Deliberate Ignorance
30 Aug 16 From our current Secretary of State today: âNo country is immune from terrorismâ Oh, please! Tell me something I donât know! And then this gem of wisdom: âPerhaps the media would do us all a service if they didnât cover it quite as much. People wouldnât know whatâs going on.â Iâm sure […]
Hypocrisy!
28 Aug 16 âYour hypocrisy insults my intelligence.â Toba Beta Missing guns? Hundreds of thousands of US-manufactured rifles, pistols, LMGs, as well as untold quantities of ammunition have been literally âdumpedâ into Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East over the past decade by the US. It is all ostensibly to aid our […]
Everything but Guns!
26 Aug 16 Technology will save us, when we’re unwilling to save ourselves? American military installations throughout Europe are receiving a highly-publicized âsecurity upgrade,â as a response to now almost daily Islamic terrorist attacks on the Continent. Security-related technology updates include sophisticated new explosives-detection equipment, among other unspecified enhancements. All wonderful, of course, but there […]
Learned Helplessness, in Action!
25 Aug 16 American University in Kabul, Afghanistan attacked by ISIS yesterday: The apparently unguarded, undefended American University was overrun by ISIS fighters yesterday. Fighting lasted ten hours. As expected, many unarmed students and faculty were killed and wounded. As if we needed to keep restating this: Terrified and unarmed staff and students sending desperate […]
All yell it!
23 Aug 16 Theyâre all yelling âAllahu akbar,â as they attack their victims! Last Saturday evening in Roanoke, VA, an American Moslem named Wasil Farooqui attacked with a kitchen knife, two people he didnât know. One is still in the hospital. The other has been released. The attack took place in an apartment complex where […]
Pol Pot again?
18 Aug 16 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a resurrected Pol Pot? In addition to jailing journalists, Erdogan is currently emptying his nationâs prisons of violent criminals in order to make room for hoards of newly-arrested âintellectuals,â who are resistant to âre-education.â All will be quietly murdered! Putting violent criminals out on the street […]
Cruise?
16 Aug 16 Stay on the ship! This from a friend who just returned from a South American Cruise: âWe went on a fifteen-day, canal-crossing (Panama) Cruise. We stopped at several foul-smelling cesspools! Watched interminable piles of trash and garbage washing up on beaches, and raw effluent from sewage pipes spewing onto the ocean beach […]
Faith of Fools!
15 Aug 16 Never believe them! On 11 July of this year (Monday), South Sudanese troops went on a four-hour looting/raping/murdering rampage within a well-known gated residential compound near the City of Juba that is popular with foreigners, particularly American aid workers. Sudanese troops broke in, murdered at least one journalist, then publically gang-raped a […]
The Election!
15 Aug 16 The election: ââNecessityâ is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, the creed of slaves.â William Pitt âThe creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks. The parasite copies The creator produces. The parasite loots. The creator’s […]
“Ordeal” or “Adventure?”
11 Aug 16 âEvery day is âordinary,â until it isn’t!â Bernard Cornwell From a friend in NY: âWhile driving last evening, I saw a massive pillar of smoke erupting from neighboring Lockport. A large fire had broken-out at a tire-recycling plant. It was massive and resulted in emergency evacuations of hundreds of surrounding homes for […]
Nation of the Future?
10 Aug 16 Brazil, the âNation of the Future,â and always will be! Summer Olympics in yet another âsocialist paradise!â Down in Rio, armed robbers are having a field-day in the âhuman wild-dogsâ versus âstampeding unarmed human wildebeestâ competition! Despite âextreme security,â the Olympic âsecurity chiefâ himself was attacked by four knife-wielding armed-robbery suspects directly […]
“Happiness,” Unto Death!
5 Aug 16 âSissy Stateâ âDon’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be âhappy.â Wish me courage, strength, and a sense of humor. I will need them all.â Anne Morrow Lindbergh On the current state of Western Civilization, from a friend in the UK: âOur population’s âthinkingâ has degraded to such an extent that […]
This is it!
3 Aug 16 “In any free society, conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” Kathleen Norris HRC is âactively campaigning against the lawful commerce in arms,â says Rugerâs CEO today. This is good news: gun-company CEOs publically speaking out against HRCâs and the DNCâs current campaign to obliterate our Second […]
