November 11, 2009 - VETERANS DAY … Thank You for Your Service to Protect our Freedoms … Real American Hero’s

On this day we would like to say a special thanks to some true American Hero’s. Thank you to our Veterans!

THANK YOU & GOD BLESS

Thank you to the men and woman who have served in the Armed Forces and the sacrifices that both you and your families have made to protect out freedoms. Thank you to those that are presently fighting abroad. There are never enough things that can be said for the appreciation that we can bestow upon all of your for your sacrifice and duty to the United States.

So often we take the past and present service of our brave men and women of the Armed Forces for granted. Know, that these individuals fight for peace, fight for freedom and fight for the very liberties that you an I enjoy every day.

The next time you see a Veteran, please than them. Thanks for their service should never be relegated to just one day out of the year.

Michelle Malkin has a nice write up and we would be remiss if we did not provide links to the must read Veterans Day tributes from Milbloggers on this day.

Also a fantastic article from Black Five … It’s About the Living. Part I here.

Florida Mom Cindy Hood Sends Special Halloween Trick or Treat Message to Child Sex Predators

Inspired by the recent abduction and murder of 7 year old Somer Renee Thompson, Florida mom sends a special message to those that would harm our most defenseless. A note to sex offenders, stay out of this neighborhood or enter at your own peril.

Kudos to the Lake County, FL mom this Halloween who sent a special message to would be child predators. Cindy Hood gets an extra bag of  candy for her Halloween display of a bloody person hanging in a tree and a sign next to it that reads, “Child Molester…What He Deserves.”

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Only 16% Like The Job Congress Is Doing … That’s Actually Up 2%

How does America feel about the job Congress is doing? Not good at all. Only 16% of Americans, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, think that Congress is doing a good job while 53% think they are doing a poor one. Believe it or not, 16% is actually up two from last month/

Just 16% of U.S. voters give Congress good or excellent ratings now that it’s back in action after a rough-and-tumble August recess, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

That’s up two points from last month but down seven points from the highest rating of 2009, reached in late May.

Who exactly are the 4% who think that Congress is doing an excellent job, their grandparents?

Joey Chestnut Consumes 59 1/2 Hot Dogs at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest

It’s not the 4th of July if one does not watch the hot dog eating carnage known as Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, NY. For the third year in a row, Joey Chestnut won the hot dog eating rights and the Mustard yellow champions belt.

59–1/2 hot dogs consumed in 10 minutes. Don’t forget the buns as well. One has to love the spectacle that this event has become. It is literally the Suer Bowl, World Series and World Cup of the competitive eating world. If you can watch it without getting ill, it is a must see event.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA - INDEPENDENCE DAY … HAPPY 4TH OF JULY 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA – July 4, 2009

May everyone have a safe and festive July 4th, celebrating the birth and freedom of America.

God Bless America

America the Beautiful – Ray Charles

At some point during this July 4, 2009 when you are spending time with family and friends, attending a picnic, get together or family reunion, and watching fireworks this evening, please take the time to either read or contemplate what this day truly means and the words that were written in The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.

Do not ever forget that today is about Life, Liberty, Freedom and “We the People”. Representatives that acted by and for the people of the Colonies and a new nation at great sacrifice. I would ask of our politicians today … where are those brace men and women that cared more of the people, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than they do about being reelected and usurping power?

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The Declaration of Independence …

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. (read the rest here)

Boston Pops – 4th of July – 1812 Overture

What’s the 4th of July without this childhood favorite … The Shot Heard Round the World

On Independence Day, Liberty’s crown reopens

UPDATE I: From Michelle Malkin, Independence Day: America turns 233

I’ll be counting my blessings along with thousands of others at the Dallas Tea Party at Southfork Ranch later today. Come on down if you are anywhere near the area. The Christian Science Monitor’s Patrick Jonsson has a good recap and overview of Tea Party gatherings across the country.

From the Frugal Cafe … Lee Greenwood, God Bless the USA

Also from Hot Air, Happy Independence Day and some thoughts to truly contemplate as to the brave individuals who formed this great land.

Two hundred and thirty-three years ago today, a group of men published a document that changed the world forever — and transformed a series of colonies clinging to a shoreline into a nation that not only led people into freedom by example, but also by shedding our blood to liberate hundreds of millions around the world.  We have made our mistakes, and continually strive to overcome our flaws. 

President Barack Obama to Invite Iranian officials to Independence Day, 4th of July Parties they Host

More Change that will nauseate you … This is really becoming troublesome. Obama is not ignorant, he is dangerous.

This is not change … it’s a slap in the face of America and all those who have sacrificed for her freedom. Let alone a slap to the Iranian people who truly want freedom. What must they think when an American President shows such weakness to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Earth to Obama, these are the type of fireworks that interest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

There is a war on terror going on and some fanatical people are trying to destroy the United States and all it stands for and we have a President who wants to invite them to a holiday that represents the birth of our nation. No irony here. The Obamamessiah should be ashamed. As they say, beware of false prophets.

