So... happy post-Thanksgiving! How'd everyone's Turkey Day go?!
Ours went splendidly! A truly succulent bird served with all the fixings; courtesy of the kind, gracious, and extremely hospitable Marianne Barry of Pearl River, New York!
(Colleen... Kenny... Amanda... Kevin... thank you for sharing your day with us...)
Two words in closing: A*P*P*L*E P*I*E...!!!
(So, good, Marianne... SO friggin' good...)
As for today... well... Mary's already up and decorating the house for Christmas!
Me...? I'm helping... by staying out of her way...
(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)
Anyway... on to Newsbites!
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/11/27/this-could-be-the-coldest-thanksgiving-since-1930/
Minnesotans woke up to subzero temperatures on Thanksgiving Day, and if the mercury doesn’t make it up into the double digits, the day could be one for the record books.
* GLOBAL WARMING, FOLKS; SETTLED SCIENCE.
(*GRIN*)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/1127/Taliban-attack-upscale-neighborhood-in-Kabul
Taliban fighters staged an attack Thursday evening in an upscale district in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Witnesses described multiple explosions and bursts of gunfire in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which contains numerous foreign embassies and compounds housing international agencies and companies — as well as the homes of some senior Afghan government officials.
The attack came hours after a suicide car-bomber struck a British embassy vehicle, killing five people including a British citizen.
Kabul has come under almost daily attack as insurgents intensify their war on local security forces and U.S. and NATO troops, who are set to officially conclude their combat role in the country at the end of next month. Suicide bombers have launched attacks on military convoys and on compounds housing foreign service companies and their international employees.
* HOW MANY TRILLIONS... AND HOW MANY AMERICAN CASUALTIES... TO L*O*S*E A WAR?
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://buchanan.org/blog/moral-befuddlement-ferguson-7173
* BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
Edmund Burke’s insight returned to mind while watching cable news coverage of the rampage in Ferguson, Missouri, after St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
The rioting, looting, arson and gunfire that began after McCulloch relayed the grand jury’s decision, a decision long predicted and anticipated, revealed the unspoken truth about Ferguson.
The problem in Ferguson is not the 53-man police department. The problem is the hoodlum element those Ferguson cops have to police, who, Monday night, burned and pillaged the stores on the main streets of their own community.
* RIGHT ON, PAT!
The police were portraits in restraint as they were cursed and showered with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails.
* I'M GUESSING THIS WAS CIVILIAN/POLITICAL LEADERSHIP'S CALL... A BAD CALL. THE COPS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROTECTING PROPERTY AND TAKING DOWN AS MANY VIOLENT LOOTERS/RIOTERS AS POSSIBLE.
If the police were at fault at all, it was in their refusal to use the necessary force to stop a rampaging mob that destroyed the lives and livelihoods of honest businessmen and women of Ferguson.
* AS I WAS SAYING... (*SMILE*)
“No justice, no peace!” has been a howl of the protesters.
What they mean is strikingly clear: Michael Brown, one of us, is dead. Therefore, this cop, Darren Wilson, must go on trial for his life.
But this is not justice in America.
* IT IS FOR THE LEFT. (HEY... 24 YEAR OLD COLLEGE STUDENT DAUGHTER OF GOOD FRIENDS... YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD HER "OPINIONS" AT YESTERDAY'S THANKSGIVING DINNER TABLE. (TOTAL FRIGGIN' IGNORAMUS - AND DOESN'T ACKNOWLEDGE IGNORANCE AS A BARRIER TO HAVING AN OPINION!)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
We have a legal process to determine who was in the right and who in the wrong, and whether a crime has been committed by a policeman in the use of deadly force.
“No justice, no peace” is an encapsulation of the lex talionis, an eye for an eye. Do we really want to go back to race-based lynch law?
That 10 o’clock split screen of Obama in the White House briefing room calling for peaceful protest and greater efforts by police to understand “communities of color,” side by side with graphic video of mob mayhem in Ferguson, tells a sad truth: America’s election of a black president has not closed and, for some, has not even narrowed the racial divide.
* OBAMA IS A BLACK LEFTIST. HE DOESN'T BOTHER TO HIDE IT. WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE HE'S SHOWN HIMSELF TIME AND AGAIN TO BE "PRO-BLACK" - MEANING "ANTI-WHITE." (BEER SUMMIT ANYONE...???)
We are now half a century on from the Civil Rights Act of 1964. African-Americans have risen out of poverty and the working class to become successes as actors, artists, athletes, executives, politicians, TV anchors, journalists, scholars, generals, authors, etc.
* SOME.
But if the hate we saw on the streets of Ferguson, and heard from many voices on cable Monday night, are a reflection of sentiment in the black community, the racial divide in some parts of America is as great as ever.
* IT IS... AND IT IS...
Indeed, we may be slipping backwards.
* WE ARE! ABSOLUTELY!
Unfortunately, many are openly pandering to the crowd, denouncing the prosecutor, denouncing the grand jury, denouncing the Ferguson cops, but tongue-tied when it come to denouncing the thuggery of black youth on the streets of Ferguson.
* I TAKE THE OPPOSITE TACK: I'M GLAD BROWN IS DEAD. HE'S NO LONGER A MENACE TO SOCIETY.
The morning after the riot in Ferguson, President Cornell William Brooks of the NAACP called the grand jury decision not to indict Wilson “salt in the wound of a brutal injustice. … The people in this community and across the country are … saddened and outraged.”
Where, from the president on down, do we hear any thunderous condemnation of what went on in Ferguson Monday night and of those responsible, coupled with a clarion call for the restoration of law and order in Ferguson, as an essential precondition of any civilized society?
* WHERE DO WE HEAR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT MICHAEL BROWN, OFTEN DESCRIBED AS "AN UNARMED BLACK YOUTH," WAS ACTUALLY A HULKING, HIGH, AGGRESSIVE THUG?
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