63 years for the better

Israel was founded 63 years ago the people have flourished the land has flourished and the world thru Israeli innovation and resolve has become a better place for it. The founding was marked has a great accomplishment early this month by most yet this weekend others were marking the day as the day of catastrophe. The Nakba.

Truth is not much happened, about 25 people showed up and 20 of them were the same people who have been doing this every weekend. There was also a Free Tibet rally and I thought it made an interesting juxtaposition on how freedom is regarded by different peoples. The people fighting communism understand that support from the USA is vital to achieving freedom for the people of Tibet. The people fighting Israel want to undermine all support from the USA, even to the point of undermining the USA.

They never called for the destruction of nor denied the right of China to exist

The myth of Nakba is supported with lies and exaggeration expressed thru these placards and by an imaginary board game

Judging simply on stereotypes This game seems to be ISM propaganda.

And the Rachel Corrie Card

Not long ago they tried to buy ad space for an anti-Israeli bus campaign, they failed, the banner was displayed here.

What struck me was in a campaign that would cost thousands the best example of “Israeli War Crimes” is a picture of healthy, clean children standing near a long demolished building?

This time there was no “Two state” solution, Israel has no right to exist and the Palestinians have a right to armed resistance.

“Palestinians had no moral or legal reason to agree to their own displacement.

“Palestinians have been pressured for decades to accept the validity and primacy of a Jewish state”

“Palestinians had no reason to accept the partition of their homeland”

Did I mention no one showed up?

Not PC: And lastly who would have thought my Israeli flag would become such a “babe magnet”

Visit my Flickr set for more Pictures

Update: because this post is getting more attention than normal (thanks EoZ) I feel I need to note my corrections; I changed the grammar and added/removed punctuations to make it easier to read and I added a link to the Rachel Corrie website, And I added the link to my Flickr page (I seem to keep forgetting that one today)

Seattle’s Street Music Scene

Yesterday I went to Seattle to meet up with a friend, (we missed each other) so While I was downtown I started checking out some music

Seattle’s Street music scene has it all from Accordions to Washboards and even a Saw

By far the best I heard was Carly Calbero who had two self produced CDs for sell which I brought (not on i-Tunes yet but you can order them on Bandcamp) This song is Middle-age 13 on her CD “The Outlining”

Sunday Music: Basement Apartment

By Sarah Harmer

Mixed Feelings

OK so this guy at LSU got arrested for cutting down and burning a US Flag that was over a war memorial. HE was arrested for stealing and damaging property and, oddly enough, drug paraphernalia.

He was pissed that we killed OBL.

So this other guy says he wants to show support for the first guys rights (to steal and destroy other peoples property) and burn a flag on campus, it was announced that the university granted him permission to hold his protest which he planned to do today, just that things didn’t turn out the way he planned.

You have the right to burn your flag in this country, you do not have the right to steal and burn a flag that does not belong to you. If you decide to burn your flag, others have the right to object (without threats/acts of violence) to your actions. The mixed feelings come in that I loved seeing so many come out to defend the flag from an   obvious loon, but they came very close to crossing that line.

HT: Gateway Pundit

in comments there…

Quote from Johnny Cash’s From “Ragged Old Flag” on The Great Lost Performance”:

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to… but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine…

Note: This blog is full of examples of me objecting to the actions of others, often very vocally, so I know how easy it is to push that line, and how important it is not to.

Sunday Music: Another California Song

By Damhnait Doyle

Bonus video… Traffic

The new Hope for some Change

The Unemployment numbers are out, inflation is up, Gas is rising and Obama Killed OBL…

So the left wants to skip the Election because we (the right) don’t have a chance…

I beg to differ.

That may have been true on Monday morning but by Tuesday it was clear that this administration in their rush to claim the kudos lost the mojo

Photo Source: Facebook.

