I REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

PEARL HARBOR: I REMEMBER THAT DAY

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” (Konrad Adenauer)

December 7th ring a bell for anyone? It should, even if you’re less than 67. Sixty seven years ago today, America suffered the worst attack in its history until that dubious distinction was supplanted by the devastation of September 11th, 2001.

I was still in my mother’s womb on December 7th, 1941, yet I remember it well.

I remember that day because of the immense damage caused to our Pacific Fleet by a long-planned and well-executed sneak attack by the Japanese navy, executed coincidentally as Japanese representatives were gathered in Washington for peace talks, executed by a huge, undetected Japanese task force including six aircraft carriers.

I remember that day because of the immensity of the operation, five midget submarines and some 360 planes which began hitting Pearl just before 8 a m on a quiet Sunday morning, an assault in three waves that continued for two hours, resulting in 2,403 Navy, Army, and Marine, and civilian KIAs, wounding an additional 1282 personnel, and damaging or destroying eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, a minelayer, almost 200 aircraft and numerous ground facilities.

I remember that day because of FDR’s speech before Congress asking for a declaration of war when he called December 7th, 1941, “the day that shall live in infamy” in our nation’s history, his speech serving to mobilize and motivate Americans to come together to defeat the Axis powers, which we succeeded in doing within less than four years.

I remember that day because of the controversy which still lingers: What did FDR know and when did he know it? Had he ordered the Pacific Fleet to gather at Pearl Harbor in a defensive maneuver or was that order intended to provide an inviting target for the Japanese, begging an attack to spark outrage in the citizenry and easing our entry into the Second World War?

I remember that day on the 7th of every December as well as on the 11th of every September when other sneak attacks effected an even greater loss of life and wrought far more damage not in a faraway place but on the mainland in New York City, Washington, D.C., and in a field in Pennsylvania.

I remember that day because it should always be remembered, as the events of 9/11/2001 should always be remembered. When we forget such momentous and terrible events or when we simply do not want to recall them, we expose ourselves and our nation to repeated attacks.

“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum,” (If you want peace, prepare for war), wrote Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus some sixteen hundred years ago and they are still words to live by in 2008. We were not prepared in 1941 and we were not prepared in 2001 and the results were catastrophic.

The more relevant questions are whether we are prepared in 2008 and have we learned anything from history.

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JEWS IN AMERICA: THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

JEWS IN AMERICA I: THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Jews have taken a lot of flak over the centuries. Okay, that’s hardly news although it is worthy of re-statement.

They have been persecuted and prosecuted for millennia, reviled as “Christ Killers,” subjected to pogroms and to the Holocaust, blamed for everything from recessions to depressions, and, in America, accused of having and exerting excessive power and influence in relation to their percentage of the population.

Just as with discussing Blacks or gays in America, there is a certain assumption of bigotry associated with any non-Jew writing about those of the Jewish persuasion so I must hasten to correct that erroneous assumption with regard to this series.

Neither this article nor this series of articles will represent an exercise in “Jew bashing,” too much of which already emanates from brainless twits known as Neo Nazis and skinheads who wish for a return to a return to the days of Adolph Hitler. You may recall those days, the days and nights of kristallnacht, gas chambers, mass murder of twelve million people, and a war which brought death and destruction to the planet and the loss of seventy one million people in World War II.

That is not to suggest, either, that this article and those which follow will avoid controversy or fail to present both sides of questions, allegations, and opinions on this or any other subject.

The series is intended not to castigate or in any way diminish the Jewish people but rather to comment fairly and evenhandedly on a topic on which many non-Jews hold strong opinions but few dare to speak or write openly.

That in itself is troublesome. We still enjoy the rights extended by the First Amendment and any speech or writing not intended to harm or incite rebellion should be acceptable, even though it often is not.

In researching the subject of Jews in America, I’ve discovered that there are countless websites devoted to “Jews.” Google the word and almost 32,000,000 sites are found, an incredible number considering that less than five million websites pop up for “Protestants” and “Hindus,” eleven million for “Catholics,” and twenty seven million for “Muslims.”

According to the C.I.A. World Factbook, Protestants comprise 6% of the global population, Hindus 13%, Roman Catholics 17%, Muslims some 21%, while Jews make up a scant one-quarter of 1%: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/xx.html.

