Gohmert’s Tough Stance: Fire the Dems Who Let the Veterans Bill Stall in the Senate

Gohmert’s Tough Stance: Fire the Dems Who Let the Veterans Bill Stall in the Senate | TheBlaze.com:
"Just days before the long Memorial Day weekend, Senate Democrats agreed to block a bill aimed at punishing officials involved in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care scandal.
Allowing the bill to pass would have let Congress say it had at least started the process of fixing the broken VA, a gesture to veterans just before Memorial Day.
The House had already passed the bill in an easy bipartisan vote, and up until the Senate’s decision, the two parties appeared to be in rough agreement that Congress needed to move quickly."

Holy crapoli! The dims are gonna run on Obamacare Pride!!

White House Makes Big Mistake Involving Secret Identity of CIA Chief in Afghanistan | TheBlaze.com

White House Makes Big Mistake Involving Secret Identity of CIA Chief in Afghanistan | TheBlaze.com:
"The White House made a big mistake over the weekend, accidentally revealing the name of the CIA’s top officer in Kabul in a prepared list of U.S. officials who were taking part in a briefing related to President Barack Obama‘s surprise visit to Afghanistan."

History for May 27

History for May 27 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of Wild Bill Hickok (1837-76). Shot dead at a poker table at Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on Aug 2, 1876—holding two black aces, two black eights and one other card—now called the “dead man’s hand.”

Birth anniversaries of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Humphrey (1911-78), Vincent Price (1911-93)

Happy Birthday! Joseph Fiennes, Louis Gossett Jr, Ramsey Lewis

 1647 - Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch." 

1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco. 


1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. 


1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions. 


1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed. 


1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps. 


1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida. 


1986 - Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century. 


1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office. 



1999 - In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime. 

‘Breaking Point’: Democrats Privately Call Obama ‘Detached’ and ‘Incompetent,’ Says CNN’s John King

‘Breaking Point’: Democrats Privately Call Obama ‘Detached’ and ‘Incompetent,’ Says CNN’s John King: "King says that Obama’s press conference this week on the VA (Veterans’ Affairs) scandal, in which he made, in King’s own words, a “wait-and-see” approach to addressing the scandal in which untold number of veterans were left to die waiting for care from the government-run health care agency, could be remembered as the “breaking point.”

Little Girl Proclaims ‘I Shall Buy a Bullet’ on Hamas TV’s Anti-Israeli Children’s Show | Video | TheBlaze.com

Little Girl Proclaims ‘I Shall Buy a Bullet’ on Hamas TV’s Anti-Israeli Children’s Show | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"The children’s show on Hamas television that recently portrayed a giant bumble bee character who encouraged Palestinian kids to punch, throw stones at and shoot Jews has broadcast a new episode showing a little girl reciting a poem proclaiming that she would walk through thorns and fire in order to buy a bullet “at any price.”

Alarmist Paul Ehrlich Predicts Need to ‘Eat the Bodies of Your Dead’

Alarmist Paul Ehrlich Predicts Need to ‘Eat the Bodies of Your Dead’ | NewsBusters:

"The zombie apocalypse is nigh!
The zombie apocalypse is nigh!
Well, no it isn’t.
In fact, it’s probably as likely to occur as the rest of Paul Ehrlich’s predictions.
Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist famous for his widely debunked book “The Population Bomb,” doubled down on his climate change and overpopulation fear-mongering with HuffPost Live on May 21. Ehrlich warned host Josh Zepps that the dangers of overpopulation are growing, blaming Republicans and the media for failing to take action.
While hawking a new book called “Hope On Earth,” Ehrlich’s co-author Michael Tobias praised Ehrlich’s older, outrageously wrong predictions and said they underestimated the problem.
Ehrlich, after falsely predicting  human “oblivion” 46 years ago, told Zepps humans must soon begin contemplating “eat[ing] the bodies of your dead” after resources are depleted (fava beans and a nice Chianti optional, apparently)."

Please Remember Me

Brothers Forever–

Happy Memorial Day 2014 | The Gateway Pundit:
Brothers Forever–
Travis Manion and Brendan Looney were roommates at the naval academy and became as close as brothers. One became a Marine stationed in Iraq, the other, a Navy Seal in Afghanistan. Both died in action years apart and were laid to rest side-by-side in Arlington’s National Cemetery.

