BUSY DAY--POSTING AT FACEBOOK

Hey, Folks. Thirdwave here. I have some doctor issues this morning--nothing serious, so this is to let you know I posted some very important pieces up at Facebook. Get over there and check them out. If you're like me--and I know I am--Glenn Beck will break your heart. Disappointed in the man. Just don't understand him--trust is waning.

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*TONIGHT: ANN BARNHARDT'S FIRST INTERVIEW SINCE PULLING THE PLUG ON BARNHARDT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Andrea Shea King will be interviewing Ann Barnhardt Monday night at 9 pm et.

Last week, Barnhardt stunned her clients when she advised them that she was ceasing operations at her firm, Barnhardt Capital Management. The reason was simple: Barnhardt didn't feel her clients' investments were safe in today's markets.

Andrea posted Barnhardt's letter, which garnered both Beck and Limbaugh's attention, at her blog, The Radio Patriot. In part, here's what Barnhardt had to say:

"The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy."

Tune in Monday night to hear Barnhardt as she explains in more detail her decision to cease operations at her brokerage firm, the state of markets, and where she thinks the markets are headed. It's an interview you won't want to miss.

THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW-- Monday at 9 PM ET

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Pictured below, Ann Barnhardt--tougher than the back wall of a shootin' gallery!

3,500,000 PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONG

Trevor Loudon's NEW ZEAL:

J. B. BOOKS WOULD BE PROUD--Updated

Video below from The Blaze. My thought: I'd say Casey saw The Shootist... more than once. *Update: YouTube removed the clip. Amazing. IT'S BACK UP!

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people. I require the same from them."-- John Wayne as J. B. Books in The Shootist.

ARE THE MASKS COMING OFF?

Are the masks beginning to come off? Beck warned last week that they would be, and that we'd be surprised at who's wearing them. It appears that Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry are beginning to reveal who they really are. Joe Klein... no need for further comment.

Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King have done extensive research into the activities of Code Pink, their friends, allies and political connections. Beck picked up on their reporting and used it for show prep, showcasing the anti-American activities of this most dangerous group. A group that receives nearly zero coverage in the media. Now that Code Pink is getting the exposure they deserve, not only the left but some so-called conservatives on the right are attacking Beck for his coverage.

Instead of proving Beck wrong on his reporting, which they are welcome to do, they affix labels to him: Creating hysteria? Really? This is clearly a move straight out of the left's playbook. I find that troubling.

Taylor and King have responded to the Kristol--Lowry piece but I doubt it will put this thing to bed. In fact, I'm sensing this will snowball on Kristol and Lowry and finally come back to bite them on their ivy covered backsides.

Since the republican party has its RINOs, it's only fitting, I guess, that the conservative journalists, commentators and pundits should have their own brand of RINOism as well. Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry seem to be the first to step out of the closet, remove their masks and show the world who they really are.

And they have every right to do this. I ask only that they provide some backup, debunking, if you will. Now if these more-than-educated boys aren't up to the job, I'd simply pass on the sound advice given by Dr. Jerry Corsi who once debated someone who didn't know what he was talking about: Said Corsi--"You should do more reading and a lot less writing."

Sound advice, indeed.

Read Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King's latest.

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TONIGHT--ANDREA SHEA KING GOES FOR "BROKE"--9 PM ET

Glenn Beck's "BROKE": Early in the day I called the theater and they told me the showing of "Broke" was 50% sold out. So I bought the tics online and arrived a bit over an hour early, guaranteeing great seats in the stadium theater configuration. Some had arrived even earlier. Before show time the theater was full, rows and rows of patriots. The atmosphere was unlike that of a movie going experience. People were talking to each other--that is, people who didn't know each other but knew they had something in common with everyone seated around them.

I won't go into a breakdown of the various topics Beck covered or how he presented them. But I will say he's very good in this format, leading his audience down the road of knowledge and pointing out how to learn even more on the topic. And always--ALWAYS--challenging viewers to not take his word for it; do the research yourself! It's difficult at best to argue with confidence like that.

Andrea Shea King attended "Broke," wrote about it and added an excellent photo slide show to round it out--The Radio Patriot.

This evening on THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW, we'll be discussing "Broke" and encouraging any listeners who attended to call in with their comments or questions. If you didn't attend, tune in anyway. You won't be disappointed. 9 PM ET.

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GLENN BECK'S "BROKE" TONIGHT 8 PM AT A THEATER NEAR YOU

Restarting the Engine of America

"On Thursday, December 2nd, Glenn Beck brings his latest book to life on stage and on silver screens nationwide for the timely event, Broke - Restarting the Engine of America. Broadcast LIVE from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Benedum Center to movie theaters nationwide, Glenn will use his own inimitable style to compare the United States economy to a 1965 Mustang. Glenn will illustrate his argument that – like an automobile engine overburdened with add-ons and faulty repair work – Washington’s misplaced focus has caused the United States economy to fall from its former position as a model of performance and efficiency. During this exclusive event, he will lay out how this happened, why it happened, and what we need to do in order to restore our economy so she's running better than ever."

*PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Andrea Shea King Show will not be airing this evening as we'll be attending Glenn Beck's "Broke." We've encouraged our listeners to attend as well and on Friday's show we'll be discussing the event.

"Broke" will be broadcast across America via your local theater. For theater and ticket information, please go here.

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THE STOCKDALE PARADOX: AN APPROACH TO SURVIVAL

**Reposted**

It is becoming more and more evident that people are stressed about the Marxist takeover of America--"fundamental transformation." People are feeling powerless, overwhelmed and generally just scared to death, and not just for themselves but for their children. I've had many conversations about this over the past year, and read many posts. But over the past few weeks it's been a daily occurrence. (The Radio Patriot has posted about it too.) Many are wondering how we'll get out of this mess, or if it's even possible. They are looking for something, anything, to help them deal with these feelings. A few months ago I was one of these people too.

You see, people are looking for an answer--a solution--that will give them the ability to manage these feelings in order to continue moving forward against this takeover. It's not enough to say "we will win." It's not enough to say "God will give us the ability." It's not enough to say "the will of the American people is boundless" And it's not enough to say "have faith." It's a bit more complicated than that.

I've put much thought into this psychological malady and stumbled upon an answer that worked for me. And a week ago I discovered there was a name for it: The Stockdale Paradox.

Last week a friend gave me a book. It was a business book. Now I've read many books on business management, and I've been through many management training programs as well. However, this book was not written by one of those fad authors--guru authors--on how to be a success in business. It was about a five-year study on why good companies become great companies: Good to Great, by Jim Collins. In the book, his exhaustive study deals only with raw data gathered by his research team. This data answers many questions about each of the companies being analyzed. Sounds boring, but for a business book it's a page turner.

Well, it was a page turner until I got to pages 83-87 in chapter four: Facing the Brutal Facts. In this chapter, Collins wanted to know how financially troubled companies were able to deal with a catastrophic situation, remain focused, and survive. It's a tough question. The answer came to him when a student of his did a paper on Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale. If ever you needed to know about survival, Stockdale would be the one to ask. So, Collins did.

THE STOCKDALE PARADOX, from chapter four, pages 83-85:

The name refers to Admiral Jim Stockdale, who was the highest ranking United States military officer in the “Hanoi Hilton” prisoner-of-war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Tortured over 20 times during his eight-year imprisonment from 1965 to 1973, Stockdale lived out the war without any prisoner’s rights, no set release date, and no certainty as to whether he would even survive to see his family again. He shouldered the burden of command, doing everything he could to create conditions that would increase the number of prisoners who would survive unbroken, while fighting an internal war against his captors and their attempts to use the prisoners for propaganda. At one point, he beat himself with a stool and cut himself with a razor, deliberately disfiguring himself, so that he could not be put on videotape as an example of a “well-treated prisoner.” He exchanged secret intelligence information with his wife through their letters, knowing that discovery would mean more torture and perhaps death. He instituted rules that would help people to deal with torture (no one can resist torture indefinitely, so he created a step-wise system—after x minutes, you can say certain things—that gave the men milestones to survive toward). He instituted an elaborate internal communications system to reduce the sense of isolation that their captors tried to create, which used a five-by-five matrix of tap codes for alpha characters. (Tap-tap equals the letter a, tap-pause-tap-tap equals the letter b, tap-tap-pause-tap equals the letter f, and so forth, for 25 letters, c doubling for k.) At one point, during an imposed silence, the prisoners mopped and swept the central yard using the code, swish-swashing out “We love you” to Stockdale, on the third anniversary of his being shot down. After his release, Stockdale became the first three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor.

You can understand, then, my anticipation at the prospect of spending part of an afternoon with Stockdale. One of my students had written his paper on Stockdale, who happened to be a senior research fellow studying the Stoic philosophers at the Hoover Institution right across the street from my office, and Stockdale invited the two of us for lunch. In preparation, I read In Love and War, the book Stockdale and his wife had written in alternating chapters, chronicling their experiences during those eight years.

As I moved through the book, I found myself getting depressed. It just seemed so bleak—the uncertainty of his fate, the brutality of his captors, and so forth. And then, it dawned on me: “Here I am sitting in my warm and comfortable office, looking out over the beautiful Stanford campus on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I’m getting depressed reading this, and I know the end of the story! I know that he gets out, reunites with his family, becomes a national hero, and gets to spend the later years of his life studying philosophy on this same beautiful campus. If it feels depressing for me, how on earth did he deal with it when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?”

