Recent rulings by Bowe Bergdahl court-martial Judge Col.Jeffery Nance indicate things are not looking good for this deserter. That’s bad news for him.

Most everyone knows the basic points of the Robert Bowdrie (Bowe) Bergdahl saga. He left his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban, a Sunni extremist group. Based upon his last letter to his parents before he went AWOL, he called

His battalion commander “a conceited old fool”

the U.S. army “the biggest joke the world has to laugh at”

and said

“I am ashamed to be an american”.
There was little doubt that he deserted his post as well as the army.

Ignoring the policy that the U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists, President Obama brought “POW” Bergdahl home in exchange for five Taliban terrorist prisoners being detained at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison facility. As President Trump often says, this was a “bad deal”!

Then, in December 2015, General Robert Abrams reaffirmed Bergdahl be tried by a general court-martial for his actions based on two charges:

One count of “desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty”

and

And one count of “misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place.”

If Bergdahl is convicted, the maximum penalty is life in prison.

In the meantime, spokesman for U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, Paul Boyce, reported in December 2015, that trial judge, U.S. Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance told prosecutors and defense attorneys that jury selection process will begin on Oct. 16, 2017, and the trial will begin on Oct. 23.

Now here is the latest news affecting Bergdahl’s impending court-martial. On July 1, 2017, Judge Nance rejected the argument by the defense that the charge of misbehavior should be dropped; and also ruled that injuries sustained by two personnel who went looking for Bergdahl after his desertion could be used in determining his sentence if convicted.

About the injuries of Sgt.1st Class Mark Allen and retired Senior Chief Petty Officer James Hatch, a Navy SEAL, Judge Nance said

“Neither Allen nor Hatch would have been where they were doing what they were doing but for the actions of the accused, assuming he is found guilty of (misbehavior before the enemy).”

Both were severely injured:

Allen was shot in the head while searching for Bergdahl. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, is confined to a wheelchair and is unable to communicate. Hatch suffered a career-ending broken femur on a separate mission to search for Bergdahl.

The “tolerant’ left is at it again. This time attacking the President’s daughter for stepping up her role at the G20 Summit temporary taking a a seat while her father President Trump, stepped out for a bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

The left either in the media, music industry and in Hollywood have been nothing but vile towards the first family since Donald Trump was elected into office. Sure, Ivanka Trump might be in the fashion business, but don’t let that fool you with the level of skills she has acquired over the years. President Donald Trump is a very successful businessman prior to his Presidency. He would not have picked Ivanka Trump to work by his side if she was incompetent. Besides, if you haven’t noticed on what has been going on in Europe, it’s not like their leaders are competition. I am willing to be that she has more skills and qualifications than most of today’s European leaders.

It comes down to this, the Democrats and everyone who supports them have been unhinged. Their true colors are showing and anything that President Trump does they act like they are experts and attack. You would think with the position Ivanka Trump has in the White House, the feminist or other liberal groups would be happy with women empowerment, but liberals are hypocrites. Their hatred for President Trump clouds their judgment and facts.

Here are some of the examples of hatred on Twitter from the left, it is sickening.
Via Daily Mail:

Ivanka Trump turned heads on Saturday at the G20 summit by temporarily taking a seat at the big-kids’ table when her father, President Donald Trump, stepped out for a bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

A White House official told DailyMail.com that the younger Trump’s fill-in role was nothing out of the ordinary.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May was seen leaving the G20 meeting room at one point, a source with knowledge of the summit’s goings-on said, and her place was briefly taken by an aide.

But when the 35-year-old former fashion executive sat at the table with Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Angela Merkel and Theresa May, Trump’s enemies pounced.

Historian Anne Applebaum tweeted a complaint, denouncing ‘an unelected, unqualified, unprepared New York socialite’ being seen as ‘the best person to represent American national interests.’

Brian Klass, an Oxford scholar who once served as deputy campaign manager for a Democratic governor of Minnesota, tweeted that she was representing the U.S. as an ‘unelected, unqualified daughter-in-chief.’

