I want my widgets!
Glenn wanted to hear stories of the acts of kindness experienced on 8/28
To: kindness@glennbeck.com
The heat got to me, and all the way back to our Ohio-bound buses there were kindly people who were not going to leave me behind.
I knew I was in trouble by noon, but didn't want my friends to miss anything of the Restoring Honor rally so I tried to help myself by going up into the shade under the trees. We left at 1 p.m. and I had to tell my friend, Norene - a good six years older than me, by the way - that I wasn't feeling well. She walked along, at my slow pace, pushing me toward the Smithsonian Metro station. My hips didn't get stiff and sore until noonish, too, and even with my cane they were slowing me down, as well.
We had a deadline - be at the buses by 5 p.m. - so we had to push me forward or we might miss the bus home. By Raoul Wallenberg Street I was starting to feel really weak, in awful pain, but I really was done in when we got close enough to see the Metro sign off to the left. By then I was feeling nauseous. Norene went way out to the end of the line while I waited, leaning on my folded chair sack.
All along the way people offered me a spot in line (to let me "jump" the line) but I explained I was waiting for my friend to "pick me up." Unfortunately, though, by the time she got to me I was near finished and wanted to lay down on the grass. A lady offered to keep moving but hold our spot as long as she could; Norene pulled out her chair and umbrella and they left me to sit a few minutes while the throng moved around me.
I saw the police car and thought maybe I should ask someone to get help but Norene came back for me and together we slowly made our way down into the subway system. Down there was the offer of a lawn chair and an ice water bag. I know by now I'm going to make it. My lawn chair and I were moved along the train platform and eventually onto the Orange line train.
I wish I could count the number of good Samaritans who wouldn't leave me behind, and Norene never hesitated to help me or ask for help with me.
I'll travel with her anytime, and to any Restoring Honor rally that Glenn Beck holds.
God Bless Americans!
Black conservative supports Glenn Beck rally
By Lloyd Marcus
Alleged civil rights leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP, President Benjamin Jealous are having a cow because Glenn Beck had the audacity to schedule his "Restoring Honor" rally August 28th on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It is the same date and location of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago.
These are the same hypocritical so-called black leaders who demanded that white America honor the memory of the civil rights icon with MLK boulevards across America. But, when a 'white boy' chooses to embrace Dr. King's vision and dream by holding his "Restoring Honor" rally on the same day as Dr. King's historic speech, the Black Civil Rights Mafia, race profiteers, yell, "How dare you? MLK belongs to us!" [Read the rest here...]
Got to hear this song!
Ow! I'm getting whip-lash already!
... The only thing I might add to the Ground Zero mosque debate, is that although one's religious faith has heretofore been something assumed to be a private matter, between oneself and one's God (as I believe it should be), we expect more - no, we expect better of not necessarily our politicians but those we elected to serve, and hope they are people of integrity and do what they said they were going to do.
We are bound by accident or ignorance to vote for people who kick their dogs, scream at their kids, and do things in their bedrooms that we might not do, but if we cannot count on their public dialogue to remain consistent how can we count on their private and, yes, their political business conversations to be the same, to be consistent.
I would much prefer to hear that President Obama - after months of soul-searching - is having a crisis of faith and prefers to step back away from church for a time, while he seeks the counsel of people he trusts, than to have him verbally swing back-and-forth in the wind, depending on the questions from the press.
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Thanks to America C2C for this one:
"Those Voices Don't Speak For Us"
Be sure to visit this web site for more excellent observations: NZPatriot.com Kudos to them for bringing us this wonderful video.
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issueAs over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one. [read the rest here...]
Another movie to look forward to...
Add this movie to "Generation Zero" and you have the beginning of a helpful library.
Doesn't anybody listen?
I wish Robin Marie Potwora respected rather than revered Glenn Beck. She's launched "BACKBECK2012.COM" a web site for those who want Beck to run for president in 2012. Potwora is doing just what Beck has begged us NOT to do: look to him to save the Republic instead of looking at ourselves to do the job. Glenn Beck has done his job, and done it well. It's time for the rest of us to what we were supposed to be doing all along: Pick a candidate and support them or Run for office yourself.
