Quotes on the military for Memorial Day...

This is long I know but it's worth reading
Fortune Favors the Bold: Attack, Attack, and Attack Once More

"Fortune favors the brave."
- Terence

"It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold."
- Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell

"Audacity, audacity, always audacity."
(English translation of the French Proverb)
- General George Patton Jr's Favorite Saying

"Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!"
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Hard pressed on my right; my left is in retreat. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking. Attaquez!"
- General Ferdinand Foch (to General Joffre during Battle of the Marne)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belong to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt ("The Man in the Arena")

"In peace nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, disguise fair nature with hard favour'd rage. . ."
- William Shakespeare ("Henry V")

"I have not yet begun to fight."
- Captain John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard)

"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve."
- Carl Von Clausewitz

The Coward Dies 1,000 Deaths, The Brave Man But One

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment."
- Napoleon Bonaparte ("Maxims")

"Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone."
- Anonymous

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
- Winston Churchill

"Who Dares, Wins. Who Sweats, Wins. Who Plans, Wins."
- British Special Air Service (SAS)

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
- Admiral Chester Nimitz (on the quality of the men under his command)

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash."
- General Douglas MacArthur
(as is the difference between the courageous and the coward -EM)

"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Nathan Hale

"Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (on why he left men exposed to the enemy in Russia)

"When cities burn and armies turn and flee in disarray, cowards will cry: 'Tis best to fly, and fight another day'. But warriors know in their marrow, When they die and fall, 'tis best to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all.'"
- Anonymous

"Yea, though I walk through the 'Valley of the Shadow of Death'. I shall fear no evil. For it is I, that is the evilest bastard in the valley. My gun and my bayonet, they comfort me. I fear no one, I let them fear me. My fighting spirit runneth over!"
- Anonymous

I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
- Robert Oppenheimer

"Never forget that a corpse never cares how it got to be so cold. Commanders should always keep in mind that they wage war through a wall of human blood, sweat, and tears whose pain they can never truly feel and whose loss they can never truly know. For they are become death: they are the destroyer of worlds."
- Ellen Mogensen

"War: that mad game the world so loves to play."
- Jonathan Swift

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
- Arthur Koestler

"Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. Gold help me, I do love it so!"
- General George Patton

"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
- General Robert E. Lee

"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
- General William T. Sherman

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. . . . If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
- Mao Zedong

"Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington

"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."
- Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation")

"I make war on the living, not the dead."
- Charles V (when advised to hang Martin Luther's corpse on the gallows)

""It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."
- Rudyard Kipling

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge

He Who Hesitates Has Already Lost the Battle

"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men."
- Nathan Bedford Forrest

"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
- General George Patton Jr

"I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."
- General George Patton Jr

"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
- John Paul Jones (later adopted by the US Navy's Special Boat Units)

"If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun."
- James Baker

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
- General George Patton Jr

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best." (which Napoleon summarized as "God is on the side with the best artillery!")
- Voltaire ("The Piccini Notebooks")

"Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
- Marquis de Acerba

"The most certain way of insuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavoring to gain ground."
- Frederick the Great

"Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!"
- General George Patton

"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
- Ngo Dinh Diem (on becoming President of Vietnam)

Advantages Must Be Pressed, Disadvantages Must Be Overcome

"There is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for forces of apparently overwhelming strength. The Greeks at Marathon, Alexander against the Persian Empire, the success of the colonists against the British in the American Revolution, Napoleon over the Austrians in Italy... all offer dramatic evidence to the contrary. In the absence of inspired military leadership... the more powerful side wears down the weaker." (In the presence of such genius and backed by inspired troops, there is no limit to the military miracles that are possible -EM)
- Bevin Alexander

"Kill one, terrify a thousand."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
- General George Patton Jr

"The General Order is always:
......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack.
......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline.
......To keep the troops constantly at the ready.
......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go.
......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion.
And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed."
- Lazare Carnot ("First Order of the Day")

"The art of using troops is this:
......When ten to the enemy's one, surround him;
......When five times his strength, attack him;
......If double his strength, divide him;
......If equally matched you may engage him;
......If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing;
......And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him,
..........for a small force is but booty for one more powerful."
- Sun Tzu ("Art Of War")

