To: President Obama
From: Mitch Berg, Mere Citizen
Re: Our Stature In The World
Dear Mr. President,
Maybe if you bowed deeper and more vigorously, you could fix this little mess.
That is all.
PS: Please ask Rep. Ellison if he’ll call for not destroying all Jews now? Just an idea.
Submitted without comment:
Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished “every success” to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country’s state-run news agency
To be fair to the former President, all those concentration camp inmates will make a heck of a market for Habitat for Humanity when they get released.
But Carter was never good at getting people released. To be fair, Carter probabably think
Oh, wait – I submitted this without comment, didn’t I?
Sorry. My bad.
I’m waiting for the first lefty/media (ptir) pundit to claim the “incongruity” between this story – violent crime is plummeting…:
Murders, rapes and other violent crimes dropped sharply in the United States in the first six months of 2011, continuing a downward trend that has lasted 4 1/2 years, the FBI reported on Monday.
The federal law enforcement agency said preliminary January-through-June figures showed the number of violent crimes declined 6.4 percent from the previous year, led by a 5.7 percent drop in murders and a 5.1 percent decrease in rapes.
In other violent crime categories, robberies declined 7.7 percent while aggravated assaults fell 5.9 percent.
The FBI’s regular statistical report did not give any reasons for the lower crimes nationwide. But the latest numbers provided further evidence of no crime spike coinciding with the tough economic conditions and high unemployment.
…and this bit here; gun sales are shattering all records this holiday season:
It’s the rise in female buyers that is perhaps most surprising – with more women buying guns than ever before, reported CBS Sacramento.
‘People are just coming in to protect themselves,’ an employee at TDS Guns in Rocklin told CBS Sacramento.
‘I think there’s just a lot of things going on in the world that are getting people thinking,’ the employee added.
The Firearms Dealers Association says the recent boom in gun purchases makes this the best holiday sales season in three years.
It’s not incongruous. In this case, correlation equals causation. Violent crime is dropping precisely because more law-abiding Real Americans are armed. Criminals are stupid and often addled, but they’re not usually overtly suicidal; as the wave of shall-issue laws spreads across the nation and as sales of guns to the law-abiding citizens obliterate all previous records, more and more of them are figuring out that their chances of ending up like this are growing faster than their odds of going to jail.
More and more it’s apparent; it should be considered the duty of every law-abiding American to own and be proficient with a firearm.
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Kim Jong-Il, one of the few foreign leaders to whom Barack Obama hasn’t managed to show obsequious deference, is dead at 69.
Kim – who has presided over the most perfect realization of socialism in history, and has the concentration camps to prove it – died of an apparent heart attack.
Perhaps his most appropriate memorial:
Without baked goods – Rosettes, krumkake, lefse, and all the other varieties of baked sweets that make Norwegian cuisine such a joy during the holidays – having a Grinch steal Christmas is really more or less irrelevant.
And “lack of butter” is the grinch this year:
An acute butter shortage in Norway, one of the world’s richest countries, has left people worrying how to bake their Christmas goodies with store shelves emptied and prices through the roof.
The shortfall, expected to last into January, amounts to between 500 and 1,000 tonnes, said Tine, Norway’s main dairy company, while online sellers have offered 500-gramme [That's about 14.4 ounces - Ed] packs for up to 350 euros ($465).
More reasons to give thanks you’re an American…
I used to be a big-L Libertarian.
I left in 1998 – partly because I wanted to join a party that could both be pushed toward libertarian (with a small-l) principles and still actually exert some effect on society (by, like, winning elections and stuff)…
…and partly because the Big-L Libertarians had their feet firmly in the clouds when it came to foreign policy. Even Thomas Jefferson, the Libertarians’ secular saint, realized toward the end of his presidency that he needed to build a Navy and Marine Corps to project power against the “Barbary Pirates”; merely defending the nation’s borders, even at a time when “missiles” flew a mile from brass cannon and threats moved around the world at the stately five-knot pace of a sailing ship, was not a tenable way to remain free.
Liberty, in short, needed defending. And while military solutions weren’t the answer for every problem, there is a place and time for it.
I watched Ron Paul yesterday on the Sunday Morning shows in response to this news – that Iran may, again, be close to getting nukes:.
According to recent leaks, Iran has carried out experiments in the final, critical stage for developing nuclear weapons – weaponization. This includes explosions and computer simulations of explosions. The Associated Press and other media outlets have reported that satellite photos of the site reveal a bus-sized container for conducting experiments.
