The Bravest of the Brave - 75 Years Ago

They did much more than hit Japan when we needed to, they caused the end of Japanese expansion in the Pacific with the Battles of Coral Sea and the miracle Battle of Midway! m/r

One Final Toast for the Doolittle Raiders

April 18, 2017 By Christopher Klein

A little more than four months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back on April 18, 1942, with the daring Doolittle Raid. Lieutenant Richard E. Cole, who served as Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot, is the only one of the 80 raiders still living, and today the 101-year-old veteran commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid by continuing an annual tradition of raising a silver goblet and toasting his fallen comrades with 1896 cognac.

Dick Cole had always dreamed of soaring into the clouds, but he never dreamed that one day he would fly into the history books alongside his boyhood idol.
As a youngster growing up outside Dayton, Ohio—hometown of the Wright Brothers—Cole pasted newspaper articles chronicling the exploits of pioneering aviators into his scrapbook and often made the 30-minute bike ride to McCook Field where he sat and watched daredevil pilots such as James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, who in 1922 made the first cross-country flight in under 24 hours, train and test new aircraft at McCook Field.

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A “random act of violence.” by Muhammad

When does the PC BS end? m/r

Three dead in central Fresno shooting spree; suspect caught, linked to Motel 6 slaying

By Jim Guy 4-18-17

Three people were shot and killed after a man went on a shooting spree in downtown Fresno and at Catholic Charities Tuesday at Divisadero and Fulton streets in central Fresno, police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
The 39-year-old suspect, identified as Kori Ali Muhammad, is now in custody, Dyer said. He is also suspected in the fatal shooting of a security guard outside a Motel 6 in central Fresno Thursday. He is facing four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Dyer said. He said Muhammad had expressed dislike of whites; all of the victims were white. Dyer called it a “random act of violence.”
Two of the people shot outside Catholic Charities may have been clients of the social service agency, not employees, Dyer said. The third victim was a Pacific Gas & Electric employee. Another person was shot at but not injured.

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article145234709.html#storylink=cpy

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Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article145234709.html#storylink=cpy

My friend's father visited Ceylon in the 1940's, he thought it was Paradise on Earth

NEVER MORE!

Garbage piles up in Sri Lanka capital after 300-foot rubbish mountain is shut down following devastating collapse that killed 30 people

• The massive 300-foot rubbish mountain collapsed in Colombo on Friday
• It destroyed 145 homes nearby and buried victims in a garbage landslide 
• Hundreds of troops were still searching for six missing people four days on

By Ekin Karasin For Mailonline and Afp  Published: 18 April 2017

Hundreds of tonnes of rotting garbage have piled up in Sri Lanka's capital after a 300-foot rubbish mountain collapsed and killed 30 people.  

Authorities shut down the main rubbish dump on the northeastern edge of Colombo on Tuesday - four days after it destroyed 145 homes and buried victims in a garbage landslide.

Hundreds of troops were still searching for six people missing since the accident, but authorities were not hopeful of finding any survivors four days on.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4420914/Garbage-piles-Sri-Lanka-capital-toll-hits-30.html#ixzz4edDFlNrp

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Ataturk in Retrograde - No Longer Ata-boy

Ataturk with Turkish women and girls in the 1920s

Now it is the outbreeding Turks of Anatolia, or Asia Minor, who have overwhelmed the Turks of Rumelia, or European Turkey; or is it inbreeding?  m/r

Who Lost Turkey? (Revisited)

by Mark Steyn  Steyn on Europe  April 17, 2017

Men and Women in Istanbul in the 1950s

As they used to say way back when in the long Ottoman twilight, the Turk is the sick man of Europe. Following this weekend's Caliph-for-Life referendum, the Turk is sicker than ever. But he's no longer of Europe, and instead is exiting for a destination dark and catastrophic for almost all his neighbors.
Sultan Erdoğan - who, a mere 15 years ago, was banned from holding political office - has now succeeded in dismantling almost every defining element of the Kemalist republic. What replaces it will be a crude strongman state in service of Islamic imperialism. I have read a lot of commentary this morning, starting with Douglas Murray's "Turkish Democracy Has Just Died" and moving on to Yavuz Baydar's "The End Of Turkey As We Know It" via Alex Alexiev's "Who Lost Turkey?" And several readers have been kind enough to inquire where's my own "Who Lost Turkey?" piece. Well, the truth is I published it exactly ten years ago, to the day of Erdoğan's referendum. From the April 16th 2007 edition of National Review, "De-Boning Turkey":

Erdoğan with Turkish girls today

The modern secular Muslim state – a country that gave women the vote before Britain did and was Israel's best friend in an otherwise hostile region – certainly, that Turkey seems to be being de-boned by the hour: it now has an Islamist government whose Prime Minister has canceled trade deals with Israel, denounced the Iraqi elections, and frosted out the US Ambassador because he was Jewish; a new edition of Mein Kampf is prominently displayed at the airport bookstore. In other words, the Zionist Entity's best pal is starting to look like just another cookie-cutter death-to-the-Great-Satan stan-of-the-month.

In fairness to the new Caliph, ever since he emerged from his semi-pro footballing career to run for Mayor of Istanbul, he's played a more cunning game than the stan-of-the-month loons. ...

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Brain Trust from the Congressional Black Caucus

They can always fall back on Congressman Hank Johnson, who once feared Guam could capsize and compares Jewish settlers to 'termites'. m/r

Can Maxine Waters Even Spell Impeachment?

