Barrack Obama Vs John McCain

On the eve of many reasons to remember the day Barrack Obama accepted his party's nomination for the office of the President of The United States. John McCain took a night off of attack ads to congratulate the young Senator on his win over Hillary Clinton.
After listening to the Messiah, or the chosen one what ever you want to call him speak the only thing that came to mind is all he can come up with to attack McCain on is his voting record in that he voted with President Bush most of the time. Well Senator if that's all you got its going to be a very long 2 months till the election.
Now as the country and most of the world wait for the announcement of who Sen. John McCain will pick for his running mate we learn that it will not be the much anticipated Gov. Mitt Romney, or Tim Pawlenty. The other choices are the Gov from Alaska Sarah Palin. At 44 years old she is the Mother of 5 and a young Conservative being only in her early 40's. Is this the right choice for McCain. I think it is almost to mock the comments of McCain being an Old man. I'm sure that McCain has don't his research on his choice but I just don't see what she has to bring to the table.
She was a former sports reporter, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla city council. As Gov of our largest state she has a approval rating in the 90's. I just hope the McCain camp knows whats it doing. I personally feel McCain has lost his damn mind.
The other choice going around the air waves is former CEO of Ebay Meg Whitman as well as former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
As far as picking either Mrs. Palin or Mrs. Whitman goes the one thing the Obama camp cant attack is lack of experience due to the top of the Democratic being just as light.
Now the rumors of McCain picking Lieberman as his running mate have been going around for weeks. Sen McCain has a reputation of reaching over to the other side for help on getting bills passed. I doubt that McCain would cross the isle for a V.P. pick. Until they announce I guess we will all just have to wait and see what happens

Confederate Flag

Now for as long as I can remember the confederate flag was a symbol of the south. I want to let you read this article before I go on with what I want to say. This came from foxnews.com

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tommy DeFoe wore his Southern pride on his Confederate flag belt buckle Wednesday as he argued in federal court that a school dress code banning such items violated his free speech rights.

"I am fighting for my heritage and my rights as a Southerner and an American," said the lanky DeFoe, 18, during a break in his trial.

DeFoe says his great-great uncle served in the Confederate army and "died for the South" in the Civil War.

But heritage was not the issue for Anderson County school officials who suspended DeFoe more than 40 times before he received his certificate of completion from the county vocational school last fall.

DeFoe's trial, which began Monday and is being heard by an all-white jury, is the latest in a string of cases across the South since the 1990s challenging dress codes that banned Confederate flag apparel: a prom gown in Kentucky, purses in Texas, T-shirts in Kentucky, South Carolina and Georgia.

It is unusual for such cases to go to a jury trial, however. Most were settled with a payment to the plaintiffs, said DeFoe attorney Kirk Lyons, who has been involved in many of the cases as chief trial lawyer for the North Carolina-based Southern Legal Resource Center. Others were thrown out by the judge.

DeFoe's lawyers claim the issue is whether the school system can ban the Confederate flag, a symbol of racism to some, if it causes no substantial disruption, Lyons said.

But officials in Anderson County, in East Tennessee not far from Knoxville, said they feared racial tension and violence if DeFoe continued to wear his Confederate flag shirts and belt buckle to class.

All sides agree his clothing failed to draw much notice at Anderson High School, where one of 1,160 students is black, or at the vocational school, where all 200 students are white.

But officials worried about the impact at Clinton High School six miles away, where about 100 of 1,200 students are black. Clinton High was the first public school desegregated by court order in the Old South in 1956 and was rocked by three massive explosions that temporarily closed the school in 1958.

"If he had worn at Clinton High what he wore at Anderson High it would have been a riot, somebody would have clobbered him," said county school board chairman John Burrell, one of several officials DeFoe is suing.

Yet Burrell said DeFoe clearly was "challenging the system. He knew the dress code. His father knew the dress code. He signed the dress code. He was challenging it."

Until 2001, the dress code for all Anderson County schools specifically banned the Confederate flag. Then the policy was rewritten to more general language "because we were afraid we would leave something out," Burrell said. Still, he said it was understood Confederate flag apparel wasn't allowed.

DeFoe's lawsuit questions why other symbols aren't banned, including the Mexican flag, the Canadian flag, political campaign buttons and images of Martin Luther King Jr.

He said other students wore Confederate flag clothing without consequence.

"I felt like I was the one who stood up for" what he believed in, he said

Now after I read that the first thing that came to my mind was a shirt that I used to have. It had a rebel flag on it and said If this offends you you need a history lesson. I could see the school system getting upset if the kid was wearing a burning cross, but this is a flag from history. I bet they dont say a damn thing when African American students wear FUBU or a Malcome X shirt or Black History shirt.

I dont think the kid is in the wrong, keep in mind there was only 1 black student at that school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center .

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, 'those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,' recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. 'It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.'

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the 'hair on my neck stood up.' 'It had a big meaning to it for all of us,' he said. 'They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.'

The ship's motto? 'Never Forget'

Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country!