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Where are all the liberals' "good Muslims"?

I’m just now getting back to this story which has more or less stopped in its tracks when it comes to CBS and the rest of the state-controlled news media.

The story of network TV reporter Lara Logan and others being assaulted and intimidated in Tahrir Square were obvious under reported so as not to upset the Obama administration's narrative about the “freedom-loving” ragheads in that wonderland called Egypt.

There is a major truth in this nonetheless--People’s Exhibit 263..... liberals will get you killed:

(NY Post) — “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, “Jew! Jew!” as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday, CBS and sources said yesterday.

Despite her experience in the field, including Iraq and Afghanistan, Logan (right) naively expected to be warmly welcomed by the democracy-bent “youths” fronting for the military junta that has suspended the Egyptian constitution, dissolved parliament and overthrown the government of Hosni Mubarak… without firing a shot.

She also made a grievous tactical mistake by dressing as if she was in America as she waded into the howling sub-humans in just one more Third-World shithole. Her riot ensemble included a strand of pearls (above).

Although far-left foreigner and Muslim apologist Christiane Amanpour of CNN also dressed ignorantly in 
Tahrir Square, she usually dresses like this when around Islamic men. 

 She went further several years ago and dyed her hair a severe Goth-black for just to lower her public profile.

Though confronted during the riot, she was not assaulted. 

I have the greatest sympathy for Miss Logan.

When this country stopped executing men convicted of rape, two signals were sent; women, you're on your own, and rapists… no more than 10 years, three with good behavior… IF you’re convicted. 

But if you’re a “white” female raped in a Muslim country, it’s 80-20 that the sub-human won’t questioned, let alone prosecuted, and it’s at least 50-50 that YOU’LL be charged under Sharia law with a crime.  

That’s the background.

Tahrir Square

 
There are two competing narratives concerning the attack on Logan; first is the official left-approved version carried by most of the left-controlled news media… essentially it was not big deal.

The second is as follows:

According to some internet claims Logan was intentionally separated from her “security” (sic) and camera crew, and surrounded by a large group of animals who stripped her naked while screaming “Jew! Jew! Mubarak’s whore!”.

Brutal details are recounted, but I’ve not seen the alleged cellcam video, however the claims is persistent.  

News media reports were that she was eventually “saved” by the Egyptian police and Egyptian “women”. 

Medically treated for her injuries and returned to the U.S., Logan is with her children and “vowing to go back to work within weeks.”

One source said she has an "incredibly tough constitution" -- and she is candidly discussing what happened to her. As one friend said, "She is going to be OK."
Friends tell us Logan -- a seasoned, tough and respected foreign correspondent -- is "unbelievably strong."

None of these “friends” have the right or qualifications to be assessing this poor woman.

Such comments are garbage, and make light of what she has suffered and endured.

“She is going to be OK.” ??? 

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 Since 9/11 my default position on anything involving Muslims and Islamist nations is… “the ragheads did it”; then I wait for additional information.

So far I’m batting 1.0000.

The left on the other hand, insists that unless they have iron-clad “proof” from a left-wing source that Logan was indeed gang-raped, then they are “innocent until proven guilty.” 

Yeah that’s fine in a breaking and entering case on Keokuk Iowa, but don’t confuse that with sexual assault in Cairo. 

The news coverage makes it clear that liberals actually believe (being anti-American themselves, not to mention fifth-columnists and traitors) their politics gives them a pass in the Muslim world.

This would be fine with me if they were the only victims; but that’s not the case. Though most of us are not left-wing, idiot sell outs, like the en mass democrat party, the president and all the rest of his administration, we all suffer from:

• wars that we refuse to fight to win,
• a suicidal liberal belief that you can talk to psychotic mass-murders  
• constantly confusing right and left with wrong and right
• the “chickification” of American society
• the ruinous impact of the secular left which hates your faith, your patriotism, even your family and insists it is not a reprehensible crime to cut a baby apart in the mother’s womb because children are a “punishment.”

Aftermath

If the story that Logan was assaulted with unbelievable viciousness is only half true, she should be on medical leave for the one-two months and in intense reality-based therapy for her trauma. I base this on my 20+ years dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder as a volunteer with the VA and other organizations, and a lengthy private practice career.

If she is allowed to return to work without the appropriate treatment, her employer will be responsible; this woman is not psychologically capably of making any decisions beyond what time to get up and what to eat.

My experience tells me that she needed and should have been debriefed by an experienced professional once medically cleared. There is much research to indicated that a thorough critical incident debriefing conducted before the victim sleeps, reduces the chance of, and may even prevent a full-blown case of posttraumatic stress disorder. 

The last thing she needed was:

    WH official: Obama calls Logan after Egypt attack

I believe that state-run news media—so cemented in a Utopian world in which we talked out enemies out of removing our heads—were shocked, shocked that a group of of Muslim men became somewhat unruly. And these news organizations have chosen to ignore for the most part the persistent reports of a vicious gang rape by Islamists.

Logan is a blonde American (and is not a Jew) and according to these wastes of skin, she got what she deserved as dictated by the Koran, the Muslim funny book.

During the coup last week, you’ll recall the jahadis tended to attack, threaten and bully defenseless women… Logan, Christiane Amanpour, and Anderson Cooper, who fled the country immediately after his jihadi ass-kicking. 

Thank God Shep Smith was safe at home.

