RUTHFULLY YOURS

The average age of the assembled troops was 26 with many younger than twenty. They were there to protest tyranny.

As poet Hannah Senesh said “Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake” rsk

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force:

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations1 have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men of the world are marching together to victory.

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

Herbert Hoover was a successful mining engineer for a private corporation in China, when he and his wife  were trapped by the Boxer rebellion. Under heavy fire they erected barricades, worked in hospitals and rescued Chinese children. This valor and talent for organization came to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson who appointed him to head the Food Administration during World War 1 to help secure food and sustenance for the beleaguered Europeans, a task he continued after the war as head of the American Relief Administration.

The foregoing brought Herbert Hoover to the public and political arena, hailed as “The Great Humanitarian.”

After serving as Secretary of Commerce under President Calvin Coolidge Hoover became the successful Republican candidate for the presidency in 1928.  Within months into his term the nation spiraled into an economic depression for which he bore absolutely no blame.

His attempts to create a Reconstruction Finance Operation to aid business, agriculture, mortgage relief and loans to states to help the unemployed were continually foiled by a hostile Congress.

As a principled Conservative, he reiterated his view that local and state administrations must be the primary sources of decision and support for their citizens.

The media and Congressional antagonists and opportunists blamed him for the depression and called him cruel, indifferent, and incompetent. He lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

After his loss he was a powerful critic of the “New Deal” and of President Roosevelt’s callous indifference to the plight of European Jews. He continued to write columns and books until his death in 1964.

President Trump now faces a calamity for which he bears no blame. He may not have the probity, immaculate personal life or elegance of Herbert Hoover. But, unlike Hoover, Trump is a scrapper and fighter and has grabbed the pandemic and economic chaos by the …er….roots.  He has also fought the turpitude  of his political antagonists and the libels of fake news.

And, Joe Biden is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt……rsk

Picking a vice president candidate can be a monumental and life and history altering choice. Harry Truman a plain-spoken haberdasher with no significant secondary education became an accidental President upon the death of F.D.R.
In June 1947 he became the first president to address the NAACP. Here are some excerpts from his speech:
“Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry, or religion, or race, or color.”
“We must not tolerate such limitations on the freedom of any of our people and on their enjoyment of basic rights which every citizen in a truly democratic society must possess. Every man should have the right to a decent home, the right to an education, the right to adequate medical care, the right to a worthwhile job, the right to an equal share in making the public decisions through the ballot, and the right to a fair trial in a fair court. We must ensure that these rights — on equal terms — are enjoyed by every citizen. To these principles I pledge my full and continued support.”
He went on to name the first presidential civil rights commission and legislative program and In July 1948 by executive order he desegregated the U.S. armed services.
That was the Democrat party then which inspired so many adherents among all American minorities and now they have the boneheaded “civil rights “rhetoric of Presidential candidate Biden. What happened? Rsk

Maybe next week Wallace should interview Eliot Spitzer to talk about prostitution? rsk

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/05/06/did-we-forge

“Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden avoided jail time on Tuesday after pleading guilty to groping a longtime family friend in New York. Frieden, who is also the former New York City health comissioner, turned himself in to police in August 2018 after the woman reported that he had grabbed her butt without her permission inside his Brooklyn apartment, court documents said.By pleading guilty, Frieden wasn’t required to explain what happened during the October 2017 incident to Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Edwin Novillo. Frieden was facing up to a year in jail for misdemeanor forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse and second-degree harassment charges, prosecutors said.”

There is a huge, really huge story out there about an attempted coup of an elected President by a rogue’s list of high ranking officials and legislators leading up the White House stairs to former President Obama. When the investigations conclude and the dust settles it could be the greatest political scandal of our time. The mainstream media skims and airbrushes the issue.

Philosophers have asked “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

One may ask “If the media ignores  it did it happen?” rsk

At a time when our personal freedoms are challenged, I reflect on the warnings of Friedrich Hayek the Austrian Nobel Laureate:

Please read this superb and rather long essay written on May 19, 2019.

