The Consequences Of Not Finishing What Was Started

By now, just about everyone in the world knows, or should know, that Iraq has been mostly overrun by islamic (lowercase for disrespect) radicals over the last several months. The islamic state of iraq and syria (again, disrespect) has gained control over vast swaths of territory. How did this happen?


Say what you want about the war in Iraq - we went in under false pretenses (we didn't), we didn't find any weapons of mass destruction (we did), Bush screwed up the war effort (he didn't - check the Rules of Engagement then versus now).


Whether or not you agreed with, or supported the war, the fact remains that we were there. We started something under President Bush, and while Bush definitely announced the end of major combat operations a tad.....prematurely, he certainly ran the war far better than King DingleBarry.


One conservative commentator recently said something to the effect that during the 2008 presidential campaign, all he remembers is Obama saying he would end the war in Iraq, but never once said anything about winning the war, and he was right. The Professional Prevaricator never said anything about winning. Well, he certainly accomplished that particular mission, as it were.


The problem with ending, but not winning a war, is that the ones who often pay the price for that failure are the ones who need help the most. The Iraqi "military" - although it hardly qualifies to bear that appellation, wasn't strong enough to turn back the tide they're now facing. Many units threw down their weapons, shed their uniforms, and ran away from the militants now taking control. They abandoned their own people to the mercies of those who have none.


Think about this for a minute or two - ISIS is so brutal and dangerous that even its "parent" organization of Al Qaeda - those terrorists responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 of our fellow Americans - has disavowed them. That should tell you all you need to know about the "mercies" of ISIS.


The United States has nothing more than a token force left in Iraq, and a great many of those are private contractors, and last I heard, those contractors' positions were completely surrounded by the new enemy. I pray for them. They're going to need God to get out of the mess that the Constant Campaigner helped create.


We have a president who's so disconnected from reality that he doesn't even realize it. He actually thinks - no, believes - not only that pulling our troops out of Iraq, but announcing the timetable was a GOOD thing. It truly doesn't take a military genius the caliber of Alexander the Great to see announcing a troop withdrawal of an area that hasn't been properly pacified would only lead to disaster.


While certainly not identical in nature, what's happening in Iraq right now is eerily similar to the end of the United States' involvement in Vietnam, but it's worse. Much, much worse. After overrunning Vietnam, the communists were content with killing their own people. They stayed in Vietnam. After ISIS finishes taking Iraq, does anyone seriously believe - other than King DingleBarry, I mean - that they'll be content with staying in Iraq. I fear that a victory by ISIS spells trouble for the United States, right here on our own soil. I, for one, will point the finger of blame squarely at Obama, mainly because he did not finish what was started. ~ Hunter

What The World Seems To Ignore

23,148: It's been 37 days since last I wrote one of these posts, and shock of all shocks, there's been no let up from the followers of mohammed. That's right – 256 attacks with fatalities. That's almost seven attacks per day.

23,148: Seventy-one people, including a fourteen year old boy, killed in 6 known attacks committed over just three days since Tuesday, 10 JUN 2014. Almost twenty-four people per day mercilessly slaughtered by islamists.


I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure no Christians have killed anyone in the name of Christianity, so can someone please explain to me why Christianity and Christians are blamed for all the world's ills? I certainly don't understand how telling someone about Christianity is “forcing my religion on them,” but an islamist telling someone “convert or die” somehow isn't? Funny how that works.


Between 31 MAY 14 and 06 JUN 14, there were:


57 jihad attacks
13 “allahu akbar” suicide attacks
821 dead bodies (that's just over 117 per day)
628 critically injured in these attacks


I've done these posts for a long time on Facebook before starting this blog, and I believe the killing of 117 people is a new record. A disgusting record, but a record nonetheless.


Let's look at the totals for just May 2014:


233 jihad attacks
26 countries
1883 dead bodies (averaging just over 52 people murdered in the name of allah [lowercase to denote disrespect] per day)
2137 critically injured


The numbers for the entirety of 2013 are bringing the reality of the “religion” of “peace” will bring some additional clarity to this post:


2801 jihad attacks
51 countries
16,170 dead bodies (average of just over 44 people killed PER DAY)
29,432 critically injured


To put this in a little perspective, the estimate - which is based on new, very thorough research - of people killed during the entire *500* years of the Medieval and the Spanish Inquisitions is about 6,000 deaths. While those deaths are reprehensible, and all Catholics lament them, it's not quite the same, is it? The acknowledged average estimate is around 30,000.


