He brought his name undying fame
And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray."
Posted on 04/19/2008 1:39:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Our lesson today comes from the songwriter Frank Loesser:
"Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition."
Or as Barack Obama and his San Francisco pals would put it: God and guns. Loesser got the phrase from Howell Forgy, a naval chaplain at Pearl Harbor, who walked the decks of the USS New Orleans under Japanese bombardment, exhorting his comrades. When the line came to Loesser's ears, he turned it into a big hit song of the Second World War:
"Praise the Lord and swing into position
Can't afford to sit around a-wishin'…" – which some folks sang as "Can't afford to be a politician." Indeed. Sen. Obama's remarks about poor dumb, bitter rural losers "clinging to" guns and God certainly testify to the instinctive snobbery of a big segment of the political class. But we shouldn't let it go by merely deploring coastal condescension toward the knuckledraggers. No, what Michelle Malkin calls Crackerquiddick (quite rightly – it's more than just another dreary "-gate") is not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It's an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God 'n' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.
How's that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States.
Has it made them any less "bitter," as Obama characterizes those Pennsylvanian crackers? No.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Here endeth the lesson...
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we’ll all stay free
Praise the Lord and swing into position
Can’t afford to be a politician
Praise the Lord, we’re all between perdition
And the deep blue sea
Yes the sky pilot said it
Ya gotta give him credit
For a sonofagun of a gunner was he
Shouting Praise the Lord, we’re on a mighty mission
All aboard, we ain’t a-goin’ fishin’
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we’ll all stay free
Praise the Lord (Praise the Lord) and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord (Praise the Lord) and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord (Praise the Lord) and pass the ammunition
And we’ll all stay free
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we’ll all stay free
Well, I have a passport and, no I won't marry my sister and the size of my manhood is between me and my wife, and she never complained
This moron has no idea why we are 'free and strong' if he thinks pissing on the world is the reason we are
>>We should thank God (forgive the expression)<<
Can we clone Steyn??
I have to disagree with Keith Reade on a couple of points. I certainly did not marry my sister, and I do have a passport.
Well good morning all you typical white crackaz!!
I’m off to play paintball at the church field later today. I’ll do my best to maintain my clingy bitterness too.
This `foreigner’ gets it! Great stuff!
Lots of permanently angry people in Europe, so why visit there? Only they’ll soon have to shift their anger from us Yanks to the Islamomuzzies, if they’re smart.
“Why should I travel? I’m already here!”
I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: It benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on Earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today's Europe – a present-tense Eutopia mired in fatalism.Mark Steyn should be required reading in American public schools.A while back, I was struck by the words of Oscar van den Boogaard, a Dutch gay humanist (which is pretty much the trifecta of Eurocool). Reflecting on the Continent's accelerating Islamification, he concluded that the jig was up for the Europe he loved, but what could he do? "I am not a warrior, but who is?" he shrugged. "I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it."
Good stuff...
I always thought that “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” was the cry of Cromwell’s “Ironsides” troops as they set after the troops of Charles Stuart.
Well, I'm kind of down with this sentiment. Kind of like to p**s on this guy right now, in fact.
I don’t know about that guy, but God gave America a pretty big one.
President Boris Yeltsin called Clinton with an emergency: “Our largest condom factory has exploded!” the Russian President cried; “my people’s favorite form of birth control! This is a true disaster!”
“Boris, the American people would be happy to do anything within their power to help you,” replied the President.
“I do need your help,” said Yeltsin. “Could you possibly send 1,000,000 condoms ASAP to tide us over?”
“Why certainly! I’ll get right on it!” said Clinton.
“Oh, and one more small favor, please?” said Yeltsin.
“Yes?”
“Could the condoms be red in color and at least 10” long and 4” in diameter?” said Yeltsin.
“No problem,” replied the President and, with that, Clinton hung up and called the President of Trojan. “I need a favor....you’ve got to make 1,000,000 condoms right away and send them to Russia.”
“Consider it done,” said the President of Trojan.
“Great! Now listen, they have to be red in color, 10” long and 4” wide.”
“Easily done. Anything else?”
“Yeah,” said the President, “print ‘MADE IN AMERICA, SIZE SMALL’ on each one.
Steyn has it exactly right - we were told by a teacher in the German school system that Americans were all messed up because we wanted to better ourselves, get educated and thought we could do better things in life - he was teaching the kids in his classes that they should be satisfied with what they had, not try to improve themselves or their lifestyles - that they should, basically, not dream of getting above their current
‘station’ in life’ - I told them that was a crock. He didn’t take it well. Things haven’t changed a bit.
That's almost an exact quote from a Michelle Obama speech earlier this year.
Fantastic!
Steyn is right. I certainly hope America proves to be faithful to the Founders and not the wicked men in our government who aren’t.
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