Parchin serves as a base for research and development of missile weaponry and explosive material. It also has hundreds of structures and a number of fortified tunnels and bunkers for carrying out explosive experiments.
Now, we’ve heard this before…:
As far back as eight years ago, U.S. intelligence sources received information indicating that the bunkers would also be suitable to develop nuclear weapons. According to that information, Iran conducted experiments there to examine its capacity to simulate a nuclear explosion.
…and while I hate to sound like one of those Bush-era yapping ninnies who claimed that President Bush was “wagging the dog”, it’s a fact that responses to foreign policy threats have been the Obama Administraiton’s only real success.
Still, whatever the current status of the Iranian nuke program is, it is a fact that they will have The Bomb eventually.
And Ron Paul’s solution – “let’s make them not think we’re jerks”, essentially – is no less dumb that that of the “nuclear freeze” ninnies in the eighties.
…that if we voted for John McCain, our status around the world would suffer.
And they were right!.
For the Kyrgyz, the Russians are the devil they know, the Chinese are the devils flush with yuan, and the Americans, two decades after the collapse of the USSR, are the tight-fisted guys all too willing to cut a deal corrupting the previous presidential administrations of Akaev and Bakiev while delivering lectures about democracy. To quote some of the acerbic critics of former U.S. President George W. Bush, “all hat, no cattle.”
The Pentagon has lost yet another opportunity to expand its global footprint, but to use an American baseball metaphor, “three strikes and you’re out.” It’s not as if anyone except the most tone-deaf in Washington couldn’t see it coming.
Nothing’s better for a power vacuum than letting the Chinese and Russians fill it without a serious fight.
I’m always amused by media types who smugly proclaim that they – the media – are what stands between the hoi-polloi and tyranny.
Part of it is the whole matter of “”The pen is mightier than the sword” can only have been written by someone who never had to bet his life on it” bit. And part of it is that the media, like any institution, is no less liable to being co-opted and turned than any other. Remember – Germany had a “Free Press” from 1918 through 1933. Fat lotta good it did them.
Ditto the alternative media – and maybe worse. The alt-media has wrapped itself in the cloak of righteousness…
…but as events in Syria show, it can be co-opted for tyranny just as easily as for freedom. Because while Syria’s government propaganda is the kind of thing that Baghdad Bob could have done, its population of pro-government nerds is drawing blood.
Literally:
They call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army, conducting the most intense cyberwarfare in the Arab world, says Jillian York, with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“I’ve really never seen anything like this before, like the Syrian Electronic Army, which just seems to have so many members,” she says. “I think it’s really just their level of persistence and their level of activity that sets them apart.”
Are they a part of the regime? That is uncertain, says York, although Syrian President Bashar Assad saluted the youth of the Electronic Army in a June speech when they first emerged.
“So it may be that they are supported by the government; it may be that they are independent pro-government forces,” York says.
They’ve co-opted the “social media networks” that were so ballyhooed in the uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain,and hacked into pro-dissident sites in the West, and begun, perhaps, to turn the advantage of the social network into a liability.
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes re Keith Ellison’s letter to Hamas:
What, already? It’s only been 5 years. What’s the rush, Congressman?
And why such forceful action? Co-signing a letter to Hamas Leader-For-Now Khaled Mashaal, coming without warning, without any preliminary negotiation or preconditions, joined only by 11 other headline-seekers . . . that seems preemptory and a unilateral. Where is the international support?
But perhaps this letter is a signal of some strongly held belief? An act of fierce moral urgency? What, exactly, do you mean when you say:
“”It just seemed like a humane, decent thing to do,” Ellison said of sending the letter. “I don’t think [Shalit's captivity is] helping the Palestinian people get a state, which I earnestly pray that they get. I think it hardens Israeli hearts and makes it more difficult to move the ball.”
Frankly, Congressman Ellison, it doesn’t sound as if you condemn the tactic of attacking Jews or taking hostages in principal, only that you think the tactic didn’t work out as planned in this particular instance, so you urge a different strategy.
You’ve gotta wonder.
I’ve told this story before; a few years ago, I appeared as a panelist on an internet talk show; Ellison was a guest.
I asked him if he repudiated the bits and pieces of the Hamas charter that called for the extinction of Israel and the extermination of the Jews – and by asked, I mean “with almost obsequious politeness”.
His response? ”How many Palestinians do you know?”
I donate that insult to my intelligence to all of CD5′s voters with consciences.
