It sounds like he earned The Medal,

and should have gotten it then no matter who it pissed off.

Speaking of pissed off, it seems the Iranians had to admit that not just the Mossad, but Iranian people tired of the tyrants are a BIG problem.


In Charlotte, a guy came to the aid of people being threatened, and was stabbed by the asshole. 
My question  now is if the idiots running the city try to charge him for not hiding in a corner?


Also in North Carolina, 

“If a loving father wants to marry off his nine-year-old daughter to a righteous man and all parties consent, what is the issue with that?”
The issue should be him being hanged for doing that to his daughter, and the same for the asshat who wants her.  I'm sure that makes me a racist or bigot or something.

I agree, buy that man a wheelbarrow for his testicles.

I'll copy the whole thing for those who have problems with Twitter:
Police Officer Igor Pivniv lives in Moshav Yated just 4 km from Gaza. On the morning of October 7 he went to work as usual. Some time later, his wife messaged him that their community's electricity was cut, that gunfire were heard, and that she and their three girls were frightened.

Igor grabbed a utility vest, a helmet, a rifle and bullets, and drove straight home to save his family. The drive was not straightforward. Many roads in the South were blocked.

Over the radio, Igor heard the terrifying news that multiple communities had fallen and were under the terrorists' control.

On the way, he spotted an ambush set up by the Hamas terrorists. He approached stealthily and managed to neutralise the threat, killing them all.

He came across another car driven by terrorists, who were shooting at civilians trying to escape the area, and killed them. He then waited patiently for some time, saw four more terrorists approach the car and opened fire and killed them too.

Igor found grenades, ammunition and weapons in the car, and took them.

Continuing on his way, Igor saw more terrorists on a motorbike atop a hill. Again, he approached stealthily through bushes, wiped them out and took their weapons and ammunition. Pausing for a moment, he messaged his wife that he was OK.

When he reached his village, Igor realised that he was alone. There, he managed to prevent two further attacks. He reached his home safely and realised that he had to defend his community.

All the while, Igor tried repeatedly to contact the police and the military, but their hands were tied in other places. Together with a band of spontaneous volunteers, Igor managed to defend their village until the evening, when the army arrived.

Thanks to Igor's tenacity and bravery, not a single person in his village was killed that dark day.

I'd say they'd be welcome in Valhalla

Amichai was calm and told his wife on Whatsapp to make the children feel good as today is Simchas Torah. This was the last she heard from him. A few hours after the fighting started, a terrorist surprised Amichai Yisrael and Moshe Yedidia from behind and murdered both of them. Amichai (33) left five children and Moshe (31) left three children. Both were friends from the same community (Psagot), both were studying social work in Ashkelon and both came to help the struggling kibbutz. It was their heroic struggle which saved the kibbutz members from the fate of neighboring communities. All of the families were saved (two other members of the fighting group were injured) and nobody was taken captive. The army arrived only at 1 PM after the group had fought off Hamas for six hours.

Hail, gentlemen.

This is the kind of man who makes you think "If I die in violence,

I hope I die at least a decent fraction of how well he did."

Little men with big knives and huge balls

Gurung ignored his many wounds and carried on firing with his left hand – a considerable feat, as the bolt-action rifles of the day were made for right-handed use. "Come and fight a Gurkha!" he yelled, as wave after wave of Japanese troops tried for four hours to overrun the position. They failed. The 4th/8th Gurkhas held out for another 48 hours until relieved on 15 May.

Which reminded me of this from Quartered Safe Out Here, and I wonder if Fraser was writing of the 4th/8th?
There was another occasion when a Gurkha platoon close to us held a position against two companies of Japanese who wouldn’t take no for answer, but kept coming time and again, yelling “Banzai!”; the Gurkhas just stood fast and stopped them until the position was littered with Jap dead.

When the Gurkhas were finally withdrawn it was discovered that they hadn’t a single round of ammunition among them.

I remember when he was awarded the Medal, a reporter said that just before the ceremony started

President Reagan came out and told them "You're not going to believe this."

That line from Firefly about 'big damn heroes' comes to mind, Master Sergeant Roy Benividez definitely fits.

Ok, one more thing: Rick Resorla,

very much, as Smallest Minority put it, 'An American who happened to be born somewhere else.'

