I have more details now on my Uncle Donald Yockey’s service during World War II. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps on May 26, 1941, and served as a crew chief in the 529th squadron of the 311th group in the 14th Air Force, which was designated the Flying Tigers, led by Maj. Gen. …
Monthly Archives: October 2009
The potentially life-saving vaccine you CAN get while waiting for the H1N1 vaccine
Dad was watching CNN in another room and I overheard a report on the H1n1 vaccine, the H1N1 virus and how it kills. In the vulnerable populations — people under 24 years of age and people with chronic diseases or immune diseases — what can be deadly is getting the H1N1 flu AND a secondary …
Stop Valerie Jarrett — with copious sunshine (repeat applications as necessary)
Thursday morning Adam Bitely of NetRightNation announced a new blog devoted to pouring sunshine onto Obama mentor and current Obama advisor, Valerie Jarrett, called StopJarrett.com. I think Michelle Malkin has the most comprehensive coverage on Valerie Jarrett, both in her new book, Culture of Corruption, and at her blog: Here is a perfect example of …
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Good karma for you, a bridge back to life for a disabled soldier
In honor of my uncle, Donald Yockey, who served with the Flying Tigers in World War II, and in memory of my late life partner, who was quadriplegic the last 10 years of her life due to multiple sclerosis, I have joined the Air Force team of the Valour IT campaign to raise money to …
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Bats versus wind energy — I'm rooting for the bats
Wind energy as a renewable energy source not only requires a back-up power source that neutralizes all its supposed energy benefits, but also requires installing tall, hideous turbines in large numbers — it cannot be justified as a source of green energy not only because it destroys the environment, kills birds and insects, but also …
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'I'm your social media guru'
H/T Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason magazine’s Hit-and-Run blog. In August The Bloggess, whom I love pure and chaste from afar, wrote “How not to get fired for using social networking” — speaking of which, while you’re in the neighborhood, I also recommend her post, “Get my husband off Facebook” — I adore her husband, Victor, …
Obama aggressively defends 'don't ask, don't tell' just 13 days after promising to end it
Just 13 days passed between Obama telling the A-list homosexuals assembled at a Human Rights Campaign fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., on October 10 that he will get “don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed so that homosexuals can serve openly in the U.S. military — see the video above — and his latest betrayal of that …
World War II veteran and father of a gay son, 'We must have equal rights for everyone … let gay people have the right to marry'
I continue to be amazed at conservatives who oppose homosexual equality without thinking that they may be working for inequality for their own children. I am amazed that in the name of God and family values these anti-gay activists so demonize homosexuals that they drive parents to abandon or disown their own children. Well, on …
Tales of Hoffman
From YouTube: Jeremy Kaine and Tony Maglione from Doug Hoffman’s Plattsburgh, New York, campaign office tell America what is at stake in the Nov. 3 Congressional special election in upstate New York. Dear Stacy McCain just got back from his trip to NY-23 to check on the campaign of Doug Hoffman, who is the Conservative …
How to learn to be lucky
Richard Wiseman is a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. who researched how to be lucky and wrote a book about it called The Luck Factor. He published a piece giving highlights of his research findings on Jan. 9, 2003, at the Web site of the British newspaper, the Telegraph: … unlucky …