Biden sticks it to Trump: Hillary Clinton, Soros, and others to receive highest US civilian honor

Former Secretary of State and former Democratic Senator of New York, and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, along with far-left Democrat donor George Soros will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony. This is the nation's highest civilian award and that, along with seven plus dollars, will get you a dozen eggs. Also receiving the highest civilian award is actor-director Denzel Washington.

PINO Joe Biden will be handing out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous folks in politics, entertainment, sports, civil rights, the Alphabet People advocacy, and science [i.e., those who don't know what a woman is].

The White House said the recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security [mostly to themselves] of the United States, world peace [LOL], or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”

Four medals are to be awarded posthumously. They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act; former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; George W. Romney, who served as both a Michigan governor and secretary of housing and urban development; and Ash Carter, the former secretary of defense.

Kennedy is father to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for health and human services secretary. Romney is the father of former Utah RINO Sen. Mitt Romney, one of Trump’s strongest conservative critics.

It's unclear what accomplishments Hillary Clinton has attained to receive the award, but that doesn't seem to matter to Biden, who mostly cares about ice cream, the beach, and hair.

One major philanthropist, Bono, is also receiving the award for his U2 rock band and his social justice activism, in spite of his tax avoidance by moving the band's business to the Netherlands at a time when Ireland was in a financial crisis. 

However, let us not forget that Bono co-founded ONE Campaign, to fight poverty and preventable diseases in Africa, although the organization's financial practices show in reports that only a fraction of funds received are actually distributed to charity, while the rest goes to administrative costs and salaries.

Aside from that and other controversies, Bono's preachy style and 'better-than-thou' attitude sits well with a political party that does the same.

And don't get me started on Hillary and Soros.

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SecDef Carter suspends Pentagon's demand of bonuses to soldiers

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is going to allow the thousands of soldiers who were given bonuses to re-enlist ten years ago to keep the money the Pentagon wanted back. The public outrage was just too much to allow the government to pull a "fast one" on our troops in the California Army National Guard.

About 2,000 soldiers were told they had to repay the cash bonuses that amounted to around $10,000 and in some cases up to $15,000.

This call by the Pentagon is perhaps the dumbest decision they ever made.

Soldiers generally live paycheck to paycheck. Imagine being told that if you re-enlisted, the Army will pay you $10,000, then ten years later, after you put it all on the line for your country, the government tells you that they want the money back with interest!

Seriously.

Carter didn't mention any timeframe for the suspension, but said it would remain in place until he was "satisfied that our process is working effectively."

An investigation in 2010 found thousands of bonuses and student loan payments were improperly given out to California Guard soldiers. About 9,700 current and retired soldiers were notified they had to repay some or all of their bonus money and so far, $22 million has been recovered.

Most soldiers felt betrayed by their Uncle Sam.

"These bonuses were used to keep people in," Chris Van Meter, a 42-year-old former Army captain said. Van Meter served in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart. "People like me just got screwed."

Van Meter refinanced his home mortgage to repay $25,000 in re-enlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments that the military said was improperly given to him.

The California Guard said their hands were tied--they had to follow the law and collect the money. "At the end of the day," began Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, a fan of cliche, "the soldiers ended up paying the largest price. We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts. We just can't do it. We'd be breaking the law."

And let's face it, nobody in government would ever break the law . . . unless their name rhymes with 'schminton.'



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Ash Carter tiptoes around China

Defense Secretary Ash Carter spoke at an international security conference in Singapore Saturday and said that China's military behavior in the South China Sea could lead to a "great wall of self-isolation," and perhaps a strong letter from Secretary of State John Kerry.

"There is growing anxiety in this region, and in this room, about China's activities on the seas, in cyberspace, and in the region's airspace," Carter said. "Indeed, in the South China Sea, China has taken some expansive and unprecedented actions, that have generated concerns about China's strategic intentions."

Carter also dismounted from his unicorn, named Barry, and called a future U.N. arbitration ruling on the Philippines challenge to China's claims in the contested region "an opportunity for China and the rest of the region to recommit to a principled future to renewed diplomacy, and lowering tensions, rather than raising them."

The SecDef defended the need to exercise its rights to fly and sail small military aircraft and ships near the coasts of other countries, including China's.

"What we stand for is the principle of rule of law and abiding by international law in the commons," Carter said. "It's not a focus on China," he lied, "it's a focus on principle."

