Past Tunnel Wall posts on the Normandy landings, June 6th, 1944

Omaha Beach D-Day landings from above; Victor Davis Hanson column. (Updated with more info.) 

 

D-Day- and beyond- Airborne site; one of the best I've ever seen 
"Parachute infantry uniforms  Including advice for the collector.

"This page offers examples of unquestionably original uniforms acquired directly from vets or their families BEFORE the insane prices started-up. My purpose in posting these is to inform collectors of what real stuff looks like (see also Insignia, Equipment, and Souvenirs pages), not to gloat about what I've got." Mark Bando.

 D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs (Updated, 12/3/2011) 

" Dec, 2011 Update: Normandy, 1944; then and now photos   "Our previous emphases (below) on Omaha Beach gave short shrift to the other landing sites. This should do a bit to fill in some of those gaps with photos. Click on some of the WW2 photos of the site, "Men of D-Day" and you will also see that location as it is today. Don't you love stuff like that?"  TD"

 

 

D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs (Updated, 12/3/2011) 
"Dec, 2011 Update: Normandy, 1944; then and now photos   "Our previous emphases (below) on Omaha Beach gave short shrift to the other landing sites. This should do a bit to fill in some of those gaps with photos. Click on some of the WW2 photos of the site, "Men of D-Day" and you will also see that location as it is today. Don't you love stuff like that?"  TD

 D-Day Monday UPDATED with more links 
 

This Haunting Tribute To World War II’s Fallen Will Give You Goosebumps 

 RIP Dick Winters 
 " Moonbattery  "Major Dick Winters, the WWII hero who inspired the TV series Band of Brothers, died Saturday of Parkinson disease complications at age 92."'
The ruins of Normandy: Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating impact of the Allied Force's battle to defeat the Nazis in World War 2 

 

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JOSH DUGGAR: Hideous Hypocrite Or Broken Dude Trying To Do What’s Right?

 Doug Giles   . . . "I will tell you, however, that there is someone out there who is McLovin’ on The Duggars right now.  Her name?  Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Why do I think the old Hildebeest be diggin’ on the Duggar debacle? Well, it’s principally because it’s keeping the coverage off her abysmally unattended stump speeches, her intergalactic horse-scat and the disgustingly dirty Clinton Cash.  Which, by the way, will have more massive long-term, detrimental ramifications for our nation, if she’s elected, then any demonic thing that Duggar dude ever did. Please tell that to Good Morning America. And that’s not diminishing anything Josh did to his kid sisters, mind you.

"Yep, I guarantee Hillary is in some underground lair donned in a Dr. Evil nehru suit, maniacally laughing her haggard backside off that the limelight is on Josh instead of her dirty deeds done on our dime.

"Matter of fact, I wouldn’t doubt if her cabal had that police chief yield up the sealed Duggar intel to InTouch because it was in Little Rock, y’know?  I wonder if that police chief has any connections to The Clintons? Any campaign contributions? Anysoirees over lemonade and sweet potato pie? Now, that would be worth poking around a bit, wouldn’t it? Maybe Peter Schweitzer’s team could take a little “look see” as they say in Arkansas? But that’s enough of my right-wing conspiracy theories." . . .

Hillary Accuses GOP of Racism Because She Has No “Many Other Options”

S. Noble

". . . Hillary doesn’t have options except to attack Republicans. She can’t run on her record when even she can’t think of one thing she has accomplished other than the generic “making the world a better place.”

She claims we need 20 more days of early voting and, Kasich is right, we don’t have it here in New York. Early voting allows for more corruption of the vote.

Hillary wants automatic registration for all Americans and claims it is a way to stop the racist GOP.

She wants 18 year olds automatically registered with an opt-out clause. She is hoping the starry-eyed young will vote for the Utopian though ineffective ideologues in the Democratic Party.

She wants automatic voter registration for all. That is a way to corrupt the vote because all those people who don’t vote will have their votes available for those who would steal the vote.

