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Ultimate Saturday Shoutout for Willingness

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This is my ultimate Saturday Shoutout for willingness to fight for what is right. No apathy allowed. No censoring to protect the justifications of the guilty. For no country, no culture or no civilization can survive without their warriors. Warriors with their words, warriors with their weapons, warriors without fear.

It is easy to become and defend wrong. It is easy to be silent. It is easy to back away, backdown and believe that wrong has nothing to do with me.

At the very least one can speak.

I am not talking about this politically manufactured, progressive protester bullshit. That is what it is, bullshit and wrong. I am talking about basic truths. Truths that have persisted since the beginning of time. The defense of ethics, integrity and the willingness to suppress and correct those antipathetic to greatest good and survival of our nation.

This shoutout goes to the very few in government not compromised by bribes, bootlicking, and NCO dirty dollars. If one exists, thank you. You are a true warrior of truth.

The recent dissertation by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the kind of strength and wisdom I am talking about. He’s a true warrior for truth. If you haven’t heard it, you are delinquent in being alive.

A big Saturday shoutout for willingness to this courageous and honorable man, Justice Thomas. May those that listen and duplicate his message take his integrity and purpose to heart. Look, listen and defend. There is no other rightful course.

Shoutout February 28, 2026

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Off The Beaten Path ShoutOut # 5

This week’s shoutout goes to a bearer of the torch of truth; Lynn The Courageous Deen.  She has realized an abundance of integrity and strength by standing up for all that is honorable and right.  She does so, despite ridicule and attacks from those that cannot look nor perceive.  Lynn stands above the crowd, living with her head held high without compromise.  That is the reward and value of that priceless commodity of knowingness attained through self-certainty.

Un fortunately, the truth can often be a lonely place.  The constant want for agreement from friends and relatives can be like a knife whittling at your heart and mind.  It is easy to slouch, swallow your self-trust and repeat the same old social disguises just to get along.  Lynn does not do that.  She is certain of her truths.  She defies giving voice to the lies.

That takes courage.  The kind of courage that is rare in these days filled with corrosive noise, the constant barrage of half-truths and twisted meanings of subversive words like transgender, political correctness, democratic socialism, and “free speech”.  The media and morally corrupt seem to know no bounds.  The brainwashed cannot discern.  The Internet AI bots have no sentience, no common sense and no heart; but Lynn Deen and others like her do, and that is what counts.  

So a big shoutout goes to Lynn The Courageous Deen.  Her and her brothers and sisters in arms give hope to the resurrection and preservation of all that is truth and righteousness.  She is the face of America, a beacon, a bearer of the torch where reason resides. 

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Tune in next Saturday for another episode of The Shoutout List

Courage Is the Hot Sauce of Imagination

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On a brief visit to Florida, I decided to be a tourist for a day and make a trip to the Kennedy Space Center. What I discovered there was awe inspiring. The shear enormity and complexity of the Apollo rocket that took our astronauts to the moon had never been fully conceptualized in my mind and heart until I stood next to the behemoth. The amount of courage and discipline it took for those men to sit atop that enormous bomb while strapped into a capsule the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, had no bounds. Continue reading →

Courage

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     Mohammad Ali was boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, a brilliant tactician in the ring and out. He didn’t fight, he danced and painted his opponents into a corner.

     If he didn’t get a knockout in the early rounds, Mohammad didn’t panic, instead he used his imagination and did things like the Ali shuffle and the rope-a-dope to confuse and outwit his opponents. Continue reading →