I just heard on the news that a man has pulled a gun in the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and shot a Security Guard. Other Guards returned fire and wounded the shooter.
Now, I want all you Libs out there who might be following my blog to post comments about how this could happen. Washington, D.C. has the toughest gun laws in the country despite the Heller vs D.C. Supreme Court decision last summer. When that decision was announced, the city just changed the rules to make it almost harder now to get a concealed carry permit than it was before. What was that guy doing with a gun? It's illegal!! Didn't he know that? Come on, let's here it from you gun control people about how this happened with all those strict laws in place. I wonder what might have happened if there had been an armed law abiding citizen there?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Ice Cream
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Got this from my buddy, Steve.
In honor of the 44th President of the United States , Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: " Barocky Road". Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $100.00 per scoop. When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you. You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream.
Are you stimulated?
Monday, June 8, 2009
New poll
I just put up a poll on the left of the blog. I am interested in what everybody thinks. Please vote!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
June 6, 1944
Very good column about D-Day!
The Meaning of Bloody Omaha
The skies over Normandy usually are filled with dark rain clouds. But on one day in late April, the sky was cloudless and the English Channel tranquil. Youngsters built sand castles on Omaha Beach and dogs romped in the surf.
It was a vastly different scene from the bloodshed and violence that occurred on this same beach 65 years ago today.
To understand what the GIs experienced on that fateful day of June 6, 1944, I climbed up a steep hill to the plain above the beach. Unlike the soldiers, I didn't carry an 80-pound backpack. And even though I observed German fortifications on my way, no one was firing at me.
These fortifications are a reminder that despite feints to Calais and bombing along the coast before the invasion, Nazi forces were well ensconced when the allies landed. Most of the bombs aimed at these German installations landed several kilometers inland, a condition that distinguished Omaha Beach from Utah Beach. Omaha Beach was Bloody Omaha, a scene of so much death that it was unprecedented in American history. One soldier noted "there were body parts everywhere and the sea turned red with blood."
Many never made it to shore from their landing craft. Some were shot and some drowned, not realizing that if you wear a flotation device around your waist instead of under your arms it may not be possible to stand in the turbulent surf with a heavy pack. There was panic, confusion, camaraderie and bravery on the beach that day that changed the world.
The cemetery for the fallen overlooks Omaha Beach. It was noon when I stood at the edge of the cemetery, looking out at row after row of the graves. The bells played "God Bless America." A burly fellow wearing steel-frame glasses was standing in front of me, most likely an octogenarian.
As the bells sounded, our eyes met. I wanted to say something, but he removed his glasses and wiped away tears. Words were unnecessary; we shared a silent understanding.
There is simply no way to describe the sacrifice Americans made on the D-Day invasion to reclaim Europe from totalitarianism. Even the notoriously dispassionate Europeans realize this is consecrated ground, a place where angels spread their wings to honor the deeds of youthful warriors. No St. Crispin speeches were necessary here, for this Band of Brothers knew what need not be stated: They were saving Europe from enslavement.
As a Normandy resident wrote during the occupation, "A German lieutenant said 'we are your masters.' Well they were, until the Americans arrived." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a 20th century Moses. Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army fanned out across northern France. Though he had his detractors, Gen. Patton knew how to fight and win.
We have grown complacent as a people in the last six and a half decades since the war in Europe reached the beginning of the end. But it is hard to remain unemotional at the hilltop cemetery that honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice so we may live in freedom.
Though we owe these men a debt we can never repay, what we can do is honor them. Their bravery can still inspire if the story of D-Day is told with passion and honesty.
The world offers challenges each year since freedom is tested in each generation by new pharaohs. We need the guardians of liberty to remind us how precarious that freedom is. We need to rise to the occasion the way young U.S. soldiers did on June 6, 1944. They are a constant reminder that liberty requires vigilance and courage if it is to survive.
Herbert London (www.herblondon.org) is president of Hudson Institute and professor emeritus of New York University. This appeared in The Wall Street Journal on June 4.
It was a vastly different scene from the bloodshed and violence that occurred on this same beach 65 years ago today.
