Goodies From O'l Remus, Back Again

 

 Ol' Remus

North Korea's armed-up threats and other scary events have generated a wave of new preppers . 

 Enter the words "American inventors" at Google , then hit "Images". Wow. Who knew? (And/or hit Caucasian/White American Inventors!  Hilarious!)

  Graybeard Outdoors - Be skeptical of Ken Burns’ documentary: The Vietnam War (No, just ignore it. Been there, done that, forget that.)

  NY Post - The NFL is praying for a ratings turnaround ... nine of the 13 NFL windows in the season-to-date posted viewership declines

  Reality bites, Amerika - Affirmative Action is worse than officially sanctioned state-sponsored “racism.” It is also corrupt, inefficient and stupid. You cannot undo the stupid with another layer of stupid. Affirmative Action is nothing except a fraud and a lie. Grifters and Card-Sharps use it to steal money, status and honor based on drummed-up racial guilt trips. It can never work because no administrative state in world history has ever been able to change human nature. From Nebuchadnezzer on forward, every attempt at anything resembling an affirmative action program has failed.

  Show biz, Front Page - The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no coincidence ratings are cratering as unhinged celebrities crank up their anti-American antics. Hollywood's revenue plunged nearly 16 percent over last year, the steepest decline in modern times. MTV's 10th annual awards show was the least-watched one in its history, the fourth year in a row that the network has seen a decline in the crown jewel of its annual calendar. Al Gore's man-made disaster scraped up less than $3.5 million in domestic receipts. The football field is now a minefield of social justice causes. Viewership at the start of the 2017 regular season was down 13 percent.

Affirmative action, American Thinker - Make no mistake: affirmative action is on the defensive now. The hysteria in response to advocacy of bourgeois values is a tell, as is Maxine Waters unintentionally revealing the nagging price affirmative action takes on the psyches of its purported beneficiaries, the entirely natural response to receiving preference in a competition. And when it is combined with admission to a campus where the “beneficiary” is unable to compete with students scoring hundreds of points higher on SATs it often results in blaming “racism” for all of one’s problems. Affirmative action was an experiment, one that has failed on the basis of 50 years of experience.

  Bomb Throwers - Mainstream political polls commit fraud, use up to 58 percent more Democrats than Republicans ... more voters support conservative ideas and policies than claimed

American Red Cross Asks ARRL’s Assistance with Puerto Rico Relief Effort

Via Tom

arrl is passing the request from the red cross for 50 operators with their gear go to puerto rico for three weeks to send back  names for wellness reports.  sounds like electricity and phone service is not going to be restored anytime soon.  normally, and historically, in the past the navy and the army has sent people and equipment to get things running until some level of local services can be restored.  and even if the government says they're doing what they can for that little island, there just probably won't be much improvement for months.  this is what happens when a cat 5 washes your tropical paradise clean. especially if, like haiti, it was one big shanty town to start with.

with the arrl soliciting operators on behalf of the red cross, it looks like fema, and the military are not the first line of expertise going in.   the dead give-away is they're not asking for mars mod radio equipment, just hf ssb and psk for winlink.  and three weeks would only be the first wave if there is no plan b from other sources.  i know fema can set up their own satellite link and provide cell, and internet for their own little cluster of first responders, but maybe they're already stretched thin and can't go either.  i'm waiting for mountain house freeze dried foods to go into short supply.  last time fema did something on a large scale, they contracted from mountain house their total output for a year.  dried up everything.

not sure who is going to provide security for these volunteers.  therein lies another contracting possibility.  eric prince could not be contacted for comment.......

Jeff Sessions: NFL players who refuse to stand for national anthem haven't 'thought it through'

Via Billy

 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said NFL players who have declined to stand for the national anthem in protest have not thought through why they are doing so.

"What you think it's about?" Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Sessions regarding the recent protests. "Why do you think that some of the most successful people in our society would be taking a public stand against symbols of the country itself?"

"First, my thought is they haven't thought it through," Sessions responded. "They haven't realized that what they are doing is actually demeaning the country, not some politicians that they disagree with.

Not some issue that they feel strongly about. How is that the right way to express such a view? You should be able to articulate your view, advocate your view, defend your view against people who disagree."

More @ Washington Examiner

Moore wins Alabama primary

Via Jeffery

 

Former Alabama judge Roy Moore has won the state’s Republican Senate runoff, a victory that sends an ominous message to Republicans and hands President Trump his first electoral loss since taking office.

