MEMORIAL DAY 2011

We first published this poem in another venue, back in 1997. It is if anything even more meaningful today. The quote at the end is an actual quote from my father, a veteran of WWII.

THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Arlington Cemetery February 17 1997

"This is for your Daddy. He died in the war" the young mother said to her little son,

As she arranged the flowers to decorate the grave.

There are those Others

Who have no grave, who were mangled beyond recognition or so torn to pieces

In that grinding, howling fiery Hell that separates Tyranny from Freedom

That nothing remained of them. These

Have a Tomb. In a place

Called Arlington, a lone guard halts at smart attention. The POP!

of heel meeting heel rings out

Like a rifle fired in salute.

POP! The guard does "Left-Face", and stares down the valley beside the tomb.

Let none approach and disturb the Rest of these Honored Dead!

POP! The guard again does "left face", and his Rifle gives a click-clack warning as it goes to left-shoulder arms.

With its sharp and silvery Bayonet, it will ever be between this Tomb and any who would dare approach.

A twenty-one second pause and then

As soft as shadows on the grass,

Twenty-one steps in an arrow-straight line, then,

POP! - pause - POP! Click-clack! until

Deep and solemn, a bell rings out. Suddenly

A Sergeant appears with a relief guard, fresh and alert.

The sergeant inspects the relief guard. Nothing but perfection every way will do

Words are but terse commands, and few.

Finally the guards face each other. The Post Orders are exchanged:

"POSTINGS AND ORDERS

REMAIN AS DIRECTED!"

Four more commands from the Sergeant, and then:

POP! - pause - POP! Click-Clack! and another guard walks twenty one steps. This

will continue until the very hours which prompt the bell ringing are no more. For here

More, much more

than a Palace or a Treasury of gold;

Here lie the hopes, the dreams, the very lives of all who never returned.

These, their delegation, lie here beneath the inscription:

HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY

AN AMERICAN SOLDIER

KNOWN BUT TO GOD

You, who live in this Country,

you who pronounce the milk rancid and the honey bitter even as you gorge yourselves on both,

Consider now these Honored Dead, and consider that but for their sacrifice,

You might well live in a place where you would be dead should you offer anything but praise

to the powers that be. So now praise God for the Fruit of the Tree

Of Liberty. The blood of these soldiers were its necessary Fertilizer. Their bodies

Were broken by the raging tides of Tyranny

So that it may not even so much as wash over your feet.

And you, whose loved one never returned;

This is for your Daddy, who died in the War.

My own father survived. When I asked him to come tell people about his war, he said:

"IF THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WAR,

THEN LET THEM COME TO ARLINGTON"

Where the Dead rest in Honored Glory

And the Postings and Orders

Remain

As Directed.

RETARDS

YES, THE CAUSE DU JOUR FOR THE LEFT SEEMS TO BE BANNING THE WORD "RETARD" TO DESCRIBE AN INEPT OR STUPID PERSON. WE SUPPOSE CALLING AN INEPT UMPIRE BLIND WILL BE NEXT.

Down Austin, Texas way the Statist Left has banned the entire film "Napoleon Dynamite" because the word "retard" was used. Oh, a film like "Dazed and Confused" which is replete with drug use, underage drinking and teenage horniness is A-OK with these folks. But say "retard" in a movie and the whole thing gets tossed.

We suppose "moron" will be next. There are actually people who are of a certain level of mental defectiveness who are known as "morons"; maybe next we'll be called on to stop calling idiots "morons" to avoid insulting morons like the Lefties and their leader "president" obama (we told you in our last post that his name no longer rates a capital letter, and when the retarded moron flubbed the toast to Queen Elizabeth II, he fully justified losing the capitalization of his name. What a retard.)

TORNADOES AND CLIMATE CHANGE PROPAGANDA

W ITH THE RECENT SPATE OF TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST, THE MEDIA ARE IN A FULL-TILT RUSH TO USE THESE TRAGIC EVENTS TO TOUT THE DISCREDITED IDEA THAT "MAN-MADE" GLOBAL WARMING IS TO BLAME.

In this day's Washington Post, an article about the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri described it as a multiple-vortex tornado, which it almost certainly was. BUT, "multiple vortex" tornadoes were described as a "rare phenomenon", which they most certainly are NOT.

In fact, most large twisters are multiple vortex events. Dr. Ted Fujita, the father of modern tornado science found this out early on. This is easily verified by a look at his research, or by viewing any of myriad tornado videos on YouTube.

Moreover, the size of a tornado has next to nothing to do with its destructive force. There have been EF-5 twisters less than 100 yards across (and with but a single vortex); and there have been EF 1 tornadoes half a mile wide (and with multiple vortices).

