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Hurricane Fidel Has Been Cuba’s Worst Disaster [Marco Rubio]

While New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is in Cuba this week learning about natural-disaster preparedness from the Castro regime, he should use the opportunity to hold the government’s feet to the fire for the manmade disaster it has imposed on the Cuban people for five decades.

In Cuba, it doesn’t take a hurricane to cause power outages; government rationing of electricity has been doing that for some time. The destruction of the agricultural economy didn't begin when storms destroyed crops; it began when the regime took control of the means of production. The country's infrastructure didn’t start crumbling because of hurricane-strength winds; it’s been deteriorating for decades, along with many aspects of Cuban life, because of a regime obsessed with using its limited resources to maintain power, deprive its people of fundamental liberties and close itself off from the free world.

But perhaps the worst part about the regime’s hurricane-mitigation program is its routine, cruel, and inhumane rejection of American aid.

If Mayor Nagin is in Cuba learning about the regime’s hurricane-response efforts, he shouldn’t be surprised to discover that the worst disaster in Cuba’s history has been a manmade one called Hurricane Fidel.

— Marco Rubio is a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Florida.

This is a video on medevacing wounded service members from Iraq and Afghanistan . If only the American people really understood what the military does for this country and how we are structured to do it all. It is so well worth watching that I encourage all to pass to many so they can see the care given. Bringing home combat wounded from Bagram in June 2008.. Factual video on the C-17 Aero medical mission.

This does not need words.

Why don't we see these (2)

Why don't we see this here?

These cartoons are NOT of USA origin - they are from Australia. Why do you think we don't see the same type of political cartooning here?

63 Years later - we still don't understand

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It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

The prize does not always go to the most deserving

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected..
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

The Federal Government is NOT the United States | Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Found this through a tweet. This is an interesting and extremely true thought.

The Federal Government is NOT the United States | Tenth Amendment Center Blog

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OMG! What have they done ....

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Or...The Evolution of an Activist

Posted by Aaron Gardner (Profile)

Friday, October 2nd at 9:00AM EDT
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Come, sit by the campfire while I tell you a story.

September 2000 I left the U.S. Army confident that Al Gore would be the next President of the United States of America. The next year passed quickly as I scrambled to find my place in civilian life. On Sept. 11th I was driving to work and heard the news. Thus began a fixation on current events that I have yet to shake.

The next spring I quit my job and took a contract in Kosovo as a Systems Administrator. I spent roughly two years living and working in Kosovo. In between trouble tickets, I diligently clicked refresh on Drudgereport, which I had only recently discovered. Once I returned to U.S. soil I began to notice that the country had changed while I was away. Drudge, despite his best efforts, had failed to clue me in to the degree of animosity that was bubbling up from the fairly new fever swamps we are now all so familiar with.

I was a foreigner in my own land.

At first I just kept my head down, not wanting to cause a scene. But as time went on I never really adjusted. I felt alone.

I decided I would leave again, this time for Iraq. En route to Iraq, Providence saw fit to allow me to reconnect with the love of my life, whom I would call my wife less than a year later. But Good is not the only force in this world, Evil also stalks through our earthly realm. While walking home from a party one of my closest cousins was violently struck down by a Neo-Nazi ex-con, abruptly ending his life.

The instinct to reconnect and recommit to a life of Family and Community took hold, and shortly after I left Iraq for good and came home. Upon arriving back in the States I proposed, and quickly married my wife, Beth. My life had changed for the better, but in ways I still felt lost.

By this time I had found Politico.com and had started battling it out in the comments with the riff-raff that seemed to congregate there. It was primary season and I was scoping the field, eventually settling on Fred Thompson as my pick.

The message boards of Fred’s site led me to RedState two years ago. At last, I felt a glimmer of hope that I had found where I belong.

Beth and I started our family, and I dove into the world of RedState. I read everything I could, and wrote when I felt compelled. The 2008 election proved to be an utter disappointment, even if completely predictable considering the choices made by the McCain campaign(save Palin).

I knew then that merely writing about events would not suffice, but what could *I* do?

The answer should be apparent to anyone who has read RedState for any significant period of time. Expand your activism into your offline life.

The first step was to attend a Tea Party; the next to attend a State/County/Town Committee meeting.

Even that, as worthwhile as it is, is not enough.

To affect real change in our nation, to instill true principles to our party, to avoid waking up to find out that your local party just selected a KOS ENDORSED, ACORN APPROVED DEMOCRAT, as the Republican Candidate you must become a voting member of the party. I did.

And who knows, maybe two years from now it will be YOU telling the story of your evolution as an activist on the most read Conservative/Republican blog in the nation. I did … and am.

Aaron B. Gardner

See here is the thing

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Posted by Socrates (Profile)
Wednesday, September 30th at 4:55PM EDT

All of the backlash, the Tea Parties, the town hall meetings, the rise in the right-leaning blogosphere are all about one thing.

Barack Obama and his fellow marxists* in Washington want to take the thing from us. We even want them to have it. But we are determined that they will not take it from us.

First, what the thing is not.

* The thing is not money

The debates we have often take place in monetary terms — adding to deficits, raising or lowering taxes, etc. Barack Obama and his fellow marxists in Washington want our money, and we want to keep our money from them. But money is just a proxy for the thing.

* The thing is not justice

Barack Obama and his fellow marxists in Washington talk about “economic justice”, by which they mean to ensure, by whatever means necessary, that everyone has enough money. Like the rest of Marxism, it’s a hollow dream, because it’s unattainable, and even if it were attainable, would be worthless. You cannot assure that each one has enough without crushing the hope to gain more than enough, nor without also producing a society of slaves.

* The thing is not equality

Barack Obama and his fellow marxists in Washington mouth the words that they want equality, but as explained above what they really mean is that no one has any more than anyone else. They expressly do not mean equality before the law, for they see the law as a tool for adjusting the place each of us has. In a world build by their accounting of justice, none must ever end with means greater than the next. All they ever really mean by their redistribution schemes is to take power from those who have it and give it to themselves.

* The thing is not success

Like money, “justice”, and “equality”, Barack Obama and his fellow marxists in Washington claim to want power. They say they want change, but what they really want is the power to implement a utopian fantasy of a socialist workers’ paradise. We do not wish them success in this, but wish them to fail.

* The thing is not power

While we really don’t want them to have the power they now hold, the thing is not the power. We don’t want that power for ourselves, for we do not believe anyone should have the power they seek, and in fact now have.

The thing is liberty.

Barack Obama and his fellow marxists in Washington want to take liberty from us. We even want them to have liberty, as well. But we are determined that they will not take our liberty from us.

The beauty of liberty is that you don’t get it by taking it from someone else, but by insisting that they keep theirs, too.

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*Being a charitiable sort, I’ll give them the small ‘m’

Where do I sign up for the "sacrifice?"

Because LORD knows I"m willing to sacrifice for my country. I sacrificed hours and hours and HOURS of family time to stand the midwatch over 18 years. If this is yet another sacrifice that I must endure for my country SO BE IT! I'm signing up NOW!