Tuesday (tax day in the USA) morning links

I wrote about Venezuela and Cuba assisting illegal immigration from Syria a decade ago. A Texas newspaper reporter followed the route.
http://paxety.com/2007/05/23/illegal-immigration-and-terrorism/

#1 Juan Paxety (Link) on 2017-04-18 08:23 (Reply)

"It was unimaginable that such a dangerous buffoon could defeat a qualified, whip-smart, sane candidate."

- The new Zealand Herald

And here I thought Donald defeated Hillary Clinton; was there another candidate I somehow missed?

#2 JJM on 2017-04-18 10:52 (Reply)

The libs obsession with the Clintons is hilarious. It has got to be distressing for those who haven't partaken of the Clinton Koolaid, though. The more I think of it, the more it has all the hallmarks of a cult: a religious devotion to The Pantsuit, a willingess to be used by Her Highness and a need to promulgate thought reform on those of us who don't see Her as The One.

More of this, please. That way the people in the middle who are still sane will know to avoid the Democrats like the Bat$#!* crazy people they are. This is not a time for subtleties.

#3 Dangerous Dean on 2017-04-18 11:37 (Reply)

I believe you are right D Dean. What else can it be but a personality cult where the standard defense to any criticism is, "Hillary Clinton is awesome and I love her."?

The leftist mindset seems particularly vulnerable to falling into the cult of personality.

#3.1 feeblemind on 2017-04-18 11:45 (Reply)

When politics becomes your religion, the state becomes god and politicians become priests and prophets. Those with whom you agree take on the mantle of sainthood, and disagreement becomes not a difference of opinion, but heresy. The State is the source of all good things, and sacrifice to it is mandatory.

Marxist Socialist theory did not eradicate religion, it replaced it.

#3.2 Another guy named Dan on 2017-04-18 13:18 (Reply)

I often wish that Maggie's had a like button for comments like yours.

#3.2.1 L.B. on 2017-04-18 17:42 (Reply)

Tru dat. I would upvote Dan, too!

#3.2.1.1 Dangerous Dean on 2017-04-19 10:50 (Reply)

I was in college when Kennedy was running against Nixon. The media were obviously in the tank with the Democrats. They loved Kennedy and loathed Nixon. It wouldn't be much of an exaggeration to say the media worshiped Kennedy. Kennedy was from heaven and Nixon was from hell.

#4 Ray on 2017-04-18 11:57 (Reply)

One word... Camelot.

#4.1 mudbug on 2017-04-18 13:19 (Reply)

During prohibition my father would make a few bucks unloading Joe Kennedy's smuggled Scotch from a small boat. He and a few other guys would stand in the surf and unload the cases of Scotch hand them up the chain to the beach. Then the boat would go back to the ship get another load of cases and do it again. He said this was at Henry Cabot Lodge's house which had a tiny private beach surrounded by cliffs, in Marblehead, Ma. (I think). The Kennedy fortune was from smuggled booze during the prohibition and after prohibition he kept his contacts to create a monopoly on Scottish whiskey. It was many years later (probably the 50's) when I would hear people say that Kennedy made a buck every time someone bought a fifth of Scotch.

#4.2 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-04-18 19:45 (Reply)

Today is the 75th anniversary of the famous "Doolittle Raid," mounted only 4 months after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Lt Col Richard Cole, now 101 and Doolittle's co-pilot, is the sole survivor of the raid. Eight of the 80 who made the raid were captured by the Japanese. Three were executed and one died in captivity. Although a tactical defeat, it assuredly led to the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese.
National Review has a good slide show (although the crew's names are not well identified in the captions). Air Force Magazine has a brief article. url http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2017/April%202017/The-Doolittle-Raid.aspx/url

#5 Mark on 2017-04-18 20:47 (Reply)

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Tuesday, April 18. 2017

Tuesday (tax day in the USA) morning links