I asked and they said that they have had so many orders in the past that they need to know in advance from now on. Guess they are becoming popular in New York..........
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Quotes: Thomas Sowell
Via Real Clear Markets
"If crime is a product of poverty and discrimination...why was there so much less of it when poverty and discrimination were much worse than today?"
"Some people consider it a valid criticism of corporations that they are "just in the business to make profits." By this kind of reasoning, workers are just working to earn their pay."
"The rate of violence among lesbians living together -about the same as in heterosexual relationships- is of no interest to those seeking to depict male-female relationships as violence prone."
"When people ask emotionally, "How can we stop these things?" [Shooting sprees] the most straightforward answer is to ask: How was it in fact stopped? It was stopped, like most shooting sprees, by the arrival on the scene of other people with guns."
"Sweeping dismissals of the past are more than just a passing fashion or a personal vanity. They are a dangerous destruction of the hard-earned experience of millions of human beings, living through centuries of struggle with the tragedy of the human condition, and the replacement of this rich legacy with unsubstantiated and self-flattering fancies."
"People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians."
"The vision of the anointed is one in which such ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from "society," rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by "society."
"It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere."
"In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of one's own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism."
"The culture of this nation is being dismantled, brick by brick, but so gradually that many will not notice until the walls start to sag -- just before they cave in."
"If crime is a product of poverty and discrimination...why was there so much less of it when poverty and discrimination were much worse than today?"
"Some people consider it a valid criticism of corporations that they are "just in the business to make profits." By this kind of reasoning, workers are just working to earn their pay."
"The rate of violence among lesbians living together -about the same as in heterosexual relationships- is of no interest to those seeking to depict male-female relationships as violence prone."
"When people ask emotionally, "How can we stop these things?" [Shooting sprees] the most straightforward answer is to ask: How was it in fact stopped? It was stopped, like most shooting sprees, by the arrival on the scene of other people with guns."
"Sweeping dismissals of the past are more than just a passing fashion or a personal vanity. They are a dangerous destruction of the hard-earned experience of millions of human beings, living through centuries of struggle with the tragedy of the human condition, and the replacement of this rich legacy with unsubstantiated and self-flattering fancies."
"People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians."
"The vision of the anointed is one in which such ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from "society," rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by "society."
"It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere."
"In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of one's own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism."
"The culture of this nation is being dismantled, brick by brick, but so gradually that many will not notice until the walls start to sag -- just before they cave in."
Valor Thief: “Catch me if you can”
Need to spread this around, so maybe someone will recognize him.
A man who uses the YouTube name johnnyb34434 has called out all active duty military and veterans to “catch me if you can.” He claims that he regularly steals valor and there is nothing anyone can do about it. He describes how he dresses up in uniform and has three day feasts for free at all the restaurants that offer meals on Veterans day and Memorial day weekend.
The 5 Most Overrated Guns of All Time :)
There are guns that are truly great and will stand the test of time. The 1911, the Glock 17, the AR15, the M1 Garand. Legends, and rightfully so because they’ve earned their place in history. Some guns served on the wrong side of wars, but represented innovations like the Walther P38 or the STG44.
But what about guns that everyone says are great, but are actually kind of terrible? Some are propped up by lingering nostalgia, others are popular because of their price point, but for whatever reason, people love them…even if they’re not very good. So get out your stadium hats and start chanting with me: “OVER-RATED! OVER-RATED!” as we look at the 5 Most Overrated Guns of All Time.
More @ Gun Nuts
Tom Cotton: Break the Capitol Phone Switchboard to Fight Obama’s Amnesty
Via LH
Senator-elect Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) tried to jumpstart a phone-banking campaign against the funding measure that House leadership is expected put on the floor next week, saying that lawmakers might change course of voters break the Capitol switchboard.
“In 2007, there were reports that the Capitol switch board actually stopped working because so many people called, and asked their senators and congressmen to stop an amnesty bill going through at the time, and it stopped,” Cotton told Laura Ingraham on Friday. ”And it helped in 2013 when the House was on the verge of considering something like the Gang of Eight bill in the Senate, so I would encourage you to call your senator, call your congressman next week and in the new year.”
