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inherently damaging to liberty and the national interest unfortunately the federal government as an institution has largely come to reflect those same characteristics the tyranny that led the founding fathers to declare independence in their effort to make the central government too big to fail the political media complex has made it too corrupt to reform it is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government thomas paine written by lawrence sellin ph d the old man and the harley 14 wednesday jan 2015 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment i want to recommend a book to read that i received as a christmas gift from my sister in law the above title was written by john j newkirk about his father who at the age of 19 took his 1930 harley davidson on a cross country ride to see both world fairs in ny and san francisco in 1939 it is much more than a true story about an epic motorcycle ride it is about the people he met along the way the good men and women of america who struggle and his own personal battle in fighting the evils of life it is about his name sake uncle jack newkirk who served as a p40 fighter squadron leader until he was killed in burma during ww2 it is about crotalus horridus a rather large eastern rattlesnake his uncle killed before the war and this serves as a metaphor for evil throughout the book if you like motorcycles airplanes ww2 american history or just reading about the vanishing breed known as the greatest generation you will enjoy reading this book http www theoldmanandtheharley com the first black fighter pilot in history 29 saturday nov 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment do you know who this is a photo of chances are you don t but don t feel bad because probably not one american in one million does and that is a national tra gedy his name is eugene jacques bullard and he is the first african american fighter pilot in history but he is also much more then that he s also a national hero and his story is so incredible that i bet if you wrote a movie script based on it hollywood would reject it as being too far fetched bullard was an expat living in france and when world war 1 broke out he joined the french infantry he was seriously wounded and france awarded him the croix de guerre and medaille militaire in 1916 he joined the french air service and he first trained as a gunner but later he trained as a pilot when american pilots volunteered to help france and formed the famous lafayette escadrille he asked to join but by the time he became a qualified pilot they were no longer accepting new recruits so he joined the lafayette flying corps instead he served with french flying units and he completed 20 combat missions when the united states finally joined the war bullard was the only member of the escadrille or the french flying corps who was not invited to join the us air service the reason at that time the air service only accepted white men now here is the part that almost sounds like a sequel to casablanca after wwi bullard became a jazz musician in paris and he eventually owned a nightclub called l escadrille when the germans invaded france and conquered it in ww2 his club and bullard became hugely popular with german officers but what they didn t know was that bullard who spoke fluent german was actually working for the free french as a spy he eventually joined a french infantry unit but he was badly wounded and had to leave the service by the end of the war bullard had become a national hero in france but he later moved back to the u s where he was of course completely unknown practically no one in the united states was aware of it when in 1959 the french government named him a national chevalier or knight in 1960 the president of france charles degaulle paid a state visit to the united states and when he arrived he said that one of the first things he wanted to do was to meet bullard that sent the white house staff scrambling because most of them of course had never even heard of him they finally located him in new york city and degaulle traveled there to meet him personally at the time eugene bullard was working as an elevator operator not long after eugene bullard met with the president of france he passed away and today very very few americans and especially african americans even know who he is but now you do don t you and i hope you ll be able to find opportunities to tell other people about this great american hero that probably only 1 american in 1 million has ever heard of geert wilders speaks in the danish parliament building 04 tuesday nov 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment below is a video geert wilders speech in copenhagen yesterday after giving his speech mr wilders and the podium panel took questions from the audience other members of the panel included kurt westergaard the danish artist who created the famous turban bomb cartoon robert redeker the french author who had to go into hiding after writing a negative article about islam lars vilks the swedish artist whose drawings of the prophet as a roundabout dog brought him death threats and a firebombing attempt on his house lars hedegaard the founder of the danish free press society who was intended victim of a failed assassination attempt last year and daniel pipes the founder of the middle east forum the exchange between dr pipes and mr wilders concerning the possible emergence of a moderate islam is particularly instructive broadcast of vladimir putin s speech at the valdai club s plenary meeting 24 friday oct 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment its a sad day when your own country s president cannot sound like a statesman and russia s can it is my conviction that we could not take this mechanism of checks and balances that we built over the last decades sometimes with such effort and difficulty and simply tear it apart without building anything in its place otherwise we would be left with no instruments other than brute force what we needed to do was to carry out a rational reconstruction and adapt it the new realities in the system of international relations but the united states having declared itself the winner of the cold war saw no need for this instead of establishing a new balance of power essential for maintaining order and stability they took steps that threw the system into sharp and deep imbalance the cold war ended but it did not end with the signing of a peace treaty with clear and transparent agreements on respecting existing rules or creating new rules and standards this created the impression that the so called victors in the cold war had decided to pressure events and reshape the world to suit their own needs and interests if the existing system of international relations international law and the checks and balances in place got in the way of these aims this system was declared worthless outdated and in need of immediate demolition pardon the analogy but this is the way nouveaux riches behave when they suddenly end up with a great fortune in this case in the shape of world leadership and domination instead of managing their wealth wisely for their own benefit too of course i think they have committed many follies we have entered a period of differing interpretations and deliberate silences in world politics international law has been forced to retreat over and over by the onslaught of legal nihilism objectivity and justice have