“..Perhaps the reason why the left is almost incandescently furious at Sarah Palin is because she refuses to play their little game. Since she doesn’t use their dictionary she is pilloried as illiterate. By using Oldspeak words she ipso facto gives offense. It is this stiff-necked refusal to get with the word program that may paradoxically give her the political strength. Those who’ve accepted the vocabulary of politesse, aka Newspeak, have unwittingly surrendered. Pre-surrendered, in fact, for the dubious honor of acceptance into quality society. Maybe being from Alaska, Palin never knew enough politesse to forget a very important principle: “You don’t know what is possible before you try. And if you negotiate with yourself before you negotiate with others, you will never know what was possible.”         Richard Fernandez of  Belmont Club

Oh, and whenever you see a poll purporting to show diminished support for Palin, bear THIS item in mind. Polls have become little more than propaganda tools.

Glad y’all liked that oldies post, but warning, this is not a repeat. Something in that last post made me think, Southern, I bet you could search “street music” and find some unusual tunes or self produced videos. After a few links, in a flash of burning inspiration, I said, why just add the name of a city to street music and search. So here first we landed in New York City “Dueling Saxophones” and this clearly is a spontaneous event, very pleasant to the eye and ear. There may be hundreds of these pieces, might suggest you surf around in them.

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‘South Korean special forces storm a hijacked freighter in a pre-dawn raid, saving all 21 crew members, killing eight pirates and capturing five others..’

He really lets rip about 4 minutes into the interview….

“I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as the government   
underwent a peaceful transition of power a year ago. 
 At first, I felt a swell of pride and patriotism while 
Barack Obama took his Oath of office. 

However, all that pride quickly vanished as I later watched 21 Marines, 
In full dress uniform with rifles, 
fire a 21-gun salute to the President. 
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From an email this morning:
“the APP has now achieved federal registration as a political party which means that we will now be able to contest ALL local, state and federal elections in representation of those voices who were cut off by Tony Abbott and his Liberal Party in 1996. There were nearly one million voters who were backing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party at that time, and now once again, those voices WILL be HEARD!!!!!!!!!
…The times are changing and we’re coming to get the bastards who have devastated this nation, make no mistake, this is an important step in fighting the entrenched suicidal mentality that afflicts our political class”

‘THE brown dust from the departing choppers that carried the SAS squadron south from their base at Tarin Kowt had barely cleared when all hell broke loose.
It was October 2010, at the height of the Afghanistan fighting season, and a large Taliban force had established numerous firing positions around heavy machineguns.
More than 24 elite Perth-based Diggers from the Special Air Service Regiment were under withering fire.
Realising his mates were in grave danger, and with no regard for his own welfare, the SAS Corporal charged headlong into the Taliban machinegun fire.
The sight of the 202cm Australian warrior coming at them must have shocked the bearded Afghans.
Within minutes three enemy guns had been silenced and numerous Taliban fighters lay dead…’   source

Wabbit now has an ear-to-ear grin and he’s cracking open a beer…
Update: And Carol was kind enough to post this tribute to our Diggers, along with best wishes and sympathy for the flood victims.  We won’t forget who our friends are.

‘A GROUP of good Samaritan mums who made sandwiches for volunteers trying to protect Warracknabeal from floods have been given the chop.
The Red Cross told the women not to drop off meals to hungry workers, in case someone had an adverse reaction to the food.
Susan Knorpp and her friends Kirsty Holland and Fiona Holland spent five hours making cakes, slices and eight loaves of sandwiches for shire workers and volunteers.
They swung into action after Ms Knorpp’s husband got home from filling sandbags at 4.30am earlier in the week and said he had not eaten all day.
“To me, I was just trying to get my husband and some other people fed,” she said.
……”They said we could no longer make food unless we were working from the official site,” Ms Knorpp said.
“I was quite amazed. I had thought we were doing the right thing when my husband said he had not eaten.
“(We were) trying to do a good deed and got told to shut down.’                  source

You know where the fault lies here?  With the bloody spineless sheep who go along with the orders of petty tyrants, who roll over and obey any jumped-up little fucker wearing a fluoro jacket and an I.D. badge. Until people grow some spine, recover some self-respect and simple courage, they will continue to piss away your liberties and mine out of sheer cowardice. I have no sympathy for these women. The proper response should have been “fuck you, I’ll feed my husband and whoever else I choose”
“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.”

Wabbit thought he’d finished his little rant, but after a coffee and a cigarette, he decided otherwise…
You know, some people simply don’t deserve liberty. They’re born sheep, just waiting for the sheepdog of authority to come along and tell them what to do. A perfect object lesson in the old truism that people don’t value that which they get for nothing. I assume this woman swore an oath when she married–apparently the oath came with a caveat: “Unless an official tells me otherwise, in which case I am free to break this oath”
The official who attempted to get between me and the honouring of the oath I swore before God to care for and protect my partner would need to be very, very well armed or otherwise protected indeed. Marriage is more than a pretty dress and a big social event, Mrs Knorrp.

On Key’s failure to introduce and implement the reforms NZ so desperately needs:
‘…it is my purpose as one who lived and acted in those days … to show how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous, how the councils of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger … and how the middle course, adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life, may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.’
Perhaps the money trader ought to read more….

Michael Evans
He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
In the new millennium Western militaries spend a great deal of their resources on training and arming uniformed professionals for the instrumental rigours of operational service. Most modern armed forces equip their personnel with the latest body armour, the best protected vehicles and the most sophisticated counter-explosive electronics, as well as expending millions of dollars acquiring the most advanced medical services for those physically wounded or maimed. Much less time is devoted to providing military personnel with existential or inner armaments—with the mental armour and philosophical protection that is necessary to confront an asymmetric enemy who abides by a different set of cultural rules. Much is also made in today’s Western political and military circles about the need to relearn counter-insurgency with its central tenet of winning “hearts and minds” among contested populations. Yet little is done to provide Western military professionals with sufficient moral philosophy to protect their own hearts and minds against the rigours of contemporary warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan…
This is possibly the most absorbing essay I’ve ever read. The rest is below the fold and if you have the time I urge you to read the whole thing. It’s about much, much more than just the military. kg Continue reading →