TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: Johnny Rivers 1966

Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella @ NYC 11.07.42) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.... styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs in addition to some of Rivers' original material. 

Johnny Rivers's greatest success came in the mid-to-late 1960s with sequence of top US and international  hits such as "Seventh Son", "Poor Side of Town", "Summer Rain", "Secret Agent Man" -theme to the TV show- then in the early 70's with a great cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu" that went to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, his third million-selling single.

Rivers continues to record and perform to the present in 2010... love that voice, and the guy can play a guitar:

Johnny Rivers: Secret Agent Man- 1966

 

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Fresh North Korean Artillery Fire Heard Near Shelled Island: "Brink of War"

Shrill DPRK propaganda threatens "shower of fire"

The ever-belligerent Norks fired more large guns today in the vicinity of the South Korean island shelled on Tuesday. To most observers it appears that a fading Kim Jong Il is happy to blow up a few Southern fisherman in order to impress the military with his choice of under-achieving 27-year-old son Kim Jong Un
-reportedly not the sharpest knife in the drawer- as his designated successor in the world's only hereditary communist dictatorship. 

He's already made the kid a four-star general, and after visiting the artillery site on Monday the younger Kim is rumored to have ordered the attack himself...

AP-

Fresh artillery shots were heard Friday on the tense South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, three days after it was devastated by a North Korean attack and hours after Pyongyang warned that the peninsula was on the brink of war. 

The blasts happened just after the top U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, toured Yeonpyeong Island in a show of solidarity with Seoul and to survey damage from Tuesday's hail of North Korean artillery fire that killed four people. 

An official at the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said several new rounds of artillery fire were heard Friday on Yeonpyeong, which is just 7 miles (11 kilometers) south of the North Korean mainland. The military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said several distant explosive sounds came from the direction of North Korea. There were no immediate reports of damage.

Seems the Kims are doing their best to frighten their enemies much as a rattlesnake would... and with a comparable moral code- (Yonhap News Service:)

Threatening "a shower of dreadful fire," North Korea said Friday it will wipe out its enemies if its sovereignty is violated, warning that the Korean Peninsula is inching to the "brink of war." The warnings by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea and the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) are the latest threats Pyongyang has issued since South Korea and the U.S. agreed to hold joint drills near the communist country in a show of force. 

The rhetoric raises already high tension after the communist country exchanged deadly artillery barrages with South Korea on Tuesday, killing two marines and two civilians here in one of the most violent clashes on the peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korea, officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), denies initiating the clash, warning it will mount additional attacks if its territorial waters are violated. 

"The army and people of the DPRK are now greatly enraged at the provocation of the puppet group while getting fully ready to give a shower of dreadful fire and blow up the bulwark of the enemies" if they violate the North's sovereignty, the committee said. 

In the Korean version of the statement released through the KCNA, the North said it is "ready to annihilate enemies' stronghold," a possible reference to major military bases and civilian facilities in the South. 

It also said its forces "precisely targeted and struck" South Korean artillery units on Tuesday in what can seen as an admission of a deliberate attack on the South. 

"Gone are the days when verbal warnings are served only," the committee said in the English statement. "The group should not run amuck, clearly understanding the will and mettle of the highly alerted army and people of the DPRK to wipe out the enemies." 

If the Chinese are serious about being a world leader, now might be an appropriate time to act like it and control their brats before somebody loses an eye... or worse.

Yonghap   AP  Gateway Pundit

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Suggestion for Congressional Republicans: DEMAND Israeli-Style Airport Security NOW

Intrusive pat-downs, strip-searches, and body scans 
far too high a price to pay for political correctness:
70% favor advanced terrorist profiling techniques instead

Boiling Frog Post

The Obammunist regime has this little habit of acting like there's simply no alternative to their heavy-handed statist ways -be it health care, bailouts, or air travel safety- while slandering opponents that dare bring any reality to the debate. But the TSA's x-ray/pat-down/or $11,000 fine oppression of US airline passengers has many thinking this long holiday weekend that there's got to be another way... and there is.

TSA Chief John Pistole has come right out and said that the reason all American air-travelers are being treated like criminals for the privilege of travelling in their own country is that we "Americans don't profile". In other words, the United States steadfastly refuses to adopt the world-class behavioral/background profiling techniques developed in Israel over the last 40 years... a comprehensive and proven system that's been offered to the US repeatedly, and one even Mr Pistole himself refers to as "top notch".

In the last three decades, the Israeli national carrier El Al
-arguably the largest terrorist target on the planet- has suffered exactly zero terrorist attacks. There has never been an El Al plane hijacked out of Israel's Ben Gurion Airport- contrast this to eight hijackings originating in the US for Delta Airlines alone (prior to 9/11).

