Monthly Archives: May 2017

5-29-17


In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row, 

That mark our place, and in the sky, 

The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 

Scarce heard amid the guns below. 
We are the dead; short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields. 
Take up our quarrel with the foe! 

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high! 

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

1915

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Sheepdogs

22 innocent people were killed in Manchester, UK Monday evening by a suicide bomber. Speculation continues to spin out of the mouth of the MSM, but I don’t know if anything will help explain this seemingly senseless act.

22 dead, 59 wounded at the teen pop star, Ariana Grande’s concert.

Unimaginably, teens were targeted. 

Lone wolf? 

Coordinated attack by ISIS? 

Al Queda?

The Taliban?

We shall see. 

Maybe.

One thing is for certain; our leaders continue to instruct us to simply accept this and continue on our merry way, blinders in place.

After the terrorist attack, BBC’s Katty Kay had this to say, 

“Europe is getting used to attacks like this,” she says. “We have to, because we are never going to be able to totally wipe this out. As ISIS gets squeezed in Syria and Iraq, we’re going to see more of these kinds of attacks taking place in Europe and Europe is starting to get used to that.”

While Prime Minister Theresa May had this to say, “Let us remember those who died, and let us celebrate those who helped, safe in the knowledge that the terrorists will never win,” 

She also vowed that Britains’ way of life would go on.

But no one should have to get “used to” this type of heinous crime and everyone’s way of life is irrevocably changed after such an attack, as what happened here in the USA on September 11, 2001 when radical Islamic terrorists killed nearly three thousand people in a single day.

I appreciate people who seek out the solutions to problems rather than perpetuate them by virtue signaling, discussing them endlessly and informing the rest of us of what not to do after another one of these vile acts is perpetrated. 

Solutions to the widespread problem of radical Islam and its wave of terror are what is necessary, solutions based on sound evidence and true facts. 

Solutions that can begin in your own home.

Solutions for keeping your side of the street clean and, thereby, your neighbors’ as well.

Solutions that can help keep our children safe without trampling all of our (and our grandchildren’s) God given rights into the ground.

Not more of the same monotone, desensitizing drone from the worlds’ media and leaders, urging us to be good little sheep and get used to the wolves that come in the night to pick us all off; lambs included. 

Use the power of your own minds, the power of your right to life & your children to live theirs.

Refuse to be sheep.

Let’s try to be sheepdogs instead.
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