"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected

leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." -Nikita Khruschev "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where th ere is no river." -Nikita Khrushchev "Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything." -Nikita Khrushchev "Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a day dream is that?" -Nikita Khrushchev "The press is our chief ideological weapon." -Nikita Khrushchev Obama will screw America Over! We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individu al has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. . . . But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. Ronald Reagan Go Ronald Reagan! "WWJMD? What would John McCain do?" "Americans never surrender. We don't hide from history. We make history." -John McCain "If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." -Donald Rumsfeld "Death waits in the dark." US Army Task Force 160 "Night Stalkers" "Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don't, sooner or lat er, some guy who does use them all will kick your hiney." -- Dave 'Preacher' Pac e "Kill one, terrify a thousand." - Sun Tzu "I come in peace, I didn't bring artillery. But I am pleading with you with tea rs in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Marine General James Ma ttis, to Iraqi tribal leaders "Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to b ear all sacrifices" -Adolf Hitler "Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is prima ry and decisive" -Adolf Hitler "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." -Adolf Hitler "The mothers and fathers of America will give you their sons and daughters...wit h the confidence in you that you will not needlessly waste their lives. And you dare not. That's the burden the mantle of leadership places upon you. You could be the person who gives the orders that will bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of young men and women. It is an awesome responsibility. You cann

ot fail. You dare not fail..." - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "Live for something rather than die for nothing." -George Patton "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, le arning from failure." -Colin Powell "'Knowledge dominance' does scare us as Marines. General George Armstrong Custer probably thought he had knowledge dominance, too. Any time you thing you're sma rter than your adversary, you're probably about a half-mile from the Little Big Horn." -Colonel Art Corbett, USMC "There is a story of a Bolshevik revolutionary who was standing on a soap box sp eaking to a small crowd in Times Square. After describing the glories of Sociali sm and Communism, he said: Come the revolution and everyone will eat peaches and cream. A little old man at the back of the crowd yelled out: I don t like peaches and crea m. The Bolshevik thought about that for a moment and then replied: Come the revoluti on, Comrade, you will like peaches and cream. "It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting." General H. Norman Schwarzkopf "The more things change, the more they stay the same. Boundaries shift, new play ers step in, but power always finds a place to rest its head." -General Sheperd "Stand firm, ye boys from Maine, for not once in a century are men permitted to bear such responsibility for Freedom and Justice, for God and Humanity, as are n ow placed upon you." Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; Union General in Civil War "I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with al l its stars." -Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; S econd, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bit terest." -Confucius "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." -Adolf Hitler The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a grea t example. - Benjamin Disraeli Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. -Thomas Dunn English For love of country they accepted death... -James A. Garfield The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their ch ildren. -William Havard The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. -Aaron Kilbourn For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. -William P

enn On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! -Thomas Willi am Parsons The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. -Minot J. Savage We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. -Francis A. Walker They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. -Henry Ward Beecher Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. -Walla ce Bruce A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself . -Joseph Campbell The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. -Thomas Campbell A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive tr eason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst tho se within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a trai tor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and t heir arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pi llars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." by: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator Source: Attributed. 58 BC, Speech in the Roman Senate "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, but when the government f ears the people there is liberty." -Thomas Jefferson "America's not at war, America's at the mall. People in the military are at war. " - PFC Janos Lutz "What s the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolut ion or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly." Glenn Beck, keynote address to the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, February 20, 2010 "We are definitely at a crossroads. ... We will either be a third world country that looks more like Latin America, or we will have totally reinvented ourselves . We re not going back to the way it was ten years ago, nor should we So we re either go ing to be a much more libertarian, smaller, faster, more mobile, which I think w e will be. Something that understands that the world changes like that. And we will be a mu ch more smaller, tighter, less, I guess they would use imperialistic, forcing ours elf, or projecting ourself around the world. We ll just be a much tighter, libertarian kind of community or country. Or we will be Third World." Glenn Beck, Human Events, August 3, 2010