On Long Island, we have the socialists and communists in the SEIU servicing the machines. One BOE official told me that at the end of election day, they all run to the back and “do something with the machines.” Votes miraculously appear after these union workers happen to find them.

“What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to the other,” Hillary said during a speech at Texas Southern University in Houston.

She accused all Republicans of suppressing the minority vote by trying to institute photo ID laws for voting.

We need photo IDs for everything, even to take out a library book. Don’t minorities have driver’s licenses and other forms of photo ID? Is this so anathema and so bizarre a request or is it another means of corrupting the vote?

. . .

The racism lie worked for Barack Obama but in Hillary’s case she might find that it leaves her more vulnerable to attacks. It’s such a vile attack that it leaves the opposition free to go after her."
 

Pack your bags, we’re going on a “white guilt” trip!

Jeff Petermann   " A pendulum, when set in motion will swing from one extreme to another. Such is the case in the interesting journey from the African-American civil rights movement, to where we are in the middle of the age of white guilt. Below I will discuss four reasons white males do not need to feel this burden that is placed on them by the main stream media and from black Americans who have never once been to Africa, or ever been a slave to anyone or anything, (except maybe the hate and distrust for whites that has been passed down through multiple generations)."

1. Only 1.6% of the US population at the height of slavery owned slaves. This is 1.6 % too many, but it is also not the vast majority as our media, and in some cases our children’s social studies books are making it out to be.
2. There is racism flowing freely from white, blacks Asian and Hispanics. ALL of it is wrong, and all of it should be condemned…due to the media’s portrayal of the evil white, successful business owner, white males are now looked at as “the perpetrator” of racism, even though, in some cases they are the ones now at an incredible disadvantage.
3. White Americans feeling guilt for what ancestors may have done in previous generations, or for what people in their race may even talk about behind closed doors today, is the antonym of progress and, in the end, will halt the universal equality that black Americans are ultimately looking for.
4. The demonizing of the white race now, will lead to closet and openly accepted racist discrimination in the future. Racism is born from ignorance about perceived differences. As Caucasian males become the minority amongst males in the US, it will be very easy for those who crave success to look back at recent history and take on the negative stereotype the main stream media has put forth as reality about the greedy white CEO and make it their own.

More at the link... 

The only respect for Hillary here comes from Hollywood

 

 How Hillary Ruined Her Legacy As Secretary of State. . . "While Republicans have been distracted by phony scandals surrounding Hillary Clinton (like Benghazi), they missed one of the dirtiest scandals ever to emerge involving the former First Lady and current front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
A damning new report from the International Business Times explains how Hillary Clinton used her position as Secretary of State to create a pay-to-play atmosphere for world leaders seeking military equipment and defense contractors looking to make a few extra billions.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial calls Hillary "Our Lady of Benghazi"

 

"Comedians Sure Love the Democratic Party"

The panic that dare not speak its name: Hillary looks like a loser to Dems   . . . "Hillary would not react well to a challenge from a former Republican, no matter how nominal.  And if Dick Morris is to be believed, she does not harbor kind feelings toward Jews, especially those whose wealth dwarfs hers and who did not stick it out in an unhappy marriage.  Hillary plays dirty, and you can expect American Bridge to unearth a lot of secrets from Bloomberg’s private and business life if he moves ahead on this intriguing notion."

For all the hotheadedness you see online, the truth is the Republicans have an embarrassment of riches, many candidates hugely better than Hillary Clinton. 

 Wasserman Schultz: Not ‘Appropriate’ for Dem Candidates to Challenge Hillary’s Ethics
 Lincoln Chafee said,
“I think it’s the record just going back over decades of questionable ethical practices, and people bringing up Whitewater and all these things, the Rose Law Firm record,” he continued. “It just seems like it never stops. So, now, we are in the tenure of secretary of state and the e-mails and, of course, the Clinton Foundation donations at the same time the State Department is making critical conditions that are combined with those donations by the Clinton Foundation. It’s just too close and too many ethical questions.”

