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As a ukrainian-american, I have many friends and family that are also willing to have ukrainians "fight to the last ukrainian". The issue I believe is that there is more hatred toward Russia, than love for one's own humanity or one another. This clouds judgement and doesn't allow armchair ukrainians who root via CNN to see the big picture of those neocons like Kissinger pulling the strings.
I'm guessing it'll be the Taiwan flag, as Jeff suggested in yesterday's post. Then of course, for June it has to be the rainbow flag for Alphabet-pride month. Revolving flags...
Top Gun: Maverick did it first! Just sayin'. He had the flag on his jacket and it was quite the wrangle to make it happen, as I heard. Probably just propaganda.
I bet it was taking a lot out of their business. Just like everything else in Wokeville, they stand with the oppressed figuratively until there is even just a wisp of cost literally. Or they grow bored of it. There is no "there" there. Roman in another comment nailed it... with a bigger hammer.
Believe it or not, I've recently seen a business here or there (also a home) that still has their "I support BLM" signs up. For a business that does that, I won't go inside.
Last week, at a local thrift store benefitting our animal shelter, I noticed someone had put up a Uke flag decal. They were treated to my two cents and it was hastily removed.
I ordered a set of dishes, original Fiesta Ware from the company. I got them and had two broken giant bowls. They were so cute, but not usable. I put them in my flowerbed, up, leaning against each other. I knew, from the beginning it was a poor color choice to arrive broken. Blue and yellow...but I did it anyway. Yard art, not virtue signaling. Of course, people are so self absorbed and clueless, it was not noticed by anyone but people 'like us'. They asked and I am like Hells NO!
Oh, I do like that! On the what-to-do with broken dishes topic, I keep digging up in my vegetable garden, bits of pottery (sometimes Pennsylvania redware--as I live on a property first farmed in 18th C)....nothing of any size. Also, Fiesta Ware! In my childhood (1950's), my mother put a yellow Fiesta Ware pitcher of milk on the table every night so we children could, having drunk our milk, have more. And my grandmother served us lunch, when we visited, on Fiesta Ware plates. Saw them at my husband's grandmother's home, as well.
That piece of arrant virtue signaling (to be found wherever front yards feature Black Lives Matter signs) has bugged me for 14 months. Local UCC church has both Ukraine and LGBTQT signs out front.
I am a descendant of the original Congregationalists--those 1620 folks--my husband has even more of them in his bloodline. I certainly hope that in heaven they are busy glorifying God and totally unaware of what the USA is now doing. This morning I followed (rabbit hole?) a topic in which the writer spoke of the early 19th C. M.D. being discussed as being a member of the Presbyterian Church in that particular town, and I, being a native Bay-stater, screamed, there were NO Presby in New England then! I went to the website of that Congregational Church in Ashland Ma, and was totally unsurprised (yes disgusted) by what they proclaimed. Yuck.
How is that old fossil still clacking his gums? Honestly. All of these old, irrelevant mouthpieces of Satan...obviously a pact with the devil. Positively Faustian.
The SMO wouldn't have happened if the Ukraine had honored their commitments to the Minsk agreements instead of using them as a ruse to delay the beginning of the inevitable and promised SMO.
Most modern Americans are completely ignorant of FDR's retraction and destruction of the TM-2000-25 that had been being used to educate military inductees in the differences between a democracy and a republic. I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in FDR's deceit look up TM-2000-25 and educate themselves on what he prevented WW2 soldiers from being told.
But then there was the Battle of Athens, GA where a bunch of war vets in 1946 armed themselves and fought against a corrupt city government and police force and won. Amazing piece of history! Worth looking it up.
Something like that has been repeated journalistically by a father and son team of journalists who recently won a Pulitzer Prize, John and his son, Ramsey Archibald. They ended up uncovering a scandal at a local police department outside Birmingham. Their reporting for the website al.com resulted in the resignation of the police chief, four new laws, a state audit and a Pulitzer Prize awarded yesterday for that father-son team, along with their colleagues Ashley Remkus and Challen Stephens.
It was indeed amazing. I read about the Battle of Athens many years ago.
Returned vets were armed with machine guns. Think "Walking Tall" but the local police were the organized crime, and the individual vets were in fact badasses.
Thanks, I've never heard of it (25 years of military service). Nor did I get one moment's training on the Constitution, that thing which we vow to support and defend. No; only sexual harassment, HIV, etc. And I retired well over a decade ago; can't imagine what the mandatory training is like these days. Ugh.
My father, his friends, my grand-parents did not have any idea how systematically knowledge of the organizing principles had been removed from public view in their lifetimes. They tended to trust the government which was not into their lives like the 'government' (whatever it is?) is now. And my schooling in the 1950's and 1960's was even worse than what they received. Things are much worse now. Back then, we could travel around the world and hold our heads up. Now, I am ashamed of the lies and terrorism perpetrated by the United States and the Super-Agency operating in the West. The magnitude of this tragedy is beyond compare. All the world suffers, including us.
I went to school in France for my senior year in college, and this was 1973-74. I traveled around a lot, and for the most part, people in France and especially in England were very positive about America, but this was noticeably true for the older people who still expressed thanks and appreciation for what the U.S. did during WW2. One thing I distinctly remember, however, was one time in Germany a young man said in quite angry tones, "You Americans are so racist". A few of the young French expressed a similar view, which I found amusing because the French in the south of France where I lived had a multi-tiered price system in the cafés and restaurants: Cheapest price was for customers who were local, native French. A bit more expensive for out of area French. Next higher price was for foreigners (including Americans). The HIGHEST price was for the many local Algerians who were imported to do the grunt work, construction, janitorial etc. But those French who sneer at America would never consider themselves racists, no no noooooo.
The French are quite inconsistent ... and maybe only the French can totally understand the French. I ought to know, because I worked for a French firm when a young man in New York City, Island of Manhattan. Still, with all their posturing and strange ways, I enjoyed working for these French people over American firms. Whatever their faults, the French were quite human. And if you treated them well, they would go to the wall for you. It was a strange experience, and in many ways, quite delightful. Anyone who did their job well was appreciated.