It doesn’t matter who the sub-humans are; pro-revolution, students, drop-outs, anti-revolution… my cash is on the Muslim Bros which all liberals believe are only interested bystanders.

The response from the left, from the safety of a free country protected by two oceans a  the best military in the world:

Film critic Roger Ebert summed the left up best when he tweeted: "The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward women into sad focus."

• Cooper  offered his “thoughts and prayers” on Twitter, saying he was "sickened and saddened by the attack on Lara Logan."
• And the first ex-president proven to be a fifth-columnist had earlier chimed in with: “I think the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be afraid of in the upcoming (Egyptian) political situation and the evolution I see as most likely,” Carter said. “They will be subsumed in the overwhelming demonstration of desire for freedom and true democracy.”

Much is true in this horror story…. CBS will use and abuse Logan as a brave example of the intrepid reporter, but will never admit its unconscionable failure to provide adequate security or (as I prefer) admitting that she shouldn’t have been allowed to be there in the first palace.  

But the number one truth is: liberals will get you killed.

The Second Offensive….

Several years ago I began preaching (to the choir) that those engaged in talk radio and the conservative blogosphere were the present day versions of The American Revolution’s pamphleteers and activists; men like Paine, Franklin, Revere, Samuel Adams.

We will continue to play a pivotal role in taking back our country, but the forces arrayed against us are dedicated, well-funded and cleverly directed.

If our first offensive was in part to expose the far-left agenda of the “main stream news media” and its collaboration with the democrat party, then wrest total control of the national dialog from said “media”, we have succeeded.

Proof of that victory came in the 2010 elections which not only reclaimed The Peoples’ House for Real America through the Tea Party movement, it purged hundreds of decepticons from the GOP across the country. The biggest mistake any republican voter ever made was believing that republicans and conservatives were interchangeable.

These elites made careers of being subservient to and seeking rewards from the increasingly far-left democrat party. Turncoats like Graham, McCain, Murkowski, Colin Powell, Lugar and their ilk are as much to blame for our disastrous national condition as Reid and Pelosi.

Conservative media’s role in this Second Revolution is as invaluable as it is incalculable.

But now comes a far more critical second offensive in which we must engage and engage quickly… for we are always behind our enemies and action will beat reaction every time.

Enemy in the open and on the move.

A major move to control the national broadcast medium has been under way most of my life, but the socialists and far-left radicals have through the federal government gained the ability to dictate what traditional broadcast news will look and sound like right down to your local TV and radio stations.

As simply as I can state it:

• On January 28, 2011 Comcast purchased NBC Universal.
• One FCC stipulation of the Comcast/NBCU merger was the incorporation of non-profit journalism centers into NBC newsrooms. 
• at least half of NBC’s 10 owned and operated stations have to find such a nonprofit news center with which to work within the next year.
• They are charged with maintaining and increasing local news coverage with the help of these nonprofits, along the lines of San Diego affiliate KNSD-TV and VoiceofSanDiego.org.
• Voice of San Diego and other such “centers” provide ready-made segments, stories and “investigative” pieces on local topics.
• Voice of San Diego is a member of INN (Investigative News Network) which is funded by the Open Society Institute, the URL of which is “www.soros.org.”

Yes, these “non-profit” journalism centers are funded by George Soros.

Since its founding less than two years ago, the Investigative News Network, a nonprofit news umbrella organization, says its membership has grown from 20 to 53.

Once again…. this means that by federal edict, George Soros’ henchmen have successively taken over American newsrooms for the purpose of broadcasting propaganda, aided and abetted by far-left operatives through out the federal government, including the Oval Office.

This is not a Trojan Horse… these are the shock troops of a massive wave of propagandists and provocateurs intent on destroying what’s left of a free press, and set the table for an offensive against terrestrial talk radio and the internet… which is the only way you can read this particular opinion wherever you are. 

The continued attempt by the left is no longer just to stifle Limbaugh, Beck, Levin and other broadcast patriots, it is to destroy them… professionally, personally, financially and perhaps, physically.

Beck for example, spends in excess of $1 million a year on security for him, his family and his staff; there are more than a dozen active threats against his life being investigated at any given time.

And Beck talks openly about his myriad health problems which have arisen in just the last year and a half, including vision loss and small fiber neuropathy, which damages nerves near the skin, causes numbness and can result in intense flashes of pain.

He has also been audited by the IRS four of the last five years.

The target on Limbaugh's back is as big as he is; several years ago he went deaf, and in 25 years he probably forgotten how often the IRS calls.

Levin, a long time protégé of Limbaugh’s, suffered his first heart attack in 2000 and has had a by-pass and several complications.

Of course health problems can hit anyone, but they are an Achilles Heel, and as such can be target by these men’s enemies.

The deleterious impact of stress on ones health is obvious… and having people routinely threaten to kill you and your family is a significant level of stress. 

Now’s the time for us to hit harder, do more… no compromise, no quarter… we’re vastly outnumbered, but then patriots are used to that. 

Tucson and its meaning

Like perhaps nothing else could, the the mass-casualty attack on a group of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) supporters has laid bare the truth about Left-Wing America.

It proved once and for all, there is no difference between the democrat party and the traditional news media; it is the end of the so-called Fourth Estate. Each is entirely devoted to the creation of a massive socialist government with the power to control every aspect of Americans’ lives… and one to the other.

