I think a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of rank to E1 is pretty severe without getting into prison. Bergdahl, in order to have any chance of a decent income, will be forced to do it illegally, or he could become a Democratic politician. Their bench is pretty bare at the moment, so a young traitor/deserter on the roster may be just the thing to get the votes coming in.
One more thing: if you see the film, note what the character came up with for a suppressor.
By the way, "Brother" is highly recommended, and well acted by a young Russian actor who died a few years later.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I’ve noticed "early" celebrations for the end of the era of Sahwa, i.e.awakening, in Arab Moslem countries and particularly in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . Sahwa is a Saudi term that refers to all political Islam movements whose major umbrella is of course the Moslem Brüderbund.
The feeling that the chapter of "Sahwa" has ended once and for all has been growing ever since the Saudi crown prince, the leader of the new national vision, made his famous promise to destroy gunnies "now and immediately."
The sense that "Sahwa" has come to an end is also due to the decrease of that media popularity and semi-social immunity which Sahwa’s stars enjoyed.
Some of these Sahwa "celebrities" are Salman al-Ouda and Awad al-Qarni in Saudi Arabia, Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna outside the Saudi kingdom, Kuwaiti activists such as Ahmad al-Qattan, Mohammed al-Awdi and Tareq al-Suwaidan and those affiliated with him. These stars’ media popularity has actually been decreasing over the past few years.
Memories and memoirs
What I conclude from all this is that Sahwa, its stars, principles, concepts and causes, have died. They have been buried and all that is left of them are memories and memoirs which only a specific category of researches are interested in.
Let’s remember the domination which Sahwa preachers, whether from the Brotherhood or the Sururist Movement, and their supporters from the public, imposed. By the way, the term "public" here applies to some graduates from American and French universities as it is rather used to describe a state of mind rather than a social one.
Mentioning Sahwa preachers - whether Saudior non-Saudi - in newspapers was very difficult particularly in the 1980’s and during a part of the 1990’s.
The Brotherhood’s works were celebrated at some point. For example, the books of Zainab al-Ghazali and Ahmad Raef about the Brotherhood’s tragic battles with Abdelnasser, occupied front shelves in libraries. Mohammed Qutb’s books were part of school libraries and curricula. Sayyid Qutb was distinguished to the point that a school was named after him in Qassim.
Betrayal
The Brotherhood lost part of this appreciation when they betrayed Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein occupied Kuwait. The former crown prince and later interior minister Nayef bin Abdulaziz bitterly spoke about the Brotherhood’s betrayal and began to gradually eliminate the group’s concepts from the society.
The situation became even clearer due to the Brotherhood’s practices during the Arab Spring. It turned out there’s no difference between a Brotherhood member who is holding a weapon and a Brotherhood member who wears a tie. They’re all the same.
What’s worrying now is relying on this "temporary" Sahwist Brotherhood defeat and not constantly and comprehensively working to clear minds and spirits that are interacting with these fundamentalists’ legacy.
We’re at the beginning of the task. Yes, we should be hopeful but it’s not time to celebrate yet.
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The Saudis are looking to reposition themselves as the face of moderate Islam. Not a bad plan IF they can execute.
[Townhall] So you’d really hope the American taxpayer was getting an honest return on their "investment" and CIA officials were really "putting on their thinking caps" and really "burning the midnight oil" attempting to bump-off a mass-murdering Soviet satrap and terrorist who set up shop 90 miles from our shores during the height of the Cold War.
HAH! Hope again. "So far as I have been able to determine," revealed E. Howard Hunt who, during the early 1960s, served as head of the political division of the CIA’s "Cuba Project," "no COHERENT plan was ever developed within the CIA to assassinate Castro, though it was the heart’s desire of many exile groups."
#1
"No coherent plan was ever developed within the CIA." I recall Director of National Intelligence Clapper saying when asked about unmasking: "no," or at least "not wittingly." Three-letter agencies tend to parse and weigh words.
Does the Bay of Pigs count as a plot? Years ago (circa 1959-60), I recall that a private company with interests in Cuba was offering $1 mil for a hit on Castro, at least that was the rumor.
