Glenn Beck via Restoration Weekend (speech)

Great stuff as always and of course you know that Glenn is my true hero in life!!!!

Glenn Beck:

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Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket

I would be as surprised at this as if the ocean was wet and the sky was blue.................

ROBERT REICH: Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket:

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David Horowitz and Democrat Pat Caddell Explain the Radical Take-over of the US. Must View!!!

Dang folks it is a good day for items that matter and not just something to tide our appetite over.

Check this out!!

Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog » David Horowitz and Democrat Pat Caddell Explain the Radical Take-over of the US. Must View!!!:

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(MUST read) The Ron Paul Vote - WSJ.com

As usual...I agree with Stephen Hayes immensely on this piece.

MUST READ STUFF.

Henninger: The Ron Paul Vote - WSJ.com:

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Summitt T-shirts setting sales records » GoVolsXtra

This is simply beautiful and definitely has little to do with the fact I am a die-hard Vol man! It isn't about Vols backing pat and the fight she is undertaking it is about people all over the country backing her and this journey!!!

John Adams: Summitt T-shirts setting sales records » GoVolsXtra:

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Pentagon Downplays Panetta Remarks on Iran, Nukes - Defense News

Well holy surprise Batman of course they did.
Total guess from here in fly over country in the Southern Appalachian Mtns. but I imagine he accidentally uttered some truth that was on the SPEAK NO EVIL memo......

Pentagon Downplays Panetta Remarks on Iran, Nukes - Defense News:

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Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips - WSJ.com

WTF????
This even goes on some level above the obvious double standard from the book that came out a couple months back by the gentleman I apologetically am totally forgetting at the moment!

Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips - WSJ.com:

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Everything Obama Knows About The Economy | Blank Book | The Daily Caller

The Christmas gift that simply keeps on giving (nod to Cousin Eddy on Christmas Vacation!!!!)

Everything Obama Knows About The Economy | Blank Book | The Daily Caller:

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Christopher Hitchens: “Somehow if I could drive it...

I must say I had to add this to a specific folder of my youtube favorites! I was slightly surprised I hadn't already seen this.

New Roman Times • Christopher Hitchens: “Somehow if I could drive it...:

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New World Order (The UN) Wants to Reduce Human Population on Earth by 60% | Banned Ireporters at Village of the Banned

Why is it almost everything I get to add to the blog almost always makes me think of something like....YET ANOTHER UNSURPRISING REVELATION AND WHEN THEY ADMIT THINGS LIKE THIS WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES...or something along those lines

New World Order (UN) Wants to Reduce Human Population on Earth by 60% | Banned Ireporters at Village of the Banned:

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Thomas Sowell: Peerless Nerd « Commentary Magazine

This is a fantastic article. I would recommend this to all and forward to as many as you can!!

Thomas Sowell: Peerless Nerd « Commentary Magazine:

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Left Kind of Upset With Politifact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Choice

I honestly couldn't give a damn more or less about the huckster hacks at PolitiFact but this is funny if for no other reason that it has caused a bunch in Paul Marxist Krugman's granny panties!!

Michelle Malkin » Left Kind of Upset With Politifact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Choice:

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Syrian Protesters Want Bush Back at Pat Dollard

This is truly amazing.I had to do a triple take when I first saw it honestly.

Photo Of The Day: Syrian Protesters Want Bush Back at Pat Dollard:

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PICKET: Krugman wins media watchdog group's quote of the year - Washington Times

See my last blog...omg if the shoe fits people

PICKET: Krugman wins media watchdog group's quote of the year - Washington Times:

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Actress Maria Conchita Alonso Calls Sean Penn A ‘Communist A**Hole’ After He Calls Her A Pig | Mediaite

Well Sean if the shoe fits (we all now the rest...)

Actress Maria Conchita Alonso Calls Sean Penn A ‘Communist A**Hole’ After He Calls Her A Pig | Mediaite:

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Affirmative Action Judge released felon who KILLED a Cop (in NYC)

In God's holy name.......it is beyond tiresome to try and think of how to react to the never-ending BS that I have enough time and chance to comment on here let alone for anyone that truly has a conscience that might attempt things like this for a living....check out Mr. Michael Savage on this story link

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/cop_slay_judge_bails_6T0RLghjrLcK6aytyRU46J

Rabbi Hammerman | Time Tebow | Hammerman's Tebow bigotry should earn him a pink slip | The Daily Caller

WHEW HEW...a benchmark moment on my little blog. I have found something from the blog-o-sphere that puts politics and TEBOW together.
Seriously this obviously an item worth reading...

Rabbi Hammerman | Time Tebow | Hammerman's Tebow bigotry should earn him a pink slip | The Daily Caller:

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Blast From The Past: Chris Farley’s Gingrich Impersonation At ’95 House Republican Conference | Mediaite

OMG, this has nothing to do with my issues with Newt but in all seriousness I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL OF THIS AND SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE....especially if you have anyone in your life that is massively talented and has dependency issues....enough of that check it out....

Blast From The Past: Chris Farley’s Gingrich Impersonation At ’95 House Republican Conference | Mediaite:

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(Counter this with the previous Brad Thor article) Trump-ed up: You won’t believe what Eason Jordan’s up to now

GOOD LORD folks. It is seriously no wonder folks that truly care about anything resembling truth and "right & wrong" sometimes can't win even when they try with all their mite....WTH is this mess....again see the previous post via Brad Thor on biggovernment.com

Michelle Malkin » Trump-ed up: You won’t believe what Eason Jordan’s up to now:

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(1st & 4most REMEMBER this was done by Brad Thor) ‘Journalists’ Pelton and Jordan Get All Wet Carrying Water For Inept CIA

This is slap damn frightening people....MEANING it is even more important the majority of our country gets to read it!!!!!

‘Journalists’ Pelton and Jordan Get All Wet Carrying Water For Inept CIA - Big Journalism:

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'Jihad Watch' Robert Spencer & A Muslim Caller in Australia

This as usual for Jihad Watch is really really good stuff! Definitely worth showing to anyone you have a chance to IMO.....