“I never lost faith in the end of the story,” he said, when I asked him. “I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”

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I didn’t say anything for many minutes, and we continued the slow walk toward the faculty club, Stockdale limping and arc-swinging his stiff leg that had never fully recovered from repeated torture. Finally, after about a hundred meters of silence, I asked, “Who didn’t make it out?”

“Oh, that’s easy,” he said. “The optimists.”

“The optimists? I don’t understand,” I said, now completely confused, given what he’d said a hundred meters earlier.

“The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, ‘We’re going to be out by Christmas.’ And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they’d say, ‘We’re going to be out by Easter.’ And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart.”

Another long pause, and more walking. Then he turned to me and said, “This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

To this day, I carry a mental image of Stockdale admonishing the optimists: “We’re not getting out by Christmas; deal with it!”

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Understand this as well: We will not be winning back America in November 2010; deal with it!

Taking back America will be a long process, and it won't be pretty, either. November's election is a good start, a beginning point. But we won't win that election unless we're engaged this second, this minute, this hour, this day.

Deal with it!

THE STOCKDALE PARADOX

*Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties.

AND at the same time

*Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

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POLLS INDICATE SUSTAINED LEVEL OF ANGER TOWARDS GOVT

Turns out those Tea Party people are angry...and they're coming for congress. Former Carter adviser Pat Caddell says he's never seen anything like this before--the anger and fear. I'm beginning to think this Tea Party movement isn't so fringe after all, as the MSM reports. Sounds more mainstream to me.

4 MORE GIs KILLED AS OBAMA CONTINUES TO DITHER ON TROOP POLICY--updated

Months ago, Obama settled on an Afghan strategy. But when his top General requested an additional 40k troops, Obama seemed to forget about his previous decision and went completely blank. He has not made a decision on troop increases nor has he settled on what his "new" strategy will be. In fact, Obama has had 10 meetings with his advisers and still no decision has been reached:

Meeting in the Situation Room
Obama held the 10th meeting of his Afghanistan strategy review since mid-September on Monday night, with a large cast of foreign policy and military advisers, to go over that revised information from war planners. The two-hour Situation Room session was aimed at discussing "some of the questions that the president had, some additional answers to what he'd asked for," Gibbs said.

Not only has Obama's top General requested more troops, NATO has asked that all allied nations send additional troops as well. It's clear that more troops are needed, however, Obama is having some difficulty seeing the need.

Is Obama unable to make the tough decisions a war requires of a CIC, or is he and his closest advisers playing politics? Either way, more and more American GIs are dying as a result of these delays.

During a 24 hour period on Sunday, four more American GIs were killed. Some Afghan soldiers died too. This is nothing short of criminal. Your members of congress are having trouble dealing with this problem because they are too busy talking about an issue near-and-dear to their hearts: health care.

Well, I know of at least four GIs that no longer have a need for health care.

***UPDATE: Marathon Pundit reports on Obama's decision.

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The Brits criticise Obama's delays.

Glenn Beck comments on the story:

DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FOX NEWS?

Burt's Eye View at Big Hollywood has some interesting things to say about FNC. Burt explains some of the problems he has with Fox. I have the same complaints and I know others who do as well.

O'Reilly, Hannity, Beckel, Beck and, yes, the birth certificate are mentioned.

ANSWERING BACHMANN'S CALL: ANDREA SHEA KING, KRISTINN TAYLOR TRAVELING TO DC FOR THURSDAY'S CAPITOL RALLY--Updated

Writer, blogger and radio show host, Andrea Shea King has answered Rep. Michele Bachmann's call to come to Washington DC this Thursday to help stop health care legislation that will eventually enslave all of America. Malkin has the latest on health care.

During a Monday interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Bachmann asked that all available Americans travel to Washington DC, meet her on the Capitol steps, and go inside to look the reps in the eye and tell them to stop this bill.

Andrea is not traveling alone, either. Free Republic's Communications Director, Kristinn Taylor, will be taking the 13 hour, one-way trip too. Two other Florida patriots will be joining them as well. Sorry, but I don't have their names right now.

The foursome will be departing from Florida's Space Coast this evening, hitting I-95 and cruising to DC to cover Bachmann's, and America's, six.

UPDATE: Michele Bachmann just phoned Andrea to set up a meeting in her office sometime Thursday. PLUS!!! Tea Party Express II bigs are answering Bachmann's call too. They'll be breaking off from the express for a short time to make a quick flight to the DC rally. Full report at The Radio Patriot.

America, we're at DEFCON 2--health care legislation must be stopped. Do whatever you can, phone, email, or hit the road for DC.

****Check back as I will be updating throughout Thursday. I might have a few reports from the road tonight as well.

Get Well soon, Glenn. Reports are that he's not feeling well.