Richard Winters, WWII hero, dies at 92

Richard Winters, the commanding officer of Easy Company, the Army unit whose gritty combat from the beaches of Normandy to the capture of Hitler�s mountain retreat was recounted in the book and television series �Band of Brothers,� died Jan. 2 in Campbelltown, Pa. He was 92 and lived in Hershey, Pa.
His death was confirmed by Nikki Soliday, executive director of the Hershey-Derry Township Historical Society, which maintains an exhibit of Mr. Winters�s war memorabilia, including the tiny silk map of Normandy sewn into his uniform pants on D-Day and silverware taken from Hitler�s retreat.
(Excerpted from The NY Times Jan 10; click here for the entire obituary.)

Here comes the Volt, here comes the Volt, here comes the Volt!

 In the Texas hold 'em poker game that is the automobile industry, GM didn't have enough chips for the next hand. They found a sugar daddy in Barack Obama, and now, two years later, the Detroit giant is back in the game. With state-of-the-art assembly efficiency producing new, innovative and high quality vehicles, steady profitability has returned to Motor City.  The bailout money is being paid back ahead of schedule, almost a million jobs were saved, and an American icon has stayed on the road.

But the game goes on, and GM has just gone 'all in' with the Chevy Volt.  The bow-tie guys are betting the house -- do they have the cards?
Check it out!

Fear comes from Right

Republicans, Tea Party activists, vitriolic talk show radio hosts, all are scrambling to get under the protective umbrella of collective grief and sympathy over the Tucson massacre.
Don't let them!

Do you think this is inflammatory?

They have preached violence for two solid years; they have vilified our president, calling into question not only his fitness for office but also his essential credentials. They have acted as if, somehow, Mr. Obama wasn't elected, but rather installed by a mindless, idol-worshipping, king-making constituency. They -- with their words and philosophy and advertising and rallies -- have been crystal clear and unequivocal -- they needed to 'take back' the country by whatever means possible.
Don't let them!
The right-wing media juggernaut needs to be called out, and all our elected officials need to stand behind a sweeping repudiation.
Here is a link to the heart of the matter;  here is a compendium of what the far right pundits have been saying these past two years. You are free to dismiss the site below as leftist propaganda, but you cannot ignore the quotes.

Inflammatory? Violence prone? We report, you decide.

Jaxonia will start you off with just one quote:

''I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.''�Rep. Virginia Foxx (R.-North Carolina), on health care reform legislation, Nov. 2, 2009

Click here.

(And don't buy the crap that Democrats did the same thing with Bush.  The GOP broke new inflammatory ground during the Clinton Adminstration, and spent over a million dollars on his impeachment process alone. Clinton was accused of malfeasance and even murder! With Obama, flaming, fear-mongering rhetoric has ratcheted up disturbingly.)