<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:19:46.521-07:00</updated><title type='text'>21st Century America</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-115136534474752827</id><published>2006-06-26T16:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T16:42:24.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GOD  BLESS  AMERICA  ?</title><content type='html'>God Bless America?  Let us never do anything that will give The Almighty a moment's&lt;br /&gt;hesitation of a doubt for such a Sublime Benediction!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-115136534474752827?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/115136534474752827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=115136534474752827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/115136534474752827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/115136534474752827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/06/god-bless-america.html' title='GOD  BLESS  AMERICA  ?'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114991952497136148</id><published>2006-06-09T22:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T21:19:51.243-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Current World Opinion</title><content type='html'>Quite a few Americans mention how ashamed they are because the Iraq War has destroyed our reputation in the world, and quite apart of the old cliche': Never show a fool a half-finished job; not one of the 190 other Member States of the United Nations has stood up, drew its line in the sand of moral outrage, and broke off Diplomatic Relations with the Evil American Empire.  Is the rest of the world just motivated by realpolitique?  Or do I have a lurking, sneaking suspicion they're glad we're there holding back the barbarians at the gates?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114991952497136148?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114991952497136148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114991952497136148' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114991952497136148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114991952497136148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/06/current-world-opinion.html' title='Current World Opinion'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114936887390836934</id><published>2006-06-03T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T08:58:15.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gay Marriage an Unnatural Act</title><content type='html'>Same Sex Marriage has nothing to do with God's Law, Constitutional Law, or Social Mores.  It is against Natural Law.  Same Sex Marriage will never produce natural childbirth, which is why Evolutionary Law assigned a male and female union for the procreation of all species.  You can dance around with semantics all you want.  Homosexuality maybe loving, caring, nurturing hedonism.  It maybe a natural form of birth control.  The absolute fact is that Same Sex Marriage is Unnatural: Contary to Nature!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114936887390836934?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114936887390836934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114936887390836934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114936887390836934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114936887390836934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/06/gay-marriage-unnatural-act.html' title='Gay Marriage an Unnatural Act'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114841274962269086</id><published>2006-05-23T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-19T10:47:28.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Vietnam War: Selective Memory Loss</title><content type='html'>The use of Vietnam as a news-speak buzzword for the current Iraq War is the residual thinking of historical selective memory loss. First, the Vietnam War was the easiest this country ever fought. It was fought on overtime. Only given a second thought when it came on the six 0'clock&lt;br /&gt;news after the America's workday was over. Now, name one battle we ever lost, one major unit that was wiped out to a man, or surrendered en mass. The jungle hid you from the enemy, and the muddy rice paddies soaked up shrapnel like a sponge. We were not facing fanatical Japanese, dedicated Waffen SS, nor endless human waves of Chinese infantry in below-zero Korea. It only took one field radio operator to conjure up a vast array of killing technology to send the VC or NVA scurring to their holes. Secondly, for the pundits who require military defeats to mix and match their analogies, there is the U.S. Army 106th Golden Lion Division that&lt;br /&gt;surrendered to the first German units they encountered at the Belgium town of St Vith in December 1944. There were no heroic Alamo last stands, just white flags. Lastly, military duty&lt;br /&gt;is a give-and-take of death. If casualties upset you, then petition Congress to disband the armed&lt;br /&gt;forces, and you will have peace in your time. As for the cheap shot that Vietnam was an immoral&lt;br /&gt;war? President Nixon ended the draft in 1971. As soon as that happened, all campus and major demonstrations against the war evaporated! Yet the war went on until March 1975.