Only when the chips are down do you really know! - Thanks Charles
“THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN’S SOULS”
by Arnie Rosner
(Apr. 21, 2010) — Fair-weather friends are a dime a dozen. You can spot them a mile away.
Like politicians, fair-weather friends are those who believe in telling you what you want to hear. Basically they are gutless cowards and lack the intestinal fortitude to act in the capacity of a real human being. They fear confrontation.
Sound a little harsh? It was meant to be. Many people have lost the idea of what it means to be an independent American, an American who has no guilt and no need to apologize just because someone tells them so.
Somewhere along the line, the idea of political correctness has permeated our thought process. It has become so bad that people seem to apologize for a difference in opinion in an effort to be considered polite. They seem to forget that it is the difference of opinion and views that make Americans, Americans!
The latest Pew polls indicate that a large portion of the US population feels threatened by our government. I am one of those who agree. So it is very fitting at this point, when the chips are down, to recognize that one man has stepped forward to meet his rendezvous with destiny.
One man with such dignity, courage, integrity, and strength of character, that he is single-handedly, against all odds, and AT great personal sacrifice, voluntarily picked up the torch of liberty. Make no mistake about it: he is taking this stand for you and me. The magnitude of this personal sacrifice is overwhelming.
This American hero is leading the charge when all of those to whom this responsibility belongs have abandoned their stations, violated their oaths which they swore to uphold and deserted the Constitution of the United States. The fact that they also deserted the American people, the rule of law and principles of justice are of a minor consequence in comparison.
Who is this hero? Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.
Many people seem puzzled by Lt. Col. Lakin’s actions. They lack the understanding and appreciation for his act of heroism. They have no clue as to the significance or the level of courage and bravery his stand requires. Well, maybe you don’t see it, but I can tell you from my vantage point, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin has essentially thrown himself on a live hand grenade in an effort to bring law and order and justice back to the American people.
I can promise you this: in the entire history of our country, there will only be a few good men like Colonel Lakin who will distinguish themselves in such a manner. He is a national hero and one to be appreciated, admired, and recognized for standing up for the American ideals when the chips were down.
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I support Lt. Col. Lakin completely and appreciate the tremendous professional and personal sacrifice he is making. Also, a special “thank you” to his wife and family. I pray that I may also be courageous in defending our Country and its Constitution.
I too appreciate the sacrifice he and his family are making. I hope it works to make military and government officials do what they should have done BEFORE the election.
I support Lt. Col. Lakin and stand with him. 1 man out to stop the evil going on in DC now and all over the world. He needs our backing so let us give it to him in love .
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Thomas Paine knew what he was speaking of when he made the now famous comment “These are the times that try men’s souls.’ Support Lakin in every way including your pocketbook.
Paine is the forgotten Founding Father that was most responsible for the American Revolution and fight against tyranny. His Common Sense pamphlets and Rights of Man opened the eyes of the common people and gave them hope and faith in themselves. His Age of Reason gave them the truth of ‘revealed’ religions and no one has ever been able to refute that evidence. Paine was the one who produced the title ‘The United States of America’.
Some important quotes of an American genius: It is time to stop the lies of our heritage and get back to the truth that will set this nation free as our Founders intended.
What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793-5), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than any book that ever existed.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle’s Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professed to believe in man rather than in God. It is as near to atheism as twilight to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious or irreligious eclipse of the light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations), also found inVictor J Stenger, Has Science Found God? (2001)
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! this is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God. The Word of God exists in something else.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech and practically construct them into syntax.
– Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791), thanks to Laird Wilcox, ed, The Writer’s Rights (2002) p. 31
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.
– Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Part ii. (Probably this is the original of Napoleon’s celebrated mot, “Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas” [From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step]. — Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations Online.)