I have no patience for the people who say that the Inquisition was just as bad as islamic terrorism, especially given that anyone with half a brain, and five minutes can easily find this information online. The next time someone brings up the Inquisition, you now have the facts to refute their arguments.


I know some will say I'm “islamophobic.” That's fine; it's not true, mind you - but I can handle that. To those people, however, I submit this: A phobia is an “unreasoning fear” of something. With numbers like I've detailed above, you have to ask yourselves one question: Is it really “unreasoning fear” when their mantra is “Convert or Die”?


While islam and muslims may not be the only problem in this world – Russia's antagonism of Ukraine, China starting to flex its political muscles around the globe, the looming global economic crisis that will happen if the nations of the world don't get their profligate spending under control quickly – but they certainly are a significant one. The political correctness needs to stop. It's time to call a spade, a spade. Only when the world stands together and says, “Enough is enough!!!” will this cease to be a problem. ~ Hunter

Delicious Irony, And Danny Glover Is A Tool

There's nothing like a little irony to lift one's spirits. Danny Glover (yes, that Danny Glover), will lead a rally this coming Saturday in San Francisco, and if you know anything about Mr. Glover's politics at all, you will not believe what the subject of this rally is.


The rally is being held by supporters of Assembly Bill 1839 in an attempt to pressure the California Legislature to offer larger tax breaks for the film and television industry. As it stands right now, California's program is smaller than Georgia's, Louisiana's and New York's rival tax break programs.


According to a flier sent out for the event, "Nearly 40 states and 30 other nations offered nearly $1.5 billion in tax incentives last year to lure jobs and wages out of California, and the percentage of films made in California has gone from 66% to 40% in just a few years." What makes that so ridiculously funny is no less than two members of the Assembly will be attending the rally. The bill has cleared the State Assembly 76-0, by the way.


Personally, I'm thinking that if California didn't tax anything and everything under the sun so exorbitantly, this might not be such an issue. Just throwing that out there.


Where does Danny Glover fit in, you ask? Mr. Glover is a well-known ultra-liberal, as in Barbra Streisand and Sean Penn ultra-liberal. This is the same man who has repeatedly spoken in support of the communist government of Venezuela, most recently in March of this year. Doesn't really sound like a "tax break" kind of guy, does he?


Think about that for a second - a man who actively supports one of the most repressive governments in the world now wants tax breaks from one of the most repressive, and regressive, state governments in the country. I guess tax breaks are only good when the ridiculously high taxes affect the "make-believe" industry. You and I, on the other hand, have to pay more, more, More, MORE.


I guess it really shouldn't surprise anyone, though. Liberals are the quintessential "Do as I say, not as I do" hypocrites. The vast majority of liberals don't give as much to charities as conservatives, in either time or money, yet they're perfectly fine with the forced "charity" of government programs.


The irony of this is truly delicious, but the hypocrisy just turns my stomach. ~ Hunter

One Of The Most Disgusting Things I've Ever Heard About

For those who don't already know, my son was born a week before my twenty-third birthday.  He was the greatest birthday present I have ever received, and not a day goes by that I don't thank God for His blessing.  What makes the birth of my son even more special is that he was planned - planned because his egg-donor (the tamest of nicknames I use for his bio-mom) miscarried an earlier, unplanned pregnancy.

I was there when my namesake was born, and I was the proudest papa ever.  I'm still the proudest father of one of the finest human beings I've ever had the fortune to know.  I was the first to hold him, even before his egg-donor, and I almost didn't put him down for his first three days.

When my son was about six months old, his egg-donor decided she wanted to have another child.  It was a feeble attempt to save a failing relationship, but we were just young, and stupid, enough to think that it might work.  It didn't.

