An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 14 November 2010
Sad
Shuler Punts on Announcing Run Against Pelosi
Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., refused to commit to a challenge against Nancy Pelosi for Democratic House leader in the next Congress.
He was repeatedly pressed on CNN’S State of the Union about his plans and he refused to make an announcement. Shuler continued to blast the current speaker saying it’s “unacceptable” for Pelosi to remain leader of the Democrats and “not get us where we need to go as a party.”
Isn’t it a shame that a 70 year old woman has a bigger pair than the males of her party?
In God We Still Trust
Psalm 33
12a Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;
An FYI….contrary to what many have been spreading over the past several years, and recently on Face Book, this was NOT banned from major radio markets.
MUST! READ!
A True Story; my return home from Gulf War I
By Christopher S. Watson
It was sometime in late May of 1991 and I was headed home after my first trip to the “Sand Box” as it was first coined then. The war was over and we had kicked Saddam out of Kuwait. America felt strong again after years of hanging its head low in the wake of Vietnam. Movies like Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now, and The Deer Hunter had cast a terrible light on the silver screen of my early childhood. Somehow America had begun to blame the soldiers for the failures of its politicians. I knew little about the world at the time, but I did know that this was somehow wrong.
