ISIS moves into Southeast Asia - Washington Times:
"Western powers and media outlets convulsed in shock at last week’s horrific suicide attack on a pop concert in Britain, but little attention was paid to a surge of violence by the Islamic State on the other side of the world — specifically in the Philippines and Indonesia.
Dozens have died since a Southeast Asian faction of the organization also known as ISIS and ISIL raised its black flag over a key southern Philippine city on Wednesday, the same day that a double suicide bombing since claimed by the terrorist group rocked the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
With terrorism analysts having warned months ago that the Islamic State could surge in the region as it lost territory in the Middle East, U.S. intelligence officials have expressed particular wariness "
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Monday, May 29, 2017
This Memorial Day: WWII Vet Reminds Us In This Recording Of The Graphic Realities Of War | American Military News
This Memorial Day: WWII Vet Reminds Us In This Recording Of The Graphic Realities Of War | American Military News:
This Memorial Day: WWII Vet Reminds Us In This Recording Of The Graphic Realities Of War
This Memorial Day: WWII Vet Reminds Us In This Recording Of The Graphic Realities Of War
BY EDITORIAL STAFF · MAY 27, 2016
A WWII veteran reminds us of the grim realities of war just in time for Memorial Day. This real audio recording features a veteran of the greatest generation recounting the time he made the “shot of a lifetime” while dropping bombs on German soldiers.
The WWII vets can be heard sharing a laugh about the situation. Despite his positive demeanor he takes the time to remind us that war is no laughing matter with this final quote:
“War is Hell…It’s either kill or be killed”
Listen to the full AudioBurst below.
"A Massive 4th Amendment Breach": NR Editor Details Obama Admin's Intel-Gathering Abuses | Buck Sexton
"A Massive 4th Amendment Breach": NR Editor Details Obama Admin's Intel-Gathering Abuses | Buck Sexton:
"“To do what they did, the administration had to violate a black-and-white rule that said you are not allowed to use the identifying information of American citizens in searching through the database that the NSA has for intelligence collection, that it has by tapping into big Internet systems,” McCarthy continued. “They got told, you can’t do this, and they did it, and they did it again and again and again.”"
"“To do what they did, the administration had to violate a black-and-white rule that said you are not allowed to use the identifying information of American citizens in searching through the database that the NSA has for intelligence collection, that it has by tapping into big Internet systems,” McCarthy continued. “They got told, you can’t do this, and they did it, and they did it again and again and again.”"
Memorial Day, and Decoration Day :: SteynOnline
Memorial Day, and Decoration Day :: SteynOnline:
"On the eve of Memorial Day, here's a piece we get a lot of requests for.
It was first written for The Chicago Sun-Times and other papers in 2004, and is anthologized in my book The [Un]documented Mark Steyn.
A lot of the controversies mentioned below - Abu Ghraib, etc - are forgotten, and others - Guantanamo Bay - became mysteriously less controversial after, oh, late January 2009.
Time passes, and moss and lichen creep across ancient grave stones.
But the men beneath them are forever young:
"On the eve of Memorial Day, here's a piece we get a lot of requests for.
It was first written for The Chicago Sun-Times and other papers in 2004, and is anthologized in my book The [Un]documented Mark Steyn.
A lot of the controversies mentioned below - Abu Ghraib, etc - are forgotten, and others - Guantanamo Bay - became mysteriously less controversial after, oh, late January 2009.
Time passes, and moss and lichen creep across ancient grave stones.
But the men beneath them are forever young:
Memorial Day in my corner of New Hampshire is always the same.
A clutch of veterans from the Second World War to the Gulf march round the common, followed by the town band, and the scouts, and the fifth-graders.
The band plays "Anchors Aweigh," "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," "God Bless America" and, in an alarming nod to modernity, Ray Stevens' "Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)" (Billboard No. 1, May 1970).
One of the town's selectmen gives a short speech, so do a couple of representatives from state organizations, and then the fifth-graders recite the Gettsyburg Address and the Great War's great poetry.
There's a brief prayer and a three-gun salute, exciting the dogs and babies.
Wreaths are laid.
And then the crowd wends slowly up the hill to the Legion hut for ice cream, and a few veterans wonder, as they always do, if anybody understands what they did, and why they did it.
A clutch of veterans from the Second World War to the Gulf march round the common, followed by the town band, and the scouts, and the fifth-graders.
