Happy fourth- coming up ... Thx Clay V!

Thanks Clay!

Now onto my blog with my sincerest prayer for these people representing us- our military and their supporters not our Congress-people.  They could represent us better.

SamKat

I HOPE THERE ISN'T ANYONE ON MY E-MAIL LIST THAT WON'T KEEP THIS GOING.   

Happy 4th of July!....

Let' s get this started ,NOW!
So it will be out there on the fourth!

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE
FLAG,
OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA ,

AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR
WHICH IT STANDS,
ONE
NATION UNDER  GOD,
INDIVISIBLE,
WITH  LIBERTY
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

KEEP IT LIT!! KEEP IT LIT!
For all of our other military personnel, where ever they may be.
Please
Support all of the troops defending our Country.



And God Bless our Military
who are protecting our Country for our Freedom.
Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the 4th of July.




We must never forget who gets the credit for the freedoms we have,
of which we should be eternally grateful.



I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.




A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.


I looked at him in uniform;
so young, so tall, so proud.
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
he'd stand out in any crowd.


I thought how many men like him
had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil;
how many mothers' tears?


How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE !


I heard the sound of Taps one night,
when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant 'Amen.'
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.



I thought of all the children,
of the mothers and the wives,
of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.




I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea.
Of unmarked graves in  Arlington .
NO FREEDOM ISN'T FREE



Enjoy Your Freedom
and
God Bless Our Troops.

When you receive this,
please stop for a moment
and say a prayer for our servicemen

Of all the gifts you could give a U.S. Soldier, prayer is the very best one.

 

Illinois What a wonderful state ... Thx Ramey H!

Illinois-
what a wonderful state! ... Thx Ramey H!

ILLINOIS – What A Wonderful State

There are more people on welfare in Illinois than there are people working.  Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S. -  averaging $110,000/year.  Their pensions average 80-90% of their income.  The Chicago school system is rated one of the worst in the country.  

Body count:  In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago - 221 killed in Iraq; AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire U.S.

Here's the Chicago chain of command:  

· President: Barack Hussein Obama

 

· Senator: Dick Durbin

· House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.

· Governor: Pat Quinn

· House leader: Mike Madigan

· Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)

· Mayor: Ralm Emanuel

· The leadership in Illinois - all Democrats

Thank you Democrats for the combat zone in Chicago.  Of course, they're all blaming each other.  Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any. 

Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.  Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any.

State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.  Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any.

Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.  Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.  And he is going to 'fix' Washington politics for us?  George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in prison.  He was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is - that's right, also in prison.

And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a few weeks ago.  That is because he is fighting to not be sent to -  that's right, prison.

The Land of Lincoln is now where former governors make license plates.  But, you know what?  As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, like Obama and the democrats are doing in Washington, nothing is going to change, except that this state will go broke before the country does.  And now our country is definitely going broke.

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian."     ~~~ Henry Ford

The best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~~~ Winston Churchill

 

Genesis 47:

Genesis 47:13-27

RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE - STIMULUS SERMON

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in Virginia three cheers. This guy is obviously a leader. Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is... It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years.

Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis. We'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ... (reading) ... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes. After Jacob and Joseph passed on, and the Jews began to drift away from their GOD, even they too became slaves in the land of Egypt  .

I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one.

We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people in Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to their leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will...

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..."

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of a new Pharaoh's government. In God We Trust...  

And all of God’s people said amen!

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Best shot ever with a 1911 45 pistol ... Thx pilot and good friend Ramey H!

Best Shot with a 1911. Ever.

By Philip Bourjaily

While compiling the timeline for Pistol of the Century, our tribute to the 1911 in the June issue of Field & Stream, I read through many accounts of the 1911 in combat.

The most unusual shot (and possibly the best ever), made in wartime with a 1911 pistol, had to be the one fired by a USAAF B-24 co-pilot named Owen J. Baggett in March, 1943, in the skies over Burma. Of course, I am biased toward this one, as it involves a flying target.

On a mission to destroy a railroad bridge, Baggett's bomber squadron was intercepted by Japanese Zero fighters and his plane was badly damaged. After holding off the enemy with the top turret .50s, while the gunner tried to put out onboard fires, Baggett bailed out with the rest of the crew.

He and four others escaped the burning bomber before it exploded.

The Zero pilots circled back to strafe the parachuting crewmen, killing two and lightly wounding Baggett, who played dead in his harness, hoping the Japanese would leave him alone. Though playing dead, Baggett still drew his .45 and hid it alongside his leg…just in case. A Zero approached within a few feet of Baggett at near stall speeds.

The pilot opened the canopy for a better look at his victim.

Baggett raised his pistol and fired four shots into the cockpit. The Zero spun out of sight. Although Baggett could never believe he had shot down a fighter plane with his pistol, at least one credible report said the plane was found crashed, the pilot thrown clear of the wreckage with a single bullet in his head.

If Baggett really did shoot down a fighter with his 1911, it has to count as one of the greatest feats ever accomplished with a .45. Baggett survived two years in a Japanese prison camp in Singapore and eventually retired from the Air Force as a colonel.

Your Freedom Wasn't & Still Isn't Free!

Rare Old Photographs ... Thanks good friend, Anon Ymous!

Rare old photographs:

September 1933 - Adolf Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways.  This ceremony kicked off construction of the Frankfurt-am-Maine - Darmstadt/Mannheim highway. Betty White at home with her dog in 1952 An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint.  It is believed that this is the iceberg that sake the Titanic. Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961. The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902. Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890. The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944. The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912. Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44. Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966. 1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp. June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs. Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair. The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935. Children for sale in Chicago, 1948.  Some parents sold their children due to poverty. Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963.  His killer was finally convicted in 1994. Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864. The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946. A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972. Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912. Wieluñ just after German Luftwaffe bombing the 1st of September 1939. Not only did this bombing provide a spark for World War II, but it is generally believed to be the first terrorist bombing in history. Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944. A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944. Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955. A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929. Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983. Dr. Werhner von Braun and Walt Disney in 1954. The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942. The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915. Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916. Children rush into a candy store following the end of "sweets rationing" in 1953. Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's. Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932. What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846. Coney Island in 1905. George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966. Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's. Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865. Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934. Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939. Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925. OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984.  Nichole Brown can be seen on the left. A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in 1961. Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969.  None of them have been seen since! Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut in 1937. The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar.  Circa 1930. Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941.  This is where the Pentagon stands today. Mark Twain in 1883. The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas. Prosthetic legs in 1900. Is this the mummified body of John Wilkes Booth?  No... but it traveled the country for decades as a carnival exhibit under that claim. Circa 1939. The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858.