PICK A DAMN CANDIDATE AND GET IN THE GAME!
Would someone mind explaining to me how Conservatives can be at each other's throats over what to do about electing someone near to their values? So much at stake but the biggest whiners are laying back watching others do the heavy lifting - all because they have a problem with party labels. Whine, gripe and complain ... thank goodness the Founders of this great country didn't let the Whiners have the day; we'd still be speaking with an British accent and taxed out the nose.... Oh, wait, we are being taxed out the nose... and Uncle Sam just gets fatter and fatter - sort of like Jabba the Hut - and never tires of asking for more. PICK A DAMN CANDIDATE AND GET IN THE GAME! OTHERWISE, QUIT YOUR WHINING.
Putting Government First
by Patrick J. Buchanan [Read the article here...]Pat's often on my counter-side on many issues, but he's right on this one. We're just sending the message to our workers that there's really no need to get a job or training or an education because Big Daddy G will pay you to either work or not to work. Whatever America was it's not a place to make your dreams come t...rue - unless you dreamed of living off somebody's else fat.
Why I Am Not a Conservative
By Nobel laureate F. A. HayekIn het Nederlands
In The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960)
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition." - Lord Acton1. At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty,[1] those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change. In matters of current politics today they generally have little choice but to support the conservative parties. But, though the position I have tried to define is also often described as "conservative," it is very different from that to which this name has been traditionally attached. There is danger in the confused condition which brings the defenders of liberty and the true conservatives together in common opposition to developments which threaten their ideals equally. It is therefore important to distinguish clearly the position taken here from that which has long been known - perhaps more appropriately - as conservatism.
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Dear Amazon.com,
I will not be purchasing anything else through Amazon.com until the city of Seattle WA rescinds its boycott against the state of Arizona.
If we are no longer a nation of laws, and the states have given over all their rights and purposes to the federal government, then I'm having a Rip Van Winkle moment and prefer to go back to sleep.
The city council of Seattle WA - where you folks are a registered corporation - might want to remember that as a political body their decisions can have long-term and far-reaching effects on the rest of the county and the companies that continue to do business in their city.
The Seattle city council's boycott of Arizona was not well thought out, and perhaps an over-reach by the council members who forgot what their job was. The city council members can make their personal views known the same way I do, through mail, email and phone calls. (I plan to phone your office later this morning after you're open.)
Regards,
Guess Who?
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce our 2010 general election endorsements. The biggest change you will note this year is that grades have been given to all candidates.* This is response to feedback from our supporters and candidates. We now list every candidate with a letter grade, or a "??" if we do not know anything about them. While it is possible for a "??" -graded candidate to be a supporter of your Second Amendment rights, most supporters know us and are known by us. Be careful.
Worried that you're over-reacting to the jihadi threat?
Congratulations, you're on the right track.
A Note From Chicken Little
- lifted from my email to a local radio talk show host:
I've prided myself on being just smart enough to listen to people who know more than I do. You've been to college, Bob, law school, in fact, and although I don't get to listen to your program all the time I have appreciated your insights, your opinions, and especially your legal expertise. But that's not why I'm writing to you.
Yesterday afternoon I was on my way home from making phone calls for the GOP, and caught the beginning of your last hour. You were using the "would you buy a used car from this guy" tactic to describe Rush Limbaugh, and before you mentioned his name, I wasn't sure which radio talk show personality you were describing.
Rush fans are used to the criticisms but your little diatribe yesterday belied your stated mission, that of "think before you fear" and giving us "quality" talk on the law and politics. [Read more...]
Reprising my letter to Attorney General Holder:
Dear Eric Holder,
Saturday, July 25, 2009Mr. United States Attorney General,
Some time ago you made a comment about white people not wanting to discuss racial issues because we were cowards. At the time you made the remark I decided that I would not take the bait and answer your complaint, that I would let it ride, take a deep breath and just hope that someone close to you - someone you trusted - would point out that your remark made you part of problem, not part of the solution.
