There I was, at the front of the line, back to back with SGT Rock and Doc Savage, putting together arms and armor for a mighty battle, when it occurred to me, as the Puzzled Leader of and Chief Cook for this loosely knit band of tramps, humans, humanoids, and various Space Alien species, that I had no pep talk at the ready. No rousing oration to stir the blood. No ‘we who are about to die’ sort of thing. So I had to put down the sword polish and go and consult with the best pep speechifiers I could find, which took a bit of time, time travel and digging.
There is, of course, the internet in addition to the videos available, both of which make the job of cobbling a pep talk together so much easier. But does it answer that question: what stirs the blood?
We have bits and bobs of Patton’s actual speech, in various videos. This one isn’t too bad:
Then there’s Marco D’Aviano’s speech on the hill in ‘Day of the Siege’, a so-so movie about the Siege of Vienna. The movie itself is crunchingly slow and sometimes silly, but the delivery of speech by F. Murray Abraham as the monk D’Aviano is stirring, with the Polish King Jan Sobieski and his Winged Hussars attacking the Turks at the end of it:
Aragorn made another speech at the Black Gate, just before Sauron (who was afraid of Morgoth, who was afraid of the Balrogs) disintegrated when the One Ring melted.
Crassus wanted to know who Spartacus was. He sorely underestimated the people he faced, misunderstood what it takes to truly lead people, and was assassinated by the Parthians when he also underestimated the desert of the Middle East and the pure skill and will power of the Parthian army.
New York witches aim hex at Supreme Court’s Brett Kavanaugh despite death threats
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Melissa Madara was not surprised to receive death threats on Friday as her Brooklyn witchcraft store prepared to host a public hexing of newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this weekend.
The planned casting of an anti-Kavanaugh spell, one of the more striking instances of politically disgruntled Americans turning to the supernatural when frustrated by democracy, has drawn backlash from some Christian groups but support from like-minded witch covens.
“It gives the people who are seeking agency a little bit of chance to have that back,” Madara said. The ritual was scheduled to be livestreamed on Facebook and Instagram at 8 p.m. EDT on Saturday (1200 GMT Sunday).
Seated at a desk phone among bird skulls and crystal balls at Catland Books, the occult shop she co-owns, Madara said the Kavanaugh hex is expected to be the most popular event the store has hosted since its 2013 opening, including spells aimed at President Donald Trump. Madara declined to provide details of what the latest ritual will entail.
More than 15,000 people who have seen Catland Books promotions on Facebook have expressed interest in attending the event, vastly exceeding the shop’s 60-person capacity.
Not everyone is a witchcraft fan. Madara said she had fielded numerous irate calls from critics, with at least one threatening violence. “Every time we host something like this there’s always people who like to call in with death threats or read us scripture,” she said.
As far as supporters go, some are sexual assault survivors still angry that the U.S. Senate confirmed Kavanaugh’s lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court despite accusations that he had sexually assaulted multiple women.
Not to worry, counter hexes are planned across the country.
In one of Zuckerberg’s more egregious moves, a disabled veteran who runs a conservative media outlet and spent $300,000 for ads on Facebook, and who has a very large following (over 3 million people), has been banned from Facebook along with his non-political coffee company. Click on the link to see the “not found” FB page. https://www.facebook.com/MilitaryGradeCoffee . https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/16/facebook-deletes-disabled-veterans-page-without-warning-after-taking-300000-for-ads/ Facebook has also deleted Kolfage’s FB page for his company Military Grade Coffee.net, as shown above. The left-wing alternative media outlet Reverb Press has also been banned from Facebook. https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/19/facebook-blacklists-left-wing-site-that-praised-purge-of-infowars/ Reverb Press was just one of the hundreds of pages, which included independent news outlets, banned from Facebook and Twitter this month, such as the news page of a disabled veteran who had invested more than $300,000 in Facebook advertising. In an article published following Reverb Press’ ban, Infowars declared, “Reverb Press’s last post was on October 11th, the day of the banning, so it appears the site has been shut down. This is why you defend free speech no matter who is in the crosshairs.” I tried the link for Reverb Press and get “not available”. Neither Kolfage nor Reverb Press’s owner has reported whether or not any money paid for advertising was returned to either of them. At this point, this appears to me to be as much an FCC matter as a First Amendment matter. I have dealt with the FCC regarding someone who said he represented my cable TV company and wanted to know if I wanted internet service. This was some time ago before I bought a computer for use at home. I told him no, that I didn’t have a computer at home, and had no use for internet service. Undaunted, he signed my name to a contract I had not agreed to and the cable company started billing me for service I didn’t have, so I contacted the FCC and filed a complaint about it, with copies of my driver’s license and other documents requiring a signature, demonstrating clearly that I had not signed any contract for internet service. It was fraud, plain and simple. RCN very quickly sent me a revised bill and gave me about 9 months’ worth of free cable TV. In my view, while Mssrs. Kolfage and Belisle (Reverb Press) have completely opposing views, they both have a valid FCC complaint against Facebook.
