Hitler video's involving Hillary Clinton..

I saw the first video on Irish's Website and I laughed my A$$ off...it is very good.  This one is a parody at the Clinton email debacle.   and the mainstream media to keep covering for her.  I then decided to see how many Hitler Video's out there that involve Hillary...and there are a few...hehehe

I then started searching "Youtube for Hitler and Hillary video's...and there are a few
This is one of the Hitler Parody about her email server...

   Hitler finding out that Hillary is running for President...

 Hitler discovers that Hillary sold Plutonium to the Russians

   Hitler interviews Hillary

Hitler finds out that Sanders is running against Hillary...

Watched a Movie through Netflix "Emperor"

I have recently gotten "netflix" and I like to watch historical movies,   Over a year ago I had watched a movie called Yamato.  Now I had a movie called "Emperor" showed up in my que...and I watched it and it was to me pretty good.  Sure it is fictionalized to an extent but the background was excellently done as were the background actors.  It did mention the attempted coup against the emperor Hirohito when he wanted to make peace with the Allies.  there was a lot of history in the background and to me is worthy on that alone.  If you are in historical movies, and have a couple of hours to kill, it is a good move.  

In the largely unexplored world of the early days of the American Occupation following Japan's catastrophic defeat, Emperor tells a fictionalized account based on the real life story of US Army Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers (Mathew Fox) who served under General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones). Fellers is given the impossible task to investigate the Emperor's role in the lead-up to war, most specifically his involvement in the decision to attack Pearl Harbor within ten days. This is a great responsibility to which Fellers, a known Japan aficionado who had spent time in Japan before the war, must handle delicately, or risk a general uprising or worse. He will question the accused Class -A War Criminals such as Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Former Prime Minister Konoe, and Koichi Kido while confronting prejudice from a resentful populace and other American soldiers. Complicating this task is General Richter (Colin Moy) who is bent on derailing Fellers' investigation in order to justify revenge upon the Emperor. As Richter conveys the American Public's demand for revenge, "Revenge is not Justice" argues Fellers. To conduct his investigation, Fellers is assigned a staff and further assisted by Takahashi (Haneda Masayoshi) who is assigned to him as both interpreter and driver who serves diligently without reservation. Takahashi is initially treated with cold indifference by Fellers who is both under the strain of his investigation and his preoccupation with finding his pre-war love interest Aya Shimada (Hatsune Eriko) to which Fellers deliberately steered bombing missions away from her home, Richter will attempt to use this information against him. Post-War tensions, dramatic sets, period costume, and an all star international cast make Emperor a most revealing riveting drama of the Post-War Era.

Monday Music "Our lips are sealed" by the GoGo's

   Before I start with my Monday Music, We were at work and we were discussing an event that happened when one of "my" airbuses got caught in a hailstorm flying from Boston to Salt Lake City. 

   The pilot made an excellent landing with no visibility through the windshield and an inop Radar due to the damage to the radome.   Very impressive flying.
    Now I decided to roll with the GoGo's Our lips are sealed.  I liked the GoGo's, they are an all girl band, I ranked them with the Bangles. The music was considered Pop or bubblegum but the range of music showed real talent and ability...they were more then a pretty face. I remembered when they first hit the scene, it was considered "bubblegum" but I liked the music.  Part of the reason was that the lyrics sounded "French" to me...I was taking french in high school and it sounded French.....but I know differently now but at the time that is what it sounded like.

    
"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song written by The Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall.
It was first recorded by The Go-Go's as the opening track on their 1981 album Beauty and the Beat (see 1981 in music) and served as their debut American single in June 1981. The single eventually reached top 5 in Australia and Canada, and top 20 in the United States. Although originally written and performed with three verses, it is an abbreviated version of the song that appears on Beauty and the Beat.
In 1983, Hall's band, Fun Boy Three, released their version of "Our Lips Are Sealed". Issued as a single, the track became top ten hit in the UK, and remains the best known version of "Lips" in that country — the Go-Go's version, while a hit elsewhere, only made #47 UK.
In 2000, Rolling Stone named "Our Lips Are Sealed" one of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs of all time.

The offical music video for the song features sequences of the band members in carefree tableaux (riding around in a convertible, stopping at a lingerie shop and splashing around in a city fountain) interspersed with footage of the band playing a club booking.
Jane Wiedlin says the band was initially unenthusiastic about doing the video when Miles Copeland, president of their label, I.R.S. Records, told them they would be doing it. "We were totally bratty," she recalls. It was funded out of unused funds in The Police's video budget.
The concept was for the band to drive around and be followed by a camera. Belinda Carlisle would sing, and the other members would do cute things. They wanted an older-style convertible and found a 1960 Buick at Rent-a-Wreck. It was, says Wiedlin, the band's idea to end the video by jumping into the Electric Fountain on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvds, Beverly Hills. "I thought, at any minute the cops are gonna come. This is gonna be so cool."
She still looks back on it fondly. "I have horrible '80s poodle hair in [it]", she recalled in a 2011 history of MTV. "But there's a simplicity and innocence to the video that appeals to me." In a sequence of scenes, Belinda Carlisle can be seen trying to hide; she later admitted this was deliberate, as she thought the whole idea of music video was ridiculous and unlikely to catch on.

70 years ago...The Atomic age had arrived...

