More than 600 World War II veterans pass away each day, making WWII memorials and parades something of a difficult affair. Today, 69 years ago, those brave young men charged the beaches of Normandy in chaos and violence similar to this:
God bless our American warriors, those men who sacrificed and, surviving, led humble and productive lives — known as The Greatest Generation.
For certainly they were.
BZ
This is one chilling video, and John Eastman nails it precisely:
Following that testimony, it was revealed that, concurrently, the IRS pisses away your money:
WASHINGTON—The 2010 Internal Revenue Service employee conference that has drawn criticism paid $17,000 to a keynote speaker who drew pictures of the singer Bono and the physicist Albert Einstein to inspire IRS employees to free up their thought process and find creative solutions to challenges, according to a report released Tuesday.
The conference for 2,609 employees in Anaheim, Calif., cost $4.1 million. Lawmakers had recently released some details of the conference—including videos of IRS workers engaged in a “Star Trek” parody and a line dance—but the full report wasn’t publicly available until Tuesday.
Republican Darrell Issa weighs in with logic:
“The wasteful Anaheim conference is one example of a culture of excess that plagues the IRS and many federal agencies,” said Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, (R., Calif.) in a statement released Tuesday. “Taxpayer money meant to pay for a core agency mission, the hiring of more enforcement personnel, was instead spent on a lavish party. Perhaps most disturbingly, there appears to have been little or no effort by the IRS to hold those responsible for this wasteful spending accountable.”
And watch the testimony of Becky Gerritson:
Further:
Rep. Jim McDermott (D., Wash.) gave the hearing a jolt when he questioned whether the conservatives were being unreasonable by claiming that they were entitled to a tax-advantaged status on a fast-track basis for political work. “Each of your groups is highly political,” Mr. McDermott said. “You are all entrenched in some of the most controversial political issues in the country, and with your applications you were asking the American public to pay for that work,” Mr. McDermott said.
That prompted a strong reaction from Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.).
“We have not heard any testimony that this is happening to groups that have the opposing views,” Mr. Ryan said, looking at Mr. McDermott. “So to suggest that these citizens are to blame for applying—I don’t understand how anyone can make that conclusion,” Mr. Ryan said.
These weren’t accidents. They were acts of overt intimidation. These acts were condoned by their administrations. The Obama Administration.
What about Organizing For Action? What about MoveOn.org?
There are rules for those supporting Obama. There are separate rules for those opposing Obama. Who knew? Who gave the orders? When did they know it?
Yes. Your loving IRS.
BZ
BZ
P.S.
Sorry, I needed a brief break from politics. Thanks Hugh.
As Texas Fred wrote in his post, “A warning from a former Muslim,” Islam has patience. And drive. And violence. They are the 800-pound gorilla of religions, cold, cruel, barbaric, single-minded. Read Fred’s post first.
Some people may be asking, in light of the recent declaration that Feds suggest anti-Muslim speech can be punished, why such emphasis on the negative aspects of one tiny religion when there are so many other issues of greater importance requiring focus in today’s world? And, further, won’t this get me in trouble?
The second question is easiest to answer: because I believe in my First Amendment rights. Once we lose our First, everything else means nothing. That is why it is the FIRST Amendment and why the Leftists and “Progressives” by way of the Demorats work so hard to eliminate our Second Amendment protections. Once the Second Amendment is gutted and emasculated, the rest of the Bill of Rights — with the First Amendment clearly “first to go” — can be tossed aside with abandon. Then the nation truly becomes one populated by Groundlings, Serfs and Proles. This doesn’t just work for Obama, folks; any old and staid Republican could potentially do the same thing. No one, ladies and gentlemen, gets my First Amendment.
The first question is also an easy one to answer: because Islam has the West in its gunsights. Literally and figuratively. And the so-called “good” and “moderate” Muslim keeps silent and quaking in his boots for fear of the True Islam. My phrase “Islam is as Islam does” isn’t merely some trite coinage; it’s the absolute truth. Do the reversal: substitute the word “Catholic” for all the death and carnage committed at the hands of and in the name of Islam and imagine what the state of Catholicism would be today.
People say that, after all, these kinds of thing can’t happen here and that Texas Fred and I are simply religionists and terribly over-reactive. One tiny point: people also intimate that Texas Fred and I are racists and to that I laugh out loud: the dolts and cretins making this remark are themselves ill-educated and give away their obvious poor public school days: Islam is a religion and not a race. Such goobers.
It can’t happen here, you say?
Really? Watch:
Ah, nothing like the goodness and kindness of Leftists and Islamists working in concert to eliminate the truth regarding Islam. As so clearly illustrated by Texas Fred’s guest writer.
Plus this:
You think the First Amendment isn’t already threatened? You think that Islam doesn’t already have a foothold in America?
Then you would be foolish.
BZ
P.S.
See two linked articles about the Portland event, here and here.
From TownHall.com:
Excellent question. But no answers are forthcoming. Stonewalling.
But here’s the point: as long as the Obama Administration stonewalls Benghazi, I’ll keep presenting information about Benghazi.
Four AMERICANS are dead, and no one is accountable. The Obama Administration repeatedly makes public announcements that it simply doesn’t care. It didn’t care then and it is doing its level best to crush Benghazi into the ground. “Those four deaths meant nothing, move on — nothing to see here.”
Wrong!
BZ