Yesterday, we got snarfed. The Senate has done it again and followed the Chevy Maverick of politicians, McCain. That guys no maverick, he’s a May Pole that’s not wrapped too tight!

Both the CAII and Grassfire.org are blasting the blogosphere with the current event of the day, today. And, the calls are going out to pound Wachington (my new pronunciation, like the mexicali twang?) with cards, letters, faxes, phone calls, and e-mails! These pinheads haven’t a clue what sort of fire they’re startin’, do they?!

Here’s how our firestarter over at Grassfire.org lays it down:

The Senate just passed it’s Hagel-Martinez Amnesty bill — what we call the “No Illegal Alien Left Behind Act” — by a final vote of 62-36.

If you have been watching the debate then you know that this outrageous bill has gotten worse by the hour. Right down to the final minutes before the vote, Senators were adding language that further undermines our nation. For example, the bill calls for “consultation” with Mexican authorities before the agreed-upon fence is built!

+ + Roll Call Vote

Go here to see the Roll Call vote on the final bill:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=788&rid=10944521

+ + “Amnesty Republicans”

Here’s your list of “Amnesty Republicans.”
Remember — without these Republicans there
would be no amnesty bill!

Robert Bennett (UT): (202) 224-5444
Sam Brownback (KS): (202) 224-6521
Lincoln Chafee (RI): (202) 224-2921
Norm Coleman (MN): (202) 224-5641
Susan Collins (ME) (202) 224-2523
Larry Craig (ID): (202) 224-2752
Mike DeWine (OH): (202) 224-2315
Pete Domenici (NM): (202) 224-6621
Bill Frist (TN): (202) 224-3344
Lindsay Graham (SC): (202) 224-5972
Judd Gregg (NH): (202) 224-3324
Chuck Hagel (NE): (202) 224-4224
Richard Lugar (IN): (202) 224-4814
Mel Martinez (FL): (202) 224-3041
John McCain (AZ): (202) 224-2235
Mitch McConnell (KY): (202) 224-2541
Lisa Murkowski (AK): (202) 224-6665
Gordon Smith (OR): (202) 224-3753
Olympia Snowe (ME): 202) 224-5344
Arlen Specter (PA): (202) 224-4254
Ted Stevens (AK): (202) 224-3004
George Voinovich (OH): (202) 224-3353
John Warner (VA): (202) 224-2023

+ + Don’t Lose Hope — Battle Just Begun!

And, our fearless leader over at CAII sounds the same:

Well, the Senate passed a bad bill, but I expected they would. Now don’t forget about the June 6th D-Day assault on the Capital. Those post cards can go to the house instead of Congress, and so will our calls, emails and faxes.

As soon as I hear the House is taking it up in Congress, we are going to hit the House. We have a real chance of defeating this in the House so don’t give up. If you wish to vent about this please do so to your Senators, and let them know how you feel about them passing a bill that will destroy our country. Remember how your cockroaches voted and write it down!

Here is a tool too look up how anyone has voted on any topic:
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

Here is a tool that sends you an email that will tell you how your cockroaches vote on everything:
http://www.votenote.com/

Excellent tools I recommend.

It just astounds me how out of touch Wachingtun is, ya know?

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, e-mail the coalition and let them know at what level you would like to participate.

OK, sorry to invoke the vernacular in the title, but it leads me right into another title: Title 18 of the US Code. Someone at work and I were talking about how to dispose of an old flag - landed me here at US Code Title 18. Then, Ray Nagin had his picture taken wearing a US Army General’s uniform - hmm, Title 18 again. And today, Amy Proctor posts about the melon-heed (use Mike Myers voice from So I Married an Axe Murderer) that was interviewed regarding the US Military and attrocities in Iraq - dang if ya don’t land at Title 18 for what needs to happen.

There are sooo many sections in Title 18! Now I KNOW what these people spend all day doing in DC! Yikes!

If you want to know about what we should do to people who deface or treat Old Glory with disrespect, US Code Title 18 Section 700 is the place to go. Read on:

Sec. 700. Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties
(a)(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
(2) This subsection does not prohibit any conduct consisting of the disposal of a flag when it has become worn or soiled.
(b) As used in this section, the term “flag of the United States” means any flag of the United States, or any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, in a form that is commonly displayed.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of Congress to deprive any State, territory, possession, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of jurisdiction over any offense over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this section.
(d)(1) An appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme Court of the United States from any interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order issued by a United States district court ruling upon the constitutionality of subsection (a).
(2) The Supreme Court shall, if it has not previously ruled on the question, accept jurisdiction over the appeal and advance on the docket and expedite to the greatest extent possible.

And, for those that think it is OK to wear the uniform of anyone, any rank, in the US Military, well, Title 18 Section 702 is your source. Read on:

Sec. 702. Uniform of armed forces and Public Health Service
Whoever, in any place within the jurisdiction of the United States or in the Canal Zone, without authority, wears the uniform or a distinctive part thereof or anything similar to a distinctive part of the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United States, Public Health Service or any auxiliary of such, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

And, just for effect, I found out that there are some people out there wearing medals, ones that aren’t just handed out for fun people, or discussing their “honor” and are actually impersonating a member of the US Military. We can go to the scum layers for these types. Well, the House introduced an amendment to Title 18 Section 704 whereby a stiffer wording was to be employed to ensnare these vermin. To get the current flavor prior to the amendment, read on:

Sec. 704. Military medals or decorations
(a) In General.–Whoever knowingly wears, manufactures, or sells any decoration or medal authorized by Congress for the armed forces of the United States, or any of the service medals or badges awarded to the members of such forces, or the ribbon, button, or rosette of any such badge, decoration or medal, or any colorable imitation thereof, except when authorized under regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(b) Congressional Medal of Honor.–
(1) In general.–If a decoration or medal involved in an offense under subsection (a) is a Congressional Medal of Honor, in lieu of the punishment provided in that subsection, the offender shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
(2) Definitions.–
(A) As used in subsection (a) with respect to a Congressional Medal of Honor, “sells” includes trades, barters, or exchanges for anything of value.
(B) As used in this subsection, “Congressional Medal of Honor” means–
(i) a medal of honor awarded under section 3741, 6241, or 8741 of title 10 or section 491 of title 14;
(ii) a duplicate medal of honor issued under section 3754, 6256, or 8754 of title 10 or section 504 of title 14; or
(iii) a replacement of a medal of honor provided under section 3747, 6253, or 8747 of title 10 or section 501 of title 14.

Pretty dang black and white there, eh?

So, when is someone gonna go tap ole Ray Nagin on the shoulder and ask him to turn himself in for impersonating a commissioned officer? I suspect, well, never - white guilt and all.

I just turned Rush Limbaugh off - sorry, I just turned Mark Belling off. Why? Because he has no conviction, and answers with that wishy-washy “I don’t know if…” dodge.

