Posted by: sharmajee on: June 27, 2009

Slime? Bring it on!
Should they be frightened by Sarah Palin? You, betcha!
In 2004, The man who was called “Dukakis on Stilts” by Maureen Dowd, sure was often flat-footed.
In true Dukakis fashion, he never recovered, nor made any serious attempts to fight against, this convenient cudgel, to wit:
Likewise, in Dukakis fashion again, he could not, according to himself tell a joke well and botched it, to wit:
One is willing to let bygones be bygones, but losers should, in true Dukakis style, remain quiet, and fade asway. But not the ketchup-king-by-marriage.
So, Sarah takes it to him. Here is CNN ticker.
Palin herself, speaking to U.S. troops in Kosovo, responded Friday with a shot aimed straight for the face — literally.
“Then Sen. John Kerry makes this joke, I don’t know if you saw this, but he makes this joke saying, ‘Aw shoot, of all the governors in the nation who disappeared, too bad it couldn’t have been that governor from Alaska…’” she said.
“But the way he said it, he looked quite frustrated, and he looked so sad, and I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, ‘John Kerry, why the long face?’”
Palin is overseas visiting Alaska National Guard troops on a peacekeeping mission.
Emphasis added)
Sorry, Senator, don’t be sad, the Obamessiah will surely throw a crumb of an ambassadorship to you .. just keep worshiping.
VIDEO OF SARAH PALIN WITH OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS
Note the love and solidarity of the soldiers at the mention of her son, their fellow-in-arms.
Be patient, and pay attention @ 9:05 on, and how hearty the soldiers’ response!
Posted by: sharmajee on: September 26, 2008
STICKY POST (One of the most popular pages of this blog!!)
I guess this was bound to happen, sooner or later. So here it is, click the image for a short video.
Note: The link takes you to a CBS News media player window. If the crop circle video doesn’t play, please click on the crop circle video link within the player, chose from the menu to the right!
Posted by: sharmajee on: November 30, 2008
‘You don’t have a mother who will hug you and kiss you,’ Rabbi Kotlarsky cried out during a eulogy that switched back and forth between Hebrew and English. But the community will take care of the boy, he vowed: ‘You are the child of all of Israel.’ Atlas Shrugs
{Thanks to Michael Savage from whom I first learnt of the fund, on his radio show Savage Nation.}
Chabad of Mumbai Relief Fund
770 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Make checks payable to:
Chabad of Mumbai Relief Fund
Checks can be any currency
Online Donation can be made at: chabadindia.org
Atlas Shrugs has some fiery commentary on the Mumbai tragedy, especially read the post “The Pathos of the Jews”. It is quite gut wrenching.
Update:
The Jawa Report has clued me in to this video of Rabi Marvin Heir, dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaking at a memorial service for Moshe’s parents: Rabi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg at the Chabad in North Hollywood in California.
To use a metaphor that is appropriate for the forthcoming Chanukah festival – that one cruise of light that emanated from of the Chabad house in Mumbai has contributed more to humanity than your whole ideology and way of life. The Jewish people whom you seek to destroy will still be here – long after you and your haters have been deposited in the dustbins of history.
Indeed it can be said of Hindu people too, that they too, despite a thousand years of Islamic attempts to wipe them out, will be on earth, epitomizing peaceful coexistence, Thadhastu!
TIP: The above embedment includes several nice videos including vignets of the Mumbai Chabad House, some news clips etc. View them all.
Watch the video, read Atlas, but don’t forget to viist the Chabad India website, remember Moshe!
Followup: h/t Atlas
Posted by: sharmajee on: July 4, 2009

Sarah, recently, in Kosovo
Opinions, yes they all have opinions.
There is a very wide spectrum of ideas on why Sarah Palin resigned so suddenly. The opinions are varied, and even contradictory. That’s what makes this fun. Please be patient as there is no instant-wisdom here. Just speculation.
What about the real reason, you ask.
Well, to paraphrase the great Randy Travis, listen to how this blog post ends (wink).
I trust Sarah. She has a good heart, and a fine mind. I value only her opinions.
Sarah Palin is like the peacock at a poultry show. She is the one to watch and listen to. So, like she said, stay tuned.
In the meantime, let’s listen to the chickens, the ducks, and the turkeys.
Start with the rising star of analysis, the astute Chuck Todd, the one and only founder of HotLine on Call:
John Harwood, David Shuster, Alex Witt of NBC:
Carl Cameron of Fox News.
Charles Krauthammer, Juan Williams, Brit Hume, of Fox News
Bill Kristol of Weekly Standard on Fox.
Mark Levin on his own radio show.
