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To: longnshort who wrote (530680)	11/19/2009 1:28:53 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576893

>>> Your gonna love this young lady........ Nobody I know of could have said it better. This week, I've been watching the History Channel's WWII in HD documentary, which is great. They really ought to force liberals to watch this and the 9/11 video about once a month.

To: longnshort who wrote (530680)	11/19/2009 2:17:19 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1576893

How to catch wild pigs... There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime. At the end of his story, he looked at the professor and posed a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and put corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity." One should always remember these simple truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and freedom isn't free. Just like catching wild pigs, citizens have allowed their liberty to be taken away from them gradually. Perhaps just as bad, many people have forgotten how or have simply lost their will to fight back and just have accepted the loss of their rights. People do not miss what they have never had. I believe you can change this. It will take your time and effort, there are no shortcuts. There is a process and a plan. Success is not guaranteed but if you do nothing, failure is certain. wisconsinpatriots.com