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To: Sully- who wrote (60698)	7/5/2007 3:01:39 PM
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Hat tip to Brumar89: Satire by Greg Gutfeld New Trend On The Rise: The Patriotic Terrorist Posted January 25, 2007 \| 11:25 AM (EST) ________________________________________ Read More: Breaking Politics News, Rosie O'Donnell, Noam Chomsky, Ed Begley, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney Whenever I visit this lovely blog, I usually run into someone - a "leftist," if you will - who finds pleasure in things that make our country or the President look bad. I suppose I could say these angry types are no better than cheerleaders for terrorism. After all, both entities - the left and terrorists - seem to share the same desire: to put the US, humiliatingly, in its place. But I would be wrong to say such things. Very wrong. Of course, "dissent is patriotic," and the left is only critical of America because it simply loves our country much more than I do. That's why calling them terrorists would be intolerant and pretty shameful. But what about "patriotic terrorists?" That's kinda neat. What is a patriotic terrorist? It is an American who claims to love his or her country while enjoying the enemy's success against said country. It is a person who gets deeply offended if you question their patriotism, while also appearing to share the same ideals of the more spirited folk who like to blow up innocent people. Patriotic terrorists love America with so much intensity that it appears to the untrained eye that they hate it. But it's actually the most powerful form of "tough love" known to man, woman and Rosie O'Donnell. Patriotic terrorists love America so much that they realize it needs an intervention - and real terror is the only way to enable that intervention. In fact, to keep a mammoth, arrogant superpower like America in check, terrorism is the only thing we've got. Noam Chomsky knew this from the start, making him a patriotic terrorist of the highest order. This is why he gets the chicks. Hey, I bet you've probably wondered why Al Qaeda hasn't struck in the US since 9/11. They don't have to. It has its own offshoot franchise here at work already. Patriotic Terrorists. Think about how much both groups have in common! -Both patriotic terrorists and Al Qaeda want the US to abandon Iraq, for that reveals Bush and America to be monstrous, laughable failures. It does not matter to either group that the withdrawal from Iraq will make post-Vietnam look like an afternoon at Ikea shopping for a Hoggbo innerspring mattress. -For patriotic terrorists and real terrorists, car bombs going off is music to their ears. It proves that you can't offer democracy to troubled countries, as long as you've got terrorists standing in your way. And that's great news for everyone who believes in checks and balances between the haves and the have nots! (Note: "haves" means the US. "Have nots" means those who hate the US) -Patriotic terrorists and the more committed terrorists both believe that infractions at Guantanamo Bay are far worse than anything a genocidal dictator could muster, and such horrors possess far more PR potential in denigrating the US than anything involving Ed Begley Jr. -Both patriotic terrorists and Al Qaeda terrorists believe the US desires to control the Middle East, empower evil Israel and expand it's power base at the expense of innocent Arab lives. But both groups also realize that the US is too stupid to achieve these goals - and that makes being a patriotic terrorist loads of fun! Are you a patriotic terrorist? If you are intensely critical of the US, while tolerating homicidal enemies who condemn everything you previously claimed you are for - human rights, voting rights, gay rights, women's rights, porn - then you're a patriotic terrorist. If you talk about tolerance constantly - and hilariously tolerate genocide and suicide bombers because those actions undermine your more intimate opposition, the American right - then you're a patriotic terrorist. The only difference between a patriotic terrorist and a real one? Real terrorists are simply patriotic terrorists who've taken the extra step - choosing to actually die for their beliefs - rather than simply talking about them at Spago. If Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and their ilk had real cojones, they'd all be wearing cute black vests - but stuffed with more than dog-eared copies of Deterring Democracy. huffingtonpost.com

To: Sully- who wrote (60698)	7/5/2007 3:53:01 PM
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The American Spirit 1776-2007 By J. James Estrada American Thinker July 4, 1776, the day in which not only a nation was born, but also a "spirit." The American spirit is alive and well all these 231 years later. It is a spirit that has carried us to the ends of the earth to promote freedom, leaving scattered seeds of greatness in the graves of fallen warriors in many far reaching countries; it has taken us to breakthroughs in both science and medicine, curing diseases thought to be incurable and solving many difficult problems which have long plagued humanity; it has taken us to the moon and back, defying the limits of the practical and the doubts of the always present naysayer's. And, along the way, this spirit has found voice in a lone representative pressing towards a greater America than assumed possible by the many. Abraham Lincoln spoke of an "unfinished work" that the living must advance so that the sacrifices of those who died for a cause would not have done so in vain. Franklin D. Roosevelt challenged a struggling people with the words "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." John F. Kennedy spoke in soaring terms in which