C’mon! This guy doesn’t believe in going after the employers?! What happened to ethics in business? If you are an employer and you hire illegal aliens, you are aiding and abeting. Plain and simple. It is wrong!

And, sheesh, why is everyone so afraid of ethics?

And Mark, are your hospitals closing all their emergency rooms because they are losing their shirts up there in Wisconsin?! You are the problem, not me, you have missed the point completely. Our system is under siege and you have walked away ’cause you think you are being nice to these people.

I’ve got one thing to say to you, Mark. We in California voted for Prop 187. When the courts went after us, all you other sidelines/armchair Americans let us swing in the wind. We had a solution, we voted for it, and it passed, ON THE LEFT COAST! And when the ACLU and the courts went after us, where were all of you to help?

And, here’s what it sounded like out here, uttered by the oposition

“Opponents included State Senator Art Torres, who referred to Prop. 187 as “the last gasp of white America in California.”

Well, welcome to all of you that now know what we voted for so long ago. The Fox is still in the hen house, and now he’s coming after your eggs.

There is a solution to get things going. The Senate bill is a mistake. Instead of bending over and takin’ it ’cause of “White Guilt”, just take the time to realize we can put one thing in a bill at a time. Just do a bill with the fence in it, only. Then, put up the bill on amnesty (which you ARE for!), and yes, it is amnesty and it is wrong. Placing 11 million people more onto the Social Security system in one drop, ’cause it’ll make you feel better!

Wake up!

I did not risk my life, in the service of my country, to watch a bunch of lilly-livered, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, dolts, sell out and send us down the river without a spoon.

Prop 187. Prop 187. Prop 187.

We miss you, Ronnie. The Conservative agenda, and the Republican party, are losing ground and being taken over by whimps.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, e-mail the coalition and let them know at what level you would like to participate.

I’ve walked up to the most famous fence in the world, while it was still operational. I was under USAFE Command stationed in Germany from 1982 to 1984. The real fence was built to keep it’s people in. You really don’t even know what a real fence looks like, do you? Sure, you can wax prolific about seeing a fence around a prison. OK, so, maybe you’ve been close to a very secure US Military base. Or maybe you’ve seen razor wire atop a fence that has brand new cars being stored prior to transit. And maybe you think that by building a fence we’d be just like them. But, what made the most famous fence so, famous?

I’ll tell ya, guard towers with men inside with orders to shoot to kill. Shoot their fellow citizens that were trying to leave! Not to arrest or detain, not to control a population illegally crossing to get a few bucks doing hard work and get free medical and dental. No questions asked, kill. And did you know that even if you were able to cross the fence, there was still 50 more feet before you were truly free?

Have you ever been to Check Point Charlie and seen the bullet holes in the buildings where good people fled for their lives? Have you ever driven through Helmstedt and been given a direct order to wait for the East German guard to salute you first - because we do not recognize them as a country (learn why, learn a ton)? Have you been followed by East German patrols or KGB as you were seeing the sights on a sunny day? Do you know why these practices were in place?

I’ll tell ya, ’cause the most dangerous regime after WWII was in charge of a poor people who needed help. That country watched their people so closely that there was very little room to have your own personality. The fence extended way beyond the perimeter and entered every soul within it’s boundary, binding everyone through real acts of spying, not the lame stuff in the news today, that isn’t even spying (see Echelon for real spying). You here in the United States of America can talk freely and jump in your car to go to Vegas without having to notify the local “authorities”.

You do not even know what a fence really is, and you do not really know what spying is like. You’ve never had your every move tracked, day by day, just because they want to track you. Not ’cause you are an enemy of the State but because you might want to escape to the free world. Ask The Chief, go to his site The Truth, learn something - you’re in no way an “expert”.

The people that came to the rescue of those people trapped behind that fence were lead by one man. A man so courageous he threw down the gauntlet and forced the evil power to relinquish it’s cold as death hold on it’s people. That man was vilified often, misunderstood by many, and oh so underestimated by the world. Uh-huh, you know what I’m going to ask, who was that man?

President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I served under his leadership. He’d provide no safe haven for anyone exhibiting Chamberlain-like traits. Why are we letting the psychos run the asylum, huh? Why are we so afraid of being the people that the rest of the world laughs at so often? What’s wrong with being a God fearing, Jesus loving, SUV driving, cowboy?

And for those of you that think I am against a fence on our southern borders, you are sooo very wrong. These people are not escaping an oppressive government that is torturing, killing, tracking, placing them in death camps, or stealing the money out of their hands. Yes, those crossing do come from a depressed economy. But arrest or put sanctions on their Presidente and the scum keeping them down which is forcing them to come here for free handouts and a better way. Sure, the work is hard, but if they came across legally, the pay scale is better and they can join the rest of us in the benefits later in life.

I did not write this post to show how bad a fence is, but the difference. Here, try this one on for size. If you had a purchased a brand new ski boat and you knew that access was easy and anyone cold just hook up a hitch and drive away with it, what would you do? And what if that person was starving and just wanted to sell it to get some money to send home to their family. Is stealing right?

I guess inside the beltway, stealing is OK. So is giving our Social Security money to illegals. If it’s OK to do that, McCain, maybe we should just start cuttin’ checks to all the scum in our prisons, too.

Wait, they should vote too! Right?

Ronnie, we miss you.

If you think that this country is awash with the likes of Neville Chamberlain, there’s an interesting discussion going on about the NSA, Al Jazeera, and al Quaida over at Amy Proctor’s blog. A couple of us are getting some good comments up there and providing good arguments. The more the merrier, so join in!

Here’s a comment I left over there regarding Amy’s that defines clearly the 4th Amendment. Added is I had asked if anyone knew who was in power when Echelon was in full technical swing:

On the 4th Amendment, Amy …

YOU GO GIRL!!!

Nailed it again, M’Lady.

And, Amy, I know _you_ know the answer to the Who’s Who of 1998 question. It’s the Captain of Crocodile Tears, y’all … that man could curl a lip on command like no one I know.

Disingenuous? I’ll leave that to all of you to decide.

For me, I’ll take the war-mongering Reagan and Bush over the aspirin-plant bombing, no answer for the USS Cole yellow-bellied, blue-hat order taking, bible-toten yet never reading or living it at all, lack of conviction for this country sell out of a man.

This country deserves to be protected not sold out to the highest bidder or tin horn dictator. And God save us from the likes of those that want to be accepted by the boneheads in the EU! One more Chamberlain-like politician or actor/singer in this country and we’re gonna go down like every other country in the EU, when they were at their peak. Sheesh.

It’s a shame that so many have forgotten the past. The disgrace of today is a simple rehash or repeat of the Chamberlains of yesterday.

God Bless the United States of America, and those who truly protect her from assault and destruction.

Ya know, she really has if you play this all the way out to the end. Paris Hilton lives “La Vita Loca” (for you illegal aliens out there) and dines at the swankiest. Paris Hilton has never seen what it is like to work, nor has she ever sacrificed a damn thing - except maybe her few contacts that bailed when her SideKick was hijacked! (Doh!)