2GB Media Player - 'Jihad Watch':

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The Moral and Constitutional Case for a Right to Gay Marriage | Robert A. Levy | Cato Institute: Commentary

BOOO, hiss, & hellllllllllll NO. CATO is a truly great think tank but this is beyond disheartening. It is nothing more than taking away one of the few remaining bastions of America and what we have used to build everything that is beautiful in this entire world. (right there with the 2nd amendment and a few others....quick example see how a Christmas tree and Merry Christmas became a Holiday tree and Happy Holidays...SLIPPERY SLOPE is not a damn conspiracy theory it is a damn reality in any country, any generation, any government....WE ARE NOT AND WILL NOT EVER BE ABOVE IT....see Germany and the Jews)

The Moral and Constitutional Case for a Right to Gay Marriage | Robert A. Levy | Cato Institute: Commentary:

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Mitt vs. The Eye of Newt (poor Charles faces current reality)

Yep, Charles Krauthammer is apparently facing and writing about the sorry harsh reality this country faces (specifically conservatives of course)

Mitt vs. Newt - The Washington Post:

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The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed: Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? | The Public Record

All I can say is if you haven't go read The Creature From Jeckyl Island immediately. If you can't read it go research it and all that it entails along with that ol' crazy papaw Ron Paul and for that matter my hero Glenn Beck!!

The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed: Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? | The Public Record:

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Adam Carolla Talks About Occupy Wall Street | Video | TheBlaze.com

THIS IS SO DEAD ON.....be ready for massively foul language though.



Adam Carolla Talks About Occupy Wall Street | Video | TheBlaze.com:

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5 Things That Will Happen To You When America Goes Bankrupt | Right Wing News

I know the title here is more than a little apocalyptic but i promise you this guy is actually trying to sugarcoat it for people compared to what I truly see on the horizon.....

5 Things That Will Happen To You When America Goes Bankrupt | Right Wing News:

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Paul Ryan calls for a full accounting of the Administration’s green energy slush fund | Facebook

File this one in the "understatements of 2011" folder

Paul Ryan calls for a full accounting of the Administration’s green energy slush fund | Facebook:

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Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate - Forbes

HERE ME...if I were even approaching important or famous I can imagine this would be one of those comments taken insanely and blown up to untold proportions....AND if I were even approaching important or famous I WOULD ONLY SAY MORE NOT LESS.
MARK IT DOWN FOLKS....this climate-gate garbage is just like this sad sad evil J. Sandusky predator case at Penn State....for every initial person that comes forward in this molestation case there will be probably 10 more that come later or see that he will never see the light of day after trial and simply let it go from a accusation standpoint....WELL for every Climate-gate email situation we get I WILL BET MY ETERNAL SOUL on it there are 10 more like it and some we may see eventually and some (this part is totally different) for many and multiple reasons the world will likely never know!

Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate - Forbes:

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Penn&Teller Expose Obama’s Tax "Bullshit"

Well obviously this fine atheist isn't for the faint of heart but if you haven't taken the time at any point in life I can assure you he has few if any sacred cows....he will flat out call anyone (including GOD...see atheist reference above) out on the carpet. That alone in this damn world is worth a look at bare minimum.

Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog » Penn&Teller Expose Obama’s Tax "Bullshit":

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MAKE EVERYONE READ THIS: North Dakota Oil Boom Creates a Boom in ND Millionaires

OH HELL NO the Lame-stream-media won't report on this....destroys the unending mantra that America is bad and evil; and that Capitalism is even worse than aforementioned America.... NOW click this link and read what I already knew was happening (simply didn't have true statistics to back up the huge chatter out there about it....now we do baby)

CARPE DIEM: ND Oil Boom Creates a Boom in ND Millionaires:

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OWSer Hands Obama A Note In New Hampshire

If you knew nothing about this Occupy Movement the obvious 1st red flag is on the actual note as you can see in the link the sorry bastards crossed out "American" from the thing..... 'NUF SAID YA THINK?

The Morning Spew » OWSer Hands Obama A Note In New Hampshire:

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Mark Steyn Weekly Archive Couldn't Be Better - The original OBIT for NEWT in 1999

I am pasting below the meat and potatoes of the article but of course only after the links from Mr. Steyn and also mentioning that his messaging today from the original requester of his wonderful work you must click to see (that and I am probably thinking this is not right....as in...if I every had a famous blog etc. lol)

http://www.steynonline.com/4661/the-likeability-gap

'Gingrich - primary mission,' wrote the fledgling Newt in a reminder to himself in December 1992. 'Advocate of civilisation. Definer of civilisation. Teacher of the rules of civilisation.' So far, so good. But, at this point, a touch of self-doubt sets in: 'Leader (possibly) of the civilising forces.'

Sadly, it was not to be. Today, Newt Gingrich is Loser (undoubtedly) of the '98 election. Stunned to find someone in Washington going down even faster than Monica, President Clinton generously saluted the Speaker as a 'worthy adversary'. Alas, the Democrats' House Leader Dick Gephardt, cruising past Newt's bullet- riddled body in the gutter, couldn't resist reversing back over it: 'I hope that whoever succeeds Newt Gingrich as Speaker will immediately begin the process of repairing the damage that was wrought on this institution over the last four years.'

Whoa, steady on! Before we confine the Great Definer and Supreme Advocate to the trash can of history, it's worth remembering what the House of Representatives was like in the long-past pre-Newtian era of four years ago. After 40 years of Democratic control, it was a stinking sewer of corruption - not just who-paid-whose-bill-at-the- Paris-Ritz piffle, but rampant, systemic corruption. At the House bank, for example, Congressmen could write cheques for vast sums of cash, regardless of whether they had any funds to cover them. In Britain, where cheque-bouncing and extravagant overdrafts are routine, that might not seem a big deal. But, over here, if you bounce a cheque for 12 bucks to the general store, they pin it up over the register and the whole town knows. Do it again and you'll get 30 days in the county jail. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story about a fellow whose entire life was ruined because in his youth he passed one bad cheque. Yet, under a system that prides itself on checks and balances, Congressmen could write all the cheques they want regardless of their balances. In the House post office, they could wander in with a $10,000 contributor's cheque, buy a 29¢ stamp and get $9,999.71 change. My postmistress won't let you do that.

