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Friday, 7 December 2012

Red Friday Totty...........






PJTV: ZoNation: Jovan Belcher Tragedy: Blame the Man not the NRA

Liberals like Jason Whitlock want you to believe that the NRA killed Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend. Zo tells you why the NRA is not the KKK, and reminds you who is really to blame for this murder-suicide, in addition to other tragedies in black communities.

Thursday, 6 December 2012

"Never Again"? Again in Scotland!...from Mike Haltman at TPC



In yet another challenge to the idea that what happened in Nazi Germany could never happen again, Jewish students at Edinburgh University have stopped attending due to "toxic" anti-Semitism. 

Read the story at The Political Commentator here.

Is Pearl Harbor Ancient History?

 


By Alan Caruba

I recall in my youth thinking that the Civil War (1861-1865) was ancient history. As with most children, anything that occurred before my birth was “ancient.” In point of fact, the Civil War had ended just 72 years before I was born in 1937 and there were likely some men still alive who had fought in it or recalled it as youth.

I suspect that the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “will live in infamy” is ancient history to several recent generations of Americans, many of whom are the aging baby boomers, the children born after our troops returned home, married, and began to raise families after 1945, the year World War II ended.

What I fear most is that the children and grandchildren of those baby boomers may not even know what occurred on that Sunday morning 71 years ago.

The general ignorance of Americans about their own history comes with its own price. Forgetting or never knowing that a long Cold War was fought with the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until its collapse in 1991 has left this nation with a President whose ideology concerning capitalism and centralized government closely mirrors the communist empire America expended blood and treasure to defeat.

While younger generations may have a fleeting grasp of the 1970s Vietnam War, most probably do not even know that, shortly after World War II ended, many U.S. servicemen were called to duty to fight the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, 1950-1953, a communist satellite of China whose troops were involved. I have an older brother who served in the Tokyo-based Supreme Headquarters Far East Command during that war. You can bet he remembers it.

The Korean War ended in a stalemate. Technically, only a ceasefire agreement exists. South Korea went on to become an industrial success story while North Korea still cannot keep the lights on at night. It makes nuclear weapons and missiles to pay the bills these days, in addition to a variety of other criminal activities. The grandson of its first dictator is the new dictator and observers have dubbed North Korea “China’s hidden dagger” because nothing happens there without Chinese oversight and permission.

Pearl Harbor has a special place in American history because it marked the U.S. entry into World War II. The war had been raging in Europe since 1939 and, frankly, a lot of Americans did not want to get involved in a second European conflict since memories of World War I which had ended in 1918 were still relatively fresh in people’s minds. Pearl Harbor changed all that.
Men lined up to enlist to fight World War II. They volunteered in the thousands because they understood the threat to freedom the regimes of the Nazis and the Japanese Empire represented. Similarly, after 9/11 there was a surge of enlistments to fight the rising tide of Islamic aggression.

The Cold War was still active when President Lyndon Johnson decided to increase the numbers of U.S. forces in Vietnam. The war had begun in 1955 against the French for whom Vietnam was a colony. By 1975, after the U.S. had been involved from the 1960s, the death toll topped 58,000 when the U.S. negotiated its way out of what had become an ignominious defeat.

Why did LBJ escalate our participation? He had fought in WWII and spent much of his life in Congress during the Cold War. For him, WWII and the Korean War were still relatively fresh in mind. Like many others, he believed in the “domino theory” that postulated a loss in Vietnam would lead other Asian nations into the Communist orbit. Red China was still very much an enemy at the time. Ultimately, the war was so unpopular that he decided against running for a second term.

It was left to Richard Nixon to extricate us from Vietnam and then to open the doors to China. In doing so he transformed the future for both our nations. He will, however, be remembered for Watergate and for being the only President to resign the office.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are beginning to fade from public memory, despite the 9/11 attack on our homeland.

In 1986 I boarded a boat at Pearl Harbor to visit the Memorial over the USS Arizona, a sunken battleship. As I looked around me, I realized that the majority of other visitors were Japanese tourists! When we disembarked, one by one they would stand in front of the names of U.S. casualties on that day that filled one of the walls. Then they would bow deeply and say a prayer for their souls. We had all come a long way from December 7, 1941.

Do our present youth and perhaps even their parents remember Pearl Harbor? I doubt it.

© Alan Caruba, 2012

Bedtime Totty............


Late News............

Update on obama's gun running schemes to arab "rebels" .... read that as "al queda" ....

