About Senator Robert C. Byrd

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, but I don't believe in making saints out of the dead, undeservedly either.

And, right now, as Senator Byrd's funeral rites approach, he's being spoken of in glowing terms.

Let's have a reality check on Senator Robert Byrd (hat tip to Feed Your ADHD):

* “They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it.”

* “There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word…”

* “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.”

* “It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union…”

* “Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va.”

* “I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side…”

* “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again … than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrel … a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

No wonder that the Ku Klux Klan actually suggested way back when that Robert Byrd seek political office.

Of course, like any other human being, Byrd wasn't all bad (source):

In 2004, he persuaded Congress to require schools and colleges to teach about the Constitution every Sept. 17, the day the document was adopted in 1787.

Can't argue with the fact that our Constitution should be studied in school; however, that study should take a lot more than one day.

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White House: "Recovery Summer"

(With a hat tip to LA Sunsett for the link below)

From the White House web site, dated June 17, 2010, clearly pandering for votes:

WASHINGTON, DC – The Administration today kicks off “Recovery Summer,” a six-week-long focus on the surge in Recovery Act infrastructure projects that will be underway across the country in the coming months – and the jobs they’ll create well into the fall and through the end of the year. The Recovery Act has already funded tens of thousands of projects and put about 2.5 million Americans to work, but summer 2010 is actually poised to be the most active Recovery Act season yet, with tens of thousands of projects underway across the country that will help to create jobs for American workers and economic growth for businesses, large and small.

Now, there's nothing unusual about such projects shortly before an election. However, the BHO administration is going to try to make all of us so grateful for his profligate spending of our tax dollars that we'll want to fall to our knees and worship him. Just as any other demagogue on a power grab has done.

Meanwhile, the federal government's plan to solve foreclosure problems, a huge part of the present ailing economy, is a dismal failure.

Are Americans smart enough to see through the ruse and sham of "Recovery Summer"?

You can bet your last dollar that BHO will pay more attention to "Recovery Summer" than to the oil-spill crisis and consequent suffering in the Gulf.

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Musical Interlude

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Obama Is "The Educator-In-Chief on Islam"

From Creeping Sharia, citing the Weekly Standard:

Rashad Hussain, America’s special envoy to the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Saudi-based body formed in 1969 to “protect” Jerusalem from the Israelis, announced a new title this week for President Barack Obama. According to Hussain, Obama is America’s “Educator-in-Chief on Islam.”

Hussain so designated Obama in a keynote speech Wednesday, June 23, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars....

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In his remarks, Hussain also congratulated Obama for sending Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser, to last year’s annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, a notorious front for Saudi-financed Muslim radicalism. Worse, Hussain has now divulged that the U.S. will support the OIC in the latter’s United Nations effort to criminalize “defamation of religion”...

Read the rest HERE.

Galloping shari'a and Islamification! The goals of the Obama administration? Apparently.

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Check Out This Idiot!

Normally, I'd save a posting such as this for weekend humor. Of course, what you're about to watch in the video isn't really funny in a light-hearted sense.

Democrat Peggy West, the 12th District Supervisor for south Milwaukee, doesn't know that Mexico borders Arizona (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):


Apparently, the following map is a stranger to her:


Below the fold, additional information about the idiot in the video.

Read about Peggy West HERE. Excerpt:

Peggy West was elected 12th District Supervisor in 2004 and, after being reelected in 2008, is serving her second term representing 50,000 residents on Milwaukee's south side. She currently serves as 2nd Vice-Chair on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Supervisor West also has the unique distinction of being the first Latino/Hispanic American to be elected to the Milwaukee County Board.

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A committed believer in community service, Supervisor West volunteers for UMOS, Inc. and Mexican Fiesta and serves as a mentor at Notre Dame Middle School.

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...She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Milwaukee Democratic Party.

Is she also an Obamabot?

Regardless, as the saying goes, "We surrounded by idiots," many of them our so-called elected public servants.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

(This post is a weekly announcement. Please scroll down for other postings, three postings today)

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest is IQ al Rassooli.
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UPCOMING SHOWS
July 2: Cassandra USA
July 9: IQ al Rassooli
July 16: Midnight Rider

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Newt Gingrich On General McChrystal And Obama

Short and to the point:


Commentary below the fold.