But the most telling symptom of the moral decay under one-party rule was a simple one: the laws Congress passed on behalf of the people applied to all the people - except them. They were exempt from their own legislation. In 1994, the then Speaker Tom Foley, a Democratic Congressman from Washington State, was suing his own electors because they'd been impertinent enough to pass a ballot proposition mandating term limits for the Representatives. His crony, Dan Rostenkowski, had an even more fundamentalist view of the perks of office: they found furniture from the House in the basement of his home in Illinois.

Newt and the new Republican leadership ended those scams: legislators, like any other citizens, are now bound by the law of the land; Rostenkowski went to gaol and Foley to a richly deserved political oblivion; whatever else may be said about Newt's tenure as Speaker, you no longer have to nail down the furniture.

Instead, it was nailing down Newt that proved the problem. About a week before the 1994 Republican landslide, I was on a radio show where someone mentioned a poll showing that over 50 per cent of the American people had never hear of Newt Gingrich. 'I wish I could say the same,' muttered a Democrat pundit. In 1994, no one voted for Newt; some voted for the 'Contract With America', and a lot voted against the Democratic incumbents and the Washington establishment.

Newt deserves credit for his bold strategy that year and for his much derided 'Contract', of which most proposals (welfare reform, a balanced budget, etc.) were savaged by Democrats at the time, yet almost all of which have since been co-opted by the President. In his humbler, non-Definer of Civilisation moments, he saw himself as another Churchill, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria ... But I think, in these media-conscious times, the most appropriate comparison would be with the creators of a hit TV show - say, James Brooks and Allan Burns, who cooked up The Mary Tyler Moore Show. They invented a superb vehicle, but they didn't make the mistake of putting themselves in it: brilliant as they might be, no one would want to see The Brooks and Burns Show every night of the week; they want to see perky, sunny Mary. Newt's mistake was to muddle a congressional election with the Miss America pageant: he was convinced people loved him. Like that other pudgy, greying boomer in the Oval Office, he thought everything had to be about him: all Newt, all the time.

Shortly after he became Speaker, his staff circulated a five-page document of interconnected projects under the heading 'Newtworld'. Newtworld proved to be one of those theme-parks nobody wants to visit - and who can blame them? At Newtworld, what you mostly get is lots of Newt, at great length. A couple of years ago, I happened to be on a discussion panel presided over by Mrs Thatcher. In the moments before the debate began, rather than waste her time yakking with me, she cast an eye over an upcoming Newt speech that one of his aides had asked for her thoughts on. She took up her pen and scored through one line, then another. 'Even the best speeches can lose a line or two' I mumbled, nervously glancing at my own address. She scored through the rest of the paragraph, then down to the foot of the page, and over on to the next. When she'd eventually finished, she called over the lady from Newt's political action committee, and handed her the replacement text for the deleted portions: one short sentence. Poor Newt. He was never that disciplined. He was fond of movements and 'Movement Planning Proposals', but he couldn't resist moving from movement to movement. He's responsible for more movements than a crate of Ease-O-Lax: from 'The Triangle of American Progress' to the 'Caring Humanitarian Reform Movement' to 'The America That Can Be' to the 'Citizens' Opportunities Movement' to 'Renewing American Civilisation'.

If you're wondering what 'The Triangle of American Progress' is, relax: pretty soon it had evolved into 'The Four Pillars of American Civilisation', which in turn expanded into the 'Five Pillars of the 21st Century'. The collected brainstorms of Newt sound like a cross between T.E. Lawrence and the numerologically obsessed Fruit of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who claims that once a month he's taken up into a spacecraft floating above earth to commune with the spirits of deceased African-Americans. Aside from his 'Five Pillars', Newt had the 'Four Great Truths', the 'Nine Zones of Creativity', the 'Fourteen Steps to RAC' (see Renewing American Civilisation above), the Four Can'ts, the Five Cs, the Four Tops, the Jackson Five, the McGuire Sisters, and on and on.

The Democrats demonised Newt as an extreme right-wing crazy. They were right - apart from the 'extreme' and 'right-wing', that is. Most of the above seem more like the burblings of a frustrated self-help guru than blueprints for conservative government. For example, Pillar No. 5 of the 'Five Pillars of American Civilisation' is: 'Total quality management'. Unfortunately for Newt, the person who most needed a self-help manual was him - How to Win Friends and Influence People for a start. After last week's election, Republicans have now embarked on the time-honoured ritual, well known to British Tories and Labour before them, of bickering over whether they did badly because they were too extreme or because they were too moderate. In Newt's case, the answer is both. He spent the last year pre-emptively surrendering on anything of legislative consequence, but then, feeling bad at having abandoned another two or three of his 'Fourteen Steps to RAC', he'd go on television and snarl at everybody in sight. In so doing, he betrayed Item No. 8 of his 1997 Movement Planning Proposal:

'We are FOR rather than AGAINST.
'We are Inclusive rather than Exclusive . . .

For Republicans it was the worst of all worlds: a lily-livered ninny whom everyone thinks is a ferocious right-wing bastard. In the 1996 presidential race, the Democrats ran commercials attacking not Dole but 'Dole-Gingrich'; in congressional campaigns, the bland, anonymous face of some unexceptional Senator or Representative would suddenly be electronically morphed into the satanic smirk of Newt. In the days before the Speaker decided to pull the Five Pillars down around his head and hurl himself down the Fourteen Steps, Texas Governor George W. Bush was telling friends that he was almost certainly going to run for president, but that, if he did, he wanted to win or lose on his own merits and not because the Democrats tagged the campaign 'Bush-Gingrich'. Newt had movement proposals for every subject but one: likability. It's clear from his 45-minute non- farewell address on Monday that he still hopes to run for the White House in 2000, but he has an insurmountable obstacle: the American people will never warm to him.

At the Congressional level, likability is becoming a major problem for the GOP. Late on election night, I switched on ABC to find, for the Republicans, Senator Orrin Hatch and House Majority Leader Dick Armey and, for the Democrats, Barney Frank. For most people, Congressman Frank's name conjures up, if anything at all, a hazy memory of a long-ago scandal about a gay prostitution ring being operated from his premises. In purely objective terms, he's a faintly creepy old queen with a lisp, but, next to Senator Hatch, a stiff-necked Mormon, and Armey, a dim bruiser with a sore head, he seemed by far the most relaxed and non-off-putting. The Republicans are still looking for their Mary Tyler Moore: Americans like their leaders on the sunny side.