‘This kind of thing happens all the time. In dictatorships,’ added self-described women’s rights activist Amy Siskind.

And Charles Blow, the liberal New York Times columnist, wrote flatly: ‘Why the hell is Ivanka Trump sitting in for daddy at G20 meetings?! What are her qualifications? Who voted for her?’

It’s not uncommon for leaders to send proxies to attend meetings in their steads, even at high-profile international summits.

Hillary Clinton also famously stepped in during the 1990s to lead a government commission on redesigning the nation’s health care system, standing in for her husband despite not having been elected to any official post.

The Trump White House official said Saturday that Ms. Trump ‘was sitting in the back and then briefly joined the main table when the President had to step out.’

The official said that when Ivanka stepped up, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim had begun to talk about ‘areas such as African development – areas that will benefit from the facility just announced by the World Bank.’

President Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed to a cease fire in Southwest Syria. Vladimir Putin has previously claimed that ISIS was created by Hillary Clinton, and former President Obama.

Back in 2015, when ISIS was at its height, Vladimir Putin explained how the largest terrorist group in history was created thanks to the Obama administration.

The Russian president claims that ISIS was able to bolster their ranks by hiring mercenaries originally armed and bought by the Obama administration to fight the Syrian government.

Additionally, the Democrats created a power vacuum in the area when they announced that American troops in Iraq were being pulled out. This vacuum helped created ISIS.

ISIS was able to grow unchecked, and hired mercenaries armed with American weapons. ISIS was then able to capture oil fields in the now-insecure Iraq in order to finance their terrorism.
Obama further helped ISIS by creating a market for their ill-gotten oil wealth. ISIS was selling oil to American allies with Obama’s tacit consent – he never attempted to cut off the terrorists’ revenue sources.

At their height in 2015, ISIS was netting over $81 million per month thanks the Obama administration. However, since the election of President Trump, ISIS revenue has dropped to $16 million per month. President Trump is beating ISIS back fast, and the terror group is rapidly ceding territory. (via CNN Money)

It is the loss of territory that is impacting the bottom line of ISIS the most. What was once the richest terror organization under Obama has shrank to a nuisance the size of Belgium thanks to President Trump. Now, ISIS is barely holding onto two cities on and the terror group is on the verge of collapse.

The speed at which President Trump has dispatched ISIS reveals that either was completely ineffectual or he made no attempt to stop the spread of ISIS.

Ivanka Trump caught everyone’s eye when she took the stage at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany Saturday in a tailored pink dress.

The first daughter looked striking in the dress that went down to her knees with bell sleeves that tied in the middle by a big pink bow.

She completed the great look with a pair of nude high heels.

Trump was one of the speakers at the World Bank’s new Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi).
“It all started in a conversation with President Kim about what’s being done around the world to fuel female entrepreneurship,” the first daughter explained. “And we all know, and study after study shows, showed that investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but it’s also a very strategically prudent thing to do as you think about developing those economies.”

After a contentious and shocking election that left some Americans using the hashtag “#NotMyPresident,” their feelings toward President Donald Trump tended to project onto his wife, First Lady Melania Trump.

In November, Model Gigi Hadid mocked the first lady during an impression at the American Music Awards.

People were outraged by the cost of her continual stay in New York City and speculated that not even the first lady wanted to be near Trump.

The first lady was also incorrectly labeled an escort and had her nude photos put front and center on the cover of the New York Post. She was even criticized for wearing her engagement ring in her official White House portrait.

In December, a Fox News poll indicated that only 37 percent of people polled viewed her favorably and 23 percent couldn’t say one way or the other.

Since then, Melania has seemed to embrace her new life as first lady and joined her husband in the spotlight. She shared this sweet moment during the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
The White House celebrated Mother’s Day with a luncheon for the mothers of the nation’s military service members, during which Melania, although a former model, wife of both a president and billionaire, proved motherhood is a universal language.

In a speech, she gave a relatable and humble message to her guests:

“As everyone in this room knows, mother is a title that claims your heart and changes your life forever. In fact, it has been said that having a child means allowing your heart to walk around outside of your body. For the mothers of someone who has, or is, serving our country, this must be especially true.”