I mean really, what one earth can she be worth? (rhyme intended) I won’t even do the math, ’cause that is only money.

It is impossible to even fathom to what extent the Hilton Family is willing to stoop. Maybe Paris Hilton has been “schtupped”, but I think that the family is now schtupping those injured brave men and women at Walter Reed that have been able to experience a steak dinner and some time away to forget their pains and continuous fight with debilitating injuries. The US Military is sacrificing every day, whether it is the time spent on the field of battle, the spouses and families holding it all together all alone, or those brave enough to continue yet cannot because they are wounded the worst and must recuperate and rehabilitate at Walter Reed.

Can the Hilton Hotel Corporation (ticker symbol/link HLT = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=HLT) be this flippin’ stupid? Are they really as dumb as their namesake, Paris? Are they really that reluctant to support these brave men and women and continue the steak dinner ritual? I mean, it isn’t like this is a free ride because Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse makes sure that they are all square. In fact, Wal-Mart (uh-huh, that evil giant corporation the lefties love to hate) and the VFW is kicking in $50k!

Yeah, I SAID FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!

That’s a ton of steaks, and I’m right there with them. I’ll continue to go to Wal-Mart, folks. I hope you do too. At least THEIR heart is in the right place. Sam Walton was no idiot. Neither are we, ya know?

Thanks to Lt. Smash of Indepundit, I landed on Chris Dickson’s blog where I was able to get a little background on the Wal-Mart and VFW pitching in to make this free to the wounded. Here, check out a few choice tidbits:

The Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Foundation awarded the VFW Foundation a $1 million matching grant last summer to support VFW programs that aid military members and their families. Fifty thousand dollars of that grant was earmarked to underwrite the cost of dinners for wounded troops at Fran O’Brien’s.

According to restaurant co-owner Hal Koster, Fran O’Brien’s has provided free dinners to wounded troops and their families since October 2003. Last year they served about 2,300 dinners at a cost of nearly $160,000, an expense that was initially absorbed internally but is now being largely offset by outside donations.

Do you think that Wal-Mart is evil? Well, maybe you might want to rethink your position? (you better you MORON!) Just look at the sacrifice that Wal-Mart is making for our brave men and women:

Wal-Mart has 3,200 employees serving on military leave. Besides continuing their employee benefits and helping with the salary differentials, Wal-Mart has provided millions of dollars in financial aid to military family-support organizations that help supply clothing for the wounded and special-need items for the troops. In addition, Wal-Mart’s customers nationwide have sent hundreds of thousands of messages of support to military men and women through in-store kiosks.

OK, maybe that doesn’t look like much to the casual observer. But, maybe we can do a little “simple math” and see just what they are sacrificing. Let’s take an average pay and net-it-out.

NON-MANGEMENT :: $32,250 PER YEAR + BENEFITS

• $15 per hour
• 8 hours a day
• 5 days a week
• 50 weeks a year (2 weeks vacation and sick days)
• 100 hours TIME AND A HALF OVERTIME per year

MID-MANAGEMENT :: $55,000 PER YEAR + BENEFITS

• $27.50 per hour
• 8 hours a day
• 5 days a week
• 50 weeks a year
• NO OVERTIME PAY

Let’s say that the breakdown for non-management to management is about 85-15 (85% are non-management, 15% are mid-management). That means that 2,720 employees or $87,720,000 total pay for non-management and 480 employees or $26,400,000 total pay for mid-management is being set aside. PEOPLE, that means that $114,120,000 per year is what Wal-Mart believes is an acceptable cost to support our brave men and women serving and sacrificing for all of us to be safe!

That’s really rough numbers, folks. They are willing to truly keep that job open for their valued employees. And, you really need to understand that statement I just made because Wal-Mart VALUES military service! Their employees are not in the store making things work. Their employees are in the battlefield making it possible for the rest of us to live and work safely.

Is there value there? Yep! Does Hilton Hotels see that value? I think not.

Who is the evil corporation now? Just stew on that a bit - chew until it hurts, Hilton, ’cause I will never grace your doorstep, ever. You have really burned that bridge - all Hilton Properties. I came from the travel industry after I separated from the United States Air Force. I keep up to date with all the changes, and I know how easy it is to make a dent. From that point alone, I am contacting all my travel agent friends.

How about you? Do you know someone in the travel industry? WELL, GET OUT THERE AND GET GOING!!! Make sure that those travel industry friends of yours know that Hilton is making a huge mistake. Here is the “Hilton Family” of hotels, so, make sure you do not stay here, either:

Conrad Hotels
Doubletree
Embassy Suites Hotels
Hampton Inn & Hampton Inns and Suites
Hilton HHonors
Hilton Hotels
Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Grand Vacations Club
Homewood Suites by Hilton

All these properties are tabu! DO NOT STAY AT THE ABOVE LIST OF HOTELS, PEOPLE!!!

OH! and, it seems in every search, Delta Airlines came up as a great place to get deals on Hilton Hotels. The URL looks like this from a Google Search [http://www.delta.com/tracking/index.jsp?MR=http://www.hilton.com]. You might wanna think twice about Delta Airlines, too. You just never know how deep this can cut until you have looked carefully at the blade about ready to go deep into your gut.

Here’s the petition that Chris Dickson talks about here. I signed it. I expect that you will do the same.

H/T to Lt. Smash of Indepundit and Chris Dickson!

Alright everyone, time to make this “grassfire” into a full on FOREST FIRE! Get out there and get your friends to sign the petition. Every little bit helps!

From: Grassfire
Date: Apr 11, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: To George W. Bush, “Secure Our Borders.”

4/11/06

Dear friend,

I have just signed a national petition urging our elected officials to do everything in their power to Secure Our Borders and stop the flow of illegal aliens entering into our nation.

This is an issue of national security that demands your immediate attention. Please click below for more information:

http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=10944466&NID=1

Please consider taking action with me.

Mrs. Susan Bonner

P.S. For more information, please read below.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Special Petition Alert from Grassfire.org Alliance
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Following 9/11, the U.S. committed to winning the war on terror. But here in the U.S., porous borders, increased crime and violence from record number of illegals crossing into the U.S. have citizens fearing for their safety, and demanding action in securing our borders.

How serious is the problem?

Estimates put the illegal population as high as 10-13 million, with more crossing each and every day–taxing our legal system, our hospitals, spiking crime rates and stealing critically needed benefits:

• In 2004, 1.15 million illegals were apprehended. That is more than 3,100 every day, and a 24 percent increase over 2003.
• Of the 1.15 million, 23,000 had criminal records. 84 were murder suspects, 37 were suspected kidnappers, 151 were wanted on sexual assault charges, 313 were robbery suspects, and nearly 2,700 were implicated on drug-related charges.
• In 2004, Border Agents made 8,577 drug seizures and confiscated 1.4 million pounds of illegal narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.62 billion.

