“Protesting is a
non-essential activity.” – Raleigh NC PD, 1:20 p.m., April 14, 2020.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Raleigh po-leece: We decide what is a First Amendment right
Equal rights for Muslims
Ramadan starts in a week. Will
the same governors and mayors who prohibited Christians gathering at churches
for Easter and Jews gathering at home and at synagogues for Passover also ban
Muslims from gathering at mosques?
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A quote I had to check
Some things on the interweb
don’t sound right. Turns out this one is accurate.
At valorguardians: “The ideal
form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” – Voltaire
Libertytree.ca has the quote
as accurately attributed to Voltaire. Comments at the site, though …
E. Archer, NYC: “Yikes, this
from the guy who wrote ‘Democracy in America’—I would like to see the quote in
context. It’s got to be ‘tongue-in-cheek;-)”
(Comment: Dude, or Dudette.
You were not paying attention during discussion of de Tocqueville.)
Hannered01, Kernersville: “Actually
‘benevolent dictatorship.’ Try not to treat the word ‘benevolent’ lightly
please.”
(I do not know enough French
to order a glass of bad wine, but I wonder about the closeness of “democracy”
and “benevolent dictatorship” and how a translator could confuse one with the
other. From limited readings about Voltaire, I believe he tended to drop statements
now and then just to open up conversation or to get people all riled up. After
all, he was French. President Calvin Coolidge, who was not from France, but Vermont, allegedly said a president should have the authority to hang ten people every year. When asked if he truly believed that, he replied, "No, but it would keep people on their toes," or some such.)
Footprints in the snow
From CBS Sacramento
KINGS BEACH (CBS13) — Deputies say fresh
footprints in the snow lead them to three people suspected in a string of
recent home burglaries in the North Lake Tahoe area.
The arrests happened
around midnight on Sunday. According to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office,
deputies responded to Brockway Vista Avenue in Kings Beach after a homeowner
called to report that their surveillance camera captured images of several
burglars.
Deputies at the
scene soon discovered several sets of fresh shoe prints in the snow that led to
a nearby motel. Two suspects were then contacted and cooperated, but a third
suspect barricaded himself in the motel room.
That final suspect
eventually surrendered when a deputy announced that he was about to send a K9
after him.
All three suspects,
identified as 42-year-old Placerville resident Jesse Kulp, 34-year-old Carson
City resident Amanda Whedbee, and 29-year-old Rancho Cordova resident Daniel
McElroen, are suspected in at least four separate burglaries in the North Tahoe
area over the past few weeks, the sheriff’s office says.
Stolen property, including a loaded
firearm and a vehicle, were recovered by deputies.
Link at knuckledraggin, temporarily
ogdaa.blogspot.com.
(“Footprints in the snow” has
a nice sound. It could be a poem, a mystery novel, a romance novel, a Hallmark
movie or a country-western song.)
Monday, April 13, 2020
How American soldiers used pig's blood and corpses to fight Muslim terrorism
Before
political correctness, our soldiers were free to fight back.
Fri Feb 26, 2016
Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York
writer focusing on radical Islam.
A century before
American soldiers fought Muslim terrorism in the Middle East, they fought it in
the Philippines. Their attackers were Moro Muslims whose savage fanaticism
appeared inexplicable. A formerly friendly Muslim might suddenly attack
American soldiers, local Muslim rulers promised friendship while secretly
aiding the terrorists and the yellow left-wing press at home seized on every
report of an atrocity to denounce American soldiers as murderers whose honor
was forever soiled.
Much of what went
on in that conflict, including the sacrifices of our soldiers, has been
forgotten. The erasure has been so thorough that the media casually claims that
the American forces did not use pig corpses and pig’s blood to deter Muslim
terrorists. Media fact checks have deemed it a “legend”.
It’s not a
legend. It’s history.
The practice
began in the Spanish period. A source as mainstream as the New Cambridge
History of Islam informs us that, “To discourage Juramentados, the Spaniards
buried their corpses with dead pigs.”
Juramentados was
the Spanish term for the Muslim Jihadists who carried out suicide attacks
against Christians while shouting about Allah. American forces, who had little
experience with Muslim terrorists, adopted the term and the Spanish tactics of
burying Muslim terrorists alongside dead pigs.
It was a less
sensitive age and even the New York Times blithely observed
that, “The Moros, though they still admire these frenzied exits from the world,
have practically ceased to utilize them, since when a pig and a man occupy a
single grave the future of the one and the other are in their opinions about
equal.”
The New
York Times conceded that the story “shocked a large number of
sensitive people,” but concluded that, “while regretting the necessity of
adopting a plan so repugnant to humane ideas, we also note that the Moros can
stop its application as soon as they choose, and therefore we feel no impulse
either to condemn its invention or to advise its abandonment. The scheme
involves the waste of a certain amount of pork, but pork in hot climates is an
unwholesome diet, anyhow, and the less of it our soldiers and other ‘infidels’
in the Philippines have to eat the better for them.”
Colonel Willis A.
Wallace of the 15th Cavalry claimed credit for innovating the practice in March
1903 to dissuade the Muslim terrorist who believed that “every Christian he
kills places him so much closer in contact with the Mohammedan heaven.”
“Conviction and
punishment of these men seemed to have no effect,” Colonel Wallace related.
After a “more than usually atrocious slaughter” in the marketplace, he had the
bodies of the killers placed on display and encouraged “all the Moros in the
vicinity who cared to do so to come and see the remains”.
“A great crowd
gathered where the internment was to take place and it was there that a dead
hog, in plain view of the multitude, was lifted and placed in the grave in the
midst of the three bodies, the Moro grave-diggers themselves being required to
do this much to their horror. News of the form of punishment adopted soon
spread.”