Four and a half months into the second pregnancy, the egg-donor, unbeknownst to me, decided she didn't want to be pregnant anymore.  She told me she was going to visit her cousin one morning as I was leaving for work, but that's decidedly not where she wound up going.

To make a long story somewhat shorter, while I was at work, she decided to go murder my second child.  She was proud of what she had done.  She bragged about it, got right in my face about it.  It took every single ounce of self-control I had to keep from killing her where she stood as she taunted me with the fact that she murdered my child.

And yes, that's exactly what abortion is.  I don't sugarcoat things, and if you've ever read my blog before, you already know that I don't do "politically correct."  Abortion IS murder.  Even if I wasn't Catholic, I'd base my opposition to the murder of the most innocent amongst us on the scientific and medical fact that human life begins at conception.

I left her that night, luckily without killing her, and in doing so, I made the hardest decision I've ever had to make - I left my son there with her.  It worked out later on, though, as she essentially dropped him off on my doorstep two weeks after his first birthday, and I obtained full custody shortly thereafter.

That background information is necessary for you to understand the biggest reason why I'm so passionate in my stand against abortion, and so you'll know why I'm absolutely disgusted by THIS.  Yes, they made a movie, released in theaters, that's being called an "abortion comedy" - as if there's something funny about murdering a child.

The lead actress of the movie Obvious Child says it's "not an agenda movie."  The writer-director called it "a reaction against movies like Juno and Knocked Up, where unplanned pregnancies result in positive birth stories."  According to this window-licker, those movies were a "misrepresentation of women onscreen when it came to unplanned pregnancy" and "just didn't feel true."  I'm sorry, but even with the appalling prevalence of abortion in today's society, there's still more births than abortions.  So what, exactly, doesn't ring true about mothers giving birth to their babies?

The pro-murder crowd is something akin to drooling in their praise for this movie.  The president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards called it in a tweet "an incredibly funny, honest and smart movie about abortion," while the organization itself tweeted, "So excited!"  Cecile Richards, by the way, is the woman who, when asked when she believed human life began, said, "I don't know that it's really relevant to the conversation" about abortion.

But remember, it's not an agenda movie, even though the filmmakers apparently worked very closely with Planned Parenthood to depict the abortion scene accurately and "positively."  Yes, they actually take the cameras into the room where the procedure is performed.  Sounds like that will be a funny scene, doesn't it?  Nothing to see here.  Move along!

The movie is getting rave reviews by the leftist media, one reviewer even going so far as saying it's "not only the best abortion rom-com I've ever seen, but it's also the best movie I've seen so far this year."  I won't detail any of the other reviews, as I'm already too disgusted by this entire thing.

We already have to deal with the fact that abortion is legal and accepted by far too many, but now it's being glorified by having a romantic comedy built around it.  But remember, there's no agenda here.

We are losing this fight, and I can only pray that God forgives us when all is said and done.  Lord knows, we're going to need that forgiveness. ~ Hunter

The Unintended Consequences Of Getting What You Wanted

Well, well, well - what have we here?  It seems that people are just a tad dissatisfied with a raise in their "minimum" wage.

For those who don't know, a small town of roughly 27,000 people, located in Washington state, raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour starting on the 1st of January this year. Sounds great, doesn't it?
Who wouldn't want to make that much per hour as they're just starting their working life, or a new job? Well, people should be careful what they wish for sometimes, as often they get far more than they bargained, and that's not always a good thing.

A number of people are now complaining about being the recipients of such a large raise. Why would anyone complain about making $15/hr., you ask? In a terrible (not really) turn of events, the beneficiaries of the raise are now, by virtue of making more money, being asked to pay for things that they used to get for free. They've also lost out on discounts due to their higher pay. Absolutely horrifying, isn't it?

Some workers are losing out on overtime, some have lost benefits like their 401K, one has even complained that she's now expected to pay for her own parking now.  *GASP*

This is a classic case of unintended consequences, and it proves what conservatives posit when taxes on corporations are raised, or businesses are mandated to pay higher wages - the business then goes on to tighten its "belt" to keep the profit margin it needs to make providing whatever services and/or goods it sells actually worth providing.

