Patriot Chronicle 08-08

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Patriot Chronicle 08-08

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THE FOUNDATION: PATRIOTISM

“The name of American, which belongs to you... must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.”  — George Washington

VILLAGE IDIOTS

American Pride?: “[F]or the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but I think people are hungry for change.”  — Michelle Obama **“What she meant was, this is the first time that she’s been proud of the politics of America.”  — Barack to the rescue

Belly laugh of the week: “[The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] is studiously nonpartisan and does not engage in partisan politics.”  — NAACP President Julian Bond

From the “Fire, Ready, Aim” Department: “America is in a gun crisis... Mass shootings are not a force of nature unstoppable by man. They are the predictable result of our nation’s weak gun policies, and much can be done to prevent them. To prevent future mass shootings we must begin to ratchet down the firepower that is available to civilians.”  — Joint statement — tells you what they were smoking — of gun ban troika Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Violence Policy Center

This week’s “Hanoi Jane” Award: “I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored. War is not a movie, it is a tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced.”  — actress Sharon Stone in an interview with the Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat

Judge not?: “Every time I hear the word conservative, it makes me sick to my stomach because they’re really just fake Christians, as I call them; that’s all they are... They’re not supposed to judge other people, but they’re the most hypocritical judge of people we have in this country, and it bugs the h**l out of me.”  — former NBA star Charles Barkley

UPRIGHT

“Unlike Michelle Obama, I can’t keep track of the number of times I’ve been proud — really proud — of my country since I was born and privileged to live in it.”  — Michelle Malkin Break “For those who might be a little thin on this, America — the America of which Mrs. Obama is finally really proud — gives people like Michelle Obama the right to say excruciatingly stupid things. And, America — the America of which I have always been proud — gives people like Barack Obama the ability to run for (and probably win) the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.”  — Rich Galen

“There’s a battle on the horizon for the future of conservatism. On one side are those who revere unchanging principles, especially a healthy suspicion of government. On the other are those who would refine old principles under the guise of adapting them to new situations — those apt to see government more as a force for good than a necessary evil.”  — Andrew McCarthy

“A Republican ticket that is balanced and strongly representative of concerns for national security, traditional values and a free economy can still be the winning formula.”  — Star Parker

“The U.S. Senate adopted the theory that... lawsuits should not be permitted and voted to extend the Protect America Act. A clear majority of Members of Congress also would have voted to extend the Protect America Act. But Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, putting the demands of the Trial Lawyers and the MoveOn.org wing of the Democratic Party ahead of America’s safety refused to let the bill come to the floor for a vote. Leaving the rest of us unprotected.”  — Rich Galen

“On matters of defense, our country should defer to the military, not to judges.”  — Ed Feulner

“Most evil done in the world is done in the name of promoting this or that supposed good.”  — Walter Williams
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INSIGHT

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”  — Helen Keller

“Talk is cheap — except when Congress does it.”  — Cullen Hightower

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”  — Otto von Bismarck

“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”  — Eugene McCarthy

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?”  — Will Rogers

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“The Bush administration’s decision to take a shot at a crippled spy satellite Thursday has provoked no shortage of complaints from the disarmament crowd. ‘The politics are terrible,’ grouses Jeffrey G. Lewis of the New America Foundation, in the New York Times. ‘We will be using a missile defense system to shoot down a satellite.’ Yes, we will. And the politics are terrible only for liberals who are ideologically committed enemies of missile defense. A successful effort to protect people from a man-made device falling from space would counter some of the arguments that missile-defense critics have been repeating since Ted Kennedy started throwing around the term ‘Star Wars’ as an insult. The satellite in question failed more than a year ago, soon after its launch. Much of it will burn up as it reenters the atmosphere — but not all of it. The satellite is believed to carry half a ton of hydrazine, a rocket fuel that could prove lethal if it falls on an inhabited region — talk about terrible politics. With its embryonic missile-defense system, limited though it currently is, the U.S. military has the option of trying to do something about that... Military officials insist that the Pentagon merely wants to prevent a potential disaster. At the same time, a successful display of missile-defense prowess can serve a supplementary purpose if it reminds potential adversaries that we’ve developed sophisticated anti-ballistic technologies... By coincidence, the 25th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s speech on the Strategic Defense Initiative is almost upon us. When it arrives, on March 23, we’ll know whether the military has managed to shoot down a falling satellite. Let’s hope that this speech soon receives a fitting memorial on the edge of space, when a missile that exists because Reagan called for its creation demonstrates a capability that we need now as much as we did then.”  — National Review

DEZINFORMATSIA

You don’t say: “The announcement [of Fidel Castro’s resignation] ends the formal reign of a man who, after seizing power in a 1959 revolution, not only outlasted nine U.S. presidents but his communist patrons in the former Soviet Union as well.”  — The Washington Post **Um, maybe that’s because he was a dictator!

Code word “critics”: “[President] Bush never sounds surer of himself than when the subject is Sept. 11, even when his critics argue that he has squandered the country’s moral authority, violated American and international law, and led the United States into the foolhardy distraction of Iraq.”  — New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers

Ask what your country can do for you: “Some Americans believe that — they feel they’re carrying the burden because of this economy... I mean they say they’re suffering because of this war.”  — NBC’s Ann Curry

From the Sycophant Files: “They come in droves, by the tens of thousands at times, to hear Barack Obama speak... With soaring rhetoric, Obama is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally. Even some political commentators who’ve seen it all can’t help but gush.”  — “See B.S.” correspondent Tracy Smith

Nope, no bias here: “My belief is that being a journalist for an ideologically neutral publication like Politico, or The Washington Post, where I used to work, does not mean having no opinions. It means exercising self-discipline in the public expression of those opinions so as not to give sources and readers cause to question someone’s commitment to fairness.”  — John Harris, editor-in-chief of The Politico **The Washington Post is neutral? Wow. Who knew?

