Author: jerseygirltoday

I'm a Navy Veteran and Jersey Girl from birth, but just because I live in a "blue" state doesn't mean that my politics lean that way! I am a Conservative & life-long American Patriot who loves God & Country. I currently live in central NJ with my husband (also a USN-Retired Veteran) and a house full of rescued and loveable dogs & cats. God Bless America!

BEWARE OF LIBERALISM

Liberalism is Evil“The goal of the ‘liberals’ — as it emerges from the record of the past decades — was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot — by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.” 

 

~author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address 11/19/1863

Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address 11/19/1863

Today, November 19, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1864, this version has been the most often reproduced,  notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It is named after Colonel  Alexander Bliss, stepson of historian George Bancroft. Bancroft asked President  Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers (see “Bancroft Copy” below).  However, because Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, the speech could  not be reprinted, so Lincoln made another copy at Bliss’s request. It is the last  known copy written by Lincoln and the only one signed and dated by him. Today it  is on display at the Lincoln Room of the White House.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a  new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men  are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any  nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great  battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a  final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might  live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not  hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have  consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will  little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what  they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the  unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It  is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us —  that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for  which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve  that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall  have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people,  for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863

Obama Orders Navy Seals To Remove ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Navy Jack From Uniforms

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President Obama is unbelievably arrogant! He really should not piss off the U.S. Navy! He’s already alienated the Veterans & other branches during his “Shutdown” by ignoring the families of our fallen heroes by refusing to sign an Executive Order to release funds necessary to for them to immediate expenses related to the active duty deaths of their heroic loved-ones. His blatant disregard and feigned ignorance of the terrorist attack on our Embassy in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012 where the American Ambassador & three other brave Americans  were murdered ~ is a slap in the face of every American Soldier and Sailor that ever served his or her country! Regardless, Obama’s thin-skinned, elitist approach is to eliminate ALL things that remind Americans of this country’s founding (including its Revolution) and is in my opinion, an attempt to take away anything & everything may boost American pride & purpose because he is obviously afraid of the possibility of starting another Revolution which may serve to remove him from office! I believe that all American Patriots should voice their opinions aloud, in writing or with flags & banners and rise up against the Tyrant Obama. Indeed, if the Military ever decides to engage in a coup to overthrow him, his czars & his radical followers from office, I’d be right there doing all I could do to help them! ~dfh

(If you do not agree with my opinion, here ~ that’s your right. My opinion is protected free speech under the U. S. Constitution’s 1st Amendment.) GOD Bless America! ~dfh

Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries.

This symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence, flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the duration of the War on Terror.

So why would ranking SEAL commanders ban the historical symbol? Is the proverbial top bass banning the flag? Is President Obama?

The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’  flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a  beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries. This  symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence,  flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to  today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly  states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the  duration of the War on Terror.

So why would ranking SEAL commanders ban the historical symbol? Is the  proverbial top bass banning the flag? Is President Obama?

Clearly the administration and sycophant “top brass” officers have degraded  America’s military prestige; from hand-tying rules of engagement, to uniform  regulations that make our military allegedly more compatible with foreign  forces, to the banning of an awe-inspiring flag that traces its roots to the  first U.S. Navy. We have a civilian-led military, but why should our ranking  commanders be complicit in the administration’s war on it? Why don’t they stand  up to Obama and his leftist cronies?

During my two deployments to Iraq, “Don’t  Tread on Me” was a phrase  seen on nearly every uniform and platoon space — including mine. From patches to  flags to large paintings on concrete barriers, our commanders themselves wore  the insignia on their sleeves — until now.

Perhaps this is why so many of my former teammates felt compelled to send me  the email below. They may not be able to expose the administration’s travesty,  but I can. The email, dated October 22, reads:

ALL:

WARCOM and GROUP TWO/ONE have pushed out the uniform policy for NWU III  and any patches worn on the sleeve.

All personnel are only authorized to wear the matching “AOR” American  Flag patch on the right shoulder.  You are no longer  authorized to wear the “Don’t Tread On Me” patch.