I will cut and paste an article that I saw on History online.  I had stated many of the same arguments when people had stated that "Truman should not have dropped the bomb."  This prism point of view is made in todays time, not the time 70 years ago.  70 years ago was 4 generation ago and a lot has changed.  Back then war wasn't fought for a limited political objective and it was fought to the death, there was no quarter given.  The only place that the war was more brutal than the Russian front was in the pacific ocean.  The code of "Bushido" had all defeated enemies as sub human not worthy of respect.  To the Japanese military and civilians, they were expected to give their all including their lives for service to the emperor of Japan.  Japan had attacked us at Pearl Harbor under a sneak attack, and the war followed was a war that was brutal by modern standards and civilians were not excluded.  This was total war, the population was totally engaged, from the rationing to the movies and everybody worked in some form on the home front.  Some of the pictures are from the article...others I got out of my stash or googled.
 
   

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was apocalyptically awful. 70 years ago today, an estimated 90,000 people were immediately killed when Little Boy detonated 1,950ft above Hiroshima – 50,000 more would die by the end of the year. Two days later, Nagasaki was struck by ‘Fat Man’, killing approximately 80,000 people. It was, as the Allies threatened during the Potsdam Conference, ‘prompt and utter destruction’.
Just four months into his presidency, President Harry Truman was tasked with making one of the most important decisions in human history. He chose to put an atomic full stop on six long years of unprecedentedly bloody conflict – here are five reasons why he made the right decision.

1. Imperial Japan was fanatical and barbarous in the absolute extreme.

Imperial Japan was a militaristic and dictatorial theocracy whose generals had fatal contempt for their enemies and a total disregard for Japanese lives. At the root of the country’s fanaticism was Emperor Hirohito, the celestial figurehead whom the zealous masses were expected to worship and even die for. The true rulers of Japan, however, were the belligerent top brass of the military.

     With a desire for natural resources and their own lebensraum, the Japanese colonized Manchuria, northeast China in 1931. In 1937, Chinese resistance led to the Second Sino-Japanese war, beginning a campaign of innumerable Japanese atrocities.
The most infamous of these atrocities occurred in China’s then-capital Nanking on 13 December 1937. In an appalling act of genocide, the Japanese murdered up to 300,000 people and raped tens of thousands of women over a six-week period.
There are dozens of eyewitness accounts and photographs that reveal the sickening details of the massacre. Two survivors reported that thousands of children, women and the elderly were bound with wire or rope, driven into four columns and then mown down with ‘about twenty’ machine guns. Once the bodies had ‘heaped like mountains’, the murderers then bayoneted the corpses en masse, eventually dousing the pile with kerosene and setting it ablaze. No one was safe from Japanese bayonets, not even infants, some of whom were brutally skewered like kebabs.
The suffering endured by Nanking’s women will leave many readers incredulous. One Chinese cook gave his account of seeing dozens of female corpses, the majority of which had ‘their abdomens cut open and their intestines squeezed out.’ Some of the women had been pregnant, lying ‘dead together with their fetuses covered with blood’, their breasts having been ‘either cut off or bayoneted into a mixture of flesh and blood.’

1300 miles to the northeast of Nanking was the ‘Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army’, better known as Unit 731.
This ghastly facility was host to a range of lethal human experiments, including thousands of vivisections without anesthesia. Prior to the surgeons ruthlessly opening their victims up, they had infected them with various diseases, which ranged from the bubonic plague and anthrax to syphilis and cholera. As part of research into gangrene, some victims had limbs frozen and then thawed, all the while being conscious, of course.
Many experiments were entirely military minded. Victims would be restrained and exposed to the effects of grenades, flamethrowers and various chemical weapons, the latter of which they were readily using in combat against the Chinese.
In a similar manner to the Americans’ immoral Operation Ranch Hand programme during the Vietnam War, low-altitude Japanese planes spread plague-infested fleas over the cities of Ningbo and Changde, killing thousands of people.
This disagreeable form of warfare flouted the Geneva protocol, which officially prohibited the use of ‘asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare’ on 8 February 1928.
There is far too little space here to fully elaborate on the crimes of Imperial Japan, which can be reasonably deemed one of the most disgustingly immoral forces the world has ever seen. The bombs stopped them from perpetrating any further barbarity – some may say it was vindication.

      

2. Imperial Japan was utterly averse to surrender and had a fatal contempt for those who weren’t.

The Potsdam Conference 1945

Despite devastating losses – such as their air power being reduced from 430 planes to around 100 during the day-long ‘Great Marianas Turkey Shoot’ – the centuries-old Japanese ethos was that suicide, particularly suicide that killed others, was infinitely nobler than waving the white flag.
Staggeringly low surrender statistics were common throughout the Pacific Theatre. During the bloody Battle of Tarawa, only 17 of 3000 Japanese troops surrendered. At Saipan, the vast majority of the 30,000 strong garrison died. 22,000 civilians also died in Saipan, which was over two thirds of the population.
Japanese contempt for surrender caused them to subject Allied POWs to appalling cruelty. The stories of the Burma railway’s hellish protracted brutality are well known – 16,000 POWs and an incalculable number of Burmese and Malay workers died, chiefly from a range of terrible diseases.
    There are many lesser-known stories of the shocking games the Japanese used to play with POWs, too. As mentioned earlier, the Japanese had a penchant for bayoneting people. Robert O’Brien, a New York sailor aboard the USS Penguin, experienced their predilection first hand.
After Guam fell on 10 December 1941, O’Brien and his comrades were forced to run through a gauntlet of Japanese soldiers, who hacked, slashed and hit them with bayonets and rifle butts. O’Brien survived this sick game but death surrounded him, including the man directly behind him. Several men’s scalps had been gored; one man bled to death from a deep cut along his back. Another man was shot through both ankles, falling to the ground and having his wounds maliciously stomped on by the Japanese.
Three years later, on October 25 1944, the Japanese would employ their most infamously desperate line of defense – the kamikaze pilots. Of the 3860 kamikaze pilots who died, only 19% hit their targets. Their futile deaths become emblematic of Japanese fanatical resistance.

