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The NRA’s 138th Annual Meeting and Exhibits opens to public on Friday May 15, 2009 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza and Convention Center. The NRA Celebration of American Values exhibit halls will provide you with a cool respite from the scorching Arizona sun. Thanks to Bitter for hooking us up with the 2nd Amendment Blog Bash, so that we could help bring you the inside track on the happenings this weekend. Take a peek at the Exurban League to see some of the fun that has already happened!

If you are planning on attending the NRA Meeting and Exhibits, you are in for a treat! The schedule is jammed full with everything from an indoor air rifle range and manufacturer and dealer exhibits, to book signings with Uncle Ted (Ted Nugent) and Colonel Oliver North. The Civic Plaza is decked out for the event and you can comfortably spend time around fellow shooters and hunters.

Admission to the NRA Convention is free for NRA members and for nonmembers its only $10 and includes a free NRA Associate Membership!

Come check out the NRA Celebration of American Values!

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One thing that the United States has done very well is car manufacturing. We’ve made many beautiful, exciting, and fast cars that have made our automotive industry the envy of countries around the world. If you don’t believe it, look up the Traban and see what Eastern Europeans had to drive for years.

The car that epitomizes the American spirit the best is the Chevrolet Corvette. They have always looked good, always performed well (except for a short period in the late 1970s), they’ve been built for fun instead of just as a mode of transportation, they have more power than you need, and they can be quite pricey. There aren’t very many production cars built to have fun and that have the luxuries you would expect in a Cadilac or BMW. If you don’t believe me, try one yourself and see what you think.

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The Star Spangled Banner
Written by Francis Scott Key, 1814

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep.
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the Star-Spangled Banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the Star-Spangled Banner, in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto: “In God is our Trust.”
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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