"You cannot take away freedom to protect it, to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of you disagree. To take rights away to defend bt defies common sense." Glenn Beck, Common

you cannot destroy the free market speech by silencing those with whom them or to spend your way out of de Sense, 2009

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George Pa tton Jr. "Our enemies have made the mistake that America s enemies always make. They saw li berty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat." -George W. Bush "Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. N ot a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next president ial election." -Bill Clinton "Accumulation of debt is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive anything more likely than this to lead to great and conv ulsive revolutions of Empire." -Alexander Hamilton "I ve never been to combat alone, I ve never been to a firefight alone, I ve never bee n shot at alone, and since I ve been in the Army, I ve never been left alone. -Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta "Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass t he result." - Tien T'ai "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide every thing."- Joseph Stalin Kernkraft 400 Sports Remix Christopher Columbus In fourteen hundred and ninety-two a beggar bound for college was roaming in the streets of Spain and selling hot tamales Refrain: He said the world was round-oh He said it could be found-of The hypothetical navigating son-of-a-gun Columbo Said Isabel to Ferdinand his plan sounds mighty hazy said Ferdinand to Isabel I think the sucker's crazy! Here's another one I found as well....could be it. In fourteen hundred and ninety-two A man whose name was Chris Stood by the Trevi fountain Indulging in a piss. CHORUS: His balls they were so round-o His cock hung to the ground-o

That fornicating, copulating son-of-a-***** Columbo. Along did come the Queen of Spain And glimpsing there his dong, Forthwith was smitten with desire And knew not right from wrong. "Oh, Isabelle," Columbo said, A-waving of his balls, "The world is round as these are, I feel that duty calls." "Just wait a bit," said Isabella. "And don't forget essentials, For I've a mind to have a grind And check on your credentials." She gave her guest no time for rest, The pace was fairly killing, With legs apart he gave the tart A cream and cherry filling. For forty days and forty nights He sailed the broad Atlantic, Columbo and his scurvy crew For want of a screw were frantic. And when they got to Yankee land They spied a Yankee harlot When they came her **** was lilly-white When they left her **** was scarlet. With lustful shout they ran about And practiced copulation And when they left to sail away They doubled the population. And when his men pulled out again, And reckoned all their score up, They'd caught a pox from every box That syphilized all Europe. Hasheesh - Arabic word for "Marijuana". Arabs smoked "Hasheesh" before going on shooting sprees. ON THE EIGHTH DAY, GOD CREATED THE SEALs. AND ALL HELL STOOD AT ATTENTION. THE D EVIL HIMSELF SALUTED EVERY SEAL AS THEY ROSE FROM THE CAULDRON OF LIFE WITH TRID ENTS GLEAMING. NEVER TO BE SEEN BY SATAN AGAIN "Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power w ithout conscience." -General Omar Bradley "This is true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whet her to act, and in acting, to live." -General Omar Bradley "It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory." -General George Patton Jr

"All great change starts at the dinner table." -Ronald Reagan "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things wort h reading, or do things worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin "Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between pea ce and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace--and you can have it in the next second--surrender. Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every le sson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face--that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between pea ce and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, con tinue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand--the ulti matum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answ er will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Co ld War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, mo rally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voi ces pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one comme ntator put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein li es the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purc hased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin--just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the child ren of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, an d our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning i n the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill sa id that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces a re on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, whic h, whether we like it or not, spells duty." 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 last step into a thousand years of darkness." -RONALD MUTHERTRUCKIN REAGAN! "Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is nece ssary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 m illion followers, it will no longer be America." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Good evening. Tonight, at the United States has leader of al Qaeda, and of innocent men, women,

I can report to the American people and to the world th conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the a terrorist who s responsible for the murder of thousands and children.