Mike Huckabee & Bill Kristol on Neil Cavuto Show (Stuart Varney), Fox News.
And, of course, the totally useless opinion of the annoying-voiced, and self-absorbed Andrea Mitchell, the chief worshiper correspondent at White House from NBC.
Here is someone who has a youtube channel totally devoted to Governor Palin, its almost an adoration of Sarah. But the sentiment is clear and straightforward.
Finally, as promised at the top, the real reason the average man thinks why Sarah Palin resigned. ”The Obama Smear Machine Wins”
Listen to this man. He speaks for me, he speaks for us. I don’t know the person, just found him while googling, but the clip is a good find.
This man speaks for all the Pumas and all the Palinators.
CAUTION: SOME STRONG LANGUAGE!
(He does, get carried away with his affection for Sarah Palin, her candidacy, and with his NObamist views. Be kind, his emotions are understandable.)
Related Post: go here for the full speech of resignation of Gov. Palin.
Posted by: sharmajee on: July 4, 2009
The Governatoress quit!
Sarah says it all, right here in this video.
Does this mean she is running in 2012?
Time will tell, stay tuned.
One thing I can tell you. There is no double-talk here.
She is a straight shooter.
So, stay tuned. She will tell you like it is …
Phrases that linger: full court press, eye on the ball, won’t put Alaska through it.
The best line of the speech:
“TRUST ME WITH THIS DECISION”
See also, related post update: Why did Sarah Palin resign?
Posted by: sharmajee on: July 4, 2009

Spirit of '76
This is a celebration of a celebration.
A moment in time, and a memory of that moment. A a celebration, by recognition of that moment of recollection. I am romancing memory, if you will. For, in these difficult days, all we have are memories.
Now, don’t get me wrong people. I love Mothers Against Drug Driving (have been member for ever), and I don’t condone illegal activity, but hey, this is the Fourth. The Fourth represents the ultimate of all illegal activities, don’t it? Revolution, that is. So, there it is!
With all those appropriate caveats (for the humorless) behind us, here is my paean to the grandest American Holiday.
Of all the great movies of my generation, the most stirring is MGM’s The Great Escape featuring thrilling performances by all, including James Garner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, et al.
Of all the memories and moments of that great flick, nothing stirs the soul like this fragrant moment. Watch the clip at 4:40, beginning of the lovely Yankee Doodle sequence. Enjoy.
But, as the Holiday wore on, hot dogs consumed, beer drunk, and horse shoes thrown about – totally off the pegs, that is - well, it just couldn’t be helped. I just had to come back in, and add this clip in, for after all, it is the Fourth! So, give a click and hum along …
And, of course, no Fourth of July is complete without some kind of a rant. My favorite rant this year is wholeheartedly in agreement with Michael Savage. On Road Trip, watch.
Oh, Savage, you are the perfect antidote to tedium!
Happy Independence Day, America!
Posted by: sharmajee on: June 25, 2009

Slime? Bring it on!
Remember how Sarah strikes terror into the hearts of the liberals, how they react with irrational fear, hatred, and bile? (here, here, here). It is almost exhausting to keep track of all the rumors and smears.
Well, it never ends, you know. A minor sideshow to the recent elections at the National Organization for Women was the rumor that “Palin Supporters” had a role in it.
Dr. Violet Socks, whom we have quoted quite often at this blog, has an excellent couple of posts up. This is a must read. The last para of the post, and a few quotes from comments.
#12: It’s perhaps worth stepping back and asking why Sarah Palin is such a reviled figure that the phrase “Palin supporter” is the mark of Cain. NOW itself, under the leadership of Kim Gandy, is part of the reason. NOW cooperated with the Obama campaign last year in spreading lies about Palin designed to make her seem crazily right-wing. Most of the things Palin is reviled for — the rape kit smear, the abstinence-only smear, the anti-contraception smear — are simply not true. Ironically, NOW justifies its vilification of Palin with lies that the organization itself helped spread — Posted by Violet Socks
Edgeoforever says:
Interesting about 12. It was very obvious to me that, like the Clinton smears(the racism memorandum), the Palin vilification was an Obama campaign coordinated effort. It started with Obama himself calling her a mayor and boasting that his “running his campaign” is more executive experience than her running a state, followed by “lipstick on a pig” and eventually passed on to underlings – such as NOW (Gandy acquiesced to Steven Colbert’s submission that “Sarah Palin is a dude”).Like W’s successful smear campaign against France for opposing the Iraq war, the Palin hate also became a popular culture staple due to key players propagating the memes. Embarrassingly, NOW was one of them.
