|
|
 |
|
|
RANTS FROM THE PAST - ALL OF WHICH ARE WORTH READING AGAIN
AND AGAIN AND AGAIN! The liberals in the media have actually done some good with their left-wing spin. Can you believe that? They took a group of law abiding, even-tempered, citizens and made them out to be hell-raising, gun slinging, shoot onsite, vigilantes! They have the Mexican’s thinking that the Minute Men are a gang of whiskey sucking freaks, with trigger fingers itchier than their rectums after eating a plate of hell-chicken nachos Especial - covered in XXX Habenario hot sauce, who have a pool bet going on who can bag the most wet-backs. Hilarious! But,
it is working. The number of illegals trying to cross over has dropped
where the Minute Men are. Thank you, you stupid libs in the media. Your
slant actually worked for the good of our country - for once!
Our government isn’t going to do anything about this because both sides - Dems and Repubs - only see the problem through the ‘it might cost me a vote’ prism. They care more about a single vote than they do your life. Isn’t that sick? Their proposals to stop illegal immigration do about as much as burying a tin can full of Epsom salt at midnight on the third day of the month does to stop the pains of arthritis. Nothing! Asinine! Lets face it Shovelers, the Republicans are turning out to be nothing more than Democrat Lite. They have the majority, but they don’t have the sack to do anything about it. Alas, that is a totally different rant! Back to our boarders. I guess we are all just going to have to form our own little coalitions to protect them. God knows they need it. Lets be honest here, guys. The only thing on this planet that is easier to get into other than our country, is Madonna. And that will make you itch. An itch that can only be scratched by an hourly application of Valtrex. At least that’s what Michael Vick told me. The tax money we spend on the illegals is insane! Why should we have to pay the hospital bill for them to run across the boarder and give birth to little bitty leaf-blower operators? It is insane!!! Anyway, I have a few solutions. One. Nuke the place! That will drastically reduce the number of people trying to come in illegally. Plus, the ones that remain will glow. Think of the tax dollars that will save us, just in night-vision goggles alone! Ok. That is a bit extreme. Two. The
Democrats are always yelling about the unemployed. Well, here is a perfect
job opportunity. I’m sure there are plenty of unemployed people from
fields such as construction and engineering. Lets put them to Third. Stop euthanizing all the millions of dogs the we do every year. Train them and set them loose on the boarder. That would make for a bunch of happy little puppies. They could spend all day playing fetch. I’m sure even the liberals at P.E.T.A. would back me on this one! We wouldn’t even have to feed them because their catch would be their food. Put out a trough of refried beans and they would be munching a number 22 combo twice a day. Why do I feel like I need a margarita right now? Anyway, I am not anti-immigration. Just illegal. Oh, I forgot about the Canadian border. That isn’t such a big deal though. What are those French freaks going to do? Run into our country just to surrender? Did I just hear Peter Jennings cough? <oh, I’m going to pay for that!> Shovel on! __________________________________________ Monday, 18, 2005 The liberals in the media have actually done some good with their left-wing spin. Can you believe that? They took a group of law abiding, even-tempered, citizens and made them out to be hell-raising, gun slinging, shoot onsite, vigilantes! They have the Mexican’s thinking that the Minute Men are a gang of whiskey sucking freaks, with trigger fingers itchier than their rectums after eating a plate of hell-chicken nachos Especial - covered in XXX Habenario hot sauce, who have a pool bet going on who can bag the most wet-backs. Hilarious! But,
it is working. The number of illegals trying to cross over has dropped
where the Minute Men are. Thank you, you stupid libs in the media. Your
slant actually worked for the good of our country - for once!
