Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
You know, I was looking around for quotes about patriotism today, and it’s almost impossible to find modern things about patriotism that aren’t salutes to the military.
What’s wrong with our society, when we think that the only patriots should be military patriots?
All of us who care about our nation should consider ourselves patriots.
I've been curious about mine for some time.
With every change brings new opportunity.
LOL!! Been there, done that!! Lost the t-shirt!
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Are you enjoying the implosion?
I do, I promise you.
I do a lot of prayer and devotion postings. I also have about 10 ping lists for niche things like crafts and wot threads wildland fire news and gardening.
Lots of hating going on in this thread the last couple of nights. It’s been tough to watch.
I remember that one!
And there may very well come a time where we are indeed viewed as Patriots. I thump Mark Levin for a couple of little things here and there, but the guy knows Liberty and being a Patriot!
There’s not much we can do about it, but...I just wanted to throw out that technology has been quite the “lure” if you will in helping create some of our social disfunctions and wrong turns.
Being new...I don’t want to pegged a rambler, so I’ll stop there :)
Nevermind. Found it.
It's an easy mistake to make. Look at the way he is ragging on me? LOL, sorry...
I asked for my post to be removed, because of that and because I don’t want to stick my nose into this fight, other than to say backing away from a fight at this point sounds good to me.
Well it probably would have been best to not have posted to this little dustup.
I wish being as you did chime in, that you would have left your post. Oh well, that was your call. And it is still on my computer.
Oh and BTW. I am not fighting. He seems to be fighting to keep from the embarrassment and shame he has heaped upon himself. I am looking for vindication for the horrible lies he said about me. That's all.
I'm not going to bash Giuliani. There's things about the man I respect, and reasons I don't think he's right to be the leader of this country.
The United States is not NYC. Other than once in a while on a dumpster, I don't see graffiti - anywhere. Where I live, you just kind of assume that most everybody owns a gun, and most everybody hunts, and most everybody is a God-fearing Christian who doesn't engage in immoral sexual behavior (and if they do, it's with their own wife, and they don't tell anybody about it, and it's OK).
Where I live, we don't need someone with a heavy hand utilizing the power of the federal government to clean things up.
We want the borders protected, because the crime rate in my county has gone through the roof since the illegals moved in.
We want the federal government to do something about the IRS because we're all scared to death of going to prison because we forgot to carry the one (fairtax.org bumperstickers are nearly as commonplace as the Browning logo on the back of cars and trucks).
We want to protect the meaning of words ... like marriage ... even if we can't keep the homosexuals on the streets and MTV from kissing each other in front of our children. It doesn't mean we hate queers, we just don't want them spoiling everything.
We want the "doctors" to stop killing babies because we think it's murder, not a choice, and - as often as not - we know someone who had an abortion and never forgave herself for it.
We want to win in Iraq, and fight Islamofascists wherever we need to.
We want to take pride in our nation, and we really don't want to hear from the Democrats who equate our country with failure or class warfare, because where I live, we've all had tough times but we figure out a way to work through it.
And we want somebody who is going to take meaningful steps toward shrinking the size and scope of the federal government (or as we call it, the Yankee Government), because where I live, we believe that the federal government has grown ridiculously out of control and outside its Constitutional boundaries.
And we don't see a New York Mayor - no matter how good he was after 9/11 - or a New England Governor, or a nut-job from Arizona as being the guys who're going to do it.
We want a candidate who shares our values, and the top three from the GOP don't cut it.
But where I live, we're accustomed to being disappointed with our elected officials.
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