Whenever you see a Soldier, Sailor, Marine, or Airman the least you should do is silently thank them for the tremendous personal sacrifice they've volunteered to endure in order to have the honor of doing what so many in this country are unwilling to do. Every day of the last 233 years this country has been in existence has been a living celebration of our Independence.

Obama and this Congress have already pushed through a large increase in VA Hospital construction and staffing.

Pushing through bigger military pay involves a larger matrix, but it's getting the proper attention.

Have we not lost about 13 American troops killed since MJ died? Where are they in the media?

We just celebrated TWO items on our calendar. One was “July 4th” or “4th of July”, and the second was “Independence Day”.

Sadly, I did not hear the phrase “Independence Day” used as often as the “4th of July” phrase.

People like MJ did NOT give us the ability to celebrate our “Independence Day”. The living and dead troops did.

Base Pay for an E3 (2 years) in our military is $1753 per MONTH.

Remember all of our troops, past & present, living and dead, that gave us our independence, and allow us to at least maintain a semblance of it.

I don't celebrate “July 4th”. And I thank those 13 dead troops for their service.

IndyAries – US Marine Corps

As far as mangling the language goes, it has nothing to do with my education and everything to do with the fact that in a blog discussion, nobody really cares – with the exception of the rare self-inflated ego who points out errors in diction and throws out false claims when they're not open enough to give an honest answer.

Moving along, should I assume from your obfuscation that you're no longer interested in learning why I have concerns about emerging socialism AND increasing control of government by private interests?

Trust me – I'm used to these kinds of distractions and I'm not offended. I expect them, and patience is a virtue. I'm more than willing to answer the question, however, I suspect that you only asked because you were hoping (or you believed) that my rationales were inconsistent. Now that it seems that you were wrong, your attack has failed and you're simply going to detract or ignore because you really weren't interested in an answer – you erroneously thought you were calling me out on an inconsistency.

Sure, Think Again, MJ wasn't convicted of anything. Of course, paying off the family of his first accuser to not testify means nothing to you. Take a look at the newly-released video of his deposition and see what you think.