Millionares, Billionaires, Deficits and Debt. The Mendacity Of The Political Class

First Operationa​l F-35 Squadron Honored in Historic Ceremony

Physicists Bummed That Physics Is Pretty Much What They Expected

Jim DeMint leaving the Senate

Texas City's Police Force on High Alert for Nude Cleaning Women

Stolen Valor: Man Faked Special Forces Background for Job

Texas burglary suspect calls 911 on homeowner with gun

Maryland State Police, FBI SWAT Teams Thwart ... Guy with a Few Guns

BenghaziGa​te: Obama Admin Knew Libyan Terrorists Had US-Provide​d Weapons

ATF Fires Managers over Fast and Furious, Obama and Holder Get Off Scot-Free

Report: U.S. students struggle with vocabulary

The bad, disgusting, disgraceful news...and Obama Orcs

Kim Jong-un 'reluctantly firing rocket to mark his father's death'

France denies claims it will ditch year-round seaborne nuclear deterrent

'Zero hour': Syrian rebels prepare to mount Damascus attack

Egypt’s Highest Islamic Authority Throws Morsi Under the Bus

Religious Apartheid: Islamic Terror Group Slaughters Christians in Nigeria

Obama Almost Never Golfs With Women

Berkeley students seek Christmas ban on Salvation Army bell ringers

Taliban assassination attempt injures Afghan spy chief

A Great UN Joke.......................from Dan Friedman

Here’s a short (5-minute) video. Watch it until the end to hear the hilarious punch line. It will have you in stitches.

Late Pic Dump..........












H/T Paul B

The Atheist Nutcracker Suite: Danbury Revisited -No. 14




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The "usual".................from Rico

Just some more of the "usual" (let's call it the 'new' usual, since abnormal and unusual activity on the CRIMEX has become "usual").
- The 'usual' suspects once again engaged in the 'usual' criminal activity.
- At the 'usual' time, the COMEX open.
- The 'usual' metals smack-down timed around the the monthly meaningless faux-jobs report.
- The 'usual' running of the muppets and their stops to fleece them of anything they might have left.

How about something TRULY unusual (and quite unremarked and unreported)?
- Goldman calls the end of the Gold bull market due to the improving US economy (and with a straight face, too) on the same day it is reported that Goldman and JPM are considering huge layoffs due to the terrible economy. [Read: The Cartel is readying their move from the manipulated 'short' side to the 'long' side in advance of the next parabolic 'run' up in precious metals that they will then manipulate once the muppets have been thoroughly cleaned-out. Or, in technical banker-speak: heads I win, tails you lose.]








H/T Doverthere

Bonus Totty..............


Air New Zealand Safety Video Boing 777-300 The ...

This is the actual safety video that is currently playing on Air New Zealand flights. Air New Zealand partnered with WETA Workshop on a brand new Hobbit inspired Safety Video. It features cameo appearances including Sir Peter Jackson. H/T Old Dude

NASA: The Earth At Night

News....................

A Fireman’s Carry for Non-Firemen

The 7 Pieces of Advice by Trotsky for Obama, found in the 1934 Chicago Tribune Cartoon ‘Planned Economy or Planned Destruction’

Charles Barkley makes sense: I feel safer with my gun

The "Perfect Pencil"

And They Lived Happily Ever After

Chicago Teachers Union VP Busted Participating in Midwest Marxism Conference

Fears of Sir Ranulph Fiennes ahead of lung-bursting 'impossible' journey across Antarctica

Egypt: tanks deployed at presidential palace after clashes

Syria 'has loaded chemical weapons into bombs'

Obama Administration Oversaw Arms Shipments to Al Qaeda in Libya

Cairo: Blood In The Streets, Obama Silent

Preventing a Chemical Weapons Nightmare in Syria

Islamic Jihadists Occupy Mali With Impunity

Pic Dump.............



















Democrat(s) plan to(for) fall(ing) over the fiscal cliff redux!...from Mike Haltman at TPC



Does anyone really think that the President's plan all along has been anything but flying off of the fiscal cliff in order to earn political points by attempting to pin it all on the Republican's supposed intransigence towards reaching a negotiated agreement? 

His 14-step plan for doing just that is at The Political Commentator here

Cartoon Round Up....






Never Mind The "Fiscal Cliff," Our World is On the Precipice.......................from Dan Friedman


[How can we ever thank you, Barack Hussein Obama? df]
By Jim Miklaszewski and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News


H/T DJ Elliott

Overnight News...........

Syrian army wears down as rebels gain territory and confidence - Middle East

Obama: Fiscal cliff shouldn't affect debt ceiling

BLACKFIVE: Know of anyone with an MOH and 4 Navy Crosses?