Doakes:
I’m certain that’s a comfort to the people living in Israel to know that a junior Congressman from Minnesota signed a letter to the leader of an organization explicitly committed to the destruction of Israel, advising them to shift tactics to complete the Holocaust. Jews everywhere should sleep soundly tonight. The rest of us – especially those living in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District – should hang our heads in shame.
Joe Doakes
Como Park
Oh, I feel the shame.
But I’m not hanging my head. I’m raising my (rhetorical) fist.
Ellison is an embarassment.
Well, he does for one Democrat, anyway. Democrat Kate Marshall is a Democrat running in a special election in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District.
And she released a lit piece pointing out her really double-dog sincere support of Israel:
“I am proud to consider Israel a friend and I reiterate my unwavering support for its fundamental right to exist and the absolute necessity for Israel to secure its people from outside threats. I stand ready and willing to assist Israel in defending itself against all acts of terrorism,” the statement reads.
Unfortunately, nobody copy-edited the piece – so it went out with one of Marshall’s strategists’ internal comments still in the text:
“Background: Israel has been in the news lately, and will be even more in the news with [Glenn] Beck’s ‘Rally to Restore Courage’ in Jerusalem. In an R district, it will be useful to express support for Israel and demonstrate some foreign policy prowess while it is a timely topic — especially for people who are likely paying attention to Beck’s event.”
To be fair, the Dems have had their agenda driven by much worse…
…when Barack Obama was going to “restore” America’s “reputation” around the world?
Don’t worry – neither does anyone else:
The United States has apologised for controversial remarks made by a US diplomat who spoke of “dark and dirty” Indians, calling the comments “inappropriate”.
US Vice-Consul Maureen Chao told Indian students on Friday that her “skin became dirty and dark like the Tamilians” after a long train journey, according to Indian media — referring to people from the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
During her speech in the Tamil Nadu capital, Chennai, Chao was quoted as saying: “I was on a 24-hour train trip from Delhi to (the eastern Indian state of) Orissa.
To be fair, I’m not sure that Obama is counting on the Tamil vote…
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:
The BBC asks: Are brooms the sign of resistance to looters?
No, that’s a sign of capitulation to looters. That’s resignation that looting is inevitable and unstoppable so all we can do is clean up afterwards.
I’ll allow a few points for the British tradition of taciturnity and stoicism that got them through The Blitz – while averring that a foreign (would-be) invader is beyond the citizen’s control; civic violence is something that springs from one’s neighbors.
Doakes:
Korean shopkeepers, during the 1992 LA riots. From the blog "Ask A Korean"
The picture above is hotlinked from (and links to) “Ask A Korean” – a Korean immigrant who, to be fair, is pro-gun-control, and finds the image “dispiriting”.
I strongly disagree, of course. The picture – Americans (of whatever ancestry) pushing back mob rule and anarchy using their God-given right to keep and bear arms is inspiring – indeed, a thing of profound, if pointed and loaded (as it were), beauty.
Fearless Prediction: the chorus of lefties who are now chanting that Anders Behring Breivik is “conservative” – to try to equate the accused mass-murderer with Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann, naturally – will be chastened to learn that he was more “anti-Muslim” than actually political – and that “right-wing” means something very different in the context of European racial and religious politics than it does here…
…oh, who am I kidding? Left wingers are never chastened for making overwrought, bigoted statements about American conservatives.
(See: Jared Loughner, Bill Sparkman, Larry Piderman, John Patrick Bedell, Maurice Schwenkler, the Tea Party “racist chants”…)
It’s only a prediction.
Merely wanting peace doesn’t give you peace.
At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say.
Oslo police are questioning a 32-year-old Norwegian man in connection with both attacks.
The man was arrested on tiny Utoeya island outside Oslo, where police say he opened fire on teenagers.
Earlier, the number of dead from the Utoeya shooting spree, which is among the world’s most deadly, was put at 10.
The earlier bomb attack killed at least seven people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, whose Oslo offices were among those badly hit by the blast, described the attacks as “bloody and cowardly”.
The shooter apparently impersonated a cop:
Hours after bomb blasts shattered the holiday calm of downtown Oslo, a man arrived at Utoya island, 50 kilometres from the Norwegian capital, by ferry.
He was wearing a police uniform and packing several weapons, including at least one submachine gun and possibly a rifle.
The stranger beckoned to some of the 550 young people attending a summer camp organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labour Party.
“Come here,” he said, claiming he was performing a routine security check after a bomb blast hours earlier in downtown Oslo killed at least seven people and injured many others.
Once a sizeable group had gathered, the man — who looked like a typical Norwegian, with blond hair and spoke with an eastern Norwegian accent — said this was just the beginning and opened fire.
