Happy Flag Day!

 

The History Of Flag Day
www.usflag.org

[T]he idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.

On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as ‘Flag Day’, and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

In 1894, the governor of New York directed that on June 14 the Flag be displayed on all public buildings. With BJ Cigrand and Leroy Van Horn as the moving spirits, the Illinois organization, known as the American Flag Day Association, was organized for the purpose of promoting the holding of Flag Day exercises. On June 14th, 1894, under the auspices of this association, the first general public school children’s celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating.

Adults, too, participated in patriotic programs. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, delivered a 1914 Flag Day address in which he repeated words he said the flag had spoken to him that morning: “I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself.”

Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day – the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 – was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson’s proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.

History Channel Observes Memorial Day with Pawn Stars Marathon

Are you kidding me?!?

Out of decades worth of old videos and film footage tucked away on dusty shelves at the History Channel, they couldn’t find anything to honor our fallen soldiers who gave their lives for Our country?  Instead, viewers are treated to a Pawn Stars Memorial Day marathon?

Tell me, oh History Channel, besides a few military antiques—and the obviously higher ratings for you—of what value is Pawn Shop to Memorial Day?  Let me rephrase that for you;  Of what value is Pawn Shop to the memory of those who fought and died for our freedoms…freedoms which, by the way, allow you to fatuously broadcast Pawn Stars on Memorial Day?

The History Channels lineup for Memorial Day:

1. 12:01 AM

   Pawn Stars: Luck of the DrawAt high noon the Pawn Stars look at a collection thought to belong to our country’s most legendary W… TVPG L | CC

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2. 12:31 AM

   Pawn Stars: Kings and McQueensThe Pawn Stars are blown away when a seller limps in with a 19th century shotgun disguised as a cane… TVPG | CC

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3. 1:01 AM

   Pawn Stars: Missile AttackThe Pawn Stars take evasive action when a Cold War era heat-seeking missile guidance system locks on… TVPG | CC

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4. 1:31 AM

   Pawn Stars: Pirate’s BootyThe Pawn Stars find themselves sailing on strange tides when a street-legal pirate ship parade float… TVPG | CC

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5. 2:02 AM

   Pawn Stars: Pony UpThe Pawn Stars gain access to classified information as a collection from former Attorney General J.… TVPG | CC

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6. 2:32 AM

   Pawn Stars: Off the WagonWhen Corey has a chance to buy an extremely rare Belgium-made 1942 Sarolea motorcycle, Rick has a bi… TVPG L | CC

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7. 3:02 AM

   Pawn Stars: Monkey BusinessMount up and ride with the Pawn Stars as they take aim at a hat believed to have been worn by Wester… TVPG L | CC

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8. 3:32 AM

   Pawn Stars: Knights in Fake Armor?It’s clear that this is no ordinary pawn shop as the Pawn Stars wheel and deal items ranging from an… TVPG L | CC

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9. 4:02 AM

   Info-Documentaries. Informational programming. TVG

10. 4:30 AM

    Info-Documentaries. Informational programming. TVG

11. 5:00 AM

    Info-Documentaries. Informational programming. TVG

12. 5:30 AM

    Info-Documentaries. Informational programming. TVG

13. 6:00 AM

    THC Classroom: Civil War TechAmerica protects its homeland with the most technologically advanced military force ever conceived. … TVPG | CC

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14. 7:00 AM

    The Johnson County War.The bloody saga of the battle between the cattle barons and the homesteaders that raged in Wyoming i… TVPG | CC

15. 8:00 AM

    Pawn Stars: Moon WalkingThe Pawn Stars are blasted into orbit when someone brings in a flag from one of NASA’s final mission… TVPG L | CC

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16. 8:30 AM

    Pawn Stars: ZzzzzzIs the old man sleeping or just resting his eyes? Whatever it is, Rick orders quiet in the pawn shop… TVPG | CC

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17. 9:00 AM

    Pawn Stars: Chumdog MillionaireTravel back in time with the Pawn Stars as they encounter an 80′s icon–a DeLorean sports car. Will … TVPG L | CC

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18. 9:30 AM

    Pawn Stars: Strike, Spare, BOOMThe Pawn Stars are blown away when they meet a guy selling his homemade mortar that fires a very uni… TVPG L | CC