Indian Village Bans Cell Phones for Women - Council elders worry about elopements

Kurdish MPs Warn Of War With Baghdad, As Peshmerga Forces Await Orders

If U.S. hikes taxes, high-incom​e California​ns might pay almost 52 percent

Is Turkey More Worried About Iraq Than Syria?

Obama’s Ineligibility Is Still The Elephant In The Room

New Dem Rep arrested for second time in two weeks

GOP finally stands for something

Delayed appointmen​ts could curb House ethics probes

Treating gum disease may fix erection troubles, too, study finds

Netanyahu’s Message Was No Blunder

UN Climate Nazis Punked

Fast & Furious firings coming: WSJ

Great news: DHS totally prepared for the zombie apocalypse

18th-century French chateau razed 'by mistake'

Paris Weighs Ban to Darken City of Lights - Rule would require lights off between 1am and 7am

Surprise: Long-await​ed report finds that exporting nat gas will boost economy

Huh, that's odd: Harry Reid declines to bring a vote on Obama's cliff plan

California Federation Of Teachers To America: There's A Rich Guy - Get Him!

RIP Dave Brubeck: 5 Things You Might Not Know About the Jazz Legend

Achmed's Daily Bombs - Dec 6, 2012

Thursday Totty............






Bashar Assad: Fill in the thought bubble!...from Mike Haltman at TPC



If there was a thought bubble above Bashar Assad´s head, what do you suppose he is thinking about Hillary Clinton's warning to him over crossing a red line if he was to use chemical weapons on his people?

Read the article and post your thoughts at The Political Commentator here.

PJTV: ZoNation: Sneering Punkers Promote Statism and the Obama

Zo thinks that punk rockers and other anti-establishment types are promoting socialism, and ironically enough, the very establishment that they are supposedly rebelling against. Hear more on this ZoNation.


H/T DJ Elliott

Controversy at New York Post After Publication of Subway Train Death Photograph

It's hard to take this kind of journalism sometimes, but that's what drives circulation at the Post..

See: "New York Post Subway Death Cover Controversy."

There's video at the link.

PREVIOUSLY: "Man Pushed to Death on Subway Tracks."

More video for that one as well.

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

McCarthy v Morsi...................from Dan Friedman


[Mr. McCarthy’s observations and explanations of events in the Islamic world are to history what slow motion replays are to televised sports. df]

Bedtime Totty.............


PJTV: Private Sector Hiring, Arab Spring Fizzle, and Iran Drones On

Companies have stopped hiring following the reelection of President Obama. Also, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was forced to flee his palace on account of violent protests. Hear more about these stories, plus the latest efforts by North Korea to develop its nuclear program, on this PJ News Break with Scott Ott.

Late News...........

Voyager 1 Hits "On-ramp" to Interstellar Space

CDR Salamander​: LCS: if numbers don't work, use pictures

Iran protests US drones, paper warns of greater Kurdistan

Senate GOP blocks treaty protecting people with disabiliti​es

Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief

Faulty pundits, Rove and Morris, banished from Fox News

No, It’s Not the Same Sharia Provision as in the Old Egyptian Constitution

The UN’s ITU and the Internet: A Cautionary Tale

The Justice Department​'s Hurricane-​Strength Misconduct

Brussels eyes economic sovereignty over EU nations

Iranians told to flee Tehran

Australian girl brings hand grenade to school's show-and-tell

Obama Blinks on Entitlements

Fearing post-2014 environment, Afghans buy up weapons

USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier arrives off Syrian shore

American Airpower = Soft Power?

U.S. Intelligence Sees Potential CW Preparations at Multiple Syrian Sites

Rival Egyptian protest groups fight with sticks and stones outside Morsi’s presidential palace

Rice Allegedly Helped Thwart Effort that May have Prevented 1998 Africa Embassy Bombings

Syrian civil war spills into Lebanon as rebels close in on Damascus

India and Vietnam face off with China in disputed waters

Fearing Syria spillover, UN Golan troops to deploy armor

2012 Corruption Perception​s Index -- Results


Corruption Perceptions Index 2012

H/T CR

PJTV: Hypocrisy In Bulk: Former Costco CEO Cheerleads for Obama, Then Dodges Taxes

The rich aren't paying their fair share! That's not just the mantra of Occupy Wall Street, even some executives are singing that tune. One of those executives is co-founder and former CEO of Costco Jim Sinegal. Sinegal lambasted the rich at the Democratic National Convention, then maneuvered to avoid paying taxes. Find out all about it on this episode of Trifecta.