In August of 2014, I did two weeks in Europe with my wife, our kid, and her sister.  It was one of those Viking Cruises that you may have seen n TV (Spend less time getting there and more time being there).  It was our second cruise with Viking.  This one had us starting in Prague (Czech Republic) and ending in Paris.

Czech, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and France–I’ve been in all six during the last seven years.  Ranked in order of preference:

1) Italy, 2) Ireland, 3) Germany, 4) Luxembourg, 5) Czech, 6) France

Italy was the best trip so far (2011), followed by Ireland (2007).  Italy was clean (except for the shithole called Naples), the food and wine were delicious.  It was easy to get anywhere locally by foot, and the trains were high speed, cheap, and accessible.  Ireland was green and over flowing with beer.  Smoking is prohibited anywhere in a public place.  One beer is enough to put you DUI, so most people walk to pubs.

Germany and Luxembourg and largely the same–very clean.  Orderly.  Things run on time here.  Beer is plentiful and delicious.  I speak a little German so I’m not totally lost.

Czech and France.  I’m glad I went but I won’t be back.  These are wierd culture countries.   Here, most of the men (aged 15-35) seem to be obessed by dressing and looking like their women.  And they are succeeding.  There are few Justin Bieber haircuts here.  Most guys have a jelled “push a wedge up in the middle” hairstyle, or some other forward projecting appendage that could double as a sail on a jetty.  They all wear skinny jeans, most often with some highly female stitching pattern on the back pockets.  None of them seem to project a “package” while wearing these jeans so there has to be some “fruitcup stuffing to the rear” going on.  I would think that would be painful if one sat down.  Maybe they just have small sacks.  Their shoes, if casual are a rainbow assortment of boat style sneakers.  Dress shoes all have a tapered end that projects out about three inches from where the toes really end.  It makes their feet all look like size 14.

In the Czech Republic, a telling sign came from our guide “Charlie” who told us about when the Russians had last been there and the possibility of the ever coming back.  He said, “25% would welcome them, 25% would run for the hills, and 50% would not give a damn.”  Notice that no percentage would stand and fight.  No, that is the job for Americans.

Everyone smokes in France.  It is allowed in many eating establishments as well.  It turns the stomach to watch your server stand outside and smoke, then without washing his hands, grab your dinner plates and serve you.

France enjoys a 35 hour work week.  You automatically earn 2 weeks vacation as soon as you start working full time.  Do some math.  5 hours less per week times 50 weeks is 250 hours.  At 35 hours a week, that is just over 7 weeks.  Lunch is two hours long and the meal is paid for by your employer.  50 more hours not worked is another week and a half.  So compared to Americans, the French work just over 41 weeks a year to our 50.  The employer splits the transportation costs of the employee also.  College?  Paid for…for as long as you want to attend.

With so many perks, it is no wonder their taxes are so high and why they experienced zero GDP growth for two straight quarters.

The best part of the trip, aside from coming home, was the adventure to Normandy.  If you are military you already know what I am talking about.  No one can pass up walking on Omaha Beach if you’ve ever served.  I won’t stop going to Europe.  I’ll just be more selective as to where.

Ever notice how these illegals are not flocking to Canada?  Or Europe?  They are not transitioning through the United States on their way up to Alberta or Quebec.  Nope staying right here.

Ever notice how all these anti-religious groups never sue a Muslim organization?  Mikey Weinstein has never filed suit to stop the Koran from being displayed or read.  Freedom From Religion Organization has never taken to the courts to stop a mandate of women to wear burkhas or veils.  No, but cadets can’t write verses on their own white boards, and the Navy can’t let the Gideons leave Bibles in hotel rooms.