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19. 10:00 AM

    Pawn Stars: 38 – Big GunsThe Pawn Stars are presented with the most explosive item to ever walk through the door–a pair of S… TVPG L | CC

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20. 10:30 AM

    Pawn Stars: The British Are ComingThe Pawn Stars are presented with a classic 1946 Seeburg Jukebox. Will the gang tune up their wallet… TVPG | CC

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21. 11:00 AM

    Pawn Stars: Weird ScienceThe Pawn Stars travel to Utah for a rare shot at a 19th century Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon. A rapid-… TVPG | CC

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22. 11:30 AM

    Pawn Stars: Pawn Shop PinotWhen Rick and the Old Man buy an antique 19th Century wine-maker, Chumlee wants to put it into actio… TVPG L | CC

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23. 12:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Patton PendingThe Pawn Stars snap to attention as they check out a photo album signed by one of history’s greatest… TVPG | CC

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24. 12:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Silent and DeadlyThe Pawn Stars are on hallowed ground when a piece of marble from Abraham Lincoln’s tomb enters the … TVPG | CC

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25. 1:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Yankee PankyThe Pawn Stars get ready to rock when a man brings in an extremely rare original poster from one of … TVPG | CC

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26. 1:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Smells Like Pawn SpiritThe Pawn Stars see their spirits soar when a guy brings in a Charles Lindbergh doll from the 1920s. … TVPG | CC

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27. 2:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Moon WalkingThe Pawn Stars are blasted into orbit when someone brings in a flag from one of NASA’s final mission… TVPG L | CC

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28. 2:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: ZzzzzzIs the old man sleeping or just resting his eyes? Whatever it is, Rick orders quiet in the pawn shop… TVPG | CC

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29. 3:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Chumdog MillionaireTravel back in time with the Pawn Stars as they encounter an 80′s icon–a DeLorean sports car. Will … TVPG L | CC

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30. 3:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Strike, Spare, BOOMThe Pawn Stars are blown away when they meet a guy selling his homemade mortar that fires a very uni… TVPG L | CC

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31. 4:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: 38 – Big GunsThe Pawn Stars are presented with the most explosive item to ever walk through the door–a pair of S… TVPG L | CC

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32. 4:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: The British Are ComingThe Pawn Stars are presented with a classic 1946 Seeburg Jukebox. Will the gang tune up their wallet… TVPG | CC

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33. 5:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Weird ScienceThe Pawn Stars travel to Utah for a rare shot at a 19th century Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon. A rapid-… TVPG | CC

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34. 5:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Pawn Shop PinotWhen Rick and the Old Man buy an antique 19th Century wine-maker, Chumlee wants to put it into actio… TVPG L | CC

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35. 6:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Patton PendingThe Pawn Stars snap to attention as they check out a photo album signed by one of history’s greatest… TVPG | CC

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36. 6:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Silent and DeadlyThe Pawn Stars are on hallowed ground when a piece of marble from Abraham Lincoln’s tomb enters the … TVPG | CC

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37. 7:00 PM

    Pawn Stars: Yankee PankyThe Pawn Stars get ready to rock when a man brings in an extremely rare original poster from one of … TVPG | CC

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38. 7:30 PM

    Pawn Stars: Smells Like Pawn SpiritThe Pawn Stars see their spirits soar when a guy brings in a Charles Lindbergh doll from the 1920s. … TVPG | CC

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39. 8:00 PM
    Premiere

    Pawn Stars: Three Hour TourThe Pawn Stars try to cash in when a seller presents them with rare $1 and $5 bills from the 1800′s.… TVPG L | CC

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40. 8:30 PM
    Premiere

    Pawn Stars: Family FeudThe Pawn Stars experience some family drama when a rifle from the Hatfield-McCoy feud ambushes the s… TVPG L | CC

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41. 9:00 PM
    Premiere

    Hatfields & McCoys: Part 1Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton star in this all-new three-part miniseries about the legendary and dea… TV14 V-S-L-D | CC

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42. 11:06 PM

    Hatfields & McCoys: Part 1Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton star in this all-new three-part miniseries about the legendary and dea… TV14 V-S-L-D | CC

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It’s Historic! Obama Now Part of Every President’s Bio (Except Ford’s)

Remember when we warned you about Obama’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) back in 2008?  Well, it’s on full display today!

