tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112814032012-01-18T16:46:47.963-05:00A Bostonian, using the name of the old Native American site. Vintage 1941. A Veteran (RA) and spokesman on intelligence. In spite of the social mandates obeyed by many people in this country, I prefer to identify myself as "Queer" or "Other" rather than the all-too-common identity of "Gay". After all, my life need not be your pageant. I'm rather conservative. May the last words to be said about me, and affirmed by whomever might be present, are, "He pledged allegiance..."David Barry O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08331007985962351381noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11281403.post-86969062268017411352011-10-15T16:13:00.017-04:002012-01-18T16:46:47.974-05:00

I can't seem to leave other people's observations alone. (I'm the "DBO", just a pedestrian commenting on this way through life and the guy who's about to kick the football his big brother is holding.) A pretty easonable observer penned a great profile of the mind-set of a person that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has the august opportunity to save from academia and plop into a US Senate

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There are many afflictions upon mankind that can be identified in qualified terms; corruption in politics, nihilism in philosophy, behavior in culture and everything from murder to simony in religion. Collectively, those areas of affliction could complement the fullness of society.Today, we are looking at a predatory affliction that I see as a social affliction; a social disease, if you will. I

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Do we believe what we say. Or is "Lying in State" a diplomatic perogative for which culpability we, as citizens are sterilized.YID With LID: Mass Media Misconceptions: Dictatorships Don't Dictate; Almost Everyone's a Moderate

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For the past few weeks the country has been hearing from this Imam Rauf of New York and the US State Department, and his determination to build a mosque at Ground Zero.He has even claimed the Muslim World (The Cosmo-Ummah) might explode if it is not built.Here's a thought. Let's put word out that people are secretly burning Korans. Think of being accused of being a Closet Crusader. Paranoia,

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“Organized” crime by Andrew C. McCarthy - The New CriterionLook carefully at the points made. That Alinskey chose the paths trod by the criminal element (Nitti, Capone) which he admired, and then used the energies of mob rule as we have witnessed in ACORN. And these elements converge: The bank-robber; Stalin; the bandit, Pancho Villa (Columbus, New Mexico, 1915).

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It has been well over a year since, near-gagging to death on CRS (Cynic's Reflux Syndrome), the United States Federation of Farce came into being. In the Go-Along-To-Get-Along politics, I wasn't travelling.Why should I?Everyone was an expert on Economics, Birth Registries, Health Care, Local Police Policies, Nation Building and Terrorist Breaking, Defense, Surrender and Apology. And, Lawdy! Lawdy

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The AG's Distortion of the Opposition to His Decision - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online

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In “Are We Rome”, Cullen Murphy observes, “Governments begin to fall when they lose sight of all that going on under their watch”…and ..”Bureaucracy is the new geography”. Talk about canonizing the obvious. I might expand it a bit more suggesting communities have already fallen when its members lull themselves into civic indifference. Over the past summer there was a fast flash of news that faded

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One challenge that I have never had to meet is proving to citizens of my own country that I have full franchise in everything it does. Sure, I know the anxiety of making a grade, a team; even engaging in an election. But to engage myself in a new citizenship, abandoning one of my birth, in a country with guaranteed freedoms, and with it the immediate values and a chance to share responsibilities

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On occasions when I'd be a guest on a TV show regarding intelligence matters or even as a guest speaker as something like celebity spy, I would frequently be asked why we, America, didn't have better information about a certain country and its regime, or a movement and its participants. It's as though the inquirer believed we just routinely dressed someone in a trench-coat, sent a camera up in

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Chances are there are enough Americans, who reading that a two-bit punk rolled a stolen car and got killed was thought to be turning his life around , might even wished he had. Even in the darkest corner of the most cynical hearts there's always an ember of hope.But what are we to think of a case when someone, having fraudulently gained citizenship gets a slap on the wrist. What are we to think

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What will he do next, start selling a brew called "Jimmy Juice"?NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.I recall when my brother treated me to a junket to England put on by my gang of former "spooks", and he said in

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So you want better intelligence on the enemy? How do you want to get it?For years experts, pundits, the neighborhood mouth and, in general, Americana, have been exploiting all they know, think they know or don't know regarding that element of statecraft - intelligence. (Spare me the definitions of the craft, its history, its ethical implications, and other cuteness's; I've heard them all.) Yet,

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Without fail, this cycle comes around again. Each time I see these situations imposed upon youngsters in schools, I'm drawn to think of how many teachers got their education covered because some soldier was posted to another country actually experiencing an education. When Eisenhower was leaving office he cautioned the country about the influence of the "military-industrial complex". Who thought

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Few words of mine, which would most likely be more than necessary, should light a more provoking fuse than the two words on Churchill's poster.Just think a moment, before we gather those few things we think are dear to us and head for the cultural bunkers of moral equivalence and rationale and say, regarding the Islamization of the world, "This too shall pass." And, how dishonest it would be for

