The Sentinel’s Creed

My dedication to this sacred duty
is total and whole-hearted.
In the responsibility bestowed on me
never will I falter.
And with dignity and perseverance
my standard will remain perfection.
Through the years of diligence and praise
and the discomfort of the elements,
I will walk my tour in humble reverence
to the best of my ability.
It is he who commands the respect I protect,
his bravery that made us so proud.
Surrounded by well meaning crowds by day,
alone in the thoughtful peace of night,
this soldier will in honored glory rest
under my eternal vigilance.

Please be careful, if you walk to vote! Watch for those downed power lines and all the dangers!

What an incredible nation of compassionate people we are! No matter what happens to our country (by other countries) or within our country (by our own), we are strong, bold, brave, gracious, peaceful and free. no one person, group of persons, country or community organizer will ever be able to take away our compassion! God speed, East Coast and that includes *all peoples in Sandy’s path*…

so pin a medal on yourself. Now try to learn something from the true message of this post, take a long look at the photo again, and spend some time reflecting on what it takes to be truly heroic.

It’s an honorable picture. I saw this earlier today at another site and clicked the link and it took me to the entire history of the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier, but then we lost power. I’m sure I’ll find it again.
Thank you, streiff.

Thanks for the update, still think he missed the point, but I guess he had a valid reason to miss it.

Power is still on in my neck of the woods. Of course I’m fortunate in that my power is coming from Potomac Edison (formerly Allegheny Power) instead of BG&E. Lines are mostly underground and feeding south from Pittsburgh instead of east from Baltimore. We fared well during the last debacle. BG&E outage numbers jumped to about 115,000 out, mostly in Baltimore and Hartford counties (north where the storm is more intense, plus more people in Baltimore). I think they had about 45,000 out when I checked at 5:30.

Of course the news was reporting 900,000 out in the NJ-NY-southeast PA region about that time. I imagine they are well over a million by now.

Still waiting for Shepard Smith to go all Katrina by getting his microphone down to Lower Manhattan to ask a flooded out Black resident without electricity if she doesn’t think that if Fox News can get to her, why hasn’t Obama’s FEMA gotten there to restore cable TV yet. Does Obama hate Black folks?

Prayers for those in the path of the storm. I hope they show wisdom and get out of its’

path. It is so sad and frustrating to hear that people chose to stay at their peril.

On another note, I have to apologize that a few days ago I dismissed the possibility of a gun-running operation gone wrong as part of this tragedy in Benghazi. I truthfully thought it was some whacky conspiracy theory and said so to a commentor on RS. But now a blogger over at PJ Media ( a reputable site) is openly calling for more questions to be asked regarding these rumors. Apparently there is enough traction to warrant treating it with some attention.

I honestly hope this is not true. We already have lies, incomptence, and derilection of duty by the Obama adminstration with this incident that resulted in the deaths of 4 Americans. This would be treason, if found to be true.

Hurricane Sandy downgraded to Tropical Storm, maybe now promoted to Electoral Depression…..?

Hurricane Sandy benefits the Obama campaign in two ways. First, it gives Mr. Obama a chance to play dress-up and act like a President and leader right before the election. Second, it gives the campaign a legitimate excuse to pull the President from the campaign for a few days – and they desperately needed to pull him at this point. The President, as others have pointed out, was in the process of losing it publicly. The whole “bull#######” remark and the recent add urging women to lose their political virginity to Barack were just symptoms of a larger crackup. In the heat of a close election, the President had lost his thin veneer of civility and began to show his true vile self. Wiser heads in the campaign need an excuse to pull him and give him a timeout. Sandy provided that.