Support the Troops!
Quit while we’re ahead! Or try to, anyway. Again!
Meanwhile, Surber brings us a Veteran’s Day observation on something else the 11 percenters haven’t quite managed to accomplish.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:32 am on Friday, November 9, 2007
9 Responses to “Support the Troops!”
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Confirming my vote in 2008.
What a bunch of morons.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Wake-up Nancy. It hasn’t been 1968 for almost 40 years now.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Congress pretends to do something about corruption, and attack the First Amendment by imposing government censorship on political speech. I dream of the day when Americans realize that the corruption is caused by allowing our representatives to control too much of our money–money they not only didn’t earn, but did all they could to make it difficult to earn without their permission in one form or another. Then, of course, they hold our money political hostage.
It is time to separate economy and state, in the same way we separate religion and state, for the same reasons. Those in Congress aren’t competent enough to run a lemonade stand, yet presume to tell the rest of us how to run our businesses and our lives.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Yay, the Dhimmicrats are throwing another hissy fit for the benefit of the nutroots. Makes me want to run out and make a paper mache head.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I just attended a Veterans’ Day school program where my 14 year old granddaughter was one of the speakers (she was terrific, by the way [/grandma]). They screened the YouTube tribute by Lizzie Palmer, and the whole program was very patriotic. All but a couple of the veterans in the special section were old grayheads from WWII and Korea and a very few from Vietnam, and even a younger one from Desert Storm. The chief speaker was an Air Force Reserve major who is also a Christian pastor from one of the tinier towns clustered around this tiny town, and who seemed to take a pacifist line while still urging us all to support the troops (but maybe, since he IS an Air Force Reserve major, was only throwing an inclusive life ring to the antiwar folks in the crowd).
My point is, patriotism is still a respectable word in small-town middle America; the great majority of Americans in the heartland (that is, not clustered in provincial enclaves on either coast) still believe in, and even love, their country, and whatever goes on inside the Beltway, or on the Avenue of the Americas, or in university faculty lounges, or in Hollywood, has little to do with the country as a whole, despite their visibility and our relative invisibility. As long as we still have the vote and access to actual information (thank God and computer scientists for the internet), we still have power.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Remember Me by Lizzie Palmer, one year older than my granddaughter.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
RebeccaH two points, “ah you’re just prejudiced (/grandma)” and #two patriotism is still a respectable word, with the original definition, out there in small-town middle America. None of this garbage about the greatest patriotism is questioning authority.
Unless you consider questioning the self bestowed authority of of the progs. Now that’s patriotism to me.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
RebeccaH two points, “ah you’re just prejudiced (/grandma)”
She really was great. She has an authoritative speaking voice (for a 14 year old), and her words were clearly spoken (if a trifle rushed). Anybody who says different (OR WHO HAS ANY CRITICISM AT ALL) will have to deal with me. She, and her 16 year old older brother, and her 10 year old younger brother, give me hope for the future, because, frankly, if you look around, they are legion and they aren’t idiots.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Right on and fantastic. We need ‘em.