To understand what the GIs experienced on that fateful day of June 6, 1944, I climbed up a steep hill to the plain above the beach. Unlike the soldiers, I didn't carry an 80-pound backpack. And even though I observed German fortifications on my way, no one was firing at me.
These fortifications are a reminder that despite feints to Calais and bombing along the coast before the invasion, Nazi forces were well ensconced when the allies landed. Most of the bombs aimed at these German installations landed several kilometers inland, a condition that distinguished Omaha Beach from Utah Beach. Omaha Beach was Bloody Omaha, a scene of so much death that it was unprecedented in American history. One soldier noted "there were body parts everywhere and the sea turned red with blood."
Many never made it to shore from their landing craft. Some were shot and some drowned, not realizing that if you wear a flotation device around your waist instead of under your arms it may not be possible to stand in the turbulent surf with a heavy pack. There was panic, confusion, camaraderie and bravery on the beach that day that changed the world.
The cemetery for the fallen overlooks Omaha Beach. It was noon when I stood at the edge of the cemetery, looking out at row after row of the graves. The bells played "God Bless America." A burly fellow wearing steel-frame glasses was standing in front of me, most likely an octogenarian.
As the bells sounded, our eyes met. I wanted to say something, but he removed his glasses and wiped away tears. Words were unnecessary; we shared a silent understanding.
There is simply no way to describe the sacrifice Americans made on the D-Day invasion to reclaim Europe from totalitarianism. Even the notoriously dispassionate Europeans realize this is consecrated ground, a place where angels spread their wings to honor the deeds of youthful warriors. No St. Crispin speeches were necessary here, for this Band of Brothers knew what need not be stated: They were saving Europe from enslavement.
As a Normandy resident wrote during the occupation, "A German lieutenant said 'we are your masters.' Well they were, until the Americans arrived." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a 20th century Moses. Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army fanned out across northern France. Though he had his detractors, Gen. Patton knew how to fight and win.
We have grown complacent as a people in the last six and a half decades since the war in Europe reached the beginning of the end. But it is hard to remain unemotional at the hilltop cemetery that honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice so we may live in freedom.
Though we owe these men a debt we can never repay, what we can do is honor them. Their bravery can still inspire if the story of D-Day is told with passion and honesty.
The world offers challenges each year since freedom is tested in each generation by new pharaohs. We need the guardians of liberty to remind us how precarious that freedom is. We need to rise to the occasion the way young U.S. soldiers did on June 6, 1944. They are a constant reminder that liberty requires vigilance and courage if it is to survive.
Herbert London (www.herblondon.org) is president of Hudson Institute and professor emeritus of New York University. This appeared in The Wall Street Journal on June 4.
Friday, June 5, 2009
State Legislature
Well, once again the Democrat controlled Legislature has ended it's regular session without a State budget. Hey, let's give them a break, they had much more important stuff to take care of before they got into the budget. I mean after all they had to discuss an apology for slavery, open alcohol containers in cars, deposits on water bottles and plastic bags in grocery stores, decriminalizing small quantities of marijuana, banning smoking in the casinos, banning toxic cleaners in schools, getting BPA out of baby bottles, requiring restaurants to post the calorie content of their meals, changing the way U.S. Senate vacancies are filled, banning the owning of exotic pets, trying to tell the Catholic church how they run their finances, and last but not least and probably most important, once again allowing live reindeer in Christmas displays.
Hello, Connecticut residents, are you out there, and are you awake? When are we going to vote these moronic jerks out of office and elect some people who are going to get their priorities straight? The State budget is #1 priority.
Hello, Connecticut residents, are you out there, and are you awake? When are we going to vote these moronic jerks out of office and elect some people who are going to get their priorities straight? The State budget is #1 priority.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Senator Chris Dodd
Some organization is running an Ad on local TV thanking Dodd for always being there for Connecticut's working families. I guess that's true, except when he's at his "cottage" in Ireland or when he moved his family to Iowa for a year while he ran for President, but I guess it was worth it for him because he did earn one delegate. What did the people of Iowa realize about this clown that the people of Connecticut seem oblivious to??
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