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SemperFuxit: Marine Corps votes to exit Dept. of the Navy

QUANTICO, Va. — In a move military analysts call “simply stunning,” the Marine Corps voted in a referendum Friday to leave the Department of the Navy, forming a separate branch tentatively named Men’s Department of the Navy. Defense contractor stocks closed sharply down in the wake of the historic vote.

The results were close, with 51.9 percent voting to leave and 48.1 percent voting to remain. Exit polling data showed the vote split along demographic lines with a slight majority of officers and all Marines from Texas voting to leave. More enlisted favored remaining, especially those with four or more dependents.

The hotly contested vote over what became known as “SemperFuxit” followed months of debate and campaigning … Continue reading →

We shall see what Indiana brings, but so far all have been convinced Cruz is going down in serious flames. Even were he to win, one has to wonder just how one is going to unhorse Trump.

The more important question is who the heck are we. Toquiville was amazed by Americans and found them to be different from the rest of the world. Perhaps one can distill the singular characteristic as equality – real equality. Before the law and in society.

Today that doesn’t seem the case. ?What has happened to us. This premise is tackled by Charles Murray in his book, Coming Apart. He contends that the upper-middle-class has walled itself off and become cocooned and self propogating. His data consists of looking at the living … Continue reading →

At the beginning of this election cycle there was a general sense of “good things are coming”. Perhaps it was merely a tiredness with Obama and his socialist ideological combat. Perhaps it was a sense that now we just might have a chance to grow the economy and get an overall better standard of living. Perhaps it was the rather large contingent of young politicians who were vying for the brass ring.

The party has dragged on. Jeb attempted to pre-empt the others with money, an old establishment trick, and Bushes are nothing if not establishment. So if you can just collect an apparently insurmountable pile of cash, you will win.

Didn’t work that way. The younger crowd wasn’t so impressed with the cash, and Jeb’s overall lack … Continue reading →

I know it’s January, and I know that means it’s cold – even in the southern climes. Still, it seems everyone is simply in bed all bundled up.

Myself, I have been working my way through the bureaucratic maze that is state licensing. Finally got my New Mexico license, only to find I now needed to apply for a New Mexico Controlled Substance License. Note there was no mention of this in the original license application, nor a steer about where to go. I guess you were just suppose “to know”. All my other state licenses had the CSL same time. When you renew, you pay an extra fee (of course! It’s government!) but it all comes about at the same time. So $75 and an overnight FedEx … Continue reading →

THANKS – GIVINGS COURTESY OF MARINES Posted: 26 Nov 2015 05:59 AM PST THANKS – GIVINGS COURTESY OF MARINES
by Andy Weddington
Thursday, 26 November 2015
First published Thursday, 22 November 2012 – Thanksgiving Day

“A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.” Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery

Not everyone can be a Marine. Not everyone wants to be a Marine. And, some that want to be a Marine are told they do not have what it takes to be a Marine. But once you are a Marine, you are a Marine for eternity. It was a Marine who … Continue reading →

Everyone is aware of the events of Friday in France. Pres. Hollande has responded “with vigor”. As we speak, the French authorities are conducting raids on muslim strongholds, arresting left and right, and engaging the authorities of neighboring nations in the dragnet for violent muslims.

But “violent muslim” is pretty much a redundant term. Violence is imbedded in islam. The old Flip Wilson remark, “The devil made me do it,” may be an integral part of islam ideology. One cannot solve such derangement with whack-a-mole arrests.

Let us also remember that France is about the size of Massachusetts. All of Europe would fit into New England. WE, OTOH, have not done much to forward any such attack. We send troops to fight, more or less halfheartedly. I have … Continue reading →

In case some of you out there are not aware, one of THE great dates in history is coming up for celebration here very shortly.

I speak, of course, of the United Stated Marine Corps BIRTHDAY! 10 November, 1775 – Tun Tavern.

This is a time of serious revelry, the consumption of much 2-carbon-chain liquids, the wearing of uniforms (if they still fit) and overall a day for feeling superior to all other human beings (sorry! can’t be helped!)

In that spirit, I post this link (I hope it comes through) It is of a rock group called Madison Rising. They have (elsewhere) a great rendition of the national anthem, too.

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Over at Sultan Knish (http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/) Greenfield is noting that Europe is making a serious attempt to die. All the muslim “migrants” are killing their welfare state, so that even Denmark and the Dutch are making changes in how they do things. Perhaps they will restrict the number of muslims that come in. Perhaps not.

But the more interesting question may well be, ?is Europe worth saving. Europe certainly has been the center of much of the development of Western Civilization. But while one can make a very good argument that the Crusades saved Europe from a muslim fate back then – and just barely so – today the Europe we see isn’t much to talk about. The nations all have some socialist tyranny in place, the degree varying … Continue reading →

Today is the 14th anniversary of the trashing of the Twin Towers in NYC. Today, as then, I am at work.

I remember the day. It was a moderate day, so we had a few rooms open. George, the tech, came scooting in and claimed an airplane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers in NYC. George had a reputation of being somewhat of a practical joker, so everyone’s first reaction was,

“Right! We don’t buy it.”

But then he went into Room 5, which faced out onto the center section of the room, and turned on the TV (no one was in the room). There we all saw the TV feed of a smoke cloud coming from one of the World Trade Center towers. We were … Continue reading →

Over at Sultan Knish Daniel Greenfield is at it again. This time his position is that conservatives work far too hard at being “nice”. Lefties don’t bother.

Some of this is because Lefties have a pass by the media, although of late Hillary seems to be tagged pretty hard (well, for a liberal). But then, there is the rumour that Obama is trying to scuttle Hillary as the democrat selection. There could actually be some truth in that.

Meanwhile, Greenfield makes some important points.

If there’s one thing that conservatives need to cure themselves of it’s a slavish desire to be nice. Those who give in to it are lost.
Liberals don’t suffer from a niceness crisis. They don’t find common ground with us. They don’t worry … Continue reading →