Daily Prep: Monday, March 14

by | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Daily Show Prep

Wounded Warrior Project’s top execs fired amid lavish spending scandal | Fox News

Wounded Warrior Project’s CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were by the charity’s board amid criticisms about how it spent more than $800 million donations over the last four years. The development was confirmed by Abernathy MacGregor, a public relations firm hired to represent the veterans charity.

Wounded Warrior Project Chairman Anthony Odierno on rebuilding after lavish spending scandal – CBS News

From public records, CBS News found that the charity spent only 60 percent of donations on vets. Odierno disputed the figure, claiming the organization spends about 80 percent. But that number includes expenses spent on promotional items, direct response advertising and postage costs, which charity watch groups do not consider programming.

Lose American flag or lose job; Iron workers stand ground after reported threat | BizPac Review

A group of ironworkers and riggers working in Louisiana have been told to remove American flags from trucks or be terminated.

Lose the American Flag or Lose Your Job – Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children

Jarome Hatch, a member of the crew, who thanked BPR and informed us that he just left a in which the crew was told their vehicles, with American flags attached, are now allowed back on the property as long as they are properly fastened and the speed limit is obeyed.

Putin Orders Withdrawal Of Russian Forces From Syria | The Daily Caller

“Perhaps, this is no secret, if I say that at some stage the Americans suggested performing a ‘division of labor’: the Russian Air Forces should concentrate on the liberation of Palmyra, and the American coalition with Russian support will focus on the liberation of Raqqa,” said Lavrov, according to Reuters.

Russia Warns North Korea It Could Be Invaded | The Daily Caller

‘s provocative nuclear rhetoric has gotten so bad even the Kremlin has come out against the hermit kingdom, warning continued nuclear threats could justify an invasion.

Hellfire Missiles Bound For Portland Discovered On Plane | The Daily Caller

The package containing the missiles was found by bomb-sniffing dogs in the cargo hold of the plane. The Air Serbia flight originated in Beirut, Lebanon and landed in the Serbian capital of Belgrade before the package was discovered, according to a Sunday Associated Press report. The two missiles, armed with explosive warheads, were hidden inside two coffins. Serbian media has reported that the package’s final destination was believed to have been Portland.

ISIS Unleashes Chemical Weapons In Iraq Killing 3-Year-Old Girl And Wounding As Many As 600 People

ISIL fighters unleashed two chemical attacks near the city of Kirkuk in , killing three--old Fatima Samir and wounding up to 600 people, Iraqi officials have said. Early Saturday morning, rockets filled with chemicals were fired from the ISIS-held town of Bashir upon the small town of Taza, which was also struck by only three days earlier.

WATCH: Clinton tells woman hurt by Obamacare to ‘keep shopping’ twitchy.com

…and Hillary’s answer to this woman? “Keep shopping” and try to find a better deal:

Being lonely during recess isn’t an option at this school, thanks to one elementary class

At Sherwood Forest Elementary School on Federal Way, Ms. Callender’s second and third grade classes decided to create the Buddy Spot to tackle loneliness.

Study: Raising E-Cigarette Age Increases Teen Smoking | The Daily Caller

“We should regulate tobacco products proportionate to their risks, and e-cigarette evidence suggests they’re less risky products,” said the Cornell study’s lead author Dr. Michael F. Pesko. “While there’s some risk, it would be a mistake to regulate them the same way we regulate cigarettes.”

DC Vape Group Vows To Fight FDA Regs And ‘Junk Science’ On E-Cigarettes

“One of the biggest challenges we face as an industry – and one that our industry has been outflanked on up until this point – is the rampant misinformation disseminated about our technology,” says Tony Abboud, VTA national legislative director.

Oh My! Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro Resign from Breitbart after Fudging Story about Trump Campaign Manager – The Gateway Pundit

Video now proves that Fields exaggerated the story for some strange reason.

New video shows the contact (yes, contact was made), but it appears she be embellishing a bit. Don’t know if the bruises are legit or not, but she wasn’t nearly thrown down to the ground as had been .

Exactly Would Justify To Pacifist Hordes

by | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog, Featured

I’ve often asked this question in my writings and on my show. Most often, in discussions with the ignorant about Saddam the innocent victim of /Cheney aggression.

No clear answer has been given by pacifists to the question: “What would justify war?”

The pacifist hordes often give conflicting answers.  For example, Ron Paul (who claims a form of pacifism) was interviewed by John Stossel in 2007, and was asked what would justify a war.

If you’re attacked, you have a right and an obligation to defend (your) country. I do not believe there is ever a moral justification to the war.

That sounds nice, but I found Paul’s answer interesting, and vague.  What constitutes an attack?  Is it on your property, your citizens, or must it be within your national borders?  Pacifists have been unable to clarify this position for me over the years.

What does this have to do with Iraq, and my greater point later?

Before the 2003 Iraq invasion, Saddam was repeatedly ‘attacking’ the US and her allies in a little discussed conflict in the no fly zones.  Yet Ron Paul, and others, have frequently said that there was no justification for the invasion of Iraq.  So … shooting/attacking US citizens, and destroying US property is not an attack?

I’m of a different viewpoint, and my training to invade Iraq under proved that even Slick Willy agreed with me.

So why bring this up now?  Iraq was a resounding success, and Saddam is dead.  Because we may be heading for another war.

Tensions have been with Pakistan for years.  The killing of Osama bin Laden only catapulted those tensions to the mainstream.  During the aftermath of that operation, we clearly learned that Pakistan is no friend of the US. Yet, something far worse was kept from us.

NY Times:

A group of military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis.

Yep.  Ambushed by the Pakistanis … ahem … allegedly.

Maj. Larry J. Bauguess lost his life in the attack.

This blatant act of war was covered up by both the Pakistanis and Washington.  In , Pakistan has been well-known to retaliate for collateral damage by US forces with open attacks on US personnel.

Some will blame America for the incident, and say that Pakistan was just retaliating for their losses.  An interesting point, albeit one that ignores Pakistan’s hindering our intelligence, and often openly helping the enemy against us.

Then there’s Iran.  We know they are sending weapons across the border into Iraq to help .  There have even been clashes with US and Iranian military forces.  Something that was also kept quiet, and has happened more than once.

Right about now someone will say that none of this would happen if we weren’t there to begin with, so we are still the aggressor.  That’s about as intelligent as inviting someone over for dinner, and then calling them a burglar.

Am I calling for war with Pakistan or Iran?  No.

Were those two incidents justification for war in my opinion?  Yes.

I’m saddened that neither party has an option for president that touts legit military credentials.  We have, after all, been at war for a decade with no truly experienced military veteran in the .  Going forward, we may not have an option for peace either.  It makes me wonder … how different things would be if a competent military commander were also sitting in the White House.

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