I have been in remiss, of late, in recommending Blog’s that you should be reading.
So, without further ado, I present The Right Stuff.
And not just because the Blogger lists Nikola Tesla as one of her Favorite Things, as cool as that is in it’s own right.
Take this tasty morsel from a recent post concerning William Ayers, of Weatherman Underground and Obama “just-a-guy-in-my neighborhood” fame:
When I was young, a few words brought fear and terror to mind; the IRA, the Achille Lauro, the Unabomber.
When I was young there were attacks on the Marine barracks in Lebanon; there were also bomb attacks and strife in Ireland, and Momar Qaddafi’s thugs set a bomb that took down a Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.
But I also remember the Weather Underground. For a long time it remained the quintessential example of terrorism there was; particularly domestic terrorism. I remember the names of Dohrn and Boudin, I remember the SDS, (Students for Democratic Society), where the Weather Underground began.
Well worth the read.
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Colin Powell was never a rock-ribbed conservative.
He has always been, at best, a RINO, with positions, overall, very close to John McCain’s.
I’m really not sure why his endorsement of Obama should come as any surprise, given Powell’s estrangement from the Bush administration.
UPDATE:
The other shoe has dropped. Just good old fashioned Political Patronage…
Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday.
“He will have a role as one of my advisers,” Barack Obama said on NBC’s “Today” in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush‘s former secretary of state, endorsed him.
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-One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
-We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
-The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
What has always fascinated me about Orwell, is that his seminal works; Animal Farm, about the corruption of the Russian Revolution into the Leninist/Stalinist system of the Soviet Union, and 1984, describing a Totalitarian government (many points of which have come to pass); have come to be touchstones of the political Right, but he was an avowed Socialist and Leftist.
From Wikipedia:
It was the Spanish Civil War that played the most important part in defining his socialism. Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists and other revolutionaries by the Soviet-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party.
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