NYT’s ‘scoop’ on Sen. Rubio’s driving record backfires

Legal Insurrection
 . . . "Hilarious journalistic undertaking makes its way around the internet, is subjected to wholly justified mockery, and then the intrepid staff at the Washington Free Beacon began poking around.

"We often jest that the NYT functions as a progressive mouthpiece because of their consistently liberal bent. In this case, it’s entirely true.

"Early Friday afternoon, Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon published an article revealing who requested Rubio’s driving records.

Records show that each of the citations mentioned by the New York Times were pulled in person by American Bridge operatives on May 26, 2015.

Take for example the time Rubio was pulled over in 1997. “Mr. Rubio’s troubles behind the wheel predate his days in politics,” wrote the New York Times. “In 1997, when he was cited for careless driving by a Florida Highway Patrol officer, he was fined and took voluntary driving classes.”
A look at the docket for that infraction on Miami-Dade County’s website shows that American Bridge was in Miami to pull records on that case at 11:42 a.m. on May 26:

 

. . . "American Bridge describes itself as, “a progressive research and communications organization committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions and helping you ascertain when Republican candidates are pretending to be something they’re not.” They boast of reseaching, “candidates’ records to ensure their rhetoric matches their voting record,” and claim they, “work to get this information to you through mainstream and social media, grassroots activism and our website.”

"Thanks to the Free Beacon, the NYT — not Sen. Rubio’s driving record, is now the story."

 New York Times: ‘Rubio Got 17 Traffic Tickets!’ Truth: ‘Minus 13. Over 20 Years.’

How a massive, silent cultural revolution has changed America

 "Increasingly, we don’t want to judge others for anything, even if what they’re doing is destructive. But is being non-judgmental the same as granting tacit approval, even support?"

NY Post 
Do you really want to watch this?

"It happened without a Summer of Love, without Timothy Leary, without a groovy anthem or a shaggy new national look. In the past decade or so, there’s been a silent revolution in American culture, one at least as profound as the ’60s upheavals.

"We’ve hardly taken notice of it, because it happened in people’s minds instead of in the streets, happened in ordinary people instead of in the elites and the punditocracy.

 "It happened without a Summer of Love, without Timothy Leary, without a groovy anthem or a shaggy new national look. In the past decade or so, there’s been a silent revolution in American culture, one at least as profound as the ’60s upheavals.

"We’ve hardly taken notice of it, because it happened in people’s minds instead of in the streets, happened in ordinary people instead of in the elites and the punditocracy." . . .

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag/brian-williams-salary-at-nbc/

Who's On First?": The Sequel (w/ Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal & Jerry Seinfeld)

Youtube

The original version: Abbott & Costello Who's On First 

Hat tip to Tim Martin; Folsom, CA

Friends and enemies of the Duggar family speak out

 Police Chief Who Released Duggar Molestation Report Should Be Fired, Senator Charges 
 . . . "In Touch obtained the police report through a Freedom of Information Act request. FOIA requests allow citizens to access federal government information, such as police reports.
"Hester, however, says the city of Springdale's liability on releasing the information is "endless," and he anticipates charges against Springdale Police Chief Kathy O'Kelley. " . . .

'Young ladies re-victimized': Springdale police chief hit for releasing Josh Duggar report
" According to KFSM Channel 5 News, it was O'Kelley, along with Springdale City Attorney Ernest Cate, who released the 2006 police report containing the child molestation accusations against Josh Duggar to In Touch Weekly."

City of Springdale Responds to Duggar Claims

 "On 5/20/15, in full compliance with Arkansas Law, the Springdale Police Department responded to a records request under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. The requested record was not sealed or expunged, and at the time the report was filed, the person listed in the report was an adult. Any names of minors included in the report, as well as pronouns, were redacted from the report by the Springdale Police Department in compliance with Arkansas law prior to release."

