Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Nov 3, 2009, 2:16 pm
Today while listening to the radio, I happened to hear some of the statements that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright made about our country. I have never heard a Christian pastor talk the way that man does. ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 30, 2009, 7:59 pm
First of all, I apologize for my lack of activity on L2 (with the exception of the past few days). Second of all, I will be on hiatus throughout the month of November, so posts will be few and far be...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 28, 2009, 4:37 pm

Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 28, 2009, 11:12 am
A friend recently made me aware of a poll NPR is conducting in regards to the White House's war on Fox News. Other media networks have recently begun to support Fox News, referring to it as a "si...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 21, 2009, 8:31 am
Paul Mason, 48, needs a after a compulsive eating disorder left him "super-obese". He eats 20,000 calories of food a day - EIGHT TIMES the official adult male average of 2,500. Paul scoffs three fam...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 19, 2009, 8:41 am
Obama Building An Enemies List White House Escalates War on Fox News By urging other news outlets to side with the administration, Obama aides officials dramatically upped the ante in the war ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 9, 2009, 7:40 pm
Today our President, Barack Hussein Obama, was given the Nobel Peace Prize. Mainly because the Norwegians hated George Bush and tried to snub him by giving this award to Mr. Obama. Over the years th...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 7, 2009, 11:28 am
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Since the beginning of the year, Obama has added 21,000 troops, raising the total number of military personnel in Afghanistan to 68,000 w...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 5, 2009, 7:23 pm
Slight of hand is an art form that gets you to focus your attention on one thing while something else occurs in the hand that you are not watching. This type of thing seems to happen a lot these days ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 4, 2009, 5:37 pm
The scene is a very familiar one to most of us. It happened once again to me today; twice sort of. I went to pay my phone bill, and I was the only one that spoke in a manner understandable to the peop...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Oct 2, 2009, 1:51 pm
There was an honest election that happened in Copenhagen today. ACORN was not involved. Chicago lost in the first round of the election. Perhaps the people that voted realized that if Chicago won t...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 30, 2009, 6:56 pm
First of all, I would like to apologize for my hiatus -- this semester has been very busy for me. However, it's given me time to think about Licentia Loquendi and my purpose as a writer here. I&...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 28, 2009, 11:42 am
With Obama calling for the annihilation of nuclear weapons, a new nuclear threat arises. Iran has completed the last tests of its surface to surface missiles; the range of the Shahab -3 is capable of ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 25, 2009, 5:32 pm
Imagine walking into a Christian bookstore with your children to purchase a bible, you pick it up and go to pay for it when you look at the (what you are assuming is a guy) and are shocked to see it w...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 24, 2009, 8:39 pm
One of the worst events that a person can experience is when they are driving over a long distance. Everything is going fine until those three cups of coffee and that lousy burrito inside of you decid...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 18, 2009, 2:51 pm
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 The death-knell of the republ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 18, 2009, 11:22 am
Did any of you see Sean Hannity last night? Sean talked about the devastation of farm land out in California where the United States government is refusing water to the farmers. All because of a lit...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 17, 2009, 6:39 pm
Ben Franklin was walking down a street the day after the Constitution was signed, and a lady asked him, "Mr. Franklin, what have you done?" And his answer was, "We've given you a democratic repub...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 13, 2009, 6:17 pm
Mad Dog 20/20 & Eun As we descended onto the landing platform at the Glenmont metro station with our cameras and flags, Mad Dog 20/20 and I, along with four other compatriots who'd traveled with ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 13, 2009, 4:04 pm
Since the beginning of time man has ruled/ governed man. This must have seemed like a natural thing to do; the Israelites begged for a king so that they could be like everyone else. In the animal worl...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 12, 2009, 9:14 am
Chants of "USA," "Kill the bill" and "You lie!" are filling the air as people shout through megaphones, their words received by enthusiastic crowds. The Capitol building looms before us as we march to...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 10, 2009, 6:44 pm
Mad Dog 20/20 and I will be spending the weekend in D.C. attending a rally at the main gate of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center tomorrow, as well as a march on the Capitol and a rally on Saturday. ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 9, 2009, 6:21 pm
Eight years ago this Saturday, we were attacked by Muslim terrorists. It just seems funny to me how most people have forgotten what happened that day. I think most people can remember where they wer...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 9, 2009, 3:55 pm
My grandparents have this dog, his name is Gershwin. He is a peekapoo or however it is spelled. He is half Pekinese and half poodle. Now they don’t run around saying that he is a poodle because, he ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 5, 2009, 9:10 am
Van Jones, race baiter and communist, is now a member of the Presidential inner circle. A person really has to wonder what's going on. The President has surrounded himself with people that are, ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 4, 2009, 4:36 pm
Of course with a title like that you are probably wondering if I’m really writing this from the throne of destiny. But of course in loo (I love puns) of time I have decided to utilize the time avail...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 3, 2009, 6:56 pm
Just as a forewarning, I intend to rant about my classes so feel free to skip over this entry. The first week is finally over (I've been wanting to bash my head off of a wall since it started), a...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 2, 2009, 10:54 am
For the month of August I was at pre-deployment training in Louisianna...and what did I learn? I learned that if I wish to detain anyone or clear a house (unless for my safety) in Iraq I need a warre...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 1, 2009, 5:12 pm
Every two months, Laptops for Flat Tops is giving away two laptops with webcams to families with deployed family members. Laptops for Flat Tops is sponsored by All-American Direct.
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Sep 1, 2009, 9:27 am
I guess patriotism has died. Nobody cares any more. We try to take what this country was founded on and use it to line the litter box. They try to switch what has been working for us since the beginni...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 29, 2009, 4:20 pm
Thinking of retirement? Have I got a new deal for you, you pay me $300 a paycheck until you’re sixty five and then I’ll give you $150 a month until you die. Sounds very good. You probably jumped r...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 29, 2009, 6:54 am
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 may, if effected, "offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a 'kill switch' to shut down online traffic by seizing private network...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 27, 2009, 3:56 pm
Dad: 153 Tim: 170 Mike: 5 Eun: 5 (+1 hit by a Jeep)
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 27, 2009, 3:45 pm
Ted Kennedy has kicked the bucket. It’s about time, there wasn’t much material left to my voodoo doll. The “Lion” has let loose his death roar, and now they want his name on it. It is people l...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 27, 2009, 2:10 pm
Lately, there have been a few changes around L2. L2 is welcoming two new writers to the team -- Xavier Brightside and Mad Dog 20/20. Brightside is a soldier with the U.S. Army, OIF VII/VIII veteran a...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 27, 2009, 1:52 pm
Why is it that the people that are crying the loudest for free health care are the same ones that wouldn't think of giving up their tobacco, giving up their alcohol, giving up their cable tv or th...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 25, 2009, 2:05 pm
So as the national deficit reaches an all time high, I think it is time to ask, why? As of 1355 today, or for you army types, Mickey’s big hand is on the…. Anyhow, the national debt is at $11,734,...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 24, 2009, 5:23 pm
The way we were taught in school, and the way the history books are written today would have you think that we were led by this great god fearing, red blooded American named Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 22, 2009, 10:59 am
Remember when the news media was up in arms about the government wiretapping to catch terrorists? How about the use of water boarding on terrorists to save American lives? They complained. They made a...
Comment - Like

Betsy posted an article on Licentia Loquendi - Aug 21, 2009, 8:33 am
As of Tuesday, twenty corporations, "classified as either responsible corporate citizens or easily bullied cowards," (AOL) dropped their sponsorship of Glenn Beck due to the fact that he called Obama ...
Comment - Like