The anti-war, pro-nausea group "Breasts Not Bombs" has made another appearance, this time in DC, in order to facilitate your bulimia experience on a Sunday.
Surgeon General's warning: The above link contains dangerous amounts of trans-fats and an alleged woman who looks like a topless Gregg Allman. Click at your own risk.
Do we have the fortitude to stand behind our troops? And the fortitude to stand strong for them? The problem lies with our politicians in Washington who use the war in Iraq as a political football instead of realizing lives are at stake. The public then loses hope that the Iraq war is a winnable situation.
We should be listening to the voices of those who see war firsthand and do their jobs with such determination, gusto, and selflessness. We can all learn from them.
One brave and committed U.S. soldier writes to me:
“I just wanted all my friends to know that true Iraqi’s want the same things we do in the US. I’ll give you another little insider story. There was an Iraqi soldier who was killed in action about 6 months ago. He was Sunni. The local mosque on the installation I serve at is Shia. The immam (like a priest or pastor at a Christian church) held a memorial service for this Sunni soldier even though the immam was Shia. He stressed that this soldier died for all of Iraq and he wanted to honor that sacrifice. What a story! There are signs that the Sunnis and Shias want to live in peace together, even though they disagree. I’m reminded of the struggle between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Irleland and how after centuries of hatred, they are finding ways to peacefully coexist. The Sunnis and Shias need to do that too. With our help, if we are allowed to stay by the democrats, they will find a way. There is hope in the land. Please keep giving that word out.”
–Name Withheld
This soldier sent another message:
“As many of you know, I am in Iraq for a year as an advisor to the Iraqi Army basic training program. Many of you also know that I am very friendly by nature and have made many good friends among the Iraqi soldiers, NCO’s and officers I’ve met. Some of my friends are Iraqi gate guards watching over our compound 24/7.
This morning as I was leaving the compound with my interpreter, I stopped to talk to a group of off duty guards just hanging out. We know each other well and spoke for a few minutes. This is the month of Ramadan, one of the holiest of months in the muslim religion. They fast during the day and eat dinner after sundown. These friends invited me to share dinner with them tonight which they prepared especially for me. I just returned from dinner with them. I had my interpreter with me most of the time and we had a great time together. We spoke of our families and children and showed off pictures with pride. I was honored to be invited to share a meal with them and hope that because of me and others like me, they will see the US in a good light and share their thoughts and feelings with their friends and relatives.
These people are much like us in the US. All they want is to live in peace with their families and be able to support them and care for them. I hope that our presence here will enable them to do that. I’m seeing positive signs that the leadership of General Petraius is starting to pay big dividends as the insurgents are on the run and disorganized in many places that have recently been hotbeds of violence.
I will always remember this mission and these good people. May God grant them peace in the coming days.”
–Name Withheld
***
This speaks volumes to the camaraderie between the Iraqi troops and U.S. troops. It speaks volumes as to how our troops view General Patraeus…as honorable and trustworthy. So when leftist groups attack Gen. Patraeus, they are attacking our troops on the ground as Patraeus is their “brother in arms.”
Another brave soldier lost his life in Iraq on September 19, 2007. I became informed of Sgt. Eddie Jeffers earlier this year when he wrote Hope Rides Alone. Sgt. Jeffers then described an irritation that many U.S. soldiers are experiencing; irritation from watching the incessant politicking of the Iraqi war back in the U.S. He begins his article by explaining the feelings that surge through his body…his reaction to his surroundings as he faces the possibility of attacks daily:
“I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.”…
“…There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own…but that are necessary for survival.”…
“…But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn’t fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.”…
“…People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don’t realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires.”…
“…The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society…and they are becoming our enemy.”
Sgt. Jeffers does not say that America as a whole has turned on the troops, but he simply wants us to take a look at our actions and how they may have an effect on troop morale. He does not like the fact that America has simply opted for a quick way out of the Iraq war.
”America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world,” he continued.
Jeffers moves on to question in his article, the anti-war protesters. He wonders where they are when soldiers come home and need care.
As Sgt. Jeffers closes his article, he implores Americans to stand up and be fighters:
“We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor…we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It’s supporting our President, our troops and our cause.”