Bob Livingston, the new Speaker, doesn't fit that bill. Except for occasional explosions, he's as boring as a ledger. But these days non-exciting is in, and Mr Livingston has promised 'to make the trains run on time'. In contrast to Mussolini-era deployments of the term, this is a mere figure of speech: it seems to be beyond either party to make Amtrak, the country's federally funded, ramshackle passenger rail network, run on time. But, that said, he'll be lower-key than his predecessor, which means that when Governor Bush or some other non-congressional Republican wins the presidential nomination, they'll be the party's undisputed leader and not merely Newt's sidekick.

Meanwhile, everything's back to normal: on Monday, Justice Department officials interviewed the President about alleged 'soft money' fundraising abuses, and the Supreme Court ruled against him on the questions of testimony from government counsel and Secret Service agents. Life goes on - except without Newt - lost in the Bermuda Triangle of American Progress. 'It has', declared former Christian Coalition head honcho Ralph Reed, 'shifted the Teutonic plates'. Maybe he meant Tectonic, maybe not. Maybe he saw Newt as some grim Teutonic platter of cold meats that the public was never going to find any more appetising: the wurst was yet to come.

Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough, formerly one of the 1994 Gingrich revolutionaries, nailed his colours to the new mast. 'I'm a George W. Bush Republican,' he says. 'I don't know what that means, but I'll know it when I see it.'

MORE ON CLIMATEGATE PART DEUX: “As with the first ClimateGate release, I have yet to see anything i…

My GOD people I can only pray by the time my grandchildren read this that every single nugget of this garbage is something people have been laughing about for years....

Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE ON CLIMATEGATE PART DEUX: “As with the first ClimateGate release, I have yet to see anything i…:

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The political satire of the Common Sense Czar: using the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights to inform voters why The Left isn't Right and The Right is Wrong

Interesting cat I found here boys and girls. I wound up here from a hardcore patriotic lover and protector of Israel (which came from Glenn Beck this year....not directly just a byproduct as it should be)

The political satire of the Common Sense Czar: using the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights to inform voters why The Left isn't Right and The Right is Wrong:

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Hallelujah!!! Republicans Attack UN

OMG, this some beautiful news people. Mr. Loudon has done it yet again people!

Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog » Hallelujah!!! Repubs Attack UN:

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ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT :: SteynOnline

Mr. Steyn as usual provides some slightly unusual and thought provoking dialog including one of the earlier gaffes by the NY SLIMES newspaper (i.e. this fine gentleman that passed away this week was originally in an OBIT in the Times 5 years ago...thx to that damn massive and thorough reporting they hang their hats on)

ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT :: SteynOnline:

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America Hits $15 Trillion of Debt (VIA Heritage)

Even if you don't have a few minutes to read the article simply click on the link and look at the picture at the top of the page. Just seeing that debt clock and what 15 trillion dollars physically looks like....and that will tell you all you need to know about why we have to do something different than we have been doing AND FAST.

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Those RICH RADICALS and the Wall Street Protestors: The Obama Connection! | Voting American

Color me very unsurprised as usual sadly.
Also as we know when you have a complicit media or at the very least a media so set on it's own agenda they pick our winners and losers THIS IS WHAT YOU GET (i.e. Change you can believe in etc. garbage)

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Inside the Harbaugh family coaching tree - ESPN

This HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FOOTBALL...except if you know nothing of it and/or this fine family you will have to research how awesome this story is of family!!
Just take 2 minutes of your day and read how the Dad dealt with his fine 2 young sons from an early age and then take 5 minutes and watch any of the videos of them even to this day (both are head coaches in the NFL now)
Literally brings a tear to my eye.

Eddie Matz - ESPN The Magazine: Inside the Harbaugh family coaching tree - ESPN:

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Herman Cain | Fire Staff | The Daily Caller

I have to totally agree with EE from RedState.com on all accounts here. I still think Herman can win (I will happily vote for him in the primary) and this current staff has turned into a clown-car show at the 1st sign of a scandal or attempt at one!!

RedState | Herman Cain | Fire Staff | The Daily Caller:

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Herman Cain loses endorsement from American Mustache Institute | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

In a week of some horrible evils here is a moment of levity that is sorely needed (IMO)

Herman Cain loses endorsement from American Mustache Institute | The Ticket - Yahoo! News:

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LSU defense clamps down to win a classic - College Football - Rivals.com

A sports link on a life blog for my future grandchildren...ONLY because I can't help but point out obvious things....and this article especially a few paragraphs down where they describe the last 1 vs 2 from the Big 10...both teams went on to get their hindquarters handed to them in BCS games just helps make me remember yet again to NOT BE LIKE THE LIBERAL MEDIA...live in reality!!!!! It is the liberal media that would still to this day be saying that the Big 10 etc was the best if as many people listened and watched our countries politics as they do football sadly....

LSU defense clamps down to win a classic - College Football - Rivals.com:

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WWW.glennbeckclips.com with Multiple Stories worth Watching

This has the crazy new Trump jet, a YouTube video as well of Newt's speech in Iowa Saturday, and that crackhead that had 1 too many bodyslams in the WWF... Jesse the Body Ventura!! GOOD STUFF.

Glenn Beck Online November 6, 2011:

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Was ‘cash for clunkers’ a clunker? - The Washington Post

Anyone now that reads this and especially for my family in the future....if you don't immediately know the answer to this question stop now and go look it up and get some perspective and come back and read the link from the Washington Com-Post as is below.....

The quote is ....... The Truth is a Stubborn Thing (sadly for this media generally speaking its a damn joke so when they bring up things that people like I pointed out 4 minutes after I initially heard this idea....well that just means it sucked even worse than my simple country mind could have ever imagined!!!)
If I didn't have family and a stake in this country I would laugh my butt off and rejoice and gloat at being right.....but alas that is, well uhhhh, not a option people. We inherited the greatest country on earth and the greatest idea of a country on earth and we are in the midst of overseeing the ruination of both and having to look our future generations in the eyes and even attempt to explain why, how, would a, could a, should a, blah blah....I am not looking forward to it any of it period! Hence why today's work from every citizen that cares on this continent is absolutely needed!!

