A thirty-three year old conquistador landed in Mexico with five hundred men. He was shocked to find the Aztecs taking prisoners of the weaker tribes, ripping their hearts out atop temples, and in a frenzy eating their bodies. With help from other tribes, the conquistador fought the Aztecs, freed prisoners, knocked down idols and erected crosses. His name was […]
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Folks, time to get on the horn to your congressman or woman!
They are planning on voting tomorrow on the largest tax increase in our nation’s history. A tax that will increase the cost of every single item you buy, and massive increase in costs of directly energy related purchase such as oil, gas, electricity, heating fuel, etc…
The statists (Ultra-Liberal Democrats) are putting on the big push, and the vote will be close, so you can make a difference. ….
Like all stars who pass away before their time, the news of Michael Jackson will take over everything for the next few days.
As is the case with all stars, they live a life that is made larger by the media, and that ‘larger than life’ presence tends to overshadow all other things about them.
My music tastes evolved in the mid to late 60’s and early 70’s, and those early Motown times were a small part of that, and not really a major part.
Michael’s music was always there, but not really something in my direct focus of musical tastes.
He had some absolutely monster hits and changed the direction of music, and for that fact, entertainment also.
I would like to take you back to a time just as Michael started to move away from his ‘band of brothers’ The Jackson 5, and into a meteoric solo career.
This was in 1972 when Michael was just 13.
The song was originally written for Donny Osmond, and because he was touring, it was then offered to Michael, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The song is ‘Ben’ and it’s all about a mouse.
The song was released just months before Michael turned 14. Hard to believe such talent at that age.
It was the first of his 13 Number One songs as a solo artist.
This week had been a traumatic one when discussing beloved celebrities who are no longer with us. In just three days, we’ve lost Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett. All three held millions of fans and hearts.
Ed McMahon is best remembered as Johnny Carson’s sideick on the Tonight Show and the spokesman for American
Ed McMahon
Family Publishers (“You may have already won $10 million!”). McMahon served as a Marine flight instructor in World War II and maintained his career in radio and television. A heartwrenching story developed in 2008 when McMahon suffered medical and financial losses, which he averted by selling his house. Mr. Donald Trump stepped in and bought the house, then sold it back to McMahon for $1. He died in the early morning hours on Tuesday, June 23, at the age of 86. Ed will be dearly missed by all of us, especially those of us who remember him from the Tonight Show.
Michael Jackson
We’re all aware of Michael Jackson, the cute little boy singer from the 1970’s. From the Jackson Five to the “Thriller” days to the tumultuous 1990’s, Jackson always had a way of making a statement. His music touched many of our souls and most of us can remember the time before the child molestation accusations started coming in. He was alleged to have had poorly-done plastic surgery on his nose, bleached his skin, and in some stranger circles, was accused of actually being his sister Janet Jackson. He died after suffering a heart attack today at the age of 50. Michael was truly an inspirational musician whose tunes will be remembered for a long time.
Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett had been battling cancer for several years. She is remembered for her role in the original Charlie’s Angels series. She was a long-time American beauty who never gave in to her disease. She fought the battle right up until the end, with long-time beau Ryan O’Neal at her side. She was 62 when she succumbed to cancer earlier today. Farrah will be deeply missed as a strong, independent woman with a lot of heart.
As Iran’s government continues to restrict reporting, Al Jazeera has been using new media to get information from inside the country.Keep up with the latest news on Tehran as we continue to update you with the situation throughout the day.
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.” –Benjamin Franklin
Major Robert Rogers
Anyone familiar with the procedures for deliberative assemblies will recognize “Robert’s Rules of Order,” a manual authored by a 19th-century Army officer and adopted as the standard for official proceedings. Of course, a discussion of parliamentary procedure would be an unwelcome and out-of-order topic for The Patriot, but there are some rules we should consider amid the endless bantering about how to treat jihadi detainees.
To that end, I ask that you consider another “Robert’s Rules,” those of Robert Rogers, an 18th-century military officer who authored “The True Plan of Discipline” for his Rangers in 1759.
Rogers is considered the Father of the U.S. Army Rangers, and the 75th Ranger Regiment can trace its heritage of unconventional tactics and ethos to Rogers’ standing orders for his Rangers.
It is worth revisiting Rogers’ unconventional tactics in order to better understand all the controversy over the CIA’s unconventional methods for coercing actionable intelligence from three terrorist Jihadis at Gitmo: 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his friends Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
In a familiar storyline, Pennsylvania lawmakers are seeking to close a budget gap of some $3.2 billion by—you guessed it—raising taxes. To that end, Governor Ed Rendell has called for a “modest” hike of 16 percent in the state income tax rate from 3.07 to 3.57 percent for the next three years, which is projected to boost revenues by $1.5 billion. Similar “temporary” tax hikes, implemented in 1983 and 1991, have yet to be fully repealed. To the governor’s credit though, he also proposed a modest spending cut of $500 million. But rather than trying to tax and spend his way out of the current budget hole, perhaps Rendell should just stop digging.