Fairness, objectivity, professionalism, truth… all lie in a grocery store parking lot. 

Last week proved that any criticism of the left, its agenda, democrat politicians, especially the current congressional leaders and this president, will not be tolerated, that dissidence when under taken by Real Americans will be crushed, and dissidents will be harassed, attacked, and will feel the oppressive power of the federal government. 

The immediate and coordinated attack from all liberal bastions of society, blaming, not the deranged killer, but Gov. Sarah Palin and other prominent conservatives for deaths of a federal judge and five others, itself bordered on mental illness.

But to call the usual partisan hacks… like Chrissie Matthews, Paul The Red Krugman, black congressmen, Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, and their ilk “crazy”, does a disservice to people with mental illness. 

These people, public office holders and private citizens alike, are nothing more than Godless agents provocateurs and their useful idiots-- traitors who with premeditation lie, manipulate, slander and libel for their religion: far left politics.

There is no no limit to their end-justifies-the-means mentality; no ethics, no morals, no conscience.  

And let us hear nothing about the hypocrisy of the Left; it’s akin to saying “global warming is a scam” or at the very least…redundant like “unethical, corrupt black congressmen”.

Such assessments distract our focus from the crossroads at which we find ourselves—the death of America as we know it, or perhaps knew it. 

The left is driven, flogged, by dedicated propagandists who hate Real American and her citizens, those who are epitomized by the Tea Party movement which has fired the first shots in the Second American Revolution. Virtually leaderless (quick, named the founder of the movement) Real America’s patriots spontaneously rose up a couple of years ago and are single-handedly responsible for taking back The Peoples’ House. 

It is blunt testament to Real America’s overwhelming power that we have been attacked so long and viciously and insanely; they fear us and with good reason.

To be feared by ones enemies is the ultimate psychological weapon… we are in their heads, solidly now and if the cracks were spreading before, then Tucson is their San Andreas Fault.

Polls indicated that Americans overwhelmingly reject a connection between so-called harsh political tone and the Tucson murders. But as you can see, almost every other democrat falls obediently in line with their puppet-masters.

Such people cannot be counted on as Americans.

This was not a political poll, it was a poll about critical thinking, common sense, not making a fool of yourself, and ones own personal integrity. To be among those in the “yes” category above means that you have committed intellectual suicide.

While the RNC did nothing to defend her and other conservatives, Gov. Palin rebutted the scurrilous attacks precisely:

"Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own;  They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle."

Tactics:

Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine, Virginia Tech, JFK, RFK, MLK……….   

When taking advantage of a crisis, especially an out and out tragedy, the left’s first and always target is the U.S. Constitution and the amendments it most detests… the First and Second. Of course there are others, but without the first two, the Constitution is just a well-written collection of ideas.

Before all of the dead and wounded in Tucson reached hospitals or the morgue, our founding documents were under systematic assault. Stop talk radio, bring back the “fairness doctrine”, ban guns, ban high-capacity magazines, ban ammunition, ban talk show hosts with pistols that have high-capacity ammunition magazines.

Some congressional idiot even proposed encasing the House and Senate chambers in Plexiglas to protect its members from we peasants who may be armed, at least with pitch-forks. But on second thought that’s not a bad idea… it would make it easy to pump out all the oxygen.

All this has been a key part of the left’s strategy since there’s been a left. Other key tactics are the attacks include:

• capitalism,
• religion—specifically Christianity,
• the nuclear family, motherhood and the institution of marriage, 
• local control of schools and higher education, 
• men, and
• patriotism.

The dots are being connected at an increasingly faster pace.

The question is, will it be fast enough (November, 2011) to deliver the nation back into the hands of Americans before there is a catastrophic crash on all fronts and the United States joins the other once-great powers in the dust bin of history, rotted by the inner, political malignancy… far left socialism masquerading as Utopia for the intellectually deficient.

Sunday musings

If polls mean anything, the despicable Baghdad Harry Reid will lose his seat to these Republicans candidates: Anybody and Anybody But.

Half of Nevada voters have an unfavorable view of Reid, while 38 percent had a favorable view and 11 percent a neutral opinion. based on these numbers, he would lose to all three of the announced GOP candidates.

He joins Il Pelosillini in the 2010 off-year election toilet as reflected by these national numbers.

As usual the “haven’t heard enough” crowd is comprised of first-rate idiots who are unlikely to vote in November anyway which is good for Real America; you might say it’s the greatest contribution these lemmings will ever make.

Despite his always near-cadaverous demeanor and visage, Reid had to be viscerally shocked over the weekend as his tiny hometown of Searchlight Nevada, was invaded by many thousands of Tea Partiers lead by Sarah Palin.   

"What we are doing, folks, we are rolling up our sleeves and we are getting down to business and getting back to the common sense conservative principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, and we are not going to sit down and shut up," said Palin.  "Thank you for standing up!"

This is the way CommunistNewsNetwork reported the throng of Real Americans:

“Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people - we haven’t gotten a count of how many people turned out there. We heard Sarah Palin talk about everything about the campaign, to unseat Sen. Reid to what she calls ObamaCare, on the heels of that health care vote and even talking about her definition of her love of America.”

For the record, this is a shot of the highway outside of Searchlight an hour and a half after the anti-Reid rally began.