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
- Ernest Hemmingway

"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
- Winston Churchill

"It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones!"
- Marshal Maurice de Saxe ("Mes Reveries")

"Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best."
- Frederick II of Prussia ("Instructions for his Generals")

"Stonewall Jackson would rather lose one man to hard marching, than lose five men to hard battle. Perspiration saves blood!"
- Colonel Marttinen (to his tired and battle weary men in Infantry Regiment 61)

"He who gets there the fastest with the mostest wins."
- Anonymous

"Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest."
- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Numberless Acts of Courage: The "Common" Soldier

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. That ripple builds others. Those ripples - crossing each other from a million different centers of energy - build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."
- Senator Robert F. Kennedy

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy,
but, by God, they terrify me."
- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington ("Dispatch, Aug 1810")

"Who could not conquer with such troops as these?"
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"And when they ask us how we won, And when we tell them how it's done,
We'll proudly point to every one, Those British soldiers of the Queen!"
- Soldier's Hymn (in the movie "Breaker Morant")

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
- Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC
(often incorrectly attributed to Charles M. Province)

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- George Orwell (attributed)

"Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right... is in the one man who commands them."
- Gilbert Chesterton ("Thoughts Around Koepenick")

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother; be ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
- William Shakespeare ("King Henry V")

"When you put on a uniform there are certain inhibitions that you accept."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The most important qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only second; hardship, poverty and want are the best school for a soldier."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
- Winston Churchill ("Battle of Britain")

"Lo Que Sea, Cuando Sea, Donde Sea." (Anything, Anytime, Anywhere.)
- 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)

Numberless Acts of Sacrifice: A Man Alone in Command

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
- Andre Malraux ("Man's Hope")

"Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide."
- Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."
- William Penn

"There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
- Winston Churchill

"I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. "I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion."
- Alexander the Great

"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."
- Oliver Cromwell

"A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it."
- Harry Truman

"I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors."
- Colonel Curtis LeMay

"There is no type of human endeavor where it is so important that the leader understands all phases of his job as that of the profession of arms."
- Major General James Fry

"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be throughly studied." (especially by those who would lead others to their death -EM)
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"Never give up, never surrender."
- "Captain Peter Quincy Taggart" (in the movie "Galaxy Quest")

A Noble Cause Worth Fighting and Dying For

"Freedom is never free."
- Anonymous

"These things we do that others may live."
- USAF Pararescue

"De oppresso liber." (To free the oppressed.)
- US Army Special Forces

"The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty."
- Dante Aligheri

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
- John F. Kennedy

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
- Thomas Paine ("The American Crisis")

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King, Jr

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well being, to risk his life, in a great cause."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country."
- John F. Kennedy

"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln

"We make war that we may live in peace."
- Aristotle

"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
- Vegetius

Something for all of us to think of on this Memorial Day 2005

Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair delivered a stirring, pro-American editorial in 1973.
Good reading, from a Toronto newspaper's editorial page!
Widespread, but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States Dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes?

Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon — not once, but several times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the American who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those.

Madagascar...

The movie was actually not too bad, although I was expecting a little bit more from the people that made Shrek and Shrek2. To give you an idea, they made blatent refrences to Hawaii 5-0 and Chariots of Fire within a minute of each other. They also did a parody of the classic scene from American Beauty (you know the one where she's naked and the rose petals are falling on her). Overall despite the fact it had Ben Stiller as one of the lead voices (lion) it made up for it by having Chris Rock (zebra) and David Schwimmer (paranoid Giraffe) and Jada Pinkett Smith (Hippo) to make up for it. It had some very funny scenes and I won't give away anymore, it is worth seeing but if your expecting another Shrek you will be disappointed. I would give it 8.5 out of 10.

I gave in...

I just bought the new NIN cd "with teeth". I haven't listened all the way through it yet but "The hand that feeds" is a great song, even if he wants it to be anti-bush. If you listen to the lyrics its about blindly accepting authority for what it is, even though I'm conservative I don't do that, I tend to almost always question authority. And like I've said before I am willing to put aside politics as long as it's good music, and it doesn't get much better (or nastier) than Resner and NIN.

