the Americans have recently come to understand that their police officers are, in the main, liars and brutes. Now, perhaps, it is time for them to learn that said officers are also, in the main, stupid and illiterate.

Below is a Facebook post inscribed by Mike Halstead, until recently chief of police of the burg of Surf City, North Carolina.

Open letter from a Police Chief, this Black Lives Matter group is nothing more than an American born terrorist group brought on by the lie of the hands up don’t shoot during the criminal thug Michael Brown incident. The FBI and other Government Law Enforcement groups need to step up and put a stop to this. The Government and blacks would not tolerate the White Supremacist group to march through the streets and call for the murders of a race of people and a group of public servants. I agree there is a race problem in this country. It is not brought on by police officer doing their sworn duty, it is brought on by the government, the President and his cronies Al Sharpton, who is a criminal tax evader (but has the support of our so called President), Jessi Jackson, Eric Holder and that ignorant S.O.B. Farrakhan who should be charged with solicitation for murder, lord knows a white man would be arrested for the same actions of idiot Farakhan. I am sure there are many hard working Black people who will agree with me. I have been a Police Officer for 35 years. I do not judge anyone by the color of their skin, but by there actions. A criminal is a criminal whether a police officer or any other profession. I will not state statistics because black lives matter do not care or believe proven statistics. I put allot of the blame for these cop murders on the media and the way they report police related shootings. There is no need to list or even state the race of a person shot by the police. It is more important to wait for the facts and report those. But and a big but that does not make money for these greedy media ass holes. When a black thug is killed by the police they are all over it as is Mr. Barack Obama. However when a police officer white, black or any race is murdered for doing his job the media is short with it’s reporting or not at all. When a white person is killed by a black officer you hear nothing. Has our so called President spoke publicly about these murders of police officers by blacks, HELL NO he has not. Step up Mr. President, or step down because we do not need you. Has our Attorney General spoke against these murders, no of course not because she was appointed by Barack Obama. Now let me say this, and this is not a threat but common knowledge. I have instructed my officers to be vigilant, if threatened take appropriate action. If that means shoot a thug, then do it and answer for it while you are still alive not dead. Law Enforcement is fed up with this murderous society who want to take out those who protect and serve. Imagine if all law enforcement shut down for just 1 day. There would be murders, rapes, robberies, you name it. America wake up, all of you black, white, Mexican whatever you need the police, we do not need you. End this Black Lives Matter bull shit and start a movement that all lives matter. As for the New Black Panther movement who wants to kill whites and cops, go for it, we are ready for you. You take one of us and there will be 100 who will step up and end you. This letter is not meant to offend anyone, just the feelings of a man who has spent the last 35 years of his life serving and protecting, for what so a thug can take it or to be treated as a criminal by the very people I swore to protect. Let’s get this around folks so maybe our President and the media will get a wake up call. Be safe all of my Brothers and Sisters in blue, not white, black, yellow or brown BLUE.

For 35 years this smooth-brained, slack-jawed Deliverance extra was permitted to wander the land with a badge and a gun, authorized to interfere with the liberty—or even end the life—of any person he happened to encounter. In my view, anyone he was ever responsible for incarcerating should be immediately freed, as a man this fucking stupid and illiterate should not even be allowed to cross the street unassisted, much less be trusted to determine whether someone violated the "law."

Some city official said the ex-chief is apologetic over how his screed was "interpreted." What possible "interpretation" is there, other than that he possesses less brains than a slime mould, and that the reason why Surf City is 97.77% white is because this geek has, over the years, killed or run off all the non-white people?

But he doesn't sound repentant to me. Here is another of his hooting, grunting heaves, written after he was "retired."

I want to thank you all for your support. I was forced to retire or be terminated. I had to beg for a 60 day severance to feed my family. That was the thanks I got from those I thought were family, I was thrown under the bus for expressing my 1st amendment rights and speaking the truth and concerns for law enforcement. I want to thank all of the folks in Surf City for your support. It was my pleasure to serve you. Thank you to my officers for your dedication, I will miss everyone of you. I would like to apologize to my family for letting you down. I also apologize to those I have offended, that was not my intent. I have served proudly for 35 years without a blemish. I guess to some Surf City Leaders that has no meaning. I guess I will learn to eat beanie wienies for a few months. I love you all.

