Goodies from Ol' Remus

 

1935. Riverboats on the Mississippi at Memphis, Tennessee

Steam powered sternwheel riverboats were in their final years by the 1930s, giving way to diesel powered craft with propellers. Tugboat barges were increasingly used for bulk freight. Smaller crews, lower operating cost and barge subsidies were the deciding factors.

Ol' Remus

 

Remus says - If law enforcement acts as if the people are their enemy, law enforcement is not entitled to be surprised if the people believe them.

UKIP - Having dismissed him as a joke, Fleet Street now warns that Farage uses his famous sense of humor as a sly cover for his dark totalitarian agenda — the same well-trod path to power used by other famous quipsters and gag-merchants such as Adolf Hitler, whose Nuremberg open-mike nights were legendary. [Typical Farage: "They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now."]
Mark Steyn at steynonline.com

237 years after its birth, the United States of America may cease to exist as we know it within the next 90 days. The American people have become lazy, slothful, and intellectually dishonest to the point where accepting the government's decrees which impinge on their freedoms is the accepted rule of thumb rather than fighting to defend their freedoms. Unless a drastic change occurs soon, the end of the Republic will happen much faster than imagined, says John Galt in this article, The Last 90 days of the USA, at Shenandoah.

The media's biased reporting has whipped up racial arsonists from Washington to Hollywood who have cited it as proof Zimmerman "executed" Martin out of racism. It's also led indirectly to beatings of whites by blacks in Virginia, Illinois and Alabama, who said they were getting even "for Trayvon." If there's rioting from an acquittal of Zimmerman — as the police chiefs of Sanford and Chicago and elsewhere fear — the blood will be on the media's hands, says this editorial, Media's High-Tech Lynching Of George Zimmerman, at Investor's Business Daily.

If the day comes when tanks are necessary in defense of gun control, gay marriage, mandatory abortions, national health insurance or some other liberal cause, there is no real doubt that they will do it. For now they admire their own sophisticated ability to get their way with empty speeches, media bias and social nudges. It hasn't crossed their minds yet that the day will come when that will not be enough.
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au