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The Punisher Gun Truck

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VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

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President Obama's claim that the Department of Veterans Affairs is "turning the tide" on backlogged disability claims is premature because the costly push to bring the numbers down is unsustainable and could doom those seeking benefits to years-long waits in appeals, according to veterans' advocates.

Drops in both the number and percentage of disability claims considered backlogged because they are more than 125 days old are real. But they have come at a high price in mandatory overtime and accuracy, representatives of veterans groups say.

There also are worries that the VA is using statistical or administrative tricks to bring down the numbers by changing what is counted and shifting staff from other critical areas such as appeals.

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Incredible moment man has his 132lbs scrotum removed after kind-hearted surgeon agreed to carry out the procedure for free

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Wesley Warren Jr. suffered from rare medical condition scrotal lymphedema

It caused his scrotum swell to gigantic proportions in just two years

Said his one-inch penis left him with no chance of finding loveThis is the moment a man is finally liberated of his crippling 132lbs scrotum, thanks to a kind-hearted doctor who agreed to carry out the surgery for free.

Wesley Warren Jr, 49, from Las Vegas, suffered from the rare medical condition scrotal lymphedema which saw his scrotum swell to gigantic proportions and left him feeling little more than a freak.

His ordeal began when he woke up one morning five years ago with a shooting pain in his groin, which grew steadily worse and his scrotum steadily bigger over the next nine months. 

 

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Tea Party Groups to Run Ads Against GOP Lawmakers Skeptical of Defunding Obamacare

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Three prominent conservative groups will make significant advertisement buys in August to pressure Republican senators and House Members in their states and districts to defund Obamacare.

Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots and ForAmerica will also go on an "Exempt America" tour across six states that will also target House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in addition to buying ads against twelve Republican senators who have opposed the defunding of Obamacare or are on the fence. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and ForAmerica Chairman Brent Bozell will reportedly travel to Kentucky, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, in addition to Boehner's district in Ohio.
Meanwhile, Heritage Action will purchase $550,000 worth of ads that will target 100 House Republicans to defund Obamacare. Their message will be simple: All Americans should be exempt from Obamacare—and if you fund it, you own it.

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Differences between poor and lazy

 

When I was growing up, I was taught that poor people were those who were down on their luck and that this was a temporary state as they were decent, hardworking people with pride who would find employment and overcome their present state.

Never were those out for a free ride and looking for a way to scam the working poor out of their meager tax dollars included as being a part of the social group known as the poor. They were referred to as lazy people who wouldn't work even when work was available to them.

Since the 1960's the mainstream media has blurred those lines by lumping these two very different groups together. While I care deeply about the truly poor, I could not care less about the freeloaders, scammers and hucksters who prey on them looking for that free ride through life and giving the poor a bad name. The deserve the fate that awaits them.

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Police: Black teens kill white man 'for fun'

 

As the family of an Australian baseball player gunned down in Oklahoma mourns his death, police said today that the college athlete was targeted by three black teenagers who simply “wanted to see someone die.”

The suspects followed Chris Lane, 22, as he jogged alongside a road in Duncan, Okla., Friday afternoon, shot him in the back and left him to die on the side of the road, said Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford.

Lane attended East Central University in Ada, Okla., on a baseball scholarship. He was in town visiting his girlfriend.
“He went by a residence where these three boys were, they picked him as a target, they went out and got in a vehicle and followed him.”

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How Textbooks Push Children to the Left

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Are you surprised that leftist ideas have penetrated the minds of the people?  Chalk up this reality to the leftist teachers and, especially, to the left-oriented textbooks now in use in our secondary schools.  One book in particular that has been gaining traction in New York City in recent years is “The Americans.”
 
Although even the leftist teachers claim not to like this textbook used in U.S. history (a one-year course required in NYC for all juniors) because it is so skimpy on facts and is written in an opaque style, any informed reader would have to agree that it is one of the most politically correct textbooks one could imagine. Reading this book, one gets the message that the history of America is a theme of victimization. The list of victims is well known: Native Americans, women, labor, immigrants, blacks, farmers, urban dwellers, the mentally ill, migrant workers, unions, etc. “The Americans” is a somewhat diluted version of Howard Zinn’s openly communist college textbook, “A People’s History of the United States.” It is also worth adding that this reference to Zinn’s “communism” is not putting labels on anyone, and is not a McCarthy-like type of red-baiting of an innocent individual; Zinn openly announced his communism decades ago when he taught at Boston University.

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Combat

  

Why, here is the leader you must surely want to follow into combat.........

 Ol' Remus

VERBATIM (Too good to miss a second)

An article by Army Reserve Colonel Ellen Haring published in the Armed Forces Journal advocates lowering the physical training standards for female combat officer candidates. Colonel Haring, a 1984 West Point graduate and current War College "concept officer", along with Sgt. Maj. Jane Baldwin, filed a successful lawsuit against the Defense Department for denying combat roles to women. Now she says physical ability and combat training matter less than being creative and remaining calm. According to the Colonel, by "celebrating strength" we're filtering out future Audie Murphys. Miss Ellen's been misinformed. Murphy was a he. And today he'd be filtered out in the first day of sensitivity training. If anybody needs filtering out it's Colonel Haring.