“There is every
indication that the method had a wholesome effect,” Colonel Wallace concluded.
Colonel Wallace
was certainly not the only officer to bury pigs with Muslim terrorists in the
Philippines, though he was apparently the only one to discuss it in such great
detail.
Medal of Honor
winner Colonel Frank West buried three pigs with three Muslim terrorists after
the murder of an American officer. He appears to have done so with the approval
of General Pershing. Some stories mention Colonel Alexander Rodgers of the 6th
Cavalry becoming so celebrated for it that he was known to Moro Muslims as “The
Pig”. One contemporary account does describe him burying a pig with the corpse
of a Muslim terrorist who had murdered an American soldier.
Rear Admiral
Daniel P Mannix III had contended that, “What finally stopped the Juramentados
was the custom of wrapping the dead man in a pig’s skin and stuffing his mouth
with pork”.
Media fact checks
have claimed that General John “Black Jack” Pershing would not have offended
Muslims by authorizing such a course of action and that any claims of his
involvement are also a legend.
General Pershing
however wrote in his autobiography that, “These Juramentado attacks were
materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in
abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig.
It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to
hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.”
We can be certain
then that the practice of burying Muslim terrorists with pigs was indeed real
and fairly widespread. Was pig’s blood also used on Muslim terrorists as a
deterrent to prevent attacks?
The Scientific
American described just such an event. In a hard look at the area, it
wrote of a place where, “Polygamy is universally practiced and slavery exists
very extensively. Horse stealing is punishable by death, murder by a fine of
fifty dollars. The religion is Mohamedan.”
A Muslim
terrorist, the magazine wrote, “will suddenly declare himself ‘Juramentado’,
that is inspired by Mohammed to be a destroyer of Christians. He forthwith
shaves his head and eyebrows and goes forth to fulfill his mission.”
The Scientific
American described how a Muslim terrorist who had disemboweled an
American soldier was made an example of. “A grave was dug without the walls of
the city. Into this the murderer was unceremoniously dropped. A pig was then
suspended by his hind legs above the grave and the throat of the animal cut.
Soon the body lay immersed in gore… a guard stood sentry over the grave until
dusk when the pig was buried side by side with the Juramentado.”
“This so enraged
the Moros that they besieged the city. Matters became so grave that General
Wood felt called upon to disperse the mob resulting in the death of a number of
Moros.”
It is clear from
these accounts which encompass General Pershing’s autobiography, the New
York Times and the Scientific American that the use
of pig corpses and pig’s blood in the Philippines was not a legend, but fact.
It was not carried out by a few rogue officers, but had the support of top
generals. It was not a single isolated incident, but was a tactic that was made
use of on multiple occasions.
American forces
in the Philippines faced many of the same problems that our forces do today.
But they were often free to find more direct solutions to them. When Muslim
rulers claimed that they had no control over the terrorists whom they had sent
to kill Americans, our officers responded in kind.
“Shortly after
General Bates’ arrival on the island, the Sultan sent word that there were some
half dozen Juramentados in Jolo over whom he had no control. General Bates replied,
‘Six hundred of my men have turned Juramentado and I have no control over
them.’”
Another version
of this story by Rear Admiral Mannix III had Admiral Hemphill dispatching a
gunboat to shell the Sultan’s palace and then informing him that the gunboat
had “turned Juramentado”. As with pig corpses and blood, such blunt tactics
worked. Unfortunately political correctness makes it difficult to utilize them
today. And political correctness carries with it a high price in American
lives.
It is important
that we remember the real history of a less politically correct time when
American lives mattered more than upsetting those whom the New York
Times deemed “sensitive people” and what another publication dismissed
as the “sensitive spirit” of the Muslim terrorist.
But as that
publication suggested, “It is not necessary to go into spasms about the insult
to the Mahometan conscience. Every Christian that walks the earth is a living
insult to that ‘sensitive spirit’”.
“The murderer may
feel that he is unduly treated by being defiled with the touch of the swine,
but he can avoid it by refraining from becoming a practical Juramentado. Our
sympathies, if anywhere, are with the innocent pig slaughtered for such a
purpose and buried in such company.”
These days we do
not bury pigs with Muslim terrorists. Our political and military leaders
shudder at the thought of Muslims accusing us of blasphemy. And so instead we
bury thousands of American soldiers.
You call that a cuttin’ device?
This is a
cuttin’ device.
RRRROARRRR!
From knuckledraggin.
SOUTH RANGE, Mich. (WLUC) - A man and woman have been arrested after they allegedly
committed home invasion in South Range early Saturday morning.
According to a press release sent out by the Houghton County
Sheriff’s office, the male suspect pulled a knife on a person inside the home.
The victim defended himself with a chainsaw.
The suspects then fled from the scene.
Deputies were able to locate both suspects at another home in
South Range after an extensive search
A 40-year-old South Range Woman is being charged with home
invasion.
A 32-year-old Warren man is being charged with home invasion felonious assault. Both are lodged in the Houghton County Jail.
No one was injured in the incident.
Their names are being withheld pending arraignment.
The Houghton County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Houghton City Police Department and Hancock City Police Department.
TV6&FoxUP will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
(South Range
is a village in Houghton County, in the Upper Peninsula. It is surrounded by
forests.)
Physical therapy
They whooped on me this
morning, and for good reason.
Sunday morning while taking
biscuits from the oven, I partially lost my balance and for a moment thought I
might fall. My mind informed me that if I did fall, I would need to grab the
oven racks, heated to 450 degrees F. If did not grab the oven racks, my face
would make first contact. Fortunately, I regained my balance and was able to
stand.
When I mentioned that to the
physical therapist, he made no comment, but did add weights to some of my
exercises and added two new exercises.
Whatever it takes to prevent a face plant into a hot oven.
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