Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Question for Mister President

Were you really just taken in by the pathos of it all, or did your peeps actually do any research before having you declare, "If I had a son, he'd be just like Trayvon"?

Info here. If that blog can come up with such info, why couldn't all your advisers? I maintain that they should have, and could have, since the investigation into the kid's death was almost a month along by then.

That leaves us with the un-avoidable conclusion that your "Son just like mine" comment was actually meant to deceive. If it was, you owe us all an apology, Mister President. Even if you WERE caught off-guard by the cover-up of this lad's thuggish background, you owe us a follow-up, and that follow-up had better work to turn off all the "blood-in-the-streets" rhetoric we keep hearing from the race-pimps and their Black Marxist enablers.

If there is race-rioting over this issue, Mister President, you are more at fault for starting it than any who throw the first firebombs or use the first guns.

You have a role here, Mister President. Turn off this race war before it starts. If your people think you can hide a failed economy and a failed foreign policy behind the acrid smokescreen of a race war, you are mistaken. Election Day WILL happen, and you will lose anyway, because you will have been fired by We The People. Your Chicago-stype machine will not be able to stuff enough ballot boxes to prevent your being thrown into the dustbin of history.

The only difference is, that without a race war, you will have been fired for simple incompetence, and we've had a few incompetent Presidents before, several still living, in fact. If there is a race war, you will also have been fired for fomenting it, and you will NEVER live that down. You will be reviled for the most shameful chapter of our history that any President ever wrote, and there have been plenty written before you, such as FDR's WW2 Japanese ancestry internment orders or the many railroadings of the American Indian tribes.

You owe us, Mister President. You were elected to effect positive change in this society, and no matter how you lie, you can't fit either race war OR racial appeasement politics into the category of positive change.

If you want to make positive change, support this Nation, it's economy and it's heritage. It's your duty to suppress the hegemony of racial politics, not support it. We can live in harmony in these United States ONLY if we live as One People, not as a collection of races each with it's own racial heritage celebrated as if it was a positive thing. Racial heritage is nothing, NATIONAL heritage is everything. Support your Nation, sir, or step aside for someone who will.

That is all.

The small businessman's Evensong

"Now I lay me down to sleep,

I've sold enough to pay for the Keep,

Should I die before I wake,

I pray (why the Hell didn't I finish that bottle of  '03 Ravenswood Sonoma Valley Cabernet)

It's been a good day for WillBoat.

Goodnight Chet, Goodnight Ed, Goodnight, World (and back when those words were uttered on NBC every night, it WAS a Good Night, because USAF General (CinC SAC) Curtis LeMay and his successors saw to it, and stalwart men held the thin nuke line, but it was good enough to keep the USA safe, and still would be (had not Bill Clinton closed out SAC). I was on that thin nuke line late in those days, and I'm proud to have done my part.

Thursday Thud: Another sour note from Tubby the One-Note Tuba

To quote my good friend out in SD, the Coyote Kid:

"Gov. Chris Christie can kiss this retired military and police veteran’s ass for lowering the flag to half mast for a druggie just because she was a pop star singer."

Now, aren't YOU glad this pandering chump didn't run? Heaven help the eventual GOP nominee if they ask him to be Veep. I don't think I've ever not voted because of a poor Veep choice, but there's always a first time...

If it were to be Romney and Christie anyway, I would be too busy puking my guts out to vote.

Thud! Indeed.

Wotta setta pipes!

For a 7-year old!

I wonder if she'll be able to sing at an old aviator's funeral...

Oh, and she doesn't do too bad with the National Anthem, either.

H/T to the T-Bone out in MT. Keep your wits about you, Tom, Parole & Probation is one of the most dangerous CJ jobs out there...

Word about singing the National Anthem

I don't care who the Hell you are, what your level of fame as a singer is, there are some RULES about singing the National Anthem in public.

The Rules:

• The song has music which goes with it. Learn the music, which means learning the beat and the meter of the stanzas you are going to sing. Sing the music according to it's original beat and meter.
• The song is a hymn of praise to our Nation. Never forget that. The song is never about YOU, it is ALWAYS about the Nation. Respect the Nation by singing it properly and well, and YOU will be respected. This is the consequence of not singing it well. Do not have the production crew broadcast your image from weird angles, such as waist-level, focusing on your mouth as you hit high notes and hold them too long. Remember, the song is not about YOU.
• If you don't know how to sing the song, You Tube is full of fine singers, Madeline Edwards comes to mind, who have sung it properly. You Tube is also full of fine bands/orchestras who have played it properly, the USMC Band comes to mind.

Do it right or don't do it. It's not supposed to be a show-stopper, it's supposed to be a sincere gesture of respect for our Nation and it's values. If you don't feel that respect, on a daily basis, this old Veteran suggests you just keep silent. If you DO feel that respect on a daily basis, and have a decent voice, PRACTICE the National Anthem, many times, before you sing it in public. It is a technically-difficult piece to sing, and if you try to "wing" it, you will mess it up.

Happy New Year!

...Now that the formalities are dispensed with, may we face the reality?

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when we are going to have to listen to constant lies pounded down our throats for the next 10.25 months? (Until that First Tuesday in November, when we will instantantly switch over to laments of What Have We Just Done?)

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when our Nation is led by the most incompetent and corrupt crew of nincompoops to ever be elected here in the entire history of this Nation? (Let the nincompoop comparisons begin!)