Yes, there were many dozens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I participated in last night’s “Earth Hour” (which one isn’t?) in my usual fashion for such events by turning on every light in the house, my two TVs, my stereo, XM radio, and my furnace (it’s still a little chill down here, what with the global warming and all). And to be consistent I turned off my solar powered outdoor lights and flicked on the porch light.

I would have run the garbage disposal if I had one.

Only left-wing drones seek to bring attention to the “dangers of global warming” after it has been outted as the biggest financial and political scam in world history.

Sadness:

Dennis Hopper, the quirky and talented actor, director and Hollywood fixture for the 40 years was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame yesterday.

The 73-year-old star of “Easy Rider” has advanced prostate cancer and reportedly has lost about 100 pounds, yet he attended the unveiling with a smile, accompanied by his seven-year-old daughter, Galen.

He first appeared in 1955’s “Rebel Without a Cause”  with James Dean and maintained a creative edginess throughout his career. He directed or appeared in more than 200 films and television productions.

I’ll always remember him for his great, but brief performance in “Apocalypse Now” as the photojournalist who had fallen under the spell of Brando’s Col. Kurtz. Coppola with just the barest of scripts, just told him to “go” and kept the cameras running.

“What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans, man? That he had wisdom? Bullshit, man!”

“Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab  you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm... no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...

Smooth ridin’ Billy….

Death in Afghanistan; CnC works on the only handicap he can do something about

News item:

The US military had a tough day in Afghanistan, with 11 soldiers and three civilians killed and three helicopters lost. In the largest incident, a CH-47 Chinook crashed as it was departing a firefight in Baghlan province (this very likely was a Chinook as there were 14 Afghan troops, 11 US troops, and 1 US civilian injured in the crash). The Taliban claimed it shot down the Chinook, but the US military said "The cause is not believed to be from enemy action."

Here is the initial report of the Chinook crash (the follow-up report provided the casualties). The three civilians killed are Drug Enforcement Agency personnel. The operation targeted drug operations:

Read more from the Long War Journal

Meanwhile, here’s the Fifth-Columnist who can’t seem to find the time to command troops in the field or even send critically needed reinforcements, but has all the time in the world to play Charles Barkley-like golf.

And where’s the state-run news media on this obvious outrage? He has time to declare pig flu a “national emergency”, yet where are his words of comfort and reassurance of retribution for  families and comrades of the dead?

Why, the answer is right here (via Weasel Zippers.com):

CBS' Mark Knoller — the unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today-- Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.

Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

Where’s the outrage that was heaped on President Bush for playing golf? And he was winning his war.

Here’s some more golf links-politics that Barry Hussein has time for…. bending to the demands of the National Association of Gals—N.A.G.—whose presidentrix, Terry O’Neal (with an apparent straight face), was grousing about:

"The boy's club" atmosphere at the White House, as exemplified by the president playing basketball earlier this month with 11 members of Congress and four Cabinet Secretaries -- all men.

Well what’s a failing, lying, president to do?

What priorities must be served…? Well, in a master stroke (pun intended), Barry The Timid—in an incredible coincidence—took to the links with a woman — chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes.

(For more formal photo shoots in keeping with the dignity of being a presidential advisor, Miss Barnes wears shoes.)

Finally, a president we can be proud of… and another first to Barry; the dreaded Putting Green Ceiling has been shattered. It is a wonderful moment for The One and his subjects.

OMG! Hold the presses… I just discovered the Melody Barnes is black!!!! (above). So it’s TWO more first for the TelePrompTer POTUS!… first woman, and first black duffer.

But his presidency is certainly not about race.

The Predator Update: 

Where is Mr. Blackwell when you need him?

I swear to God… if this woman does not stop outraging my sense of color, fashion and layering I will publically rips my eyes out in front of the White House.

I read she was on Leno’s show (sic) the other night where she decided this ensemble was best for TV:

Is this woman blind!?

I remember this pattern from my grandmother’s bed spreads.

I’ve had acid trips that weren’t this jarring.

And what better to go with than orange flowers in this garden-like setting but a large, chocolate, satin bow with rhinestones?

It’s enough to make me want to say periwinkle.

Robert Novak: Last of the real reporters, 1931-2009

Bob Novak was the last of his generation, of men who were reporters…. not “journalists”, or “staff writers”, or gawd forbid, “investigative journalists”.

Guys much like him, but with less talent, were the guys I worked for and with early in my newspaper career.

I’ve often said that almost anyone with a good high school record can learn to write an inverted pyramid, 10-paragraph news story, but not just anyone can be a “reporter.”

Case in point: Woodward and Bernstein – who turned in most of the major stories in what came to be known as Watergate. Woodward, college preppy, was the writer and the good, old-fashioned, shoe-leather reporting was mostly the domain of Bernstein who started as 16-year-old copy boy at the old Washington Star.

When a few years later he was denied a job as a reporter because he was a college dropout, he was hired at the Washington Post which knew a reporter when it saw one, and didn’t require a B.A.

Now that “journalists” have masters degrees in “mass communications” and have a “profession”, not a trade or craft; that ex-plains the sorry state and wholesale sellout of the journalism craft.

I digress.

Though it became fashionable in the last 20+ years of his career for communists, far left democrats and other socialists to hate him, Novak, reviled as “The Prince of Darkness”, was an Army Korea War vet and no fan of the Presidents Bush.

He was also a life-long registered Democrat who was widely feared by any and all of Washington’s power elite for the better part of half a century.