It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared in to our national memory -- hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the act ions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction. And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the r child s embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving our hearts. to the world. grow up without feeling of thei a gaping hole in

On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaf firmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that d ay, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnici ty we were, we were united as one American family. We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. We quickly learned that the 9/11 atta cks were carried out by al Qaeda -- an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, w hich had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing i nnocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies. Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military a nd our counterterrorism professionals, we ve made great strides in that effort. W e ve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense. In Afghan istan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and a llies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists, including several who we re a part of the 9/11 plot. Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pa kistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and ope rate through its affiliates across the world. And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war ag ainst al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community , I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and i t took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my natio nal security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And fi nally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, a nd authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out th e operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed . They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda s leader and symbol, and has con tinued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The deat h of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation s effo

rt to defeat al Qaeda. Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must - and we will -- remain vig ilant at home and abroad. As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. I ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/ 11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he wa s a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslim s in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity. Over the years, I ve repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakist an if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we ve done. But it s important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin L aden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war a gainst Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people. Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Paki stani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates. The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and start ed with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of servi ce, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war. These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family th at has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who s been grav ely wounded. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never toler ate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been k illed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and all ies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda s terr or: Justice has been done. Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism profe ssionals who ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfact ion of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice. We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify th e professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our c ountry. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day. Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 that we have nev er forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores. And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people. The cause of securing our country is not complete. But tonight, we are once aga in reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the stru ggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our value

s abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty an d justice for all. Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America." Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America

During the past decade since the attacks of September 11, 2001, we have been a n ation at war. In Afghanistan, our enemy has been the Taliban, Al Qaida and count less foreign fighters whose only goal was to kill Americans, in great numbers. It has--and continues to be--a long war. The centerpiece of that war has been a single, elusive icon of terror who person ally directed the mass killings of innocent people around the world. From the first day, we fought back. And we continue to fight. We have lost friends, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers. W e have heard the sound of taps echo and linger in the distance. Many courageous men and women have returned with grievous wounds sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Despite the many obstacles, dangers and threats, we continue to fight. In a long war, the sacrifice is often spread across generations. Many of those operators who raided that compound 30 miles outside Islamabad were likely too young to drive when the 9/11 attacks occurred. And yet, these volunteers most certainly remembered that fateful day, and were t hinking about it as they were being transported into Pakistan via Special Operat ions helicopters in the dead of night. The images of that day likely one of the reasons they took their oath-- to defend against all enemies, foreign and domest ic. Fueled by adrenalin, a healthy dose of fear, and a supreme confidence in their e quipment and training, warriors like these know well that things can and likely will go wrong. That s why they rehearse. Whether they are on their target or suppo rting from afar, it s why they look after one another, and will never leave a fall en comrade behind. They are the best living definition of a team. Because they operate as a single unit toward a common, understood objective. They never quit. When the conditions change, they adapt. They can communicate intuitively, with silent hand and arm signals through the green glow of night vision goggles, or single syllable trans missions spoken into a whisper mike. They often follow orders delivered a contin ent away. They are brothers--closer to one another than their own immediate fami lies. When they are in pursuit of a target, they don t recognize political boundaries. T hey act decisively and selflessly, and inform their hosts later. Mission first.Fortunately, these operators are ours. It is these remarkable operators who are deployed forward in a land they do not seek to permanently occupy, and who, in the most desperate circumstances, contin ue to fight -- for all of us." --John Fenzel, May 2, 2011 "We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and max imum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist." -SEAL Team Six Officer "The problem with communism was that it became an experiment of sacrificing livi ng people for the sake of an abstraction. That is something one does not do ... The end does not justify the means. When it comes to human life, every person is

an end, not a means." -Elie Wiesel "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Ed mund Burke The following conversation is between two senatorial hopefuls from the state of Ohio, John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum. "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a 'job'?" "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I was through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasi ons. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line. This was not a 9-to-5 job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day to a Veterans Hospital, and look those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn't hold a job. You go with me to any Gold Star mother, and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job. You go with me to the space program, and you g o as I have gone to the widows and the orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and R oger Chaffee, and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad di dn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day coming up, and you stand on Arlington National Ce metery--where I have more friends than I like to remember--and you watch those w aving flags, and you stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell me that those people didn't have a job. I tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your lif e thanking God that there were some men--SOME MEN--who held a job. And they requ ired a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what has made this country possible. I HAVE HELD A JOB, HOWARD!" - John Glenn Marines aim to Make every shot count, because when precision is a priority, mist akes are minimized.

