On this date in 1947. . .

Paris and America.

So many things have been said about Paris and the attack on November 13th.  Most have been disappointing.  The thing of it is we should not be looking for "Them" to be sneaking in during the dead of night, "Them" are already here and have been for quite some time now.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November. . .

Remember, Remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder and treason plot.  Guy Fawkes Day!

Have you heard about this Million Mask March?  Anti-Capitalists in $750 designer jackets. . .

The scene from V for Vendetta.

Maureen O'Hara Died

I just found out Maureen O'Hara died Friday.

"I guess everybody was in love with Maureen O’Hara,” Clint Eastwood.

More from Vanity Fair, including a great interview with her from 2014.

"What is the quality you most like in a man?
    --  Tough, with inner kindness, like Duke had. 

Guns Sales Boom in Osterreich?

So, it appears that gun sales are on the uptick in Austria.  According to this article translated courtesy of the evil alphabet empire.   Interesting.  The key reason in this quote "The most common reason for the upgrade: fear of refugees and before dawn burglars."

St. Crispian's Day

Agincourt, and fair Harry the King.

This day is called the feast of Crispin:
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispin.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say, ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispin:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

32 Years ago today.

32 Years ago today Iranian backed terrorists attacked the "barracks" of the 24 MEU at the Beirut Airport.  Stars and Stripes carried the story on the 30th anniversary.  The GWOT, Large VBIED's are nothing new, simply the lexicon and the narrative have changed.

Semper Fi.