In the mid-1960s, Richard Nixon peaked from behind the curtain shortly before he was to speak, and when he saw Novak seated in the front row of the assembled press, he grabbed an aide and said, “Look at him; that’s Bob Novak. That’s the enemy.”  

Now, that’s a reporter.

One year ago this month Novak characteristically announced his retirement as a reporter:  “Doctors will soon begin appropriate treatment. I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period;” and later added an update… announcing his diagnosis was “dire”. 

Not long ago Walter Cronkite died, finally, at 92; he couldn’t fetch Novak a cup of coffee, yet the left loved “Uncle Walter” and hated Novak.

That’s because Bob Novak was a reporter.

From now on I’ll be less well informed and not nearly as entertained.

Here is a warm remembrance from Ken Tomlinson in Human Events; don’t bother with any state-run media obits.

Remembering

When heavy-cruiser the USS Quincy, CA-39, steamed into “The Slot” between Ford and Savo Island during the invasion of Guadalcanal, she carried 807 officers and enlisted men.

Virtually half would never see the sun rise.

In the early hours of 9 Aug., 1942, she was one of three American (USS Vincennes and the USS Astoria) and one Australian cruisers stationed in the northern approaches to the invasion zone and was sunk there by a force of Japanese cruisers in the disastrous Battle of Savo Island. Only one vessel on the patrol survived, though heavily-damaged.  

Attacked by a squadron of numerically superior Jap warships near Savo, the US ships only eight months after Pearl Harbor, were inferior in both armament, crew experience and especially night gunnery in which the Imperil Navy excelled.

It was a massacre.

 

With its captain dead on the bridge and all its 8-inch and 5-inch guns destroyed, the Quincy was caught in Jap searchlights (left), dead in the water, on fire and badly down aft. She was sinking quickly.

 

Survivor

Daniel Galvin, 21, of Hanover Mass., plunged into the Pacific swam about “50 strokes” before looking back and glimpsing the ship’s final moments as it was sucked down into the sea.

“I could still see, even in that light, that the flag was flying, and the propellers were still flipping over. It went down with a lot of my shipmates still on board,” he said.

The Quincy sank in less than 10 minutes. The Vincennes and the Astoria were gone as well, as was the Aussie ship.

Gavin recalls:

“‘Hey Galvin!’’’

It was Clyde Bolton, a friend from Concord, N.H., bobbing in the water.

“’Whaddya want?’’’

“’Come over here!’’’ Clyde Bolton yelled.

“’You come over here,’’’ Dan Galvin yelled back as he struggled to stay afloat.

They were no more than 50 feet away from each other in the water, and before you knew it, Clyde Bolton, badly burned, slipped beneath the surface.

“I should have gone over to Clyde when he called me,’’ Galvin said. “I think about him every day. I wish I swam over to him.’’

Two weeks ago, 67 years to the day that Dan Galvin lived while so many around him died, he did what he does every Aug. 9. He puts on his sailor’s white hat, steps out on his front porch, and he read the names of each of his 389 shipmates who went down with the Quincy.

Sometimes he gets through the list without crying. But every year it gets harder.

“I worry,’’ said Galvin. “I worry that when I’m gone, no one will remember these men.’’

Complete Boston Globe story here, and video report here.

Revenge: In the Navy tradition, another heavy cruiser was christened USS Quincy (CA 71) launched in 1943 and participated in the D-Day invasion of Europe. She was decommissioned 2 July 1954, the name “Quincy”was struck from fleet rolls, and she was scrapped in 1974.

Both cruisers were preceded by the first to bear the name, a German cargo ship which was seized in Florida in 1917, and renamed USS Quincy (AK-10) in Feb. 1918; she was decommissioned and sold in 1922.

Quincy update:

August 1992—The Quincy was located and examined on the sea floor of what had come to be called "Iron Bottom Sound". She lies upright in some 3000 feet of water, with her bow broken off immediately in front of her forward eight-inch gun turrets, both of which are trained out to starboard. The ship's shell-riddled forward superstructure, shattered left gun of Turret # 2, destroyed aircraft hangar and collapsed after deck are indications of the battering she received from Japanese weapons during her final moments on the surface and from the crushing force of the deep sea after she sank.

Countdown to Hope and Change now at nine days and a wake-up

Just heard on the Glenn Beck Show that the New York Times has published a half-page ad for Al Jazeera--the raghead propaganda machine.

I can't find anything about it on the Internet.

Hardly a surprise, given the anti-American agenda of The Times... the paper long known for revealing our national security secrets, but to the joy and direct support of our enemies.

Now, 65 years later, our military doesn't even trust the next president, let alone the seditious news media. To wit:

Barack Obama's transition team on Friday denied a report in a British newspaper that the president-elect wants to open secret talks with Hamas.

The Guardian, citing transition team sources, reported that Obama's advisers are urging him to use U.S. intelligence agencies to "initiate low-level or clandestine" communications with the militant Islamic organization battling Israeli forces in Gaza.

Here's a link to the Guardian story and while I don't trust the Brits anymore (and probably less) than our domestic newsroom elitists, it seems to be a well-sourced story.  

This community-organizing buffoon has been entrusted with the "nuclear football", and that keeps me up at night, but he now has the means, motive and opportunity to FDR the economy... and as someone who was counting on his retirement portfolio, that keeps me up the rest of the night.

