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Saving Private Soyboy - so this fruitcake thinks writing snarky hit pieces about Donald Trump is comparable to storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day? He isn’t fit to wipe the collective arse of those brave men. Anyone else pick up the irony of this clown’s last name? Nazyaryan - Nazi Aryan?

I love it! Anyone know of an online source where I could get one of these? Or anything similar that would piss-off the mask nazis...

Mmmmm...me want. Imagine this with a thirty round magazine filled with 12 gauge slugs- that ought to hold them off for a few minutes!

Neither is Harris nor was Obama. “Natural Born” doesn’t mean that you first saw the light of day in one of the fifty states. Rather, it has to do with the citizenship status of your parents. Neither of Harris’ parents were citizens and although Obama was probably physically born in Hawaii, his father was a British citizen, since he lived in Kenya which at that time was still part of the British Empire.

One of my fondest memories of a New York snowfall is slowly walking up the cobble-stoned sidewalk on the eastern side of Central Park, headed up to my then favorite place in the city, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was the morning, I had the day off and that meant I could spend the entire day visiting all of my “friends” hanging on the walls of its galleries. The snow gently falling as I made my way north seemed to quiet and beautify the normal hustle of the last part of the morning’s rush hour. I can still recall feeling privileged to be at that spot, in that time, and thinking that, at least for me, there just couldn’t be a better example of the best that civilization could have produced. But - all good things must come to an end...

Perhaps now but it’s too bad you couldn’t have experienced it back in the 50’s and 60’s. If what the extra-terrestrial experts tell us, that we are probably the only intelligent life in the cosmos, then New York City truly was the Center of the Universe. It was certainly the banking, fine dining, publishing, artistic, entertainment and educational capitol of earth. Sports, movies, live theater, museums...there wasn’t a city in the world which could surpass it in all fields as the Big Apple did. Investing talent, retail giants, and perhaps the best part were the deli’s and bookstores along with the certainty that no matter which hole-in-the-wall pizza joint you’d stop in for lunch, you’d be getting a superior slice than anywhere else in the country. I think it was John Lindsay’s election in ‘64 that marked the beginning of the decline but even when I went to college in Brooklyn Heights from 1968 to 1972, it was still the most fascinating urban wonderland imaginable.

OMG! How is this incredible young woman not married? She’s brilliant, beautiful and big-hearted - and those hands...she could easily cover a full octave or more on the piano keyboard. If I was a guy her age and was lucky enough to go out with her, I’d be proposing to her on the first date also. Just think - there’s some lucky guy out there right now who will end up spending the rest of his life with this angel.

On a calmer note, with a little polishing of her delivery, she could probably be the next Sarah Palin or even better, the American Margaret Thatcher. Watching this entire video gives me genuine hope for the future.

This bitch has GOT to go; I never realized what a sick freak she was until now. I put the sitting on the AA gun in North Vietnam down to a young person’s ignorance and getting caught up in the moment but now I realize I was wrong. Paraphrasing King Henry II, “who will rid us of this meddlesome has-been?”

“You have the will to fight but the good sense not to. You’re eyes are full of hate 41 - that’s good. Hate keeps a man alive...”

Quintus Arias in Ben Hur

Is it just me or in that picture does she look like she has another one on the way?

I must have Jones and Piagenetti mixed up with two other officers killed in the line of duty. As I recall it, Jones and Piagenetti were on foot patrol somewhere on the lower East Side. Their assassins watched them for several days before ambushing them from behind. Waverly Jones had both eyeballs shot out as he lay dying on the sidewalk whereas Piagenetti only had one shot to the back of the head. I believe that the original plan was for them to have a joint funeral mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral but Piagenetti’s family opted for a service at his home parish.

Say what? My son went through basic infantry school at Fort Benning and was neither special forces nor airborne. Nevertheless, he was in the sixth vehicle of close to three thousand to cross the berm from Kuwait into Iraq the night the order was given to move down range. It was his Brigade Combat Team that took the VIP terminal at Baghdad Airport where the supposedly invincible Imperial Guard had pledged to make their last stand.

They don’t call the infantry The Queen of Battle for nothing. And don’t worry, I won’t tell him you said that he and the guys from his company who were killed are nothing but REMFs...

Does anyone recall her playing the sophisticated English business woman who becomes a nun in the British production of “In This House of Brede”?

I agree with you regarding the reasons people are leaving liberal enclaves. After spending my first sixty-three years in New Jersey, my wife and I sold the house and moved to Phoenix, AZ. Besides the weather, my greatest delight was voting and knowing my vote wouldn’t be cancelled by a million liberal voters in the Garden State.

For those of you who are concerned about your home states being polluted by liberal yankee carpet baggers, relax. The people who are leaving NYC are the open-minded conservatives who realize there IS life outside of the Upper West Side, SOHO, Riverdale and the Theater District. They will be solid citizens of your state and will not be the cause of the liberal debasement of your home territory.

The type of people you are concerned about polluting you state’s politics are the True Believers who will never leave Manhattan or any of the other trendy neighborhoods of the other four boroughs. They’ll never admit that they’re the ones who encouraged all of the disastrous public policies which destroyed the greatest city in the world. Besides, as others have noted, they despise most of the USA (particularly you good people in the south or Midwest) and, like Woody Allen, are prepared to go down with the ship rather than admit any of this was their fault.

I only wish that the rest of the Free Republic community could have experienced New York City in its glory years of the fifties and sixties. It really was “the center of the universe!”

“Forgettable”? He was one of the most brilliant men ever elected to the presidency. He was a college president and a general in the Union Army in the civil war. He could write with both hands simultaneously, one writing in Latin and the other in Greek. The fact that he was assassinated just a few months into his first term may be why many people don’t know that much about him but he was anything but forgettable.

Nope...it was Teddy.

Every time I tried to sign up I get a message that they are sending an authentication code but which unfortunately never arrives...

Teddy Roosevelt endured a torrent of abuse, particularly from the New York newspapers, when when he was the first president to ever invite a black man to dinner at the White House, his guest being Booker T. Washington. I’m certain it’s the height of folly to expect that the museum’s Board of Trustees would know that, much less the ridiculous mayor of New York City. Until you’ve taken a stroll around Manhattan’s upper west side where the museum is located, you have no idea the depth of fanatical liberalism that rules the petty little lives of its self-absorbed residents.

There’s a great scene in “Annie Hall” where Woody Allen reduces Carol Kane to a cultural stereotype of the typical upper west sider. Watch it if you get the chance as it will explain the typical resident,self-righteous posing of that most liberal of Manhattan enclaves.

I believe the statue of Lenin in Seattle is privately owned and is own privately owned land. It was purchased after the fall of the Soviet Bloc and originally stood outside a factory in one of the countries of Eastern Europe. It is seen by the residents surrounding that spot as more of a kitsch or camp item and from what I’ve read is routinely vandalized with paint, especially for special occasions including the annual Nude Bike Ride, the route of which carries the “protesters” right past it. Perhaps someone with more accurate information could update us all on its origins and status...

I was in the Marines with his younger brother Lou. He was the same size as Wes but incredibly soft spoken and a real gentleman. Their parents must have been very proud of both.