Hats off to our graduating class...

Well, we got our yearbooks yesterday and believe it or not they picked a good album. I was expecting 50 Cent or some pop crap to be the favorite album but it was Green Day's American Idiot. Now I know that some of (most actually) the songs take direct cheap shots at my beliefs and our president but that doesn't mean I don't know good music when I hear it. I am willing to put politics aside (except for anti-flag, those people are disgusting) and listen to their music if it has a good message. Needless to say our class picked the best and most popular (those two rarely go together) album of 2004. Now anyone who disagrees with me on that, please post and tell me what you thought the best album of 2004 was.

shifting focus...

I'm going to try and get away from politics for the next 2-3 weeks because frankly I'm sick of it, it's all too damn depressing. The only way I will post something politically related is if it's positive. Right now I'm considering new cd's to buy because I'm going to be spending a lot of time in the car over the next couple of weekends due to grad parties. I am considering the new NIN cd, anyone else got suggestions for new rock cd's?

Why all the obsession wit stupid TV shows...

Ok I don't think all tv shows are stupid I have a list I like; 24, House, Lost (new one), The Apprentice, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Malcom in the Middle, and probably a few more I forgot. But I have NEVER understood the obsession with Friends (praise the lord that it's off the air), American Idol (they can't even get it right when given a REAL musician), The OC (thank god the season's over), and basically anything on the WB. Somebody please tell me what the deal is with these shows, I'd like to think I watch intelligent shows but maybe I'm the idiot (but I highly doubt it). Seriously I would like an honest explanation. Any man or woman out there is more than welcome to respond to this (although if your a male and try to defend this I might have to question your sexuality). I'm not ripping anyone (yet) I'm just looking for answers.

meeting tonight...

I had a SD41 GOP meeting that I went to tonight. The speaker tonight was Brigadier General (Ret.) Dennis W. Schulstad who has met in person Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and George W. Bush. Very cool guy. He opened it up to Q&A after his talk and I asked him, "what do you say to those people who have the bumper sticker that says 'it will be a great day in this country when education has all the money that they need and the military has to hold a bake sale to raise funds'?" I think he was surprised by the question but quickly recovered, his response at first was very surprising. He said, "I would love the $500 billion spent every year on the military to be spent on education, but we need the military, it's kind of like life insurance. You have it but you hope you never have to use it. It's an insurance policy that the citizens of this country pays for but hopes we never have to use." WOW! what an amazing response, I'd like to see an anti-military liberal respond to that (I am aware that anti-military and liberal are damn near one in the same). The only problem I had with him was that he said it was great that people support the troops but don't support the war in Iraq. I think it's impossible to support the troops when you don't support their mission and bash them at every possible chance you have; especially when they say bring them home, just admit it people you hate the military. You know the ones that protect your freedom of speech, the ones you bash for not following "international law", the ones who put their lives on the line every day so we don't have to have a draft. For all the gripes you have about the military you should realize how lucky you are to live in this country. If you are embaressed to live in this country thats fine, THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND GO TO CANADA OR EUROPE. Take your socialist asses somewhere else, you don't deserve to be protected by these great Americans.

Conversation I had at work last week...

I was talking to a classmate while we were working at Jerry's and somehow the conversation got headed in the way of politics (big surprise I know). I had told him that I may not agree with the other side but more to the point I would defend to the death their right to say it. I am not so sure that the other side would do the same for us or me because I'm Offfensivee... and Intolllerant... and other bullshit like that. It's funny how the other side always accuses us of being facist or intolerant when they are the ones that actually are. I mean have you ever heard of a pie being thrown at a liberal when their giving a speech at a college (it happened to Ann Coulter and David Horowitz)? No, we like letting the other side speak, the more they talk the more people realize they are idiots and mentally disabled. They try and silence us because they know deep down were right and need to be shut up before the american people actually think for themselves, because when that happens liberals will have NO POWER in this country and that is unthinkable to them. I may come toe-to-toe with these people but I'll let them speak, they won't do the same for me, I've already seen it.

apparently I have some power... Who knew?