Read it.

War Chief, indeed

Imagine a bunch of German troops, as he led their horses away, looking at each other and asking "What the hell is he singing?"

Audie Murphy

If there was a decoration he wasn't awarded, it was probably because there wasn't enough room for him to wear it.

They made a movie about him, and I've read that someone convinced him to play himself in it.  He showed up on the set to talk to the director, who asked who he was.  "I'm Audie Murphy."
"No you're not, you're too small and too young."
Took a while to convince him.

"But did they have a proper racial and gender mix in the unit?"

Who gives a crap, they fight and they WIN.
An elite SAS soldier cut off an ISIS fighter's head with a spade after he ran out of ammunition during a bloody six-hour battle, it was claimed.

After killing the jihadist, the British sergeant used the enemy's gun to kill more militants.
...
The source told the Daily Star: “The SAS thought they had seen their last day. “They made a pact that they wouldn’t be taken alive and vowed to fight to the death.

“They made every bullet count and when they ran low on ammo they waited for the jihadis to get close enough so they could be killed with grenades or using rifles as clubs – that was when one of the SAS managed to kill a man with a spade.”

The remaining jihadis fled when two US military Apache attack helicopters arrived at the battle site in eastern Afghanistan.

I'd heard the name Basil Plumley in passing somewhere before;

wish I'd thought to look it up then.
The men of the 7th Cavalry held out valiantly, but ultimately they were still outnumbered five-to-one, deep in enemy territory, and completely surrounded by troops with heavy weapons pointed right at them, and casualties were piling up. But Plumley didn't give a shit. He wasn't about to fucking back down. The unit's commanding officer, Hal Moore, vividly recalls in his book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young that he was standing there with Plumley, looking at the piles of wounded and the untenable position they were in, and he was like, "Jesus Christ, it's Little Bighorn all over again!"

Plumely just looked at him, no emotion at all, and said, "Custer was a pussy. You ain't."

That night, as AK-47 fire ripped up the jungle, the order went down the American battle line – fix bayonets. When some of the troops were like, "what the fuck is a bayonet?", Plumley got pissed. Screaming over the din of mortars and machine guns, Plumley drew his pistol and said something to the effect of "You sons of bitches, take that pointy fucking thing you use to open your c-rations, stick it to the end of your rifle, and follow me!"
That's one part of his story.  he and Moore were well matched, and the enemy was kind of screwed.

How stupid are things over there? This stupid:

Despite an unfolding international manhunt the first pictures of him released in Germany have his eyes deliberately covered, thought to be because of strict privacy laws there. MailOnline has uncovered unblurred images.
Reminds me of the idiocy a couple of years ago in Australia, in which the media was telling people "The suspect looks like this" but refusing to speak color or race; because 'that would be racist'...


More from our Most Transparent Admin EVER!
A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda.


But ignore all this, we should let the UN control everything.  Because international law and opinion.

Memos about the sexual abuse in the Central African Republic were "passed from desk to desk, inbox to inbox, across multiple UN offices, with no one willing to take responsibility", the report found.

It added: "The welfare of the victims and the accountability of the perpetrators appeared to be an afterthought, if considered at all."

Unlike the whining SJBs, I think she creates her own safe space wherever she goes.

Rifle helps.


Worth reading.
The worst thing about 2016 — an otherwise bracing year of political upset and oligarchical tears — has been the mainstreaming of the insult ‘fascist’. Anyone who sticks it to the status quo, whether by rejecting the EU or plumbing for Trump over Clinton, risks being smeared with the F-word. Even the normally measured New York Times flirted with the idea that loads of Americans and Europeans might be fascists, or at least facilitators of fascism. Trump’s victory speaks to a possible ‘revival of fascism’, it said, echoing the fears of an army of observers and tweeters who see in Brexit and Trump the stirrings of a kind of Nazism.

I seem to have been caught by some microorganism, so no witty commentary

while my head is stuffed and running both.  So:
From the People's Republic of Seattle, as Michael Williamson puts it, "We don't spy on you. We contract that out so it's not Big Brother."


For the second time in just over a year, one East Providence police chief is in hot water for infringing on citizens’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. 

