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Friday, November 13, 2009

The Jihad Circus Is Coming To Town

Holder Announces Plan to Send Alleged Sept. 11 Conspirators to New York Court

Mohammed and the four others -- Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali -- are accused of orchestrating the attacks that killed 2,973 people on Sept. 11, 2001, and will now be tried in a courtroom down the street from the World Trade Center.

If they can beat the rap there, they can beat it anywhere! Does the administration have any idea what a farce these trials are going to be? Unfortunately they probably do. They just don't care. They're treating monsters who made war on the USA as common criminals. Why not just charge them with jaywalking, slap'em on the wrist, give'em their green cards and sign'em up for that good ol' free health care? Uh! I take that back! I don't want to give Obama any ideas.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. ~ Ann Coulter

Friday, September 11, 2009

Remember Kevin Cosgrove

Kevin Cosgrove worked in the South Tower. After Flight 11 struck the North Tower Kevin called his wife to tell her he was okay and leaving the building. Before he could Flight 175 struck his building. He was trapped on the 105th floor. Watch the video. Be disturbed. Be angry. Be sorrowful. Remember.

September 11 - Patriot Day

Eight years ago... IX XI

The World Trade Center / Flight 11 / Flight 175

Remember, remember - and realise that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.
~ Tony Parsons, British Journalist

The Pentagon / Flight 77

There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land,

But the People in their weeping,
Bare the iron hand,

Beware the People weeping,
When they bare the iron hand.
~ Herman Melville

Flight 93

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
~ The Star Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key

لن استسلم
Lan Is'tislimo
I Will Not Submit

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Penn & Teller On 9/11 "Truthers"

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Thank You President Bush

Here is a site collecting "Thank you" notes for our former President. You can just click and say thanks, but you can also write a personalized note.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Rememberance Amid The Race

Nikki made a comment over at Mark's blog that brought a thought to mind...

Perhaps it's one of those hard to see blessings that September 11th and the reflection it brings will always come right in the middle of our election seasons. It will always make us stop and think and grieve together. At least for one day we can put aside the debate and take a breath as Americans, then continue the great experiment.

You Don't Know My People.

We'll Go Forward From This Moment ~ by Leonard Pitts Jr.

It's my job to have something to say. They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement.

We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

IN PAIN

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel. Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of the United States and, probably, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.

In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms.

We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.

THE STEEL IN US

You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering is put on hold.

As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us?

It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received.

And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of.

You don't know what you just started.

But you're about to learn.

From: The Miami Herald

Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11: 7 Years

The World Trade Center / Flight 11 / Flight 175

Remember, remember - and realise that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.
~ Tony Parsons, British Journalist

The Pentagon / Flight 77

There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land,

But the People in their weeping,
Bare the iron hand,

Beware the People weeping,
When they bare the iron hand.
~ Herman Melville

Flight 93

لن استسلم
Lan Is'tislimo
I Will Not Submit

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Our Prayer Embraces Their Pain And Suffering

Transcript: Pope's Remarks At Ground Zero

Bring us peace, God. And if not peace, determination.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

You're Naïve

Or so says Doris Lessing who won the Nobel Prize for literature.

"September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible," the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.

"Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she said in an interview published Sunday.

"Do you know what people forget? That the IRA attacked with bombs against our government; it killed several people while a Conservative congress was being held and in which the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was (attending). People forget," she said.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. About 3,700 died and tens of thousands of people were maimed in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group, which caused most of the deaths, disarmed in 2005.

Via Tinkerty Tonk, where Rachel takes her to task.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Star Simpson: The MIT "Artiste"

Chad at Cake or Death has a good post about Star Simpson, the idiot bitch who walked into Logan International Airport wearing "bomb art". As Chad notes: "Like her Don't-Taze-Me-Bro kin earlier in the week, Star is just another shining example of how the younger generation act as though they are above reproach."

She should have the book thrown at her, and do some serious jail time. Maybe then she'll be able to tell the difference between "art" and mocking the deaths of a few thousand innocent people.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Let's Just Say No....