Our government isn’t going to do anything about this because both sides - Dems and Repubs - only see the problem through the ‘it might cost me a vote’ prism. They care more about a single vote than they do your life. Isn’t that sick? Their proposals to stop illegal immigration do about as much as burying a tin can full of Epsom salt at midnight on the third day of the month does to stop the pains of arthritis. Nothing! Asinine! Lets face it Shovelers, the Republicans are turning out to be nothing more than Democrat Lite. They have the majority, but they don’t have the sack to do anything about it. Alas, that is a totally different rant! Back to our boarders. I guess we are all just going to have to form our own little coalitions to protect them. God knows they need it. Lets be honest here, guys. The only thing on this planet that is easier to get into other than our country, is Madonna. And that will make you itch. An itch that can only be scratched by an hourly application of Valtrex. At least that’s what Michael Vick told me. The tax money we spend on the illegals is insane! Why should we have to pay the hospital bill for them to run across the boarder and give birth to little bitty leaf-blower operators? It is insane!!! Anyway, I have a few solutions. One. Nuke the place! That will drastically reduce the number of people trying to come in illegally. Plus, the ones that remain will glow. Think of the tax dollars that will save us, just in night-vision goggles alone! Ok. That is a bit extreme. Two. The
Democrats are always yelling about the unemployed. Well, here is a perfect
job opportunity. I’m sure there are plenty of unemployed people from
fields such as construction and engineering. Lets put them to Third. Stop euthanizing all the millions of dogs the we do every year. Train them and set them loose on the boarder. That would make for a bunch of happy little puppies. They could spend all day playing fetch. I’m sure even the liberals at P.E.T.A. would back me on this one! We wouldn’t even have to feed them because their catch would be their food. Put out a trough of refried beans and they would be munching a number 22 combo twice a day. Why do I feel like I need a margarita right now? Anyway, I am not anti-immigration. Just illegal. Oh, I forgot about the Canadian border. That isn’t such a big deal though. What are those French freaks going to do? Run into our country just to surrender? Did I just hear Peter Jennings cough? <oh, I’m going to pay for that!> Shovel on! Timm Monday, 11, 2005 Il riposo nella pace non ha paura John Paul the II
I am not worthy of commentary here. Head bowed. 28, March, 2005 How was your weekend? Mine was pretty much open, I had the opportunity to do any thing that I wanted to do. Well, that is anything other than what I actually wanted to do. Which, by the way, would have been Nelly Furtado, but that is a whole ‘nother story, which involves a lot of whip cream and a Spiderman mask. But, I won’t go into that right now. Anyway, I just purchased a new laptop and I
needed a wireless card to connect it to my network. THE EVER GROWING, 3000
plus SHOVELERS NETWORK!!! Thank you!
So, I ventured out to find one. This led me into a shovel swinging battle with the absolute worst customer service on the planet that I have ever experienced. I’m not writing this to name anyone, and I don’t want to call the company out, so we will just call them BEST BUY. I have never gone into this place and gotten out without having a problem. Could just be me, but I doubt it. Did I mention that they call themselves Bust Buy? Anyway, I needed a wireless card. I knew EXACTLY
what I needed. I just wanted to know where it was. So, I go over to this
pimple faced GEEK, and ask him where I could find said object. He then
preceded to ask questions that didn’t need to be asked. I run a webpage, jackass. I kinda know what is going on in the CPU world. I could write a book for you geek ass, never been laid computer nerds! Anyway, he basically talked to me like he was pissing in my face while standing on a golden ensconced ‘we know computers and you don’t’ Best Buy pedestal! Did I mention that I was at Best Buy when this happened? Fine. Whatever. So, I, then, changed my questions to Atari and walked away complaining that my PONG didn’t work. The kid looked confused. Which, I would have too, if I were his age and there were over 9 zillion gigabytes of zits on my face and the closest thing that I'd ever came to having sex was an amorous look at a picture of Nelly Furtado. At this point I needed a sedative, but my doctor’s office wasn’t open to prescribe me the 200 million milligrams of Valium that I needed to calm down, so I went to the local watering hole. I pulled into the parking lot at the same time that a car full of losers pulled in. How did I know they were losers? They still had a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on their car. So, I followed them in and actually ended up
