Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Message from Israel

This is going around on email lists I subscribe to:

 Subject:  Israel
All, a dear friend posted this earlier on Facebook, and I'd like everyone to see it, so I am sending it out to my email list.  I really hope this doesn't spell all out war in the Middle East.  Please pray for Israel and all those in the Middle East that are caught in the violence!  Gail
 
Subject: Exerpt from an email I just received

My brother and his family live in Jerusalem - he is a minister - and a former Navy SEAL - his office is close to one of Israel 's largest underground military bases.

He called me last night which is very unusual - usually it is email.

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He called to tell me that he is sending his family back to the US immediately due to what he is seeing happen within the last week and what he is being told by his military contacts in both the Israel and US military.

He said he is seeing with his own eyes military movements the likes of which he has never seen in his 20+ years in Israel .

What he called a massive redeployment and protective tactics of forces is underway.

Over the last two days he has seen anti-aircraft missile deployments throughout the Jerusalem area including 3 mobile units that he can see from his office windows.

In addition, he has seen very large Israeli armored columns moving fast toward the Sinia where Egypt has now moved in Armor.

There are reports of the top military leaders meeting with Israel 's Sr. Rabi which is something that has happened preceding every prior military campaign.

His admonition is to watch carefully and pra y for Israel and its people.

He is convinced that barring something extraordinary Israel will attack Iran - with or without the US - and very soon.

It is the belief in Israel that Obama does not stand with Israel but with the Arab countries.

He has told me before that Israel will saber rattle from time to time but that this time is very different from what he is seeing and hearing. 

He was at the Wailing Wall 2 days ago and there were hundreds of IDF soldiers there. As he was leaving he passed at least 20 military buses full of soldiers in route to the wall.

He has never seen this before either.

Just thought I would pass this along. 

My brother is not an alarmist by any means.

When he talks like this it gets my attention for sure and usually I find he knows more than he shares.

There are reports that Israel is asking Obama to come to Israel immediately but they are being answered with silence.
 
My opinion is that I see the making of the perfect storm.

His true goal revealed

I always thought he was pushing Marxism - looks like I was wrong.
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Op-Ed: The Obama Domino Doctrine: Pro-Iran/Anti-Saudi

Published: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:35 AM
Obama has his own Domino Doctrine for the Muslim world. As a consequence of this doctrine, Obama’s Iranian Nuclear policy can be summed up as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” and Saudi Arabia is in even more danger than Israel.


Remember, for one second, in January 2011, before even a dozen demonstrators were killed, a small herd of camel-riding Mubarakists rode into Tahrir Square trampling some protesters underfoot, and Obama immediately flew into an apoplectic rage, gliding close to personally claiming that Mubarak was a war criminal for attacking peaceful "democratic" demonstrators.

But in February 2012, after  Assad has murdered over 10,000 Sunni mostly totally unarmed civilians by lobbing barrages of multiple rounds of artillery into Homs, why is Obama all but numbingly silent in-between his own barrages of multiple rounds of 18-hole golf?

The reason: the US President Obama has artfully and silently pivoted US Middle East Policy from a Pro-Saudi, Anti-Iran paradigm to a Pro-Iran, Anti-Saudi imperative.

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Either study your Korans and learn to kneel, or get ready to fight. No other choices.

Thanks to Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Worth repeating

Ann Barnhardt speaks truth:





Too bad she had to waste that bacon - it's contaminated after the use she put it to.

Tripling down on stupid

The Ill-Annoys Department of Transportation (IDOT) has been working on extending the four-lane part of Ill. Rte. 2 north from Rockford to south of Latham Road since back in February. Rte 2 has been a two-lane road with clearly marked passing zones for decades. When the construction is finished, this original section of Rte. 2 will be a frontage road.

About a month ago, they put up two of those electronic bulletin boards with the messages "TWO-WAY TRAFFIC" and "PASS WHEN ALLOWED", one at either end of the existing two-lane portion paralleling the new road.

About two weeks ago, they doubled down with big orange warning signs showing up and down arrows, indicating two-way traffic - something usually reserved for four-lane roads narrowed down during construction.

Last week, big rectangular orange signs with the legend "TWO WAY TRAFFIC NEXT X miles" went up - one telling us the next three miles of the two-mile zone is two-way, and the other about two miles south on the northbound lanes telling us that the zone is two miles long. At least they got that distance right.

Rte. 2 in this area is not all that heavily traveled, but I can see that the solons in charge are "thinking ahead" - they put in a beautiful chunk of four-lane interstate quality road from the south side of South Beloit for about four miles - a typical federally-funded pork project "road to nowhere". So, ultimately, they will end up taking a few dozen homes and farms by eminent domain to make the four-lane continuous from Rockford to South Beloit, enabling heavy development of a nice open agricultural area that developers would never look at without the road improvements. For Sale signs are up on several farms in the area already.

What I don't understand is how Ill-Annoys is affording all this road improvement when the state is supposedly bankrupt. Federal "stimulus" money stolen from our great-grand kids, I suppose. There are numerous bridges on Rte. 251 between Machesney Park and South Beloit getting rebuilt - these are bridges that were in reasonable shape, not the ones we hear about in dire need of fixing, and the intersection with Rte. 173 has been under construction for over a year now. Rte. 251 is the major route between Beloit and Rockford.

