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Congress disobeys the 28th Amendment

2009-11-30T02:45:47Z

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Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the President, Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the President, Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

Read AMERICAN PEOPLE !!! Stop being so blind stupid about Obama and our country. Neither him nor Congress is protecting our Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution.

This health care bill violates our rights as TAX PAYING CITIZENS !!! It is time for our country to revolt and oust every person in Whitehouse.

The U.S. Military has a duty and oath to honor here and should step in and force our leaders INCLUDING the U.S. Supreme Court Justices to obey the law or place them under arrest for treason.

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Switzerland bans minaret’s

2009-11-29T19:26:04Z

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Voters on Sunday adopted a referendum banning the construction of minarets, seen by some on the far right as a sign of encroaching Islamism.

“The Federal Council respects this decision,” said a statement from Switzerland’s government. “Consequently the construction of new minarets in Switzerland is no longer permitted. The four existing minarets will remain.

“It will also be possible to continue to construct mosques,” the government statement said. “Muslims in Switzerland are able to practice their religion alone or in community with others, and live according to their beliefs just as before.”

As of 10 a.m. ET, 57 percent of voters had cast ballots in favor of the ban, according to Swiss media reports.

Minarets are tall spires extending from mosques or built next to them. They help identify a mosque and also serve as a spot where a religious leader can call the faithful to daily prayers.

The move to amend the constitution to ban new construction is part of a campaign by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

The party says the minarets are political symbols and therefore go against the the country’s constitution.

It designed fliers that feature a veiled woman against a background of a Swiss flag pierced by several minarets resembling missiles.

The Federal Commission against Racism denounced the posters, saying they “defame Switzerland’s peaceful Muslim population, feed prejudice and portray the Muslim community as wanting to dominate Switzerland, oppress women and trample on fundamental rights.”

Farewell to the British Monarchy

2009-11-20T19:56:38Z

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In 43 A.D. Rome invaded and conquered Britain. This began the cycle of conquest, murder, rape and slavery by the British Monarchy.

Britain invaded every Island and continent it could by either force or outright over thrown. In their wake they left millions dead, broken or enslaved and ruled with a heavy hand crushing any revolt against the crown.

In early American history they attempted to kill every person not loyal to the crown in the colonies who wanted freedom from the crown. They even burned churches full of citizens trying to escape the British troops.

In Scotland they even tried to erase all Scottish DNA by raping every female, causing them to either kill themselves or to bear children of mixed heritage.

India faired worse in the war of 1857 when Britain took full control. They came to India as East India Company, purely a business venture. When they saw that India was the hub of trade activities and was filled with natural resources, They thought about the benefits they would have when they have it as a colony. Thus the East India Company spread its roots here.

Now in 2009 Britain suffers it’s own internal revolt among the radical Muslims determine to take over the monarchy and transfer the palace into a mosque. They have even threatened the Queen: If she doesn’t become a Muslim she will be either murdered or exiled from Britain. Where would they be allowed to live? In the former penal colony of Australia? How fitting that would be!!

Britain has lost its thirst for conquest when it’s needed the most.

Farewell Britain and may God have mercy on your souls for bending over and taking it up the bum without so much as a gun fired or a person raped.

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Anti-American Judge David Hamilton nominated for federal bench

2009-11-14T02:52:11Z

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Ken Klukowski: Now Obama wants to put an ACORN fund-raiser on the federal bench | Washington Examiner (0)

On Nov. 10, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acted to bring to the Senate floor the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to be a federal appeals judge. Presidents have a constitutional right to nominate judges.

But Judge Hamilton is one of those extraordinary circumstances where the U.S. Senate should exercise its right to reject a nominee. And many citizens across America are urging senators to do exactly that, when the Senate will reportedly act on the nomination on Nov. 17.

David Hamilton was the first person nominated for a judgeship after President Obama took office. On Mar. 17, President Obama nominated Hamilton, who is currently a federal district judge in Indiana, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which encompasses several Midwestern states.

The main problem many senators have with Judge Hamilton is his controversial decisions. Hamilton ignored a felony conviction on a man’s record when being prosecuted for his third felony drug crime to avoid imposing a life sentence, for which Hamilton was unanimously reversed on appeal.

Hamilton also struck down a law requiring convicted sex criminals from reporting information to police to track their whereabouts. He also petitioned the White House for clemency for a police officer who produced child pornography.

He has also shown surprising hostility to people of Christian faith. He ruled that any prayers uttered in the Indiana statehouse that invoke the name of Jesus Christ are unconstitutional and cannot be permitted.

Nor can anyone offer a prayer that is “sectarian” or “pervasively Christian.” Oddly, although prayers mentioning Jesus are somehow a threat to the republic, Judge Hamilton said that it’s okay to offer prayers to Allah.

This level of hostility to Christians is shocking. For example, he ruled that an Apr. 29, 2005, prayer offered by a Christian was unconstitutional because it was not inclusive enough. Yet that prayer was addressed to the “God of the whole earth.” What’s more inclusive than that? Perhaps “God of the whole galaxy?”

Again, the Seventh Circuit reversed Judge Hamilton. But that is the court upon which he would now sit.

Another problem for some senators is Hamilton’s past associations. His evident hostility to Christian expressions predictable, given that he was vice president of the Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

In addition, he was a fundraiser for ACORN, the now-disgraced organization infamous for dozens of its employees being found or pleading guilty to voting crimes, and recently in the news for employees advising undercover reporters on how to commit tax fraud, housing fraud and smuggle underage girls into this country to be prostitutes.

Judge Hamilton is considered the most extreme judicial nominee thus far from Obama. If confirmed, then it’s likely that none of Obama’s judicial nominees can be defeated before the 2010 midterm elections, when the makeup of the Senate could change.

At least 24 leaders from a wide variety of conservative organizations, including former Attorney General Edwin Meese, Concerned Women for America president Wendy Wright, Committee for Justice executive director Curt Levey, and Let Freedom Ring President Colin Hanna issued a statement urging the Senate to reject the Hamilton nomination.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, has also sent a letter to his colleagues expressing his opposition to Hamilton and pointing out that every Republican member of the Judiciary Committee voted against reporting Judge Hamilton favorably.

On the heels of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment, Hamilton shows the growing importance of judges for next year’s elections. High profile cases on campaign finance, law enforcement, national security and Second Amendment gun rights are now pending before the Supreme Court.

These lower court appointments keep that issue in the news.

By large majorities, Americans prefer judges who confine themselves to the Constitution and laws as written, leaving policy judgments to elected officials accountable to the voters.

The nomination of David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit marks the next stage in this building drama, as the federal judiciary again becomes an issue in the corridors of power.