In my view, Obama, in order to appear as commander-in-chief, had to relieve General McChrystal from command. A commander-in-chief cannot allow a general to openly ridicule a President and his administration, even if the administration deserves ridicule.

But something bigger is going on here, as Mr. Gingrich points out: the incompetence of the Obama administration.

Furthermore, Obama's sycophants in the media, like Obama himself, are more worried about Obama's image than anything else, let alone the war in Afghanistan:

ABC, CBS and NBC all led Tuesday night with multiple stories on the “firestorm” over disrespectful coments by General Stanley McChrystal and his aides about President Obama and other administration officials, but ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos particularly despaired over the position in which McChrystal has put Obama.

Sawyer fretted that Obama “now faces a mind-boggling choice,” before Stephanopoulos kvetched “the President has really been put in a real political box” and “a very painful political position,” forcing him to choose between “looking thin-skinned and petulant” or “looking weak.”

CBS's Katie Couric didn't go that far, but she was disturbed by the burden on Obama: “This controversy is about the last thing the President needed on his plate as he deals with two wars overseas and another against an invasion of oil off the gulf coast.”

You see, what we've got sitting in the Oval Office is a man who is all about himself and the narrative, as admitted by David Alexrod himself:

"So much of the coverage and commentary has to do with the narrative, stagecraft, the political implications of what he is doing," said David Axelrod, Obama's special adviser for narrative, stagecraft and the political implications of what the president is doing.

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A Must-Read Essay About The Ground Zero Mosque

HERE at Praesidium Respublicae. Worth your time.

Would that we had any leaders who understood and acted upon what Sam Huntington and Hayden Jesse have so well delineated in their essay cited above!

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FEATURED QUESTION: Election Strategy

This posting stuck here for a few days. Please scroll down for other postings.

My blogging friend The Beak has written a good essay about Obama and the BP oil spill. Check out The Beak's posting. Sample paragraph:

Obama is a failure as a leader and as a President. He was elected as a symbol of a post racial America. However, endlessly droning on about hope and change, reading a teleprompter and a knock off Pepsi Logo does not create a President. His approval numbers are dropping like a rock and the economy is going into another tailspin.

Read the entire essay HERE.

Over at the Beak's essay, I also call your attention to a comment from the blogger named The Pagan Temple:

The oil spill would easily be solved, with aircraft carriers and Destroyers fitted to suction the oil already spilled. Nuclear submarines could guide the efforts from below, possibly even be fitted to transfer some of the oil from the source to a carrier above. Aircraft carriers are larger than barges and could hold a lot more oil at a time.

The Army Corps of Engineers working in tandem with BP could have already plugged the leak.

Obama knows all this. This could have amounted to a two or three year minor pollution problem at worse, though the pollution would have been considerable for maybe a half year. This did not have to be one third as big a deal as it has turned into.

Believe me, once the last couple of weeks of October role [sic] around, Obama will have taken complete control of the crisis, and by the time the November elections role [sic] around, he and his Democratic allies will have "saved" the Gulf.

If the above manipulative strategy is employed, will that manipulation work well enough to minimize damage to the Democratic Party in the November 2010 election?

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The Destruction Of Obama's Teflon Accelerates

From this June 19, 2010 article in the Guardian, written by one who used to worship Obama:

...I did not think it possible, but our President Obama has an even thinner skin than Bush.

With each passing day, as crises pile up, from out-of-control unemployment to the Gulf to Gaza to the failed Afghanistan adventure, the underlying liberal authoritarianism of the Obama White House becomes clearer. We, Obama's "liberal base", of which I'm a charter member, were in numb denial that our former community organiser, who elicited such an outpouring of love from his vast network of volunteers, is actually just another Illinois pol – but with a better vocabulary.

But the dogs of dissent are waking up and starting to howl.

Read the entire article HERE. It's a zinger.

And when the worms turn, it's gonna get ugly. I see no viable way for Obama to reverse this awakening.

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Verizon Comes Today

For weeks now, coordinating almost perfectly with the end of classes and my having more time to spend on the web, my Internet connection has been inconsistent.

Sometimes I can't get a connection, and often when I do get a connection, I suddenly get booted off when the DSL connection fails. I have found no discernible pattern to the glitch.