Either Zuckerberg ponies up and gives them what they paid for and restores their access, or they get permanent free FB ads for the remainder of FB’s existence, along with the hundreds of others whose FB pages were abruptly shut down. Zuckerberg owns Facebook, yes, but his facility is presented as a place for open communication. He doesn’t own what people say.
Another fine piece from our own Poetrooper, who informs me that he finally got his ire up and felt like taking a whack at the Gasbags of the Democrat party. If his ire is up, he must be feeling better, so wish him well. Fair warning: there’s a photo of the two of them included, so try to keep your breakfast down.
The American conservative community is rejoicing over the belated news that Hillary Clinton supposedly volunteered to surrender her high-level security clearance back in August at the same time the clearances of five of her staffers were lifted. Those of you thinking we might have finally skunked the queen of political skunks had better take a deep breath and realize that, once again, the Clintons are attempting to pull another fast one on the American public.
While the employable dollar worth of Hillary’s five staffers’ is now seriously reduced by the loss of those high-level clearances, the Queen of Sore Losers is not negatively impacted in any way. How can this be, you ask? Well, she isstill married to predator-in-chief, Bill Clinton, who presumably still has his access to the inner sanctums of American intelligence operations, as do most ex-POTUSes. Frankly, I don’t know how broad or deep this ex-POTUS privilege of access to current intelligence is because the principle of need to know generally limits the dissemination of classified material to those who have a role in acting on such intelligence. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Clintons, thoroughly practiced grifters that they are, as well as their increasingly shady daughter, will not hesitate to use such classified information as they may be able to access for personal and political enrichment. They’ve been doing it for decades, and they’re not about to stop now.
A question niggling at me right now is, what is the security clearance status of Huma Abedin? Was she, as Hillary’s constant consort, one with close familial connections to the militant jihadist organization in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of those with access to top-level American intelligence who lost that privilege? If not, that is a lapse in our own national security that needs to be addressed immediately, when one takes into consideration the rock-bottom morals of her pedophile predator, weenie-wagging husband, who absolutely should never have any sort of access to any intelligence feeds.
Lastly, our knowing bwa-ha-ha-ha’s of disbelief simply will not be loud enough to counter this latest Clinton misinformation campaign to convince the American public that their family, and by extension the party they have long led, is not a completely corrupt political and criminal enterprise, one that the devious Democratic Party leadership and a compliant mainstream media recently tried to foist on this country as the best choice to head our national government. So we must look at this most recent Clinton maneuver for what it is: just more misdirection from reality to make it appear that Hillary graciously surrendered her security clearance. Trust your own common sense: there is no way the avaricious Hillary would have voluntarily surrendered something as commercially valuable as a high-level security clearance if she didn’t have an ulterior motive as well as a safe fallback position. The more likely truth in all this is that Clinton is looking at possible prosecution for federal felony security and corruption charges from her secret server security violations. So this ostensibly sacrificial act by Hillary is no more than a way to head off the negative implications of an announcement by the DOJ of her top-level clearance’s revocation, possibly ahead of a future criminal indictment.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides “strong evidence” she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention.
The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and expert in the field who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a genius grant, for his work on tracking population migration via DNA analysis. He concluded that “the vast majority” of Warren’s ancestry is European, but he added that “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor.”
Bustamante calculated that Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears in her family tree “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.” That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.
The Cherokee Nation was quick to respond to Pocahontas.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. issued the following statement Monday in response to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test claiming Native Heritage:
“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America,” Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said. “Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”
I read an article on the “revolution” against gun grabbing/confiscation and the numbers, math, how gun owners could form a civilian army, etc. And it won’t work well, because – well, lack of subtlety is the response.
A few observations on my part. Guerrilla warfare, as anyone who was in-country in Vietnam will tell you, is not necessarily made up of shoot-shoot-bang-bang. It’s a lot more subtle than that. Pretty girls, for instance, will distract any male human animal (exceptions are noted) enough to take his mind off his target and plant it elsewhere.
For example, there is black & white film stored on video showing Army trucks with replacement troops rolling into Bien Hoa, while alongside the road, on the dirt berm, all these young Vietnamese women dressed in traditional ao-dais and wearing that common coolie hat were watching and counting. When they thought the camera was on them, they immediately dropped the hat over the face. They were spies, as were the mama-sans and papa-sans who worked on the bases, counting empty racks and newly-made up racks and new duffel bags.
