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Honor Our War Veterans this Memorial Day

Dear Fellow

American,

Memorial Day is quickly approaching, and to most

Americans, this means the beginning of summer. In reality, it's the one day of the year we dedicate to remembering those who gave all to protect the

freedoms we cherish. As you plan your first barbecue of the season and prepare for the warm weather, I urge you to keep in mind the real

reason we celebrate Memorial Day: to pay tribute to America's veterans and fallen soldiers.

I remember the way our Vietnam

Veterans were treated upon returning home. It was a difficult time in our country's history and we must do all we can to make sure that when our men

and women are sent to war they are never again forced into the shadows and treated badly, as our returning Vietnam Veterans were. That's one of the

reasons I am so active in the veterans' community and today serve as Honorary Grand Marshal of The American Veterans Center's National Memorial Day

Parade in Washington, DC. I'm writing today because this year's parade is our first public opportunity to honor our newest generation of veterans, the

young men and women who bravely served in Iraq, sacrificing family relationships, jobs, and economic stability to go off and fight for our country.

Will you join me in paying tribute

to our Iraq War veterans and all of America's veterans and active duty service members by marching in the National Memorial Day Parade on May

28? You can't come all the way to Washington, DC, you say? You don't have to travel to take part in this special tribute, because we're

holding a virtual parade online! Follow this link to

register, select your avatar and join thousands of patriots across our nation to honor America's veterans from the Revolutionary War up to the

Iraq War.

Freedom isn't free, but for nearly 70 years, Washington, DC, was without a parade on our Armed Services' most sacred day. In

2005, the American Veterans Center revived the tradition of a Memorial Day parade in our nation's capital, and today it serves two vital civic

purposes: to give the general public the opportunity to honor our service members and pay tribute to our veterans, while allowing

active duty troops, veterans, and re-enactors showcase the sacrifice of all our veterans in an exciting procession of American history the whole

family can enjoy.

Whether you live in the Washington Metro Area and plan to attend this year's parade or you live as far away as Hawaii

or Alaska, I encourage you to join us on May 28, 2012, to honor America's veterans, including the 4,487 American service members who gave their lives

in the Iraq War.

Please follow

this link to register for the virtual Memorial Day parade and join thousands of veterans, active duty troops and civilians across America

to pay tribute to our veterans.  

With your support and participation in the virtual parade, we'll promote our veterans' legacy, remember

those who gave all, and preserve their sacrifices. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Gary Sinise
Honorary Grand

Marshal, National Memorial Day Parade

P.S. Celebrate Memorial Day 2012 and honor America's veterans and active duty troops by marching

in the National Memorial Day Parade online. Follow this link to register, select your avatar, and

join millions of your fellow patriots on May 28, 2012.

The mission of

The American Veterans Center is to preserve the legacy of our veterans and part of the mission is accomplished by communicating the sacrifice that our

veterans have made to the public, and in particular, to younger generations.

Contributions to The American Veterans Center are

tax-deductible.

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Armed Forces Day

On May 19th, our Julian calendar states that it is Armed Forces Day - to that end.
 
Freedoms Price
"Those who take freedom for granted would be dependent on those brave souls
who are willing to pay the price for it, and the price of freedom will be paid at times
unexpected, by Hero's who didn't know they were" unknown


Stuart

" TOP TEN ONLY IN AMERICA"

 
TOP TEN ONLY IN AMERICA
 
10) Only in America could the wealthy, and high earning workers ( less than 10% of the population) who pay 86% of all income taxes, be accused of not paying their "fair share", while 49% of the total population does not pay one dime in income tax.

 
9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has - per year - (that's $7 million PER MINUTE) , and complain it doesn't have nearly enough money.

 
8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company
(Marathon Oil) is less than half what a company making tennis shoes earns (Nike).

 
7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, or enter a great many government facilities, but not in order to vote.

 
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be considered "radical", and right wing "extremists."

 
5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

 
4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims in this county might be harmed by the backlash.

 
3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats, and they are in favor of higher taxes.

 
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black. And just 12% of the population is black.

 
1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

CHARACTER COUNTS! - Mitt Romney's True Personality

Mitt Romney's True Personality 

 

In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was and confided in Mitt Romney CEO of Bain Capital. Mitt took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly from Boston to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Bain's printer R.R. Donnelly printed up more than 300,000 flyers bearing the girl's picture and asking for tips. Bain's accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Bankers Trust, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs put over 60 of their employees on the street looking for the girl. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could, prostitutes, drug addicts, anyone. That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, it was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.
 
Even liberal Snopes.com confirms the missing girl story...http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp

On an evening of the 4th of July weekend in 2003, Mitt Romney and two of his sons were doing maintenance chores at the Romney's summer cottage on Lake Winnipesaukee when they heard terrified screams from out on the dark water. They jumped on jet skis and raced out to find Robert Morrissey, his wife, their two children, two family friends, and the family dog paddling in the water. The group had been sailing in their 20-foot wooden boat until it began to take on water. Within minutes it begun to sink and soon sank completely. Mitt Romney heaved the youngest two women onto his jet ski and raced back to shore. The two Romney sons stayed with the rest of the family until Mitt returned to ferry the rest of the family, and their dog to safely.  

Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar.

When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary for three years, and wouldn’t use an expense account.  
 
When Romney was Governor of Massachusetts he accepted no salary.

If you think character counts, vote for Mitt. But if you think character doesn't matter, there's always Obama.

