Pearl Harbor 70th anniversary this Wednesday

Did you know...  "That this Wednesday will be the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And there’s the key …. 70 years later we still call it the “Japanese” attack. But 10 years after 9/11 political correctness dictates that we can’t call that the Islamic attack on America."
If you can handle reading the opinions of "ivaninatlanta", you may be amused or angered by the comments to this article.

From 2001; Victor Davis Hanson: Dates in Infamy; December 7 and September 11.  "Of course, in a rapidly changing and global culture, there are also many superficial differences between these attacks on America six decades apart. We are interviewing aliens, not interning citizens; our ancestors were asked to sacrifice for the war effort, we to spend our way out of a recession; few then had any qualms about hitting the Japanese back, yet our own cultural elite talk of the moral equivalence between terrorists deliberately killing the innocent in a time of peace, and soldiers consciously avoiding civilians in a time of war."

"Battleship Row" during the Pearl Harbor Attack
"This page features aerial views of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor's "Battleship Row", and provide links to other views of that area during and shortly after the attack."
Additional images of "Battleship Row" during and soon after the Japanese attack

•"Battleship Row" during the Pearl Harbor Attack -- Surface Views
•USS Nevada during the Pearl Harbor Attack
•USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor Attack
•USS Vestal during the Pearl Harbor Attack
•USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee during the Pearl Harbor Attack
•USS Oklahoma and USS Maryland during the Pearl Harbor Attack

•USS California during the Pearl Harbor Attack

A Look Back • Shocked moviegoers, angry recruits downtown react to Pearl Harbor

(Below) We grew up on films depicting patriotism and were ready to defend the country we loved. We later came to realize the great freedoms we cherished back then were withheld from many Americans and most of us cheered on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his noble and long-postponed cause. We believed -and still do-all that this cartoon depicted and did not want it tainted by Jim Crow;  its idealism led us to correcting many of the wrongs we had done to other Americans.
What we must guard against now is that in the name of just tolerance we risk accepting behavior that tears out the moral foundation of our Judeo-Christian society. I'm afraid that is far along the road to being done now. You will not be seeing this cartoon in school anytime soon. TD

Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card

Rich Carroll  via: Two Sisters From The Right once again welcome author and commentator Rich Carroll to our website. A Vietnam veteran,  Mr. Carroll is the author of "Orphaned Heroes," a novel about his experiences in Vietnam, and  "Terrorists' Crossing," a novel about terrorism across our southern border.  He is also the author of numerous articles on Islam in America and abroad.  We are grateful  for his contributions to our blog.  Mr. Carroll can be reached via commentary on Two Sisters or by writing to him at crossedrifles@hotmail.com  
Hat tip to Rich Clyne, somewhere in West Virginia.

"Mr. Hope and Change seems to want to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where “we the people” are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed."

Five firsts among many for this president listed here:

1. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
2. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
3. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.
4. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)
5. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago

Andy Stern of the SEIU Loves Chinese Communism

The Tunnel Wall purpose statement in the right sidebar contains these words:

Barack Obama's presidency has lifted a rock off the Democrat Party and revealed some ominous qualities that had long been off of our collective radar; that there are many Rev. Wrights and Bill Ayers sitting in Congress. We fear the effect these people have on our culture and nation and feel we must not let anything they do or say go unnoticed.

Andy Stern gives us one powerful example: Andy Stern: In praise of Communist China  
"Of course China has a "plan" - that's what Communists do. They can dictate where to invest, who wins and who loses - and the only way you're going to win is if you join the Communist party. There is no freedom of action, little entrepreneurship (the hoops they make you jump through to start a business in China are mind boggling), and a regimented labor force who can't strike, can't lobby for worker safety (the coal mining safety record is appalling), and are forced to take what the government gives them and like it.
Andy Stern is an idiot. And this proves it:" Rick Moran in American Thinker.

A Stern Vision of America   "Andy Stern laid out his vision of America's future in remarkably unambiguous, and chilling, terms."....
"Stern makes it abundantly clear that in his view, the capitalist economic model that fostered American prosperity over the last two centuries is now obsolete."

From American Spectator:  "But what's really chilling is that Stern thinks that China's laws regulating the economy can be separated from all its other laws regulating human rights, free speech, freedom of religion, etc. I wonder what a persecuted Chinese Christian or a Chinese woman who suffered a forced abortion would think upon seeing this article."

Obama Friend And Former SEIU Chief Andy Stern Says U.S. Should Throw Free-Market Capitalism “Onto The Trash Heap of History”…
"Obama also appointed Stern to his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility."

The NY Times has this insight:  "Under Stern's leadership, the S.E.I.U. has funneled vast amounts of financing to the Democratic Party and its candidates, far outpacing the contributions of other unions over the last two election seasons.
"As one index of his power and proximity to the president, official records show that Mr. Stern visited the White House more than 20 times during Mr. Obama's first six months in office."