If you really want to stop the gun grabbers, that asinine scene in conservation area in Oregon state in the winter of 2016 is THE dumbest thing EVER concocted by an egotistical asshole. No wonder it failed.
You must be far more subtle, if you expect to win a war against Grabbing Your Guns By the Fascist Tits.
Distracting the Gun Grabbing Fascist Tits while someone sabotages the vehicles isn’t all that hard. Here are some suggestions:
– Sabotaging vehicles does not require incendiary devices. That thinking is far too narrow and amateurish. You get a transceiver that picks up the remote key signal which is a radio frequency, clones it, open the door, pop the gas tank lid, and pour sugar into the gas tank. About two pounds should do it. Car thieves are using this cloning technology now to steal cars without doing any damage to them, especially those with keyless ignitions. Piece of cake.
– Cut their brake lines enough for the brake fluid to drain out slowly.
– Pop the hood and cut the battery cables. Or just remove the batteries when you’re done messing with the vehicles.
– Drain the antifreeze/coolant out of the radiator. There is a plug for that, you know.
– Removing all the lugnuts from the wheels but leaving the tires in place will result in – what?
– Try letting most of the air out of three of the tires until they are nearly flat, along with removing the lug nuts and mailing them back to their HQ.
– As long as you have the vehicle doors open, pour fluorescent neon pink or orange or green paint on the seats, so that it gets on the Gun Grabbing Fascist Tits and stays there for weeks.
– Remove all the license plates from the rear ends of all vehicles. Mail them back to their HQ from a city you don’t live in. Or use UPS.
– Have a device that sets off all the alarms in all their vehicles, one after another, and they can’t shut it off because they are locked out. Keys no longer work. How come? Cloned radio frequency on each vehicle changed to a single frequency for all and they don’t have it. Like I said, car thieves do this all the time now.
– Clone the same GPS signal for as many escape vehicles as possible, and once the Gun Grabbing Fascist Tits are distracted by the signal scatter, shut them off and remove them from your own vehicles, then turn them back on and leave them behind. (And yes, you can shut off your vehicle’s installed GPS, despite what people think.) Just make sure that you have these pursuers so far out in the boonies that they have to ask for directions back to Chicago or NYC or whatever at a local gas station, and maybe buy paper maps to get home.
– And when they find them and open the doors, make sure you’ve left behind some very angry wasps in their nest.
– Let them think they are closing in on the “lead escape vehicle” and when they’re all gathered together, release the balloons packed inside. Make sure the balloons have candy bars tied to them, and a way to rupture so that the candy lands on the Gun Grabbing Fascist Tits.
– Plant a small transmitter in the target Gun Grabbing Fascist Tits’ vehicles that has a recording on it of Woody Woodpecker’s laugh or maybe Bugs Bunny ‘What’s up, Doc?’ – something inane and insane like that, which they can’t shut off because you have to stomp on it to stop it. Maybe under the carpeting next to the door on the driver’s side is a good spot.
– Peel and put those large self-stick sheets on their windshields and back windows and outside mirrors, and be sure to include messages of “love” on them. Obscene drawings are okay, in this instance. Put them over the headlights and brake lights, too.
– Know the area so well that you can drive home in the dark with no headlights, only using infrared on the road. Make sure you’re driving a dark-colored car, too.
Come on, use your imagination. Don’t be so shoot-shoot-bang-bang about it. That’s too amateurish. You don’t want people sending you bags of fruit-flavored dicks in the mail, do you?
You all remember Emma Gonzales, don’t you? Lovely young girl, despite the shaved head. Such crocodile tears she wept for as long as she was onstage, and then hey! Presto! They vanished. She was also good at reddening her eyeballs. One can only hope she’ll get glaucoma out of it, or worse.
And that bald head? I thought it was only nuns and Marines that shaved their heads. Well, nuns sort of are Marines, wearing black habits – the Army of God or something like that.
But I digress… somewhat.
It seems that Ms. Gonzalez is back, in fine fettle, arguing for confiscation but insisting that she is so very 2nd Amendment-friendly… except for those parts about confiscation and banning guns and – well, such a plan she has for Others (that’s us) to follow that you have to read it for comprehension, not just context. And you have to do it without throwing things, too. She thinks the Australian confiscation plan was just great! And ditto, the UK, except that in both Oz and Merry Olde England, people are still allowed to have weapons – for hunting, target shooting, and other such endeavors.
Just to make it clear where she stands: “… if she actually read the website of the gun control group for which she is a national spokesperson, she would learn a “comprehensive semi-automatic assault rifle ban” is among its agenda items. The ban it has in mind not only “prohibits the future production and sale of these weapons” but “provides a solution for dealing with those semi-automatic assault rifles that are already owned,” such as “a buyback program” for lawfully obtained guns. Needless to say, this measure by definition would affect those who are “already … responsible gun owner[s]” and force them to give up their property.”