    
The most costly instance, however, of Japan’s obstinate refusal to surrender was the Japanese Premier’s use of mokusatsu. Meaning ‘take no notice of’ or ‘treat with silent contempt’, mokusatsu was Kantaro Suzuki’s response to the United States’ demand for unconditional surrender at the Potsdam Conference. The Potsdam Declaration stated that if the Allies’ terms were not met, Japan would face ‘prompt and utter destruction’.
The translation’s accuracy is a point of contention, as mokusatsu doesn’t always mean ‘treat with silent contempt’. However, Suzuki was in no position to mull over the proposition, to bargain with his enemies and save face. His country had raped, pillaged and caused the death of millions of people. He was threatened with ‘prompt and utter destruction’, yet his laconic response to this damningly sincere threat suggests he didn’t take the declaration seriously and perhaps considered the far costlier invasion of the mainland to be preferable.
Surrender wasn’t achieved even after Hiroshima was devastated. It was only following Fat Man’s 21-kiloton detonation over Nagasaki that the Japanese finally capitulated.
Even in these desperate times, Emperor Hirohito tried his utmost to save face for himself and his battered nation. On 15 August 1945, Hirohito addressed his people for the first time during his leadership, asking them to ‘endure the unendurable and bear the unbearable’ and, in what may truly be the understatement of the 20^th century, stated that the war had turned ‘not necessarily in Japan’s favour’. Without the sudden atomic step-up, the Americans would most probably have been forced to execute Operation Downfall.

3. Operation Downfall, the proposed invasion of Japan, would have resulted in more casualties on both sides.

Comprising Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu (southern island), and Operation Coronet, the invasion of the Honshu (main island), Operation Downfall was a very daunting prospect.
It would have been a campaign of terrible violence, punctuated by conflicts such as the Battle of Honshu and the Battle of Kyushu, which could have been another Stalingrad. Japan had defended tiny Pacific islands like Peleliu and Iwo Jima with great ferocity; defense of the Japanese mainland would have quite likely introduced the Allies to wholly new levels of fatal intensity.

It would have made WWII, the most catastrophic war in history, significantly worse.  Over a million Allied casualties were estimated, for the Japanese this figure rose massively to the tens of millions.
One can only speculate how the civilians would have behaved. Revolt was always a possibility, but their lack of knowledge regarding Japan’s calamitous defeats in the Pacific and the intense reverence for Hirohito would likely have resulted in widespread loyalty.
Compare the multi-million casualty estimates of Operation Downfall to the atomic bombs’ 250,000 – 300,000 Japanese and approximately 20 Allied POW deaths, and the Manhattan Project almost seems like a humanitarian effort.  This significant disparity alone is a strong justification for the bombs’ use.
    

4. It stymied Soviet influence and the creation of another North Korea.

The bombs hastened Japan’s unconditional surrender, allowing the Americans to execute their considerable altruistic efforts on their own terms. Whilst the Marshall Plan was pumping $13 billion ($120 billion today) into Europe, the United States occupied Japan and established the Supreme Command of Allied Powers (SCAP) with the intention of creating a prosperous democracy and key Asian ally.
Led by General Douglas MacArthur, SCAP paved the way towards free market capitalism, promoted women’s rights and banned former military officers from political leadership in the new government. Crucially, MacArthur had the pragmatism to allow Emperor Hirohito to stay, reducing his position to a firmly ceremonial one and waiving his ability to wage war.  The consequences of removing such a beloved figure would have likely had a dire effect on Japanese morale, igniting an array of dissidence. When Hirohito died in 1989, Japan had the world’s second largest economy.
     Now imagine if the Soviet Union’s involvement in Japan’s future was more than a meager ‘advisory role’, imagine if they had the same clout as they did in Korea. Russia had invaded Japanese Manchuria on 9 August 1945, swiftly defeating their opposition and moving south, eventually reaching the Korean peninsula. As agreed at Potsdam, the Soviets began their occupation of North Korea and, on 8 September, the United States occupied South Korea, the partition line being along the 38^th parallel.
On 24 July 1948, US-backed Syngman Rhee became the first President of South Korea. Although his leadership was marred by authoritarianism, Rhee’s moral ambiguities were dwarfed by the Soviet Union’s leader of choice – the wretched Kim Il-Sung.  North Korea has been under the rule of the Kim Dynasty ever since, suffering all manner of human underdevelopment such as poverty, international isolation, awful infrastructure, one of the world’s worst human rights records and a famine that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Instead of the rich, pacifist nation that we know today, strong Soviet influence could have carved Japan up, perhaps rendering Sapporo a Stalinist, retrograde circus of oppression much like Pyongyang. We could have seen another East Germany, or perhaps even another Cuban missile crisis. One can only speculate, but it is demonstrable that America’s devastating yet presciently decisive action helped establish Japan as the first ‘Tiger economy’, influencing economic reforms in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, all of which are beacons of prosperity and development in Asia.
    