What does she expect them to do, talk 'em to death? Bedazzle 'em with creativity? Make 'em die laughing? If the armed forces buy into this they forfeit respect from that moment on, the kind of respect that matters, earned respect. To put it almost plainly, a military riddled with transient opportunists and single moms, diversitymongers—the two biggest users of pictogram interfaces are McDonalds and the US military—predatory gays and other misfits, led by underachieving but oh-so-creative women is something we couldn't hide forever. Real armies would find out soon enough and take 'em all to the woodshed for a long overdue stropping. 

The quote below is extracted from an article by Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times. Hankies and pom poms at the ready, Miss Ellen. You go girl.

Perhaps it is time to take a hard look at what really makes a competent combat soldier and not rely on traditional notions of masculine brawn that celebrate strength over other qualities. If the going-in assumption is that physical standards are the only thing that needs to be examined, then we are also assuming that we have everything else just right. This is belied by our less-than-optimal performances in many instances during the past 12 years.

Fixating on physical standards is a tactical-level approach that misses a strategic-level opportunity. We can’t be sure, but odds are that Murphy would have washed out here, as well. An obstacle course that relies on physical prowess tests none of the important qualities that Murphy possessed. We diminish the importance of what are probably more important traits in soldiers: the ability to remain calm, focused, creative and quick-thinking in times of extreme duress. These are the traits that we should be measuring as we assess soldiers for combat specialties.

Physical strength is important, but it shouldn’t be the most important trait that we assess, and it certainly shouldn’t become a way to filter out the Audie Murphys of our population.

The US military is probably the most traditional and honor-bound part of the government establishment, historically true to their calling and doggedly loyal to the country. In recent times it's been degraded by social experimenters, irrelevent futziness training, no-win political missions and cammy-pattern feminism. Set against this are credible stories of derailed promotions, rumors of blackmail at flag level and many lesser examples of hostility toward members whose loyalty to the country is unwavering. Instances of supplying intel and weapons to our putative enemies, and warrettes which end not in victory but in nation building videogames if not humiliating bugouts, make it difficult for conscientious members of the military to understand why they fight. 

What appears to be happening is this. The collectivists captured the permanent government at least a couple of generations ago. Having recently annexed the Republican party they now see themselves as settling into perpetual power, and not without cause, the days of orderly change are behind us. But no regime can rule, as versus govern, without the explicit backing of the military. Mere acquiescence is not enough, there must be positive loyalty specific to the regime.

Historically it's been done this way. First, the regular armed forces are permeated with a political cadre which monitors and supervises it at all levels. These cadre are assigned ranks within the military, or bring it with them. Military officers comprise one of the two most anxiety-ridden professions there are—university professors being the other. The political cadre plays the stalwart mentor before and after they buckle. Second, a parallel quasi-military security force is established which is superior in all instances to the regular forces, meaning a senior military officer is outranked by a junior security officer, in practice if not in appearance. Protocol is carefully constructed to suggest otherwise. Incidentally, totalitarian states typically create overlapping fiefdoms with muddled authority to ensure unquestioning compliance with any order from the top. 

What we're seeing is an armed forces systematically conflating loyalty to the regime with loyalty to the country. Knowledgeable observers put the number of country-loyal versus regime-loyal at about sixty-forty, with the sixty per cent country-loyal concentrated in officers below flag rank and the senior enlisted. It's said the ratio was nearly the reverse as late as the year 2000 just as an internal counterrevolution, goosed by committed constitutionalists, began to take hold. The country-loyal appear to be going from success to success. Given our daily dose of up-to-the-nostrils disinformation and psyops, all this is little more than speculation. 

Colonel Haring's part in this is that of a useful idiot, chic feminism apparently, who sees herself, and wants to be seen, as championing equal opportunity, ennobling both herself and the army in the doing. In fact, she's doing no such thing. What rankles Miss Ellen is all six female officers who have attempted the Marine Corps' infantry officer qualification course have failed. Oops. So, on to Plan B: the applicants didn't fail, the standards failed the applicants. Yeah. Dat's da ticket. To suggest it could be any other way is to demean some Really Deserving People, so let's do the Right Thing. And the Right Thing is to demean everybody by tainting achievement with a whiff of fraud. 

There are those who work to strengthen the military and those who work to weaken it. Which is Colonel Haring? Lowering qualifications to accommodate a subset of applicants isn't equal opportunity, it's the same demand for dishonest equal outcomes we've seen elsewhere. We shall do our very best to look surprised when, encumbered with playground rules, the armed forces become the lifeguard who couldn't swim.