From the YouTube page:
Once a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay homage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
I found this very moving.
These are people who appreciate freedom.
ReplyDeleteThat's what makes me so sick about over-the-top-in-your-face-patriots like Sarah Palin, who has no compunction whatsoever to sending her son (or yours) off to war so that it makes her look good.
Vomiting forth unnecessary verbiage that escalates and celebrates conflict so that we can feel powerful and superior.
Throwing out endlessly pithy statements about America, our military and freedom just so that she can say this shit for profit and have it protected speech.
Most of us are touched by incidents or simple awareness that makes us value freedom, but to her, it's just an easy, shortcut to fundy support.
Yes, it is very moving. We talk a lot about freedom in this country but we don't know or have forgotten its cost. We take our freedoms too much for granted.
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Thanks for the reminder, Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteI was in London one year on Veteran's Day, and the same thing happens there. Veterans gave out paper poppy lapel pins to people on the streets, and at 11 o'clock everyone stops where they are for a moment of silence, while bells ring throughout the city. It was a very moving experience.
Gore Vidal - RIP
ReplyDelete"Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge," he once wrote, "all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. "Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all."
That brought tears to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteDear Gryphen....one of the many reasons I find your blog a necessity to my day are the choices you make in sharing. We go from pictures of the earth from space and the wonderment of life to sheer hatred or silliness, to the triumphs of the human spirit...felt by all of us no matter where we call home. Something very obvious to me displays itself at these Olympic games....the mix of race with our young people and their coaches. There is no other country that shows our blended destiny better. I consider your site a great find...kudos.
ReplyDeleteOT- but screech says the traditional def of marriage is one boy one girl falling in love and gettin married. She then says Obama had to shore up the homosexual voting base, unbelievable:
ReplyDeletehttp://video.foxnews.com/v/1764610643001/palin-and-going-rogue-in-the-gop-texas-style/?playlist_id=86858
These pollacks don't know anything about freedom!
ReplyDeletePerhaps those folks over there should examine our freedumbs, as seen through the eyes of Sarah Palin.
Calling For Chick-Fil-A Boycott “Has A Chilling Effect On Our First Amendment Rights”
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/08/01/video-sarah-palin-calling-for-chick-fil-a-boycott-has-a-chilling-effect-on-our-first-amendment-rights/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Raise your hand quietly if you're grateful that the American Gaffe Machine left Poland before he could say something inappropriate and offensive about this somber commemoration...
ReplyDeleteO/T - Sarah LegoHair Palin on Greta last night:
ReplyDelete[sing-songy] One boy, one girl, falling in love and gettin married.
Where is Bristol fit in again on this traditional definition of marriage?
Shan't we realize that her situation is the cornerstone of all civilization and all religions since the beginning of time?
Thank dog Rmoney won't be there to bollocks this one up like he has every other thing he's touched in Europe.
ReplyDeleteDitto. I can only hope Mitt's filthy disrespectful feet are out of there by then.
ReplyDeleteOT, in screech's fox interview, there was a door creeking and someone was talking in the background, so professional!!! SHe also says traditional marriage has been one man/one woman since the beginning of time, uh Sarah, in the old testament of the bible there was one man and many women for centuries and God approved, it wasn't until the new testament with Jesus that it went to one man one woman, she doesn't read the bible herself. She also said she was a mover and shaker in Alaska, and you should see her face whe she talks about Dick Vader, she also says she is a baseball, what a dolt!
ReplyDeleteI believe she also likened herself to the "Louisville Slugger." The comedy is never ending with this dolt.
DeleteJesus never said one thing about marriage. All the crap they spew about this comes from the wedding at Cana. The wedding was just the back drop of the story for Jesus' first miracle. It could have been a frat party for all we really know.
DeleteOT... So Bristol now says Gino will adopt Tripp if they get married.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, if Levi is not going to be around then I say let him. The guy seems to love the boy and I don't see any effort by Levi to be in his life. And sitting in a lawyers office is not effort.
Why don't you post this on your 'I love Bristol' blog. This doesn't belong here.
DeleteLevi is the child's father, and is not allowed to be in the boy's life by his mother. It seems the lawyer's office is the only option available to him. I hope they are very good lawyers, who are well trained in custody cases. GO LEVI!
Sorry, Gryphen, for acting like it's my blog, but this stupid attempt at disparaging the child's father is out of line on this thread.
"Levi is the child's father, and is not allowed to be in the boy's life by his mother."
DeleteBullshit, Levi is simply not showing up on his court appointed days. If he simply showed up to pick up his child, Bristol could not stop him. Sorry but no one would stop me from seeing my child especially when they were in the same town.
I have no love for Bristol, but she is not required to make Levi take his time. Levi needs to make the effort. He IS NOT DOING THAT, and you can't prove otherwise.
Here's another Sarah-related topic, and it's a howler.
ReplyDeleteI was reading the titles in the blogroll off to the left, and clicked on this link -- The American Prospect Articles Ted Cruz's Deceptive Triumph in Texas.
From the gist of the article, it seems Sarah Palin, Queen of the Teabaggers, endorsed a Texas Bushie instead of backing fellow Teabagger Perry's choice.
You can't get much more establishment Republican in Texas than the Bush/Rove folks. Did some moronic Palin advisor not do their homework, or has Sarah Palin decided to rub up against the legs of the national GOP good ol' boys to see if it gets her an invite to the convention?
Yep, this primary was a Perry vs. Bush drama. Perry was king of TX for 12 years and the Bush's hate his guts. They put Cruz into his first positions and nurtured his political career from the git go. Yet again, the teabaggers got USED by the establishment GOP and they don't even realize it.
DeleteNot a dry eye on this end. Moving.
ReplyDeleteYes, a very moving tribute. I wish the tribute would happen here, but I live in darkest suburbia, where all is forgotten.
ReplyDeleteMy parents were young adults when this happened. I heard a lot about it as I was growing up. I read a lot about it. If one knows about this era, it puts our own era into scary perspective: the war profiteers who were almost invisible to me a few years ago, the massive redistribution of U.S. wealth away from the middle class (which I was too busy, busy, busy to notice as it was happening), the manipulation of the uneducated so they will vote contrary to their best interest, and more.
To me, it explains why the GOP would tolerate such abysmally poor candidates, culminating in the astonishingly inept Mitt: it doesn't really matter to the GOP who is POTUS, because his moves will be controlled by the leaders of the 1%.
I do think we are being led to a repeat of much of the ills preceding WWII: The withdrawing of services, preventing Obama from spending now (when an economy in recession needs it), the GOP doing its best to cause an implosion that will be a wonderful opportunity for further fascist moves, like Citizens United, the voter fraud efforts, reducing the civil rights of women and minorities (or what the GOP wishes were minorities).
Just think: the U.S. in depression, services cut, and a series of even bigger Katrinas hits us. Followed by a few weeks of too-extreme weather. Plus Citizens-united-funded future elections to tell us what to do about it.
Not that an all-Democrat sweep this November is the perfect solution. But an all-GOP sweep this Nov seems like the prelude to your post here, Mr G.
All the more reason to put Babygate out there ASAP, and before the Nov election. To show the electorate how the GOP runs its elections. To do our small part toward clarifying the reality of the Palin appeal.