An Islamic terrorist is an Islamic terrorist

 Doesn't matter if they call themselves Taliban or Hakani Network, or ISIS or ISIS K or whatever.  They all hate the United States, they all want to create a caliphate to rule the entire world, they all want to impose medieval Islamic laws on everybody, especially women, and they all want to drive the Israelis into the sea and they all like suicide bombing. 

The TV, even Fox News, has been talking about these various Islamic terrorist groups like it really matters.  It doesn't

We need to hunt them all down and kill them.  Maybe the younger ones could be re educated, but the hard core will remain our enemies until the day of their deaths.  

Islamic Terrorists have killed 12 US service men

 They used an IED.  Question for Joe Biden.  How many Islamic terrorists have we killed in response??

Lessons from Afghanistan

Never vote for a democrat is my take away from the Afghanistan disaster.   

Shameful

 Biden's announcement that we will pull of of Afghanistan on the 31st of this month, only a week away is totally shameful.  We will be abandoning our people to the Taliban.

The proper answer is "We will get all our people out to safety.  If the Taliban gets in our way we will kill them."

 The TV is doing all Afghanistan, all day. Biden comes off as a senile liar. A bunch of administration spokesmen are no better. We need to get our people out of Afghanistan, US citizens (native born or naturalized) and Afghans who worked with us and fought with us. We owe them.

Ivanhoe 1982

 

Just watched another Ivanhoe movie.  This one made in 1982 originally for TV.  It’s pretty good.  None of the cast names mean anything to me except John Rhys Davies who plays Front de Boeuf.  Anthony Andrews plays Ivanhoe and does it well.  He is blond, which is correct for a medieval Saxon.  He is cute, clean shaven, and it is clear why Rowena and Rebecca fall for him head over heels.  I would rate this version of Ivanhoe right up there with my favorite version, the 1952 Taylor and Taylor version.  Robert Taylor, long time Hollywood leading man, played Ivanhoe and a young ultra cute Elizabeth Taylor played Rebecca.

   In the 1982 version the Black Knight (King Richard) gets a good long role.  We get a better look at Robin Hood and the Merry Men running off cookouts in Sherwood Forest.  A good watch.

 

Fablehaven Brandon Mull 2006

A young adult (YA)   fantasy.  Must be doing well, I think the author got four sequels published.  Kendra and Seth get sent to their grandparents place while their parents go on a cruise with a lot of family members.  The children are not enthusiast about spending a month with grandparents they hardly know.  The place turns out cooler than expected, a sanctuary for magical creatures, fairies, satyrs, a witch and others.  Seth doesn’t listen well and gets turned into a walrus and later imprisoned in a huge glass jar for ignoring plain English instructions from his grandfather.  After Seth opens a window on Midsummer’s eve (after he was told not to) a bunch of evil creatures fly in, wreck the house, and kidnap all the adults.   With as lot of wandering around and guessing, Kendra comes up with a save for all the fallen. 

   We never hear of a mission that Kendra and Seth are supposed to go on.  No scene where Gandalf explains the power of the Ring to Frodo.  Far as I could see all Kendra and Seth wanted to do was wait for their folks to get back from that cruise and take them home again. 

 

  Not as good as the Rick Riordan YA fantasies.