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PROUD MEMBER OF "VETERANS FOR OBAMA" SINCE FEBRUARY, 2007!
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November 21st In U.S. History:

- 1620 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact
- 1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
- 1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
- 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the Oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
- 1942 The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
- 1946 Harry Truman becomes first U.S. President to travel in a submerged sub
- 1964 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic in NYC (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge).
- 1979 The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four.
- 1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
- 1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
- 1986 Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1991 "The Apple of God's Eye", an undercover investigative journalism piece exposing the fund raising practices of American televangelist Robert Tilton, airs on ABC's Primetime Live news magazine show for the first time.
- 1995 The Dayton Peace Agreement is implemented at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, (near Dayton, OH), ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
- 1995 The Dow Jones closes over 5000 for the first time
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I am a proud American of Hispanic/American heritage, and a very proud, partially disabled veteran of the 101st Airborne Division 'Screaming Eagles' and the United States Army.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." ~ Plato
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*** "Veterans" are those who, at some point in their lives, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of up to and including their lives.***

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FAIR WARNING: I fully support freedom of speech, but these things I will NOT tolerate:

* Religious fundamentalism and/or fanaticism.
* Anti-American attitudes, or insults against the USA, the American Flag, or the American people, wherever they may come from.
* Stupidity, Narrow-Mindedness, Willful Ignorance, Bigotry, Prejudice, Intolerance, and unprovoked Mean-Spiritedness.

I subscribe to Agnosticism and Secularism, for these practices lend themselves perfectly to the encouragement of harmony and peace between all kinds of people in all the countries on our Earth.

I passionately believe in the vital principle of Separation between Church and State, and in the spirit of religious freedom that compelled our earliest forefathers to cross an ocean and to establish the shining city on a hill that is America.

I support the Second Amendment, but I do not support those who want to arm themselves to the teeth with automatic assault rifles just because they can.

I agree with Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi on some things, and I agree with Newt Gingrich and The Wall Street Journal on others.

I STRONGLY believe in the concept of 'Peace Through Strength', but I also believe in the concept that says it takes a village to raise a child.

I believe that ALL Americans should have access to health care that is GUARANTEED by the government, but I also believe in the enduring philosophy behind Alexander Hamilton's genuinely American economic super-system.

I'm all for a free-market economy, and for efficient and unobtrusive government, but I'm strongly against the prevailing tendency to engage in what I call Darwinian Capitalism, because it represents a clear and present danger to our republican democracy as we know it.

I believe abortion is a completely private and personal issue that deals exclusively with personal responsibility. NOBODY has a right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

I fully support Gay and Lesbian rights, and believe that they should be free to marry and live with ANY person they choose, and that their civil and human rights should not be violated. Sexual orientation is NOT a choice one makes!

I stand in AWE of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and consider them to be the best Presidents we've ever had.

I am a big fan of FDR's New Deal, and an equally big fan of Ronald Reagan's muscular foreign policy. I think the best Republican ever was Theodore Roosevelt, and the best Democrat that ever existed was Harry S. Truman.

I'm politically active as a registered Independent, and consider myself a Centrist. I could be a very liberal Republican, or a very conservative Democrat, and I am extremely happy and proud to be an American, and to be represented as a Citizen of the United States by President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.

I believe the next four years will see the United States of America recover and go back to its preeminent position of leadership and success among the community of nations. YES WE CAN, AND YES WE WILL!!

So I thank you again for visiting my channel, and I ask you to be respectful, coherent, and civil. ENJOY!! };-)