- Chelsea Manning has asked Obama to cut her ghastly sentence to time served. Good luck, Chelsea.
- Larry Correia writes a guide for liberals who are suddenly interested in gun ownership.
- The whimpering “safe space” infants aren’t only on college campuses. Andrew Torba, founder of Gab.ai has been banned from the directory and community of the famous venture capital outfit Y Combinator because his very existence makes people feel “unsafe.”
- Unfortunately, some of those liberals have genuine cause to feel threatened by Trump supporters. (Alas that the media recognizes bloodthirsty Hillary supporters (if they notice them at all) as the fringe; but the foulest Trump supporters are regarded as the Trumpist mainstream.)
- Ohgoodie. There’s yet another way to investigate us via our cellphones. This one, at least, is too cumbersome to use on all us casual “suspects” and might actually be useful in criminal investigations.
- Oh, the horror. Donald Trump is rumored to be favoring John Bolton for Secretary of State. Of all the world’s blood-crazed neocons, Bolton may be the worst. Something like a mutant clone of Hillary, Cheney, and George W. Bush on a day when he’s particularly convinced God’s on his side. If Trump actually makes this choice, it’s all over.
- Did you know — I didn’t — that in WWII, there was a female sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who had 309 confirmed kills? There’s a movie about her now; supposed to be very good: The Battle for Sevastopol. (H/T D)
- Alright. The air bow is totally going into today’s Amazon ad. Never mind that at this point, it’s basically a rich hunter’s toy. What a cool concept! (H/T JB)
And don’t forget: even if there’s nothing you want in one of these ads, use the ad as your entry to Amazon and for this month only, I’ll receive a much larger commission than normal!
Was Manning’s sentence of 35 years, after being convicted of espionage and theft, too harsh? He/she was convicted of 17 of the 22 charges and could have gotten 90 years. Many in the veteran community do not see Manning’s sentence as being too harsh, but I personally have mixed feelings about it. There’s the claim that nobody was killed as a result of the data dump and that the documents that were released didn’t merit protection as that they weren’t sensitive. The thing is, giving a wink and a nod to this by granting a Presidential Pardon could encourage others to do so. Having served Honorably in the USAF, I did my duty to fulfill my unit’s mission and when I was told to keep things secret, I did. IMO, Manning should have done the same. With that said, with good behavior, Manning could be released after having served 8 years and perhaps that should be considered, but she’s attempted suicide and I don’t know how that’s going to go towards determining good behavior.
I think the airbow is cool as a compact backup weapon, and fairly easy to hide in the home to unsuspecting bad guys. It would also help in gauging distance and accuracy in target practice on one’s property, without being obvious as a gunshot would. Besides, it’s easier to load and unload that an ordinary crossbow. Too bad it costs so much.
Hillary’s existence made me feel unsafe, too — why wasn’t she dropped from the campaign? Anyway, all politicians are “unsafe at any -ism” (to paraphrase Nader when he maligned the VW Beetle) — so let’s toss them out too.
“The thing is, giving a wink and a nod to this by granting a Presidential Pardon could encourage others to do so. Having served Honorably in the USAF, I did my duty to fulfill my unit’s mission and when I was told to keep things secret, I did.”
Manning isn’t asking for a pardon. In fact, she explicitly rejects that idea. Just wants a shorter sentence.
Indeed Manning was convicted on a lot of charges. But Manning also released the Collateral Murder video, which clearly, unmistakably showed the U.S. committing war crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike
Were the murderous pilots in that video convicted of any crimes? Were their officers or civilian supervisors convicted of any crimes? Was any investigation ever opened into that and other war crimes we know the U.S. military continues to commit (like targeting innocent people at funerals or — the classic — targeting people who try to help the injured and dying?) Why is Manning being punished so cruelly when those people are free to get on with their lives?
When you were in the military, would you have kept war crimes secret?
In my book, Manning did the world a huge favor by exposing such cruelty and criminality — even if the government’s still getting away with it. Her biggest crime — lonely soul that she was — was opening her yap about what she’d done to someone she trusted, who turned out to be a government informant.
Claire, I wrote how I and other veterans felt about what Manning did and I respect your opinion, but on some points, we will have to agree to disagree.
Fair enough, rochester_veteran. Civil disagreement is an excellent thing.
You mean, people can disagree without wishing the other dead?!?!?!
I’m all for the whistleblower parts. If the non-voluntary government didn’t have such “secrets,” there’d be a LOT less tyranny. A great many people are “convicted” of all sorts of non aggressive, non criminal things. There’d be a lot less tyranny if all of them were pardoned, one way or another.
Why is suicide bad behavior? At least for the purpose of determining time in a cage as a political prisoner… I suspect being a political prisoner that way would very likely produce suicidal tendencies.
And why did taxpayers have to foot the bill for this person’s sex change?
My new mission in life is to get this Larry Correia article out to everyone in or who supports the LGBTWTFBBQ community and the world would be a better place!
“You mean, people can disagree without wishing the other dead?!?!?!”
LOL! Thanks for that, Ellendra. I’m now picturing grannies and granpas across the land trying to explain to their descendants, “Once upon a time, sonny, people used to disagree every day without killing each other …”
“You mean, people can disagree without wishing the other dead?!?!?!”
“LOL! Thanks for that, Ellendra. I’m now picturing grannies and granpas across the land trying to explain to their descendants, “Once upon a time, sonny, people used to disagree every day without killing each other …”
Ha! 🙂 Back in the old days…
“the LGBTWTFBBQ community”
Oh, we are just full of wit today. I’m going to have to adopt this expression. I understand that there’s actually pissy SJW controversy now over whether it’s “okay” to say LGBT, or whether you have to add a whole bunch more initials to be properly inclusive. And not only that, but further controversy over which initials you have to add to be truly on the side of justice. I like the ones you chose.
And yes, very good article to get out there.
I’m no fan of John Bolton, and hope he doesn’t get the job, but you must remember that in a Trump presidency, Trump is the boss, and Trump has had a lot of practice saying the words “you’re fired.”
Yet another confirmation that we were all saved by Trump from an alcoholic psychopath…http://www.northcrane.com/2016/11/15/cnn-reporter-states-hillary-became-physically-violent-towards-john-podesta-at-midnight-had-to-be-restrained/
Totally non-snark answer for rochester_veteran:
“I took an oath to defend the Constitution, not the Powers That Be.”
AFAIK, if accepted, the airbow is the second hunting arm action invented since 1900. The first was the compound bow, circa 1969.
Speaking of Chelsea Manning, I want to know when Edward Snowden and Wikileaks will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…..
LarryA wrote:
“I took an oath to defend the Constitution, not the Powers That Be.”
Same here, LarryA, and I renewed that Oath here, back in 2010:
https://youtu.be/G77NnhYvcf8
“Yet another confirmation that we were all saved by Trump from an alcoholic psychopath”
Despite the article being poorly sourced, I believe every word of it. It’s certainly consistent with years of rumors about her drunkenness, violent temper, and lack of mental control.
I thought it was incredibly ungracious and ungrateful that Hillary refused to go out that night and thank her devoted supporters. Sending Podesta out to tell them to go home — ptooey! But heh. Maybe she wasn’t even capable of stumbling out into the arena by then.
A good article by Correia, but way too long, and probably not read by his target audience.. Interesting, most of the blogs I read seem to be preaching to the choir.