Senator-elect Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) tried to jumpstart a phone-banking campaign against the funding measure that House leadership is expected put on the floor next week, saying that lawmakers might change course of voters break the Capitol switchboard.
“In 2007, there were reports that the Capitol switch board actually stopped working because so many people called, and asked their senators and congressmen to stop an amnesty bill going through at the time, and it stopped,” Cotton told Laura Ingraham on Friday. ”And it helped in 2013 when the House was on the verge of considering something like the Gang of Eight bill in the Senate, so I would encourage you to call your senator, call your congressman next week and in the new year.”
Passing of President Jefferson Davis -- 6 December 1889
“When
Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States, was seeking
safety in flight, a fellow traveler remarked to him that the cause of
the Confederates was lost. He replied: “It appears so, but the principle
for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at
another time and in another form.” (Pollard, page 582)
“The lamp of life waned low as the hour of midnight arrived; nor did it flicker into the brightness of consciousness at any time. Eagerly, yet tenderly, the watchers gazed at the face of the dying chieftain. His face, always calm and pale, gained additional pallor, and at a quarter to 1 o’clock of the morning of the 6th day of December death came to the venerable leader….
There
was nothing remarkable about the death-bed scene. The departure of the
spirit was gentle and utterly painless. There were no dry eyes in the
little assembly about the bed, and every heart bled with the anguish
which found vent in Mrs. Davis’s sobs and cries.”
The Times-Democrat gave the following account of the closing scene: “At 12:45
o’clock this morning Hon. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the
Confederate States, passed away at the residence of Associate Justice
Charles E. Fenner. Only once did he waver in his belief that his case
showed no improvement, and that was at an early hour yesterday morning,
when he playfully remarked to Mr. Payne: “I am afraid that I shall be
compelled to agree with the doctors for once, and admit that I am a
little better.”
At 7 o’clock
Mrs. Davis administered some medicine, but the ex-President declined to
receive the whole dose. She urged upon his the necessity of taking the
remainder, but putting it aside, with the gentlest of gestures
whispered, “Pray, excuse me.” These were his last words.”
 The [New Orleans] Daily States said in its editorial:
“Throughout
all the South there are lamentations and tears; in every country on the
globe where there are lovers of liberty there is mourning; wherever
there are men who admire heroic patriotism, dauntless resolution,
fortitude, or intellectual power and supremacy, there is sincere
sorrowing. The beloved of our land, the unfaltering upholder of
constitutional liberty…is no more…” “Jefferson Davis is dead; but the
principles for which he struggled, for the vindication of which he
devoted his life, for which he suffered defeat, and unto which he clung
unto death, still live.
The fanatical howlings of the abolitionists, the
tumult and thunders of civil war, the fierce mouthings of the
organizers of reconstruction, and reconstruction itself, that black and
foul disgrace of humanity, are all departed, sunk into silence like a
tavern brawl, but the constitutional principles upon which the
Confederacy was founded and for which Jefferson Davis spoke and
struggled, for which he gave life and fortune, still survive in all
their living power; and when they shall have been, if ever, really
destroyed, this Republic will be transformed into one of the most
oppressive and offensive oligarchies that has ever arisen amongst the
civilized nations of the earth.”
The Times-Democrat of the 10th had this editorial:
“If
there was ever the shadow of doubt in the minds of the people of the
United States of the hold of Jefferson Davis upon the hearts of the
Southern people that doubt has been removed. From city and country, from
every nook and hamlet, have come expressions of profoundest sorrow over
his death; of grief at the passing away of the great Confederate
chieftain. They turned to him as the Mussulman to his Mecca---the shrine
at which all true Southern-born should worship. There has never been
any division of sentiment as to the greatness of Jefferson Davis. He has
always been the hero of his people---their best beloved.
From the day
that Lee laid down his arms at Appomattox to the hour of Jefferson
Davis’s death the Southern people look upon the ex-President of the
Confederacy as the embodiment of all that was grand and glorious in the
Lost Cause. Standing alone as a citizen without the power to exercise
his citizenship, the last surviving victim of sectional hate and
malevolence, he was an exile while on the soil of his native land and in
the midst of his own people. Jefferson Davis will go to the grave
bathed in a people’s tears.”
