"Priceless"

George Carlin on HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3.Keep learning. ! Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's family name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6... The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on.. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

POW Jeremiah Denton - "When Hell Was in Session"

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/denton_vietnam_god/2009/11/26/291310.html

A Time to Rejoice

Thanks to G-d's Wisdom and the men who recognized and acted upon it, this country was founded. Not an easy task, but one fraught with many problems, uncertainty and danger. Yet, after much heavy thought and debate, they willingly took that chance, after having suffered aggregiously at the hands of an English Despot for many a year. "Enough is Enough," they agreed in unison. "We shall no longer tolerate, allow, or permit any more suffering under his oppression, his ruthlessness, his economic tyranny. We shall, this very day, take matters into our own hands. We shall draft a Constitution of these United States, a Declaration of Independence...a severing of the heartless bondage to which we have been mercillessly yoked, and subjected to hardship and toil year after year. No longer will we be called "British Subjects" but Americans and this new nation will be called The United States of America". With little specks of dust suspended in the still air, and these courageous men standing nearby, the sunlight was fading faster and faster. Heavy, dark blue drapes gently slouched on the planked floor as each Founder gathered round the table on which a precious piece of parchment lay. Previous to this meeting they had met, they had gathered, they had talked, they had prayed, they had argued, they had, at last, laid the entire matter at G-d's doorstep. Each man earnestly, and with firm determination etched in the furrows of his brow, steadily took the quill in hand, and with no hesitation, eloquently signed his name, thus breaking the Olde and giving way to the New--breathing new life into a new nation.
We as that nation and that people have so much to be Thankful for. So many things we take for granted. Walking the aisles of a nearby grocery store, our eyes search for that special something to satisfy a "sweet tooth." Milk, butter, eggs, fresh fruit, veggies, meats, and so many other items, all brought to us, courtesy of this nation's "Producers." Not the consumers, the Producers. For without them their wouldn't be any "consummerism" goin on. Dairy Farmers, Livestock Producers, Store Owners, Poultry Farmers, Grain Farmers, Vegetable and Fruit growers, Manufacturers, Automobile workers, Bakers, Candlestick makers, etc. And a great big thank you to the truckers who tirelessly traverse from East to West picking up these goods for us to enjoy. For without our transportation system we wouldn't be eating, or picking out that nice tie, prom dress, refrigerator/freezer or wide screen t.v. There are many, many others who complete the circle and their contributions and sacrifices are so appreciated and never ending...Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters, Educators, Priests, Pastors, Rabbis, and of course, our military, who choose to "put their lives on hold" for us as they go off to fight to keep us and this nation free. A special thank you to the parents with children who so lovingly tend to them day in and day out. Thank you to our Seniors who have given so much for this country. Thank you...Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals, Hospices, Nursing Homes, for the care you give our sick and elderly. All of these things happen because we are a free people, a caring people, and a free society. Our way of doing business has some flaws, yes, but our free enterprise system, limited government, libertarianism, in which we are free to pursue our own happiness without having to watch behind our backs, entrepreneurism which creates jobs and enables so many leaps in technology, and other wonders that propel man further and further to maybe, hopefully, one common goal>Peace for All Mankind is something to cherish, protect and fight for. Thank You America, Thank You Americans, for without your enterprising and inspiring spirit none of us would be sitting down this Thanksgiving to a sumptiously stuffed turkey, a sweetly glazed ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes smothered in brown sugar and mini marshmallows, cranberry sauce, Mincemeat Pie and Pumpkin Pie. Thank you all for our freedoms which we enjoy so bountifully at this time of year. Liberty, Freedom and Justice For All. Let's keep fighting for these blessings because, as our Founders knew (very up close and personal) and all too painfully, in the blink of an eye these blessings can be wiped out by another Tyrannical Despot if we don't mind the store. Blessings to you all and a Very Happy Thanksgiving.

"No Further!" Christians Draw Line in Culture War

From Worldnetdaily:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116974

America is Being "Judged"

From Worldnetdaily:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116837

We Still Have Time, But How Much?