being seated behind them. It was amazing. They proceeded to have fun, in the typical liberal fashion, that being that they sat there and bitched about everything! I swear, after listening to them for 10 minutes, I was questioning their quality life! They were obviously miserable, so how can we judge their quality of life??!?! I am guessing that is sucks. I wanted to go file papers and ask the courts to remove their feeding holes! I watched another guy walk in. He looked like he had just woken up. But not in that, "I over slept" way. It was more like that, "the crystal meth lab in my bathtub blew up and this is the first time that I have slept in two years", kinda way. I then proceeded to watch him go O.J. Simpson on the English language! Never before have I heard someone use the word ‘ain’t ’as a noun, verb, adjective, pronoun and a gerund. All in the same damn sentence!!! This clod had obviously skipped class on the vocational opportunities that were offered to him. When the waitress came by, I ordered a water and sat back wishing that they served cotton candy. It would be quite fitting for this freak show. Thanks for swinging by, guys! Shovel on! Timm 21, March, 2005 Anyway, it would read that way because that son of a bitch would be in a shallow grave in a place where no one would ever find him!!!!! EVER! DAMN!!! If I were to grip my shovel any tighter right now the thing would disintegrate!!!! Because of this asshole, your government is actually considering starving this woman to death! Staving her to death! The same government that taxes you damn near to death so that they will be able to feed people who won’t work to feed themselves!! That sort of thinking is enough to make Einstein say, screw it, and pull out a coloring book and just sit back and enjoy a little quality down time. Chicken Little just thought about it and said what the F**k? And killed himself! I guess this judge is wanting to go straight hell
without having to go though airport security, ....errrrr.... I mean, pass
GO! She must really be wanting to get her hands on Lucifer’s gavel! WHAP!
Trust me guys, the last thing we need to do is give those self-absorbed, narcissistic, freaks - who live to govern our daily existence - the power to decided when any of us are no longer viable. The Democrats will remove the tube if your taxes aren’t significant enough to pay for their social wealth redistribution programs, and the Republicans will yank the tube if you ever have the thought that some of those social programs aren’t really that bad. Up yours Washington! An attorney for Terri Schiavo said the severely
brain-injured woman cried and yelled out that she wants to live after
being told today her life-sustaining feeding tube was about to be removed
by court order. Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when a chemical imbalance apparently brought on by an eating disorder caused her heart to stop beating for a few minutes. She can breathe on her own, but has relied on the feeding-and-hydration tube to keep her alive. The eating disorder was brought on because of him! He called her fat from the second she woke up, until the second she went to bed. BASTARD! There are also medical records that show physical abuse. The courts, and the media, seem to want to ignore that. This bastard did this to her and now he wants to finish it. He wants to kill her, and that judge wants to let him do it. Again, that judge is going to enter hell at warp speed!! Look out, Scotty! She was appointed by Clinton. Go figure, huh? Screw all of this stuff about the sanctity of husband and wife, and the spouse having the say so. This guy has fathered two other kids with another woman - so the marriage THING is out the window! Shut up, you dirt bag! If we are going to remove a tube, it should be the one that is hanging between his legs!! Believe me, I have a shovel that would be perfect for that operation! Just think about her parents. They know Terri better than anyone else on this planet - doctors included. Trust me! And you female shovelers with kids know this to be a fact. I could go see my doctor and he might not catch the fact that I had a sore throat. I could call my mom from the freaking MOON and she would notice it before I finished my first sentence! ME... "One small step for man, one..." MOM... " What is wrong? You sound like you need a lozenge.!" The father is still seeing the little girl that he walked down the isle and handed over to this f***ing bastard! WHAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That has to eat at his brain like a rabid jackal! He gave her to this monster! Where is my staff??? Because I need a sedative!!! Anyway, one thing that really makes me want to swing is the fact that this woman could have killed her kids and been sentenced to death and been locked up on death row, and then if she’d stopped eating while she was in her cell on death freaking row, the same freaks who want to pull that feeding tube from her, would be the same people who would force her to have a feeding tube put in so that she couldn’t starve herself to death. They would then force feed her until the day they gave her the lethal injection! INSANE! How screwed up have we become?? Think about it, guys! She is a human being and our government is actually considering