(The Memorial Volume of Jefferson Davis, J.W. Jones, 1889, pp. 473-509
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Cop almost murdered by Black Thug
Via David
UNFORTUNATELY IN TODAY'S AMERICA, IN A CLIMATE PROMOTED AND EMBRACED BY BOTH PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER MOST OF THOSE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY WOULD RATHER SEE A WHITE COP KILLED BY SOME BLACK THUG THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND. AS FOR THE OTHERS, THEY OF COURSE WOULD RATHER SEE IT THE OTHER WAY, SO THEY CAN LOOT AND BURN WHILE YELLING "POLICE VIOLENCE" ! AND AS FOR THOSE IN OUR LIBERAL MSM IT NEVER A STORY WHEN A WHITE COP IS KILLED, BUT WHEN SOME POOR DOWN-TRODDEN BLACK THUG IS KILLED BY A WHITE POLICEMAN IT SUDDENLY OPEN SEASON ON THAT COP JUST TRYING TO DO HIS JOB.
UNFORTUNATELY IN TODAY'S AMERICA, IN A CLIMATE PROMOTED AND EMBRACED BY BOTH PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER MOST OF THOSE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY WOULD RATHER SEE A WHITE COP KILLED BY SOME BLACK THUG THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND. AS FOR THE OTHERS, THEY OF COURSE WOULD RATHER SEE IT THE OTHER WAY, SO THEY CAN LOOT AND BURN WHILE YELLING "POLICE VIOLENCE" ! AND AS FOR THOSE IN OUR LIBERAL MSM IT NEVER A STORY WHEN A WHITE COP IS KILLED, BUT WHEN SOME POOR DOWN-TRODDEN BLACK THUG IS KILLED BY A WHITE POLICEMAN IT SUDDENLY OPEN SEASON ON THAT COP JUST TRYING TO DO HIS JOB.
Christmas 2014: All I Want Is Peace On Earth, Goodwill Towards Man And A Machine Gun
Now, parent, say for some reason Santa doesn't get your email or text or he doesn’t exist like some doubters claim, then I would do the following until peace on earth and goodwill towards man occurs:
- Pony up the cash and get a gun or guns. It’s your job parent to protect your household. Period.
- Get stacks of ammo (remember your gun is useless without ammunition).
- Become crazily proficient with said weapon or weapons. Give the
gift of burning lead at the range and hiring an expert to show you the
ropes.
- Make sure your sane and responsible offspring knows how to wield them effectively as well.
- I’d seriously consider doing whatever it takes to physically
remove your family from nutters who’ve got no problem whatsoever burning
your house, or business, or car, or body down to the ground because
some stooge like Al Sharpton told them to.
More @ Townhall
Help WND pick biggest cover-ups of 2014: Annual quest for year's most-ignored stories
Submit your candidate or candidates for the year’s most ignored stories
WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored “Operation Spike” every year since 1988, and since founding WND in May 1997 has continued the annual tradition.
For the past 17 years, WND has invited its readers to join in and submit what they considered the most underreported stories of the past year.
Last year, WND’s picks for the 10 most underreported stories of 2013 were:
1. The lies by Obama, Sebelius, Reid, Pelosi and others concerning Obamacare
2. The purging of top military leaders
3. Concentration of executive power to bypass Congress
4. Persecution of Christians around the world
5. The IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits
6. True level of deception and untruthfulness in Obama administration
7. Cover-up of the Benghazi attack and false testimony by Hillary Clinton
8. The “Knockout Game” and other black attacks on whites
9. The racial division created by the Obama administration.
10. Advancement of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Organized Crisis
More @ WND
Balkanizing the News: Separation of People and State
It is curious: Though I have spent a lifetime in journalism, I do not read a newspaper, not the New York Times nor the Washington Post nor the Wall Street Journal. Nor do I have television service.
Why? Because, having worked in that restaurant, I know better than to eat there. The foregoing media are quasi-governmental organs, predictably predictable and predictably dishonest. The truth is not in them.