Again the only patch authorized for wear is the American flag on the  right shoulder. Please pass the word to all

Thanks

Senior Enlisted Advisor

[Name Redacted]

After reading the email, I first wondered, ‘why?’ (Actually, first I headed  to the gym to take out my frustration and anger on some unsuspecting weights  with the fury and intensity only a former Navy SEAL can exert.) Why would our  leaders sell out our heritage? Why would they rob present and future sailors of  our battle cry?

When a friend of mine asked his leadership the same question, he was told,  “The Jack is too closely associated with radical groups.” We must assume that  this thought policeman embedded in the SEAL community is speaking of the Tea  Party, whose flag (which also dates from the American Revolution) depicts a  snake with the same defiant slogan as The Navy Jack.

This begs yet another question: Who defines “radical group”? The last time I  checked, all military personnel are under oath to “support and  defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The Tea  Party stands for constitutional rights and founding principles of civil  liberties and limited government. Radical? Not unless you’re a leftist hell-bent  on destroying the foundations of our country. Or as the President has stated as  the objective of his presidency, “to fundamentally transform” America

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/navy-seals-ordered-to-remove-dont-tread-on-me-navy-jack-from-uniforms/#ixzz2jQEV2LMn

Obamacare Is Adolf Hitler’s ‘T-4 Program’ Revived

OBAMA may be the laziest president in U.S. history and I believe the first truly socialist one thitler-t-4-obamacare-nazi-socialist-barack-hussein-obamao occupy the White House. He long ago touted his belief in a single-payer system ‘aka’ socialized medicine, which leads me to believe that he studied Hitler and Nazi Germany very well. Obama Care is the revived version of the T-4 Program. Hitler would be very proud.

Hitler was very smart, he knew that before he could get Germans to accept the concentration camps, he had to first get them to think of themselves as gods deciding who would live and who would die through the control of a national healthcare system. The creation of the T-4 Program, or the German Universal Healthcare System – did just that. In July of 1939, a conference of medical professionals was held in Berlin, Germany. Participating were the professors and chairmen of the departments of psychiatry of the leading universities and medical schools of Germany, many of them, the most respected professionals in their fields. The subject? What would be the criteria for determining what patients would be considered to have “lives unworthy to be lived,” and what was the most “practical and cheap” manner of removing them from being burdens on the health-care system—by death.

Thus, the bureaucratic machine began to be cranked up for what is known as Adolf Hitler’s program of genocide through “euthanasia,” a program which killed hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Germans, and eventually, millions of Jews and non-Germans as well.

That program, which had already begun years before, against concentration camp inmates and handicapped children, was officially put into effect in October 1939, when Hitler penned his own personal, and secret, authorization for the program, under the title, “The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life”: 

Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be accorded a mercy death. ~ Adolph Hitler

To carry out this program, Hitler and his fiendish Nazi associates would fully utilize the “professional” apparatus which had been put in place, as well as the popular, British-eugenics-spawned ideology which had been increasingly dominant in Germany since Hitler seized power with the aid of powerful British-Wall Street financiers. The killing would proceed with the utmost “cost-effectiveness” and professionalism, in order to save funds for the Nazi state’s preferred projects, and not waste them on “ineffective” medical treatments.

If that sounds familiar, it should. The Affordable Care Act which was signed into law by President Barack Hussein Obama on March 23, 2010, was passed along party lines by a majority democratic Congress & Senate. Those who voted in favor had not even read the bill or the possible future consequences therein, but instead were in a virtual lockstep with the Obama Administration’s vision of a single payer system.  With the stroke of his 22 pens, Obama has sealed the fates all Americans by taking away our freedom of choice and forcing us all to purchase a ‘product” or be fined (taxed) as a penalty!  First, the  Affordable Care Act “experts” decide what is “effective” care, with “cost-effectiveness” foremost in mind, ruling out “inappropriate” treatments. These standards become the law, in terms of what medical care will be paid for. Then other experts efficiently implement those decisions, through the existing hospital apparatus. The result, as in Nazi Germany, is that millions are, with the stroke of a pen, consigned to death. Those ‘death panels’ that the conservative groups had warned everyone about will be a reality; mark my words! ~dfh~

Hitler’s T4 Program

The T4 program, which was established following Hitler’s secret order, took its name from its Berlin office address, Tiergarten 4, which address housed the coordinating organization for the program, the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes. In charge were Philip Bouhler, chief of the Chancellery, and Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician and chief medical officer of the land.