Northwest rain says:
Voting for Palin was not an easy choice for a lot of people — but given the choice of a proven MCP — with Palin we knew what we were getting. No one is perfect — The blogging boyz and girlz needed to make up lies — because that’s all they have against a politician who HAPPENS to be female.As the days go by — I know that I made the correct choice.
Puma for Life says:
Thanks for this post; very informative. I was a Hillary supporter and then a Palin/McCain supporter; I continue to support Palin and I am pro-choice (guess that is important to say). It will take quite some time for me to trust NOW in any way after this past election year. For now, I am a member of The New Agenda, which is non-partisan and does not care if you are pro-life or pro-choice. That whole debate is old and needs to go away for women. The most important issue is economic equality; once you have that everything else will follow. Because of that, the most important action we can take is elect a woman to the presidency. I agree with Dr. Long on that. Therefore, I will work for and support Palin if she decides to make a run for it. As for NOW, who cares what they think; they don’t speak for me.
femina says:
I like the idea of inviting Palin to speak at a fund-raiser.
Posted by: sharmajee on: June 23, 2009

Alaskan Fireweed - Symbol of Summer
While following Governor Sarah on the Twitter, see sidebar for clickable link, I stumbled upon this gracious tweet invite.
Summer Solstice reminds us every second in AK’s gorgeous summer is unmatched so enjoy! Go outside get fresh air, keeps things in perspective. 12:36 PM Jun 20th from TwitterBerry
Which got this Lower-48er to do some thinking, err rather, googling I mean. So, off I went in search of information and came up with these delightful nuggets about Alaska, the amazing land of our favorite Governatoress.
I bet you didn’t know that in Alaskan Summer ….
…. at night the sun is never far below the horizon. (Alaska is not the place to go to see fireworks on the Fourth of July, because in most of the state it just doesn’t get dark enough – even after midnight — to show them to best advantage.) The further north you go, the more daylight you get.
In Anchorage, it’s possible to read a book outside at midnight in late June.
In Barrow, on Alaska’s North Slope, it doesn’t get dark at all for several months.
(Emphasis added)
Oh, it is sad, of course, that one couldn’t enjoy the fireworks. But, on the other hand it is possible to play golf at midnight!
In most states, tee times end before dinner. Here, you can forget that mad rush to get to the course in time.
“Here you can get off work at 5, go home, eat dinner, spend time with the family, then go out at 8 and get a full 18 in,” said Bryan Stenehjem, Anchorage Golf Course Marshall. [sic]
Midnight golf in the land of the midnight sun — it’s a fine way to end an Anchorage summer day.
Late-night tee times are available until about the end of July.
And speaking of Summer Solstice:
Talk about your endless summers. Daylight lasts 19 hours here now, and Anchorage is poised to celebrate Saturday’s summer solstice with a massive street fest and marathon that has filled nearly every hotel room in town. The Summer Solstice Festival begins Friday with 10 musical groups and a dozen more on Saturday. A marathon and half-marathon are also scheduled Saturday, under almost ideal conditions. Highs Friday and Saturday are expected to be in the upper 60s, under patchy clouds, with only a slight chance of a moose attack. (Emphsis added)
To put it differently:
Alaska’s Interior can be characterized by warm and seemingly endless days, maybe an afternoon shower, and of course mosquitoes. Most visitors to the Fairbanks area are surprised at just how warm it can get here this time of year. With a continental climate and over 21 hours of daylight, temperatures near 90°F during June and July are not uncommon in the land of the midnight sun.
If you want to wade through them all, some nice pictures of Alaskan Summer Solstice can be found in these webshots.
Here is a link to a one hundred year old travel book A Summer in Alaska by one Frederick Schwatka.

Color Plate - Summer in Alaska - circa 1893
Summer is camping time, outdoors time, so remember these survival tips and more:
First, set up shelter in an open area, not dense woods, to give you visibility. Don’t camp out by a salmon stream since bears feed on them. Also, if you’re lucky enough to have food along for your wilderness slumber party, keep it away from your shelter and from a bear’s reach. Try to hang it about 100 yards (30 meters) away from your sleeping quarters at least 30 feet (9 meters) high. In case you have extra clothing, pack the ones you wore while cooking with the food, since the lingering scent may draw bears to you as well.
Another interesting Alaska Summer event is the annual Mayor’s Midnight Marathon in Anchorage. They also feature a half-marathon and other shorter races.
Finally, in this article published over a decade ago, bearing the rather coy sub-title of TUNDRA DANCING, a writer of the New York Times waxes eloquent about a trip to Alaska.
I have thoroughly enjoyed doing this research and/or armchair travel of Alaska for/with you.