been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency arbitrary interpretations and biased assessments have replaced legal norms at the same time total control of the global mass media has made it possible when desired to portray white as black and black as white in a situation where you had domination by one country and its allies or its satellites rather the search for global solutions often turned into an attempt to impose their own universal recipes this group s ambitions grew so big that they started presenting the policies they put together in their corridors of power as the view of the entire international community but this is not the case read the entire presentation the us titanic 22 wednesday oct 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment rightful liberty 09 thursday oct 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment anyone been reading tl davis max velocity or john mosby lately these are men i consider true stalwart patriots of the us and have been writing lately about the meaning of the term rightful liberty in a way that most can understand according to the meanings used by the founders of these united states interestingly some of their reply comments are from individuals i think the founders would have shot on sight as scalawags highway men and anarchist individuals who seem more interested in their own self promotion and aggrandizement than helping to restore rightful liberty i just hope more people will read and heed the true patriots among us and stop throwing their hat in the ring with those i consider to be trolls agent provocateurs and idiots read some of tl john and max s writings here http media cache ec0 pinimg com 736x b0 8a 95 b08a958b1e23e7df34dd0960c95f57c1 jpg http mountainguerrilla wordpress com 2014 08 31 skull stomping sacred cows with an important postscript seriously read the fucking postscript http www maxvelocitytactical com 2014 10 rightful liberty the utility of violence each of these men would be welcome in my ao anytime i can t say the same for many of the bloggers who rattle on about being the three percent patriots or whatever name they give themselves this week here is an example of one egregious anarchist libertarian after reading his drivel you will wonder how he dares to call himself an american much less a liberty seeker http blog kentforliberty com 2013 02 sniper chris kyle live by sword html the fate of empires and search for survival 30 tuesday sep 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized 1 comment this thesis by sir john glubb is well worth the half hour it will take to read it it discusses human cultures of recorded history their rise and fall the inherent forces which caused them as it relates to the usa today all that we face today from iran to isis to southern border illegals is nothing new and in fact is expected the pattern follows the same curve through out history regardless of which country or culture is involved i guarantee anyone who reads this will have a new outlook on the forces arrayed against us and a renewed resolve to defeat them http www newworldeconomics com archives 2014 092814_files thefateofempiresbysirjohnglubb pdf the only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history another remarkable and unexpected symptom of national decline is the intensi fication of internal political hatreds one would have expected that when the survival of the nation became precarious political factions would drop their rivalry and stand shoulder to shoulder to save their country in the fourteenth century the weakening empire of byzantium was threatened and indeed dominated by the ottoman turks the situation was so serious that one would have expected every subject of byzantium to abandon his personal interests and to stand with his compatriots in a last desperate attempt to save the country the reverse occurred the byzantines spent the last fifty years of their history infighting one another in repeated civil wars until the ottomans moved in and administered the coup de grâce colonel robert howard an sf legend 22 monday sep 2014 posted by sfmedic in uncategorized leave a comment colonel robert l howard the real rambo colonel robert l howard was born on july 11 1939 in opelika alabama he entered military service on july 20 1956 in montgomery alabama following in the footsteps of his father and four uncles who had served with airborne units in world war ii he was medically retired on september 30 1992 he lived his last few years in san antonio texas and died december 23 2009 as a staff sergeant of the highly classified military assistance command vietnam studies and observations group macv sog howard was recommended for the medal of honor on three separate occasions for three individual actions during thirteen months spanning 1967 1968 the first two nominations were downgraded to the award of the distinguished service cross due to the covert nature of the operations in which howard participated as a sergeant first class of the same organization he risked his life during a rescue mission in cambodia on december 30 1968 while second in command of a platoon sized hornet force that was searching for missing american soldier robert scherdin and was finally awarded the medal of honor while leading a covert sog platoon sized mission in southeastern laos on november 16 1967 sergeant first class howard carried out actions that led to his being recommended for his nation s highest honor while the main body destroyed an enemy cache howard s team came upon four north vietnamese army soldiers whom he shot the team was then pinned down by heavy machine gun fire howard first eliminated a sniper and then charged the machine gun position killing its occupants when a second machine gun opened up he crawled forward to within point blank range and threw a hand grenade disabling that gun when more of the north vietnamese took over the same gun howard stood in the open and fired a light anti tank weapon knocking it out once again the team was then successfully extracted by helicopter although recommended for the medal of honor howard s award was downgraded to the distinguished service cross this would be the first of three recommendations within 13 months for the medal of honor for robert howard in mid november howard accompanied an fob 2 hatchet platoon into laos after four days in the area on november 19 1968 the force was ambushed by vietnamese troops including a soviet built pt 76 tank braving intense fire howard crept forward and knocked out the pt 76 with an anti tank rocket after a medivac helicopter was shot down howard already wounded charged forward 300 yards through north vietnamese fire to lead the two pilots and a wounded door gunner to safety he was again wounded this time by 14 pieces of shrapnel but all that this seemed to do was aggravate him he charged the vietnamese killed two and dragged back a third as a prisoner north vietnamese anti aircraft fire halted the extraction of the platoon until the following morning when howard already perforated multiple times moved forward and silenced a 37 mm anti aircraft gun allowing the extraction to be completed for the second time howard was recommended for the medal of honor but his award was again downgraded to a distinguished service cross this series of events illustrates the difficulties faced when special operations personnel exhibited extraordinary bravery in denied areas recommendations for decorations always stipulated the 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