Memorial Day

Breaks my heart.

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The Felix Baumgartner jump:


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WHEN A SOLDIER COMES HOME

WHEN  A SOLDIER COMES HOME (Read to the Very End!)

This email is being  circulated around the world~~~please keep it going.

When  a soldier comes home, he finds it hard......to listen to his son whine about  being bored.

 

....to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.

To  be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work. 

...to  be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night's  sleep.

 

  ...to  be silent when people pray to God for a new car.

 

...to  control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive  slower.

..to  be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of  flying.

 ....to  keep from laughing when anxious parents say they're afraid to send their kids  off to summer camp.

 ....to  keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot  weather.

....to  control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being  cold. 

 

  
....to  remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the  dog.

.....to  be civil to people who complain about their jobs.

.....to  just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a  year.

 ...to  be forgiving when someone says how hard it is to have a new baby in the  house. 

The only thing harder than being a  Soldier...  

Is loving one. 

I was asked to pass this on and I will gladly do so!! Will  you???

 
No  one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S.  Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get  50% of their pay on retirement. While Politicians hold their political  positions, in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men  and women, and receive full-pay retirement after serving one term. It just  does not make any sense.  

If  each person who receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days,  most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one  proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th  Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that  applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to  the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that  applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to  the citizens of the United States."

You  are one of my 20+. I passed it on, will you?

"If  you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice," and these brave  soldiers have given you that choice.  

This from my cousin,

Pass it on!

Watergate

I was the house husband during the spring and summer of the televised Watergate hearings, so I got to watch them live on TV.  Sam Ervin was my favorite and my hero.  "English is my mother tongue..." is my favorite quote of his.  What is starting to foment/ferment around the Obama administration, what with Benghazi, the IRS' harassments of patriots and Jews, the DOJ's AP phone grab and gun walking, the DOE's green money dump, HHS' "fundraising",  and God-knows-what-else, is starting to look, feel and sound like the run up that old summer-time hearing.

I knew Nixon was doomed the day my mom, a staunch supporter, said to me "He must have known..."  Well, mom is gone, so I don't have that barometer.  Had she been here in 2008 and 2012, I doubt she would have voted for Obama, and I bet she would have said "He must have known..."as soon as she heard the YouTube BS.  OTOH, the stirring of the old media could mean the almost the same thing, "Did he know?  And if so, when?  Was it at his order?"

Popcorn.  We're going to need lots and lots of popcorn.

Drudge is my Hero!!

Q.E.D. and Res Ipsa Loquitor!!

From the ever awesome Drudge!

Iran is a Military Dictatorship

From an article in the Washington Free Beacon:

"As the Western world tries to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the IRGC is doing its best to ensure the opposite outcome.
“This generation of revolutionary guards has very little respect for the U.S., particularly this president and this administration,” Alfoneh said. “Even worse, they misunderstand the signals President [Barack] Obama is sending to them.”
The IRGC views Obama’s public overtures as a sign of weakness, Alfoneh explained.

“President [George W.] Bush, he was a much better communicator” because he was firm and consistent, Alfoneh said. “In Washington, you do not understand the value of someone like President Bush.”

“In Tehran, the revolutionary officers began saying ‘Oh, he’s even more crazy than we are.’ That served the interest of the U.S.,” Alfoneh explained. “They fundamentally believed President Bush was completely unpredictable and capable of doing anything against them. The liberal class in this country does not understand” the value of this perception.
Military strategist Fred Kagan agreed the IRGC has expanded its reach significantly in Iran.

“It’s all of the same network” in many different sectors of Iranian society, “and has spread its tentacles through all of the security services,” as well as “the Iranian economy,” Kagan said."

 I especially love the part about " They fundamentally believed President Bush was completely unpredictable and capable of doing anything against them."  Crazy like a fox.

Go read the whole thing!

Found at Drudge.

For Rodge...

TRKOF.

Cheer up!  They've named an ale after you!!

My first taste left me at "What the heck was that??"  But it's damned good!!

Got it at Golden Crust Pizza, here in Red Lion.

Mike, Meet Mr. Griffin

I'm thinking that Mike and Robert Griffin III should get together for a chat, based on Mr. Griffin's remarks in USA Today:

 "For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin,'' Griffin said at the end of Wednesday's post-practice news conference in reference to a question about Martin Luther King, Jr. "You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

"I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.''

Aapparently, ESPN's Rob Parker doesn't like the sort of honesty and forthright talk that Mr. Griffin delivers.  NRO quotes Parker as saying

" ...'my question, which is just a straight honest question, is [Griffin] a brother, or is he a cornball brother?'"  

That was Sunday.  Today, CBS DC reports:

 "(Those comments)  led to the commentator’s suspension.  Shortly after Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch broke the news of Parker’s suspension via Twitter, ESPN made a statement on the issue.

“Following yesterday’s comments, Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice,” ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys tweeted. “We are conducting a full review.”

Good man 1, urban plantation 0.

Heh.

Blogs for Mitt...

...should have had a final post that just said:

"Well, shit."

But I'm sure they won't.

Be funny, tho...

Time to Focus on Tomorrow (Updated)

Click == Bigger

'nuff said.

Via Rodger

P.S. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Public Secrets has the definitive post on who was solely able to and responsible for sending a rescue team into Benghazi.  (Hint - he's running for president, and his name isn't Mitt Romney).

Obama hung those people Out. To. Dry.

Humility...

...the other guys should try it.

"I’m 100% convinced Mitt Romney was shaken to his soul right then and there.  I think at that moment it was sinking in he might really be the next American president, and it humbled him right to his core, in every nerve of his body.  And as he was saying that little prayer, you could hear the sound of thunder from all those thundersticks outside. Like this huge low rumble that just surrounded all of them at once.  A quiet little prayer, and the sound of thunder."

For some reason, I'm reminded of the scene in Camelot, where Vanessa Redgrave's Gunivere angrily counsels Lancelot to try "Hoo-mil-ee-tay!"  Someone should have done that to Obie a long time ago.  And made it stick, too.

Go.  Read.

Via The Ulsterman Report, and of course, Gerard

(Updated! - Twice!!) Looks Like the New Yorker...

...is breaking ranks!

Via Gerard

Update

The thrill is gone.

Via Morgan

Update II

 I suppose this was almost inevitable:



Via Zilla

WANT!!!

Controversial Billboard Message Now On Bumper Sticker

From CBS DFW:

DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – A North Texas billboard that garnered national attention for its election message, is expanding from the side of local highway, to highways across the nation. It’s moved off the board to bumper stickers, and even t-shirts, after reports about the ad spread across the internet.

Palin to Obama:

 Time To Grow A Big Stick

Click.  Read!

  Via Breitbart

Maj. Owens...

...on his next deployment??

(Yes, I know he's retired, but when duty calls...)