Fwd: Fw: The President Without A Country. By Pat Boone

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Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM
Subject: Fw: The President Without A Country. By Pat Boone
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I am forwarding this to you because I feel we should all be aware of the contents of this letter and forward it to everyone in our contacts list.   Greg Sigvaldson

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY AND SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY AMERICAN ! The President Without A Country.   By Pat Boone The President Without A Country By Pat Boone "We're no longer a Christian nation." - President barack obama, June 2009 " America has been arrogant." - President barack obama "After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- President barack obama "You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President barack obama, Egypt 2009 Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president. I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of. In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!" The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed." And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears.  And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are. But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're president of?" You surely can't be referring to the United States of America , can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president. You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist Papers": " Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"? In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian." Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson ' s intent with that statement? Or, wait a minute . were your ideas about America 's Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that  " America has been arrogant"? Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered a Muslim nation"? Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"? Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers. Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the infidel"? It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected.. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are president of a country most Americans don't recognize. Could it be you are a president without a country? All who love their Christian Belief's and your Country. Forward to all in your address book. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/patboone.asp

 

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Gage Pope

Les Paul vs ES 339

Michael Burks at Sam's Burger Joint in San Antonio

Michael Burks at Sam's Burger Joint in San Antonio: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Charlie Schmidt's "Keyboard Cat"!

Avatar: Great Effects, Anti Christian, Anti American Message

just saw Avatar. Wow. Amazing visual effects. But I could have done without the left wing agenda present throughout movie. America and her military and corporations are portrayed as evil, while pagan , tree worshipping native peoples are true heroes. There's even a dig on the war on terror. It's just more liberal, environmentalist speak: 
The images were fantastic and very entertaining, but the references to earth deities and paganism were unfortunate. Oh well, getting used to such drivel. Otherwise good movie. 
http://www.infowars.com/movie-review-avatar-and-paganism/

From Gage

Excerpt from Ben Stein’s 2005 Commentary about the Observance of Christmas

Ben Stein’s 2005 Commentary about the Observance of Christmas

October 11, 2007 by Lance

While this Ben Stein piece is a couple of years old, I thought it was well worth posting here given that Christmas is near.

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: ...


Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.


I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.


Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

Ben Stein

Stein, a lawyer by training, has also served as a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon, has to date authored sixteen books (both novels and non-fiction efforts), and continues to write editorials and columns for a number of prominent publications. He is perhaps best known to the world at large, however, for his in-front-of-the-camera work as the dreadfully dull economics teacher in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (and his similar role as the monotonic science teacher Mr. Cantwell on the TV series The Wonder Years) and as the keenly competitive host of the Comedy Central game show Win Ben Stein’s Money.

misery

My worst fear. Cathy Bates is coming over. lol

[Flickr] Gage Pope wants you to see something

Cutting off old cast to make the new one. Looks a lot worse than it felt. Made me think of Cathy Bates in Misery. ouch! My new cast is much easier to manage. Thank God. I can work my ankle a little better and I don't have to use the dumb wheelchair anymore. :0 Leg cast http://www.flickr.com/photos/gagepope/sets/72157623043704564/ A selection of things from the set (By the way, if the set link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it from this email into your browser's address bar.) Flickr is almost certainly the best photo management and sharing application in the world. If you'd like to see what I use it for you can check out my profile page or browse my photostream.

My new cast

My new cast
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voila. my new cast. still purple

Saw, part IV

Saw, part IV
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don't amputate

SAW, part IV

SAW, part IV
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careful with the knee

SAW, part IV

Me getting leg cast shortened to knee weight bearing cast. Still purple. Looks a lot worse than it felt

SAW, part IV
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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Things are Getting Serious In Abilene

Dillards in Abilene won't let employee of 28 years have 1/2 day to watch son play in state championship football game. Boo!

Cheech and Chong - Santa Claus - MySpaceVideos - Strimoo.com

Cheech and Chong - Santa Claus - MySpaceVideos - Strimoo.com

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Ben Stein Confronts Dominance of Darwinian Thought in New Film | Christianpost.com

Ben Stein Confronts Dominance of Darwinian Thought in New Film Christianpost.com

Maybe not a new film but still as important as ever. (about a year old)

This is my favorite part of A Charlie Brown Christmas:

Alicia Calamia
On Tuesday 8th December 2009, @alicat1032 said: 

This is my favorite part of A Charlie Brown Christmas:

Charlie Brown: I guess you were right, Linus. I shouldn't have picked this little tree. Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about.


Charlie Brown: Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?


Linus: Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.


Linus: Lights, please.


Linus: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'"


Linus: That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.


Just love that part. And also when Charlie Brown decorates his tree LOL

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/16qhj

Amanda Knox Found Quilty Gets 26 Years - Legal Newswire Blog

Amanda Knox Found Quilty Gets 26 Years - Legal Newswire Blog

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Interrupting the Silence

Wonderful daily prayer guide.

Sent from my iPhone

My thoughts exactly

This was sent to me by my friend Nancie and originally forwarded by Cliff Potter <volt230@hotmail.com.  I think this summarizes what a lot of Americans are feeling.

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 4:54 PM    

This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett's widow........



"WE NOTICED"





President Obama:



Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September 11 as a National Service Day. Sir, it's time we had a talk.........



During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition.



YES, "We noticed."



During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you intended to visit all 57 states.

We all know that Islam, not America has 57 states.



YES, "We noticed."



When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto the pile without leaning over.



YES, "We noticed."



Every time you apologized to other countries for America 's position on an issue we have wondered why you don't share our pride in this great country. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the British Crown beyond belief.



YES, "We noticed."



When your pastor of 20 years, "God-damned America " and said that 9/11 was " America 's chickens coming home to roost" and you denied having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could be. You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor Wright because it was politically expedient to do so.



YES, "We noticed."



When you announced that you would transform America , we wondered why. With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth. Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, "if not for America and the people who built her, you wouldn't be sitting in the White House now." Prior to your election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a very remarkable one.



YES, "We noticed."



All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or affection for this country and her traditions.



YES, "We noticed."



You are 9 months into your term and every morning millions of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.





YES, "We noticed."





We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled "un-American","racist", "mob". We wonder how we are supposed to let you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated and insignificant. Until your appointment, Americans had the right to speak out.



YES, "We noticed."



On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans.



And YES, "We noticed."



There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could help unite this nation. In six months you have done more to destroy this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us.



YES, "We noticed."



September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You propose to make 9/11 a "National Service Day". While we know that you don't share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report your proposal as what it is...a disgrace.





YES, "We noticed."





You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits and policy.



YES, "We noticed.."





We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When Americans come together again, it will be to remove you from office.



Take notice.



If you agree with this please pass it on.