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God bless your family. You were dear to my heart for many years.

Rest in peace old friend. We will meet again.

Link: Charlton Heston

And Charlton Heston Made History

Also Heston on Winning the Culture War

Charlton Heston: Larger than Life

I am not one to be critical of some one’s faith, I feel that everyone has the right to practice what ever religion they want as long as they do not force their views on me or even others.  So why you might ask am I writing an article with the title above?  Well apparently the Pope and leadership of the Catholic church, have determined that the original 7 mortal sins are not enough for them to try to fight against, they have come up with a new and modern list.

After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalization. The list, published yesterday in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the “decreasing sense of sin” in today’s “secularized world” and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.

CONFIRMED Mission Airport Itinerary for
Spc Orlando A Perez
02 Mar 08

Spc Orlando A Perez will be coming home via Hobby Airport on Sunday March 2nd.

The family has graciously invited us to attend Orlando’s service.

There will be a flag line at the airport followed by an escort to the funeral home Sunday morning March 2.

Spc Perex is a graduate of Bellaire High School. He then joined the 2nd Squadron,

2nd Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany with assignment to Baghdad, Iraq.

We will also be attending the funeral service and the internment at Houston National Cemetery.

These dates/times have not been set as of this writing.

As details become confirmed this thread will be updated.

Please stand by to support the family and community of this fallen Hero.

AIRPORT MISSION DATE: March 2, 2008
STAGING LOCATION:  Hilton Hotel – Hobby Airport, 8181 Airport Blvd, Houston, TX, 77061 (West parking lot)

MAP

STAGING TIME LINE:
Staging:  0915 Hrs
Safety Briefing & Prayer: 1000 Hrs
KSU (Kick Stands Up): 1015 Hrs
Honors Flags Set Up: 1025 Hrs
Family Arrival: 1030 Hrs
Flight Arrival 1056 Hrs

There will be LEO escort (PGR road guards are not needed) to the Funeral home,

about 10 miles north on Broadway.

RIDE CAPTAINS:
Windrider     Windrider.127@peoplePC.com
KP (Diesel)  kpmcneal@bechtel.com
Todd Greer   jtgreer@comcast.net

Please join the S.E.Texas Patriot Guard Riders to STAND TALL & SILENT

in Honor of Spc Orlando A Perez, his family and community.

Click for full size image.

Just in case some of you forgot, tomorrow, yes, tomorrow is Valentines Day. Don’t forget your significant other.

Although this holiday of cards, candy, and kisses may seem like a fairly recent invention, it has been around for much longer. Valentine’s Day was named after St. Valentine, a Christian martyr during the third century. Scholars speculate that the church chose the date in order to Christianize a pagan holiday. The ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia began on February 15 each year, and it celebrated fertility and the founders of Rome.

Check this out. Fantastic. It take him four hours to do a hand. Then he photographs it for posterity. I cannot imagine how he does the eyes so remarkably lifelike.
It took him 10 hours to do the two-handed Eagle in picture #3.

Click on picture for larger view.

IT’S A Semper Fi USMC WELCOME HOME – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2008

*  SGT Justin Jenson - La Porte, Texas

*  SGT Carlos Garza - Channelview, Texas

  SGT Justin Jenson and SGT Carlos Garza are both based out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

and will be arriving at Hobby Airport on Saturday, February 9 at 5:20 PM. 

This is truly an exciting moment for both families, who did not know, until they were brought together by PGR,

that the other Marine was arriving on the same flight from Camp Lejeune!

  SGT Justin Jenson, USMC has been proudly serving our country for 5 years,

and is returning to Houston from Afghanistan. This tour was his first tour in a combat zone. 

SGT Jenson is 24 years old and a 2002 graduate from La Porte High School,

where he was on the Varsity football team. 

He also received the highest award in the Boy Scouts and became an Eagle Scout. 

 His younger sister, Katie, is a private in the Army working on becoming a K-9 handler.

When Justin’s two week leave here is over, he will be transferred to San Angelo, TX.

Justin reenlisted and will be a member of the UMSC for another 4 years. 

Mr. Jenson is thrilled that the PGR will be SURPRISING his son and is truly proud of his young Marine

and knows that Justin is looking forward to seeing his dog Lacey.

  SGT Carlos Garza is returning to Channelview, TX from his second tour in Iraq.

  SGT Garza is 23 years old and has one brother, and three sisters. 

SGT Garza graduated from Northshore High School where he was the star kicker for their Varsity football team. 

Carlos has volunteered to serve his country for an additional 4 years in Afghanistan for his next tour. 