This post is done in honor of Governor Sarah. I hope you enjoy it too.
Also, please visit this other post, it was quite popular last year, Grizzlies Live on Alaska Webcams. Thanks!
Posted by: sharmajee on: June 10, 2009

Black Prisoner of Buchenwald / Photo John Kantara, via Debbie Schlussel
Gert Schramm was a man the world almost forgot.
He was the only black inmate, and survivor, of the Nazi concentration camp. He also happened to be, of late, a great fan of Barack Obama. He was snubbed, however, when he tried to meet with Mr. Obama when the latter recently toured Buchenwald.
Debbie Schlussel has the story on this most interesting man. Indeed, it is a terrific story, of how a black teenager was protectively surrounded by Jewish inmates.
The entire fascinating post can be read here.
Posted by: sharmajee on: June 9, 2009
(Sequel to: Why I don’t watch TV news shows, anymore, at all ...)
Saw this abominable asshattery performance of dhimmitude, brought to our painful attention by the great Pamela of Atlas Shrugs blog. The dhimmi getup and the kitchy gift clock, made me realize why I dislike the MSM so much. What happened during the last election cycle is nothing compared to what’s coming down the pike. All good Americans out there, brace yourselves for a full blown apologia for being American, great, exceptional, or even otherwise.
And, it made me dig out this old draft of a post and publish it.
Just stumbled on this one, an exhaustive article at NewsBusters by Mattew Balan.
In case the videos from the earlier post are pulled, or disputed over copyright issues, more on-the-scene blogging evidence can be found at El Rider, Founding Bloggers, and Leaning Straight Up.
Writing a three-part article on the current situation, Victor Davis Hanson, a favorite scholar of ours, wrote under the header Corruption of the Press:
We have no media—at least as we once knew it. Somewhere in late 2007, it disappeared entirely, and became something akin to the old Pravda … [Sic]
Few any longer connect with a Newsweek editorial, a Time essay, a riff from NPR, or commentary on PBS. The front pages of the New York Times or Washington Post are op-eds in thin disguise. [Sic]
The utopian ends of social egalitarianism for the new media lords justified the tawdry means of distorting reality.
In the meantime, we are beginning to see that the media is about to add humiliation to its moral failure, as it grasps that once you worship a Messiah, you cannot leave the cult.
(Emphasis added)
The entire set of articles is wholly edifying, and recommended. The idea of an American version of Pravda, it’s both saddening and terrifying.
Posted by: sharmajee on: June 6, 2009

Remembering D-Day / Image Courtesy Times Online
It is an amazing fortnight that stretches from Memorial Day to D-Day.
Here in the USA, these two special days highlight our national commitment to Freedom like no other. Unfortunately, however, the cyclical nature of school and summer mask the purely American quality of the spirit of the fortnight.
These two days, Memorial Day and D-Day, make for the perfect bookends to a period of observances that should remind not just Americans but the entire world what America represents for millions of people. Not just military might, not simply streets paved with gold, even though they are part of it.
America represents the New World spirit of individual struggle, effort beyond the call of duty, a sense of sacrifice, a willingness to do the right thing. It is America’s duty, so we believe. To spread freedom and liberty.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and a willingness if not an outright compulsion to share these ideals with the rest of the world, that’s that spirit embodied in this amazing two week stretch.
Anchored by the two special days that speak of sacrifices made by people, for people, one may well regard these two days are humanity’s ultimate gift to itself. Of course, up north the Canadians celebrate their Memorial Day to coincide with Armistice (Eleventh day of the Eleventh month, the year 1911, to denote conclusion of WWI).
Oh, what grandeur is embodied in the US Memorial Day, which originated in the tributes paid by liberated slaves to the Union soldiers during Civil War, and the D-Day which began the final efforts to liberate Europe. What romance conjured up by an ancient scribe of Greece or Sanskrit could ever match the symmetry and sweep of this majestic fortnight! A two week period of war, remembrance, memory and reflection. A reminder of America’s contribution to Humanity, a gift that continues to this day. And alas, must continue, for vast swathes of mankind are still in chains of one sort or another.
Whoever called it the American Century got it right. So much of what the world gained and gathered in the last 150 or so years has been the direct result of the Genius of America. A style of Democracy and Democratic Capitalism unique to human experience, robust individualism that engenders fulfillment of the total human potential, a social compact that is infused with the noble ideals of Freedom and Equality under law, this has been the gift of America. No less too, has been the much vaunted role of the USA as the policeman of the world.