In France, Italy and elsewhere, the Resistance Underground were largely Communist. And also, there were a lot of Communist newspapers and so on in Europe post-war when I was a young man. And working off this base, Woke came into Europe as it did in America. So, I understand your remarks and experience within this context. And by the way, Communists and Marxists in general always hate the existing order, traditional morality ... and above all, a Christian ordered basis of reality by law and world view. Hence, Communists are always at war with anyone who is not one of them. We see this in spades all around us. Unfortunately, it seems to be always a matter of them or us. And by the way, I never saw Europe as a monolith.
I had a guitar teacher friend in New York who used to pal around with a son of Picasso. This was in his Paris day. One day, we are talking about art and I remarked that Picasso was a Communist. And my friend who was a Spaniard said, "Well if he was, then he was the richest Communist if ever met!" Yes, Picasso lived very well and was driven around in some very smart looking cars.
Now I'm suspicious, because the 1928 version says it supercedes the document called Manual of Citizenship Training, from 1927. That one exists in various military libraries, it appears, but seems not to be available for download or purchase. What changed, I wonder, between 1927 and 1928? The original author was an Army Chaplain.
The only thing I can find with the title of Manual of Citizenship is:
DAR Manual for Citizenship
From as early as 1910, the DAR has helped immigrants become naturalized citizens. For more than 85 years, the DAR has compiled and published the DAR Manual For Citizenship (PDF). More than 12 million copies of this book were distributed free of charge to immigrants seeking American citizenship. The manual is now provided online.
In 2004, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services used the DAR Manual for Citizenship as a guide when creating their new study materials for citizenship.
The manual continues to be useful for those studying to become citizens, and for students learning about U.S. citizenship and immigration. Classrooms may use it as a tool to inform students what new citizens must learn before becoming a naturalized citizen.
The manual covers topics such as: the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Democracy, U.S. government, role of citizens, the U.S. Flag, Statue of Liberty and becoming a citizen.
DAR members at Ellis Island volunteered with recent immigrants and at the Marine Hospital.
Today, DAR members across the country continue to help immigrants become naturalized citizens as well as celebrate their achievements by participating in naturalization ceremonies in their local communities.
To view and print the DAR Manual for Citizenship (PDF), please click here.
For an educational handout about the DAR Manual for Citizenship click here.
For additional information please contact your local DAR chapter
"Hating Russians, or anybody...what does that get you?"
Terminal Blindness as to who is responsible for perpetrating the greatest Evil ever unleashed upon the plant, not to mention the obvious quotient of terrorism.
Well, suggestio falsi and suppressio veri, while might appear antonyms on a passing glance, au fond belong to the same coin, the one which is called lying in folksy parlance 🤷
I have to agree. We have Ukranian friends who still live part time in Ukraine. They are fierce in their vitriol toward Russia and their pride towards Ukraine, chanting proud verbiage of how Ukraine will never back down and will ultimately overcome.
There's a fine line b/w patriotism and hateful fanaticism indeed. Hope we can all remember to breathe and count our blessings, and respect one another at this point. Thanks so much for sharing.
I just feel badly for them in general- they are enduring so much! They are not in a place to hear an alternative perspective, so I just keep my mouth closed and pray for them.
my legal immigrant Ukrainian neighbor hates Zelensky and is rooting for Putin to take him out. She says her friends still in the Ukraine say the Biden admin is actually keeping him from doing that. It would be all over if Biden admin would get out of the way, let Putin get rid of Zelensky.
I had to sit through a nauseating pro-Ukraine keynote speech at UT Austin College of Libtard Arts by Bianna Golodryga, CNN Senior Global Affairs Analyst. Rather than give the graduates a positive message, she recalled her college experience at UT (which was nothing like today during Covid) and pushed her proxy war monger beliefs on all of the graduates and families who were held captive waiting for the diploma walk.
All I could think about was how proud I was for my daughter who did not fall for the indoctrination.
Ironically my uber liberal arts Writing and Publishing degree taught me the skill of deconstructing film/advertising/poetry/journalism etc and of how to build a narrative. It ruined movie watching for me but I remain to this day impervious to any and all media techniques of manipulation so I watch to see what they are playing at.
I had a similar experience, Amanda. My high school English department taught us how to discern fact from opinion and how to detect propaganda. We were also taught the evils of communism. I have wondered from the start why we have no embedded news media in Ukraine like we did in VietNam and Iraq. They dominated the nightly news. I also watch night-time entertainment to monitor their woke thinking patterns. It is sometimes so heavy handed and juvenile that it is laughable. IQs have certainly slid over the cliff to single digits in the last 30-40 years.
Thank God for those good teachers back then. And yes, what we are not being told is as important as what we are. I was rubbish at art but I remember being taught it's the spaces between brushstrokes that create the whole picture - it's the same with any narrative - what are they leaving out in order for you to see the picture they want you to see. Honestly, these last 3 years have been like one long seminar in critical thinking where the actions of respective govts, global organisations etc have had the opposite effect of the one they intended; the techniques they've deployed have woken an awful lot of people up and taught same the critical thinking skills they were lacking before. I remain hopeful :)
The Navy had Combat Camera that went to war with our troops and video documented everything. They did away with the command about 5 years ago. They said it was because our guys had cameras on the operators. You don’t see anything any more.
Interesting! For me, although I already had a good foundation in being skeptical and noticing propaganda, it was a seminar on New Economic Policy USSR in the history department of an extremely liberal college that helped further hone my ability to think critically about anything I read or saw.
Ha! Cynicism was never my default position but I've always felt slightly 'off' about the world I inhabit - like I'm some sort of observer rather than having the 'immersive experience'. Society as I've experienced it here in our western civ has always seemed a little fake to me. I swear, my first conscious thought at about 5 yrs was "if pebbles were money everyone would be rich" - I have remained weird ever since...
I was teaching in Iran in 1977-79 during the period of the Iranian revolution and fall of the Shah. My parents would send me news clippings about what was supposedly going on from U.S. newspapers and I also read Time and Newsweek accounts of events. I was astounded at how totally wrong all the reporting was. Probably deliberately wrong as I would now think, but at that time, I was focused on how uninformed and clueless all the reporting was. Also in Iran, there was extreme local censorship that was laughably obvious, so my B.S. detection skills were honed during that period of time.
