This post was written by Bill Whittle, but I think it was meant for folks like Sharon and Elvis, and few others around here.
As Bill says:

Look at this beauty: The B-58 Hustler. The video is about as old as I am but the old girl still looks good for her age, doesn’t she?
This was America at the height of her powers; a Golden Age of Aviation when not two or three, but rather ten or twelve major companies were locked in mortal competition to push the engineering envelope. Virtually all of the existing aviation records for speed and altitude were set in the sixties, or in other words, at about the halfway point in aviation history. That’s depressing. To me, anyway.

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THE HUSTLER

Consider the tapestry which comes from threads. Threads of all kinds, including blog threads, create a tapestry which is yet to be fully understood or brought into perspective.
The paragraphs that follow are excerpts from recent comments of your fellow patriots. Each section stands on its own and is worthy of further and repeat consideration. Some edits done for emphasis and some hard returns added…

Read it again. Take it in. Be strengthened.

We’re weaving a tapestry (more…)

Pure Cognitive Dissonance !

How much do you want to bet she voted for Obama twice. Typical progressive NIMBY…. Loves them all that liberal stuff, well, until all that liberal stuff actually begins to impact their own life – then, notsomuch.   Seriously, who did SHE THINK was going to pay for it? Santa?
I shouldn’t be so hard on all the “Jennifers” of the world; but good grief – we’ve been fighting this thing for four years DESPITE THEM.  So forgive me if I’m slow to the touchy feely sympathy thing…
CALIFORNIA – Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don’t like what they see.
These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years.

Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama’s signature legislation.
“This is when the actual sticker shock comes into play for people,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act.” (more…)

There is a particular poignancy with Lara Logan doing this story after all she went through in Egypt. Her report essentially vindicates all that Fox News has previously outlined. How will a spiteful White House respond?

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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The shocker here is not that President Obama is thin skinned without teleprompter aid and healthcare talking points….  The shocker is he actually went to a church again.   His golf round vs. church attendance ratio is about 50 to 1.

Pres Obama & Family exit St. John's Episcopal Church after Sunday services. (Radio pool photo by Daniel Robinson/VOA) pic.twitter.com/y0IoLIYzXz

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 27, 2013

WASHINGTON DC – President Obama was not in the mood to field questions about ObamaCare during his walk to church on Sunday.
“C’mon guys. I’m going to church,” Obama reportedly said when asked if the law’s troubled enrollment website would be ready by Nov. 30.
The exchange comes after a tough week for the White House on ObamaCare. (more…)

No one ever explained where the question originated, but it was used randomly by youngsters and adults alike – “How now, Brown Cow?” [See hardfacts’ comment below for the history of the phrase 😉 ]
If a youngster had made a complete mess of an assigned chore, the question was a bemused inquiry, “How now, Brown Cow?” which could be responded to or not. Either way, the questioner would likely just start helping to straighten things up and get the wagon back on the road, so to speak.
It might also actually be addressed to a brown cow encountered in the barn yard, just for the sake of conversation. In that case, no reply was expected.
We had a good relationship with our one or two milk cows – they were gentle and useful. They did not have individual names – all were called Bossy. How we felt about close physical proximity to them depended somewhat on what time of year it was – more about that in a minute. (more…)