Is SEIU Working With Hamas And FARC?  "The interesting thing about these SEIU folks is that they also belong to a violently radical group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. From their website:"

Wikipedia on Stern  "During the years of Stern's leadership, the SEIU funneled vast amounts of financing to the Democratic Party and its candidates, far outnumbering the contributions of other unions during the last two election cycles. "....
"Stern is referred to as one of "the chief architects of healthcare reform" in Modern Healthcare magazine's ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare for 2009. ....Stern is an ardent supporter of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."....
"Stern has been a frequent visitor to the White House since Obama's election. Between Inauguration Day and February 23, 2011, Stern visited the White House 53 times."  (Emphasis added)

Tim Tebow 35, Vikings 32

Charleston Daily Mail   "When the first play from scrimmage by the Denver Broncos resulted in 2 points for the Minnesota Vikings, I knew that Tim Tebow would for the 5th time in his seven starts bring his team from behind to win an NFL game and make the haters hate even more.
"Tim Tebow has driven his detractors over the cliff of sanity, or rather they have chosen to run off that cliff like lemmings rather than admit that he was victorious."
Be sure to read the comments below the article.
Hat tip to Lucianne

Tebow’s Religion, and Ours / His authenticity irks our secular, selfish culture.

"When the Detroit Lions’ Stephen Tulloch sacked Tim Tebow in the first quarter of their week eight matchup, the linebacker immediately kneeled next to the prone Denver quarterback, in a mockery of Tebow’s habit of praying on-field, most recently seen after his miraculous fourth-quarter comeback against the Dolphins the week before."
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By contrast, Tebow is the last Boy Scout. A leader on the field and off who spent his college years not indulging in any of the worldly pleasures afforded to Heisman Trophy winners, but doing missionary work in Thailand; helping overworked doctors perform circumcisions in the Philippines (you read that right); and preaching at schools, churches, and even prisons. This is a young man with such a strong work ethic that, according to teammates, he can’t even be coaxed into hitting the town on a night after a Broncos win, because he is too busy preparing for the next week’s game. This is a young man who even turned the other cheek at Stephen Tulloch’s Tebowing, saying, “He was probably just having fun and was excited he made a good play and had a sack. And good for him.”
"That’s way too much earnestness for the ironic. It’s way too much idealism for the cynical. And it’s way too much selflessness for the self-absorbed. In short, people aren’t upset at Tebow’s God talk. They’re upset that he might actually believe it."

  Tebow might be a true revelation   "Tim Tebow is not a religious symbol. He’s a shrine to the power of a strong, committed, passionate two-parent upbringing. Tebow’s birth — a product of his mother’s faith and refusal to listen to doctors advising her to abort — might very well have been a religious miracle. Tebow’s performance on the football field is testament to Bob and Pam Tebow and what they instilled in their youngest child."

Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard

Heritage  "Ready to trade in your car for a bike, or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your home, paying more for housing, and being crammed into a denser neighborhood? You can have all this and more if radical environmentalists and “smart growth” advocates have their way and local, state, and the federal government impose the policies set forth in the United Nations’ Agenda 21."
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"In the United States, smart-growth policies started in California and Oregon but then spread around the country to “deter suburban growth for all but the well-to-do,” as Cox, Utt, and Schaefer explain. They also write that those policies were not without detrimental impact:"....
"At well over 300 pages, Agenda 21 sets forth hundreds of specific goals and strategies that national and local governments are encouraged to adopt.[3] These policies are presented in four sections:...." One of which is this one: "Strengthening the role of major groups (e.g., women, children, indigenous people, workers and trade unions;..." Emphasis added.



The link sited in the above article, which has this statement:

If implemented, the types of policies encouraged in Agenda 21 would significantly expand the role of government in economic decision-making, impede development and economic growth, and undermine individual choice and policy flexibility for local communities. Opponents should be concerned about efforts by the U.S. government to implement these policies, both nationally and locally.

The Blaze: Is the Soros-Sponsored ‘Agenda 21’ a Hidden Plan for World Government? (Yes, Only it Is Not Hidden)  "What is Agenda 21? If you do not know about it, you should.
"Agenda 21 is a two-decade old, grand plan for global ’Sustainable Development,’ brought to you from the United Nations. George H.W. Bush ...agreed to it back in 1992, and in 1995, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12858, creating a Presidential Council on ‘Sustainable Development.’ This effectively pushed the UN plan into America’s large, churning government machine without the need for any review or discussion by Congress or the American people."

UN Preamble to Agenda 21 : 

"We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being. However, integration of environment and development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to the fulfilment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can - in a global partnership for sustainable development."

Outline From this UN site: 


Agenda 21 For Dummies  (Nine-minute video)


"Agenda 21 explained very well. Including implications it will have on humanity. Opinions within the video come in some cases from those that were in on the negotiations. Truly an interesting watch."