The first lady also shined while she represented the United States with poise on her first foreign trip, where she visited multiple children’s hospitals and even spoke Italian to children while in Italy.
It seems the more Melania warms up to the publicity and demands of her role as first lady, the more the public warms up to her.

A Fox News poll from June revealed that among the registered voters who were polled, 51 percent had a favorable view of her — an increase of 14 points since December’s poll.

While at the G20 summit the President made a remarkable presidential milestone. As of the end of June, the President was able to add 220,000 jobs to the American economy. These are the best numbers since February when the expectations were around 174,000. These were reported by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Department noted that the number of employed Americans made another record last month with a total of 153,168,000 being employed.

The number of Americans not in the labor force is currently at 94,813,000. This came after several months of straight monthly gains since the Presidents inauguration. Those counted in the labor force are those who are age 16 and older who are not institutionalized or currently serving in the military. The number includes those who are disabled, housewives, students, retirees, and those who are simply no longer looking for work.

From June the labor force participation rate increased a tenth of a point and came out to 62.8 percent. This number is within two-tenths of the point where it was from since last January. There is no clear trend, as was noted by the BLS.

The unemployment rate in June increased only one-tenth of a point to 4.4 percent which is a historic low. A few days ago the President tweeted out a comment on the statistics saying,

“Really great numbers on jobs & the economy! Things are starting to kick in now, and we have just begun! Don’t like steel & aluminum dumping!”

He was referencing a report from the day before the Fourth of July which showed that manufacturers were growing faster in the past three years than they ever had before. Over 1,000 jobs were added to the economy in just June which makes for a total of 12,396,000 manufacturing jobs.

The number of non-institutionalized people was 254,957,000 and of those approximately 160,145,000 were participating in the labor workforce. Meaning they were actively looking for or holding down a full-time job. That portion is 62.8 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population.
CNS reported the following statistics,

“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised up from +174,000 to +207,000; and the change for May was revised up from +138,000 to +152,000. BLS noted that with these revisions, employment gains in April and May combined were 47,000 more than previously reported. Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.

Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 194,000 per month. In a June 29, 2017 update, the Congressional Budget Office said it expects the U.S. labor market to tighten in the next two years, as greater demand for workers will push the unemployment rate down and the labor force participation rate up.

The projected demand for workers will encourage more people to participate in the labor force, temporarily offsetting the projected decline in participation arising from such factors as the ongoing retirement of baby boomers. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain around 4.3 percent by the end of 2017 and then drop further to 4.2 percent in early 2018.”

The Congressional Budget Office reported the following information,

– The labor force participating rate is expected to remain somewhat constant and consistent over a period of two years. This is the number of civilian non-institutionalized people who are over 16 and have jobs or don’t have jobs but are actively looking for new work

– Tightening the labor market more will increase growth as well as salaries over a period of two years

– Price inflation will continue to increase over the rest of 2017 as well as interest rates

– Over the next ten years, the labor force growth will be stifled by a slow population growth because of an aging population and increase in retirees from the baby boomer generation.

“BLS noted that with these revisions, employment gains in April and May combined were 47,000 more than previously reported. Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.

Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 194,000 per month.

In a June 29, 2017 update, the Congressional Budget Office said it expects the U.S. labor market to tighten in the next two years, as greater demand for workers will push the unemployment rate down and the labor force participation rate up.

And the idiot award of the month goes to.….

A Sunwing Airlines flight bound for of all places the mecca of communism, Cayo Coco Cuba, had to return to Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport on Thursday while sporting US fighter jet escorts due to an unruly passenger making non-specific threats.
US Norad Region spokesperson confirmed that two US Air Force F-15 fighter jets, operating out of Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, scrambled to intercept the Sunwing flight near Albany, New York. Then they proceeded to escort it back to Montreal. Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18s from Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, in Quebec, monitored the situation from a distance, while the two US Air Force jets intercepted the flight, but steered clear of intercepting the Sunwing flight themselves.
The passenger who has been identified as 39-year-old Charalabus ‘Bobby’ Nassios by CTV Montreal, allegedly started issuing threats in mid-flight.

