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Friday, June 13, 2014
International Picture of the Year. Here are three very touching photos honored this year.
First Place :
First Place
Todd Heisler, The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as so powerful: 'See the people in the windows? They sat right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home,' he said. 'They will remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.'
Second Place
Second Place
Todd Heisler, The Rocky Mountain News
The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. 'I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,' she said. 'I think that's what he would have wanted'.
And the one that really tightens MY throat:
3rd Place - "Son, a grateful Nation...."
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING!
Blue Fridays.
Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing blue every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the 'silent majority.' We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers.. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.
Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast majority of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that every red-blooded American who supports our men and women afar, will wear something blue. By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of blue much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in BLUE and it will let our troops know the once 'silent' majority is on their side more than ever. The first thing a soldier says when asked 'What can we do to make things better for you?' is: 'We need your support and your prayers.' Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something blue every Friday.
IF YOU AGREE -- THEN SEND THIS ON.
IF YOU COULDN'T CARE LESS -- THEN HIT THE DELETE BUTTON.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
With Deep Regret ...
Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is a substance abuser, an adulterer, sexually promiscuous and obnoxious.
Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she is a celebrity drug addict and a thief.
The same can be said about drug addict Philip Seymour Hoffman who died with a needle stuck in his arm.
Something as frivolous as Kim Kardashian's stupid wedding (and short-lived marriage) was shoved down our throats, while........
Justin Allen 23
Brett Linley 29
Matthew Weikert 29
Justus Bartett 27
Dave Santos 21
Jesse Reed 26
Matthew Johnson 21
Zachary Fisher 24
Brandon King 23
Christopher Goeke 23
and Sheldon Tate 27...
....are all Marines who gave their lives last month for you. There is no media for them; not even a mention of their names.
They were young men who most likely came from rural America seeking a chance to better themselves and to serve this country.
Honor THEM by sending this on.
I did, will you?
Rest In Peace, and THANK YOU,TROOPS.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Some Excellent Reads 4 U ...
Latest columns  |  June 5, 2014 CLIFF KINCAID — The Washington Post is hopelessly liberal on many social and economic issues, but on foreign policy its editorial board displays streaks of brilliance. Consider the June 4 editorial, "The West shows no willingness to defend freedom against Russia," on how Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues unabated... (more)  June 5, 2014 MICHELLE MALKIN — The soldier's Focused Targeting Force (FTF) platoon was not told that it was being diverted to OP MEST. When they landed, he said, "We thought we were in enemy territory, so I recall my friends and I screaming 'vehicles' and preparing to engage with the LAW and SMAW-D rockets we carried.... (more)  June 5, 2014 WASHINGTON TIMES — Taking out an incumbent U.S. senator is not easy. Nine of 10 senators up for re-election in the last congressional elections held their seats. This kind of job security makes the Senate a bit of a country club, where the attitude of "going along to get along" ensures a life of relative ease and comfort.... (more)  June 5, 2014 CNN — So say nearly 6 in 10 people who responded to CNNMoney's American Dream Poll, conducted by ORC International. They feel the dream  June 4, 2014 WORLDNETDAILY — The charge that President Obama has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and should be impeached because of the deal he arranged to set free five top Taliban leaders in exchange for an American soldier whose behavior is under investigation is gaining traction. Lots of traction.... (more)  June 4, 2014 NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy got choked up speaking with the parents of a lieutenant killed in the search for Bowe Bergdahl, who said they were misled about the mission that claimed their son's life.... (more)  June 4, 2014 WORLDNETDAILY — As the scuttlebutt grows on Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier just exchanged for five Taliban leaders, an explosive new charge is emerging  June 4, 2014 ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The Wall Street Journal had a fine editorial Monday on President Obama's reckless decision to negotiate with the Taliban and release from Guantanamo Bay five of its most senior, most capable, most implacably anti-American jihadists for an American army sergeant who, according to accounts from his fellow soldiers, went AWOL in 2009.... (more)  June 3, 2014 LIBERTYUNYIELDING.COM — Congressman Allen West indicated Tuesday morning that with the recent prisoner exchange of one alleged deserter for five top Taliban terrorists, the time had come to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama.... (more)  June 3, 2014 ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — President Obama finally completed the prisoner swap he has been pleading with the Taliban for years to accept. While the president draws down American forces in Afghanistan and hamstrings our remaining troops with unconscionable combat rules of engagement that make both offensive operations and self-defense extremely