He should buck up. No doubt he can put on his white sheet and stride in his jackboots to some other jurisdiction, where some other department will no doubt be pleased to enroll him among those who would "protect and serve."

It had to happen eventually.

Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday at several hundred migrants protesting at being unable to cross the border from Serbia, AFP reporters said.
"The crowd on the Serbian side became aggressive and threw stones, bottles and sticks at police on the Hungarian side and crossed the barrier at the border," a police statement said.

Liberals will get all excited about how the refugees are treated by Hungary, while continuing to ignore the root cause of the crisis - the war.

Hungary's right-wing government shut the main land route for migrants into the European Union on Tuesday, taking matters into its own hands to halt Europe's influx of refugees.
An emergency effort led by Germany to force EU member states to accept mandatory quotas of refugees collapsed in discord.
Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed for European unity after one of her ministers called for financial penalties against countries that refused to accommodate their share of the migrants, provoking anger in central Europe.
A Czech official described such threats as empty but nonetheless "damaging" while Slovakia said they would bring the "end of the EU".

I find it disgusting how people can care about the refugees, but not enough to care about why they are refugees.
It's perfectly understandable for some countries to choke on the refugee crisis.

U.S. Media headline

Are Iran and Russia Risking Their Own Vietnam in Syria?
There are growing reports that Iranian troops, not just advisers, have joined Hezbollah in defending the Assad regime—backed by an increasing Russian military presence.

Now let's turn it around and ask if America is having another Vietnam experience?

You can't make this shit up

General Lloyd Austin, the commander of U.S. Central Command leading the war on ISIS, told Congress today that only "four or five" of the first 54 U.S.trained moderate Syrian fighters remain in the fight against ISIS.
Christine Wormuth, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there are currently between 100 and 120 fighters in a program that was slated to have trained 5,400 fighters in its first 12 months.
Austin told the panel that goal was not going to be met and that options are being explored about how to retool the program which was intended to train moderate Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. So far $42 million has been spent to develop the $500 million program which began training in April.
The first 54 graduates of the program were re-inserted into northern Syria in July and were quickly attacked by the Al Nusra Front, the dominant Islamist rebel group in Syria. Though the attack was repelled with U.S. airstrikes, it was characterized as a major setback for the viability of the progam. When Austin was asked how many trained fighters remained in the fight he responded "it's a small number," before adding "the ones that are in the fight, we're talking four or five."

$42 million for "four or five" comes out to about $10 million per fighter. Unless they are all Rambo's, this isn't a good investment.

It doesn't add up

In the latest report on Yemen issued by the U.N., it was revealed that perhaps as many as 40 Yemeni civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes this year.

Al Qaeda has done damage of their own. They’ve been looking to take territory in the wake of the current Yemen civil war. So far, they’ve taken responsibility for 24 civilian deaths.

Vice News spoke with investigative journalist Chris Woods, who specializes in airstrike-tracking, and commented that the kinds of airstrikes being executed in Yemen are significantly different than those that the United States carries out in other areas of interest.

“We see more civilians killed when it’s counter-terrorism ops, because the targets are deemed as a threat to the US homeland,” Woods told Vice News. “Therefore there’s a greater tolerance of collateral damage.”

Who are the bad guys here?

I like that most of your reunion friends are still sailing on. But what about the wrongo who broke the date a week before the prom, and needed 40 years to apologize? Did he Suffer at all for his outrageousness?

And I don't know about your interest in chemistry. These days that might be regarded as evincing a propensity for terrorism, like the boy who built a clock and brought it to school, there to be seized and arrested as a Mooslim bombmaker.

and my Brother might have graduated the same year--1965.

Al attended his 50th Class Reunion less than a month before his totally unexpected heart attack. He walked (not ran) a minimum of 8 miles a day. Sometimes, if time permitted, as many as 12-16 miles. He was thought to have been in excellent health. His class sent a gorgeous wreath (or stand, they're called now) in their class colors. I was totally blown away by how many of his old classmate (H.S. and college) showed up, including a large number of out-of-staters.

Anyway, hope your Class Reunion is enjoyable. I'd have more to say, but still wrestling with one of my wi-fi providers.

Mollie

I'll just say thanks for posting & mosey on.