In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.
-Ann Coulter
Warning to Parents & Libs
Don’t Be A Liberal: Never Forget
Religion Of Peace? MY ASS!
Nope!
NOBAMA
Duncan’s Stuff
In Memory of
Capt. Ernesto Blanco
KIA Iraq - Dec. 28th 2003
"We'd follow you to Hell, sir, but you damned sure didn't go that direction."
Retired 4-star General Alexander Haig, who served in the administrations of three presidents, has died at age 85, from complications from an infection, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
A graduate of West Point, Haig served on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, before seeing combat duty in Korea, and later in Vietnam. During his military career, he also served as the Commander of the Third Regiment of the Corps of Cadets at West Point and as the Commander of NATO forces in Europe.
In the Nixon administration, Haig served as Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs (the Presidential Assistant being Henry Kissinger), Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and White House Chief of Staff. He briefly remained in this last position under President Ford after the Nixon resignation. He was appointed Secretary of State by President Reagan in January, 1981. He often clashed with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Advisor William Clark, and decided to resign after only 17 months.
In his later years, Haig hosted the television programs World Business Review and 21st Century Business. He served on the boards of various institutions, including the founding board of America Online. In 1992, he published his memoir Inner Circles: How America Changed the World. He is survived by his wife Patricia, their three children, and his brother, who is a Jesuit priest.
Then the angel said…”Fear not: for behod I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” – Luke 2:10-11
On this Christmas eve, let us remember our soldiers who are living away from family and friends, many in far off places defending our freedom and freedom for the peoples of the nations in which they are serving.
Merry Christmas to Raven, Duncan, Bigfoot, and our family of readers!
Bobby Bowden, the head football coach at Florida State University since 1976, has announced his retirement, effective after the Seminoles play their upcoming bowl game. As head coach, his career includes 4 years at Samford College (his alma mater, then named Howard College), 6 years at West Virginia, and 34 years at Florida State, where he won national championships for the 1993 and 1999 seasons. While no decision has yet been made as to which bowl will take Florida State, one possibility is a Gator Bowl contest with Bowden’s old team, West Virginia. Besides being the winningest active coach in NCAA Division 1-A (now known as “1-Bowl Subdivision”) football, Bowden in also known for mild cuss-word “dadgum” or “dadgummit”, the origin of which he explains near the end of this interview.
During my recent trip to California, I went up to Palm Springs, where I had stayed on two separate trips during the 1990’s. My first time out there, I was shocked to find Rush Limbaugh’s TV program on at 6 PM, instead of 1 AM, its timeslot on one of the Washington, DC stations. The second time was on a tour of rock art (petroglyphs, etc.) organized by the Archaeological Conservancy.
Just north of the local airport, along state highway 111, I ran across the Palm Springs Air Museum. In front of the museum’s main building are several retired military aircraft, including this F-16… Read the rest of this entry »
Tomorrow, I will be in Washington, DC, attending a huge rally against some of Barry’s policies. By some estimates, several hundred thousand people may show up, some from halfway across the country. By falling on the day after the anniversary of 9/11/01, the 9/12 rally will remind us that we live in the post-9/11 world.
September 12th is known to some people as Jan Sobieski Day, in honor of the Polish king who broke the siege of Vienna by the Turks, on that date in 1683. His troops scavenged the abandoned Turkish camp, and found stores of dark, hard-shelled beans, from which the Turks had brewed a hot beverage. Jeżeli lubisz kawę, dziękuj Polaka. (If you like coffee, thank a Pole.)
Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, a spacecraft from Earth, just one small part of a large rocket that had lifted off from Florida four days earlier, touched down on the moon in a region called the Sea of Tranquity. Officially designated the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM, and knicknamed the Eagle, the craft had separated from the Command Module, called Columbia, and then carried two American astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface. The mission was Apollo 11, the culmination of eight years of effort by numerous Americans, with the goal of sending a man to the moon and returning him safely to Earth, as envisioned in a speech by President John F. Kennedy. Only it was not one man, but two (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin), with a third (Michael Collins) remaining aboard the Command Module in lunar orbit.
Around 8:00 that evening, in a town in western NY, a small boy sat in front of his family’s TV, intently watching this:
There’s nothing quite like an electric violin, made from that all-American icon, the baseball bat.
And for Raven, some more American icons: Read the rest of this entry »
Hopefully you’ve already called your father and told ‘em how much you love ‘em. If you are a “Daddy”, thank the Good Lord above for giving you the privilege, and pray that you can live up to, or already have, the responsibility of your children.
This past Memorial Day weekend, I drove up to Gettysburg, PA. Famous for the Civil War battle fought in July of 1863, the town is just a few miles north of the PA/MD border, and mostly surrounded by Gettysburg National Military Park. A few blocks south of the center of town, the park includes Soldiers’ National Cemetery.
The taller monument is surrounded by rings of ground-level gravestones, which can’t be seen directly at this angle, but are each marked with a small flag placed there for Memorial Day. While most of those buried here gave their lives in the Civil War, there are areas containing the graves of soldiers who died in the two World Wars. Read the rest of this entry »
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