Well I was reading my email earlier today and I saw a letter that was called spotty's blog, it was a link to an article I had written over two months ago here on my blog. Here's the link http://retiregeoffmichel.blogspot.com/2005/05/letter-to-young-conservative.html (I still haven't gotten the hang of links on posts, it will be figured out soon). Basically after reading the post I have to admit it is well done but it proves something I have been almost assured of since I have gotten into politics, liberals are elitests. See he thinks that I think the fillibuster is a dirty word but don't forget this debate was the complete opposite in the 90's when 17 democrats (John Kerry and Ted Kennedy included) wanted to get rid of ALL FILLIBUSTERS, not just judicial ones. He speaks at the end about how he wants the equal protection of his beliefs while they are the minority, where were the protection of conservative beliefs when Clinton slashed the military budget in the 90's? Now I have been friends with this guys kid for nearly 14 years but I hope he realizes that one letter to me will not change my beliefs, if anything it strengthens them. I am welcome to more critiques and since I respect this well-educated person (even if he may be an elitest) and I will respond to the best of my ability. By the way asking for an up or down vote for the nominees blocked by the fillibuster isn't as bad as it sounds.

my new campaign...

getting away from politics, I am on a campaign now to expose PETA for what they are, basically a bunch of hippie domestic terrorists. I'm all for animal welfare, but animals have NO RIGHTS. Hear that you stupid hippies, who are by the way probably the most mentally disabled part of the mentally disabled group.

New link section...

I had just read that NewsMax article and thought that it would be a good idea to chronicle all the things that are stupid and annoying about Howard Dean (the list is endless). Even people in his own party can't stand him, everyone in our party likes Ken Melhmen, the same cannot be said about the democrats and Dean.

technology is amazing, and scary...

For those of you who don't go to my school I was given an ISS (In-school suspension) for swearing about our retarded librarian today. Sometimes you got to take lumps along the way to fight the power, that being said I'll get to my post. Earlier this week I got my first check card in the mail and I just used it for a couple EBay purchases tonight. It only took my 5 minutes to sign up for all that and put in for a couple of bids on Twins Medallions I have missed so far. I'm not saying this is bad by any strech of the imagination but is it hard to argue that this is disturbing. It seems that the system is wayyy to easy to abuse. Hopefully our ability to keep up protecting ourselves with how fast technology will get better in the upcoming years.

Being a dad...

No, I didn't knock someone up, this is for a Christian Vocations class at school (I go to a private catholic HS for those of you who didn't know). It was a good experience and with having a choir concert last night I found it to be very hard. But I managed and I only have to have it for a few more hours. Just to let everyone know it is a hard-boiled egg. I will post later today or tommorow about the Constitutional option (I refuse to call it the nuclear option)

Newsweek does it again...

Ok, if you haven't heard this Newsweek is indirectely (or more accurately directly) related to 15 deaths in the middle east due to abuse of the Koran at Gitmo. Tell me, outside of this trying to be in more of the blame America first mantra, why would this even make news? Who cares what goes on in Guantanamo Bay? These people are not POW's they are TERRORISTS!!! Such a dirty word, but accurate nonetheless, anyone who believes the Geneva Conventions apply to these dogs (I don't consider them human, therefore they do not deserve to be treated as such) needs to have their brain checked out by a mental health specialist. I am going to try and convince my parents to get rid of their Newsweek subscription and go back to Time, the lesser of two evils.

Check out this poll...

You know how everyone is attacking Pawlenty for his job as govenor check out this poll courtesy of anti-strib bloggers right

here

John Bolton one step closer...

He got through confirmation and will get a vote on the Senate floor, possibly. Dems says they may fillibuster him, good luck with that.

diving into some liberal mindthought...

