American Pride - Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer

"For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace.  They fight not for the lust of conquest.  They fight to end conquest.  They fight to liberate.  They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. "  FDR

June 6, 1944

My fellow Americans

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.  It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God

Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings.  Their road will be long and hard.  For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces.  Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.  The darkness will be rent by noise and flame.  Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace.  They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest.  They fight to liberate.  They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people.  They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return.  Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer.  But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer.  As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade.  Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled.  Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy.  Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies.  Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men.  And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

Obama's Dark Vision of America

This is a great article that I wanted to send out to my readers because it really is worth reading. It is by Keith Koffler, who covered the White House as a reporter for CongressDaily and Roll Call, is editor of the blog White House Dossier.


November 16, 2011


America, in the view of President Barack Obama, is not a happy place. It is a dark region where people cheat each other; corporations brutalize the public, and opportunity is out of reach.

Obama’s relentless reelection focus on America’s demons is a communications error that could haunt his bid for a second term.

Americans want to be told the truth. They don’t want their president to pretend that the economy is thriving.

But what they probably won’t abide is a message that there is something fundamentally wrong with the nation that Obama, like some prophet preaching through Gomorrah, was sent to fix.

The last Democratic president to win reelection, Bill Clinton, mimicked Ronald Reagan’s feel-good “Morning in America” theme to coast to a second term.

But Obama is trying out a reelection model that posits a broken country which needs him to “finish the job” he started.

America, in Obama’s view, is an unfair place, where “our school system” is working “for just some children;” where immigrants live “in second-class status.”

The wealthiest — who do pay most of the federal income taxes — are unscrupulous cheats who would have their secretaries fork over a bigger percentage of their income to Uncle Sam than they do.

Corporations and their henchmen on Washington’s K Street have fixed the system so they can rip it off at will.

“Tell these members of Congress,” Obama instructed North Carolina high school students last month, in a pessimistic civics lesson, “that they don’t work for special interest, they don’t work for lobbyists. They work for you.”

Corrupt corporate interests are grabbing for themselves and lying to the public. “I did not run for office,” Obama said, “to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,”

As for insurers, Obama has charged that they used “deceptive and dishonest” methods to advertise their opposition to his health reform plan.

Together, the wealthy and corporations are assailing the middle class.

“The only class warfare I’ve seen,” Obama said in September, “is the battle that’s been waged against the middle class in this country for a decade.”

For too many, Obama suggests, the American Dream is dead or dying.

“Millions are without work, and those who have work are still all-too-often struggling to get by,” he said recently to a group of Italian-Americans. “And for many, the dream that brought so many Italian-Americans to these shores feels like it’s slipping away.”

The avenues to success are not passable for everyone, and only Obama can reopen them.

“We still have within our grasp,” Obama said at a Denver fundraiser last month, “the ability to make sure that once again America is a place where anybody can make it if they try.”

If, that is, his forlorn fellow citizens are up to it.

“We’ve lost our ambition,” Obama said in California fundraiser last month, “our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam and unleashed all the potential in this country.”

Compare this to Clinton, who told voters in 1996 that he was presiding over a nation that was essentially well. He embraced some conservative values and even aligned himself with Republicans — signing the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman; embracing welfare reform, and asserting that he had cut taxes.

The only thing he had left to do, Clinton asserted, was to tinker with things to “build the bridge to the 21st century.”

Obama’s vision reflects the worldview of a former community organizer, whose long focus has been on the disadvantaged. But this seems to have spurred him to see injustice around every corner.

Obama believes the economic crisis he is grappling with is a result of unfettered American greed.

“A free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it,” Obama said last year. “That’s what happened too often in the years leading up to this crisis.”

One can view the United States as a turbulent place teaming with sharks, rather than an oasis where all can safely navigate a way to success. But giving voice to such views might not win a majority in the Electoral College.


Story by Keith Koffler

Re-printed here with pleasure!

S.C. Cancer Center Bans Christmas To Its Christian Patients

November 16, 2011, in the News, a medical organization had tried its best to deny their Christian patients any sort of Christian symbols during the Christmas season.  In fact, yes, these guys actually tried eliminating Santa Claus from visiting children who are patients during Christmas. 

If you think that I'm telling you some sick joke, please understand that this is no way a joke. 

In fact it is happening all over America.  And this time, yes, its a South Carolina Cancer Center who tried to give Santa Claus the boot.  But, thankfully to an uproar by patients there, the Cancer Center has reversed its decision and Santa can come in during Christmas.

I'm sure he won't be welcome, but he can show up.  And why do I say Santa won't be welcomed?  Well, it is because the Cancer Center has placed a ban on any and all Christmas decorations that are Christian in nature.  Yes, that includes a Nativity!

Imagine this for a minute, The Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, South Carolina has successfully stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble for itself by first telling one of its volunteers that he he would not be allowed to dress up as Santa Claus, then they ban all religious decorations that celebrates the reason for the Christmas season.

