This and That...

[Diane Amberg]

 Look at all the others in that photo who don't have their hands over their hearts either.What is their excuse? I don't think that looks like Mrs.O, but it might be. Where is the event?

[Ross]

Look at all the others in that photo who don't have their hands over their hearts either.What is their excuse? I don't think that looks like Mrs.O, but it might be. Where is the event?

You liberals are all a like.
This woman who happens to be the First Lady of the United States who has said she was never proud of the US until her husband became President. She is standing there texting instead of doing what is expected of everyone else. Yet you defend her with poppycock.

Good job Diane.

[Ross]

This story is not for the mamby-pamby liberals of the world. I doubt they would understand. It is how they gained the right to be a mamby-pamby liberal. Thank a m-Marine.

While this is a story worth reading, it's a toughie.....long and upsetting but a historical perspective few know about.   

This is a true story, verified on snopes.com

Each year I (Michael T. Powers) am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capital and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable. 
   
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II 
     
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?' 
   
I told him that we were from Wisconsin.



'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.' 
   
(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away.



He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
 



When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.) 
   



'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers'. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me. 
   
'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team... They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18 and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
 
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph... a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men. 
   
'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank.  Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country' He knew he was talking to little boys... Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
 
'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona. Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
 
'So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken). 
   
'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19.



'When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
 
'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews.
 
'When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.     
 
'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver.



'On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain. 
     
 
 
'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.' 
   
'So that's the story about six nice young boys... Three died on Iwo Jima and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.' 
   
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless. 
   
One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God. 
   
Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time. Please pass it on.

[W. Gray]

The photo was taken April 15, 2015, at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.

First, the woman looks nothing like Michelle Obama even thought the hairdo might seem to be similar to hers.

Second, you might wonder why Michelle would be in the "peon" crowd with the rest of the attendees at this function.

This lady is not Michelle as she was sitting at the head table on the dais wearing a white dress and having a different hairdo.

The texting woman is Helena Andrews a gossip columnist for the Washington Post. She confirmed that it was her doing the texting and according to her, she was texting as part of her job. The only reason she gave for texting at this particular time was that "This is 2015" or words similar.

By the way, Donald Trump was also in attendance, chuckle.

[Ross]

The photo was taken April 15, 2015, at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.

First, the woman looks nothing like Michelle Obama even thought the hairdo might seem to be similar to hers.

Second, you might wonder why Michelle would be in the "peon" crowd with the rest of the attendees at this function.

This lady is not Michelle as she was sitting at the head table on the dais wearing a white dress and having a different hairdo.

The texting woman is Helena Andrews a gossip columnist for the Washington Post. She confirmed that it was her doing the texting and according to her, she was texting as part of her job. The only reason she gave for texting at this particular time was that "This is 2015" or words similar.

By the way, Donald Trump was also in attendance, chuckle.

Thank you Gray. I guess I should have googled this one before posting it. My bad.

[Diane Amberg]

See, Ross, Ya swatted me for nothing! I told you I didn't think it looked like Mrs. O.  I didn't need to defend her...it wasn't her! Thanks Waldo for getting the details.

[Warph]

Students At George Mason University Have No Idea Why We Were Attacked On 9/11

"Never forget?  So freakin' sad!!!... <sigh....>... to be fair, todays college students would have been in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time.  They could have had no concept at the time as to why it happened.  Any more than I could understand why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln when I was 5 years old."

When college students at George Mason University are asked by the Young America's Foundation what caused 9-11, several give baffling or just plain wrong answers about the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history. This is an inexcusable failure of the U.S.' education system and the major news media.

The 9-11 terrorist attacks fundamentally changed Americans' way of life and its foreign policy for the last fourteen years. On that harrowing morning in 2001, two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Two other planes were hijacked: one struck the Pentagon building, and the other was brought down by brave passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.

[Warph]

Judicial kings and Christian peasants - Intellectual Froglegs 09.07.15

[redcliffsw]

Good one. 

[Warph]

World's First Lesbian Bishop Calls for Church to Remove Crosses, to Install Muslim Prayer Space

October 6, 2015

 

Didja see this story?


The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers.

Eva Brunne, who was made the world's first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome.

The church targeted is the Seamen's mission church in Stockholm's eastern dockyards. The Bishop held a meeting there this year and challenged the priest to explain what he'd do if a ship's crew came into port who weren't Christian but wanted to pray.

Calling Muslim guests to the church "angels", the Bishop later took to her official blog to explain that removing Christian symbols from the church and preparing the building for Muslim prayer doesn't make a priest any less a defender of the faith. Rather, to do any less would make one "stingy towards people of other faiths".

What! A! Freaking! Idiot!!!  Go ahead and surrender to the Mooslimes you booger eatin' moh-ron.  BTW, do you know what Mooslimes do to queers in Iran?  They hang them or throw them off buildings.  They also wouldn't care if you were homosexual.  They would rape you before killing you.  Guess what they would do to you in Saudi Arabia?  They would brutally rape you and then they would chop off your head.  Read the rest of the story for more idiocy.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/05/worlds-first-lesbian-bishop-calls-church-remove-crosses-install-muslim-prayer-space/

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