difficult, the Taliban get back five of their most experienced, most virulently anti-American commanders.... (more)  June 3, 2014 JOSEPH FARAH — Everyone is trying to figure out what Barack Obama was thinking when he broke the law to trade five hardened terrorists for a U.S. Army deserter. That's easy. It's part of Obama's continuing, relentless campaign to subvert the rule of law, rewrite America's code of ethics and undermine any semblance of U.S. patriotism.... (more)  June 3, 2014 WORLDNETDAILY — The hot question of the day had been whether the captured soldier traded for five top members of the Taliban was a war-time deserter.... (more)  June 3, 2014 NEWSMAX — The team leader who supervised Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan five years ago showed mixed emotions on Monday toward the homecoming of a freed captive and fellow soldier who he also considers a deserter. "I'm definitely happy for his family," Sgt. Evan Buetow said of Bergdahl in an interview with Newsmax TV. "I mean, he's an American citizen; I'm happy that he's back and that we can hopefully get closure to this whole incident."... (more)  June 3, 2014 WASHINGTON TIMES — The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times  June 3, 2014 WOAI — The surge of illegal immigrant minors rushing over the Rio Grande threatens to overwhelm the Texas Border Patrol, and new figures show the unexpected development will cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2 billion this year, 1200 WOAI news reports.... (more)  June 3, 2014 PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president, just hurled a challenge to Republicans. If they don't pass amnesty for illegal aliens, they "shouldn't bother to run a candidate in 2016."... (more)  June 2, 2014 ALAN KEYES — At Barbwire.com, I recently read Steve Baldwin's excellent analysis of the flawed thinking characteristic of self-styled "conservatives" who are part of what he rightly describes as "a headlong rush by many conservatives...in support of various aspects of the homosexual agenda."... (more)  June 2, 2014 BREITBART — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been a prominent supporter of granting amnesty to the children of illegal immigrants and awarding more high-tech visas. Yet ten days before his primary against Dave Brat, his positions on those issues are absent from his website.... (more)  June 2, 2014 ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The problem with writing a book about President Obama's lawlessness, as I have just done in "Faithless Execution" (which will officially be published Tuesday), is that eventually the author has to stop writing so the book can be printed. The administration's illegal conduct, by contrast, rolls right along  June 2, 2014 WORLDNETDAILY — James Dobson, one of America's most-loved Christian personalities, founder of Family Talk Radio, a courtroom opponent of Obamacare and, most recently, the National Day of Prayer speaker who called Barack Obama the "abortion president," is doubling down.... (more)  June 2, 2014 CBS NEWS — The case of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held by the Taliban since 2009, has arisen again as the U.S. and other countries engage in diplomatic efforts to free him.... (more)  June 2, 2014 THE TELEGRAPH — The little mountain town of Hailey in the rural state of Idaho is readying a hero's welcome. Its single shopping street is lined with bright yellow balloons and signs to greet Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl when he finally returns home after five long years as America's only prisoner of war in Afghanistan.... (more)  June 2, 2014 WORLDNETDAILY — When Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures released "The Hiding Place" in 1975, it gave audiences not only the Golden Globe-nominated true story of Corrie ten Boom's brave resistance to Nazi occupation of her native Netherlands, but also a movie many consider one of the greatest faith films of all time.... (more)  June 1, 2014 WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday that the GOP can bolster its appeal by sticking to its conservative principles and embracing a bottom-up campaign model that empowers grassroots voters.... (more)  June 1, 2014 BRYAN FISCHER — Yesterday, Politico featured a David Lampo piece, Gay Marriage Will Destroy the GOP. Politico is exactly right that gay marriage will destroy the GOP, but for precisely the opposite reason Lampo imagines.... (more) |
A Canadian top Ten. Our Northern friends take a unique perspective of our political shenanigans here in "the States". They also can say things that our liberal press is afraid or just unwilling to say...
 Canadian Top 10-----A MUST READ
Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10
Just makes you wanna shake your head in disbelief.
This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity
Of course we look like idiots .... because we are.
Number 10) Only in America...could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate campaign fund-raising event.
Number 9) Only in America ...could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly> 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!
Number 8) Only in America...could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
Number 7) Only in America...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
Number 6) Only in America...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens (probably should be number one).
Number 5) Only in America....could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as “extremist”.
Number 4) Only in America...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
Number 3) Only in America...could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).Number 2) Only in America does the IRS collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
And Number 1) Only in America...could the rich people- who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
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