(Taken from a Washington Times Report).

Given these kinds of statistics, and the serious threat to our national security, it is time to put the “illegal” back into illegal immigration, and Secure Our Borders!

• 225,000 Citizen Petitions Needed

Grassfire is urging citizens from across the nation to take immediate action with us by signing our petition to “Secure Our Borders”:

http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=10944466&NID=1

This issue poses a very real threat to every man, woman and child living in our nation, and demands attention. That’s why Grassfire wants to rally 225,000 citizen responses to present them to key lawmakers–demanding they make the issue of illegal immigration a NUMBER ONE PRIORITY this year.

Unless strong, decisive action is taken, the flow of illegals into our nation will only increase–further threatening our national security.

Thanks for taking action with us.

Grassfire.org Alliance

P.S. Recently, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) introduced comprehensive legislation targeting illegal immigration. Called The Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005 (S. 1438), it dramatically strengthens enforcement and reforms immigration laws.

Grassfire will be presenting hundreds of thousands of grassroots petitions supporting S. 1438. We are urging ALL citizens who want tighter border security to support this legislation by adding their names to our petition:

http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=10944466&NID=1

After signing this petition, please alert your friends, family, and co-workers, letting them know that Grassfire is standing up for secure borders and a secure nation!

Thanks for your help.

Rev. Brian Bonner D.D.
http://uncooperativeblogger.com
http://www.circle-b.com
http://www.circle-b.com/amsoil

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, e-mail the coalition and let them know at what level you would like to participate.

If you aren’t reading Irish Pennant’s for great leads, and you forget to wander over to RealClearPolitics and Jack Kelly’s articles, you’ve been bumping around in the night without a flashlight (torch to my friends in the UK). The primary thrust of Jack’s article for today is awesome about how the media is busy giving iteself a toilet-bowl-swirlee. Those dopes are never going to go back and reexamine the complete falsehoods they’ve published. I mean, why clarify or retract what you’ve written - the truth? Naw, too plebeian …

BUT, buried in all this, is a little snippet I think you all will find, astonishing:

We’re more reluctant to reexamine old news even when there are new developments, if the new developments run counter to journalistic memes. Here’s a story you didn’t read on the front page: Among the captured Iraqi documents recently released to the public is a March 17, 2001 memo from an Iraqi air force brigadier general soliciting volunteers from his command for a suicide mission to “strike American interests.” Gee, in what sort of suicide mission would pilots have been useful?

Another document, released Friday, has not yet been translated from Arabic, but notations on it indicate it describes the movement of chemical and biological weapons.

But Saddam had no ties to terror groups, and he had no WMD. We told you so.

Uh, did I read that right? A March 17, 2001 memo from Iraqi Air Force Brigadier General asking for pilots to volunteer for a suicide mission to strike US interests?!

Uh-huh, there’s no link between Sad-damn and al Qaida … you keep thinking that out there.

TexasFred of Ace in the Hole has started a campaign to bring greater awareness to bloggers out there about the huge Minuteman Project going on right now. There are folks blogging from our borders as things happen, and as they experience them. These volunteers are trying to make a difference, and they are there during a time where no one in Washington DC has their six.

That, my friends, is criminal.

If we can do nothing else, we need to support The Miniteman Project. Get this graphic, post your own version, and link to the Minuteman Project:

Hop on over and see all the folks blogging to help spread the word. And, try to hammer on your representatives, anyone you can poke at in the media, and especially Fox News. More airtime getting this project out there is very important.

America Cannot Forget Our Southern Borders!

Yep, it is amazing that Ted Kennedy has enough air for all of us, except Mary Jo Kopechne. If he had even used 1/10th of his breath then, she might be alive today. Instead, we now have someone who never saw a day in jail for his illegal act, pandering to a crowd that wants all sorts of amnesty for those that have also perpetrated an illegal act. CommonSenseAmerica has a great post of Teddy Boys speech - she tried to type everything that he said to the crowd. That takes some guts, ’cause I cannot even handle 3 seconds of that guys spew.

Major Hats off to CommonSenseAmerica for bringing us this stuff … here you go!

Ted Kennedy’s Speech Translated Into English
I am so angry right now that I am nearly in tears. I just finished watching Senator Ted Kennedy give a speech in front of the illegal immigrant rally at the National Mall in Washington, DC. I typed as fast as I could through moments of blind anger to get his entire speech for you and I’m copying it below. It is broken into paragraphs by each sentence because they had to have a translator translate each sentence to Spanish for the crowd. Yes, they had to translate for all of the assimilating illegal immigrants. Instead of adding their Spanish translations, I’m adding my own American citizen translations for you in parenthesis.

Kennedy gave a speech that can only be described as ‘The day he gave away our nation’ as he pandered for votes from the illegal Hispanic community. Comparing the plight of the illegal immigrant with the African Americans of the Civil Rights movements, Kennedy disgraced our nation with the following as he looked out over a sea of illegal immigrants and their activists yelling:

• I see the future of America! (Well there you have it, the American citizen is officially out and illegal immigrants are in!)
• We are a nation of immigrants! (Yes, we came here legally but, come on in!)
• Today we stand together as brothers and sisters to shape America’s destiny! (Remember my name, Ted Kennedy, at the polls!)
• Old Americans new Americans and future Americans! All join together for the common good! (Anarchy!)
• Let me ask you some questions,
• Are you ready??? (For amnesty?)
• Do you have a good job??? (Will you vote for me????)
• Do you love your family??? (I’m giving you amnesty!!!)
• Do you love your community??? (Will you vote for me????)
• Do you love America??? (I’m giving you amnesty!!!)
• You are what this debate is about! (The American citizen doesn’t even factor into our thinking!)
• It’s about good people who come to America to work, (Screw the Americans - we’re on your side)
• To raise their families, (The American citizens don’t have families!)
• To contribute to their communities and to reach the American dream! (Nightmare if you get your way, Ted!)
• This debate goes to the heart of who we are as Americans! (Yes, we’re at a crossroad. Are we lawful or lawless?)
• It will determine who can earn the privilege of becoming a citizen! (America is for sale to the highest bidder! Or voter!)
• It will determine our future progress! (Or at least mine!)
• Some in Congress want to turn America away from its true spirit! (True spirit of enforcing our law!)
• They believe immigrants are criminals and they are wrong! (No, Mr. Buttmunch, they’re not wrong!)
• They believe any of us that help immigrants, even our priests are criminals, too! (No one is above the law!)
• They are wrong again! (No, think again!)
• They say you should report to deport! (Ummm, once again, that’s the law!)
• I say report to become American citizens! (Report to who? You?)
• More than 4 decades ago near this place, Martin Luther King… (I lost the end of this sentence because my jaw hit the floor that he had the nerve to compare people that snuck into this country illegally with the slavery of African Americans of the past!)
• Freedom did ring and Freedom can ring again! (Time for Americans to give Teddy a ring!)
• It’s time for Americans to lift their voice now in pride for our immigrant past and our immigrant future! (How about lifting our voices to enforce our laws?)
• We stand for the future! (The future of what?)
• We stand for our families! (But not if they are American citizens and as long as I get something out of it!)
• We stand for our faith! (Of aborting babies and standing for immorality and lawlessness!)
• And I stand with you and you and you and you! (As long as you need their vote, huh Ted?)
• Are you with me??? Are you with me??? Are you with me??? (You might want to check with voting Americans, Ted!)
• John McCain and I have a plan. (Amnesty!)
• It’s a strong plan, (No more laws!)
• it’s a fair plan … (I lost the last part of this sentence because I was so angry)
• Do you support us??? Do you support us??? Do you support us??? (I’m giving you amnesty … don’t forget!)
• We will never give up! (Unless Americans vote your sorry butt out of office!)
• We will never give in! (Neither will we, Mr. Kennedy. Neither will we.)

