Have you ever seen a soldier out in public and wanted say thanks, but felt like an idiot walking up to a stranger? The Gratitude Campaign has a solution for it. Just do the simple sign for “Thank You” whenever you pass by a soldier.
BTW, it also works as a quick way to say thanks to anyone who deserves it.
You need to read the column, Imus Isn’t the Real Bad Guy, by Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star. He exposes how opportunism by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton distracts from the real issues concerning the black community.
Don’t by the lies of victimology. The crack-smoking, foul-mouthed, ebonic-spewing low-life with his hat on backwards and crooked and his underwear hanging out commenting on b****es and h*s and how much he’d like to f*** them instead of being a responsible father to any of the 3 kids he’s had with different women does far more to hurt the black man’s chances to excel in this world than Don Imus ever did.
My friend, Mike, sent me photos of the ice storm that hit Missouri this year. Texas is covered in snow. California’s produce market is going bankrupt because the hard frost won’t let up and they’re pulling dead cows out of the snow throughout the midwest. I woke up this morning and the temp was 29 degrees on Hilton Head Island # a sub-tropical climate.
So my question is this: where’s the global warming that all the liberals say humans are responsible for? I think something isn’t quite what they claim.
“It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I’m also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we’re doing just that.”
-President Bush
These are words you would have never heard from Bill Clinton. In fact, I’ve not heard anyone in Washington with the exception of perhaps Sen. Joe Lieberman take responsibility for anything.
I don’t care whether you think we should be in Iraq or not. The fact is that now we have a President with the moral character to stick to the task at hand with unwaivering conviction, even when it’s not popular.
He told us in a joint address to Congress shortly after 9/11 that this would be a long, hard, sometimes ugly and unpopular road to travel. This would be a war like none ever fought before and it would not be easy.
Now it has become just what President Bush predicted. The same elected officials that cried for blood after the towers fell now want to cut and run to save their political skins. Personally, I’d rather have someone that cares more about doing the right thing than cowering to lobbyists and PAC organizations, but you can elect whoever you want # while it’s still a free country.
National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
In our effort to keep you informed, I’ve posted the following document. You can agree or disagree, but don’t argue with me about something you haven’t even read. Make sure you know what you’re talking about first.
Download the complete pdf document of President Bush’s plan for victory in Iraq.
Click Here to Download
(Contributed by Mike Smith)
Learn these facts to properly debate our poor misguided friends & family before election time !!! (There are some good “one-liners” here, and they’re all fact!)
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 Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of 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 two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has …
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
Report Courtesy of Fox News
As the world looked back on the life of Ronald Reagan, both his supporters and detractors alike agreed that the popular, infectiously optimistic president changed the world.
During his eight years in office, Reagan reshaped and revived the Republican Party while devoting most of his foreign-policy energies to the dismantling of Soviet communism.
Reagan, 93, died Saturday following a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He had left office at the end of his second term in 1989.
President Bush on Sunday paid tribute to Reagan during a D-Day commemoration at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, that drew leaders from more than a dozen countries.
“Twenty summers ago, another American president came here to Normandy to pay tribute to the men of D-Day. He was a courageous man, himself, and a gallant leader in the cause of freedom. And today we honor the memory of Ronald Reagan,” Bush said, prompting applause.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan and the couple’s children, Ron Reagan and Patti Davis, were at the couple’s Los Angeles home Saturday when the nation’s 40th president died at 1 p.m. of pneumonia, a complication of Alzheimer’s. His son Michael Reagan from his first marriage arrived a short time later, said Joanne Drake, the Reagan family’s chief of staff.
Soon after Reagan’s death, a black hearse carried a flag-draped coffin from his home in Bel Air to a mortuary in nearby Santa Monica that was handling funeral arrangements.
Reagan’s body was expected to be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, then flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His funeral was expected to be at the National Cathedral, after which his body was to be returned to California for a sunset burial at the library.
Across the nation, people took pause upon learning of Reagan’s passing. The U.S. flag over the White House was lowered to half-staff within an hour and there were moments of silence at ballparks and at the nationally televised Belmont Stakes horse race.
From his home in Rancho Mirage, former President Ford said, “Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad. We extend our deepest condolences and prayers to Nancy and his family.”
Reagan had announced to the world in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, an incurable disease that destroys brain cells and leads to severe memory loss.
“When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future,” Reagan wrote at the time. “I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”
He was rarely seen in public afterward, and although fiercely protective of his privacy, Reagan’s wife had let people know over the years that his mental condition had deteriorated terribly.
“Ronnie’s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him,” she said last month.
Reagan had lived longer than any U.S. president, spending his last decade in the shrouded seclusion wrought by his disease, tended by his wife, whom he affectionately called Mommy, and the few closest to him.
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton survive him as ex-presidents.
The Reagan Revolution
At 69, Reagan was the oldest man ever elected president when he was chosen on Nov. 4, 1980, by an unexpectedly large margin over incumbent Democrat Carter.
Ascending to the presidency on a pledge to restore “the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism,” Reagan — a former actor and two-term California governor — remade the Republican Party in his own image of fiscal and social conservatism. Reagan brought a grandfatherly warmth to Republican issues and values that attracted supporters across a broad political spectrum.
