Category: Patriotism
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The Hippo In The Audi Gets Canceled In The Culture
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22323 – 800: Here’s the haps: My Very Dear And Beloved Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, Freaks, Fiction Writers, Friction Writers, Fellow Bloggers, and Fun Folks, Greetings. This is my eight hundredth blog post. If I had been writing in this blog ever since it started 16 years,…
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Where I Was On 9/11/2001
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22134 – 705: I can remember walking over to the bus stop with my kids. There is quite a busy street that feeds into Fort Carson called South Academy Boulevard and they were young so I would walk them across the street to the college where the…
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Curmudgeonly Monday – The Constitution As Insurance – Repost
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22109-680: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 16951 aka 07/04/2006: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty…
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July 4th Festivities
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We had the whole family here and so I am almost out of time. Let me share my favorite Sousa March with you, The Stars and Stripes Forever, by John Philip Sousa, performed by the US Army Field Band. The lyrics appear in the Closed Captioning. My favorite line is,…
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Memorial Day – The HMT Rohna Coverup
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Greetings, everyone. In the United States of America this is holiday called Memorial Day. People will be having picnics and barbecues and doing a lot of fun things. We will be going over to Ben’s house and having a variety of things, including, of course, German Potato Salad. It’s going…
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The French Connection (Hint: not the book)
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The other day my wife handed me a sheaf of papers to go through. This is nothing new, especially since I am a slob and a pack-rat. These papers were some reprints of blogs and articles that I had printed off for her, I don’t remember why. One that caught…
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The American Allegory
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This is for our friend, Ishaan, who asked what he thought was a simple question over at Brother’s Campfire. He asked, “Who is the allegory of America? Do you have one? Is it lady liberty?” He is from India and said that the Indian allegory is “Mother India.” The entire…
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Curmudgeonly Monday – Cognitive Dissonance
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Cognitive dissonance is very grumpificating to me. It means my brain muscles are being forced to turn the gears and I may have to admit that I have more thinking to do about something. This happened to me tonight. Before I explain that, I want to say that I have…
