…they will be allowed to stay there forever too?
Way to go to set a precedent. It will make a great lawsuit if that isn’t the case sometime in the future.
Archive for February, 2011
I presume that when Tea Party Protesters someday camp at the Capitol…
Posted: February 28, 2011 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: madison, wisconsin protests
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Posted: February 28, 2011 by datechguy in DaTechGuy on DaRadioTags: datechguy on daradio, jazz shaw, sissy willis
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“If anyone was a victim of “psy-ops” here, it was Michael Hastings.”
Posted: February 28, 2011 by datechguy in Afghanistan war, media, opinion/news, warTags: afghanistan, delusional left, media spin, morning joe, reality, rolling stone
When Morning Joe went long with Rolling Stone great Military expose four days ago I said this:
WOW that’s absolutely positively…ordinary
Today at Hotair Bruce McQuain tells why Rolling Stone gathered no moss.
Hastings apparently took the word of LTC Michael Holmes as the premise and theme of his article. In fact he sets it up with a quote from Holmes:
“My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave,” says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. “I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line.”
Except LTC Holmes job wasn’t “in psy-ops” (Psychological Operations) nor is LTC Holmes trained in PsyOps. That is a very specific Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) that requires school training. The place in which PsyOps is taught is the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, NC. According to Special Operations Command, the Special Warfare School has never heard of LTC Michael Holmes.
His conclusion?
In short Hastings was gulled by Holmes. If anyone was a victim of “psy-ops” here, it was Michael Hastings. His lack of knowledge about the command plus an apparent desire to put another general officer notch in his journalistic belt left him open to a sob story from a disgruntled officer that may have sounded good to him, but appears to have little or no basis in fact. A story from an officer who had already been reprimanded for making a false official statement.
Go and read the whole thing. Joe Scarborough? Better luck next time, will be interested in how you will report on this stories crash and burn. As for Rolling Stone…I suggest you stick to Bieber manina.
Ollie’s Barbaque and short memories
Posted: February 28, 2011 by datechguy in UncategorizedTags: ann althouse, history, mindstain, scott walker, wisconsin, wisconsin protests
Ann Althouse who has done the best reporting on Madison period (BTW how does she have time to do all of this. Doesn’t she teach law somewhere?) brings us a blast from the past.
Ollie’s Barbecue is a family owned restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, specializing in barbecued meats and homemade pies, with a seating capacity of 220 customers… The restaurant caters to a family and white-collar trade with a take-out service for Negroes….
What really amazed me concerning the Walker Restaurant story wasn’t so much the veracity of the story or the reaction of the restaurant. It was the unmitigated glee of democrats once again cheering the exclusion of people they don’t like from public accommodation.
Yes I said once again. Remember those Jim Crow laws were DEMOCRATIC laws supported by democratic legislatures and Democratic governors. Ann continues:
And who thinks about tomorrow? The state capitol is occupied right now and plastered with thousands of signs this week, and isn’t that just great? You haven’t give a moment’s thought — have you? — to what free speech rights will apply to the next group that wants to appropriate the state capitol? Are you planning on advocating viewpoint discrimination to keep the signs you find loathsome off the walls?
Back at Mindstain the person who broke this story regrets the notoriety that has come with speaking in the open square but most instructive is her critique of Gov Walker:
I feel that Governor Walker is crossing that threshold from despicable action to despicable person. Why do I say this? Because he refuses to listen. He refuses to back down, and therefore propagates the refusal to back down on the left. There’s no reasoning with a person who considers their own stance “THE ONLY” stance. To have someone like this in office is terrifying.
Take a close look at this. She equates refusing to back down with refusing to listen and because he doesn’t back down it forces the union not to back down.
Forget that there was an election, forget that republicans won both houses and the governorship, forget that the positions are all well-known and the governor knows the left’s position. He is despicable because he will not give in. He id despicable because he refuses to abandon those who elected him for a reason. What does that remind you of?
Read the whole thing, it is instructive.
I’ll give the last word to Ann:
The whole point of principles is that you’re supposed to follow them all the time — especially when you would find it most satisfying to violate them…
What children!
That’s pretty much it.
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