Ken Klukowski is a fellow and senior legal analyst with the American Civil Rights Union. (0)

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New evidence ! Obama is not a US Citizen

2009-11-13T18:19:31Z

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AP declares Obama “Kenyan-Born”

October 14, 2009 by John Charlton (0)

2004 PIECE DISTRIBUTED WORLD-WIDE PUTS FOCUS ON TIMELINE OF CLAIMS

And 2008 AP Story Repeats the Claim!

UPDATE: Federal Court requested to investigate AP Story (0)

by John Charlton

(Oct. 14, 2009) — What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know [is] that in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.

How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/new s26060403.htm (0)

The AP reporter stated the following:

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.

The difficulty in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.

For those who believe what they see, here is the screen capture of the page from the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004 — Just in case that page is scrubbed from the Web Archive:

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Obama admits born in Kenya

AP Declares Obama “Kenyan-born” on June 27, 2004

Readers should take note that this AP story, was syndicated world-wide, so you should be able to find it in major newspapers, archived in libraries world-wide. If any reader does this, please let The Post & Email know, so that we can publish a follow up-story. You can scrub the net, but scrubbing libraries world-wide is not so easy.

Hanen of Sentinel Blog Radio broke (0) the public news of the existence of this AP story at on October 14, 2009 at 12:31 pm. However, The Post & Email can confirm that a professional investigator had uncovered this story months ago, and that certified and authenticated copies of this report, meeting Federal Rules of evidence, have already been prepared and archived at many locations nationwide.

It should be noted that on January 8, 2006, the Honolulu Advertiser also reported that Barack Hussein Obama was born outside the United States.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.h tml (0)

A Chronology of Deceit

One can now ask an important question which has not yet been emphasized enough: “Just when did Obama begin to publically claim he was born in Hawaii?” This question is distinct from the question, “Just where in fact was Obama born?”, and from the other question, “What do official documents say about where he was born?”

Regarding his claims, we can summarize what is known:

1. As of Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, Obama’s Campaign was putting out that he was born in Hawaii. This is known from the introductory speech (0) given by Prof. George A. O. Magoha, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, on the occasion of a speech given there by Senator Obama that day. (One presumes that the Vice-Chancellor was given notes from the Obama campaign, as is customary on such occasions)

2. >From the newspaper reports above, it is clear that the Obama campaign was putting out that he was born in Kenya, or overseas, during the period of June 27, 2004, until January 8, 2006.

3. In October of 2004, during the ABC Chicago Affiliate’s broadcast of the Obama-Keyes debates, Obama openly admitted — he conceded — that he was not a natural born citizen. (C-Span aired the uncut version of the debates, which contained this exchange, in the second half of April, 2005)

4. It is known from a classmate of Obama at Harvard University, that while at Harvard, Obama at least on one occasion admitted that he was born in Kenya. (This friend went on record on a call in radio program in Idaho in early July, 2009)

If any reader can find a link which documents a claim to a birth location before Aug. 28th, 2006, which differs from this timeline or which supports it; please let The Post & Email know of it, by posting it in the comment section below.

In a follow up report, The Post & Email has published a brief analysis (0) of the Google Newspaper archive, which shows that Obama’s story changed after June 27, 2004.

Finally, that the AP did cover this story, reprinted by the East African Standard, can be seen from the citation made to AP stories about it (Jack Ryan dropping out of the race), in the following contemporary news articles, which however are incomplete:

June 25, 2004 — http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123716,00.html (0)

June 26, 2004 — Bellview News Democrat (0)

June 26, 2004 — AP Online Story by Michael Tarm (0)

June 25, 2004 — AP Syndicated Story by Maura Kelly Lannan (0)

(Second Source (0) on June 26, 2009, which cites Associated Press Special Correspondent David Espo and reporter Dennis Conrad as contributors to this report)

(Third Source (0), The Ledger, print edition of June 26, 2009: partial republication)

A Second 2008 AP Story repeats the Claim

(Oct. 17, 2009) — As a supplementary update to this article, The Post & Email adds the following report, which confirms the attribution of the above article to the Associated Press, and repeats the claim.

Modern Ghana published an AP report on Nov. 4, 2008, which claimed Obama was “Kenyan-born”. You can read it for yourself at:

http://www.modernghana.com/news2/189461/1/americans-decide-today-go-ob ama.html (0)

To forestall internet scrubbing, David Crocket at “Oil For Immigration” (0) has screencaptured the page:

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Modern Ghana – Obama was “Kenyan-born”

2008 AP Story proclaims Obama “Kenyan-born”!

The article reads, in part:

After almost two years of campaigning, Democrat candidate Barrack Obama, Republican, John McCain yesterday brought their train to a halt in their respective home states to await the verdict of Americans.

So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois State .

A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rival, Senator McCain.

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Obama’s Healthcare – what it cost YOU !

2009-11-08T23:36:25Z

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http://www.newsmax.com/morris/healthcare_reform_bribe/2009/11/08/28334 9.html (0)
Sunday, November 8, 2009 10:39 AM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ‘09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these – and the other endorsements – his package has received are all bought and paid for.

Here are the deals:

# The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians’ reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5 percent to 6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill…or else!

# The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues.

Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but the AARP — which supposedly represents them — will make more money. (If this galls you, join the American Seniors Association, the alternative group; contact sbarton@americanseniors.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)

# The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.

# Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don’t buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill, albeit for the worst of motives.

The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device makers. They stood for principle and wouldn’t go along with Obama’s blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.

So these endorsements are not freely given, but bought and paid for by an administration that is intent on passing its program at any cost.

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I was a target of anti-semitic criminals

2009-10-24T07:08:24Z

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This is just pathetic and very kiddie so who ever thinks they are being funny and trying to scare or threaten me it isn’t working. I now carry and I will use it.

This happened last night, the 23rd, around midnight after a confrontation with some people a cross the street who are convicted criminals, I am not sure if its them but I am pretty sure they had something to do with what happened. So a word to the wise, I won’t play your game and I wont let you try and scare me out of my house. This is a crime of hate and it is a terrorist crime which can get you 20-30 years in prison which you are already familiar with.

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Dead Jew

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F**k Jew

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Part I can read says "Neighbor Jew"

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Cartoon from 1934

2009-10-21T19:11:49Z

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This amazing cartoon ran in the Chicago Tribune in 1934. Look carefully at the action plan. Remember, “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”

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The Day ObamaCare Died

2009-10-02T06:09:22Z

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The Day ObamaCare Died – Sung by Barack Obama

Couldn’t have said this better.

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Jack Webb “schools” Obama

2009-09-29T16:53:54Z

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Remember the TV show “Dragnet” ? Well here is our version if Obama was arrested as a criminal.