Hey Abbott-abad

Osama killed in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad

Can’t help thinking of my favorite comedy team…

Update: Dancing in the Streets

Update: Timing? May 2, 1945

Update: Photo of OBL body shown on Pakistani TV

Update: Fake! (sorry I took so long, Work and all)

Click thumbnail for full picture. (not pretty) HT: American Power

Sunday Music: Evidence

By Tara MacLean
Evidence

Tara MacLean | Myspace Music Videos

Tara seems to have shut down her website and I was only able to find her on the social media, however I highly recommend you find her first album “Silence”.

You can find it on www.amazon.com or through iTunes

Sunday Music: London Rain

By Heather Nova

Happy Easter, The victory of Life over death!

Good Cop, Bad Cop

For the last few months the left has been engaging in an all out assault on the Seattle PD,

However over the last few weeks some have gathered to show our Defenders in Blue They are truly appreciated.

I was at last able to make it to a rally and join them at Seattle’s North Precinct.

There were those who believe that our Police are “Good Cops”

And those who believe our police are “Bad Cops”

Thank God For our Police who protect all of us. Who do a difficult job under difficult circumstances with great professionalism and with great courage.

Be sure to visit my Flickr page for more picture and check back tomorrow, after work, for the video.

Update: Video is ready (sorry I took so long)

A Bargain

Some thoughts on what a lifetime of paying taxes has purchased from staghound

You know what it bought?

Not once did I hear the march of an occupying army.

Never was I (when at home) more than an hour away from fire fighters or police officers who would protect me, even at the risk of their own lives.

And ambulance drivers and doctors who would have treated me, without first questioning whether I could pay.

I never saw servants of my government turn me out of my house or take my property without lots of chances to legally protect my rights.

Blue lights in the mirror never meant extortion or a beating.

If my government turns tyrannical, I can use the same tools for defense against it that I can use to defend myself from private predators.

I work in government, and have never been asked to do something wrong.

Power companies trust enough in the courts and laws that they will give me electricity on demand and on credit.

I can go to a library and get any book ever written for the price of a sandwich, if I can't get it on the government internet in my own house.

If I can't work, I might live rough, but I will never starve to death.

I've never faced conscription. No warlords. No ethnic cleansing. No streams of refugees. No vanished friends.

No midnight knocks on the door for opinions or religion or race, not for me or anyone I knew.

No running and hiding when governments change.

For most of my life, and maybe still, nuclear weapons were pointed AT MY HOUSE and they never went off.

I spent my taxes on exemption from the ordinary, natural state of mankind.

Deal.

Those who say we in the Tea Party don’t like government don’t understand the roll of Good Government.

Safe and Legal

Well not always.

Imagine  if you were her parents and they called to tell you your daughter was in the hospital after receiving an invasive medical procedure you knew nothing about.

Knowing Not What You Do

The woman who posted this video actually said that it showed the anti-Tea Party protesters  “…behaved,smiling,peacefully chanting not yelling,screaming,swearing”

The tea partiers left more quickly than they came.What they didn't think about is that they would have to walk through a sea of us while leaving.What I really want to point out is the difference in behavior between the two sides.If you have seen my earlier videos you know how they behaved.This is how we behaved,smiling,peacefully chanting not yelling,screaming,swearing and physically attacking people!We stuck around for awhile,you see they came to see Palin,we came because it is just simply our house!Found out later they were outnumbered 400-500 tea party 5000-6000 obviously not tea party!

Her other videos show two people one who seems to me to have been mocking the Tea Party and the other who was rude to a group who had mingled within the Tea Party,

Sunday Music: Who Says

By Selena Gomez

The Future Stinks

Sometimes clicking on “related videos” can be fun

Sunday Music: King of Wishful Thinking

By Lauren Zettler

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Sunday Music: Farmer’s Daughter

By Crystal Bowersox

 

HT: Theo Sparks

Southwest Flight 812

Yesterday Southwest flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento was forced to make an emergency landing in Yuma.

This is the best first hand account I’ve read. The link has some interesting photos

How do you convey "I might die in a few minutes and I love you so much my heart aches at the thought of never seeing you again" without freaking someone the hell out? I'll let you know if I figure it out.