Yup, I can see the history books now:  “President Obama was an integral member of the Donner Party;  He showed them how to eat dogs and, later on, divulged his Hockey Mom recipes to the starving survivors.  Mmm, good!!!”

Note:  Sorry for the late postings.  I’m nursing a couple of broken ribs.

Obama Inserts Himself in White House Bios of Past Presidents
by Ben Shapiro – Breitbart – Big-Government

The White House website has always featured biographies of past presidents. The biographies are largely designed for students, so they can research the history of the White House occupants; the text is taken from The Presidents of the United States of America, by Michael Beschloss and Hugh Sidey.

Now, however, President Obama has decided that those other presidential biographies weren’t complete without a sentence about him. Seriously. As it turns out, all past presidents are just a window into President Obama’s grand accomplishments. Here are some examples:

• President Calvin Coolidge: “On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.” The creation of the FCC wasn’t even one of Coolidge’s top ten accomplishments as president. But it allows Obama to brag about how he uses Facebook, so now it’s one of Coolidge’s most important achievements.

• President Herbert Hoover: “President Herbert Hoover signed the bill founding the Department of Veterans Affairs July 21, 1930. President Obama is committed to making sure that the VA, the second-largest cabinet department, serves the needs of all veterans and provides a seamless transition from active duty to civilian life, and has directed his Administration to modernize the way health care is delivered and benefits are administered for our nation’s veterans.  First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden launched Joining Forces to mobilize all sectors of society to give our service members and their families the opportunities and support they have earned.” President Obama, you’ll notice, didn’t talk about continuing Hoover’s Keynesian economic policies, which helped to prolong the Great Depression. But he does like veterans!

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.” Once again, Obama ignores his actual similarities to FDR – driving a bad economy into a drainage ditch. FDR’s Social Security was supposed to provide for widows and orphans; Obama’s will be bankrupt within a few years.

• President Harry S. Truman: “In a 1946 letter to the National Urban League, President Truman wrote that the government has ‘an obligation to see that the civil rights of every citizen are fully and equally protected.’ He ended racial segregation in civil service and the armed forces in 1948. Today the Obama Administration continues to strive toward upholding the civil rights of its citizens, repealing  Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, allowing people of all sexual orientations to serve openly in our armed forces.” Somehow, it’s doubtful that Harry Truman was an advocate of open homosexuals in the military. But we should just be thankful that President Obama didn’t compare Truman’s decision to use the hydrogen bomb to the Bin Laden raid. Gutsy call!

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower: “President Dwight Eisenhower established the President’s Council on Youth Fitness on July 16, 1956 (now known as The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports) after learning from a study that American youth were less fit than European youth. Today the Council is still going strong—with Olympians and professional athletes on board—working in conjunction with the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative to help promote healthier lifestyles.” Eisenhower also ended the war in Korea, by the way, and led a strong and prosperous American economy for eight years. But the key to his presidency is that he didn’t like fat – just like Michelle!

• President John F. Kennedy: “President John F. Kennedy famously suggested the American people: ‘Ask what you can do for your country.’ In 1961, the Peace Corps was created, facilitating service among citizens working toward peace in developing countries. In 2011, President Obama celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with a Presidential Proclamation.” Well, Obama is just like JFK – he issued a presidential proclamation celebrating something relatively irrelevant that JFK once did!

• President Lyndon B. Johnson: “President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare signed into law in 1965—providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama’s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the ‘donut hole.’” By “strengthens Medicare,” Obama means cuts $500 billion from Medicare, apparently. By the way, how’s that war on poverty thing going?

• President Richard M. Nixon: “In 1973, Richard Nixon created The President’s Export Council, which was expanded and reconstituted under President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Today the PEC continues to work towards reaching President Obama’s goal of doubling the nation’s exports by 2014’s end.” Good to know that government programs never die, they just fade into irrelevance by continuing to push for the same policies over the course of four decades.