From way out in left field: “To be black and catapulting toward the presidency on charm, intellect and popularity is unacceptable to the racist paranoid and scary in America the beautiful... They do not want to hear that he is a better American than they are, these right-wing extremist fascists in the land of America who no doubt believe it’s God’s will Barack Obama not get to the White House.”  — Earl MacRae, Ottawa Sun
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Newspulper Headlines: When Was Berkeley Ever Normal?: “Berkeley Back to Normal After Marine Corps Dispute”  — San Jose Mercury News

Nothing Gets Past the Ethics Panel: “Ethics Panel Says [Sen.] Craig Acted Improperly”  — Associated Press

Breaking News From 1066: “Vikings Go on Rampage at Lodge”  — Post-Journal (Jamestown, NY)

He Was Aiming for the Road Runner: “Aggressive Coyote Shot at Copper”  — Denver Post

Look Out Below!: “World’s Fattest Man Drops 230 Kilos (507 Pounds)”  — Agence France-Presse

News You Can Use: “Healthy Lifestyle Is the Secret to Longer Life, Researchers Say”  — eFluxMedia.com (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Then pipe down already: “Speeches don’t put food on the table. Speeches don’t fill up your tank, or fill your prescription, or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night. Some people may think words are change. You and I know better. Words are cheap.”  — Hillary Clinton **One can only hope she’ll take her own advice and stop talking.

Yeah, right: “I’ve gone hunting. I know you may not believe it, but it’s true. My father taught us to shoot.”  — Hillary Clinton, who has also always been a Yankees fan

On plagiarism: “He has occasionally used lines of mine. I have occasionally used some words of his. I know Sen. Clinton has used words of mine as well... I’m sure I should have [credited the words to Gov. Patrick]... I really don’t think this is too big of a deal.”  — Barack Obama on appropriating excerpts of a 2006 speech by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick

Class warfare: “[T]he wealthiest Americans have made out like bandits. That is not a recipe for long-term economic growth.”  — Barack Obama

Race bait: “You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African American candidate.”  — Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell

Cheerleading: “There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and happiness recognizing that, in a year, we are going to have a president. It will be either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama.”  — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Pay no attention to those terrorists trying to kill you: “[Franklin] Roosevelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself. President Bush has been telling the American people we have nothing to offer but fear.”  — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her decision to let authorization for terrorist surveillance expire.

SHORT CUTS

“There is something empowering about a gavel in the hands of a U.S. Congressman. No matter how big a weenie he may have been in high school and no matter how much fun the other kids used to make of him, he now has the authority to make corporate heads, executive department bigwigs or sports stars squirm and perspire.”  — Pat Sajak

“All of that soaring rhetoric is supported by policies that are so old they creak. Obama may be shiny, bright, and new, but his ideas are suffering from senility.”  — Mona Charen

“[Hillary’s] whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She’s looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, ‘You don’t like me, you really don’t like me!”’  — Peggy Noonan

“The problems facing America — unsustainable entitlements, broken borders, nuclearizing enemies — require tough solutions, not gaseous Sesame Street platitudes.”  — Mark Steyn

“Hillary Clinton stated there will be no personal scandal caused by her husband if she’s elected president. There goes the last of her support. First she lost the black vote, then she lost the youth vote, and now she has lost the comedians.”  — Argus Hamilton

“Over the weekend in Ohio, former President Bill Clinton had an angry confrontation with a heckler who claimed at one point Bill Clinton made physical contact. Clinton denied any physical contact, but then again, he always does.”  — Conan O’Brien

David Letterman: From “Top Ten Reasons Fidel Castro Is Retiring”: He has accepted the role of Dr. Ramon Vazquez on “General Hospital”; Achieved his goal of getting Cuba’s unemployment rate under 83%; Wants to spend more time interrogating his family; Just got Season One of “Gilmore Girls”; Caught injecting human growth hormone into his wife, Debbie Castro; Too many tacos; He was adopted by Angelina Jolie; Always promised himself he’d quit torturing when it stopped being fun.

Jay Leno: Hillary Clinton is on the campaign trail. She’s been speaking about Black History Month. She’s been saying that America has come so far that a black man could one day grow up and possibly be vice president. ... This has not been a good week for Hillary. I guess Bill bought her a dozen roses for Valentine’s Day. Turns out seven of the roses have committed to Michelle Obama. ... Hillary has lost the last [ten] primaries in a row. So any crying you see from now on is going to be real. ... Things aren’t looking good for Hillary. Like a lot of women in Washington, I think she’s just starting to realize she may have slept with Bill Clinton for nothing. ... Barack Obama now is considered the front-runner. You know what they say, behind every successful man is a woman. Hillary was surprised to find out that it was her. ... The Pentagon is now planning to shoot down a broken satellite that’s falling to Earth. The satellite is the size of a school bus, and they want to blow it up before it hits us. Yeah. In fact the actual plan, they’re going to have Roger Clemens throw a second school bus at it.

Veritas vos Liberabit — Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families — especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)

[HisDaughter]

Very interesting thread....