In addition to whatever else you have planned today to remember that awful day, September 11, 2001, watch this moving powerpoint presentation that Pamela Geller posted some years ago at Atlas Shrugs.  Click here (it takes a few seconds to load).

God bless our great country and all those who were so brutally murdered that day.

Have a wonderful day with friends and family!   See you back here tomorrow!

Have a wonderful day with friends and family, and thank God we live in this beautiful country—The United States of America!

Your tax dollars

Yesterday I learned from Cindy that “Outcasts United” had been chosen earlier this year as the “One Maryland, One book” being promoted by the Maryland Humanities Council.

The book by author Warren St. John is billed as an “inspirational” story about how refugee boys in Clarkston, Georgia overcome the odds (which includes a town unhappy with the arrival of large numbers of refugees) to play soccer under a strict coach.  If you don’t want to read the book, you can get the gist of it from reviews at Amazon, but I warn you that virtually all the reviewers are thrilled with what sounds like just another sports underdog story with a multiculturalism is beautiful message.

More importantly though, at least for me, is the question of what is up with this “one book” thing where everyone in the state is supposed to be reading a book of the year chosen by those with a leftwing view of the world….and then we pay for what is clearly indoctrination with our tax dollars.  It kind of gives me the creeps!

Note to all those claiming we need to cut the budget at both the state and federal level—I got about a million and a half dollars right here to start with!

Check out the most recent Form 990 for the Maryland Humanities Council, here.  Note that $1.3 million of the funds for this program come from government grants.  Tracing that back further, the source of most of that government money (your tax dollars) comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, here.  Maryland taxpayers add to the kitty through the Department of Education.

By the way, the Maryland Humanities Council spent $9000 to influence legislators into awarding them more funding.   Imagine what the Founding Fathers would say about a federal role in all of this.

The One Maryland, One Book  indoctrination project only cost taxpayers $198,143 last year.   Since you paid for this, maybe some of you should attend the upcoming schedule of community discussions about Maryland’s “one book.”

Update:  Here is more about the Maryland book tour.

…. and never forget. 

Every American should watch this powerful presentation as we approach the 9th anniversary of that tragic day we call simply 9/11.   I don’t know what else to say but thank God for Pamela Geller.

Update September 12th:  Be sure to see Pamela’s post about the rally yesterday here.   I recommend scrolling back to all her posts over the last day, especially note the hit job Fox’s Geraldo did on the 75% of Americans that think the mosque should be elsewhere.