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Category: Holidays

  • May Day riots unfolding in Seattle

    An organized riot started today as protesters stormed into Seattle Central Community College, the location of the now evicted Occupy Seattle camp. From the Community College the protesters joined with a mass of bicyclists who “swarmed” the roads to block traffic for the march down to Westlake Center. After regrouping there they moved down Denny and Pine Streets, attacking stores and cars as they clashed with police. Once Black Bloc and Marxist protesters reached the Federal Courthouse firebombs were thrown at the front of the building as rioters attacked windows and doors. Nobody is reporting it yet but a young man, possibly an adolescent, with Down’s Syndrome was waiving a red flag as he beat on windows and doors with a club of some kind. At least one car was trapped and destroyed as its occupants fled their attackers.

    The attacks were obviously very well coordinated. As police responded to one set of attacks another group of Black Bloc and red flag waiving rioters would immediately attack another. This is a coordinated attack by left-wing extremists on the city of Seattle and its citizens. I’m working on pictures now but I’m not sure of the quality as they’re being taken by a friend in the thick of it.

    UPDATE: Many police have been resisting making arrests, even on rioters they witnessed attacking property. One guy said he saw them stand aside as rioters moved past.

    UPDATE #2:

    Here’s the mentally handicapped Marxist facing down a vigilante dressed as a super hero. If that doesn’t just sum up how screwed we all are I don’t know what does. Credit to the Seattle Times.

  • Seems Appropriate to me?

    War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

    Okay, maybe just a little bitter here that it is STILL true.

    People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
    George Orwell
    I’ll leave you with one more.
    Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    George Santayana

  • I Have a Purple Heart

    I was an Army brat the first few years of my life. I have vague memories (or memories of memories?) of several Army posts; in Georgia, in Arizona, and another place or two. Then my dad was deployed to some place called Korea in 1950.

    Three additional memories are a bit more vivid – the day we were notified he was Missing in Action and, sometime later, that his remains had been recovered, and finally, his funeral. I wasn’t allowed to go.

    I have a Purple Heart.

    He is buried in our home town, and there’s a small memorial in the city park there with his name inscribed. I visit both as often as I can. Even though I was only five or six at the time and will be 65 in about a month I still miss him. I have pictures and memories, and…

    I have a Purple Heart.

    For many others, like myself, Memorial Day has a face.

    I’m heading up to Gettysburg shortly so a line from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address comes to mind easily:  “that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion”

    So don’t wish me a happy Memorial Day because…

    I have a Purple Heart.

  • Day of Catastrophe

    Nabka Day – The Palestinian Day of Catastrophe this year even has some fireworks of sorts.

    Via The Jerusalem Post:

    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday responded to the events of Nakba Day, particularly attempts to infiltrate Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, saying “we are determined to defend our borders.”

    Netanyahu stated that he had instructed the IDF to act with restraint, but to stop all attempts at infiltration and challenges to Israel’s sovereignty.

    In a separate and almost laughingly ironic story:

    Syria condemned on Sunday Israel’s “criminal activities” in the Golan Heights,Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests.

    Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations to prevent crowds from crossing Israeli frontier lines.

    There’s a background piece over at the American Thinker:

    What is the disaster Nakba Day commemorates? Nothing less than the day on which Israel Declared Independence in 1948. And to add insult to injury, the Palestinians commemorate their national disaster day every year to coincide with Israeli Independence Day, around 15 May.

  • Merry Christmas from Alaska

    This is the view from our front door it is my Son’s first White Christmas and mine as well at a toasty -3 degrees. Happy Holidays.

  • Just so you don’t forget

    From an Associated Press newswire;

    ADDS THE REASON WHY THE SOLDIERS WEARING SANTA HATS – Pfc. Kyle Garcia from Ridgefield, Wash., right, along with Spc. Steven Galvin from Holstein, Iowa, of 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 Infantry, returns fires after a sudden attack by Taliban on Combat Out Post Badel in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. The two U.S. soldiers were wearing Santa Claus hats to celebrate Christmas eve inside the small outpost when Taliban fighters shot at them from a hillside outside the base. Still wearing the hats, the soldiers rushed to take defensive positions and returned fire on the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

  • Merry Christmas

    What are you doing here? You should be chugging nog and hugging family.

    Regardless, we at TAH wish you a Merry Christmas no matter where you are. If you’re deployed, you’re making a down payment on being home next year. I think I can count on one hand the number of Christmases I spent with my family on active duty, so we’re right there with you.

    If you’re between deployments, we’re glad you made it back. If you’re out of the service, we’re glad you’re here with us. If your spouse is deployed, thank you for holding up his end of the family thing.

    If you’re a hippie, it’s just another Saturday except all of the stores are closed. If you’re Gordon Duff, the Mossad is plotting a false flag Christmas operation right now…go hide in your root cellar.

    Regardless of the reason you come here, we hope you’re warm, full of Christmas cheer and surrounded by your family – or someone’s family.

  • Saint Patrick’s Day PSA

    Today’s news you can use from Fox and Friends – how to pour the perfect glass of Guinness beer;