Category Archives: Patriotism

How to De-beautify America the Beautiful

How to De-beautify America the Beautiful

In light of the nation’s 230th birthday I reflected on some of the ways that this great nation is decaying from the inside out… so I decided to list some of them… many of which are already underway and getting worse. (Wallpaper from my favorite wallpaper site, Digital Blasphemy) Let beggars be choosers. Let those [...]

We’re Lucky

We’re Lucky

If you live in the United States then hug somebody, because you’ve got a lot to be thankful for. It doesn’t take much common sense or too many brain cells to see that this country is a big amusement park where even the poor people are fat and have cellphones! You can’t make this stuff [...]

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (updated)

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (updated)

April 24 is Genocide Remembrance Day in Armenia and throughout the world, and is also known as Armenian Martyr’s Day and Armenian Remembrance Day. Pictured here is the Genocide Memorial (Tsitsernakaberd) in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan. This blog entry will have no jokes, no fluff, and its links may lead to unsettling content… so [...]

The Right Thing

The Right Thing

I finished a great book recently (and indeed many of you probably thought it was a permanent addition to my ‘Currently Reading’ due to my procrastination)… it’s called The Right Thing by Retired Navy Commander Scott Waddle. You may recognize his name as the CO of the USS Greeneville, a nuclear submarine that collided with [...]

Adios Amigos

Adios Amigos

I love it when mobs of unruly youth create civil disorder in an attempt to demonstrate that they are very peaceful and law-abiding citizen-hopefuls. Nothing like civil unrest and voter intimidation to portray your love of this democracy. And don’t forget the American-cursing union labor activists (read socialists) holding signs showing the “real” southern border… [...]

Any year in the US is a good year!

Any year in the US is a good year!

2005 is coming to a close… my relatively new blog (what you’re reading right now) just topped 100,000 hits this month alone… and I’m thinkin’ that any year in the United States is a good year. Sure, to some experiencing tragedy it may not feel fair or seem joyous all of the time… but this [...]

Small towns

Small towns

Ok, it’s Christmas Eve and everywhere around here, in this little city of East Bumblescrew (mythical reference… don’t try to find it), shopkeepers and passers-by are wishing everyone Merry Christmas in brazen fashion – and doing it mostly unknowingly in the face of all that is politically correct (read: idiotic) in the more “progressive” urban [...]

Patriotism

Patriotism

You know you’re in a great country when… …you can stand on a pier surrounded by other anxious people – young, old – family and friends… each having a sailor on board a returning warship – son, daughter, mother, father… little children waving flags in excitement… grown women weeping at the sight of their husband’s [...]

Miami, Groton and Pearl Harbor

Miami, Groton and Pearl Harbor

On this anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor (probably the most infamous day in US Naval history) I am in Groton, CT at the New London Sub Base to welcome my little brother back from his deployment cruise on the USS Miami. It is on a day like this that one, if they have [...]