66 years ago today, Allied soldiers began storming the beaches at Normandy, in the quest to oust Germany from France.

Betcha few Frenchmen born after that day care very much. I doubt that many who are adults today care that nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in order to make sure that the French didn’t grow up speaking German.

Remember those who were lost.

The right to free speech does not, as it happens, include any guarantee of an appreciative audience. Heh.

I have seen this guy at the gun show as well and wondered the same thing. It puts a lie to the statement that we gun folks are racists. This guy induces .000001% of the attendees to come any closer to his table than is necessary to pass by to other tables, yet he is there each and every show…..One wonders why?

It is his right to believe what he wishes, but it is also the right of each attendee to ignore him as much as possible. And, of course, we do.

So I had to go to a bigger Post Office today…Normally, I go to a post office in a small town, where they are polite and courteous and efficient.

Not so in this larger post office. There were three people at the windows. A line 15 people long, which grew quite a bit while I was in it. All due to the lack of efficiency of the 3 postal workers.

I’ll list them as the dwarf, the gimp and the corpse.

I had a great deal of time to observe these three as I spent 20 minutes in line.

The gimp was just that, a polite man who was frail, appeared to be of indeterminate gender (although the slight beard indicated a likely male). He was soft spoken and, as I said, polite. He did not have a sense of urgency. If I had to guess, I would say that he was recently recovered from a serious car accident. Sadly, he was the most efficient of the three, moving at nearly half speed as compared to a person employed in a non government job.

 The dwarf was just that, a dwarf. With terribly arthritic fingers. So terribly arthritic that she was unable to input information correctly despite trying multiple times. God only knows how many pieces of mail are now labeled incorrectly and will spend the next week wandering about the country in a vain search for their destinations. I am fairly certain that she was standing on a box behind the counter. Apparently, the concept of dong more than one thing at a time was beyond her comprehension. Generally, it took 2 trips to get anything done.

Lastly, we had the corpse. Wavering somewhere between unconscious and dead, she was barely able to find the stamps or to take packages. Her speed was something slightly faster than a corpse, but not quite to the level of a coma patient. It was apparent that she was aware that her retirement date was (at that time) 9 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes away, and she was unwilling to work any harder than she had to before that time came.

These folks were like caricatures of government workers come to life. 

God help us if the Obamacare system hires folks like this. People will die waiting in line. Babies may well be conceived, gestated and delivered while their parents are waiting for health care decisions.

Why do government service jobs collect such inefficient misfits? 

Tam does a compare and contrast,

and Borepatch has commentary on where we are going.

I think both are encouraging. While things may not be great for a while, the facade is crumbling and things will get better eventually.

Seems the meeting between Mr. O and Jan Brewer, Gov of AZ. went “cordially”. But there was no meeting of minds, and no promises of any additional action by the feds to help the illegal immigration issues experienced by Arizona.

All Ms. Brewer got was “The governor said she is encouraged there will be “much better dialog between the federal government and the state of Arizona” on border security and immigration reform.”

In other words, Obama told her to go pound sand.  Apparently she replied in a similar manner.
So now the Big O will help to get a lawsuit against the law started…and lets the citizens of AZ continue to suffer.

So much for defending the citizens of this country which he was chosen to lead. He’d rather pander to a bunch of folks who might, someday, be bothered to vote (and if he has his way, they will be able to…and likely for any candidate with a “D” after his name)

So the leftists and the media (sorry for the redundancy) are screaming about the violence done by the blockade runners against the Israelis. Actually, in their view, I have it wrong….

Lets see: The Jewish type folks stated that they would turn back the convoy of “aid”. They offered an alternative point of debarkation (and, of course, a search for non-humanitarian aid) and were refused. The Israelis did what they said that they would do,

When the “aid” flotilla was stopped for a search, violence broke out. Men with guns (professional soldiers) reacted. To save their lives.

And these “blockade runners” have the temerity to whine about the results?

Fuck’em. Those who died or were injured deserved what they got. While the Israelis may be foolish about some things, they are serious about their security. Like Rachel Carson Corrie, they learned the lesson the hard way.

And if the convoy was composed entirely of humanitarian supplies, they’d have gone the way the Israelis suggested and offered.

Now if the press would give up trying to sway things against the EVIL JOOZ, things would get back to normal sooner and we’d all be happier.
http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/
ETA: Seems that some of the MSM is finding a clue

ETA2: Via LawDog we find an example of seriously large brass balls alongside an example of tolerance by the other protesters.

DUH. Pricing is going through the roof in Canada’s Health Care system.

Of course, Preisdent Unicorn will keep that from happening……Right?

Sure he will.

Or not.

Someone tell me that they could not have known this before the big debate over Health Care here in the US.

And when you do I’ll call you a liar.

Socialized Medicine was just a wedge to help socialism to gain a foothold in the US, (along with the unions, but that is for another time….) plain and simple.

Is this the country that those who died defending the USA would have wanted to die for?

Has this republic become something for which they would have made the ultimate sacrifice?

Or would they shake their heads in disgust and sorrow at what it has become?

I was writing a post about the sacrifices which are made every day by our soldiers, sailors, marines and AF personnel, but I couldn’t get it right. Then I came across THIS  post, which comes closer than I could to what I wanted to say.

So go there, read it, and think about it.

All I have to say is “yeah, me too”.