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A Few of FR's Finest.....
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Posted on 07/20/2002 7:47:43 AM PDT by Billie
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GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Your got that right, bahbah.
Mornin' Billie. Like the review idea.
Now, I believe I'll head to the buffet line that JL provided a little earlier.
Enjoy the day and the weekend. :^)
Today's thread and links brings all the threads up to date. Next Saturday, and thereafter, we'll be doing only "This Week in Review". :)
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Thanks, VHW for posting this!
GPS Bracelet for Tracking Children
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/719287/posts
In light of the recent rash of child abductions, and the frustration we all feel. I wanted to post this website.
We have nothing to do with it.. we just heard about it on the Tom Sullivan show today. I checked it out, and it looks like a great thing.
A child can press simultaneously two buttons for 3 seconds and summon 911. But if you think your child could abuse that function, you can turn it off.
Otherwise, if your child ends up missing, you can activate it. It is water-proof, and can't be cut off. There is a key for putting it on, and taking it off.
It comes in blue, and purple.
If I could afford it, I would buy it for every single one of my grandchildren. Just thought some would like to know this is out there.
God Bless,.. Grandma and Grandpa Vets.
Defend Civilization Itself (Mark Helprin, inspiring)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/719233/posts
Excerpt:
I ask you to join this brotherhood, and, in your own way, whatever that may be, to defend and champion the sanctity of the individual, free and objective inquiry, government by consent of the governed, freedom of conscience, and the pursuit -- rather than the degradation and denial -- of truth and of beauty. I ask you to defend a civilization so buoyant with the presence of God that it need never compel others in His name. I ask you to defend a civilization that rather than deliberately obscuring the difference between combatants and non-combatants, struggles to maintain and respect it. I ask you to defend a civilization of immeasurable achievement, brilliance, and freedom. I ask you to defend civilization itself.
It is not without risk, and to request this of you in the presence of your parents is something I can do only because I ask the same of my own children. Because of the temper of the times (and, some would say, the temper of all times), what may be exacted from you is sacrifice -- of income, position, title, acceptance, respect, perhaps even of life. But what may be provided, or, rather, earned, is a kind of battlefield commission that will give you neither rank nor insignia nor anything but honor. And therein lies the justifying balance, for honor is usually worth at least what you must give up to obtain it. We have heard of late how we are at a disadvantage in the war that has just begun, because in the West we cling to life and comfort at the expense of honor. Our enemies tell us that, and in the telling they barely conceal their enjoyment. Do they really believe this? Because if they do, I have a message for them: The sense of honor in the West may be slow to awaken, but it exists in measures and quantities, when it does awaken, enough to fill the world, as it shall, as it must. How do they think we have come to where we are? How do they think we survived the battles that led to the great revisions in this civilization, its unprecedented turnings, redirections, and rededications -- of which, being entirely unself-critical and subjective, they have not yet had the courage to make even one? They say we have no history. Did we spring from a leaf? How do they think we have come through our five thousand years? Honor. From long familiarity, we know what honor is.
So I can't make coffee...any other complaints?
FReegards...MUD
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