More @ Fred On Everything
NC: Properly Observing Pearl Harbor Day
Top two Uncle Charlie at Pearl Harbor.
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Via Bernhard
The sacrifices of those who served in the American military in December, 1941 should be recounted often for us all to ponder and appreciate and the 3000 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor should not have perished in vain. The sincerest memorial to those who fought and died in this tragedy (and others) is to analyze and discuss the multitude of reasons why it happened, and how do we ensure that American servicemen are not knowingly put in harm’s way for political purposes ever again. As there is far too much information available today for the surprise attack myth to survive scrutiny, and thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and declassification of hundreds of thousands of decoded Japanese messages, we can now get a more clear picture of how events unfolded in 1941.
The myth reported by court historians and the media is that the US was minding its own business until the Japanese launched an unprovoked attack at Pearl Harbor, thereby dragging a reluctant US into a world struggle. In reality, the US under FDR had been deeply involved in Far Eastern affairs for some time, and those policies actually provoked the Japanese attack.
As Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production stated in 1944….”Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty to say that America was forced into the War.”
After FDR’s numerous provocations toward Germany without retaliation (while the US was neutral) he switched his focus to Japan and had assistance with Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who stated in October 1941 that “for a long time I have believed that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan”. And as early as January 27th, 1941, US Ambassador to Japan in Tokyo, Joseph C. Grew noted in his diary that...”there is a lot of talk around town to the effect that the Japanese, in case of a break with the US, are planning to go all out in a surprise mass attack on Pearl Harbor. Of course, I informed our government.”
Even Admiral Ernest J. King wrote a prescient report on 31 March 1941 that predicted a surprise Japanese dawn air attack on Hawaii as the opening of hostilities. The US had prepared for a Japanese-American conflict since 1906 with “War Plan Orange” which predicted the Philippines as the expected target, attacked by surprise as the Japanese were notorious for. By early 1940 Claire Chennault, the American airman hired by the Chinese, was urging General Hap Arnold and Roosevelt to provide bombers with which to firebomb Japanese cities in retaliation for their attacks on China.
While we cannot excuse Japan’s aggressiveness in Asia in the 1930’s, our government continually provoked the Japanese by freezing assets in the US, closing the Panama Canal to her shipping and progressively reducing exports to Japan until it became an all-out embargo along with Britain’s.
The Philippines, by 1941 were reinforced to the point of being the strongest US overseas base with 120,000 troops and the Philippine Army had been called into service by FDR. General MacArthur had 74 medium and heavy bombers along with 175 fighters that included the new B-17’s and P-40E’s with which to attack or defend with. The mobilization of troops and munitions has always been recognized as preparation for attack and we thus assumed this posture to the Japanese.
We then implied military threats to Tokyo if it did not alter its Asian policies and on 26 November 1941, FDR issued an ultimatum that Japan withdraw all military forces from China and Indochina as well as break its treaty with Germany and Italy. The day before the 26 November ultimatum was sent , Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his Diary that “the question was how we should maneuver them (the Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot”. The bait offered was our Pacific fleet.
In 1940, Admiral J.O. Richardson, the commander of the Pacific Fleet flew to Washington to protest FDR’s decision to base the fleet in Hawaii instead of its normal berthing on the US west coast. His concern was that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to attack, was difficult to defend against torpedo planes, lacked fuel supplies and dry docks. Richardson came away from his meeting with FDR “with the impression that, despite his spoken word, the President was fully determined to put the US into the war if Great Britain could hold out until he was reelected.”
Richardson was summarily relieved of command and replaced with Admiral Kimmel, who was still concerned about Pearl Harbor’s vulnerability, but did not challenge FDR.
Also to be considered was the April, 1941 ABD Agreement FDR concluded with the British and Dutch in Indochina that committed US troops to war if the Dutch East Indies were invaded by the Japanese. Add to this the 1940 $25 million loan and Lend-Lease aid provided to China. The Dutch and British were of course eager for US forces to protect their Far Eastern colonial empires from the Japanese while their military was busy in a European war. And FDR’s dilemma was his 1940 election pledge of non-intervention (unless attacked) to the American people and the US Constitution, which allowed only Congress authority to declare war.
