From About.com:Many Americans mistakenly believe that Veterans Day is the day America sets aside to honor American military personnel who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained from combat. That's not quite true. Memorial Day is the day set aside to honor America's war dead.
Veterans Day, on the other hand, honors ALL American veterans, both living and dead. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for dedicated and loyal service to their country. November 11 of each year is the day that we ensure veterans know that we deeply appreciate the sacrifices they have made in the lives to keep our country free.
TA doesn't have a lot of personal ties to any of those that have served in the military, but he knows his freedom is a result of the sacrifices that veterans, both living and dead, have made for this country. Thank a vet today.
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As our peers on the national level start to retrench and gird for battle in 2010 and our state party leadership sits on its ass so that we can lose another election with yesterday's ideas and hasterts mafia, this quote taken from today's new york times bears reading because it sounds an awful lot like a district I know. It highlights why Republicans like us are a dying breed and why we need to start playing offense again.
I'd much rather get google alerts about Mark spending serious amounts of time and energy building new ideas here locally and new leadership in the House GOP caucus than trying to save one human rights victim in a country 6,000 miles away the size of virginia. We support Mark to fight for us, it's time he started getting serious about our party's future since inevitably it also includes his.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/opinion/11greenberg.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Oakland County is home to the affluent, business-oriented suburbanites of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, some of the richest townships in America. Just a quarter of Macomb County residents have college degrees, but more than 40 percent do in Oakland.
Oakland County has formed part of the Republican heartland in Michigan and the country. From 1972 to 1988, Democratic presidential candidates in their best years lost the county by 20 points. From Bill Clinton to John Kerry, however, Democrats began to settle for a draw. Over the past two decades, Oakland County began to change, as an influx of teachers, lawyers and high-tech professionals began to outnumber the county’s business owners and managers. Macomb has been slow to welcome racial diversity, but almost a quarter of Oakland’s residents are members of various racial minorities.
These changes have produced a more tolerant and culturally liberal population, uncomfortable with today’s Republican Party. When we conducted our poll of 600 voters in Oakland County on election night, they were a lot more open than voters in Macomb to gay marriage and affirmative action. We asked those who voted for Mr. Obama why they made that choice. At the top of the list was his promise to withdraw troops from Iraq, followed by his support for tax cuts for the middle class and affordable health care for all, and the idea that he will bring people together, end the old politics and get things done.
On Tuesday, Oakland County voters gave Mr. Obama a 57 percent to 42 percent victory
What turned me from being a democrat was during my service in the USN. I saw my commander in chief publicly lie and commit perjury, on national TV, defiling the office of the presidency and making a joke of it. I quietly changed my voting preference, yet I continued fulfilling my duty to follow the commander and chief and to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America while I was still serving.
The day I was discharged, I was immediately part of the vocal opposition, volunteering to make sure that Gorelick didn't have a chance.
I feel for those who will be serving for the next four years and want to tell them that for everything that they see this upcoming president do wrong, or defile the honor of the office that they bravely serve under, they can count on me to be their voice. I will not forget.
God Bless our boys and girls serving both at home and abroad.
RPT: If lying sack of shit presidents are your motivation for change, Bush should have turned you back again. Clinton was a joke president, but Bush is a criminal president.
TA: Your freedom comes from the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The only veterans who fought for those were those veterans who expelled foreigners from our homelands in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Wars are used as justification for eroding civil liberties. Case in point: our own veteran congressman, Mark Kirk.
This Veterans Day, call Mark Kirk, and ask him to vote to repeal the Patriot Act, Military Commissionals Act, etc.
I know, I know. He's protecting us . . . . His job is to protect the Constitution.
Sincerely,
A Veteran
Again we need to stay focused on beating democrats. Also laughing my ass off as comrade catwoman calls on the media to call out MSK for comments made in 2002! Next time all statewide offices will be up plus a senate seat so no one will care.
Anon 6:23,
Sorry you feel that way. I myself have not had any problem with the PA, but who knows what an Obama administration will do with "dissenters" unless the "dissent" with Bush!
Maybe it will be re-education camps for me!
Lone Wolf-
First of all, thank you for your service on this veterans day, and that applies to all veterans that might be reading this blog. I'm curious, though, about your states reasons for switching parties. Turning against Clinton, given your strong reaction to his scandal, is understandable, but it seems odd that that might turn you away from your hitherto held beliefs concerning the policies our government should pursue. I would hope you could overcome your distate for a scandal 12 years ago, because you shouldn't vote against your own principles based on the actions of a man no longer President. If you truly were a Democrat before the Lewinsky scandal, there's no reason for you not to be one now. Just ... curious.
Tikkunolum, in all fairness, I was a young sailor when that happened and was quite a bit more impressionable at that age. After I made up my mind to change parties, I surrounded myself with knowledgable resources, which helped bolster my transfoemation. To be honest, today's Republican ideals make a lot more sense than the leftest ideals my hippie parents tried to impress on me!
Yes, we should all aspire to invade and kill people who have done nothing to us, expand the government, and call that "conservative." Hoorah!
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