Over the past few weeks, I've spent hours groveling around on the floor while speaking to a Verizon tech on the phone in a futile attempt to resolve the problem. To Verizon's credit, the company did put a monitor on my DSL line such that I got an automated phone call stating, in effect, "Our testing shows that your DSL line doesn't meet the quality of our high standards. A service call is now required."

Verizon's repair efficiency for telephone service doesn't have a good track record, but repair for DSL service typically is better. I'll find out about the reliability of the latter sometime today — assuming that the technician comes. "Mohammed" (Oh, joy!) did phone yesterday to confirm the appointment.

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The 2012 Election Strategy?

(photo credit)




Recently, journalist Sally Quinn made a serious proposal as to how Obama can finesse getting elected again in 2012. Excerpt from the Washington Post article:

Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs.

Really.

It makes sense for the Democrats, actually....

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It would not be out of the question for Clinton and Biden to switch jobs sometime after the midterm elections. After the president announced the switch, majorities in both houses of Congress would have to confirm Clinton to her new position, following the rules laid out in the 25th Amendment. She could then immediately begin campaigning for Obama for 2012, and she would also have at least two years in the White House as vice president to give her unassailable experience, clout and credibility. For his part, Biden would simply need Senate confirmation to get to work in Foggy Bottom.

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Take it seriously.

Of course, the following aspect plays an important part in Ms. Quinn's proposal, although the idea gets only a brief mention in an essay which mostly lauds Hillary Clinton:

...[C]onsider Hillary the Democratic campaigner. She is tireless and relentless. Given the combination of votes that she and Obama got in the 2008 primary campaign, they would be a near-unbeatable team. Clinton also appeals to independents...

Read the entire article HERE.

Now, we all know that, back in January 2010, Obama, in the face of falling poll numbers, which have continued to fall, has said the following:

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” he told Diane Sawyer of ABC News. He added: “I don’t want to look back on my time here and say to myself all I was interested in was nurturing my own popularity.”

However, politicians as the power-hungry creatures they are rarely choose to relinquish their offices without a battle.

Furthermore, in the words of Donald Boudreaux:

People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted...[W]inning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

In my view, Obama is going to have an uphill battle to win in 2012. But is victory for him out of the question? No. And, although it grieves me to say so, with Hillary on the Democratic Party's ticket, he could maximize his chances for victory. In my view, American voters are among the most gullible people walking the planet and show little discernment when they step into the voting booth.

Additional reading: If you have time, find more wit and wisdom about politicians and politics HERE.

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In Honor Of Summertime: Classic Cars!

A weekend-relief posting...
You just might enjoy THIS. Crank up the volume and enjoy.

Below the fold, a bit more information as to why I so LOVE classic cars.

My father, born ninety-nine years ago today, was a master mechanic. He was good at plying his trade that Mercedes representatives from Germany once came to our house to consult him about a faulty transmission.

I spent a lot of time as a child in Dad's working garage, complete with a pit. Nothing like the aroma of varsol! It smells like home.

Then, as an adult, I turned around and married a mechanic, one who loved to frequent car shows, as do I.

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Update On Mr. AOW

(Click directly on the image to enlarge it)

I often have to remind myself that Mr. AOW has greatly improved since his right-side thalamic hemorrhage (size 3.5 cm x 3.9 cm, the size of a small plum) resulting from high blood pressure. The hemorrhage was so large that the intensive-care doctors sent me home the afternoon of the stroke to get the advance medical directives to file with them.

Please see this post of February 1, 2010, to understand just how difficult the situation for months on end.

Of course, early on, the situation was unmanageable here at home: Mr. AOW couldn't swallow solid food and couldn't sit up at all; he was also incontinent. As a result of all his deficits, he spent a total of ten weeks in various medical-care facilities. Getting him out of that nursing home required the threat of litigation!

Continue reading below the fold.

Once Mr. AOW returned home on November 25, there were five months of assisting a 190-pound man with every potty-chair transfer! Until one blessed day, when I returned home from giving a tutoring session, I found Mr. AOW sitting up on the side of the bed and grinning at his success in making the transfer to and fro all by himself.

