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Memorial Day Thoughts

28 May

I know that every one of you readers are patriots who love this nation and understand the sacrifices that help make it great.

Here at the No One house, we remember all the fallen on Memorial Day.  Yet, there is one we remember and miss every day.  I keep personal stuff under wraps most of the time, but Robert was an extraordinary fellow and worth sharing.  We were so blessed to have him in our lives for a time.

The Marine Corps was his true calling; above all else he wanted to serve his country.  A few years before 9/11 (back when we were young and gonna live forever), he introduced both my husband:

Robert giving Mr. No One his first salute

And me to military life:

“Welcome to the Navy, Mrs. No One.”

The military life has been a good one.  I just wish Robert were still part of it.  Semper Fi, buddy.

I hope everyone has a blessed day, and maybe some comfort from sorrow, should you need it.

cross-posted at No One Of Any Import

 
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Posted by on May 28, 2012 in freedom, Honor, Military, USMC, Veterans

 

Obama Shocked that Authoritarian, Top Down Government Doesn’t Work

26 Mar

Well, in North Korea, anyway.

Dear Leader is in South Korea where he visited the DMZ to stare across the border at the squalid country of North Korea.

If a country can’t feed its people effectively, if it can’t make anything of any use to anybody, if it has no exports other than weapons and even those aren’t ones that in any way would be considered state of the art.

“If it can’t deliver on any indicators of well-being… for its people… then you’d think you’d want to try something different,” Obama said in a highly undiplomatic and unusually frank public appearance.

“There are certain things that just don’t work and what they are doing doesn’t work.”

From there he went to Seoul, where a free market creates a bustling and vibrant economy.

Everything you need to know about North vs.South Korea

And even with the stark contrasts between the results of freedom vs. government control, the president just doesn’t get it.

North Koreans enjoy income equality, one of the president’s stated goals. I’m sure North Koreans also enjoy equal access to health care.

Most American leftists believe in socialism and feel the only reason that it’s failed every time it has been tried is because it wasn’t administered by the right people. The right masterminds can make it work just fine.

 
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Posted by on March 26, 2012 in Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Election 2012, freedom, Socialism, Tyranny

 

Conservative working women reject the welfare state, Democrats painfully befuddled.

14 Mar

Last night on MSNBC, DNC hack Karen Finney was in anguish when informed that in Alabama, 49% of working women voted for Rick Santorum. She then went on to insinuate that these women are just ignorant of the real message. She said, “yes, there’s the economy, but if you’ve got to worry about basic health care, how are you going to be able to do what you need to do as far as having a job, paying your rent, and taking care of your kids.”

What these progressives fail to understand is that conservative men and women believe that a robust economy is the key to enabling them to earn a living and provide food, housing, and health care for themselves and their families.

 
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Posted by on March 14, 2012 in Entitlements, Food Stamps, freedom, Healthcare, Obama, Obamacare, politics, Rick Santorum

 

Mark Steyn on Flukemania

10 Mar

The always insightful and hilarious Mark Steyn finally weighs in on the charade surrounding the 30 year old child, Sandra Fluke’s perfectly sensible demand that we pay for her contraception and that a Catholic institution should be forced to violate its religious principles in order to accommodate her. That president Obama and the Democrats gleefully used this useful idiot to advance their big government desires granting the plebes protection for their sexual romps while stealing liberty with the other hand is not really surprising.

Bread and Circus. And Condoms.

Fantastic artwork from iMaksim. Click on the image to embiggen it.

All of us are born with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and a lifetime supply of premium ribbed silky-smooth ultrasensitive spermicidal lubricant condoms. No taxation without rubberization, as the Minutemen said. The shot heard round the world, and all that.

He’ll be filling in for Rush on Monday, so if you don’t want to go read the whole thing, I’m sure a portion of it will be covered then.

Aside from the sheer ridiculousness of the phoney congressional hearing, and aside from the moral implications, and aside from a government imposing tyrannical dictates on the people, the issue Steyn focuses on is whether this debtor nation can afford to do what Obama and the Democrats want to do.

Should we borrow money from China to pay for Sandra Fluke’s rampant promiscuity?

 
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Posted by on March 10, 2012 in Abortion, Barack Obama, Budget, Catholic Church, Congress, Debt Crisis, Election 2012, Entitlements, freedom, Healthcare, Liberal Media, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Socialism, Spending

 

Obama compared to a Monarch

15 Feb

Recently former Attorney General Ed Meese says the Obama administration’s “disdain for Congress” and its efforts to consolidate power within the executive branch through the use of “czars” makes it “as close to a monarchy as since the days of George III.” However, as Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli pointed out on 9/12/2010 King George the 3rd and the Parliament of Britain that we rebelled against, respected the liberty of the colonists of America more than the Congress and the President of the United States of America.

And on a lighter note covering the same heavy subject, The BHO Show channel on YouTube has posted this Henry the Eighth song parody.

 

 

 
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Posted by on February 15, 2012 in Catholic Church, Election 2012, freedom, Ken Cuccinelli, Obama

 

Stand with Gibson event protesters know what they are protesting

10 Oct

Several hundred protesters gathered in Nashville at a “Stand with Gibson” event to protest the federal governments raids on the legendary guitar manufacturer. The folks at Tin Ship Productions posted this video on youtube which captured the atmosphere of the event. Take notice of the civility of the group, no law enforcement, pepper spray, or sanitation crew needed here.

 
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Posted by on October 10, 2011 in freedom, Gibson Guitars, Regulation

 

Virginia AG Cuccinelli – EPA is more about control and transformation of our economy, not protecting our environment

21 Nov

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, well-known for his principled adherence to the constitution and the rule of law, spoke to party leaders at the Republican Party of  Virginia’s annual meeting. The General discussed the link between free people and free markets and clean environments as opposed to the environmental disasters which have and are occurring in places like Chernobyl and China.

Cuccinelli then updated the GOP’ers on his legal action defending Virginians from the unprecedented attack on our liberties from the Obama Care legislation and its unconstitutional mandate which imposes punitive fees on citizens engaged in inactivity somehow claiming that inactivity is in fact an activity. Cuccinelli points out that the dictionary maybe the biggest obstruction for the Feds who are defending this legislation.

During a Q & A session the AG commented on Obama’s “Central Planning” command and control approach to governing and poked fun at HHH Secretary Sebelius.

 
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Posted by on November 21, 2010 in EPA, freedom, Healthcare, Kathleen Sebelius, Lisa Jackson, Obamacare, politics

 

Socialism is Cool – Perriello Supporters Told Us So!

30 Oct

I would call them useful idiots. Are they so totally detached from reality that they don’t understand the consequences of favoring such rule?

Are they so ignorant that they refuse to see that Socialism but is just a stepping-stone to Communism?

Let’s name a few perpetrators shall we? Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Chavez, Guevara, Engels, Stalin, Castro, Kim Jong Il. I wish Ben had asked these people to explain how Socialism was cool under these monsters.

“The only important difference between Nazi-ism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, and Liberalism is the spelling; and that the last group hasn’t got the brains to figure it out.” – Bill Vance 

“The problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher
Pathetic, but more proof that American Universities are bastions of liberal progressivsm who have lost all sense of reasonable discourse.
 
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Posted by on October 30, 2010 in Communism, freedom, Marx, politics, Socialism, Tyranny, Useful Idiots

 

New Brit TV Campaign: Cut Your Carbon Emissions or We’ll Blow You to Smithereens

01 Oct

Yeah, this is real.  And it’s what the totalitarian greenies really would like to do to everyone who disagrees with them.

This puts a whole gruesome new spin on the Audi “green police” ad.

 
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Posted by on October 1, 2010 in freedom, politics

 

Video: PJTV takes on the “Big Green” environmental movement

29 Sep

Did you know that just one major “green” group, the National Resources Defense Council, has a budget that dwarfs those of the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation – combined?  That fact and a whole lot else are in this video, which is the first of what looks like a promising series from PJTV.  Watch it, link it, share it.

 
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Posted by on September 29, 2010 in freedom, Liberal Media, media, Obama, politics, Tyranny

 
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