Medal of Honor winners

tomg51: People, please don’t EVER say someone ‘won’ a medal for valor.

Michael Jordan ‘won’ numerous NBA trophies, Mark Spitz ‘won’ numerous gold medals, Mike Tyson ‘won’ a heavyweight title. Winning implies a competition with rules and a referee plus a level playing field onto which competitors enter knowing they might lose, but they have a chance to return and win later.

A medal AWARDED for valor is done so in recognition of acts that are not called for and were undertaken at great personal risk and possibly loss of life. Most everyone who has been awarded a medal says, “I was just doing what anyone else would have done in the same circumstances.” But, most everyone else didn’t and so the individual is recognized for their valor.

So, please make a point of saying someone was awarded a medal for valor, never they ‘won’ a medal.

Nail 49, DFC

englishqueen01
In Canada, it’s a hate crime – punishable by law – for parents to keep their kids home on days when lessons on homosexuality are being taught in Canadian public schools.

We get a few, a few too many really, Canadians down here every winter- and over the years and generation they have changed and for the worse.

They talk endlessly about what “rights the government gives us”. We have cataract surgery centers that mostly cater to Canadians who are on years long waiting lines to get surgery at home. And these people put up with it. The government took their handguns with very few protests. Long gun registration was a different matter-it seems the rural folk are a little more independent.

So when their government decides to teach their children the joys of a little recreational homosexuality (Brave New World) the wimps roll over.

But this is the Canada that charged Mark Steyn for Hate Speech because truth is NOT a defense if the aggrieved feel hurt by that hateful truth (that would be mohammedan aggrieved in this case) Free Speech Eh?

Oh Canada is it something in the water?

I’m waiting for a “learned” Democrat to introduce a bill that will make it a crime for a parent to hold a child out of school for anything other than illness, or family emergency

In Canada, it’s a hate crime – punishable by law – for parents to keep their kids home on days when lessons on homosexuality are being taught in Canadian public schools.

So don’t give them any ideas, because pretty soon they might just try to outlaw things like homeschooling and taking your kids away from liberal brainwashing…

Problem solved, eh what?

The right of parents and the rights of family take precedence over those of Washington-based bureaucrats and social engineers.

But the fight against parental notification is really only one example of many attempts to water down traditional values and even abrogate the original terms of American democracy. Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

The evidence of this permeates our history and our government. The Declaration of Independence mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times. “In God We Trust” is engraved on our coinage. The Supreme Court opens its proceedings with a religious invocation. And the members of Congress open their sessions with a prayer. I just happen to believe the schoolchildren of the United States are entitled to the same privileges as Supreme Court justices and congressmen.

- President Ronald Reagan

sonofdy said:

comment number 798402????

You’ve been making way too many comments, SonOfDY!

Anyway, this is a good idea.

Yup, I agree.

On September 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm, right_on said

Probably a significant part of that drop is due to more home schooling, driven in large degree by parents who want to avoid things like Obama campaign speeches broadcast into classrooms without parental (or school board) notification or consent.

I wouldn’t be worried about the speech at all if I thought it was going to be little more than a “Be cool, stay in school” type thing, but I just don’t trust Obama enough to expect that he’s not going to use this opportunity to indoctrinate as much as possible.

I haven’t given up the entire fight. Just don’t want to argue with the 3 year old. He repeats what I say at home and then his parents spend more time indoctrinating him. I don’t want to get caught up in that game with a 3 year old in the middle. He will hear plenty over the years. His parents have already closed their ears as they think they know more than their parents.

From SurgeUSA.org-The Dept of Education has hastily edited their website and changed some of the teacher instructions already. They’re on the defensive!

We need to keep the pressure on! It is now clear that this was timed to coincide with a “Get Schooled -You Have The Right” initiative which is being launched on TV that evening by Viacom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the support of the Department of Education. There’s a new website (since April) which was set up for this initiative. One of Obama’s speechwriters is featured in that presentation. Gee, they must have forgotten to mention that while they were so busy pushing cap and trade, health care, and demonizing the Tea Party protests.

Pass the word… the speech is just the tip of the iceberg as usual!

Organized Indoctrination at it’s finest! Now we know why Ayers is laying low!

On September 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 pm, Mainah said:

Very good post, Mainah…I am putting it into my “points to ponder” file!! That file is getting bigger and is full of incredible wisdom.