Battle of the Bulge; Dec 23rd, 1944

Personal diary: December 23, 1944  "By December 23rd holding the line around Bastogne was less of an issue compared to the crisis of dwindling supplies.  Not only were troops short on food and medical supplies but ammunition was frighteningly low.  Rounds were rationed and soldiers were ordered not to fire unless attacked directly and even then to only fire two rounds.  Colonel Thomas L. Sherburn, the artillery commander, was intentionally reporting overestimates of supply levels simply to maintain morale.
 "Hopes were raised when reports came in that the 4th Armored Division, commanded by Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, was headed towards Bastogne as fast as possible."
 "Great news, we got a message today from Corp that the weather at the air-field were clear.^[1]  Boy we’ll give them hell today.
"Got another set^[2] today from some guys in the 9^th Armored Div. that got caught here when they...."

Primary Resources: Soldiers' Battlefield Accounts   "Who is better suited to tell history than the people who experienced it? Read the stories of some American soldiers who spent the terrible winter of 1944-1945 on the front lines in Europe. Browse the faces of some who were at the Bulge. Then share your own story of World War II." ...
 (Right) An elderly woman, surrounded by soldiers. surveys the destruction around her.

'The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne 

Battle at Bastogne

La Roche and Bastogne war Museums A visit to the Battle of the Bulge war museums at La Roche-en-Ardenne, and Bastogne Barracks.

Dreams... Turned to NIGHTMARES!!!

Wolfie's Pics

Tolerance for race pimps from de Blasio and Sharpton on up to this government is wearing out. Excellent commentaries here plus a cartoon update.

http://terrellaftermath.com/

National Review Online editors: De Blasio blames media for his troubles  "New York Mayor de Blasio revealed his true colors yesterday in a press conference, blaming the media for diving New Yorkers, by reporting on misbehavior of demonstrators. Ignoring his own casting of aspersions on the cops, ignoring the inflammatory rhetoric of his ally Al Sharpton, and ignoring his own failure to rebuke demonstrators who marched chanting, “What do we want? Dead Cops? When do we want it? Now!”, he fell back into the posture of a reflexive totalitarian, seemingly pining for the kind of servile media that Cuba’s regime enjoys. Hey mayor, bad behavior is what makes the news. Get used to it. And focus on your own responsibility. Read the transcript (video below) and see:

National Review Online editors: Mayor de Blasio and The sorry result of anti-cop activism. "President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and New York mayor Bill de Blasio have all played their own irresponsible parts; they have all lent moral support to occasionally violent protests." 

"In Mayor de Blasio’s case, this has created an almost unbridgeable divide between him and New York police officers while inflaming tensions between black communities and the police. As recently as this summer, the majority of black New Yorkers approved of the NYPD’s performance. Approval dropped dramatically after Eric Garner’s death in Staten Island; just recently, de Blasio tied that death to systematic police racism, with no evidence for his intimations. Black communities’ distrust of the police has deep, legitimate roots, but it has been receding for years — as crime has dropped in those same communities, in part thanks to assiduous policing."

Below: NY police turn their backs on de Blasio.

Thomas Sowell: The Race Card’s Steep Cost 

... "It is a painful irony that, on the eve of the murders of these two police officers in New York, some of the city’s police were already saying that, in the event of their deaths, they did not want Mayor Bill de Blasio to attend their funerals.
"We can only hope that Mayor de Blasio has some residual decency, so that he will not defile these two officers’ memorial services with his presence. No politician in the country has done more to play the race card against the police and spread the notion that cops are the big problem in minority communities. "

This next bit of commentary from Dr. Sowell needs to be included here, with emphasis:

Make no mistake about it. There is political mileage to be made siding with demagogues like Al Sharpton who, as demagogue-in-chief, has been invited to the White House dozens of times by its commander-in-chief.

Many in the media and among the intelligentsia cherish the romantic tale of an “us” against “them” struggle of beleaguered ghetto blacks defending themselves against the aggression of white policemen. The gullible include both whites who don’t know what they are talking about and blacks who don’t know what they are talking about either, because they never grew up in a ghetto. Among the latter are the President of the United States and his attorney general.