Salon Magazine: Springdale PD says Josh’s molestation reports were legally obtained . . . " As NBC News’ Phil Helsel reported, Springdale City Attorney Earnest B. Cate released a statement in which he said “[t]he requested record was not sealed or expunged, and at the time the report was filed. Any names of minors included in the report, as well as pronouns, were redacted from the report by the Springdale Police Department in compliance with Arkansas Law prior to release.”

Palins slam media's treatment of Duggars, calls Lena Dunham a 'pedophile'
"Sarah Palin went on to say that the media thinks “Lena Dunham’s sexual assault on her sibling is cute, and she’s rewarded for it with fame and fortune. Meanwhile, they crucify another, along with an entire family.' ”
Liberal publication words the above story like this:  Bristol Palin Compares Lena Dunham To Josh Duggar, Blames ‘Liberal Media’ "They just won’t go away. Maybe it’s that families who do reality shows have to stick together."

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/who-are-the-freaks-now/

Some headlines from the liberal press:

•  No Laws Were Broken When Josh Duggar's Police Report Was Released to the Public, Says City Attorney
•  Duggar Political Pal Wants Chief Who Handed Over Police Report Fired
•  GOPer Wants Police Chief Who Released Duggar Offense Report To Be Fired
•  Fox News is wrong — Josh Duggar’s police records were not illegally released
•  Conservatives Spiral themselves into Anti-Liberal Rage to Defend/Excuse Duggars
•  Bart Hester covering madly for his anti-gay allies, the Duggars

Khameni and Obama

http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

Is the USA Even Worth Saving Anymore?

Gulag Bound  "Do real (aka legal) numbers of US citizens really care if the USA lives or dies and is taken over by Islamists and Nazis? From the questions asked of people on the street by Jesse Watters of “Watters’ World” the answer is no…and it’s always a surprise to me that these people can actually get out of bed and dress themselves. The late Peter Jennings’ television series “The Dumbing Down of America” has, ultimately, been proven to be oh so correct. Is this a country even worth bothering to save? Or has it been so corrupted and perverted from its original path that there is no longer anything to save?" . . .

Reading list: Some quick glances at the world in which we live

Proof that some people can be offended by anything 

 

" I suspect that somewhere, there is a top-secret organization that does nothing all day but look for innovative and novel ways that society offends one group or another.
"How else do you explain this? . . .

The Port Authority is looking into bus slogans that some are calling offensive.
Officials say they’ve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, “Ziggin Zaggin,” is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur.

 One person complained ; ONE.

'Dividing Americans': Potential GOP rivals assail Clinton over fiery voting law speech

"Accusing her of "dividing Americans" and political pandering, several of Hillary Clinton's potential Republican rivals fired back Friday after the Democratic frontrunner accused them of trying to make it more difficult for Americans -- particularly minorities and young people -- to vote. " . . .

Ben Carson’s campaign faces turmoil amid staff exits and super PAC rivalry
. . . " But his campaign has been marked by signs of dysfunction and amateurism, alarming supporters who privately worry that Carson’s sprawling circle of boosters is fumbling his opportunity. And, they argue, the candidate has been nonchalant about the unrest." . . .

What will Obama’s legacy be?   . . . "Obama’s approval rating is still below 50 percent, and Republican presidential candidates are all running against Obamanomics, denouncing the last six years as an era of public-sector overreach and private-sector stagnation." . . .


 
"Columbia sex-attack accuser, who carried mattress around campus to protest against her 'rapist', creates new work 'renacting' violent sex called: 'This is not rape.'"  . . . "As predicted, many of the commenters on the piece slammed her for her decision to make it, saying it was in poor taste. 'Why did you have to go and ruin a man's life if all you wanted to do was make porn?' one quizzed." . . .

Dems ‘Failed Us': Chicago Pastor Tired of Liberals Taking Advantage of Blacks . . . " Corey Brooks of Chicago says that the Democratic party has relied on black votes and their loyalty to win elections but have not given much back to black areas once they are in office." . . .