Posted on 07/02/2004 2:26:37 PM PDT by mkj6080
In each of the 4 years that I have been a member of the state Assembly, we have had many "celebrations" on the Assembly floor. These "celebrations" are orchestrated by the Democrats who control the House and often involve singing and dancing. Every one of my 4 years have seen substantial celebrations of Cinco de Mayo (Commemorates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla), St. Patrick's Day (for the patron Saint of Ireland) and Chinese New Year's Day, among others. But never once have we celebrated America's Independence Day, the 4th of July.
So, this year, Republican Assemblyman Jay LaSuer of San Diego arranged for Vietnam war hero Admiral Jeremiah Denton to come to California to be a part of a 4th of July ceremony. As you may know, Admiral Denton was a Navy pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 8 years in a Vietnamese prison. In 1966 while in prison, he was interviewed by North Vietnamese television in Hanoi after torture to get him to "respond properly." During this interview, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to spell out the word "torture." He was asked about his support for the war in Vietnam to which he replied "I don't know what is happening now in Vietnam, because the only news sources I have are Vietnamese. But whatever the position of my government is, I believe in it, I support it, and I will support it as long as I live." Four of his 8 years in prison were spent in solitary confinement. He later wrote the book When Hell was in Session, chronicling his experience in Vietnam....
(Excerpt) Read more at sacunion.com ...
They want us to think we were invading a peaceloving country.
This man is living proof of the evil we tried to eradicate and Kerry tried to preserve.
I have long since quit trying to put a ceiling bottom to the depths to which they will sink. Seeing how low they can get seems to have become a recreational passtime for them.
Tales from the Dark Side, the Left Coast. I left long ago.
That's the key word: CONVICTION! They want you in jail, eventually, for being pro-US. It might become a hate crime in our lifetime, unless The Sheep wake up and jump out of the boiling pot.
Anyone care to think that'll happen in November?
I'm not ready to change the Constitution!!!!
The whole planet celebrates the 4th of July - no?
The Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
October 7, 1977
Article 52. Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited. In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.
This goes far beyond the borders of California my friend.
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President's Remarks
Remarks by the President on Cinco de Mayo The East Room
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Thanks for being here. Thank you, all. Please be seated. Sintese. (Laughter.) Bienvenidos. Welcome to the Casa Blanca. This is the people's house, and we're glad you're here to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Laura and I are thrilled so many came today. We're pleased to celebrate this important day with you.
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It's my opinon that our leaders should be the first to set the example, that celebrating foreign holidays in our White House should also be discouraged.
Cool! the Sacramento Union is back. Is this only online, or does it come printed on dead trees too? I remember reading the Union as a kid and even then found it superior to that overstuffed left wing fish-wrap "The Flea"...I mean "The Bee". Besides, who could take a newspaper serious that was named for an insect?
It has almost been a year for me. I can not fathom being any happier than I am now, here in Tennessee. I pinch myself daily to check reality.
The Rat Party communists must be stripped of power at all costs. They are beyond repair and dangerous to the future of the United States. This is un-fing believable. The past three years I have fumed quietly but no more. These people are so dangerous that proactive measures are needed to get them out of office. There has never in the history of America been such a gaggle of miscreants and seditionists as what this party has now become. I know people have been critical of the idiots at DU for thier display of hatred towards conservatives, but unfortunately I have now come to know how they feel. My feelings towards democrats and liberals has morphed from disdain to full blown hatred as well.
Agreed. I know people say that DU is fringe and doesn't represent the average Dem voter. However, it certainly represents the trend in the political leadership. Moderates are becoming marginal in the Dem party.
But what can we do to fight them? Change must come from non-Republicans, no? And only 4 years ago, half the voters were satisfied with Al Gore, who was already showing clear signs of rabies at the time. People vote Democratic without thinking---how do you reach such people?
The Sacramento Union? Is it still running? I thought the Bee had crushed it years ago.
Other than not voting for them, I am not sure there is anything we can do except take back our public schools and abolish the NEA. Our public schools are nothing but indoctrination camps for revisionist history, fuzzy math, feeling good about yourself even though you can't read or write english, america bashing, and singing the praises of the UN. Before you know it, the "good little communists" are voting age.
I've sent this to Drudge, NewsMax, Townhall's C-Log, InstaPundit, Laura Ingraham, and a few other columnists.
Not sure if someone's put it on Lucianne.com yet, but it needs to be, for sure.
Personally, I will never, EVER allow another democrat try to say that they are "just as patriotic" as the rest of America, when they can elect scum like Spkr Wesson and the rest of his marxist pro-jihadist antiAmerican cadre in the Assembly.
Make sure this gets to every one of your fav talk show hosts.
if we can make this a true national story, perhaps we can pull CA into the Bush camp in Nov!
in fremont a councilmember wanted 50 flags from different nations flying in the fourth of luly parade for diversity!! china and taiwan stated fighting over their flags, the boy scouts wanted nothing to do with it.they wanted to drop out. i grew up in this town it was always parades flags mom an apple pie. not anymore!!
Which is why we homeschool here :-)
I'm sure it does. But things usually get started in CA and move east. My email of it to friends said that.
As far as the President acknowledging them, well, some of it has to be done. Of course it should not be like our countries traditional holiday celebrations. But you won't see this WH do what the CA legislature did.
Now a Kerry/Clinton WH might be a totally different story, on the surface and in the actual house.
Disgusting.
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