5. The destructive precedent it set wasn’t quite as epochal as many believe – conventional fire-bombings were similarly devastating.

Indeed, America’s utilization of atomic weaponry irrevocably changed warfare. Scores of people were seared beyond recognition, their shadow sometimes scorched onto the surrounding surfaces. Some simply vanished. For many, death was a more protracted affair, their bodies bleeding, oozing and generally falling apart as their DNA was mutilated by radiation poisoning, also known as acute radiation syndrome (ARS).
Despite all of this, one must not forget the diabolical effectiveness of the Allies’ conventional weaponry. Low-altitude incendiary bombing killed many more people than Little Boy and Fat Man. The lowest estimate is 241,000 – which already meets the estimated death toll of the atomic bombs – and the highest is an enormous 900,000.
The zenith of this ghastly destruction was the Operation Meetinghouse raid above Tokyo on 9 March 1945. 2000 tons of incendiaries were dropped on the city, destroying 16 square miles and killing around 100,000 people. Epic fires consumed the city, creating a blood-red mist of such putrid fragrance that the pilots had to wear oxygen masks to avoid vomiting. A US survey found that the 300 B-29 Superfortresses killed more people during the raid than at any single moment in history – an astonishing conclusion, indeed.
The masses that burned in Japan’s ‘paper cities’ have been barged out of the public consciousness by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were ultimately a mere extension of the Allies’ similarly devastating conventional-bombing campaign.
Written by Jack Hawkins for War History Online

Musings and rants....From islam to cecil and being Southern

I saw this on a sign near the airport while I am driving home on my motorcycle..

"Talk about catering to the low information Obama supporters..".

Lemme have fun with this one...Muhammad believed in "Peace"...sure he did.his followers are in pieces after blowing themselves and innocents up..To Muhammad Peace was total surrender, total acquiescence to islam.  You either converted or died....or you paid a "Jidza" tax.  and were treated as a second class citizen.   

        Muhammad believed in Social Justice.....Yep..the rule of the mob..or sharia law....the law that is based on religious beliefs rather than legal principles.   

     Muhammad believed in women's rights.....Sure he does...that is why they are treated as second class citizens....they are stuck in the back  of the bus,  the victims of "honor killings" and they have to wear an outfit called a "Burka".  Don't get me started on the female genitalia mutilation that goes on.   

     Needless to say I give this response every-time I ride by.

I should not be surprised to see this near the airport since Airplanes and Islam are intertwined...

For example this photo from 1970..

 This photo in 1988

and this one in 2001

Yep Islam and airplanes and airports are intertwined...

 

Now unless you have been living under a rock, you have seen the total outrage about some dentist capping Cecil the Lion...for example...

  people have gone total apeshit over the death of a Lion....Sure he was lured out of the reserve.....in Africa, currency matters...I am sure somebody got their palms greased.   But I really don't see the outrage...In many places of the world life is cheap but I guess quality matters....It don't matter that Planned Parenthood performed millions of abortions, I don't believe in it, but I ain't gonna stop anybody else...it is that "choice thingie" I believe in.  But they get billions in taxpayer money and they make more money selling the tissue..That is what I have an issue with.

  What does that say about our society that there is more outrage over a lion getting capped than the tissue sales of aborted kids....millions of kids are coat hangered and their bodies sold for profit after collecting billions in tax payer money and there is no real outrage..

..Have we become such a hedonistic society that people don't matter but one lion does....This says a lot for our value system as a nation.  The same people that have gone batshit crazy about the lion already view us as a ...

Agent Smith from the Matrix..."Humans are a disease..."

The average  low information voter liberal already has a self loathing for their own species...they believe that the planet would be better off if we as a species were eradicated and the earth would become some paradise for all the other animals.I will give an example....Dams built for the purposes of beavers is totally cool...but dams built for the purposes of Man are bad and need to be tied up in court and protested....in other areas of the world, the people see how the Americans are doing going crazy about some lion...and they have real issues from disease, starvation, terror groups, and many other things.....and we as a nation have lost our mind over a lion.......I don't see it...

   And finally a 2 minute video about people bashing the Southern accent that we southerners use along with the word "Ain't" and other southernisms

Monday Music "Say it isn't so." by Hall and Oats

  I got this version of Monday Music out early Tuesday Morning,  We had a scoutleaders meeting that ran real late so by the time I got home, my time for blogging was gone and I was 2 hours past my "go to sleep time".  Well I had my act together...I was kinda surprised actually and had a few minutes time to put this one together.  I already had the song in mind so that helped.  
     I decided to roll with Hall and Oats "Say it isn't so.."   I liked the song when it came out.  The song got a lot of airplay on MTV along with their earlier offerings.  I first heard of Hall and Oats in the Mid 70's with "Rich Girl".  That song got a lot of airplay on AFN in Germany.  But in the early 80's Hall and Oats were on fire, they had a string of songs on MTV from their"Man Eater.."  they also had "Kiss on my List", "You make my Dreams",  "One on One" and many others.  They are still performing, I saw them in concert in 2008 Here in Atlanta at Chastain. 