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, e-mail the coalition and let them know at what level you would like to participate.

All these protests around illegal immigration have brought some interesting things to light. Most of all it makes me mad that our brave fighting men and women are in a foreign land, fighting to protect us, their greatest gift being away from home and family while keeping us safe. And here at home, the supposed elite and intelligentsia are subverting their efforts with election year vote getting and weak-kneed stances in protecting our country. It’s like someone has sent the entire defense of our country to another field of battle, and we’re left here hangin’ in the wind!

I bet if you asked our troops, “Would you rather be here at home guarding our borders?” you’d hear a resounding “YES!”

My favorite plane picture, ’cause it’s got our flag on an F-117! Oooh …

We all know that the fight is there, off our shores, to keep the pressure on and keep the hate machine from destroying us. Yet, within our own borders we are being overrun. Our leaders (sic) no longer realize that they are still lacking the smallest amount of courage when it comes to facing our enemies, staring him down, and putting him in his place. So, with that in mind, here’s my open letter to our lost boys in Washington:

TO: US Senators and Congressmen
FROM: Those who protect you every day
RE: Your Own Pursuit of PERSONAL GAIN!
CC: Everyone that REALLY supports us

Dear Sirs and Madames,

Please refrain from using us as pawns in your selfish pursuit of power, money, and vacuous praise from those in the media. When the President says, “Go!”, we go, no questions asked. Whether you like it or not, he’s in power - you wanna command us, GET THE TOP SEAT! All this shrill rhetoric and back-stabbing use of the media should be done on your own time, and without involving us in any way. You wanna smack your next door neighbor around from the great state of [ENTER STATE HERE], call ‘em on the carpet and do it. But, we are not the stone you throw in this fight to be top dawg.

Take it outside or get a room. It’s shameful!

Oh, and stop whining, quit the lies, and be honest and admit you all are just gathering votes in this election year. Sheesh, we’re not STUCK ON STUPID! Illegal immigration is, and has always been, against the law! Your great body of myopic pinheads have already set down the requirements and rules from which immigrants are allowed into this country. Open arms does not mean open pocket books. Stop giving away my hard earned money to keep you in office. Oh, uh-huh, right, you’re tough on terrorism, you’re a “hawk”, please! Find some BRASS ONES, Sheesh! If we waffled like you people do, hills get lost, morale falls fast, and good people second guess themselves - that is when people die!

Oh, right, you wanted to continue to get elected, get paid $140k a year, and treat us all as inferior dolts incapable of finding you out. Oh wait, all us uninformed doofuses have blogs - time to change your tune again before everyone else finds out. It’s a mess, and you all are at the root of it. Let’s be honest here, you really DO want illegal aliens in this country. You Democrats know that they benefit from your “MotorVoter Act” by using fake IDs and drivers licenses to vote for you Democrats! And, you shameless Republicans are giving away our right to enjoy our hard earned pay and benefits so you can get reelected and not have to make a stand.

And, McCain and Kennedy? What the HELL is going on?! Have the planets aligned in such a way that we are soon to be crashing into Uranus?! (pun intended) If you hate us so, just slap a “Kick Me” sign on my back!

That’s right, votes, power, poll numbers, new voters from other countries, fickle friends in the media, kisses from the Europeans … spare me.

You’ve got two hands and two feet, use them to do one of these two honorable things:

1) Stand up, wave Buh-Bye, and walk out
2) Pick up a shovel, dig some fence posts, come on out and truly support us

Your mouth? Keep it in park, we’ve heard enough!

Sincerely,

THE TROOPS AND PROUD AMERICANS FOR A SAFER COUNTRY

Wish they could hear us. If you haven’t already, please go here and vote. And then, use their contact for found here and give ‘em another ear full.

These pinheads.

See Ya!

Alright, Libby Dole is the front person for the NRSC (National Republican Sentorial Committee). I like her - I wish she and Condaleeza would run - or maybe back-to-back Republican women? 16 YEARS of great decisions from both these women would suit me just fine! Well, from my NewsMax mail I got a note to fill out this survey on illegal immigration - a where do you stand survey. The Republicans want us to fill this out, ’cause I guess they cannot hear us. Well, GO THERE NOW and fill this thaang out - shout as loud as you can!

You can get to them via this contact form, and make this even louder. These boneheads need to hear that we have had it with wishy-washy policies on immigration. Then, to top it all off, when illegal immigrants take us all down, the country hurts all over.

C’mon you rich pinheads! Mow your own lawns in protest! Take your own garbage out! Take the time to clean your own counters and take your friggin’ kids to school - YOURSELF!

Anyway, go fill out the survey. And, ensure that you have put this link up on your blog, too! We need as many people as possible to fill out the survey.

Be HEARD! Don’t let the HERD take over and trample you!

Sheesh, what an unbelievable day. We go from Reuters reporting on Calypso Louis’ words of treason in Cuba to the Blowhards in Washington crossing the line and pitting themselves against the people they represent.

Check out the choice words from Farrakhan in the Reuters story:

Farrakhan called for “regime change” in the United States on Monday and denounced “wicked” U.S. policies for turning the world against America.

“We need a new government, we need regime change in America,” he said at the end of a visit to Communist Cuba.

Farrakhan, who led the Million Man March on the Washington Mall in 1995 to promote black self-reliance, said the Bush administration’s domestic policies were “sucking the blood of the poor and the weak.”

The controversial African American leader defended Iran’s right to develop a nuclear energy program to reduce dependence on oil and said Washington’s opposition was a pretext for a war.

“The Muslim world should unite against America’s desire for a preemptive strike against Iran and Syria,” he said at a news conference.

Farrakhan said a similar pretext was used by Washington to invade Iraq “to rape the treasuries of the United States of hundreds of billions of dollars to be doled out to the friends of President Bush, Halliburton and Bechtel and associates.”

Farrakhan visited Cuba for a week to learn about disaster management in the wake of the U.S. government’s failure to cope with Hurricane Katrina last year in New Orleans, he said.