It's a simple concept, really - if a business lays out more money via wages, taxes, or other increases, such as a price hike from a supplier, it necessarily passes those increases on to the consumer.  In the case of Sea-Tac businesses, it seems a good portion of that ridiculous minimum wage increase is getting put on the backs of the workers who were supposed to benefit from it.

Funny how that works, isn't it?  Be careful what you ask for; you might just get it, and maybe some things you didn't ask for as well. ~ Hunter

La Raza And The President: Birds Of A Feather

My friend, Buck Ofama, guest posts tonight, with his thoughts about the Taliban prisoner swap and the Marine being held in Mexico. I think Buck makes some excellent points. ~ Hunter

Here's a couple of thoughts about the plight of American Marine Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi being held in a Mexican prison for the last 2 months. First of all, he is an illegal alien who has violated their laws. Second, he wants to come home. He has no intentions of staying there. He has no intentions of becoming a drain on the Mexican public services. He is not going to work there taking a job away from a legitimate Mexican citizen and send his earnings back across the border to his family here in the U.S.; thus cheating Mexico out of tax revenue. He is not going to claim family members on his Mexican tax forms that allow him to siphon more money from the Mexican tax coffers (if they are dumb enough to allow such exemptions). He is not going to cause social unrest by joining groups that demand instant citizenship. The kid made a mistake. He crossed the border with a lot of his belongings; some of which included weapons that his grandfather gave him and some that he collected along the way in his young life.

My questions to Mexican activists here in the U.S. (and those that support them) are: Why are you silent? This kid is being beaten, hog tied, and chained to his bed. He is being tortured. His mother was forced to wait two days outside the prison before she could see him and when she did get to see him she was subjected to a strip search. Where is your outrage of how your country is treating an undocumented person who has crossed the border and broken the law? Hmm? Our prisons are full of your kind. You are treated humanely. How would you like it if we suddenly started treating illegal aliens the way your home country treats them? Huh? With merciless brutality. With no due process. With no dignity. With no human rights. Would you like that?

You hypocrites. You want to usurp our immigration laws, suffer no consequences, take advantage of our public services; and still complain that you have it bad because you aren't being made citizens fast enough, but nary a peep out of you when your country brutalizes a kid who clearly made a mistake and who doesn't even want to be in your craphole of a country! You'll never be valid Americans until you stand up for what is right and just. Instead, you're just another in the long line of the entitled; looking for a teat on the sacred cow of America.

And to our president: You made a big to-do about trading five high value Taliban detainees from Gitmo for one U.S. soldier who, by all accounts, deserted his post, left his weapon and body armor behind, and walked to the other side. He wasn't captured sir. At best, he surrendered. At worst, he collaborated with the enemy. So I wouldn't really categorize him as a P.O.W. And on top of that, 6 brave soldiers died trying to find him. And this is the person you choose to celebrate? This is such a high value "prisoner" that his return merits giving up, what many have said, is the brain trust of the Taliban? But you have yet to utter one peep about Sgt Tahmooressi's plight? Could it be that you don't want to ruffle any of those Mexican feathers because you have some important legislation and votes on the horizon? You know? You are pretty transparent sometimes. ~ Buck Ofama

Bowing Down For Bowe

While it's true that we don't know the full story behind the capture of Bowe Bergdahl, the fact that so many soldiers from his unit are speaking out against him is very telling.


The rumor is that he willingly deserted his post, leaving behind the one tool essential to any soldier - his weapon - the day after sending the last of his personal possessions home while he was only about halfway through his unit's deployment.


He allegedly actively sought out the Taliban and was "captured" by them. There is now talk that he may have actively assisted enemy units during engagements with our soldiers, resulting in God knows how many dead and wounded.


He and his family have made several anti-American statements, which may shed further light on the circumstances surrounding his "capture." To me, Bergdahl is a deserter and coward at best, and if it's proved that he provided aid to the enemy, he's a traitor of the highest magnitude.


On top of all that, King DingleBarry allowed the enemy to pick through the roster of detainees at Gitmo and decide who they wanted back. Talk about providing "aid and comfort" to the enemy!!!


If this doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense, I don't know what does. It's time for Congress to get off its collective butt and DO something about it. We are losing our nation!!! ~ Hunter