One of the most revealing elements in FDR’s beforehand knowledge of Japan’s intentions was our breaking of the Japanese diplomatic and naval operations codes as early as mid-1939. Copies of all deciphered Japanese messages were delivered to Roosevelt and the Secretaries of War, State and Navy, as well as Army Chief of Staff Marshall and Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold Stark.
With no deciphering machines in Pearl Harbor, although 3 machines went to Britain, the commanders in Pearl Harbor were left completely dependent upon Washington for information. It must be understood that with this deciphered information, our government officials could not have been better informed had they had seats in the Japanese war council.
It is in this bare political light that Pearl Harbor should be examined and judged for historical perspective. Our military should not be a pawn used by presidents to initiate war and this is the basic reason the Founders deliberated extensively on the establishment of a standing army which might be used as such. As nothing happens in a vacuum and the post-World War One US Neutrality Acts were in place to avoid the political machinations that dragged us into that conflict, FDR’s very steady erosion of US neutrality and secret agreements led to that unnecessary loss of brave American servicemen. We hopefully have learned from this.
'Barry One' Launches Legal Fund; Considers Suit Against Lena Dunham
Via comment by Sioux on Breitbart investigation: Lena Dunham’s story of ra...
For more than two months, and to no avail, Barry One has asked Dunham (through her representatives) to clear his name. Obviously, she has refused.
Is there one attractive girl in the world who is a liberal?
The man identified as "Barry One" in a Breitbart News investigation debunking Lena Dunham's story of being raped in college by a "mustachioed campus Republican" named Barry, has made his first official statement since the release of that report. Through his attorney, identified as Aaron Minc, Barry One has set up a legal fund to cover current legal expenses, clear his name, and to potentially file suit against Ms. Dunham.
The proceeds from the legal fund will be used only to cover Barry One's legal expenses. If there are any leftover monies, those will be donated to non-profit organizations that aid sexual assault victims.For more than two months, and to no avail, Barry One has asked Dunham (through her representatives) to clear his name. Obviously, she has refused.
More with video @ Breitbart
A Trip To Northfield
Via Billy
I recently returned from a trip to Minnesota, not the warmest place
in the country this time of year. I visited with folks I’ve not seen in
several years and it was a good reunion, even if the temperature hardly
ever got up to freezing.
While there I got to go over to the town of Northfield, which should be a familiar name to many who study history, and particularly to those who have studied some of the personalities on both sides during the War of Northern Aggression. Northfield is a nice little town of about 20,000 and much of the architecture in the center of town is still of the type you saw in many parts of the country, particularly the Midwest, South and West during the late 19th century. Much of it looks very little changed since that time. Over the years we’ve been in many towns across the country that have sought to retain their original flavor and we enjoy them very much. Modern I am not. I like the older, traditional things, which, I suppose, makes me somewhat of an anachronism to the modern or post-modern (or whatever they call them nowadays) crowd.
Anyway, one of Northfield’s claims to fame is that Jesse James and his gang tried to rob the First National Bank there on September 7, 1876. That might seem a long way out of traditional Jesse James territory, but there were reasons for this particular expedition.
From left to right: Frank James, Jesse James, Cole Younger, and Bob Younger.
While there I got to go over to the town of Northfield, which should be a familiar name to many who study history, and particularly to those who have studied some of the personalities on both sides during the War of Northern Aggression. Northfield is a nice little town of about 20,000 and much of the architecture in the center of town is still of the type you saw in many parts of the country, particularly the Midwest, South and West during the late 19th century. Much of it looks very little changed since that time. Over the years we’ve been in many towns across the country that have sought to retain their original flavor and we enjoy them very much. Modern I am not. I like the older, traditional things, which, I suppose, makes me somewhat of an anachronism to the modern or post-modern (or whatever they call them nowadays) crowd.
Anyway, one of Northfield’s claims to fame is that Jesse James and his gang tried to rob the First National Bank there on September 7, 1876. That might seem a long way out of traditional Jesse James territory, but there were reasons for this particular expedition.
More @ Revised History