{"id":76865,"date":"2018-01-02T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76865"},"modified":"2018-01-02T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:00:53","slug":"no-resolutions-just-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76865","title":{"rendered":"No Resolutions…Just Vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), moored pierside in her home port of Pearl Harbor, HI, participates in the annual Pearl Harbor Festival of Lights. The guided missile destroyer was named after LT (SEAL) Michael Murphy, a Medal of Honor awardee who was killed in action in heavy fighting in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan in June, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Joshua Flanagan (Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

N.B.: I wrote this before I watched the news report on the evening of 1\/1\/2018 about the riots and protests in Iran. \u00a0I noticed this morning that Instinct had posted a link to an article by John Ringo, which I read, and you should, too: https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76872#comment-3071111 <\/a><\/p>\n

Since we now know that the State of the Blog is secure and the Union has not yet been split asunder, \u00a0can we relax? <\/span><\/p>\n

No. I don’t think so. \u00a0We must as a people be ever vigilant. No matter how annoying the Clankers are (and we know who they are), they will only win if we let them.<\/span><\/p>\n

You know, when you have something nice, other people don’t like you because of that, and they want to take it away from you. So don’t let them. Just keep a weather eye on the little buggers and make sure that they don’t win. Some day, they’ll be my age and have nothing to show for their wasted lives – IF they live that long.<\/p>\n

We live in the best country on this planet. People come here all the time because of it. Sometimes, yes, some of them want to knock it down and stomp on it, because they’re afraid of real freedom. And yes, it is scary to determine your own destiny, but that’s what this country is all about: no kings, no dictators, no dynasties – none of that crap. That’s why people like my ancestors and the Irish came here, for the chance to do more than just exist.<\/p>\n

There’s a movie opening now: “The Post”, based on the decision by Kathryn Grahame and Ben Bradlee to publish what became the Pentagon Papers. Bradlee, played by Tom Hanks, was aghast that Jack Kennedy, who befriended him, would lie to him the way he did, but Johnson and Cronkite also lied, as did other people. Lyndon Johnson was the worst liar of them all. And Democrats, they were, all of them. Who knew?<\/p>\n

What do we see now? Much worse: plain old bald-faced lying by the media, mostly in a scramble to get attention. It isn’t working very well for them. Reasoning and more thoughtful people know what is real much better than those involved in the childish scramble for attention by “kids” who seem to be barely out of school. The most recent sample was that rambling, babbling article about conservatism and Stolen Valor by Alex Whatshisname. He had no point to make, he was almost intentionally uninformed, and it was drivel.<\/p>\n

You’d think that as a population group, they would not want to go down in history as a pack of inept fools, wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n

This is why I said we must be vigilant at all times. Dig up the truth, verify it with backup<\/em>, and throw it at them, as hard as you can, but without rancor. Be persistent, thoughtful, accurate and above all else, calm. A calm stance is like wearing full battle rattle and the truth is a bigger, more effective weapon than theirs.<\/p>\n

If they don’t like it, tough bananas. When they get to be my age or yours, they’ll have nothing to show for a lifetime of being worse than the National Enquirer.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’d want that on my tombstone. I’d rather have pepperoni, extra pepperoni, and extra cheese.<\/p>\n

We must always<\/em> be on watch. \u00a0We owe it to ourselves and to future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

N.B.: I wrote this before I watched the news report on the evening of 1\/1\/2018 about … No Resolutions…Just Vigilance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}