Their first task was to devise the questionnaires which would be used to categorize the targeted institutionalized populations. Four categories were specified:

  1. Patients suffering from specified diseases who are not employable, or are employable only in simple mechanical work. These included schizophrenia, epilepsy, senile diseases, therapy-resistant paralysis, feeble-mindedness, and the like.
  2. Patients who have been continually institutionalized for at least five years.
  3. Patients who are criminally insane.
  4. Non-German patients.

While including these categorizations, the questionnaire overall gave the impression of a rather neutral statistical survey, which also delved into the patients’ biographies, their financial situations, eerily similar to Obama’s, (www.healthcare.org)  website, it was accompanied by a questionnaire for the institution in which the patient was housed, which asked about staffing, beds available, and budgetary questions. A significant stress was also put on detailing the patients’ abilities to work.

The first questionnaires went out in October 1939, the month Hitler signed his order, to state hospitals and other public and private institutions where mental patients, epileptics, the mentally retarded, and other handicapped persons resided. The responsibility for filling them out, often in a very short period of time, fell on the physicians at those institutions.

The questionnaires were then sent to panels of three or four psychiatric experts, who indicated their opinion about whether the patient (whom they had never seen, much less examined, and whose medical history they were unfamiliar with) was to live or die. Each “expert” made his or her decision independently, and passed on the questionnaire to the next. The choice for the experts was effectively only one of two options: a plus sign in red, which meant death; or a dash in blue, which meant life. Occasionally, a psychiatrist would put a question mark in the space provided.

The questionnaires were then sent to a chief expert, who passed the final judgment. At this “higher” level, there was no alternative other than life or death. In fact, the “senior expert” was not bound by the recommended decisions. From his judgment, there was no appeal. From that point on, it was merely a matter of sending back the decision to the relevant institution, where the final dispensation of the patient was carried out, and, if so ordered, sending him or her to one of the designated “killing centers.”

These centers were supervised by medical personnel, who oversaw the killing, and were responsible for devising the fraudulent death certificates which were sent to the families of those who had been determined to have lives “not worthy to be lived.” (Sounds like death panels to me!)

Councils of Experts

Shift now to today, where we are in the first phases of the Nazi euthanasia program (called “reform”) being promoted by the Obama Administration and its behavioral psychologist “experts.” It starts with the dictum that there are insufficient resources to provide medical care for all, especially those at the “end of life,” or not able to be “effectively” rehabilitated. In other words, the Nazi assumption that there are lives “not worthy to be lived.” At least according to the priorities for spending which the Administration has set—i.e., the banks must be saved first.

The second step is for the Administration to set up those “panels of experts” who will determine the criteria for who will get medical care, and who won’t. Already, the so-called Obama stimulus package has created one such panel, the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. This 15-member council is comprised of highly credentialed “experts,” many of them medical doctors, who are tasked with “coordinating research” on the relative values of treatments. While explicitly claiming that the Council will not directly pronounce judgments on treatments and payments, it is clear that the research that they are supervising is intended to do precisely that.1378064_660536520634055_550626089_n

Particularly ominous is the fact that one of the Council’s members, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is trained in “bioethics,” a discipline dedicated precisely to determining criteria for deciding who should live, and who should die. Crucially significant as well, is that Obama’s head of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, has already set out his genocidal judgment that around 30% of current health-care services and procedures are unnecessary.

The model for their work, as reflected in statements by many of the relevant officials, is the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the Orwellian-named agency which has central control over what medical care will be provided to British subjects within the British National Health Service. As the following article explains, NICE’s directives have systematically denied Britons quality care, on the basis of its being “too expensive,” and have singled out, especially, the elderly, for being undeserving of intensive medical care.