Ever notice how anti-gun activists and the media cherry pick their “exploding gun violence” statistics?  Actually more people die by fire, drowning or falling down than by gun violence (real or accidental).  You are 6 times more like to be killed by your doctor than by (my or yours, or a criminal with) a gun.  http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/08/foghorn/infographic-u-s-gun-usage-and-death-statistics/

I don’t often call in to talk shows even though I listen all I can.  Today I called in and got on the Hugh Hewitt show aired on 710 AM.  I was calling in to respond to the chatter about Valerie Jarrett’s blurb on the Sunday talk shows.  She is B. Hussein’s closest adviser short of maybe Moochelle.  She said this on Face the Nation:

“This is why the cease-fire is so important,” Jarrett said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “It’s a devastating situation. Israel absolutely has the right to defend itself, and we are Israel’s staunchest ally. But you also can’t condone the killing of all of these innocent children.”

Israel can defend itself and we are their best ally/  But we can’t condone this.  (So we are NOT their staunchest ally or we would have stopped after saying they should defend themselves.)

My remarks were that I hadn’t heard any of her indignation at the US military for all of the civilian deaths that have come on the nose cone of all of the missiles fired by US drones.

Don’t get me wrong.  I am NOT knocking the US for firing missiles from drones.  But analyze it for a moment.  We shoot missiles at terrorists who hide among civilians. Some of them die.  Israel shoots at legitimate military targets that Hamas stations civilians next to.  Some civilians die.  Civilians are dead both ways even though neither of us targeted them.

See?  Her logic don’t not square on both sides of the equation.  She just does not have the spine to say what she really thinks.  She is upset that those damn Jews are killing people in an occupied land.

Another caller shortly after me landed another solid point when he stated that Jarrett is missing the entire historical context here.  She is speaking out against the killing of civilians in a war during the week, indeed merely three days before the 69th anniversary of the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan.  We killed hundreds of thousands of civilians on those two days–in the interest of saving millions more by stopping a war.

Her argument is flawed, tainted by her bias and hypocrisy.  You are out of your depth Valerie.  Go back to something you understand–corrupt Chicago lawyering.

Imagine yourself in a year-long project at work. You spend most of that year in a different city, away from your family. You can talk to them via Skype or video chats, and have decent email connectivity. You are the project leader with anywhere from 15-200 people in your team based on task load. Then, out of the blue, your boss’s boss’s boss’s secretary informs you via email that your services are no longer needed as soon as your complete the project and then move back to your home town. How excited are you going to be to do a good job, or even finish the project?

Now imagine that you are an Infantry Company Commander (Captain), or an Infantry/Armor/Artillery/Combat Support Executive (XO) or Operations (S3) Officer. And you are deployed to Afghanistan. And you are being shot at by day and shelled regularly by night. And once you redeploy you are going to be severed from employment.

This is happening right now to over 1200 Captains and 550 Majors in the Army.

I don’t know about you. But I know that if I were deployed to a dangerous place, dodging bullets and rockets and then when I was done, if I survived that, I was going to be let go, I would not put myself in the position to get shot at or have to dodge rockets. Why should I? Why risk it? I have a family to think of. Granted, they’ll get the $400K if I catch the magic one, but I’d rather live my life, if it is all the same to you. I stand a much better chance at that if I do not present myself as a target outside the perimeter wire.

Think what that does to unit cohesion and morale? The mid-level leaders of the company and battalion units decide to put themselves before the men and mission. Or worse, they are suddenly yanked out of country. Forcibly redeployed so they can be terminated. Soon the Lieutenants will balk and not go. The senior NCO’s will still go and make the lower enlisted go—at least until they start getting killed. Before you know it, you have a combat unit that is rendered combat ineffective. And it is done by a political and financial decision at home, not by enemy action.

To save money and to be able to keep letting illegals get free social services, and to let their kids go to college at in-state tuition prices—to keep people in their supply of food stamps while they drive to the store in Cadillacs and Hummers, we will sacrifice our national security and enforce a brain drain of mid-level leadership.

Transform the country—just like B. Hussein said he would.

Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Israel in this latest military action because of the success of Israel’s Iron Dome system. Not because Israel uses it and saves their own civilians lives, but because Israel did not share the technology with Hamas.

