This morning, some eight hours ahead of us in Central Texas, the sirens will sound in Israel and cars will stop, even on the freeways.
People will get out and stand silently for a time, remembering stories such as this one. Wherein we discover that the first two people killed by the British in World War II were not German Nazis, but Jewish refugees escaping from the German Nazis.
Via Simply Jews.
UPDATE: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising wasn’t the only way they fought back. For instance…
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obsessions
Tagged first British shots of World War II, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Tiger Hill
So, as the cynics always say, do we really have the best politicians money can buy? Ha! Not a chance. Not by a country mile.
“…among the many distressingly low-rent qualities our politicians possess, none is more contemptible than just how cheaply they are willing to sell themselves. People who get caught in what appear to be open-and-shut corruption scandals are doing so for pennies on the dollar — pennies on the dollar, I tell you!”
I could name names but I’m sure you could come up with your own names.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Could be, though, some of our political crooks are more successful at hiding their payoffs than others. For instance…
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Had a repeat the other day of last summer’s stone-steps waterfall in the back forty. Last July it took nearly ten inches of rain over several days to form the waterfall.
This week just 2.5 inches of rain did it, concentrated into a downpour of little more than one hour. Just like last time, I used six big ceramic floor tiles (left over from a previous job and stood up against the doors) to divert the stream from the glass doors to the patio. Worked fine, sending the big river curving away in a fish-hook shape. Only had a few soaked towels inside as a result.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged ceramic floor tiles, stone-step waterfall, texas flood
All presidents lie. All politicians lie, for that matter. But Barry has an unusual penchant for mendacity, saying one thing one year and the opposite a year or two later. Sometimes reversing himself within weeks or months, without ever mentioning the previous assertion or any justification for changing his tune. In addition to routinely poisoning the public well with distortions and and deception.
The American Rifleman, the monthly magazine of America’s oldest civil rights group, the National Rifle Association, this month calls our imperial president King Pinocchio (for some reason, the article is not on the magazine’s web site) for his “blizzard of lies” about firearms:
“Weapons of war have no place on our streets.” (Firearms used in war are fully automatic and there are no fully automatic rifles or submachineguns or full machinguns normally used in American street crime and he probably knows it. Or is he just stupid? I wouldn’t rule that out. The only people who’ve ever said he was smart were his acolytes, especially in the snooze media.)
“As many as 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check.” (No legal purchases are so conducted. Only the illegal ones, which couldn’t possibly be 40 percent of the total without a great many more firearms crimes than there are. And no law is going to stop the illegal purchases because, by definition, criminals do not obey laws. Duh.)
“I am not going to take your guns away.” He said that in 2008 when he was running for the presidency. Today he wants to ban semi-automatic rifles and handguns (the so-called “assualt weapons” which only look like war weapons but are not fully automatic). The vast majority of rifles and handguns in America today are semi-automatic.
Having seen King Pinocchio blatantly lie about firearms and get away with it time after time—thanks to his stooges in the snooze media that pretends to report the news—other members of his Democrat party are following his no-retribution lead.
Some like Newark (NJ) mayor Cory Booker have the decency to correct themselves when told they have gone too far. Booker said the other day that thousands of Americans are killed by gun violence every day. Later he corrected himself to the real figure: 30. Out of a population of more than 200 million.
Thanks a lot King Pinocchio. In the words I saw on the cover of Vogue magazine the other day at H.E.B., the Obamas certainly have “inspired” us. Inspired us to lie and deceive.
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Tagged King Pinocchio, National Rifle Association, Obama's lies about guns, The American Rifleman
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The snooze media, when it’s not sucking up to our imperial president, his cronies and political party (for you newly arrived illegal immigrants, that would be the Democrats), likes to emphasize our political hyphenation of the past several decades. You know, the multiculturalism nonsense (all cultures are equal; none are superior to any other) that’s supposed to (somehow) make minorities feel better about themselves if they happen to come from a (clearly) backward culture.
Thus the recent killing of the district attorney and his wife in their home in North Texas is, the ever-mendacious NYTimes and cBS assure us, the probable work of the “white supremacist” group the Aryan Brotherhood. (When it comes to brotherhoods the only one the snooze media likes is the radical Muslim version.)
As Wretchard points out in one of his usual understated blog postings, white supremacism is the snooze media’s favorite hobby horse because it excites their multiculturalist chums. After the Tea Party, perhaps. And gun owners are somewhere on the list. But snoozers have been flogging the gun owners recently and before that the Tea Party. So now, apparently, it’s time (to continue mixing metaphors) to beat the white supremacist drum again. All of which are much easier than thinking or actually working, two things the snooze media tries really hard to avoid and almost always succeeds.
Especially when the probable reason for the DA’s murder is (as usual) staring them in the face. It’s one of the big three. The big three any cop will tell you is the usual reason for murder: sex, drugs or money. Wait and see. The odds are it’ll be one of them, not white supremacism at all. And the snooze media will act like they never doubted it from the beginning and go back to picking on the gun owners.
UPDATE: Indeed, by April 19, a former justice of the peace and his wife have been charged with the crime, neither of them Tea Party or Aryan Brotherhood members. Nor organizers of a dramatic “hit.” Just plain vanilla murderers, apparently over money. Big surprise.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, Obsessions, Scribbles, Texana, The Drug War
Tagged beating the white supremacist drum, the three reasons for murder: sex drugs or money
Margaret Sanger would be sooo proud. She always wanted to get rid of the “human weeds,” as she so deftly put it in the NYTimes in 1923. Really.
So the abortion mill known as Planned Parenthood (no parenthood involved, really, just the absence thereof), which mainly does business with black and Hispanic women (those “weeds,” you know) wants to let “mom” decide whether to keep alive an aborted late-term baby who is breathing. Except, uh, if she said no, that would be murder, guys.
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Tagged Elizabeth Price Foley, Instapundit, Margaret Sanger's human weeds, Planned Parenthood endorses infanticide
I haven’t gotten around to informing Mr. B. yet. I’m not sure that I should. He’ll find out in his own way, of course. But I do recall my own pubescent shock when I finally discovered the trick that made girls’ breasts stand up so perkily under their tops—some aimed straight ahead like the nose cones of ICBMs.
Learning the cruel reality of the under-wired brassiere was disillusioning, to say the least. I would have been fortunate, indeed, to have had this celebrated brassiere analyst’s blog to turn to from the beginning. Revealing such details as that Victoria Secret bras don’t even fit the models. Of course the Web in general would have been a great favor in and of itself back in those dark ages of the late 1950s.
UPDATE: This was mainly intended as a joke. (Sorry, Scott.) This is not funny at all and it explains why Mr. B. came home from his sex education class back in fifth grade thoroughly mystified as to what was under discussion and why he should care.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Mr. Boy, Science/Engineering, Scribbles
Tagged pubescent disillusion, the truth about brassieres, thin and curvy blog, under-wired bras
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 