Job 28: There is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined....Man sets his hand against the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots. He carves out channels through rock; his eyes behold every precious thing. He dams up the sources of streams so that hidden things may be brought to light. But Where can Wisdom be found; where is the source of understanding? G-d understands the way to it, He knows its source, for He sees to the ends of the earth, observes all that is beneath the heavens. When He fixed the weight of the winds, set the measure of the waters; When He made a rule for the rain and a course for the thunderstorms, then He saw it and gauged it; He measured it and probed it. He said to man, "See! Fear of the L-rd is Wisdom; to shun evil is understanding."
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Submit, submit, not by force but through your own understanding, for The Holy One is taking notes as He walks His fields of grain, biding His time, assessing His harvest, stepping over the stubble. For behold most of the grain is gone. Lost to ignorance, negligence, disease and decay. The air is calm and cool, not a leaf stirs. The lofty mountains raise their heads behind Him as the once fertile valley sprawls endlessly below, in futility, as she cries for fruition. But her breadbasket is empty. His ears catch the sounds of small whimpers, dying notes... softly, soulfully, they quickly fade away. He follows them to their source. The sight is overwhelming. Tiny corpses, discarded like empty milk cartons, hollow vessels, litter the field. He stops, makes an entry in His Journal and moves on. "Even though I AM THAT I AM even I am having difficulty dealing with man's ignorance and the magnitude of his evil inclinations. How long am I to allow this to continue? Human on Human atrocities and other corruptions have filled up the pages of My Holy Journal: Defiling of My Holy Name; Worshipping False Idols; Lewdness; Perversion; Depravity; Murder; Selfishness; Greed; Power; Arrogance, until their numbers spill over. Man has willfully disobeyed and corrupted My Laws I set forth for Him since the Beginning. I am a patient G-d but Man's Evil proclivity is wearing thin and his time is running out". He Who Has Ears, Hear. For the Time of the L-rd is very dear and His Coming is very near.

Beauty, Tranquility, Peace... "Take Me There"

The Old Farmer

A bus load of politicians was driving down a country road when all of a sudden the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer, after seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole to bury the politicians. A few days later the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus, and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone. The old farmer said he had buried them. The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Were they all dead?" The old farmer replied, "Well some of them said they weren't, but you know how those bastards lie."

soule: gee, I just love it when the truth sticks you in the eye like a hot poker....and to think that this old farmer would take the time, out of his very busy day, to bury these politriksters, wiping a tear from his eye, probably from sweat, remembering all they've done for us. What a decent man. If it were me, I would've let the critters take care of them.... you know, the buzzards, pigs, coyotes, cougars, bears, alligators....

President Quick to Condemn Cambridge, MA Police Officer But Ft. Hood Massacre Needs More Time

Ranking Republican on Intel Committee Says Administration is Withholding Information on Fort Hood Attack
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Monday that the Obama administration has been withholding “critical information” on the Fort Hood murders allegedly committed by Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and he is demanding that the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence preserve documents relating to the incident for use in potential congressional investigation.

