Hot and humid today. Summer in Houston. Blech.
Interesting tidbit came to light yesterday. During the past five years, $50 million has been spent by corporations, lobbyists, et. al., on trips for lawmakers. The top 10 recipients are all Democrats. Tom DeLay and his infamous golfing trip to St. Andrews, Scotland? He ranks 121st, tied with Nancy Pelosi. Hmmm.
Melanie Phillips, a columnist for the Daily Mail in London, has written a book, "Londonstan". She makes some excellent points concerning the continued threat of radical Islamism. She makes the case that the very things we value, such as tolerance, diversity of cultures, freedom of speech, etc. are the very things that will be used by the fanatics to try to destroy us. She claims it is not a war on terrorism but a war to defend the free world. Like many, she thinks this is the third world war. She also states we are losing it because we are not acknowledging who and what we are fighting. For example, the recent arrests of the young Muslim men in Canada. Reports of the arrests were noticeably reluctant to describe the people as Muslim. This is absurd. They were described by the Today Show yesterday morning as everything but Muslim, young men, teenagers, South Asian, Canadian, etc., for a full 5 1/2 minutes of the 7 minute news piece. The constant worry about political correctness is not keeping us safe. Only in the last minute of the story did the reporter mention that the men were members of a mosque run by a radical Imam.
I was reading an opinion piece yesterday about Cindy Sheehan's book, "Dear President Bush". She is quite the useful idiot, as the author claims, for the moonbat left. She doesn't appear to have sense enough to understand how she is used. The publisher, City Lights's Open Media Series is City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore famous for its dedication to free speech. Also famous for not carrying Oriana Fallaci's book as they have labeled her a fascist. That is enough to take your breath away.
From Michelle Malkin's website yesterday: The Marc by Marc Jacobs store in San Francisco has an especially built window display found exclusively in this branch. On three big glass windows, in 7 or 8 feet tall blue letters are the words "Worst President Ever". Ah, yes. Tolerance and big tent liberalism as long as you follow the kool aid drinkers.
Is gay marriage really the most pressing issue today? Do we really want to amend the constitution over gay marriage? I think this is madness. True conservatives want government out of our lives as much as possible, not further intrusion. Roe v Wade is bad federal legislation and this would be, too. These are states rights issues, not federal issues.
And finally today, have you heard of Leigh Ann Hester? Jessica Lynch? Yes, of course you know who Jessica Lynch is, as she was publicized out the wazoo, as her service to our country should have been. She was the Army private captured and later rescued in the early days to the war in Iraq. Leigh Ann Hester, not portrayed as a victim in the press, is a Kentucky National Guard vehicle commander. She was awarded a Silver Star last year for fighting off an insurgent attack on a convoy in Iraq, according to the Wall Street Journal. She is the first woman to receive a Silver Star since World War II and the first ever to receive it for close combat. Her name only appears 162 times in media reports, as opposed to Lynch's 12,992. Sergeant Hester didn't have the whole victim mentality thing going on around her.
The current trend is to fall into victimology in reporting. More stories are generated about soldiers and veterans floundering rather than those who serve out of conviction and go on with their lives. Among the elitist mentality in journalism today, the military personnel are considered to be in service due to limited options, poor education or emotional problems. What a slap in the face. This generation in particular, fighting the new age war on terrorism, can easily claim the title of the Greatest Generation. This is a wholly volunteer military and most fighting on the battlefield today signed up after 9/ll. There was no doubt that they would be called to battle. This generation of soldier knows a completely different field of battle than previous generations. The enemy today wears no uniform, serves no country and only wants to kill with abandon. Our military is trained to protect civilians and fight the enemy in uniform.
"Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works." - Martin Luther
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Back to the land of the living after a whirlwind 30 hours of driving in a 72 hour span. I do not recommend that for anyone.
I believe we are getting close to the end here. Rome and other democratic type governments have not been able to sustain over long periods of time because people became corrupt, and really uninterested in anything but themselves. We are going to "tolerate" ourselves into destruction if not careful. This weekend on the trip we listened to the satellite radio channel from the 40's and they were doing a special from the air museum in Reading, PA. All the songs were in support of the war effort. As far as I know we haven't had anyone in the entertainment business to pen a supportive song for any conflict since then.
When did this really take hold? When our moral values started to fail, we took prayer out of school, God out of lives and decided that tolerance and political correctness were worthwhile. That was the beginning of the end.
That is the one thing the muslims have over us. They have a FERVENT belief in their religion. We have watered things down such that our country in general believes in and stands for and fervently fights for nothing; at least nothing of any value.
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