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Duchess of York wanted by Turkish police

2009-09-17T07:27:12Z

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The Duchess of York could face extradition to Turkey after the authorities issued a request for her to be questioned over an undercover television documentary, it has emerged.

Sarah Ferguson

The Turkish government was furious after she made a documentary into the state of the country’s orphanages which claimed that children were being neglected and maltreated.

The Duchess, disguised in a black wig and headscarf, was accompanied by her teenage daughter Princess Eugenie who was moved to tears by the scenes they filmed.

She has been accused of breaking Turkey’s strict privacy laws by carrying out the secret recording.

The Turkish authorities have now passed a formal request to the Home Office for the Duchess to be questioned, according to reports.

A source told The Sun: “We have had a request from the Turkish government for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) in relation to the Duchess of York.

“If following a police investigation, charges are laid in Turkey, the Duchess could be arrested and extradited to appear in court in Turkey.”

The Metropolitan Police refused to comment and a Home Office spokesman said: “We would never confirm or deny the existence of MLA or extradition requests.”

The Turkish authorities have already spoken out against the Duchess, accusing her of trying to smear the country’s image in order to prevent it joining the EU.

Nimet Cubukcu, the Turkish minister responsible for women and family, said: “It is obvious that in this incidence that she is trying to leave Turkey in the midst of a smudge campaign.”

But her spokesman Kate Waddington insisted the Duchess was not trying to be political: “The Duchess of York is apolitical; therefore she has no political motivations. This is all about the welfare of children.”

The Duchess filmed inside the Saray institution near Ankara, where more than 700 disabled children are housed.

She and the team from ITV1’s Tonight programme found children tied to their beds or left in cots all day without being taken out to be fed.

One child, who was not allowed outside, was discovered crawling along the corridor to feel the sun on his face.

Princess Eugenie cried after visiting one centre which houses 60 disabled children – many abandoned by their parents.

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12-year-old Yemeni girl dies after forced marriage

2009-09-14T17:16:57Z

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And these muslims say we are the criminals…. BULLSHIT…. this is a sick twisted child sex rings and all of them should be strung up by there balls and hung upside down. Islam is one sick perverted religion.

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A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children’s rights group said Monday.

Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children.

“Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening,” said Seyaj President Ahmed al-Qureshi.

Born into an impoverished family in Hodeidah, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school and married off to a 24-year-old man last year, al-Qureshi said.

Child brides are commonplace in Yemen, especially in the Red Sea Coast where tribal customs hold sway. Hodeidah is the fourth largest city in Yemen and an important port.

More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18 — many times to older men, some with more than one wife, a study by Sanaa University found.

While it was not immediately known why Fawziya’s parents married her off, the reasons vary. Sometimes, financially-strapped parents offer up their daughters for hefty dowries.

Marriage means the girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to their parents. And often, parents will extract a promise from the husband to wait until the girl is older to consummate the marriage.

The issue of Yemeni child brides came to the forefront in 2008 with 10-year-old Nujood Ali.

She was pulled out of school and married to a man who beat and raped her within weeks of the ceremony.

To escape, Nujood hailed a taxi — the first time in her life — to get across town to the central courthouse where she sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge.

After a well-publicized trial, she was granted a divorce.

The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.

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Demand Social Security changes for Senators and Congresswomen

2009-09-03T22:31:10Z

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Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. ……

For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that’s Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan to them is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!!

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them.You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;

“OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK”!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched byour employer), We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley’s benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. . Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us

Then sit back……

And see how fast they would fix it!

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Islamic demographic alert

2009-08-25T10:16:59Z

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Take heed !! Islamic terrorism and Sharia Law will become a disease worldwide in 40 years.

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Health Care? page 425 of Obama’s MESS

2009-08-03T02:26:24Z

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(If this doesn’t make your blood boil……….. nothing will !!)

Page 425 of Health Care Bill - Listen to this interview Fred Thompson’s Radio Show interviewing Betsy McCaughey (pronounced Mc Coy). Or look it up on www.fredthompsonshow.com (0), under interviews.

On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors health care. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option.

Now, CALL YOUR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON !! Tell them to read page 425 if they don’t read anything else. Surely some of them have parents.

“ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE BILL, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes…They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!”

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Columbo vs Obama

2009-07-11T16:26:24Z

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Ah . . Sorry to bother you Mr. Obama, Sir…

Excuse me Mr Obama, I mean President Obama, Sir.

Um . . I know you’re busy, and important and stuff.

I mean running the county is very important and — ah — I hate to bother you Sir.

See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up, and I was wondering Sir, if you could take time out of your busy schedule and help me out.

Well, listen, I can’t seem to get some information I need to wrap this up.

These things seem to either be “Not released” or “Not available”.

I’m sure it’s just an oversight or glitch or something, so if you could tell me where these things are.

I’ll just read it to you.

Could you please help me find these things, Sir?

1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — Not available
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — Not available
8. Your Illinois State Senate records — Not available
9. Law practice client list — Not released
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
12. Record of your baptism — Not available

Oh and one more thing, Senator, I can’t seem to find any articles you published as editor of the Harvard Law Review, or as a Professor at the University of Chicago . Can you explain that to me, Sir?</p>

If this is too much for you right now — I mean — I’ll tell you what

I’ll come back tomorrow.

Give you some time to get these things together,

I’ll just let myself out.

I’ll be back tomorrow. And the day after. . What’s that Mr. President?

Who wants to know these things?

We the People of the United States of America , Sir!

You know, the ones that didn’t vote for you, Sir.

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Norman Mattoon Thomas

2009-06-02T23:02:30Z

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Taking Chance - Lance Cpl. Chance Russel Phelps USMC

2009-05-28T04:27:23Z

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23 Apr 04 – The enclosed article was written by LtCol M.R. Strobl USMC who is assigned to MCCDC Quantico, VA and served as the officer who escorted the remains of PFC C. Phelps USMC from Dover AFB, DE to his home. PFC Phelps was assigned to 3d Bn, 11th Marines – an artillery unit functioning as a provisional infantry battalion during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM 2. PFC Phelps was killed in action from a gunshot wound received on 9 Apr 04 during combat operations west of Baghdad. He was buried in Dubois, WY on 17 Apr 04.

TAKING CHANCE
Lance Cpl. Chance Russel Phelps USMC

Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I didn’t know Chance before he died. Today, I miss him.

Over a year ago, I volunteered to escort the remains of Marines killed in Iraq should the need arise. The military provides a uniformed escort for all casualties to ensure they are delivered safely to the next of kin and are treated with dignity and respect along the way.

