Thursday, September 10, 2015

YANKEE COMPASSION

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  Artist J. Macdonald Henry Note Card: Black Woman w/ Child "Madonna"

Edgefield Advisor, February 01, 1865, Image 3

Trump teams with Cruz to take down Iran deal

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President Obama and any member of Congress who votes for his Iran nuclear deal will "bear direct responsibility for the murders carried out with the dollars" from lifted sanctions, if the agreement is allowed to stand, charged Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

"You cannot wash your hands of that blood," Cruz warned, as he and fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a large rally against the deal, at the foot of the Capitol steps on Wednesday.

"We are going to get nothing," said Trump. "They rip us off, they take our money, they make us look like fools."

President Obama is on the verge of enacting the deal after securing support from congressional Democrats.

But, Cruz cautioned, Obama was violating the law by not submitting the full text of the deal to Congress, and any bank that would unfreeze Iranian assets would be exposed to massive civil lawsuits. And that would be especially true, he believed, when the next president takes office.

More @ WND

Video: Trump Interview From Over 25 Years Ago

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Frightening: Syrian Muslims Chant “Allahu Akbar” On Refugee Train to Germany (Video)

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These devout Muslims ought to assimilate just fine into German society.
Syrian Muslims chant “Allahu Akbar” on the refugee train to Germany.

And, then there’s this…
Muslim migrants scream “F*ck you!’ and “Allahu Akbar” in Budapest.

Mob of kids 'savagely' attacks Newville brothers after Kipona fireworks

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The beatdown also had a "racial overtone," to it, Police Chief Thomas Carter said. He said the attackers, who were black, yelled racial comments at the white victims, who had been "minding their own business."


A large group of juveniles "savagely assaulted" two Newville brothers who had visited the city to watch fireworks at the Kipona festival, Harrisburg Police Chief Thomas Carter said Tuesday.
 
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NC: Enemy Among Us

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German POWs at Moss Planing Mill, Washington, NC

Traveling through the fertile farmland of eastern North Carolina during the summer of 1944, Joseph Buchen's thoughts drifted to an earlier time in Germany and the family left behind after being drafted into Hitler's army. He wondered how they were coping now that the Allies had begun massive bombing of his homeland. But why, you might ask, was a German soldier at the height of World War II traveling through eastern North Carolina?

The answer might surprise you, but Joseph was amoung a dozen or so German prisoners of war on their way to the waterfront of Washington, N.C. to perform a day's work at the Moss Planing Mill.

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Steve Earle (WHO?) Pens New Anti-Confederate Song

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Proceeds will go to the $PLC.  As though they need money. :)

Steve Earle can go into the trash can alongside the Drive-By Truckers and Tom Petty:

“Singer-songwriter Steve Earle has partnered with the Southern Poverty Law Center to take a stand against the Confederate battle flag and is urging Mississippi to remove the emblem from its state flag with the release of his new song, “Mississippi It’s Time.”

1963 Ford Galaxie 500 Lightweight 427/425 HP, 4-Speed

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In 1962 Ford suffered badly in NHRA Stock Eliminator competition, prompting Ford merchandising manager V.P. Motto to issue a now famous memo mandating the production of 200 special lightweight Galaxies for 1963.

All were devoid of any creature comforts, and used fiberglass body panels and aluminum bumpers and brackets. Inside, Bostrum lightweight bucket seats replaced the stock bench seats; the heater, radio, armrests, clock and dash pad were deleted, and instead of carpeting, the floor was covered by a thin Black rubber mat. A simple floor shifter and a column-mounted Sun tachometer completed the driver controls.

More than just a stripped-down version of the 2-door fastback hardtop coupe, the lightweight Galaxie also had another advantage in its thundering R-code 427/425 HP engine. The 427 featured cross-bolted mains, a solid lifter cam, two Holley 4-barrels on a high rise aluminum intake, cast iron headers and other trick items. Bolted to an aluminum-case Borg Warner 4-speed, the 427 drove a 4.11:1 9-inch rear end. One of 212 produced, this rotisserie restored Wimbledon White Galaxie lightweight remains in superb condition and spent several years on display in the famed Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum.

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50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

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One person who knows the contents of the complaint said it used the word “Stalinist” to describe the tone set by officials overseeing the military’s analysis.
It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.
 
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.

The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.

“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.

Oprahfication, Ethnomasochism, and the Preventable Death of Aylan Kurdi

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Because human distress is involved, Europe’s current “refugee” crisis lends itself to Oprahfication—known to British listeners as Dianafication— in which rational policy is swept away by a hot syrupy tsunami of collective emoting.

Thus the crowds you’ve been seeing in news pictures the past few days, in Greece, Macedonia, and Hungary, almost all come via Turkey. And Turkey is a peaceful, stable, modern country, and has been accommodating to the refugees, settling two million of them in camps.

Indeed, a common point of departure for the boats heading to Greece is Bodrum, on the coast of Western Turkey. I was in Bodrum four years ago. I wrote at the time that the most dangerous thing about the town was teenagers riding motor scooters at high speed with one hand while talking into their smartphones.

Bodrum’s a nice place; just…not as nice as Germany, Sweden, or Britain.