
But his price was not unusual. The expectation is that everyone is Jack Youngblood, who knowingly played... on a broken leg throughout the playoffs AND a SuperBowl.
Many readers and even some family members would cheerfully point to my average, long term injury list as the reason behind my writings and positions... that I've had enough head injuries to knock a screw or two loose... maybe even an entire hardware store.
But I've never thought about murdering anyone.
It's likely we'll never know for a certainty what caused this young man to snap. But to blame football?
How many times have we heard that violence on TV is one of the causes of gang violence?
Does that mean that watching comedy may cause you to unexpectedly break out in a stand up routine?
Which leans me to the NFL being stupid enough to play the KC-Jacksonville game... which SHOULD have been cancelled.
It's all about the messaging, you see. And the message they sent with this fiasco is that the wasted lives of these two young people meant nothing... and means nothing to them... playing up to THEIR stereo-types.
Neither of these teams are going anywhere this year, except home. Would it have killed the NFL to show a little humanity and cancel this game, or at least postpone it or something?
Of course not. Except, of course, it's ALLLLLL about the Benjamins. And these young men, who are frequently crippled as a result of the NFL's handling of this game, suffer that lack of concern for the rest of their lives.
As for that Costas moron:
The problem isn't Costas' babble. The problem is that Costas' spewing his fringe-left garbage during a football game isn't what we're watching the game for. Costas is a nobody. Sure, he's got a right to babble like the rest of the blithering leftists. But Costas' expertise is sports... not guns. I did not need or want his opinion on the subject. For me, the fact is that he's got no clue. He has no more idea about the firearms issue than he does fornication with a goat.
Blaming firearms for this tragedy is typical, leftist garbage... like blaming a spoon for obesity or a pencil for misspellings. Only morons believe Costa's tripe, and yes, he has the right to project it and those of us wise enough to verbally smack an idiot like that have the right to do the same.
A few days ago, a guy walked into a classroom and shot his father with a compound bow, and then proceeded to stab him, and himself, to death. Would Costa be stupid enough to indicate that it's the availability of knives, bows and arrows that are responsible for the deaths?
He's a leftist. Of course he would. Thus, the outrage. Using this tragedy to further the ultra-fringe-left agenda of NBC? He ought to get his testicles re-arranged for that alone... rhetorically speaking, of course.
This is a tragedy. And it's a tragedy likely to have happened with or without the advent of guns. And Costas' desire to expound on it is a minor tragedy in itself.
by NW Spotlight
A compilation of campaign contribution data shows that nationally, the top 15 donors are led by casinos (including Indian gaming) and public employee unions (NEA, SEIU, AFSCME).
The National Institute on Money in State Politics and the Center for Responsive Politics collaborated to compile a unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns
at both the state and national level. Their data is from state and
federal campaigns, political parties, and ballot measure committees in
2007 and 2008.
Jeers: To continued suffering by the U.S. Postal Service.
It's a no-brainer that as email and other forms of electronic messaging and
communication proliferate, there's less traditional mail, particularly the most
lucrative first-class mail. So the postal service has had to deal with declining
revenue, even as its fixed costs rise. An especially onerous burden imposed by
Congress is a unique requirement to fully fund employee health care obligations
75 years into the future. So it's understandable why costs must be cut.
Unfortunately, it looks like Washington voters will be among the victims. The
planned closure of five of Washington's seven mail-processing centers could
force voters in some rural areas to vote before Election Day in order to get
their ballots postmarked on time. And it would lead to more delays in tabulating
the votes, already the chink in the armor of what otherwise is a great way to
practice democracy.
The blind idiocy of mail-only ballots obviously will have to be revisited. But the idea that anyone should, could or would be forced to vote before election day is, perhaps, the most moronic of the many moronic ideas this rag has ever put forth.
The rag's slavish devotion to a fraud-ridden idea, much like the lack of concern over the built-in failures of a voter-registration system that doesn't require ID or proof of citizenship to either register to vote... or to vote at all.
The simple solution, and one certainly not worth their whaling, rending of garments of gnashing of teeth is to again set up polling stations, particularly in the effected areas... and to make mail-in ballots OPTIONAL.
Let's remember here, the purpose is to serve the voter... not the government, a simple fact that the state and various counties around here should keep in mind.
While fringe left publications view everything through the lens of victimhood, these closures just point out the weakness of a system that only relies on one element, the postal service, to operate.
It has always been a bad idea, and this issue just spotlights it.
Jeers: State Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, is certainly free to declare victory anytime he chooses. But the statesmanlike approach is to wait until someone else calls the race or the opponent concedes, preferably both. Benton, though, couldn't wait to proclaim "the beauty of this victory," which awaits a recount, and for which no certificate of election has been issued .
Sure, it looks like Benton will be the winner of a fifth term after a recount of ballots in his razor-thin race against Democratic challenger Tim Probst. If so, congratulations will be in order. And yes, politics is hard-ball; this particular race has been brutal from the outset. But it's too bad that Benton couldn't wait for the finish line to start celebrating and chose to abandon the more dignified approach.
As the democratian continues their jihad against Sen. Benton, it's this kind of petty BS that marks their world view.
This petty crap is just another sign of their hatred of Benton. And when they bitch about his "failure" to kiss their asses while they're sharpening their axes.
The lies of the democratian, their failure to print the truth about Probst being bought by the Senate dem caucus like an MLK hooker.... precisely like Benton said they did... their now almost two-decade-long effort to get rid of Benton (Where yes, they failed again) and now this petty, playground, Benton-can't-fight-back bullshit.
One of the problems with a paper that acts like an adolescent cancer on our community... a playground punk, if you will... is this kind of garbage. And one of their many failures to this community, besides lies, exaggerations, frequently inconvenient facts they refuse to print and the like is this kind of garbage.
And it's just our burden to bare that the only daily rag we have is run and owned by such scum.