Thankfully, I hadn’t been called on to be an escort since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. The first few weeks of April, however, had been a tough month for the Marines. On the Monday after Easter I was reviewing Department of Defense press releases when I saw that a Private First Class Chance Phelps was killed in action outside of Baghdad. The press release listed his hometown—the same town I’m from. I notified our Battalion adjutant and told him that, should the duty to escort PFC Phelps fall to our Battalion, I would take him.

I didn’t hear back the rest of Monday and all day Tuesday until 1800. The Battalion duty NCO called my cell phone and said I needed to be ready to leave for Dover Air Force Base at 1900 in order to escort the remains of PFC Phelps.

Before leaving for Dover I called the major who had the task of informing Phelps’s parents of his death. The major said the funeral was going to be in Dubois, Wyoming. (It turned out that PFC Phelps only lived in my hometown for his senior year of high school.) I had never been to Wyoming and had never heard of Dubois.
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With two other escorts from Quantico, I got to Dover AFB at 2330 on Tuesday night. First thing on Wednesday we reported to the mortuary at the base. In the escort lounge there were about half a dozen Army soldiers and about an equal number of Marines waiting to meet up with “their” remains for departure. PFC Phelps was not ready, however, and I was told to come back on Thursday. Now, at Dover with nothing to do and a solemn mission ahead, I began to get depressed.

I was wondering about Chance Phelps. I didn’t know anything about him; not even what he looked like. I wondered about his family and what it would be like to meet them. I did pushups in my room until I couldn’t do any more.

On Thursday morning I reported back to the mortuary. This time there was a new group of Army escorts and a couple of the Marines who had been there Wednesday. There was also an Air Force captain there to escort his brother home to San Diego.

We received a brief covering our duties, the proper handling of the remains, the procedures for draping a flag over a casket, and of course, the paperwork attendant to our task. We were shown pictures of the shipping container and told that each one contained, in addition to the casket, a flag. I was given an extra flag since Phelps’s parents were divorced. This way they would each get one. I didn’t like the idea of stuffing the flag into my luggage but I couldn’t see carrying a large flag, folded for presentation to the next of kin, through an airport while in my Alpha uniform. It barely fit into my suitcase.

It turned out that I was the last escort to leave on Thursday. This meant that I repeatedly got to participate in the small ceremonies that mark all departures from the Dover AFB mortuary.

Most of the remains are taken from Dover AFB by hearse to the airport in Philadelphia for air transport to their final destination. When the remains of a service member are loaded onto a hearse and ready to leave the Dover mortuary, there is an announcement made over the building’s intercom system. With the announcement, all service members working at the mortuary, regardless of service branch, stop work and form up along the driveway to render a slow ceremonial salute as the hearse departs. Escorts also participated in each formation until it was their time to leave.

On this day there were some civilian workers doing construction on the mortuary grounds. As each hearse passed, they would stop working and place their hard hats over their hearts. This was my first sign that my mission with PFC Phelps was larger than the Marine Corps and that his family and friends were not grieving alone.

Eventually I was the last escort remaining in the lounge. The Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant in charge of the Marine liaison there came to see me. He had Chance Phelps’s personal effects. He removed each item; a large watch, a wooden cross with a lanyard, two loose dog tags, two dog tags on a chain, and a Saint Christopher medal on a silver chain. Although we had been briefed that we might be carrying some personal effects of the deceased, this set me aback. Holding his personal effects, I was starting to get to know Chance Phelps.

Finally we were ready. I grabbed my bags and went outside. I was somewhat startled when I saw the shipping container, loaded three-quarters of the way in to the back of a black Chevy Suburban that had been modified to carry such cargo. This was the first time I saw my “cargo” and I was surprised at how large the shipping container was. The Master Gunnery Sergeant and I verified that the name on the container was Phelps’s then they pushed him the rest of the way in and we left. Now it was PFC Chance Phelps’s turn to receive the military—and construction workers’—honors. He was finally moving towards home.

As I chatted with the driver on the hour-long trip to Philadelphia, it became clear that he considered it an honor to be able to contribute in getting Chance home. He offered his sympathy to the family. I was glad to finally be moving yet apprehensive about what things would be like at the airport. I didn’t want this package to be treated like ordinary cargo, but I knew that the simple logistics of moving around a box this large would have to overrule my preferences.

When we got to the Northwest Airlines cargo terminal at the Philadelphia airport, the cargo handler and hearse driver pulled the shipping container onto a loading bay while I stood to the side and executed a slow salute. Once Chance was safely in the cargo area, and I was satisfied that he would be treated with due care and respect, the hearse driver drove me over to the passenger terminal and dropped me off.

As I walked up to the ticketing counter in my uniform, a Northwest employee started to ask me if I knew how to use the automated boarding pass dispenser. Before she could finish another ticketing agent interrupted her. He told me to go straight to the counter then explained to the woman that I was a military escort. She seemed embarrassed. The woman behind the counter already had tears in her eyes as I was pulling out my government travel voucher. She struggled to find words but managed to express her sympathy for the family and thank me for my service. She upgraded my ticket to first class.

After clearing security, I was met by another Northwest Airline employee at the gate. She told me a representative from cargo would be up to take me down to the tarmac to observe the movement and loading of PFC Phelps. I hadn’t really told any of them what my mission was but they all knew.

When the man from the cargo crew met me, he, too, struggled for words. On the tarmac, he told me stories of his childhood as a military brat and repeatedly told me that he was sorry for my loss. I was starting to understand that, even here in Philadelphia, far away from Chance’s hometown, people were mourning with his family.

On the tarmac, the cargo crew was silent except for occasional instructions to each other. I stood to the side and saluted as the conveyor moved Chance to the aircraft. I was relieved when he was finally settled into place. The rest of the bags were loaded and I watched them shut the cargo bay door before heading back up to board the aircraft.

One of the pilots had taken my carry-on bag himself and had it stored next to the cockpit door so he could watch it while I was on the tarmac. As I boarded the plane, I could tell immediately that the flight attendants had already been informed of my mission. They seemed a little choked up as they led me to my seat.

About 45 minutes into our flight I still hadn’t spoken to anyone except to tell the first class flight attendant that I would prefer water. I was surprised when the flight attendant from the back of the plane suddenly appeared and leaned down to grab my hands. She said, “I want you to have this” as she pushed a small gold crucifix, with a relief of Jesus, into my hand. It was her lapel pin and it looked somewhat worn. I suspected it had been hers for quite some time. That was the only thing she said to me the entire flight.