The former state Supreme Court justice’s reputation as a conservative firebrand won him the enthusiasm of the party grassroots, even as Strange and his allies outspent him by a staggering margin. Moore stormed ahead to what appears to be a convincing win thanks to that support—he was ahead by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent when the Associated Press called the result at about 9:30 ET.

Now that the GOP’s insurgent wing has taken its first Republican incumbent scalp, establishment Republicans now have to reckon with what that means for the party’s future.

More @ The Hill

Viet Nam: Fact vs Fiction

Re-post NamSouth 2009 & FNC 2012

 

"I found this article very interesting. The most notable fact is that
2.7 million Americans actually served in the Vietnam Theater of war.
In the last census nearly 14 million Americans claimed they served in Vietnam.
Four out of five are lying. I wonder why."

Hamp

Vietnam Fact vs Fiction

Capt. Marshal Hanson, U.S.N.R (Ret.) Capt. Scott Beaton, Statistical Source Vietnam War Facts

For over 30 years I....like many Vietnam veterans....seldom spoke of
Vietnam , except with other veterans, when training soldiers, and in
public speeches. These past five years I have joined the hundreds of
thousands who believe it is high time the truth be told about the
Vietnam War and the people who served there. It's time the American
people learn that the United States military did not lose the War, and
that a surprisingly high number of people who claim to have served
there, in fact, DID NOT. As Americans, support the men and women
involved in the War on Terrorism, the mainstream media are once again
working tirelessly to undermine their efforts and force a
psychological loss or stalemate for the United States .

We cannot stand by and let the media do to today's warriors what they
did to us 35 years ago. Below are some assembled facts most readers
will find interesting. It isn't a long read, but it will, I guarantee, teach you
some things you did not know about the Vietnam War and those who served,
fought, or died there. Please share it with those with whom you communicate.
Capt. Marshal Hanson, U.S.N.R (Ret.)

Capt. Scott Beaton, Statistical Source Vietnam War Facts: Facts,
Statistics, Fake Warrior Numbers, and Myths Dispelled

9,087,000 (Million) military personnel served on active duty during
the official Vietnam era from August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975.
2,709,918 Americans served in uniform in Vietnam Veterans represented
9.7% of their generation. 240 men were awarded the Medal of Honor
during the Vietnam War

1. The first man to die in Vietnam was James Davis, in 1958. He was
with the >509th Radio Research Station. Davis station in Saigon was
named for him.

More @ Free North Carolina

DirecTV Experiences Wave of Cancellations Amid NFL National Anthem Protests, Allows Some Refunds

Via Billy

DirecTV customer service representatives said Tuesday they are allowing some customers to cancel their subscriptions and obtain refunds for the Sunday Ticket package of NFL games if they cite players' protests of the national anthem as their reason for cancellation.

Sunday Ticket's policy does not allow refunds after the season has started, but the representatives said they are making an exception this season due to players kneeling, sitting, or linking arms before games for the anthem, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Football draws the biggest television audience out of all American sports and is a huge, sometime vital, income source for major media companies. Sunday Ticket, which costs around $280 per season per customer, brings in $1.5 billion a year in licensing revenue for DirecTV, the Journal noted.
Any cancellations risk further damage to the NFL as the league experiences comparatively low television ratings this season.

More @ The Washington Free Beacon

INFO: A "quick read" concerning Paris Accords

Via Wes

 Fisher County

"We Stand"

Planned Parenthood Wins Right to Keep Aborting Babies with Down Syndrome

 

An Indiana judge has found for abortion giant Planned Parenthood in a suit brought against HEA 1337, a state law banning gender-selective abortions and those based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome.

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, an Obama appointee, has issued a permanent injunction against Indiana’s “Sex Selective and Disability Abortion Ban” in a 22-page decision, saying that provisions of the law “violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

HEA 1337 was signed into law in 2016 by Governor and now Vice President Mike Pence, and prohibited abortions based on the sex or race of the child or a prenatal diagnosis of “Down syndrome or any other disability.” The law also required that the remains of aborted babies be disposed of in a dignified fashion proper to human remains, rather than merely thrown out in the trash.

More @ Breitbart

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) Sides With Trump, Says NFL Owners Shouldn’t ‘Tolerate’ Anthem Protests

Via Billy