Was ‘cash for clunkers’ a clunker? - The Washington Post:

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(The Occupy Movement from an out of work Puppeteer) Marginal Revolution

The moment I finish this addition to the blog I am sending to everyone on planet earth I know...pay attention to all parts of this story and the link to the original article from that crackhead.com site known as the nation (also from a personal perspective that founder of that nut job website has his $25 hardback on sale at the dollar tree here in TN in mass quantity).
This story (if you have anything resembling damn common sense and don't long for Communist Russia or current day China) literally spans the spectrum to show why these clowns are just that. This guy had a high dollar education and was working as a teacher in the New York school system....my god go research what they make....well he decides the world is short 1 puppeteer so he goes back and gets an MFA in his dream....Puppetry! AND THAT AZZ HAT hack website that is basically just slightly more illegitimate than Politico used this frigging hilarious sham of a story as a true life tale to legitimize what these useful idiots and wastes of human space are doing at these Occupy movements. I am going lawyer here and simply saying I rest ALL OUR CASES!!

Not From The Onion — Marginal Revolution:

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#OCCUPYFAIL: Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp. It’s like a…

Apparently this entire OCCUPY thing hasn't been lost on the parasites in our country (and I don't mean college students and liberals....I am talking actual god given...watch them on discovery channel parasites lol)

Instapundit » Blog Archive » #OCCUPYFAIL: Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp. It’s like a…:

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Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized In Newport Beach « CBS Los Angeles

Oh yea America, how can't you love these damn clowns from OCCUPY "any damn thing but a job" apparently!!

Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized In Newport Beach « CBS Los Angeles:

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Penn State's insufficient action amid child sex allegations stunning - College Football - Rivals.com

I could not, try as I might, resist adding this to the blog. It isn't even related to my general contempt for Academia and the ridiculous power that colleges in this country have....it is simply as good an example of power and importance run a muck as you may ever see....and for God's sake it was the molesting of little boys people. Really? This is beyond words and that is putting it mildly. Let this be one more example albeit as sad an example as I have ever read.

Penn State's insufficient action amid child sex allegations stunning - College Football - Rivals.com:

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(I URGE all to watch this debate) For Gingrich and Cain, it’s a friendship and a contest - The Washington Post

Thanks to one of my heroes, Neil Boortz, I heard about this early enough to DVR it since we were able to go watch the Bama vs. LSU game with some friends....I just finished watching the debate and it was even better than I imagined and I would urge anyone to give it their time....WELL WELL WELL worth it!
I can honestly see these guys on a ticket together! Time will tell. I truly despise many of the things a career politician or at worst ELITE like Newt has going on but if for no reason other than the experience factor if Newt could somehow stay where he is in the polls and be a VP (if pride allowed for it of course) I would be very happy with that!!

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Perry Family Hunting Camp and the ambush of Herman Cain - Move-On-Up.org

Definitely a piece worth reading in my opinion!!

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Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks - Washington Times

I don't need to spend a sentence for anyone in the present of 2011 to figure out what is up here and good Lord do we even really need to go into the laughable neglect in vetting the current President of the US....NO but remember this entire blog is for future conversation with our grandchildren therefore it has been added and we will be talking about in the decades to come.....ALSO KEEP IN MIND HOW MUCH FUN IT WILL BE for PROGS to change history....that is why I think you are currently seeing the ridiculous efforts to shape the narrative by the MSM.....because I daily learn something that was never taught in history class etc....that BS excuse will be off the table with our fine Ipads, Ipods, T1 connections, lap tops all over etc........; am I right or just a little too wrapped up in my hero and convert... Glenn Beck's world? LOL!!!!!!!

PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks - Washington Times:

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Hundreds Want Death-Defying Beagle Named Daniel - Yahoo!

This is just too sweet....and the name Daniel makes it that much better.

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Herman Cain Says He Wants His Secret Service Codename To Be “Cornbread” | Roland Martin Reports

I repeat for the millionth time good lord I love this man (I all but worshiped him when he was nothing more than an awesome American......when I found him thx to his radio show which I found thanks to the Talkmaster Neal Boortz!!)

Herman Cain Says He Wants His Secret Service Codename To Be “Cornbread” | Roland Martin Reports:

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Ann Coulter - October 26, 2011 - IF I WERE A LIBERAL ...

One of Miss Demonic's better ones guys!

Also some great historical references to go with the usual great reality checks and commentary!!

Ann Coulter - October 26, 2011 - IF I WERE A LIBERAL ...:

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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM -- Mark Steyn

There is literally and simply never a bad time for anything authored by one of the great ones.....Mr. Steyn!!

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM :: SteynOnline:

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ALERT: Final Implementation Phase of Obama Formal Dictatorship has Begun

ALERT: Final Implementation Phase of Obama Formal Dictatorship has Begun:

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Herman-al Velocity: Can Anything Stop Herman Cain’s Momentum? | Mediaite

All of my prayers for our liberty and the country are being answered before my eyes I do believe.

Herman-al Velocity: Can Anything Stop Herman Cain’s Momentum? | Mediaite:

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Peter Schiff takes on 'The 99%' | MRCTV

Don't take on great minds and passionate people with (not even strong) MoveOn.org & Soros Monkey talking point.....if you do watch this video to see what you look like!!

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Best Glenn Beck political cartoon ever? | TheBlaze.com

Best Glenn Beck political cartoon ever? | TheBlaze.com:

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Karzai: Afghans want permanent U.S. presence - CBS News

Karzai: Afghans want permanent U.S. presence - CBS News:

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State Department buys $70,000 worth of Obama books - Washington Times

OK this one even rendered me speechless.

I am at least on this date firmly convinced this is the biggest bunch of garbage yet from this administration (simply from a Scruples, etc. standpoint).

