HillBuzz Open Thread May 26, 2012
It’s Memorial Day weekend. A time spent with family and friends, and a time to reflect on those we’ve lost. The people who sacrificed everything for this country.
Please share your thoughts on what this day means to you. If you don’t get posted right away, it’s because no one is near a computer to approve your comments, so please be patient.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
**Update: Well, we know who will NOT be honoring the fallen on Memorial Day.
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Excellent article on Red State about our need to overcome evil with good. Many of these same thoughts have been on my mind of late.
http://www.redstate.com/bs/2012/05/25/overcoming-evil-with-good/
The trick is knowing how to stand firm in one’s beliefs and values while still viewing others with compassion and extending to those who revile us the milk of human kindness. A rough assignment at times, IMO.
There is a little bit of uproar about that article. Not all of us subscribe to the pontificating which came across. I’ve seen some of those mods go after people from our own side in snarky ways, and then high-five themselves. Doesn’t seem right to me. Ultimately, I believe that good must stand up to evil, if it does, evil blinks.
Here is another way perspective on the same theme, similar but it does support defending ourselves.
http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/2012/05/27/is-it-christian-to-defend-oneself/blue-collar-muse
That was a cogent article. I read some comments opposing the Red State article and want to clarify that for me, overcoming evil with good does not mean becoming prostrate like a beta male canine. There is a fine line between standing up for one’s rights and defending oneself and becoming consumed in hatred for the opposition.
I am reminded of President Lincoln’s words from his 2nd inaugural, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in . . .”
He engaged in warfare to defend the Union and ultimately abolish slavery from our land. But like Lincoln, at the end of the day, we need to show love, mercy and grace to those against whom we battle. It’s definitely a challenge and requires the love of God shed abroad in our hearts to accomplish it.
Once we’ve defeated the enemy, then of course, one should not act with malice or a heart of vengeance, but make no mistake the Left in this country is anti-American, and they are the reason why Obama is in office, and Holder is at the DOJ, and the EPA is allowed to run amok, and the NLRB is an arm of the unions, the list goes on and on. Being “nice” to them or “going along to get along” is what has brought us to this state.
As I said, the pontificating on the part of people who themselves are pretty nasty to folks on their own side – just doesn’t set well.
These are some of my favorite videos of the Lone Marine, saluting for three hours with a broken wrist. He has previously saluted for as long as six hours. He is saluting the Rolling Thunder on Memorial Day to salute the hundreds of them who descend on D.C. to pay tribute to our fallen and POWs/MIAs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wEI2NcoBEM
http://rollingthunderrun.com/like-a-rock-video/
Why they ride:
http://rollingthunderrun.com/why-we-ride-2/
Honor those who serve in order to draw the enemy toward them and away from us. God bless each and every one of them – past, present, and future.
Honestly? I’m fine with him not there for our troops, then there, faking it and pandering for votes. :-/
Same here. Apparently, however, the liar in chief has changed his mind and will lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown in Arlington.
He stopped at the Vietnam Memorial too — and shut it down for seven hours: http://5440fight.com/2012/05/28/obamas-memorial-day-photo-op-blocks-families-vets-from-d-c-vietnam-memorial-wall-for-7-hours/
If you can’t go do something to honor the fallen, take an hour and twenty minutes to watch Kevin Bacon in the movie Taking Chance. It’s from 2009, but is a very poignant look at the ultimate sacrifice from a unique perspective.
I wept at the movie. Should have been nominated for an Oscar.
Thank you for the reminder, clrfl. I have not seen the movie. I did follow the series in the Colorado newspaper that the movie is based upon. It was some of the best writing I have ever had the privilege to read. It was an extreme disappointment when the newspaper folded.
God Bless America and our troops, past and present. It is not strange that it is the Right who celebrates the troops and the Left who spits on them.
Remember that in November.
Damn right, Gunny.
God Bless America, and all of the men and women who sacrificed their lives to keep us FREE.
Never forget who supports our armed forces and, as you said, spits on them.
Remember those who fight to protect our freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk
I just spent an hour reading the master’s thesis of Timothy Lee Adams, the Senior Elections Clerk for the City and County of Honolulu in 2008. Riveting, in more ways than one, it’s an indictment of the election vetting process, the media, the government, political parties and treatment of those with minority opinions.
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2074&context=theses
Thank you for that. Obama was not born in Hawaii. Period. I read his thesis, and he experienced the same kind of attacks that Stacy McCain, Paterrico and others have for speaking the truth.
Keep on it, cate. It’s citizens like you who make a difference.
Hayes of MSNBC has a problem calling fallen military “Heroes”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/05/27/chris-hayes-im-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-military-heroes#ixzz1w6mBDLvo
That jerk can kiss my ass. If the terrorists hit New York again, I hope they hit him while he’s in his apartment. Ungrateful bastard.
Ditto.
To my Nam brothers:
They asked us to come. We came. They asked us to sacrifice. We sacrificed. Those of us who were still alive came home………. They insulted us. They spit on us. But, they were still free.
Well said. God bless you, JM, and thank you.
Here is my contribution to honoring our fallen. Remembering Winston Churchill is part of it. And yes, someday, his bust, so rudely returned to the British, will be once again in the White House.
http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/2012/05/27/i-vow-to-thee-my-country/lady-penguin
For those of us who’ve been there and done it, freedom has a taste they can never hope to understand!!! Their spit means nothing since spit is all they have, we, on the other hand, have what they can never have….
Thank YOU for your service…
Kell
2/ 325 AIR, 82 Airborne Division
(Ranger)
77 thru 91
Thank you for your service, Kell. I feel safer just knowing that you had my back for all of those years. God bless you and your family.
Dang! It’s disgusting when the Brits reveal the words our gubmint look for in our online communications. Worse yet, it’s hard to avoid drawing attention at some point. Plot? Every writing blog I know mentions it. Pork? How many shared recipes use the other whte meat? And rain? My sister just posted that it rained where she lives; terrorists around the world were just waiting to find that out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html?ICO=most_read_module