And she did it to herself.

Nothing to see here. Move along. This is not the singer you’re looking for.

BZ

The truth hurts. And it is the truth.

BZ

P.S.
Thanks to Tim Frazier for the original video posting!

My father passed away three years ago, today, at the age of 88. Wednesday, February 11th of 2009.

That first night of the 11th, I had a dream. I awakened with it in my head. Carole King was singing “So Far Away.” I remember that most distinctly.

Dad cut a regal jib as an student aviator.

He learned how to fly for the US Army Air Corps, the precursor to the US Air Force. Here he is at flight school, in front of a huge radial-engined Harvard.

Here, my father is an AAF Captain at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico, which opened in 1941 as a flight school. He was a flight instructor with his friend, Joel Kuykendahl.

He married my mother, Betty, on April 24th of 1942.

My father, Richard, was proud of having served in the United States Air Force during World War II and Vietnam.

Our family lived in this house for almost 60 years. My father said his first payments were $42 a month and, with a new family, he had no idea how he was going to make it on his salary.

Those days, the father worked and the mother stayed home and took charge of the children and the household. Our back yard was manicured to the Nth degree, even in the final years of my mother’s life. She passed away on May 14th of 2002, having just celebrated her 80th birthday. She also lived to see her 60th anniversary.

I was very surprised. Dad lived another seven years past Mom; I wasn’t sure that would occur. But Dad was, as were many men of his generation, The Greatest Generation, tough as nails. He’d survived and pulled through five major open-thoracic operations for cancer and tumors. In his 80s.

My father’s funeral featured an official contingent from the Travis AFB Elite Honor Guard.

I’ve rewritten this post twice. The first went into much, much more detail. Now, I’ve kept it much shorter and concise.

I miss you Dad, very much. I think of you frequently. I’ll never stop loving you as my father, my hero.

BZ

Here, my 4th Fornicalia District representative, Tom McClintock, questions the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf in a House Budget Committee hearing which occurred last week:

Pressed with questions, the overall economic outlook under Mr Obama according to the CBO Director doesn’t appear to be quite so rosy, now, as compared to inauguration day.

Rep. McClintock also skewers — and rightly so — GW Bush for his profligate spending in terms of a contrast and comparison.

“This recovery has been very unusually weak by US historical experience,” Mr Elmendorf admits.

Make no mistake: history and experience tends to illustrate that one should not come unarmed to an open session with Mr McClintock. Whereas some people quantify Newt Gingrich as “the smartest man in the room,” I would offer Mr McClintock as the Actual Smartest Man in the Room in terms of DC budgets today. As opposed to some personnel, he needs no TelePrompter or rarified air.

Attempting to argue budget and history with Mr McClintock is akin to a man wielding a rock vs an opponent with a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle at a thousand yards.

Not much of a contest, really.

BZ

Another in a continuing series of reasons I call Islam nothing more than a Death Cult for the ignorant and the barbaric:

The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.

The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide.

Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a “‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

The article, written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.

And on a final note, thank Mohammad that at least a few clerics are warning all good brain-damaged Muslims not to observe Valentine’s Day, as it is against Sharia Law.

Inshallah!

BZ