(read more of Sgt. Jeffer’s compelling article Hope Rides Alone below)
In a show of support and honor to his son, Sgt. Jeffer’s father David took time to share with the public what he and his son talked of when he was still serving our country. David leaves behind some thoughts for all of us to meditate on:
“…As ‘Hope Rides Alone’ spread across this country and out beyond our boundaries beyond our shores, The Ride was no longer alone; it was a stampede of many a sleeping patriot, the true but hidden citizen who had been long lulled to sleep as though some magic spell had been cast over our country. The response was beyond all imagination. I told my wife Karen that I was naïve enough to believe Eddies article could spark a revolution.
A revolution where people finally say ‘ENOUGH!’ and ‘NEVER AGAIN!’ will we stand by and watch our brave men and women castigated by the unpatriotic, unworthy, uncaring, unloving, un-Americans who love power and hate all that is good about America. We said, and are saying, and will forever say to these pitiful politicians, psychopaths, pacifists, pinkos, and pathetic performers of Hollywood and the Left, ‘You will not exact defeat on our country as you did with Vietnam!’”…
“…Eddie did not want us dishonoring his life and service like so many have done. He wanted what he stood for to carry on even if he was killed in action.”…
“…Many of you are angry that Eddie has died all the while the enemy within continues to relentlessly disgrace our military and our Commander-in-Chief. More than one person has asked me how we answer this. How do we counter this obvious attack on the survival of our country?
Simple, we use the Ronald Reagan strategy; the strategy he used against the Soviet Union and communism. Reagan said: ‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’”…
“…For me it is personal; it always has been. I will not let my son die in vain. People have been so sweet and say Eddie will never have died in vain, but he can. He can if we do not fight back; if we do not win. Eddie was on ‘modern day crusade to exterminate evil’ and I will change one word in our fight against the enemy within. We will not exterminate any political opponent, but we can and we must eliminate them from having any control over our country.”
(read more of David Jeffer’s thoughts in Hope Rides Eternal below)
All of us should be fully thinking of U.S. troops as they are the ones in harm’s way. We need to make every effort to uplift them when we can. We need to be thankful that there people who would selflessly put their lives at stake for others to live a better life.
Remember that U.S. soldiers are ordinary Americans like you and I. These soldiers, however, have answered the call to be brave to the core. They are willing to stand in the face of danger and keep pressing on no matter how dark it seems and will serve their country.
Will you not serve them and have their back when they need it? Stay positive America!
Related Reading
Hope Rides Alone, article by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers
http://newmediajournal.us/guest/e_jeffers/print/02012007.htm
Real Deal in Ramadi, article by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers
http://newmediajournal.us/guest/e_jeffers/04172007.htm
Hope Rides Eternal, article by David Jeffers, father to Sgt. Eddie Jeffers
http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/d_jeffers/09242007.htm
*Felicia (Fee) Benamon is a political columnist who writes for various conservative sites including RenewAmerica.us, Michnews.com, Daley-Times Post, Renaissance Women ( http://www.rwnetwork.net/ ) , Capitolhillcoffeehouse.com, TheConservativeVoice.com, Mensnewsdaily.com, and other news sites like AmericanChronicle.com. She is a columnist and a reporter for the Mid-South Patriot ( www.freewebs.com/midsouth-patriot ) in Memphis, TN. Felicia hails from a military background, and has been politically active since the 2000 elections. She also has been a guest speaker on a variety of conservative internet talk radio shows.
You may email Felicia: Feereports@aol.com
It's the same question every Christmas: What do you get for the person who's offended by everything? Why, you consider getting rid of Christmas, of course. Oh, and Jell-O.
Near Chicago, school bureaucrats are being fitted for their turbans:
The holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oak Lawn schools this year after complaints that the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students.
Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122's five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said.
Parents expect that the announcement is going to add to the tension that has been building since officials agreed earlier this month to change the lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate Muslim students. News that Jell-O was struck from the menu caused such a stir that officials have agreed to bring it back. Gelatin is often made with tissue or bones of pigs or other animals.
My only question to school bureaucrats who are afraid of offended everybody except Christians and Jell-O lovers is this: You say that your decisions are based on "teaching kids tolerance for the beliefs of others," but how are you accomplishing that by showing them that the only way to accomplish true tolerance is by bending over for a group of people who are intolerant of everything?
Isn't banning everything in a school that offends a single religion in effect embracing that religion over others? Of course it is, but you'll never hear that seriously discussed at a school board meeting.
Christians, and everybody else for that matter, had better start getting offended themselves, or this country will be unrecognizable and perhaps even nonexistent in 50 years.