Hamas is the Iranian backed terrorist organization that is currently the government in charge in Gaza. Hamas routinely kidnaps Israel Soldiers and civilians and shells Israel with mortars and rockets daily. Hamas does not target military installations. They simply point them and fire. To Hamas, ALL Israelis are legitimate targets.

Israel, on the other hand takes great pains to meticulously target where they fire. They use technology (radar) to pinpoint within feet where a round originated once fired from Gaza. They then analyze whether or not to return fire, many, many times not doing so because Hamas fired from a location near population centers, schools, hospitals, or markets. Hamas makes no such distinctions.

Prime Minister Netanyahu described it perfectly when he said, “Israel uses its rockets to protect her people. Hamas uses their people to protect their rockets.”

Israel with U.S. financial backing developed Iron Dome starting in 2005. It is designed to track and intercept ballistically fired missiles and even 155mm artillery shells before they hit their intended target. It had a spotty initial success rate but has improved dramatically as technology increased. Still quite expensive, the system runs about $20 million per interception. Israel has nine batteries with plans for 15 more.

But the U.N. is upset that only Israel is able to (or bothers to) protect its citizens. Israel should share this technology with Hamas so that the Palestinians who are next to or living among the rocket firing platforms Hamas uses will not be injured. One count shows 25 Israeli Soldiers have been killed while only 2 Israeli civilians have died. Conversely, 86 terrorists have been killed and 406 (69 women and 129 children) human shields (Palestinians) have died.

If you ask me, Israel is culling the herd of future terrorists. By killing the 69 women, they prevent the 4.38 average births per woman to either become terrorists or terrorist factories (women). In contrast, the birth rate in America is 1.89 births per woman. This is below what is caused a replenishment rate. US women need to have a 2.1 birth rate just for the population of the US to remain stable and constant. That it is not demonstrates that eventually there will not BE a United States as we know it. We are not reproducing enough to sustain our own country.

Back to the U.N., though. Navi is upset that Israel does not share this technology to the point of suggesting Israel’s actions to be a war crime. ” Just because Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately aimed at Israeli civilian population centers without provocation and fires them from within its own population centers does not “absolve” Israel from its own legal violations,” Pillay told reporters Thursday.

So, right there, in that statement, a U.N. official confirms they realize that Hama fires into Israel, shooting at civilian centers without provocation or discriminate aiming attempts. They do so from within their own civilian centers, consequently increasing the dangers to themselves and the civilians in the area. But Israel is wrong for not providing Hamas with the technology to limit civilian casualties even while Hamas seeks greater and more gruesome Israeli civilian casualties.

She neglected to mention the three U.N.-run schools (an establishment frequently known to be inhabited by children) where caches of Hamas rockets have been discovered. In two of those case, the rockets were actually returned to Hamas so they could be fired at Israel later. Her Human Rights Council also has yet to even mention the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine.

This woman embodies the reason I believe the United Nations has long since outgrown its purpose. It is now simply and anti-American and anti-Israeli forum housed within the heart of one of our largest cities. We should withdraw from the U.N., and kick them out of New York. Let them find the 22 percent of their entire $5.5 BILLION budget somewhere else.

In case you were wondering why I dumped Facebook… or even if you weren’t wondering…their duplicity and back-to-front, upside-down, viewpoint on social issues was a big reason. Consider the following two news clips.

The first was how people complained about an anti-Semite page depicting Jews as blood thirsty baby killers. The second was a reenactment of the old 1950’s Coppertone commercial with the little girl’s butt exposed. The first one was okay. The second one got the page owner banned for a day until she agreed to delete the bare bottom photo. Really?

You might be the richest man in the world now Zuckerberg, but you aren’t getting there from me. You’d think a Jew would be a little more put off by being characterized as a baby killer.  Putz.

A Facebook page calling for the death of Israeli Jews does not violate the social network’s “community standards,” according to multiple messages sent by Facebook in response to user complaints.

