Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
For perhaps the first time in her career, Democratic presidential
candidate Elizabeth Warren has made a good public policy proposal,
saying that Facebook should be broken up and noting correctly
that “Zuckerberg himself said Facebook is ‘more like a government than a
traditional company.’ They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private
information for profit, undermined our democracy, and tilted the playing
field against everyone else.’” But now she has made clear that her
problem with Facebook is not that it is behaving like a totalitarian
state, demonizing and silencing those whom it hates, but that it is not
authoritarian enough.
Facebook top dog Mark Zuckerburg said
in the now-famous leaked audio from last July: “You have someone like
Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the
companies… If [Warren] gets elected president, then I would bet that we
will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal
challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah.”
Yeah. Especially since Warren is not backing off. “Facebook’s anti-competitive mergers,” Fauxcahontas tweeted Tuesday,
“mean they face no real pressure to tackle disinformation.” What is
disinformation, as far as Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues on the
far-Left are concerned? Anything that dissents from their own agenda,
and particularly anything that portrays in a positive light President
Trump or anything he has done or attempted to do.
Warren and Facebook, as opposed
as they are to each other recently, are both well aware that the
Democrats went into 2016 carrying around all of the establishment media
(with the partial exception of Fox News) in their pocket like so many
nickels and dimes. They knew that they could count on the New York Times, the Washington Post,
the TV networks, and the rest to provide relentlessly negative coverage
of Trump and unremittingly positive presentations of Hillary Clinton.
They knew that the major “news” outlets would do all they could to cover
up Clinton’s manifest corruption and obviously off-putting personality.
Yet she still lost. She lost
because Trump and his supporters took to social media to counter the
media propaganda, and they prevailed. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and
the rest are determined not to let this happen again in 2020, and ever
since their 2016 debacle have been working assiduously to ban,
shadowban, deplatform, and otherwise silence all voices that dissent
from the hard-Left agenda, however mildly. The only voices they’re going
to allow you to hear in 2020 are their own. Dissenters will not be
tolerated. There is much more.