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when our Daily Bread (wages, salaries) buys such schlock and crap that we have to buy it over and over and over again when we should only have to buy it once for our lifetimes? (Let the Old Quality vs. New Technology comparisons begin!)

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when we let our Government tell us how best to raise our children, even as we can demonstrate that in our clans, child-raising has been done successfully WITHOUT that interference for many generations? (Let the Old School now debate the New School!)

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when we've let our Government tell us we can't pray in public (unless we're folowers of Islam, then the restriction is ignored). Seem to THIS curmudgeon that the Constitution mandates against ESTABLISHING a religion for the State, it does not mandate DIS-establishing religious views held by citizens? (Let the Religion in our Lives arguments begin!)

How the HELL can it be a Happy new year when we have Foreign Policy run by idiots? It seems to THIS Veteran that when one Administration, with bi-partisan Congressional approval, commences war against a hostile foreign entity, it is the intent of our bi-partisan representatives (reflecting We The People's consent) that said war be carried to a VICTORIOUS conclusion, and not summarily terminated (cutting and running does NOT equal Victory) before such victory is obtained, at the great cost that is required. Yes, Obama has the Constitution at his back on this one, since he IS the C-I-C, but isn't it about time for a "Victory in War" Amendment to the Constitution that gives Congress oversight of war strategy?

Well, HELL has just frozen over, so it's going to be a fine year for THIS curmudgeon!

Keep on keepin' on, readers. There are going to be days this year that are tough to face, but if you start your day with a salute to your Flag, as I do, you will march in the correct direction, and if you "eyeball" a bit while while you are marching, you will note that you have plenty of company. One can only hope at at the head of this column of stalwarts is a leader worthy of the name.

Anti-blogging medication

The same medicine, Coricidin, which helps control the histamines my body generates during this URI makes me not want to blog, since it dulls the mind somewhat. It's been all I can do to muster up the concentration to do a few business functions at the computer.

Yes, I missed Thursday Thuds, but I have a treat for you today: something to wash out the eyes with.

Breitbart TV did this little video presentation on the Patriot Guard Riders, and he chose the Oregon Division, and used the Willamette National Cemetery as a backdrop. It's excellent cinematography, makes it's political point well, and for me, a bonus: it's a fine video record of the place most of the Veteran members of my family are buried.

Secure a box of tissues close by, and use full-screen, this is shot in 1080p.

If I had a Hog, or anything resembling a big bike, I'd be riding for the Patriot Guard. If you have a Hog, you should already be riding for them.

H/T to Lt. Col. Dixon for sending me the link.

Thursday Thud #13

...that's correct, there will only be one Thud heard today, because the Thud illustrated here is really the only one you ever want to hear, if you are a warrior, and if you're not one now, you probably will be in times to come.

That Thud! of course, is the sound your mortal enemy makes as he falls at your feet, vanquished by your last, best, finally victorious, blow.

Winning your last battle, the battle you went into knowing either you or your enemy, but not both, would come out alive, is what my presentation today is about.

There's music which was written to inspire those fighting this last battle, to bring the Union side of that battle to victory. It's called, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, it is sung here by several school choirs, and presented by the owner of the website you are linked to. If your sympathies stood with the other side in that conflict which ended, lo these 146 years ago, I feel your pain when you hear this music, written as it was to stir the wrong side to victory. None the less, the music accomplishes it's goal, and in a Nation Re-United, but now, sadly, falling rapidly from it's former grace, it needs to be heard again, it needs to be taken to heart, and it needs to inspire yet another generation of Americans to arise from their slumbers, throw off the yokes we have been burdened with unjustly, and smite those blows which will vanquish our oppressors and restore the former glory of our God and our Nation. When we do, we get to hear that rarest of sounds, that Thud! signifying that we've won.

The music is all about fighting with the inspiration of a resolute God, and stout fellow-soldiers at your side, all of whom take inspiration from that resolute God.

In the Bible, the words are in Romans 13:4

I have one small complaint about this music, as it is usually sung today: In the second-to-last stanza is the line, "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,". This line is changed a bit in a politically-correct way now, and is usually sung, "As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free,". This seemingly-small change dilutes the entire purpose of the music, which was to get the soldiers singing it or listening to it to overcome their fear of death on the battlefield, and to put forth their very best effort to win the upcoming battle.

I can find no provenance that tells me that this change is an accepted one by the heirs of the composer, Julia Ward Howe, so I state firmly that it is an improper change which badly distorts the music's purpose, and should never be repeated. Sing the lyrics correctly, please.

BTW, this is the 150th Anniversary of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Miss Howe wrote it in 1861.

BTW2, this post is dedicated to two of my greatest inspirations in life, Miss VikkiLee and the Patriot Padre.

If you'll excuse me...

I'm headed for Lowe's to go Christmas Shopping, since this article tells me that the owners of Lowe's probably still support the idea of Christmas.

Watch the Great Apologizer cave on this one...

Russia is threatening Cold War Two.

We know that Obama will cave, the only question is whether he will issue a formal apology with his cavilling.

Were it up to me, I would show, for one Russ ROR-sat pass, a boomer-boat of ours in the Western Pacific, and tell the Russ that it's on station in that vicinity, and with the first missile fired at that Polish anti-missile array, the Sakhalin petro/gas field goes away.

Since Russia would be poorer that Somalia without the petrodollars that field brings in, that ought to put them back in check...