He thanked President Fidel Castro and blasted the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba as a “wicked blockade.” The U.S. government has no moral grounds to criticize Cuba, where education and health care are free, he added.

And now, for the point where the planets align and body snatchers have come and placed Republicans next to Ted Kennedy just to get a vote:

“A path to earned citizenship is what this bill is about,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who joined Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy in offering the measure. He said it was “an eleven-year journey” to earn citizenship and candidates would have to pay a fine, undergo criminal background checks, learn English and pay their taxes.”

And, more stupidity from Spectroid:

“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, called it a “a measured bill.”

Is there ever going to be an end to this insanity? Is there ever going to be a time where people know what it means to respect their country? When are the primary border states going to stop being the sheep and enact their own laws and enforce the borders to keep their citizens safe and free from carrying the burden?

When are you going to stand up to your lily-livered, spineless, vote-gettin’ politician? The “Guard the Borders Blogburst” needs to turn into the “mail your dopey senator/congressman burst”. They need to listen, we’re getting slaughtered out here!

All for the media’s hate for President Bush and the emotionally driven isolationists, we just kicked $16.5 Billion out of the US Economy. All in one day. It goes like this:

Angling for impeachment of President Bush in retaliation for Bill Clinton: $50+ Million in special news bulletins, hit pieces, fake polls
Fear of just one country yet ignoring others with evil ties: $6.8 Billion ports deal
Thumbing your nose at a new partner in a key part of the world: $9.7 Billion Boeing 777 deal
Realizing you just scored re-election for 2006: Priceless

I’m not saying that deals should not be handled with scrutiny. I am not looking the other way at security issues. And I’m not saying that the UAE is without any form of responsibility for events in the past. Yet, we are so quick to forget the following countries: Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Korea, Iran, France, Russia, China, and Vietnam. These are not listed for the simple reasons that are coming to mind as you read them. Past atrocities are everywhere and we are still doing a brisk amount of business with these countries.

The newest critically injured victim in this latest debacle is soon to be Boeing. They have one deal on the books and another in the making. If these deals tank, we stand to lose more than $11 Billion - which will go to the EU. The reason is the newest creation to come from Boeing, the 787. The demise of one deal won’t kill the company, but it is a serious dent.

Boeing is revolutionizing air travel every day. This article by James Wallace, published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has some staggering design and development firsts. The photo you see here is Section 41, which is the nose, cockpit, and forward fuselage. The 787 is to be built from a carbon composite material and is of single piece construction.

A few choice tidbits from James Wallace’s piece on the 787 dated August 26th, 2005:

“The 787 program represents a revolution in jetliner manufacturing. The fuselage barrels are made from one large piece of carbon fiber. They are the largest such composite pressure vessels ever made.”

“Such a composite structure is significantly lighter and requires almost no maintenance, unlike aluminum.”

As for the first customer delivery, Japan gets dibs:

“First flight of the Dreamliner should come in the summer of 2007, with delivery to the first customer, All Nippon Airways of Japan, in mid-2008.”

Now in last Thursday’s The Hill, Roxana Tiron has a piece titled “Dubai threat to hit back”. Here’s where the whole thing is starting to look like a ‘69 Impala with bald tires on an icy road:

“The Emirates Group airline will decide later this year whether it will buy Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner or its competitor, Airbus A350. The airline last fall placed an order worth $9.7 billion for 42 Boeing 777 aircraft, making Dubai Boeing’s largest 777 customer.”

“Dubai in mid-February also established the Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a $15 billion investment to create a company that will lease planes, develop airports and make aircraft parts to tap into growing demand for air travel in the Middle East and Asia.”

Do you realize that the most profitable airline in the UAE is Emirates Airlines? As of last year they posted record growth and profits. In their press release from October of last year, Emirates Airlines posted a $251 Million dollar profit in their first 6 months of operation of fiscal year 2005-2006. Taken straight out and doubling that for a year, that’s about $500 Million in profit in one year. They have brought $25 Billion in revenues to the UAE. And they are planning on spending $9.7 Billion with us for Boeing 777s!

Straight from NewsMax:

“A harsh reaction from Dubai could impact a pending decision for the Emirates Group airline to purchase Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner - or go with the European competition, the Airbus A350.”

In a couple of articles on Strategiy.com I found some great information regarding the first orders of 787s: an order of 6 Boeing 787s comes from LCAL (Low-Cost Aircraft Leasing) and 20 from IFLC (International Lease Finance Corporation). LCAL is a Hong Kong based company and IFLC has its roots in Nepal. These two orders total about $3.5 Billion, about a third of the deal being brokered by and with The Emirates Group (Emirates Airline). Running the math, Boeing needs 6 deals to equal one deal with the UAE.

Sound tough to weigh what one should do when dealing with a partner in trade? Sure, if you actually do your homework, you can find out just how little our elected representatives read! They think Bush is a yokel, sheesh, get a load of those on the Hill!

Bah! Calling the American people ignorant and treating them as such is a mistake. Giving us false information with which to gain a personal advantage that in the end hurts our economy is a tragedy. This hurts our already bad reputation in the world, and may embolden those that wish to do us serious harm - without use of our ports!

Washington is full of Pantomime Horses, and we’re all locked in a life and death struggle …

References and Thanks!
Bloggers I read:
Amy started me on this thread!
Found Amy cross-posted to CaliforniaConservative too
Buck’s got a sound posting on this mess
Babylonandon cracks me up - sees a finger in the dike
PunditGuy wonders what is going on now
Sister Toldjah’s short blurb on the fallout - she has more

References:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Hill
Strategiy.com
Emirates Group
NewsMax
Orange Cow

I just finished a HUGE diatribe over at Amy Proctor’s Blog. Man, some of her subjects and the folks that post there get me all fired up! Sheesh … I saw that the Chief from The Truth was over there, so, howdy Chief!

Anyway, here’s my comment on the post called Academia VS. US Military:

For those that clearly have nothing good to say about the military, or have said that the entire US Military would be uneducated (stupid) if it weren’t for universities, or that our institutions today would be just fine without the US Military, many questions come to mind for me. And if I wrote those questions, I think some might take them as an afront, or something said that has no merit or rooted in fact. Instead, maybe I’ll just take a moment to reflect on what is going on around us all, yet from our side.

You may not want us. You may not like us. You think we are being elitist because we speak often of patriotism, duty, corps, self-sacrifice, honor, code, chain of command, leadership, past wars, conflicts, and covert ops. Some even think we are dumb and blind followers without a reasoning or rational bone in our bodies. You call us facists, baby killers, drones, jack-booted thugs, parasites, war mongers, pleebs (that’s a good one, I got that one in the Newark Airport while PCSing back from USAFE), and extremists. You think we are out of touch and spend too much of the budget and more should be going to our schools (hmmm, that’s a funny one too), or welfare, or just a cause to which you have become attached. You do not believe that any foreign force would actually attack us, in our sleep, without provocation, and try to destroy everything that makes this country great. You praise those that take to foreign soil and speak out against this country, yet look down your nose at the man or woman taking off their hat, placing hand over heart, during the National Anthem. You think it a cause to protest out in front of hospitals where young soldiers are in pain, families are visiting, and their pain is even greater. You do not know the copious amount of time spent studying world history, war, foreign and domestic battles or small skirmishes, political systems and culture, as well as language studies coupled with deportment (military bearing is the term we use). You may not believe in preemptive actions to stave off an even greater threat. You may think that HUMINT (human intel) and SIGINT (signals or communications intel) are abhorrent and should be stopped, even though you’d love to have the answers to a test you are about to take.