One of the few national reporters worthy of the title, ABC's John Stossel, concisely set forth in an op-ed piece last month why Obama and his minions will destroy, not improve our economy:  

Arrogant Conceit: Obama Thinks He Can Reform The Economy

This is not the first time a president chose reform over recovery. Franklin Roosevelt did it with his New Deal, and the result was long years of depression and deprivation. Roosevelt's priorities were criticized not just by opponents of big government but by none other than John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose theories rationalized big government. Before FDR had been in office a year, Keynes wrote him an open letter, which was printed in The New York Times:

"You are engaged on a double task, Recovery and Reform; -- recovery from the slump and the passage of those business and social reforms which are long overdue. For the first, speed and quick results are essential. The second may be urgent, too; but haste will be injurious. ... Even wise and necessary Reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate Recovery. For it will upset the confidence of the business world and weaken their existing motives to action.

"Now I am not clear, looking back over the last nine months, that the order of urgency between measures of Recovery and measures of Reform has been duly observed, or that the latter has not sometimes been mistaken for the former."

This bears repeating: For it will upset the confidence of the business world and weaken their existing motives to action.

American businessmen may be a lot of things, but seldom are they suicidal. Seeing that FDR was not to be trusted and that they would loose money by risking their capital to his socialist adherence to high taxes and massive government spending, they sat it out and the Depression continued.

In Europe it was called "The Depression", in America it was called "The Great Depression"... and with good reason.

Japan, not Roosevelt, ended our Depression.

It was only weeks ago that most of us were shocked at hear "$750 billion-dollar bailout" tossed around like it was lunch money.... that is now but a distant memory, and trillions of dollars ago.

And the socialist, anti-Americans haven't even occupied the executive branch yet.

Even economists at UCLA, not known to be an hot bed of right-wing conspirators, admitted in 2004 that Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression by seven years.

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Lee E. Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."

"Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened," said his co-author, Harold L. Cole

If we real Americans do not stop Obama, our country will be weakened... weakened to the point that she may not recover. 

We stand now at the abyss.

 

"Gimme rewrite....."

Major left-wing newspapers (is there any other kind?) are beginning to crumble from coast to cost... and I am only slightly saddened.

The wages of sin is death.

• Last October the Christian Science Monitor ceased publication and went entirely web-based, the only possible alternative.
• The venerable 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News is on life-support and up for sale, which means it will fold because no one in their right mind would buy a newspaper these days.
• The Tribune Co., which owns eight major daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, plus a string of local TV stations is filing for bankruptcy.
• And now the New York Times, the first paper that comes to mind when listing those that endanger the lives of our troops, reveal national defense secrets and provide aid and comfort to our enemies, has borrowed $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building "to ease a potential cash flow squeeze."

Dead newspapers walking.

Like dinosaurs, newspapers didn't see the end coming--the rise of the internet as a news destination and their arrogance didn't allow them to realize that two-thirds of the the country hated them for their bias.

Since the 1960s these papers and dozens more like them in every state of the union have tried to run and ruin the country, by creating news, and engaging in "advocacy journalism", favoring any liberal over any conservative.

It has been a long time since any thinking person actually trusted what was contained in much of the Times' reportage.

There never has been "objective journalism". It's not possible as long as reporters are humans. But there was a time when journalism was "fair". I just got in on the tail end of the era when newspapering was still a proud profession in the early 70s. It was still "fair" because there were white-haired and bald guys who had seen WWII personally in the editors' seats.    

I began meeting a daily deadline for a living in 1973 (years earlier if you count working for and editing the Fresno State daily student paper with a circulation of  26,000). I was a true believer that a newspaper's purpose, as Finley Peter Dune wrote than 100 years ago, was to "comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable...." 

I believe that "The Fourth Estate" had a critical, constitutionally-protected role to play in the balance of power in this nation. A watchdog to watch for wolves.

At that duty, newspapers have miserably failed.

By the time I got to FSU my peers were flocking to journalism schools because of Watergate and Woodward and Bernstein, and every peace love hippy dippy liberal do-gooder who wanted to "change the world" (sound familiar?) actually believed that as "journalists", despite first-rate callowness and chutzpa, only they stood between the Constitution and a fascist state.

Everything became "investigative reporting"... only a child of the 60s would come up with such redundant and idiotic descriptor for their job. Everything became "gotcha", instead of careful, well-written stories... the "first, rough draft of history."

And somewhere along the line newspapering was declared a "profession". Hogwash, reporting is a trade, like plumbing or surveying. I can teach a reasonably intelligent high school student to write and inverted pyramid story in a couple of hours.

There are good writers who are not good reporters, and their are good reporters who cannot write to save their ass. Both, nonetheless can do a good job; ironically this is the way the Washington Post's famous Watergate reporters worked... Bernstein, the tough kid who joined the Post as a copy boy in his teens, did the reporting while Woodward, the Ivy League silver spooner did the writing. 

"Woodstein" as they became known in the business, were the poster boys of leftist journalism. Arrogant, superior, elitist socialists with egos the size of the New York Times Sunday edition.

Tens of thousands tried to emulate them.

And shepherded along for the last forty years by this legion of "journo-Americans", we have become a socialist state; they helped put this country in the hole it currently occupies, yet they keep digging.

