A female voice on the other end asked who she was speaking to, and then proceeded to ask her if she had a daughter at boot camp at Parris Island.

When my wife told her yes to these questions, the woman said “Your daughter wants to speak with you.”

I’m hearing all of this, and a thousand thoughts raced through my mind.

I figured this could not be good news because, a few weeks after she shipped, I happened to ask a recruiter if she would be allowed to have a phone card in case she found time to give us a call.
His response was that she would not have access to a phone while she was at boot, unless there was some sort of emergency.

By this time, my mind still going a mile a minute, I’m thinking that the past week was weapons qualification.

I must admit that the thought that she might have been injured didn’t enter my mind, rather I was afraid she had some bad news regarding qualifying, as in an earlier letter she has expressed serious doubts about being able to do well on the rifle range.

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However.

The Freedom Medium has been silent for awhile because during the last 60 days I have (in no particular order):

Made a personal career change.

Gone through a near-death experience.

And watched my daughter leave for Parris Island.

Things are finally starting to return to what resembles normal, so stay tuned, our news and observations will be back soon.

Although one part my mind tells me that this is still the greatest country on earth, the other realizes that we a facing threats the likes of which are unprecedented in our history, many of  them coming from within.

The forces of liberalism, led by the Messiah, President Obama, continue to unleash daily attacks on all of the principles that America was founded upon.

I don’t need to spell out the details of the matters to which I am reffering, we all have our own feelings on the subject.

I’m here to tell you that all is not lost, and my faith in our ability to overcome Obama and his liberal cronies has been renewed.

This past Sunday, my daughter, who leaves for Marine Corps boot camp in a little over a week, graduated from college.

Among the family members joining my wife, son and I at the ceremonies was a young lady, a friend of my daughter’s, who is currently serving in the USMC.

She wore her dress blues uniform, and the reaction of many of the people in attendance is what has brought back my belief in the future of our country.

I lost track of the number of people who approached this young woman and expressed their gratitude for her service.

This outpouring of sentiment continued when the five of us went to dinner, people would approach our table, apologize for the intrusion, and tell her “Thank you for all that you do.”

More proof that despite the best efforts of those on the left, Lady Liberty’s torch is still burning brightly.

Semper Fi

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 2-1 vote, declared that the wording is constitutional.

They are calling on the Boy Scouts of America to retire it’s “Fishing” and “Fish and Wildlife Management” merit badges.

I’m starting to think that the folks at PETA are smoking something, and it ain’t fish.

My son became a Cub Scout as soon as he was old enough, and ended up become an Eagle Scout.

Throughout the years, his troop went on dozens of fishing trips, even going deep-sea fishing a few times, and instead of growing up to become a violent person, he became an EMT.

When I was younger, I spent my summers going fishing on an almost daily basis.

Did I grow up to believe that cruelty to animals was acceptable?

Quite the contrary, one of my fondest dreams is to someday be able to move off of the busy street I live on so that I can get a dog and not have to worry about it getting hit by a car.

I think that this group needs to change their name form People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to Pinheads Exploiting the Truly Asinine.

PARACHINAR: Five Taliban were killed and four others were injured on Tuesday when the explosives that they were planting around their hideout detonated accidentally in Ali Sherzai Dar village, Kurram Agency, officials said.
According to eyewitnesses, the Taliban wanted to blow up the house –vacated by local anti-Taliban leader Ghazi Marjan – due to the security forces’ operation in the area when the explosive material accidentally went-off, killing five of them and injuring four others.
Two of the injured reported to be in critical condition. However, AFP put the death toll at four and reported six Taliban wounded in the explosion. The Taliban had been using the deserted house as a dumping ground for people kidnapped for ransom.

That being the case, the leaders of the Taliban are now requiring all new recruits to watch the following video:

You can call me heartless, but how dumb does someone have to be to be a “trainer” for a killer whale?

On the same order as lion tamers, circus folks trying to teach a bear to jump through hoops, someone who does these things for a living is missing a few buttons from their remote control.

Televison “journalists” run a close second.

I’m sitting here at my computer this A.M., watching the news to learn about the blizzard I’m about to be buried under (global warming huh?) when the Today show comes on and Matt Lauer is interviewing a woman who witnessed the whale leaping part-way out of the water and seizing Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau.

Lauer asked Brancheau’s fellow trainer:

“Was it apparent from the start that Brancheau was in trouble?”

A 12 thousand pound behemoth leaps, grabs this young woman by her ponytail, and drags her underwater, and Lauer is wondering if it seemed she was in trouble???

Wow.

And this guy gets paid millions of dollars for this.

Jones may have refused Freedom Of Information Act requests for his data because he lost the paperwork.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

Medieval times?

Just how much greenhouse gas emissions did those knights in shining armor produce anyway?

Professor Phil “Clinategate” Jones has also admitted that there has been no global warming since 1995.

It seems to me that Professor Jones has also admitted that the alarmists ranting about the effects of global warming still don’t know what the hell they are talking about.

Source and full story: UK Daily Mail

King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer on Friday ruled in favor of the plaintiffs – the Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Washington Arms Collectors, National Rifle Association and five individuals – and declared the city of Seattle’s gun ban at public places is in direct violation of Washington state’s firearm pre-emption law.

In issuing the ruling, Shaffer wrote, “Seattle’s Department of Parks and Recreation’s Rule/Policy Number P 060-8.14 (”Firearms Rule”) violates Washington law and on that basis, is null and void.”

The city has been ordered to remove all signage banning weapons from public areas within 30 days.

Last June, Nickels issued an order banning guns on city facilities where children are likely to frequent. The places on the ban list include parks, playgrounds, community and environmental learning centers, sports fields and courts, swimming beaches, pools, water play areas, skate parks and golf courses.

The plaintiffs’ complaint challenged Nickels’ executive order, stating “ownership of firearm is a clearly protected right under the United States and Washington Constitutions.”

The complaint also cited Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna, who issued an opinion in response to the city’s ban, stating state laws “preempts a city’s authority to adopt firearms law or regulations of applications of the general public.”

SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb called Friday’s ruling “a great victory for the rule of law and Washington citizens.”
“It is also a victory for the Legislature,” Gottlieb said, “because this case affirms the intent of lawmakers in 1983 to prevent cities like Seattle from creating a nightmare patchwork of conflicting and confusing firearms regulations.”

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, on the other hand, said he’s “disappointed” in the ruling.

“Cities should have the right to restrict guns in playgrounds, pools and community centers where children are present,” he said. “The court’s ruling was based on a state law, RCW 9.41.290, which preempts Seattle from regulating the possession of firearms. It’s time for the state Legislature to change that law.”

Source: KOMOnews

Some time ago, I recommended Texas A&M University as a good place to get an education. Now that it has added a course in the English Department called “Gay and Lesbian Literature” I need to reconsider. Generally, when a school dedicates entire courses to homosexuality its days are numbered as a university to be taken seriously.

Dr. Krista May now offers a course that “surveys the historical and social constructions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, primarily as they are expressed in the literature of British and American writers.”

That sounds innocent enough. But why spend a semester studying such a narrow aspect of literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The syllabus continues: “The course also investigates earlier literary periods in order to contextualize relatively recent notions of sexual identity by situating them within cultural and historical frameworks.”

Interesting, isn’t it? The issues covered in the class include “literary expressions of homo-social behaviors in ancient Greece and Rome; development of homosexual subcultures in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; construction of female ‘romantic friendship’; the influence of late nineteenth-century sexologists and of Freud; intersections of racial, class, and sexual identities; and postmodern interrogations of identity.”

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