Hall and Oats in 2008

By the fall of 1983, Hall & Oates were one of the biggest pop music acts in the United States. They had five Number 1 singles to their credit, two consecutive Top 10 albums and were one of the biggest names on MTV. A cover of the 1957 Bobby Helms classic "Jingle Bell Rock" was recorded and released in time for Christmas 1983, complete with a humorous video of the band, that received extensive airplay on MTV. In 1983, they released their first greatest hits album entitled Rock 'n Soul Part 1. The album peaked at Number 7, and the two new songs that were written and recorded for that LP also became Top 10 hits as well.
     "Say It Isn't So" was written by Daryl Hall during the duo's supporting tour for H₂O. It was the first of two songs recorded during the sessions for Rock 'n Soul Part 1. The sessions took place in September 1983 at Electric Lady studio a in New York City. The song was produced by Daryl Hall and John Oates, with recording by Bob Clearmountain, who co-produced the recordings. The backing musicians on the song were bassist Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, saxophonist Charles DeChant, guitarist G. E. Smith, drummer Mickey Curry, and percussionist Jimmy Brawlower. The song's arrangement was developed in the studio with backing vocals inspired by the Flamingos' version of "I Only Have Eyes for You" and a problem with a break in the song solved by Jimmy Brawlower.
   

 The first single released from this album "Say It Isn't So" battled six weeks for the Number 1 spot with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson's "Say Say Say" at the peak of Thriller mania. "Say It Isn't So" remained at Number 2 for an impressive four weeks from December 1983 to January 1984. The battle with the McCartney/Jackson single led disc jockey Peter Bush of New York's WPLJ Radio, which had just switched from rock to Top 40 the previous June, to intro the Hall & Oates entry "Say, Say, Say It Isn't, Isn't, Isn't So, So, So".
Rock 'n Soul Part 1 (also titled Greatest Hits – Rock 'n Soul Part 1) is a greatest hits album by American musical duo Hall & Oates, credited as "Daryl Hall John Oates" on the album cover. Released by RCA Records in October 1983, the album featured mostly hit singles recorded by the duo and released by RCA, as well as one single from the duo's period with Atlantic Records and two previously unreleased songs recorded earlier in the year (see 1983 in music).

Facebook Humor....

This will be me one day....

FOR THOSE OF MY GENERATION WHO DO NOT COMPREHEND OR EVEN CARE WHY FACEBOOK EXISTS:

I AM TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF FACEBOOK WHILE APPLYING THE SAME PRINCIPLES.

THEREFORE, EVERY DAY I WALK DOWN THE STREET AND TELL PASSERBY WHAT I HAVE EATEN, HOW I FEEL AT THAT MOMENT, WHAT I HAVE DONE THE NIGHT BEFORE, WHAT I WILL DO LATER AND WITH WHOM.

 I GIVE THEM PICTURES OF MY FAMILY, MY DOG, MY CAT, AND ME GARDENING, TAKING THINGS APART IN THE GARAGE, WATERING THE LAWN, STANDING IN FRONT OF LANDMARKS, DRIVING AROUND TOWN, HAVE LUNCH (SHARE OF PICTURE OF IT), AND DOING WHAT ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY DOES EVERY DAY.

I LISTEN TO THEIR CONVERSATIONS, GIVE THEM THE "THUMBS UP" AND TELL THEM I "LIKE" THEM. 

IT WORKS JUST LIKE FACEBOOK.

I ALREADY HAVE FOUR PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME.....TWO POLICE OFFICERS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, AND A PSYCHIATRIST.

 

 

The 4 Cardinal virtues

I saw this over Here.  This is a site for what I call guys with a traditional value system.  No metro-sexual girlie men you will find there.  I really liked what the site said, and I rarely cut and paste someones else's work,  I used their words, but I used my own pictures rather than what they had.  I figured my circle of bloggers will enjoy it since in my mind we also have the same kind of virtues.  I was going to post it tomorrow...but I hit "publish" rather than "schedule"...Oh well....it will help make up for my lack of postings earlier this week.
 

Traditional Christian theology names faith, hope, and charity as the theological virtues. They are directly imparted to the believing Christian by the grace of God and are not attainable through the natural order. They are called theological because they have God for their immediate and proper object; because they are divinely infused; and because they are only known through divine revelation.
Grace perfects nature and the three theological virtues are the flowers of the four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. The word cardinal comes the Latin cardo, translated as “hinge.” Whether you’re a lifelong Christian or a Godless heathen, the cardinal virtues are part of the natural moral order and can be cultivated through self-discipline and hard work. We must cultivate them if we expect to live a happy life in this world.

It’s difficult to overstate how much Greek philosophy has influenced Christian theology. Plato identified the four cardinal virtues with a corresponding class of citizen in The Republic.
Temperance applied especially to farmers and craftsmen, i.e. those who provided for our bodily appetites. Fortitude was the necessary virtue of the soldier and corresponded to our spirit. Prudence was the virtue of the ruling class. Justice stood outside the system and governed the relationship between the other three classes and the virtues.
The Roman statesman Cicero also emphasized the four:

Virtue may be defined as a habit of mind (animi) in harmony with reason and the order of nature. It has four parts: wisdom (prudentiam), justice, courage, temperance.

