So the Democrats have decided to come clean have they? No more pussyfooting around. Just the facts, eh? Ok. What are the facts? Well, on the outside chance that you may have been wondering, Democrat Congressman John Murtha, of Pennsylvania, made it crystal clear yesterday, Thursday, November 17th, 2005. The Democrats want US troops withdrawn from Iraq in 6 months. This is the Democrat "Hawk" the "mediacrats" decided to puff up and stand up before their mikes? Murtha is hardly a "hawk". In less than half a year after the invasion of Iraq, Murtha was calling for the President to withdraw the troops. Remember, he had the same information on Saddam, and Iraq, that the President did. He voted for the war! No... contrary to what the MSM is telling us, the Democrats have folded. When the chips are down they just do not have what it takes to face a national enemy and fight for America. All they are interested in is POWER in the government of the US. Nothing more! It simply isn't in them to fight for freedom. Freedom and the security on the country is secondary to power for the US Democrat Party.So, that’s it! They’re defeated! They surrender! They’re whipped! They capitulated! They rolled over! They threw in the towel. They quit! They retreated! They just plain chickened-out!
That yellow streak they have been trying so hard, for months now, to conceal, just burst forth into the bright sunshine of truth! The Islamic terrorists have defeated the US Democrat Party! And all they had to do was be persistent!
It is embarrassing! It is truly embarrassing for the rest of America to be associated with this bunch of jelly spined cowards. Tell me, how do they live with themselves? How do they bear the shame and manage to go about the everyday duties of just getting on with life when they are scared of their own shadows. How? How do they live with the stench of cowardice emanating from their jaded souls? How can they live with themselves knowing they have just told the families of the men, and women, who died in Iraq that their loved one's life was given for nothing, that their dead loved one has died in vain.
Do you begin to see why I have said over, and over, that we can never trust the Democrat party with the security of this nation… ever again? If we do, there will be no nation. They simply do not have the spine to stand and fight for the freedom we enjoy as Americans. They will give this country away in the blink of an eye. The US Democrat Party makes the French look like courageous heroes!!!
How they can deceive themselves into thinking we can leave this war IN Iraq is beyond me. Unlike Vietnam, this war will follow us back home to our own shores. And why not? The insurgents understand that they can win, even in America, itself, because the Democrat Party will not resist them. Worse, they know the Democrat Party will do everything in it’s power to place roadblocks in the way of anyone else who tries to stand against the enemies of America.
Where is the patriotism? Where? Where are the national leaders who will stand against the enemies of this country foreign AND DOMESTIC?
The Democrat Party needs to be slapped down, and slapped down hard, over their "sell out" of the security of America. For that is what it is.
Don’t ever ask me not to question their patriotism again. What is patriotic about surrender? What?
Now we know why the terrorists have not hit the US again since 9-11. Why should they? They can see the Democrat Party is all they need to bring America down. It is not necessary for them to risk their men and materiel in America itself. The Democrats will not resist and will not allow others to resist.
The Democrat Party is the “Shame of America”.
"Longstreet"
Is it just me… or have you, too, noticed how the MSM types are gingerly tip-toeing around the fact that the insurrection in France, and other Western European countries, is caused by Muslims?
Did you happen to take notice of the fact that the “pirates” attacking the American cruise ship, off the coast of East Africa, were Muslim attacking a boat load of Americans. Did you happen to notice which coast they were off? Somalia. Remember Mogadishu? How about “Black Hawk Down"? Eighteen US Army Rangers dead, over 1200 Somalis dead…in one firefight. Clinton orders our troops to pull out. Any of that ring a bell?
See? Therein lies the problem. The general public is being shielded from the truth. The MSM is so afraid of being accused of “racial profiling” that they will do everything in their power to avoid telling you, the public, the truth, that those people burning France to the ground, and trying to seize an American cruise ship, are Muslims!
Look, we’re at war. You, and the Mediacrats, and the Democrats, can ignore it if you wish , but ignoring it will not change the fact that America is at war and people are dying all over the globe at the hands of these Islamofacists!
I hate to keep harping on this, but, look, France has the largest Jewish population, after Israel, and the United States, in the world. France also has the largest Muslim population of any European nation. Those Muslims have vowed to destroy Israel and the United States and now France. Do you think, if you stretch your imagination, just a wee bit; you might detect a common thread running through the Islamofacism rampant in the world today. The Muslims are hell-bent on setting up a world wide Caliphate on this globe and they will kill anyone in their way. The only difference between the Islamofacists of today and Hitler’s Nazis of WW-2… is their religion.
Until the world is ready to see this world wide attack, by Islam, as what it is, we infidels will continue to be killed in numbers, large and small, all over the world until we feel safe nowhere, not even in our own homes. Then… they will have won. That is the goal of terrorists. 
