Vietnam: Last Rites

Via Bonnie-Jo Leavitt

 

I was that which others did not want to be. I went where others feared to go and did what others failed to do. I asked nothing from those who gave nothing and reluctantly accepted the thought of eternal loneliness should I fail. I have seen the face of terror; felt the stinging cold of fear and enjoyed the sweet taste of a moment's love. I have cried, pained, and hoped. But most of all, I have lived times others would say were best forgotten. At least someday I will be able to say...that I am proud of what I was ...  a soldier.

Street Names in Saigon before 1975 was Scientific and Educational

Via Trân Trần

 

TRANSLATION

 OC Zone

The naming of roads in Saigon before 1975 was very, very meaningful. People walk from the gateway to the center of Saigon, if you notice you will see a civilized 4000 years of Vietnamese history on every step.
 
Starting from the Western Bus Station, there will be Hong Bang, An Duong Vuong, Trieu Da ... Ba Trieu ... then Ly Nam De, Trieu Quang Phuc ... Next are Mai Hac De, Phung Hung, Ngo Quyen and Dinh Bo. L ... Chieu Hoang. Tran Nhan Tong, Tran Hung Dao and other generals Pham Ngu Lao, Tran Khanh Du ...
 
+ River wharves include Van Kiep, Ham Tu ... The largest port is named Bach Dang ...
 
+ As close as near the center, as close as the current Le Loi, Le Lai, Nguyen Trai ... then the Nguyen more centers as close as Nguyen Hoang, Minh Mang, Tu Duc and other generals as Vo Tanh, Le Van Duyet ...
 
+ Deviate to the north of the central area (District 3), there are Tay Son dynasties and writers, poets and students: Ba Huyen Thanh Quan, Ho Xuan Huong ... together with Tay Son martial arts: Bui Thi Xuan, Tran Quang Dieu ...
 
It must be said that a person who goes from the bus station to the center of the city and observes the name of the street is very easy to imagine themselves in any part of the city.
 
Best of all is the flow of 4000 years of history, all focused on a boulevard named Thong Nhat, beautiful and wide with vast square leading directly to the highest authority of the time (before 1975) DINH INDEPENDENCE.
 
The road is less than one way, running across the Court and the main gate of the Palace named Cong Ly (Justice can not be 2 way!). Two roads parallel to Dai Nhu Thong Nhat are named after two famous people who created the script of Vietnam Han Thuyen and Alexandre de Rhodes with the implication of deep gratitude ...

Fractured Federalism

 

Proposals to turn national programs over to the states are abound in Washington. The failure of federal programs over the past 60 years demonstrates that centralized solutions to local problems are ineffective. Federalism—the constitutional distribution of power between the states and national government— is once again on the agenda.

Lessons regarding centralization have been learned the hard way. For example, since the 1960s the national government has spent $5 trillion on social welfare programs for such efforts as the “War on Poverty.” The result is a poverty rate of 15.1 percent—higher than the 14.7 percent rate we had before the Great Society. The nation cannot afford anymore trillion-dollar lessons. As an alternative, many leaders around the country are re-examining the role of the states.

But is the rhetoric of the politicians sincere? Is there a genuine movement in Washington toward federal decentralization?

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Open Carry

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NC: Experts: Tintype photo of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett could be worth millions

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White Power Hand Gesture Origination Tracked Down At Last......:)

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President Trump Orders Sweeping Declassification of Russian Docs

 
A storm is brewing in The Swamp

On Monday, September 17th, President Trump used his pen and his phone to order the declassifaction of a wide range of documents relating to the Russian Witch Hunt helmed by Robert Mueller.

According to Fox News’ Ed Henry, “The President has just ordered the declassification of a range of documents, including FISA application related to Carter Page, FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, plus texts related to Russia probe “without redaction” of Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page & Ohr.”

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Judge Kavanaugh Says He Was not at the party in Question

 

The Senate met for the first time Monday afternoon since Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor and far left activist publicly came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh.

 

All the facts aren’t even in but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a delay in the Kavanaugh confirmation process.

Christine Blasey Ford is a far-left activist who alleged Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her over 35 years ago while she was at a high school party in Maryland.

 

Now this…

 

Judge Kavanaugh told Senator Hatch that he was not even at the party in question!

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Communism In America

 

Those who believe in a republican form of government are incapable of understanding a communist. Their lives are designed specifically to distance themselves from politics.  They might hold opinions, but think nothing more of it than to express those opinions on occasion. Their opinions are not their agenda.

Communists live their opinions; breathe them in; they are given to them by their leaders and they become part of their soul.  It is their duty to express those opinions, because they are relaying the message of their leaders to the rest.  They need to use these opinions to sniff out enemies and confirm the identities of comrades.

Communists have spent generations upon generations to stand where they do now; in the land of their enemy, growing stronger and stronger.  People in the United States who are not communists, joined the fight against them yesterday in relative terms, if they have joined it at all.

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The rise of post-truth liberalism

Via David

 

Visiting New York a few weeks after Trump’s victory in the presidential election, I found myself immersed in a mass psychosis. The city’s intelligentsia was possessed by visions of conspiracy. No one showed any interest in the reasons Trump supporters may have had for voting as they did. Quite a few cited the low intelligence, poor education and retrograde values of the nearly 63 million Americans who voted for him. What was most striking was how many of those with whom I talked flatly rejected the result. The election, they were convinced, had been engineered by a hostile power.

It was this malignant influence, not any default of American society, that had upended the political order.

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