Fullbore Friday

Operation EAGLE CLAW: 30 years on.

The truth about Sestak

I am no apologist for Sen. Specter (D-PA) - but this ad is spot on.

Well - Sestak is having a hissy fit over the ad - and responding lamely.

In response to the ad, Mr. Sestak said in a phone interview on Tuesday, “I was given a tough job in the Navy,” and was assigned to challenge the establishment.

Take a number shipmate. Here are the facts.

As we covered here almost five years ago, the first day on the job you were fired by the Chief of Naval Operations (now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen) for being a tool and a retention issue.

A source within the Navy Department said there were no allegations of misconduct on the part of Sestak. Rather, he said, the move is being made because of poor command climate.

Being that Sestak won't talk about it more - he is using proxies.

Former Skippy-san Battle Buddy and CNO Clark (who I might add was a founding member of the Food Trough) has decided to throw a little love at Joe - I guess he wants some more paying gigs, ego strokes, and good will for his clients.

In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer this month, Admiral Clark defended the work of Mr. Sestak, who was described as his protégé: “He did what I asked him to do; I wanted straight talk, and this put him in the cross hairs,” Admiral Clark told the newspaper. “People are going to say what they want to say, but he challenged people who did not want to be challenged. The guy is courageous, a patriot’s patriot.”

That has nothing to do with the topic at hand Vern - pathetic - almost as pathetic as the Borg recruiting drive.

Sestak's campaign sought to rally veterans to defend him by recalling how the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth tried to discredit Democrat John Kerry's service in a Navy patrol vessel in Vietnam during Kerry's 2004 presidential race against George W. Bush.

About two dozen veterans gathered Wednesday in an American Legion Hall in Clifton Heights to rebuke Specter and demand that he stop running the ad.

"We're all here because we're enraged at the fact that someone, anyone in the United States today, would question someone with 31 years of service," said Robert E. Kelly, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who flew 119 combat missions in Vietnam.

"We ought to get our act together in this country and recognize that the people who are serving today, who served yesterday, and will serve tomorrow deserve our respect," Kelly said.
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"It's not as flagrant. It's more subtle," Tom Clay, 61, a Vietnam veteran and former Army helicopter door-gunner from Media, said about Specter's ad. "But it's there. A veteran should not attack another veteran's record."

Mike Hall, commander of the Clifton Heights post, agreed. "Vets don't go against other vets like that. It's a brotherhood."

Yes - let's validate every stereotype of the mindless, easily led, incapable of independent thought vet. Pardon me if I don't take a glass of your kool-aid - click the Sestak link to get the history from here.

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UPDATE: ....and yes, we can mark another Salamander Front Porch victory. After years where the only place that regularly discussed Sestak's false pimping of his "Retired former VADM" status - the mainstream media is not properly referring to him as a Retired RADM.

Now get back to work

...and the Salamander did grin,

The first of three Navy SEALs accused of mishandling a suspect in the high-profile killings of contractors in Iraq was found not guilty at a court-martial Thursday.

A military jury cleared U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas of all charges, a military spokesman said.

Huertas and two other Navy SEALs -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe -- have been facing charges in connection with the assault of Iraqi detainee Ahmed Hashim Abed.

U.S. authorities accuse Abed of being the mastermind in the slayings and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja in 2004, one of the Iraq war's most notorious crimes against Americans.
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Huertas and Keefe had been charged with dereliction of duty, based on the allegation that they failed to safeguard the detainee, according to the military. Huertas also was charged with impeding an investigation by attempting to influence the testimony of another sailor.

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UPDATE: Of note - if someone wants to throw poo - I wouldn't throw it towards the USN or SEAL leadership - review the charge sheet.

FDR; call your office

“You know this is a Protestant country,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded two non-Protestant members of his administration, “and the Catholics and the Jews are here on sufferance.”

Funny thing happened after a few decades - I guess;

All eight justices left on the bench once Stevens steps down ... (are) all Ivy League graduates – predominantly white and male – and none of them are Protestant.

I thought this was a good addition for DivThu.

We used to be a nation that defined diversity as diversity of thought and different religious backgrounds tend to give one different educational backgrounds and views of things - now notsomuch.

I don't think that the President will be looking at religion at all in replacing Stevens - that is the wrong kind of Diversity.

With Justice John Paul Steven just months away from retirement, the White House says President Obama is considering a more diverse pool of candidates, including whites, blacks and Hispanics -- men and women -- to tap for his replacement.

"I think he will have a broad group of people that represent many – that represent America as a way of looking at the nominee," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

Do you need a translator? Didn't think so.

Whodathunk such enlightened thought would come from the post-racial America Obama was to bring us. Kind of sad when the Supreme Court is getting as bad a the NFL.

Female snipes ...