As for the number of twisters - and there has been an unusual number of tornadoes this year - well, there's another phenomenon out there called El Nino, which every few years sends weather patterns into a tizzy.

Now, one might think that "president" Obama (pretty soon we are going to stop capitalizing his name, he's just that worthless) would be rushing back from his latest junket

to see to the victims of this disaster.

BUT NOOOOOO...

No, instead he announced that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the victims.

Then, without further ado, he hurried off to have tea and crumpets with the glamour couple of the hour, Prince William Duke of Cambridge and his wife the Dutchess Kate.

What a blowhole.

AN OPEN LETTER TO HAROLD CAMPING

Mister Camping:

GREETINGS

Well sir, at least one person has disappeared in the wake of 5/21/2011.

That person, of course, would be YOU.

Not that anyone could blame you. There are some folks who dumped their life savings into buying billboards and advertisements for what turned out to be a FARCE. And I bet there are no records of these monies, because (after all) who'd need records with the world coming to an end?

Now I am not saying you did anything larcenous. But you've gotta admit, this would be the biggest religious scam in history. Just think: Convince a bunch of schnooks to put up dough to the tune of say ten million to put up ads and billboards. Cash, please; because this is an URGENT MATTER; and no reciepts because who's going to need one if you really and truly believe the world is done for? Then get the work done cheap (or free!) by (ideally) some more schnooks who believe your crapola. And again, no reciept asked or given. Pocket the difference and take off for who-knows-where with maybe six or seven million bucks.

I certainly hope you were not pulling some type of religion-based skin game like that. But you MUST be aware that people will be asking questions. And as you are aware, the Bible states that police officers are ministers of God ("he beareth not the sword in vain") and they are not stupid. Right now I can tell you - although I have not talked to a single cop about this - that various State, Federal, and local law-enforcement entities are looking into this to see if there was maybe some jiggery-pokery going on. And your apparent disappearance does nothing to allay these suspicions.

Even I was impressed when I looked at your web site and found some rather compelling arguments. But I also noticed that you have added a whole bunch of gimcrack aluminum-siding conditions to God's simple plan of salvation, and made a two step (1: If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is God, and 2: believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved ) process into a freaking labyrinth.

Mr. Camping, if the period from 1988 to now is the "Great Tribulation" then I am black and blue. Satan may have control of some churches, but not all of them by a long shot. And you leave out a whole bunch of stuff: the one-world government of the Antichrist, the "666" business, lots of it. When I saw that, I was prepared to dismiss your prediction as a lot of hooey. But then certain events involving Israel alarmed me sufficiently to post here that at least the date of the Rapture might just be true.

Saturday came and went. The closest I got to a "rapture" was when I was changing a tire. The lug nuts were on so tight I nearly got a rupture from trying to loosen them. Well, I didn't get to Heaven. But then I don't have a hernia, so I'll call it a wash.

You have succeeded spectacularly in one area and one area alone. You have given so much ammunition to those who ridicule the Word of God as a fairy tale that it is likely that not a few people will stop their ears at the mention of the Gospel.

Mr. Camping, you need to come into the public light and account for this travesty. You said that "the Bible guarantee(d)" your prediction. In the light of what has transpired, you have given many people good reason to say that the Bible is a lot of hooey. It is not, and if you believe that, then you need to come forward and explain yourself.

And now I will leave it to the LORD to deal with you. That, after all, is His department. I'm a tad busy running my small office in the Kingdom (and I'm far from perfect, so I;m really busy in

that regard also).

I close with the customary farewell:

Yours in Christ,

F. Allen Norman Jr.

DISAPPOINTMENT

Well, folks; as you know Harold Camping predicted a huge global earthquake beginning at 6PM at the International Date Line and moving west with the hour, to be accompanied by the Rapture of Christians in its path.

Bother. EVEN accounting for Daaylight Savings Time, it's been six PM halfway around the globe by now. In fact, at the International Date Line right now it's 6:30 AM TOMORROW.

Yet not even a tremor has been reported anywhere.

Too bad. I'd have loved to get off this fechachtehleh planet. I guess there isn't gonna be any Rap

THE RAPTURE MAY BE TOMORROW AFTER ALL

IN A PREVIOUS POST WE VOICED SKEPTICISM OF EVANGELIST HAROLD CAMPING'S PREDICTION OF A GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE AND OTHER HORRORS TO ACCOMPANY THE RAPTURE OF CHRISTIANS TOMORROW. HOWEVER, RECENT EVENTS INDICATE CAMPING MAY BE RIGHT AT LEAST ABOUT THE RAPTURE.

Two days ago, "Palestinians" attempted a mass march across Israel's borders from four sides.

Yesterday "President" Obama basically threw Israel under the bus in his middle-east policy speech, directed at the Moslem world. If somebody doesn't stop this jug-eared Communist nincompoop, things are going to get really bad.

