[DAWN] As if the reasons for which women are killed in Pakistain were not enough, helping a friend marry the man she loves has become the latest sin in the list of transgressions that seal a woman’s fate.
Killing a woman for marrying out of her free will, talking to a boy or just for dressing as she pleases will no longer satisfy the bloodlust of self-appointed judges. Even a woman who dares to help her friend escape her village will meet a cruel end.
The ambit of what triggers a community to kill one of its members is getting wider and ghastlier. And such communities become abusive in attempts to establish that their so-called reputations are not to be taken lightly. More often than not, the crimes these communities commit go unpunished because rule of law and the safeguards offered by a caring state are absent.
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[Daily Caller] Scholar and journalist Heather Mac Donald toiled away early on in her career at liberal enclaves, but through her street-level reporting on social services and the police, her worldview shifted away from liberal-progressive to conservative. If old fashioned common sense fails, see video at the link or order the Conservative Scholar's new book at Amazon, or both.
[Daily Caller] Speaking at Northeastern University commencement ceremonies on Friday morning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry advised newly-minted graduates that the world is on its way to becoming "borderless" and that the critical issues of our time are terrorism, poverty and, of course, climate change.
"I am honored this morning to address a university family that thankfully is one very utterly unafraid to look beyond our borders and into the future," told a Boston Garden crowd of about 25,000, reports The Boston Globe.
Kerry advised graduates that a border wall would not deny entry to terrorists.
"Many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11," he said, according to The Washington Examiner. "There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others."
#1
Make that doorless to your own private abodes first.
"There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others."
So, you go to their lands and habitats and destroy them like the German and Japanese. Historically proven to work. Of course, FDR still identified as American rather than a man of the world.
#8
No, you didn't need a wall to keep the 9/11 terrorists out of this country. All you needed to do to protect the American people was to simply deny those guys visas. But you wouldn't do it, would you?
All my life I've met people who say "you can't do this" and "you can't do that". I love it when they say those things because it makes it so much more fun when I go ahead and do it.
Your days in power are number, Jawn. Next year nobody will invite you to give any commencement speeches. Maybe they'll invite somebody like John Bolton or Ben Carson in your place. You know, somebody who can make sense instead of just blathering a bunch of mindless platitudes.
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If there are no borders then why is there a want to migrate? Stay where you are at an enjoy Earth.
#10
There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others
[Breitbart] Saturday on MSNBC, Vice magazine columnist Toure explained how Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ message on class does not resonate with black people because their problems include "dealing with white supremacy and white privilege."
"For a lot of black people, that message doesn’t resonate because we understand our problems are greater than class. Our problems are about dealing with white supremacy and white privilege. Those things are not superseded by when you get a good job or get into the middle class or even the upper class.
There are a fair number of middle-class blacks, and while life might not be peaches and cream for them, the good jobs and money do help them pursue their own happiness. Which is what it's supposed to be about...
So, he’s not dealing with a central problem for us. We understand that this class-based argument is not -- it leaves us cold a bit because it’s not the entire story."
Spot on Mr. Toure! Opportunity, employment, and attaining upper class status are definitely NOT the solution. Zimbabweification and Nationalism are the solutions.
Mr. Toure wants American blacks to have their own shithole of a place to live. And he wants to be Mr. Big...
#2
"The problem is not us, with our cultural shambles of 16 yr old single mothers, gangs of blacks killing blacks, rap music glorifying same, refusing to be educated because it's 'too white', unemployed and unskilled...
it's because of THE MAN"
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Those things are not superseded by when you get a good job
Good luck with that. You might want to polish you English grammar and composition. I never, ever said 'superseded by when'.
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"I sense a regrettable tendency
To see that my trouble's not them (it's me!),
So, Lord, gimme freedom
From (after I bleed 'em)
Affirmative ac-- white supremacy!"
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TL;DR = the reason cops shoot so many black males is that so many black males commit violent crimes. And most frequently its against their own black communities. Get a handle on black-on-black violence before you go after cops.