AND THAT IS SAYING A HELLUVA LOT. PLZ TAKE LIKE 5 MINUTES AND READ THIS GEM AND CHALLENGE THOSE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST WITH THE QUESTION(S) I BRING TO YOU....add this propaganda self promotion (and self profit) to the Solyndra, Light Squared, and the rest of JUST THE HIGH$ no SCRUPLES Pillaging of our Constitution & Treasury....without a doubt additional ammo for my personal favorite-- Lord Acton's quote which describes ALL Governments past, present, and future..... "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely Absolute power

1- ALMOST DAILY there are never ending scandals and crony capitalism that would make Wall Street CEO's blush.....AND 90% of the media is either the actual LEFT and Democratic or simply in total bed with them...SO WITH ALL THIS GARBAGE THAT actually has made it out against the wishes of most the elite Mainstream media CAN ANYONE EVEN FATHOM the things we have yet to learn?!?!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir/

State Department buys $70,000 worth of Obama books - Washington Times:

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Pig Farmer’s True Prizewinner Is His Fantasy Baseball Team - NYTimes.com

I just had to add this on the blog so I don't lose track of it...amazing stuff...not because he is a pig farmer....my grandfather and Kel's parents and grandparents both had pigs and other animals on their farm as well....

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my boo? - WordReference Forums

I hope this will stay up over the test of time but while researching a question my wife and daughter had I ran into one flat ridiculous comment (IMO) and as a really really white Southern person I had to attempt to interject some version of thought and reason on a flat ridiculous statement at least by my estimation!!

my boo? - WordReference Forums:

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Team won’t line up for extra point in tribute to teammate - Prep Rally - High School Blog - Yahoo! Sports

SEEEEEEEEE, this is what Glenn talks about every day..... FORGET politics until we as people get right it will only be so much better...or maybe I should say it CAN ONLY BE so much better...not truly right!!

Team won’t line up for extra point in tribute to teammate - Prep Rally - High School Blog - Yahoo! Sports:

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(I SWEAR this is homeschooling worthy at worst for the teacher..i.e. parents) Varieties of inequality

Gang this is a very very very worthwhile chunk of your time on this link and for some afterthought of honest to goodness critical thinking from Hades!!!!!!!!

TheMoneyIllusion » Varieties of inequality:

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Matthew Perry Sitcom From 1987 Predicted Gaddafi's 2011 Death | Mediaite

LOL, I guess there truly shouldn't/couldn't be a lol on this one but either way whatever.....anybody that ever reads this in the now and god knows my future grand-children will totally get it folks!!!!!

Matthew Perry Sitcom From 1987 Predicted Gaddafi's 2011 Death | Mediaite:

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Dennis Miller Shines on O’Reilly | Verum Serum

This is as good as you will see one of the best there has ever been! I damn love it when he gets up on O'Reilly's arse LOL....

Dennis Miller Shines on O’Reilly | Verum Serum:

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(FILE, SAVE, & USE FOREVER) The Darwinian Paradox of Progressivism

This is literally as beautiful as any poem you could ever read. Truly awesome and I will be using this as long as I am blessed to live to help shed light on this evil disease!!

AlinskyDefeater's Blog » The Darwinian Paradox of Progressivism: "the Darwinian Paradox of Progressivism"

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Reid: Protecting Government Employment More Important Than Saving Private Sector Jobs | The Weekly Standard

The last shred of doubt removed...Harry Reid is insane and dangerous.......

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Sen. Rand Paul on Occupy Wall Street, No Child Left Behind

Look it is the non-crazy Paul speaking!!

Sen. Rand Paul on Occupy Wall Street, No Child Left Behind:

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Microblogging: The Latest Challenge for China's Censors

Very interesting read from Heritage for all of us Freedom & Liberty loving type folks!!

Microblogging: The Latest Challenge for China's Censors:

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5 reasons why income inequality is a myth — and Occupy Wall Street is wrong « The Enterprise Blog

Show this to every lefty you know.....they better be a little brighter or alot less high than the Occupy Wall Street gems though.

5 reasons why income inequality is a myth — and Occupy Wall Street is wrong « The Enterprise Blog:

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(READ & SAVE 4EVER) From “I, Pencil” to iPhone: The spontaneous order of capitalism

This literally takes one of my favorite things every on earth that isn't my family to another level....the absolute only thing missing is audio and/or video of it! That is quite alright we are all perfectly capable of reading but as I have preached to many a college student guru since he did it....go listen to damn Mark Levin's I, Pencil and it is just so powerful it hearkens back to a picture is worth a thousand words I think....or at least in the ballpark!

Michelle Malkin » From “I, Pencil” to iPhone: The spontaneous order of capitalism:

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MUST SAVE 4EVER: The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time | Right Wing News

You can't tire of reading this jewel!!

The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time | Right Wing News:

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Obama Supporter to Black GOP Candidate: “I’m Calling You a N*gger, an Uncle Tom N*gger” (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

Oh good lord what would they call the great Herman Cain?

Sheesh at some point I am gonna give up....if I live long enough to truly lose my last nerve of hope/faith!!

Obama Supporter to Black GOP Candidate: “I’m Calling You a N*gger, an Uncle Tom N*gger” (Video) | The Gateway Pundit:

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Winston Churchill versus The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - The WMD Library

I am just getting into this part of the biggest evil to hit the end of my generation and my daughter's entire generation but it is a great start. Having some really great discussions with a few folks elsewhere as well and this is getting scarier by the damn moment.!! FLAG THIS!!!!

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(OMG give it up You Elitist pigs) Michelle Malkin » Mrs. Obama goes “incognito,” Lady Gaga-style

Read all of the wonderful Miss Malkin's comments so if this is years from now my loving family you can get full context of the joke that this entire damn regime is even compared to the joke that the beltway in general is.......They are definitely the king and queen of SPIN.....Target, really? nice....why all the damn Wal-Mart hate people?

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Greatest. Day. In. Baseball. History

Check this date and look it up grand kids in all seriousness. I didn't gett off work until 10pm and I still got to see more insanity from then on than the whole damn season combined. I am heartbroken because my Braves completed 1 of the worst chokes in 130yr history of baseball but my god I felt like I was in the midst of history just trying to watch all this the way it unfolded.....so I say again my FAM....please research and fully understand and enjoy this day!!!

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Extent of damage to the Washington Monument to be revealed - CNN.com

Hey at least this monument wasn't made in China right?

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US government openly admits arming Mexican drug gangs with 30,000 firearms – but why? « Truth11

Sad but true the facts continue to evolve.