These potty-chair transfers on his own haven’t always been successful, however. On one occasion not so long ago, Mr. AOW slipped and banged himself up pretty good in attempting to get back to the bed – not to mention overturning the potty chair. Fortunately, Mr. AOW wasn’t significantly injured and the homeschool ladies arrived just a few minutes later: with their assistance and the assistance of Mr. AOW’s stepfather, getting safely up off the floor was accomplished. Since that nasty event, Mr. AOW is wary of potty-chair transfers on his own, as well he should be. We have found that wearing a non-slip footie or a shoe on the affected foot minimizes the precariousness of transfers.

I do still get up at least once during the night to empty Mr. AOW's bedside urinals and, sometimes, for a bed change. Not getting an uninterrupted night's sleep every single night takes its toll on me. I do try to make up for lost sleep by hitting the sack earlier than I did before Mr. AOW had a stroke.

More on Mr. AOW's situation now, some nine months post-stroke:

Mr. AOW still cannot walk and spends his days and nights at home in a hospital bed in the living room. But he is starting to be able to stand! Standing balance is essential to his relearning the neurologically-complex skill of walking.

After nearly five months of home therapy and maxing out that particular benefit provided by the health-insurance plan, we now venture out of the house to a particular hospital which offers neuro-therapy. The sessions are two hours in length and grueling. The therapists remain certain that Mr. AOW will improve even more, particularly because his left side (leg and arm) show no signs of atrophy, meaning that the signals from the brain are getting through to the muscles even if Mr. AOW cannot yet use those muscles consistently. On the negative side, Mr. AOW's left hand does suffer from contracture. The stroke began in the hand, so the hand may be the spot of permanent dysfunction. As Mr. AOW is left-handed, this lack of function of the left hand causes him significant distress.

Because Mr. AOW's left hand and arm don't function, his managing the hand-held urinals present problems with spillage. The episodes of spillage are less frequent now, though. Therefore, I actually have the occasional day of doing no laundry. Woohoo!

Mr. AOW's attitude is beyond excellent! He remains committed to trying to get better. Also, he continues to practice the exercises assigned by the therapists, and his appetite is good – too good, in fact. I have to watch his caloric intake so as to prevent any more weight gain.

Mr. AOW continues to require maximum assistance with showers. In fact, this task requires another person besides myself to get him to and from the bathroom, several rooms away and safely in and out of the shower. A loyal friend and I wheel him into the bathroom in the transport chair; next, with assistance from me, he transfers onto the commode (lid down), then onto the shower chair, at which point I have to lift his left leg into the bathtub so that I can turn on the shower head and scrub him down.

I use this same chair, much lighter in weight than a standard wheelchair, to take Mr. AOW down the ramp and to the car. Occasionally, we do hire the expensive handicapped taxi to take Mr. AOW to a place where he wants to get around by himself, such as the shopping mall or the local VFW. Because he has left neglect, Mr. AOW cannot travel unsupervised – even up and down our residential street. For example, on one little trip down the street on his own, Mr. AOW forgot to look to his left side and ended up in the muddy ditch.

This left neglect also means that Mr. AOW will likely never drive again. Fortunately, this possibility doesn't weigh on his mind too much as those with right-side strokes tend to have a rosy outlook on life in general. Still, Mr. AOW does miss driving the Mustang convertible (pictured left in better days). In fact, the car is presently sidelined; shortly, we'll have it flatbedded out and get an estimate to see if it's repairable. Looking back, Mr. AOW and I now realize that some of the damage incurred to the Mustang last summer was the result of his having mini-hemorrhages as he cannot clearly recall the episodes that resulted in damage to the vehicle.

Getting Mr. AOW ready to go out anywhere is a Herculean task! In addition to tending to bathrooming, he cannot yet completely dress himself. The occupational therapist is working on the skill of getting dressed despite hemiplegia. Because Mr. AOW cannot travel from room to room inside the house, everything has to be brought to him: food, drink, toiletries, clothing, toothbrush and toothpaste, etc. I must walk miles every day inside this house!

Psychologically, the biggest problem for Mr. AOW is the lack of friends coming to visit. We have a lot of used-to-be friends. Conversely, we have discovered who our real friends are; see THIS about what a family of my former clients did for us and THIS about The Merry Widow, for example. We have also discovered just how loyal our friends at the VFW are; in addition to our local VFW's building the wheelchair ramp here at our house so that I could bring Mr. AOW home, once or twice a month, one of the VFW members will stop by to take Mr. AOW out for the evening. I stay home and nap while Mr. AOW goes out on his male-bonding outings.