• President Gerald R. Ford: Apparently, there were no similarities between Obama and Gerald Ford. Except, perhaps, that they both like golf.

Oh,yes!  It goes on and on!  CLICK HERE to read the rest of the article.

Obama Owes President Hayes and the Republicans an Apology!

It’s one thing to perpetuate a false quote in order to joke about yourself, as President Reagan famously did, but it’s a whole ‘nother kettle of fish to perpetuate that same false quote just to make your opposition’s party look like a bunch of backward thinking retards for not embracing your “progressive” commie environmentalism! – Which, if you really think about it, would have you and I living out the rest of our lives in a cave while wearing loincloths made of hemp!

Considering that Obama has the entire Internet, along with the Library of Congress and a plethora of historians at his disposal, you would think that he would take advantage of them.  But, sadly, no.  

Obviously, Obama has his head up shoved so far up his rear that he is suffering from an interminable case of cerebral hypoxia!

Anyway, for some reason, Obama’s misquote and subsequent pomposity has me really pissed off.  I figure that if Obama can go all around the world apologizing for America’s history, the least he could do is get our history right! 

Furthermore, since he’s such an apologist, you would think that he would jump at the chance to apologize to Hayes and the Republicans for being such a pompous commie retard.  But, sadly, no.

Heck, even his sycophants over at the Washington Post are giving him four Pinocchios for this one!:

Obama’s whopper about Rutherford B. Hayes and the telephone
Posted by Glenn Kessler – 03/16/2012 – WaPo

“Of course, we’ve heard this kind of thinking before.  If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society.  … There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don’t believe in the future, and don’t believe in trying to do things differently.  One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, ‘It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?’ That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore because he’s looking backwards.  He’s not looking forwards.  He’s explaining why we can’t do something, instead of why we can do something.”

–President Obama, remarks on energy, Largo, Maryland, March 15, 2012

In a speech on energy Thursday, the president took aim at the “cynics and naysayers” who dismiss potential new sources of energy, such as wind and solar.  Leave aside the canard about most Europeans believing the earth was flat before Columbus—that’s an elementary-school tale with little basis in fact.

What about President Hayes? Was he really so dismissive about the invention of the telephone?

The Facts

Hayes, the nation’s 19^th president, served only one term, 1877-1881, after a very close and disputed election that needed to be settled by a electoral commission.  (He went to bed thinking he had lost to Democrat Samuel Tilden.) He was a master politician who banned liquor from the White House for political purposes (and to curb boorish behavior by members of Congress).

The quote cited by Obama does exist on the Internet, but we would expect the White House staff to do better research than that. (This line was in the president’s prepared text, so it was not ad-libbed.) But the trouble is, historians say that there is no evidence Hayes ever said this. Not only that, contrary to Obama’s jab, Hayes was interested in new technology.

According to Ari Hoogenboom, who wrote the definite biography, “Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President,” Hayes entertained Thomas A. Edison at the White House. Edison demonstrated the phonograph for the president. “He was hardly hostile to new inventions,” Higgenboom said.

Hayes, in fact, was such a technology buff that he installed the first telephone in the White House. A list of telephone subscribers published in the article “The Telephones Comes to Washington,” by Richard T. Loomis, shows that the White House was given the number “1.”

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Nan Card, curator of manuscripts at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, in Fremont, Ohio, can pinpoint when Hayes first tried out the phone: June of 1877. Hayes, it turns out, kept 126 scrapbooks of newspaper articles that featured him, and on page 82 of the 111^th scrapbook there was the following account from the June 29 edition of the Providence Journal.

The version of events certainly is different than Obama’s telling. We reprint the whole report below because it gives a real flavor of the moment.

Happy Thanksgiving

Ronin and I would like wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving.

May God bless and keep you all:

Thanksgiving at Plymouth
History.com
In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.

Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.

In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days.

The History of Veteran’s Day

We, here at Doctor Bulldog & Ronin, would like to extend our thanks and best wishes to our fellow veterans and their families:

Semper Fidelis

Semper Paratus

Aim High … Fly-Fight-Win

Honor, Courage, Commitment & Non sibi sed patriae

This We’ll Defend:

Veterans Day 2011: Why It’s Today, How It’s Changed, More

Ker Than – National Geographic News

At Veterans Day events across the country, people in the United States gathered today to honor the millions of men and women who have served or are serving in the nation’s armed forces.