I also figured that confronting you would be a waste of time because not only had you made up your mind and, I believe, you have too much to lose to step back and re-think your position. Everyone has an agenda and race-baiting could be yours. [Read more...]
The problem with the Left....
"UNFORGIVABLE!"
- from my friend, Ayad, on the East side of Cleveland...It is unforgivable that we, as a nation:
* Considered, for president of the United States, somebody, with no discernible affection for, pride in, or allegiance to the country.
* Considered, for president of the United States - and "Leader of the Free World" - a "red-diaper baby" (with a Third World twist, and a side of Islam), marinated in Marxism for three generations (on both sides of the family).
* Considered a candidate, who -- based on his life story, family pedigree, the lives and views of immediate and extended family members, and his own past and current political teammates, friends, mentors and heroes -- is, at best, not sympathetic to the country's traditions, core values, founding principles, free-enterprise system, military and police.
[Read more...]I believe that most Americans are fiscal Conservatives
, and Pro-Choice on the subject of abortion. Anti-abortion and Pro-choice are a legitimate symbiosis, but neither of these issues are discussed in the Constitution.Although this issue has become a litmus test for Conservative / Republican candidates, I have yet to hear what any candidate, if abortion were illegal, would do with a female who was pregnant and did not want to be, who wanted an abortion. Jail? House-arrest? Confined to a pregant females-only facility?
And what would be done to the male who contributed the sperm? Jail time? Time on a Chain Gang, with daily pay going toward the support of the baby, right?
For the liberty-loving American a woman's right to choose whether she wants to carry a child to full term should be a no-brainer. [Read more...]
The NEVER MIND button
...Posted by Michael Trivisani on July 16, 2010 at 12:32pm
I believe as part of every bill past by congress there should be a clause know as the 'Never Mind' button. If the bill proves to be a bad bill, all they have to do is invoke the 'Never Mind' clause...push the button. There is something strange going on in congress. A new procedure where as described by Chris Dodd and Nancy Polosi. Got the following from an email from Patriot Post.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), said, (about the Financial Bill) "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works." If this sounds chillingly familiar, recall what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said regarding the 2,400-page health "reform" legislation: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." If you can't write a bill that when you read it, people are able to figure out what the heck it is going to do...or you don't take the time to read it...WE NEED THE BUTTON! Actually, we have to get rid of the jackbehinds in our government that can't read or write.
Growing up ignorant
7/16/10
Every time I try to describe the people who say and write venomous things about me - or activist conservatives like me - I find I am a loss for words.
I'm talking about words like racist, ignorant, selfish, stupid, b--ch, moron. There have been other descriptive phrases that I can't remember right now, but the two that linger are racist and selfish. There are just some words that are used to convey really bad behavior or character traits.
I was raised in South Euclid in the 50's and 60's so we didn't see many black families. I had no reason to go into Cleveland proper and see black people until I took the bus to my job at 1010 Euclid Avenue. There were Jewish families in South Euclid and since they were white, like me, there seemed no obvious difference between us. [Read more...]
Apathy is such an old concept
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
(Original post: Saturday, November 10, 2007 7:53 AM)
My grandmother, Florence Burlingame Taylor, was a gifted writer, and poetess. Poetry was popular back in the old days and Gramma was never without poetic thoughts on hundreds of subjects.
But her poetry that means the most to me are the sometimes angry and often soothing rhymes about her soldiers off fighting the German and Japanese war machines in World War II. Her poem "Apathy" could have been written today.
Gram was one of those women in the 40's who left the home to go and work in the factory to help with the war effort. She was one of the most sincere patriots I ever knew and it shows in her poetry.
I know Gr T would be pleased to know that I am sharing some of her poetry with you. (If you want to read more, Gram is published at http://www.rufusputnam.com/byways/poems.html). [Read rest here...]