"The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Co ngress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our ey es. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meanin g of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good inte ntions. The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems. Runaway welfarism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the Ameri can Republic? Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and pol itical leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictat orial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own: 1. Order assassinations, including American citizens, 2. Operate secret military tribunals, 3. Engage in torture, 4. Enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process, 5. Order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendmen

t, 6. Ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any milita ry operations as required by the War Power Resolution, 7. Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight, 8. Wage war at will, 9. Treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude x-raying. And the Federal Reserve accommodates by counterfeiting the funds needed and not paid for by taxation and borrowing, permitting runaway spending, endless debt, a nd special interest bail-outs. And all of this is not enough. The abuses and usurpa tions of the war power are soon to be codified in the National Defense Authoriza tion Act now rapidly moving its way through the Congress. Instead of repealing the 2001 Authorization for th e Use of Military Force (AUMF), as we should, now that bin Laden is dead and gon e, Congress is planning to massively increase the war power of the President. Though an opportu nity presents itself to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Congres s, with bipartisan support, obsesses on how to expand the unconstitutional war power the President already h olds. The current proposal would allow a President to pursue war any time, any p lace, for any reason, without Congressional approval. Many believe this would even permit military act ivity against American suspects here at home. The proposed authority does not re ference the 9/11 attacks. It would be expanded to include the Taliban and "associated" forces a dangerously vague and expansive definition of our potential enemies. There is no denial that the changes in s.1034 totally eliminate the hard-fought-for restraint on Presidential authority to go to war without Congressional approval achieved at the Constitutional Convention. Congress' war authority has been severely undermined since World War II beginning with the advent of the Korean War which was fought solely under a UN Resolution. Even today, we're wag ing war in Libya without even consulting with the Congress, similar to how we went to war in Bosnia in th e 1990s under President Clinton. The three major reasons for our Constitutional Convention were to: 1. Guarantee free trade and travel among the states. 2. Make gold and silver legal tender and abolish paper money. 3. Strictly limit the Executive Branch's authority to pursue war without Congres sional approval. But today: 1. Federal Reserve notes are legal tender, gold and silver are illegal. 2. The Interstate Commerce Clause is used to regulate all commerce at the expens e of free trade among the states. 3. And now the final nail is placed in the coffin of Congressional responsibilit y for the war power, delivering this power completely to the President a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our Republic. In my view, it appears that the fate of the American Re public is now sealed unless these recent trends are quickly reversed. The saddest part of this tragedy is that all these horrible changes are being do ne in the name of patriotism and protecting freedom. They are justified by good intentions while believing the sacrifice of liberty is required for our safety. Nothing cou ld be further from the truth. More sadly is the conviction that our enemies are driven to attack us for our fr eedoms and prosperity, and not because of our deeply flawed foreign policy that has generated justifiable grievances and has inspired the radical violence against u s. Without this understanding our endless, unnamed, and undeclared wars will con

tinue and our wonderful experience with liberty will end." -Ron Paul, US Capitol, May 25, 2011