A year ago, when Mr. AOW and I celebrated our thirty-seventh anniversary in our usual carefree manner, we had no idea how much life could change in one short year. At the age of fifty-nine, just an hour after finishing a shift at work, he was catapulted into an unforeseen lifestyle. As I draft this posting, the man who led a full and active life on September 14 is sitting on the front porch in his transport chair and tossing bits of bread to the birds.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

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Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest is Midnight Rider.
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Listen to the June 18, 2010 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
June 25: IQ al Rassooli
July 2: Cassandra USA
July 9: IQ al Rassooli

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Obama Losing The Support Of The Middle Class

From this posting at Weasel Zippers, citing CNSNews.com:

The middle class is abandoning President Barack Obama, according to data released by the Gallup Poll. The only income bracket among which a majority still says they approve of the job he is doing as president are those earning $2,000 per month or less.

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Among those earning $2,000 to $4,999 per month (or $24,000 to $59,988 per year), 46 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. Among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month ($60,000 to $89,988 per year), 44 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. And among those earning $7,500 or more per month ($90,000 per year or more), the highest income bracket recorded by Gallup, 47 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing.

The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $24,000 to $59,988 income bracket was the week of May 10-16, when it was 51 percent. The last time it topped 50 percent among the $60,000 to $89,988 income bracket was the week of May 3-9, when it was 51 percent. The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $90,000 and above income bracket was the week of April 19-25, when it was 51 percent.

Obama’s current 52 percent approval among Americans earning less than $2,000 per month is the lowest it has been among that income bracket in his presidency. In the week of April 19-25, his approval was at 60 percent in this income bracket. It has dropped eight points since then.

The week of his inauguration—Jan. 19-25, 2009—Obama’s approval was 73 percent among those earning less than $2,000 per month, 66 percent among those earning between $2,000 and $4,999, 69 percent among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month, and 66 percent among those earning $7,500 per month or more.

Clearly, BHO's status as "The One" is fading.

November 2012 cannot come soon enough!

True or not, the following makes a good conclusion for this posting:

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
John Batchelor Show:

POTUS Queeg
By John Batchelor on June 13, 2010

Disturbing and mesmerizing whispering that the Oval Office is the scene of stormy and romantic melodrama between POTUS and his most senior and trusted advisers. Whispering that POTUS is sleeping poorly and is much aggrieved at slights, shortfalls, interruptions. Whispering that POTUS is vulnerable to jet lag. That POTUS has returned to chain-smoking. That POTUS hesitates to heed his advisers, because POTUS frets that he is being sand-bagged by experts, allies, confidantes. Whispering that POTUS frailties most in display in West WIng settings. That POTUS evidences a Nixonian persecution mania. Can any of this be confirmed? Not easily. Less detailed, POTUS is said to express his opinion to pals in Chicago that he dislikes his job. Wilder whisperings that some pros are now weighing that POTUS try an LBJ exit after one term - rather than face a Carter collapse.

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About Offshore Oil Drilling

Over at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, on June 13, 2010, Reliapundit connected some dots between pro-Iranian Brazil and George Soros as related to offshore oil drilling and Obama's recent financing of oil exploration off the coast of Brazil. In the words of Reliapundit in his essay:

THAT OBAMA IS ACTIVELY HELPING OUR FOES AND HURTING THE USA IS THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION FOR THESE ACTIONS, THESE DOTS. IT PASSES OCCAM'S RAZOR.

Read Reliapundit's entire connect-the-dots essay HERE.

Conspiracy theory? I don't think so.

After all, BHO takes every opportunity to apologize for America, thus indicating that he doesn't truly have America's interests at heart. Why should we be surprised that he would shut down offshore oil drilling in the Gulf to serve his master and promote the economies of foreign nations?

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Blog News: Mr. AOW

Several friends and frequenters of this web site and of The Gathering Storm Radio Show have been asking me how Mr. AOW is doing with his recovery from his brain hemorrhage of September 15.

Thank you for your interest and concern!

I have shared some snippets about Mr. AOW's present condition here and there in comments. However, because of work obligations and caregiving burdens, I have not formally posted on the topic since March 29.


Now that classes for this school term have concluded, I am working on a post detailing the situation here in this household. I plan to post the update this week.

