Iwo Jima 19 February 1945

[Doolittle81]

DELETED (if I could do so). Talk about a Thread that went off track and got stolen for ranting...Wow!

[SS-18rider]

Semper Fi = Semper Fidelis = Always faithful in Latin. According to Wikipedia The United States Marine Corps adopted the motto, Semper Fidelis, in 1883.

During WW2, 19 February 1945, The U.S Marines landed on the beaches of the Japanese held Pacific island Iwo Jima.

[Rockin Robbins]

...the price of freedom is so high or we would value it too little.

OH @#$%@#! We DO value it too little. Here we are in a presidential campaign and not one candidate is talking about freedom. All they talk about is how we can abuse our right to vote by embezzling money from the treasury of the USA for health care, baby bonds, retirement money, bridges to nowhere, fake charities and relief from the consequences of our bad decisions. These are all our personal responsibilites based on our freedom to live our lives wisely or unwisely, taking our consequences for the results. Now we think the highest purpose of government is to protect us from our own foolishness!

Whatever happened to John Kennedy. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

Now it's "Everybody's in the cookie jar and I want more cookies than anybody else!" Everyone gets the kind of government they deserve. We don't deserve good government.

[SS-18rider]

Everyone gets the kind of government they deserve. We don't deserve good government. - and the consequence is George W. Bush ???:roll:

[M. Sarsfield]

We can learn a lesson from Europe, but will we? Since after WWII, they have spent more time enjoying their freedom than fighting to keep it. As a result, personal freedoms get taken away over time. We're on the same path. :nope:

G.W. has definitely done his share of gross spending. :damn:

[Rockin Robbins]

We can learn a lesson from Europe, but will we? Since after WWII, they have spent more time enjoying their freedom than fighting to keep it. As a result, personal freedoms get taken away over time. We're on the same path. :nope:

G.W. has definitely done his share of gross spending. :damn:
GW thinks he should guard the cookie jar zealously--to make sure the right people are stealing from it!:rotfl:And now all parties fight not over how to protect our freedoms, but over how best to loot the cookie jar. A republican form of government (we are not a democracy and hopefully will never become one) cannot survive elected officials who see the highest and best use of the national treasury as a resource buy votes.

Where are John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan when we need them? Just read these words and wonder who could have said such "foolish" things:
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge—and more.
We're a bunch of yellow-livered girlie men, unwilling to pay the price of freedom. Well, we're destined not to have it on either side of the Atlantic unless we can reverse our course and realize that our freedoms have a higher source than government and a higher price than cash.

No politico dares to utter the above words today. He would be laughed at.

This campaign message was paid for by Citizens for Foolishness and is foolishly endorsed by Rockin Robbins, candidate for court jester.

[Capn_Sinky]

Ever seen Blade Runner?

Ever wonder whyyyy the flying bilboards are written in Chinese? :hmm:

If we are not careful, and we do not exercise our right to vote, and vote wisely, we may see not only why that is a real possibility, but how it happens.

And don't rely on our children and or grandchildren to straighten the problem out either! They have been sitting around chewing on Elmo's lead based painted eyes for so long they may not be able vote when the time comes.:doh:

I'm off my soapbox now.

Capn_Sinky (aka Stinky)
O.I.C.I.C.
Officer In Charge of Ice Cream
USS Drum

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

That's it! I'm reporting RR to the Admiral. The last thing we want is RR as President of the United Socialists of America.:yep::lol: He'll have to captain a Rubber Ducky from now on.

Oh, please come on guys! You really think these politicians care about you? If you believe that I have this u-boat in my backyard to sell ya. I don't care about them. They lie, pretend to like you in election time and then you're nothing to them. I don't listen to them most of the time.

[SS-18rider]

We can learn a lesson from Europe, but will we? Since after WWII, they have spent more time enjoying their freedom than fighting to keep it. As a result, personal freedoms get taken away over time. We're on the same path. :nope:

G.W. has definitely done his share of gross spending. :damn:

I don´t understand what You mean really? What Is "Personal freedom" ? Has the "personal freedom" been suffocated in the European Welfare Society, where you have to pay taxes and accept government intervention on certain areas. Where everyone not has to fight on there on for survival, when basic conditions and health are a problem for make a living? Where the state looks at the society as ship where every citizen has a place.