On this eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, We The People of the USA thank you sincerely,  O Canada,  for your kindness and support of our brothers and sisters in their time of dire need.  From Whitehorse to Gander, your graciousness will never be forgotten.

GANDER, N.L. – Gander International Airport in Newfoundland was once a cosmopolitan crossroads where transatlantic flights carrying everyone from world leaders to Humphrey Bogart touched down to refuel.

Its modernist lounge with geometric flooring and sleek furniture is a trip back to 1959, when the Queen opened it as an avant-garde ode to the glamour of air travel.

But Gander’s global prominence faded when jumbo jets started criss-crossing the Atlantic non-stop. Traffic at the sprawling airfield — a former Second World War staging point — dwindled to cargo planes, military flights, emergency landings and the odd private jet.

Then 9-11 hit. (more…)

Eleven years ago today, Islamists murdered 246 people on the four planes (from which there were no survivors).  2,606 were murdered in New York City in the World Trade Center and on the ground, and 125 were murdered at the Pentagon. About 292 people were killed at street level by burning debris and the falling bodies of those who had jumped from the World Trade Center’s windows. All the deaths in the attacks were civilians except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon.  372 of those murdered were foreign nationals.  The 19 dead murderers are not included in any of these counts. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

In his 1984 book, The Haj, Leon Uris explains the heritage of such murderers.  The setting is Tabah, 1937,  when the British have sent a liaison officer  to support Gideon Asch who is a first generation Jewish emigrant from Romania.  He has become an effective fighter for the Shomer,  protectors of the settlements in the Galilee.  The officer, Wingate, says to Gideon: (more…)

In 1989 the Chinese Tiananmen Square “student” popular uprising began.  Their quest was more freedom and a voice in their governance.   The Chinese Government eventually cracked down on the protests and thousands of Chinese citizens were killed by the Mongol contingency of the Chinese Army.

In the United States the response from the Chinese Government was ideologically reported by the Academic and Legacy Media leftists as a hard-right crackdown.   An insufferable conflagration of historical reference.   The push-back by the Government was a reaction from the left side of the political continuum, not the right.

The government in control of the individual, and extending their controlling influence, is the left, not the right.   Communism, Socialism and totalitarianism are political ideologies on the left side of the freedom continuum.

The hard-right is the push toward freedom and liberty, not more government.   Quite the opposite, the students and protestors were aiming for freedom, they were the “Right“, the government was on the “left” in opposition.

But the insufferable elitist media then, as today, refused to accept their ideological beliefs being displayed.  So they obfuscated history, they obfuscated reality, and they sold a flawed construct of “right-wing” government murdering its own people.

Fast forward to today, 2012, and what do we witness?   The exact same systemic narrative positioning of the radical left regarding the Occupy Wall Street group(s).  From the Madison Project: (more…)

Thanks to our transformational President Deficit McDowngrade…

(Via GWP) The United States dropped in the Global Competitiveness Index ranking for the fourth year in a rowbecause of exploding debt and deficits.

The United States just dropped to seventh place on the World Economic Forum’s newly released Global Competitiveness Index. iStock Analyst reported: (more…)

From the peeps at iOTW:

Just like 2008 the media is up to it’s old tricks with Poll manipulation.   Insufferable.

The latest CNN poll shows Obama ahead of Mitt Romney 52 to 47. But the poll drastically oversampled Democrats to get this stunning result.

If a more accurate number of Republicans and Independents were included the poll would show Mitt Romney leading 53 percent to 45 percent for Obama.

The Examiner reported: (more…)

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Ack, gag, sputter… puke.    Chicago School Teachers go on strike.   They want more money, well, actually 16% more money via raises over the next 4 years.   The average Chicago school teacher makes just a hair under $75,000/yr.   *Watch the stats in the video…..  You decide.

The AP reported:  Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union and district officials failed to reach a contract agreement despite intense weekend negotiations that the union said were productive but still failed to adequately address issues such as job security and teacher evaluations.

The two sides were not far apart on compensation, but were on other issues, including health benefits — teachers want to keep what they have now — and a new teacher evaluation system based partly on students’ standardized test scores, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said. (more…)

Or as the Irish folk in the windy city call him “Chicago Bejesus”…..

FLORIDA – On the campaign trail, President Obama is constantly talking about the importance of technology, but he met his match in an iPhone Sunday.

The president had stopped at a campaign office in Port St. Lucie, Fla., to thank volunteers. Then, for the cameras, Mr. Obama was supposed to call two campaign workers who were out working on his behalf.

But when White House trip director Marvin Nicholson handed the president his personal iPhone, Mr. Obama couldn’t get it to work. A reporter who witnessed the scene said the president looked “befuddled.”

“It’s not clear he knows how to dial on an iPhone,” the reporter wrote in a pool report. (more…)