For now, let me say that Mr. AOW and I are going through the most difficult time of our lives together. Indeed, a year ago, when we celebrated our thirty-seventh wedding anniversary on June 17, 2009, little did we know the situation we would be facing a mere three months later when Mr. AOW suffered his stroke.

The life we are living now is not the life we had planned.

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What You Need To Know About The Ground Zero Mosque

Please see this index from Infidel Bloggers Alliance. Worth your time.

More news below the fold.

The demonstration against the Ground Zero mosque last week, a demonstration some 10,000 strong, was quite an ostensible success.

Did that success have anything to do with PayPal's recently shutting down the accounts of Atlas Shrugs, Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), and Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)?

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Weekend Funny: About Obama's words, "So I know whose ass to kick"

With thanks to Reliapundit of THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS for the graphic below.

Full BHO quotation HERE at Hot Air. Also see Allah Pundit's pithy commentary at that same link.

Video of BHO's temper tantrum HERE.

As a commenter at Infidel Bloggers Alliance said in reference to the last words of BHO's quotation at the above link:

"Start with your own."

Below the fold, a link to CBS's poll "Grade Obama's First Year."

View the poll HERE. Straight F's the last time I checked.

Epic fail, huh?

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

(This post is a weekly announcement. Please scroll down for other postings)

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest is IQ al Rassooli. We will discuss the history of "Palestine" and the so-called Palestinians' constant whining about how they're so persecuted by Israel, which they claim occupies land stolen from them.
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Listen to the June 11, 2010 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
June 18: Midnight Rider
June 25: IQ al Rassooli
July 2: Cassandra USA

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Here's The Stopper For The Ground Zero Mosque!

The land was once roamed by pigs and is a pig burial ground.


Oink, oink!

From Creeping Sharia:

Pious Muslims ought to know that any mosque built downtown will be built on soil that was roamed by pigs and is a veritable pig burial ground. From the porkboard.org archive:

. . . Where Wall Street got its name?

Free-roaming hogs were famous for rampaging through the valuable grain fields of colonial New York City farmers. The Manhattan Island residents chose to block the troublesome hogs with a long, permanent wall on the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan. A street came to border this wall — named aptly enough, Wall Street.

Go to Creeping Sharia to view the Google map.

Also see Bare Naked Islam's posting on this same topic:

Seville, Spain. A township governed by the left accepted to sell its land to a group of muslims for the construction of a mosque. A group of non-immigrant Spaniards that didn’t want the mosque in their neighborhood came up with an original solution. In the middle of the lot where the mosque was supposed to be built, they buried a big pig and made sure it became public knowledge. Since Islamic law forbids the construction of mosques on hog-soiled land, the Arabs had to abandon the project..The Israelis have been using this strategy since 2004. They put containers of pork fat in all their buses and made sure everybody knew about it. If a suicide bomber decides to explode himself in a bus, he’s taking the chance that some of the pig fat ends up on his body and therefore he will not go to Paradise. Israelis buses have been safe from attacks since then. No more attacks.

Spread the word. The land for the Ground Zero mosque is contaminated for any Moslem use!

Note to readers: Please see my GEIGO gecko post below.

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Is GEICO Islamophobic?

Everybody knows that cute GEICO mascot, right?



Well, it turns out that Moslems hate geckos. Really. Why? Because geckos are infidels, of course.

Another astoundingly weird fact about Islam:

[Ex-Muslim] Rashid recently examined the theological implications of Muhammad's hatred for the gecko lizard, which the prophet accused of being "an infidel and enemy of the believers." Muslims who kill it in the first strike receive 100 "heavenly-points," whereas those who kill it in two strikes receive only 70.

Now for something really disgusting:

More graphically, [Coptic priest] Fr. Zakaria recently examined canonical hadiths (authenticated Muslim accounts) that record Islam's first believers eating Muhammad's feces, marinating food in his sweat, drinking the water he gargled and spit out, and smearing his phlegm all over their faces—all to his approval.

As Raymond Ibrahim's essay concludes:

[S]illy cartoons of Muhammad are the least of Muslims' problems.

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Pat Condell On The Mosque At Ground Zero

With a hat tip to Brooke:



Every American's blood should be boiling over what this mosque represents.

Some pertinent reading about the meaning of the name "Cordoba" HERE.