Exactly. Often it's impossible to know "The Truth" but one can often make educated guesses. I'm most familiar with Nietzsche in "Beyond Good and Evil." Here, among other examples, he dissects the claims of philosophers who construct elaborate arguments to support their version of Truth. Nietzsche suggests a more interesting line of inqury, applicable to all areas of thought: Rather than try and arrive at objective truth, which may well be impossible, instead he suggests that one inquire into WHY the need, the motivation, to believe that something is a certain way.
I have a uber-woke masters in social work, and realized early on that the goal of "therapy" was to ttransform legitimately unhappy people into obedient, woke tools of the State.
No tv for me, either. 16 years. I choose what I want to see on the computer - my time, my choice. I find that I am far more widely informed than those who are addicted to television.
I’ve never owned a TV. Had a borrowed old black and white one (that got three channels) for a year in grad school and had one in a sublet for a few months when I was in my 20s. Didn’t have the extra money to buy one then ended up deciding I was better off without.
Well isn't that a blessing! Thanks for sharing I had a similar experience with a cell phone when I was 17, I racked up a $2k bill with a long-distance girlfriend. Told myself I wouldn't get another phone until I could pay that bill. Wound up not getting a phone until I was 21. Saved lots of brain cells.
Hubs is heading for South Africa in July. I told him to keep an ear out and let me know what is REALLY going on in the world. I know we are being manipulated, hard. My daughter was in Europe last year and life was normal there. Go figure.
Even listening to Spotify, which is bought and paid for by Pfizer has become impossible. “Ask your doctor about a vaccine for neucochimal(sp) pneumonia” whatever the fuck that is, I guess it will kill you.
"...but don't ask your doctor about how to maximize your immune system. (Even if you did, most wouldn't know. Only conspiracy theorists know how.)" Once you see it, you can't stop seeing it everywhere. What a scam most of it is (but not all; the trick is to try to figure out what might not be).
We dont watch any 'news' propaganda channels or network tv, but do enjoy having streaming services which allow us to nostalgically enjoy 60s and 70s sitcoms and shows, and some very good new series, period and contemporary. If the F curse is too much, we dont watch. If the sex scenes are too much, we don't watch.
But there is some really good entertainment out there, not to mention series on PBS.. .
Just finished watching ' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel', (American comedy), Rough Diamonds (Dutch suspense), The Bodyguard
Loved Mrs. Maisel. I just finished it. Discovery+ without commercials is great. I always spend the extra 2 bucks a month and go commercial free. Also found The Detectorists on FreeVee I think? It was so good! (British) But the propaganda over grocery store speakers??!! I will never shop at Albertsons again. We live part time in FL and there is a store there that plays The Message with no ads and it is wonderful. Detweilers!
never had a TV here in US, only see it when going to the hairdresser. I hate commercials and have 3 ad blockers on computer and still a few manage to slip through when watching docs on YouTube. Grrr.
We removed our television over a year ago (and haven't had cable for about 10 yrs.)
Would never ever allow it in the house again. In fact, my son won a 55" LG television about 6 months ago. It sat unopened in our garage until he gave it away still unopened a few weeks ago.
I finally got to my C&C tonight with a cup of decaf - I made the “mistake” of digging into the comments and HOLY MOLEY are there some freaking amazing, intelligent and beyond fascinating people giving their 2 cents with their wisdom and life experiences. What a privilege to be with you all this evening!
A nice Psalm to meditate on today. Makes me so grateful for our great reconciler our Lord Jesus Christ. The law reveals our sin and the depths of depravity deep within us. The only cure is the saving grace of the Lord who died once and for all for our sin. I thank God for the gift of the Holy Spirit to impress upon me the direction my feet should go. Thank you Janice.
Chelsea Clinton: "We're working with WHO and The Gates Foundation and others to hopefully have the largest childhood immunization effort ever over the next 18 months to catch as many kids up as possible."
Let’s start with Bill Gates’ kids and grandkids which were never immunized at all?!? Then move one to all the celeb and political hypocrites which have done the same. There are a lot of anti vaxxers which support vaccines for others.
Same for the employees of Pfizer and other other vaxxers. They either skipped all the shots (like the CEO admits) or got a special batch that wasn't available to the public. I could find a link to that last claim if I looked hard enough.
And of course Congress was exempt. While they're mandating jabs for everyone else.
Their examples are not to be admired! I cannot figure out how so many were so fooled into taking the shot. All you have to do is see who was exempt, but that list was published after the scarcity fear announcement. You had better get yours before there aren't't any left for you!
When I watched this the other day, my first thought was, Gosh. It's not red flaggy to involve Gates and WHO. Not one bit. And why is this her pet project? What are her qualifications?
Yep. The Kennedy kids were in that category. Carolyn Kennedy had no credentials but sailed from one ambassadorship to another. I don’t think she was an airhead like Chelsea but it was clearly the name that opened doors. Almost as if America has its own brand of privileged royalty.
I absolutely despise the use of the expression “America’s royal family” for the Kennedys and their ilk. We fought a war to get away from the whole to the manor born aristocracy culture!
Being an ambassador requires no special skills. I saw that up close and personal in the years I spent living in both Iran and Saudi Arabia. My impression of these people was that they were not real intelligent or knowledgeable, but they were heavy drinkers (who may have gone to a place like Saudi Arabia to dry out, but the irony was that in the right circles, alcohol was flowing freely) who spent all their time schmoozing at cocktail parties with other useless ambassadors on the embassy row party circuit. So Caroline Kennedy or even Chelsea Clinton would fit in just fine, dunces that they both are.
I was in Belize on government business in the late '90s, and we met with the Ambassador. I looked her up, and she had been a speech-writer for Bill Clinton.
Well, the Kennedys were treated like pseudo royalty for sure. I remember it well. Jackie Kennedy was in the papers and magazines constantly, they hung on her every word, fawned over her designer clothing. They lived a privileged life just like royalty.
I think she just needs to have a large wallet to hold the millions that they are paying her to do this. If she only knew what it was like for the boy in the hospital bed with myocarditis or the parent whose child has died from this shot. Someone needs to tell her.
Covid is such a big nothing burger now (thank God), that I am surprised that anyone is even pushing the vaccines to anyone..(putting aside the many injuries from them being uncovered throughout the world)
"They" are trying to convert as many vaxes as possible to the mRNA platform, so she's probably focusing on all childhood vaccines that were getting skipped during the lockdown.