The campers, aged 15 to 25, scattered in panic, many throwing themselves in the water in an attempt to escape the island, which had no bridge to the mainland. Others cowered in nearby buildings.
A 16-year-old named Emma said she thought at first it was just somebody fooling around, but after she saw two people shot dead she realized it was serious.
“Me and my boyfriend Erik, we ran to the sea and we hid ourselves in [a cave]. After a while … we heard the gunshots right from above us and we could actually smell the — what’s it called? — the gunpowder and we were so scared so we just waited till he went away,” she told the BBC.
Early indications – and they are very early indeed – are that the killer was a lone madman, not connected with any international terror organizations. The politics, if any, are unknown.
Here’s Israel today:
Note the brown glob of the West Bank and the little strip between Gaza and Rafah – owned by Israel, with sizeable Palestinian populations. These populations are largely highly hostile to Israel.
Here was Israel in 1967:
Doens’t look much different, does it? And it’s not – except for the fact that there are Israeli troops securing the West Bank. Note the numbers. They’re distances to Israel’s major population and economic centers. When Arabs controlled the West Bank before 1967, every major population center in Israel was threatened. Today, with Iran supplying Hamas and Hezb’allah with more modern rockets, terrorists can scourge most of Israel at will, if the “peace process” breaks down.
As it will, inevitably.
Obama is insane if he thinks this is a rational solution while the Palestinians are controlled by people who still reject the idea that Israel has a right to exist. The Israelis are right to reject it out of hand.
Trading in a “moderate” tyrant for extreme theocratic tyrants?
It may not just be for Carter anymore. Andrew McCarthy in NRO:
Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend.
(Trivia question: Which traditional Lutheran, Episcopal, Catholic or Presbyterian hymn does “with our blood we defend you, Christianity” come from?)
They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex, killed a dozen people, and wounded more than 200: just another day in this spontaneous democratic uprising by Muslim hearts yearning for freedom.
Just another day on the Arab Street?
Well, yeah – but we did put them there.
Worse (in a sense); the media, always running interference for the Administration, is covering up the true nature of the violence:
In the delusional vocabulary of the “Arab Spring,” this particular episode is known as a sectarian “clash.” That was the Washington Post’s take. Its headline reads “12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash” — in the same way, one supposes, that a mugger’s fist can be said to “clash” with his victim’s face. The story goes on, in nauseating “cycle of violence” style, to describe “clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians” that “left” 12 dead, dozens more wounded, “and a church charred” — as if it were not crystal clear who were the clashers and who were the clashees, as if the church were somehow combusted into a flaming heap without some readily identifiable actors having done the charring.
The narrative was set over the winter; the “Arab Spring” was an unalloyed good thing; it was Obama’s foreign-policy baby; it unleashed a wave of arabic Madisons and Jeffersons. If we just keep believing.
Really.
Conservatives win majority in Canadian parliament:
Canadian voters have radically redrawn the country’s political landscape, handing the Conservative Party its long-sought majority in an election that decimated the Bloc Québécois and humbled the Liberals.
For the first time in history, the New Democratic Party will form the Official Opposition after an extraordinary breakthrough that propelled the party to more than 100 seats.
Looks like Canada has the same coastal/interior, red/blue split we do:
The extent of the transformation is startling. The Liberals now hold just four seats west of Guelph, Ont.
But not entirely:
The Conservatives, formerly shunned by Toronto voters, won nearly half of the seats in that city, twice as many as the Liberals.
If you don’t follow parliamentary politics – even in relatively sedate parliaments like Canada’s or Germany’s – getting a majority is a much bigger deal than in our mostly two-party Congress. It’s a sign that, at least at the moment, there’s a pretty decisive mandate. And while Canadian conservatives
The night belonged to Stephen Harper, who put his party over the top after five years of minority government and becomes just the third Conservative leader since Confederation to win triple victories.
“We are intensely aware that we are and must be the government of all Canadians, including those that did not vote for us,” Mr. Harper said.
This election was every bit as big as 2011′s was in the US:
Parliament was radically remade. The fragmentation of the 1993 election has been reversed, with the Conservatives and NDP emerging as national parties with support across all regions of the country, although the Tories find themselves in an unusual position, as a majority government with just a handful of Quebec seats.
Rumor is it’s because Canadians are sick and tired of American “progressives” threatening to move to Canada.