 

 
 

 

  

Predictions that have become true (47 years ago) Paul Harvey

Do you remember the famous ABC radio news commentator Paul Harvey?
Millions of Americans listened to his programs which were broadcast over
1,200 radio stations nationwide. When you listen to it, remember this commentary was broadcast 47 years ago.... April 3, 1965. It's short...less than 3 minutes. Copy and paste it into your browser, Just Amazing!!

http://youtu.be/H3Az0okaHig

My Thesis

This is a deceptively simple philosophy that I have been working on, and
refining, for most of my life.
I am delighted to say that, finally, I have refined it down to its essence
sufficiently to share it with a select band of friends who may appreciate
its elegance and simplicity.
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Gas Prices

Under the current administration high gas prices are good.

John

Political futures

Political Futures By columnist Andrew McCarthy

"If Mitt wins the nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy. For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you to keep four things in mind: Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year, Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court -- in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come. If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're not paying attention." --

Like him or hate him, Mitt Romney will be an infinitely better choice for president than the social engineering genius we have now

 

self protection

I'm not exactly a Buchanan fan - but he has a point in this article


A nation arms itself -- for what?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
04/03/2012

With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite:

America has too many guns!

"Open carry" and "concealed carry" laws should be repealed.

Florida's "Stand-your-ground" law, replicated in two dozen states, threatens to turn America into the Tombstone of Doc Hiday and Wyatt Earp. This is insane!

The United Nations agrees. This year, the world body takes up the global control of firearms, including small arms in the hands of citizens.

According to Sen. Rand Paul, the U.N. "Small Arms Treaty" will almost surely mandate tougher licensing requirements to own a gun, require the confiscation and destruction of unauthorized civilian firearms, call for a ban on the trade, sale and private ownership of semi-automatic weapons, and create an international gun registry.

No more Colt .45s in the top drawer or M-1 rifles in the closet.

Memo to the U.N.: Lots of luck.

Forty-five Republican and 12 Democratic senators have declared their opposition to any such U.N. treaty, which means it is dead in the water the moment it is launched from Turtle Bay.

For when it comes to Second Amendment rights, Middle America has spoken -- at the ballot box and the gun store. And Congress, most state legislatures and the federal courts have all come down on the side of the Silent Majority.

In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court struck down one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, assuring district citizens of their right to keep a gun in the home.

U.S. Judge Benson E. Legg just struck down the section of Maryland's gun law that left it to local authorities to decide if a citizen could carry a gun outside his house.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, mentioned as a running mate for Mitt Romney, just signed a law striking down a 20-year ban that kept residents from buying more than one pistol per month. In Virginia's legislature in 1993, McDonnell had voted in favor of the one-gun-per-month rule.

The new law ignited New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who calls Virginia "the No. 1 out-of-state source of crime guns in New York and one of the top suppliers of crime guns nationally."

Two New York cops have been shot this year, one fatally, with guns from Virginia.

But there is another side to the gun story, and University of Houston Professor Larry Bell relates it:

"Law-abiding citizens in America used guns in self-defense 2.5 million times in 1993 (about 6,825 times per day), and actually shot and killed two and a half times as many criminals as police did (1,527 to 606). These self-defense shootings resulted in less than one-fifth as many incidents as police where an innocent person was mistakenly identified as a criminal (2 percent versus 11 percent)."

The figures tell the story. Along with rising incarceration rates, the proliferation of guns in the hands of the law-abiding has been a factor in the nation's falling crime rate.

And that proliferation has accelerated under President Obama.

According to ammo.net, tax revenues from the sale of firearms and ammunition have gone up 48 percent since 2008, with Iowa, North Carolina and Utah registering revenue gains of over 100 percent.

On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, there were 129,666 background checks of individuals seeking to buy a gun, the highest one-day search in history This exceeded by 32,000 the number of background checks by gun dealers on Black Friday 2010.

Background searches in December broke the all-time monthly record set in November, as 1,534,414 inquiries were made to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System about prospective gun-buyers.

Half a million inquiries came in the six days before Christmas.

Why are Americans arming themselves?

More and more citizens, says the National Rifle Association, fear that if or when they confront a threat to their family, lives or property, the police will not be there.

Reports of home invasions and flash mobs have firmed up the market for firearms. After the 1992 Los Angeles riot, when Californians found themselves defenseless in homes and shops, gun sales soared.

Others argue that a fear of new laws in an Obama second term, or even the possible confiscation of handguns, is driving sales.

Gun-control organizations claim that gun ownership is actually declining, that fewer and fewer people are buying more and more of these guns.

But the numbers seem to contradict the gun controllers.

A 2005 Gallup survey found that three in 10 Americans own a gun, that 40 percent had a gun in the house, that nearly half of all men own a gun, as do one in seven women. Two-thirds of all gun-owners gave as a reason they own a gun: protection against crime.

America is an armed camp, with the South and Midwest the most heavily armed. Yet, still, Americans buy guns in the millions every year.

Why? Whatever the answer, it is our business, not the U.N.'s.
 

Patrick J. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost

Don't Feel Slighted ....

 

  A SHORT... BUT brief LOVE STORY

A man and a woman who had never met before, 
but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train. 


Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper berth and she in the lower. 

At 1:00 AM, the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying, 'Ma'am, 
I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I'm awfully cold.' 

'I have a better idea,' she replied, 'Just for tonight, let's pretend that we're married' 

'Wow! That's a great idea!' he exclaimed.

'Good,' she replied, 'Get your own damned blanket.' 

After a moment of silence, he farted.

The End.