The band plays "Anchors Aweigh," "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," "God Bless America" and, in an alarming nod to modernity, Ray Stevens' "Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)" (Billboard No. 1, May 1970).
One of the town's selectmen gives a short speech, so do a couple of representatives from state organizations, and then the fifth-graders recite the Gettsyburg Address and the Great War's great poetry.
There's a brief prayer and a three-gun salute, exciting the dogs and babies.
Wreaths are laid.
And then the crowd wends slowly up the hill to the Legion hut for ice cream, and a few veterans wonder, as they always do, if anybody understands what they did, and why they did it.
Before the First World War, it was called Decoration Day - a day for going to the cemetery and "strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion."
Some decorated the resting places of fallen family members; others adopted for a day the graves of those who died too young to leave any descendants.
Some decorated the resting places of fallen family members; others adopted for a day the graves of those who died too young to leave any descendants.
I wish we still did that.
Lincoln's "mystic chords of memory" are difficult to hear in the din of the modern world, and one of the best ways to do it is to stand before an old headstone, read the name, and wonder at the young life compressed into those brute dates: 1840-1862. 1843-1864.
Lincoln's "mystic chords of memory" are difficult to hear in the din of the modern world, and one of the best ways to do it is to stand before an old headstone, read the name, and wonder at the young life compressed into those brute dates: 1840-1862. 1843-1864.
In my local cemetery, there's a monument over three graves, forebears of my hardworking assistant, although I didn't know that at the time I first came across them.
Turner Grant, his cousin John Gilbert and his sister's fiancé Charles Lovejoy had been friends since boyhood and all three enlisted on the same day.
Charles died on March 5, 1863, Turner on March 6, and John on March 11.
Nothing splendid or heroic.
They were tentmates in Virginia, and there was an outbreak of measles in the camp.
Turner Grant, his cousin John Gilbert and his sister's fiancé Charles Lovejoy had been friends since boyhood and all three enlisted on the same day.
Charles died on March 5, 1863, Turner on March 6, and John on March 11.
Nothing splendid or heroic.
They were tentmates in Virginia, and there was an outbreak of measles in the camp.
For some reason, there was a bureaucratic mixup, as there often is, and the army neglected to inform the families.
Then, on their final journey home, the bodies were taken off the train at the wrong town.
It was a Saturday afternoon and the stationmaster didn't want the caskets sitting there all weekend.
So a man who knew where the Grants lived offered to take them up to the next town and drop them off on Sunday morning.
Then, on their final journey home, the bodies were taken off the train at the wrong town.
It was a Saturday afternoon and the stationmaster didn't want the caskets sitting there all weekend.
So a man who knew where the Grants lived offered to take them up to the next town and drop them off on Sunday morning.
When he arrived, the family was at church, so he unloaded the coffins from his buggy and left without a word or a note to anyone.
Imagine coming home from Sunday worship and finding three caskets waiting on the porch. Imagine being young Caroline Grant, and those caskets contain the bodies of your brother, your cousin and the man to whom you're betrothed.
Imagine coming home from Sunday worship and finding three caskets waiting on the porch. Imagine being young Caroline Grant, and those caskets contain the bodies of your brother, your cousin and the man to whom you're betrothed.
That's a hell of a story behind the bald dates on three tombstones.
If it happened today, maybe Caroline would be on Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric demanding proper compensation, and the truth about what happened, and why the politicians were covering it up.
Maybe she'd form a group of victims' families.
Maybe she'd call for a special commission to establish whether the government did everything it could to prevent disease outbreaks at army camps.
Maybe, when they got around to forming the commission, she'd be booing and chanting during the officials' testimony, as several of the 9/11 families did during Mayor Rudy Giuliani's statement.
If it happened today, maybe Caroline would be on Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric demanding proper compensation, and the truth about what happened, and why the politicians were covering it up.
Maybe she'd form a group of victims' families.
Maybe she'd call for a special commission to establish whether the government did everything it could to prevent disease outbreaks at army camps.
Maybe, when they got around to forming the commission, she'd be booing and chanting during the officials' testimony, as several of the 9/11 families did during Mayor Rudy Giuliani's statement.
All wars are messy, and many of them seem small and unworthy even at the moment of triumph.