Now for you kids at Oak Lawn schools, you'd better start your next reading assignment:
Normally I laugh off these kinds of stories as Hollywood rumor mill tabloid tripe, but hey, it's Tom Cruise, so I sorta believe it:
Hollywood star Tom Cruise is planning to build a bunker at his Colorado home to protect his family in the event of an intergalactic alien attack, according to new reports.
The Mission Impossible actor, who is a dedicated follower of Scientology, is reportedly fearful that deposed galactic ruler 'Xenu' is plotting an evil revenge attack on Earth.
The story is made even more believable when you consider that Xenu plays a major role in the Scientology that Cruise embraces.
Here's an introduction to Xenu from Wikipedia:
Xenu (also Xemu), pronounced ['zi.nu:], according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Scientology holds that their essences remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm.
These events are known to Scientologists as "Incident II", and the traumatic memories associated with them as The Wall of Fire. The story of Xenu is part of Scientologist beliefs in extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in Earthly events, collectively described as space opera by Hubbard.
After arriving on Earth, Xenu will trade in his DC-8 and talk Travolta into letting him use his 707.
I personally believe that psychiatric drugs are wildly over-prescribed, but in cases like this it's sad that somebody who seems in such desperate need of them remains vehemently opposed to their use.
Above we see Cruise's Colorado home where the alleged bunker is being built, along with the tennis court where Tom will take on Xenu in a best-of-five set match to determine who gains ultimate control of the universe.
Below, Tom Cruise demonstrates for Oprah how Xenu will swoop down and strike fear into the hearts of non-believing rich celebrities who haven't yet given their lives and checkbooks to Scientology:
by Jim Kouri, CPP
Diversity visas provide an immigration opportunity to aliens from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Diversity visa applicants must apply online, be selected by lottery, be interviewed, and be determined to be eligible before obtaining a diversity visa.
At the requested of the US Congress, the Government Accountability Office reviewed laws, regulations, and other documentation, and interviewed numerous US State Department officials both at headquarters and in the field.
The DV program is contributing to the diversity of U.S. immigrants, according to the Bush Administration and several lawmakers in Washington, DC. More than 500,000 aliens from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States have become legal permanent residents through the program.
Little is known about diversity immigrants once they enter the United States, such as whether they contribute to further diversity by petitioning for family members to immigrate. The DV program is vulnerable to fraud committed by and against DV applicants, but the State Department has not compiled comprehensive data on detected and suspected fraudulent activity.
At 5 of the posts the GAO reviewed, consular officers reported that the majority of DV applicants, lacking access to a computer or internet savvy, use “visa agents” to enter the lottery. Some agents take advantage of DV applicants.
For example, visa agents in Bangladesh have intercepted applicants’ program documents and charged ransoms of up to $20,000 or coerced applicants into sham DV marriages. Consular officers at 6 of the 11 posts reviewed reported that widespread use of fake documents, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and passports, presented challenges when verifying the identities of applicants and dependents.
Difficulty in verifying identities has security implications because State’s security checks rely heavily on name-based databases. In 2003, the US State Department’s Inspector General raised concerns that aliens from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism can apply for diversity visas.
Nearly 9,800 persons from these countries have obtained permanent residency in the United States through the program. The GAO claims they found no documented evidence that DV immigrants from these, or other, countries posed a terrorist or other threat.
However, experts familiar with immigration fraud believe that some individuals, including terrorists and criminals, could use fraudulent means to enter or remain in the United States.
This places a premium on mitigating fraud risks. Despite taking steps to strengthen the DV program, State does not have a strategy to address the pervasive fraud reported by some posts. State believes that some legislative changes could mitigate fraud risks, but it has not made formal proposals for change and has not compiled data on program outcomes and fraud trends which would help decision makers consider whether legislative changes are needed.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
A few days ago, it was rumored, in The National Enquirer, that the woman best known for playing Marcia on The Brady Bunch would divulge, in her forthcoming book, that she is a lesbian and once had dalliances with Eve Plumb, who played Jan.
If you're like me, you read news I thought to yourself, "Whew! Now Maureen's protected under the new hate crime legislation that passed through the Senate!"
The story of McCormick's lesbionic leanings turns out not to be true. Darn, and just when I was starting to realize how the term "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!" came to be.
By announcing that she's not gay, McCormick won't be protected by the expanded federal hate crimes laws which include violence based on a victim's sexual orientation, among other things.
As a big Brady Bunch fan, I must make this plea: Stay gay, Marcia! That way, if you get beat up or killed the perp will be guilty of a hate crime.