And the deuterocanonical Book of Wisdom 8:7 in the Bible:

And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues; for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

 The first recorded instance of the word “cardinal” to describe these virtues occurs in St. Ambrose of Milan’s commentaries on the Gospel of Luke. Later on it appears in the writings of St. Augustine and St. Jerome. St. Thomas Aquinas gave it the most in-depth and systematic treatment of any other theologian in Western Christianity.

Prudence

Thomas teaches that prudence is the virtue that corresponds to the intellect. It enables us to discern our true good in any given situation and the proper means of achieving it. Because it is rooted in the intellect, prudence does not mean directly willing the good it sees, but rather sets the measure for the exercise of the other virtues.
Most importantly, it identifies the golden mean where natural virtue lies. If we lack prudence, courage becomes suicidal recklessness. Mercy becomes weakness. Justice becomes tyranny.

We must not confuse prudence with cowardice or dissimulation. It is the charioteer of the other virtues and guides the judgment of our conscience. The shortest and most effective definition of prudence is “right reason applied to action.” You wouldn’t start your own business without a plan of some sort, no matter how vague.

Justice

Prudence governs our actions. Fortitude and temperance concern taming our irascibility and our appetites. Justice deals with our rights and obligations toward other people.
Obviously the words “justice and “right” have been much abused over the last few decades, but abuse does not preclude legitimate use. If Jones borrows money from Smith, then Smith, in justice, has a right to get his money back if Jones refuses to pay up. The supernatural virtue of charity means going above and beyond the demands of justice; Smith may forgive Jones of his debt and make the money a gift. Justice is blind because she does not respect our position in society.

Justice means respecting others and fulfilling our obligations to them, whether it’s their right to life and limb or simply adhering to contracts. It means expressing gratitude toward those who have done us a kindness. It definitely does not mean a vague and undefined resentment of cishet white male shitlords to last in perpetuity upon pain of losing your livelihood.

Temperance

Temperance is geared toward governing our appetites for sensible pleasure, whether it’s food, alcohol, or sex. If man is the rational animal, as Aristotle put it, then temperance is necessary for governing our animal natures. It ensures our will’s mastery over our base instincts

If we can’t moderate our own desires, then we cannot act rightly, render other men what is their due, or overcome adversity. In the New Testament, this virtue is often called “sobriety” and “moderation.” The results of intemperance should be obvious: grotesque obesity, raging alcoholism, or swimming in STDs. We admire people who dramatically change their physiques through diet and exercise because they are living examples of the virtue of temperance.

Fortitude

Fortitude is often used interchangeably with courage. Remember prudence though: it is a reasoned courage. It’s not foolhardiness or rashness. It’s the virtue that allows us to overcome our fears and remain steadfast in the pursuit of our goals.
Prudence and justice tell us what we must do, and fortitude gives us the strength to see it through. Christian martyrs, for example, do not actively seek martyrdom, unlike Islamic suicide bombers. But whether it’s the Religion of Peace, or the Soviet Union, or the Roman Empire, Christian history is rife with martyrs who peacefully went to their deaths rather than renounce their faith.
In the context of the United States, if you even mildly agree with anything written on Return of Kings or the manosphere, or the orthosphere where my fellow Traditionalists hang out, eventually the SJWs are going to come for you.

Don’t actively seek out to die on that hill, particularly if you have young children to feed. But if you’re ever in their crosshairs, never, ever back down under any circumstances. If you apologize, you’re going to lose your job anyway, only now you’ve lost your dignity besides

A Virtuous Man

The four cardinal virtues all work in tandem. Prudence identifies what is good, how to do what is good, and how to avoid evil. Justice ensures that we respect one another’s rights and fulfill our obligations and duties. Temperance gives us the self-control to forgo short-term pleasures in pursuit of our long-term goals. Fortitude will see us through to the end, whether we succeed or fail.
As St. Augustine put it:

To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul and with all one’s efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted (through temperance). No misfortune can disturb it (and this is fortitude). It obeys only [God] (and this is justice), and is careful in discerning things, so as not to be surprised by deceit or trickery (and this is prudence).

Self-improvement entails more than building up our bodies. We must improve our spirits as well.

How to make money on Obama's America...

This came from my Dad, I thought it was cognizant.  I remember a study a couple of years ago from Ole Miss.  They did a study comparing 2 families...the first family was a nuclear family, Father, Mother, both worked and they  have 2 kids...the second one was a single parent with 3 kids.  the end of the study showed that the single parent with 3 kids had more disposable income than the traditional family due to the myriad of programs to assist the "needy".  from Medicad, TASF, section 8 housing, utility assistance, free lunch for kids..free daycare for kids and many others, the single parent had more money despite working a part time job.  the nuclear family had no assistance whats-ever and they paid for everything.  They had far less income available for non-necessities. 

The Secret to Financial Success:

You & your girlfriend can live like a king!
Just follow these proven 13 steps : 

1. Don't marry her.
2. Use your mom's address for your mail.
3. The guy buys a house.
4. Guy rents out house to his girlfriend who has 2 of his kids.
5. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for a 3-bedroom home.
6. Girlfriend signs up for ObamaCare; guy doesn't have to pay out-the-butt for family       insurance.
7. Girlfriend goes to college for free being a single mother.
8. Girlfriend gets $600 a month for food stamps.
9. Girlfriend gets free cell phone.
10. Girlfriend gets free utilities.
11. Guy moves into home but , uses mom’s house for his mail.
12. Girlfriend claims one (1) kid & guy claims one (1) kid on taxes. Now you both get to claim Head of Household @ $1,800 credit.
13. Girlfriend gets disability for being "crazy" or having a "bad back" @$1,800 a month & never has to work again. 

