O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.
Rudyard Kipling
The United States Marine Corps in its wisdom has seen fit to acquit one of its most heroic officers of charges of dereliction of duties while slapping him on the wrist for what amounts to the equivalent of the offense of spitting on the sidewalk.
What the Corps’ legal establishment is saying is that Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani didn’t do what he was charged with doing, or not doing, but he shouldn’t have done it anyway.
On December 14th, 2009 we published a national article entitled: “Is That the Sweet Odor of Rebellion We Smell?” It received many positive responses so we decided to cut a video of roughly the same name. The rising protests and the tea party movement are a visible sign that there is truly an “odor of Rebellion in the Air”. We consider it a welcome sign and a manifestation of the awakening of millions of patriotic Americans who have finally had enough from a government who has lost all allegiance to the founding principles of this once great nation. America can be great again and a peaceful rebellion may be just the ticket for her to rise out of the ashes of progressivism, socialism, mediocrity and apathy.
This Christmas season, like so many others, we are being bombarded with one holiday special after another. Lifetime is programming exclusively with Christmas themed stories. Television, in general, is offering many versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’.
It’s been done so many times as to be about countless. The first version, and for years the only one I remember starred Alistair Sims from 1951. His portrayal is regarded as one of the best. My mother said that she had liked Lionel Barrymore’s but I have never seen it nor could I find it listed in his filmography at Wikipedia. Albert Finney played the role in ‘Scrooge’, Bill Murray did a modern version as a TV mogul in ‘Scrooged’ and Henry Winkler a wealthy New Hampshirite in ‘An American Christmas Carol.’ Fans of Donald Duck recall Donald’s rich, miserly uncle, Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge can be an epithet.
Is there an exit strategy for this energy, environment and economic predicament?
“Life in a box is better than no life at all,” playwright Tom Stoppard famously opined, through the personage of Rosencrantz. (Or was it Guildenstern?)
That’s lucky for us, because our energy, environmental and economic policies have certainly put us in a box – and there is no easy way out.
Congress passed a $787-billion “stimulus” bill, and a $3-billion cash-for-clunkers program that trashed perfectly good cars, and the energy and raw materials that created them. It’s halfway toward imposing nationalized healthcare that could cost taxpayers another $2.5 trillion over its first decade.
When the first reports of so-called “Chemtrails” hit the Internet crowd ten years ago, I knew it was a very well-thought-out hoax, but I didn’t know why it was being so heavily promulgated, and who stood to benefit from it. After all, a sizable number of people had obviously spent a great deal of time and effort to promote that absurdity, and then I noticed their e-mail addresses: Too many of those addresses ended with “.edu”, telling me they were hatched from individuals directly connected with institutions of higher learning.
It appears the Chemtrail hoax was an elaborate, college-based experiment to see what average individuals would believe en masse, even if there was no solid chain of evidence to support the theory — which is all it ever was.
Having spent two Christmases “in country” during the late 1960′s, and having spent that time predominantly on helicoptors for the 498th Med Evac Unit – “Dust Off” – picking up wounded and dying US Military personnel – this personal remembrance hit me hard.
What you are about to read is something, which I normally would share with my nightly broadcast audience, but having performed the rare deed of reading the entire piece, I found myself pouring tears, and realized, that I could not read this on the air – I would never make it.
Welcome home Colonel. (JB)
To only those who would and could appreciate it. This account is one of a kind. A powerful one that touches your heart. Tough duty then as it is now.
“If you like schadenfreude, you’re gonna love this!”
Climategate is the worst blow the left has received in quite some time. The only comparable episode in recent years is Rathergate, involving the bogus documents “proving” George W. Bush’s malfeasance as regards his service in the Texas Air National Guard. Climategate promises to be of even greater consequence.
Rathergate shook the U.S. legacy media to its foundations, proclaimed the coming of age of Net-based media, and put a period to the network careers of Dan Rather and his producer.
But as the CRU uproar plays itself out, it may well fracture the left-scientific partnership that has distorted scientific research for decades, along with providing a much-needed whipping for environmentalism, the most influential offshoot of contemporary leftism.
December 15 is Bill of Rights day, a national holiday that was signed into law by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on that day in 1941. For those who know their history, that was just a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War Two.
By way of a little more history, the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787. It was a closed-door gathering of delegates from all the States except Rhode Island that failed to send one. The objective was to come up with something better than the Articles of Confederacy that had proved ineffective.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
The United States Marine Corps in its wisdom has seen fit to acquit one of its most heroic officers of charges of dereliction of duties while slapping him on the wrist for what amounts to the equivalent of the offense of spitting on the sidewalk.