These next words are for Democrats in general, but specifically for this administration and the Congressional Black Caucus in particular :

Let those who have laid a guilt trip on people in our times, for evils done by other people in past centuries, at least face their own responsibility for the evil consequences of their own notions and policies. If they won’t do it, then the rest of us need to stop listening gullibly to what they are saying.

UPDATE:

comicallyincorrect

Black Conservative Son Educates Dad on Dems' Race Lies

 

Lloyd Marcus  "For the past six years, I have been a passionate, active black member of the Tea Party.  Unlike the vast majority of black Americans, I did not fall for the radical left's Trojan Horse in the form of a shiny new smooth-talkin' black man back in 2008.  When presidential candidate Obama told Joe the Plumber that he planned to spread the wealth around, I knew he was nothing more than another socialist/progressive liberal who hated America as founded."
...

"Consequently, all of the moral and cultural issues that create economic problems that have plagued the black community for forty years continue to get worse.  Meanwhile, Al Sharpton continues to get paid with cash, influence, and power as the Grand Pooh-Bah of clueless black voters, able to create a riot on demand and deliver deceived angry black voters to the polls every election."

Cardistry? Who would think shuffling a deck of cards could be beautiful?

Cardistry Is Beautiful. Watch This If You Don't Believe Us

"What is cardistry? It's the art of complicated and ornate shuffles. These folks spend a long time practicing, and the results are worth it. ▶ More: Cardistry in Singapore"

Bowdoin offers to cover full tuition for slain New York City police officer’s son, a student at the Brunswick (Maine) college

Bangor Daily News

"BRUNSWICK, Maine — The son of one of two New York City police officers killed Saturday night in Brooklyn is a sophomore at Bowdoin College.

"Barry Mills, president of the college, informed the family of student Justin Ramos on Sunday morning that the college would provide full financial aid to enable Ramos to complete his Bowdoin education.

"In a post on the college’s Facebook page, Mills urged respect for the family’s privacy in the wake of the “unspeakable tragedy.”
..."New York police Officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjiian Liu, 32, were fatally shot in their squad car Saturday by a 28-year-old man who then killed himself.

"On Sunday, the New York Yankees Silver Shield Foundation offered to pay for the college educations of Justin Ramos and his younger brother, but Bowdoin College spokesman Scott Hood said Monday that the college would provide the aid." ...more...

As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels

 

 http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/12/22/nypd-officers-killed/

Commentary Magazine "Conservatives know very well that attempts to politicize violence on the part of the mentally ill is deeply unfair. They know that liberal claims that either the Tea Party or conservatives such as Sarah Palin were somehow responsible for the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was sheer slander. If some angry supporters of the police now try to say Obama, Holder, or de Blasio approved or countenanced the actions of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, they are just as wrong. Obama, Holder, and de Blasio have all rightly condemned the murder of the two officers.
...
"If there is any reproach today that should be laid at the feet of Obama, Holder, and de Blasio, it is that by helping to foster one false set of assumptions, they have now left themselves vulnerable to questions about their own willingness to accept and exploit calumnies against the police and the justice system."
 Jonathan S. Tobin
Excerpts of comments to this post follow:

  ...I might be less resistant than Tobin about Farrakhan given his outright and outrageous call for reciprocal violence and given that the killer was apparently a black Muslim.

LET’S TALK ABOUT ERIC GARNER

 

Neal Boortz      ... "But like I said … someone should have been indicted.  The cop(s)?  Perhaps.  But I’m thinking of the politicians who put this absurd punishing tax on cigarettes in the first place.  They knew what would happen.  New York is surrounded by states with a lower tax rate on cigarettes, so they knew smuggling and resale would be an issue.  No problem though.  They had the cops.  And they had to lawful right to order those cops to use force to make sure that by God those taxes were collected.  And Eric Garner is dead.  Find the right politician and indict them.  Let them explain why a father had do die so they could collect their taxes."

Bloody Handsl

..."Eric Holder has aggressively been stoking the fires of race hatred and anti-cop sentiment. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan have all been pushing the "hands up" myth, while either hinting at or actively calling for violence.