But The Alexandria Daily Poop has some semi-good news for all you non-Christians out there: There won't be any earthquake. A whole bunch of missing persons, maybe. But no big worldwide earthquake.

Instead, IF tomorrow is the day all the Christians are taken out of the world; then that will mark the start of a time that will see a one-world government, a phony brokered peace between the Jews and the Moslems, and which will culminate in the great final battle of Armageddon.t Events leading up to this battle will include the Antichrist, mark of 666 and all the rest of it.

As I said, it's semi-good news for you all. The bad news is, you will be stuck here, and if you don't follow the Antichrist you will die horribly; and if you do you will be damned.

We also don't think the Rapture will even be exactly tomorrow. Our opinion is "no man knows the day or hour", but right now it looks to us as if the situation is that of a very pregnant woman Nobody knows the exact day or hour the baby will be born, either. But the signs are unmistakable that the due date is very near indeed. Very very near.

SEDITION ON THE COMICS PAGE

TODAY IN THE COMICS SECTION OF THE WASHINGTON POST, YET ANOTHER SUBTLE ATTEMPT TO CORRUPT THE YOUTH OF THIS COUNTRY WAS ON DISPLAY.

The offending segment was one of the newer comics, "Barney and Clyde". This particular strip has as its central characters a rich "Big Pharma" CEO and a homeless guy who befriends him. They often meet on a park bench, where the wise homeless guy instructs the rich CEO of the evil drug manufacturer in "social justice" issues.

(The rich guy listens because he's got a guilty conscience)

Well.

In today's episode, the bum is explaining to the rich guy that "American exceptionalism" is NOT the same thing as patriotism.

"A patriot' the bum explains, 'loves his country"

Then, going into full-bore clownish mockery, the bum continues, "An exceptionalist loves America because it's the best, sweetest rootin' tootin' country in the whole wide world!!"

A kid reading this strip will recieve the message that the belief that America is the best country in the world is silly.

Here at the Alexandria Daily Poop, we are more than a bit tired of this kind of leftist horse crap. We are beginning to think that the guy who draws that strip maybe should be taken to a meeting with some patriots armed with baseball bats in some alley, there to be forced to drink castor oil until he has to try to hail a cab after crapping his pants.

Trouble is, a patriot cannot do that, because that is a tactic of the Left. And it's too bad.

This is not the first time the Washington Post has endeavoured to corrupt the young and politicize them.

Just before George W. Bush was elected, the Post ran a piece in its "Kid's Post" section purporting to explain the Electoral College. The reason the Electoral College exists, according to the article, was to protect the American People from themselves in case they made an outrageously bad choice for President.

Then the Electoral College voted for George W. Bush, and immediately it was explained that the EC is an "outdated" organization that skews democracy.

In ancient Greece, persons found guilty of corrupting the youth had a choice of exile or drinking poison.

Now here we are, and we can't even force the Posties to drink castor oil, let alone run them out of town. And it's too damn bad.

NATIONAL POLICE WEEK

TODAY IS MAY 15TH, NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL DAY. AND ALTHOUGH MANY IF NOT MOST OF US COMMONLY THINK OF POLICE EITHER AS A NUISANCE IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR OR AS A SERVICE TO BE CALLED ON IN CASE OF TROUBLE, THAT PERCEPTION INSTANTLY CHANGES ONCE SOME TERRIFYING EVENT PRODUCES A DIRE NEED FOR THEIR SERVICES.

Instantly, they become saviours, in a twinkling they are no longer a gang of flatfoot donut gobblers but the most heroic people on Earth. I have with my own eyes seen a young man who constantly referred to the cops as "pigs" and worse break down and cry on the shoulder of a police officer who had just saved him from being killed by a pack of hoodlums.

Consider what these highly trained professionals do every day. When I was in my younger years, I - like most people of that age - considered the police to be something to put up with and avoid if possible. Cops with radar guns helped temporarily end my driving priveleges more than once. Other police officers who spotted me making illegal u-turns and driving with full-time bright lights helped out.

Now, however, I realize that these cops were protecting the rest of us from me, and doing me a service into the bargain. Because I now realize what I had been doing presented one hell of a danger. I drive for a living now, and I know now what a hazard my behavior presented.

Every traffic stop a cop makes is fraught with danger. A driver who looks like Mr. John Q. Average may have just murdered his family, and be prepared to kill to escape capture. Or he may be a wanted fugitive. Or possibly be just a general cop-hater or other variety of nutball.

In most cases, however, the driver has done nothing more than commit the traffic violation the cop has observed. The police are, however, only human; and like anyone else they grow tired of being constantly lied to. Oh, the usual lame excuses and claims of ignorance are usually dealt with in pretty good humor. But running a solid red light and claiming it was green; or claiming that you were going 30 MPH at the accident scene when you have left fifty feet of black skid marks on the pavement will sorely test the officer's professional manner.