A man and a woman are sitting next to each other on a trans-atlantic flight in a Boeing 747-400. The aircraft encounters severe turbulence and the man, looking out the window at the wing bouncing around, gradually looks more and more worried. The woman, noticing, says "Don't worry, I'm a flight attendant and this is perfectly normal." He replies "Miss, I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing to do what it's doing right now." Would You Have Approved? 1. If a previous president had doubled the national debt which had taken more th an two centuries to accumulate, in just one year, would you have approved? 2. If a previous president had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? 3. If a previous president would have spent nearly a trillion dollars in stimulu s and guaranteed unemployment would not exceed 8%, would you have called him a l iar? 4. If a previous president would have played golf for thirteen weekends in a row leaving it up to congressional leaders to deal with the greatest financial cris is since the great depression, would you have considered him disengaged and out of touch? 5. If a previous president had criticized a state law that he admitted to never even reading, would you have thought him an ignoramus? 6. If a previous president had passed an unconstitutional law that would have ab sorbed 1/6th of the America s entire GDP, forced Americans to purchase a private p roduct (in violation of the commerce clause), fined them if they didn t, hired 16, 000 new IRS agents to enforce it, and exempted 1400 organizations from having to abide by that new law, would you have thought him a mafia boss? 7. If a previous president joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in Amer ica to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you have questioned his patriotism and priorities and wonder who his allegiance was to? 8. If a previous president had pronounced Army Corpsman like you pronounce a dea d corpse, would you have thought he was stupid? 9. If a previous president had put 87,000 people out of work by arbitrarily plac ing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agre ed? 10. If a previous president had used a forged document as the basis of the morat orium that would render 87,000 American workers unemployed would you have suppor ted him? 11. If a previous president had been the first president to need a teleprompter to get through a press conference, would you have thought this is more proof of

how inept he is on his own and that he s really controlled by smarter people behin d the scenes? 12. If a previous president had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take h is wife to a play in NYC, would you have approved? 13. If a previous president had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stoc k by 90%, given the unions a majority stake in the car maker and shut down 789 p erfectly profitable Chrysler dealerships because they were were owned by registe red republicans, would you have approved? 14. If a previous president had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympi cs, would you have approved? 15. If a previous president had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and inco rrectly formatted DVDs when Gordon Brown gave him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? 16. If a previous president had given the Queen of England an iPod containing au dios of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America, or t hat a narcissist occupied the White House? 17. If a previous president had bowed to Kings of third world countries while on an apologetic tour, would you have approved? 18. If a previous president had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexi stent Austrian language, would you have thought it a minor slip? 19. If a previous president had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with p eople who don t pay their own income taxes, would you have approved? 20. If a previous president had said there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn t you have been shocked? 21. If a previous president would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a fi ve minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out of his fro nt door in his home town, would you not have thought him a conceited, egomaniac? 22. If a previous president had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to Cinco d e Cuatro in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have not been embarrassed? 23. If a previous president had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a s ingle tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he s a hypocrite? 24. If a previous presidents administration had okayed Air Force One flying low o ver millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan that caus ed widespread panic, would you have thought him insensitive and clueless about w hat actually happened on 9/11? 25. If a previous president had created the position of 45 Czars who reported di rectly to him, bypassing the House and Senate and usurping the Constitution, wou ld you have ever approved? 26. If a previous president had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corpora tion, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have ap proved? 27. If a previous president had spent nearly $2 million dollars hiding his ident

ity all the way back to his childhood, would you have been suspicious? 28. If a previous president had been raised a muslim, spent more time living abr oad in Islamic countries than he did in the United States, hung out with terrori sts, and attended a hate church for 20 years, would you have not thought him bra inwashed? 29. If a previous president had received a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing more th an out campaigning his competitors, would you have thought him the laughing stoc k of recipients? 30. If a previous president had ordered a botched illegal gun running operation that resulted in American arms winding up in the hands of foreign drug cartels w ho in turn murdered Americans, would he have not had blood on his hands and been ordered to resign? 31. If a previous president had released a fraudulent long form birth certificat e and was factually proven ineligible to even be the president whether he was bo rn on American soil or not, would you have not demanded impeachment?

