In: Handing our enemy our battle plans. Out: The inability to call our enemy by name.

Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had let the Nazi’s know Allied forces were going to invade Fortress Europe in early June 1944 by landing a Normandy. It’s doubtful that the Allies would have won the war.

The Obama Administration is telegraphing plans to retake Mosul, Iraq from ISIS/ISIL before Ramadan begins on June 17. Five Iraqi Army brigades composing a total force of up to 25,000 Iraqi troops will be used.

To which ISIS’ISIL is saying, ‘Gee guys, thanks for the warning. We’ll be ready for you.’

It’s also been revealed that Qatar will host training sites for coalition forces to train moderate Syrian rebels. Other planned sites are in Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Included in the force would be a brigade of Iraqi counterterrorism forces who have been trained by U.S. special operations forces. The brigades include roughly 2,000 troops each.

The U.S. will provide military support for the operation, including training, air support, intelligence and surveillance. There has been no decision made yet on whether to send in some U.S. ground troops to help call in airstrikes.

Oh, and it comes with this warning: The attack will be postponed if it looks as though the Iraqis aren’t up to the task.

Has the Obama Administration even tried to get ISIS/ISIL to leave Mosul jus’ by asking?

Comedian George Carlin joked about the seven words you couldn’t say on air. Add two more — “Islam” and “Muslim” — but only if you use them in a less-than-flattering context.

President Obama proved this while giving an interview to the website Vox.

“It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris,” Obama stated.

He also refuses to use the words, ‘Jew’ or “Jewish.’

But there’s nothing ‘random’ about the attack on those ‘bunch of folks.’ In fact, the event was a premeditated, deliberate, and well planned act of violence.

So let’s connect the dots to these same ‘violent, vicious zealots,’ as they acted out their form of ’perverted Islam,’ on our shores.

In September 2014, a man in Moore, Oklahoma, beheaded a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting Islamist beheading photographs on social media. Three months before this, in West Orange, New Jersey, a college student was gunned-down ‘in revenge’ for Muslim deaths overseas.

Two homosexuals were murdered in Seattle, Washington by a proclaimed Muslim, Ali Muhammad Brown in June 2014. Three months prior, in Port Bolivar, Texas, a Muslim man named James Cosby, beat his lesbian daughter and her lover to death, leaving a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.

While not as horrific as having one’s head lopped off, a man near Detroit stabbed two people at a bus stop after he made sure they weren’t Muslims. Several people there “engaged in conversation” until Terrence Thomas, “asked some of the folks there if they were Muslims.”

Two of them answered that they were not and were stabbed five times. A third man was stabbed in the hand as he tried to stop the attack.

Thomas told police he is a Muslim. But instead of treating this as a possible actor of terror, Southfield Police have contacted the FBI, which is investigating the incident to see whether hate-crime laws were violated.

As situations like this continue to mount, Obama continues to defend his decision not to label ISIS/ISIL as a “radical Islamic” group, as characterized by his remarks during his recent anti-extremism summit at the White House.

“We are not at war with Islam,” Obama said. “We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

Remember, in World War II, not all Germans were Nazi’s, but nearly all Nazi’s were German.

The headline on the Las Vegas Review Journal’s Facebook page reads, “Fiore takes heat over ‘hot little girls’ gun comment.”

It’s by Sandra Chereb, who writes: “The Nevada Assembly minority leader called on a GOP assemblywoman to apologize for comments she made in The New York times about rape, concealed weapons and women on college campuses.”

Here’s her comment in full: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them,” (Michele) Fiore was reported as saying. “The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

“That’s how Progressives operate,” I responded to the post, “when they can’t debate the facts — they change the subject of the debate.”

Some one calling himself ‘Max Saiger’ replied, “Implying only one side does that.”

Saiger’s comment is actually a question, though he forgot the question mark. I took his question to mean I was attacking ‘Liberals,’ or perhaps, ‘Democrats, so I answered, “I didn’t say Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, Democrat or Republican. Sorry if you’re feelings are hurt.”