SGT Garza, after his 30 day leave is complete, he will be transferred to Missouri. 

Carlos will be glad to be home to play with his 2 1/2 year old nephew.

  Please join the SE Texas PGR in welcoming home these two young American Heroes from their respective tours of duty. 

STAGING LOCATION:

Hilton Hotel – Houston Hobby Airport (West parking lot)

8181 Airport Boulevard, Houston, Texas  77061

      Bill Clinton is still selling his influence.  The attached article is about the Clinton Influence Machine still turning out Access for Dollars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

     His wife isn’t even elected yet and he is forming alliances with Canadian Mining interests and quite lucratively. As the piece states,”Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.”

      The Libs complain about the Republicans having too close of ties with Big Business but I guess it is different since they are forming ties and watching out for the best interest of Foreign Corporations.  I wonder if that was how China got to have all that access to Rocket Technology.

     Enjoy the article………and just be happy in the fact that no matter how thing turn out in this election the Clintons will still work diligently for their own and prepaid foreign interests.

In a comment on Hot Air:

I am encouraged that the Old Dem Guard are rejecting the most crooked (Hillary), the most liberal (Kucinich), the most pragmatic (Biden), the most experienced (Richardson), and the most phony (Breck Girl) of the candidates in deference to the one with the least on-the-job knowledge and no ties to modern American liberal politics. It’s a total rejection of their own life-long work, an admission by the liberals of the 60’s-90’s that after all that time they have nothing to offer themselves and are therefore turning to a completely new and untested form of liberalism.

For Ted Kennedy to reject nearly 50 years of his life’s work for someone who is nothing like him is a very telling symbol.

This is worth sharing. Even if a little old.

Y’all know what we all been thinkin’ out here in Texas, Dan, since you started all this foolishness? We think y’all been pissin’ down our necks an’ tellin’ us it’s rain for so long that you boys done got to believin’ it yourselves. Heck, we think maybe you been back East so long you got yourself thinkin’ us folks out here couldn’t hit sand if we fell off our horses; couldn’t hit water if we fell outta the boat. Danged if you ain’t been treatin’ us like you think we got squirrels swimmin’ in our gene pools or sumthin.’ You need to remind yourself that a tree don’t ever get too big for a short dog to lift his leg on, Dan.

Bout them documents bein’ genuine; well, hells-bells, Danny Boy, Grannie’s glasses are so thick, when she looks at a bare wall she see’s folks wavin’ at her, an’ even she can tell them memos are bout as phony as hips on a rattlesnake. We’re startin’ to think your brain done got harder than a woodpecker’s lips if you can’t see that. As far as that story bout George an’ his National Guard duty, looks to us like you’re tryin’ to put wheels on a cow an’ call it a dairy truck. Then you go pokin’ up her butt hopin’ you’re gonna find ice cream. Besides, ever time you durn fools put that picture of young George in his flyboy outfit on the TeeVee, ol’ Jane Fonda loses another herd of her Vagina Voters. Hell, Charlene says that sweet boy’s purtier than my new tangerine metalflake bass boat.

Read the rest, better than Donnel Z

This is too funny. Suing for 70 mil? give me a break!

15 months of Democrats changing things:

October, 2006:  George Bush has screwed up this war.  We need to elect Democrats to fix it.  Here’s a bunch of websites, news reports, and editorials that say so.

Now we have the next step in total socialization of our lives.  If this goes through then it is even more proof that the liberal/socialist agenda is not going away.

California energy regulators are considering taking control of residents’ thermostats, giving them the ability to control the temperatures of homes during energy crises, the New York Times reports.

The California Energy Commission is expected to vote on the rules next month, which would give utilities the power to control home thermostats via radio control to manage electricity shortages, the paper reports.

Click here to read the full New York Times report.

Customers would be able to override utilities’ suggested temperatures, but not during energy emergencies, the New York Times reports. The move, officials say, would help them avoid rotating outages statewide.

“You realize there are times — very rarely, once every few years — when you would be subject to a rotating outage and everything would crash including your computer and traffic lights, and you don’t want to do that,” Arthur H. Rosenfeld, a member of the energy commission, told the Times

The attached article is about the next Lib boon-doggle that the media will flush out and save the world from.  That is as soon as they are done putting an end the ‘Global Fleecing’.   Although I still haven’t seen the article about that subject that Marc posted on this blog on the evening news yet.  

http://www.heritage.org//Press/Commentary/ed010108b.cfm

This clip says it all:

United Nations overwhelmingly gave itself a handsome 10 percent pay raise last weekend by approving its $4.2 billion ‘08-’09 budget.

