Sunday, December 01, 2013

The heroes among us-----Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988 - YouTube

Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. 
This video is the BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988. 

The most touching video ever.

Tom Brink via Google+

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In 1939, a 29-yo stockbroker rescued 669 Czechoslovakian children before the Nazi invasion. After the war, he told no one. In 1988, his wife discovered the scrapbook in their attic with all of the children listed. Here is a clip from "That's Life" with Nicholas Winton... (if you have emotions, your eyes may water)

Winton's story: http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php
Winton is 104, he is still alive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton)

▶ Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988 - YouTube: ""

Well, the youth vote carried Obama to victory. Chris Wallace: Isn’t Obamacare Just ‘Income Redistribution?’

Chris Wallace: Isn’t Obamacare Just ‘Income Redistribution?’ - The Federalist Papers:
"“It sounds like what you’re saying is younger people are going to pay more to subsidize older, sicker people,” Wallace challenged.

“It depends on their income, and a whole variety of issues,” Tanden said. “A lot of people are seeing a much better deal in this system. There’s a big question about whether younger people should actually have a much better deal in the system, because they’re going to get pooled with a lot of other people.”

“You’re right about income redistribution,” Capretta said. “It’s $250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion and the subsidy structure that’s basically being paid for by people on Medicare through Medicare cuts and a lot of tax increases. If you want to know what the bill is really about, people in their most honest and candid moments wil admit that it’s basically taking $250 billion a year out of taxes and Medicare, and moving it into the Medicaid expansion and subsidy structures…It is a massive, massive income redistribution.”"

OMG they've embarassed CNN! ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version

ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version | NewsBusters:
"A really funny thing happened Sunday morning when the folks at CNN’s New Day tried to open a health insurance account at the newly upgraded ObamaCare website.
It crashed (video follows with transcript and commentary):"

10 amazingly defaced textbooks turned to crazy doodles

10 amazingly defaced textbooks turned to crazy doodles | iLyke:

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe who ‘Meet the Press’ chose for Obamacare ‘reality check’

It's not just that they'd make that choice of propagandists. 
It's that they knew they'd drive viewers away. 
And they didn't care a wit.  

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe who ‘Meet the Press’ chose for Obamacare ‘reality check’

I don't like GM, Chevy, rear wheel drive cars, convertibles, or anything to do with the UAW. But this car gives me FEVER! Chevy announces Premiere edition of Corvette Stingray convertible

2014 Corvette Stingray Premiere Edition ConvertibleChevy announces Premiere edition of Corvette Stingray convertible - latimes.com:
"Performance remains unchanged from the rest of the Corvette lineup we tested in August.
A direct-injected, 6.2-liter V-8 makes 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque, and power flows to the rear wheels via a seven-speed manual transmission or a six-speed automatic.

Chevy will build just 550 of these convertibles, and they’ll only be available in the dark green paint (dubbed Lime Rock by Chevy) with the brown suede interior you see above."

And there is the blackmail angle-----If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong

If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong | Techdirt:
Cardinal Richelieu's famous line is:
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
It's easy to twist almost anything to be used against you if someone cares enough. 
And with a legal code that means people are committing, on average, three felonies a day (at least according to one estimate), it can be even worse. 

That's worth keeping in mind any time someone writes off the NSA as not being an issue for them because they've "done nothing wrong." 
Driving home that point is an excellent short "Op-Doc" in the NY Times by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, which has brief interviews with a bunch of great people (many of whom you'll hopefully recognize) explaining in very clear terms why you should absolutely care about the NSA
There are many reasons discussed, but a simple one, highlighted by David Sirota, goes back to that quote above. 
You can claim that you've done nothing wrong all you want. 
However, if someone really powerful decides they want to railroad you, you'd be surprised at how much it can be made to look like you've "done wrong." 
And when the NSA (or the FBI) can readily access all sorts of data about your life, their ability to build such a story increases tremendously.

Government transportation-ObamaWreck ----Grand Central-bound commuter train derails in the Bronx

Grand Central-bound commuter train derails in the Bronx | Mail Online:
"The southbound train jumped the tracks as it came around a turn away from the Hudson River towards the Harlem River immediately before the waterside station.
Passengers laid blame on the driver, telling local media the train was driving much faster than usual. "

For those who forgot. Barry called his future self "irresponsible". Even "unpatriotic".