US government openly admits arming Mexican drug gangs with 30,000 firearms – but why? « Truth11:

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Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate | The Daily Caller

I call BS...this was obviously a damn Freudian slip period. Even for this gaffe-o-matic President how do you misread the prompter and go from janitor to JEW unless that is what is in your heart.....????!?!?!?!?!

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Autistic Teenager Writes Key Joke for Comedian Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist Routine | Video | TheBlaze.com

A really great story. The Blaze is getting better and better at their mix of stories!

Thanks!!

Autistic Teenager Writes Key Joke for Comedian Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist Routine | Video | TheBlaze.com:

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How Cain won Florida | Campaign 2012

I can't quite say I really don't care what happens from here but no matter how that history plays out I love this lil' bit of in your face from a man I admire more than I could ever attempt to do justice on a simple man's blog.

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James Carville to Obama: Fire your staff - 44 - The Washington Post

Rush talked about this in great length today and it should also be noted IMO.

The hell with his staff if they were all gone tomorrow it doesn't change a thing about the President himself.

James Carville to Obama: Fire your staff - 44 - The Washington Post:

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Barack Obama Depressed | Gawker | New York Times | Mediaite

Well at a bare minimum I can promise you he has brought profound sadness and depression to my family and I.....DOES THAT COUNT?

Barack Obama Depressed | Gawker | New York Times | Mediaite:

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Megyn Kelly Debate | Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post | Video | Mediaite

I honestly hate to say this because (it would take the lottery) if I ever became famous I am sure it would come back to bite but the only thing that could make Krugman look even on planet earth is this bitch from Code Pink...........THANK you very muchMegyn Kelly Debate | Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post | Video | Mediaite:

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(Thx michellemalkin.com LOVE Koward Krugman moniker)A few more words about Koward Krugman Update: Take two!

Michelle Malkin » A few more words about Koward Krugman Update: Take two!:

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A few more words about Koward Krugman

This piece of work is the damn microcosm of Liberalism & Progressivism & EVERY DAMN SINGLE REASON YOU SHOULD WISH MORE FOR YOUR CHILDREN PERIOD!!

If I was watching from an island somewhere with no heritage and unlimited capitol I imagine I would actually laugh my ass off at this clown but.........alas reality is so.......

A few more words about Koward Krugman:

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Michelle Malkin » Video flashback: A ride to the Top of the World

Michelle Malkin » Video flashback: A ride to the Top of the World:

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GOD KRUGMAN is an AZZHAT -- The Years of Shame

There simply aren't enough words to describe this clown. Every time I think he has hit the last rung on the crackhead progressive/liberal ladder he finds additional aluminum on that damn ladder. The last one was the alien invasion to spur the current economic situation and of course help his hero PreZBO....so on this day of remembrance for 10 years after 9/11 we get folks like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and G.W.Bush racing to cash in on being fake heroes.

STAY CLASSY AND SANE KRUGMAN! You make all us God fearing liberty loving Conservatives look better and better to those undecided on all things American every damn time you speak!!

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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center in New York | View photo - Yahoo! News

Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center in New York | View photo - Yahoo! News:

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“Our last funeral” (From Shanksville and Flight 93)

As always when the guru Allahpundit is involved...this is piercing and priceless!

“Our last funeral” « Hot Air:

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THE 9/11/01 Reflection I think that stands the TEST of Time

This is simply as aprapos as it gets and I think the words speak and I don't have the ability to add anything (and thank god the brains to realize it)
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/11/quotes-of-the-day-remembering-91101/

The following was taken from Allahpundit’s twitter stream, over roughly a two-hour period on the night of 9/10/09. This may be the first time – no, it is the first time – that I’ve ever seen anything on twitter that reads like poetry. For this reason, I’ve preserved the form as best as possible.

Eight years ago, I remember opening my eyes at 8:46 a.m. in my downtown Manhattan apartment because…

…I thought a truck had crashed in the street outside

I remember pacing my apartment for the next 15 minutes thinking, stupidly, that a gas line might have been hit in the North Tower…

…and then I heard another explosion. I hope no one ever hears anything like it.

All I can say to describe it is: Imagine the sound of thousands of Americans screaming on a city street

It was unbelievable, almost literally

I remember being on the sidewalk and there was an FBI agent saying he was cordoning off the street…

…and then, the next day, when I went back for my cats, they told me I might see bodies lying in front of my apartment building (I didn’t)

We held a memorial service in October for my cousin’s husband, who was “missing” but not really…

He worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. They found a piece of his ribcage in the rubble not too long afterwards.

This is the guy who conspired to murder him: http://is.gd/38h7y

Had a friend from the high school speech and debate team who disappeared from the 105th floor

Had another friend of a friend who worked on the 80th floor or so, married six weeks before the attack…

Speculation is that he was right in the plane’s path, and was killed instantly when it plowed through the building

Did a bit of legal work for a couple whose son worked in the upper floors. Was dating someone else up there at the time…

I was told that she managed to call her parents while they were trapped up there and that the call “was not good”

Never found out if it was cut off by the building collapsing or not

I remember opening my eyes at 8:46 a.m. thinking “I hope that was just a pothole.” Then I heard a guy outside my window say, “Oh shit”

Opened the window, looked to my left, saw huge smoke coming out of the WTC

Left at around 9:30, decided to walk uptown thinking that the buildings would never collapse and that…

…I’d be back in my apartment by the next night. I never went back. It was closed off until December.

I remember thinking when I was a few blocks away that the towers might collapse, and so I walked faster…

…although I sneered at myself later for thinking that might be true and for being a coward. Although not for long.

To this day, you can find photos of thousands of people congregated in the blocks surrounding the Towers, seemingly…

…waiting for them to fall that day

When I got to midtown, rumors were that Camp David and the Sears Tower had also been destroyed. I remember looking around…

…and thinking that we had to get out of Manhattan, as this might be some pretext to get us into the street and hit us with some germ

I callled my dad — and somehow miraculously got through — and told him I was alive, then headed for the 59th street bridge

To this day, the scariest memory is being on that bridge, looking at the Towers smoking in the distance,

and thinking maybe the plotters had wired the bridge too to explode beneath us while we were crossing it.