A country even more divided
Original post - 11/28/08
Funky Winkerbean/Tom Batiuk - November 28, 2008
GWB: "There's already been too much oversight, Charlie... I mean this whole crisis was an oversight by my administration from the get-go."
[Read more...]Written by Lindy...
The Democrat party today is built of oxymorons.
They say they are the party for the poor, then set up the poor to be
unable to break through poverty.
They say they are the party of the black race, but the fight to
continue the genocide of that race.
They vow to defend the Constitution, then shred it at every opportunity.
They say they are pro-woman, then spend untold millions to trap women
in lives of pain, regret, loss, increased chance of disease and
irreversible medical problems.
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The worst thing a liberal can do is stand in the path of a herd of stampeding RagingElephants!
I attended the Raging Elephants event July 10, 2010 in Bellefontaine, OH and found not only inspiration and motivation in Apostle Claver's talk, but well-reasoned arguments for why the GOP has no more time to sit back on its haunches and complain that the DEMS and Libs are walking off with non-white voters.
Claver's message would probably stick in the craw of most of our political candidates, but it makes a lot of sense in today's racially-tense times. As Claver said,
"When the Left pulls out and uses the race card it's because they have lost the argument; that's when we have to go harder on the attack." [Read more...]
Ever worked in a prison or correctional institution?
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ever worked in a prison or correctional institution? Then you know why Michigan would not be a good place for the Gitmo detainees.
I understand why the people of Michigan see this move as an economic lifeline because those 40,000+ jobs will surely have an impact on a state that's falling deeper and deeper into unemployment hell.
But those people who think that moving the Gitmo detainees into Michigan have never worked in a prison or correctional institution. Just your standard, run-of-the-mill criminals are scary enough - even the kids in youth correction centers are a breed apart from society - but the militant Islamists who are being held in Guantanamo Bay prison are your worst nightmares come to life. [Read more...]
No Apologies
Sunday, November 23, 2008
I watched Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press" this Sunday morning and heard him remind independent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman of the "attacks" he made on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Then to substantiate his claim of these apparent attacks, Brokaw ran a piece of film in which Lieberman said that Obama was a good guy and will be valuable in the future, but he that he didn't have a record.
There was another question-and-answer and Brokaw followed that up by asking when Lieberman was going to apologize for something he said during the campaign.
Who in their right mind would accuse Joe Lieberman of such tactics?
It's a sickening end to an otherwise apparently distinguished career, Mr. Brokaw, yet viewers are going to buy it because, after all, you're Tom Brokaw, world famous tv news anchor.
But Tom Brokaw is just one of the many so-called "legitimate" faces of the media surrogacy for an otherwise vicious pack of animals. Okay, calling them "animals" isn't very flattering to our furry four-legged friends.
But let's not forget: Almost half the country is being subjected to the Democratic/Liberal spin machine that is trying to annihilate their Republican counterparts, the Losers in this most recent campaign. [Read more...]
I ALMOST gave up
There are several problems I have with getting old and none of them are the obvious ones.
#1 Not all women with gray hair get the respect their male counterparts do.
#2 Much of what I say is attributed to my age rather than the wisdom that just might have come from living longer.
#3 My daring has to be all Mouth because there's no way they'll let me in the Army.
#4 I can be distracted from deep thought by chin hairs; (note to my beloveds: See the website Chin Hair Exterminator.)
#5 I feel time is running out for me to defend America and President George W. Bush, and how I'm not really a R.I.N.O. - (Republican In Name Only).
[Read more...]A Dirty Little Secret
We all keep secrets of one kind or another. There are good secrets and bad secrets. The example of a good secret might be not telling your sister-in-law that she's no longer built to wear shorts. A bad secret to keep could be that you saw one of her kids stealing money out of her purse.
Your poor sister-in-law would be embarrassed and possibly hurt if she heard you say, "You're too fat to wear shorts," or "Your kid's a thief."
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