9/11 Stars and Stripes Forever Times Two

That much was clear from the appreciative response of the audience, estimated at 7,000. While not as quiet or enthusiastic as the Japanese crowds to whom the CSO recently played, the Chinese listened as if they had never heard an orchestra play as brilliantly, precisely or as loudly as this before. The applause was sufficient to recall Solti for three bows, after which he announced that for an encore the orchestra would perform a score ``totally unknown`` to them. That score turned out to be ``Stars and Stripes Forever,`` and, to judge by the number of Chinese I heard whistling John Philip Sousa as they filed out of the stadium, the all-American march was hardly unfamiliar.April 09, 1986|By John von Rhein, Music critic.Chicago Tribune

Music is the only thing to match the heroism and horror of that day.

Pentecost Trumps Pravda - America Will be Fine

The American Penteost


Pravda the MSNBC of collapsed Soviet Russia, giggles that America is Kaput-Nik!

Sorry, Vlad, we'll be fine. Our schools are a train-wreck, but Americans can fix them. Churches have become unitarian Sesame Street skits, but people vote with their feet. President Obama has four years.

Here's the Commie Scratch sheet's Parlay Card:

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

The Feast of the Pentecost reminds Christians of their obligations as Soldiers of Christ. Jewish Americans remember,no sweat, unlike us daffy Christian Thoreau gushers and ACLU suck-ups. Americans can read a bank statement, a scale in the bathroom, and the eyes of the children and know that change begins with the individual. Americans do not need the State to tell them how to conduct their lives - remember the Teabag's? There will be plenty more such demonstrations.

America is a religious nation. America is a democratic -republic and not a village. We are very tolerant of morons, like goofs that wanted to PC the photo of the 9/11 Firemen and make it more Diverse. Goofs get on TV with great ease. Americans know who the morons happen to be - don't mistake good grace for weakness.

Remember, it was Americans like those firemen in New York on 9/11 who helped create a Pentecost of of the American Spirit.

Take care of your Kleptocracy, Pravda, we'll manage nicely.

Pravda, read up on the Pentecost and the Great Depression and the first few years of World War II. America will be fine.