starving her to death. THAT IS SICK! Can you say Stalin? Our government wants to STARVE HER TO DEATH!! God, I am going to vomit! When are we going to remove Ted Kennedy’s whiskey tube? What if Michael Moore needed a feeding tube? That would be a bigger endeavor than the instillation of the Alaskan Pipeline, wouldn’t it? The environmentalist would have a fit over that, wouldn’t they? I mean, think about the impact it would have on the caribou. He would be eating about a dozen of them a day. As long as we provided him with honey mustard sauce. Sorry. Tangent there. Anyway, pray that those idiots in power do the right thing here. Otherwise you might have to wake up every morning hoping that you have not become obsolete! Shovel on! Will one of you guys bring me a Valium?? :):) I think I need to calm down. Whew! Timm Three Shot to Death at Ga. Courthouse A judge presiding over a rape trial was shot to death Friday along with two other people at the Fulton County Courthouse, authorities said. A fourth person was critically wounded and the suspect, the defendant at the trial, remained at large hours later. Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor
<who rightly deservers to be beat to death with a shovel 10 times over!>
confirmed that Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes
and his court reporter were killed. He gave no other details in announcing
the deaths in the state Senate. A deputy died later at a hospital,
authorities said. I know this is going to anger my female Shovelers, but this is proof positive that women shouldn't be in any law enforcement, or military, positions - Anywhere! Sure there are exceptions, I know that. There are girlymen who would wet their pants at the very sight of a fist, and there are also bull dykes who would shovel me into oblivion if they got the chance, but all in all, a man can overpower a woman when and where he wants. God's will. Not my opinion. Just a fact! If this fact weren't true there would be hundreds of less rapes and hundreds of more guys walking into the emergency rooms with their Clinton's in theirs hands, screaming, "Please, Dear God! Can someone reattach this!" Think about it! WHAP! Fulton County is a third-world country here in Georgia. If you were to add a drunken bearded midget woman it would be a freak show to beat all freak shows. The District Attorney is a complete waste of God-given brain cells, who couldn't successfully indict Karen Carpenter on charges of throwing up too often! We have to get rid of this idiot WHAP! Maddening! The suspect got the gun by overpowering a sheriff's deputy while he was being escorted within the courthouse, Assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher said. He then went to the courtroom, held about a dozen people there at bay for a short time and then shot and killed the judge and court reporter, he said. Another deputy was later killed outside the courthouse. "We are working very diligently to bring the suspect to justice," Dreher said at a midafternoon briefing. Details are still being sorted out; the injured deputy was under sedation, he said. Doctors had said she was wounded in the head. If you were working "very diligently" to bring this asshole to justice, there would have been 3 cops on him at all times, and all 3 of them would have had trigger fingers that were itchier than the crotch of the last guy who dated Madonna WHAP! Barnes was named to the Fulton County Superior Court bench in 1998. <I had nothing to do with it, unlike the naming of R. Rich to the State Court in 2004! :):) hehheehe>
Among cases he handled was the fatal 2003 car wreck by hockey star Dany Heatley that killed 25-year-old teammate Dan Snyder. Heatley pleaded guilty and was sentenced Feb. 4 to three years on probation and ordered to give 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding. Blah, blah! Who is going to listen to a Frenchman speak? Much less 150 times? How many different ways are there to say, I surrender?" Anyway, I think this jackass had a little karma slung back at him. Last month a case was brought before him where a mother pleaded guilty to killing her 5-week-old daughter. She beat her child to death! He let her go! No time! He let her walk, upon the agreement that she would have her tubes tied. She killed her own kid, and he let her go on the promise that she would not give birth to another possible miscreant! What a maggot! By the way, she had 7 other illegitimate kids! My Shovel is glowing! Beat your 5-week old child to death, and you must tie your tubes. Seems like an equal trade to me. NOT! WHAP! Me thinks, this judge just had karma smack him in the face! Shovel Out Timm 04, March, 2005 Do we have some freaks sitting on The Supreme
Court now, or what? They are supposed to interpret law, not make it. What
is wrong with these guys? What happened to states’ rights? Oh, I forgot,
they disappeared a long time ago. Back in the days before people realized
that a shovel could be used for something other than digging a big hole in
the ground. Anyway, to expand on the question: What is wrong with everyone in