This woman is damaged goods. Mental health treatment needed STAT, but she’s probably afraid to enter any Dr offices. Wonder how much of this is fear for herself or infecting others. I didn’t read the whole nonsense but she’s the one with 2 masks and a visor standing way over by the toilet paper at Walmart.
But the state of mental health care is a joke, too. They push medications that have terrible side effects/addictive properties, and the counseling they do is no better - they're the ones who can't even define what a woman is, and think a toddler can be transgender.
Tell me about it. My only grandchild is in the trans evil. The mental health professional industry is in on it. Child was already on the spectrum and they encouraged the whole thing. Once I realized the schools, government, medical and mental health complex was behind all this and IMO grooming children I could barely breathe. I can’t say anything about my concerns either. I’m a hater then. 16 yo with 1 mutilation already. It’s satanic. God help us.
As a ukrainian-american, I have many friends and family that are also willing to have ukrainians "fight to the last ukrainian". The issue I believe is that there is more hatred toward Russia, than love for one's own humanity or one another. This clouds judgement and doesn't allow armchair ukrainians who root via CNN to see the big picture of those neocons like Kissinger pulling the strings.
Kissinger...his fat ass is not on the front lines.
Exactly - anyone who says "I stand with Ukraine" tell them "ok then, go stand there."
I saw yesterday that a local company removed their Ukraine flag from the business. I was going to call today and ask why. I can be a handful.
Be a handful! 👍
Yes!!
Gotta make room out front to signal the next virtue-du-jour.
I'm guessing it'll be the Taiwan flag, as Jeff suggested in yesterday's post. Then of course, for June it has to be the rainbow flag for Alphabet-pride month. Revolving flags...
I'm so old I remember when Pride Month only lasted a week
What if certain people chose not to enter malls during the month of June......and made that choice (don't know how) public?
I thought that as well. Maybe I will be ask that very question.
Yep, out with the old, in with the new.
Stand with Taiwan?
I wonder how that will play out. Maybe the 'Stand With' movement will lose it's grift power.
Yep - like decorations at the dollar store- never a day missed for the next holiday
Taiwan
Top Gun: Maverick did it first! Just sayin'. He had the flag on his jacket and it was quite the wrangle to make it happen, as I heard. Probably just propaganda.
Be a handful.
You go Dr. Linda!
I'd want to know why they are not loud and proud anymore.
You have an inquiring mind!
They're are too sick with repeated bouts of covid , rsv etc. Being woke takes a lot out of you. 😉
I bet it was taking a lot out of their business. Just like everything else in Wokeville, they stand with the oppressed figuratively until there is even just a wisp of cost literally. Or they grow bored of it. There is no "there" there. Roman in another comment nailed it... with a bigger hammer.
Believe it or not, I've recently seen a business here or there (also a home) that still has their "I support BLM" signs up. For a business that does that, I won't go inside.
A home (house?) along a busy numberer route in my town still has one.
That is a good idea! Pity I have not taken note of just which houses/businesses (other than church mentioned above) have shown the blue and yellow
Last week, at a local thrift store benefitting our animal shelter, I noticed someone had put up a Uke flag decal. They were treated to my two cents and it was hastily removed.
I ordered a set of dishes, original Fiesta Ware from the company. I got them and had two broken giant bowls. They were so cute, but not usable. I put them in my flowerbed, up, leaning against each other. I knew, from the beginning it was a poor color choice to arrive broken. Blue and yellow...but I did it anyway. Yard art, not virtue signaling. Of course, people are so self absorbed and clueless, it was not noticed by anyone but people 'like us'. They asked and I am like Hells NO!
Oh, I do like that! On the what-to-do with broken dishes topic, I keep digging up in my vegetable garden, bits of pottery (sometimes Pennsylvania redware--as I live on a property first farmed in 18th C)....nothing of any size. Also, Fiesta Ware! In my childhood (1950's), my mother put a yellow Fiesta Ware pitcher of milk on the table every night so we children could, having drunk our milk, have more. And my grandmother served us lunch, when we visited, on Fiesta Ware plates. Saw them at my husband's grandmother's home, as well.
Love it!! Please let us know what they say!
You should go there and pitch a fit. Lol.😄
I was thinking of congratulating them.
Tell them it is Taiwan's turn now.
Let us know, I'd love to know the answer (:
Thanks, Roman,
That piece of arrant virtue signaling (to be found wherever front yards feature Black Lives Matter signs) has bugged me for 14 months. Local UCC church has both Ukraine and LGBTQT signs out front.
UCC....Where all sin is honored....😬
I am a descendant of the original Congregationalists--those 1620 folks--my husband has even more of them in his bloodline. I certainly hope that in heaven they are busy glorifying God and totally unaware of what the USA is now doing. This morning I followed (rabbit hole?) a topic in which the writer spoke of the early 19th C. M.D. being discussed as being a member of the Presbyterian Church in that particular town, and I, being a native Bay-stater, screamed, there were NO Presby in New England then! I went to the website of that Congregational Church in Ashland Ma, and was totally unsurprised (yes disgusted) by what they proclaimed. Yuck.
Thanks so much Via for sharing. Whereabouts is the church?
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LMAO!!
What a fossil. I remember him when I was a pre-teen, and I'm officially a senior citizen now! 🧐
Evil takes forever to die.
Shuttle Diplomacy and all the ta doo over the shape of the table for the Paris peace talks.Remember it well.
I didn't like him way back when, and I don't like him now. Isn't he well past his "sell by" date??
How is that old fossil still clacking his gums? Honestly. All of these old, irrelevant mouthpieces of Satan...obviously a pact with the devil. Positively Faustian.
No kidding.
As a non Ukrainian my perspective is that this conflict is a Slavic Civil War and there are
folks with an antipathy towards Slavic peoples that will fund the continuance of this bloodshed.
Good insight- it's been a warzone for millenia
The SMO wouldn't have happened if the Ukraine had honored their commitments to the Minsk agreements instead of using them as a ruse to delay the beginning of the inevitable and promised SMO.
We sure could do worse than lend an ear to FDR; stale pale male and long dead... but still 😏
🗨 In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Most modern Americans are completely ignorant of FDR's retraction and destruction of the TM-2000-25 that had been being used to educate military inductees in the differences between a democracy and a republic. I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in FDR's deceit look up TM-2000-25 and educate themselves on what he prevented WW2 soldiers from being told.
