This makes me proud to be a Legionaire!!!

Legion post donates $2 million to Fisher House
Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Fisher House Foundation and Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated the 43rd Fisher House in Brentwood, Calif., earlier this month. American Legion Pacific Palisades Post 283 donated more than $2 million to the project.

The American Legion Pacific Palisades Post 283 ... donated $2.125 million to us," said Jim Weiskopf, Fisher House Foundations executive vice president of communications. After placing a call to The American Legion's National Headquarters, Weiskopf learned the amount was the largest single donation ever made by an American Legion post.
"We're the veterans of past wars, and we know what our young people and their families are going through," Cozolino said. "That's the reason I and my members love The American Legion. We really are vets helping vets."

more stimuli

Yeah...and Dimocrats, too.

…and another thing: The Republicans keep complaining about how most of that $789,000,000,000 isn’t really a stimulus because so much of it won’t be spent for several years.

SHUT UP, already!

The Dimocrats rammed this thing through before anyone had a chance to read the dirty details, and we’ll have over a year to pick it apart and lay the whole stinkin’ thing at their feet. Then we take back the Congress and repeal this mess before our kids get stuck with the tab.

Patriotus stimulare

One legitimate criticism of George Bush' conduct of the war is that he did not ask the majority of Americans to sacrifice anything to achieve victory. All we had to do to insure the defeat of terrorism was to "go shopping". By way of contrast, the homefront during World War II was caught up in war bond drives, converting civilian industry to building war materials, collecting metal for tanks, making patriotic (some say 'propaganda') movies and so forth.

During last year's political campaign, Vice President Biden may have stumbled onto something when he said that it is every American's patriotic duty to pay taxes. The stimulus plan just passed by Congress has been rightly criticized from almost every angle. Really, though, to make it more palatable could be as simple as pointing out how much the current economic situation has hurt the likes of OPEC, Russia, Iran and Venezuela. Sure it's a sacrifice for Americans to watch their retirement savings disappear, but if it helps marginalize nasty tyrants like Putin, Chavez and the others, maybe it's worth it!

I'd feel better about it, though, if most of those IOU's weren't going to be held by China and Saudi Arabia.