Iran Leader Denied on WTC Wreath Request

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday.

Besides, we all know who he'd really be laying that wreath to "commemorate" and I don't think Mohammed Atta and the other 18 murderers deserve the honor.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

A Failure Of Human Understanding

Not ours, though. It's Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick who has failed to understand the enemy we face. The enemy who is, I'm sure chuckling heartily at his silly naivete. Oh yes, there's a failure of human understanding, and Governor Patrick is the prime example. From the Michael Graham writing in the Boston Herald:

In his 9/11 commemoration speech, Patrick observed that while the attack on the World Trade Center was “mean and nasty,” (that’s telling ’em, Deval!) the real tragedy of six years ago was the “failure of human understanding.” Yes, 9/11 was, Patrick said “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.” [...]

I’m still unclear what it is Patrick wants us to understand about the radical Muslims who want to kill us. But thanks to liberals like Patrick and MoveOn.org, the terrorists understand America.

All too well.

Unfortunately he has a lot of company back there on September 10th.

ht: Michelle Malkin

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Remember. Always.

Monday, September 10, 2007

September Tenth

As I fell asleep last night, I was thinking about the coming sixth anniversary of Nine-Eleven. This year it falls for the first time on a Tuesday. I started thinking about what life was like that day before. An unremarkable September 10th.

Personally, I was still settling in to a new job. I had just returned from summer vacation in Hilton Head, SC, and I was on a slow road to recovery from a bad bout with the flu.

The stories that were capturing our attention that summer seem further away in history than six years, perhaps because our world view was so fundamentally altered the next day. Some of the news back then:

Pop star Aaliyah had died in a plane crash

It had been the "Summer of the Shark"

Gary Condit and Chandra Levy were the primary fodder of the gossip rags

The big foreign policy story had been China's seizure of a USAF reconnaissance plane after it collided with a Chinese fighter aircraft while on a routine patrol

The Taliban were also in the news for forcing non-Muslims to wear badges reminiscent of Nazi Germany and for destroying the statues of Buddha at Bamiyan; though we were clueless about how perilously close we were to their evil

Looking back it somehow seems less than real when viewed through the lens of that terrible Tuesday morning. But there's a lesson to be learned, about the dangers of complacency, and about the importance of gratitude for those normal Monday mornings - no matter how boring they seem.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Rest In Peace, Edward Ryan

Latest 9/11 Victim Identified

The latest Sept. 11 victim to be identified, Edward Ryan, of Scarsdale, N.Y., was a vice president of Carr Futures with an office on the 92nd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center.

His remains were found while sifting materials from a ramp once used to get to ground zero, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner. The ramp was dismantled several months ago as construction at the site progresses.

Ryan died along with 68 co-workers after apparently being trapped by debris that clogged stairwells in the burning tower that was hit by American Airlines Flight 11.

Conservative Values

Conservative: Kept within sensible limits, not excessive, discreet, heedful of consequences, reasonable, and restrained.

American Exceptionalism: The United States is an exceptional nation. No other country in the history of the world has done more to secure liberty and honor God-given rights of individuals. Our government is uniquely of, by, and for the people, not the other way around.

We Are One People: All of America's citizens can enjoy the rights and freedoms of our country without diminishing the rights of others. There can be honest differences of opinion and such differences result in opponents, not enemies.

Limited Government and Personal Freedom: Thomas Jefferson was correct when he wrote: "That government is best which governs least." Public servants must be held accountable to the highest standards of ethical conduct. Government should be limited to the powers delegated it by the Constitution. Beyond these powers, as government grows, individual freedom shrinks and the economy suffers. High taxes, runaway government spending, and over-regulation of business and farming punish initiative and stifle economic growth. Your property is yours and you have the basic right to make use of it without unreasonable government restrictions.

