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Tuesday, May 12. 2015Tuesday morning linksA weighty matter: Chevy Colorado vs. Ford F-150 Watch Two Men In Jetpacks Fly Above Dubai Jeepers, Icarus. Where do you put your luggage, and how do you land? Oh, parachute. NJ SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF LEAVING CHILD IN CAR A FEW MINUTES IS AUTOMATICALLY “NEGLECT” How drunks get hurt in Wisconsin Catholic University Investigated For Offending Muslims For Having Too Many Crosses "...His sin, but of course, was simultaneously being white and being OK with As You Were Saying...Call Obama's bluff on immigration Obama’s Crackdown on Dissent Has Made Conservatives a Little Paranoid — and Rightly So The Left's Crusade Against Free Speech
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Oceania, AZ
Just think if they spent the time-energy-resources securing the border rather than spying on and surveilling legal citizens. I've never heard that we 'won' the Vietnam war. Is that valid?
The article offered nothing to persuade me The Tet offensive was a disaster for the Viet Cong and Nixon's eventual decision to mine Haiphong harbor made the north realize they were facing inevitable defeat. Then Walter Cronkite got on TV and lied, boldfaced, to the American public that the US military was losing on the battlefield. And when the North Vietnamese reneged on every point of the peace treaty they had signed in Paris, the Democrats protected them from paying the price.
Thus many of us turned from the Democratic party and have not trusted the media since. No,indeed we "lost" the Vietnam war... on purpose. Certainly we never should have fought a war there that was a terrible mistake by a president too young and too inexperienced in world affairs (not to mention to distracted by his own affairs). But we were kicking their asses even with our hands tied and the entire media, hollywood and the left leaning elite working as hard as they could to destroy the effort. We never should have been there but once we decided to fight the war we should have fought it to win. The real story is and should be the strong pro-communist conspiracies of the anti-war left. The FBI and CIA knew of the communist influence within the U.S. and controlling the anti-war movement. But it was only years after the war ended that this connection became known to most Americans and even then the left leaning media twisted the facts to minimize and distort the facts. The scary part is that the links to communist Russia and socialist movements are still present and active on the left and they still work tirelessly to influence our policies and to destroy the country. Will they prevent us from winning the next war too? Will we be destroyed from the inside by American traitors?
An EU Army? Isn't that just NATO without the US and Canada? Will the US be expected to pay for this new army like we do NATO?
"—the restoration of free speech depends on the restoration of liberal education."
Actually, it depends on the restoration of the desire to learn at universities. “Where there is much desire to learn, here of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.” --John Milton And Milton was a Cromwellian bureaucrat, i.e., Puritan The "modern" Left is less open-minded than the 17th century Puritans. Re: Killing bin Laden
Seymour Hersch is so erratic. One breaking story will be great, the next one will be off the wall. I have no problem believing it didn't happen the way Obummer said, but at the same time, I'm not going to accept Hersch's story as truth. re jetpack
I recall seeing a rocketbelt demonstration at Wrigley Field between games of a double header in 1965 or 1966. In the demonstration, the operator, 'Kolonel Keds' flew from third base to home and around to first base. He flew pretty high, perhaps as high as 100' and I kept wondering what would happen if that thing flamed out and quit on him. IIRC, the device was being considered as having potential for getting astronauts around on the moon. Those of you over the age of 55 may recall the Bell Rocketbelt being given popular exposure as the transportation of choice used by Kolonel Keds in the canvas sneaker commercials in the early 60s. There were a whole series of ads featuring the device. Here is an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddk7CNw-rck Steyn: "Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay"
thank the gods that American commitment to freedom of speech has prevented this from becoming a First Amendment issue. The jetpack link is the coolest video I have watched in years. I don't think I had ever heard of Jetman, but I will be watching those videos now, too. Thanks for the link.
I never know what to ask for on Father's Day. The kids and bride know what I want NOW, though. Flying like that would be the closest I could ever come to flying like a bird...or like a rocket. Man, what a blast that would be. |