I have long suspected that when they named IDOT, they forgot the second 'I'.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The proximate cause of the recent Muslim uprisings

A low-budget movie produced a few years back - "Innocence of Muslims":



As long as Muslims are so thin-skinned that stuff like this can cause such violence, I cannot believe that Islam is a true "religion".

If America still had leadership with any guts whatsoever, the Marines would be landed in Libya and Egypt already, cleaning up the rabble who attacked our embassies.

Where are you, President Jefferson? We need some whoop-ass applied around the Barbary Coast again.

UPDATE: The original video was "removed by the author". This one is shorter, but still shoes  a couple of good snarky scenes.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Radio Ad

Down in Texas.



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Monday, September 3, 2012

Interview with the mystery man's associates

Interview: Obama Had Marxist Vision For US At Occidental College


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Has anyone ever been interested in President Obama’s ideological past? What were Obama’s beliefs while he was at Occidental? Several interviews by Dr. John Drew during the 2008 campaign cycle gave some insight, but few were interested at that time in what Obama really believed when he attended Occidental College. (See “Meeting Young Obama” and “Even Republicans Rejected Info About Obama’s Past” at www.americanthinker.com/john_drew/). Dr. Drew wrote, “Meeting Obama”, about Obama and his ideology about taking the United States over and making it fail so the, “revolution” could in his article “Meeting Young Obama” on February 24, 2011. He clearly remembers what Obama stated, in his own words, “Like it was yesterday”. Obama espoused without hesitation, “There’s going to be a revolution,” saying, “we need to be organized and grow the movement.” This is disturbing due to the fact what our nation is going through right now drives it to the edge of failure; just what the young Obama stated he wanted to accomplish in 1980: the end of capitalism in the United States.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/09/interview-obama-had-marxist-vision-for-us-at-occidental-college/#ixzz25S7mv2rR

Miracle!

Bill Whittle does it again!



The "hidden hand" aiding him - who does it belong to?

Vehicle maintenance

In the past two months, I've done quite a bit of needed repairs on various vehicles.

I rebuilt the C5 transmission in my 1984 F150. First American automatic I've ever touched - and it runs like new. If it lasts as long as the inline 6 I rebuilt in the same truck - 28,000 miles - I'll be happy.

Put a new steering gear in my 1991 VW Vanagon. Ended up replacing all the hard lines to it, as the originals finally disintegrated from rust - the torsion of disconnecting them snapped 'em right off. All the Bus needs now is a good brake bleeding, and some body work.

The local golf cart shop near Rockford had a used motor just like the one I have with the chewed-up crankshaft - $100. Had to transfer the piston and cylinder from the original motor to the new one as the new one had a destroyed piston. It ran great until the centrifugal clutch / spring loaded pulley transmission started throwing the big belt. The aluminum spring-loaded driven pulley's thrust collar disintegrated - so I made a new one out of steel. My wife now can get to the back of the property with her gardening stuff again. What with the drought, at least there wasn't a whole lot of work to do back there while the cart was broken.

Had my 1978 Yamaha XS650 die on the way to work a few weeks back - lost power and blew a whole lot of oil smoke. Turns out the cheap gas I was running, coupled with too much advance on the right cylinder caused destructive detonation.


Now I know what that rattling noise on hard acceleration was...

Two new pistons and rings, and new head and cylinder base gaskets. The bike runs better than ever - I don't think the rings ever seated properly after the last rebuild - probably because I neglected to re-hone the cylinder when I had to pull the engine apart last Spring. Lesson learned. I'm running ethanol-free 93 octane from now on.

Still to do - body work on my 1963 Beetle, and a new rear lid and left side center section clip on the Vanagon. I really need a bigger garage...

Deja vu?

He's a one trick pony...



Found at Ace of Spades

A month or two late...

Back in the last week of July, we had a near-tornado hit here. I was up in my shop working when it happened - the whole second floor was moving.

Then the tower that carries my Internet connection and the repeater for the neighborhood went down - BANG.

As soon as the storm abated enough to go out and look, sure enough, my 70' Rohn 25 tower was twisted over the roof, almost touching the ground in front. The repeater pilot lights were still lit.

The next day I took these:




The guy wires are still all attached.


The notch in the roof is my doing - I set the base of the tower 6" too far south.

The wide band company sent a crew out the next day to take the old tower down. Expensive scrap metal. Two sections are recoverable for my ham tower, I think.

The tower was guyed about halfway up. The north guy was loose before the storm - I had told the wide band company about it, but they never got someone out to fix it. I'm long past the point where I climb towers.

No damage to the roof, amazingly.

The new tower, with proper guy wires installed:

One section taller than before, and one dish less loading.

It took almost three weeks for the tower to get replaced. Internet withdrawal is tough - one reason I haven't posted a lot even once I got back on the air.

Proof the Demonrats will use the graveyard vote!

Excerpt from an email from MoveOn.org:

Dear MoveOn member,
A couple of months ago, I sat down with leaders of the AFL-CIO for a really hard conversation.
With all the money Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, and others are spending to defeat President Obama—we needed to do something truly game changing, or President Obama could really lose this election.
And we decided the only way to beat the GOP money machine was to team up and dig deep in the grassroots to create the biggest independent get-out-the-vote campaign in the country.

Obviously they are referring to exhumation as a way of getting out the vote...expect union gravediggers to lead the way!

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Why am I not surprised?

Communist Party Endorses Obama For 2012


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By Aaron Klein, World Net Daily

It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election.