But then there was the Battle of Athens, GA where a bunch of war vets in 1946 armed themselves and fought against a corrupt city government and police force and won. Amazing piece of history! Worth looking it up.
Something like that has been repeated journalistically by a father and son team of journalists who recently won a Pulitzer Prize, John and his son, Ramsey Archibald. They ended up uncovering a scandal at a local police department outside Birmingham. Their reporting for the website al.com resulted in the resignation of the police chief, four new laws, a state audit and a Pulitzer Prize awarded yesterday for that father-son team, along with their colleagues Ashley Remkus and Challen Stephens.
It was indeed amazing. I read about the Battle of Athens many years ago.
Returned vets were armed with machine guns. Think "Walking Tall" but the local police were the organized crime, and the individual vets were in fact badasses.
Thanks, I've never heard of it (25 years of military service). Nor did I get one moment's training on the Constitution, that thing which we vow to support and defend. No; only sexual harassment, HIV, etc. And I retired well over a decade ago; can't imagine what the mandatory training is like these days. Ugh.
I just downloaded the below, but have not read any of it save a tidbit. It looks to be interesting. Hope the link works.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51Z1_Vj69NBY3lVMlhwZm13Q2c/view?resourcekey=0-Fs--mhIzOErWaa7eaZ6Xcw
My father, his friends, my grand-parents did not have any idea how systematically knowledge of the organizing principles had been removed from public view in their lifetimes. They tended to trust the government which was not into their lives like the 'government' (whatever it is?) is now. And my schooling in the 1950's and 1960's was even worse than what they received. Things are much worse now. Back then, we could travel around the world and hold our heads up. Now, I am ashamed of the lies and terrorism perpetrated by the United States and the Super-Agency operating in the West. The magnitude of this tragedy is beyond compare. All the world suffers, including us.
Saw that; I opened this link, which is a PDF. Having printed copies and 'wayback' electronic copies seems prudent.
https://constitution.org/1-Activism/mil/tm/tm_2000-25/tm_2000-25.pdf
I went to school in France for my senior year in college, and this was 1973-74. I traveled around a lot, and for the most part, people in France and especially in England were very positive about America, but this was noticeably true for the older people who still expressed thanks and appreciation for what the U.S. did during WW2. One thing I distinctly remember, however, was one time in Germany a young man said in quite angry tones, "You Americans are so racist". A few of the young French expressed a similar view, which I found amusing because the French in the south of France where I lived had a multi-tiered price system in the cafés and restaurants: Cheapest price was for customers who were local, native French. A bit more expensive for out of area French. Next higher price was for foreigners (including Americans). The HIGHEST price was for the many local Algerians who were imported to do the grunt work, construction, janitorial etc. But those French who sneer at America would never consider themselves racists, no no noooooo.
The French are quite inconsistent ... and maybe only the French can totally understand the French. I ought to know, because I worked for a French firm when a young man in New York City, Island of Manhattan. Still, with all their posturing and strange ways, I enjoyed working for these French people over American firms. Whatever their faults, the French were quite human. And if you treated them well, they would go to the wall for you. It was a strange experience, and in many ways, quite delightful. Anyone who did their job well was appreciated.
In France, Italy and elsewhere, the Resistance Underground were largely Communist. And also, there were a lot of Communist newspapers and so on in Europe post-war when I was a young man. And working off this base, Woke came into Europe as it did in America. So, I understand your remarks and experience within this context. And by the way, Communists and Marxists in general always hate the existing order, traditional morality ... and above all, a Christian ordered basis of reality by law and world view. Hence, Communists are always at war with anyone who is not one of them. We see this in spades all around us. Unfortunately, it seems to be always a matter of them or us. And by the way, I never saw Europe as a monolith.
I had a guitar teacher friend in New York who used to pal around with a son of Picasso. This was in his Paris day. One day, we are talking about art and I remarked that Picasso was a Communist. And my friend who was a Spaniard said, "Well if he was, then he was the richest Communist if ever met!" Yes, Picasso lived very well and was driven around in some very smart looking cars.
The link works but it is redundant for me because I downloaded a PDF of it onto my terabyte SSD.
Bad deeds don't invalidate good insights 🙂 Let's not borrow from leftist playbook, and attack a man as an excuse to dismiss his thought.
Why did you lead with ad hominem by calling me a leftist, as I have never been?
He(?) didn't accuse you of borrowing from the leftist playbook.
You inferred that on your own.
😲😂 I humbly encourage you to go back and give a second read to what I said 🙂
Now I'm suspicious, because the 1928 version says it supercedes the document called Manual of Citizenship Training, from 1927. That one exists in various military libraries, it appears, but seems not to be available for download or purchase. What changed, I wonder, between 1927 and 1928? The original author was an Army Chaplain.
The only thing I can find with the title of Manual of Citizenship is:
DAR Manual for Citizenship
From as early as 1910, the DAR has helped immigrants become naturalized citizens. For more than 85 years, the DAR has compiled and published the DAR Manual For Citizenship (PDF). More than 12 million copies of this book were distributed free of charge to immigrants seeking American citizenship. The manual is now provided online.
In 2004, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services used the DAR Manual for Citizenship as a guide when creating their new study materials for citizenship.
The manual continues to be useful for those studying to become citizens, and for students learning about U.S. citizenship and immigration. Classrooms may use it as a tool to inform students what new citizens must learn before becoming a naturalized citizen.
The manual covers topics such as: the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Democracy, U.S. government, role of citizens, the U.S. Flag, Statue of Liberty and becoming a citizen.
DAR members at Ellis Island volunteered with recent immigrants and at the Marine Hospital.
Today, DAR members across the country continue to help immigrants become naturalized citizens as well as celebrate their achievements by participating in naturalization ceremonies in their local communities.
To view and print the DAR Manual for Citizenship (PDF), please click here.
For an educational handout about the DAR Manual for Citizenship click here.
For additional information please contact your local DAR chapter
What was the War Department's designation for the Manual of Citizenship Training?
I don't know, as I can't even find an image of it. I'm not quite close enough to one of the military libraries that may have it. Here's this:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6709137M/Manual_of_citizenship_training.