This prompted a ‘John Bachmann’ to ask a couple of snarky questions, “Tom are you a split personality? Read your post and then read your reply. Feeling the disconnect yet? Wow!”

My response: “Obviously Bachmann, you are intent on changing the subject, which is allowing guns on campus, but Progressives like you try to dismantle it by focusing (changing the subject to) on her comment ‘hot little girls.’ Afraid you are the one disconnected.”

The debate before the state legislature is over whether to allow students, faculty and visitors to carry a concealed gun on Nevada Campuses of Higher Education. It’s not about “hot little girls,” as Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick, of North Las Vegas, would like to reframe the debate.

Hopefully, Fiore won’t be cowed into stepping back from her comments. As for this particular news item on Facebook I’ve turned off the ‘notification app’ as I don’t want to waste my time debating people who insist on changing the subject every time they’re beaten by the facts.

ISIS/ISIL has now burned 45 people to death in the Iraqi town al-Baghdadi. Some of the victims are security guards from nearby al-Asad Air Base.

The group seized much of the town last week. It’s also five miles away from the base, the recent site of ISIS/ISIL suicide bomber attacks, where about 300 U.S. Marines are stationed.

Also, the U.N. Security Council says it’s now investigating claims that ISIS/ISIL is selling human organs to pay for its terror activities in Iraq. Bodies with surgical incisions and missing body parts have been found in shallow graves around the country over the past few weeks.

As this occurs, a State Department spokeswoman says we need to create jobs for the radical Islamic group.

“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians – they’re in this fight with us,” Marie Harf said on MSNBC. “But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs…”

She later went on CNN trying to explain her earlier comments, “We cannot kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try. How do you get at the root causes of this? It might be too nuanced an argument for some, like I’ve seen over the last 24 hours some of the commentary out there, but it’s really the smart way that Democrats, Republicans, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat it.”

Harf was supposed to be bringing awareness to the Obama administration’s three-day summit on “countering violent extremism,” where one of the strategies they’re reviewing is the administration social media presence. The Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, created in 2011, will coordinate Twitter accounts, et al, and meet with Muslim academics, scholars, and community leaders to get the administration’s message out.

While Obama administration talks about what to do — Iraq is attacking ISIS/ISIL in and around Mosul, which has been held by the terror group since last June. The news comes as Egypt reports that it’s killed “64 jihadists,” in a series of aerial assaults launched in retaliation for beheading 21 Christians.

Everett Police are identifying the suspect in a shooting that took two lives and left a woman hospitalized. Tye Fleischer is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault.

Killed were Kevin Odneal and Denny Halverson. The injured woman was struck in the pelvis and is expected to survive.

Officers were at Odneal’s home in December 2014 to investigate a possible chop-shop.

In May 2011, a robbery at the home turned deadly. The target of the robbery told police he’d been hit in the head with a flashlight and began to lose consciousness as he fatally shot one of the attackers.

Odneal pleaded guilty to robbery and unlawful gun possession. He was sentenced to a year and five months in prison in 2012.

The victim was not charged. Police said he was acting in self-defense.

In 2008, a man was shot and killed at the same home. In that case, investigators believe three men, including Odneal, were arguing about drugs and a car.

The argument spilled outside, where the man was shot. The shooter pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Your help is still needed. An account has been set up by Denny’s aunt, Jocelyn Warriner, to help defray funeral expenses.

Nevada has more than 80 prison inmates on death row, but no one’s been put to death since 2006 and no executions are scheduled. Now state prisons Chief Greg Cox wants $800,000 to build a death chamber at Ely State Prison about 35 miles west of the Utah line and another $7.6 million for a hundred more guards.

Talk about another waste of tax money.

Nevada lawmakers should consider the route Utah is taking. A recent proposal to bring back Utah’s use of firing squads to carry out executions passed Utah’s legislature.

For years, states used a three-drug combination to execute inmates. But European drug makers have refused to sell the drugs to prisons and corrections departments out of opposition to the death penalty.

The drug shortage and trouble with administering lethal injections have led several states to begin revisiting alternatives during the past year. A bill to allow firing squad executions is working its way through Wyoming’s Legislature, while lawmakers in Oklahoma are considering legislation that would allow that state to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates.