She writes more on her blog about the aftermath.

During the flight, people remained remarkably calm. I watched a young man get up and help others with their masks. People shared their chewing gum with others to help with the ear popping. We talked. We joked. On the ground, we cheered for our captain. We hugged each other. I'm pretty sure I cried a little.

and on twitter of her new found fame..

Yes, about 13 minutes left of my 15.

I have a bit of a connection to Southwest in that my mother used to work for the company that does maintenance on their planes and one of my friends has worked for them as a flight attendant for many years, my thoughts are always of her when I see stories like this.

The lie

In order to deflect from recent revelations that led to a nation wide call to end their tax payer provided corporate welfare of over 360,000,000 dollars a year, Planned Parenthood declared that such cuts would result in the elimination of other health services. What they did not count on was someone calling them out on it…

Sunday Music: F*ck You

By Skyler Stonestreet

Well I go to H*ll for this?

No, His Grace is sufficient

II Corinthians 12:9 And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Obit: Geraldine Ferraro Age 75

She passed away today in a Massachusetts Hospital, she had cancer, the story does not list a cause of death.

Ms Ferraro was the first female vice-presidential candidate to represent a major political party, when she became Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984.

The only issue I had with this, and I remember it well, is that Mondale when he began his search for  a VP he  all but announced “white men need not apply” He may have chosen the best person for the job, We’ll never know because he began the process in a PC attempt to pander rather than with an honest effort.

Ms Ferraro carried herself well over the years and I’ve had nothing but respect for her as a person, her former running mate however was a pandering dolt as a senator, has a VP and has a Presidential candidate, then he just fell off my radar.

Sounds like a Cheesy movie

Meghan Brown had fired her pink .38-caliber handgun only inside a shooting range. Even there, she said, she wasn’t very good.

The 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, 25 and a slender brunet, had trouble pulling back the trigger. When she did manage, she said she almost never hit the target.

That Saturday was different.

A man barged into her home, attacking her and beating her fiance. Adrenaline pumping, she fetched the gun from her bedroom. She trained it on the man, following his movements as he tussled with her fiance.

She saw an opening. She pulled the trigger. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.

Albert F. Hill, 42, never got up.

Allow me to put on my cheesy 80’s T&A thriller movie hat for a second.

Plot) Hot beauty queen marries rich nerd for the money, her mistake is she married a "young" nerd for his money.

act 1) Wanting out but not wanting to give up the money she starts to cheat on him, to avoid "friends" she goes far out of her way to meet new men, in a rundown bar she meets "Al", they engage in a passionate affair over the next 3 months until Al ask her to marry him

act 2) She leaves not wanting to tell him she's married, but soon Al begins to follows her and discovers the truth

act 3) She and Al reignite their affair but he wants her to himself, she convinces him to kill her husband so they can be together with his money

act 4) The plan is for her to buy a gun, learn to use it in secret but to tell everyone she's really bad at it, then Al was to attack them at night and she was to kill her husband, "by mistake" while the "Burglar" got away, but she couldn't find her glasses and shot Al instead. Husband finds evidence on Al's body suggesting that Al and his wife were together on this plot, he hides this from the police.

Movie end with reporters lapping up the brave damsel in distress story and taking photos of the couple at their home.

Fade to black)

It explains the look on his face doesn't it?

HT: SondraK.com, Original story here

Note: My “script” is a fictionalized account and is in no way intended to imply that any such thing happened in the events that accompanied the photo and quotes linked above.

When you pull a ship from dry dock

That’s when you know something is not right…

No organization on the planet has more experience and expertise with all things nuclear than the United States Navy. No ship in the world is better equipped in a nuclear emergency than a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. When the US Navy and US Navy aircraft carriers start leaving Japan, something serious is happening. The US even contemplating pulling out of Japan right now would represent an extraordinary shift in the balance of power in the Pacific, and yet that they are even considering doing so suggests the seriousness of the situation at Fukushima.

Sunday Music: I wish I was the Moon

By Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs