The DC Protest Spin

THIS is the message (and photo) you won't see in the MSM.

It's the message hired protesters wanted to convey this weekend in Washington.

Message received.

Now, take your Soros-funded anti-America protest-for-hire money and return to the rock you crawled out from under.

God bless our troops and their families.

Thanks to the thousands of Eagles and GOE III participants who confronted the clowns and cowards in Washington this weekend.

EAGLES UP!!!!

hat tip to Gull.

A Day of Destruction -- 79 A.D.

It was on this day in 79 A.D. that the one of the most destructive volcano eruptions in recorded human history occurred when the volcano Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman city of Pompeii. Pompeii was a resort town for citizens of Rome at the time, located on the Bay of Naples. People there probably didn't even know Mt. Vesuvius was a volcano. There hadn't been a major eruption in 800 years. But there were frequent earthquakes, and in the two weeks leading up to the eruption, there had been thin clouds of volcanic ash drifting down from the mountain, which people had been sweeping off the streets.

Then, on the morning of this day in 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius exploded with a force 100,000 times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The explosion sent a cloud of ash 12 miles into the air, completely blacking out the sun. The mountain was almost five miles away, so some of the people in the city didn't evacuate right away. They thought they would have time to flee if necessary. What they didn't know was that the volcano had spewed toxic gasses along with molten rock. Birds began to fall dead from the sky, and then the city was blanketed with volcanic rock and ash, at the rate of six inches an hour. By the end of the day, not a single living thing remained in Pompeii. The city was buried under more than 20 feet of debris.

The molten rock that covered the city kept it preserved for more than 1,750 years, until the mid-1800s, when stories began to circulate in the area that you could dig around in the dirt and find treasures. After years of pillaging, an archeologist was finally hired in 1860 to perform an official excavation of Pompeii. It turned out to be one of the most important sites in the history of archeology.

Most of the city was preserved exactly as it had been at the moment of destruction. Archeologists could examine what pictures ordinary people had painted on their walls, what cutlery and cookware they kept in their kitchens. They found graffiti written on bathroom walls and legal documents written on wax tablets. Most of what historians know about everyday life in Ancient Rome is based on what archeologists found in the perfectly preserved city of Pompeii.
And archaeologists also found the bodies of the people who died in the eruption. The volcanic ash had molded to the bodies of the victims, leaving a perfect imprint before the bodies decayed. Archaeologists poured plaster into these molds, and the result was detailed replicas of the victims at the moment of death, down to the wrinkles in their clothing and the expressions on their faces. On the floor in a house they found a father and son. The young boy was on his back, looking up at his father, and they were holding hands. They found adults with their arms outstretched trying to protect children, a family of eight rushing toward the sea, and dogs straining against their leashes.

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-- From Garrison Keillor

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So Where WERE Those Republican "Front-Runners"??

If you knew YOU were going to lose a race, would you even lace up your track shoes?

Didn't think so.

And that's what Rudy, John and the undeclared candidate Fred! didn't do in Iowa. They were no-show's before the straw vote that Mitt Romney handily won yesterday. As predicted.

Ohhhhh, but they are all going to Iowa this week. Not sure what good it will do to enhance their standing with Iowans, but we'll see ....


You'll understand their unwillingness to put THEIR campaigns on the line when you hear Mitt's Iowa speech. Here.

And no -- contrary to how folks want to spin what happened in Iowa yesterday, the Republican nomination is not simply "given" to someone. Candidates still have to earn that nomination. And that nomination begins in Iowa.

Way to go, TEAM MITT!!

Nixon's Resignation: 30 YRS Ago Today

It was on this day in 1974 that Richard M. Nixon resigned the office of the presidency, the first American president in history to do so.

His policies as president had been rather liberal. He began arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. He eased relations with China. He established the Environmental Protection Agency, expanded Social Security and state welfare programs and tried to create a national health insurance system.

He won re-election in 1972 in a landslide, but in that same year a group of men broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, and in that break-in were the seeds of his downfall.

More background on this historic event is at NPR.

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When is a TX Corridor a China Connection?

Answer: When uninspected vehicles with unknown contents are transported by truck, rail or superhighway through the US from Mexico and Canada without official government sanction or scrutiny.

The oft denied "superhighway" that will connect China's "super-ports" (being constructed in Mexican waters) to run literally un-monitored from Mexico through the US to Canada is a reality.

Texas may be the first "leg" of the highway, but other portions of the Mexico to Canada freeway (literally) are not far behind .... Including the presence of un-regulated Mexican trucks and drivers -- with access to any and all US highways including direct rail connections across Mexican and Canadian borders.

Meanwhile, international companies continue to purchase US highways and accesses.

Here's a prime source of information: eagleforum and here's a map of the proposed North American Union superhighway connections

I don't endorse all policies and beliefs espoused by the EagleForum staff, but they are on-target with their concerns about the push toward a North American Union and the loss of American identity -- not to mention our security and welfare.

Visit the links at EagleForum, especially these: The SuperHighway and The China Connection -- follow those with the KC-China connection and be very afraid. Very afraid.

While this clandestine push toward integrating the US with Mexico and Canada is being funded primarily by corporate and international dollars -- our government (at the state and federal levels) are feigning ignorance while allowing agencies to approve construction projects and the buying and selling of America's infrastructure .... state by state and mile by mile -- by land and sea.

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Why Would Thompson Lie?

Beats me.

Why would a popular non-declared contender for the Presidency lie about his affiliation with an abortion-support group?

Beats me.

Flip-flopping (as it's called when done by others) is a constant source of contention among opponents.

But lying?

Not a good sign, Mr. Thompson.

Unless of course, you want to offer your own version of what "is" as opposed to what "was" and how it's not really a lie when you categorically deny what you did 16 years ago, qualifying it as totally unrelated to what now "is" -- especially when you subtract 16 from the number of times you haven't lied and then multiply that product by the number of times you have supposedly supported anti-abortion legislation, while factoring to the 3rd power the number of things you were paid to do as a lobbyist-lawyer as opposed to things you actually believe. Unlike what you might do as President, of course.

Makes sense to me. Uh huh.

Read the article: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson7jul07,0,54260.story?coll=la-home-center

Nero was a Lyre. And so was history.

Today, the 18th of July, is believed to be the anniversary of the fire that burned Rome in 64 AD, while the emperor Nero supposedly played his fiddle. In fact, he wasn't in Rome. He was away at his holiday villa on the coast, and when he heard about the fire, he rushed back to the capital and took charge of the operations.

The rumors about his playing his fiddle probably came from people in the Roman military who did not approve of Nero's artistic leanings. He'd come to power at the age of 16. He was the youngest ruler in the history of Rome. He was more interested in music and poetry than in battling the barbarians. And he didn't play the fiddle; he did play the lyre. But his real passion was singing. He was also known to be a transvestite, which did not endear him to the soldiers.

One of the rumors being spread at the time was that Nero had himself started the fire because he was disgusted by the architecture in Rome and wanted to rebuild the city. And to bolster his own image against these rumors, Nero decided that the fire needed to be blamed on someone else, and he picked out the Christians who were generally loathed by Romans.

The religion of Christianity was only a few decades old when Nero singled it out. Nero rounded up Christians; they were covered in the skins of wild animals, torn to death by dogs, crucified, or they were burned at the stake.

Most Romans at the time despised Christians, but Nero's program of persecution went further than the people wanted. It had the unintended effect of making people sympathize with Christians. And a little more than 200 years later, the emperor of the Roman Empire himself converted to Christianity, and it became the dominant religion of Europe.

-- from G. Keillor
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