With Christmas Day’s airliner “terror” incident in Detroit coming not that very long after the shootings at Ft. Hood in Texas, it is inevitable that myself and others will wonder if we are seeing the start of an orchestrated trend. I won’t get into semantics here, but I do want all of you to pay close attention to details in 2010. Do not be pulled in by emotion when hysteria flies across Twitter and Facebook, as it undoubtedly will eventually when the “next 9-11″ manifests.
Let’s get real here for a minute. How many of you really believe that our troops will be home next year? 2011? 2012? 2020?
Remember Germany? Japan? South Korea?
When do U.S. Troops ever truly come home? What’s worse is that these conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and, from the look of things, soon to be Pakistan and Iran are all conflicts that we could and, in hindsight, should have stayed out of.
The criminals that populate too much of the U.S. Congress are now actually considering funding the “wars” with new taxes and war bonds.
I pour my heart and soul out to you this morning. I left out H1N1, Carbon Taxation, how I was wrong and Ron Paul was right and some other details (to save time), but the essence of the whole is intact. I hope the next 30 minutes will provide you some insight into what drives me as an American today compared to what drove me years ago. Most of all, I hope it fires you up.
The Republic is not yet lost, America, but if we all just sit by and watch silently, it won’t be much longer before we have only ourselves to blame as the Nation dissolves into poverty and feudalism.
Like millions of other Americans, I am stunned and vigilant after the events surrounding September 2009’s G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. I am trying very hard not to jump to conclusions about any of the video clips I have watched, because I suppose part of me is yet hopeful that at least a few of these are staged by students or Anarchists to stir up trouble. However, when I see the overwhelming amount of video footage streaming in and I see what look to be police and military taking action covertly with one another and in some cases right in the open, I am not put at ease. Not everything could be ’staged’ for our eyes. In fact, I’m wondering why the President of the United States is not immediately demanding answers from his Chiefs of Staff and discussing the Posse Comitatus Act.
Some very good news for a change, sorely needed around these parts. From CNN:
MANAMA, Bahrain – U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates “had an AK-47 leveled at the captain’s back,” a military official said Sunday.
The captain, who’d been held in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean since Wednesday, was rescued uninjured, Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney told reporters.
Yes, the testosterone filled pirates of Somalia are full-blooded Muslim males hungry for battle and booty. Here’s a page from the CIA World Fact Book to fill you in: Somalia.
Now, I seem to recall a little thing with Barbary Pirates from 1801-1815 wherein the Marines got put to the test. Now where are the Marines when modern day African-Muslim pirates are at it again? The Middle East soaking up the desert heat?
Bob Basso has been summoned to the White House because of the following video you are about to watch. Is President Obama going to put on another one of his good “shows”, because he is quite the expert at deception. Will Bob Basso quietly disappear in the next few weeks or suffer a sudden plane crash? Will any of this matter if you decide to take action like Basso is asking you in the video?
The Second American Revolution is already here, people. Stop being trampled on!
Hide your guns, folks. It may not be much longer before the Federal Government comes to take them away. I wish I was kidding, but just the idea that the Second Amendment is even being debated in the Supreme Court today leaves me with my jaw on the floor — not because the gun rights of D.C. citizens shouldn’t be discussed, but by what many media and citizens groups and some judges and lawyers are actually being heard to state openly. Questioning the right of the People to self-defense through the possession of arms? Many people are trying to argue that individual citizens are not guaranteed the right to bear arms by the Second Amendment and this is why the gun ban in the District of Columbia should be upheld!
Anvil reader and blogger Songdongnigh has informed me of a worthy project to support which intends to send some cheer to wounded veterans in VA hospitals. The classic pinup has been a staple of wartime morale-boosting since the world wars. Gina Elise has put together a calender in that spirit. You can learn more about the calender here and here and directly at Pin Ups for Vets.
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Today is the day when we honor those soldiers that have served and died to protect our freedoms and the Constitution of the United States of America. Whether you are attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery or shaking the hand of a veteran you know, let all those that have gone into the fight understand how much we appreciate them.
We have the greatest military in the history of the world here in the U.S.A. Our military traditions are time-honored and world renowned. These men and women make us all proud, but they most importantly keep us free.
I caught an interview with Lt. Michael P. Murphy’s family on FOXNews this morning and then discussed the honor being bestowed upon Murphy with one of my own ex-SEAL friends. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that this Medal of Honor is well-deserved. Bravery the like of which is displayed by our uniformed men and women each and every day is without true measure, so medals will have to do, especially when these soldiers make the ultimate of sacrifices. Murphy typifies the fighting spirit of the United States Armed Forces.
First we read what’s going on in Congress and then the Pentagon:
HRES 635 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 635
Recognizing the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and commending Muslims in the United States and throughout the world for their faith.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES