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FREE SPEECH...1722/2009

I heard the President make these remarks the other day….

I don’t think he was talking about Congressman Barney Frank who opposed regulating Freddy Mac and Fannie May.  I don’t even think he was talking about any Republicans that are opposed to his policies.  (Although I think it’s a safe bet he wants them to shut up.)   I think he was talking about the people showing up at town hall meetings and are getting in the faces of their elected representatives.  As Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina said to Democrats as they headed back to their home districts…

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,”

Didn’t the President promise to listen to the concerns of the citizens?  Shouldn’t that include representatives elected by the people?

I’m reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin and came across this quote…mind you this was written in 1726 when he was 16 years old.

“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty  without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer, and the only bounds it ought to know.

This sacred privilege is so essential to free governments that the security of property and the freedom of speech always go together; and in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech…

The administration of government is nothing else but the attendance of the trustees of the people upon the interest and affairs of the people; and as it is the part and business of the people, for whose sake alone all public matters are, or ought to be, transacted, to see whether they be well or ill transacted, so it is in the interest and ought to be the ambition of all honest magistrates to have their deeds openly examined and publicly scanned.  Only the wicked governors of men dread what is said of them.

And, yes, Mr. President…we know you won…you are the President…of ALL the people…even those whose talking…disagrees with you.

(I sure hope no one turns me into the Thought Police Fishy Email Czar Internet Snitch Brigade whoever keeps track of the folks who disagree.)

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THE RIGHTEOUS ANGER OF THE MOB

Victor Davis Hanson explains it.

Dana Loesch shows it.

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For more photos of these angry mobs…go here.

Love,
Mom

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WEDNESDAY HERO...LANCE CPL. JEREMY P. TAMBURELLO

Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello

Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello
19 years old from Denver, Colorado
1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
November 8, 2005
U.S.M.C

His parents didn’t want him to enlist, but it was his passion for helping people that led L/Cpl. Jeremy Tamburello to the military. “He was a very noble, very compassionate, very brave man” said L/Cpl. Tamburello’s father, Kevin. “He knew that he was going to have to go to Iraq and he knew that he might die, but he went anyway.”

L/Cpl. Tamburello was killed by an IED while conducting combat operations near Rutbah, Iraq.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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HYPOCRISY

This is mean spirited and dangerous.

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This is brilliant and profound.

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Came across both of these on Drudge this morning.  Others have noted the memory lapse too.

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GRATITUDE # 25

Gratitude

*Bacon!

*A gallon can of Sherwin William’s “Summer Day

*Bonide Liquid Copper Fungicide Yes, still waging chemical warfare in the garden.  This time it’s the nasty brown fungi that’s attacked almost everything.  Hmmm…global warming.  This nasty stuff usually only spreads during cool wet weather.

* The rain has stopped and the sun’s come out and maybe before the end of the day I will have a room painted “Summer Day” and the garden will be dry enough to hose down with fungicide.

*Captain Scott Speicher’s remains have been found.  A sad gratitude.  Not the result his family has been praying for these past 18 years.  But I think knowing must be better than not.

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BUMPER STICKER

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ECONOMICS STORY

The Daughter sent an email a couple of days ago.  I don’t know who wrote it,  I’ve  seen similar stories…but the lesson bares repeating.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would
be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on
Obama’s plan”.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so
no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free
ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone
else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the
effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away,
no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

Yep.

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WEDNESDAY HERO...SSGT. DARRELL "SHIFTY" POWER

This Week’s Hero Was Suggested By Deb

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SSgt. Darrell “Shifty” Power
86 years old from Dickerson County, Virginia
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
June 17, 2009
U.S. Army

The world lost one of it’s true heroes a couple of weeks ago. Darrell “Shifty” Powers passed away on June 17 of cancer. “Shifty” was part of the famed E Co/2/506 of the 101st Airborne Division. Easy Company. The Band Of Brothers.

“I loved everything about my daddy,” said Margo Johnson, daughter of SSgt. Powers. “He never bragged about what he did in the war. And for a lot of years, he never even talked much about what he did – unless someone asked him about it. But he truly was a hero to me. Just like he’d been to the people who know him as a soldier in a [mini-series].”

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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WEDNESDAY HERO...SGT. 1ST CLASS GABE

Sgt. 1st Class Gabe

Assoluta Tranquillita did a post a few days ago and after last week’s Wednesday Hero felt it would be good to profile Sgt. 1st Class Gabe of the 178th Military Police Detachment, 20th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. Is it wrong to be jealous of a dog? Be sure to read the Defend America article linked to in the post.

These brave men and women, and dogs, sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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40 YEARS

The passage of time is a perplexing thing to me.

20 July 1969…I was 20.  The television we watched the moon landing…looked like this.

Three station choices.  Rabbit ears antenna.  Not in color. No big screen.   No internet.  No cell phones.    I’m sure it seems a bit primitive.  Yet, there it was, the greatest achievement of mankind.  I do wonder sometimes if we,  as a people,  have the will to chance failure…in order to achieve great,  seemingly impossible, things.  I hope we do.

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SUNDAY FUNNY

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APOLLO 11...THE MIND OF MAN

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All I started out to do was  to post a link to the We Choose the Moon website where you can follow the  Apollo 11 mission in “real time”.    I wandered over to YouTube to look at video of the launch and found the one  below.  That started me thinking.

I’ve been toying with the idea of  reading Atlas Shrugged…again.  (I have no idea how many times I’ve read it.  The first time, I think, was in 1969.)  Truth be told, I’m a little afraid…I listen/watch the news and I have flashes of characters from the book.  Watching this video one can’t help be struck by the absolute Power and Majesty…of the Saturn V.  I know you’re wondering just how the heck this ties in with Atlas Shrugged…it’s simple.  In it, Ayn Rand, talks about the mind of man.  I couldn’t help but think of that as I watched …all that power…originated in someones mind.  Possibilities….


(And for a certain Daughter…things that came out of the space program: GPS, anything cordless, freeze dried food, lightweight padding that’s probably in your sneakers, smoke detectors, scratch resistant glass, satellite dish, ear thermometer, firefighter equipment, thermal gloves and boots…just sayin’.)

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LEON COOPER

As I write this it’s still Wednesday…so I’d like to propose another Wednesday Hero.  Leon Cooper.  Bill Whittle and PJTV are doing a series of interviews with veterans.  The first is HERE

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I may have mentioned that my Dad was a coxswain on a Higgins boat in the Pacific.  I also knew a Marine who fought at Tarawa.  I listened to Mr. Cooper with those two in mind.   Thank you is so…insufficient.

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WEDNESDAY HERO...SGT. 1ST CLASS GREGORY RODRIGUEZ

Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez & Jacko

Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez & Jacko
35 years old from Weidman, Michigan
K-9 unit of the 527th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th MP Brigade
September 2, 2008
U.S. Army

“I asked Greg if anything ever happened to him where he’d prefer to be buried,” Sgt. Rodriguez’s wife, Laura, told the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant, “and he told me Arlington, as he wanted to be among the best and the brave.”

“Rod,” as he was known to his Army buddies, was a Red Wings fan who loved to hassle fans of other hockey teams he met during his military career, said Laura. “Greg loved to push everyone’s buttons and get people going with his rare, unique sense of sarcasm,” she said. At the same time, her husband, a military police dog handler whose dog, Jacko, survived the fatal ambush, was “a very committed, loyal individual and could be counted on whenever needed.”

Sgt. 1st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez died of wounds suffered in Ana Kalay, Afghanistan, when his mounted patrol came under small-arms fire.

“My brother liked to be the law,” said Lisa Dombrowski. “He liked justice. If it wasn’t right, he made it right.”

He is survived by his sister, wife and three children.

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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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