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New Rules for Old Farts

If you remember when health insurance was optional, you are an old fart.

If you are polite to strangers, you are an old fart.

If you've ever changed a typewriter ribbon, you are an old fart.

If there was only one fat kid in your class, you are an old fart.


If you think "Occupy" is a verb and not a noun, you are an old fart.

If you just want to be left alone, you are an old fart.

If you remember when only sailors had tattoos, you are an old fart.

If you remember when civil rights meant equal rights, not reverse discrimination, you are an old fart.

If you've never uploaded naked photographs of yourself, you are an old fart.

If you know how to spell, you are an old fart.

If you ever waited to hear your favorite song on the radio, you are an old fart.

If you remember when being radical meant hating the government, rather than relying on it, you are an old fart.

If you know how to get there better than that GPS contraption, you are an old fart.

If you've ever felt shame, you are an old fart.

If you still feel a twinge of dread seeing a phone number with a lot of "9″s and "0″s, you are an old fart.

If you think a nice warm day is just a nice warm day and not proof of impending doom, you are an old fart.

If you ever paid for your own condoms, you are an old fart.
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If you know how to fix mechanical devices, you are an old fart.

If the phrase "turn of the century" makes you think of the year 1900, you are an old fart.

If you had a blue mohawk in 11th grade, you are an old fart.

If you remember when Top Gun actually sat in the plane, you are an old fart.

If you've ever bought something with cash, you are an old fart.

If you don't go all the way on the first date, you are an old fart.

If you remember when being a Democrat meant being anti-communist, you are an old fart.

If you remember when "books" were made of paper, you are an old fart.

If you've ever played pinball, you are an old fart.

If you remember when sex scandals would ruin a starlet's career, you are an old fart.

If you've ever gotten on an airplane without first being searched, you are an old fart.

If you even know the meaning of the word "bipartisan," you are an old fart.

If you you don't have a Facebook page, you are an old fart.

If you do have a MySpace page, you are an old fart.

If you've ever used the word "gay" to mean carefree or joyous, you are an old fart.

If you still haven't scraped that "I believe you Anita!" sticker off your bumper, you are an old fart.

If you kept a few leftover French francs and German marks the last time you visited Europe, you are an old fart.

If you think self-esteem is earned rather than a birthright, you are an old fart.

If you remember when the media at least pretended to be impartial, you are an old fart.

If you ever ate at Sambo's, you are an old fart.

If you still have some bell-bottom pants way back in your closet from the first time they were cool, you are an old fart.

If you remember when every quarter had an eagle on the back, you are an old fart.

If you hold the door open for ladies, you are an old fart.

If you remember when tech support answered without an accent, you are an old fart.

If you can't remember why you used to laugh at the phrase "You bet your sweet bippy," you are an old fart.

If you remember when being on welfare was embarrassing, you are an old fart.

If you know what VHS stands for, you are an old fart.

If you admire successful people, you are an old fart.

If you know what "the blue dress" refers to, you are an old fart.

If a teacher ever smacked you on the knuckles with a ruler, you are an old fart.

If you ever paid for pornography, you are an old fart.

If you think school should be taught in English, you are an old fart.

If you still think music comes on these black vinyl disks called "records," you are an old fart.

If you played with toy guns when you were a kid, you are an old fart.

If you've ever visited a public library, you are an old fart.

If you remember when Apple was a small struggling company, you are an old fart.

If your debate coach taught you to see both sides of an argument, you are an old fart.

If you still have some of those 8-track tapes in the garage, you are an old fart.

If you love your country, you are an old fart.

If you remember when budgets were measured in billions, not trillions, you are an old fart.

If you want to go back to measuring budgets in billions like we used to, you are really an old fart.

If you remember when campus revolutionaries fought against The Man, and weren't yet The Man themselves, you are an old fart.

If you'd welcome a death panel at this stage, frankly, you are an old fart.

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While Obuma Snoozes, Russia Is Preparing For Nuclear War With The United States

By Michael Snyder, on September 10th, 2014

Did you know that two Russian bombers practiced launching cruise missiles at the United States from a spot in the North Atlantic just the other day?  And did you know that Russia is spending massive amounts of money to build and test new nuclear weapons systems?  Meanwhile, the Obama administration is doing absolutely nothing to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal.  Our nuclear officers are actually still using floppy disks and other computer technology from the 1960s.  The size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has been reduced by about 95 percent from the peak of the Cold War, and Barack Obama has spoken of even more dramatic reductions.  Obama is snoozing even as a Russian general speaks of the need to "spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike" against the United States.  Obama appears to be entirely convinced that a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia is not even a remote possibility.  He better be right, because we are definitely not prepared for one.