It's The Jihad, Stupid

Center for Security Policy | Nov 09, 2009
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Poll after poll indicates that official Washington is held in very low regard by the American people. One reason is that our leaders are seen as out of touch with the realities confronting ordinary folks - and with what those folks' common sense suggests are appropriate responses to such realities.
There could scarcely be a more graphic example of that disconnect - and its ominous implications - than the contortions the U.S. government is now going through in the wake of the murder of 13 people and the wounding of dozens more at Fort Hood last week. For example, the FBI declared immediately after the attack that it was not an act of terrorism. Other officials are promoting the idea that it is simply a case of an individual afflicted by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or deranged by the prospect of an upcoming deployment to a war zone. President Obama insists that we should reserve judgment, evidently because the facts are open to varying interpretations.
Such statements are an affront to most Americans' intelligence which commonsensically applies a prosaic form of the scientific method: They look for the explanation that best fits the facts. The facts - which are becoming ever more numerous by the day - are that the alleged perpetrator of these crimes, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is "a devout Muslim" who, as such, has had to follow at least since 2001 the dictates of the theo-political-legal and seditious program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah. One of those dictates is that the faithful must engage in jihad, or holy war, to achieve the submission of unbelievers to Islam.
Consider the following, partial but illustrative listing of behavior that speak to Hasan's dangerous proclivities:
During his posting in the Washington area, Hasan attended one of the most virulently Shariah-adherent mosques in America, Fairfax County's Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. He publicly expressed admiration for its one-time imam, Anwar Al-Awlaki - an exponent of jihad associated with two of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.
Hasan repeatedly tried to proselytize his psychiatric patients - many of whom genuinely did have PTSD - to convert to Islam, prompting complaints from a number of those he was treating.
He apparently authored blog postings that favorably depicted suicide bombings who go to their heavenly virgins shouting "Allahu Akhbar!"
According to the New York Times, "about a year ago" in the course of his work towards a masters degree at the military's health sciences university, Hasan "gave a Power Point presentation...titled ‘Why the War on Terror is a War on Islam.'" The London Telegraph reports he "even told classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution."
Hasan gave away his belongings immediately before the shootings, saying to one recipient "I am going away" - an act of charitable form of cleansing consistent with Shariah's injunctions to would-be shaheeds (martyrs).
The New York Times also reports that, in the words of a friend, the night before the shootings, Hasan felt he should quit the military because, "In the Koran, you're not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christian or others, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell."
As troubling as these indications of Maj. Hasan's embrace of Shariah are, even more alarming is the inaction of the Army in the face of those of which it was informed. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters scorched the Army's leadership in a New York Post column last Friday saying: "For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I'm ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him."
What is really frightening, though, is the prospect that our civilian and military leaders may think it "safer for their careers" to persist in the politically correct, but mendacious, contention that there is no link between murderous actions like Hasan's and adherence to authoritative Islam's Shariah program. That is the line of the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization sworn to "the destruction of Western civilization from within." It is not the truth, however.
If the U.S. government cannot come to grips with the reality that authoritative Islam is rooted in Shariah, that Shariah demands its adherents engage in supremacist jihad, and that jihad is - pursuant to Shariah - intended to inflict terror on its victims, it will be wholly unable to defeat an enemy bent on its destruction. And official Washington will only further alienate the American people who have the eminent sense to appreciate that, while not all Muslims (in or out of uniform) embrace Shariah and its obligation to wage jihad, those that do are our mortal enemies. The latter have no more business in our military than does their program in our country.
Sen. Joe Lieberman has the right idea. Announcing on "Fox News Sunday" that he would launch an investigation in the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the Senator declared that, "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone." Under those circumstances, the least the Army can do is ensure that his victims - both those who now are gone and those wounded in his attacks - receive Purple Hearts for the losses they incurred at the hands of the enemy.

Ft. Hood Disaster Raises Critical Issues

Please visit Newsmax.com for this article written by: Tawfik Hamid
http://www.newsmax.com/tawfik_hamid/Fort_Hood_Muslim/2009/11/06/282777.html?CFID=609538&CFTOKEN=dca3b254f935da47-D01F0D22-19B9-CD82-82C8D4EDA48C84FB