This plan is perfectly legal & is being executed now by millions of people. 

A married couple with a stay-at-home-mom yields $0 dollars. 

An unmarried couple with a stay-at-home-mom nets: 

$21,600 disability +
$10,800 free housing + 
$  6,000 free ObamaCare +
$  6,000 free food +
$  4,800 free utilities + 
$  6,000 Pell Grant money to spend +
$12,000 a year in college tuition free from Pell Grant +
$  8,800 tax benefit for being a single mother = 
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$76,000 a year in benefits 

Any idea why the country is $18+ trillion in debt? 
Any idea why so many children are born with no father?

Any idea why so many couples are choosing to remain single? 

Monday Music "Still the One" by Orleans

I wanted to get my Monday Music in on Monday, but was unable to.  As soon as I got home from work, I immediately grabbed my son, his uniforms and the sewing machine and off to my Dad's house.  My son wanted to learn how to sew, he wanted to sew patches on his uniform.  We had bought a sewing machine with the intent for it to be used for patches and things of that nature.  Well he learned the fine art on how to sew using a machine from his grandmommie.  After quite a few birds nest and hay stacks, he started getting it. 

   He was determined to learn this skill.  he has done well.  His comment after practicing was.."Now I can open a sweatshop".  My son....the apple don't fall far from the tree let me tell you. 
    I had this song in mind, I remembered hearing this song while my Dad was stationed in Germany in 1976.  This was one of the good songs that I heard on A.F.N. late at night.  I always liked this song because it was soo upbeat and listening to a positive song is a good thing. 

I have this patch and sticker laying around somewhere...

"Still the One" is a song written by Johanna Hall and John Hall, and recorded by the soft rock group Orleans on their album Waking and Dreaming, released in 1976, which made it to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Country singer Bill Anderson recorded and released a successful cover version, peaking at No. 11 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in 1977.

The lyrics of the song are of a man describing his feelings for a woman with whom he has a long lasting and, of course, intimate relationship ("You're still the one, I want to talk to in bed; Still the one that turns my head") and all the reasons why she is "Still the One" for whom he has feelings.

Orleans bass player Lance Hoppen recalls that Johanna Hall wrote the lyrics for "Still the One" after a friend "asked her why somebody couldn't write a song about staying together, as opposed to breaking up"; Johanna Hall wrote the lyrics on an envelope which she then handed to John Hall who Hoppen says "created the music in about fifteen minutes". John Hall would recall that "Still the One" was not an automatic choice for lead single from Waking and Dreaming saying rather that "we had several songs that were candidates. We were too close to it to see. Fortunately, our producer, Chuck Plotkin, had a strong feeling about the song."

Media musings....and gun control.......again........

I was out and about yesterday and I was in a store and they had the news on CNN, well they had this big report about mass murders...and they were talking about the jerk in the theater in LA.  Well they had a news report about who commits the most mass murders and they had this graph that had "white people" as the biggest mass murderers out there.....Well I suppose this guy would object..

     For those that don't know their history,  Chairman MAO killed millions of people, I recall the statistic was 60 million...not personally but through his orders from the cultural revolutions and the famines and has shaped the thought of millions of liberals...  Another mass murderer on the podium is this gentlemen..

"Uncle Joe" Stalin has killed about 20 million people through his purges of his people and the resulting purges severely weakened the Red Army that was noticed a couple of years later when the Soviets invaded Finland and had their ass handed to them, but finally won through sheer manpower.  His thoughts have also influenced many leftist by the thought of having somebody tell them what to do.     We will also have the favorite boogieman of the left....

   Adolph Hitler is well known for his extermination of 6 millions Jews plus other "undesirables".  He of course is used as the poster child by the left when ever they get into a debate with a conservative...the Average liberals don't know or forgets that the word "NAZI" is a shortened word for "National Socialist Deutchen Arbeiten Party or NSDAP or shortened to "Nazi"  the translation of NSDAP is "National Socialist German Workers Party.  Hardly the bastion of conservatism that the liberals make it out to.

    The news about this guy whom was the shooter, this guy that happened to like Rand Paul, the westboro church and hitler is a boon to the leftist in this country.  You noticed the feed about this guy is all over the news and has dominated the news cycle, the left has another white guy that killed people and they are painting him with the conservative brush...the media elitist had to get the news of the muslim jerk killing those marines at the recruiting station off the news feed...this stuff is hurting the efforts of "Dear Leader" to transform this nation to an image of his making.

    
   The same media that overwhelming supports the narrative of the Democrats and other leftist...the Media that under our system is considered one of the pillars of a free society, the media that used to report on the wrongdoings of all politicians..you know the media that is responsible for all the news that gets reported...the media that was charged by our constitution that a free press was vital for the vitality of the American system....The media that is supposed to help keep abuse of power in check

 

Yeah....these guys....

     But since this nutjob did the shooting in a "gun free" zone...the usual suspects

 immediately pushed the same call for more "reasonable gun control".    I don't know about you but this is getting old...We regular gun owners are always pilloried by the gun control groups and politicians for more control...they call it "Reasonable"...everytime I hear the word "reasonable" I immediately know that there will be more restrictions on the law abiding.   