The Comparative Effectiveness Council is clearly only the beginning of the genocide—if this Nazi plan is not stopped cold. source – EIR

TRIBUTE TO AN AMERICAN VETERAN (My father-in-law)

Pop and Me20110824163206681The first time I met Jack Howard (at the time ~ my future father-in-law) I was walking back to my office in the Naval Reserve Center at Staten Island, NY when he came barreling through the main entrance of the building ~like freight train~ stopped short when he saw me, came to a very military-like attention & saluted me. I’ll admit I giggled at that, gave him a mock salute & asked “May I help you, Sir?” to which he replied, “Ya got a great pair of gams on ya for a Navy Gal! I’m looking for Petty Officer First Class Luke Howard!” I’ll admit, I had to laugh at that! I knew immediately who he was and I said, “You must be his dad.” (Something about his facial expression ~ there was a resemblance there.)  Regardless, over the past 28 years, I came to know my father in law perhaps better than most with regard to his War experience. We talked a lot about the military, and his service in WWII. I don’t know for certain, but he may have told me things about his service that he held back from many others. Maybe, it was because I am a girl ~ AND a veteran ~ I’ll never know.   But ~ indeed ~ I loved him & I remember actually crawling up on his lap (as an adult) and crying when own mother died a few years ago ~ & he comforted me ~ as a father would. 

So ~ this is what I know about John Howard.  John Howard,  was a son, husband, father, grandfather & great grandfather. Above all, he was an American! He was a Patriot and an Army Veteran of the United States 2nd World War. As a member of the United States Army 4th Ranger Battalion, John Howard distinguished himself further to earn the following:  • Distinguished Service Medal • Soldier’s Medal (army) • European, African, Middle Eastern Campaign Medal • WWII Victory Medal • Presidential Unit Citation Medal • Purple Heart  & a Combat Infantryman Badge w/Cluster.

Beyond the façade of the flirtatious (sometimes outrageous) jokester & happy-go-lucky man, I saw a man who (not unlike my own father) was a man of his times. A time where boys had to become men much too early and hid their emotions for fear of being called out as weaklings or cowards. My father in law, John Howard,  was such a man ~ but I never doubted his affection for me nor the love he had for his children & their children.  John Howard was a true “Original” and one whom I am more than proud to have called “Dad”. ~dfh~

“Dear God, Please bless my father, John Howard, a true patriot, American & hero of our country, our family & devoted servant of Jesus Christ, our Lord & Savior. AMEN”

IF I WERE THE DEVIL

Paul Harvey (1918 – 2009) was a conservative radio broadcaster for ABC radio news. His commentary was broadcast  on the air mornings, mid-day & Saturdays from the 1950’s through the 1990’s. Following the assignation of John F. Kennedy and with the Vietnam War waging and the birth of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960’s, Mr. Harvey worried about big government, leftist radicals & permissive parents. Always the champion of individualism, love of God & country and the decency of ordinary people he usually personalized his commentary with his conservative views & opinions.

On April 3, 1965, Harvey broadcast his now famous “If I Were the Devil” commentary about how the devil would take over the United States. Listening to this today is chilling because it is; exactly what has happened in America since its original broadcast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJc8Mzg0C-c&feature=player_embedded

Below is a transcript of that broadcast. 

devilIf I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is “square”. In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: “Our Father, which art in Washington” . . .

 If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an atheist to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say “she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them.

 If I were Satan, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s doing.

Paul Harvey, Good Day.

Americans Will Soon Have Standing to Destroy Obamacare

Americans will soon have standing to destroy Obamacare. The American people can stop Obamacare. It will take some guts and some risk, but we can shut it down tomorrow. Let me explain.

In National Federation of Independent Business et al v. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., the Supreme Court ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) penalties to be a tax, not a penalty. Chief Justice Roberts was chastised for this action. It has always been my belief that Justice Roberts’s actions and opinion was brilliant and eventually history would vindicate his decision and his wisdom.