Why are they denying their patients the availability of celebrating Christmas while fighting cancer?  Are these folks just another group of insensitive liberals, or are they just another group of Atheist who would like to rid America of our Christian roots? 

A spokeswoman for The Hollings Cancer Center said that because of their affiliation with the State of South Carolina that they decided not to have a Santa at their facility.  And yes, they said that they supposedly had also gotten some complaints from patients - who were not Christians.

"A volunteer had dressed up as Santa and some folks complained that they felt excluded – or that their beliefs didn’t line up with this,” Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said.  “In an effort to honor as many of the cultural and ethnic beliefs that we see here in South Carolina, we thought we would downplay a Santa presence this year."

Their Santa ban lasted about two days – on Wednesday – they reversed course.

"Perhaps we stumbled here,” Vicky Agnew said. “We are very well aware that Santa is not a religious figure, but we are a state institution and we wanted to tone down the overt commercial and any religious aspects to it."

But there's more, the hospital released another statement saying there was a “passionate response” from the public and patients after The Post and Courier ran a story about Santa’s firing.  That's when they realised that they just hurt their business.

The hospital now says it will allow holiday traditions of all faiths because of "the emotional benefits they provide for patients."  Well, no kidding!

Frank Cloyes, the volunteer who played Old Saint Nick, told the Post and Courier newspaper that kids love the character.  "Santa is a tradition and everyone loves him," he told the newspaper.  He couldn't help but wonder where "political correctness and over-regulation will end."

And that is a big part of this, this is Political Correctness gone nuts!  Political Correctness only got slapped down after the hospital received a back-lash for its PC decision.

I mean, is the State of South Carolina anti-Christian?  I don't believe it is.  Is it possible that a business can be affiliated with a state contractually, and yet retain its own identity?  I sure hope so! 

Do all Americans have to bow to the wishes of the State and Federal Government because of this "Political Correctness" thing that America is experiencing these days?  The liberal left in America would love to see that happen.

And yes, they are certainly trying to instill it into our daily life.  Of course with every time they try to push it on Americans, our people are seeing more and more of what it really is.  It is in fact a horrible, leftist, super-political behavior called "Political Correctness" and it is trying to enslave Americans to do just that - bow to Big Brother and the Liberal Left.

In Communist countries, they have Re-Education Camps to teach their people how to act, how to think, and how to speak.  And yes, knowing what to say is very important in a society that can penalize you for saying the "wrong" thing.   And yes, "wrong" is all up to what their government says is "Wrong!" 

Their government requires their people to do these things or be penalized for their lack of cooperation.  Their penalties can range from fines, time in prison, a return to a Re-Education Camp, to possibly being exiled to work camps set aside for people who want to be free to think, and act, and say as they please.  Communism has no freedom.  It enslaves to survive.

The terrible fact that should not be ignored is that "Politically Correct" actually originated in the Communist World as part of their doctrine of how to control their subjects.  Yes, that right!  Not "citizens," but "subjects."   

These days "Political Correctness" is a virus that plagues America because the Left wants to inject it into our everyday life.  If it is Big Brother telling Americans how to act, how to think, and how to speak - then when is enough enough and we say "No More!"

Sure there have been times when my mother reprimanded me by saying, "Tom, watch what you say. You don't want to offend people."  But that was a mother's way of teaching her son common courtesy to others. 

And yes, there is a vast difference between a mother or dad trying to teach the differences of right and wrong to their children  - and the State or Federal Government demanding that you speak or act or think in a certain manner. 

So the question is still the same, does a State affiliation mean that your business has to follow the doctrine of the State?  If that's so, well then - we're in trouble.

The Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, South Carolina is finding out what happens when you go with what is PC.  Of course they also found out that some truths don't change no matter how hard the liberal atheist would like it to.  The truth is that faith has emotional benefits that can't be measured.  It's something that the liberals may never understand.

Political Correctness feeds the anti-Christian movement in America.  It goes against all that America stands for.  Political Correctness was started by the Communist to attain "Government Control" of its subjects.  In America, it is liberalism running wild - bold with power.

That's how I see it!

Story by Tom Correa

Law Professor says Care Packages for Our Troops "Shameful"

Yes, another jackass liberal from Massachusetts is trying to impose his America Hate on the rest of us.  This time it's a liberal Law Professor who actually says that sending Care Packages to our Troops overseas is "Shameful."

That's right, another Professor proves the point that a formal education doesn't guarantee that you'll be very smart.  It's called the "Dumb-Ass Award!"  And now a Professor named Michael Avery of Suffolk University Law School has made himself eligible to formally be called a Dumb-Ass. 

This Dumb-Ass reportedly sent an email to all of his colleagues saying it is "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops. Why? Well, his reasoning is this, he finds it "shameful" to send Care Packages to U.S. troops because they "have gone overseas to kill other human beings."

No kidding! Well, imagine that. This guy has taken this long to decide that Muslim Terrorist and Insurgents who are killing the innocent are human beings and should not be killed.