Washington? I just had an idea. Why can’t we take Washington and make it like Jim Carrey’s movie, The Truman Show? Just put a big dome over Washington and create an imaginary world where all of those "I am somebody, damn it!", aloof , pretentious, self-affected legislators can go about their daily routine of staring into their mirrors and telling themselves how important they are without us having to deal with the consequences of their whims? It wouldn’t be that hard to do. Think about it. We could set up a copious amount of microphones and cameras, thus insuring that John Mc Cain would be too busy seeking face time to ever catch on. A couple of cases of sour mash whiskey to keep Ted Kennedy conciliated and inebriated enough not to notice. And, of course a statue of a Klu Klux Klansman so that Charlie Rangel, and his ilk, can remain focused on their belief that all Republican crackers are Negro hating racist. <but Robert Byrd is a good guy> Then get some guy with a foot fetish to lip smack Hillary’s feet, and we’d have most of the bases covered. Toss in a few hookers, some brown-nosers and a midget with some lime-flavored vodka and I think we would have Washington off of our backs for at least 10 years. Seems like a simple plan to me. A rudimentary cure to the freak show that we are all forced to pay to watch. We could just put them in a big fairytale land dome and then we could all sit back, grab some cotton candy and watch the freaks on our TV’s without any of it actually affecting our daily lives. Your suggestions are welcomed. Anyway, back to the Supreme Court and their
decision on 17 being too young to be given the death penalty. What are
these guys thinking? They just gave the gang bangers a free pass. Kids today don’t fear the law as it is. Now they just told them that no matter what they do, the worst they will get will be three square meals and a bed. Side note - I have yet to actually have a square meal. Well, other than that square thing the lunchroom lady used to serve us. She called it Salisbury steak. I’m pretty sure is was compressed, brownish- food colored gruel. I could be wrong, but to this day I still haven’t gotten that taste out of my mouth. Anybody have a couple of Chiclets? Kids today do not fear any repercussions for their actions. You can’t take a belt to them or you will get locked up. My dad took a belt to me and I’m glad he did. It only took a couple of times of him doing it before I figured out what was right and what was wrong. Today, kids get timeouts. I had timeouts when I was a kid, it was me taking timeout to try and wipe the bright pink pain sting stain off of my butt. Not today though. The Supreme Court just told every punk in our country to go for it. Don’t these robe loving crackpots understand that kids are killing kids and they just handed them a hall pass to the school of punishment? Maddening! WHAP!
Responsibility. We need more personal responsibility in our world today. Do the crime do the time, even if it means being put to death. Also, screw all of this lethal injection stuff. Fry the killing little bastards. I say, make them swallow 2 or 3 cups of un-popped popcorn kernels and then hit them with the juice. Bam! Instant human popcorn machine! WHAP! Let me end by saying that age makes absolutely no difference. 17 is just an arbitrary number that these self-admiring freaks came up with. It is a joke. If you think about it, you could sentence a one-year-old to death and, due to appeals and all the other legal mumbo jumbo, he wouldn’t be executed until he was in his freaking 30's!!!!! WHAP! Shovel out! Timm 28, February, 2005 God must have skipped monitoring the chlorine levels of the gene pool 58 years ago, because we somehow ended up with the heretic, Ward Churchill. I am sure you guys have heard the squalor he has been spewing. I’m not going to call him a liberal, because to call him a liberal would be insulting to liberal people. I thought about putting quote after quote here, but I decided I didn’t want to vomit while swinging my spade, so I will give you just one. "True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire ... To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it." Sick! He has the right to say it. I am all for the freedom of speech, but part of the freedom of speech should be the freedom to beat! WHAP! What bothers me most about this guy is that he gets paid with taxpayer monies! If he wants to spout this stuff, let him open his own little school. Ward Churchill’s Academy for the Demonically Stupid and Irretrievably Dense. Let them get their degrees which will qualify them for jobs in fields such as - carbon-based life forms that can be used as human shields, or people who should be set fire to, or the human equivalent of the dung beetle. This guy hates the very country that gives him
the freedom to be such a rambling idiot! He should go over to the middle
east and spout this sort of tripe against those governments and see what
happens. They would tie him to the ground and remove all of his vital
organs with posthole diggers and feed them to goats while they shoved
copious copies of the Koran up his rectum!! WHAP! WHAP!
