Friday, 27 May 2011
News........
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 26th
The Mystery of Missing Twitter Time!
Democrats and the Art of Doing Nothing
Old Ironsides starts new chapter at Fort Bliss
Obama budget gets goose egg in Democrat-controlled Senate
Sadr Front: Mehdi Army members are ‘time bombs’ in the hand of Sadr
Analysis: Iraqis wary of decision on US troops
Supreme Court upholds state requirements on employment verification
Netanyahu's popularity soaring following Washington trip
Lenders agree to $22 million settlement for illegally foreclosing on troops' homes
Elderly patients dying of thirst: Doctors forced to prescribe drinking water to keep the old alive, reveals devastating report on hospital care
Blues cancel flyover, air show
Party of the rich: Democrats in Congress score ‘abnormal’ stock profits
Ratko Mladic arrested: Serb general called to account after 16 years on the run
'Paranoid' Gaddafi hiding from Nato in hospitals
Front line troops could face pay cut on return home
South Korea prosecutors say Briton involved in pirate talks
US to reduce Special Forces presence in Pakistan
Thousands flee Yemen capital amid civil war fears
A Portrait of Ratko Mladic: The Life of a Fugitive General
Deadly E. coli found in Spanish cucumbers
Libya Apache deployment approved by David Cameron
Pro-Palestinian-in-Chief
We propose pre-1967........from Rico
Hey, Barry, you socialist limp-noodle!!!
We the People propose rolling back the giant, ever-growing, socialistic, regulatory, liberty-crushing, nanny state to its pre-1967 borders!!!
Video: TURNCOAT NATION
Have we become a nation of Turncoats? Bill and Dr. Victor Davis Hansen say yes
SuperVlad
"Superputin, A Man Like Any Other" takes place in Mockba - one year before the end of the world. Aided with his side kick President Medvedev - a high tech gadget lover who can also shape shift into a bear suit - join forces with an invisible sniper and foil al Qaeda terrorists, poke fun at traffic congestion, corruption and autocracy to enliven Russia's undead political debatery debate.
Make sure you scroll down just a bit to get the Englishski version, tovarisch.
GsGf's BFFs Claire Bigg and Dinara Setdikova give up all the hot deets and smoking gossip over at Radio Free Europe (whoa! "Calling All In Transit")
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Wait - You Said - What?
K. Like, well - what fields would that leave exactly?
submitted by those armored argument angels at GrEaT sATAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
John Wayne's Birthday
It’s not a national holiday but, for some, it should be. On May 26, 1907 Marion Robert Morrison came into the world in Winterset, Iowa. When he left on June 11, 1979 he was John Wayne, an American icon.
Men of a certain generation or two, fortunate to grow up going to the many movies he made in a long career owe him a great debt.
By his very presence on the silver screen he taught us all what it meant to be a man. Wayne was masculine without having to prove it. He literally embodied the virtues we want in our heroes. As an actor he shared those attributes with the boys who grew up wishing to be like him and the women who no doubt found him attractive.
Though he played many heroic characters, a Marine in World War Two, a Navy Commander, and later a Green Beret in Vietnam, it was his many roles as a cowboy that made many of us yearn to ride a horse and learn to shoot a six-gun and a rifle.
In his last film, “The Shootist”, he played a man who made his living with a gun, now old and dying of cancer. In the film, John Bernard Brooks, a legend in his own time, was asked how it was he got into so many gun fights. He replied, “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I require the same from them.” It was as classic a recasting of the Golden Rule as one could ask for and words to live by.
Wayne was one of a handful of Hollywood actors who made no secret of his patriotism and conservative political views. When one considers the endless rewriting of history, past and present, by Hollywood, Wayne was a refreshing alternative.
In a wonderful little book, “The Quotable John Wayne”, author Carol Lea Mueller gathered together many of the things Wayne had to say over the years on a range of topics. Here are a few quotes:
On liberal ideology and its affects on America’s youth, “They work against the natural loyalties and ideals of our kids, filling them with fear and doubt and hate and downgrading patriotism and all our heroes of the past.”
“This new thing of genuflecting to the downtrodden, I don’t go along with that. We ought to go back to praising the kids who get good grades, instead of making excuses for the ones who shoot the neighborhood groceryman.”
“I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale and could read before going to school. I’ve loved reading all my life.”
“I’ve had three wives, six children, and six grandchildren, and I still don’t understand women.”
Wayne respected the epoch of the American West being opened for farming and ranching. “The West—the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their Western heritage—the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.”
“Courage is being scared to death—and saddling up anyway.”
He was an exceptionally good actor who said, “I’ve played the kinda man I’d like to have been.” Later he said, “Nobody liked my acting but the public.”
In a long life, a long career in films, John Wayne embodied values that are being eroded on all fronts in today’s America. Whenever we need a reminder of those values, we can watch a John Wayne film.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Dershowitz in Denial...........by Dan Friedman
Have pity on professional “defender of Israel,” Alan Dershowitz. An apologist for Obama and his hostility towards Israel, he’s having a hard time apologizing for Obama’s latest display of animus and incompetence. What’s more, since his client just won’t listen to reason, the Harvard law professor and $500 an hour mouthpiece is feeling such angst that’s he’s taken on Obama’s case pro bono. Have a look here for Dersh’s proposed new defense strategy replete with the words he’d put in Obama’s mouth.
Of course, it’s not altruism alone that’s motivating the man. Dershowitz and his silver tongue were big backers of Obama in 2008 and helped drive a lot of Jewish sheep into Obama’s abattoir. (Not that they needed much of a push.) Still, Dershowitz is a visionary and sees the next election approaching. If Obama continues to ignore his council, the legal beagle’s street cred will be on the line, and for anyone suffering from logorrhea, silence is not an option. Will he still encourage his Jewish minions – who hang on his every word – to walk into the same propeller after the mess Obama’s made of our relationship with Israel (which is only going to get worse)? Or will Dershowitz endure the unendurable, do the unthinkable, and come to terms with Obama’s hard-left anti-Zionism and instruct his Jews to pull the lever for a (gasp!) Republican? Hey, if I faced a choice like that, I’d put my head in the sand too.
Dan Friedman
NYC
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