When the idea of us having a similarly top-notch system was bounced-off Robert Gibbs this week, he avoided the essential profiling debate entirely by speciously claiming the methods wouldn't scale up- when we all know that's not it.  Like any recovering alcoholic can tell you, the first thing you've got to do is face the reality of your problem... something clearly not happening within this administration on a number of issues

But racially-obsessed Third-World-romanticizer Obama needs to be told in no uncertain terms that enough is enough...  it's time that we not just consider -but demand-  a practical and effective alternative to his all-out assault on our Fourth Amendment rights:

The Transportation Security Administration's demeaning new "enhanced pat-down" procedures are a direct result of the Obama administration's willful blindness to the threat from Islamic radicals.

While better tools are available to keep air travelers safe, they would involve recognizing the threat for what it is, which is something the White House will never do. 

El Al, Israel's national airline, employs a smarter approach. Any airline representing the state of Israel is a natural - some might say preeminent - target for terrorist attacks. Yet El Al has one of the best security records in the world and doesn't resort to wide-scale use of methods that would under other circumstances constitute sexual assault. 

The Israelis have achieved this track record of safety by employing sophisticated intelligence analysis which allows them to predict which travelers constitute a possible threat and which do not. Resources are then focused on the more probable threats with minimal intrusion on those who are likely not to be terrorists. 

Here in the United States, these sophisticated techniques have roundly been denounced as discriminatory "profiling." Allegedly postracial America has been unable to come to grips with the difference between immoral and illegal racial discrimination and the prudent use of the types of techniques that police on the beat use every day, which is similar to practices the customs service applies to assessing which packages being sent into the country are licit and which were sent by smugglers. 

TSA believes an 80-year-old grandmother deserves the same level of scrutiny at an airport terminal checkpoint as a 19-year-old male exchange student from Yemen. This policy not only is a waste of time and resources, it denies reality. 

The new crotch-inspection policy is a direct result of al Qaeda underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to take down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 last Christmas. At the time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said, in masterful doublespeak, "Once the incident occurred, the system worked." 

However, the incident itself was a symptom of systemic failure. Abdulmutallab's name was on various watch lists. He had traveled to Yemen to network with al Qaeda. Warnings concerning him had been received from Yemen and Britain. His father had even attempted to notify the United States about the coming attack. None of this made an impression. 

Despite all the government bureaucracy and TSA's intrusive inspection practices, Abdulmutallab's attack was only foiled because of a faulty bomb and the actions of alert passengers.

Now all passengers have to pay the price by having their privacy (and their privates) invaded, which is the Obama administration's alternative to instituting a policy that will target the source of the problem. Indeed, they refuse to admit that a Muslim problem exists.

The Washington Times

Wholly-effective while avoiding needless molestation of 3-year-old boys and D-cup women, the Israeli system also does not rely on strip-searches or body scans.  Rather,  it employs simple common sense to focus on those who come from troublesome regions and/or act like a terrorist- how 'bout that. 

And it's really not all based on race as is widely assumed. What they do is focus on people -not objects so much as we do:

Michael Totten writing in the New York Post (highlights RR):

Terrorists have yet to use the same weapon twice, and the TSA isn't even looking for whatever they'll try to use next. I can think of all sorts of things a person could use to wreak havoc on a plane that aren't banned. 

Security officials should pay less attention to objects, and more attention to people. The Israelis do. They are, out of dreadful necessity, the world's foremost experts in counterterrorism. And they couldn't care less about what your grandmother brings on a plane. 

Instead, officials at Ben Gurion International Airport interview everyone in line before they're even allowed to check in. 

And Israeli officials profile. They don't profile racially, but they profile. 

Israeli Arabs breeze through rather quickly, but thanks to the dozens of dubious-looking stamps in my passport -- almost half are from Lebanon and Iraq -- I get pulled off to the side for more questioning every time. And I'm a white, nominally Christian American. 

If they pull you aside, you had better tell them the truth. They'll ask you so many wildly unpredictable questions so quickly, you couldn't possibly invent a fake story and keep it all straight. Don't even try. They're highly trained and experienced, and they catch everyone who tries to pull something over on them. 

Because I fit one of their profiles, it takes me 15 or 20 minutes longer to get through the first wave of security than it does for most people. The agents make up for it, though, by escorting me to the front of the line at the metal detector. 

They don't put anyone into a "porn machine." There's no point. Terrorists can't penetrate that deeply into the airport. The Israeli experience isn't pleasant, exactly, and there's a lot not to like about it. It can be exasperating for those of us who are interrogated more thoroughly. 

The system has its advantages, though, aside from the fact that no one looks or reaches into anyone's pants. Israelis don't use security theater to make passengers feel like they're safe. They use real security measures to ensure that travelers actually are safe. 