Roberts gave America a skillfully crafted opinion and the opportunity to shut down the law. He also avoided having his court—a court that he will preside  over until he retires or dies—from being accused of legislating from the  bench; at least by liberals who were stoking the fires of discontent during the  US Supreme Court Obamacare hearings.

The U.S. Constitution’s Origination Clause (Art. I, Sec 7) require all tax bills to originate in the House of Representatives. Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act originated in the Senate making the laws tax unconstitutional. No argument was made over the penalty provision of the law. Only that the laws mandate was unconstitutional.

All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

–Article 1, Section 7

No one thought to argue that the penalties were in fact a tax. During the legislative process, the Democrats fought long and hard to convince Americans that they “would not be taxed.” Remember? Democrats and the liberal media told the country—repeatedly–that people who did not sign up would pay a penalty, not a tax.

Chief Justice Roberts has set the stage, for what I believe, can be a massive citizen effort to bring suit to overturn the heart and soul of Obamacare legislation for the enforcement of the illegal tax provision of the law. So why has this provision of Obamacare gone unchallenged?

To bring a successful suit seeking remedy from a court, the party or parties to the suit must have legal standing. Basically, a plaintiff must show that they have suffered some direct or substantial injury or be likely to suffer such injury if a particular wrong is not redressed. Moreover, a defendant must also be shown to be the party responsible for Article from perpetrating the alleged wrong doing.  Without standing, a case has no merit and more than likely would be dismissed.

Written by John De Mayo of the Freedom Outpost/October 6, 2013;

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/americans-will-soon-standing-destroy-obamacare/

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PUT ME IN CHARGE

On November 18, 2010, the Waco Tribune-Herald (WTH) published a letter to the editor by Alfred W. Evans of Gatesville, TX. Since its publication, the letter has gone viral.  Waco Tribune-Herald, Nov. 18, 2010  Put me in charge

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND while you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Alfred W. Evans

Gatesville, TX

Jersey Girl Today agrees completely with Mr. Evans & could not have said it better. What do YOU think? ~ dfh

HAPPY 238TH BIRTHDAY U.S NAVY!

The U.S. Navy traces its roots back to the privateers that were employed to attack British commerce in the early daysDoriNavy1stClass of the revolution. On October 13, 1775 the Continental Congress, established a small naval force, hoping that a small navy would be able to offset the uncontested exercise of British sea power.
The early Continental navy was not expected to take on the British navy for control of the seas. This small naval force was designed to work with privateers to wage tactical raids against the transports that supplied British forces in North America. To accomplish this mission the Continental Congress purchased, converted, and constructed a fleet of small ships–frigates, brigs, sloops, and schooners. These navy ships sailed independently or in pairs hunting British commerce ships and transports like prey, avoiding whenever possible fights with Royal Navy men-of-war…. The Continental navy faced several obstacles both during and after the revolution – mostly political and economic. Two years after the end of the war, the money-poor Congress sold off the last ship of the Continental navy, the frigate Alliance.
In the 1790’s Europe began to relax many mercantile commercial restrictions and the U.S. trade and the shipping industry expanded accordingly. However, as the number of U.S. ships increased so did the possibility increased attacks by the European powers and pirates. In March 1794 Congress responded by calling for the construction of a half-dozen frigates. And, once again, the United States had a navy.
Although the Continental navy was later dismantled, October 13, 1775 remains the U.S. Navy’s official birthday.
From these humble beginnings, the world’s most powerful naval force was born. With thousands of ships and aircraft serving worldwide, the U.S. Navy is a force to be reckoned with.  “To all my fellow Sailors who are currently serving or who have served, I wish you ‘Fair Winds and Following Seas…’ ” ~ dfh
To learn more about the early years of the U.S. Navy, visit the U.S. Naval Historical Center website or go to  http://www.military.com/navy-birthday

BEWARE TREASON FROM WITHIN

“A nation can survDisease is Spreadingive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” –Cicero