Go HERE to read about the June 6, 2010 protest against the Ground Zero mosque.

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Consequences Begin For Helen Thomas

As a result of the following idiocy uttered on American Jewish Heritage Celebration Day at the White House on May 27, 2010, by Helen Thomas, Nine Speakers, the agency representing her, has dropped her:



More information HERE, including this from Bill Clinton’s former White House counsel:

“Helen Thomas, who I used to consider a close friend and who I used to respect, has showed herself to be an anti-Semitic bigot,” wrote Davis in a statement.. “She has a right to criticize Israel…. However, her statement that Jews in Israel should leave Israel and go back to Poland or Germany is an ancient and well-known anti-Semitic stereotype of the alien Jew not belonging in the land of Israel that began 2,600 years with the first tragic and violent Diaspora caused by the Romans.”

“If she had asked all blacks to go back to Africa, what would the White House Correspondents Association’s position be as to whether she deserved WhiteHouse press room credentials – much less a privileged honorary seat?” wrote Davis, referring to Thomas’ seat in the middle of the front row at the White House briefing room.

“Does anyone doubt that my friends Ann Compton and Joe Lockhart, who believe in the First Amendment right of free expression as much as I do, would not be as tolerant and protective of Helen’s privileges and honors if she had been asking Blacks to return to Africa? Or Native Americans to Asia and South America, from which they came 8,000 or more years ago? I doubt it”, concluded Davis.

Helen Thomas is learning that words have consequences. And being in one's dotage isn't always protection from those consequences.

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Remembering D-Day: June 6, 1944

Two of my cousins from Tennessee, neither of them having yet reached the age of twenty-one, were on the beach on D-Day.

Both came home physically whole but never the same in their souls. What they had seen and experienced in that battle scarred them forever.

But I never saw nor met two others as patriotic as my two cousins. They remained staunch patriots for the rest of their lives.

They never spoke one word about what happened on that beach. Neither did they sleep through another night again without nightmares and calling out in their sleep. And they never uttered one word of complaint about having served our nation, nor did they want any special recognition.

Would that all Americans today had the same humble determination to preserve freedom and the same willingness to fight for the noble cause of preserving that freedom!

Hat tip to Mustang of Social Sense for the following video:



Read the eloquent words of Dwight D. Eisenhower before that great battle:

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.

The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ronald Reagan commemorating D-Day in 1984 (another hat tip to Mustang:



I wish that my two cousins from Tennessee had lived long enough to hear Reagan's words.

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Weekend Funny

I love baseball! I come by that love of baseball naturally, I suppose. My father, born in 1911 and denizen of sandlot baseball, was actually offered a job as pitcher for the New York Yankees by a pro-ball scout way back when. Dad turned down the offer as he was such a homebody and the part-time caregiver for his own father.

Anyway, when I saw the video below over at Right Truth, I knew that I just had to post it:


The original classic poem "Casey at the Bat" below the fold....

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.

A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.

But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.

Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.

Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.

And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And its likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.

Read more about the 1888 poem HERE.

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Video: Obama Doesn't Want You To See This

With a hat tip to Blunt Politics:



Of course, many of the above facts were available to the electorate before the November 2008 National Elections. But the mainstream media would not disseminate those facts; as a result, a large portion of the electorate remained unaware of the truth about the man they voted for.

Can the media do the same for the 2012 National Election? If they continue the stonewalling and obfuscation, BHO will be elected again.

Mark my words. The Cult of Obama is that strong!

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

(This post is a weekly announcement. Please scroll down for other postings)

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest is Alec Rawls.
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Listen to the June 4, 2010 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
June 11: IQ al Rassooli
June 18: Midnight Rider
June 25: IQ al Rassooli

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Barack Hussein Obama: The Failed Presidency

Good video summary - brief and effective:

The BHO administration is evincing dereliction of duty.

Even dyed-in-the-wool Democrats have had enough of the multiple failures of this Presidency.

A possible harbinger of the coming meltdown of the BHO Presidency, tingly-legged Chris Matthews is comparing the BP oil spill to the Iranian hostage crisis, which brought down the Jimmy Peanut Presidency:



Of course, BHO himself thinks that he's doing just fine and dandy and can remain untouchable.

Well, Teflon coating does have a way of wearing off. BHO is about to find out just what "epic fail" really means.

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