It appears the threats were made after Nassios seems to have had some type of meltdown at the airport before departure. He seems to have shared a series of very bizarre and awkward Facebook posts with his online friends before boarding the plane. He is scheduled to go in front of a judge on Thursday.

Via Daily Mail:

Six fighter jets from the United States and Canada were scrambled to respond to a commercial flight as it flew back to the airport after a customer threatened flight attendants and passengers mid flight.

The Sunwing Airlines Flight WG604 departed from Quebec’s Montreal Trudeau International Airport airport on Thursday evening, headed for Cayo Coco, Cuba, when the customer, identified as 39-year-old Charalabus ‘Bobby’ Nassios by CTV Montreal, allegedly started issuing the threats.

A Continental US NORAD — North American Aerospace Defense — Region spokesperson confirmed that two US Air Force F-15 fighter jets, operating out of Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, intercepted the Sunwing flight near Albany, New York and escorted it back to Montreal.
Procedures for interception of civilian aircraft in real life

There is a set of standard procedures defined by ICAO that includes radio communication and visual signals both for night and day. There are procedures both for the intercepting aircraft and for the intercepted aircraft. These are defined in annex 2 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, Rules of the air, and are repeated in the Aeronautical information publication (AIP) for each country in section ENR 1.12, Interception of civilian aircraft. Note that there might be some national differences.

Intercepting aircraft

The intercepting aircraft should try to contact the intercepted aircraft using 121.5 MHz, using the call signs Interceptor, Intercepted aircraft and Intercept control. If that fails the intercepting aircraft should try the ATC frequencies or try to contact the intercepted aircraft through the ATC.

Interception maneuvers for visual identification are split into three phases.

Phase I: The intercepting aircraft moves up on the intercepted aircraft to about 300 meters distance from behind and slightly above. The flight leader or lone intercepting aircraft take a position slightly ahead, above and normally to the left of the intercepted aircraft (or to the right if the intercepted aircraft is a helicopter) while maintaining a distance of about 300 meters.

Phase II: The flight leader or lone intercepting aircraft gently move in close enough to identify the intercepted aircraft type and identity and get other information required, while the rest of the intercepting aircraft continues to stay well clear of the intercepted aircraft.

Phase III: The flight leader or lone intercepting aircraft gently brakes away from the intercepted aircraft in a shallow dive, while the rest of the intercepting aircraft continues to stay well clear of the intercepted aircraft till they can rejoin the flight leader.

The G-20 Summit is coming to an end after a hard working week. President Trump, President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and new French President Emmanuel Macron were among the most prominent world leaders who attended. First Lady Melania Trump turned heads when she sat down next to President Vladimir Putin at a banquet on Friday in Hamburg, Germany.

The First Lady speaks several languages one of which is German which the Russian President speaks. They were strategically placed next to each other because they could communicate with one another. The dinner went well as you could see them laughing and smiling with one another.
President Trump sat next to Juliana Awada away from his wife who was next to Putin. Awada is the wife of Argentina’s president who attended the summit. Those across from the table from President Trump included Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brigitte Macron who is the wife of the French president.

Writer Nikki Schwartz from the Daily Mail said,

“With the day’s business out of the way, the leaders enjoyed a concert and then a Friday night dinner, in which couples were split up and not seated with their spouses. That’s how Melania Trump ended up next to Putin. The first lady, who grew up in Slovenia, then a part of Yugoslavia, knows several languages including German, which the Russian president also speaks.

The dinner took place after German Chancellor Angela Merkel treated her G20 guests to Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony hoping to spread her vision with ‘a hymn to humanity, peace and international understanding’.

Questions had been raised about how realistic a vision that is with Putin, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Trump all on hand.
The last portion of the symphony is the EU’s official anthem.

There were concerns before the performance that Trump might dip out of the show, performed at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, given the American president’s feeling towards symphonies.