     The areas that got shot up were"Gun free" zones...funny how the laws and edicts that the self serving politicians pass don't regulate the behavior of the crazy.....Just the law abiding.
     I don't know about you...but I will use a paraphrase of Joseph Stalin Order #227

    

My Airbus Experience

     I a couple of weeks ago had the fortunate opportunity to see the new Airbus A350XWB.  The plane was doing the American tour to the American airlines.  I was one of the lucky ones that got selected to see the interior of the airplane.  I was really impressed with the interior, so far the Airplane has a good reputation with the airlines using her.  So far Qutar and Vietnam airlines are the only carrier using the A350 commercially.  My employer placed the order to replace the older 747-400 series and 767 series airplanes that are nearing their service life.  I understand that the Boeing couldn't provide the 787 series airplanes due to the backlog they have so we bought the Airbus instead. 

The Airbus A350 XWB is a family of long-range, twin-engine wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The A350 is the first Airbus with both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. Its variants seat 280 to 366 passengers in typical three-class seating layouts. The A350 is positioned to succeed the A330 and A340, and compete with Boeing's 787 and 777.

The A350 was originally conceived in 2004, pairing the A330's fuselage with new aerodynamics features and engines. In 2006, Airbus redesigned the aircraft in response to criticism from several major prospective customers, renamed it the A350 XWB (extra wide body). Development costs are projected to be €12 billion (US$15 billion or £10 billion). As of June 2015, Airbus had received orders for 781 aircraft from 40 customers worldwide. The prototype A350 first flew on 14 June 2013 from Toulouse, France. Type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency was received in September 2014 and certification from the Federal Aviation Administration two months later. On 15 January 2015, the A350 entered service with Qatar Airways, the type's launch customer.

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The A350 XWB is Airbus’ all-new family of widebody aircraft that is shaping the future of medium- to long-haul airline operations – overcoming the challenges of volatile fuel prices, matching rising passenger expectations and addressing increasing environmental concerns. 

This new-generation jetliner – which entered commercial service in January 2015 – offers seating capacities between 280-366 with its three passenger versions: A350-800, A350-900 and A350-1000.

The A350 XWB is setting a new standard of efficiency in its class, with 25 per cent lower fuel consumption compared to its current competitor. It also brings a new level of passenger comfort, with more personal space and 18-inch wide seats in Comfort Economy. With Airbus’ newest widebody jetliner, it’s the “Xtra” that makes the difference.

 

The A350 XWB’s 220-inch fuselage cross-section was specifically designed for an optimum travel experience in all classes of service – providing ample room to incorporate the widest seats of any jetliner in its category, while also allowing greater lateral movement and more personal space for passengers on long-range flights. 

Adding to the pleasant atmosphere is the A350 XWB’s cabin design, which incorporates smooth curves, flowing lines, innovating lighting and wide windows; with straighter side walls and a flat floor in the cabin further increasing overall comfort and spaciousness.

By offering an extra inch of width compared to the 1960s-era 17-inch seat standard – when people were smaller and long-haul flights were rarely more than five hours – Airbus is focused on meeting the modern requirements of travelers, as long-range flights are now more frequent and cover greater distances. The A350 XWB also provides more space at shoulder level, as well as overhead stowage space for two roller-bags per passenger in business class.

A number of other key elements help Airbus’ A350 XWB deliver a more relaxing flight. Among them are this jetliner’s high-precision air management system; exterior noise levels that are as much as 21 EPNdB (Effective Perceived Noise Decibel) below ICAO Capter-4 requirements; and its fourth-generation in-flight entertainment systems with individual seat monitors.

 The test module mounted over the center wing section.  The information is the same information that is available to the pilots.  This plane is a test bed platform for all improvements and upgrades and the longevity of all the components. 

Airbus brought a new level of intelligence to the A350 XWB through its integration of robust and efficient state-of-the-art systems, which also increased reliability and lowered maintenance requirements. The use of fully-electrical three-axis flight controls provides enhanced flight safety, reduced pilot workload and a reduction in mechanical parts; and the Airbus-developed fully duplex network backbone improves data exchange capabilities aboard the aircraft. 

The A350 XWB’s all-new fuselage – built with carbon-fiber reinforce plastic (CFRP) – supports lower fuel burn, easier maintenance and increased resistance to corrosion. Simultaneously, the jetliner’s wings are more efficient and quieter due to their advanced design, and are able to adapt while airborne – tailoring it for maximum aerodynamic efficiency in the various phases of flight.

Other highly-innovative elements on the A350 XWB include its improved flight deck dimensions, built around an arrangement of six identical, interchangeable large displays; the state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, which outperforms competitors in terms of fuel economy, emissions and overall efficiency; and the latest in-flight entertainment systems.

 

Airbus brings together the very latest in aerodynamics, design and advanced technologies in the A350 XWB to provide a 25 per cent step-change in fuel efficiency compared to its current long-range competitor. Contributing to this performance are the A350 XWB’s Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, which have the lowest carbon emissions of any wide-body power-plant; as well as jetliner’s innovative all-new Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) fuselage.

 

Rolls Royce Trent

    I really enjoyed the opportunity to see the new plane.  It felt strange being treated like a V.I.P when I am just an airplane mechanic.  I did notice the class distinction from me and the "office" people.   I actually touch airplanes( and cuss at them once and a while) on a regular basis and they just see pictures of them...Or am a bad person for saying that....