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IBC, that's horrible.  PTSD? 

My dad fought in WWII.  I can remember, when I was a child, my dad running out of the house when an airplane flew really low over our house.  We lived very close to Kelly AFB in San Antonio.  Unbelieveable that they closed that base.

So sorry, IBC.

Shirley

Shirley, Yes PTSD

Here is part of an article entitled "Suicidal Appeasement" by Bruce Thornton

One of the most potent weapons in the jihadist arsenal is the failure of nerve that has afflicted the West for the last forty years. Our own doubts about the core values of Western civilization have hamstrung us in defending these goods against those who want to destroy them. Whether the source of this self-loathing is Marxism, postmodernism, or multicultural noble-savage delusions, our failure to acknowledge the superiority of our own way of life, to teach our children the history of the West and its singular achievements, and to fight against the erosion of those defining beliefs has emboldened the jihadists and confirmed them in their belief that we are decadent and doomed.

In Europe, this pathology has advanced far beyond what we see in the United States, bad as that is. Faced with a sullen, unassimilated, underemployed, welfare-subsidized, and growing population of Muslim immigrants, many Europeans have responded to this challenge with one Munich after another, compromising, if not abandoning outright, core Western beliefs in an attempt to appease an alien culture that has nothing but contempt for the nations that have taken them in. Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented historical experiment: whether a civilization can survive when a critical mass of its own people no longer have faith in the rightness and goodness of their own way of life

In our own country as well, political speech has been remarkably vicious and brutal. Think of those cartoons depicting Abraham Lincoln as the "original gorilla." But sometime around the Sixties, all this began to change. Certain groups were now to be protected from hurt feelings, even if it was the truth doing the hurting. "Hate speech" laws soon protected ethnic minorities, women, homosexuals, and any "oppressed" victim-of-color from anything that might make them feel bad or wound their self-esteem. Self-censorship gradually developed as an informal monitor of unpleasant speech, as shunning and other forms of disapproval made some people think twice about voicing their opinions.

Of course, there is no consistency in this tender regard for hurt feelings. White males, Christians, observant Jews, Israelis, poor Southern whites, and Republicans are still fair game for vicious verbal assaults. Pornography, vulgar music videos, television shows, and juvenile bad art likewise are not restricted just because they might offend somebody. Indeed, just complaining about the vulgarity of popular culture or so-called "art" earns one denunciation as a puritanical philistine whose protests create the ever-dreaded "chilling effect" that in fact is downright tropical compared to the effects of speech codes and internal censorship caused by political correctness.

This inconsistent curtailment of free speech serves an ideological function: to control and limit the speech of those who do not share the progressive dogma that sees America's sins and crimes as historically unique evils responsible for all the world's ills. This anti-American ideology explains why those who will denigrate and vilify with gusto their own civilization will censor the truth to protect those, like the jihadists, whose own values scorn all the goods - freedom, tolerance, equality - that these two-bit Western Hamlets proclaim to respect.

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I think that some Democrats must be Moslem jihadists in disguise since it seems they think we Americans should go ahead and lose jobs and end up on welfare and then we learn what it's like to work hard, we would then be able "reflect" on those less fortunate!  We are just too decadent to want to keep our homes that we worked hard and paid for with our money that our employers gave us at the end of our 60 hour work weeks. We are just too decadent walking into grocery stores with our coupons and paying for food with our cash that didn't come in our mail box but handed out every two weeks by our employers.  The Europeans are already dealing with floods of immigrants that don't appreciate the values of Western Civilization.  Our rights are being taken away little by little when it become inexcusable to read the bills being passed rather than sign them like Obamao demands. More and more of our paychecks get eaten up by taxes when the State or the Feds decide to build roads that will detiorate in 3 years and have to be torn up again. How wasteful is that?  Money that could be spent one time ... roads lasting for decades ... would leave money to be spent on --- creating wind farms? creating solar farms in the desert?  And then we have set aside money to hire millions of foreign workers???? 

We are trying to appease too many people and defend our lifestyle of free speech and free enterprise.

Now then.  Just so there is NO misunderstanding:  I am not your friend, I am skinny, and beautiful, and rich, and I have big boobs that I didn't have to pay for.  I am the kind of woman that you love to hate. 

And one more thing:  I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

P.S. :  There is only one statement up there that is true,  If you guess it correctly you win the big prise!

Moody, she is eating!!!! C'est fantastique!!! Tell her we are smiling with her!

There ya go showing off those double D's again! LOL

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And Vivre showing off her French ---- hmmm,

I'll tap dance for you Liv ..... clickity, click, click! 

So happy you are eating!!  Now there's a reason for a WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wow, what a picture.  Olivia you look great!  And eating too.  We're all so happy for you. 

One question.  Did he use a NEW pen?   

How did I miss this? 

I am mad as heck!  Is  this going to stimulate the economy?  Where's a getting the money.  Silly, silly me!  From us!  Did he ask us?  Heck no.  I think he should provide some shelter to these "displaced" people in the White House....c'mon!  The idiot!

How did this get done so quitely,  Obama is the only president I have ever seen,that has his telepromters set up for everything.  When he signs an exec. order, he has them there.  Everything is a scripted photo op, how did this get signed

Be very scared...very, very scared.  Thre's a short video if you want to watch it. 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0209/ Sen_Stabenow_wants_hearings_on_radio_accountability_talks_fairness_doctrine. html?showall

Sen. Stabenow wants hearings on radio 'accountability'; talks fairness doctrine

This morning, radio host Bill Press brought up the recent closing of liberal station Obama 1260 when speaking with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and talked about whether there needs to be a balance to right-wing talk on the radio dial.

BILL PRESS: Yeah, I mean, look: They have a right to say that. They've got a right to express that. But, they should not be the only voices heard. So, is it time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?

SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I think it's absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it's called the Fairness Standard, whether it's called something else - I absolutely think it's time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to step up and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place.

BILL PRESS: Can we count on you to push for some hearings in the United States Senate this year, to bring these owners in and hold them accountable?

SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I have already had some discussions with colleagues and, you know, I feel like that's gonna happen. Yep.

Although Obama has been publicly opposed to reinstating the fairness doctrine, conservative radio has talked nonstop about the fear of it returning (or perhaps something like it with another name) while there's a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic majority in Congress.

UPDATE: A commenter points out that Stabenow is married to Tom Athans, a liberal talk radio executive.

It absolutely frosts me that we taxpayers have to pay for WHATEVER this IDIOT NOBAMA wants.  We KNEW he was pro-Palestinian and yet he tried to cover it up by going to Israel.  He is a schmo!  Now we have to pay for terrorists to live here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh maybe I should go over and volunteer to pack since our way of life is so decadent and doomed!

FYI -- Bed Bath and Beyond is now offering the Obama "Historic Moment" commemorative plate at 50% off (I'm not kidding). And he's only been in office 2 weeks.   Me thinks some people are coming out of the ether and wondering how it all happened. 

oh I forgot the famous saying: THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!!!!!! 

Wow ... where was all this outrage the last EIGHT years?