If you spend too much time watching politics you forget that the politicians are not America… other than that they run America… but only the unimportant parts… other than deploying the military, that is.
Okay, I already confused myself.
Anyway, my point, whether I can come up with an appropriate intro or not, is that, even though it seems like we have no heroes in politics right now, America is still full of heroes and things worth fighting for. We have the liberty earned by our forefathers, our innovation, our spirit, our awesome economy, and our general kick-assery – and that should be more than enough to get anyone out of bed and glad to be alive each morning. As bad as things may get in Washington and on the world stage, there’s always a supermarket nearby with at least eight different types of Oreo cookies to choose from – and this week they’re buy one get one free!
Maybe my point is that you should never forget that America is really really awesome. We have apple pies and right to carry laws. We have boundless opportunity and a Walgreens at every intersection. We have constant technical innovation and no native species of monkeys. And this is the only nation that has me! If you said there was another country even half as great as the United States, I’d punch you in your dumb, lying monkey face.
And you’d deserve it for such slander.
And did I mention that no military is better at killing its enemies than America’s military? We had all those years of “peace” during the Clinton years, and the military went right back to killing bad people without missing a beat. And, with new technology in the works, we’ll kill people in need of killing even more efficiently.
So be happy (unless you’re one of IMAO’s international readers; I don’t know how you should feel then). The United States of America still kicks ass. We must continue to fight for what’s right, but we should have smiles on our faces because we fight from positions of strength. And no matter what terrorists do, no matter how liberals try to weaken us and put this country down, the two-hour season finale of 24 will still air tonight.
Because we’re America.
Great post!
And we do still have SOME heroes in DC. Go on over to Michelle Malkin’s site and check out her link to Jeff Session’s latest speech in the Senate. As Michelle said, “at least there is one Congressman who has their head screwed on straight.”
Hell yeah!
Most politicians are polished turds. I look for heroes in other places; the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and guys like my baby brother who invaded Iraq in ’03 with the 82nd Airborne (hiding a bum knee from the medics BTW), and went back for more with the 163rd Infantry from Montana in ’04-’05, and just re-upped for a third time in case they need him again.
It’s people like him who are our best hope of salvaging this country in the coming decade or so, and I am mostly optimistic about this. The average politician today (any party) ain’t fit to wash my brother’s knickers.
“Freedom isn’t free…there’s a hefty f**kin’ fee”–Trey Parker
And, if you’re a big business in this great country, the government will bail you out of bankruptcy! And if you don’t want to work, the government will give you free money! And if you don’t like anything, you can sue, even the government!
Where does this money come from, anyway?
Or does it matter?
What a wonderful land of opportunity.
Damn c! Just when I was feeling really good, you have to go and drop a turd in the punch bowl! Where’s a LMF when you need one! You guys OK with brass knuckles?
and just where are you going to watch the season finale of 24? series finale of ALIAS trumps.
The politico’s may have things pretty screwed up but the military…ahh…the magnificant military! We ask these brave young men and women to protect and serve and they do it better than anyone on the planet period! If any punks really want to get bitch slapped (Iran) keep it up and you will find yourself face-to-face with our best and our brightest. It will be the last thing you see on this earth!
And I hope Jack sends the current President to meet Allah where he will find himself the stand-in for the promised 70 virgins that really don’t exist for suicide bombers…
ARRRGGG! I’ll be raisin’ me tankard in a toast ta that, Frank! Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines! God bless ’em all! No one better ta be showin’ the enemy ta Davey Jone’s Locker ‘er the gates ‘o purgatory!
There be just one fact I’ll be disputin’ ye…we be havin’ our own species ‘o monkey…they be called Liberals. Keel haul th’ lot of ’em I say!
-Cap’n Wolfie
sniffle Touching. Amen and all that.
Sorry for the turd.
You folks are right, and isn’t it funny that the military still knows how to get it done, but is shackled by the politicians. There is a great disconnect between what the politicians see as life and reality and what the military sees. We have to keep in mind, though, that they need to keep each other in balance. Fat stupid politicians making inane laws on the behalf of the vocal minority are no more dangerous than a coup from a runaway military.
Well, maybe just a little more dangerous. But that’s why there’s monkey punching to keep them in check.
America is great, but while our universities are poulated with hippies, this university is populated with ninjas.
Ninja Club
America isn’t perfect, and it’s the last reasonable hope in this world, but I think we can do a damned spit better on the freedom front.
That Walgreens on every corner now requires you to submit ID, ala the PATRIOT Act, just to purchase cold medicine. Then they record it… and if you buy too much officer friendly will be at your doorstep.
Some folks think the glass is half empty, some think it’s half full and I’ve heard engineers figure the glass just too big. As a software engineer I find humor in that, but I’d rather the engineers (and I’m not picking you here, Frank) figure out how to fill the glass up until to the brim with freedom.
As usual, my sentiments exactly.
We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi, we’re not Spartans, we’re Americans. With a capital “A”, huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts.
“That’s the fact, Jack!”
Justin Buist,
I’m sorry, but the “being inconvienced over purchasing large quantities of cold medicine” is a hard injustice to get people mobilized around. I can just imagine the Walgreens employee calling the police on that one:
“So this guy came in and bought like a freaky-huge amount of cold medicine so I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of cold medicine.’ Then he was all like, ‘You’re not going to tell the government on me, are you!’ and it was totally scary. I don’t know what that was about, but it totally freaked me out so I thought I’d call you guys. Can people make bombs out of cold medicine or something?”
Justin,
We both know that you don’t have a doorstep since the fire. Because you mischaracterized the The Patriot Act I now have the right to punch you seventeen times in your meth-cooking little monkey-face. …twenty if you can’t prove that you aren’t French.
Yeah, what officer Friendly said.
Hey Justin, law expert that you obviously are, Walgreen’s (just as any pharmacy must) cards you for buying Sudafed because pseudoephedrine is the main ingredient in crystal meth. If you’d like to blame anyone for your getting carded, how about you blame the responsible people(that would be the drug dealers, genius!) rather than taking some cheap shot at the Patriot Act.
By the way, Safeway has used information in their system to prove that customers fell down and hurt themselves due to their buying habits (proving the hurt customer was an uncoordinated drunk because he bought alcohol in the past). These records can be subpeonaed by a court if available.
Just wait until your health care provider refuses to insure your heart surgery because of the amount of high-fat products you have bought from Safeway.
I kid you not. You’ll see soon enough. It’s worth a whole lot of money to insurers, especially when they see how fat the nation is getting and are worried about losing money. It adds up to trillions.
Actually, Captamerica, we’re not the wretched refuse. We’re the ones whose ancestors refused to put up with the bullshit any longer.
The wretched refuse stayed behind and became the government.
BTW, everyone knows it’s the mutts that are strongest, and purebred in just a polite term for inbred.
MTX, proud American mutt*
* Scots-Irish-English-German-Welsh-Cherokee-Iroqouis
(My dad’s big on geneology)