Thank you, Patriots, for continuing to set and stoke brushfires in people's minds regarding a proper perspective of history, law, and liberty. We thank God for what He has done for our country, including inspiring and protecting George Washington for such a time as was his.

Yours for the Foundation (1 Cor. 3:11) of the Founders,

JeFFF

Congress is in recess this week. Presumably it is to celebrate Washington's Birthday. A week from Friday, 12 odd days from now, the federal government is going to run out of money. Again.

When they reconvene next Monday, congress will begin by reading Washington's farewell address - just before they cram through trillions of dollars more in spending lest our government shut down - postponing once again the inevitable.

Our greatest president - his parting words before bowing from the political stage. How absolutely fitting of those unconstitutional hypocrites who are in violation of their oaths to God and are unfit to hold any elected office.

I'm not a kid any longer, and I should know better, but the people who have been elected to represent "We the People" and are from the liberal side of the street can't serve two masters, either they must abandon their party or their Country... Adhering to the Constitution & Bill of Rights puts them on a collision course with The Progressive Democratic Party... So the people who voted for them are either blind to what those people stand for, or they themselves are traitors to the Constitution and Nation... How can that be, I think it's ignorance on their part, the democrats of today are not their parents democrats, Kennedy would turn in his grave if he knew what his party stands for today... They are closer to the Kremlin and Lenin than Washington and America...

BRING BACK THE CHERY TREE

Monday is President’s day. In the wake of November’s election, the nation’s Capitol bustles as both parties search for “bipartisan” issues to agree upon. Each party wants to show that it is relevant—that it matters. That it heard the will of the people.

If Congress wants to do something really important, it could do and bring back Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthdays as national holidays.

I feel so sad for today’s kids. Nowadays, The 12th and 22nd of February are just two more days in a quirky month known mostly for valentines and Leap Year .

Once, each president’s birthday was filled with magic. Poems and essays were written, pictures were drawn and plays were performed acting out the childhood deeds committed of these two giants.

By the time we were six, we knew what every school child in America knew: That the Father of our country had once been just like us--a little boy who got caught. What did little George do when his father asked him if he had chopped down the cherry tree? How many of America’s school children know that frightened little George looked his father in the eye, and replied, “I cannot tell a lie. It was I who cut down the cherry tree”.

Dad’s response? The rod was spared, and so was Georgie’s backside. Though it met with varying degrees of success, there wasn’t a one of us who didn’t try that tactic on our own fathers.

The ritual surrounding Honest Abe’s birthday sounded a similar theme.

Why was he “Honest Abe?” We all knew it revolved around him working in a store as a teenager. Inadvertently, he overcharged a woman three pennies. Had they not heard it at home, my kids wouldn’t know that Abe walked 5 miles (usually, it was mentioned that he was barefoot), just to return three pennies to that lady.

The message was clear. There were a couple of things in it for you if you were honest.

One: people would like you so much that you could be elected pressident.

Second: If you battle tyrants and fight for freedom, or if you go to war to fight evils like slavery, your reward will be the greatest reward any six year old can fathom—a Birthday Party! And everybody in the country will come.

Unfortunately, a few accademics from the sixties, got wind of the fact that there was no “scientific proof” that cherry trees even grew at Mt. Vernon--let alone that Washington had a confrontation with his father.

Then there was the messy issue of the fact that George Washington actually owned slaves. That he eventually freed them never got him much credit.

Lincoln proved to be just as complicated. Maybe he didn’t grow up in a three sided log cabin, read by firelight or ever walk five miles to return three pennies.

Additionally, there were the “facts” that he suspended habeas corpus, and ordered the arrest of Kentucky legislators who were going vote for succession. Perhaps he suffered from melancholia, and may have gone to war as much for economic as well as moral reasons.

Today, neither Abe nor George is too politically correct. There are countless “experts” who never tire of reminding us that they have the “historical facts”, to prove that myths surround these men are false. “Facts” miss the point.

These men were Giants.

Since the dawn of creation man has depended upon the power of myths. Myths provide the mechanism which allows us mortals to comprehend the uncompressible.

Truth can actually be obfuscated by “facts”. The truth is that these men were giants.

So, members of Congress, let’s once again give our kids something to shoot for.

Let’s reinstitute two of the finest birthday parties ever. Let’s put a premium on honesty and character.

Let’s teach them a higher truth--that we honor greatness, virtue and character far more than we honor mediocrity, apathy, self-gain—to say nothing of drug abuse, promiscuity, rap lyrics etc.