Obama's Failures and Brain Farts 1. He enacted a $900 billion dollar fiscal disaster called the stimulus package which only served to increase the national debt and he failed on his promise to keep unemployment under 8%. The black community, from which he received 90% of t he vote, has an unemployment rate between 14-16%. 2. He has proposed raising taxes during an anemic economic recovery which at bes t would guarantee a double dip recession, and at worst, bring on a major depress ion. He has seeked to increase capital gains, dividends, and estate taxes, not e ven considering reducing the corporate/business tax rate of 35% which would ince ntivize the private sector. Moreover he seeks to punish the rich, redistribute w ealth and declare class warfare. 3. In violation of the principles of capitalism and free enterprise, he has nati onalized several aspects of free market production in the automotive, financial, and healthcare industries. 4. He has signed into law, Obamacare, a healthcare vision which creates 11 new t axes, 16,000 new IRS agents, $500B in cuts to medicare, 159 new government agenc ies and bureaucracies (to include a 15 member panel of bureaucrats which shall r egulate the expenditures of Medicare), mandated individual American citizens to purchase a private sector commodity (which is not supported by the Commerce Clau se), and has provided nearly 1400 exemptions to political cronies from adhering to the law he signed. 5. Since taking office, he has increased the federal debt $5 trillion dollars in only 30 months. And due to historic levels of excessive spending, he has create d record deficits of $1.42T, $1.29T, and $1.65T in that same time. 41 cents of e very dollar borrowed and 47% of the federal debt is now owned by foreign nations . 6. His proposed FY 2012 budget was voted down in the Unites States Senate, 0-97.

7. Food stamp recipients has increased by a whopping 41%, expanding an ever larg er dependency class in the United States. 8. He has failed to produce a full spectrum energy independence resource develop ment program while average gas prices during his tenure have gone from $1.89 to a high of around $4.00. He inappropriately commanded the release of strategic oi l reserves here in the states, while giving Brazil $2B for its offshore oil expl oration. 9. He has created a shadow government of some 40+ individuals termed Czars who are not confirmed by the United States Senate and respond only to him, yet have ove rarching regulatory powers a clear violation of our separation of powers concept. 10. He has increased regulatory and bureaucratic burdens on American business th rough bypassing the legislative process with his executive branch agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. 11. He appointed and continues to support an inept and incompetent Attorney Gene ral who has failed to prosecute voter intimidation cases (New Black Panther part y), initiated a dangerous gun-smuggling program (Operation Fast and Furious) tha t resulted in deaths to our own law enforcement agents, and he refuses to acknow ledge and uphold a federal law, DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). 12. He has failed to take the steps necessary to secure our borders and stem the flow of illegal immigration, termed as repel invasions in our United States Const itution in Article 1, Section 8 and Article 4, Section 4; and had the audacity t o bring a federal lawsuit against a sovereign state (Arizona) seeking to protect its citizens from this threat. 13. He has violated the War Powers Act of 1973 and sought to redefine the term ho stilities to justify his actions in Libya. 14. He has telegraphed Afghan troop reductions to our enemies against the consult of his experienced Field Commanders while embracing negotiations with our enemy, t he Taliban, and reestablishing communications with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egy pt. 15. He has placed the security of our most trusted ally in the Middle East, Isra el, in danger while he increased funding to the Palestinian Authority (Fatah, ju st another Islamic terrorist group) whilst they have enjoined a reconciliation p act with long-standing terrorist group, Hamas. "The quintessential, unassailable truth that distills from centuries of experien ce with socialism is that when it isn't arrogantly bossing people around, it's s tifling, strangling, or killing them. It's based on the ludicrous assumption tha t people who have a hard time planning their own lives and often fail at it can nonetheless plan the lives of not just a hand ful of others around them, but the lives of millions they don't even know!" -- L awrence W. Reed. To our brothers, past and present This is a dedication to America s servicemen. A dedication to the debt we owe to W arriors lost and to all of our military forces who continue to defend freedom ar ound the world. Men and women who have honorably served throughout our nation s hi story who stood and continue to stand fast in the face of a determined enemy and defeat them with unwavering discipline. Most Americans do not know what our Special Operations Forces community experien ce. They do not know what these Warriors endure in combat, nor do they understan