“That’s not all. Even if we assume she doesn’t know what her own organization wants, we have her own words delivered on other occasions to explain exactly what she means.”
“At a public appearance in May, Gonzalez told her audience, “It’s just cheaper to take away the guns that aren’t imperative to living in America,” adding, “You don’t need an AR-15 to protect yourself in bed from a robber at night.” She even hinted on that occasion that guns should be limited to the military: “Go join the Army if you want to have fun shooting off a weapon, and serve your f***ing country.” – NRA article
I really do appreciate her referring to this nation of ours as ‘your fucking country’. She can leave any time. I’m sure either Venezuela or Cuba would welcome the little bitch with open arms. As nasty as she is, she might even fascinate or amuse Vlad Putin for a brief moment or two.
Now, don’t be too easy on her. She’s only 18, hasn’t really seen the world for the vicious, gangbanging place it is, nor does she have even a vague understanding of the conflict of meanings manifest in everything she says.
Deep down inside, she’s an apprentice bitch on wheels, practicing on the unsuspecting souls who support her as-yet-unspoken agenda without realizing what sort of quagmire they’ll be marching into by that very support of her.
Just wanted you to know that I’m not snoozing here.
This article from the Atlantic back in May this year should be a must read for any conservative and for any middle-of-the-road liberal whose centrist views are angrily disputed by the so-called progressives, dismissed as alt-right and insulted by those people into moving further to the right of center.
The author’s view is that the progressive’s screamingly angry, hyperemotional rhetoric and violent physical responses to an opposing view of even the mildest sort drives people away from them, who would otherwise continue to embrace a slightly progressive left of center stance.
This is what I have been saying repeatedly: the more these tantrum-throwing, foul-mouthed, ghoulish, violent zombies attack people openly, as they are doing now, the more they will drive the moderate centrist liberals to the right hand side of the political pendulum.
By engaging in this public surge and display of unfettered hate – for there is no other name for it – they are revealing themselves for what they really are: extreme radicals and bullies willing to do anything, including burn down the house while you are in it, to get what they want. They do not believe society’s laws and rules apply to them, because they regularly and intentionally (or stupidly) misinterpret the Law of the Land. They are encouraged to do so, and to traipse as close to the edge of anarchy as possible to get what they want, with no thought to the consequences.
Now we’re seeing some results of that behavior in Doxxing Boy’s arrest, indictment, and soon-to-be trial and (we hope) conviction and vacation in a federal prison with some truly dangerous people as neighbors, as well as the Canadian soyboy salon ex-employee who kicked a woman at a prolife rally and is now in jail. The list of crass, crude and vulgar things sent and said to members of Congress in Cong Scalise’s essay demonstrates clearly that this bunch of screaming howler monkeys are not, and may never be, civilized in any way at all.
There are two kinds of millennials: one kind is the lamebrained idiots who climb the steps of the Supreme Court building and pound on the doors, screaming like demented zombies. I’d guess that if they had time to spend a week in Washington, haunting the SCOTUS hearings and screaming like banshees when they are removed, they don’t have jobs that they’re worried about losing.
The other type of millennial is the kind that has high-paying jobs in finance, technology, engineering, etc., is businesslike about running a household, knows exactly what they want in the way of housing and where they want to live, per the response to questions about them from realtors who are seeing a buying population growing in that group. They want families, not empty homes. They want “stuff”, not grungy jeans. Yes, they want clean spaces and crime-free streets, but don’t we all? It isn’t about bicycle paths. It’s about safety for kids on a hike in the forest preserve, and schools where their kids learn something besides “mommy was my daddy and it’s okay”.
These people are the mid-center centrist liberals whose views are attacked by those others, those loud-mouthed, hate-spewing progressives who label them alt-right for daring to be so centrist.
This population group will be future conservatives, given enough time and enough hatred from the radical progressives that despise them. And there are, frankly, more of them than there are of the other type.
The Atlantic article is not a short read. It will take some time on your part, but it is worth your time to read it. You may not agree with some of the author’s specific points, particularly in regard to Bush and Obama and their reservations about using terms like “radical Islam terrorists”, which is to be expected.
But the gist of it holds true. The so-called progressives are doing far more damage to themselves than any amount of argument from us could hope to produce. Fix yourself a pot of coffee or tea, get some snacky foods on a plate, and read it start to finish.
In one of Zuckerberg’s more egregious moves, a disabled veteran who runs a conservative media outlet and spent $300,000 for ads on Facebook, and who has a very large following (over 3 million people), has been banned from Facebook along with his non-political coffee company. Click on the link to see the “not found” FB page. 