April 16, 2017   Daniel Greenfield

How short of talent are the Dems? A few names
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and... Maxine Waters. Some might ask why a confused Dem hack would become the voice of the "resistance". A better question might be why not.

Maxine Waters has built her career on getting out there and yelling angrily about things. That makes her perfectly qualified in a political atmosphere where all the left-wing wants is angry shouting. Waters has picked up on the fact that anything involving impeachment is perfect prog-bait feeding the fantasy that President Trump will go away soon.

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Where are the Complaints About Mexico Meddling in Our Elections

Not to Mention All the Voter Fraud by Illegal Alien Voters. m/r

But while AMLO demands we not meddle in Mexico’s affairs, he is openly meddling in ours. He is making regular forays into the United States, stirring up the Mexican community and even attempting to make alliances with political forces in our country.

Memo From Middle America | Mexican Presidential Candidate AMLO Meddling ON U.S. SOIL! Where Is Trump?

Allan Wall  April 17, 2017

Mexico has a presidential election in 2018 and right now the momentum is with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, commonly known by his Spanish-style initials AMLO. He has a very specific platform about American immigration policy and the Mexican diaspora in the U.S. Moreover, he’s campaigning for these ideas on American soil—and the Trump Administration is doing nothing about it.
AMLO is a Leftist even by Mexican standards. A determined fighter, he came in second in the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections and has a better chance to win in 2018. He has withdrawn from the major leftist party and formed a new political party (MORENA—Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional) which now takes a quarter of the national vote in polls. Among presidential candidates, AMLO leads.
In a recent meeting, AMLO lectured President Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly: ...

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Gender Identification Politics Has Its Consequences

The Left's Obsession With Identity Politics | Mark Steyn

Published on Mar 10, 2017From The Mark Steyn Show, Steyn on stage: Mark talks to an audience of Hillsdale College donors and supporters about where America and the world are headed, and then takes questions from the floor.

   

Mandy Patinkin has All Signs of Being Mentally Deranged

He appears to have set up a little "Patinkin Village" inside his head. m/r

Fox’s Jon Scott: If Muslim Community Doesn’t Like Negative Media Portrayal, Don’t ‘Set Off Bombs’

by Josh Feldman | April 16th, 2017

Fox News’ Jon Scott talked this morning about what the Muslim community can do if they don’t like the negative portrayal of Muslims in Hollywood: “don’t burn people alive and set off bombs.”
On this morning’s Fox & Friends, Scott, Pete Hegseth, and Abby Huntsman were discussing recent comments by Homeland star Mandy Patinkin, in which the actor who plays Saul Berenson had this to say about how the show has responded to past criticisms of how it portrays Muslims:

“Particularly in season six, we have tried to be part of the cure, not part of the problem… A different storyline where we’re helping these people and a storyline that shows in this case, in this year, in this season, that maybe it’s the––and it is––the white men in government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community.”

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America was Lucky to Have Irving Berlin - "God Bless America" and "Easter Parade"

Easter Parade
Steyn's Song for The Season

by Irving Berlin On the Town  April 15, 2017

Happy Easter and Happy Passover to our readers around the world. We moved our Saturday movie night to Good Friday for Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion Of The Christ. So, for the weekend proper, here's a special podcast, audiophonically adapted from an essay that appears in Steyn's book A Song For The Season.

This year marks the centenary of the most famous pop hit about Easter - sort of. Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade" has its origins in a very obscure chin-up song from the Great War written in 1917. In this audio special, Mark traces its origins as a First World War morale booster to its re-emergence a generation later as the American Songbook's only Easter standard. Along the way, we'll also explore the long languished tradition of Easter parades, the meaning of the word "rotogravure", and whether anyone actually could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet. To accompany Mark on the trail of this American anthem, there are musical performers from Al Jolson and John McCormack to Frank Sinatra and Rosemary Clooney - plus Irving Berlin himself and a young George Gershwin. And we'll also touch on a few other numbers that played a role in this song's story, from "God Bless America" and "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag" to "Hooray For Hollywood" and the haunting "Supper Time".

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Eric Holder Should Be in Jail for Perjury and Contempt

Eric Holder, with the ATF, concocted an entrapment scheme to make it appear that Mexican Drug Cartels were buying massive numbers of guns through American gun shops. He was trying to entrap legal gun dealers in order to force more regulation and eventual anti-gun legislation with his phony, illegal trap. It backfired on him. ATF lost track of over 2,000 military style rifles that ended up in the hands of Mexican drug gangs. Some of these guns were used against the Border Patrol where Patrolman Brian Terry was gunned down. Eric Holder's dirty, failed entrapment scheme helped to get Brian Terry killed and Mexican gangs armed with military type weapons. m/r 

Fast and Furious scandal: Suspected triggerman in border agent's murder arrested

By William Lajeunesse,  Laura Prabucki  Published April 12, 2017 FoxNews.com

 EXCLUSIVE –  The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement, Border Patrol, and congressional sources told Fox News.
The suspect, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force that included the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC).

A $250,000 reward had been sought for information leading to the arrest of Osorio-Arellanes, who was captured at a ranch on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. U.S. authorities have said they will seek his extradition. ...

The operation set off a political firestorm, and then-Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress after he refused to divulge documents for a congressional investigation.

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