"New York mayor Bill de Blasio has been allowing "hands up" demonstrators to close down city streets, assault police officers, and chant "What do we want? DEAD COPS!" - while also speculating that his own black son should be afraid of police officers." ...  More at Hopenchangel 

More liberal media

Battle of the Bulge; Dec 22, 1944

  www.history.army.mil/books/wwii

December 22, 1944: Siege of Bastogne: NUTS!

"The many memorable December dates in American history include the Battle of the Bulge during December 1944. General Anthony McAuliffe is remembered for his courageous action on the 22nd of that month.

"Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. “Nuts!” he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire….


From "BASTOGNE: The Story of the First Eight Days" By COLONEL S. L. A. MARSHALL:
CHAPTER 4, FIRST MEETING WITH THE ENEMY

 Bastogne Then and Now

 

Frostbite caused many casualties

The race-pimping elite in our nation: how long must we tolerate it? The subject roundly discussed here.

 

 http://terrellaftermath.com/

Truth Revolt: Are Sharpton, de Blasio -- Even Obama -- Culpable in Murder of NYC Cops?

 "Al Sharpton has been everywhere these last few months, organizing marches through his National Action Network to protest the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers. Everywhere he goes, violence follows as protesters chanting "No Justice, No Peace" set fires and loot stores.

"In New York City just a week ago, Sharpton led a march in which protesters assaulted two NYPD officers and blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. Their chant then: "What do we want? Dead cops!" The reverend stood by and smiled.

Video: Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism

Gangbangers Unbound   "That there is an agenda is not in question. Presidents, attorneys general, sports and entertainment celebrities, and the media sphere as a whole do not get involved in small local disturbances for no reason. Stepping back, we can see a consistent thread of deliberately aggravated racial incidents throughout the Obama presidency, from the Gates incident through the Trayvon Martin controversy on to Ferguson. All featured intervention from Obama, and most from Eric Holder as well. You can search all you like among previous presidencies for comparable actions, but you will do so in vain.

'How many more dead police officers will the mob want'?  "It's not just de Blasio. It's Holder, Obama, Sharpton, and the host of race hustlers and professional protestors who may have convinced themselves that they are not anti-police and are only peaceful in their intent, but have to recognize that they have attracted a mob of people out for the blood of cops." ...

Targeting police officers: looking forward, looking back ... "Today, unlike in the 70s, even some of our leadership—and by that I mean Barack Obama (who consorts with the likes of Al Sharpton), Eric Holder, and Bill de Blasio, for example—fan the flames of the hatred in ways subtle and not-so-subtle."

 

NRO: Hate Speech Leads to Hate Crimes "The culpability for inciting the murder of two cops reaches to the highest levels of media and government."

Next, let’s poll the police  "The big change in circumstances since this time last year is, of course, the rise of ISIS. “Ending wars” did not make Obama popular with the military. And the consequences of ending U.S. involvement in Iraq, now that they are in plain view, have helped make him massively unpopular." 

As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels ..."Even worse than that, they have empowered and legitimized racial demagogues like Al Sharpton who have sought to profit from exploiting these tragedies to promote their own agendas. In turn, Sharpton and those like him who are given prominent air time on networks like MSNBC and CNN have encouraged protesters who have not only engaged in violence but often openly called for the killing of police, a stance that has been openly endorsed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and other radicals."

Hobbits and Christ: The worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien

World Mag

Martin Freeman, left, and John Callen in a scene from The Desolation of Smaug

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... "Where do you find a Christian worldview in The Hobbit?  Look at Tolkien’s contemporaries and what were they saying about life. You don’t have to be an English major to know his contemporaries were people like [Jean-Paul] Sartre, [Albert] Camus, and [Samuel] Beckett, who said there’s no purpose to life, there’s no meaning to life, there’s no such thing as truth. In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we find all those things. There’s a distinct reason why Gandalf chose Bilbo, and it’s a particularly Christian reason. It’s going to be good for Bilbo, but also good for the world, and the believers in your audience will know that that’s how God works in our lives.  … So we see a providence, we see a purpose, and we absolutely see a moral universe where there’s absolutely a clear right and wrong, and Tolkien’s contemporaries rejected all of those things[.]"