The sight of unkempt lice-infested Saddam Hussein yanked from his spider hole last December is not so very different from the published reports of Jefferson Davis' capture in May 1865, when he was said to be trying to skulk away in women's clothing, and spent the next several months being depicted by gleeful Northern cartoonists in hoop skirts, petticoats and crinolines (none of which he was actually wearing).
The sight of unkempt lice-infested Saddam Hussein yanked from his spider hole last December is not so very different from the published reports of Jefferson Davis' capture in May 1865, when he was said to be trying to skulk away in women's clothing, and spent the next several months being depicted by gleeful Northern cartoonists in hoop skirts, petticoats and crinolines (none of which he was actually wearing).
But, conquered and captured, an enemy shrivels, and you question what he ever had that necessitated such a sacrifice.
The piercing clarity of war shades into the murky greys of post-war reconstruction.
You think Iraq's a quagmire?
Lincoln's "new birth of freedom" bogged down into a century-long quagmire of segregation, denial of civil rights, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Does that mean the Civil War wasn't worth fighting?
That, as Al Gore and other excitable types would say, Abe W. Lincoln lied to us?
The piercing clarity of war shades into the murky greys of post-war reconstruction.
You think Iraq's a quagmire?
Lincoln's "new birth of freedom" bogged down into a century-long quagmire of segregation, denial of civil rights, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Does that mean the Civil War wasn't worth fighting?
That, as Al Gore and other excitable types would say, Abe W. Lincoln lied to us?
Like the French Resistance, tiny in its day but of apparently unlimited manpower since the war ended, for some people it's not obvious which side to be on until the dust's settled.
New York, for example, resisted the Civil War my small town's menfolk were so eager to enlist in.
The big city was racked by bloody riots against the draft.
And you can sort of see the rioters' point.
More than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War - or about 1.8 percent of the population.
Today, if 1.8 percent of the population were killed in war, there would be 5.4 million graves to decorate on Decoration Day.
New York, for example, resisted the Civil War my small town's menfolk were so eager to enlist in.
The big city was racked by bloody riots against the draft.
And you can sort of see the rioters' point.
More than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War - or about 1.8 percent of the population.
Today, if 1.8 percent of the population were killed in war, there would be 5.4 million graves to decorate on Decoration Day.
But that's the difference between then and now: the loss of proportion.
They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren't a victim culture.
They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screw-ups worth re-examining, but they weren't a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating vaudeville over all else.
They had hellish setbacks but they didn't lose sight of the forest in order to obsess week after week on one tiny twig of one weedy little tree, as the Democrats do over Abu Ghraib.
There is something not just ridiculous but unbecoming about a hyperpower 300 million strong whose elites - from the deranged former vice president down - want the outcome of a war, and the fate of a nation, to hinge on one freaky jailhouse; elites who are willing to pay any price, bear any burden, as long as it's pain-free, squeaky-clean and over in a week.
The sheer silliness dishonors the memory of all those we're supposed to be remembering this Memorial Day.
The sheer silliness dishonors the memory of all those we're supposed to be remembering this Memorial Day.
Playing by Gore-Kennedy rules, the Union would have lost the Civil War, the rebels the Revolutionary War, and the colonists the French and Indian Wars.
There would, in other words, be no America.
There would, in other words, be no America.
Even in its grief, my part of New Hampshire understood that 141 years ago.
We should, too.
Polish PM on Manchester Attack: ‘Europe, Rise from Your Knees or You’ll Be Crying over Your Children Every Day’
Polish PM on Manchester Attack: ‘Europe, Rise from Your Knees or You’ll Be Crying over Your Children Every Day’:
"The prime minister of Poland has launched a blistering attack on the “political elites” of Europe in the wake of the Manchester terror attack, warning the continent must put in place “strong politicians” willing to tackle the threat or risk “crying over your children”."
"The prime minister of Poland has launched a blistering attack on the “political elites” of Europe in the wake of the Manchester terror attack, warning the continent must put in place “strong politicians” willing to tackle the threat or risk “crying over your children”."
History for May 29
History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 - Writer of philosophy, ontolory, poetry, Oswald Spengler (Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler) 1880 - German historian and philosopher
Bob Hope 1903 - Comedian, actor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (U.S.) 1917 - 35th President of the United States, refered to by his initials JFK, Al Unser, Sr. 1939 - Automobile racer
1453 - Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1986 - Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2015 - The Obama adminstration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
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