I have to admit though, as a straight non-minority member of an unprotected ethnicity, it's a good feeling to know that if I'm murdered, it won't be because the murderer hated me. So I've got that goin' for me… which is nice.
By the way, Larry Craig voted against the bill, the roll call of which was "two taps for 'yay,' one tap for 'nay'." Some are saying this is hypocritical of Craig, but remember, by saying he's not gay, the next time his foot accidentally touches the shoe of the man in the next stall and he gets beat up, he can't accuse that person of hating him, and he can't even have sex with him because, as we all know, he's not gay — so he's only further trapping himself with this vote.
Sure, the rumors concerning Maureen McCormick turn out to be false, but even so, this is still funny:
If you've never read Don Asmussen's work, check it out. He's hilarious.
James Hansen, for those who are lucky enough to be ignorant of nth-degree meteorology and climatology, is the Chuck Yeager of the global warming theory and even makes Al Gore look like a paper hat clad trainee at "We're All Gonna Die Burger." Hansen is often quoted as a global warming "expert" and an unbiased scientist who has no axe to grind.
Really? I found this interesting, albeit not very surprising:
A report revealed just this week, shows the 'Open Society Institute' funded Hansen to the tune of $720,000, carefully orchestrating his entire media campaign. OSI, a political group which spent $74 million in 2006 to "shape public policy," is funded by billionaire George Soros
Soros — a rare breed of Hungarian moonbat in Gabor sister male drag and the preferred self-hating uber-capitalist of vehement anti-capitalists everywhere — said in early 2004 that he'd give all his billions to see Bush defeated and has given millions to MoveOn.org and other leftist groups. Now he's funding "global warming studies"?
Everybody laughed when cigarette companies funded their own studies to determine whether or not smoking is dangerous. Have we lost our sense of humor for things like this? Don't worry though, I'm sure Soros will fund a study to determine whether or not Hansen's research is biased in order to silence any skepticism.
Katie "$2.51 per viewer" Couric spoke at the National Press Club on Tuesday. Here's part of what she said:
The former Today show anchor traced her discomfort with the administrations march to war back to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying we when referring to the United States and, even the shock and awe of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the Today show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, Will anybody put the brakes on this? And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.
How come it's okay to wear everything else on our lapel? We've got breast cancer awareness ribbons, AIDS awareness ribbons, colon cancer awareness ribbons, awareness awareness ribbons and irritable bowel awareness ribbons — why not an "United States awareness" ribbon? Is it because "we" aren't watching Couric's newscast and she's a little bitter?
Earlier today I was flipping through one of the media trade magazines and ran across an ad for the annual Walter Kaitz Foundation "Expressions of Diversity" dinner. Here's the goal of the Kaitz Foundation:
The Walter Kaitz Foundation was established in 1980 as a not-for profit organization with the purpose of diversifying the executive suites of the cable television industry with talented and qualified ethnic minorities.
This was accompanied by a picture taken at the 2006 dinner, and something struck me as mildly humorous. I found the same picture that is in the magazine on the Foundation's website.
Click the picture for a larger version.
Looks like they've got a ways to go before closing in on the Foundation's stated goal, eh? That room's about as diverse as the tee sheet at Augusta National Country Club.
Hundreds of people whose parents didn't abort them marched at a big Planned Parenthood rally in Aurora Illinois yesterday. Due to a scheduling conflict, Hillary was unable to show up wearing her famous "If abortions are outlawed, only outlaws will be allowed to screw around with my husband" t-shirt. Darn.
Here are a bunch of photos taken at the rally (all of the people in those pictures have one thing in common — guess what it is). This bunch has really gone over the edge since the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial birth abortion — I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say "partial birth abortion" — that should read "intact dilation and evacuation followed by nonviable tissue mass dumpster deposit."
At the rally, calls for more funding for abortion were the order of the day, because apparently a woman can never be truly free until she is able to kill her baby with your money. Anything less violates the very tenet of liberal philosophy: If you're paying for something with your own cash, you're being oppressed.
The high-wire act they're performing here is to be able to keep chanting "keep your laws and religion off our bodies" while simultaneously sticking their hands in your back pocket and not having that come off as laughable irony.
If you asked some of these people to give you money so you could have your dog put to sleep even though there was nothing wrong with Fido, you'd probably have PETA picketing in front of your house within the hour — but this is a "right"?
While we're on the subject, what other "rights" require a victim? Just curious.