Often, I feel as if I am a voice crying in the Wilderness, as John the Baptist was described. There are a few of us who see things clearly. (Well, most of the time, anyway!) We see where we are headed and we have tried to awaken a slumbering world to the "Damocles Sword" hanging over the heads of all infidels. Yet the world slumbers on. Here in the states, the Socialist party (the Democrats) are going out of their way to point fingers and chide those of us who can read the "handwriting on the wall" and want to prepare for the terror of the blood bath to come. They have chosen to ignore the danger hovering around us. And, as the News Media, in this country, is largely controlled, by far, by those of the Socialist party (Democrat Party), they deliberately edit the news so as not to upset their viewers, listeners, and readers. The disservice they are doing is going to cost many lives in the long run.
I suppose when we lose a great portion of New York City, or Boston, or Baltimore, or Chicago, or Atlanta, or Houston, or San Francisco, or Los Angles, or Seattle, to a nuclear device planted by a “Muslim Terrorist”, we will begin to shake ourselves and ask the question… why didn’t someone tell us? Some one did TRY to tell you, but we were, and are, shouted down by the bullies of the Left who do not want to arouse the lower classes!
The Muslim Terrorists have seen that the US disaster response is not nearly up to the task of handling a major disaster. They have seen it, as we all have. They will strike, next time, with that knowledge to arm themselves, and they will have even more effective results in their coming attacks than on 9-11. Look for multiple attacks carried out simultaneously and at widely diverse geographical locations.
The US must prepare and quickly, else we will find ourselves in the same predicament as France and Europe. Only worse.
“Longstreet”
The atheists are at it again. Not satisfied with their status as miserable lost souls themselves, they apparently want to make very other American miserable as well.
“Under God” must come out of our Pledge of Allegiance. Well, the 9th Circus Court agreed with that. Now the Supreme Court must decide. Frankly, I wouldn’t place a bet, either way, on how the Supreme Court will decide on this issue.
Now the atheists are after the nation's motto, you know, the one on our money, “In God We Trust”.
I’m not going to bore you with claims that this is a Christian country founded upon the scriptural dictates of the bible and it was founded as a nation where people of all faiths could come and enjoy freedom to practice their chosen religion. All of that is true. It can easily be documented from the Mayflower Compact right on down to today.
But you see, here is the problem I have. It’s called "revisionist" history. Simply put, it is people rewriting history to suit their own ends. It doesn’t matter that what they write isn’t the truth. The truth hardly matters any more. What matters to them is getting their way… and they will do whatever it takes to accomplish their ends.
The revision of our history is a cancer eating away at the insides of the US. The Politically Correct crowd (Read Marxist Crowd) has been the biggest culprit, so far. Up to now, that is. Now, we have the Atheists lending a hand.
Even a city’s logo, which symbolizes the City of Los Cruses, New Mexico, is being challenged because it has the stylized drawing of three crosses on it. It is a correct depiction of the name of the city “Los Cruses”, which means, in English, “the crosses”.
I’m past being angry with this movement among the nations unreligious to force their views upon the majority of the people of this nation. I’m ready to strike back. Un-Christian of me, you say? Well, so be it! I’m not a very good Christian anyway. The good Lord and I are working on that. In the meantime, I urge the people of faith, in the US, to rise up and ensure the efforts of this weird minority of hopeless, pitiful, people are set back on their heels and forced to retreat into the deep, dark, shadows from which they came.
I’m all for protecting Minority Rights…but NOT at the expense of Majority Rights!
The majority of the people of the United States are people of faith. They are the people who drive this great country.
As much as I hate to say this, we may find that we have to amend our constitution to restrict the practice of certain religions in this country in order to preserve that freedom for everyone else. Not a pleasant solution is it? But realistic, I’m afraid.
At some point, in the not too distant future, the religious people of this country are going to say enough and they will insist that measures be taken to stop those who would rip, and tear, at the very fabric of a nation founded on the Judeo-Christian faith.
As crazy as it sounds, it is coming.
“Longstreet”
I was listening to a radio show in the wee hours of the morning, the other day, and there was an on going debate about gun control in the USA.
As I listened, it became clear to me that those on the “take the guns” side have managed to delude themselves into thinking that those of us on the “keep the guns” side will give up our weapons without a bloodbath in the streets of America. I nearly dropped my razor, as I was shaving at the time. It was such a blow to me to realize that those “Ban the Guns” folks are so out of touch with reality that they actually believe that. 
Now, I’m a Southern American. I was reared around guns as a child and have handled, and fired weapons, all my life. I was taught to fire weapons at the age of six. That is actually a little late for a Southern boy to learn how to handle firearms. I legally purchased my first shotgun at age 12. It was a Winchester, model 37, with a 30-inch barrel, full choke. It was a very good squirrel gun… and a “weapon of mass destruction” on small game. It made a terrific Deer weapon with either a 12-gauge slug or double ought buckshot. But good marksmanship was required. It was a single shot, so often the shooter had a single chance to bag the game he was aiming for.
I have hunted the woods and the swamps of the two Carolinas all my life until failing health put a stop to it.
In the eyes of the “Ban the Guns” folks I own an arsenal of weapons. In a manner of speaking, I suppose I do. I own long guns; handguns and I even have edged weapons such as Bowie knives. Generally speaking… I’m armed to the teeth. At one time I was very good with a bow as well. Often my aim was better with a bow that with a rifle. Go figure! I tell you this, not as a boast, but to attempt to point out that I’m an average gun owner. Actua
lly, a bit below average, here, in my part of the country.
Only a tiny portion of weapons owned by citizens of the United States are registered. Would you care to guess why? Because… if the weapon is registered, the government knows where it is located.
And one other point the “Ban the Guns” folks overlook… it is fairly easy to manufacture both handguns and long guns in your basement workshop. Back in the day of the “zip guns” I made several myself. I was nearly always armed during my teen years.
As I said, I’m just an “average” gun owner here in the American Southland. I have no gun rack in my pick-up.
Having said all this… let me ask you a serious question. Do you really believe, way down deep, that I would willingly hand over my weapons and place my safety, and that of my family, into the hands of a bureaucratic government agency such as the local police department? Do You?
Well, friend, if you do … you are demented and need serious help, right away.
I can say, with no hesitation, the only way the US government will ever come close to getting gun owning Americans to give up their weapons is with force of arms. In other words… they will have to use guns to take our guns. There will be a blood bath the likes of which this country hasn’t seen since the “late unpleasantness” in 1860 to 1865. It would cause an instant separation in the country. The UNITED states would be no more.
This is not an easy thing for me to say. It is not an easy thing to contemplate, yet is an undeniable truth.
I’m not a member of the NRA. I used to be… many years ago. And, I will be again… if a Democrat is elected President in 2008.
Many of us understand that a Democrat can never be trusted with the security of the US again. That means OUR security is at risk. The security of our families is at risk.
Call us what you will, but when that last element, the security of our families, is added to the mix, the line will have been crossed and that’s when the gun safes, and gun cabinets, are opened and we take responsibility for the safety of our homes and our families.
There is much truth to the old adage: “An armed man is a free man. An unarmed man is a “subject’”.
America was conquered and taken with the gun. Our independence was taken with the gun, our freedom is secured with the gun, and our liberty, as a free people, will be safe as long as American citizens are armed with a gun.
To quote Charlton Heston: “…from my cold, dead, hands!”
Longstreet
I couldn’t help but notice the Democrats, when Sam Alto was chosen by President Bush to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. They continually referred to the “Radical Right”. It was Bush pandering to the “Radical Right”.
Did you ever wonder who, exactly, the “Radical Right is???
The broad definition, by the Democrats, of a person from the “Radical Right” is a "Conservative" not of the Democrat Party.
To a Southerner, their error is glaring! Democrats from the North, and Northeast, and West, don’t seem to have a grasp of how this country is still politically divided dating back to the Civil War.
For those of you reading this, who do not hail from Dixie, let me spell it out. To those of you in Dixie, I’m preaching to the choir… just bare with me.
In the American South there are Conservative Democrats. These folks have been Democrats since the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, in Charleston, SC. When the Republican President Lincoln sent his troops to invade the South the one thing, which outlasted the war, in the South, intact, was the South’s hate for Republicans.
Then along about the mid-1960’s something happened. The Democrat Party turned on Southerners. They went liberal… adopting much of the American Socialist Party’s platform and began preaching to the South about the way it lived, and had lived, since the mid 1600’s.
Again there was an uprising in the South, and by that time the Republican Party had seen the error of it’s ways and had adopted much of the platform of the former Democrat Party.
When Richard Nixon came along, and invited the South to join his party, which by now, looked a lot like the Democrat Party used to look, many Southerners flocked to the Republican Party. As a result, those staunch conservatives, from the Democrat Party, began to flesh out the ranks of the Republican Party, the Republican Party became even more conservative.
However, there were, and are, many Democrats in the South who remain registered as Democrats but vote with the Republicans every election. Those are, by and large Democrats whose families have been traditionally Democrat for as far back in their history as the eye can see. As Southerners are nothing, if not traditionalists, they cannot bring them selves to turn their back on the Democrat Party. It is considered akin to treason. But, they vote Republican… every election. Here in NC they were, and are, called "Jessecrats" after the much beloved former Senator from NC, Senator Jesse Helms.
Then there are the "Reagan Democrats". They are, for all intents and purposes, the same group, except that the Reagan Democrats are found all over the South and not just in North Carolina.
Let me see if I can make it even clearer for you.