When we landed in Minneapolis, I was the first one off the plane. The pilot himself escorted me straight down the side stairs of the exit tunnel to the tarmac. The cargo crew there already knew what was on this plane. They were unloading some of the luggage when an Army sergeant, a fellow escort who had left Dover earlier that day, appeared next to me. His “cargo” was going to be loaded onto my plane for its continuing leg. We stood side by side in the dark and executed a slow salute as Chance was removed from the plane. The cargo crew at Minneapolis kept Phelps’s shipping case separate from all the other luggage as they waited to take us to the cargo area. I waited with the soldier and we saluted together as his fallen comrade was loaded onto the plane.

My trip with Chance was going to be somewhat unusual in that we were going to have an overnight stopover. We had a late start out of Dover and there was just too much traveling ahead of us to continue on that day. (We still had a flight from Minneapolis to Billings, Montana, then a five-hour drive to the funeral home. That was to be followed by a 90-minute drive to Chance’s hometown.)

I was concerned about leaving him overnight in the Minneapolis cargo area. My ten-minute ride from the tarmac to the cargo holding area eased my apprehension. Just as in Philadelphia, the cargo guys in Minneapolis were extremely respectful and seemed honored to do their part. While talking with them, I learned that the cargo supervisor for Northwest Airlines at the Minneapolis airport is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves. They called him for me and let me talk to him.

Once I was satisfied that all would be okay for the night, I asked one of the cargo crew if he would take me back to the terminal so that I could catch my hotel’s shuttle. Instead, he drove me straight to the hotel himself. At the hotel, the Lieutenant Colonel called me and said he would personally pick me up in the morning and bring me back to the cargo area.

Before leaving the airport, I had told the cargo crew that I wanted to come back to the cargo area in the morning rather than go straight to the passenger terminal. I felt bad for leaving Chance overnight and wanted to see the shipping container where I had left it for the night. It was fine.

The Lieutenant Colonel made a few phone calls then drove me around to the passenger terminal. I was met again by a man from the cargo crew and escorted down to the tarmac. The pilot of the plane joined me as I waited for them to bring Chance from the cargo area. The pilot and I talked of his service in the Air Force and how he missed it.

I saluted as Chance was moved up the conveyor and onto the plane. It was to be a while before the luggage was to be loaded so the pilot took me up to the board the plane where I could watch the tarmac from a window. With no other passengers yet on board, I talked with the flight attendants and one of the cargo guys. He had been in the Navy and one of the attendants had been in the Air Force. Everywhere I went, people were continuing to tell me their relationship to the military. After all the baggage was aboard, I went back down to the tarmac, inspected the cargo bay, and watched them secure the door.

When we arrived at Billings, I was again the first off the plane. This time Chance’s shipping container was the first item out of the cargo hold. The funeral director had driven five hours up from Riverton, Wyoming to meet us. He shook my hand as if I had personally lost a brother.

We moved Chance to a secluded cargo area. Now it was time for me to remove the shipping container and drape the flag over the casket. I had predicted that this would choke me up but I found I was more concerned with proper flag etiquette than the solemnity of the moment. Once the flag was in place, I stood by and saluted as Chance was loaded onto the van from the funeral home. I was thankful that we were in a small airport and the event seemed to go mostly unnoticed. I picked up my rental car and followed Chance for five hours until we reached Riverton. During the long trip I imagined how my meeting with Chance’s parents would go. I was very nervous about that.

When we finally arrived at the funeral home, I had my first face to face meeting with the Casualty Assistance Call Officer. It had been his duty to inform the family of Chance’s death. He was on the Inspector/Instructor staff of an infantry company in Salt Lake City, Utah and I knew he had had a difficult week.

Inside I gave the funeral director some of the paperwork from Dover and discussed the plan for the next day. The service was to be at 1400 in the high school gymnasium up in Dubois, population about 900, some 90 miles away. Eventually, we had covered everything. The CACO had some items that the family wanted to be inserted into the casket and I felt I needed to inspect Chance’s uniform to ensure everything was proper. Although it was going to be a closed casket funeral, I still wanted to ensure his uniform was squared away.

Earlier in the day I wasn’t sure how I’d handle this moment. Suddenly, the casket was open and I got my first look at Chance Phelps. His uniform was immaculate—a tribute to the professionalism of the Marines at Dover. I noticed that he wore six ribbons over his marksmanship badge; the senior one was his Purple Heart. I had been in the Corps for over 17 years, including a combat tour, and was wearing eight ribbons. This Private First Class, with less than a year in the Corps, had already earned six.

The next morning, I wore my dress blues and followed the hearse for the trip up to Dubois. This was the most difficult leg of our trip for me. I was bracing for the moment when I would meet his parents and hoping I would find the right words as I presented them with Chance’s personal effects.

We got to the high school gym about four hours before the service was to begin. The gym floor was covered with folding chairs neatly lined in rows. There were a few townspeople making final preparations when I stood next to the hearse and saluted as Chance was moved out of the hearse. The sight of a flag-draped coffin was overwhelming to some of the ladies.

We moved Chance into the gym to the place of honor. A Marine sergeant, the command representative from Chance’s battalion, met me at the gym. His eyes were watery as he relieved me of watching Chance so that I could go eat lunch and find my hotel.

At the restaurant, the table had a flier announcing Chance’s service. Dubois High School gym; two o’ clock. It also said that the family would be accepting donations so that they could buy flak vests to send to troops in Iraq.

I drove back to the gym at a quarter after one. I could’ve walked—you could walk to just about anywhere in Dubois in ten minutes. I had planned to find a quiet room where I could take his things out of their pouch and untangle the chain of the Saint Christopher medal from the dog tag chains and arrange everything before his parents came in. I had twice before removed the items from the pouch to ensure they were all there—even though there was no chance anything could’ve fallen out. Each time, the two chains had been quite tangled. I didn’t want to be fumbling around trying to untangle them in front of his parents. Our meeting, however, didn’t go as expected.

I practically bumped into Chance’s step-mom accidentally and our introductions began in the noisy hallway outside the gym. In short order I had met Chance’s step-mom and father followed by his step-dad and, at last, his mom. I didn’t know how to express to these people my sympathy for their loss and my gratitude for their sacrifice. Now, however, they were repeatedly thanking me for bringing their son home and for my service. I was humbled beyond words.

I told them that I had some of Chance’s things and asked if we could try to find a quiet place. The five of us ended up in what appeared to be a computer lab—not what I had envisioned for this occasion.

After we had arranged five chairs around a small table, I told them about our trip. I told them how, at every step, Chance was treated with respect, dignity, and honor. I told them about the staff at Dover and all the folks at Northwest Airlines. I tried to convey how the entire Nation, from Dover to Philadelphia, to Minneapolis, to Billings, and Riverton expressed grief and sympathy over their loss.

Finally, it was time to open the pouch. The first item I happened to pull out was Chance’s large watch. It was still set to Baghdad time. Next were the lanyard and the wooden cross. Then the dog tags and the Saint Christopher medal. This time the chains were not tangled. Once all of his items were laid out on the table, I told his mom that I had one other item to give them. I retrieved the flight attendant’s crucifix from my pocket and told its story. I set that on the table and excused myself. When I next saw Chance’s mom, she was wearing the crucifix on her lapel.

By 1400 most of the seats on the gym floor were filled and people were finding seats in the fixed bleachers high above the gym floor. There were a surprising number of people in military uniform. Many Marines had come up from Salt Lake City. Men from various VFW posts and the Marine Corps League occupied multiple rows of folding chairs. We all stood as Chance’s family took their seats in the front.

It turned out that Chance’s sister, a Petty Officer in the Navy, worked for a Rear Admiral—the Chief of Naval Intelligence—at the Pentagon. The Admiral had brought many of the sailors on his staff with him to Dubois pay respects to Chance and support his sister. After a few songs and some words from a Navy Chaplain, the Admiral took the microphone and told us how Chance had died.

Chance was an artillery cannoneer and his unit was acting as provisional military police outside of Baghdad. Chance had volunteered to man a .50 caliber machine gun in the turret of the leading vehicle in a convoy. The convoy came under intense fire but Chance stayed true to his post and returned fire with the big gun, covering the rest of the convoy, until he was fatally wounded.

Then the commander of the local VFW post read some of the letters Chance had written home. In letters to his mom he talked of the mosquitoes and the heat. In letters to his stepfather he told of the dangers of convoy operations and of receiving fire.

The service was a fitting tribute to this hero. When it was over, we stood as the casket was wheeled out with the family following. The casket was placed onto a horse-drawn carriage for the mile-long trip from the gym, down the main street, then up the steep hill to the cemetery. I stood alone and saluted as the carriage departed the high school. I found my car and joined Chance’s convoy.

The town seemingly went from the gym to the street. All along the route, the people had lined the street and were waving small American flags. The flags that were otherwise posted were all at half-staff. For the last quarter mile up the hill, local boy scouts, spaced about 20 feet apart, all in uniform, held large flags. At the foot of the hill, I could look up and back and see the enormity of our procession. I wondered how many people would be at this funeral if it were in, say, Detroit or Los Angeles—probably not as many as were here in little Dubois, Wyoming.

The carriage stopped about 15 yards from the grave and the military pall bearers and the family waited until the men of the VFW and Marine Corps league were formed up and school busses had arrived carrying many of the people from the procession route. Once the entire crowd was in place, the pallbearers came to attention and began to remove the casket from the caisson. As I had done all week, I came to attention and executed a slow ceremonial salute as Chance was being transferred from one mode of transport to another.

From Dover to Philadelphia; Philadelphia to Minneapolis; Minneapolis to Billings; Billings to Riverton; and Riverton to Dubois we had been together. Now, as I watched them carry him the final 15 yards, I was choking up. I felt that, as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive.

Then they put him down above his grave. He had stopped moving.

Although my mission had been officially complete once I turned him over to the funeral director at the Billings airport, it was his placement at his grave that really concluded it in my mind. Now, he was home to stay and I suddenly felt at once sad, relieved, and useless.

The chaplain said some words that I couldn’t hear and two Marines removed the flag from the casket and slowly folded it for presentation to his mother. When the ceremony was over, Chance’s father placed a ribbon from his service in Vietnam on Chance’s casket. His mother approached the casket and took something from her blouse and put it on the casket. I later saw that it was the flight attendant’s crucifix. Eventually friends of Chance’s moved closer to the grave. A young man put a can of Copenhagen on the casket and many others left flowers.

Finally, we all went back to the gym for a reception. There was enough food to feed the entire population for a few days. In one corner of the gym there was a table set up with lots of pictures of Chance and some of his sports awards. People were continually approaching me and the other Marines to thank us for our service. Almost all of them had some story to tell about their connection to the military. About an hour into the reception, I had the impression that every man in Wyoming had, at one time or another, been in the service.

It seemed like every time I saw Chance’s mom she was hugging a different well wisher. As time passed, I began to hear people laughing. We were starting to heal.

After a few hours at the gym, I went back to the hotel to change out of my dress blues. The local VFW post had invited everyone over to “celebrate Chance’s life.” The Post was on the other end of town from my hotel and the drive took less than two minutes. The crowd was somewhat smaller than what had been at the gym but the Post was packed.

Marines were playing pool at the two tables near the entrance and most of the VFW members were at the bar or around the tables in the bar area. The largest room in the Post was a banquet/dinning/dancing area and it was now called “The Chance Phelps Room.” Above the entry were two items: a large portrait of Chance in his dress blues and the Eagle, Globe, & Anchor. In one corner of the room there was another memorial to Chance. There were candles burning around another picture of him in his blues. On the table surrounding his photo were his Purple Heart citation and his Purple Heart medal. There was also a framed copy of an excerpt from the Congressional Record. This was an elegant tribute to Chance Phelps delivered on the floor of the United States House of Representatives by Congressman Scott McInnis of Colorado. Above it all was a television that was playing a photo montage of Chance’s life from small boy to proud Marine.

I did not buy a drink that night. As had been happening all day, indeed all week, people were thanking me for my service and for bringing Chance home. Now, in addition to words and handshakes, they were thanking me with beer. I fell in with the men who had handled the horses and horse-drawn carriage. I learned that they had worked through the night to groom and prepare the horses for Chance’s last ride. They were all very grateful that they were able to contribute.

After a while we all gathered in the Chance Phelps room for the formal dedication. The Post commander told us of how Chance had been so looking forward to becoming a Life Member of the VFW. Now, in the Chance Phelps Room of the Dubois, Wyoming post, he would be an eternal member. We all raised our beers and the Chance Phelps room was christened.

Later, as I was walking toward the pool tables, a Staff Sergeant from the Reserve unit in Salt Lake grabbed me and said, “Sir, you gotta hear this.” There were two other Marines with him and he told the younger one, a Lance Corporal, to tell me his story. The Staff Sergeant said the Lance Corporal was normally too shy and modest to tell it but now he’d had enough beer to overcome his usual tendencies.

As the Lance Corporal started to talk, an older man joined our circle. He wore a baseball cap that indicated he had been with the 1st Marine Division in Korea. Earlier in the evening he had told me about one of his former commanding officers; a Colonel Puller.

So, there I was, standing in a circle with three Marines recently returned from fighting with the 1st Marine Division in Iraq and one not so recently returned from fighting with the 1st Marine Division in Korea. I, who had fought with the 1st Marine Division in Kuwait, was about to gain a new insight into our Corps.

