Archive for July, 2004
“Irritated and Inflamed”
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004I feel like Microsoft Windows… infected!
Apologies for the bad pun, but I have Strep again. How do I get Strep twice within a 6-month period?! I was ordered to not attend work for two days and to avoid speaking. A femi-nazi once told me that I was far sexier with my mouth shut, so maybe This Is A Good Thing™.
Listening to
Sunday, July 4th, 2004American Dream — Casting Crowns
Land that I Love
Sunday, July 4th, 2004Happy Birthday America! May all Americans contribute to another 228 years of an enduring spirit of freedom. Even with its problems, this Nation under God is still free, independent, and the best hope of mankind. America is freedom and opportunity. America is us, the people who live on its land and fight for its ideals of freedom abroad.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” –Abraham Lincoln
This Fourth of July weekend, remember that your individual actions, attitude, and life impact others. A lack of pro-active compassion, decency, and generosity to others dishonors the men and women who paid for our freedom with their lives. Maybe it’s just Boston. Maybe it’s just only being around my generation. Maybe it’s Michael Moore. But I am most concerned for the future of this country. Unless individual responsibility strikes back against apathy, blame, enabling dependency, and hyper-sensitive political correctness, the United States of America will lose its greatest asset: motivated people making the best of life.
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.” — Richard Nixon
Ending this entry on a note of internal conflict would be wrong on this day of celebration. So, I borrow from one of my favorite patriots, Rianna:
“The poet called Miss Liberty’s torch, ‘the lamp beside the golden door… And now you really know why we’re here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America.
“Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people… In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America’s is.” — Ronald Reagan, 1984
iTMS Overloaded
Saturday, July 3rd, 2004Apple may be counting down to 100,000,000 legally downloaded songs, but the servers are so busy that I cannot buy the five or so patriotic songs that I want. This is like trying to use AOL when it first went unlimited access. Arg. Sorry Steve, but I must break out Poisoned.