Don't they know long hair in engineering spaces is a safety hazard?

....for more charity ideas from S.W.A.G.S. (Service Wives and Girlfriends) - click here.

...these charity calendar shots have helped raise £26,000 for injured servicemen and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A total of 50 volunteers, all wives and girlfriends of men from the three Armed Services, stripped off to be photographed at bases and training centres in Hampshire. But their modesty was preserved by carefully placed pieces of military equipment.

I don't know if it will work well in the US though.

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UPDATE: I ask one thing of everyone here before they judge your host or the ladies above. Follow the links at the end of the post in addition to the quote I took from it. Understand who these people ARE and what they are doing this FOR.

If you think this is all about T&A - then you are 180 deg out.

Diversity Thursday

Let us look into the future. Let us be, from the point of view of race relations - dare I say - progressive (with at small "p").

If you ignore the debunked racialist theories of 30-40 years ago - if you ignore the monetary interests of the Diversity Industry - if you ignore the foam-flecked hate that exudes from Diversity Bullies - if you look towards, let's say 2040, what do we see?

Well, we will see more of the America I see every day - the America I know and love.

The number of multiracial people in the United States rose 3.4 percent last year to about 5.2 million, according to some estimates, and is one of the fastest growing populations as a whole. Interracial marriages increased threefold since 2000, with about 1 in 13 marriages of mixed race. If this trend continues, the question of an individual's race will likely only get more and more difficult to define.

In many places and situations, it already is.

However, we live in a Navy that is retrograde in mindset, and sold to the lowest bidder.

Admiral Mullen in 2007,

And the issue of diversity is very, very important to me, not just in terms of this kind of conference, but it’s a strategic imperative for the Navy. The world we’re living in is becoming smaller; it is a diverse world in many, many ways, as is our country. And in the year 2030, 2040, 2050, the majority in our country now become the minority and it’s vital for us, as a Navy, to be representative of that country, particularly from the – of our country in terms of diversity in order to carry out our mission. So there’s an internal strategic imperative that the Navy be set to do this in the future and it starts at the base. It starts with young officers, in particular.

Last fall the CNO said,

Then I say, ‘I’d like to have all the officers step forward,’ they start to look an awful lot like me. Then I say, ‘I’d like all the senior enlisted leaders to step forward,’ they all look a lot a like, then I go to our civil servant leadership or our senior executives and ask them to step forward, it would look an awful lot like me. We don’t get the best solutions when everyone is the same. We get our best solutions, our best ideas; we get our best initiatives when you have diverse opinions in diverse positions and diverse experiences that inform those initiatives and those decisions. Also we as a nation, not unlike the demographics of the world and in 2040 the United States is not going to look like us. So now is the time that we build the Navy of the future.

Well - it isn't all about you; and the future of America is one where race matters less and less - not more and more.

I guess the theme is supported by at the top, the retrograde President.

Mr. Obama had several options, as does anyone filling out the census. Starting with the 2000 census, respondents have been no longer forced to choose a single-race identity; they can now check one box, several boxes, or check "some other race" and then write-in their identity. Mr. Obama is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. He was born in Hawaii and raised there and in Indonesia. He chose to simply check "African-American."

From the perspective of science and biological anthropology, race does not exist. In other words, there is not one gene, trait, or characteristic that distinguishes all members of one race from all members of another. In fact, eighty-five percent of all human variation can be found in any local population, and a full ninety-four percent can be found on any continent. In other words, there are no sub-species when it comes to humans; we are, in truth, one of the most genetically similar to each other species of all species on earth.

Supported by these types ...

The retrograde "comedian."


See where that attitude gets you? Ain't pretty - but that is how the Diversity Bullies wants you to think. You aren't a Sailor or American first - you are what you claim your DNA is - even if it isn't accurate.

Where there is darkness - there is also light. This is the America I know - from an unlikely source.



Yes, my people. Americans.

What a concept. Maybe those in the Navy who supports those who feed and promote retrograde, debunked, racialist theories should check it out instead of giving status to the Diversity Industry that is infested with racial identity politics and sectarian hate - the kind that judges people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

The 21st Century America is better than that - and so is the 21st Century Navy.

Below is another example of the America I know - the America that is to come. If you agree with his politics or not - he is a man of the 21st Century - not one of the 1970s.

I want you to listen close to the beginning. He is describing what those who subscribe to the midset of the Diversity Industry and Diversity Bullies have to say about him. The same mindset that the USN shamefully sends millions of dollars to.



I see the future - and it is fine with me. Maybe one day Big Navy will join us. Maybe - but for now it seems stuck in Room 222.

The downfall of Downfall ...

YouTube is teh stoopid.


Well, Downfall Annapolis is still up - when it gets killed I'll find another place for it.