With all the crap that’s going on…and as an even better acknowledgement of our country in distress, I decided last night to change my banner to something more appropriate.
Namely, the Gadsden Flag, the de facto symbol of the Tea Party Movement. All I will say is that Президент Оба́ма and the Demo☭rats, not to mention all liberals, mess with this at their peril.

I guarantee, this post will piss off selrahC, but not for the reason you may suspect. More on that in a moment.
First of all, I’m surprised Ray Bradbury is still kickin’, and he turns 90 years old on the 22nd of this month! He’s had many words to say about how the Government has messed up our post-Apollo adventures. Regarding Президент Оба́ма, Bradbury said:

“He should be announcing that we should go back to the moon. We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”

Just be careful, Mr. Bradbury, your Martian Chronicles might come to pass if that happens.
Bradbury also thinks the Government is way too big for its britches:

“There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people and for the people.”

This will certainly endear him to his el cubo fans. That’s OK, us Tea Partiers welcome you with open arms!
Finally…he apparently doesn’t think too highly of the Kindle:

“I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books” (on an electronic reading device). I said to Yahoo, ‘Prick up your ears and go to hell.’”

Perhaps he’d use the Kindle to…kindle? Imagine that. THAT will piss off selrahC!

Here, I’ll let the video speak for itself:

This is courtesy of Savage from The Blogmocracy:

Before any of your liberal namby-pambys go off on a lunatic rant about the cruelty of the USA in dropping this Bomb on Hiroshima…let me remind you of the horrors the Imperial Japanese visited upon its conquered peoples: The Rape of Nanking. The Bataan Death March. A host of many other War Crimes too numerous to list.
These Atomic Bombs SAVED not only Allied lives, but JAPANESE lives. If they had not been dropped, the Japanese language would truly have been spoken only in Hell, because the Allied Invasion Force could conceivably have killed every single Japanese man, woman, and child.
And yet, you liberals fawn over Iran’s nuclear program, citing that they too have a “right” to this technology? BULL-S**T! They would use it to bring about their Hidden Imam. Same with the Godless DFC North Koreans. They are EVIL, pure and simple, and they must be ultimately met with their ultimate destruction.
As in Delenda Est.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the following document, and 56 men pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor so that men and women everywhere could be free.
Presented here is the text of the Declaration of Independence.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Or actually, before Gen. McAuliffe uttered that single word to the Germans. But first, a little background.
Back in 1676, the Zaporozhian Cossacks defeated the Ottoman Empire in a battle near the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Yet in defeat, the Ottoman leader, Mehmed IV, wrote a letter to the Cossacks, demanding that they submit to his rule:

As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the Sun and Moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians—I command you, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

Here’s what the Cossacks wrote back:

Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil’s brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil s**ts, and your army eats. Thou a son of a bitch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f**k thy mother.
Thou art the Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-f**ker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian villain, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, a fool before our God, a grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our d**k. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Thou wilt not even be herding Christian pigs. Now we shall conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t have a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year in the book, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!

OH. MY. GOD! Although this may not be historically accurate, that may not matter for ways to insult and mock the Islamofascists, and then just sit back as they rage and seethe.

In case you’ve wondered where all the major American battlefield monuments and cemeteries are, see below:

All gave some. Some gave ALL in Defense of Liberty and Freedom.

Always remember these Fallen Men and Women.

Y’all know the drill….

With all the crap that’s going on here in Arizona, methinks this year’s going to be a little bit more memorable. We’ll see.

HE IS RISEN!

HE IS RISEN INDEED!

A long time ago, I pledged to visit the Trinity Site, which I did three years ago. Since I am on vacation this week, not induced by some back problem, I finished putting together the video footage I shot there:

And not only am I glad I did, it is also a relief.
This is open to the public two times per year: the first Saturday in April, and the first Saturday in October. For more information on the Trinity Site Tour, visit the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce.

1 MILLION HITS and counting…Macroeconomics that today’s kids can understand:

In his 1989 Farewell Address, President Reagan warned about Revisionists changing our History and making us forget we are Americans:

Lo and Behold, that’s exactly what Президент Оба́ма and his Demo☭rat comrades are doing. If Reagan were alive today and in full control of his faculties, he’d be in a state of Righteous Wrath, to say the least.

HAT TIP: The Osprey

You can’t get any better than this:

And here’s a friendly fact about the great civil rights leader:

Enough to piss off the Demo☭rats!