The page in question, is named, “Death to zionst baby killer israeli jews.” The page, which spells “Zionist” incorrectly, features an Image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire with blood dripping down his chin as he feasts on a child. It was started on July 25.

Individuals complaining about the page were greeted with the following message (screen captured below):

We reviewed your report of Death to zionst baby killer israeli jews. Thank you for taking the time to report something that you feel may violate our Community Standards. Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environment. We reviewed the Page you reported for containing hate speech or symbols and found it doesn’t violate our Community Standards.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2551348

Cheri Irwin once had the most famous derriere in America- She was the original Coppertone baby!

Today she turned 59 and came to the defense of the mom who just caused a stir for reenacting that now iconic Coppertone ad.

“I think it’s innocent and we need to relax,” said Irwin.

Over the July 4th weekend, Jill White, a professional photographer from Hickory, North Carolina, took a photo at the beach of her daughter Willa and Willa’s best friend. One little girl’s bathing suit was pulled down, exposing her bare bottom, just like the Coppertone ad from 1953.

“She captured an innocent moment,” said Irwin. “The girls looked beautiful.”

But Facebook didn’t agree. It banned White from the site for 24 hours, saying the image “fit the criteria of nudity or pornography.”

http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/8584-original-coppertone-baby-supports-moms-ad-recreation

Micheele Obama speaking in her hometown of Chicago:

“So, yeah, there’s too much money in politics. There’s special interests that have too much influence. ”

Her cure for this?  She asks the attending audience to write donation checks.

“There is something you can do right now today to make a difference, and that is to write a big, fat check. I kid you not,” she said. “I’m going to be honest with you. That’s what we need you to do right now. We need you to write the biggest, fattest check that you can possibly write.”

Tickets for the event started at $500 a person and scaled upward to special donations of $10,000 and $20,000 per couple.  But I guess that isn’t enough.

I’d call her a hypocrite but I’d just be insulting hypocrites.  Incredible.
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The ground war in Gaza is heating up.  After years of simply absorbing rockets and mortar fire from Hamas controlled Gaza, the terrorists finally screwed up and klled three Isreali citizens, one of whom had dual US-citizenship.  The Isrealis finally had enough and attacked.

The B. Hussein administration cannot possibly admonish them pubicly.  They have to make platitudes about their soverign right to defend themselves.  Privately, though they seethe.  Kerry mocked Isreal on a Fox News show on a hot microphone not knowing he was being recorded.

Then yesterday, the FAA declared all flights to Tel Aviv to be denied because rocket fire “near” the airport.  “Near” as it turns out is a mile away.  No effects of the rocket or mortar fire would have been felt (possibly even heard) at the airport.  European airlines quickly followed suit.

Kerry hmself ignored the FAA ruling.  He’s smarter and better than any of the other world underlings.  (Did you know he served in Vietnam?)  But ordinary people, like tourists, cannot fly into Tel Aviv.

What a victory for Hamas.  They have cut of the tourism dollars for at least that airport.  And our government is helping the terrorists.  My thinking immediately was that this was not a ruling to protect people.  It was probably sent down from on high as an economic sanction against Isreal.  I mean, Bibi and B. Hussein don’t exactly like one another and Bibi’s soldiers are killing Muslims.

See how it follows though, don’t you?

Russian shoots down an airliner filled with civilians. The remarks by the President include:

“…massacre by the Soviet Union.”

“…crime against humanity.”

“…must never be forgotten.”

“…violating every concept of human rights.”

“…absolutely no justification legal or moral…”

“Is this the practice of other countries of the world? No.”

“..despite the evidence, they still refuse to admit the truth…”

“…murderous attack…”

“Soviet Union against the world…”

“…act of barbarism…”

“I am asking the Congress to pass a joint resolution of condemnation of this crime…”

Of course these were remarks by President Ronald Regan in September 1983 when the Russians shot down Korean Air flight 007.