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has issued an order faulting Chief Christopher J. Parella for improperly denying residents licenses to carry concealed weapons and failing to abide by the court’s previous ruling.
There ought to be some criminal charge for knowingly violating the court's order that way, not to mention they should sue his ass off.


A 62-year-old SpecOps vet working with the Kurds.
The line they oversee straddles the ISIS corridor to Syria, and is a key supply route to reinforce Mosul with both men and equipment. Yet even as the long-awaited move to retake Mosul is underway, the western front has been largely unguarded by the coalition of Iraqi army, Kurdish forces, Shia militia and U.S. advisersworking together against ISIS.

“Conventional military wisdom says you encircle your enemy and defeat him," Shumock said. "For some reason, they’ve left the western side of Mosul all the way to Syria open, and, as the general told you, we see 500 vehicles moving every day, resupplying Mosul and Tal Afar. And there’s nothing we can do.”
Gee, I wonder why...


Obamacare: working as planned and screwing people so they'll plead for the .gov to do 'something more'.


Gangster government
Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel wished to step down until she met with President Barack Obama in early 2016, who persuaded her to stay on board through the November election in return for two favors, a senior federal government official has told The Daily Caller.

Ravel, a Democrat, told the senior government official about the arrangement in private and even showed the official pictures of her and Obama in The White House. The official told TheDC Ravel had wished to step down and move back to California before the Jan. 28 White House meeting. Obama told Ravel she could move back and do most of her work from California and that she would be supported in her effort to replace California Attorney General Kamala Harris as Attorney General if Harris were to win her Senate election.


Right now, Rolling Stone and Erdely are feeling like Gawker, and they deserve every bit of it.


And now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to blow my nose with about half a box of keenex.

More demonstration of what 'Higher' Education means nowadays

...One highlight of Dean Nair’s capitulation was this:

However, today’s activists and other students are growing up in a wonderfully diverse, polycultural global society that increasingly acknowledges and embraces our individual “multidimensionality” as complex beings with many identities.

And he then goes on to whine about how someone writing 'Trump 2016' in chalk so terrified and upset a bunch of snowflakes that Something Must Be Done.  And We Support Free Speech, except when someone whines that they're damaged by it, in which case it's hate speech and can't be allowed, etc.


And over at Yale,
Max Stern, the lawyer for the expelled Yale basketball captain Jack Montague, has spoken out, announcing that he will sue Yale on behalf of Montague in April, and clarifying some details in the case, including a very surprising one: that the aggrieved female did not file the sexual misconduct complaint.
...
The accuser waited around a year to speak to someone from Yale’s Title IX office, but decided not to file a complaint with Yale. But the Title IX officer filed a complaint.
In violation of their own rules, it seems.  Sue their ass off.


The NYeffingTimes either lies again, or they're actually stupid enough to believe this.
The AR-15, which is designed to inflict maximum casualties with rapid bursts, should never have been available for purchase by civilians.
Of course, expecting truth from these people... I think the phrase in the Soviet Union was "There is no truth in Pravda."


The other day there was a story about a Russian troop who, cut off and surrounded by a bunch of ISIS fighters, called in strikes on his own position; his name was Denis Tukhmanov.

Da-yum.

Go read.

A key bit: While awaiting orders to combat, Stein who was a toolmaker prior to the war and an innovative armorer took it upon themselves to create a weapon they believed better suited them.
That being

Corporal Dipprasad Pun is the kind of man

that caused this to be made:

I do wonder why the Corporal wasn't pinned with the Victoria Cross; damn sure sounds like he earned it.

Another piece of verse on Benghazi,

and those who fell, over at Smallest Minority:

We're the Battling Bastards of Benghazi,
no fame, no glory, no paparazzi.

Just a fiery death in a blazing hell,
defending the country we loved so well.

It wasn't our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate, 'n scaled th' wall.

We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety, 'n stood at th' gate.

Just two of us, 'n foe by th' score,
but we stood fast to bar th' door.

We called for reinforcement, but were denied,
so we fought, 'n we fought, 'n we fought, 'n we died.

We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
'n Obama didn't give a damn.

Just two dead SEALS, who carried the load,
no thanks to us, we were bumps in the road.

God damn

First-class fighting men.  Warriors.

Who were left sitting because some politicians didn't have the integrity or balls to give the support they needed.

People need to hang for this.