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Crawling out of my slump and the resultant moratorium of my opinions, I have to credit the following observations as having been energized by either Philip and/or Steve at http://gayconservative.org/ who help keep me politically awake during this political season when we’re nearly bored to death by the monotonous drone of US faults.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335993,00.htmlI hate to have

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Without the tragedy caused by an illegally present person driving a school bus in a manner that caused the deaths of children, the local scene in Massachusetts will not go undone. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/01/a_suspect_by_many_other_names_waits_in_jail/At a time of national peril several states have refused to comply with the REAL ID process; it must be chic. With avowed

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As the song goes, "Money can't by you love!". I wondered down to my voting place, all the familiar Boston Ward 4, Precinct 5, personalities huddled about, the walls were plastered with voting intructions in all sorts of hieroglyphics, Cyrilic, Chinese, Arabic and, even in English, offers for help with the instructions. Not an unknown to this crowd, I requested my Repuublican ballot - as a

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Been a while since I’ve been up to lending the world my opinion. First it was my PC that went down. Then Christmas and the Holiday Season. The muse was off for the winter break and now seems settled in the routine of unscrambling my thoughts, moods and dispositions and then re-scrambling them enough so that familiar souls will recognize me.Of course the country is going through its periodic

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Boston, New England Emirate, November 11, 2007: Here we are in Boston, The Athens of Attitude, and a town that’s politically correct and patriotically indifferent, on another Veterans’ Day. No parades here. After all we just got over a city election when even a hint that such manifestations appearing in the budget would raise the ire of the philosophically constipated. Where else would profiles

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I chose the title "de Officiis" of Marcus Tullius Cicero work for the very interpretation "On Duty" suggests the virtue that transcends history. Generally, I avoid what could be interpreted as jingoism of the reactionaries or people thriving on a past that has developed into more of a pageant the greater they lived from it. I often equate it to the 50 year old ex-high-school jock critiquing this

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When I came across the cited article, http://www.nysun.com/article/63064 through jihadwatch.com, it triggered in my memory the foot-baths in colleges and airports, the Islamic school in New York, various political appointments, America's children, Adam Gadahn, and John Walker Lindh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Gadahn and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh), America's other

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Who hasn't heard the the old saw, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." I've always tended to suggest when that is used as an out for a mishap, a reasonable neutralizer is, "An abundance of ignorance doesn't help much either." It also seems that the degree of separation from the issue determines the reaction or comment.Now I consider the degree of separation between me and one who would kill

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I guess the country had to go through repeated cycles of starlets burning their brains out, a few political embarassments, a religious scandal or two, discovery of lawlessness in a sub-culture, discovery of pious tummy-rubbing in a sub-culture, questions of political ethics (Thou shalt not get caught.), educational transparency, xyz-phones.....before it remembered...What was it that I the media

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Bret Stephens WSJ wrote citing the supposed situation of former Columbia alumni should Adolph Hitler have taken the forum at the prestigious university prior to WWII as one its deans, John Coatsworth, suggested: "In just a few years, some of these men will be rushing a beach at Normandy or caught in a firefight in the Ardennes. And the fact that their ideas were finer and better than Hitler's

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Now here's the typical play of PC philosophical constipation having the runs.http://www.pressandguide.com/stories/092307/loc_20070923001.shtmlCaught en flagrante in camouflage battle wear, carrying an AK47 shooter chique the court has ordered a mental exam of a Derborn medical student.Now, here's an argument; Will the mental exam take into consideration Islamic culture? How many Islamic shrinks

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It's not unreasonable to notice an impulse of France to assert herself after decades of playing varsity dogdeball. There's more than one element in France that would like the honor of representing France in the large field of Weltpolitik and that is its military. Long constrained, since the days of deGaulle, and manipulated into a marginal force of the UN along with Fiji and/or Ecuador; what were

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Few people suffer fools lightly, or so we say. With inner candor, we will admit that it is especially so when we find the ourselves to be the bigger or biggest of fools. But for the most part it is usually expressed outward. In another area where we find this disturbing, is when we find stupidity in others in whom we have, or would, place trust. Yet, over time we have seen some brain trusts or

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Originally, the following was intended as a reply to Kevin’s citing at http://www.queer-conservative.blogspot.com/ who had captured an article by Michael Graham writing in the Boston Herald:In office for only nine months and the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick is making policy statements regarding the avowed enemy of the United States of America. One of these sovereign states of the fifty

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My oldest friend (since 3 or 4 years old - yes dear friends for over 60 years) sent me a note recently on the American Flag. We grew up with, and still maintain, a reverence for our "tattered ensign". I responded with a picture of Our Flag unfurled from my apartment in Boston.At the same time I was searching for how many different emotions have been stirred by its presence. One way is in the

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I currently hold no special brief at all in public affairs. But, from a pedestrian level, I question whether or not those of us who are concerned are being drawn into arguments in vacuums. So, rather that run a full 'screed', I am putting out, not arguments against liberals measures, but more means that might be used to alter their tone to a more realistic harmony and realize themselves as

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