Even when suicide bombers exploded themselves almost daily in Israeli cities, not a single one managed to get through that airport...

Some say Obama's heavy-handed approach -where the affirmative-action-staffed TSA gets to put whitey up against the wall- is yet one more chapter in a bizarre racial agenda.  I don't know about that, but the Barack Obama has made perfectly clear that he will put us through just about anything to avoid offending groups seen as "cool" in his warped world-view.  About the only humiliation left to inflict upon us is cavity searches...
intrade taking bets yet on when that kicks-in?

Of course, this President -who has bowed to a Saudi King while openly contemptuous of Israel- would likely only make such a change under substantial political pressure... and this is a guy that doesn't consider massive public opposition to be substantial. But far better the resurgent GOP attempt to force Obama's hand on this before events conspire to do the same at a far higher price to our country and/or liberty. 

So as Americans endure a most unbearable travel season 2010, the time is now to bring a change in TSA strategy if we possibly can, the public support is there... a fresh WaPo poll says  70% of Americans favor implementation of Israeli-style profiling.
 
Unlike the 'Progressive' Left, Republicans would be actually giving the people what they want... just how democracy is supposed to work, and a glaring contrast that's a huge political winner heading-on-into 2012. 

Gateway Pundit   Moonbattery   y-net   The Klaxon   

Although my congressman is a hopeless liberal twit of the worst kind... I wrote anyway, it is a matter of life-and-death:

Contact your Representative quickly -here-

-Happy Thanksgiving from Reaganite Republican-

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Ronald Reagan Thanksgiving Address

"You know, the Statue of Liberty and this wonderful holiday we call Thanksgiving go together naturally... because although as Americans we have many things for which to be thankful,  none is more important than our liberty..."

President Ronald Reagan
-November 1985-

-Happy Thanksgiving 2010, America-

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Tokyo Calls for Military Attacks on Pyongyang as Clueless Obama Dithers

Yet another traditionally-close US ally abandoned to fate...

Now DebkaFile is reporting that the Japanese -correctly observing that no response in the face of this second Nork attack only will invite more of them- are strongly promoting the idea of a prompt military reaction... or at least something of significance out of the UN security council.  

The (predictable) White House response...?  [crickets]. 

... the Obama administration was clearly not about to meet Japanese pressure for joint military action in support of Seoul or reinforce its fighting forces on the peninsula – even as a deterrent. 

Two South Korean marines were killed and 17 soldiers and 3 civilians injured as the flames engulfed the targeted island. A Pentagon spokesman also said it was too early to discuss redeploying US tactical nuclear arms to South Korea, a possibility raised by South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Tae-young Monday when North Korea's parade of its uranium enrichment and light water plants came to light. 

The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's second demand in his call to President Barak Obama after the North Korean attack was to convene an urgent UN Security Council meeting. That too went unheeded. The session France announced would take place Tuesday night was indefinitely postponed. 

The Japanese prime minister maintained to Obama that North Korea must not be allowed to get away with two armed attacks on the South in the space of eight months without a military response. On March 26, North Korean torpedoes sunk the South Korean Cheonan cruiser. At least 46 seamen were lost. 

DEBKAfile's military sources reports fears that if no penalty is exacted from Pyongyang for its belligerent behavior, it will be encouraged to continue striking South Korea. 

...

DEBKAfile's military sources report that US Seventh Fleet headquarters at Yokosuka in Japan, together with the naval forces stationed there including the USS George Washington aircraft carrier. They have been covering South Korea's massive annual military exercises involving some 70,000 troops scheduled to last from Monday through Nov. 30. 

Our sources add that closely in tune with Pyongyang, Tehran will be encouraged by the Obama administration's inaction against North Korea to greater pugnacity against Israel whose position in the Middle East Iran sees as akin to that of South Korea in the Far East. Both are regarded in Iran as tied hand and foot by Washington and therefore in no position to defend themselves without the US sayso. 

Earlier, DEBKAfile report that Obama's lack of response to the Japanese call, despite the presence of 28,000 US troops on the Korean Demilitarized Zone border – even with limited military action - is bound to devalue the defensive umbrella against North Korea the US has pledged South Korea and Japan. 

US unresponsiveness is already resonating loudly in the Middle East and Persian Gulf which is beginning to take it as betokening feeble resolve in dealing with Iran and its nuclear weapons aspirations...

And it sure would be nice if the Chinese would grow up and handle this situation.  They're the ones that aspire to world leadership... and barely lifting a finger to handle a mess they helped create.

Hard to take their diplomacy seriously if they can't put a lid on this pugnacious crackpot and his reckless brinkmanship... now would be a good time- right here's their chance to be somebody...

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