Even with everything that has happened between the United States and Russia lately, most Americans still believe that "the Cold War is over" and that Russia presents absolutely no threat to us.

But Russia is behaving as if the Cold War is still very much on.  You probably didn't hear a peep about it from the mainstream media, but just the other day a couple of Russian bombers simulated launching cruise missiles at us from the North Atlantic.  The following is an excerpt from an excellent article by Bill Gertz...
Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada's northeast.

Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined "launch box"—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with intelligence reports.

And Russia is spending money as if a nuclear confrontation with the U.S. is a very real possibility.  In fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed to a "weapons modernization program" that is going to cost the equivalent of 540 billion dollars...
Putin said Russia's weapons modernization program for 2016-2025 should focus on building a new array of offensive weapons to provide a "guaranteed nuclear deterrent;" re-arming strategic and long-range aviation; creating an aerospace defense system and developing high-precision conventional weapons.

He would not elaborate on prospective weapons, but he and other officials have repeatedly boasted about new Russian nuclear missiles' capability to penetrate any prospective missile shield.

The Kremlin has bolstered defense spending in the past few years under an ambitious weapons modernization program that runs through 2020 and costs the equivalent of $540 billion.


You don't spend that kind of money just for the fun of it.

Putin is deadly serious about being able to fight (and win) a war against the United States.

Of course nobody on either side actually hopes that such a war will happen.  But most wars are won before a single shot is fired, and right now Russia is working very hard to make sure that it will have the best chance possible of coming out on top in any future conflict.

For example, Russian media is reporting that 60 percent of all Russian nuclear missiles will have radar-evading capability by 2016...
Russia's Defense Ministry plans to complete the rearmament of Strategic Missile Forces within six years.  "By 2016, the share of new missile systems will reach nearly 60%, and by 2021 their share will increase to 98%. At the same time the troop and weapon command systems, combat equipment will be qualitatively improved, first of all — their capabilities for the suppression of antimissile defense will be built up," Defense Ministry's RVSN spokesman Colonel Igor Yegorov told ITAR-TASS on Friday.

But of greatest concern is the new generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines armed with long-range cruise missiles that Russia has been developing.

Just this week, Russia conducted a successful test of the new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile...

Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.

The armed forces have boosted their military training and test drills since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Russia considers in its traditional sphere of influence.

The 12-meter long Bulava, or mace, has undergone numerous tests, some successful, and can deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.

Each one of these missiles weighs more than 36 tons and has a range of more than 5,000 miles.

But in a future conflict, they would likely only have to travel a short distance.

That is because Russia has developed super silent attacks subs that are virtually undetectable when submerged.

In a previous article, I talked about how the U.S. Navy refers to these virtually undetectable subs as "black holes"...
Did you know that Russia is building submarines that are so quiet that the U.S. military cannot detect them?  These "black hole" submarines can freely approach the coastlines of the United States without fear of being detected whenever they want.  In fact, a "nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles" sailed around in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks without being detected back in 2012.  And now Russia is launching a new class of subs that have "advanced stealth technology".  The U.S. Navy openly acknowledges that they cannot track these subs when they are submerged.  That means that the Russians are able to sail right up to our coastlines and launch nukes whenever they want.

Most Americans don't realize this, but Russian subs can come cruising right up to our coasts without us knowing about it and launch missiles which will start hitting our cities within just a few minutes.

And if you do not think that this can ever happen, perhaps you should consider what a Russian general said about a preemptive nuclear strike just the other day...
A Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine, last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies as Moscow's enemy number one and spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the 28-member military alliance, Interfax reported Wednesday.

Russia's military doctrine, a strategy document through which the government interprets military threats and crafts possible responses, is being revised in light of threats connected to the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war and the conflict in Ukraine, the deputy chief of the Kremlin's security council told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration has discussed reducing the size of our already neutered strategic nuclear arsenal down to just 300 warheads.

Let us hope and pray that we never see a nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

Because if one does happen, there is a very strong possibility that America will not be the winner.

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ISIL Is Not Islamic'?  Is Obuma Completely Insane?