With a couple of ideals to shoot for, who knows what affect it may have. If the antics of Lady Gaga and Snoop Dog can influence a generation, think what the actions of real giants could accomplish?

Having forgotten most of my History classes about Washington over 50 years ago, I am now reading a massive five volume work by John Marshal who lived at the time and knew George Washington. The incredibly nightmarish task of leading his countrymen through that terrible bloody war showed clearly that he stood above and beyond the common man. He was as solid as steel. A far cry from this pile of pigs we have today. Let us indeed celebrate today, or tomorrow, this man who was absolutely one of our greatest Americans.

Washington and Lincoln are antithetical; not complementary.

Washington took command of a rag tag army and had the courage and vision to lead it through 6 years of tribulation, all while under constant personal threat of capture/execution at the hands of the British. He then presided over the Constitutional Convention and reluctantly served two terms as president of the fledgling nation by univeral urging of his countrymen. Washington was truly the father of his country; a country organized politically around a confederated union of sovereign states where federal power could be constrained by internal checks and balances between the three branches and external checks by the sovereign states through principles of nullification and/or secession.

Lincoln destroyed the marvelous handiwork of Washington and other Founders. His brutal and immoral war destroyed state sovereinty and the federal union. In its place, he created a unitary nation under a central govt with no restraint on its power except what itself judged appropriate, all held together at the point of a bayonet.

Washington birthed a system of freedom and liberty and limited govt; Lincoln violently took nearly 3/4 million American lives to replace it with an imperial power whose bloated, tawdry corpus is even now possibly breathing its death rattle. Even so, let it come.

I've always been puzzled by those studies that attempt to rate the Presidents. As best I can determine, there's George Washington who defined the office, and then there are the others.

Lincoln, whatever his greatness, was responsible for the deaths of more American soldiers than all other presidents combined.

I fly our flag for Lincoln on his birthday, for

Washington on his, and, for [most of] the others,

today. (To pick and choose among them publicly

would do them all a disservice.)

It is a shame that the truely great presidents have to be grouped into one day of rememberance, and probably names forgotten, while Martin Luther King, Jr. gets one day to himself. I lived in Los Angeles when 'they' used to come and 'play', and I don't feel he should be exaulted over the great men who truly did accomplish much for this country of ours, without shame.

Thank you for letting me vent on this subject.

RnB

No one, official or not, can make me celebrate today as the anniversary of George Washington's birthday. It is not a complicated issue. Feb. 22 was his birthday, as it is my own, and is never celebrated except on that date. Celebrate with myths if you will, but the truth, the facts, are usually much more exciting. The cherry tree incident never happened. Yes, it was a fiction created to demonstrate the fine character of Washington. The incredible character of the man needed no myth, no fiction, no lie.

Tomorrow, as I celebrate my birthday and the anniversary of his, I will reflect on the 'progress' which would have greatly saddened the great man; parade to protests, work to welfare. So...a toast to tomorrow!

"First, in War, First in Peace, First in the hearts of his Countrymen." I believe this was the eulogy given by Henry Lightfoot Lee.

What a glorious man was our General George Washington. He loved his Country and he loved his people.

"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His Will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection, aid and favors..."

1789

"It is impossible to rightly govern the World without God and the Bible."

George Washington, Happy Birthday, Sir, Every remembrance of your brilliant life makes US proud to say, you were the Father of our Glorious Country, that has been Blessed of God because of your dedicated service in our Foundations.

May our lives be found faithful, that we can give a testimony in our generation, that we "did what we could" to perpetuate our Beloved Nation, America, the Beautiful.

For God & Country

The American

"President's Day" by Dave Parker

(to the tune of "Silent Night")

President's Day, in February,

Washington, Honest Abe,

Were born this month a long time ago,

But when exactly we no longer know,

The date is changed every year,

Soon we'll forget they were here!

George Washington was our first and best president. It is no accident that the pig who now occupies the white house, the communist, traitorous muslim slime out to destroy America for Soros and his other masters, the one barry soetoro installed by the demoncrats and their ilk, the one who calls himself BO, is the very worst of the worst of any scum every elected to the post and clearly our last. Long live General Washington.

"but it is still officially recognized as the anniversary of 'Washington's Birthday' "

Thank you for getting this right (unlike nearly the whole rest of the country) and recognizing America's greatest president -- and our father!