Last Days In Vietnam

Via Jonathan via Maggie's Farm

I bought this when it first came out (2014) and still haven't come up with enough guts to view it.

Last Days in Vietnam paints a startling portrait of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory by Congress. What everyone knows about the Vietnam War is that it was unwinnable, that the South Vietnamese didn’t much want us there, and that our military involvement was a moral outrage that did us all deep dishonor. 

 

We know all of this from the movies, don’t we? And yet there is a movie that shows it up for the pack of lies that it is. It’s a brilliant, harrowing, emotionally potent documentary by a director with unimpeachable liberal credentials — a Kennedy, no less. The 42nd anniversary of the fall of Saigon on Sunday was an excellent opportunity to revisit what happened between the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, in which the North Vietnamese Communists agreed to a ceasefire and accepted democratic elections in the South, and the spring of 1975, when a failure of American will allowed the Communists to reverse the result for which so much blood had been spilled. 

 

Last Days in Vietnam, the Oscar-nominated 2014 film by Rory Kennedy (the youngest child of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who died before she was born) is available for streaming on Netflix.

 

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French Elections: Emmanuel Macron, a Disaster

Via Mike

• Anti-West, anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish diatribes were delivered to enthusiastic crowds of bearded men and veiled women. One hundred and fifty thousand people attended.
• Emmanuel Macron promised to facilitate the construction of mosques in France. He declared that "French culture does not exist" and that he has "never seen" French art. The risk is high that Macron will disappoint the French even faster than Hollande did.
• On the evening of the second round of elections, people will party in the chic neighborhoods of Paris and in ministries. In districts where poor people live, cars will be set on fire. For more than a decade, whenever there is a festive evening in France, cars are set on fire in districts where poor people live. Unassimilated migrants have their own traditions.

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The Marine Corps, 1966: Not Too Many Snowflakes

 

 Col. Arthur B. “Bull” Simons, Fort Bragg. 

He retired as a Colonel in 1971. In late 1978, he was contacted by Ross Perot after two Electronic Data System employees had been imprisoned in Iran shortly after the Iranian Revolution.

Simons organized a rescue mission that freed the two men from the Iranian prison, as described in Ken Follett's On Wings of Eagles.

U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School,

I took the bus from Richmond also, but to Ft Bragg.

This is criminally long. It will probably leave no  space on the internet for anything else. It was published in the magazine of Army Times in 1979. It describes a Parris Island that no longer exists. In fact it describes a world that no longer exists. The thought of some  effeminate Sanowflake telling a Marine DI that he needed a Safe Space so he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable, poor darling–well, it just charms me. He would develop a whole new understanding of “uncomfortable.”

Anyway, the piece will resonate with a few Marine old-timers now long in the tooth. Semper fi.

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"We want the ruthless businessman we were promised."

Via comment by EIEIO on Budget Bill will replace 40 mile chain-link fence ...

 

If this is the budget deal we get when Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, there’s no point in ever voting for a Republican again.

Not only is there no funding for a wall, but—thanks to the deft negotiating skills of House Speaker Paul Ryan—the bill actually prohibits money from being spent on a wall.

At a CYA press conference on Tuesday, Trump’s ridiculously chipper budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the bill’s prohibition on building a wall as a MAJOR win. (At least Mulvaney said it in English, unlike his all-Spanish 2014 townhall.)

True, there will be no wall. But the Democrats graciously agreed to allow the administration to fix broken parts of any existing fences on up to 40 miles of our 3,000 mile border.

The other big wins, according to Mulvaney, are:

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Abolishing America: New Orleans Police Look On As Left Gets Violent Over Confederate Monuments

Via comment by EIEIO on Bill to stop Confederate monument removals, put po...

Left-wing commie provocateurs in New Orleans have been spoiling for a fight all week, ever since masked men hired by Mayor Mitch Landrieu began tearing down Civil War era Confederate monuments.

