Pure badassery here
Friday, July 3, 2015
German pensioner discovered to have a operational Panther tank in his basement garage.
My hero, but the insurance and registration must have been hugely expensive!
Authorities seized a 45-ton Panther tank, a flak cannon and multiple other World War II-era military weapons in a raid on a 78-year-old collector’s home in northern Germany, prosecutors said Friday.
The tank owner has made no secret of his collection, openly talking about the Panther and other items in media reports following the May revelation of the art investigation.
Neighbor Kristin Schroeder told the local Kieler Nachrichten newspaper that the man had even fired up the tank during the particularly bad winter of 1978-79 and helped plow others’ snow.
“It was well known, at least to all the older Kitzebergers, that he had a tank,” Schroeder said.
And it's never a bad thing to have a few spare main battle tanks scattered around should the Reich suddenly have need of them again!
Gerard finds something really wonderful
In his latest Something Wonderful post, he found this:
Just watch her face when she recognizes who it is across the table. Wow.
Follow the link for some well chosen poetry.
Just watch her face when she recognizes who it is across the table. Wow.
Follow the link for some well chosen poetry.
Doesn't this remind one of the nullification movement that took fire just before the start of the Civil War?
Good job, you a-holes on the Supreme Court! Rip and tear at the fiber of the nation.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials agree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when we first asked this question in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Of even more interest is this finding:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials agree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when we first asked this question in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Of even more interest is this finding:
The voters who feel strongest about overriding the federal courts – Republicans and conservatives - are those who traditionally have been the most supportive of the Constitution and separation of powers. During the Obama years, however, these voters have become increasingly suspicious and even hostile toward the federal government.
Fifty percent (50%) of GOP voters now believe states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings, compared to just 22% of Democrats and 30% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Interestingly, this represents a noticeable rise in support among all three groups.
Fifty percent (50%) of conservative voters share this view, but just 27% of moderates and 15% of liberals agree.
Voters are closely divided in their opinions of both of last week’s major rulings. Negative views of the Supreme Court are at their highest level in nearly nine years of regular surveying.
So the bedrock of the nation is fed up and considering what is basically civil disobedience toward the highest court in the land. Not good.
The conservative folk have always been the law abiders, those who do the right thing even when no one is looking. If you lose that demographic, it's probably only a matter of time before things crack up. It's like when people vilify the police. Sure, there are abusers, but the vast majority of police men and women are dedicated pillars of the community. Lose them, and you get Baltimore, or Detroit.
It's going to be the same with the larger group of those who go to work every day, pay their taxes, raise families, and support the community in every way. Lose them, and it's only a question of time before the people who count in America decide a reorganization is in order. When that happens, the 47% might not like what real Americans decide needs to be done.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Custer's Crow scouts
Photo by D.F. Barry, 1878-83.
This may be the only photograph of Half Yellow Face, pipe carrier (leader-chief) for Custer’s six Crow scouts at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, according to Sharon Small, curator at the Little Bighorn Battlefield Museum, who has suggested that the man wearing the cavalry coat is Half Yellow Face. The coat has corporal’s chevron and as leader of the Crow Scouts, Half Yellow Face had that rank and he would own such a coat.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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