Instead of "afflicting the comfortable" they worked from an "enemies' list"... ironically borrowed from their arch enemy, Dick Nixon. Their list included Christians, conservatives, the military, guns, chastity, capitalism, centuries-old social norms, monogamy, modesty, sobriety, and highest on the list---protecting unborn babies.

Newspapers, admonished to "afflict the comfortable", instead packed newsrooms with reporters based on race and gender often without regard for talent, temperament or resume.

This was most widely practiced in television "journalism" where looks mean far more than anything else. I can visit any city in the US and see the same "news team" designed by a committee... one black anchor (extras points if the black anchor is female), one female anchor (extra points of the female is Hispanic or Oriental), a wacky and usually plump weatherman or a sexy weatherwoman.   

Just to push the point everyone in the newsroom who mentions the name of any Spanish surnamed reporter must pronounce the name of  Margarita de la Garza-Guitierrez as if they were working in Mexico City.

But in my generation, none of this is racial and gender bias... it's "affirmative action".

Whatever happened to "the best candidate for the job"?

That doesn't matter to those who swallow hook, line, and sinker the socialist/ communist line of a Utopian workers' paradise where all things are "equal."

 The story of Jayson Blair is instructive:

Blair, a hot shot, 27-year-old black NYT reporter, brought along as one of Editor Howell Raines' pet projects was finally found to have written scores of news stories that he simply made up. He actually claimed to have been in other states, meeting sources and conducting interviews when he was writing form home or in a coffee shop.  

In a post-firing investigation and unprecedented, lengthy expose on itself, the Times revealed that at one stretch Blair had fabricated least 36 of the 73 articles he'd written.

The paper's astounding response:

''Our paper has a commitment to diversity and by all accounts he appeared to be a promising young minority reporter,'' Raines said. ''I believe in aggressively providing hiring and career opportunities for minorities.''

And even after Raines resigned under pressure, another editor insisted, "For strong reasons both of journalism and justice, [the Times is] committed to deploying a diverse news-gathering staff. We believe the paper must not turn from that commitment."

Truth, responsibility, fairness, ethics?  No, the first order of business in modern day journalism is social engineering... first them, and then you.

As these leftists such as Howell rose through the ranks, they became editors and publishers and went from slanting the occasional story when they thought they could get away with it to using their higher position to literally change and alter coverage and assignments, spike stories and protect their political allies by simply not printing the truth.

Conversely, the spent hugely disproportionate amounts of capital and resources in hammering on a non-story or an out and out lie until it became widely believed.

"Bush lied, people died."

"Bush was a draft dodger."

Washington D.C. elected.. twice... a crack-head; the NYT and its progeny did nothing to condemn such shameful situation or even express national outrage.

I'll admit I get nostalgic about my newspaper days; The smell of ink and newsprint, the hum of the presses, the bad coffee and cigarette smoke, the intensity, the sirens, police and fire scanner chatter, the arguments and the stress of deadlines, and above all... "getting it right."  

Seems like just a dream.

                              -30-

I second our Amendment....

Attention bitter gun and Bible clingers: it's time to remind ourselves of The Messiah-Elect's plans for your God-given right to trade a sub-human's life for your family's.

• In anticipation of an April 16 debate in Philadelphia on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune: "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
• Obama's Web site says: "He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting."
• Obama believes the D.C. handgun law (struck down by the Supreme Court last summer) is constitutional. More here.

Nothing would please the socialists and communists more than disarming America by having Obama and the left-wing Congress muscle through a federal law banning concealed carry... as a prelude to doing away with the Second Amendment entirely.

Think that can't happen...? Think again. There was a time not so long ago that you could buy surplus military rifles dirt cheap and the postman would deliver it to your house.

And remember, D.C. v Heller saved our "right to keep and bear arms" by a single vote.

Obama, with his 24-hour, high-tech, armed protection doesn't worry much about his family's safety... he doesn't worry a gawd-damned bit about yours. 

 

Hummm, now that the multi-faceted coup has placed Obama in the Oval Office, the MSM has discovered a guy named Bill Ayers and the fact that The One lied his ass off about his relationship with the terrorist bomber and his murderous wife. 

And now Ayers is now officially gloating:

In the afterword to an updated version of his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days", Ayers describes Barack Obama as "a family friend," which contrasts with Obama's description of him as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood. -- American Thinker.

I say "murderous" because I believe Bernadine Dohrn is guilt of conspiring, constructing, transporting and placing the bomb that killed a young San Francisco police officer, Brian V. McDonnell in 1970, juts like I believe O.J. Simpson butchered two innocent people at 875 N. Bundy Drive.

Dohrn was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and J. Edgar Hoover called her "the most dangerous woman in America." There is no statute of limitations on murder and although there was not enough evidence against Dohrn almost 40 years ago, science may yet prove her guilt.

The powerful bomb packed with barbed wire fence post staples, was intended to kill and maim; pieced of the bomb were found three blocks distant atop a three-story school building.

Larry Grathwohl, a former FBI informant in the Weather Underground, has testified before Congress that Ayers told him at the time he was in the terrorist organization and that Dohrn had personally planted the devastating bomb.

Grathwohl said Ayers criticized his terrorist cell, claiming that there was "... a real problems was that someone like Bernardine Dohrn had to plan, develop and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco, and he specifically named her as the person that committed that act.”