In politics... No one understood that better than FDR who planned the occasion for our entry into what became WWII....all thanks to him.
Thanks to Obama who also didn't honor the agreement.
When was Obama a party to it?
The 2013-4 color revolution run by Victoria Neuland as part of his administration
That preceded the Minsk agreement in which neither of them were involved.
Oops. Thank you for the correction.
Hating Russians, or anybody...what does that get you?
Mayhaps hate hacks our dopamine pathways in perverse way? 😏
With the blue light tech of our devices it would make sense.
"Hating Russians, or anybody...what does that get you?"
Terminal Blindness as to who is responsible for perpetrating the greatest Evil ever unleashed upon the plant, not to mention the obvious quotient of terrorism.
Well, suggestio falsi and suppressio veri, while might appear antonyms on a passing glance, au fond belong to the same coin, the one which is called lying in folksy parlance 🤷
I have to agree. We have Ukranian friends who still live part time in Ukraine. They are fierce in their vitriol toward Russia and their pride towards Ukraine, chanting proud verbiage of how Ukraine will never back down and will ultimately overcome.
There's a fine line b/w patriotism and hateful fanaticism indeed. Hope we can all remember to breathe and count our blessings, and respect one another at this point. Thanks so much for sharing.
I just feel badly for them in general- they are enduring so much! They are not in a place to hear an alternative perspective, so I just keep my mouth closed and pray for them.
my legal immigrant Ukrainian neighbor hates Zelensky and is rooting for Putin to take him out. She says her friends still in the Ukraine say the Biden admin is actually keeping him from doing that. It would be all over if Biden admin would get out of the way, let Putin get rid of Zelensky.
I had to sit through a nauseating pro-Ukraine keynote speech at UT Austin College of Libtard Arts by Bianna Golodryga, CNN Senior Global Affairs Analyst. Rather than give the graduates a positive message, she recalled her college experience at UT (which was nothing like today during Covid) and pushed her proxy war monger beliefs on all of the graduates and families who were held captive waiting for the diploma walk.
All I could think about was how proud I was for my daughter who did not fall for the indoctrination.
Thank you for sharing. I hear you. Why it's good to not even have the TV in the first place. Life is too short.
Tucker Carlson says he hasn't had a TV in years.
I can't handle it either. Anytime I'm exposed to TV ads or any new shows, they're so woke that it makes my head spin.
I'm even thinking of skipping all internet exposure a lot more, like skipping days or something.
It's better burning time on biking trails instead of internet threads.
Ironically my uber liberal arts Writing and Publishing degree taught me the skill of deconstructing film/advertising/poetry/journalism etc and of how to build a narrative. It ruined movie watching for me but I remain to this day impervious to any and all media techniques of manipulation so I watch to see what they are playing at.
I had a similar experience, Amanda. My high school English department taught us how to discern fact from opinion and how to detect propaganda. We were also taught the evils of communism. I have wondered from the start why we have no embedded news media in Ukraine like we did in VietNam and Iraq. They dominated the nightly news. I also watch night-time entertainment to monitor their woke thinking patterns. It is sometimes so heavy handed and juvenile that it is laughable. IQs have certainly slid over the cliff to single digits in the last 30-40 years.
Thank God for those good teachers back then. And yes, what we are not being told is as important as what we are. I was rubbish at art but I remember being taught it's the spaces between brushstrokes that create the whole picture - it's the same with any narrative - what are they leaving out in order for you to see the picture they want you to see. Honestly, these last 3 years have been like one long seminar in critical thinking where the actions of respective govts, global organisations etc have had the opposite effect of the one they intended; the techniques they've deployed have woken an awful lot of people up and taught same the critical thinking skills they were lacking before. I remain hopeful :)
The Navy had Combat Camera that went to war with our troops and video documented everything. They did away with the command about 5 years ago. They said it was because our guys had cameras on the operators. You don’t see anything any more.
Interesting! For me, although I already had a good foundation in being skeptical and noticing propaganda, it was a seminar on New Economic Policy USSR in the history department of an extremely liberal college that helped further hone my ability to think critically about anything I read or saw.
Ha! Cynicism was never my default position but I've always felt slightly 'off' about the world I inhabit - like I'm some sort of observer rather than having the 'immersive experience'. Society as I've experienced it here in our western civ has always seemed a little fake to me. I swear, my first conscious thought at about 5 yrs was "if pebbles were money everyone would be rich" - I have remained weird ever since...
I was teaching in Iran in 1977-79 during the period of the Iranian revolution and fall of the Shah. My parents would send me news clippings about what was supposedly going on from U.S. newspapers and I also read Time and Newsweek accounts of events. I was astounded at how totally wrong all the reporting was. Probably deliberately wrong as I would now think, but at that time, I was focused on how uninformed and clueless all the reporting was. Also in Iran, there was extreme local censorship that was laughably obvious, so my B.S. detection skills were honed during that period of time.
Wow! You lived through interesting times indeed
Exactly. Often it's impossible to know "The Truth" but one can often make educated guesses. I'm most familiar with Nietzsche in "Beyond Good and Evil." Here, among other examples, he dissects the claims of philosophers who construct elaborate arguments to support their version of Truth. Nietzsche suggests a more interesting line of inqury, applicable to all areas of thought: Rather than try and arrive at objective truth, which may well be impossible, instead he suggests that one inquire into WHY the need, the motivation, to believe that something is a certain way.
That's deep. I think truth these days is like Schrödinger's Cat. And now I'm off tp contemplate that thought!
Great advice on knowing our WHY
I have a uber-woke masters in social work, and realized early on that the goal of "therapy" was to ttransform legitimately unhappy people into obedient, woke tools of the State.
Any tips you could share? Thanks so much for getting your "education."
No TV here for the last 13 years. Life is so much more peaceful.
No tv for me, either. 16 years. I choose what I want to see on the computer - my time, my choice. I find that I am far more widely informed than those who are addicted to television.
It's counterintuitive isn't it? You think you'd be less informed, but it's quality over quantity with info I find + books never hurt.
Agree.
Grew up in the 70's with no TV ever.
Now that im a ScreenAger I am a bit selective....
Baby animal videos?