Then he got back on his untrustworthy mount and rode off into the sunset.


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Carter warns Russia . . . sort of

Secretary of Defense Ash "Don't Call Me Jimmy" Carter is welcoming in Gen. Curtis Sacparrotti, the new U.S. military boss for Europe. This was the perfect opportunity for him to send a tough bunch of words to Moscow about not messing with the NATO alliance. Words, much like we have seen by the administration in the past. 

And we all know how that's working out.

Carter spoke in Stuttgart saying "We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake--we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us," he told the U.S. military's European Command.

Carter said that he does not want a Cold War nor a "hot" war. However, Carter said that Russia wants to 'erode' the peaceful order the West has had since the end of the Cold War.

Carter warned that the commie borscht-eaters are stepping up their submarine patrols to the North Atlantic, but feared to mention Russian jets showing off to us with their "barrel rolls over our military aircraft over the past several weeks. However, he did find the testicular fortitude to say that Russia's leaders are"nuclear saber-rattling" and that puts the world at risk.

The weak-kneed Obama administration's resolve to go up against Russia is debatable. In fact, back in 2012 Obama said on an open mike assuring then President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more "flexibility" on the issue of missile defense after the election, showing the world that Obama is really our 'Manchurian Candidate."

There are over 60,000 U.S. troops stationed in Europe; during the Cold War there were over 200,000, mostly in Germany where Elvis was spotted.

Carter claimed that "Russia's aggressive actions only serve to further its isolation, and unite our alliance."

Russia, of course, sees it differently. They believe the U.S. violated a 1997 treaty saying that NATO cannot amass forces along the Border with Russia, but the treaty doesn't say what an agreeable number of forces would be.

Carter told the media that the U.S. is considering adding more personnel in Eastern Europe but is going to consult first with NATO officials before final decisions are made. He believes up to four battalions (about 4,000) soldiers could be added.

While Carter talked like Rocky Balboa, he ended the conversation sounding like Richard Simmons, saying that he's willing to work together in the future. 'We'll keep the door open for Russia. But it's up to the Kremlin to decide."

Elvis has left the building.






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Obama throws another loose-wristed slap at ISIS

Lame duck president Barack Obama announced he has approved the deployment of an additional 250 varsity players to Syria to help in the fight against the ISIS "JV team."

He spoke in Hannover, Germany, standing alongside Germany's "Refugee Queen," Angela Merkel, as he ended a week-long trip that started in Saudi Arabia, where nobody of any great consequence bothered to meet him at his arrival. He next went to Great Britain, where he met his greatest fan (after the Muslim Brotherhood) David Cameron. 

The trip focused on ISIS where Obama bragged about the recent butt-kickings against the rag-tag jihadists, and claimed the added troops would help "to keep up this momentum." 

The added 250 troops will bring the total to about 300, which apparently will be able to overwhelm the 30,000 to 80,000 JV fighters . . . if they're using sticks and stones as weapons.

"They're not going to be leading the fight on the ground, but they will be essential in providing the training and assisting local forces," our so-called commander in chief said.

Last week Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that over 200 troops would soon be heading to Iraq to assist local fighters battle ISIS who control several areas there.

This strategy is typical of Obama's backseat driving, or "leading from behind." It's an oxymoron.

Senior officials have been bragging about how well we're doing in Syria, but they forgot to tell that to ISIS, as the terror group continues to gain loyal scumcrumpets.

Obama urged the U.S.-led coalition to step up their game and he will step up his golf game.

"Europe and NATO can still do more," Obama opined. "We need to do everything in our power to stop them."

Sounds like his tune has changed, but his weak strategy definitely hasn't

The next thing may be the call for jihadist jobs by the State Department.

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Ash Carter's tough words to Iran

The Obama administration will go down in history as being the toughest, most vocabulary-strong nation in North America. We don't need to confront our enemies on a battlefield, we can do it with words in the media. That's sure to bring the fear of Allah into the hearts of Iran and other foe.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter defined Iran's treatment of American sailors they detained this past January as "outrageous." He even said that the treatment is "inconsistent with international law," and boy, they're in big trouble now that the Senate Armed Services Committee heard those powerful words on Wednesday.

Carter thinks the nuclear deal with Iran will actually get them to not develop nuclear weapons. But he had to acknowledge that "our concerns with Iran persist."

Gee, ya think?

