Monday, March 02, 2009

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
- John Steinbeck

Subject: TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY - Thanks to Adrian Juarez of San Antonio, TX for forwarding the following immortal quote:
"I am besieged with a thousand or more Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion otherwise the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a canon shot and our flag still waves proudly over the wall. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, of everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his honor and that of his country - VICTORY OR DEATH. - William Barrett Travis, Lt. Col Commander

March 2nd is TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY - Brave and honorable men have given all on our behalf. NEVER FORGET!!
(Sent from the Grand Lodge of Texas)
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Please join Texas in the celebration of our independence from Mexico! - Here is an article titled "The Myth and Meaning of Texas Independence" taken from an outstanding speech by Dr. Stephen L. Hardin, Professor of History at the Victoria College in Victoria, Texas.
http://www.texianlegacy.com/march2.html

Please view this article and consider donating to: The Texian Legacy Association http://www.texianlegacy.com/

as well as to:

Save Texas History, home of the illuminating radio series "THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY" http://www.savetexashistory.org/

Please consider visiting San Antonio and see the Alamo Shrine for yourself.

If you are a Mason and will be visiting San Antonio, please contact me via the contact link here or via the Alamo Masonic Lodge #44 AF & AM Website at: http://www.masoniclodgesofsatx.com/alamo44/index.php

May good men everywhere live free...
Greg Wright

Friday, December 26, 2008

Please check out Ken Blackwell & the Rebuild the Party movement - help us fix the Republican Party! This man has the right idea in mind:

Ken Blackwell: http://ping.fm/w5eIL

Rebuild the Party: http://ping.fm/266YS

View my blog at: http://ping.fm/w970e

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Powell: GOP 'polarization' backfired in election - Actually it was a lack of 'polarization' - if Conservatives are going to endorse liberal ideals, why be conservative? Just throw it in & be done with it.
Check out the 21st Century Crusader! (http://ping.fm/muYe5)

Monday, December 08, 2008

Lets have a REAL investigation of the Global economic mess: Make ALL of the Senators & Congressmen involved in the bad/illegal decision-making process resign.
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn, Senate banking chief said Sunday that GM CEO Rick Wagoner, "has to move on". This after he and Dem Senator Conrad received discounted loans from the failed Countrywide Savings & Loan... Shame on you Sen Dodd...

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Saxby Chambliss wins key Georgia Senate race: GOP Senate Win in Ga. Blocks Dem Supermajority
http://ping.fm/mCWHB

Monday, December 01, 2008

Texas Music at its best!
http://ping.fm/D8iVY - kiss me in the dark
Texas music at its best!
http://ping.fm/zKEED - the band played on

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

About the Democracy Countdown....

Here is a note passed on to me from my long time pal in Waco, the Gizmo Guru:


HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.


I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government." "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." "From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years" "During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000 Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Thanks for reading.
Please pass this along to all of your friends!

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Thursday, June 09, 2005

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