"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good." ... Dingy Harry Reid !
"we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it !" ... Nancy Pelosi !
Never Forget
The Cost Of Freedom !
Saturday, July 05, 2008
If you can watch this video … and NOT have your swelling heart and soul push tears to your eyes … Then you are NOT a “patriotic” American. Yes … I said PATRIOTIC. More than 1200 re-enlisted yesterday while still serving active duty in the Iraq War theater. Look at that picture and multiply the ‘masses’ you see there by a little more than 3, and remember the souls of those men and women looking down on their brothers and sisters from above … God bless the United States Of America … And God bless and keep safe the men and women who serve her and protect us.
by Ralph Peters (NYPost) July 4, 2008 TODAY, the 232nd anniversary of the day our Declaration of Independence rang out in Philadelphia, we rightly honor the men who debated and signed the document: Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and their colleagues. Yet, after that glorious declaration was signed in ink, it had to be counter-signed in blood. Without men willing to take up arms and fight for the freedoms the Founding Fathers asserted, the words themselves would have secured us nothing. It took courage to affix a signature to the Declaration. But it had taken another kind of courage entirely to stand at Lexington and Concord the year before. Our Founding Fathers would have become hopeless fugitives, had determined soldiers not stood by Gen. Washington - from the disaster on Long Island, through the misery of Valley Forge and on to Yorktown. Then what would our Constitution have availed us, had another generation of patriots not filled the ranks at Chippewa, Ft. McHenry and New Orleans? What good would Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation have done without an army in Union blue? FDR’s “Four Freedoms” would have been laughable, had 10 million American men and women refused to put on their uniforms. President Ronald Reagan’s call, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” would’ve been absurd, had still more generations of our soldiers not stood watch on the Rhine. Unless etched in the blood of patriots, noble words evaporate. Yet, for all too many Americans today, words have become a substitute for sacrifice. We vow that our fallen heroes shall not be forgotten. Then we forget them. A painful illustration of how skewed our values have grown was last month’s orgy of media self-adoration commemorating a good, but hardly courageous, journalist, Tim Russert. I’m sorry for Russert’s family, but it was appalling to witness the media’s we-love-us carnival. Not since President Reagan’s funeral had Washington so honored one of our citizens. Was Russert’s passing truly more deserving of commemoration than the loss of service members awarded posthumous Medals of Honor? Had he sacrificed more than those, living and dead, who earned Navy Crosses, Distinguished Service Crosses or Silver Stars in combat? The only recent instances when the media devoted remotely as much attention to individuals in uniform were the investigation into Spec. Pat Tillman’s death, a military botch-up, and the media-amplified Abu Ghraib affair, when journalists gleefully maligned all those who serve over the misdeeds of six reservists. Newspapers run rows of photographs of fallen service members, pretending to honor their sacrifices, but really to make Iraq seem a costly failure. The images of our dead are used and then discarded by editors whose vanity and ambition would’ve shamed a decadent Roman emperor. So, on this Fourth of July, let me briefly honor just one of those who fell so journalists would remain free to belittle his sacrifice: Second Lt. Peter Burks graduated from Texas A&M, then chose to join the US Army. Commissioned through Officer Candidate School and sent to Iraq as a combat platoon leader, he told his parents his goal was to bring his soldiers safely home. Quietly religious and dutiful, Burks was proud to serve. On Nov. 14, 2007, as the lieutenant led his men back to their base at the end of a patrol in Baghdad, a massive Iranian-made bomb struck his vehicle. Two of his soldiers were wounded. Standing upright in a hatch to direct his unit, Burks was struck in the head by shrapnel and died. His story was one of many, notched down as just one more casualty by the press. But the Burks family lives in Texas, a long way from DC (in more ways than just distance). Instead of blaming our government, they honored their son’s service even as they mourned him. His relatives remembered how Lt. Burks kept asking them to send goodies for his troops - not all of whom had a strong family supporting them. In his honor, they set up the Peter Burks Unsung Heroes Fund, literally a mom-and-pop effort to support those who serve. What did their homespun effort accomplish? Nothing that would impress prize-hunting journalists. But they shipped over three tons of snack food and recreational materials to their son’s comrades. So many donations flooded in that the unit chaplain in Iraq set up “Burks Country Store.” Everything on the shelves is free for soldiers. Remember how much we heard about Cindy Sheehan a few years ago, as she cursed the government for the loss of her volunteer son in Iraq? Why haven’t we heard about the Burks? Or about the many other families and friends of our troops who donate their time, goods and hard-earned money to say Thank you! to those who serve? This Fourth of July, two nations will take a holiday: an intelligentsia that despises, mocks or pities the “losers” in uniform - and the other America, which didn’t go to Harvard, but whose sons and daughters insure that We, the People, continue to live in freedom. I don’t think Lt. Burks would want you to mourn him at your holiday barbecue. I’d bet he’d rather have you enjoy everything his sacrifice preserved.
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ...
~ Title 10, US Code ~
Let us pray...
Give me a sense of humor, Lord,
Give me the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life,
And pass it on to other folk.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" ! ...Benjamin Franklin
"Don't let anybody tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs." ! ...Hitlery Klinton
"Give whites a pile of bricks and they'll make a city, give blacks a city and they'll make a pile of bricks"
Teach someone how to fish, and you lose a Democrat voter !
Never try to teach a liberal to think, It wastes your time and annoys the liberal !
Liberalism is a sick religion based solely on emotion and feelgoodism and wiping away their perceived guilt with other peoples money. It has never been based in thought and common sense !
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure.”... Clarence Darrow !
"We have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt" ...Joe Biden !
"We tax everything that moves and doesn’t move".... Hitlery Klinton !
"I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom" ! .... Michael Bloomberg
"I never drink water because fish fuck in it".... W.C.Fields !
"Life's tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid...."
John Wayne !
"we are truly being governed by our inferiors, and in some cases criminals" ...Plato !
"Sure We Can Kill ISIS, But We’re Not Going To Get Suckered Into That ...John Kerry !
"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do".... !
"God have mercy on my enemies because I won't." ... George S. Patton !
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"There is no worse foolishness than the truth in the mouth of a fool"... Don Colacho !
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"If you take out the killings, Washington D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." ... Marion Barry
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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” ... Sir Winston Churchill !
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