One Man's War

One Man's War “ I've been making it a point to walk/run 5 miles everyday since that activity is logged by fitbit, and I am contested by MoSup who, as a matter of course, walks 10 miles a day just shopping, and taunts me for being a laggard.  I've found that listening to audio books is a great way to kill two birds with one stone, and make me forget how much I hate walking.  I just finished One Man's War.   I can't imagine that any man I know wouldn't find it fascinating.  (and there is a love story for the ladies who like adventure). Re: audiobook. Narrator Patrick Lawlor reads this book like a cheerleader or the teacher's pet in an eighth grade English class. His tone is overzealous and maudlin; it dilutes the dark moments and nearly ruins the whole experience. Fortunately, the story transcends all and will stay with you for years (as it has in my case). Tommy Lamore was a gunner on a B-17 that was shot down over France, and the book recounts amazing his adventures through 1945.  I thought the narrator was terrific, and among the best I've heard.  Not everyone will agree of course; you can listen to a sample here. If you're not into it, I believe it will be a real page turner.  The best part is that I didn't pay anything.  I got a library loan using the Overdrive Media Ap.  There was no waiting list.  Here are a few more reviews: When I first read the dust jacket and saw all the things that Tommy LaMore had to endure during his tour of duty in WWII my first thought was "this must be fiction". Well, it is all true and truly amazing. I have read many personal memiors about WWII and I compare all I read to the two best one: "The Forgotten Soldier" and "With The Old Breed". This book is witout a doubt in that class. I don't say that lightly. Mr. LaMore goes from being a tail gunner on a bomber, to being shot down, to the French underground, to the Soviet army approaching Berlin. Along the way, you will meet some really unique characters. My favorite is the Soviet commander who takes a liking to Tommy and tries to keep him safe until he can be turned over to the British. You will also meet the love of his life when he encounters a womens concentration camp and discovers a beautiful polish surviver. Their story alone is worth the price of the book. Outstanding! I won't tell you how it ends but please, please, get this book. You will remember it long after the last page is turned. I have read numerous accounts of men in war and until I read this one, I never had a doubt about the truth. However, this book reads like fiction. I hope I'm wrong but I thought I was reading a Jack Higgins novel. I gave Tommy LaMore the benifit of the doubt and decided to research the man. I was unable to find one written word about him. If his exploits are true, I would love it if someone could point me in the right direction and find a independent biography on him. Since I couldn't find so much as a photo of Tommy LaMore, I'll side with  it being a fictional account.  Doesn't matter. USA UAS USA! On topic, from Marc Miller: Today is Armed Forces day, btw... To quote Obammie, "Who rah?" http://freebeacon.com/culture/the-devil-and-jim-gant/ ”

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Culture War                         “ Has our culture devolved to the point that the private statements of an NBA owner draws more outrage than the lies and deceit of the President of the United States? - Col. Allen West    Ayup E. Lowered Stein ”

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Jews Flee France

Hitler's Mustache                “ Return Engagement The American Thinker article The Ominous Implications for the West of Jews' Exodus from France  is about the exodus from France of French Jews, who are fleeing violence perpetrated by Muslims and apparently tolerated by the French government.   For anyone who's been paying attention, this isn't really news. But, as is often the case with American Thinker, there's more revealed in the Readers' Comments; jumping from anti-Semitism in France to anti-Semitism in America, we learn this: ArmyAviator: There is a new wave of anti-Semitism in America that I continue to be amazed at. In the army, it really began after the First Gulf War. I witnessed officers, even senior officers go from admiring Israel and the Israeli armed forces, to cursing them as "those damned Kikes." Mostly, this has happened due to our culture crashing and burning. Wide scale recruitment of Blacks and other minorities, brought their prejudices and bigotry toward Whites in general and Jews in particular to the army. A Jew in the army is a double target. First, he's White and second he's a Jew. That really irks the Bros and the Hoes! To maintain any possible standard of discipline, the leadership has had to adjust and accept the prejudice and bigotry of the ranks. Consequently, we have the most hostile environment possible for Jewish soldiers, on a scale not seen since before WW2. As the army grows smaller, due to defense cuts, reduction in mission requirements, or whatever, the cadre that remains, will be more and more "politically reliable" and will serve as a tool of the Liberal Socialist movement. This will be accomplished through selective retention, not necessarily of the best and most talented officers and soldiers, but through their dedication to (Liberal Socialist) Democrats! 0bama has had six years already, to weed out politically unreliable General Officers, and the weeding is extending its way down as far as possible, as the army shrinks. If the next president happens to be a Republican, he/she will have a disloyal General Staff, not necessarily interested in "obeying the orders of the President of the United States," but more in tune with advancing Liberal Socialist causes and objectives. Ridding the army of Jews is one of them.  skoonj  @ George Santayana ”