But why was November 11 set aside for the holiday, and how has its meaning changed over time?

Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day, and the date was chosen for its symbolic significance, John Raughter, communications director for the American Legion, an organization of veterans helping other veterans, said in 2010.

“November 11 was intended to observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which marked the armistice of World War I,” Raughter said. (Related: “Veterans Say Dogs of War Deserve a Memorial.”)

The first Armistice Day in the U.S. occurred on November 11, 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson declared that “to us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory. … “

Armistice Day was declared a legal holiday by Congress nearly 20 years later. In 1954 the name was changed to Veterans Day, following a national campaign to have the day honor all veterans, not just those who served in World War I.

Why Poppies for Armistice Day?

Colorado Elementary School Disrespects American Flag with Saudi Flag

Gee, you would think that an elementary school which teaches American History would know a little bit about flag etiquette; but then, you would be under the false assumption that your children are somehow being educated and not actually indoctrinated by a bunch of commie Lefturds and Muzzies who have no respect for America and Her traditions:

Perhaps Public Law 94-344 of the Federal Flag Law needs to be included as part of the curriculum:

“[...] No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the United States at any place within the United States or any territory or possession thereof [...]”

Colorado School Comes Under Fire for Hanging Saudi Flag Higher Than American Flag

FoxNews.com

An elementary school in Colorado has come under criticism after they lowered the American flag and elevated a Saudi Arabian flag.

The principal at Bauder Elementary School in Fort Collins said they did not mean to disrespect the American flag, according to a report in the Greeley Gazzette.

Principal Brian Carpenter told the newspaper that the American flag was immediately returned to its proper and prominent position at the school.

Yeah, after the fact when it was pointed out to them.  You mean to tell me that NONE of the teachers even gave it a second thought when they

He explained that other flags are posted around the school to recognize the nationalities of students from other countries.

A photograph showing the raised Saudi flag alongside the lowered American flag was first posted on the Greeley Report, a local blog. It generated lots of local debate.

“We realize this is an extremely sensitive time with us getting close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11,” Carpenter told the Gazzette.

“There is an increased amount of alertness and sensitivity, but if someone is concerned about something to do with our flag I will settle the issue right away.”

Here, let me contextualize the hidden subtext in that statement:  “There is an increased amount of  Leftism, outright ignorance, “multiculturalism,” and dhimmitudeness in our faculty, but if someone catches us with our hands in the cookie-jar indoctrinating your children and makes a big enough stink about it,  I will immediately mitigate any fallout and provide cover for my ‘fellow travelers’ and Islamic cohorts.”

Be sure to read the original article from the blog which first broke the story, the  Greeley Report, by CLICKING HERE.  And then, for updates, be sure to check out their home page.

Yet Again, Obama Omits God from the Declaration of Independence

This happened again last night at a fundraiser in the San Francisco Gay Area.

Let’s see…  This is about the fourth time he’s been caught omitting God the “Creator” while pretending to quote from the Declaration of Independence.  At this stage of the game, it’s not by accident, that much is for sure, but by design that Obama omits God from Our founding documents.  Why?  Because God endows man with unalienable rights, while the government merely endows man with inalienable rights; if Obama can take God out of the equation, he can replace your God-given unalienable rights with government controlled inalienable rights:

Will the Ancient Qur’anic Manuscripts Be the Downfall of Islam?

Don’t bet on it.  Muzzies are pretty well brainwashed by the time they begin to attempt critical thinking.  But be that as it may, this is a very interesting and informative read, indeed:

H/T – The Apricity

Will the Ancient Quranic Manuscripts of Sana’a Spell the Downfall of Islam?

The 1972 discovery of the earliest surviving Quranic manuscripts in the Great Mosque of Sana’a conclusively shows that the present Quran is different from the early manuscripts. It proves the Islamic claim—that the Quran is infallibility, that it is Allah’s original revelation word by word, and that it is copy of the version kept in a tablet in heaven—outright false. Will this shocking find unravel the downfall of Islam?

“Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect the investigation of the historians… One must defend the rights of elementary historical methodology”. — Maxime Rodhinson, 1981, p. 57

Muslims generally believe, thanks to Quranic assertions, that both the Old and New Testaments are corrupted and seriously changed. They say, for a Holy Scripture to be authoritative, it has to be preserved without any changes at all, and point to the Quran, which, they claim, has been preserved word by word and letter by letter, as was revealed to Muhammad by Allah. The Quran itself claims: ‘no change there can be in the words of God’ (10:64) and, ‘there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of God’ (6:34).

But then how ridiculous the ‘doctrine of abrogation’ is, by which later revelations cancel previous ones, as Quran (2:106) confirms, ‘revelations… We abrogate or cause to be forgotten’. Also, a Hadith (6:558) from Sahih Bukhari confirms that Muhammad forgot many verses. Again Sunaan ibn Majah (3:1944) records that, after Muhammad’s death, some revelations were eaten up by a goat.

How divine words can be eaten, changed, cancelled or abolished, in spite of Allah’s specific claim in 10:64 and 6:34?  Are not all these claims of Allah self-contradictory?

Amazingly, these plain truths do not bother the Muslims at all. Probably, if we can present another “authentic” Quran, which is different from existing standard form, Muslims may give way to logical thinking.

The devastating truth is that a large number of ancient Quranic manuscripts, dating from first century of Hijra were discovered in the Great Mosque of Sana’a (Yemen), which significantly differs from the present standard one. Carbon dating system confirmed that these Qurans are not forged one by religious rivalries. Moreover, these Qurans were discovered by Muslims, not infidels.

This is, probably, the most embarrassing event to Muslims in the 1,400-year history of Islam.

Did Arabs Destroy the Library of Alexandria?

An interesting hypothesis:

The Fate of the Library of Alexandria
By John O’Neill – American Thinker

The great Library of Alexandria, established by Ptolemy II (circa 280 BC), has come to symbolize the receptacle of knowledge of Classical civilization. This great repository was barbarously razed in the Middle Ages.

At its height, the Library contained an estimated forty thousand volumes on a wide variety of topics. It held works on astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine, and philosophy — many of which were copied from the hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts of the Egyptians and Babylonians. It also stored histories of all the countries of the known world: histories of Egypt, of Babylonia, of Persia, of the lands of North Africa, of the lands of Western Europe, etc.

Although it was the greatest bibliographic collection in the ancient world, the Library probably held few books that were unique to it; almost all of the documents were copies of manuscripts held in other libraries or institutes of learning. Nonetheless, the Alexandria Library was celebrated as the most important treasury of information in the world at the time. Its disappearance is rightly seen as a catastrophe and symbolic of the loss of respect for knowledge that followed the collapse of Classical civilization.

Of the volumes held by the Library, as well as the other libraries of the time, it has been estimated that something like 95% were lost. What remains of the writings of antiquity is but a tiny relic of what once existed.

A story, apparently first appearing in the thirteenth century (mentioned first by Abd al Latif, who died in 1231, and later by Gregory Bar Hebraeus, who died in 1286), says that the Arabs, under Caliph Umar, destroyed the Alexandria Library shortly after the conquest of Egypt in 639 AD. The account states that the caliph, when informed about the institution, declared that if the books it contained agreed with the Koran, then they were superfluous, and if they disagreed, then they were heretical. In either event, they were worthless and should be obliterated. The books of the Library were put to the torch — used to heat the palace baths.

For centuries, Europeans had little cause to doubt this story. There were very good reasons indeed, as we shall see, for believing it to be true. Yet by the late nineteenth century, historians were having second thoughts. Evidence, they said, showed that the early Arabs had great respect for learning, and the period between the seventh and eleventh centuries was coming to be regarded as an Islamic Golden Age, when Muslim societies led the world in science and medicine.

Indeed, it was argued that the Arabs were the saviors, rather than the destroyers, of Classical learning. A prime example of this genre of thinking is Robert Briffault’s 1919 book, The Making of Humanity, which argued that the real Renaissance, or rebirth, of Classical learning actually occurred in eleventh-century Islamic Spain rather than fifteenth-century Italy.