Pope Francis Refers to ‘State of Palestine’ on Holy Land Trip, Calls Mahmoud Abbas a ‘Man of Peace’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Pope Francis Refers to ‘State of Palestine’ on Holy Land Trip, Calls Mahmoud Abbas a ‘Man of Peace’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Pope Francis delivered a powerful boost of support to the Palestinians during a Holy Land pilgrimage Sunday, repeatedly backing their statehood aspirations, praying solemnly at Israel’s controversial separation barrier and calling the stalemate in peace efforts “unacceptable.”
Palestinian officials hailed Francis’ decision to refer to the “state of Palestine.” In its official program, the Vatican referred to President Mahmoud Abbas as the president of the “state of Palestine,” and his Bethlehem office as the “presidential palace.” He pointedly called Abbas a “man of peace.”

Thank You for Being Expendable

Thank You for Being Expendable - NYTimes.com:
"Before, I thought it was a miracle that I survived the Iraq war.
Now I’m thinking it’s a miracle I’m still alive after dealing with the V.A. for so long.
The V.A. motto was taken from Abraham Lincoln’s second presidential Inaugural Address, and can be seen etched on a huge metal plaque outside the Washington headquarters:
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”

...If you want to know what the price of freedom looks like, go to a V.A. waiting room — wheelchairs, missing limbs, walking wounded, you get all of the above.

One day not long ago, while waiting for my PTSD medication, I struck up a conversation with a Vietnam veteran, who told me the message he’d gotten from his treatment at the V.A., and his country, was not “Thank you for serving,” but “Thank you for being expendable.”
I agreed with him.

Soldiers are expendable in war, and veterans are expendable and forgotten about when they return.

That’s just the way it is.

World's worst planes: The aircraft that failed

BBC - Future - World's worst planes: The aircraft that failed:
The history of aviation is littered with aircraft that failed to live up to expectations. 
Here are some of the most serious aviation failures – from nine-winged monstrosities to a plane with flapping wings.

Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Left Politicizes Elliot Rodger

Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Left Politicizes Elliot Rodger | Power Line:

Actually, mass shootings are pretty equally distributed among ethnic groups. 
The worst mass shooter in American history was an Asian-American, Seung-Hui Cho, and an African-American, John Muhammad, murdered at least ten people in the D.C. area. 
And, of course, the overall homicide rate among African-Americans is something like eight times the white rate.

When the NRA says, “Guns don’t kill people — people kill people,” they’ve got it half-right. Except I would amend it to this: “Guns don’t kill people — Americans kill people.”

Murder occurs in every society, but at widely varying rates. 
Switzerland and Canada have high rates of gun ownership, but low homicide rates. 
White Americans own lots of guns but commit murders at a similarly low rate. 
While it is true that “Americans kill people,” some categories of Americans kill a lot more people than others–a fact which liberals understandably try to obscure.

Blog: Premature suicide belt explosion dampens jihadi party

Blog: Premature suicide belt explosion dampens jihadi party:
"It’s the feel-good video of the day. 
I’d trade it for six cute puppy or kitten videos.
It happened in Syria, when a bunch of terrorists, said to be from abroad, got together for a little party.

Sean Brown of Mad World News reports:
The Syrian-based terror group is all sitting around singing, rifles stacked in the middle of the room in a menacing manner and their flag draped on the wall above.
As their celebration continues, all of the sudden there’s a massive BOOM and the camera is shot off the screen.
Panic ensues, and the men run around like madmen screaming “Allahu akbar!”
These men are said to be a group of Takfiri terrorists, a foreign-sponsored group that’s claimed responsibility for numerous attacks across Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq."

What Would a Real War on Poverty Look Like?

What Would a Real War on Poverty Look Like?:
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “War on Poverty” (announced in January of 1964) and the “Great Society” (announced 50 years ago yesterday).
These were America’s two great experiments in using the power of the federal government to transform and radically improve the country.
Fifty years and some 15 or 20 trillion dollars—depending on how you count—is a pretty good test and plenty of time to conclude that it has failed.
As I have argued elsewhere, the result of the War on Poverty has been to ameliorate some of the effects of poverty, but not to ameliorate poverty itself.
In other words, the result has been to “make the poor more secure in their poverty,” which is precisely what LBJ promised not to do. "

Shift of illegal crossings into Texas accelerates | CNS News

Shift of illegal crossings into Texas accelerates | CNS News:
"I don't think we have anywhere near the resources that we would require to even make a dent in what we've got going on here," said Chris Cabrera, a Border Patrol agent in McAllen and local vice president of the agents' union. "I think it's common knowledge that we don't have the resources, that's why they're coming in droves like they are. They're exploiting a weakness that they've found and quite frankly they're doing a good job of it."