Let’s all be honest. There are a significant number of personnel in the US Military that are career military and have more experience, training, and love for this subject which affords them a sort of self-assuredness - often seen as arrogance. There is more to this than meets the eye, and with enough intel and experience, you might sing a different tune.

Dirty little secret: you need us.
Happy little fact: we know it.
Huge Guarantee: we’ll always be there to protect.
Obvious Result: we get no thanks, ’cause less and less of you learn because we have gotten better at what we do.
Biggest Reaction: we are degraded for being who we are.

And that last one, biggest reaction, my friends, is bigotry. Bigotry goes many ways, is in many forms, and takes all comers.

This has nothing at all to do with funds for universities. Research isn’t the only game in town. The private sector, especially entrepreneurship, is more beneficial to the US Military than universities. The situation where toys for the military come from universities is becoming less and less prevalent. Not everyone in development is swimming in degrees. Not every degree is applied to the actual job at hand.

It isn’t the book or the professor, it is the student. And, books don’t come from universities but private publishers. Odd how that works, too, you can pay to have your words printed and people will buy them. Amazing! Do I need a professor to make this all happen?

Boy Scouts, Recruiters on campus, Religion, Conservatism, Capitalism, US Military, Big Business, Pro-Life … c’mon, we all know the drill.

Rius has a great book, “Marx for Beginners” where I learned a great deal, sorta self-taught on some stuff (got your six, Chief). Walking through East Berlin during the height of the Cold War - more learning goin’ on. Standing face to face with a foreign power hell-bent on removing me from the face of the earth - try it, it’ll show you new paths to enlightenment.

Can you say a poke in the eye, bupkiss, or an extended maintenance plan that always expires just days before the thing ya bought goes Tango-Uniform! (ok, T-U was often used on the flightline - sorry folks, tits-up, busted, not goin’anywhere, dead)

Uh-huh, that’s right. What’s the deal, we pay and pay and they vote against us and tell us that we are too big for our britches. The EU takes every opportunity to trash the United States. Tin horn dictators love to tip their huge buckets in our well, and then spit in it for good measure.

Let’s see what’s out there at NewsMax in their special report out today:

U.N. Report Card: Handful of Nations, Including Israel, Stand with U.S.

.:elided:.

“NewsMax examined 12 key General Assembly votes taken on issues of critical importance to the U.S., and found that only four countries - Israel and the Pacific Ocean nations of Palau, Micronesia and Marshall Islands sided with the U.S. on most of the issues.”

“The rest of the U.N. members voted against the U.S. position the vast majority of the time, and dozens of countries voted along with America ZERO PERCENT of the time.”

“These nations include some of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid…”

.:elided:.

So, here’s the cash that goes out, and the support that goes in:

• Turkey GETS $1.007B/yr (excludes military support) WE GET 12 key issues Turkey votes with us 0%
• Ethiopia GETS $594M WE GET another 0% support
• Colombia GETS $524M WE GET another 0% support
• Egypt GETS $460M WE GET another 0% support
• Jordan GETS $224M WE GET another 0% support
• Peru GETS $229M WE GET another 0% support
• UN GETS US pays 22% of total UN Budget WE GET pressure to lift Cuba embargo, slap Israel, and nuclear disarmament

“Even some of America’s closest allies voted against U.S. interests. France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea, for example, all sided with the U.S. on just 8 percent of the votes.”

Here’s the NewsMax feature called “The U.N.’s Great Follies”:

- The U.N. voted to remove its forces from Rwanda in the early days of tribal conflicts there. Result: More than 900,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in April 1994.
- The Iraqi people were defrauded of at least $1.8 billion in revenue from the oil-for-food program designed to alleviate civilian suffering resulting from sanctions against the Saddam Hussein regime. Alleged wrongdoers included the U.N. secretariat.
- Sudan won re-election to the U.S. Commission on Human Rights in 2004 despite potentially genocidal atrocities in the Darfur region.
- U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo allegedly used food and money to pay for sex with girls as young as 12.

Sheesh. Wanna know where all your tax dollars go? Do you think we are spending too much on the US Military? Do you think we fund big oil? Is it your opinion that we don’t spend enough on schools?

Actually, about $3 Billion is listed right there, a couple of paragraphs up, did ya realize that?

Remember when no one wanted to see a US Military uniform with American Flag arm patches or our standard helmets/cover? Remember when our fighting men and women were being sent to fight and protect on foreign soil, yet were commanded by another country’s General? I’m not talking about Vietnam, I’m talking about during the Clinton Years. In fact, when we were asked to help out countries in trouble, the rest of the UN Security Council said we couldn’t be in our own uniform. We needed to be “softer” as a fighting force, ’cause we were just the Rent-A-Cops for the UN.

Huh? Who’s your Daddy? Boutros Boutros-Ghali? Or what about the UN’s 7th Daddy, Kofi Annan?

I THINK NOT!

Would you rather have a President, CINC, that watches your six or one that sells you out for BILL-YUNS?!

Does anyone know how much was spent in Somalia? This is only one of the many “conflicts” we were asked to participate in during Billy Boys reign. I checked, and straight from this UN Report, for UNOSOM I & II, this one mission looks like this:

LOCATION: Somalia
HEADQUARTERS: Mogadishu
DURATION: March 1993 - March 1995
STRENGTH: Approximately 28,000 military and police personnel; there was also a provision for some 2,800 international and locally recruited staff
FATALITIES: 147 (143 military personnel, 3 international civilian staff and 1 local staff)
EXPENDITURES: $1,643,485,500 net

Hey, did you catch that last one? $1.65 Billion, net … uh-huh, they said net. I’d like to know what was really spent, gross dollars, but we all know that would be too much to stomach. And, are we sure that the monies spent weren’t actually an international pay off to terrorists for political hay? If you read the UN report you’ll see the number of times the program was extended, the countless “warnings” to disarm, and the lame attempts to put pressure on the Somalian leaders to form a real government. It starts to look like those tin horn dictators were just looting the bank - our bank accounts people!

Oh, and to find out the troop strength and breakdown, ya gotta go allllll the way to the bottom of the report. I’ll save you some time:

“The original authorized strength of UNOSOM II under resolution 814 (1993) was approximately 28,000 military personnel and some 2,800 civilian staff.”

And these are the countries that participated (31 is a good showing, I might add):

“Military personnel were provided by the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, and Zimbabwe.”

