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Greetings ta ever one in Western Illinois and all readers of "The Quill".
Here we are, well into summer and the fourth of July is next week. I am surrounded by corn, include'n my own, that won't make it "knee high by the 4th of July". It will be enterest'n ta see how this year's crop turns out next fall.
Plenty of rain, constantly around these parts, makes it difficult ta put up hay. Probably we will agin this spring, put up the first and second cutt'n at the same time.
SHort Poem
Ya know I like short poems. Here's a good story and poem fer ya:
Short poem you won't forget.
Do you recall the President referring to the Benghazi incident as "a bump in the road?"
Today I heard an ex-Navy Seal being interviewed on Fox News regarding a book he has written about how to handle crisis situations in our lives.
At the end of the interview he asked if he could make a comment on Benghazi and, of course, the anchor said "yes." He then thanked Fox News for keeping the Benghazi story in the news, since other news organizations are not.
He said the Seals who died deserve the public knowing the truth about the whole affair.
The poem was written by an anonymous Marine Corps officer:
"The Battling Boys Of Benghazi"
We're the battling boys of Benghazi, No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell, defending our country we loved so well.
It wasn't our job, but we answered the call. Fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate, led them to safety and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us and foes by the score, but we stood fast to bar the door.
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied, so we fought and we fought and we fought "til we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam, but Barack and Hillary didn't give a d - - - .
Just two dead Seals who carried the load. No thanks to us..we were just "Bumps in the Road."
The press gave a pass ta the people who literally sat there in the White House and watched the Seals' execution on live streaming video and did absolutely nothing?
"What difference does it make?"
LA Times
Quote of the Day
Dianne Feinstein: "All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms."
Yep,-she really said it in a meeting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee...And the quote below from the LA Times is priceless. Sometimes even the LA Times gets it right.
Kurt Nimmo: "Senator Feinstein insults all U.S. Veterans as she flails about in a vain attempt to save her anti-firearms bill."
Quote of the Day from the Los Angeles Times: "Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on "Macbeth'. The five of them are like (donkeys) who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."
Columnist Burt Prelutsky,
Los Angeles Times
Be sure ta share this with all of the mentally ill vets you know....especially the ones with guns.
And now fer a summation from a 26-year-old who sums it up in an articulate and logical manner!
This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.
It is a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis, Florida trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news-feed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty-One Times!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek, talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the Internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Well there ya have it then, that's all fer this week's column. The boys will have a lot ta jaw on dure'n these rainy days.
Plan on attend'n the church of yer choice with yer whole family this week. Have a good time with yer family celebrating enthusiastically the 4th of July holiday.
Remember where ever ya are, what ever ya be a do'n "BE A GOOD ONE!"
Keep on Smile'n
Catch ya later
Barnyard Bruke