Here's the Problem

I hear it and see it from every corner of my societal overlap with liberals and progressives (young liberals).

They were brainwashed into thinking everything "Bush" was bad, so a choice in the other direction had to be "good".

They aren't even paying attention, or if they are, anything they perceive that Obama is doing to be distasteful is only being done to punish the rabid red dogs - the Conservatives/Republicans/Right Wing. It won't apply to them. Somehow.

It means Zip that Gitmo isn't closed, Iraq is still going, Afghanistan is ramping up, and Deficits are going exponential. Naw, their little brains can go from hating a $300 billion deficit to Loving a $2 Trillion deficit in the flash of short circuited neuron.

In fact, details such as these only even get noticed by the more intellectual of the liberals. The rest of them spend most of their time looking for fun and dreaming about cars that run on air and spit valium out the exhaust pipe.

I asked one a couple weeks ago, who works at a restaurant I frequent, what he thought of cap and trade. He never heard of it. A piece of legislation being pounded into America by the hip black president he loves and voted for, that will double his utility bill, kill millions in poor countries by squeezing resources and raising prices, and he never heard of it.

So this is the problem. Like the former KGB agent tells us, it will be years, if ever, that these people even understand what is being done to their country. Will they accept responsibility ? Ah, No.

Why does Tommy Have That Worn Spot on His Guitar?

Last Tommy for a little while.

Maybe he'll play this one at the concert. I'm looking forward to seeing him play tonight.

Friday Tommy, For All Those in Harm's Way

Soft and Sweet

Good music for watching the sunrise. Chet Atkins and George Benson

Anamda and Angelina are Tommy's Daughters

Angelina

Awesome is a Word I Almost Never Use

Awesome.

If you can get through this with dry eyes or keep your heart out of your throat, there be something wrong with ya.



Seriously. Get Mozilla Firefox. Get Video Download Helper and download this video to your computer in case it disappears from youtube - and play it every September 11th with me.

This has been out there a while. "And She Called" is in reference to his Grandmother who called him about 9-11-2001.

If this is the first time you've heard this, you will probably need to listen a few times to hear everything being said. Not necessarily contiguously. I'll see if I can find a transcript for it. My God, it's beautiful.

Update: 9/3/09-6pm

I found the words over at BlackFive from the spot I first watched the video back in 2007.

Free By SSGT Lawrence E Dean

and She called...
Blacks, Whites...wait
African Americans and Caucasians, Asians, excuse me.
Vietnamese, Philippines, Koreans and Jamaicans or
Haitians, waitin', Hispanics, y'all.

Please be patient
Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelan, Cuban, v Dominican, Panamanian, Democrats
I beg your pardon, you partied with the late, great Reagan?
Republican, Independent, Christian, Catholic,
Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist, 5 Percenters,
Hindu, Sunni Muslim, Brothers and Sisters who never seen the New York city
skyline when the twin towers still existed.
But still She called.

From the bowels of Ground Zero she sent this 911 distress signal.
Because She was in desperate need of a hero,
and didn't have time to decipher what to call 'em,
so she called 'em all Her children.
The children of the stars and bars who needed to know nothing more than the fact that she called.
The fact that someone attempted to harm us
this daughter who covered us all with her loving arms.
And now these arms are sprawled across New York City streets.
A smoke filled lung, a silt covered faced,
and a solitary tear poured out of her cheek.
Her singed garments carpets Pennsylvania Avenue and the Pentagon was under her feet.
As she began to talk, she began to cough up small particles of debris
and said, "I am America, and I'm calling on the land of the free."
So they answered.

All personal differences set to the side
because right now there was no time to decide which state building the Confederate flag should fly over,
and which trimester the embryo is considered alive,
or on our monetary units, and which God we should confide.
You see, someone attempted to choke the voice
of the one who gave us the right for choice,
and now she was callin'.
And somebody had to answer.
Who was going to answer?

So they did.
Stern faces and chiseled chins.
Devoted women and disciplined men,
who rose from the ashes like a Phoenix
and said "don't worry, we'll stand in your defense."
They tightened up their bootlaces
and said goodbye to loved ones, family and friends.
They tried to bombard them with the "hold on", "wait-a-minute's", and "what-ifs".
And "Daddy, where you goin'?".
And, "Mommy, why you leavin'?".
And they merely kissed them on their foreheads and said "Don't worry, I have my reasons.
You see, to this country I pledged my allegiance
to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic.
So as long as I'm breathin', I'll run though hell-fire,
meet the enemy on the front lines,
look him directly in his face,
stare directly in his eyes and scream,
"I AM AMERICA! WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED!
WE WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED!
I REFUSE TO BE AFRAID!
I'LL FIGHT YOU ANY COUNTRY, ANY CONTINENT, ANY TERRAIN.
I'LL FIGHT TO MY LAST BREATH!"

And if by chance death is my fate,
pin my medals upon my chest,
and throw Old Glory on my grave.
But, don't y'all cry for me.
You see, my Father's prepared a place.
I'll be a part of his Holy army standing a watch at the Pearly Gates.
Because freedom was never free.
POW's, and fallen soldiers
all paid the ultimate sacrifice
along side veterans who put themselves in harms way.
Risking their lives and limbs just to hold up democracy's weight,
but still standing on them broken appendages anytime the National Anthem was played.
You see, these were the brave warriors that gave me the right
to say that I'm Black. Or white.

Or

African American or Caucasian,
I'm Asian, excuse me.
I'm Vietnamese, Philippine, Korean, or Jamaican.
I'm Haitian, Hispanic

Y'all, Please be patient.
I'm Mexican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Cuban,
Dominican, Panamanian, Democrat
I beg your pardon, you see I partied with the late, great Reagan.
I'm Republican, Independent, Christian, Catholic,
Methodist, Baptist, 7th Day Adventist, 5 Percenters,
Hindu, Sunni Muslim,

Brothers and Sisters We're just Americans.
So with that I say
"Thank You" to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines,
for preserving my rights
to live and die for this life
and paying the ultimate price for me to be...FREE!

Additionally, Uncle Jimbo over at Blackfive Interviews SSGT Dean

OK! Let's Go!

I Couldn't Agree More

Thanks Ted.

So You Thought Tommy Only Knew How to Play Guitar

Obama Should Just Say Daily - I'm Great and You Shut Up.

"President Barack Obama said Tuesday his government's plans to combat an expected spike in (A)H1N1 flu were "extraordinary" but warned Americans to follow advice to stave off infections."

Emphasis is mine.

I thought it was the people's government, not his.

And what is so extraordinary about having only half of the H1N1 vaccine ready by October when people are already starting to get it like gangbusters ?

Emperors New Clothes in real life.