the Wednesday Edition

I haven’t been too bloggy in recent months as you can tell but I’ve been reading more than writing. I’ve spent the last few months writing music and recording 11 tracks with my band with hopes of getting back to playing out soon. We had to say goodbye to a good friend and bandmate but were able to add another all-around good guy and kick-ass guitarist to the mix, so things are looking up.

There’s a lot of stuff to talk about so let’s get to it!

This pisses me off to no end! I know a ton of CPD officers and for the most part they are great guys but this POS makes them all look bad. On top of it there is talk that he tried to cover it up when the cops actually showed up. Any man who treats a woman in such a way deserves the ball-bat to the kneecaps treatment. Repeatedly.
Video Here

(pretty violent, sorry bout the commercial)

Looks like specific threats forced British Military leaders to send him home not allow him to lead his men into battle. I think this is a horrible mistake on the part of the higher-ups. I believe pulling him out of the fight is a win for the terrorists. It looks to them that by making wild threats they can change the course of military affairs. Seems a bit limp wristed to me for the future Prince of Whales to be watching from the sidlines when he is a well trained troop commander.

Later Dude

10-year-old Cade Egbert saves saves his one and a half year old sis when he falls into a flooded drainage ditch.

Way to go, little man!

This has been going on forever. With the glaring amount homeless people wandering the streets of Detroit, it’s no wonder they have now unionized.

DETROIT — DTE Energy and AT&T announced on Tuesday that monetary rewards will be offered for any information that leads to the arrest of those who steal copper and turn it in for cash.

Copper theft has been on the rise in Detroit and surrounding cities, officials said.

A DTE representative said that there are power outages almost twice a day because of thieves who have climbed utility poles in order to steal copper from electrical wires. DTE believes many of the copper thefts are part of well-organized rings of thieves.

WDET in Detroit reports on the sentencing of someone trying to buy and export arms to Indonesia:

Federal authorities arrested Hadianto Djuliarso a year ago along with three other men…for conspiring to violte the Arms Export Control Act and money laundering.
The government says the men had arranged to illegally buy hundreds of handguns…machine guns…air-to-air missiles and radar equipment…with the intention of selling the equipment in Indonesia.
It remains unclear just what the weaponry was supposed to be used for.
Djuliarso has been in custody since his arrest…and will now serve three more years in prison…and must forfeit about 600-thousand dollars seized by authorities.
Federal officials say the Indonesian man will be deported as soon as he completes his s entence.

They omit any info about the man’s business partners:

U.S. Military Aircraft Parts to Indonesia- - In April 2005, ICE Detroit and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service initiated an investigation of an Indonesian-based company, Indodial, that was attempting to identify companies that would sell military aircraft parts for export to Indonesia. On June 23, 2005, undercover ICE agents met in London with Ibrahim Amran of Indodial to discuss the purchase and export of military aircraft parts to Indonesia. Amran subsequently agreed to purchase F-5 and OV-10 military aircraft parts from ICE undercover agents. On December 13, 2005, ICE undercover agents met with Amran and Amran’s business partner, Hadianto Djuliarso, in Detroit to finalize the sale and shipment of the military aircraft parts to Indonesia via Singapore. Djuliarso and Amran agreed to buy and ship the military aircraft parts without an export license to Indonesia. In addition, Amran requested price quotes from the undercover agents for Heckler & Koch MP-5 submachine guns, handguns, and sniper rifles. On April 9, 2006, following an additional undercover meeting to finalize the purchase and export of the military aircraft parts to Indonesia, ICE agents arrested Djuliarso and Amran for violations of 18 USC 371: Conspiracy to Violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA); and 18 USC 1956: Conspiracy to Launder Money. Plea negotiations are ongoing.

Other sources indicate that the aircraft parts may have been ordered by the Indonesian Air Force and these guys tried to secure the parts surreptitiously, but it looks like the small arms and missiles were sought for other purposes.

The indictment and affidavit also allege:

# In July last year, Amran asked for quotes for prices of aircraft armaments for 245 Sidewinder missiles and 5,000 rounds of strafing ammunition. There is no mention of what action was taken on the request.

# In January, Amran received a quote of $3.3 million from a U.S. based-company for 882 submachine guns, 800 9mm handguns and 16 sniper rifles. He said he wanted to buy and export the items even if a license for those transactions could not be obtained.

# On March 31, Djuliarso and Amran sent $447,000 to a U.S. based-company as partial payments for military aircraft parts that included a radar system.

The U.S. attorney in Detroit has called the case “a serious and grave threat to our national security.” U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III said the individuals were “ready, willing and able to buy American weapons and take them outside the country.”

Of course, this needs to be spun properly:

NO TERROR CLAIM

Hawai’i’s U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo has said the case did not involve exporting the weapons for terrorism.

The defense statement that the aircraft parts were intended for Indonesia comes even as the United States is exploring increasing military cooperation with that country.

The New York Times last month reported that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for an expansion of a “strategic partnership” with Indonesia, including increased military cooperation, after the U.S. decision last year to resume military aid that had long been cut off because of Indonesia’s poor human rights record.

In a speech while in Jakarta, Rice said Indonesia had made progress in combating military corruption, the Times reported. “A reformed and effective Indonesian military is in the interest of everyone in this region, because threats to our common security have not disappeared,” she said, according to the Times.

Quote of the Week

Ace writes what I’m thinking yet again:

In all seriousness, I suppose the Christians here are behaving badly. Muslims have the right to practice their religion, the same as anyone else.

Muslims seem to be exacerbating tensions more than previous immigrant/minority communities have, though. Whereas previous immigrant/minority groups have sought to accomodate themselves with the prevailing culture — or, at least, so it seems to me — Muslims are particularly aggressive in pushing for the prevailing culture to accomodate itself with Islam.

I don’t know of many other religions that force one into taking some kind of political stance so frequently. The live-and-let-live ethic — the glue that holds together a pluralistic society — becomes difficult when a minority culture so frequently requests or demands the majority culture to adapt to better suit it.

Sort of embematic of this is the Imam’s statement in that video that the mosque will serve the purpose of “creating a better understanding” of Islam. I think I speak on behalf of approximately 95% of the population when I say we are tired of “understanding” Islam, and would very much like to treat Islam the same as any other religion we do not practice, that is, with an attitude of benign ignorance and benign irregard.

We don’t care. Please allow us to go on not caring.

Oh, and PS, not every jihadist bombing should be taken as an opportunity to lecture the rest of us about the Islamic religion. To be honest, I think that’s rather the worst conceivable time to go about proselytizing on behalf of the faith that animates so many terrorists.

Jersey Jihad

OK, It seems to me like these bozos were absolutely SCREAMING to be captured and are proof positive that you don’t need to be a criminal mastermind to be a jihadist.

Michelle is all over the story and tells us a bit more about the John Doe who turned these guys in and asked how the illegals got here.

Gateway Pundit has more background on the dirtbags and @ Hotair Allah shows how the other side of sanity operates.

France shows some spine

Don’t think of it as losing a long held and cherished object of ridicule, think of it as putting a stake thru the hearts of leftists everywhere.

Here’s what I mean

Been a long time but there’s a lot of shit going on that I need to address. My views are my own and I speak only for myself. If anyone ever reads this, I hope you agree. If not… send complaints, regrets, foul-mouthed diatribes to someonewhocares@wednesdayedition.com

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Its up to you

Otherwise I hope you dig what I dig. Otherwise, move along.

-M