Telegram channel of cute little animal videos. Blazen or something. Well worth it! My go to hole for my ostrich head.
I’ve never owned a TV. Had a borrowed old black and white one (that got three channels) for a year in grad school and had one in a sublet for a few months when I was in my 20s. Didn’t have the extra money to buy one then ended up deciding I was better off without.
Well isn't that a blessing! Thanks for sharing I had a similar experience with a cell phone when I was 17, I racked up a $2k bill with a long-distance girlfriend. Told myself I wouldn't get another phone until I could pay that bill. Wound up not getting a phone until I was 21. Saved lots of brain cells.
Yes sometimes we don’t realize how much of a blessing those sorts of experiences can be until much later!
Hubs is heading for South Africa in July. I told him to keep an ear out and let me know what is REALLY going on in the world. I know we are being manipulated, hard. My daughter was in Europe last year and life was normal there. Go figure.
But...but...Christley is trending and you are missing all of it!
There is SO much I don't know that I don't know the half of it. ☻
😆
How will I ever live?? 😂
Even listening to Spotify, which is bought and paid for by Pfizer has become impossible. “Ask your doctor about a vaccine for neucochimal(sp) pneumonia” whatever the fuck that is, I guess it will kill you.
Ugh 😡
(And it’s pneumococcal btw just in case you want to find out more about it)
"...but don't ask your doctor about how to maximize your immune system. (Even if you did, most wouldn't know. Only conspiracy theorists know how.)" Once you see it, you can't stop seeing it everywhere. What a scam most of it is (but not all; the trick is to try to figure out what might not be).
Once you see it you can't unsee it. No truer words spoken.
We dont watch any 'news' propaganda channels or network tv, but do enjoy having streaming services which allow us to nostalgically enjoy 60s and 70s sitcoms and shows, and some very good new series, period and contemporary. If the F curse is too much, we dont watch. If the sex scenes are too much, we don't watch.
But there is some really good entertainment out there, not to mention series on PBS.. .
Just finished watching ' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel', (American comedy), Rough Diamonds (Dutch suspense), The Bodyguard
(British suspense). EXCELLENT.
Loved Mrs. Maisel. I just finished it. Discovery+ without commercials is great. I always spend the extra 2 bucks a month and go commercial free. Also found The Detectorists on FreeVee I think? It was so good! (British) But the propaganda over grocery store speakers??!! I will never shop at Albertsons again. We live part time in FL and there is a store there that plays The Message with no ads and it is wonderful. Detweilers!
We loved The Detectorists!
What streaming service do you use?
I agree that it's soul destroying, but I tune in to see what they're spewing, and it's beyond unbelievable.
Yes, it's good to check on the "spewing" -- it's amazing to see what is not reported!!
Bikers rule!
Like intermittent fasting from anything not nature related. Great thinking!!
never had a TV here in US, only see it when going to the hairdresser. I hate commercials and have 3 ad blockers on computer and still a few manage to slip through when watching docs on YouTube. Grrr.
Amen, amen I say unto you.
Absolutely Man! It'll all still be here when you get back, and you're then able to view it from a different angle.
We removed our television over a year ago (and haven't had cable for about 10 yrs.)
Would never ever allow it in the house again. In fact, my son won a 55" LG television about 6 months ago. It sat unopened in our garage until he gave it away still unopened a few weeks ago.
I finally got to my C&C tonight with a cup of decaf - I made the “mistake” of digging into the comments and HOLY MOLEY are there some freaking amazing, intelligent and beyond fascinating people giving their 2 cents with their wisdom and life experiences. What a privilege to be with you all this evening!
Refreshing isn't it?! Happy you made a good mistake. I'm loving the anti-TV comments.
Those who love Your law have great peace,
And nothing causes them to stumble.
I hope for Your salvation, O Lord,
And do Your commandments.
My soul keeps Your testimonies,
And I love them exceedingly.
I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are before You.
— Psalm 119:165-168 NASB1995
A nice Psalm to meditate on today. Makes me so grateful for our great reconciler our Lord Jesus Christ. The law reveals our sin and the depths of depravity deep within us. The only cure is the saving grace of the Lord who died once and for all for our sin. I thank God for the gift of the Holy Spirit to impress upon me the direction my feet should go. Thank you Janice.
Hitlery Clinton's daughter is pushing a massive Jab campaign for kids.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1655522582953873408
Chelsea Clinton: "We're working with WHO and The Gates Foundation and others to hopefully have the largest childhood immunization effort ever over the next 18 months to catch as many kids up as possible."
What could wrong?
Just add more dead people to the Clinton body count.
Sickening.
They'll wind up eating themselves - evil like that cannot sustain itself.
There is hope
Let's hope
One can hope.
Arkancide.
Let’s start with Bill Gates’ kids and grandkids which were never immunized at all?!? Then move one to all the celeb and political hypocrites which have done the same. There are a lot of anti vaxxers which support vaccines for others.
Same for the employees of Pfizer and other other vaxxers. They either skipped all the shots (like the CEO admits) or got a special batch that wasn't available to the public. I could find a link to that last claim if I looked hard enough.
And of course Congress was exempt. While they're mandating jabs for everyone else.
Congress should be forced to follow any mandates they foist upon US!
💯
That should be an amendment to the Constitution, it’s so important. They should never be able to make any law that they themselves are exempt from.
Woud you really trust, at this point, that they would be given what would be pushed upon everyday American citizens? I certainly wouldn’t!
No. You’re right. They don’t deserve our trust.
https://conventionofstates.com/
We tried forcing them to use Obamacare. We see how well that went.
Jen - Obamacare came immediately to my mind as well.
Definitely! Leadership by example.
One example of special batches for Pfizer employees via Australia:
Limited batch quantity allocated for use in Pfizer Australia employee vaccination program
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/special-aussie-batches-made-just
This is good stuff to show those who don't buy the vax conspiracy.
Once you realize they have different strength batches, and control where they go, you understand how the Jab is a directable bio weapon.
Variable batch strength:
Pfizer Added Differing Amounts of Active Ingredient to Batches of COVID Vaccine
https://www.europereloaded.com/pfizer-added-differing-amounts-of-active-ingredient-to-batches-of-covid-vaccine-video/
It is my understanding that judges were also exempt, as well.
🤬
Post office employees were also exempt. I wonder why that particular group?