I belong to an international organization (based in the South), which, in this country, is populated by a strong majority of Democrats. I am among those Republicans in the organization. What holds us together? Our conservatism. We may be Democrat and Republican... but we are conservatives first. A first time visitor to one of our meetings would swear we are all of the same political party, but I assure you, we are not.
Southern churches are, by and large, the same. Conservative.
Now, having taken the long way around let me come back to the point.
The Democrat Party does not understand what I have just explained to you. They actually believe there is a “Radical Right”. They have yet to understand the Radical Right they rail about is the Republican Party and a huge segment of their own Party, the Democrat Party. As a result, they are slamming not just Republicans when they denigrate us; they are also alienating a vast segment of Democrats, as well.
Republicans, especially “Southern” Republicans have known this since the 1960’s. As a result we sorta egg them on. The more irate Southern Democrats they create, the more potential members of the Republican Party they create. It’s a simple equation, really.
So when I see, and hear, Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Ms. Barbara Boxer, Ms. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durban, and other leading liberal Democrats, railing against the “Radical Right”, I smile and whisper a “Thank You” to a benevolent God for their efforts. They have done more to further the cause of the Republicans, the “Radical Right”, as they call us than, well, frankly, I can’t think of anyone, or any organization, which has done more for Republicans and the Conservative Cause.
The Mainstream Media in the US is so completely in the pockets of the Democrat Party that we often refer to them as “Mediacrats”. Basically a Mediacrat is a Democrat with a microphone, printing press, or TV Camera.
As we watch the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito in the weeks and months ahead, we will make use of their rantings to draw recruits to our "Cause". And when Thanksgiving rolls around, later this month, we will thank God for their efforts.
“Longstreet”
Has anyone seen those “Thank You, America” ads on TV sponsored by the Kurds of Iraq?
I have. I must admit I was taken totally by surprise! I had to see them at least twice before I would believe what I had seen.
You are probably aware that the United States has given more of its sons and daughters lives, and it’s national treasure, to secure, and ensure, freedom for other peoples, and countries, than any other nation in the history of the world. That’s another of those facts left out of today’s “revisionist history”.
Now, I was born about 7 months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. So, my formative years were spent during America’s darkest days of war. That war ended when I was 4 years of age. Then in 1949 we were preparing for another war, even though we did not know it at the time. By 1950 we were neck deep in the so-called Korean conflict. My first cousin was taken prisoner by the North Koreans, or Red Chinese (we were never sure which), and spent several horrible months in a Communist Prisoner of War Camp. By 1958, I was in the military, having joined during the summer between my Junior and Senior years of High School. I attended Army Reserve Drills for my entire Senior year of High School, and reported for Basic Training to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, roughly one month after graduation.
Eisenhower was my first Commander-in-Chief. Then John Kennedy, and finally, LBJ. I was already in service when the word “Vietnam” meant little, if anything, to the regular grunt. The US was sending advisors into South Vietnam even then, but 99.9% of us knew nothing about it.
Then there were the little brush fire wars like Panama, and Granada. Then came Desert Storm… the first Iraq War. That war, left unfinished, only set the stage for the second Iraq War in which we are engaged to this day.
Now, all this rambling is meant only to set my background for you so that when I say, of all the wars in which the US has been involved, in my lifetime, I have no recollection of any, I repeat, any, nation we freed, liberated, or just plain saved, saying “Thank You” in such a public, and celebratory, way! Never. 
The Kurds have taken it upon themselves to let the world know what America’s sons and daughters did for them. It is a wonderful, heart-warming, thing for them to do.
It is welcomed by Americans who have grown weary of war.
Most Americans, contrary to what the American press may tell you, undersand that we are only in the opening days of this war, the "Global War on Terror". No matter if we leave Iraq and try to disengage from this war we will never be able to completely withdraw. Those bent on a world wide dictatorship, based on Islam, will continue to attack the US until we capitulate. That isn’t going to happen.
So, thank you, Kurdistan, for your expression of gratitude. It will go a long way towards lightening the darkness of the many long days, and years, of war ahead.
“Longstreet”
I have been an admirer of Lord G.K. Chesterton's work since my younger days as a fledgling broadcaster.
As we just celebrated Veterans Day, 2005, and our attention was turned to the courage of the men and women of the Armed Forces of the US who have sacrificed to ensure our freedom, we are compelled to celebrate their courage.
But what is courage?
For the best answer I have found, I invite you to read Chesterton's view of Courage:
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,' is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide -- or a drill-book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier, surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequ
ate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying. And it has held up ever since above the European lances the banner of the mystery of chivalry the Christian courage which is a disdain of death; not the Chinese courage which is a disdain of life."
Lord G.K. Chesterton-- "Orthodoxy"
We have much to be thankful for in America. Let us never, never, lose our courage.
Have a great weekend!
"Longstreet"