Now, here’s the kicker:

“Supporting UNOSOM II in the field, but not part of it, were approximately 17,700 troops of the United States Joint Task Force in Somalia. A Quick Reaction Force was part of the United States presence.”

That QRF consisted of the team of US Army Rangers that lost lives in Somalia (God Rest Their Souls!)

After March of 1995, Mr. Clinton authorized sending the 3rd ID, Company A, to Macedonia under the command of a Finnish General. Then SPC Michael New said, NO! to ripping off his American Flag from his uniform, and NO! to prancing around in a baby blue friggin’ helmet! What did it get him? I suspect some of you know the story - tossed out on his ear! Well, he landed in the brig first.

For the love of his Country, and he was ONE out of 550 that mustered to the parade ground in full US Military uniform. Yep, 549 obeyed a direct order to report to the command of another country’s General. At their level they were told that the order came directly from the CINC. To Michael, and to me as well, it began to look like after all the destruction being leveled at the US Military, it had finally happened: secession of US Force to a foreign power. What to do? His US Army was gone, and what he had signed up for was no longer something of valor.

Umm, my question is, who had Michael’s six? One man standing alone in a sea of Chain of Command mayhem. Were the Joint Chiefs really on board with the order, or was something else happening at the time?

Ever read Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD-25)? There is only a summary available right now. You can get a pretty good idea of how the CINC is the one responsible for Michael’s six by reading this summary/review online. Pay special attention to the sections that cover the Commander-in-Chief Clause and Command versus Operational Control.

This is what was happening to the US Military, by 1997:

• Wholesale distrust of the military within the United States of America, and outside
• Continuous breaking down of morale by force reductions and lack of materiel support
• Restriction of future development programs and research into new defense technologies
• Wasting money and time by politicizing the use and usefulness of the US Military
• US Military becomes the world’s police force and Meals-On-Wheels in blue hairnets
• The World’s Liberator and Repatriating Firm in a near state of disrepair
• Billions to Trillions of dollars flowing from the US into other countries under less than admirable deals

I’ll tell ya, I came in under Carter and left way before Clinton took hold. I know that some of you served under Clinton. I wish that there were Milbloggers back in the day. Maybe things would have been different?

However, if we begin to take our eye off the ball, this could happen again. So far, evil forces like “she who shall be nameless” have not been able to wander the globe unchallenged, or those protesting outside Walter Reed Hospital have been forced from their position, or those that seek to defame a family in mourning have not gone unanswered. We need to continue to put pressure on our elected officials. We have an obligation to protect our country from those that seek to destroy us, inside and outside our borders. And, we can handle the snide, stupid, jealous talk from the EU, Hollywood, and supercilious college professors. These detractors forget that:

• They do not know the strength and commitment of the US Military.
• They do not know the strength and commitment of the spouses, children, parents, grandparents, and friends of our fighting men and women.
• They do not know the strength, commitment, and constant love and support by the Milblogger community.
• They do not know the strength, commitment, and ever vigilant watch over their six by the CINC, President George W. Bush.

Do I hear a God Bless America and her US Military?! I thought I could hear you from here!

Short Technorati search for other posts about Michael New
Far Right-Wing Minded
Chaos-In-Motion
Three Knockdown Rule
Clear and Present
Smash Left Wing Scum

Short Technorati search on PDD-25
The Glittering Eye
Get the US Out of the UN - Now!

Backup Material for UNOSOM II, Michael New, and PDD-25
UNOSOM II by DPI
Michael New - How it all began
Unclassified Summary of PDD-25 (details of Secret PDD 25 are concealed from public scrutiny)
“Command” versus “Operational Control”: A Critical Review of PDD-25
Commanding Officer Oath - UN Deployments
No World Court, No World Army

Does he honestly think he looks like General Honore? I mean, I know that most of what Mardi Gras is all about is partying and dressing up. But, dressing up as a General?

Dishonors the uniform.

Dishonors General Honore.

Will people ever learn that there are real people, real fighting men and women, that wear this uniform every day and do not see it as a “costume”. Ray Nagin may think that this is a tribute, or a compliment, or maybe even a mini-dig at how he was left “high and dry” (no pun intended) by the Federal Government, the US Military, and the President.

I think I would have picked a different outfit.

Thanks very much and H/T to The Officer’s Club and Sweetness & Light for the photo and story!

Those words were written by “The Chief” over at The Truth. His posting, Children Do Not Lie has a quote, or assertion, one should take to heart these days:

“I ask each one of you reading this blog: Are you aiding or abetting the enemy? Are you corrupting our children? Are your words helping or hurting our Global War On Terrorism?”

I think that this is a very valid query. In the age of, no I think more appropriately The Starbucks Society nails it, too many folks are forgetting that there are consequences to every action. In fact, those consequences are deeper still during a war. Not many “kids” these days are aware of what this really means.

Sad, isn’t it?

Anyway, I think that the Chief has a great snippet there. In his own words he takes a quick moment to provide a look into what it is we Milboggers do that is so very different from the MSM. (remember, MSM = losers) In fact, his posting is based on a posting by Michael Yon, The Battle for Mosul IV.

The gist of the story the Chief was going after is how the media are willing accomplices (like Halifax and Mosely in Word War II). The MSM is trying so very hard to toss Bush out, or actually get an indictment and an impeachment to follow, because they are hurt. Yes, it is feelings that are more important than national security here. Make no mistake.

Halifax and Mosely were against Churchill - you decide, but I choose Churchill any time of day, hands down! So would Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, I reckon. (duh)

The assertion that keyed me to write: are your words helping or hurting. I joined, as we humans often do, the previous sentences with that to come away with, “Are your words helping or hurting your children?” Are your words, actions or deeds, corrupting your children?

My answer is, emphatically, “No.”

OK, as Kit or Heidi would say, “Hell No!”

Then, I read a post from a few days ago by Buck over at Exile in Portales. He’s worried about what his 9 year old is learning - like the war in Iraq is over oil. Hmmm … gives ya the willies, doesn’t it? I’m sure Buck will find a way to make it right.

Talk about resolve!

This woman, someone’s GrandMa, someone’s Mom, loves our fighting men and women! I gotta tell ya, this woman is what America is all about! Where is the MSM on all this stuff?

Obviously, they are blatantly and unabashedly absent on that line, the line for freedom.

Why is it that they missed out on such a great story of love for our troops?

I am sure that there are numerous reasons flying around your cranium - as in mine. One that just seems to jump out reminds me of a James Hirsen piece on NewsMax, an interview with Gary Sinise (my all time favorite actor right now, next to Mel Gibson). Read his words about how the MSM really just doesn’t care, and how they think that since bad news sells, they can justify their lack of good coverage ’cause they are “giving the people what they want”.

Well, there are several instances where I can recount tin-horn dictators, fascists of notoriety, having said that they were just giving the people what they want.

Does that make it right?

MSM = Losers