Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Navy Hymn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnm-4kSLKdI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iu8y2pvuRg&feature=related
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walked'st on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJlNw0myBG4&feature=related

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Useful Idiots

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/07/100624_doc_useful_idiots_lenin.shtml
"But by the 1930s, when the U.S. and other industrialized nations were enduring the Great Depression-a crisis that many believed marked the 'death throes' of capitalism-sympathy for Communism and Soviet Russia expanded markedly. Leftist writers like Beatrice and Sydney Webb and New York times writer Walter Duranty offered rosy assessments of Communism under Lenin and Stalin. (Years later, it was revealed that Duranty was actually being blackmailed by the Soviets throughout his stint in Moscow.) Journalists and Lenin admirer Lincoln Steffens famously pronounced in 1921, 'I have seen the future and it works'" Mona Charen, "Useful Idiots," p.15