BLUF:
[Right Scoop] This is in a serious way something we’ve talked about before, for the Democrats to get well, for them to get better, they have to dump the Clintons once and for all. They finally have to say that Clintonism is over.
That Donna Brazile would feel emboldened enough to smoke Hillary Clinton, just absolutely lay it out and blow it out...wrecked the party, that a party stalwart like Brazile would feel confident enough that she can call out Hillary Clinton to this degree, that tells me something big, which is that Hillary Clinton ain’t coming back no more!
#1
...Don't be so sure. The Clintons are where they are in large part due to them knowing Where The Bodies Are Buried(TM). If they aren't going to get their way...well, Bill may just say the hell with it and stay home, but I can't see Hillary going down without taking a bunch of people with her.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
11/04/2017 5:19 Comments ||
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The Clintons are where they are in large part due to them knowing Where The Bodies Are Buried(TM).
Maybe the Obumba folks knew a thing or two about what the Clintons had done and weren't afraid to let them slip out. Perhaps HillBill didn't have enough on Obean to keep him compliant. Maybe it was 'tit for tat'.
The 'O Team' were from Chicago where serious coercion is a way of life. They most likely weren't as susceptible or fearful as Hill's previous victims.
The payback for acquiescence was to give her a position that she could profit from bigly.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/04/2017 7:15 Comments ||
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#4
Right up there with Freddy Krueger. You forget, Hollyweird loves sequels.
#5
"but I can't see Hillary going down without taking a bunch of people with her" Works for me. I mean, who are we talkin' about here?
Popcorn, anyone?
Posted by: ed in texas ||
11/04/2017 10:17 Comments ||
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#2 The Clintons are where they are in large part due to them knowing Where The Bodies Are Buried(TM).
So, how come Hillary lost to Obumba in 2008?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-04 06:23
G(r)om,
Good question - my understanding is that Hillary (much like she'd do in '16) went into the race believing that she was the natural and inevitable choice of the Democratic Party. She didn't go after Obama because the guy literally came out of nowhere, and by the time she realized how dangerous he was it was far too late, not to mention that even she quailed a little at the idea of going after a black guy with everything she had. Another way to look at it is this - she was ready to whack (figuratively, not literally) anybody else except Obama, because he wasn't even on the radar. YMMV, of course.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
11/04/2017 10:19 Comments ||
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...black with a hint of Islam, enough to put him above her on the victimhood ladder, given she already had done time in the White House.
#9
Because she has the personality of an injured possum.
So a young black man with the ivy accent and both a foreign and Midwestern background who claims both Hawaii and Chicago as home shows up, it is no wonder the boosters turned their pants into Pollock paintings. Also, Obama was made by the Chicago machine, much easier to control or negotiate with than The Red Queen, who would solely concentrate on her own nest. And try to babysit Bill for another 8 years?
So she couldn't let that happen again, hence the rigging. And it still happened, this time to an rich old white male with a thick regional non-lawyer accent. As a machine cog, Sanders could have talked about how much he loved his morning oatmeal and the communist and socialist camps would have sold the speech, knowing if he got into office he would be much easier to work with.
Then there is Chelsea, who everyone knows has the personality of spoiled horseradish jello. Imagine having to work for her during many of her plum jobs, working your way up the PBS ladder only to be assigned to work for Chelsea who just got your job at quadruple what you would have been paid. Had to be some feathers ruffled.
Donna Brazile is a cheat, and is now also a shitbird and a coward, but is confirming what everyone already knew. She also confirms motive behind the leaks being an inside job. My question is why the carronade at close range?
[Breitbart] On his "The Savage Nation," radio show, host Michael Savage discussed his new book, "God, Faith, And Reason," in which he discovered "the search to find God is the finding itself."
Savage said, "The search to find God is the finding itself. The reason that in my faith God is invisible, I figured out, is because if we saw him ‐ if we actually saw God, we would do what we do with an old movie. We would go on to the next image we are looking for, and so God was so smart he knew that man would dismiss him if he could be seen."
