lest we forget

drach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yx4xjxmPwQo#!

drach

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drach

Numbed by sensory overload, shaken by the almost non-existent coverageof reality by the mainstream media, and vexed by the number of sheep I meet every day, I wanted to post this for everyone to go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Here is the list of things that has me concerned.
1. Our currency is worthless. Not backed by gold or silver (as the
Constitution dictates) and managed by a Private company that
rarely answers to congress.

2. Our delivery systems are extremely fragile. Time on Target, next
day deliveries of food and other commodities are impacted by
outside forces. Computers, fuel prices, distribution centers,
truckers, shipping, air & rail. Any one piece removed from the
equation and it will get rough pretty quick.

3. Unemployment figures not being truthfully reported. Actual
unemployment is close to 20% if not higher. Government continues
to act in the Big Brtother position and extends benefits far
beyond what it should. No incentives provided to get folks OFF
of unemployment.

4. Tax system is extremely flawed. 47% of folks do not pay taxes at
all and the top 25% pay 90% of Taxes.

5. Entitlement programs are out of control. 45% of Americans
receive some type of govt. assistance. When loose fiscal
policies are allowed to continue, deafult is not far behind.

6. National Debt and Obligations are near 90 TRILLION Dollars.
That is a number that 99.999% of people cannot even fathom.
And, mathematically impossible to ever pay off.

7. The Commercial Real Estate Bubble has not popped yet, but it is
coming.

8. Bankruptcies and foreclosures are at all-time highs.

9. There is more money on ledger books than their is money in
print.

10. Long Term Debt Interest Rates are still not drawing buyers.

11. China holds more than a TRILLION Dollars of US debt.

12. Our Government is attempting to control the Auto Industry, The
Banking Industry, Wall Street, HealthCare, and w/ Cap & Trade,
will have an even larger piece of the Pie.

13. Our Borders are not secure and the Federal Government fails to
enforce the immigration laws currently on the books.

14. Our Elected Representatives no longer respect the will of the
people.

15. Gold/Silver at almost record highs.


I can go on and on, but it is too depressing

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

There will be blood

drach

Lest we forget Run to the grocery store this week and buy the Feb. 25, 2002, issue of People magazine. The cover photo is a special, double-paged layout that you must see. No, it's not a Victoria's Secret model shoot. No, it's not the cast of "Friends" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." It's a group picture of mothers and babies -- 31 widows of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the 32 infant sons and daughters their fathers will never hold. There are lean babies. Chubby babies. Smilers. Criers. Snoozers. A bubbly set of twins. All of them dressed in white. All of them born into this world without the fathers who had happily anticipated their arrival -- until alien terrorists invaded our skies and took daddy after daddy after daddy away. People magazine brought the women and their children together last month for interviews and photos in New York City, where they "quickly formed a confederacy of mourning and support." Holli Silver, 38, of New Rochelle, N.Y., mother of Rachel, 3, and 5-month-old Danielle, explained: "We don't have to ask 'How are you?' because we all know how we're doing. We all know what we went through." During what should be the happiest time in their lives, these new young mothers are grieving in private, wearing their husbands' pajamas, and taking bittersweet solace in beautiful children who have their daddies' laugh, hair, hands and toes. People identified at least 50 women who have given birth to children whose fathers perished in the Sept. 11 attacks. The first was 8-lb., 10.5-oz. Farqad Chowdhury, born on Sept. 13 in Queens. As of Feb. 12, the most recent was 5-lb., 12-oz. Robin Ornedo, born Jan. 31 in Los Angeles. "They are Irish, Italian, African-American, Latino, Christian, Jewish and Muslim," the magazine reports. "And their parents hail not just from New York and Washington but also from Boston, Arizona, Toronto and even Sligo, Ireland." This is exactly what we need right now. At a time when the bloody shock of terrorism has faded from the media's radar screen, this story -- and this cover photo filled with the babies of murdered fathers -- provide jolting reminders of why we are at war. And why we must not sink back into a pre-Sept. 11 mindset of triviality and self-indulgence. Osama bin Laden is a distant memory, yesterday's news. Figure-skating scandals, sex courses at the University of California at Berkeley and campaign finance reform-posturing dominate the headlines this week. But out of the spotlight, young mothers are still grappling with the raw horror caused by al Qaeda's uncaptured mastermind. Courtney Acquaviva, 31, of Glen Rock, N.J., mother of 3-year-old Sarah and 8-week-old Paul, told People about a recent breakfast conversation with her daughter: "'Is Daddy still dying?' How do you answer that?" Acquaviva explained to the toddler: "Daddy couldn't come home. A lot of daddies couldn't come home. But they love us still." When told that her father is "in the stars," Fahina Chowdhury, 6, asked her mom for binoculars. "I want to see my dad," she said. Four-year-old Donald McIntyre Jr., son of a Port Authority police officer who died at the World Trade Center, comforts his newborn baby sister when she cries: "Do you miss your daddy?" his mother says Donald Jr. asks the baby. "Then he'll tell her, 'I do. I cry too.'" This magazine cover photo and story will shake you not only because of who's featured in it, but also because of who does not appear. It brings to my mind the forgotten husbands who lost pregnant wives during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And the children who lost parents. And the parents who lost only children. And the entire families whose lives were erased by homicidal maniacs masquerading as religious warriors. And all the widows and children of past al Qaeda terrorist attacks that faded long ago from public memory. Lest we forget: We are at war. Evil remains on the loose. Children are still crying themselves to sleep. Things are not yet back to "normal." And they won't be for a long time to come. By Michele Malkin

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Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands") ~~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. (4 BC - 65 AD)

drach

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Charlie

drach

Why do you fly the American Flag?

Lest we forget:

http://puttinguptheflag.com/

I fly the Flag of the United States in front of my home 24/7 and yes, it's illuminated at night.

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v35

Yes, you're right . Notice how Jewish organizations make powerful statements through the media at least several times each year on their Holocast experience of 55 years ago. A similar effort should be made by the Twin Towers survivors organizations lest the horror of this event fade from peoples consciousness and we go soft on the Arabs.

Iconoclast

Powerful piece and all-too-true. Thank you for posting it.