Jews as a subject therefore comprise a miniscule number of believers worldwide yet an inordinate number of websites in some fashion or other make reference to them, at least on the Google search engine.

Those websites and percentages clearly show that there is a great interest in Jews and the question has to be, Why?...

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USING "DIRECT FORCE" IN WWIII

USING “DIRECT FORCE” IN WORLD WAR III

A bipartisan commission has recommended, since all such commissions can ever really do is recommend, that “the incoming Obama administration . . . must not rule out the use of ‘direct force’ – military action – against Iran and North Korea, if diplomatic negotiations fail to stop their nuclear weapons programs”: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40263.

Said commission, headed by former senator Bob Graham (D-FL), and named with the presumptuous, wide-ranging title, “The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) Proliferation and Terrorism,” is an outgrowth and stepchild of the 9/11 Commission, another teats-on-a-bull waste of time and taxpayer money.

Warning that “the greatest danger of another catastrophic attack in the United States will materialize if the world’s most dangerous terrorists acquire the world’s most dangerous weapons,” is tantamount to warning that venomous snakes will eventually emerge from their shells.

The CPWMDPT group’s report was called, “World At Risk,” a heady appellation if there ever was one and reminiscent of “The World At War” television series. The latter title, which referred to World War II, could just as easily be applied to our current “risk” since we are in fact at war today as much as we were in the 1940’s. When it’s over, future historians will refer to it as the Third World War.

The most significant difference is that Americans and our leaders today refuse to accept that reality. We prefer to appoint investigative commissions, which sure beats war mobilization.

Also, to focus on Iran and North Korea, to even suggest that those rogue nations are the primary threats to our interests and therefore we should preemptively those threats, represents subterfuge and disingenuousness of the worst kind.

With proven maniacs in charge, Kim Jong-Il of the Democratic People’s of North Korea (DPRK), , and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Iran’s helm, , not much that is positive can be gained by negotiations, as President Clinton discovered and still refuses to admit. . . .

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD: CORPORATE RACIST/ABORTIONIST

PLANNED PARENTHOOD, CORPORATE RACIST/ABORTIONIST

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the organization founded by racist/eugenicist Margaret Sangar, pretends to be aghast when one of its employees is caught breaking the law: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40329. It’s hardly a rarity and if anyone should be aghast it’s the American people at the activities of this group.

(Also see “Planned Parenthood, or Rabid Racism,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=48.)

In that instance, a PPFOA nurse effectively agreed to conceal the age of a pregnant 13 year old, in violation of Indiana law, so that PPFOA could illegally murder the pre-born child and, as always with PPFOA, collect its blood money in the form of a fee for the abortion.

It turns out that the young girl was older than 13, and probably not even pregnant. Rather, she was a pro-life activist who recorded the exchange with the nurse which audio was then posted online, embarrassing PPFOA sufficiently to suspend the nurse without pay.

In what I originally thought was a lame joke, that same Indiana chapter, and the Illinois chapter, are offering a special this Christmas season–a Planned Parenthood Gift Card! Now, isn’t that just special!

In fact, even “The Daily Show” clown, Jon Stewart, seemed shocked at the insensitivity to Christian values and to the Christmas season, without mentioning either, and ridiculed the gift card idea, saying he now knew what to get for his Secret Santa: ...

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stalagmites and global warmists

A STALAGMITE THROUGH THE HEARTS OF THE WARMISTS

A stalagmite stabs right through the heart of “Global Warming.”

Life is full of valuations and re-evaluations but nothing seems to register with the global warming bunch, not even stalagmites.

This latest Earth news from Reuters, “Climate Change May Explain Empires’ Fall,” http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4B35ZO20081204?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=22&sp=true, should but won’t shake the warmist’s deluded conviction that nasty, old Homo Sapiens are making Planet Earth much too toasty and may soon make it uninhabitable.

In their rush to a wrongful and a non-scientific political judgement, they’ve ignored every other report and all the other evidence that, yes, the globe has been growing a tad warmer of late but, no, people aren’t causing it.

