Black and white photos from 100-150 years ago

Historic Photos   "Most of the photos in the blog were sent to me by email. I liked them and posted them to this blog. If anyone owns these photos and wants them taken down please tell me and I will remove them. chullinger@gmail.com

"The historic photos that everyone likes are at: Photos I Like"

 

"019 | 1900 | New Jersey circa. "Bergen Tunnel, east end' "

 

Again, chullinger@gmail.com reminds us:

"Someone emailed me these beautiful photos. I believe they are from the Smithsonian. The look better on the blog then they do in the email and so I have posted them here. I do not have the rights to these photos."

Many equally clear photos are at this link.

 

It was kinda fun to post this photo from this site and compare it with later ones of the same location. 

 

Dime Savings Bank Building, Detroit, Michigan

Below is a shot of the area where the Dime Building still stands today. Can you find it?: 

 

  Below, the first Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover:

Guys, this is just one of many swimsuit photos at this link.

 

Many thanks for these to former schoolmate from Garibaldi, Oregon, Bill Smith. Bill is another of many that I recall having seen playing cowboys and Indians around Garibaldi, but is now referred to as "Grandpa". TD

Christians Vow Civil Disobedience if Home-School Family is Deported

 Todd Starnes " 'Christians in an east Tennessee community are vowing to engage in civil disobedience if the Obama administration initiates deportation proceedings against a Southern Baptist family from Germany who sought asylum in the United States so that they could home school their children.

 

“ 'It may require civil disobedience with this bunch,” said Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), who represents the congressional district where the Romeike family lives.

 

“ 'I am furious about this,” the congressman told me. “You’ve got law-abiding people who did everything right who simply want to home school their kids. We used to be that great shining city on a hill. There’s some rust on that city if we are doing free people this way.”

 

"Roe was among many Tennesseans outraged over the Supreme Court decision not to hear the Romeike’s appeal to stay in the United States. The Christian couple sought asylum in 2008 after they fled Germany so they could home school their children.

 

"The family was initially granted asylum, but the Obama administration objected – claiming that German laws that outlaw homeschooling do not constitute persecution."   Full article.

Iranian general: Obama’s threats are ‘the joke of the year’

The Times of Israel

"Masoud Jazayeri says the ‘low-IQ’ president’s ‘all options are on the table’ remarks are a farce; warns against US strike."

 

“ 'The low-IQ US president and his country’s Secretary of State John Kerry speak of the effectiveness of ‘the US options on the table’ on Iran while this phrase is mocked at and has become a joke among the Iranian nation, especially the children,” General Masoud Jazayeri said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.        

 

"Jazayeri was responding to the US president’s interview in Bloomberg on Sunday, in which Obama maintained that the Iranian leadership should take his “all options on the table” stance — including the warning of a potential military strike — seriously.".Read more.
 

Cartoon from Iran's FARS News Agency

Apparently the enemies of the US do not share the opinion of Letterman writer Bill Scheft that Mr. Obama is “a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that.”  The Tunnel Dweller

You're hearing the word, "feckless" in foreign policy discussions a lot these days. Let's learn about this word.

Merriam-Webster feck·less   adjective \ˈfek-ləs\: having or resulting from a weak character or nature                                  

See feckless defined for English-language learners »   Examples of FECKLESS  She can't rely on her feckless son. 

feckless response to the rise in school violence

Origin of FECKLESS  Scots, from feck effect, majority, from Middle English (Scots) fek, alteration of Middle English effect

From the Free Dictionary:

 1. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

2. Careless and irresponsible Thesaurus.net lists synonyms: incompetent,

                                           inept, irresponsible.

 

Thomas Sowell uses the word in a sentence: Our Feckless First Leader ;  

An appearance on Letterman trumps meeting with Netanyahu.

"During the same week when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered and his dead body dragged through the streets by celebrating mobs, the president of the United States found time to go on the David Letterman show to demonstrate his sense of humor and how cool he is.

 

"But Barack Obama did not have time to meet with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a nation repeatedly threatened with annihilation by Iranian leaders who are working feverishly toward the creation of nuclear bombs."

MSNBC’s Most Embarrassing Mockery of Romney’s Russia Warnings

Romney: Russia is our number one geopolitical foe  March 26th, 2012

Mediaite   "The smug self-assuredness that often suffices for expertise on cable news was perhaps never more smug than when former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned the American public that Russia was rapidly positioning itself as America’s “number one geopolitical foe.” Among the worst offenders were the hosts and guests who provide MSNBC with content on a daily basis. "
....

“ 'I don’t know what decade this guy’s living in,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews said with a sigh on March 28, 2012. “Is he trying to play Ronald Reagan here, or what?”

“ 'This is Mitt Romney’s severely conservative problem,” University of Georgia professor Cynthia Tucker opined on-the-air. “It made Romney look dumb. He’s not a dumb man, but he said something that was clearly dumb.' ”

What Happens If Russia Refuses to Fly U.S. Astronauts?

Popular Mechanics  

 

 

"Russian Soyuz flights are NASA's only way to get astronauts to and from the International Space Station. What happens if they cut us off?"

 

"With tensions escalating between Russia and Ukraine, the pressure is on President Obama to do more than issue stern warnings to the Russian government. Economic sanctions are one possible action, but one that could put the squeeze not only on Russia but also the U.S. manned space program."

