Now, I don’t care if you like or don’t like country music, or what your politics are regarding the war, I think that at the very least you need to respect the man for having the guts and courage of his convictions to stand up for what he believes is right (being patriotic is, sadly, not politically correct, apparently) and puts his money (and his body) where his mouth is by repeatedly coming over here to visit the troops in harm’s way. Not only that, but in talking to the troops organizer, I found out that Toby actually requested to visit the small, out-of-the-way FOBs that don’t get many visitors or tours. That says a lot about the man, to my mind.
Via Instapundit.
Good for him. It’s tough for the soldiers obviously, but a little bit of home I’m sure (I hope) makes it the teeniest bit more endurable.
[Warning: partisan shot coming up…]
Too bad our current Minister of Defence doesn’t think so: http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/2005/10/gordon-o-connor-mp-bloody-genius.html
Ted
Cerberus
Good for him. It’s tough for the soldiers obviously, but a little bit of home I’m sure (I hope) makes it the teeniest bit more endurable.
[Warning: partisan shot coming up…]
Too bad our current Minister of Defence doesn’t think so: http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/2005/10/gordon-o-connor-mp-bloody-genius.html
Ted
Cerberus
That is fantastic. You wonder sometimes about these celebrities making the big bucks. Sounds like he’s racking up the frequent flyer miles and putting his money where his mouth is. Can’t say the same for the likes of the petulant ‘Chicks’ who are looking for publicity for their new CD and taking chicken shots. They must be hurtin’ cause they’re sounding rabid.
It’s a funny thing and I can’t quite figure it out, but now that I’m in my fifties I’ve started to like C and W music. Until the last ten years I HATED it.
There’s something “real,” no bull____ about it, even though it’s often smaltzy as heck. I guess now that I’ve lived over half a century, the stuff that C and W sings about: home, hearth, heartbreak, hurtin’, faith in God, patriotism, rings true, somehow, a lot truer than the drug-addled, sex-saturated, self-centred, Yuppy stuff that’s clogging the airwaves these days.
Johnny Cash has a special place in my heart. Just an amazing man, larger than life, heartbreakingly authentic, honest, vulnerable, loveable, generous, and a voice to send shivers down your spine to the tips of your toes. He gets inside you somehow, turns you inside out, and gets you thinking. I actually think he’s a saint, not because he was perfect but because he loved His God and he lived his life totally according to the light that he saw. He was true to himself and shared his God-given gifts and talents without holding back. The man in black: What a guy.
We should all say to Toby what we say to Neil and Bruce: Shut up and sing!
The soldier who wasn’t
Left-wingers flocked to the “soldier” calling himself Jesse MacBeth to hear claims of horrific war crimes in Iraq. But thanks to sleuthing by conservative bloggers, we now know that “Jesse MacBeth” — the name should have tipped us off — has never even served in the Army. …
via neale news
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s personification of evil, treachery, murder.
Jesse Macbeth’s real name is : Jesse al-Zaid.