Pork: It's What's for Death

Are US Special Forces Coating Bullets in Pig Fat? 

The makers of Silver Bullet Gun Oil claim it contains 13 per cent USDA liquefied pig fat thus making the product 'a highly effective counter-Islamic terrorist force multiplier.'

The apparent owner of the gun oil site, who goes by the name 'The Midnight Rider,' explains how the pig fat will transfer onto anything the bullet strikes.

This 'effectively denies entry to Allah's paradise to an Islamo-fascist terrorist,' Rider adds.

The oil, which costs $8.95 for 4oz, apparently puts the 'fear of death into them (terrorists)'.

In Islam consumption of pork is forbidden, but the Quran also states that if one is forced to consume the meat then they are guiltless and therefore not disqualified from paradise.

The website also notes its customers include members of the U.S. military.

'Thousands of bottles of Silver Bullet Gun Oil have been distributed since July of 2004 by its creator to members of ALL U.S. Military branches,' it claims.

There is virtually no way to tell if Silver Bullet's claim regarding its product's popularity among the armed forces is bunk, but regardless it does make for a fascinating example of psychological-ops warfare. Islamic terrorists are encouraged and enabled in part by their belief that their acts will earn them a place in paradise in the afterlife, effectively removing the human fear of death from their psyches. Add that fear back in -- even if just slightly via rumor or innuendo -- and who knows if perhaps it gives our enemies additional pause before waging jihad? These individuals aren't exactly rocket scientists, and every little advantage could potetentially mean one less US soldier in harm's way or one less US citizen murdered.

It's called "thinking outside the box" to come up with solutions to the problems of our time.

H/t to Girl on the Right for finding my favorite story of the weekend. 

Hoisted on His Own Petard

Seems as if the son of the most infamous mass murderer of this current century is a bit miffed at the way his dad met a bitter end.

Osama Bin Laden's son complained Tuesday that his father was summarily executed, deprived of a fair trial and denied a family burial.

The son, who has previously denounced his father's murderous ways, said President Obama was no better than the notorious terrorist.

"As (I) condemned our father, (I) now condemn the President of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women," Omar Bin Laden wrote.

Do you smell that? It bares a strong olfactory resemblance to the smug self-righteousness of a man pontificating and throwing punches a tad outside his weight class. His father clearly was unmoved by his proclamations, so I fail to understand why the President of the United States -- or anyone else, for that matter -- would really care what Omar Bin Laden thinks.

That doesn't stop him from going on, of course.

"Not only international law has been blatantly violated, but USA has set a very different example whereby right to have a fair trial, and presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a court of law," Omar Bin Laden wrote in sometimes fractured English.

Osama Bin Laden was not a citizen of the United States, or a member of any organized state or formal army. As such, he was not entitled to any form of rights or presumption of anything in accordance with any form of law -- "international" or American.

He demanded answers in 30 days and said he is putting together a panel of British lawyers.

You will pardon me again if I'm not exactly quaking in my boots at this proclamation. Still, if would be a fitting irony, indeed, if Bin Laden managed to get an international court to declare Barack Obama a war criminal, much like the president's supporters so vehemently declared his predecessor.

Anyway, I've spent more time on this than Omar Bin Laden deserves. Bottom line, he's upset with the treatment of his father? I'm upset that his father killed over 3,000 people in my hometown. By my calculations, he owes me at least 2,999 more outrages before I give a flying fuck.

No Guts, No Glory

Ace of Spades notes the almost coordinated and on-message references to the CIA operation that killed Osama Bin Laden last week as "gutsy" on the part of the President. Here's a snippet, via Hot Air:

When President Obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this, the president had to evaluate the strength of that information and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.

To borrow a phrase so beloved by the Teleprompter in Chief, let me be clear. The operatives who put their lives on the line to monitor Bin Laden for months in Pakistan are gutsy. The SEAL Team that carried out the actual operation are gutsy. The Rangers that went in and then extracted the SEALS from deep inside a foreign territory are gutsy. The men and women that serve so capably each and every day in every undertaking that our armed forces performs are gutsy.

Acting on verifiable data and giving the go-ahead order from thousands of miles away? That's not gutsy, that's the President of the United States' job. Stop with the never-ending victory tour boys; there's a lot of work and messes still to be cleaned up both at home and abroad. Take a lesson from my personal life credo: "Act as if you've been there before."

Jim Geraghty Nails It

Turns out it wasn't a new era of peace, love, and understanding that captured and killed the world's most wanted mass murderer, but some good old-fashioned tactics of war put forth by the much-maligned President Bush that eventually got the job done.

I can hear the liberal cries of outrage, so to recap: The interrogations of KSM (which included waterboarding) and the interrogation of Hassan Ghul (held in “black site” prisons) were key to identifying the courier; the president then authorized military action in a foreign country without going to the United Nations or informing the host government; the military action was unilateral, and we did not consult with our allies; Congress was not informed of the military action; and it increasingly appears that no serious effort was made to treat Osama bin Laden as a criminal (reading him his rights, etc.). The monitoring of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti’s phone call was a result of an extensive global wiretapping system. Furthermore, as Charles Krauthammer notes, the helicopters used in the raid came from Bagram and Jalalabad; if we had withdrawn from Afghanistan on the antiwar Left’s timetable, we would have had no bases from which to launch this operation.

If I thought for a moment that dialogue and understanding could bring about true peace in this world I would be first on the bandwagon. But turns out that, when people want to kill you, they sometimes just won't listen to reason. That's why you carry the proverbial big stick, too...just in case.