Does Barack Obama just not get it or are they internally being obtuse? Is he trying to break the will and the spirit of the American people and demoralize us? Who invites Iranian officials to functions that are meant to celebrate the birth of our country and freedom from oppression and tyranny? That is exactly what The Chosen One is doing this Fourth of July. People who want us dead are invited to White House functions that celebrate the birth of the United States. Unbelievable!

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Memorial Day 2009 … Remember & Honor Our Brave who Have Served and Sacrificed for Your Freedoms

Memorial Day 2009 – THANK YOU!

On this Memorial Day please remember to give thanks and honor those who have laid down their lives in the ultimate sacrifice to protect our liberty and freedom. This is a special thank you to the men and woman of our Armed Forces who have paved the way to freedom with their lives. We thank you and your families for your service, sacrifice, honor and dedication to this country.  We will never forget your brave acts of courage and sacrifice, God Bless All.

America has never lacked for heroes, men and women who exemplify patriotism, honor, duty, and sacrifice.

To often in the United States we look for heroes in the wrong places or we use the term hero when it should never be. These individuals who have died to protect our way of life are and always will be true, American Heroes.

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Freedom is never free. There is a grave cost for freedom and it should never be forgotten the sacrifices that were made. Brave sons, daughters, husbands, wives and friends who answered the call to protect your freedoms and American liberty.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo … Or if you are the Great Orator President Obama … “Cinco de Cuatro”

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

Barack Obama wished every one Happy “Cinco de Cuatro”. Huh? A Happy 5 or 4. What is this new Obamanomics or another catch phrase for his latest bank bailout plan?

Sometimes, no pretty much most of the time armatures should leave the jokes in the hands of the professionals. Point proven yesterday when President Barack Obama celebrated Cinco de Mayo a day early and botched it up royally. What is once again telling is that the AP in their article tells us what Obama meant to say. How do they know? Why is it that the MSM continuously apologizes for this Administration telling us after each gaffe what they really intended?

President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early.

On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico’s Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN’).

Obama joked that it was “Cinco de Cuatro,” botching a play on the Spanish word for “four” when he meant to say “Cuatro de Mayo,” or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right.

Not only can’t President Obama speak Spanish, as Jammie Wearing Fool points out, it appears his teleprompter cannot either.

Oh yeah, and Bush was the idiot. Funny thing is, at least Bush can speak Spanish. As far as I know, Obama and his Teleprompter only speak English. No doubt the cerebral titans over at MSNBC and The Daily Show will be yukking it up over this gaffe.

Exactly how many times is the great orator or as The Weekly Standard states, the man with the overblown reputation as the most cerebral, eloquent, utterly erudite president of all time going to continually fall over his words? His speech is supposed to be his strength, he is a rank amateur with everything else. However, we are supposed to believe that Obama is cerebral because he and the media tell us so.

We would like to in addition to Protein Wisdom wish everyone a … Feliz Cinco de Cinco!

Happy Easter 2009 - Christ Died for the Forgiveness of Our Sins

Happy Easter from Scared Monkeys …

Make no mistake about it, let no man, woman or politician tell you any differently … EASTER represents the greatest story of “HOPE & CHANGE” in history. There is a reason why some with an agenda want you to believe that religion is waning. They want to discourage the HOPE, true hope comes from above.

As you are coloring eggs this morning, putting on your Easter bonnets on, participating in Easter egg hunts, opening Easter baskets and spending time with family and friend;  let us not forget the reason for the season.

God gave his only son Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. Today, this Easter Sunday it is a time of rebirth. Christ has RISEN!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 (KJV)

 ABOVE ALL: Michael W. Smith

No Christian, if given the choice between saving Christ from the cross or allowing his Passion to go forth, would choose the former. Gifted with hindsight, we say, “Without the crucifixion, there would have been no resurrection.”

Let there always be hope in your lives … Happy Easter ALL and God Bless!

Ground Hog Day 2009 … Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow, Six More Weeks of Winter

HAPPY GROUND HOG DAY

If it’s February 2 … it must be Ground Hog Day. This morning in Punxsutawney, PA at Gobbler’s Notch Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators, saw his shadow and Phil says “six more weeks of winter”.

Not to be out done, our friends to the North in Nova Scotia have a seer of this own. Nova Scotia’s furry weather prognosticator Shubenacadie Sam predicted six more weeks of winter.

It also seems that Punxsutawney Phil made a couple of other predictions after the cameras were off and the crowds left:

1. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of Leonard Padilla appearing every night on the Nancy Grace Show providing little to no substance regarding the Casey/Caylee Anthony case.

2. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of President Obama and Democrats in Congress and the Senate trying to pass off a pork barrel, Democratic boondoggle spending plan that will double the deficit as a stimulus package.

3. Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of Michael Phelps apologizing for doing bong hits in order to save save with America and his sponsors.

4. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of the main stream media carrying the water for the Obama Administration. (Actually, Phil admitted it would be 4 more years)

5. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of Al Gore railing that there is global warming while we experience six more weeks of freezing cold winter temperatures.

6. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of Americans scratching their heads as to why they have to pay taxes while Democratic politicians only have to in order to get Obama Cabinet positions.

Who knew Phil was so good at predicting other things besides just the weather. What else do you think Phil predicted?