A tea party battle cry

Daily Caller ^ | 07/01/2012 | Yates Walker

[SovereignVA]

Some pundits are drawing comparisons between our current political climate and that of America just before the civil war. They’re wrong.

This isn’t 1859. It’s 1775.

A government is a reflection of its people. At the founding, Americans saw freedom as a birthright. To protect that freedom, they designed an accountable government tethered by negative rights and constrained by competing powers. For the past century, Americans have been surrendering, little by little, their freedom for a little promised comfort. A century from now, the emergence of the tea party movement will be seen as one of two things: the death throes of liberty or the moment when Americans began to remember who they were.

If Obamacare is implemented in a second Obama administration, America will never recover. Once an entitlement is granted, it’s impossible to take away. By 2016, the word “repeal” will be considered politically toxic. Some insufferable moderate Republican of the future will label our current insufferable moderates as “right-wing.” Somehow the new normal is always to the left of where we were yesterday.

So what happens?

Two American versions of socialized medicine already exist. We can take a peek into our future by looking at the Veterans Administration and Indian reservations. Despite wonderful, faithful volunteers, the VA is forever undermanned and underfunded. Soldiers get worse waiting in long lines for essential surgery and treatment. Every few years, Americans are horrified by stories revealing how poorly we treat our vets. As for our Native American friends, they have a saying on the reservation that encapsulates their dilemma: Don’t get sick after June.

[archy]

I think the tomahawk is awesome. It was a common side arm during the revolution, harks back to the original tea party, and symbolizes heartfelt defiance. Much better than the swishy ribbons or surrealistic sphincters favored by some candidates.

Patch of the U.S. XIX Corps of WWII, not a present unit of the US Army AFAIK, and thereby, the patch would seem to be an item that should again be seen on the sleeves and hats of patriotic fighting Americans.

[archy]

they were dressed as Indians when they dumped the tea...

Hey, wait a minute...Indiana/IU backers wear red coats...oh.

You said Indians, not Indianians. Nevermind.

[SamuraiScot]

So if the entitlee is deceased, the entitlement is thereby moot and invalid? Well, THERE'S your solution....

Yah think that's why the Rainbow Fascists were a little touchy when Sarah P. used the expression "Death Panels"?

[Chode]

hot damn...

[Squantos]

I carried a Randall 14 during my EOD career..... Lot of money for a poor enlisted troop but it was a lot of knife. Used an abused it serves me well to this day. Still holds a razor edge. On my 8th replacement sheath. Should be the last I need as we’re both near retirement. ..... just going to hunt and fish .... :o)

[archy]

I carried a Randall 14 during my EOD career..... Lot of money for a poor enlisted troop but it was a lot of knife.

As did the young parachute rigger and reserve packer whose talents I preferred, who later became a battalion intel NCOIC, then company First Shirt. He too favoured the Randall *Attack* 14, which I believe was also the pattern used as the starting point for Randall's *Astronaut* knives.

I've always preferred the Gurkha kukri or khukuri for about the same weight penalty meself, though I sometimes hedged my bets with a Fairbairn commando knife. Back in the days, Randall offered a pretty good deal on Fairbairns, which I mostly picked up from former serving Brits who liked trading for US GI carbine bayonets. But Randall offered Fairbairn sheaths for something like $4.95 each, which I jumped on. Anyone who tells you there's only two things wrong with the Fairbairn, the handle and the blade, has never had to live with that lousy Brit issue scabbard for the things.

Used an abused it serves me well to this day. Still holds a razor edge. On my 8th replacement sheath.

The sharper the knife, the more they tear up sheaths. Sawback edges are the worst.

Should be the last I need as we’re both near retirement. ..... just going to hunt and fish .... :o)

Yeah. Me too. I hope.

Unless, of course, Travis is right.

[wintertime]

“Half our citizens now receive some form of government assistance. “ ( from the article)
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85 % of our nation's children attend socialist-entitlement, compulsory, and single-payer **SCHOOLS*** ( mis-named ‘Puplic” schools).

Children who attend socialist-entitlement schools risk learning to be comfortable with socialism and government compulsion. Gee! If the voting mob can give the child tuition-free schooling and teach him it is his **right**, then why not use the voting mob to get LOTS of “free” stuff?

All it took to produce a Franklin D. Roosevelt was one to three generations of voters indoctrinated in socialism in our nation's modern socialist K-12 school system.

[Chode]

my current knife is a PumaTAC1, it was standard German Army issue, don't know now...