 

A story showing everything that’s wrong with bureaucracies: rules have replaced morals and human decency

Bookworm Room  "If you want to know everything that’s wrong about a Big Government world (which also means a multi-rules, heavily bureaucratic world), you need look no further than a recent news report out of Minnesota.  It took place at Como Park High School and involved teachers who, because of their bureaucratic training, completely abandoned human decency.

"It all started out on a very cold day in Minnesota, with the temperature ranging between -8 and +12 degrees Fahrenheit.  The high school has an indoor pool, and that’s where 14-year-old Kayona Hagen-Tietz was swimming when a school alarm went off.  Before she could get to the locker to get her clothes, the teacher rushed her out into the cold.  Let me rephrase that:  A teacher in thrall to rules sent a soaking wet 14-year-old girl out into sub-freezing temperatures, clad only in a swimsuit. " ... 

Why Obama Got Russia Wrong (and Romney Got It Right)

Slate

 

"To peer into the conservative media and blogosphere as it covers Russa's invasion of Crimea is to risk a fatal dose of schadenfreude. There are reports about how Sarah Palin totally called that Putin would invade Ukraine (she will be on Fox News tonight to remind us), about how Mitt Romney was unfairly mocked for calling Russia the greatest "geopolitical threat" to the United States, about Hillary Clinton's "reset button" gaffe. Even the Liberal New Republic (tm) has admitted that Mitt Romney was right about the Russians and their ambitions.

 

"And he was. Why did Barack Obama blow it? Let's revisit the final 2012 presidential debate, the moment Romney explained himself and the president went for the lulz. Here's Obama." Full article. 

White House To Announce Another Major Obamacare Delay To Help Democrats In The Midterm Elections…

Weasel Zippers

 

"Another day, another illegal Obamacare delay."

 

"Via The Hill:

The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats.

As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.

Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.

The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day....

The Real ObamaCare Horror Story and a counterpoint to consider

Gary Varvel

 

Jim Angle:  Reid managed to ignite a firestorm when he accused those who complain about canceled policies and higher rates under ObamaCare of flat-out lying.  

 

Nancy Van Deest   "Recently, Senator Harry Reid addressed the American people from the Senate floor and solemnly claimed that “there’s plenty of horror stories being told,” about ObamaCare. “All of them are untrue, but they’re being told all over America.”

"In essence, the senator called me and numerous other Americans being impacted by ObamaCare liars. I have been called many names before, but liar was not one of them. My most recent title before Harry accused me of being a liar was Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient."

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"Bad news about ObamaCare just keeps coming. Dr. Hal Scherz, Founder and President of Docs4Patient Care and Dr. Jeff English Director of Clinical Research at the MS Center of Atlanta have written a piece titled, “ObamaCare: We need an Earmark to Treat that Disease” to alert patients about the rationing of vital services by government. According to the article,"....

....

"Compared to MS that I battle every second of every minute of every day, Reid, Obama and the rest of their lot are small potatoes that would be unable to stand in my shoes for even a moment. God willing, I will continue to stand tall and warn my fellow Americans about ObamaCare. The question is, who will Americans believe?"

 

Writing in defense of Obamacare: Who are the people willing to identify themselves as casualties of the Affordable Care Act — and did they really 'shop' in the exchanges?   ..."But when “victims” step forward, reporters need to investigate these claims. If newspaper editors and television producers are willing to put them in the media spotlight – in front of a huge local or even national audience – they also have a duty to give their readers and viewers the facts they need so that they can judge the validity of the allegations."

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2013/09/you-go-cruz

Obama gets lecture on peace talks from Netanyahu in White House meeting

Jerusalem Post 

 

... "Netanyahu called for a “real peace... based on mutual recognition,” and chided his Palestinian counterparts for promoting “incessant violence” against the Jewish state.

“ 'Israel, the Jewish state, is the realization of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination,” Netanyahu said. “I think it’s about time they recognized a nation state for the Jewish people.

"We’ve only been here for about 4,000 years.' ” ...

Jonathan S. Tobin: Netanyahu Doesn’t Take Obama’s Bait  "The last time President Obama ambushed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli gave as good as he got. This time he turned the other cheek. The reason for this turnabout by the normally combative prime minister tells us everything we need to know about the relative strength of the positions of these two leaders."

The vindictive, borderline treasonous malevolence of the Left and the inept, borderline imbecilic impotence of the Right are emerging as the gravest threat to...to...ISRAEL?

You were sure this was going to be about America, weren't you?

 

Jerusalem Post   "Of course the “water libel*” against Israel is nothing new. Totally unfounded – indeed, outlandish – accusations that it is denying the Palestinians access to adequate water supplies have been leveled against it for years. But in the case of the furor over Schulz’s remarks two points should be made." .... Full article

..."However, the fact that the water issue continues to remains a topic that can still be used to denigrate Israel, without the malefactor being scorned and shamed, bears lamentable testimony to the vindictive, borderline treasonous malevolence of the Left, which makes cynical use of it to further its political credo; and to the inept, borderline imbecilic, impotence of the Right, which has failed to totally discredit this practice.

"This lethal combination is emerging as, arguably, the gravest threat to the sustainability of Jewish political independence."

Martin Sherman (www.martinsherman.net) is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. (www.strategicisrael.org)

*The author makes reference to the term "Blood libel", something Israelis are acutely aware of because of it's use as reason to persecute Jews since antiquity.  More concise definition here.

And this definition comes from our own "malevolent left".

 

Anti-Israel cartoon from the Arab Media Friends of the American and -apparently - the Israeli left.