Can someone tell this boob that the "Fourth" (the common term that has come to overshadow the real day....INDEPENDENCE DAY), is a celebration of the Independence of America from British rule.  It's not about today, it's not about the Bush administration, it's not about yesterday, it's about the declaration, by an astounding group of men in 1776, of the.......

......Independence of the United States of America!!!!

While we're at it, what about the millions of abortions every year? What about making a mockery of both marriage and the law by allowing judges to create "gay marriage"? What about a Supreme Court that doesn't think the rape of children merits the death penalty (which is usually delayed for years if the prisoner doesn't die of old age first). What about a Congress that wants to abridge the rights of free speech and a free press with the Fairness Doctrine and hate crimes laws? What about a government that seems determined to set us back a couple of centuries by blindly following questionable science on the environment?

If we're going to cite America's faults, then the libs have as much or more repenting to do than conservatives.

We might all remember II Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version):

... if
my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from
heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Warner...

Mr. Satullo can hang his head in shame if he wants to, but for me (and I'm assuming you too) the 4th will be celbrated to it's fullest, because me and about 300 Million other people love this country.

God Bless the USA!

P.S. With any luck, fireworks will land on this guys house and.... well you get the idea.

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

  Gee... I wonder why newspapers are losing readers? 

And you thought that the "reverend" Wright was an isolated case of hate America first?  It appears that they are everywhere that liberals lurk. 

By the way, Satullo is the lead "reporter" in a project to shore up PI's decline subscription base that fell 5% for the dailies and over 6% for the Sunday edtion over this past year.  With diatribes like this one, expect PI's circulation to fall 5% a month and PI to participate in little rendition of their own!

Mr. Satullo is very blessed to be living in this country and enjoying the freedom that allows him to express his horribly mis-guided opinions.

To all NB'rs..  God Bless, and have a great Independence Day!   

 I know that Satullo is quite sincere in his hatred of the United States

This man, Rev. Wright and all those who hate this country would get down on their knees and kiss American soil if they ever had to live in a 3rd world country. We Americans have been spoiled living in this great land and spoiled people don't appreciate what they have. Every day we take things for granted that others only dream of having.

I lived in Haiti for 7 years and I thought I loved America but not until that experience did I realize how much. May I chime in with the rest of you in saying GOD BLESS AMERICA.

"Liberalism is a mental disorder" -Michael Savage

A clown like this doesn't deserve my outrage or that of any other Conservative poster here. Think about the self-loathing he must have: hates his country, works for a dying medium and lives in a city hellbent on being the murder capital of the US. This pathetic excuse for journalism is little more than a cry for help. So, while we're enjoying cookouts, vacations, time with family and friends in the greatest country on the planet, this dolt will be busy composing yet another desperate plea for validation -- or a suicide note.

The motive here is simply to feel morally superior. So it doesn't matter whether you become superior by elevating yourself, or by pushing others down. The only goal is to seem "higher" than everyone else, so you can look down on them.

The basic message is that "I, I alone, am sensitive enough to detect our moral weakness, while you fools run around, thinking you're all OK. I am so glad I am not you."

Ignore this crap. He's just trying to suck you into his neurosis.

This guy sounds like every other pure bred Leftist I have ever heard, so I have no qualms about assuming he is a Leftist and accordingly an apologist and/or an appeaser of every tyrant and authoritarian dictator of the 20th century up to the present (except for maybe Hitler and one or two others). And then this guy justifies his screed because America does not match up to his standards as far as human rights are concerned?!? Well thank you very much for the compliment!

Now I think I can begin to make some sense of BDS: People who have accommodated or lauded Castro, Chavez, Ho Chi Min, Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, etc. need desperately some bogeyman to hold up as an example of what they oppose, and against whom to contrast themselves through their indignant outrage. (These people have been liberally using Hitler for that purpose for quite some time. But now Hitler is beginning to wear a bit thin, especially as they have recently been trying to use his name to tar even the Jews, of all people.) This is yet another example – and a really extreme one at that – of protesting too much.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Ok, I understand that yo're upset, but you've made a lot of baseless claims in your anger that I can't leave unchallenged.

First, The American left has not "destroyed religion in America." Last time I checked, ~82% or so of America still believed in God. If that's a state of destroyed religion, I think the institution is still in pretty good shape.

Second, You've put quotes around phrases to discredit them like illegally holding people "for years" and practicing "rendition." Regardless of whether or not those are left talking points, they are facts that have been reasonably vetted to be true. We have held some suspects since the Afghanistan invasion, shipped some of those suspects to foreign countries ot be questioned, and "interrogated" a man so hard that the doctor wrote homicide next to his cause of death. Not all things are a matter of opinion and definition.

Third, I don't think the article is blaming Bush. "We have done such things... we have done them without outrage or shame" does not sound like an indictment against anyone but "we" to me. We in this case beign the American people, NOT Bush.

Fourth, I don't think the quoted author meant to say 9/11 was imaginary in saying the WOT was a scam, only that it hasn't made us any safer than 9/11 levels, possibly instead making us more likely targets of terrorism. Claiming the author thinks 9/11 was an illusion is a disingenuous statement.

I agree that the Inquirer's article was perhaps not in the best taste, but don't fly off at the mouth with general indictments that you can't back up in response. That doesn't help any cause.

I found this piece by Chris Satullo:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/10/08/cs_respond.html

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

"Let us atone, in quiet and humility. Let us spend the day truly
studying the example of our Founders. May we earn a new birth of
courage before our nation's birthday next rolls around."

Mao could not have said it better. Got your Little Red Book, Chris?

From Chairman Mao:

"We must not become complacent over any success. We should check our
complacency and constantly criticize our shortcomings, just as we
should wash our faces or sweep the floor every day to remove the dirt
and keep them clean."

"Get Organized!" (November 29, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. III. p. 160.*

You do what you want Chris. I'm going to have a couple of hot dogs, watch the fireworks and thank God, that for yet a little while , I'm still a free-born American.

"There is none so blind as they that won’t see."
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

It's guys like him who make me cheer every time I hear about the downward spiral of the newspaper industry.  Keep it up, Commie, one day the pink slip is comin' for ya.