The young Lance Corporal began to tell us his story. At that moment, in this circle of current and former Marines, the differences in our ages and ranks dissipated—we were all simply Marines.

His squad had been on a patrol through a city street. They had taken small arms fire and had literally dodged an RPG round that sailed between two Marines. At one point they received fire from behind a wall and had neutralized the sniper with a SMAW round. The back blast of the SMAW, however, kicked up a substantial rock that hammered the Lance Corporal in the thigh; only missing his groin because he had reflexively turned his body sideways at the shot.

Their squad had suffered some wounded and was receiving more sniper fire when suddenly he was hit in the head by an AK-47 round. I was stunned as he told us how he felt like a baseball bat had been slammed into his head. He had spun around and fell unconscious. When he came to, he had a severe scalp wound but his Kevlar helmet had saved his life. He continued with his unit for a few days before realizing he was suffering the effects of a severe concussion.

As I stood there in the circle with the old man and the other Marines, the Staff Sergeant finished the story. He told of how this Lance Corporal had begged and pleaded with the Battalion surgeon to let him stay with his unit. In the end, the doctor said there was just no way—he had suffered a severe and traumatic head wound and would have to be med’evaced.

The Marine Corps is a special fraternity. There are moments when we are reminded of this. Interestingly, those moments don’t always happen at awards ceremonies or in dress blues at Birthday Balls. I have found, rather, that they occur at unexpected times and places: next to a loaded moving van at Camp Lejeune’s base housing, in a dirty CP tent in northern Saudi Arabia, and in a smoky VFW post in western Wyoming.

After the story was done, the Lance Corporal stepped over to the old man, put his arm over the man’s shoulder and told him that he, the Korean War vet, was his hero. The two of them stood there with their arms over each other’s shoulders and we were all silent for a moment. When they let go, I told the Lance Corporal that there were recruits down on the yellow footprints tonight that would soon be learning his story.

I was finished drinking beer and telling stories. I found Chance’s father and shook his hand one more time. Chance’s mom had already left and I deeply regretted not being able to tell her goodbye.

I left Dubois in the morning before sunrise for my long drive back to Billings. It had been my honor to take Chance Phelps to his final post. Now he was on the high ground overlooking his town.

I miss him.

Regards,
LtCol Strobl

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Forever America Forever Free

2009-05-26T03:02:28Z

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On this special day, Memorial Day, we honor all of those who have served and are still serving our great nation, the United States of America.

To the families who have lost loved ones, past & present, you have our deepest thanks and you have not been forgotten. Your loss has kept our country and many other countries free.

To the families that have members still serving in Iraq & Afghanistan and anyplace else on this planet and in space, you’re insuring that our freedom is maintained for our future children.

To my brother’s & sister’s in the military, I think about all of you each and every day. As a former military member we are the ones who really pray the hardest for peace. I know how hard it is to complete the mission when it usually ends in the hardest thing we must do, kill. There isn’t a day that goes by when, like you, I pray for peace and want our buddies to get home safe to be with our families.

To the people around the world who have lost people in wars and conflicts you are also remembered. Memorial day isn’t just for the military, it is for everyone who has made a sacrifice for freedom, you don’t have to be just an American.

To our nations politicians who vote for wars, remember that the end results is always death and the loss of families & friends. We are all neighbours on this planet. We all have families that you sacrifice for your decisions, we all pay the price.

To the terrorists, killing innocent people and crimes against humanity, you are only making those people martyrs for the cause of freedom. You are the ones who create memorials for the innocent and soldiers who want peace. You will never have memorials built like ones for WW1, WW2, Korean & Vietnam wars. You will only be remembered as the ones who murdered children, entire families and killed innocent people. You validate the Memorial Days all over the world.

So on this day, Memorial Day, I pray for peace. I pray for forgiveness. I pray for tolerance. I pray that one day hatred and wars will be replaced with understanding, thoughtfulness & tolerance.

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Pope: solidarity with the Palestinians

2009-05-15T02:47:45Z

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Written by: Diana West
Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:57 AM (0)

In a triumph for “Palestinianism” — which Bat Ye’or thumbnails as “a replacement theory whereby Palestine replaces Israel” (her complete definition here) — Pope Benedict wholly swallowed and regurgitated the PA narrative in his disgracefully contextless lamentation over the separation fence Israel built to keep PA suicide bombers from exploding in Israel’s grocery stores, cafes and buses.

“Just yards from the barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians,” as the New York Times put it, the Pope “expressed solidarity on Wednesday with `all the homeless Palestinians who long to be able to return to their birthplace, or live permanently in a homeland of their own.’ ”

Sounds as if the pontiff is pushing the Israel-finisher of so-called “right of return” to boot. The Times report continued:

Speaking before the “towering” background of the “concrete-and-barbed-wire barrier and checkpoint … deliberately chosen to strengthen his case,” Benedict decried the barrier as “a stark reminder … ”

Let’s pause. A stark reminder of what? The perpetual jihad waged against a former dhimmi population (in this case, the Jews) for the audacity of reclaiming their ancestral homeland from former Muslim masters? Nope. The pope called the barrier a “stark reminder of the stalemate that relations between Israelis and Palestinians seem to have reached.”

Just like that. “Stalemate.” “Seem to have reached.” Benedict went on:

“In a world where more and more borders are being opened up — to trade, to travel, to movement of peoples, to cultural exchanges — it is tragic to see walls still being erected.”

Voila. The Pope has just given the post-modern gloss to the separation fence. He has denuded it of its purpose, and depicted it as an arbitrary, context-less piece of miserable bric a brac.

Is it really “tragic” to see a wall that stops mass murder? It is the mass murder that is tragic — indeed, that is an abomination. But the pope ignores this. The human life lost without the wall — indeed, the human life saved by the wall — has become invisible to Benedict. For the pope, all of these lives have been replaced with Palestinianism, the amoral, a historical creed that is driving Israel out of existence.

The article continues, explaining that the PA had invited Benedict to Aida, a refugee camp, “because its proximity to the barrier would give it s `a political message,’ said Issa Qarage,” a Fatah MP.

And the pope complied. Later, “the children of parents of prisoners in Israel presented him with gifts….Speaking before the Pope, Palestinian officials noted that his visit coincided with the 61st anniversary of the 1948 war leading to the creation of the state of Israel, which several officials referred to as `the naqba,’ or `catastrophe.’ ”

Just FYI: The UN creation of the state of Israel triggered the 1948 war; not vice versa. But that’s small potatoes next to the grotesque thought of the leader of the Catholic church, in possession of “gifts” from jihadists’ children, sitting through “several officials” ranting about the “naqba” — the catastrophe of the state of Israel.

