Kurds capture ISIS documents

YAKITI, Syria – After two days of fighting against ISIS in this northwest Syria town, the Kurdish Defense Committee released a partial play list captured at an Islamist radio station, WKIL-U.

A KDC spokesman said there had been rumors of such a list, but until not, one had not been captured.

The list of songs included:

Ain’t No Woman Like a One-Eyed Goat

Something in the Way She Moos

Midnight at the Oasis (Take Your Camel to Bed)

Pony Time

Reindeer are Better than People

Sheikh MacDonald Had an Orgy

My Little Donkey

Bessie the Heifer

The KDC spokesman said capture of the play list will enable intelligence officers an increased insight into the mind of a typical ISIS terrorist.

Local ISIS officials could not be reached for comment.

How conservatives and progressives differ

(This is a thought piece, so I won't mention conservative logic v. progressive feelings.)

Conservatism vs. Progressivism

What’s the difference between a conservative and a progressive?  Here are three examples. 

#1 Conservatives and progressives have different views about individuals and communities.  Conservatives ask, “What can I do for myself, my family, my community, and my fellow citizens?“  Progressives ask, "What is unfair, what am I owed, what has offended me today, and what must my country do for me?"

The traditional American ethic of achievement gives way to the progressive ethic of aggrievement.  As opposed to a variety of individuals making up one American community, progressives seek to place individuals in a variety of competing communities.  The first creates unity.  The second, identity politics. 

#2 Conservatives and progressives have different views about diversity and choice.  For progressives, different ethnicities and gender identities are welcomed but a variety of opinions and ideas are not.  Just look at two areas of public life dominated by the left.  On college campuses, free speech is under attack.  If you’re a conservative working at a social media company or using one of their platforms to share your views, you may find your job eliminated or your account deleted.  And when it comes to choice, progressives love the word but they don’t want it to apply to our decisions on education, health care, and even how and where we live out our religious faith.  

Conservatives take a different approach. Parents, not the ZIP code they live in, should choose a school that is best for their child.  We all need health care, but we don’t all need the same kind or same amount.  And while people should be free to live as they choose, no one should be forced to endorse or celebrate those choices if it violates their religious beliefs.  Conservatives say people should have choices.  Progressives say one political solution fits all. 

#3 Conservatives and progressives have a different view of we the people.  Whether it’s the Second Amendment, immigration, or putting limits on abortion, if we the people don’t pass laws progressives approve, they turn to judges, executive orders, and government bureaucrats behind closed doors to overturn the will of voters.  

Whatever one may think about the wisdom of hiking the minimum wage, banning plastic straws, or removing controversial historical monuments, conservatives believe voters closest to the issues should be the ones making such decisions for their communities, not lawmakers in Washington or a panel of judges five states away. 

To sum it up, conservatives believe in individual rights, not special rights.  Conservatives believe in allowing Texas to be Texas and Vermont to be Vermont.  And conservatives believe we the people can vote with our feet about where we want to live and under what laws we want to live under.  

http://kaching.tumblr.com/

Bulgaria says ‘No’ to UN migrant order

“It started with the US withdrawing in July, then Hungary was next to follow. As of right now, the list of countries bailing on the disastrous Migration Pact is increasing by the day.

“Austria, Australia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland so far have withdrawn, while Switzerland, Belgium and Italy are questioning if they will also withdraw.

“Today, the Coalition Council has stated that Bulgaria is not going to join the UN Global Migration Pact either. The Council’s decision states that this document jeopardises Bulgaria’s national interests.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/bulgaria-will-not-join-the-un-migration-pact-and-joins-growing-list-of-countries/

Given that the majority of “migrants” are from radical Muslim countries, how is it that “progressive” people cannot see that, except for the U.S., the refuseniks are countries that suffered under Muslim occupation for centuries?

To those “progressives,” President Trump is a racist who wants to keep the U.S. white. Read the words, progressive people. Listen to the words. We antis maintained civility during the Obama years of Make America Nothing. We spoke in the 2016 election.

A busy year for catcher Ginsberg

Myron Nathan Ginsberg (nicknamed Joe) spent 13 years in Major League Baseball, catching for seven teams, including the 1962 New York Mets.

In those 13 years, the New York City native had a batting average of .241. He struck 2 home runs and batted in 182. He walked 226 times and struck out 135 times.

Ginsberg’s first game was on Sept. 15, 1945, with the Detroit Tigers, against the Washington Senators. Ginsberg went to bat four times, got one hit and scored one run. The Tigers won the game 4-2.  His final game was on April 15, 1962, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets lost the game 7-2. The game was the team’s fourth of the season and its fourth loss. The Mets would not win a game until April 23, defeating the same Pirates 9-1.

Ginsberg’s busiest year, administratively and movement, covered two months in 1960. On April 18, he was released by the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles then re-signed Ginsberg, only to again release him on June 15. Three days later, the Chicago White Sox signed Ginsberg. The South Siders released Ginsberg one year and three days later.

Army’s 1919 cross-country trip

Washington, D.C., to San Francisco.

Twenty-five-minute film.

A turned-over truck around 3:30. Lots of civilians standing around. Some help soldiers righting the truck.

Mud at 5:10. Slipping and sliding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJKxkfF1D8

Brevet Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a member of the mission. As president, he signed the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act in 1956.

That would have been an interesting road trip. More than 3,000 miles, from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, and then by ferry to San Francisco, done in only 56 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Motor_Transport_Corps_convoy

What if …

The plowed under fields of the one age become the birthing ground from which will sprout the life of the next age. For example, imagine if in the next election, all white Americans decide to sit it out. Whites don’t run for office, participate in the debates or follow the action. Whites stopped voting. Fox News would have Ben Shapiro debating Tariq Nasheed about how the gay black guy is more conservative than the one-legged, transgender lesbian of color, but they will do so as a pantomime to no one.

If whites turn their back on the rest of the people living in this land, those people will spin themselves like tops trying to get whites to reengage with them. That’s because what we think of as culture is purely a white thing. That flicker of life is an ember carried from one white culture to the next, that ignites the fire of what follows the dying present. If whites turn their back on all this, they will not be looking into a void, but into a mirror. They will see themselves and their power to create. This scales up to a new culture being born.

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=15514

What we have to put up with from Florida politicians

Florida Ballot Question 1-12:

Do you agree to raise property tax exemptions on a new casino that restores voting rights to convicted felons who vape indoors, requiring the Florida legislature to make retiring judges drill for oil more ethically, all the while forcing the Florida College System to prohibit dog racing on high-speed rail?

__Yes          __No

http://kaching.tumblr.com/

The 2018 ballot included parts of the above as amendments to the state constitution. Hidden in the amendments were: establishment of security organizations at county level, prohibition of vaping indoors, ending dog racing and some even dumber expansions of state and county government. And the informed, intelligent Florida voters approved the amendments.  I was an informed, yet dumb, voter and voted "No."

The Broward County Syndrome extends well beyond South Florida.