MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2015
Happy Patriots’ Day, Everybody!
Hurley the Historian says a lot of blood has been shed on tomorrow’s date (April 19) in American history. Besides 1775, when the shot heard ‘round the world officially began the American Revolution during the Battle at Lexington Green, in 1861, we had the first bloodshed during the Civil War. In 1993, Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno blew up David Koresh and his followers at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco; and in 1995, Homegrown Terrorist Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Now which of these events do you think our Kneepad Liberals in the Press are most likely to mention?
Saturday, we told you how on today’s date (April 18) in 1775, Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from Boston, riding to every Middlesex, village, and farm to warn the countryside that the British were coming, and the next day in 1775 (April 19) when Patriots in Lexington and Concord fired the opening volley for liberty, wouldn’t you know, even way back when, the New York Times was already undermining America’s patriotism.
Some people confuse today’s “Patriots’ Day” celebration with George W. Bush’s “Patriot Day” commemoration on September 11. Even more people get the “Patriots’ Day” apostrophe in the wrong place, including patriotic TEA Partiers sending out e-mails reminding their patriots about some big local Patriots Day Rally, but the last time anything like that happened hereabouts was that Greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Freedom Expo 2013, which must not have been too successful, because they didn’t have another one in 2014, 2015, or 2016.
The Blower wonders if Obama will be hopping on Air Force One Monday and flying to Boston for another post-atrocity campaign photo-op honoring the murdered and maimed victims at the 2013 Boston Marathon. Maybe he could schedule a fund-raiser for Hillary during the trip. It certainly wouldn’t be the sort of uplifting experience that brought the entire nation together when George W. Bush showed up to throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9-11. [THAT WAS REALLY PATRIOTIC]
Also IN 2013, ScrappleFace reported the City of Boston had agreed to surrender to “al Qaeda, or whoever did this” just two days after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 170. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the Palestinian territory, and throughout the Muslim world, mobs of cheering people chanted, “Boston has fallen, Braintree is next.” (And you thought some of the stuff in The Blower was outrageous.)
More patriotic, to be sure, was when NFL prospect Brandon O’Brien re-enlisted in the Marines after watching the carnage after the 2013 Boston terror attacks. Oooh-Rah! You can’t get much more patriotic than that. There were a big bunch of stories about O’Brien’s patriotic re-enlistment at the time, but we haven’t seen any follow up since. We can only pray for his safety.
Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Ronald Reagan’s “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
RACIAL PROFILING UPDATE
The Blower remembers in April 2013 when the FBI released pictures of two suspects who were seen carrying black bags near the explosion sites of the bombing of the Boston Marathon. It’s a good thing these dark skinned young men don’t look like Arabs.
PATRIOTS’ (OR PATRIOT’S) DAY HOT LINE
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Some patriotic items in today’s Blower were sent in by our equally patriotic subscribers.
Whistleblower Patriotic Video of the Day
Patriotic Tribute to our Military
Note: We guarantee iPhone subscribers who don’t go home and see links and pictures on their computers are not going to appreciate all of this good stuff today.