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Obama’s 1st 3 weeks in White House

2009-04-27T16:45:49Z

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I got this in email today. Worth reading…

Jack Lauber wrote:

So, Let’s Recap–

1. The American people elect a black president with a total of 142 days experience as a US Senator from the most politically-corrupt state in America whose governor is ousted from office. The President’s first official act is to order the close of Gitmo and make sure terrorists civil rights are not violated.

(He screwed up!!)

2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists. (An honest mistake!)

3. The CIA Boss appointee, Leon Panetta, has absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda we find out, who is a true radical anti-American activist and a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in the western hemisphere. (There were socio-economic factors involved!)

4. We got the most corrupt female in America as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.

(You can put lipstick on a pig, but it will still have cankles!)

5. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who files his own taxes. (He misspoke!)

6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges. (Another honest mistake???)

7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.

(Hmmm… another screw-up?)

8. A Labor Sec’y nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct. (Ok, maybe this person was just plain stupid)

9. A Sec’y HHS nominee who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes. (I’m running out of excuses for these idiots!!)

10. Multiple appointments of former lobbyists after an absolute campaign statement that no lobbyists would be appointed. (Dear God, I need a drink!)

And that’s just the first three weeks. . . but who’s counting? America is being run by the modern-day Three Stooges ~ Barrack, Nancy , and Hilary ~ and they are still trying to define stimulus…”it’s spending”…

The congress passes the $800,000,000,000 (that’s $800 billion) pork loaded spending bill where the government gives you a smidgen of your tax dollars ($13 per week) making you feel so good about yourself [stimulated] that you want to run out to Wal-Mart and buy a new Chinese-made HDTV and go home and watch Telemundo!

Yee-haw!!! Only in America , what a country… We are lost… Here’s the good news though… Obama took Air Force One to Denver to sign the stimulus package, wasting as much as 10,000 gallons of fuel. Don’t you just love this guy?

In these times “I’ll keep my God, my freedom, my gun and my money. You can keep “THE CHANGE”.

Scary isn’t it ?

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ACLU attacks VFW tribute to fallen heroes

2009-04-24T20:40:32Z

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Dear Freedom Center Supporter,

The radical, hate-America Left never quits. Nearly every good, decent American tradition or organization is under ferocious attack. These radicals want blood. They want to shred and destroy every vestige of our conservative society.

Today these ultra-leftists are focused on the men and women who have proudly served in our armed forces.

The Freedom Center is joining in another legal battle against the ACLU. This time it’s the ACLU’s attack on the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Here’s the background: In 1934, a California VFW chapter created a tribute honoring Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. On that memorial, the VFW raised a cross - not as a religious symbol, but as a secular monument for people to see and recognize the bravery and love of country their colleagues had for America. The cross was placed on Sunrise Rock in a remote area in California’s Mojave Desert, in what is now a federal preserve.

Frank Buono first saw the cross in 1995 when he was working in the area. He later moved to Oregon and planned to move back to the Mojave Desert (in 2001) - where he could see the memorial from a nearby road. Buono decided the cross had to go. He contacted the ACLU, which readily took his case.

For nearly 70 years, the cross on the VFW’s powerful, compassionate memorial to fallen American soldiers stood in silent tribute. In an instant, one man and a radical leftist organization decided to wipe it out.

The VFW lost in the lower courts, and the case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Freedom Center is going to jump into this legal battle to support the VFW’s efforts to continue to display the cross. Will you help us today? Will you make a contribution of $25, $50, $100 or even $250 to our Individual Rights Foundation Legal Fund? (6)

You have long supported the Freedom Center and our legal arm, the Individual Rights Foundation (IRF). You know well the tactics of the rabid leftists who want to erase any evidence of America’s proudest traditions or organizations. Witness the endless attacks on the Boy Scouts of America, for example.

Now the ACLU and people like Frank Buono are displaying their open contempt for our men and women in uniform.

So, I readily agreed to have the IRF prepare yet another powerful argument against yet another ACLU attack. But I need your support.

We have a chance to make a difference here. In fact, the Freedom Center’s legal team is fighting the radical left on a number of fronts:

The Freedom Center is fighting to protect the First Amendment rights of Joe Kaufman, who has been critical of Muslim terrorists and has a web site dedicated to exposing radical Islamic terrorists. He is being sued by Islamic groups who want to shut him up. The IRF is working diligently to defend Joe Kaufman.

Boy Scouts of America troops across the nation are routinely sued by the ACLU and other groups that want to tear this great organization apart. The IRF has provided a number of “friends of the court” briefs in these cases. With your help we will continue to do so.

Bottom line: Your support makes all the difference. We simply would not be able to challenge these radicals - and protect America’s fundamental rights - without the dedicated financial support of Americans like you.

So, please, follow this link to make am immediate contribution to our Individual Rights Legal Defense Fund!

Thank you again for all of your help - your courageous support! Because of your unselfishness, I’m able to take the fight straight into the trenches against the radical Left. It’s because of you the Freedom Center is making a difference in the war for our culture, for our American way of life.

Sincerely,

David Horowitz
President & Founder

P.S. I cannot overemphasize how important you are to my fight against a vicious, small but powerful force in America - the rabid soldiers of the hate-America Left! Please, let’s take the fight to them. Use any of the hyperlinks throughout this email and contrbute to our Fund and make a difference! Thanks again.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a retard turd with eyes

2009-04-23T11:43:52Z

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Now I don’t know about others but this fool is a scientific miracle. It looks human has 2 arms and legs but when you look closely he smells like shit and talks more shit. He makes DNA look stupid. His parents should be killed for screwing and bring this guy life. His after-birth has more common sense !

Highlights from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the U.N. DTurban II conference in Geneva, April 20, 2009. (English)

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God The Father’s Love Letter to YOU !

2009-04-17T05:18:18Z

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I love God so much that I can’t express it with words but this video comes darn close. I love each and every person that reads this blog and all the best for you.

God gave His ONLY Son for us so that we would love Him. He want’s us all back home with Him so that we WILL live with Him forever and ever. That is the love I have for all here and this video is my gift to each of you and that it will re-new your love and worship to God.

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Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Conficker Worm

2009-03-29T09:19:35Z

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March 19, 2009

Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm

By JOHN MARKOFF (0)

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle is taking place between computer security groups around the world and the brazen author of a malicious software program called Conficker.

The program grabbed global attention when it began spreading late last year and quickly infected millions of computers with software code that is intended to lash together the infected machines it controls into a powerful computer known as a botnet.

Since then, the program’s author has repeatedly updated its software in a cat-and-mouse game being fought with an informal international alliance of computer security firms and a network governance group known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (0). Members refer to the alliance as the Conficker Cabal.

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