Jikkyleaks had a tweet showing that none of the 7 batches reserved for Pfizer employees in AU ended up on the list of death batches.
Those celebrities see promoting vaccines for poor kids as "healthcare equity".
Yeah I think they should set the example 😬
I’m not taking it weather they do or not. I’m not jumping off the bridge either!
Same 😁
Their examples are not to be admired! I cannot figure out how so many were so fooled into taking the shot. All you have to do is see who was exempt, but that list was published after the scarcity fear announcement. You had better get yours before there aren't't any left for you!
Yup they used manipulation techniques very effectively 😕
I never saw a published list. Do you have a link to find it? Thanks.
that's just plain evil. I can't understand that mindset.
When I watched this the other day, my first thought was, Gosh. It's not red flaggy to involve Gates and WHO. Not one bit. And why is this her pet project? What are her qualifications?
She’s special because she’s part of one of the so called elite families so she automatically has qualifications for whatever she decides to do 🙄🙄🙄
Yep. The Kennedy kids were in that category. Carolyn Kennedy had no credentials but sailed from one ambassadorship to another. I don’t think she was an airhead like Chelsea but it was clearly the name that opened doors. Almost as if America has its own brand of privileged royalty.
I absolutely despise the use of the expression “America’s royal family” for the Kennedys and their ilk. We fought a war to get away from the whole to the manor born aristocracy culture!
I think that's the point of the term.
That we now have our own aristocracy? I guess I should have said I despise when people use it in a fawning, gushing manner. So vapid 🙄
Being an ambassador requires no special skills. I saw that up close and personal in the years I spent living in both Iran and Saudi Arabia. My impression of these people was that they were not real intelligent or knowledgeable, but they were heavy drinkers (who may have gone to a place like Saudi Arabia to dry out, but the irony was that in the right circles, alcohol was flowing freely) who spent all their time schmoozing at cocktail parties with other useless ambassadors on the embassy row party circuit. So Caroline Kennedy or even Chelsea Clinton would fit in just fine, dunces that they both are.
I was in Belize on government business in the late '90s, and we met with the Ambassador. I looked her up, and she had been a speech-writer for Bill Clinton.
Well, the Kennedys were treated like pseudo royalty for sure. I remember it well. Jackie Kennedy was in the papers and magazines constantly, they hung on her every word, fawned over her designer clothing. They lived a privileged life just like royalty.
I think she just needs to have a large wallet to hold the millions that they are paying her to do this. If she only knew what it was like for the boy in the hospital bed with myocarditis or the parent whose child has died from this shot. Someone needs to tell her.
I think being Hillary's homely daughter would be a curse, but she had a beautiful million dollar wedding!
Look up images of Webster Hubbell and compare to Chelsea.
Yep. The lips are a dead giveaway.
Probably because she aspires to be the next President like her mother and father did. How can I get more attention?!
Apple tree
She is sick
And corrupt.
And what exactly are CC's qualifications for pushing this? Oh, she got her medical degree from the same place as billy g...a box of Cracker Jax.
I wonder how much $$$$ she got from Baal Ghates.
OMG...Canadistan! Baal Ghates! You are making my day!! So funny! But not funny.☻
Same with Canadistan. Bringing back all the draconian vax mandates, only more and harder.
The obvious other shoe dropping re: the recent news they're building a big new Moderna mRNA shot factory there.
Euthanasia for all, eh!
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/myocarditis-not-recovered-in-80-at?r=wjqg6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I’m sure she is getting millions to do so. We need O’Keefe Media Group investigative reporters on this.
Hopefully she is also immunized.....with the REAL vax!
To “catch” as many kids as possible? Didn’t she mean “kill”?
I predict more turbo cancers.
The insanity. You have to infer she, and her cohorts, are focusing primarily on the covid "vaccine" - and we all know KIDS JUST DON'T NEED IT !
And of course, as we also know:
.......The RISK for children FAR outweighs any BENEFIT.
Which is nonexistent, anyway.
They will NOT stop, on their own - we must find a way to stop them.
Covid is such a big nothing burger now (thank God), that I am surprised that anyone is even pushing the vaccines to anyone..(putting aside the many injuries from them being uncovered throughout the world)
"They" are trying to convert as many vaxes as possible to the mRNA platform, so she's probably focusing on all childhood vaccines that were getting skipped during the lockdown.
I think they are grooming her to go into politics.
I wonder if Chelsea’s children, Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper are fully vaxxed, including the Covid-19 bioweapon...
Following in her parent’s evil footsteps
RE: over her NINE consecutive covid tests yesterday, all taken on the same day:
She then goes onto to state "This should be a COLLECTIVE effort"
Honey put your big girl panties on and take care of your OWN health.
If I have a hernia I don't run around demanding that everyone where a truss.
FDA just announced thousands and thousands of contaminated swabs in certain Covid home tests. Karma?
I thought of that as well. God only knows what she is shoving up her orifice.
This woman is damaged goods. Mental health treatment needed STAT, but she’s probably afraid to enter any Dr offices. Wonder how much of this is fear for herself or infecting others. I didn’t read the whole nonsense but she’s the one with 2 masks and a visor standing way over by the toilet paper at Walmart.
But the state of mental health care is a joke, too. They push medications that have terrible side effects/addictive properties, and the counseling they do is no better - they're the ones who can't even define what a woman is, and think a toddler can be transgender.
Tell me about it. My only grandchild is in the trans evil. The mental health professional industry is in on it. Child was already on the spectrum and they encouraged the whole thing. Once I realized the schools, government, medical and mental health complex was behind all this and IMO grooming children I could barely breathe. I can’t say anything about my concerns either. I’m a hater then. 16 yo with 1 mutilation already. It’s satanic. God help us.
I'm so sorry to hear that. God help us, indeed! 💔
“Will treat as though I have covid” after all the negative tests. She Transing covid! She identifies as covid +.
And what treatment? I thought people like her don't believe there is any treatment available?
Triple mask and lock in those viral particles and when that doesn’t work she’ll opt for the vent. #science
She needs to get her focus elsewhere.
I know right??? These people ALWAYS want to shove the responsibility on other people somehow 🙄 You can’t be responsible for someone else’s health.
and 99% of the time they won't listen to any advice about improving one's health.