Posted on 09/30/2024 10:55:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
Yep! :)
> Hope you don’t get much hail.
We don’t and if we do as long as it’s not vertical I’m good.
-SB
I used to really like the bagpipes, really!
Heard them too many times like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkRHrJz6dkM
Where a lone piper starts, then a group starts, and then a lone piper closes and slowly gets fainter...
I still like them...but...
🐷
Checking in on Tampon Tim’s outreach to male voters:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1848390375410450914
North side always gets green. I use a cup of liquid pool chlorine, a squirt or two of Dawn dish washing detergent, and then the rest water in a one gallon sprayer.
I spray it all over and let it sit for a good 10 to 15 minutes then power wash it off. Good as new! I just did this here on our house in MA a couple months ago.
-SB
> I used to really like the bagpipes, really!
I love the bagpipes. We had a bagpiper at our wedding. I half Scottish.
-SB
dat rite dere is funny...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/obama-is-over/
Obama is Over
“He is resonating with a different culture”
October 21, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/world-news/hezbollah-hiding-over-500m-below-beirut-hospital-idf/
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4272424/posts?page=1
IDF: Hezbollah Has $500 Million in Cash, Gold in Vault Under Hospital in Beirut
Breitbart ^ | 10/21/2024 | Joel B. Pollak
> I used to really like the bagpipes, really!
Praise the Lord!
-SB
After we retake Congress and the Presidency we can get same day voting with paper ballots. For now, this is the system we have.
I
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I just left a Home Depot way down in CT -
I couldn’t push the carriage out through the door - apparently they now have something to magickally stop carriages going through, must be in the rug at the exit.
A guy came over and clicked/released the carriage and said “You wouldn’t believe how much gets stolen from here..”
I said, “well that’s going to stop next month!”
And he said “Let’s pray!”
MAGA!
Good point.
Churches are well on the way out now
Former Senior Staffers From Top Congressional Offices Lobbied For Chinese Military Companies
https://dailycaller.com/ ^ | 10/19 | robert schmad
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4272483/posts?page=1
What kind of siding are you putting?
Wow, that’s the garage?
Long live bagpipers! Remember Barr came in playing a bagpipe to something, we saw long ago.
Liberty and Justice for All: The Pledge of Allegiance
132 years ago today, Francis Bellamy wove into words the fabric of America.
https://www.libertynation.com/liberty-and-justice-for-all-the-pledge-of-allegiance/
Excerpt:
On an early fall morning, 132 years ago today, thousands of kids at schools throughout America rose together and looked up to a crisp, new American flag in their classroom. They then began to recite in unison the Pledge of Allegiance, 23 words authored by an American few today honor or even remember.
“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands – one nation indivisible – with liberty and justice for all.”
But these few words constitute a far weightier statement about America than is generally acknowledged.
The Winding Path of the Pledge
Although the first version of America’s “pledge” was written after the Civil War by Union Army Captain George Thatcher Balch, it was another American who penned the version we recite (with a few changes) today.
It is said that Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance 1892 in only a few hours. But it was the result of several years of effort at one of America’s bestselling magazines, Youth’s Companion. In a marketing campaign, the Companion decided to offer US flags to readers who marketed subscriptions. Coincident with the approaching 400th anniversary of Columbus’ landing in America, the magazine decided to offer “Old Glory” to all public schools across the US and honor it with an oath.
Bellamy, a onetime Baptist minister, was at the time a writer for the Companion. Historian Richard J. Ellis, in his work, To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, notes that Bellamy’s writings were loaded with marketing rhetoric and political espousals. Bellamy argued that pledging allegiance would ensure “that the distinctive principles of true Americanism will not perish as long as free, public education endures.”
The pledge changed in 1923 during a National Flag Conference led by the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was determined that “my flag” should be changed to “the flag of the United States,” lest immigrant children be unclear which flag they’re pledging allegiance to.
Also of note: The version written by the ordained minister didn’t include the phrase “under God.” With the advent of World War II, many public schools instituted morning recitations. And a slight modification was made during the “Cold War” – President Eisenhower added “under God” in 1954 – essentially to distinguish the US from atheistic Communism, giving us the version we know today:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Today, almost all states mandate public schools to schedule time for the pledge – only Hawaii, Vermont and Wyoming do not. Moreover, Congress begins each day with the pledge. Then there’s the US naturalization ceremony, during which America’s new citizens take the oath. Not a bad history for words that began as a PR stunt.
.....America’s Pledge of Allegiance is a far weightier philosophical declaration than is typically recognized by those who recite it. It deals with the very essence of who we are as a people, what we value and what we are unwilling to surrender in our lives: “…liberty and justice for all.”
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