d the selflessness and love of the brothers beside them. Men within this communi ty bring the fight to the enemy, engage aggressively and stand their ground. Born unto a different cloth, these men could have chosen a life of prosperity an d chased every opportunity afforded by our great nation. Giving life as they liv e it, they chose to leave these pursuits behind and devote themselves instead to a higher calling, living with indomitable purpose, by simple truths Brotherhood . Honor. Sacrifice. Words molded into their character, exemplified by their acti ons. It is their final hour we celebrate our fallen brothers who shine a light on the greatest attributes of dedicated men. With their sacrifice, legends are born an d will live as examples to inspire the heroes that will lead our nation to victo ry in the years ahead; making our founding fathers proud and acting as a promise to America s next generation. This is to our fallen brothers. You will be honored in our community s history as the greatest heroes. As men who shouldered our nation s burdens, you will remain a s beacons for our heroic ideals. Taught to be proud and unbending in failure and humble in success, there are no greater examples for which this nation stands f or and of which this nation is built from the ideal of service to country and ot hers. To our community and all who wear the uniform Thank you for your service to the nation. And, to those in this hour who are in the fight and keep our enemies awake at ni ght. Non Sibi Sed Patriae... Not for self, but for Country There was once a little boy who was selling food at a Castro speech in Havana. H e yelled out to the crowd: "Popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks!" He didn't get a res ponse from anyone near him so he tried once more. "Popcorn, peanuts, crackerjack s!" No one really seemed keen on buying this food. Finally, for a third time the boy says " Popcorn, peanut-". Castro heard him and cut him short. He said "When I find whoe ver is doing that I'm gonna kick him all the way to Miami!" Everyone in the crow d yelled "Popcorn, peanuts, crackerjack!" -Ronald Reagan "Losers always do their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of suc cess." "I fight with my mind. My hands and my weapon are an extension of my will." "Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty."Calvin Coolidge Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different result s. "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our fre edoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -President Abraham Lincoln "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -Dwi ght D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 "All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Lord Acto n "If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was g iven them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

" -Andrew Jackson September 11th - 1609: Discovery of Manhatten Island and 1941: Ground is broken on construction of the Pentagon. Today was the day that everyone, regardless of color, creed, or religion, looked at the Statue of Liberty and said "No, we will not tire, we will not falter, an d we will not fail. We refuse to surrender, we will not be frightened by a facel ess coward, and justice will prevail. Yea, though we are in the valley of the sh adow of death, for we all fear no evil, for we are fully loaded with Mk. 82s and 10 miles out." "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." -Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006 If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it must be an IED. I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public pro visions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of co urse became poorer. ~ Benjamin Franklin "No one would have believed that in the early years of the 21st century, that ou r world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own. That as men bus ied themselves about their various concerns, they observed, and studied. The way a man with a microscope might scruntinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast, and cool , and unsympathetic, regarded our planet with envious eyes. And slowly and surel y drew their plans against us." -Morgan Freeman, War of the Worlds (2005) Karl Marx was an angry, hate-filled anti-Semite quarrelsome, neglectful of his fami ly, lazy, and violent. He suffered from hideous carbuncles in part because he al most never bathed. He spent almost all his time at home or in libraries, and almost none where the workers he fumed about actually worked. He mooched off of others all his life, p rompting his mother to say, according to historian Paul Johnson, that she wished son Karl would accumulate ca pital instead of just writing about it "The test of character is not 'hangin in' when you expect light at the end of th e tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know no li ght is coming. " --ADM James B. Stockdale, Medal of Honor Recipient "We have met the enemy and they are ours." -Oliver Hazard Perry "I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones "The love of freedom and those that defend it knows no age. It is an understandi ng that we live free because of those willing to protect it. Some know this from a young age and others either have forgotten or need to learn this fact." -Mike Kirkpatrick

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither -Thomas Jefferson Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitut ional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents a n invasion of the dearest rights. -James Madison "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and dese rves one." -Alexander Hamilton The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. aquille ONeal "The price of inaction is to be ruled by your inferiors." -Unknown "Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses." -Mitt Romney Thank you so much for making my night special. I can't have imagined a better pe rson to go with. You've made my birthday special as well. I can't think of a bet ter gift. -Sh