I remember talking to some guy on the bridge that we’d get revenge, but…

…you had to see the smoke coming from the Towers in the distance. It was like a volcano

I remember being down there two months later. There was a single piece of structure…

…maybe five stories tall of the lattice-work still standing. It looked like a limb of a corpse sticking up out of the ground.

They knocked it down soon after

At my office, which I had just joined, I was told that…

…some people had seen the jumpers diving out the windows to escape the flames that morning

There was a video online, posted maybe two years ago, shot from the hotel across the street,,,

…and it showed roughly 10-12 bodies flattened into panackes lying in the central plaza

Maybe it’s still online somewhere

You have to see it to understand, though. You get a sense of it from the Naudet brothers documentary hearing…

…the explosions as the bodies land in the plaza, but seeing it and hearing it are two different things

I remember after I got over the bridge into Queens, I heard a noise overheard…

…that I’d never heard before. It was an F-15, on patrol over New York. Very odd sound. A high-pitched wheeze.

I remember on Sept. 12, when I got on the train to go downtown and try to get my cats out of the apartment…

…the Village was utterly deserted. No one on the streets. Like “28 Days Later” if you’ve seen that

We made it to a checkpoint and the cop said go no further, until my mom intervened. Then he took pity…

…and agreed to let me downtown IF I agreed that any exposure to bodies lying in the streets was my own fault.

Didn’t see any bodies, but I did see soldiers, ATF, FBI, and so on. The ground was totally covered by white clay…

…which I knew was formed by WTC dust plus water from the FDNY. It look like a moonscape.

There was a firefighter at the intersection and I flagged him down and asked if I could borrow his flashlight, since…

…all buildings downtown had no power. He gave me a pen flashlight.

The doors to my building at Park Place were glass but had kicked in, presumably by the FDNY, to see if there were…

…survivors inside. When I got in there, all power was out. No elevators, no hall lights…

…I had to feel my way to the hall and make my way up to my apartment on the third floor by feeling my way there…

…When I got there, the cats were alive. There was WTC dust inside the apartment, but…

…for whatever reason, I had closed the windows before I left to walk uptown that day, so dust was minimal. I loaded them…

…into the carrier and took them back to Queens. That was the last I could get into the apartment until December 2001,…

…and then it was only to get in, take whatever belongings were salvageable (i.e. not computer), and get out. I lived…

in that apartment from 7/2001 to 9/2001, but given the diseases longtime residents have had…

…I’m lucky I decided to move

My only other significant memory is being in the lobby of the apartment building on 9/11…

…and trying to console some woman who lived there who said her father worked on the lower floors of the WTC. I assume…

…he made it out alive, but she was hysterical as of 9:30 that a.m. Who could blame her?

I do remember feeling embarrassed afterwards that…

…I initially thought the smoke coming out of the North Tower was due to a fire or something, but…

…it’s hard to explain the shock of realizing you’re living through a historical event while you’re living through it.

For months afterwards, I tried to tell people how I thought maybe the Towers…

…were going to be hit by six or seven or eight planes in succession. Which sounds nuts, but once you’re in the moment…

…and crazy shit is happening, you don’t know how crazy that script is about to get.

When I left at 9:30, I thought more planes were coming.

I left because I thought, “Well, if these planes hit the building the right way, it could fall and land on mine.”

I remember getting to 57th Street and asking some dude, “What happened?”

And he said, “They collapsed” and I couldn’t believe both of them had gone down. Even after the planes hit…

…I remembered that the Empire State Building had taken a hit from a military plane during WWII and still stood tall

So it was never a serious possibility that the WTC would collapse. I assumed…

…that the FDNY would get up there, put out the fire, and the WTC would be upright but with gigantic holes in it

It took an hour for the first tower to go down, 90 minutes for the second.

Even now, despite the smoke, I’m convinced most of the people trapped at the top were alive…

…and waiting, somehow, for a rescue. The couple whose legal case I worked for told me that…

…their son and his GF contacted her father very shortly before the collapse. Which makes sense. As much smoke as there was…

…if you have a five-story hole in the wall to let air in to breathe, you’re going to linger on.

So for many people, the choice probably quickly became: Hang on, endure the smoke, or jump

If you listen to the 911 calls, which I advise you not to do, some of them chose “hang on”

Although needless to say, if you ever saw the Towers…

…you know how dire things must have been up there to make anyone think the better solution was “jump”

They were ENORMOUS.

Another weird memory: Shortly after I got my apartment in lower Manhattan, on Park Place…

…I remember taking my brother to see “The Others,” which had just opened.

And afterwards I remember taking him up to the rooftop of my building to admire the Towers. According to Wikipedia…

“The Others” opened on August 10, 2001, so this must have been within 10 days or so afterwards. Very eerie.

And I remember we also went to Morton’s and Borders right inside the WTC complex to celebrate my new job

That Borders was gutted, needless to say, on 9/11. You could see the frame of the building in the WTC lobby after the attack

I was reading magazines in there the week or two before

One of the weirdest feelings, which I’m sure everyone can share, is that I remember distinctly feeling…

…in the month or two before the attack that “important” news no longer existed. It was all inane bullshit about…

…shark attacks and Gary Condit and overaged pitchers in the Little League World Series. To this day…

…I try never to grumble about a slow news day because the alternative is horrifyingly worse

After the attack, maybe a month after, I remember going to see “Zoolander” in Times Square and…

…coming up out of the subway tunnel having the distinct fear that…

…the sky would light up and a mushroom cloud would appear instantly above my head in my lost moment of consciousness. No joke. In fact…

…I ended up going to bed around 6:30 p.m. for maybe three months after 9/11.

Even when I ended up working downtown for years after that, with a luxurious view of upper Manhattan from the top floors…

…I always feared looking out the window because I was paranoid that at that precise moment, the flash would go off…

…and that’d be the last thing I see. And in fact, for a moment in 2003 when the power went out city-wide,

…I did think that was what was happening. The wages of 9/11.

I leave you with this, my very favorite film about the WTC. If you’re a New Yorker, have a hanky handy. No. 3 is golden http://is.gd/38qsT

One more note: If you’ve never seen a photo of the smoke coming from the Trade Center after the collapse, find one.

Watching it from the 59th bridge, it looked like a volcano. There was so much smoke, it was indescribable. Just *erupting* from the wreckage