I swear, I hope this guy completely loses control of his bowels, develops an ungodly rectal itch, wakes up gay, and hits his head on the wall giving him a concussion that causes him to develop an uncontrollable urge to take his own life! "If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it." What sort of red-haired skunk bud is this guy
putting in his peace pipe? I would love to see this guy have an accident
with a falling anvil! He thinks we deserved it? He has the same attitude
of people who think rape victims deserved it because they were wearing
nice smelling perfume and a pretty blouse. F you Churchill!! Speaking on
that subject, I think this buffoon has been mental raped! Someone came
along and screwed his damn brains out!
My advice to this guy is pack your things and leave. Charlie Sheen’s advice is to get a couple of hookers and a big bag of blow and just chill. Up yours, Churchill! I would like to canonize this guy. And I'm not talking canonize in the literal sense, I'm talking canonize in the sense of a large lead ball, some gun powder and a fuse. I think I need to relax now. You know what I mean. Slip back in a big tub full of mud, some cucumbers on the eyes, a towel around the head, a blonde rubbing my shoulders, and some soft tunes playing in the background, that sound more like an elephant mounting a donkey than they do music. Like Zamfir or Slim Whitman. You know what I am talking about, I know that you do! God bless America! Shovel on! Timm 07, February, 2005 It was Super Bowl Sunday, guys! I had a Super Bowl party to prepare, host and clean up after. There was no time to rant. But, I have something for you. Did you know that yesterday would have been President Reagan's 94 birthday? A rant tribute.... 14, June, 2004 What a week this was. I am sure you older shovelers thought back to President Kennedy as you watched the week unfold. I found myself thinking about my granddad. Maybe because both men seemed so huge to me when I was a kid. Or maybe because President Reagan was like a granddad to our nation. The wise old man sitting at the head of the table keeping the rest of the family in line, telling us things that we would ignore in our fractious youth, but would later look back and marvel at. Someone with a moral compass that we could only hope to aspire to. Several of you have asked me if I think we will have another Ronald Reagan. NO! But, I say that in the context that we will never have another me or another you. We are all very unique individuals and there will never be another like us. Remember that. So, will we have another leader like President Reagan? I believe that we will and I believe that person will come from the generation that is watching America defeat terrorism. President Reagan was called a war monger. Nothing could have been further from the truth. He never wanted a war, he wanted to end the threat of war. That is why he walked away from Rachavick. He was not going to settle for yet another so-called peace agreement. He was saying we are going to end this now. He stood up and walked away as if to say, if you want some come get it, I will be out in the yard. The Empire blinked and fell like the weakling bully that is was. President Reagan knew communism couldn’t compete with us morally and more importantly economically. He made deals with two other nations to increase their out put of oil and coal - the Soviet Unions two biggest exports. That drove the prices down and choked the USSR economy. Combine that with the SDI spending, and down goes the union. They could not keep up. The press nicknamed SDI - STAR WARS just to make it seem like an insane fantasy. They joked, saying that you can’t shoot down a bullet with a bullet. Well, hello, let me introduce you to my little friend The Patriot Missile!! President Regan’s vision came true and it is awesome! The press was wrong - as they always are. His resentment of, and will to defeat, communism started long before he sought any office. It started when he was an actor. In the late 1940's the Communist party was trying to