RIP: Jacob DeShazer, Age 95 One of Doolittle’s Raiders

From the Salem Statesman Journal:

Jacob DeShazer of Salem took part in World War II’s legendary Doolittle Raid, endured more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war and later teamed up with his wife, Florence, to serve

In the LA Times, this morning:

In the script for the landmark 1964 film “Nothing but a Man,” actor Ivan Dixon saw something familiar in the character Duff Anderson.

Duff was a railroad worker in love with Josie, a

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

Is Barack Obama’s grandmother a racist, or is BO a fool?   BO as attributed by Jim Geraghty, National Review: 

 “I can no more disown [Reverend Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me,

Oh… I’m sure you’ve not seen this, unless you’re from that neck of the woods… but it turns out the Democrat mayor in Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is in some serious hot water, and criminal charegs are in the offing. Of

Mike Allen over to The Politico reports:

CHICAGO – The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and “crucifixion.”

See, that’s how it works with

Barrack Obama, and a lot of the leftards like to lay the claim that

“There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the

From Bluto:

From MSNBC:

 

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., condemned racially charged sermons by his former pastor Friday and urged Americans not to reject his presidential campaign because of “guilt by association.”

Obama’s campaign announced that the minister, the

National Pi Day, Miami County Weekend:

It looks cool, grown-up, amazing and sophisticated. Unless you don’t like math.

But if you love it, ? seems like one of the greatest developments of its time. What could be better

Bruce makes mention of a Reuters article:

A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.

Only 22 percent of

The Washington Post pumps out pure bilge:

The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

Today’s the day.

Hillary Clinton either wins it all, or fails one of the several tests today, and is forced within a week or two to leave the race. THe latter happening, I cannot say I will complain about, though

• A second place in the OTB Caption Contest.
• So, they’re concerned about a doctor shortage in the third world? And they think the US is causing the shortage? Look, Gang, I’m used the the US getting blamed for everything. But

• No, Billy, she’s not done, yet, nor will she be. You of all people will understand that the woman is all about power, and the obtaining of it. As such, she’s not going to back off, even come next