MARICOPA COUNTY
REPUBLICAN BRIEFS
RepComm@cox.net
May 31, 2010
Whose SWAT Teams Went To ALL Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rigs & What The Hell Are They Doing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkTyRPm7ZOg&feature=related
There is an errant version of “The Origin of Taps” floating around the Internet. Two alert Vets forwarded these links that give an accurate accounting of Taps: http://www.tapsbugler.com/ or http://www.usmemorialday.org/taps There is a myth about the origin of Taps that is circulating about the Internet. The true story is that in July 1862, after the Seven Days battles at Harrison’s Landing (near Richmond), Virginia, the wounded Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Daniel Butterfield reworked, with his bugler Oliver Wilcox Norton, another bugle call, “Scott Tattoo,” to create Taps. He thought that the regular call for Lights Out was too formal. Taps was adopted throughout the Army of the Potomac and finally confirmed by orders. Soon other Union units began using Taps, and even a few Confederate units began using it as well. After the war, Taps became an official bugle call. Col. James A. Moss, in his Officer’s Manual first published in 1911, gives an account of the initial use of Taps at a military funeral: “During the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, a soldier of Tidball’s Battery A of the 2nd Artillery was buried at a time when the battery occupied an advanced position concealed in the woods. It was unsafe to fire the customary three volleys over the grave, on account of the proximity of the enemy, and it occurred to Capt. Tidball that the sounding of Taps would be the most appropriate ceremony that could be substituted.” More about the true history of Taps can be found at: 24 Notes That Tap Deep Emotions and at the official Military Funeral Honors History of Taps page.
We Are Americans: It’s Time to Give Thanks. http://www.nragive.com/ringoffreedom/index.html
50% Say Memorial Day Nation’s Most Important Holiday http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/holidays/may_2010/50_say_memorial_day_nation_s_most_important_holiday
Cardinal Roger Mahony had a simple and supportive message for the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Los Angeles who were protesting against Arizona’s attempt to crackdown on illegal immigrants: “Everyone in God’s eyes is legal.”
I should use that line the next time I get stopped by a cop for speeding. “Hello officer, good day, I’m totally legal in God’s eyes.”
I got ticketed twice this year for speeding in exactly the same spot on the way to D.C. The cop sits a few miles south of Breezewood on I-70 on this nice downhill straightaway, just a few minutes after you get off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The goofy part, aside from being a slow learner, is that I was heading for Washington to tell the government crooks to get out of my wallet and they got me twice more, for $270, before I was even half way there.
Mahony, head of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic archdiocese, the largest archdiocese in the United States, offered this non-infallible explanation about why Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration is wrong: “The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense.”
by Gary Wood
Utah Senator Bob Bennett did not receive the delegate votes necessary to appear on the ballot. Instead delegates supported two new senatorial candidates, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater, who are now campaigning to win the upcoming Republican primary. Since the Republican State Convention, May 8th, there have been numerous reports stating Sen. Bennett was a victim or a casualty of the anti-incumbent fever sweeping the nation.
Sometimes the reports blame Bennett’s loss on anti-government tea partiers. Still other reports have linked delegates voting Bennett out to anti-establishment groups who simply want change. No matter what the reason given the claims are focused on Bennett being the victim.
Fly Your Flag Today
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I.