Reassertion of 10th Amendment Sovereignty: The 10th amendment to the United States constitution guarantees to the states and their people all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. The United States constitution defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the United States constitution and no more. The Federal government was created by the states and their people specifically to be an agent of the states and their people. The federal government, as our agent, should be discouraged from imposing certain restrictive mandates or exercising powers that are beyond the scope of those constitutionally delegated.

Family is the Foundation of the Republic: Family and the values it fosters are the foundation of American society and their preservation is essential to our Nation's continued success.

The Supreme Court: The purpose of the Supreme Court is to determine whether laws are in keeping with the Constitutionally limited powers delegated the government. The Supreme Court is not to rule based on any other standard than that of a strict interpretation of the United States Constitution.

Individual Rights: The United States were founded on the fundamental principle that individuals have certain rights and freedoms which cannot be infringed upon and may be restricted only to the degree necessary to preserve the rights of others. The subjugation of individual rights in favor of groups rights is unconstitutional and has always lead to the trampling of individual freedom.

Individual Responsibility: Individuals are responsible for their actions and the consequences. It is not government's place to save individuals from their mistakes. This kind of government intervention only encourages irresponsible behavior and impinges on others' rights. With freedom comes responsibility and that individuals must take personal responsibility for their own actions and our criminal justice system must be based on this idea.

Religious Freedom: Americans should be free to practice religion how they please. Christianity has been a positive force in our society. Government should not overreach its powers to discriminate against any religious group. Government has no right to suppress prayers nor expressions of faith in public schools.

Respect for Life: Life is sacred and is to be defended. This includes the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. Ronald Reagan was correct when he wrote: "Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life."

Right to Bear Arms: The right to own a gun is recognized specifically in the Constitution, yet it is constantly under attack legislatively and legally. The right to own firearms is important to the safety and security of individuals and a nation.

Strong Military and National Defense: A strong military is a necessary deterrent in dangerous world. The U.S. must maintain military superiority to ensure our security. The American military is made up of dedicated and patriotic individuals who deserve this nation's full support. The preservation of our rights and freedoms necessitates a strong national defense and the ability of the United States to negotiate with other nations from a position of strength.

Secure Borders: Legal immigrants have enriched this country. Illegal immigration undermines American sovereignty and weakens national security. The U.S. has a right and obligation to secure it's borders.

Energy Independence: For national security and economic reasons it is time that we as a nation become energy independent by exploiting all our natural resources responsibly while at the same time encouraging energy innovation.

Educational Choice: Parents have the right to determine the values with which their children will be raised and to have the widest possible choice among public, private and religious schools and that competition will improve public education.

Low Taxes, Free Markets, and Fiscal Constraint: The the money you earn is yours and government in a free society should be given only as much as is needed to perform those limited duties which are delegated to it. Government redistribution of income through taxation is not Constitutional. Individuals have a right to their income and are far better managers of their money than is the government. The free enterprise system is the most effective engine of economic progress and free market solutions improve the economy while upholding individual freedoms.

This is written partly by me and compiled partly from here and here.

Keep The Faith

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ Winston Churchill

Only in the Western world can a gay man live a free life as himself. Hence, the health and strength of the West is fundamental to my survival. ~ USMale

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. ~ Thomas Paine

It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. ~ Samuel Adams

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ~ Ayn Rand

The American's Creed

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

~ by William Tyler Page

Quotes I Like

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams

Leftists see everything in terms of black and white - if it has to do with race. When it's good and evil, then everything in their view turns gray.