A handful of inmates on Utah’s death row, sentenced before the law changed, still have the option of going before a firing squad once they’ve exhausted all appeals. It was last used in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was successfully  executed by five police officers using .30-caliber Winchester rifles.

Doug Fabrizio, one of a small group of witnesses described Gardner reaction after being shot to ABC News: “He clenched his fist and then let go and then he clenched it again.”

Two minutes later, Gardner was dead.

Washington D.C. – based, Death Penalty Information Center says firing squads are not foolproof because the inmate could move or shooters could miss the heart, causing a slower, more painful death. One such case they point out happened in 1879 when Utah was still a territory.

In an article titled, “Six Men Legally Killed”, the New York Times’ May 16, 1879 edition describes Wallace Wilkerson’s death as he sat unrestrained before the firing squad: “Wilkerson leaped from the chair exclaiming, “Oh, God” fell forward on his face, and continued writhing and gasping for 27 minutes, when the physicians pronounced him dead.”

“My niece was walking out the door when the guy got out of his van and just started shooting everybody,” writes my friend, Jocelyn Warriner. “I’ve lost a wonderful person in my life. Her two daughters have lost a wonderful mom and my sister lost great daughter.”

“You will be missed Denny, rest in peace,” she adds.

She’s talking about 42-year-old Irene Denean Halverson who was better known to family and friends as “Denny.”

It began Friday evening, February 14, 2015 around 7 pm, when Everett, Washington Police arrived at a home on 75th Street Southeast to discover three people shot. When officers approached, they found a woman and a man dead and third person seriously injured.

Witnesses say a van pulled up to the home, where the gunman got out, took a rifle from the vehicle, walked to a nearby fence and started shooting. Denny died as she exited the front door.

After closing down the roadways in the area and getting help from King County Air and a SWAT team, police were able to arrest a suspect. He was taken into custody after stopping his vehicle at Forest Park and talking with police on a cell phone.

He is in the Snohomish County Jail facing assault and 2nd degree murder charges. The suspects name has not been released.

Another witness said he spoke with the suspect and one of the victim’s jus’ hours before the shooting. He told reporters that the suspect seemed level-headed but was struggling with his own sobriety.

Kevin Odneal, who shared the home with his mother, also died in the attack.

Local news agencies say two men were killed in separate murders at the home in 2008 and 2011. The house has also been the scene of many incidents including a search warrant in December by the Snohomish County Auto Theft Task Force.

Jocelyn and I have been life-long friends since our days together at Francis E. Warren AFB, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  She has set up an account to help defray the funeral expenses.

Please give any amount possible and keep Jocelyn and her family in your prayers as they grieve.  I thank you in advance.

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Henry Sprague on January 26, 1900, while serving as New York’s governor.

More than 115-years later, a video shows the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages by ISIS/ISIL in Libya. The 21 men, all in orange jumpsuits, were marched along a beach in Tripoli, before their murders.

Interesting that ISIS/ISIL should select Tripoli, where the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Army stormed the fortress of Derne, defeating the Eyalet of Tripolitania during the First Barbary War in 1805. Some sources say this is a direct challenge to the U.S. military’s superiority.

And while the Egypt’s Air Force hit back at ISIS/ISIL inside Libya with airstrikes for the beheadings, the U.S. State Department issued a statement condemning the killings, but did not name the religions of the victims or of the perpetrators.

“The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of 21 Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists. We offer our condolences to the families of the victims and our support to the Egyptian government and people as they grieve for their fellow citizens.”

Also released during the same time period is a video of children dressed in orange jumpsuits, locked in a cage in what can only be called a recreation of the ISIS/ISIL video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive.   While it’s still unconfirmed, some believe this event was just a stunt calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged atrocities to be likened to those of the jihadists.

In yet another video released by ISIS/ISIL, orange-clad Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are paraded through the streets of the Hawija district of Kirkuk, Iraq, filled with cheering radical Islamists.  They are locked in, and shackled to large iron cages, also reminiscent of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

Whether they’ve been murdered is still unknown.