In May, Reason magazine noted that a good way to measure fiscal discipline is to calculate the rate of government spending growth versus the rate of population growth plus inflation. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, between 2000 and 2008, the population of Pennsylvania grew by 1.4 percent, meanwhile the average annual inflation rate was 2.89. Together, those figures suggest that a state budget expansion of about 4.2 percent could be considered reasonable. Yet during that same period, the annual amount spent by Pennsylvania lawmakers ballooned from $41.4 billion (inflation adjusted) to $61.3 billion. An increase of more than 48 percent! Call the Phone Number on next page.
Developed for the USAF as reconnaissance aircraft more than 40 years ago, SR-71s are still the world’s fastest and highest-flying production aircraft. The aircraft can fly more than 2200 mph (Mach 3+ or more than three times the speed of sound) and at altitudes of over 85,000 feet. As research platforms, the aircraft can cruise at Mach 3 for more than one hour.
Don’t ever think that anyone else on Planet Earth can think of, design, manufacture, and operate military aircraft like those aircraft companies in the U.S. The U.S. does things like this, and the rest of the World’s manufacturers then play catch up and try to copy what comes from these manufacturers.
This one aircraft is the shining example of all that. Think about this. Lockheed designed this aircraft and it first flew in 1968, forty one years ago. It was ’state of the art’ then, was such throughout it’s operational life of 34 years, and even now, nothing flying can do what it was able to do.
This is the essence of the U.S. aircraft industry, the ability to make something that no one else can.
When the French résistance was fighting the Nazis in 1940, the British and the Americans encouraged them with oratory but withheld any material help. This led the French to say “the British will fight the Nazis to the last drop of French blood.”
I hesitate to encourage the women to resist to the last drop of their blood, but I am dismayed by a number of stylish, well coiffed, décolleté and manicured “feminists” in America, including Iranian expatriates, who urge the courageous women of Iran to continue their bloody struggle against the regime in Iran without naming the real enemy….Sharia. It is like telling them to die in vain.
The poster-boy for the rebellion is Moussavi and he and his “reformist” wife, who dresses in hijab, utter not a single word of opposition to Sharia, the cruel, misogynist Islamic law that oppresses women and reduces them to the status of animal.
The women of Iran were led down this path before by their mothers and grandmothers who encouraged them to overthrow the Shah and plunged that nation into the repressive hell-hole ruled by the Ayatollahs.
Revolution cannot be successful if sacrifice brings more Islamic repression and degradation with another face and a new set of Ayatollahs. Their jail is Islam and changing the warden from one thug to another will not set them free.
Women of Iran:
Freedom is what I see daily in my supermarket…women in saris, in hijab, Orthodox Jewish women in wigs or headscarves, girls in miniskirts, girls with navel rings who live and play and love and pray without fear of “honor killings” or stoning or lashing or rape, or forced marriages even at the pre-puberty age of nine. Read the rest of this entry »
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands.
General Douglas MacArthur was given command of the U.N. Forces and after a daring landing of troops at Inchon, MacArthur recaptured the city of Seoul.
Political involvement prolonged the war, resulting in high casualties.
President Truman stated in his 1952 Christmas Message: “Our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world.” Truman continued: “Let us remember always to try to act…in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice – nothing but love for all mankind. We should…follow His example…As we pray for our men and women in Korea…let us also pray for our enemies…Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place.”
To the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, General Douglas MacArthur said: “History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.”
This news is as big in Australia as it is elsewhere in the World.
We have our own internal problems in both our Countries, the United States and Australia, but the problems we have, as significant as they are, pale into insignificance when we hear of this horror coming from Tehran.
There are literally hundreds and more videos of horror stories released every day.
Rather than show individual ones, what I have here is a link that will take you to a consolidated area with numerous videos and further links as well, showing the horror that we are not hearing about. Why we are not hearing about it is that the Government in Iran has all but expelled all foreign media from Iran.
This is where they have made a serious miscalculation. They think that because they have gotten the Western media out of the way, that they can act with impunity, thinking that none of it will go outside of their borders.
The miscalculation is that they have failed to recognise we live in the age of civilian journalism, and that video can not only get to the outside World, but get there in real time, as these atrocities are being committed.
The thing that also makes it even worse is that those dedicated media outlets have always imposed their own brand of censorship on that news that they perceive as being of too graphic a nature to release to the general public.
What is happening however is that footage coming out of Iran is ‘Raw’ and by raw, I mean graphic. The outside World is seeing things that have not been ‘toned down’, but the actuality of the real violence that is being perpetrated upon the people, and keep in mind that this is being perpetrated on their own people.
It now seems to be somewhat ironical that mainstream media is relying on this citizen generated footage for the news that they are running with.
This is not journalists reporting with some blandness on a situation not of their making, but actual people in the middle of it reporting it instantaneously, as it is actually happening.
This should make us all sit up and take notice.
This link will take you to a page from the (Australian) ABC media outlet and to a page with numerous videos that you can watch, and see exactly just what is happening, what the Government in Iran does not want you to see, and something that they have absolutely no control over whatsoever.
Be aware that some of the images there are of a graphic nature.
” People are being shot like animals…people are being beaten like animals…..people are being hit with an axe in the heart….they are throwing people off the bridge…You people should stop this its time to act“
That was the haunting cry of a woman in Tehran describing the evil that went on in Tehran today (if you cant see video click here). Video H/t Amanda Carpenter
Through all of the Hate there is hope, one Iranian Blogger reports that half the revolutionary guard is on the side of the people:
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