Even as we speak, Americans are dying in far off wastelands, not for oil as the cynics say, but to bring a taste of that special American Genius to the wretched refuse of the world. This continues a long tradition dating back to the Charge on San Juan Hill, and Bunker Hill. With fewer mishaps than any civilization, America has forged a theory of a nation, long on promise, longer still on fulfillment of that promise. As any immigration lawyer will tell you, no matter how hard the times, people still want to come this way. Fewer than a hundred citizens give up on America in any given year.
Walt Whitman wrote in By Blue Ontario’s Shore:
Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,
Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
O days of the future I believe in you — I isolate myself for your sake,
O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
Bells of the Church at St. Mere Eglise, immortalized in the movie The Longest Day, and one of the most beloved and oft-visited site amongst WWII memorials. This is what the paratrooper John Steele probably heard, hanging by his chute ropes from the church steeple. Some 65 years later, folks still flock to this site of pilgrimage!
On the other hand, Cairo marks a low point in American diplomacy.
It is especially poignant to reminisce about American sacrifice nowadays, what with our leader going around the world apologizing, appeasing, and false-worshipping. Is America really that bad, do we really mean to harm humanity willy-nilly. Americans have killed fellow Americans to liberate blacks from slavery. Americans have jailed and punished fellow citizens to bring justice to immigrants, and yes even illegals. Americans have seen their family members killed in the service of the nation, to the benefit of people in far off lands, and of tribes friendly and otherwise. Christian Americans and black Americans, and Americans of every shade and ancestry have died to make this a better world for all humanity. And the leader of this nation thinks we have reasons to be ashamed.
Mr. Obama really does not represent sentiments of most Americans when he makes these misguided overtures to people who refuse to accept others’ faiths, and who continue on a sham spiritual path that is nihilistic and destructive toward the rest of humanity. America deserves better. At the very least, our president should get the facts right. With just about five million or so Muslims, the US is by no means “one of the largest” Islamic nations. If anything, our strength is in separation of church and state, nor a moral equivalence of all faiths. No, sir, all religions are not same, or readily comparable.
Let’s let someone who knows his Arab/Muslim history speak:
The choice of the date for Obama’s address indicates his attention to detail. It coincides with the anniversary of the start of the first battle between Islam, under Prophet Muhammad, and Christendom in the shape of a Byzantine expeditionary force in AD629. The “address to Islam” also marks the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini’s demise and the appointment of Ali Khamenei as the new “Supreme Guide of the Islamic ummah”. More importantly, it also coincides with the rebuilding of the Ka’abah, the stone at the heart of Mecca, which had been destroyed in a Muslim civil war. [sic]
By adopting the key element of the Islamist narrative, that is to say the division of humanity into religious blocs, Mr Obama also intends to send a signal to the Middle East’s nascent democratic forces that Washington is abandoning with a vengeance George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda”.[sic]
The problem is that the status quo in the Middle East was and remains unstable. Sixty years of “political realist” support for the regimes in the region produced five Arab-Israel wars, civil wars in Lebanon and Yemen, military coups d’état in eight Arab countries, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and two wars between US-led international coalitions and Iraq under Saddam Hussein. [sic]
In trying to prove that he is not George Bush, Barak Obama has committed big mistakes on key issues of foreign policy. His Cairo address, and his “one-size-fits-all” Islam policy, is just the latest. It encourages Islamists and ruling despots, discourages the forces of reform and change and, ultimately, could produce greater resentment of the United States among peoples thirsting for freedom, human rights and decent governance.
There are legitimate reasons for Israel to be afraid. The entire Islamic world has been arrayed against it for decades. It is quite possible our president is now aggravating the situation with a hard stance against Israel, while placating her enemies. In the speech Mr. Obama gave in Cairo, the audiences NEVER applauded for a pro-Jewish sentiment, but gave lusty applause when Israel was criticized. It’s as if our leader was leading Israel down the primrose path, and the audience knew it.
Watch this video of a debate between two Israelis, Caroline Glick and Gershon Baskin.
The bizarreness of our leader’s speech, full of fallacy, flattery, and dhimmitude, was matched by the galling, shrillness of this woman. This lady first crashes a Memorial Service to a fallen American soldier, unashamed that the said soldier was killed by a jihadist muslim now in detention, disturbs the somber nature of the moment, and eventually has the gall to feel insulted! Watch:
This is twilight zone we are living in!
This is getting out of hand!
Call me old fashioned, but the USA has had enough. We have had people hate America from within and from without, way too much. It’s time to let the world rot in it’s own stew. And time to give those who are hard on America, an old fashioned chiding.
What we need is some old time patriotism in this country. We have been on the mea culpa path for too long. To put in simple, country simple, terms: time to declare ourselves Good. Let Haggard speak for me finally: