We’ve all seen the grainy black-and-white pictures of D-Day in June 1944. Here are some more recent ones, in color.
We will remember them.
D-Day
Tag: Heroes
Okay, Boss
At last, a law enforcement officer with balls:
Polk County Florida Sheriff Grady Judd is recommending armed residents in his county blow looters “back out of the house.”
Fox 13 reported that Judd saw social media “rumblings” suggesting that riotous behavior could strike Polk County. He warned anyone who was planning such behavior in his county, saying:
“If you value your life, they probably shouldn’t do that in Polk County. Because the people of Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns, and they’re going to be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded, and if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I’m highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns. So, leave the community alone.”
Can’t put it more plainly than that.
And far be it for us citizens to disobey a law enforcement recommendation, right? (I know, I’m in Collin County TX not Polk County FL, but I suspect that our sheriff probably has similar views.)
Like I said yesterday, at some time We The People are not going to care anymore — and when that happens…
Murka
If this doesn’t make you proud to be American, go and live in Switzerland*:
The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times over a five-week period after illegal road racers took to the empty streets during coronavirus lockdown to drive from New York City to Los Angeles.
The newest record holders, who have not been named, completed the 2,800-mile cross-country journey in less than 26 hours, beating last month’s record of 26 hours and 38 minutes.
That’s only a little less than twenty extra hours’ time spent flying from NYFC to LFA (taking into account the total time needed to get to the airport early, waiting around, boarding, taxiing to the takeoff point, and the flight itself, about six hours usually).
It’s also a whole lot more fun withal.
The rally has also become a lot easier to evade traffic cops, seeing as said fuzz are too busy ejecting families from parks, enforcing lockdowns on bars and florists, and all the other useless shit the various government entities are amusing themselves with.
All these new records — essentially breaking the law each time — make my chest swell with pride. More, please.
*Switzerland, despite having some of the best roads in Europe, absolutely hates cars, and most of all fast driving. Swiss speed limits are the lowest in Western Europe, and are savagely enforced with astronomical fines, confiscation and even imprisonment for transgressors. Oh, and all motor racing is banned. Fucking pissant wankers.
Bravo, Sheriff
“All these years, you have told us that you want law enforcement that thinks before arresting, doesn’t violate your rights and treats their citizens with decency,” he wrote. “Now you have that and are asking us to regress into what you didn’t want and didn’t deserve. Please let us be the law enforcement you always asked us to be. Non-oppressive. We are not stormtroopers. We are peacekeepers.”
And there’s still more excellent American-ness and Constitutionalism in the link. For those not familiar with the geography, DuPage County is kinda like Collin County here in Texas: a Republican district on the border of a large Democrat-controlled city shithole (Chicago and Dallas, respectively).
So here’s to you, Gov. Pritzker of Illinois:
I can’t wait for Fatboi to mobilize his Panzergruppen (a.k.a. state police) to deal with this upstart sheriff. He may first want to check where most of those staties come from (hint: not Chicago), but wisdom is not a characteristic of Democrat state governors (see: Vito Corleone Cuomo in NYFS, Vladimir Lenin Newsom in Kalifuckingfornia and Irma Grese Gretchen Witmer in the Michigan Sonderlager ).
And here’s to you, Sheriff Jim Mendrick, from all of us Real Americans:
Birthday Wishes
It’s Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday, and he’s received the proper congratulations.
Still A Hero
Here’s both a quote of the day:
“We will get through it in the end but it might take time, but at the end of the day we shall all be okay again… the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away.”
…and the story behind it:
A 99-year-old World War II veteran has completed his quest to walk 100 laps of his garden in eastern England and raised 13 million pounds ($16 million) for Britain´s National Health Service.
Tom Moore’s humble mission to support health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic became a national rallying point. Tens of thousands of Britons pledged donations as Moore pursued a goal of finishing the laps before his 100th birthday on April 30.
With the aid of a walking frame, he reached his target Thursday. Nine soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment, a unit linked to Moore’s former British army regiment, lined the paved walkway in his Bedfordshire backyard, forming an honor guard for the veteran’s final laps.
“I´ve fought so many battles and we´ve always won, and we´re going to win again,” Moore told British broadcaster ITV.
He added that health workers on the front line “deserve everything we can give them.”
Moore started the fundraiser as a way to thank the doctors and nurses who cared for him after his broke his hip. His family initially set a target of raising 1,000 pounds. The campaign went viral after Moore appeared on national television, and millions were raised within a week.
Here’s the timeline:
April 9: Captain Tom Moore and his family launch the ‘Captain Tom Moore’s 100th Birthday Walk for the NHS’ fundraising on JustGiving with a £1,000 target
April 10, 2pm: Fundraising reaches £1,000 target in 24 hours, and family set new £100,000 target
April 11, 7pm: The £100,000 target is reached and a new aim of £250,000 is set
April 12, 2.30pm: Fundraiser hits £250,000 after Captain Moore appears on BBC Radio 2 and talks to the singer Michael Ball
April 14, 12pm: Captain Moore’s donations hit £1million
April 15, 10am: Donations get to £5million
April 15, 5pm: Health Secretary Matt Hancock praises him as an ‘inspiration’ as donations get to £8million
April 15, 11pm: The fundraiser reaches £10million
April 16, 7am: Donations get to £12million
April 16, 12pm: The fundraiser hits £13million
April 17, 3pm: It gets to £14million three hours later
Bravo, Mr. Moore. I see the Brits are probably going to give the old man a knighthood.
We are not worthy, to have such men among us.
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