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Bishop Sheen on MFCCS

“  "The Kiss That Blistered" The Dennis Praeger video below's message is that we have failed to pass on to our children the Big Idea.  The values that formed this nation, and unarguably made us the greatest nation in this cycle of human history.  I don't proselytize here, but some things are so much a part of who I am that they cannot be ignored in the context of today's turmoil. As a kid (I apologize to those who've heard this) in Catholic school (Chicago),  we were literally compelled to watch  Bishop Sheen's "Life is Worth Living" on Monday evening.  It cannot have been for religious indoctrination since we were immersed in it anyway.  It was more than that. The nuns would quiz us the next morning to weed out miscreants who had succumbed to Milton Berle (who joked "He uses old material too."). Anyway, the reason Sheen's show was an Emmy winner was due in no small part to his delivery and stage presence.  He began every show with a humorous anecdote that segued into his message.  That message was seldom religious, but would lay a foundation for one that often was.  At any rate, he reflected the values of a nation,  and was part of our character formation. Start this video at the 1:07 mark and watch until his point about Communism is made (ahem), and he moves into Judas's betrayal of Jesus parallel (to avoid the religious part).   I think that most people here will agree that these ideas were part and parcel of  their own experience and belief, and why the hair raises on our necks when Government Speaks. ”

Dennis Prager Q & A

"Dennis Praeger:If Obama died today nothing would change. Nothing.  Here's Why" Spot-On!  The useful idiots came out in droves for this one, a sure indication that their ox had been gored.  Sample. John D 2 weeks ago   Dennis Prager is just another zionist warmonger to ignore. elitemathlete 5 months ago   I love how he likes to play intellectual in front of his idiotic audience.  Its pretty easy to be a giant amongst midgets. Hank Sullivan 3 weeks ago   Prager is suffering under a few ambient delusions, which by his rhetoric we can expect he will not easily remedy.  Yes, all that is true, that Americans have forgotten what it means to be an American.  But that did not happen vicariously, as in a vacuum.  That did not happen because of American prosperity.  It happened because where there is prosperity Robert Berger 3 weeks ago     "They're preoccupied in Europe about vaction & retirement etc"?   Straw man argument . On the whole, people in Europe live much more secure and prosperous lives than millions of Americans , because they have a secure safety net, unlike the U.S. Prager fails to mention that because of our disastrous supply side economic  system, Anthony Neilly 1 week ago   He referred to sarah (Palin) as govenor?! What a joke.    George M

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TEA-PARTY WAR

Tea Party leaders need not apply in Republican Party of the future “While the voice of every Republican should be heard, our challenge is to figure out how to be a conservative party, without allowing the most extreme voices of the day to control our party and determine its future direction.” That was former Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling in the pages of the Washington Post responding to the election of Fred Gruber to head up Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican Committee. Bolling called the result “extremely disappointing.” So, what was it about Gruber that compelled Bolling to refer to him as one of the “most extreme voices” in the Republican Party? Judging from Gruber’s rather mundane campaign website, it is somewhat hard to say. His biography does state that “Fred believes our Party is on the wrong track, and has been an outspoken advocate for the need to reform.” Okay, so he’s not an establishment guy, and is not supportive of the current Republican majority in the House, thinks we’re spending too much, and the like. But so what? Isn’t there room in the Virginia Republican Party for activists like Gruber, who heads the Louisa, Virginia Tea Party and otherwise has spent his career as a financial analyst? Otherwise, Gruber ran on a rather innocuous platform “to bring in new activists from the Tea Party, the Liberty movement, and pro-Family movement, and unite them with traditional Republicans to build a stronger GOP toward winning elections in our state and nationally.” Frankly, that’s all pretty standard boilerplate as far as Republican politics goes. Then again, Bolling’s frustration may have had nothing to do with Gruber’s political beliefs, and everything to do with Gruber’s support of Dave Brat to oppose House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in the upcoming June 10 primary. Adding insult to injury, Gruber had just defeated Cantor loyalist Linwood Cobb to win the local party election. That is apparently enough to get smeared by the former Virginia Lt. Governor as one of the GOP’s “most extreme voices” in one of the nation’s most widely read newspapers, rather than congratulating him on a hard-fought victory. Read more HELL-OOOO? This isn't news so much as just another bulleted item on a long list.  It's only recently (20 years is my recently) that I became acutely aware of the GOP's resistance to what we all assumed was the GOP's raison d' etre— conservatism.  As in—direct opposition to Democrats, which is a healthy political balance. Then, in 1994 (and again in 2004) the GOP, in the guise of Rick Santorum, supported Arlen Specter against the conservative Pat Toomey.  WTF?  That's when I began looking at things.  Now, of course, the signs were there all the while; that the GOP was the go-along/get-along party.  And this Ronald Reagan moment finally made sense to me. ASIDE: Pat Toomey Is Becoming the Arlen Specter He Once Destroyed

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