Members of the far-left group Antifa were engaging in acts of provocation prior to outbreak of violence by burning Confederate flags, slashing tires, spraying mace and throwing bottles. Sandra Gerhold, who attended Monday’s vigil told me, “two supporters standing at Beauregard were threatened with a gun.”

Will Antifa will be convicted of “gang activity” and “terroristic threats” for waiving the anarcho-communist flag? Remember white Confederate history buffs  Kayla Rae Norton and Jose Ismael Torres were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison in Douglasville, Georgia earlier this year after they’d allegedly issued a similar threat to black people while in a truck convoy displaying Confederate flags.

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British Prime Minister Accuses EU Chiefs of Trying to Sabotage UK Election

Via Billy

British Prime Minister Theresa May has accused EU chiefs of trying to hijack next month’s UK general election.

May lambasted the EU elite for their “deliberately timed” threats and smears against her government in what she said was an attempt to influence the June 8 national poll.

Hr accusation came as the row over the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU intensifies. EU bosses now say Britain should pay up to £100 billion (about $130 billion) when it quits the EU for good in 2019 – twice the figure originally forecast.

May is convinced the EU is trying to scare the British public into voting for pro-EU candidates who want to water down or even reverse last summer’s Brexit vote.

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Blumenthal: DOJ will still need to deal with Clinton email case

Via Billy

Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Thursday the Department of Justice will still need to deal with Hilary Clinton’s email case.

“The question of whether it should’ve been prosecuted, and it still may be, it’s not outside the statute of limitations so far as I know, and that’s something the Department of Justice is going to have to deal with,” the Connecticut Democrat said on MSNBC.

More @ The Washington Times

North Korea tests missiles designed to defeat U.S. THAAD defense system

Via Billy

 

North Korea has tailored its spate of ballistic missile tests to defeat the U.S.-stationed defense systems ready to protect the South and Japan from descending warheads, a report to Congress says.

The bellicose North regularly flight-tests a panoply of ballistic missiles that could, in war, be capped with miniaturized nuclear warheads and strike its two democratic neighbors and U.S. allies.

The U.S. military has matched this threat by first stationing Patriot anti-missile batteries and then announcing that the wider-range, mobile THAAD system is now in place to shoot down incoming warheads.

Pyongyang, the North’s capital, has been watching.

More @ The Washington Times

You're Invited to the Fourth Annual Victorian Summer Soiree!

 

 

You're Invited to the Fourth Annual Victorian Summer Soiree!

Saturday, June 3, 2017 ~ Newberry, South Carolina

Register and See Details At

www.southernvictoriansoiree.com

Enjoy the quaint charm of historic Newberry as we dance the old fashioned dances of the 1860s! Hosted by the Southern Victorian Society at the lovely old Community Hall, centrally located in downtown Newberry.

Timeless Dance will once more be our dance callers, and the Blue Ridge Rounders will provide us with period music!

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"Our only path to liberty."

Via Iver

 

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Comment by Anonymous on The Big Establishment Lie: Kool-Aid from the Poiso...

"Most people prefer present comfort and respectability over truth, reason, and reality. Sometimes the big lies stretch to absurdities to suppress obvious truths. More often than not a willful moral and intellectual blindness must be marshaled to shut out the light of truth."

The Soviet Union had to collapse from within. There were so many absurdities built into that system, and I believe nearly everyone there knew enough of them to know the system had to fail, but the system had to fail from within before any change was possible. The reason is that people prefer the demon they know to the one they do not.

It is for this reason I have long stated we have but one path to liberty here in the FUSA, and that path is through an economic collapse. Only in that collapse is any change possible. Would that it were not true. Who in the well-paid government services will voluntarily give up their staus? Who in the MIC industries or military? Who in the FIRE economy? Who among the retirees or welfare classes? No one, that's who. They like things the way they are, and there are enough more who are afraid of change that they constitute a majority willing to vote to keep us enslaved to them.

Yes, we could wind up worse off after a collapse. But it is our only path to liberty.