...hell is simply one’s freely chosen identity apart from God on a trajectory into infinity. ~ Timothy Keller

The Allies tried the Nazi doctors as war criminals for crimes against humanity for their concentration camp "experiments". Obama and Eric Holder would simply take them to court for malpractice. ~ KevinQC

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie – but only if she is paid the minimum wage. ~ Irving Kristol

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ~ Mark Twain

I can say — not as a patriotic bromide, but with the full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots — that the United States of America are the greatest, the noblest and, in their original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. ~ Ayn Rand

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The problem with being “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” is that most of the social liberalism comes with quite a price tag... ~ Mark Steyn

Some people are best loved at a distance. ~ Unknown

Joan: I wish it didn't hurt so much.
God: It hurts because you feel it, Joan, because you're alive. You love people. That generates a lot of power, a lot of energy, same kind of energy that binds atoms together. And we've all seen what happens when you try to pry them apart.
Joan: So if I don't get attached to people, then it won't hurt so much?
God: No, it's in your nature to get attached to people. I put that in the recipe. It's when you guys try to ignore that, when you try to go it alone, that's when it gets ugly. Its hell. ~ from Joan of Arcadia

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. ~ Winston Churchill

Imagine a Labour canvasser talking on the doorstep to those East German families when they settle in on freedom’s side of the wall. “You want to keep more of the money you earn? I’m afraid that’s very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can’t have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That’s very divisive. You’ll send your child where we tell you.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ~ W. C. Fields

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ~ Margaret Thatcher

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon. ~ Winston Churchill

A terrorist is an opportunistic warrior. If he can kill the president, he will. But if he can't, he'll kill you. Imagine that. ~ Mark Steyn

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. ~ Eugene McCarthy

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ Justice Louis Brandeis

Dissent is patriotic only if the dissenter is a patriot. Otherwise it's plain old treason. ~ The People's Cube

Nobody has to, I repeat, live in France. But when you live in France, you respect its rules. That is to say that you are not a polygamist. ... One doesn't practice female genital mutilation on one's daughters, one doesn't slit the throat of the sheep, and one respects the republican rules. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy

Never be separated from the Americans. ~ Winston Churchill

Our [Conservative] gays are more macho than their [Liberal] straights. ~ Ann Coulter

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ Patrick Henry

The only colors that matter are red, white, and blue. ~ Bobby Jindal

If Iraq is another Vietnam, 9/11 is another Kennedy assassination. Were Bali, Madrid and London also inside jobs by the Bush Gang? If so, it's no wonder federal spending's out of control. ~ Mark Steyn

No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ~ Dean Acheson

If I didn't, I should have. ~ William F. Buckley (when asked if he referred to Jesse Jackson as an ignoramus)

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ~ John Quincy Adams

In my opinion, powder and artillery are the most efficacious, sure, and infallible conciliatory measures we can adopt. ~ John Adams

The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American. ~ Ann Coulter

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. ~ H. L. Mencken

Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy, and creates its own enemy. ~ Worf (Star Trek - The Next Generation)

But we should at least stop fooling ourselves. Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill the jihadists first. Or they’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed Benazir Bhutto. ~ Andrew C. McCarthy

Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. ~ The Kneeling Christian

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. ~ Theodore Dalrymple

Conservative speakers are constantly being physically attacked on college campuses -- including Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and me, among others. Fortunately the attackers are Democrats, so they throw like girls and generally end up with their noses bloodied by pretty college coeds. But that doesn't make it right. ~ Ann Coulter

Don't tase me bro! ~ Andrew Meyer

There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land,

But the People in their weeping,
Bare the iron hand,

Beware the People weeping,
When they bare the iron hand. ~ Herman Melville

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song. ~ Jack Donovan

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe. ~ Tom Wolfe

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. ~ Ann Coulter

These days, the Left advances its causes more effectively through the courts than through elections, for the fairly obvious reason that very few people are dumb enough to vote for this stuff. ~ Mark Steyn

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. ~ Tammy Bruce

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. ~ George Washington (attributed)

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies. ~ George Washington (First State of the Union Address)

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ~ Thomas Paine

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. ~ Golda Meir

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty. ~ John F. Kennedy

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. ~ Ann Coulter

We doubt Emma Lazarus ever thought of: Give me your tired, your poor, your Indonesians yearning to be sex slaves for Muslims in Denver. It is called the 'Statue of Liberty', isn't it? ~ Debbie Schlussel

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days (to talk to liberals). ~ Ann Coulter

