Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan or not...Happy Holidays to Each and Every One of You Wonderful FReepers...You have become MY extended family!!
Cheerfully Humble FReegards...MUD
Good start...few questions, though?
Is Toto the Massachusetts Congressman Barney..?? who housed the little twinkie prostitute, Stephen Gobey?! What could a gay Congressman and a shaggy dog have in common, I wonder? You'll have to explain that one, TO.
FReegards...MUD
"A Soldier's Christmas"
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
my daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree, I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep
in perfect contentment, or so it would seem.
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eye when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
and I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts,
to the window that danced with a warm fire's light
then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night"
"Its my duty to stand at the front of the line,
that separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red white and blue... an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home,
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat,
I can carry the weight of killing another
or lay down my life with my sisters and brothers
who stand at the front against any and all,
to insure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone.
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
to know you remember we fought and we bled
is payment enough, and with that we will trust.
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.
Michael Marks
December 7th, 2000
marksman@patriot.net"
FReegards...MUD
Hmmmmmm...worth discussing, IMHO.
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
"...on the 27th, Free Republic will be down..."
AAAAIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Oh well...I guess it's true about "Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."
LOL and FReegards...MUD
MUD--I have decided to stick with the tried and true un-PC way of doing unto others as I would have them do unto me.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
If anyone would prefer a different greeting from me, please so advise, I love you all as Christ first loved me, and I will not intentionally offend. I will not be offended by anyone who wishes me a Happy Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or Ramadan as their heart desires, but I will not put a basket over the 'Light' that burns within me. It is the essence of freedom and love.
Joy to the world! The Left is Dead!!
RATS just don't know it yet!!**
Joy to the world! The Left is Dead!!
RATS just don't know it yet!!
Let all good folks aid in the Lib'rals' Doom...
Help Mudboy and his Band sing...
Let Justice the New Year bring...
FReep Clinton and Justice the New Year'll bring!!
Ignore Left's spin...RushPower grows...
Networks infest our Minds!!!**
Ignore Left's spin...RushPower grows...
RightWing must show some spine!!
We'll fight to break the Elites' Power...
Far out, Left's Curse is found...
Next, Dems shall fear our Power...
Far out, FAR OUT!! Left's Power is DONE!!
Joy to the World! Let FReedom Ring!!
Let men their songs employ!!
(Good guitar pickin' by Ol' Three-Fingers Vesuvius...aka Mordecai...long story)
Repeat resounding joy...
We FReep with Ol' Mudboy...
We FReep...we FReep...with boundless Joy!!**
Right'll rule the World with Truth and Grace...
We'll break Tyrant poltroons!!**
Right'll rule the World with Truth and Grace...
We'll smite thy Left's in ruins!!
The Glories of Good Righteousness!!
And wonders of Right's Love...
Slick Willie whacks his pud...
The Righteous Right shall sling Good Mud!!
Joy to the world! The Left is Dead!!
RATS just don't know it yet!!
** = FReeperGal Chorus, of course.
Merry Christmas, everyone...MUD
When you protect Bill Clinton from being exposed to the TREASON he has committed with his illegal and unethical dalliances with the Tyrannical Leaders of Communist China, you poltroonish Media folks become complicit in the 50 years of Murder and Oppression that have been emblematic of the imposition of artificial collectivist governmental arrangements such as Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism. Just as the Clinton-authorized Waco Massacre resulted in the fiery SLAUGHTER of 80 individuals whose only "crime" was that of bowing before a Diety greater than the Almighty State, so the Communist Chinese continue to treat the Righteous as enemies of the Party. And the Fourth Estate remains silent...
Heh heh heh...MUD
FReegards...MUD
Could this be a Launching Point for the Assassination of the Terrorist/Mass-Murderer, Fidel Castro?!
FReegards...MUD
John Ashcroft, Pride of the Right...
Left, they may hate you, but they FEAR Right's Might!!
John Ashcroft, Slick we'll INDICT...
Fate shall then make Bill his Cell-Buddy's "wife"!!
AG Ashcroft, sir...please start with by INDICTIN' Terry McAuliffe and the Clinton Imprisonment will fall into place!!
FReegards...MUD
I ain't nuthin' but a simple man...Left calls me a redneck, reckon that I am...
But there's things goin' on make me mad down to the core!
I gotta work like a dog...I'm enslaved to DeeCee...
Where crooked politicians sell our Nukes to Chinese,
And I'm madder'n Hell and I ain't gonna take it no more!
Reagan told our kids to, "Just Say No!"
But then Ol' Slick Willie jokes, "Let's have another toke!"
Tells us 'bout his briefs, then laughs while his intern goes down.
Well, if I had my way with this Apostle From Hope,
I'd take a big tall tree and a short piece of rope,
Hang Left by Slick's Lies and MAKE 'EM PAY 'til Ol' Slick steps down!
Well, you know what's wrong with the world today,
People done gone thrown their values away,
They're livin' by the "Law of Slick Willie" not the "Law of the Land."
Well, the Good Book says it, so I need no more proof...
"A Lie's still a Lie and the Truth's still the Truth."
Bill better watch what he's sayin', Law's closin' in on him,
Can't you Sheeple see it?! Slick's a Felon, MAN!!
Now I'm the kinda man who wouldn't harm a mouse,
But if I ketch somebody breakin' in my house,
I got my 12-gauge shotgun waitin' on the other side!
So don't go a pushin' me against my will,
I don't wanna fight ya but I durn sure will,
So if you don't want trouble you better just pass me on by!
Becuz as far as I'm concerned there ain't no excuse,
For Slick's Rapin', Mad Bombin', and Power Abuse,
But I gotta way to put an end to all that madness...
You just put them Lib'rals back on a boat,
Send 'em all First-class and make sure they don't VOTE,
Send 'em all 'round the world and leave 'em wherever it suits 'em best!
Folks, you know what's wrong with the world today,
People done gone put their Bibles away...
They livin' by the "Law of Bill Clinton" not the "Law of the Land."
Well, the Good Book says it, so I need no more proof,
"A Lie's still a Lie and the Truth's still the Truth!"
Bill better watch what he's sayin', we're closin' in on him...
Right's Hell-bent on Justice...Slick's a Traitor, man!!
Bill, watch where you're goin', Slim's just around the bend...
Mudboy's bent on Justice, you're Term's Hist'ry, man!!
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD