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2005-09-11

9-11-05

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2005-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks Fred. I don't know why you are not on President Bush's cabinet as Secretary for Long Attention Spans.

I just stopped by the Internet Archive to see if there were any archived web pages from that day. I couldn't find any with 2 quick searches, but I didn't come away empty-handed. I found instead that the IA are fouled with dozens if not hundreds of lefty loonbat agitprop films, conspiracy theorist manifestos, and enough bile to power Quetta for a year. Absolutely sickening.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-11 01:42|| 2005-09-11 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 You said it best, as always.

Fred Akbar!

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-09-11 01:43|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-09-11 01:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Great summary, Fred. Makes one think. We are fighting this war of survival with one hand tied by the LLL around our backs. They are hell bent on destroying this government. I saw the same thing in Berkeley in the 60s. The Left used Vietnam as a tool to bring down the govt. They are using the exact same playbook. We will have to fight them, too. We are in a long haul war, folks. Courage, everyone. We are playing for keeps.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-09-11 02:03|| 2005-09-11 02:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm just burnt out anymore: burnt out on the war, and burnt out on politics.

just one point.
IMO..War on Terror, we're [sane rational folks]light years better off than we were during the Vietnam years.[60's 70s]

Plz remember that the lowest parasitic life form on the planet, the Left/MSM, sheltered in the host, our Constitution, who relentlessly infect and feed off any wound it can exploit in our Nation, don't have a monopoly anymore!

Thank you Rantberg, cable, WWW, talk radio. We now have a place to meet, gather our strength, ideas and influence policy [w/money, votes, and pressure]. Together we are more focused & way stronger.
will it be easy? no.
Are we winning? YES

/Phase 10..we elect Joe for president. <<:

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-11 02:43|| 2005-09-11 02:43|| Front Page Top

#5 AP - The Berkley experience you mention gives me unpleasant flashbacks (no, not LSD induced).

On a positive note, the moonbats who protest today are literally toothless and gray haired. Fortunately, the generation that has emerged with 9/11 are not to be found in the 60's era bat cave.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-11 02:43|| 2005-09-11 02:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, you're the man.

I bet if Fred were mayor and we were in need of evaculation, he would send in the school buses instead of holding back for the Greyhounds.

Fred for New Orleans mayor!

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-11 02:45|| 2005-09-11 02:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey! Where's the link? I want to read the rest of it.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-11 07:09|| 2005-09-11 07:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Ever notice that you never see Fred Pruitt and Victor Davis Hanson in the same place at the same time?

Posted by Mike">Mike 2005-09-11 08:33|| 2005-09-11 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh, Mike - you're prolly onto something there.

Fred - Word. The chrome may be showing, but the contents are intact and the output razor sharp. Thx.

Posted by .com 2005-09-11 09:12|| 2005-09-11 09:12|| Front Page Top

#10 The Left is part of the enemy's forces, whether they accept or acknowledge their part. I refer to them as "facilitators" - they're not directly involved in evil, but they work very hard to make evil possible, and do nothing to stop it. There's a special place in Hell for such people. I wish them a speedy journey!

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-11 14:06|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-11 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 This conflict will go on along time in various battlefields.It's a safe bet that the Left will have a "Bourbon Restoration" in the near future, in which their candidates promise a "return to normalcy". And the war effort will go into abeyance for a time.

It will be painful and frustrating, but we should use that time to take a close look at the enemy at home (MSM, loony academics seditious State Dept types, the various LLL-funding foundations,monarchical jurists, the culture industry etc.)and create a reformist agenda which deals with those groups.

Only then will we be ready to deal with foes like the Islamicists or the PRC or narco-states or whatever challenges the future brings.

This will be a long hard slog in any case, and we'll have our setbacks, but I think history is on our side.

Posted by dushan 2005-09-11 14:26|| 2005-09-11 14:26|| Front Page Top

#12 I pray that my generation and younger generations will protect what they have been given. Just when I think there's not much hope for the "young punks" I see everyday (and I'm only 32, calling them young), I go and find solace in Rantburg and in actions of others who give a damn. Went this weekend to Bay St. Louis/Waveland, Mississippi to take supplies (a long 24 hour trip from Atlanta) with 2 buddies. Get there, and everything is pretty much back up and running well after Katrina (she made landfall very near here). Ran in to kids younger than me in several areas trying to help out. 2 kids (I'd guess High School) and their 2 moms drove up from Cocoa Beach, FL to cook for people there (actually, in Kiln, just north of I-10). Amazing. I saw the goodness of America there. Dropped goods off at a church who was taking supplies, and we noticed something....a couple of military were there (they were all over Waveland/Bay St. Louis), but they were packing up, left just 2-3 pallets of MREs. Looking around the grounds there were 3-4 pallets of EVERYTHING else that was donated by private citizens (diapers, wipes, canned veggies, canned fruits, tons of clothes, first aid stuff, hygenie products, even bikes and kids toys). THAT is what makes America great...we will take care of our own...with or without the gov't. A GREAT weekend...seeing hope in action in the wake of Katrina, and then seeing the hope in the aftermath of 9/11 (NEVER forgive or forget for me).

Posted by BA 2005-09-11 20:48|| 2005-09-11 20:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you, Fred. Sometimes I need help keeping perspective. So long as we melt down in turn, rather than all at once, we'll be ok.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-11 21:43|| 2005-09-11 21:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Thank You, Fred - Accept my Paypal contribution as your outlet's help to mental stability

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-11 22:40|| 2005-09-11 22:40|| Front Page Top

#15 My lefty wife laughed the other day when I suggested that this country might possibly fall within our lifetimes. She cried when I told her why I thought so. The thing is, I look the people around me, those wonderful liberals, and I don't see a people worth defending. She says that people have a right to live the way they want to. I agreed but pointed out that, by living the life they want they risk alienating those who might be willing to take up arms for them. That this country may die because those who choose to protect it might look around and see nothing worthy of protection. That's where I'm heading. I hate the left - about half the population of this country - almost as much as I hate the Islamofascists. I'm a Marine veteran and proud of my service, but would I put the pack back on if my country asked me? I'm not sure I would. I told her that if something on the scale of 9/11 were to hit the predominantly leftist coastal cities, I probably wouldn't feel much about it. My suspicion was confirmed when NO was demolished. I felt very little. I suppose I'm a total bastard for feeling this way, but I'm burnt out as well. Sorry.

Posted by BH 2005-09-11 23:09|| 2005-09-11 23:09|| Front Page Top

#16 BH: I agreed but pointed out that, by living the life they want they risk alienating those who might be willing to take up arms for them. That this country may die because those who choose to protect it might look around and see nothing worthy of protection. That's where I'm heading. I hate the left - about half the population of this country - almost as much as I hate the Islamofascists. I'm a Marine veteran and proud of my service, but would I put the pack back on if my country asked me? I'm not sure I would.

I fully understand your sentiments. I think we're pretty safe, though - we are sheltered by two oceans, not to mention weak powers to the north and south. It's our "allies" around the world that will feel the pain. I think they're due.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-11 23:27|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-11 23:27|| Front Page Top

#17 They just have it coming ZF, now haven't they?
One of those "allies" at this very moment is helping to pump New Orleans dry.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-09-11 23:36|| 2005-09-11 23:36|| Front Page Top

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