I Believe This Picture Speaks For Itself

Political Correctness - It's Killing Us

PC sickness killed our soldiers
November 07, 2009
Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily
America is still mourning the murders of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in what can only be characterized as a vicious slaughter by a jihadist terrorist, an attack incubated and nurtured by an irrational pandemic of political correctness.
I know no one else is putting it quite like this. I know I will be flamed for introducing politics into this terrible tragedy. But sick and twisted politics is what led to this massacre, and somebody has to say it. How many times do we need to see man-made disasters like this occur before we recognize we are at war? This is not some game. This is not an enemy that will go away if we turn our backs and pretend it really doesn't exist. This is war – all-out war against Americans and America.
The questions are legion:
How did Nidal Malik Hasan rise to the rank of major in the U.S. Army with his background? I'm not talking about his Muslim faith. I'm talking about his troubled history – the disciplinary record of inappropriate proselytizing, the extremist Internet postings, the statements to comrades about American foreign policy, the mandatory counseling he had to receive because of his behavior. How could he ever have been placed in such a position of authority?
How is it possible that an officer who had expressed such grave misgivings about a deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq have been assigned to such a mission without careful scrutiny?
What kind of screening goes on in the military for security safety risks?
Why was this man chosen to participate in transition plans for the new administration less than a year ago by a major university – particularly on an issue involving homeland security
Why are soldiers on U.S. military bases strictly forbidden to carry firearms – weapons that could have prevented this travesty? If they are to be trusted with firearms to carry out their foreign missions, why not at home to defend themselves like other Americans? Why have military bases, of all places, been turned into virtual gun-free zones?
And how is it possible after so many incidents like this in America are the U.S. media still so obsessed with withholding information and denying terrorism as even a possible motivation?
These are actually dangerous questions to pose in our country today. I will most assuredly be attacked for even asking them. Yet, like them or not, most Americans are clear-thinking enough to know exactly what I am talking about.
I write these words as an Arab-American. I bear no hostility toward people from the Middle East. I bear no hostility to people to are Muslims. However, I do bear hostility – and, I believe, rightly so – to people who want to destroy America or radically alter its form of governance.
Have we lost our senses?
Do we not recognize threats when they are staring us straight in the face?
I pray that the deaths and suffering of the victims at Fort Hood is not in vain. I pray that our nation learns some critical lessons from this tragedy. I pray that we will once again begin using our heads when it comes to matters go grave as our national security and the personal safety of people willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Let's get our heads out of the sand.
Let's start confronting our cunning and wily enemy with discernment.
Let's begin using common sense instead of irrational political correctness to make our national policies.
Let's look around soberly at the threats all around us with mission-oriented clear-headedness.
Let's stop playing pretend.

Like They Really "CAIR"

Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Media Cowardice
by Bruce Bawer, Pajamas Media

The brave soldiers who were massacred at Fort Hood had trained to fight the jihadist enemy abroad. But they seem to have ended up being murdered by the same enemy on American soil, in a place where they thought they were safe -murdered, apparently, because a series of military and medical officials recognized what was going on with this major and chose to do nothing about it. Most of the people in the mainstream media, I suspect, could also see early on exactly what was going on - but to an outrageous degree, they, too, spent Thursday evening doing their best to turn away from the obvious truth. Throughout the evening military and other authorities kept saying, and the talking heads on CNN kept repeating, that there was no sign that this was "a terrorist act"- as if Nidal Malik Hasan had to be officially connected to al-Qaeda to be a jihadist, a pious Muslim who saw the infidel as his enemy. Living in Norway, I get CNN International, which is different from CNN in the U.S., though when major stories are breaking in the U.S. the international network often switches to the U.S. feed for hours at a time. CNN International's sponsors are disproportionately Middle Eastern airlines, tourism authorities, and such; so it was that in between ads for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, for Abu Dhabi tourism, for some art show in Abu Dhabi, and for the Dubai World Championship, not to mention cozy promos for an apparently soft-feature series called Inside the Middle East (presented "in association with Qatar Foundation" ), CNN reporters kept hammering home the line that Hasan had been the victim of anti-Muslim prejudice by his military colleagues. Repeatedly they read out, and showed onscreen, a long statement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemning the massacre- never mentioning, of course, CAIR's well-established terrorist links.

A Tribute to Those Who Lost Their Lives at Ft. Hood, TX

There is nothing to say
No words to express
What happened
To them
The carnage, the mess
Soldiers returning
From duty abroad
Who just wanted
Home…
On their
Own piece of
Sod
And then
Out of nowhere
A man on a mission
Who'd made a decision
He’d take out his frustration
Without hesitation
How convenient
His timing
His place of attack
His victims
Who had no
Chance to fight back
They weren’t even armed
How handy for him
All the more easy
For his aim to strike limbs
While his targets were
Fleeing for their very lives
He continued to fire
Giving vent to his ire
Well now that it’s over
I feel very sad
For the families
Our military
For the moms
And the dads
For the wives
and the husbands
For the sons and the daughters
For what we just witnessed
This terrible slaughter
By a Muslim, no less
This I was not going to say
But after reflection
I’m saying it, anyway
Because I’m sorry to say
I’m seeing a pattern
And you well better to
Because if you don’t
Then shame on you
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Soule: Where is the American Muslim Community? Are they tongue tied? Do they or do they not live in this country? If they do not speak out against this atrocity then they are sanctioning what this man did. What are they afraid of? It is time to speak up.