&lt;br /&gt;Just like the war in Iraq, no draft, no concern. Well there is certainly concern over the dollar&lt;br /&gt;cost.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114841274962269086?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114841274962269086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114841274962269086' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114841274962269086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114841274962269086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/vietnam-war-selective-memory-loss.html' title='The Vietnam War: Selective Memory Loss'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114826375740824859</id><published>2006-05-21T19:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T21:22:30.013-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6480/3015/1600/my%20photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6480/3015/320/my%20photo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114826375740824859?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114826375740824859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114826375740824859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114826375740824859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114826375740824859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114824635653707979</id><published>2006-05-21T13:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T14:19:16.553-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sergeant Major Brown : A Dedication</title><content type='html'>Eisenhower and Swartskoft, good Germans one and all&lt;br /&gt;Must lead a Rathskeller Putsch, to save America from beyond recall&lt;br /&gt;Alas Ike has been dead since Saigon's fall&lt;br /&gt;The other shits in a bag attached to his colon wall&lt;br /&gt;For this is no time for a liberal sermon&lt;br /&gt;America needs a leader precise as a German&lt;br /&gt;So we voted for Crusader Rabbit but got the Cowboy instead&lt;br /&gt;Because something was broken, and floating loose in our head&lt;br /&gt;But as the blind Milton said for all to hear&lt;br /&gt;Where no hope was left, was left no fear&lt;br /&gt;The results not withstanding this election year&lt;br /&gt;Never-the-less in first week of November, hope remained&lt;br /&gt;But we got a coup de theatre instead of a coup de main&lt;br /&gt;With everyone pointing fingers at whose to blame&lt;br /&gt;Now the Bush Administration will have its say&lt;br /&gt;By fiat, diktat, and coup d' autorite&lt;br /&gt;A manifest example of this was the call out list&lt;br /&gt;To the veterans of the Vietnam War&lt;br /&gt;Most of whom were thoroughly pissed&lt;br /&gt;At the prospect of another combat tour&lt;br /&gt;So when the official envelopes arrived in the mail&lt;br /&gt;Nearly everyone went anal retentive and pale&lt;br /&gt;Except Veteran Brown, the last true Alpha Male&lt;br /&gt;Who spends his time getting juvenile offenders out of jail&lt;br /&gt;Just worried his drink was going stale&lt;br /&gt;Deftly pulled the tab on another 16 ounces of Balantine Ale&lt;br /&gt;A Catholic Charities Family Counselor of late&lt;br /&gt;Must now tender his resignation and once more step up to the plate&lt;br /&gt;Because Jesus and The President say return to duty and except your fate&lt;br /&gt;For the Jesuit Fathers are predisposed&lt;br /&gt;To lable a Christen who doesn't kill heretics an Emperator without clothes&lt;br /&gt;George Brown was not stupid, and took the view&lt;br /&gt;This was some twisted back version of Corinthians Two&lt;br /&gt;Still this ex-prep school boy was no traitor to his class&lt;br /&gt;Even when the Jesuit Fathers had fondled him after mass&lt;br /&gt;So he put away his rosary and forgot about Zen&lt;br /&gt;Time to blow off the dust and read Nietzsche again&lt;br /&gt;Now told the enemy is a raghead this time instead of a slope&lt;br /&gt;But to war with America, you must be on dope&lt;br /&gt;Always ready to praise the Lord and pass the ammunition&lt;br /&gt;George did have a seditious thought&lt;br /&gt;That oil revenues were below maximum manumission&lt;br /&gt;But this wasn't the time to dwell on oilwells&lt;br /&gt;Better to be like the Navy at General Quarters and answer all bells&lt;br /&gt;With patriotic alacrity George joined the crusade&lt;br /&gt;And found himself veteran platoon sergeant in the Pops Brigade&lt;br /&gt;Not so long ago he zippoed hooches and shot up sampans&lt;br /&gt;Now he yearns his marching orders from that Yalie skull and bones man&lt;br /&gt;Once more in the heat of combat you'll be living large&lt;br /&gt;For all the Gen X, Y, and Zs will be calling you Sarge&lt;br /&gt;In the hot deserts sands you'll demonstrate the old courage and determination&lt;br /&gt;And never hesitate to sacrifice the command for big oil and Haliburton&lt;br /&gt;Now don't go ballistic if things go atavistic&lt;br /&gt;In the commissary of the Quartermaster Corps&lt;br /&gt;Should a suicide bomber blow all his gore&lt;br /&gt;In a sunburst patten all over the ice machine door&lt;br /&gt;Sarge can handle his booze neat in this stinking heat&lt;br /&gt;Like the schnapps swillers of the old Africa Corps&lt;br /&gt;And remember that night in Dong Ha,&lt;br /&gt;When this sort of thing happened before&lt;br /&gt;Now this cantankerous old man with the deep craggy neck&lt;br /&gt;And the three days growth&lt;br /&gt;Who prefaces every command with a filthy oath&lt;br /&gt;That Sergeant Rock of Korea and World War Two&lt;br /&gt;Has morphed into Sergeant Major Brown&lt;br /&gt;Senior NCO of this modern American Zoo&lt;br /&gt;Whose job it is to bring out the natural born killer in you&lt;br /&gt;So give no quarter, show no mercy, compassion, or tolerance&lt;br /&gt;We're simply not there to be another T.E. Lawrence&lt;br /&gt;For Sgt. Brown wanted to nuke Mecca and fry their ass&lt;br /&gt;Turn all those wogs into shadows and their sand into glass&lt;br /&gt;Make them all martyrs and send them to heaven&lt;br /&gt;A butcher's bill with interest for 9-11&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114824635653707979?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114824635653707979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114824635653707979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114824635653707979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114824635653707979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/sergeant-major-brown-dedication.html' title='Sergeant Major Brown : A Dedication'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114817565192126480</id><published>2006-05-20T18:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-20T18:40:51.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Woman Will Never Be President</title><content type='html'>Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will never be President or any other woman for that matter in the foreseeable future.  If Senator Clinton did a study why the the Edsel was a disaster for the Ford Motor Company, she would of saved herself time and other people's money.  Men fifty years ago as well as today will not drive around in a car that has a vaginia facsimile on the front&lt;br /&gt;end.  Even today's power babe likes her strapon.  End of story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114817565192126480?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114817565192126480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114817565192126480' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114817565192126480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114817565192126480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/woman-will-never-be-president.html' title='A Woman Will Never Be President'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28457099.post-114816475236909654</id><published>2006-05-20T14:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-20T16:45:15.010-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Myth of a National Unity</title><content type='html'>When Charles de Gaulle was dismissive of his people for not accepting his "certain idea of France" he made the humorous but telling remark "a nation of 360 cheeses cannot be governed"&lt;br /&gt;and that was when France had a population of 40 million. The U.S. population is 295,734,134.&lt;br /&gt;Add the disparate factors of religion, race, class, economics, and education. We refuse even to agree that we should be united by one language. At the outset of the American Revolution, one-&lt;br /&gt;third of the colonists believed it to be a sin against God and a treasonable act to revolt against an&lt;br /&gt;anointed King. Another third said "Start the the revolution without me". Even in the Second World War, many people opted to work in defence plants, make big bucks, and be exempt from&lt;br /&gt;military service. We have always been a nation of tribes and reservations, and we like it that way. Most of us don't even get along with members of our own family, so I'll not ask when was the last time you had an enthic diversity dinner at your house. And whose defending us in Iraq?&lt;br /&gt;A cross section of American youth? How about the sons and daughters of the working class playing Russian roulette for college tuition funds? I firmly believe every American should read&lt;br /&gt;"The Collapse Of The Third Republic" by William L. Shirer It is the story of a once great nation&lt;br /&gt;and people who came to hate one another more than their external enemy.&lt;br /&gt;God Bless America? let us never do anything that would give the Almighty a moments hesitation of a doubt for such a sublime benediction.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28457099-114816475236909654?l=21st-century-america.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/feeds/114816475236909654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28457099&amp;postID=114816475236909654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114816475236909654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28457099/posts/default/114816475236909654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://21st-century-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/myth-of-national-unity.html' title='The Myth of a National Unity'/><author><name>Gentleman-at-Large</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15869140195672512813</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