I was just reading a blog about a lefty nut that I kind of I know (I will not care to tell you so he doesn' get anymore publicity). And he was ranting about all things those yellow ribbons people wear and the magnetic ones people put on their cars. That wasn't the most amazing part of the article, the most amazing quote came from one of his friends and I will quote it word for word: "I don't like the ribbons either, but is it proper to ask people to remove them? Im not sure, I just know that my opinion warrents me to look down on them, most of them anyway. But to understand that they have a right to their ignorance." I think everyone out there should read that again. So basically anyone who isn't anti-war is ignorant huh? Well I guess I'm nothing more than a two-bit hick who needs to have elitests talk down to me and help me understand why I'm such a moron... I have said it before and I will say it again, Liberalism is a mental disorder. Go out and spread the word!

Amazing school newspaper article...

This article I am going to post here is word-for-word. It was written by a senior named Chuck Benincasa who is a very smart, sane, conservative. I will be putting my own comments in parenthesis when I feel the need to comment on it.
Here is the article:
Ann Coulter proves that strong women can be conservative
In politics today, if you are a woman and a Democrat with strong opinions and outspoken convictions, you are considered an independent and confident woman. If you are a Republican woman with strong opinions and outspoken convictions, you are considered ignorant and a thorn in the side of the women's rights movement (truer words were never spoken)
New York Time's bestselling author, conservative Ann Coulter, is an example of such a woman who is harassed and cut down by the left not becuase she speaks untruths, but because she is a strong, confident, independend, REPUBLICAN woman. As soon as the "R" word is added, it's as if the devil had brought them into the world (no shit man, I couldn't agree more).
People need to stop trying to attack Ann Coulter (like throwing pies at her on stage while she's trying to speak), ir any other conservative woman for that matter, with useless name-calling, degrading dehumanization, and statements defaming her character (she can take it though). Ann Coulter represents the intelligent, educated, intellectual women of this country who proudly stand behing their conservative beliefs.
Yes, Ann Coulter us quite opinionated and outspoken (watch FOX News Hannity & Colmes sometime to see what he is talking about, or read one of her books), but she is not a woman hater, and she is not a racist as people have labeled her (I can relate to that, stupid PC liberals...). She is a woman who tells it like it is, using nothing but old-fashioned common sense, along with her degree in constitutional law, an item that does not pad the resume of Senator Clinton or Janeane Garofalo (Garofalo didn't even go to college).
Apparently, though, if you def the boundaries set by political correctness (the dirtiest word in the english language if I may say so), you are racist, or a bigot. Democrats and the liberal left know that Coulter is not a racist, but that word has so much pizzazz, that they throw it at her so that they don't have to actually respond to her real message.
People name-call and slander, but for some reason her questions are always dodged (maybe because she's always right, oh wait I forgot she's a racist moron...). Until someone can actually rebut her statements (instead of giving proof why she is right) or has the intestinal fortitude to take her on in a debate (I dream of the day that happens), people need to put the nasty names away and stop trying to hypocritically crutch one of the most brilliant female minds in current politics (screw the female part, she is one of the most brilliant minds in current politics today male or female).

Support the MMP

For those of you who haven't heard the Minuteman Project (MMP) lasted about a month and was a huge success. I am signing up to help these true Americans who believe in the protection of our borders with Mexico AND Canada. That is their next step. These people have the balls to do what neither the Democrats OR Republicans will do, so where government drops the ball citizens pick it up and make it work. I like Bush overall but I (and many other Republicans) can't stand his stance on illegal immigration. Calling these people vigilantes is counter-productive considering how these illegals are raping our economy. Besides most of the volunteers are ex-military and some are LEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES!!!!!!! Try and find that fact out from the liberal media, they aren't all white, NRA rednecks as they would like you to think

more links...

I have introduced a non-political section of links in my blog. The band list will be growing, that's all I could remember off the top of my head. On a sidenote I went to Normandale for orientation yesterday and it was ok. I still hope that I can get into the U at the last minute.

government taking my money...

I've only been working a few weeks, and I have noticed that taxes on my paycheck aren't as bad as I had thought they would be. So far the government has only taken about 14.4% of my paycheck. Out of that Federal is 32.6% of the taxes, Social Security is 36.5%, Medicare is 8.6% and good 'ol Minnesota takes about 22% of those taxes I pay. All in all not bad. It is interesting that Medicare is arguably in more of a crisis than Social Security but the taxes are 450% higher on Social Security.