Yes, upon getting this revelation, Michael Avery who really is a Professor at Suffolk University Law School, sent a five-paragraph email to colleagues in response to a school-wide appeal for Care Packages for deployed soldiers. This was reported by Fox News affiliate WFXT-TV.

"I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," the ultra-liberal Professor Avery wrote.

Avery, who supposedly specializes in Constitutional Law of all things, wrote the email last week in response to a university drive to collect items for U.S. troops, like sunblock and sanitary products.  And besides his dislike of the idea of Care Packages, yes he has a real problem with U.S. Troops in general.

How do we know that this Dumb-Ass eligible liberal has a personal problem with our troops? Well, it's because of something else he wrote.  He also wrote that sympathy for American troops in harm's way is "not particularly rational in today's world."

The fool has no knowledge of what our troops may have to give to secure our freedoms.  He was probably never in any branch of the United States military. Most likely he has never done a thing for America.  In fact, I'm probably right when I say that this Dumb-Ass has never given anything of himself to his country.

Now I know that that sounds pretty bad, but what's worse is that obviously Avery doesn't care if U.S. Troops are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for America by giving their life for our freedoms. 

Supposedly Suffolk University Law School has been swamped with complaints from students and alumni, claiming Avery's view is not representative of the school community. And honestly, I hope so! 

I hope that parents start taking a long look at what kind of influences their kids are being exposed to.  I hope parents pull their kids out of such schools that have such teachers. I hope parents stop writing a blank check when it comes to trying to give their kids an education.

Parents should ask what is being done to stop the brain-washing of their kids by ultra-left leaning teachers?  Besides, why should a parent support a school who has teachers who try to dismantle the love of America that their kids may have?  Why not put their money in schools that are more like minded?  If you have brought up your children to have certain values and principles, and a love of country, then why allow a school to tear down that life-time of work?  They shouldn't.

One law student, Marisa Roman, told WFXT-TV, "I don't think that he reflects the overall feelings of Suffolk Law in general.  Clearly it's a patriotic school.  We have a huge American flag up in the atrium."

But wait, the ultra-left Michael Avery also has a problem with the American flag.  Imagine that!  He takes exception with Old Glory claiming that the American flag hanging in the atrium "is not a politically neutral act."

I have concluded that with this last bit of evidence presented to me, I can say that Michael Avery is as big a Dumb-Ass as America has seen lately.

Besides, when did an American flag come to represent Politics of any sort?  It doesn't, and never has.  This jerk has no idea about the history or the fundamental principles of Americanism.  This liberal has no idea that our American flag represents a nation that is self-governed.  Self-governed by our people.

This liberal Professor has no respect for the men who have died protecting our flag.  He has no respect for our form of government, or what it has taken to keep it free.  Ah, maybe that's it?  Maybe he's a God Damn Communist asshole as well as being a Dumb-Ass?

Just take a look at the proof, as Avery wrote, "Excessive patriotic zeal is a hallmark of national security states. It permits, indeed encourages, excesses in the name of national security, as we saw during the Bush administration, and which continue during the Obama administration."

First, patriotic zeal unites a country in the face of adversity and war.  Like it or not, we are at war with Muslim Terrorists.  They want to kill Americans, and that's enough for me to want the dead before they kill any of us.

Second, I gather no one informed the liberal yo-yo about 9-11 and the thousands who died because of a lack of concern about national security here at home.  I guess the Dumb-Ass hasn't heard of the thousands of threats that we have received since that horrible day.  I have the feeling that Michael Avery would rather see Americans die - all in the name of a less secure nation.

Suffolk University President and Provost Barry Brown issued a statement saying the school supported the "free exchange of ideas and robust debate" and respected the "right of our faculty members to exercise academic freedom."

But, Brown said, "As a diverse community, no one opinion or perspective is representative of the views of the whole community."

"While I personally intend to donate a care package for our troops, I respect the right of others to hold a differing perspective," added Camille Nelson, the Dean of the University's Law School. "Suffolk Law, while valuing debate on U.S. military policy, has a well-deserved reputation for supporting armed services personnel in the pursuit of their J.D. degrees and career goals."

The ultra-liberal Michael Avery declined to comment further on the matter when contacted Monday by Fox News.

The care package drive, meanwhile, will continue despite the objection of that Dumb-Ass Michael Avery.

"There's individuals who really appreciate and need things we're sending," said student Kelly Bogua. "I'm participating in it and I think a lot of people are regardless of the email. If anything, he really just discredited himself." 

And that my friends, is an under-statement!  It is one thing to have your own views, its another to spread your views as obviously people can give or take what you have to say and tune you out if they want to.  But then there is also the idea of someone who is a teacher, and subsequently in a position of authority, and force your views upon your students. 

Yes, Michael Avery, the Dumb-Ass has loss his credibility - but I'm sure that there are students out there who he will be able to persuade to think like him.  He is like a terrorist of sorts, he attacks young minds and influences them to hate America - and to look at life in the same way as he does. 

And there, there lies the problem.


Story by Tom Correa