say it ain't so

Via Sammy:

Sam emailed this YouTube video of a panel discussion of “radical Islam”. You may be interested in the comments of Col. West. He is one man who, “tells it like it is”. This is definitely worth the watch.

I thought my son-in-law Nick and buddy Sam would particularly enjoy this music video:

All that I can say to this video is, “Me too!”

Abraham Lincoln was without a doubt America’s greatest president.  His greatness is the result of the tremendous trial of the Civil War, which could have been a lesser man’s undoing.  But not Lincoln, who stayed the course of right and preserved the Union.    It may be time to re-read the most well known and  important speech ever given by a United States president – The Gettysburg Address:

“Fourscore 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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.”

May this country be so blessed that we may again find a Mr. Lincoln in our future.

Additional Reading:  Remembering Mr. Lincoln - Powerline

Who wants to drive???

Click on this link.  Then click open.

I understand that this billboard is in both Minnesota and Wyoming

I would just like to wish my dad a happy birthday.  I’ve concluded he’s hit the ripe age of 43 today.

(Don’t worry, he did get a call from me!)

Also, the “apple household” is excited about the introduction of the iPad.  Nick had some doubts about it, but looked into it a little more and it seems promising.

This product looks like it has some great capabilities, and is worth checking out.  Enjoy!

http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

(Dad, I’m starting on my Christmas list early this year!)

Love,

Katy

Congratulations to Elishia and Sammy Licavoli on the arrival of Addyson Rose.   Mother and baby are doing well.  We wish the new family all of God’s blessings.    Oh, couldn’t help but noticing the huge grin on Grandpa’s face too.

Now Sammy, there is an offical weight and length recorded (7lbs 7.6oz and 19 inches long),   so no “Fish Tales”, eh?