Obama has called this week’s shoot down an “outrage of unspeakable proportions” and a “global tragedy”. He wants the site preserved for international evidence collectors. He is going to “investigate exactly what happened” and is going to make sure the “truth gets out.”  (Sounds a lot like Bill Clinton’s “bring the killers to justice line”.)

“We don’t have time for propaganda,” he said. “We don’t have time for games.” Obama said. That is rich. All he does is obfuscate and conceal when it is something his administration is shady and sneaky about. But now that the Russians have acted like Russians, he is upset and wants to make sure we all know the Russians acted like Russians.

Meanwhile he might add to the economic sanctions against this General or that Colonel. So they can’t import Doritos or have to get Philippine hookers instead of Japanese ones? He isn’t going to do anything—even so much as tell the world what the world already knows. He doesn’t have the sack to call a spade a spade. Kerry, will tongue lash, finger wag, and remind the Russians that they are on the wrong side of history. The Russians will shrug and set their sights on the next world event that propels their new world order vision.

We are no longer a world power, even a super power. Hell, we are not even a regional power. Mexico sees this and keeps and active duty US Marine jailed for over 110 days. Why? Because they can. Obama has not even mentioned the Marine. Mexico, a nation impoverished and corrupt, incapable of sustained and coordinated military action has kidnapped a Marine without fear of recourse.

Coming to a city near you—the president B. Hussein Obama. He’s looking for a check from you to elect the next Democrat. Pay up and turn off Fox News for Chrissake.

In Maryland, after people discovered a secret attempt/plan by the government to house illegal aliens at a local (closed) Army Reserve Center, a citizen spray painted on the side of the building. ” NO ILLEAGLES (sic) HERE. NO UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS. The state police is investigating the incident as a hate crime. Wait, what?

Lt. Patrick McCrory, commander of the state police in Westminster says, “This is definitely a racial, religious, ethic incident.”

Google “hate crime”. The first thing that pops up is:

noun: hate crime;  a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.

…typically one involving violence. I guess the police Lieutenant is standing up for the civil rights of the bricks that make up the building. That’s the only “violence” that occurred here.

Another member of the Maryland State Police said, ” The tone of the crime is what we’re really concerned with.  Again, you are targeting a specific group just based on their nationality.” (SGT. Marc Black)

Which specific group is being targeted here? The painter did not say “NO ILLEGEAL MEXICANS HERE.” “NO ILLEGEAL HONDURANS HERE”. That would be specific. No, the graffiti protestor lumped all “illegeals” together thereby removing the specifics the Sergeant speaks of.

Donna Krommer, a concerned citizen and clearly bleeding heart liberal states that we have to have mercy for these folks. (Folks!) “…we need to have love and mercy for them.” I sure Donna is busy emptying out her two car garage so she can house ten or twelve “illegeals” as I type this.

That’s where these nauseating liberals draw the line though. They want OTHER people to react with compassion and empathy. They aren’t going to do anything. They want YOU to, particularly if you are a heartless Republican.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/07/15/state-police-investigate-hate-crime-graffiti-attacking-illegal-immigration/

Meanwhile, in Lubbock Texas an illegal alien is being held for murder of a woman in Louisiana. He came across the border without documentation (he was here illegally) with two children. He claimed to have family in Metairie, Louisiana. He was apprehended and released in June of 2014. His girlfriend in Louisiana was found bludgeoned to death in a bathtub. Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas was arrested in Katy Texas, 369 miles to the west. Maybe he went to go get some Epsom Salts for his girlfriend. And why do all of these people seem to have 14 names?

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/16/Exclusive-Released-Alien-from-Border-Crisis-Arrested-For-Alleged-Murder-Kidnapping-in-Texas

But here is a case of the B. Hussein administration “catch and release” program coming here illegally, not being deported, and then continuing their own life of crime here. The government will be (rightfully) sued, and the administration and Barry himself should be specifically named in it. His inept policies not only allowed this to happen, it encouraged it.