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ~ James Madison

Fear not your enemies for they can only kill you
Fear not your friends for they can only betray you
Fear only the indifferent who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on earth. ~ Edmund Yashinski

We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. ~ Ronald Reagan

How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their mosques, teach hate, and plot to kill us? Okay, let’s have the required disclaimer: Not all Muslims from the Middle East and southeast Asia want to kill us, but those who do blend in with those who don’t. Would anyone tolerate a slow spreading cancer because it wasn’t fast spreading? Probably not. You’d want it removed. ~ Cal Thomas

I am convinced, if I kill every reporter, that there'll be news from Hell before breakfast. ~ General William Tecumseh Sherman

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Remember, remember - and realise that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. ~ Tony Parsons, British Journalist

...the aim of a large swathe of the left is not to win the debate but to get it cancelled before it starts. ~ Mark Steyn

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

To liberals, building a wall across the Mexican border is a violation of the Voting Rights Act. ~ Ann Coulter

Two years after 'the day America changed forever,' the culture is in thrall to the same dopey self-delusion it held on Sept. 10, 2001: There are no enemies, just friends we haven't yet apologized to. ~ Mark Steyn

...the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world. ~ Ann Coulter

And yes, I believe our Republic and liberty is in danger. Not in a "doomsday tomorrow! run for your lives!" sort of way. The danger lies, rather, in giving up our birthright for a pot of stew and some bread. ~ KevinQC

Remember, the government apparatchiks have to go through the rest of the house to get to your bedroom. It's best to stop them at the bottom of the driveway. ~ KevinQC

25 Things About Me

1) I don't like cooked onions. Raw onions... great. Cooked onions... blech.

2) I'm shy. Really, I am. And the peanut gallery can just shut up... But seriously - this tendency makes me seem snobbish at times even though I'm not.

3) I don't consider third world countries to be "vacation" destinations.

4) I can't drive a stick shift.

5) I'm a Republican.

6) I love algebra but hate geometry.

7) My mother died when I was 3.

8) I still use the words "whom" and "whomever" when speaking and writing, and I get aggravated when others do not.

9) In fourth grade I was nominated to represent my class on the student council but I was so shy and insecure I wouldn't do it. I still regret that decision.

10) I hate snakes, but once - while holding one - I threatened to throw it at someone.

11) There are a few friends I have not seen in years that if we met today we could pick up in mid conversation as if no time has passed.

12) I never really knew my father. He reached out to me shortly before he died but I chose to ignore him. I don't regret that.

13) There have been two people in my life that I have truly been in love with.

14) I've owned six dogs over the years - 1. A pekingese named Tuffy, 2. A lab mix named Buster, 3. A chow named Chanté, 4. A mutt named Kroger, 5. A chow/shepherd mix named Virginia, and currently 6. A mix of canine and God knows what else named Matilda.

15) In Mrs. Leighton's third grade class, Desi G. used to always borrow my new crayons and without fail break at least one.

16) I like bad SciFi movies. Really, really bad ones. Like Lorenzo Lamas fighting velociraptors bad.

17) I can't ice skate or roller blade. Weak ankles.

18) I always remember my dreams after I wake up, and they're always in full color.

19) I'm clumsy. (That's also a big factor in #17)

20) I was never a Dallas or Dynasty person. I was all Falcon Crest, baby!

21) My favorite color is green.

22) I worked in the hotel and tradeshow biz for eight years and as a result I've seen Las Vegas more than any person should. As a side note, you might think the gay bars there would be hoppin' - but in reality they are bleak and sad.

23) My favorite season is autumn. Second favorite is winter. Spring is okay. Summer sucks.

24) I love vodka. Passionately.

25) I will not swim in anything other than a crystal clear swimming pool. The ocean has sharks and ponds and rivers have snakes and alligators. I regard swimming in them as akin to walking unarmed across the Serengeti. (As for the Serengeti, see #3)

-Obligatory 26th Thing-

26) The first person I came out to in College ended up being totally unable to deal with it and our friendship ended. I still miss him.

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