Carter sent this barrage of words out against Iran:
"I want to say some words about Iran's treatment of our sailors on Farsi Island back in January. As I made clear then Iran's actions were outrageous, unprofessional and inconsistent with international law and nothing we've learned about the circumstances of this incident since then changes that fact. It's because of Iran's recklessness and destabilizing behavior in that part of the world that DOD remains full speed ahead in our investments, our planning, and our posture to ensure that we deter Iran's aggression, deter its malign influence and uphold our ironclad commitments to our regional friends and allies, especially Israel, to whom we maintain an unwavering, and unbreakable commitment."

In spite of Iran's anticipation of these strong and harsh words, an Iranian general bragged how the Islamic Republic had over 13,000 pages of intelligence from the computers of the sailors, the GPS devices, and maps. They also made videos of the sailors and claimed that one of them cried on camera while they kneeled at gunpoint.


Had Iran known how harsh our Secretary of Defense's words were going to be, they would have thought twice about capturing our sailors and humiliating them for all the world to see.

Then they would have gone ahead and did exactly what they did. They know how Obama's words are as weak as his three-point shot. 

All hat, no cattle.



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Obama Gitmo and the end game

He promised to be the most transparent president in our nation's history. He told us if we liked our doctors, we can keep our doctors; period. 

He said that we are not at war with Islam and that Islam is a religion of peace. He even told us Islamic State isn't Islamic and it isn't a state. He told us he would lead the war against Islamic State with "strategic patience." 

Then he claimed that the real threat to our country isn't terrorism, it's climate change. In fact, he blamed terrorism on climate  change.

Does president Obama know what the hell he's talking about? Is he stupid or does he have some devious master plan to take America down the road to perdition? I don't believe that, but who knows?

The one promise he made to his liberal base was that he'd close Guantanamo Bay Detention facility in Cuba. The base of lefties loved the idea because it sounded, well, so idealistic, cool and humane. Heck, the guy won a Nobel Peace Prize just three months after he was sworn in and hadn't done one damn peaceful thing then and created anything but peace since.

So he wants to empty Gitmo and a congressional aide confirmed to FoxNews.com that the Pentagon is pushing the idea of possibly transferring another 17 Islamic jihadist terrorists (an oxymoron if ever there was one) but still had concerns that while the strategy to give Obama's legacy some juice by reducing the camp's population to "as low as they can get," it involves "a good deal of risk."

But the substantial risk isn't going to be to the congressional aide, FoxNews.com or even Obama--it will be to the American public. If these terrorists are put into the regular prison system, I strongly believe they will convert as many inmates that aren't Muslim to the religion of peace and create a spate of Jihad Joes.

Kid not in Gitmo

Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress that he has approved the 17 proposed transfers, but knowing what we now know about Carter's use of his private email account for Defense Department emails, it's clear that his judgment is no better than his boss's. 

Especially since he continued using his private email account 2 months after Hillary Clinton used a private server for hers as secretary of state and hopefully threw a spanner in the works of her campaign.


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An administration of idiots

Are we being led by an administration of idiots? Amateurs? Do they care about our national security or are they so clueless that they don't even realize how dangerous their blase attitudes are about how they secure their government emails?

Defense Secretary Ash Carter did a "Hillary Clinton" during the first thrree months as SecDef this year. That is, he used his personal email account for his "professional" correspondence (scare quotes for me indicate my skepticism), the Pentagon admitted on Wednesday.

The New York Times first reported this story saying that Carter had been confronted about his email habits by Denis McDonough, the White House Chief of Staff, three months after he took office as defense secretary (aka "Government Secrets Disseminater to Russia, China, ISIS and Fox News"). 

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook released a statement saying that Carter believes his use of personal email for work-related business was a mistake, but did not mention whether it was a violation of Pentagon email policies.

If it was not a violation of Pentagon email policies, that would mean the Pentagon email policies were either written by a) one of our enemy countries or entities; b) Hillary Clinton; or c) an Alzheimer patient.

Cook said Carter stopped using his personal email, but he didn't say when. That is very reassuring to us.

Carter admitted that he occasionally used his personal iPhone to send messages to his staff, but added that no classified information was in those messages [or at least marked classified].

The Times reported that our SecDef was assigned a government email account when he first became Obama's SecDef "yes man" in February, but he didn't think he needed to use a secure account when a personal account could almost do the same job. Even his own staff thought he would or could be hacked.