take over Hollywood’s unions. <Communist in Hollywood? No! Get out! > HA! Anyway, they formed lines in front of the studios and conducted some very violent protest. The actors had to be bused into the studios and were told to duck down under the seats so the mob wouldn’t see them. They did. Well, all of them but one of them did. Ronald Reagan sat tall and ignored those recommendations. He wasn’t going to blink. That was so Reagan. It makes me think of the picture of him and Nancy waving from the hospital window just two days after they had pulled a bullet out of the man’s chest. He was smiling to let the nation know he was ok, but, I think, also to say to the world, "Is that the best you’ve got?" Bring it on! President Reagan entered office at a bad time for our country. He came along after Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate, that jackass Ford and then Jimmy Carter. Not a time for us to be proud of ourselves. <That being said without disrespect to our Vietnam veterans, but you guys know that.> Anyway, he managed to turn it all around and make us proud again. Bottom line. He healed the country. I have so much more, but I am going to stop here. God Bless America was President Reagan’s favorite patriotic tune. For some reason I have the feeling that he is sitting up there right now poking Ray Charles in the ribs and saying, "Sing it one more time, buddy." His obituary should not read like the rest of ours. It should simply read, "survived by the citizens of The United States of America and the rest of the soon to be free WORLD." Shovel out, Timm
7, June, 2004
I think it is oddly appropriate that President
Reagan passed on the eve of D-Day. D-Day was the largest military
offensive in the history of mankind, and the most important one of our
times. From sun up to sun down, over 1,500 men died on that beach that
day. We won that war and the world is better for it. President Reagan won
the next war without firing a shot. {Well, he did <accidentally> drop a
bomb the French Embassy - which, to this day, still makes me smile.} I
digress though... The Cold War had the potential of being 100 times as
bloody as World War 2, but it didn’t happen. The press can spin it anyway
they want, but that empire fell at the hands and convictions of one man.
President Ronald Reagan. I would like to sit here and tell you everything I know and admire about the man, but I have decided to just give you some of his own words. This man had a set core of beliefs and he never wavered from them. He gave a speech in 1964 and he repeated those same ideals until he left public life. I want you to notice how true those words ring today. Enough rambling....... lets start with a speech he gave on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. "We stand today at a place of battle, one that 40 years ago saw and felt the worst of war. Men bled and died here for a few feet of - or inches of sand, as bullets and shellfire cut through their ranks. About them, General Omar Bradley later said, "Every man who set foot on Omaha Beach that day was a hero." As are those who are in the sands of Iraq. When men like Private Zannata and all our Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy 40 years ago they came not as conquerors, but as liberators. When these troops swept across the French countryside and into the forests of Belgium and Luxembourg they came not to take, but to return what had been wrongfully seized. When our forces marched into Germany they came not to prey on a brave and defeated people, but to nurture the seeds of democracy among those who yearned to bee free again. That is so true. America has given blood on the
lands of many countries, but we have never claimed those lands. We give
them back their freedom and then move on. It makes me sick to hear
jackasses like Ted Kennedy stand up and say that we are nation building or
invading. We are not trying to conquer the middle east, we are FREEING it.
We have never given our blood or used our might to conquer, if we had the
entire world would be ours right now.