First, I have to give a hat tip to xbradtc.com for adding to today's This Week in Books. Not cribbing his work, but his recent comment certainly adds to this edition.
Those who have been following often hear me complain, "Gee, if someone would just make this book a movie...except nobody would believe it." Well, hold on to your red berets. Read the book first, as I would guess with this movie there will have to be some editing and whatnot to make it a watchable movie. If you read last week's review of Pegasus Bridge, I included a partial quote out of something like five pages describing The Ox and Bucks' mission which was shortened into a quick voiceover in The Longest Day, "Hold until relieved." I would guess, like The Great Raid, the more a reader knows about the events, the more the watcher will take from the movie. Knowing the airplane used to distract the guards in The Great Raid should have been a P-61 Black Widow is not emo snob talk on the way out of the theatre, it adds to the experience and lets a person credit the producers for using an actual airplane instead of Ben Affleck in a x-wing.
Continuing, I break my rule - watch the film before reading the book: (run time 33:29)
To me, the most fascinating part was the manufacturing facilities, then the design, then the assembly. It is all good. Consider all the dies, amazing. So, informed about the B-24's innards, let us talk about its guts:
The Wild Blue
Stephen Ambrose
Simon and Schuster, 2002
Author's Note: (Page 17)
I have been a friend and supporter of George McGovern's for nearly three decades. I knew something about his career in the Army Air Forces, which I always felt he could have used to more effect in his 1972 presidential campaign. Politics aside, I had long been an admirer of what he had done in his B-24 bomber. He seemed to me to be a good representative of his generation, a man who had risked all not for his own benefit but to help bring about victory.
Much like following a main character through a movie and getting to know all the characters associated with the main character, Mr. Ambrose's work covering the Army Air Force career of Mr. McGovern is really a rolling interview of Mr. McGovern and those with whom he associated, not a direct biography.
Mr. Ambrose begins with basic air training and the processes which one went through in order to become a pilot. After many evolutions to get to this point, here is a bit from Mr. McGovern's time in Liberal, Kansas: (Page 82-83)
McGovern would have one instructor through the program, and he was crucial. When he arrived in Liberal and got Eleanor settled in a room and himself in the barracks, a colonel told him that he would find his name in the operations room on the blackboard underneath the name of his instructor. Along with his classmates, he ran to the board. Each instructor had four students chalked below his name. McGovern's name was right at the top on his list. He saw that First Lieutenant Ray would be his instructor and wondered if he was related to Norman Ray, the man who had talked him into taking flying lessons back at Dakota Wesleyan
As McGovern was wondering if Ray was related to his college friend, the instructor came into the room, and it was Norman Ray himself. Ray had joined the AAF immediately after completing the course at Wesleyan and been in the service for a year and a half. When he completed his training he was so good a pilot that the AAF, instead of sending him overseas, had made him an instructor on the B-24 bomber. "Didn't surprise me," McGovern said, "because the guy just ate, slept, and breathed flying."
Mr. Ambrose outlines why pilot training was being rushed. Pilots, and crews, were dying at an alarming rate due to training accidents, such as instrument-only navigation, and at the war front, such as the terrible Raid on Ploesti. If you do not get a chance to read this book, this is a great passage: (Page 121-122)
On August 30 (1944), with the Red Army overrunning the country, Romania abruptly changed sides in the war. That development in turn led to a buoyant episode for the Fifteenth Air Force. There were over 1,000 AAF men who had bailed out over Romania and were being held there as POWs. Those in camps near Bucharest were in danger of being evacuated to Germany or having to spend a long time in Russian hands before they got home. One of the internees, Lt. Col. James A. Gunn III, took matters into his own hands. He climbed into the radio compartment of an ME 109 after painting it with the Stars and Stripes. He had persuaded Captain Cantacuzene, a prince of the royal family of Romania, who was the top Romanian ace against Allied aircraft, to be his pilot. Cantacuzene flew Gunn to Italy and managed to land safely. Gunn talked General Twining into sending a rescue mission. Twining had the Fifteenth hurriedly convert fifty-six of its B-17 bombers into transports and had Cantacuzene fly a P-51 (there was no suitable fuel for the ME 109) to the airport outside Bucharest to see if it was clear of Germans. It was and the B-17s started coming in. The POWs, happy beyond belief, crowded into the bombers, twenty of them in each plane, and flew back to Italy in relays. In all 1,274 of them got out over a three-day period. Deloused, fed, and treated as necessary in hospitals, they were soon on their way to the States.