Of course the US will need to pony up to support this “Emporess of the World” staging point for Hilliary.  As the article puts it:

If these add-ons materialize as expected, it will be the largest budget - and the largest increase - in UN history (with the United States responsible for the lion’s share - our taxpayers pony up for 22 percent of the world body’s spending).

It is not cheap to run a bureaucracy like this one.  If the UN stands a chance at bringing the US to it’s knees then they will need your support and your tax dollars.   This next example of where your tax dollars will go is this clip:

“…it contained funding for another go-around of the disgraceful 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, which turned into an anti-American/Israeli confab so egregious the US delegation walked out.”

Happy reading.  After reading this contributions can be sent in to “UN C/O Hilliary Clinton Committee to Rule the World”….

Prose courtesy William Kristol

Poetry courtesy Buck Sargent.  If Micheal Yon is the Ernie Pyle of this war,  Buck Sargent is it’s Joyce Kilmer.

Prejudice courtesy Time Magazine,and the rest of the Left Wing Main Stream Media who pimped Defeat to the people of this country, and now deny them the enjoyment of their Victory.

Pride, mine—of the soldiers and Generals whose acheivements others choose to ignore.  David Petraeus performed a military miracle on the order of that performed by Patton when he turned the entire Third Army 90 degrees and headed to the relief of the 101st at Bastogne.  These young men and their Leaders have done something that makes me wish Democrats were in office—so that the main Stream media would report it the way that it should be reported.

 Enjoy

Prose courtesy William Kristol

Poetry courtesy Buck Sargent.  If Micheal Yon is the Ernie Pyle of this war,  Buck Sargent is it’s Joyce Kilmer.

Prejudice courtesy Time Magazine,and the rest of the Left Wing Main Stream Media who pimped Defeat to the people of this country, and now deny them the enjoyment of their Victory.

Pride, mine—of the soldiers and Generals whose acheivements others choose to ignore.  David Petraeus performed a military miracle on the order of that performed by Patton when he turned the entire Third Army 90 degrees and headed to the relief of the 101st at Bastogne.  These young men and their Leaders have done something that makes me wish Democrats were in office—so that the main Stream media would report it the way that it should be reported.

 Enjoy

This article from the Free Press states, “Well, according to Great Britain’s chief scientist, this fascination women have with guys who drive sports cars is causing global warming. ”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941405/posts

I also heard (maybe the voices in my head) that Global Warming causes women to be fascinated by guys that drive sports cars.

Oh my gosh, it’s a perpetual motion machine.  We’re doomed.  Get your affairs in order, we are in for a Gore-y end.  Sorry to be the bearer of this news, Have a Nice Day.

I am not going to say much in this post except to say how proud I am of my youngest daughter Catherine.   About 9 months ago she heard about some friends who were going to grow their hair out for Locks of Love.  Now if you do not know about this organization it is one that everyone should know about.  Well here is a 4yr old who decides that she wants to help out.  So fast forward through 9 months or so of long hair, many knots and tears from brushing and we come to Saturday,  her hair had reached the 10 inch requirement and it was time to cut it off so she could donate it.  So the pictures of that event are on my blog please go check them out….

http://texas-common-sense.blogspot.com/2007/12/catherine-and-locks-of-love_17.html

Normally I leave the headlines for my personal site but these three stories caught my eye and for some reason I felt compelled to share them.  Three stories from three different parts of the world, just to give you some perspective about where we in the US are today are in comparison to others.

First is the commentary on CNN.com by Roland S. Martin.  This gentleman, along with Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star is one of the most outspoken critics of Blacks in society today.  This includes the fact that the traditional family structure is no longer present in a large part of black society. 

 He was one of the first that I saw that blasted Michael Vick for his actions, and has been an outspoken critic with regards to what has to be done to fix the problems that are present in black culture today. 

Here is the opening of his article….

Today is the one day a year that we pause to reflect on all of our Blessings, and Thank our God for them.

This is a good start from American Spectator.

It strikes me that thanks are, all too often, no longer enough a part of Thanksgiving. It appalls me that many churches don’t even hold Thanksgiving services — even though the day itself is specifically intended to be a day of giving thanks to God for the blessings of the American nation.

We give thanks on this day specifically as, and because we are, Americans.

In that light, in addition to all my private thanksgivings, here are some of the things for which I will thank God tomorrow, on Thanksgiving Day.

Then there are so many personal Blessings I have received this year, and continue from past years.

Happy thanksgiving all of you!