On July 3, 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said this:
The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. 
That’s irresponsible.
It’s unpatrioc.

Black on white attacks continue-"Hunger Games" with an "Obama Twist" --------‘And Wammmmmm’: Teens Randomly Target, Beat Up Senior Citizens

‘And Wammmmmm’: Teens Randomly Target, Beat Up Senior Citizens | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A Fort Myers, Fla., teen was arrested this week for attacking senior citizens.

Traveshia Blanks is charged with two counts of battery in the seemingly random and senseless attacks, according to WBBH-TV.

One 72-year-old victim told the news station he was weeding his garden Tuesday when he was kicked from behind. The victim fell to the ground and said he saw a woman walking away laughing, joining a group of people.

“I was in shock. Who would expect anything from out of the blue to happen like that. There’s no reason had I done something or said something,” the victim told WBBH."

Obama's america---▶ BEST of OBAMA VOTERS

▶ BEST of OBAMA VOTERS - YouTube: "

Yet the left continues its moronic chant against "big oil.

Three black, murderous, slime. One white med student. Where's Al Sharption? ------New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds

New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The popular University of Michigan medical student was shot in the neck and killed."

This almost makes me cry-------The rise of Detroit: the early years

The potential.
The greed.
Unions.
Democrats.
The misery brought to millions of Detroit's residents.
The misery to come.....
The rise of Detroit: the early years | The Detroit News

Everyone loves free stuff. Until THEY have to pay for it----How to keep grandma connected when phone companies want out of landline business?

How to keep grandma connected when phone companies want out of landline business? | MLive.com:
"“I foresee a day when we're not going to have mail service universally,” said Sauvage, a retired postal worker. 
“And now not to have phone service universally, I don't like that thought at all.”"

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. For kids. Not adults. And Santa doesn't look loke Jimmy Hoffa-------Detroit retirees facing cuts anxiously await bankruptcy eligibility decision

And just because you voted for crooks who lied to you doesn't mean your "Santa" has the right to take the gifts from under my family's tree and give them to you.

Susan Tompor: Detroit retirees facing cuts anxiously await bankruptcy eligibility decision | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"After 38 years of working as a clerk at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library, Barbara Yokom retired in April 2012.
A little more than a year later, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 relief and threw her health care coverage and a chunk of her pension into the great bankruptcy unknown.
Yokom, 60, jokes that things would be OK if she could get a financial break and declare her two cats, Magoo and Smoky, as dependents."

As NPR and NYT assure their few remaining customers that all is peaceful and well------- NYPD To Businesses: Turn Security Cameras Toward Streets

NYPD To Businesses: Turn Security Cameras Toward Streets « CBS New York:
"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD wants business owners to help solve crime in one Harlem precinct by turning their security cameras to the street.
As 1010 WINS’ Gary Baumgarten reported Saturday, police believe crime has spun out of control in the 32nd Precinct, which is bounded by St. Nicholas and Bradhurst avenues on the west, 127th Street on the south, and the Harlem River on the north and east.
With that in mind, the Precinct Cmdr. Rodney Harrison has asked local businesses to help the NYPD by turning their security cameras outward in an attempt to capture crime and assist police in capturing criminals. The program has been dubbed “Grid Search.”
Many nearby residents said it was a splendid idea.
“You’ve got a lot of these gang members out here attacking people for no reason,” said one neighbor, Dwayne. “They need to just put a lot of cameras up in storefronts to lower the crime rate.”"

Every day. In every way. They want to control your life. And penalize you if you object. Severely penalize.

A the (dead)beat goes on------Detroit judge delays lighting proposal on law firm question

It's been like N. Korea so long no one has a clue about American laws or values.

Detroit judge delays lighting proposal on law firm question | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit's bankruptcy judge put off ruling on a proposal to spend as much as $12.5 million annually on street lighting until a law firm explains why it represents both the city and a public lighting district the city created.

Probably true. We just don't know what he promised ACORN, Putin, the unions, his Muslim Brotherhood friends........Michelle Obama on Barack: ‘He Keeps His Promises’

Michelle Obama on Barack: ‘He Keeps His Promises’ | NewsBusters:
"ABC’s Barbara Walters did another in a series of sycophantic gushing and fawning interviews with the Obamas Friday.
In the wake of the President’s fallacious claim that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them, the most preposterous part of the interview was when Michelle Obama said her husband “keeps his promises” without any pushback from Walters (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):"