Amazing. Also included in The Wild Blue is a chapter dedicated to The Tuskegee Airmen, and in my opinion a finer tribute than that movie. That is, by the time the reader gets to that chapter, the reader knows the names are not 2-dimensional paper dolls and flying was its own room in hell. Mr. Ambrose includes all that could and did go wrong, and bits are a bit gruesome but again, Mr. Ambrose is not trying to write a sick-o, but includes the details of what really did happen. So here is McGovern flying his Dakota Queen when flak hits the Number 3 engine and the engine catches fire: (Page 193-194)
On the flight deck, McGovern tried yet again to bring the prop under control. He pushed the button and this time it (to feather the prop and reduce the drag - ed.) worked. "Resume your stations," he ordered over the intercom. "We're going to try to bring her home."
He looked at his map, however, and decided they would not get home. The airplane "just couldn't go that far, it wouldn't stay in the air that long." The gas supply was low and the fuel was leaking. McGovern got on the intercom to his navigator, Sam Adams, to ask if Adams knew of any landing strips between where they were and Cerignola. "I'll call you right back," Adams replied. "The best bet is a little fighter strip on the isle of Vis out on the Adriatic," Adams told him, "but it's only got a 2,200-foot runway and we need 5,000 feet to land. Do you think you can bring it in on a 2,200-foot runway?"
Well, McGovern thought, that's better than our being up here with two engines out and one windmilling. "How far is it?" he asked Adams.
On such a heading, Adams replied, "we can make it in less than an hour."
At 263 pages plus reference section, and Ambrose's easy style, it is a good weekender or road trip read. I am too young to properly know of Mr. McGovern's politics, and really do not care as far as this book is concerned. To me, it is an account of what one of thousands of young men went through.
***Looks at Movies***
Last week I mentioned that there are some films out there which are not afraid to get outside of the TV dinners Hollywood turns out. I am going to put this in the 'They should make a movie about this' category, and they did. The idea of this movie going through American theatres is so laughably remote as a re-release of Airplane! or Blazing Saddles; people should be mad.
Day of the Siege, 2012
This a movie covering the events leading to and culminating in The Siege of Vienna. I know, no good marks anywhere. I thought the acting fine, the graphics well enough, and the dialogue fine. I will state that you must have a good idea of what went on. I would suggest Jan Sobieski by Miltiades Varvounis. I will review that book in detail at a later date.
The movie treats all sides fairly. Well, Leopold II is Leopold II, ever scorned for fleeing with his treasures instead of enduring the struggle.
114 minutes, dialogue in English, must have enough background to know that the horsemen with funny wings on them are bad A Mofos.
*Mr. Vavounis' book explains that as well as a visual scare, the wings would make a 'whistle' when at a full charge, further shaking the enemy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] As if the reasons for which women are killed in Pakistain were not enough, helping a friend marry the man she loves has become the latest sin in the list of transgressions that seal a woman’s fate.
[Daily Caller] Scholar and journalist Heather Mac Donald toiled away early on in her career at liberal enclaves, but through her street-level reporting on social services and the police, her worldview shifted away from liberal-progressive to conservative.
[Daily Caller] Speaking at Northeastern University commencement ceremonies on Friday morning, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry advised newly-minted graduates that the world is on its way to becoming "borderless" and that the critical issues of our time are terrorism, poverty and, of course, climate change.