Today, the living here assembled-officials, veterans, citizens-are a tribute to what was achieved here 40 years ago. This land is secure. We are free. These things are worth fighting and dying for. AMEN! Lisa Zannata Henn began her story by quoting her father, who promised that he would return to Normandy. She ended with a promise to her father, who died 8 years ago of cancer: "I'm going there, Dad, and I'll see the beaches and the barricades and the monuments. I'll see the graves, and I'll put flowers there just like you wanted to do. I'll never forget what you went through, Dad, nor will I let any one else forget. And, Dad, I'll always be proud." Through the words of his loving daughter, who is here with us today, a D-Day veteran has shown us the meaning of this day far better than any President can. It is enough to say about Private Zannata and all the men of honor and courage who fought beside him four decades ago: We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. Very sobering thoughts. Next is from a speech he gave the same year at Pointe du Hoc. He is speaking about Rangers who hit that beach and climbed that mountain while being hit with mortars, grenades, bullets, you name it. They would sling up rope after rope to scale that mountain. If one of those ropes were cut by the enemy, another would be slung up. If a Ranger was killed, another would jump right in his place. 225 men went up that mountain, only 90 made it to the top. Can’t you just see how the press today would react to that operation? Anyway, here is part of what President Reagan said. Notice the theme. The men of Normandy had faith
that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all
humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead
or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost
it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force
for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to
liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your
cause. And you were right not to doubt.
"....a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest." That morality is what separates The United States from all the dictator ruled countries. We use our power for good, that is what we are doing in Iraq. President Reagan could have given this same speech today about the soldiers who have given their lives to fight the war against terrorism. There is no doubt to our cause over there. I’m rambling too much. I want to end this with parts of a speech he gave in 1964. It has become what everyone refers to as "THE SPEECH." Forty years later it still rings true. I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this. It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government." This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. Read that last sentence again. Think of Hillary. They say the world has become too
complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. "If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." That statement so encompasses this man. He saw evil, he had an idea as to how to deal with it and he followed it through. He was belittled by the media, called an idiot and told that he would fail. He squared his shoulders, ignored them and marched to his own drummer. He succeeded and we are still reaping the benefits of his vision and actions today. No one can ever look at President Ronald Reagan and say that he didn't do all that he could do. I want to end this on a humorous note. So here are a few quotes from his speech at the 1992 Republican Convention. Tonight is a very special night for me. Of course, at my age, every night's a very special night. After all, I was born in 1911. Indeed, according to the experts, I have exceeded my life expectancy by quite a few years. Now this a source of great annoyance to some, especially those in the Democratic party. But, here's the remarkable thing
about being born in 1911. In my life's journey over these past eight
decades, I have seen the human race through a period of unparalleled
tumult and triumph. I have seen the birth of communism and the death of
communism. I have witnessed the bloody futility of two World Wars, Korea,
Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. I have seen Germany united, divided and
united again. I have seen television grow from a parlor novelty to become
the most powerful vehicle of communication in history. As a boy I saw
streets filled with model-Ts; as a man I have met men who walked on the
moon.
Ok... so I won’t end on a
humorous note. One thing he said there, "I have witnessed the bloody
futility of two World Wars..." This world needs to thank the man for the fact that the third World War went down without all of that bloodshed. Communism hit its knees without a shot being fired. God bless you, President Reagan. You made us all proud to stand up and say, "We are Americans." 31, January, 2005 Is Ted Kennedy showing his true colors, or what? This fat, red faced, drunken buffoon really needs to be beat to death with a shovel. He is a megalomaniac in the purest sense of the word. I honestly believe that he thinks that the world should revolve around his big, never worked a day in his life, bloated ass!! He is a pig. Well, he would be a pig if pigs actually had the cognitive skills to be complete, unmitigated A-holes! Here is a quote from his drunkenness just days before the elections in Iraq. Why did he say this? Seriously, why? Our elections, even if the liberals don’t want to admit it, are over so there is no political calculation to it. Grip and read. "We have reached the point that a |
work building the biggest, most impenetrable wall/fence in the world right
there on the Mexican border. We will have to keep the unions out of it so
as to be assured that the workers won’t be overpaid and that the job will
actually get finished! Up yours, UWA!
Also,
I don’t want to hear the line about young people make mistakes! I still do
things that make me look in the mirror and ask myself, "What in the hell
were you thinking, you bucket-head?"
but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know
is morally right. 