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Posted on 04/30/2010 10:06:24 PM PDT by JustAmy
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LCpl. Patrick Xavier, Jr., USMC, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
Spc. Joshua A. Tomlinson, USA, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
SSgt. Richard J. Tieman, USA, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
LCol. Thomas P. Belkofer, USA, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
LCol. Paul R. Bartz, USA, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
Col. John M. McHugh, USA, KIA Afghanistan 18MAY2010
May each of these brave Heroes Rest in Peace, and may God comfort all those who love and will miss them forever.
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FREEDOM ISN’T FREE
I watched the flag pass by one day
it fluttered in the breeze.
A young marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..
I looked at him in uniform
So young, So tall, So proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He’d stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves?
No, freedom isn’t free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant Amen.
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children
Of mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
NO, FREEDOM ISN’T FREE.
~Anonymous~
What a precious poem, from a little seven year old girl, yet! (And I love that graphic!)
Thank you, ML!!
Your graphic is SO beautiful, ML!
Here is another:
Who knows? There are literally THOUSANDS of lurkers on FR. Perhaps a THOUSAND people have read her song. (She will beam from ear to ear!)
Well then all should know.
It is copyright 2009.LOL
Glad it’s all good for you!!!!!
That is soooooooooooooo precious, Yorkie!!!!
Some people just don’t age much and it seems he’s one of them. Lucky dog! Did you and Marissa see Miley Cyrus on Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday? Here she is singing her new song! Notice how much she is growing up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-lJYyUAbHc
P.S. Viewer discretion advised!
Thanks so much for the great songs along with great western pictures! Loved it all!!!!
Amen Nan! Good to see you. I haven’t been around here much. I have been electing a Governor of New York and have been all over this state getting the TEA Party support.
That is so pretty and peaceful, Yorkie! Thank you!!!
Well, Sen. Durbin of Illinois has put for the following bill, Senate Bill S510, and it will affect your life DAILY if it becomes law, for it will ban your right to grow a garden, buy from a farmer’s market, or eat anything other then what the government says you will, and you will pay whatever it costs!
We have got to throw the bums out, before they make us and our kids slaves!!!
Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
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S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed, and eat each and every food that nature makes.
It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade, and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill, would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor, who gave us BGH, and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it, and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA.
(a position unapproved by Congress), to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.
History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:
COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.
3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools, and connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.
Pass on the word on S 510, it is something that needs more attention then its getting. Its stalled in committee, but could get voted on soon. this is something the TEA party folks ought to be asking questions on!
We didn’t see it.
I will watch it later after Marissa is asleep. She really likes Miley Cyrus. I sure hope she (Miley) stays clean.
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