Meanwhile, Danish police shot and killed Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein after he carried out two shooting attacks.  One at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing two men, including a member of Denmark’s Jewish community and wounding five police officers.

Danish police have since arrested two people on suspicion of aiding El-Hussein in the attacks, ending the speculation he was simply a ‘lone actor.’

Finally, President Obama spent much Presidents Day golfing at Porcupine Creek in Rancho Mirage, California, before returning to Washington D.C. The White House says Obama’s golfing group includes three childhood friends from Hawaii.

Obama’s idea of a ‘big stick’ is a golf club.

Her name is Jessica Liesmann, but she’s better known as “Mama Bear,” or the woman who confronted an armed car thief after he rammed into her mini-van in Texas. And now, she’s been ‘rewarded’ with a new vehicle.

“A high-speed police chase came to a dramatic end Wednesday in North Dallas when the driver rear-ended a family’s minivan and was promptly tackled, dragged into the street and beaten by the mom at the wheel and her boyfriend,” reports NBC’s Channel 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Her story proves that we are desperate for anyone who resembles a ‘hero.’ After-all she leaped from her van and went after a bad guy on live-television.

However, if you really analyze what she did, you’d realize she did this because she lost her temper, enraged by what happened. Basically, she violently attacked a man she had no knowledge about.

“I was just angry,” Liesmann later admitted.

It’s nice that she received a new mini-van – but why it was given to her sends a bad message to others who believe her actions were proper. After all, police discovered a hand gun in the stolen car.

As Dallas Police Communications Services Section spokesman, Major Max Geron tweeted shortly after the suspect’s apprehension, “Thankful that the citizens who held the chase suspect weren’t injured by him. (I) would never advise you do that.”

From time to time, I’d see him standing out on his back porch smoking a cigarette. We would wave to each other, but hardly did we ever speak other than to say a polite ‘hello’ to each other.

Along with this was the fact that while this man’s home was being built, Kyle saw a beginning of a fire, that left unchecked could have burned the building down. It was discovered the blaze began after some plumbers had been working on the pipes in the kitchen area and a hot-ember fell in a pile of debris.

That was 16-years ago. Then I learned that he passed away on February 7, 2015.

And suddenly, I find myself wishing I had tried harder to get to know him as since his death, I’ve learned he and I had more in common than either of us knew.

His name was Tom Golbov, having been born in Oroville, California, in 1932 and moving to Eureka shortly there after. Tom was also a U.S. Army veteran, serving in Korea, and moving to Reno, Nevada in 1961, where he joined the staff as a Laboratory Technician in the Department of Physics Department of the University of Nevada.

He also worked as a life insurance agent for Transamerica, a job that took him and his wife of 61-year, Joan to Phoenix, AZ for 13 years, until his retirement, at which time they returned to Reno to be close to their family which includes daughter Lorraine Hiatt, and sons, Alan and George Golbov.

Tom’s wife is from Eureka, California. In fact her brother, Gerald “Dick” Atwell, was born in 1929 in Eureka. He died in Surprise, Arizona on April 26, 2010 at the age of 80.

Dick was a general contractor “Builtwell by Atwell” for 28 years and an instructor for 25 years at College of the Redwoods. He also received the Southwest Eureka Rotary Club Vocational Service Award in 1991 for Outstanding Service to the Community and in 1996 received from the Humboldt Builders Exchange Construction Person of the Year.

One of the homes Dick built included the “Kins Sportsman House” in 1962.  He also built the Lady Bird Johnson Grove dedication platform and supervised the building of the Evergreen Lodge.

Tom’s father, Walter Golbov was born in Russia, January 16, 1902, dying May 5, 1958 at his home in Klamath. He had lived there for three years, and was an employee of the Arrow Mills. He’s interred in the IOOF Memorial cemetery of Crescent City.

Tom’s mother was born August 30, 1904 in Palermo, California in Butte County. She passed away in Sparks October 17, 1979 and buried at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery near her grandson, Ivan who lived only 18-days, passing away April 9, 1972.

Tom was 83-years old.