After my last post, i just had to post the lyrics for Star Spangled Banner.

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

It still hits me how powerful and simple this is, and yet there is depth here, that should we explore.

I also can't help think of another favorite "God Bless America" when song by Kate Smith.

Which leads me to this old book I used to read over and over again, called "For those who don't quit" It may not be the exact title. But basically telling the story of how those who were handicapped, found ways to win and succeed.

See I am a handicapped person, or at least that's how most people define me.  I am somehow expected to not have a fulfilling life, yet here I am fighting verbally, idealistically and politically for everyone's life. Quite ironic isn't it...Heh

You see we are all bound together, in the end we're just people, who would rather be free, then trapped or imprisoned or enslaved.

Yet that's what happening to us now...

1. Our education system is setup to not create winners and highly educational people but to be nice and make sure everyone feels good. I am sorry but that leads to very low education levels and more and more failures.

2. Our News Media is set to lie to us, and yet it's lies we'd rather believe than the truth which can be quite painful. It is so like the movie Gladiator, where the Roman Emperor creates the Colloseum, just to get the citizens to love him, and by loving him, lose track of all the freedoms they are losing, and that Rome is going downhill faster and faster. But at least they have the games.

3. What new ideas have we really come up with? New technologies yes, new ideas no.

4. We're all anti-war anti-military, yet we're so hung up on peace we seek peace when it's not wise too, such as in this Israel/Hizbollah war. Sometimes you need to have war, to get things done that need to be done, such as killing and getting rid of massive amount of evil people.

I mean Israel has always stood by us, and now we're leading them to self-destruction.

5. United Nations once an alliance of free-seeking and growing nations, is now almost completely anti-American, anti-Israel.

So why do we need to rely upon them to help us?

There's a time for diplomacy and a time for war, this is not the time for diplomacy. It's a time for war. If President George W. Bush won't help us and our nation and Israel, then let's get someone who will....

Funnily enough there are few real good presidential types left, except perhaps Newt Gingrich or Joe Lieberman...

In the end, when the dream that is America dies, which could be very soon, unless change takes place, what will we have left but tyranny...

Tyranny that we allowed to live and grow, rather than being strong and dealing with it.

Think about it...

If your not so drunk or drugged up to do something about it...