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/f-a-hayek-on-individual-liberty/

F.A. Hayek on Individual Liberty by Richard M. Ebeling

The rebirth of a belief in and an enthusiasm for socialism and government planning among a noticeable number of academics, intellectuals, young people, and elected officials raises many of the fundamental issues surrounding freedom and command, market competition and political control.

Once more, a call is heard for doing away with free enterprise, this time in the name of a Green New Deal. The case is being made, again, that humankind must take the future of society into their own hands and remake it into forms and directions that are more rational and just than what results when “capitalism” runs unrestrained over the societal terrain in the pursuit of personal profit rather than goals advancing the common good and the general welfare.

Social justice, it is said, requires doing away with the income inequalities that emerge from the free play of supply and demand, because free-market–based results are all meant to distribute the most wealth into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. The “purpose” of the capitalist system is to exploit workers, minorities, and other victimized groups so the rich can be, well, rich.

The most frustrating elements in all this for the friend of freedom is how much of it has all been heard before, over and over again, during the last two hundred years. There is little in the latest versions of these statements that was not said in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Here are some headlines about appalling death counts: How will we ever know exactly how many Americans really died of Covid 19. The only thing I can absolutely guarantee is that many of the deceased will be voting this November 3,2020.   rsk

Funeral Directors Blow the Whistle on Deaths Falsely Attributed to Coronavirus By Megan Fox

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/04/30/nyc-funeral-directors-reveal-shocking-inflation-of-covid-19-deaths-n387013

“Basically, every death certificate that comes across our desk now has COVID on it,” said a funeral director in Williston Park, N.Y., on a recorded phone call with Project Veritas in a newly-released video. James O’Keefe has been asking for people inside the medical system to blow the whistle if they see corruption or inconsistencies in reports about the Chinese WuFlu known as COVID-19.

Physicians Say Hospitals Are Pressuring ER Docs to List COVID-19 on Death Certificates. Here’s Why Jon Miltimore

https://fee.org/articles/physicians-say-hospitals-are-pressuring-er-docs-to-list-covid-19-on-death-certificates-here-s-why/

The economic incentive to add COVID-19 to diagnostic lists and death certificates is clear and does not require any conspiracy. When Drs. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care held a press conference last week, their goal was to galvanize policymakers to reopen the economy.The California-based hospital owners may have uncorked a bigger story. During their long discussion with reporters, Dr. Erickson noted he has spoken to numerous physicians who say they are being pressured to add COVID-19 to death certificates and diagnostic lists—even when the novel coronavirus appears to have no relation to the victim’s cause of death.

William “Bill” Mehlman, one of the founders of AFSI and the organization’s representative in Israel died this week. Bill was an activist and lead columnist for OUTPOST our monthly publication.  He was a warrior for truth in history, support for Jewish rights and the mandate of Zionism and the legacy and goals of Zeev Jabotinsky. He had a long and productive life where he witnessed the genocide of World War Two, as well as the rebirth of Israel and its global role as a democracy with outsize contributions to the welfare of millions. One consolation for his loss is the fact that two of his dreams became a reality. One was the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and the other is the furthering of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. His memory is a blessing and inspiration.

Ruth King, Rael Isaac, Helen Freedman

Well two items of potential good news:

Apparently in New York City the pandemic has peaked and hospitalizations are down, testing is up both for Covid and for antibodies.

Also what would appear to be good news:

Deaths from organ failure, heart disease, end stage cancer, strokes and autoimmune disorders are way down. Or, are they really?

And here is what I’m piqued about: The aforementioned illnesses have not abated. What is happening throughout New York hospitals is that many death certificates indicate Coronavirus, even if other serious maladies caused death.  I have heard this from doctors and other medical personnel.

This is scandalous! It will make gathering of real data and critical statistics virtually impossible. It requires a serious media or hospitals investigation.  rsk

The guv and the mayor and coercive role reversed children decree that all “senioras” and “seniores” must shelter in place.

All I can do is quote Richard Lovelace the English poet (1642) who wrote:

“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage”