CURE FOR THE COMMON PUBLIK SKOOL: “The number of home schooled children is growing 7-12 percent nationwide every year. . . . These children equate to $16 billion in tax dollar contributions that are not spent on them. Meanwhile, public schools are spending more tax dollars while the learning environment declines.” - Reno News & Review, 2/28/08
A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments at UC Berkeley. He had already completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the courses had a liberal professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day the professor shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.” The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.
Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am God. I’m still waiting.”
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, “What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?” The Marine calmly replied, “God was too busy today protecting America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me.”
- Forwarded to me by my baby sister, Terri
DEATH BY OVER-LAWYERING
“Last May, three U.S. troops were kidnapped in Iraq, south of Baghdad, by al Qaeda terrorists. The U.S. military immediately launched a search and rescue operation. What happened next is extremely disturbing. Within hours, a new source of information was discovered that required electronic surveillance of phone conversations. Then, a maze of complicated U.S. laws kicked in, stopping progress on the new lead for nearly 10 long hours.
“Weeks later, the body of one missing American was found in the Euphrates River. The terrorists claimed the other two had been executed. No one knows whether they would have been found if the intelligence lead had been immediately followed. We do know that restrictions in an outdated federal law seriously complicated rescue efforts while government lawyers back in the U.S. sorted through a legal quagmire to develop ‘probable cause’ for electronic surveillance.”
- Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, TownHall.com, 2/29/08
IN DEFENSE OF LOBBYING
“Everyone knows the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. How many remember that, in addition, the First Amendment protects a fifth freedom — to lobby?
“Of course it doesn’t use the word lobby. It calls it the right ‘to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’ Lobbyists are people hired to do that for you, so that you can actually stay home with the kids and remain gainfully employed rather than spend your life in the corridors of Washington.
“To hear the candidates in this presidential campaign, you’d think lobbying is just one notch below waterboarding, a black art practiced by the great malefactors of wealth to keep the middle class in a vise and loose upon the nation every manner of scourge: oil dependency, greenhouse gases, unpayable mortgages and those tiny entrees you get at French restaurants.”
- Columnist Charles Krauthammer
Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
Loved the story of the Marine. Just the wake-up call that professor needed. I hope it worked. That marine deserves another medal.
Conyers story is a falsity! The call did not priginate nor terminate in the US, therefore, no 4th ammendment subponea needed.