Cop killers: ISIS has plenty of talent to pick from here in American neighborhoods

Baltimore City Police Commissioner: Will There Be Marches when “Officers are Shot, Too?”
The answer to that follows:

NYPD Cop Killer Brinsley Recorded this Racially Charged Taxi Cab Video on Dec 14
 "Ismaaiyl Brinsley callously gunned down two NY police officers on Saturday – one Asian and the other Latino.
"He claimed he did it as “revenge” for the murders of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. We DENOUNCE this type of senseless violence against police officers."...

'Beyond redemption': Social media explodes in joy at cop killings  "Brace yourselves if you have a weak stomach. The following tweets gleaned from responses to the execution of two police officers in New York City yesterday are about as raw and sickening as it gets. They were compiled - many of them - by LilMissRightie from #BlueLivesMatter - a hashtag hijacked by protestors earlier.

I will simply let the tweets speak for themselves. Via Twitchy:" ...
Just a sample here:
 

 

“Pigs in a blanket” chanted in #Ferguson long before #NYPD executions (Language)

"As offensive as these post-killing chants are, that’s not the real story here.
"The real story is the connection between the killer’s final Instagram note and the Ferguson protests.
"The “pigs in a blanket” language was chanted during the Ferguson protests in the fall.

CNN Guest on Brooklyn Cop Shooting: ‘Al Sharpton Got What He Wanted’

..."Retired NYPD detective Harry Houck wasted no time in blaming those protests and the people behind them for what happened today. He said the demonstrations have “all be predicated on lies,” and even went so far as to declare, “We have two dead police officers, and I guess Al Sharpton got what he wanted.”" ...Video

Black Quill and Ink: the police killings "Today I learned of the senseless shooting of two New York City police officers. The killings were done by a Black man who had first shot his girlfriend in Baltimore then drove to NYC to commit another heinous act of terror. Prior to the police shooting the man noted on social media that his killing police was in retaliation for incidents in Missouri and NYC. Well, America, our chickens have come home to roost, as the good racist, hate monger Jerimiah(sp) Wright so despicably preached to his hate filled so called Christian church.

Our media will set us straight, er...hey, isn't that "War on Women" Sally Kohn here with her hands up?

http://newsninja2012.com/cnn-hosts-make-themselves-look-ridiculous-as-they-assume-hands-up-dont-shoot-pose/  

 “CNN: The Most Trusted Name In News.”

oday I learned of the senseless shooting of two New York City police officers. The killings were done by a Black man who had first shot his girlfriend in Baltimore then drove to NYC to commit another heinous act of terror. Prior to the police shooting the man noted on social media that his killing police was in retaliation for incidents in Missouri and NYC. Well, America, our chickens have come home to roost, as the good racist, hate monger Jerimiah Wright so despicably preached to his hate filled so called Christian church.
Today we witnessed a significant portion of the end result of liberalism, so called social justice and progressivism. This is the America that you will have unless real Americans stand up to the liberal/progressive agenda of the DNC, politicians like Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Mayor De Blasio and race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson [Communist, Progressives, Muslim sympathizers and Socialist] . While I expect them all to immediately come out in opposition to the killings, the fact remains that for years and most recently in Missouri and NYC, they all used non-racial incidents as a spring board to further their politics of division and hate.  But how did America reach this point?
- See more at: http://blackquillandink.com/#sthash.Nwlu7c6r.dpuf

oday I learned of the senseless shooting of two New York City police officers. The killings were done by a Black man who had first shot his girlfriend in Baltimore then drove to NYC to commit another heinous act of terror. Prior to the police shooting the man noted on social media that his killing police was in retaliation for incidents in Missouri and NYC. Well, America, our chickens have come home to roost, as the good racist, hate monger Jerimiah Wright so despicably preached to his hate filled so called Christian church.

- See more at: http://blackquillandink.com/#sthash.Nwlu7c6r.dpuf