In 2012 Pentagon policy barred all employees, not just the upper echelon, from conducting government business on their personal email, and even President Obama barred federal employees from sending or receiving emails from personal accounts unless the messages were either copied or forwarded into government accounts within 20 days. Did Carter follow that directive? 

You make the call.

Even while Hillary was under FBI investigation about her alleged mishandling of classified information, using a private account for all her emails as secretary of state, evidently Carter didn't think it also pertained to him. He continued this practice no less than two months after the "Scandal Queen's" practices were made public.

The Times reported that the emails it received under FOIA were between Carter and Eric Fanning, his then chief of staff and now acting secretary of the Army.

Personally, I don't care a fig what the emails said or who the emails involved, the fact that our secretary of defense, like our incompetent secretary of state, cannot follow a simple procedure is an indication of an administration that is out of control with its arrogance and belief that the law and common sense don't apply to them.

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Obama's yadda-yadda speech

In a thankfully short political speech by president Obama at the Pentagon on Monday, our "leader from behind" lectured the American public about how great he is doing against ISIL, and basically explained that we are going to keep on keeping on.

The only new thing to come out of the speech is that Defense Secretary Ash Carter is heading to the Middle East to do something yet unclear.

Mr. Obama (I call him Mr. because he sees himself as a man) hit on the same talking points, saying that we will continue to hunt down ISIL, train others to hunt down ISIL, and hurt them in their pockets by choking them off financially.

Tell that to the Assad regime who buys their oil and whose truck drivers you dropped warning notices to before we bombed them. Great strategy for a community organizer who wants their vote, but I doubt that will stop the flow of ISIS oil to Assad's people.

The speech never addressed the current fears the American public has on the terrorist threat that is now quite obvious after San Bernadino and Paris. 

Obama is tone deaf to the public and doesn't care about our opinions.

Obama claimed about the terror group that "As we squeeze its heart, we'll make it harder for ISIL to pump out its terror and propaganda." That sounds good, but what does it mean beyond that?

He said the "mission to destroy" so far includes 9,000 airstrikes since the bombing began in September 2014. In the spirit of Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, "Over one year of fighting and only 9,000 airstrikes, that's pussy leadership ."

If Obama thinks that he has in any way eased the fears Americans have about ISIS, he's sadly mistaken. The only fears he has eased is our fear that we've been wrong about him being a gutless apologist and sympathizer for Islam.


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U.S. Navy's secret plan against China

In a move designed to scare the ku zi and chen ku off the Chinese, the U.S. Navy is secretly planning to send a ship as close as 12 nautical miles to the disputed islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. official told Fox News. The official asked the network to keep their lips sealed about this mission because "Loose lips sink ships," they reminded Fox.

The purpose of this secret mission is to challenge Beijing's territorial claims. "They can't just built crap in the middle of the ocean and call it freaking China," Donald Trump may have secretly said in reaction to the boldness with which China plans to expand its borders.

According to top secret information reported by Reuters,  the Navy is planning to move on the Spratty Islands, an archipelago that China has the nerve to lay claim to by building airstrips and other features on top of reefs.

It is quite likely that a surveillance aircraft will join the Navy destroyer USS Lassen  in an American show of testicular fortitude, says Reuters.

When asked for comment at Monday's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Notvery Earnest would not confirm nor deny any such operation was planned and he covertly put his index finger to his lips and made a shushing sound to indicate that no further questions on this subject will be taken.

Earnest did say, however, that ensuring freedom of navigation is critically important to a global economy and that this is the principle at stake in the secret mission. "Shush," he added.

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford Jr. will travel to Asia on Friday. So-called president Obama was set to meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday as that country, along with others, are worried about China's expansive maritime balderdash.

The dispute with the strategic waterways situation has intensified last year, as China is clearly upsetting it smaller and militarily weaker neighbors who all lay claim to territory in the Spratly and Paracel islands, one of the busiest shipping routes, rich in fish, oil, fish oil, and potential gas.

You may recall our so-called commander in chief met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month at the White House. He was greeted by Mr. Obama and about eleven members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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The Foxes Guarding the Lions

It has to be embarrassing to be in the military and not be allowed to have a weapon at your disposal when working here at home. After all, every military person gets formal weapons training--the Marine Corps is trained in virtually all hand-held weapons--but is not allowed to use that training to prevent him or her from being a sitting Halal duck.

Why are they exempt from their Second Amendment rights?

Now the public has taken the bull crap by the horns after the Islamic terror attack in Chattanooga, TN, and are using their Second Amendment rights to guard those who guard the USA. 