Most cops are at root just regular folks like everybody else. They love their families, they love their communities, and they love their nation. So much so that they put themselves in harm's way daily.

And not just harm from bad guys, either; but from your average garden variety moron who blows past a traffic stop at 70 MPH and clips a cop who has stopped another motorist. Or consider this:

A few years ago in Arlington, Virginia; some hucklebuck got pig-faced drunk and stripped buck naked and ran out into the middle of a major secondary road. He was six feet plus, weighed almost four hundred pounds, and stood naked in the middle of South Walter Reed Drive threatening motorists and passers-by. The Arlington cops closed off the street and tried less-lethal measures, with no effect.

Finally, the drunken jerk squatted down in the middle of the road to defecate. That's when the cops jumped him and wrestled him into handcuffs.

I'm willing to bet that not a few uniforms were "dry-cleaned" with gasoline and a match after that one.

The heroism of the police officers who ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001 is most often cited, and indeed it is remarkable that these officers did so in order to save lives knowing that it could at any moment be too late both for the trapped people and them. And as it turned out, when the towers fell, they crushed many brave police officers beneath tons of concrete.

But it is important to remember that the courage that led to those officers' eternaal sacrifice is on display every single day somwhere in this Nation. Yet, to paraphrase a well known poem:

In times of danger, and not before

God and the policeman, all people adore

Danger over and all things righted.

God is forgotten,

the policeman, slighted.

Not by me. Police officers of these United States, wherever you are, the Alexandria Daily Poop says:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

BIN LADEN FINALLY RUN TO GROUND AND KILLED

WE CAN THINK OF NOTHING MORE SATISFYING THAN THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PREDICTION THAT THE LAST THING OSAMA BIN LADEN WOULD EVER SEE WOULD BE THE MUZZLE OF A FIREARM WITH AN AMERICAN SOLDIER BEHIND IT.

Many thanks to the brave Navy SEALS who risked their lives to bring about final justice and to expose this cowardly piece of dog shit for who he really was.

No longer will the Islamist loons be able to say bin Laden is "protected by Allah". And he died a coward, he dies YELLOW, hiding behind a woman. His miserable corpse was pushed over the side of an American aircraft carrier, and he is now shark shit.

Of course, "president" Obama was quick to claim full credit for this.

But the truth is, the path to bin Laden began with the name of a courier given up by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who gurgled it out after his umpteenth waterboarding. This was done under President George Walker Bush's watch, and Obama excoriated Bush for this practice during the 2008 campaign.

If "president" Obama had had his 'druthers, this lead would never have surfaced.

Here's Obama's role in this glad event: The U.S. Intelligence services reported they had run Obama down. At that moment he could have ordered that he be bombed to death OR captured or killed in a raid, or that our people hold off until later. Obama chose the second option.

All Obama did was greenlight the raid and killing. That's it. He's STILL a foreign and domestic policy disaster. His presidency is STILL a disgraceful catastrophe. The Alexandria Daily Poop STILL calls for his resignation or impeachment.

SATIRE: OBAMA RESPONDS TO TORNADO EMERGENCY

NOTICE: THIS IS SATIRE. THAT MEANS IT'S A GOOF ON THE JOKE OF A "PRESIDENT" WE ARE STUCK WITH.

ALABAMA, APRIL 29 2011

OBAMA TOURS TORNADO DESTRUCTION

"President" Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm MMMMM finally found time to take a tour of the destruction wrought by the outbreak of tornadoes in that state.

"Gee, whiz. I've never seen anything like this" he said; indicating he has yet to look back on his "presidency" so far. 'Wow, that's toughie beans for these folks." He then got back into his convoy and sped off amid shouted questions about when FEMA would be coming with some luxuries such as food, water and fuel.

Once back in the White House, he briefed the White House Press Corps. Here are his remarks:

"I just got back from looking at the damage from the tornadoes down in Alabama. And you know, it struck me as I looked at the debris and the families picking through the wreckage and all of it, that these folks and Big Oil and Big Coal and the Republicans are the cause of such desolation. Global warming and the greenhouse gasses put out by all the internal combustion engines and all put all this energy in the atmosphere.

And another thing that came to mind was that so many people say that wind turbines cannot generate enough power. Well, wind did all this; so I guess there is enough wind power after all.

Ig we had been running on wind power instead of fossil fuel, there wouldn't be any wind to do all this damage. So there .. um.. wouldn't be any wind to um... what happened to my Teleprompter?" he said before walking out.

Meanwhile, FEMA is STILL a no show, leading to the inescapable conclusion:

Barack Obama hates white people.