[abigail2]

Good article Patrick, Big bump for this...why are we so embarrassed to call a spade a spade? What happened to us?

[abigail2]

Today we have a Republican President. A Republican majority in the House and Senate. A supposedly “conservative” Supreme Court. A growing army of conservative talk show hosts, authors, and columnists. And we’re losing ground. The federal government continues to grow, and our culture continues to spin out of control. Why?

[Support Free Republic]

Hi Mom!

[Roscoe]

In America today, according to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, there is now a right to sodomy. If I were to defend this right, I’d be considered a human rights advocate. And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble. And of course I’d be called a Nazi.

All too predictably.

[Constitutional Patriot]

Bump

[boris]

The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[gcruse]

And if I refused to hire a sodomite or rent an apartment
 to a “gay” couple, I could be in big legal trouble.

Not long ago, the same was enacted for blacks.  Was
that bad, too?

Not long before that, the same applied to the Irish.
Was that bad, too?

America isn't the home of, "F**k you  Jack, I've
got mine.  Pull up the ladder!"  But many of us
think that way, calling ourselves moral, and just
like Jesus.

[Jhoffa_]

What happened to us?

We became arrogant.

And I completely agree with his point on fireworks.

It's a small thing, but it illustrates well how we take something sacred, or somethign that's deserving of reverence and respect and commercialize it to the point it becomes un-recognizable.

The 4th isn't about fireworks, just as Christmas isn't about presents, Easter isn't about eggs, thanksgiving isn't about turkeys and so on and so forth.

We commemorate something and then we come right back and convolute & confuse it till any importance it may have previously had is well hidden.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

***snore***

[ladyinred]

Good points! Evil is gaining on us, and is now called good, and good is called evil. I think I have read somewhere it would be this way!

[arasina]

I went to see a fireworks show on July fourth. No patriotic music or words, just twenty minutes of moderately interesting visual pyrotechnics. No one seemed to mind. Masses of people thought nothing of building their day around the fireworks, bringing barbeque, drink, and children, and enduring major traffic, crowds, and weary legs. For what, exactly?

Another interesting thread; similar topic; quote from 1st paragraph below

A 2001 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation study revealed that a quarter of American teenagers didn't know what Independence Day is supposed to celebrate.

[Jason_b]

bump

[Cultural Jihad]

Tolerance for evil is clearly something we can no longer afford to tolerate.

To tolerate evil makes one just as guilty as the doer of evil. It is evil to tolerate evil.