But the Pentagon is asking individuals who have taken this problem to heart, to not stand guard at military recruiting offices. 

I guess our military gets paid to be sitting Halal ducks.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook explained in a statement that Defense Secretary Ash Carter "is currently reviewing recommendations from the services for making our installations and facilities sager--including our recruiting stations." This came after the July 16 attack by a Muslim jihadist named Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez that killed four Marines and one Navy sailor.

Cook added: "While we greatly appreciate the outpouring of support for our recruiters from the American pubic, we ask that individuals not stand guard at recruiting offices as it could adversely impact our mission, and potentially create unintended security risks."

I see the increase in "security risk" to be most notable for the scumcrumpets who try to kill our military. Terrorists will think twice, if they think at all.

I wonder what the recommendations are going to be from the services. Maybe Obama will use his pen to decree that all male military recruiters wear thobes and women recruiters wear jilbabs. 

Wearing their religious clothing ought to deflate their ire.

Maybe our so-called president will have recruiting stations post signs that read: "The Marine Corps is looking for a few good Muslims."

Islamic jihadists interpret the term "good Muslims" as those who follow the scripture, so that would make them, from our way of viewing it, bad Muslims because they are commanded to kill all infidels who refuse to convert to Islam and do not follow that order, whether from ignorance of scripture or refusal to kill indiscriminately. 

But let me be absolutely clear: I do not in any way "hate" Muslims. 

It is Islam that poses the problem and those Muslims who follow the Medina Koran are the problem, not Muslims in general. Most Muslims follow the Mecca-inspired Koran, which was written at a time when Muhammad was weak militarily. But by the time he got to Medina, he had over 10 thousand warriors and suddenly the Koran became less tolerant of infidels.

I don't hate Muslims--I am married to an ex-Muslim, or "apostate." Being an apostate calls for a death sentence in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia, to name just two.

Religion of tolerance? Peace?

Thank God for the peaceful Muslims.



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No Guts, No Freedom

Obama's strategy to train Iraqi forces and provide them with weapons is as brilliant as his plan to fund companies like Solyndra and provide them with taxpayer money. Both are out of business.

According to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Iraqi forces were not outgunned or out manned in Ramadi, they simply displayed "no will to fight." So my guess is that Obama will throw more taxpayer dollars at the problem, as if that will change anything.

Carter spoke on CNN's "State of the Union" about last week's battle stating that the Iraqi forces far outnumbered the ISIS scumcrumpets. "What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me," Carter said, "and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves."

What it says to me is that Obama never seems to make the right decisions.

Hakim al-Zamili, head of Iraq's parliamentary defense and security committee, responded to Carter's claims stating the U.S. military commanders failed to support the Iraqis and are pointing fingers of blame on them. According to al-Zamili, Carter's claims are "unrealistic and baseless," and U.S. military is simply trying to "throw the blame on somebody else."

Personally, I blame the mothers and fathers of the Iraqi fighters who have failed to provide their offspring with a sense of patriotism and civic duty.

I also blame the lack of testicular fortitude of the "fighters" themselves--the Brownies have more courage than those dudes.

Ramadi is less than a quarter of a tank of gas from Baghdad, about 70 miles, and is a strategic win for ISIS in more ways than one. It's a recruiting tool for young and impressionable psychopaths and controls much of the western part of Iraq.

Ramadi has fueled questions about Obama's approach in Iraq: retraining the Iraqi so-called army while rebuilding it, and pushing Baghdad to make nice to Iraq's Sunnis and bombing the Islamic State targets without using American forces.

"No denying it is a setback," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. (Eric is not related to Ed Schultz, but if he were, he would have said Obama is doing a great job and the GOP can go to hell.)

While Carter defended his paycheck by saying the airstrikes are an effective strategy against ISIL, he admitted that they cannot be a replacement for Iraqi forces willing to defend their country. 

Carter also said that there are no military plans to send U.S. troops into the fight as target spotters, which means that the Obama administration is okay with having the appearance of fighting ISIL by blowing up empty buildings and riderless camels but he obviously doesn't see the Islamic State as a threat.

Perhaps he sees them as a future ally once Israel is out of the picture.

The Islamic State inherited about 6 tanks, 6 artillery pieces, dozens of armored personnel carriers and about 100 Humvees. IS considers this booty just like their prophet did--they were also hoping for sex slaves.




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