Global warming is a natural phenomenon which, as with all natural phenomena, such as global cooling, will run its course no matter what we mere mortals say or do about it.

Seems now a couple of geologists have found geological evidence in a cave near Jerusalem that way back–up to two thousand years ago still constitutes way back, I believe–that that region experienced a significant drying out period, accompanied by prolonged drought conditions.

The closest thing to heavy industry at the time was clay pot making so that can’t account for the changing conditions as evidenced by rings on a stalagmite, one more factual tidbit that pierces the heart of the phony hot air balloon that is the global warming charade.

That scientists can keep a straight face...

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CHRISTMAS IS LOSING

THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS: CHRISTMAS IS LOSING

With my two earlier articles on Christmas, in the interests of achieving a detente with the forces dedicated to destoying that national and religious holiday, I tried to downplay what is actually a literal war in progress against Christmas.

Now, back to the fray!

A few years back, Fox News’ John Gibson published a book on the subject, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought, the title of which just about says it all.

It is worse than we may have thought and, if anything, that war has gained momentum in the interim.

Just six weeks after the publication of Gibson’s book in 2006, a senseless controversy over Christmas trees erupted in Seattle, an eruption that is emblematic of that war and is just one example of the battles we are facing. See Bonnie Alba’s piece on the subject, “Battling Hate Crimes against Christmas,” http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/alba/071130.

That Seattle teapot tempest reached a peak, or a depth, of inanity after a rabbi protested and demanded that an eight foot menorah, a symbol of the Jewish festival of Hannukah, be displayed next to the largest Christmas tree at Sea-Tac Airport.

Sea-Tac authorities, in their less than infinite wisdom, arrived at the ultimate polititically correct solution: They removed all nine plastic ”holiday trees” from the airport premises. See http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/336038_trees19.html and http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003470331_trees10m.html.

When pushed against the wall, their pusillanimous response was to cave unapologetically to a single individual rather than allow the travelling public some meager measure of Christmas spirit in the form of decorated trees as they wended their way through the chaos that is most airports today.

Correction: It was simply “holiday” not “Christmas” spirit that the Sea-Tac Scrooges abolished. There was no Nativity scene replete with Christ Child at the airport so those Scrooges, under cover of darkness in the middle of the night, removed nine plastic symbols of one of our national holidays.


How stupid and gutless was that!

There’s a clear bottomline to all the dissension surrounding the recognition and celebration of Christmas at this time of year. Why that dissension even exists is beyond me. However, since it does exist, perhaps a reminder is in order.

Not only is Christmas a declared national holiday, and has been for 138 years, we are by far a predominantly-Christian nation, . . .

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NOSTALGIA VS. CHILD ABUSE

It's nice to be welcomed to ChicagoRay.com.
You have your hands full out in that Windy City but I still think Noo Yawk has greater challenges.
Here's my first post here:

NOSTALGIA THWARTED BY THE REALITY OF CHILD ABUSE

Just when Christmas nostalgia and good thoughts begin to envelop me, like Don Corleone, reality drags me back in: http://news.aol.com/article/couple-arrested-in-chained-teen-case/264755?icid=200100397×1214429195x1200873957.

Okay, I didn’t just fall off one of those cauliflower or turnip trucks which clog Long Island backroads this time of year but it’s still a shock to the nervous system to read such child abuse reports, even if that particular horror occurred out on the Left Coast.

Imagine yourself a kid, during that time of life when you had great if impractical dreams, when you envisioned yourself as a future center fielder in the new Yankee Stadium, or hawking overpriced popcorn in that Stadium, or even parking cars nearby.

Instead, this Tracy, California kid, who was 17 and looked 10 or 12, had apparently been shackled and held against his will for a year, was emaciated, nearly naked, filthy, and desparate after he finally escaped and begged people to hide him from his abusers.

Not much else has been reported on the story except that those captors, Michael Schumacher, 34, and Kelly Layne Lau, 30, a girl scout leader, had been arrested. His aunt was subsequently taken into custody by the police. Only the victim’s given name, Kyle, has been released.

This brief item, http://www.knx1070.com/Third-Person-Arrested-in-NorCal-Torture-Case/3425378, features a picture which I have to assume is of the aunt. She, Caren Ramirez,...

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