He successfully implemented most of his campaign promises: reducing government bureaucracy and regulation, cutting taxes in favor of “trickle-down, or supply-side economics — which became known as Reaganomics (search) — and building a strong defense while fighting the spread of communism. These moves won him wide appeal and an even wider margin of victory in 1984, when he won the electoral votes of 49 states.
The role of president would prove to be more dramatic than any screen role Reagan had assumed in his pre-politics career in Hollywood. Just 69 days into his first term, Reagan was shot in Washington by John Hinckley, Jr. (search), but his quick and full recovery from the assassination attempt elevated him to new levels of national popularity.
His health was a recurring theme of his presidency as Reagan underwent major surgeries in 1981, 1985 and 1987.
Reagan was hawkish in foreign policy, staunchly committed to thwarting the spread of communism. His administration gave strong financial and military support to the Contra Rebels who were fighting Nicaragua’s communist government and supported the government of El Salvador’s fight against communist guerillas and rebels resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He dispatched U.S. troops to the island of Grenada when it was perceived as succumbing to Cuba in 1983.
Reagan’s war on communism led to an escalation of Cold War rhetoric and defense spending that mushroomed the national debt and brought harsh criticism upon his administration. But the efforts eventually resulted in a series of high-level summit meetings with Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, arms reduction pacts with the Soviets and eventually the break-up of the Soviet Union. That success was dramatically symbolized by the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
On Sunday, Gorbachev hailed Reagan as a great president and said he was distraught by news of his death, the Interfax news agency reported.
“Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time, displayed foresight and determination to meet our proposals halfway and change our relations for the better, stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange normal relations between our countries,” Gorbachev said.
Star Power
Born Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a radio sportscaster in the Midwest before being discovered by a Hollywood agent and being signed by Warner Bros. He made his acting debut in “Love Is in the Air” in 1937, made Air Force training films during World War II, and went on to make 52 movies. Reagan also served as a spokesman for the General Electric Company, hosted and acted on the General Electric Theater television series, and was also host of the television series, “Death Valley Days.”
Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, had two children, Maureen and Michael, before divorcing in 1948. He married actress Nancy Davis in 1952 and had two more children, Patricia and Ronald Prescott, who goes by Ron. Maureen Reagan died of cancer in 2001.
Reagan moved from acting into politics as a five-time president of the Screen Actors Guild. Originally a Democrat, Reagan’s ideology shifted to the right as he sided with the government attack on the influence of communism in the entertainment world.
But it was a well-received televised speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 that catapulted Reagan’s political career from the sound stage to the world stage. Reagan was elected California governor in 1966 and again in 1970. He made two failed attempts at the White House in 1968 and 1976 before his 1980 victory.
Known for his personal charm and talent — and for making masterful speeches to win support for his policies — many of the foreign leaders with whom he met were said to have been more impressed with his star quality than his intellect.
“You could see it in the faces of the foreign leaders — Mitterand, Thatcher, even Gorbachev,” a U.S. official who accompanied Reagan on many trips abroad was quoted as saying by Lou Cannon in his biography, “President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.”
“They didn’t pay much attention to what he was saying. Either they had heard it before, or they realized it was just talking points. But Reagan the man, the politician, fascinated them. It was almost as if they were saying, what does this man have that works so well for him? It was like they wanted to bottle it and take it home and use it themselves.”
The question of whether the commander in chief had a harder-edged side behind closed doors was the subject of some speculation and even humor. In a “Saturday Night Live” skit in the late 1980s, the late comic Phil Hartman portrayed a Reagan who was gentle and grandfatherly to Oval Office visitors but, behind closed doors, transformed into a sharp-minded scowling dictator who barked orders to his advisers.
While he wasn’t always cooperative with reporters, avoiding unwanted questions by feigning deafness as he approached a waiting helicopter, he maintained a genial relationship with the White House press corps, whose members nicknamed him the Gipper in reference to the character he portrayed in the film, “Knute Rockne, All American.”
Reagan’s approval rating remained high through his eight years in office, and Democrats struggled for years against the image of old-fashioned values, patriotism and hard work that Reagan fashioned for himself and his party.
As a tribute to Reagan’s legacy, Congress and President Bill Clinton officially changed the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in February 1998. And in 2003, former First Lady Nancy Reagan was on hand to christen the USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy’s newest nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
But perhaps the image of Reagan that will be remembered most was his ability to unite the nation under the strength of his convictions, such as when he spoke to all Americans, and
specifically schoolchildren, in the wake of the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger:
“It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons,” he said. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them.”
Reagan is survived by his wife and three children.
Whether you agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a man who stood firmly upon his principles.?He was a steadfast voice of reason and comfort during the hard transition from recession to prosperity.?His messages (often interrupting ‘The A Team’) helped to shape my own political ideologies as I grew up. Because of Ronald Reagan, I believe in the American morning.?The beginning of that great day when a prosperous nation rises up after the stormy night has passed.?
Today is former President Reagan’s 92nd birthday.?God bless you, Ronnie!
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