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Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor

 

 

PO2 (EOD2) (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq , giving his life to save his fellow Seals.

During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego , as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEAL's were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from
his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.

 

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the
coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay
from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off for a
warrior hero.

This should be front-page news instead of the crap we see every day.

Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by
forwarding it onto you guys. I am proud of our military. If you
are proud too, please pass this on.

 

If not then rest assured that these fine men and women of our military will continue to serve and protect.

For those that don't know about history...... here is a condensed version.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and  
2. The invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.  

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals  
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these Liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.  

Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.

Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood  and group therapists are Liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other Conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when Conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Lawmakers that is...

One morning last week...

So there I was, minding my own business driving down CSH 60 on the shoulder of the road, blowing past one of those canned hybrids that apparently can’t wind up faster than 40 mph when I decided to pull over for a very understanding State Trooper. He informed me that creating your own lane to work is illegal. So I handed him my drivers license with a mug picture that looked like Brad Pitt going through withdraws in a drunk tank with an outdated address and an expired insurance card. To avoid more tickets, I just simply didn’t explain to him why I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt. I got away with only a $22.00 fine for not wrapping a seatbelt around me. Sure as hell, I drove away with no seatbelt. Pretty damn awesome to watch my tax dollars at work.
Now I’m not complaining, but if lawmakers are going to go out of their way to pass laws to protect us from ourselves, such as seatbelts, helmets, etc. then I have just one question for them.
WHY THE HELL DO YOU ALLOW A BATTERY OPERATED BOX OF P!SS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PANCAKED INTO A CONCRETE WALL BY MY ¾ TON CHEVY TRUCK ON THE ROADS. That can opener has no right being on the road. Yet this fishing weight is what you feel-good snobs are pushing Automakers to sell us. I supposed to start that roller-skate strap on, ya'll just pull the string outa the a$s end and hope to hell ya make it 2 miles before the string winds itself back into its own a$s. Hell, I’d be safer pushin’ my daughters’ scooter backwards with a seeing eye dog down the middle of I-25 around 5:00 on a Friday afternoon than peddling around in that barrel of crap ya’ll call a hybrid.

And I’m just getting’ started….but you get the point, so I’ll shut up for now.

guess I kind of went off there.......BUT, I'm over that now!

Recieved this in an e-mail.  Yep, cut & paste but thought it was worth sharing.

Numbers and Facts:  So often, we get caught up in a debate over political semantics and end up ignoring the hard-shell realities of what we're talking about.

   According to immigrationCounters.com, Here are some of the realities that Flake-Gutierrez Bill would airbrush out of the picture:

 Number of Illegal Aliens in the Country

20,807,645

Money Wired to Mexico City since January, 2006

$22,213,001,672.00

Cost of Social Security Services for Illegal Aliens since 1996

$397,450,739,563.00

Number of Children of Illegal Aliens in Public Schools

3,958,789

Cost of Illegal Aliens in K-12 Since 1996:

$13, 965,063,431.00

Number of Illegal Aliens Incarcerated

332,594

Cost of Incarcerations Since 2001 

$1,398,127,429.00

Number of Illegal Aliens Fugitives

642,799

Skilled Jobs Taken by Illegal Aliens

9,872,838

   Figures can trick your eyes.  Take particular note that items 2,3,5, and 7 reflect BILLION not millions of dollars and that item 3 exceeds one-third of a TRILLION dollars.  Can you imagine how much it will cost taxpayers if we triple the number of Illegals entering this country!!