He continued, "In other words if God had manifested himself and we could see him on a daily basis we would grow tired of him like yesterday’s newspaper. We would dismiss God like a movie we saw. ’Yeah, yeah, I saw that movie. It was pretty good, but what’s coming up this Saturday?’ we would say. But now because we can’t see him, and we never have seen him directly, that is, we keep looking for him and that’s how he set it up."
[Townhall] Since the Harvey Weinstein case broke into the news, we’ve been deluged with stories about women who were sexually harassed, raped or molested in Hollywood and elsewhere.
This is not a bad thing. Let me repeat that: this is not a bad thing.
Exposing abuse to sunlight is the best way to stop it. Moreover, if we didn’t have a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, I’d be okay with rapists being impaled on a sharp stick. Using a position of power to pressure a woman into sex or more creepily, into watching you do vile things to a potted plant is gross and criminal.
That being said, a lot of men are leery of the glut of accusations going on right now. This is something a lot of men think, but don’t want to say because they’re afraid they’ll catch flak over it. However, if you are a man, there are things that catch your attention about this wave of sexual harassment complaints that the opposite gender may not initially think about...
1. We keep defining sexual harassment down:
2. Sexual harassment is often dependent on the feelings the woman involved has about the man doing it:
3. Men have to be the pursuers:
4. Many women do lie about rape and sexual harassment:
5. The latest round of complaints about sexual harassment are shot through with man-hating:
#6
You need the kind of evidence that will stand up in court, not just some bimbo saying the guy grabbed her butt.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
11/04/2017 11:39 Comments ||
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Thing about 6, g(r)om, is that they're in a 'target rich environment'. When matters thin out, they start looking for other things to shoot.
(a) We'll have to start shooting back sooner or later anyway.
(b) And who knows, maybe some of these feminist males will get what feminism is all about nowadays.
[Breitbart] Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter made waves this week, becoming the first major sponsor of the NFL to publicly blast Commissioner Goodell for his handling of NFL player protests.
Given Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones’ close business relationship with Papa John’s, past statements against anthem protests, in addition to his criticisms of Roger Goodell’s leadership, many began speculating that Schnatter had criticized Goodell at Jones’ behest.
On Friday, during an appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Jones was asked about his relationship with John Schnatter. Jones heaped praise on the Papa John’s CEO, and his strong statement against Goodell:
"The facts are that I’ve spent my life, the last 28 to 30 years of my life, being knee-deep and immersed in anything and everything I can do for the Cowboys and through that the NFL. On the other hand, I am a joint owner of the businesses of 120 Papa John’s stores here in Texas. And John Schnatter is one of the great Americans. He’s the story of America. He started off in his dad’s bar just doing a pizza with a little oven or microwave, and he’s built that thing into one of the greatest businesses. Papa John’s was named by all of the people that look at the NFL, Papa John’s was named as the product most associated with the NFL and it was named that a year ago by a survey of all of our viewers. So he is quite an American story."
These words will do nothing to calm the speculation that Jones and Schnatter are in cahoots. These words are also entirely true and accurate. Though, it really shouldn’t matter to anyone that Schnatter and Jones are conspiring together against Goodell.
Roger Goodell is the worst commissioner in modern history. Short of the devil, there’s no alliance anyone should consider too unholy if the end result rids us of a commissioner who has presided over the ruining of the game, and the delivering of the league into the hands of leftist activists. If Jones and Schnatter can restore any kind of sanity to a league that has clearly lost it, go for it.
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What was Jones supposed to say? "He's one of our biggest advertisers, and a total dip"?
Jerry Jones is currently between a rock and a hard place, and he put that rock there and helped build the hard place.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
11/04/2017 10:29 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Chris Covert
[Townhall] So you’d really hope the American taxpayer was getting an honest return on their "investment" and CIA officials were really "putting on their thinking caps" and really "burning the midnight oil" attempting to bump-off a mass-murdering Soviet satrap and terrorist who set up shop 90 miles from our shores during the height of the Cold War.
[Breitbart] On his "The Savage Nation," radio show, host Michael Savage discussed his new book, "God, Faith, And Reason," in which he discovered "the search to find God is the finding itself."
[Breitbart] Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter made waves this week, becoming the first major sponsor of the NFL to publicly blast Commissioner Goodell for his handling of NFL player protests. 