Memorial Day: Obama and the Faculty Windbags' Waterloo

Articles: Memorial Day: Obama and the Faculty Windbags' Waterloo
...the Veterans Administration scandal has legs and this one (of so many administration scandals) cannot be swept under the rug.
Every Memorial Service will remind those who care -- and most of us still do -- that their government is often managed by callous bureaucrats who seriously, even fatally, withheld medical care for those to whom we owe an eternal debt. 
It touches so many families and reminds those of us not still in the Woodstock cannabis haze the dangers of putting important functions in the hands of  a government without workable checks, a diligent honest press, and honorable officeholders.

Terry Kelly - A Pittance of Time (Official Version)

In The Arms Of An Angel-American Soldiers Tribute

Christian cop loses appeal – must attend mosque

Christian cop loses appeal – must attend mosque:

"A panel of federal judges in Denver, in an opinion written by Judge Harris Hartz, found that it is perfectly appropriate for a police chief to order subordinates to attend an Islamic mosque where Muslims “discussed Islamic beliefs, Muhammad, Mecca, and why and how Muslims pray” in addition to encouraging officers “to buy” Islamic books and pamphlets that were for sale.
The ruling came on Thursday from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by Capt. Paul Fields, who had been ordered by Tulsa police officials to either go to a special event at the local mosque himself, or order others to do that."

Lt. James G. Riley RIP

Riley James G.

Name:	James G. Riley
Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:	O-800593
Unit:	49th Fighter Squadron
Date of Death:	1944-02-27
State:	New York
Cemetery:	Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuno, Italy
Plot:	Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:	Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Comments:	2nd Lieutenant James Riley took off from Foggia, Italy air base flying his P-38 Lightning 43-2543 on an escort bombing mission over Salon-de-Provence. He was shot down by a German fighter over the Golf de La Ciotat towards 1230. His plane was found but never fully searched.

	Details:
	A fenced-off monument in a cobblestone area next to the alleyway. Monument A vertical stone slab with a plaque at its base.
	Monument Text:
	english translation James G. Riley, american aviation lieutenant, shot down January 27th, 1944, in the Golf of Ciotat when he was 21 years old and to all aviators, french and allied, who died on the field of honor for La Ciotat and for France

Description:
	Cobblestone space next to the quai alleyway
	Address:
	Boulevard Guerin , La Ciotat , 13-Bouches-du-Rhône , Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur , France
	At the old harbor, between the quais of General de Gaulle and Francois Mitterand, in front of Boulevard Guerin

Brotherly Farewell Caught On Dustoff Helmet Cam

FUNKER530 » Military Videos And Veteran Community discussing Army, Navy, Air Force topics. » Brotherly Farewell Caught On Dustoff Helmet Cam:

This video was taken by a pilot and crew chief on a dustoff bird that was flying MEDEVAC in Kunar in 2009. 

The events shown are from the Battle of Ganjgal, a firefight that earned both CPT Swenson (shown) and CPL Dakota Meyer the Medal Of Honor.

Regardless of your thoughts on the politicians that start and perpetuate these wars, that’s not what this page is about, and those that never served and troll the comments section about such topics will never be privileged enough to understand that. You don’t fight for presidents, oil or for the empire. You may stand for freedom, but you don’t fight for it. You fight for your brothers that are standing shoulder to shoulder with you, while looking into the face of an early death, in a filthy and forsaken no man’s land. Nothing else matters at that point but your brothers.

This is what brotherhood looks like.

History for May 26

History for May 26 - On-This-Day.com:

Memorial Day (legal public observance in US)

Birth anniversaries of actors Al Jolson (1886-1950), John Wayne (1907-79) and Jay Silverheels (1912-80).

Birth anniversary of US astronaut Sally Ride (1951-2012).

Happy Birthday! Pam Grier, Brent Musberger, Hank Williams Jr

1736 - The British and Chickasaw Indians defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia. 


1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial. 

1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the "Wall Street Journal." 


1908 - In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East. 






1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. 


1946 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed a military pact with Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin promised a "close collaboration after the war." 

1959 - The word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O. 


1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.