Trump wrote in his 2004 book ‘How to Get Rich’ that he knows little about classical music, preferring instead the likes of Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith.”

Prior to the banquet Putin and Trump had met face to face to discuss relations between our countries and issues such as arms deals, NATO, and Ukraine. They spoke one on one for over two hours in a private room. During this conversation, Trump brought up the Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election. However, Putin flat out denied it.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commented on the exchange saying the following,

“They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. The president pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past.”

During the conversation, President Trump and President Putin struck a deal and make an agreement for a ceasefire in Syria where Civil War has broken out. It was specifically in the region of southwest Syria. This will be the first U.S.-Russian pact under the Trump administration to aid in quelling the six-year civil war. It will take effect on Sunday, a speech reported by Jordanian government officials and U.S. officials.
The Telegraph reported the following about the exchange between the two leaders,

“The President’s wife Melania has also been called upon by the US delegation, after it emerged she was sent in to Mr Trump’s lengthy one-on-one meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to try to wind up their conversation.

Mr Trump spent 2hrs 16mins with President Putin on Friday, and Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, disclosed that presidential aides became exasperated that the President was allowing it to overrun for so long. Slots of 30 minutes are usually allotted for each bilateral meeting.”

This has to be the feel-good story of the week!

I think now I have seen it all. A white newspaper “fake news” reporter from Missouri has set off a barrage of controversy after he published a fake opinion piece last month attacking Missouri sheriff’s deputies for pulling him over after he made multiple traffic violations.
According to Bill Clark’s column, he was pulled over for failing to signal at a stop sign, which he does often. That in its self is not news, but since the mainstream media now makes up news we all can imagine what happened next. Clark went on to write that he was lucky he didn’t get shot and that his very life seemed to be in danger during the traffic stop. He then continued on to write that he now feels like he fully understands what minorities go through when stopped by police. Huh?
Clark’s Collum:

Ol’ Clark has run-in with the law

After over three million miles of driving and using my turn signals religiously, Ol’ Clark was pulled over for not signaling a right turn, giving me a chance to better understand how minority motorists feel when they are pulled over for the most trivial reason, or no reason at all.
Here’s Ol’ Clark’s story.

The intersection of Grace Lane and Lake of the Woods Road carries a heavy traffic load to major subdivisions all the way south to highway 63. Cars on Grace Lane can go either left or right at Lake of the Woods, where traffic does not stop. It can be a very dangerous corner.

On one recent evening, I left my gym half a block south of the intersection and, upon reaching the stop sign, I stopped and remarked to myself that I couldn’t believe there was no traffic in either direction. There was only a car a block behind me.

My stop had been total, not rolling. I turned right and headed toward Interstate 70. Within 100 yards, red lights flashed behind me, seeming to come from nowhere. I pulled over to allow an emergency vehicle to pass, stopping in the intersection with Bull Run Drive. Then I realized the lights were for me.

I was now blocking traffic onto Bull Run, so I rolled slowly forward to a shoulder wide enough for both vehicles. The move made sense.

Wrong move!

I’m lucky I didn’t get shot. Sirens wailed and when I stopped, two officers were out of the sheriff’s vehicle. When I reached over to turn off the radio and then take my wallet out of my pocket to produce the driver’s license and insurance card, I realized my hands were not at the top of my steering wheel. Danger lurked and official arrogance was to follow.

I had no idea why I had been stopped. I rolled down the window and when the sheriff’s deputy approached, my question was, “Why am I being stopped?”

“Because you didn’t use your turn signal back at Grace Lane.” And she added, “And you don’t move your vehicle when we stop you.”

“Hey, I was blocking a major intersection because I thought you were an emergency vehicle and traffic couldn’t move.” No answer.

After surrendering my license and insurance card, here came the lecture while the second officer stood guard. Then I asked the question: “I normally am very good about using my turn signal,” I said, realizing that the deputy had probably heard that excuse too many times before. “Tell me, just how did that infraction interfere with the flow of traffic since there was no one except you behind me? How did I endanger others? What did I do to compromise the safety of others and the flow of traffic?”