Twins promotion...

I have been collecting those medallions that the Twins have been offering this past week. It is cool because I like to collect this stuff, plus the money goes to charity. I think all those who read this in the MSP area should go out and collect these things.

South Park conservative...

Yeah I know I said Savage's book "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" was the best book out now but this one is a close second. I can really relate to this book, on how the youth of this country are sick of the PC (politcally correct) liberals. Especially the ones who constantly listen to National People's Radio (if you don't get it, it's not worth explaining). I'll do another post once I'm finished with the book.

A look, Yankees vs. Twins

Ok, to those of you who only know me through my blog this may come as a shock to you that I am a HUGE sports fan. I thought it would be fun to compare my Twins (17-11 2nd AL Central) and the overrated, overpaid New York Yankees (11-19 5th AL East). First lets start with the obvious, payroll, New York $205,938,439 (1st in MLB by nearly $80 million). Minnesota, $56,615,000 (20th in MLB). Johan Santana will be making $10 million starting in 2006, 10 Yankee players are making more than that this year!!! (I think you should read that again) The only player who might be worth more than that is Randy Johnson, and with the way he is playing this year he's not worth that much. In the end though I know it is only May 6th and this is the Yankees were talking about here. I will do periodic updates comparing the two clubs. It is fun comparing the overpaid to the underpaid.

New Yorkers say no to Hillary,

New York is as blue as they come, and by 2-1 (60%-30%) they say that Hillary should pledge to fill out her 6 year term if she re-elected in 2006. That's an amazing stat. For what it's worth I hope that the Dems nominate her for 2008. I am banking that we will either nominate Condi Rice, or hopefully Rudy Gulianni. I am starting to think that the Dems like to nominate someone who doesn't have a chance, they like feeling superior to the rest of the world because they are 'smarter' than everyone else in this 'dumb' country.

The right perspective on the Iraq war

Here's what former politican and astronaut John Glenn says about the Iraq war, I could not have said this any better.

THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE:

WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID, Scroll down.

Things that make you think a little........

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during January....

In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January.

That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.

When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following...

FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman...finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy...started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson...turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton...went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

In the years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has ....liberated two countries; crushed the Taliban; crippled al-Qaida; put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot; and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound- That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chapaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high!

The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.

thoughts on UK election...

While I may not agree with everything Blair stands for I hope he gets re-elected tommorow. His staunch support for the war is admirable considering 70% of the country was against the invasion at one point. He is NOT Bush's lap dog. The man has a mind of his own people and we need as many of these people around the world as possible.

meeting...

Eh it was ok, the highlight was when the german presenter took a cheap shot at Bush and the room was dead silent. Apparently this guy didn't get the memo that most investors are Republican because they like low taxes and capitalism. I fell asleep partly midway through and while it was interesting comparing psychology and investing but it was focused wayyy too much on psychology. I have a great psychology teacher, I wanted to hear about how that and investing relate, not get a recap of things I have learned over the last 3 months.

going to a investment meeting today

It should be very fun. We leave in about 3 hours. At school I'm saying it's an "evil capitalist meeting" I'm going to just to piss off the hippy socialist liberals. Espically the librarian who is a card carrying member of the ACLU. Speaking of that I will talk about them in an upcoming post. I will have an update on how the meeting went later today after I get home from work

random thoughts

well instead of ranting about stuff but instead I thought I would talk about the re-premire of Family Guy and the series premire of American Dad. Both are great shows and should succeed in thier timeslots. I am huge fans of both shows and I think that they will become very popular.

Prom

Okay, moving away from my ranting about current events I attended my Senior Prom last night. It was very fun and tiring, my date was fun but wasn't able to dance much due to a bad skiing accident she had during spring break. We both got a lot of complements from friends about how nice we looked and that was cool. By far the highlight of the night would have to be when they play "The Beautiful People" by Manson (the only good song he ever did). I had a great time and I'm glad I went since neither of my parents went to their prom. I will most likely be back to my rants tommrow, probably about North Korea.