More from Media Memo on the MSM/Obama conspiracy to undermine McCain-Palin as Obama advisors prepped the air-brain Katie Couric for her Sarah Palin interviews  :

Couric shed some light on her preparation for the interviews: Beforehand, she sought advice from former senator Sam Nunn and Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas. They told her to draw Palin out on her geopolitical worldview and urged her to let the governor speak at length without interrupting her. Maybe she should bring them along with her when she takes over at Meet the Press?”

Apparently Couric's question: "What do people read up in Alaska?"--like Alaska is part of the Neanderthal Federation--was one of her own.

DUH

And for all those gullible enough to fall for to the McCain cowards' and Obamedia character-assassins' conspiracy to knee-cap Gov. Palin... the truth will out and from the NYT yet, yeah--after the election is over: 

"It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

"Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor.

'Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,' Mr. Shuster said."

"But a film maker Eitan Gorlin was the phony McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt. The pranksters behind Eisenstadt, Mr. Gorlin and Mr. Mirvish, say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere."

No Comment:

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have voiced opposition to a plan by outgoing United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to sponsor a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the establishment of a new Arab state.

Israel Channel One television reporter Ayala Chasson reported that the government is concerned the proposed resolution will be slanted against Israel and that Secretary Rice wants it passed as a show of achievement before leaving office.

Okay, I lied. ... and people thought this broad was SecState, presidential and/or vice-presidential timber. 

Ah, but lastly... a palette cleanser from the UK's Telegraph:

"Iraqi and US forces have arrested a man responsible for beheadings in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a defence ministry spokesman said.

"The suspect, Riyad Wahab Hassan Falih was described as 'a very high-level, wanted terrorist' who was responsible for training al-Qaeda members 'specialising in beheading people.'

I hope there is a water-board in his future and a tragic mishap on the way back to his cell.

There's no fixin' stupid...

I'm seldom wrong about such things.

Some of the most humorous moments of my life occurred during the run up to the gigantic world-wide disaster known as "Y2K"... oh, the humanity.

I'll always remember where I was when it happened; Parker Colorado... I watched two large grocery store's supply of bottled water completely disappear the last week of December, 1999.  

I even pointed out to one of the store managers that I for one, did not miss seeing that he'd raised the prices in the weeks preceding The New Year.

You do recall that not long ago our most pressing need was to deal immediately with G.B., don't you?   

And now each day brings me closer to the moment when the predicted horrors of Global Warming (sic) are proven to be be a scam and a fraud... but an effective one, having bilked billions of dollars from governments and the private sector, and stole two Oscars and a Nobel Prize.    

I always get a flu shot because I know that one cannot get the "flu" from an inoculation containing killed viruses; I long ago stopped trying to explain that to urban myth devotees who insist to the contrary... based on their personal experience. It's delusional.

Here are a few more you may have forgotten:

• Widespread heterosexual AIDS
• Bird flu
• Allergic-to-everything-in-the-world syndrome
• nuclear winter
• catastrophic overpopulation
• world's oil resources depleted in (10, 17, 23, etc.) years.
• global cooling
• Killer bee catastrophe and/or the bee extinction catastrophe

There are dozens more myths that are both maddening yet highly entertaining.

Gosh, how do I avoid being swept up in such stupidity?

Simple... as the man said, "my momma didn't raise no fools".

This is also how I can easily discern between John McCain and Barack Obama, Bush and Carter, Bush and Kerry, Bush and Al ("Is it hot in here?") Gore.

I also know the difference between Gen. Petraeus and Gen. Weasley Clark, and the difference between George Patton and Michael Jackson--both famous white men.

Yeah... it's a gift.

Oh, and I also know that when Mr. DImbolique Nashar, Esq. e-mails me offering $14 million in exchange for my Social Security Number and my bank information, I should hit "delete".  

Thus, it comes as no surprise to learn that new research indicates the "self-esteem movement" of 1980s, has gone too far, does not improve confidence or enhanced ones life, and could even be detrimental.

Gosh, who knew? I was sure that doing away with letter grades, valedictorians, First Place, and printing millions of "My son is a great kid at Oak Tree Elementary" bumper stickers was gong to produce the next Greatest Generation. 

Instead, we have this:

"Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.

As an example, Jean Twenge, the study's lead author and a professor at San Diego State University, cited a song commonly sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques" in preschool: "I am special, I am special. Look at me."

"We need to stop endlessly repeating, 'You're special,' and having children repeat that back," said Twenge. "Kids are self-centered enough already."

"Twenge,... said narcissists tend to lack empathy, react aggressively to criticism, and favor self-promotion over helping others."

Now, add this one from yesterday:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy can conduct sonar training exercises off the southern California coast without restrictions designed to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a defeat for environmentalists.

The 40-year-old training program of the Navy's sonar technicians is critical to our national security, even Cub Scouts understand that, but not enviro-traitors.

These zealots are communists and traitors; they have no flipping idea whether sonar waves harm their precious whales and snails; the truth is they don't care if our valiant sailors of the Silent Service are killed.

Liberal: "Oh, GA, isn't that a little harsh."

GA: "Aren't you a little stupid? What do you call someone who fights the US Navy for decades trying to prevent our military from protecting themselves from enemy subs?"

The SCOTUS vote was 7-2, but remember the times in which we live:

"We don't know what the Supreme Court decision means for the next go-round. We will have a new commander in chief. It's a new game," said Mark Delapaine, an analyst with the California Coastal Commission.

Exactly... we have entered fully The Age of Stupidity.