Posted on 04/12/2007 4:25:02 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
As we settle into the nighttime of despair, fret not, for the Sun will rise again!!
Good morning!!
We, here, will never forget those who died on September 11, 2001, as we seek to protect the Republic from all who will do her harm!!
MSNBC has dropped Imus in response to his comments about a black woman's basketball team. A Pennsylvania DJ was fired for merely repeating what Imus had said.
The UN wants to use New York city police in peacekeeping missions--primarily to train other localities police forces.
Fred Thompson, who is said to be considering running for President, disclosed he has lymphoma, which is currently in remission.
India test fired a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to anywhere in Asia.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
She must have been beautiful and spirited and very helping. She was also a reflexive lib who assumed anyone with a heart had to be a lib, and if you were conservative, you were heartless, especially if you'd come from less than "advantaged" circumstances...
Now a little thing that fascinates me is that he describes briefly his wife dying of heart failure in NYC in a hospital waiting to get attention.
What he doesn't write - I learned it elsewhere - is that the date was 9/11/01! What a time to need urgent medical attention in NYC! Yet he doesn't refer to that.
What he does refer to, tho, is that when his wife was ill with her last illness that summer of '01, she was proofing his latest book: about parking problems in the city! And Trillin is proud of producing the book after her death, and without her continued help. Parking problems in NYC post 9/11! Wow...
I'm just shaking my head over these 2 facts: one of omission, and the other of commission...
Trillin is funny, but beyond his devotion to his wife and his quips, I do not understand the way his brain works, it's clear.
You survived the hard weather yesterday?
I’m convinced, Molly, that liberals have differently wired brains. I’ve been boycotting female novelists lately and some males as well....simply can’t take anymore PC and insertions of casual and graphic “love” scenes (aka sex romps) and the same tired subjects that enthrall them....but not me.
Thanks for that bit of good news. Are the MSM criticizing Sharpton and Jackson for their hypocrisy? I haven’t had the television on yet today.
It’s one of those beautiful sunny days where it’s warmer outside than inside so I’ve been sitting out a lot.
More good news: The yellow pollen is gone from South Carolina!
I wish I could remember the name of a wonderful Italian novelist...read her works 20 years ago...will look her up in my records, and get back to you. You'd like, I think....
However, I remember the left made excuses for Clintonistas when their e-mails started disappearing.
Somehow I think we're never going to have a Congress that does the work it should be doing unless we get rid of all of them. Theirs and ours.
It was Redleg Duke....He and his family live nearby and he called to say hi. We’re both Lutherans, but from different synods, and we were talking about his little church in Leesburg.
D-O-G
The entire US attorney firing issue is a manufactured sham of the left to begin with. If the pubs had any guts they’d tell the dims where to shove the emails.
But of course....
Totally different topic, was talking to a neighbor last night who has a gray African parrot. The bird is quite the whistler and cat-caller, LOL. He’s already 13 years old and did you know parrots can live to be 75?? wow...
While we were talking she handed the bird one of those large individually wrapped mint Lifesavers and the parrot opened up the cellophane and nibbled on the thing till it was gone. She says he loves candy.
This same neighbor was telling me they used to have a monkey as a pet too. Sort of a small chimpanzee variety, she kept diapers on it and dressed it up in doll bonnets, LOL! Talked about how they’d drive down the road with the monkey dressed up and get looks from people like “Wow, what an ugly baby!”
I thought I was going to laugh myself silly listening to her talk about that.
Hah! Don’t you love hearing stories like that? My husband’s aunt had a parrot and the things this bird said kept me in stitches. Every time my husband’s father left the house, his mother would say “Don’t forget your wallet” and the bird started doing it for her and she never had to say it again.
My wonderful husband just brought me the most beautiful peach colored roses for no good reason making me wonder why I ever bother to fuss at him because he got yet another stain on a shirt and didn’t tell me until it set. LOL
Those emails were never there. Only in the minds of the VRWC.
(off liberal fantasy rant)
Aww, that’s nice.. Mr. Peach is a class act.
It may be true in that alternative universe in which they seem to be living.
Some days, when I read the articles around here, I know that someone is living in an alternate universe but I’m not quite sure if it’s me or them :-)
It isn't that dangerous in Iraq.
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage “
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country.
Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare ....”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye USA in less than 5 years.
I am afraid that you are right. We’re seeing violence and anarchy increase in many places in our country - the inner cities are just a few. I am wondering what we’re going to have to do to wake people up. Yesterday, Gonzo was expressing sentiments along these lines, too.
Yes and when I meet you that is no doubt what I will call you.. even though I know & use your name..
It was just announced that Imus has been fired from radio as well. They’re going after Rush next. They already have a list of things he’s said that they think are racist.
Ann Coulter is right for once; we do need a rule book.
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