By Michael Snyder, on September 11th, 2014

During his nationally televised speech on Wednesday night, Barack Obama told the entire nation that "ISIL is not Islamic".  Well, then what in the world are they?  Atheists?  And what is Obama going to try to convince us of next?  That the Pope is not Catholic?  Of all of Obama's lies (and there certainly have been a lot of them), this one might take the cake.  Of course ISIL is Islamic.  That is why they call themselves The Islamic State.  The stated goal of these religious radicals is to establish an Islamic caliphate which will be governed by a single supreme Islamic leader known as a khalifah.  The law in the caliphate will be Islamic sharia law, and anyone not willing to convert to the form of Islam practiced by the Islamic State will be either killed or persecuted intensely.  But because of Barack Obama's extreme political correctness, he simply cannot admit that the Islamic State has anything to do with Islam.  As a result, he continues to pursue policies that will not solve anything in the Middle East and at this point our foreign policy in the region is a total joke.

When I first heard Obama say that "ISIL is not Islamic", I thought that I must have misunderstood something.  But he actually said this.  The following is an excerpt directly from the transcript of his speech...
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

And below I have posted a YouTube Video of the section of the speech in which he makes this statement...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smHbl_kPqM&feature=player_detailpage#t=7

The rest of the world is laughing at us today.

When Obama said that ISIL is a "terrorist organization" with no agenda "other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way", he made it sound like this group has absolutely no ideology that is driving it.

But even ultra-liberal NBC News understands what ISIL really wants...
ISIS' stated goal is to restore the "caliphate" — an Islamic state under the rule of a community of religious scholars guided by a supreme leader, the caliph or khalifah, which is generally taken to mean the successor to the Prophet Muhammad.

ISIL itself has publicly stated that the new caliphate has been established "for the purpose of compelling the people to do what the Sharia (Allah's law) requires of them."

What about this is so hard for Obama to understand?

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, is calling himself "Caliph Ibrahim" these days.  And his public statements leave no doubt about what the group is trying to do.  Here are just three examples...
#1 "Allah likes us to kill his enemies and make jihad"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-3817935


#2 "The establishment of a caliphate is an obligation. The religion cannot be in place unless the sharia (law) is established."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-3817935


#3 "God gave your mujahedeen brothers victory after long years of jihad and patience... so they declared the caliphate and placed the caliph in charge"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10948480/Islamic-State-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-addresses-Muslims-in-Mosul.html

But due to the extreme political correctness in Washington D.C., most of our politicians won't even use the term "Islamic State" even though that is exactly what the group is calling itself.

And according to the Washington Post, House Democrats had a "long debate" about whether to use the term "ISIS" or "ISIL" to refer to this organization.  After much discussion, it was decided that "ISIL" was the more politically correct alternative...
In the Capitol on Tuesday morning, House Democrats decided after a long debate that they too would call the extremist group ISIL — partly because ISIS was a name that first belonged to a goddess, and then to thousands of women who took said goddess's name, before a terrorist group claimed it. As Max Fisher at Vox reported last week, many women named Isis have been aggravated by the acronym favored by most people discussing the Islamic State. Isis Martinez, a woman in Miami, has been gathering signatures for a petition titled, "Thousands of Women are Named Isis, Please Petition the Media to Use the Accurate Acronym ISIL." She has 138 signatures.
This is how bad political correctness has become in America.

Well, I am about to use a term which will surely offend politically correct people everywhere...

"Islamic Terror"

You see, the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the Islamic State is far from alone.  All over the world, radical jihadist organizations are committing unspeakable acts in the name of Islam.  In case you are ignorant about these organizations, here are the names of just a few of them...

Boko Haram

al-Nusrah Front

Hamas

Hezbollah

Army of Islam

Ansaru

Ansar Dine

Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis

Ansar al-Shari'a in Tunisia

Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah

Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi

al-Mulathamun Battalion

Abdallah Azzam Brigades

Indian Mujahedeen

Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan

Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami

al-Shabaab

Islamic Jihad Union

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Ansar al-Islam

Jemaah Islamiya

Asbat al-Ansar

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

The Muslim Brotherhood

Abu Sayyaf

The Haqqani network

Are you starting to get the picture?

Islamic terror is real, and it is not going to go away just because our politically correct politicians wished that it did not exist.

Those that truly love liberty and freedom should be against tyranny in all of the forms in which it is found.

And one of the forms that tyranny takes in our world today is radical Islam.

If radical Islamists had their way, we would all be forced to convert to Islam and live our lives under very strict sharia law.

Personally, that is not something that I would ever want for myself, for my family or for future generations of Americans.

What about you?

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Paul Harvey: If I Were The Devil: Infowars Version

Paul Harvey's 'Warning For A Nation' [COMPLETE] Sean Hannity Special

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Report: Boko Haram Has "Completely Surrounded" Vital City Of Maiduguri

(Boko Haram going for its own version of Mosul?)