Three speeches purporting to be speeches (or syntheses of speeches) asking people to risk all in the brutal insanity of war:
Option A:
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Option B:
To summarize, then: In just one month, the United States has worked with our international partners to mobilize a broad coalition, secure an international mandate to protect civilians, stop an advancing army, prevent a massacre, and establish a no-fly zone with our allies and partners. To lend some perspective on how rapidly this military and diplomatic response came together, when people were being brutalized in Bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international community more than a year to intervene with air power to protect civilians. It took us 31 days.
Moreover, we’ve accomplished these objectives consistent with the pledge that I made to the American people at the outset of our military operations. I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. Tonight, we are fulfilling that pledge.
Option C:
Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball player, the toughest boxer. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
Which reads like a challenge to a nation sending its sons and daughters out to risk their lives, and which reads like the wrapup to a senior seminar lecture?
Remember when the feminists said if women ran the world, peace would break out?
Reality says not so:
The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity. Ms. Power is a former journalist and human rights advocate; Ms. Rice was an Africa adviser to President Clinton when the United States failed to intervene to stop the Rwanda genocide, which Mr. Clinton has called his biggest regret.
Now, the three women were pushing for American intervention to stop a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Libya.
If a “progressive” and an inexperienced president had a kid, what would it be?
A neocon!
Remember when the feminists said if women ran the world, peace would break out?
Reality says not so:
The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity. Ms. Power is a former journalist and human rights advocate; Ms. Rice was an Africa adviser to President Clinton when the United States failed to intervene to stop the Rwanda genocide, which Mr. Clinton has called his biggest regret.
Now, the three women were pushing for American intervention to stop a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Libya.
If a “progressive” and an inexperienced president had a kid, what would it be?
A neocon!
The editorial page at the Pittsburgh New Tribune is noticing President Obama’s disconnect:
Much of the Middle East is ablaze in revolution, the thuggery of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi being the highlight of how low megalomaniacs will go to stay in power.
And, of course, the nuclear tragedy unfolding in Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami, is reeling the world.
Then there’s that little matter of a looming government shutdown.
But what’s the leader of the free world been up to?
On Wednesday, Mr. Obama appeared on ESPN to announce his picks for the NCAA basketball tournament.
Earlier in the week, he gave “exclusive” interviews to TV stations from around the country — including Pittsburgh’s KDKA — on “education reform.” (KDKA’s story catapulted pro forma local TV video stenography to news lows.)
Saturday last, when not giving his weekly radio address on the critically important issue of Women’s History Month, Obama was playing golf — reported to be the 61st round of his presidency — joking that it was not “playing” at all but an “investment.”
That was fast on the heels of his riveting summit on “bullying.”
Can you imagine how the mainstream media would have reacted to such disconnected behavior had it been a Republican president?
As re the Middle East, Japan and the budget? We’ve had an entire month of “My Little Goat”.
This isn’t a matter of “optics” but one of judgment. This president is woefully out of touch with reality and how a leader should behave in such trying times.
Bring on 2012.
Unlike our First Lady, I have almost always been proud of my country, and to be an American.
Never more so than when I see things like this; it’s a chopper crew from the USS Ronald Reagan delivering supplies to Japan.
It should go without saying that this blog’s prayers are with the people of Japan, and everyone in areas covered by the tsunami warning.
We’ll wait for an update from regular commenter Terry, who is (presumably) safely esconced way up on a mountain somewhere in the islands.
Andrew Exum, a former Ranger officer who blogs at Abu Muquwama (which is affilaiated with the Center for a New American Security) on a a factoid about the “rebel”, eastern part of Libya:
I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other city in the Arabic-speaking world. On a per capita basis, though, twice as many foreign fighters came to Iraq from Libya — and specifically eastern Libya — than from any other country in the Arabic-speaking world. Libyans were apparently more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Middle East. And 84.1% of the 88 Libyan fighters in the Sinjar documents who listed their hometowns came from either Benghazi or Darnah in Libya’s east. This might explain why those rebels from Libya’s eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya’s rebels.
Of course (as a commenter notes) it could be that Qaddhafi used Iraq as an excuse to get ride of Muslim militants that could just as easily have bedeviled him.
But the Middle East is like unravelling an onion.
This has just got to piss Nick Coleman off – and, commensurately, leave Chad the Elder pretty stoked:
That’s a Libyan freedom fighter with a UND Fighting Sioux T-shirt.
Politically-incorrect here; a sign of freedom there.
Just goes to show you – wherever tyranny needs to be toppled, whether in Saint Paul or in the Sahara, North Dakotans, or our clothes, will be there.