Why I love Sandra Bullock

At the Spiketv awards:

"Let's be honest here, just for a moment. We're all going to be honest, right?" Bullock, 45, told the crowd. "Did I win this for being entertainer of the year, or did I win this because of the spectacular I.E.D. [improvised explosive device] explosion that became my personal life?!"

Once the laughter subsided, she added, "No, it's okay. Because I would do it over again if it was to entertain our troops , and our extraordinary troops deserve something much more than some actress in a tight dress talking about herself."

She also told them, "I would sing, but you've seen enough pain in your lifetime. I would dance -- I'm a pretty good dancer, but as I mentioned, the dress is pretty tight."

Thoughts on the Death of a Recipient of the Medal Of Honor

I was reading the details of the heroism of John William Finn who died on May 27. He won the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Pearl Harbor. He kept shooting at Japanese fighters and bombers despite the fact that he was seriously wounded. Mr. Finn was 100 years old when he died. He was a mamber of the MOH Society. No MOHs have been awarded to living soldiers since the Battle of Mogadishu. When the membership of the MOH Society falls below twenty five, it will disband. This will be too bad for the younger kids. They need all of the heroes they can get. There are ninety living member of the MOH Society. Nineteen are double winners. Consider that. Nineteen men have living men have displayed “courage above and beyond the call of dury” twice!

“Call of Silence” an episode of NCIS is an aide memoire. Charles Durning, an actual WWII hero plays Ernie Yost a MOH winner in the Battle of Iwo Jima. His performance is stellar. The supporting cast is, as usual, excellent, but it is Durning, Mark Harmon, and Michael Weatherly who make the episode.

Rasmussen Reports

Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters believe pro-Palestinian activists on the Gaza-bound aid ships raided by Israeli forces are to blame for the deaths that resulted in the high-profile incident.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19% of voters think the Israelis are to blame. Thirty-two percent (32%) more are not sure.

Edward Moore Kennedy's Memorial

The UK Banned Private Gun Ownership Many Years Ago

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A taxi driver who went on the rampage along the coast of West Cumbria today killed at least 12 people — injuring 25 others, three critically — before taking his own life, police said tonight.

Fox Hunting Has Been Banned in the UK for Years

Twin girls in hospital after fox attack at London home

Two baby twin sisters are seriously ill in hospital after being attacked by two foxes at their family home.

Presumably the girls' home not the foxes.

The Kaus material below is from Powerline.

The Republicans Should Worry

Mickey Kaus who is running for the Democrat nomination against Barbara Boxer in CA says in a recent interview that he WILL accept a job from the Obama Administration to drop out of the race, but only one of three.
First:     Director of ICE, so he can build the real wall in the southwest.
Two:    A seat on the NLRB so that he can vote against anti-democratic union ideas, i.e. elimination of the                secret ballot in Union elections.
Three:   job in the Department of Education, where he could pressure the Obama administration into writing a scathing report explaining why opposition to reform from California teachers' unions cost the state $700 million in "Race to the Top" ... Oh wait. Sorry. They already wrote that report.


He then says that he is only kidding, he prefers to run. Too bad he would be the best appointment the president has made.

From "Moonbattery.com"

Kelly Ann Pidgeon went to this site so I tried it. TMI:


You are 22926 days old.
That's 3275 weeks and 1 days.
Which is 62 years and 280 days, including 16 leap years*.
(= 62 years, 40 weeks and 0 days.)
Therefore, you are 62.8 years old.

You were born on a Saturday, your last birthday was a Sunday
and your next one will be on a Monday.

Below is a poem written in 1981 by LTCD. Kelly Strong USCG(Ret.) He was in high school when he wrote the poem.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

I watched the flag pass by one day,

It fluttered in the breeze;

A young Marine saluted it,

And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform,

So young, so tall, so proud;

With hair cut square and eyes alert,

He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought... how many men like him

Had fallen through the years?

How many died on foreign soil?

How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down

How many died at sea

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves

No, Freedom is not Free.

I heard the sound of Taps one night,

When everything was still;

I listened to the bugler play,

And felt a sudden chill;

I wondered just how many times

That Taps had meant "Amen"

When a flag had draped a coffin

Of a brother or a friend;

I thought of all the children,

Of the mothers and the wives,

Of fathers, sons and husbands.

With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard

At the bottom of the sea,

Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

No. Freedom is not Free!

“Freedom is not Free” - ©Copyright 1981 by Kelly Strong … kellystrong@aol.com. Used with Permission

Gay Patriot gets it.

I was reading the Gay Patriot blog. He got it. Much of the conservative and practically all of the religious opposition to "gay Marriage" has nothing to do with hatred of homosexuals. It has everything to do with the fact that marriage is a religious institution. We Catholics call it a Sacrament. Civil Partnerships granting a gay couple the legal rights of the married to own property, make medical decisions for each other, etc. fine. Not Marriage because the day will come when some wacknut liberal judge will order a church to perform a wedding ceremony for a gay couple hence and , therefore, no gay "Marriage".

Today in 1977, the Apple iie went on sale.
Written on a Powerbook G4 looking to an iPad.

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Happy Birthday Mr. President and Bobby

"government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE shall not perish from the earth."

We Con the World. Turkish Aid to Gaza Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg&feature=player_embedded

Careful this could make you mess in your pants.

That's the way I always heard it should be-not!

" Consider this fact: In 2009, we lost 121,000 private-sector jobs in New Jersey, while the municipal and school board payrolls grew by 11,300 jobs. The private sector shrank ... while the government grew. That's exactly backwards from how it's supposed to be."

Governor Chris Christie of NJ in a statement.

Interesting Salary Scale?

Taylor Swift

from politicoclick:

Singer Taylor Swift performed two concerts in Washington this week in front of screaming fans, but she spent her day Wednesday quietly visiting with wounded soldiers.

The 20-year-old country pop sensation spent three hours visiting with soldiers and their families in the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland. Joined by her band and her mother, Swift signed 8x10 photographs of herself for daughters and sons of the wounded veterans. As she left the hospital, she toted a USO t-shirt.

Michael Ramirez from Power Line

From "the Patriot Post"

"When I was a youngster, a popular putdown was 'If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?' But when people like Michael Moore, Michael Bloomberg and George Soros, say so many really dumb things, it seems a more appropriate question would be, 'If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?'" --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"You know, we were promised a messiah. All we got was the mess. We're still waiting on the iah." --radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh

I have been writing on facebook all day. It started with a comment about Glenn Beck but spread. When I found myself writing this:

The three religions that claim the land as holy all have the books in common.
The Hieronomaic Vulgate is around 1600 years old and was taken from older sources. The Koran is in fact the newest of the bunch.
It has been Israeli land since before the Thutmosides ruled in Egypt. Why should they give it up. The US is not going to give up the land because we are stronger than they. If left alone the Israeli's are stronger than their opponents. Only US military action can impose a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. I suppose the government hopes that the Iranians will take care of the Israelis with Nuclear, Chemical, or Biologic weapons. No Jews, no problems with the med-east.
Unfortunately, the radicals of the religion of peace hate the great Satan as much as they do Israel, so we will have sold out the jews for no safety from al-Quaeda or the Taliban, or Hamas, or Hezbollah.

I realized that I had fallen down the rabbit hole.So I stopped.

a last reminder of the cost of freedom