Via BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29155529

    Nigeria's militant Islamists have "completely surrounded" Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Borno state, traditional elders have warned.

    The military needed to "fortify" the city, which had a population of more than two million, to prevent an assault "from all directions", they said.

    The Boko Haram militants had "annexed" areas that were about 50km (30 miles) from Maiduguri, they said.

    Boko Haram declared a caliphate in areas it controls last month.

    Boko Haram has also captured territory in neighbouring Adamawa state, forcing people to flee into hills, where they are eating leaves, residents told the BBC.

    BEF said the military needed to "urgently fortify" the city, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002.

    "The insurgents have surrounded Maiduguri and are nursing the ambition of attacking the city from all directions," BEF said.

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Orono, MN Man On Watch List Skipped Search Before Denver Flight

(Security screening is relaxed during the lunch break)

Via KMSP
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26500858/minneapolis-man-slips-security-list-on-denver-flight

    Most people have heard about the TSA's "no-fly" list, but this man was on something similar known as "the selectee list." The estimated 14,000 people on that list are still allowed to fly, but are selected for more rigorous screening and searches than other travelers. Yet, that's not how it worked a few days ago — not even close.

    Last Saturday, Spirit Airlines flight 381 departed out of Humphrey Terminal en route to Denver from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A U.S. citizen whose name was once on the no-fly list and is now on the secondary security screening list known as "quad S" had a boarding pass designated with four bold S's. It's one of the things the screeners at the security checkpoint look for when examining a boarding pass.

    Anyone who is on that watch list is supposed to get a physical pat down, and their bags are subjected to an additional check which usually involves bomb-detecting sensors. None of that happened to the man on flight 381. A spokesperson for Spirit Airlines confirmed the incident and said told Fox 9 News it was actually a Spirit employee who noticed the ticket and called the TSA. By then, however, the flight was already halfway to Denver. When flight 381 landed, the FBI and TSA were waiting for the passenger at the gate, and he went through an additional bag screening after the flight.

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    A Minneapolis imam from a mosque associated with men who had traveled to Somalia to fight for al-Shabaab was once on the no-fly list but eventually managed to get these name taken off. A TSA spokesperson would not confirm whether any individual is on a watch list; however, sources told Fox 9 News an internal review is under way and that the confusion during a lunchtime shift change at the checkpoint may be to blame. Still, that means the Quad S passenger slipped through three layers of security, and no one was any the wiser until he was already in the air.

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story said the man flying aboard Spirit FL #381 from Minneapolis to Denver was a Somali-American. That is not the case. He is 22-year old Kahler Nygard of Orono. The confusion stems from two separate incidents occurring at the same time at the airport involving individuals who were both on the watch list. We will have an update on FOX 9 News at 9.

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Arkansas State University Football Players Ordered To Remove Christian Cross From Helmets

(Some lib lawyer was apparently repulsed by the small crosses the players were using to memorialize a coach and player who had recently died)

Via Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/11/football-team-forced-to-remove-christian-crosses-from-helmets/

    Football players at Arkansas State University were ordered to either remove a Christian cross decal from their helmets or modify it into a mathematical sign after a Jonesboro attorney complained that the image violated the U.S. Constitution.

    The cross decal was meant to memorialize former player Markel Owens and former equipment manager Barry Weyer, said athletic director Terry Mohajir.  Weyer was killed in a June car crash. Owens was gunned down in Tennessee in January.

    Barry Weyer, Sr., told me that the players and coaches voluntarily decided to memorialize his son and Owens.

    "The players knew they were both Christians so they decided to use the cross along with their initials," he said. "They wanted to carry the spirits of Markel and Barry Don onto the field for one more season."

    It was a decision that had the full support of the university's athletic director.

    "I support our students' expression of their faith," Mohajir said. "I am 100 percent behind our students and coaches."

    However, the athletic director said he had no choice but to remove the crosses after he received a message from the university's legal counsel.

    "It is my opinion that the crosses must be removed from the helmets," University counsel Lucinda McDaniel wrote to Mohajir. "While we could argue that the cross with the initials of the fallen student and trainer merely memorialize their passing, the symbol we have authorized to convey that message is a Christian cross."

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Hey Sarge get a load of this and what the Marines are doing.

The plane of the future....

This video link is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia. These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL's and STO's in a three week period. The aircraft is also stealth, and super-sonic.
The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard, neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials.
No catapult... No hook.... It's a new world out there!
The shape and scope of warfare worldwide just changed.

Note the rank on the bottom of the canopy.

All are U.S. Marines

SEMPER FI

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