we "shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Who can forget this more recent declaration: "...if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity...if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! ...open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan said this at the Berlin Wall in Germany, but he may as well have been at Bunker Hill or Manassas or Iwo Jima or Baghdad. While blood, sweat and tears from American men and women who do God's work throughout this world ("go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own" - Kennedy), is shed and bottled for posterity, it is the words of the shared American spirit that lives on. From the Declaration of Independence to the declaration of George W. Bush in September 2001 ("I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."), these words live in the atmosphere more than they live on parchment or in granite. This July 4 marks a nation at war to protect its people and its shores. It marks a nation once again in a domestic struggle - this time a struggle not against famine or drought, the "fear" FDR addressed, but against a threatened famine of freedom of speech and a drought of an adherence to the rule of law that dominate the headlines day after day. The entire world should celebrate this historic day with us, for all the world has leaned on us in times of trouble and times of need. As Lincoln said, we are the "last best hope of earth." americanthinker.com

To: Sully- who wrote (60698)	7/5/2007 5:15:47 PM
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Taking America for Granted By Thomas Sowell Townhall.com Columnists Wednesday, July 4, 2007 When my research assistant and her husband took my wife and me to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, I was impressed when I heard her for the first time speak Chinese as she ordered food. My assistant was born and raised in China, so I should have been impressed that she spoke English. But I took that for granted because she always spoke English to me. We all have a tendency to take for granted what we are used to, and to regard it as somehow natural or automatic -- and to be unduly impressed by what is unusual. Too many Americans take the United States for granted and are too easily impressed by what people in other countries say and do. That is especially true of the intelligentsia, and dangerously true of those Supreme Court justices who cite foreign laws when making decisions about American law. There is nothing automatic about the way of life achieved in this country. It is very unusual among the nations of the world today and rarer than four-leaf clovers in the long view of history. It didn't just happen. People made it happen -- and they and those who came after them paid a price in blood and treasure to create and preserve this nation that we now take for granted. More important, this country's survival is not automatic. What we do will determine that. Too many Americans today are not only unconcerned about what it will take to preserve this country but are busy dismantling the things that make it America. Our national motto, "E Pluribus Unum" -- from many, one -- has been turned upside down as educators, activists and politicians strive to fragment the American population into separate racial, social, linguistic and ideological blocs. Some are gung ho for generic "change" -- without the slightest concern that the change might be for the worse, even in a world where most nations that are different are also worse off. Most are worse economically and many are much worse off in terms of despotism, corruption, and bloodshed. History is full of nations and even whole civilizations that have fallen from the heights to destitution and disintegration. The Roman Empire is a classic example, but the great ancient Chinese dynasties, the Ottoman Empire and many others have met the same fate. These were not just political "changes." They were historic catastrophes from which whole peoples did not recover for centuries. It has been estimated that it was a thousand years before Europeans again achieved as high a standard of living as they had in Roman times. The Dark Ages were called dark for a reason. Today, whole classes of people get their jollies and puff themselves up by denigrating and denouncing American society. Such people are a major influence in our media, in our educational system and among all sorts of vocal activists. Nothing illustrates their power to distort reality like the way they seize upon slavery to denounce American society. Slavery was cancerous but does anybody regard cancer in the United States as an evil peculiar to American society? It is a worldwide affliction and so was slavery. Both the enslavers and the enslaved have included people on every inhabited continent -- people of every race, color, and creed. More Europeans were enslaved and taken to North Africa by Barbary Coast pirates alone than there were African slaves taken to the United States and to the colonies from which it was formed. Yet throughout our educational system, our media, and in politics, slavery is incessantly presented as if it were something peculiar to black and white Americans. What was peculiar about the United States was that it was the first country in which slavery was under attack from the moment the country was created. What was peculiar about Western civilization was that it was the first civilization to destroy slavery, not only within its own countries but in other countries around the world as well. Reality has been stood on its head so that a relative handful of people can feel puffed up or gain notoriety and power. Whatever they gain, the rest of us have everything to lose. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy. townhall.com