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Jimenez Family Stalked By Eagle Tribune Reporter

From Tom Duggan at The Valley Patriot: 

Slain soldier, Army Pfc. Alex Jimenez was captured by Al Qaeda and had been missing for 15 months before his remains were finally found in Iraq. 

“As hard as it was for the Jimenez family,” said Jim Wareing spokesman for the Jimenez and Duran Family “someone tipped off the Eagle Tribune that Alex had been found before the family was notified.”

“And when we arrived to deliver the devastating news to Andy (Alex’s father who lives in Lawrence), the Tribune was already in the house, snapping pictures as the family was told, breaking down in tears. It was total exploitation of this family who had been through so much. We were horrified by the picture they ran on the front page the next day. It was such an invasion of privacy,” he said in a somber tone.

The mother of Alex Jimenez, Maria Del Rosario Duran, told the Valley Patriot in an exclusive interview that she was very hurt by the disrespect she and her family endured at the hands of the Eagle Tribune.

“First, what happened to Andy (Alex’s father) was not right. They came to the house and took [a] picture during private time for the family. I wasn’t there, so you should talk to him,” she said, “but I know he was very sad about that and it should not have happened.”

“We were crying together and trying to grieve,” said Andy, Jr., Alex’s brother. “I don’t know why they were there, just to get a picture of us crying and embarrass us in their newspaper? It was such disrespect [sic]’” he said.

But, Wareing, who runs New England Caring for our Military, a volunteer organization to help soldiers and their families, said that the invasion of privacy the Jimenez family endured at the hands of the Eagle Tribune was just beginning.

Just getting started indeed.  The Jimenez family made it clear, they did not want this reporter anywhere near them, near their family, near their son's casket, or anywhere.  The Eagle Tribune Reporter Yadira was told personally not to come to the base, not to come to the funeral, the mass or anything.

Yet somehow Yadira found out where the body was to be flown, she found her way into the church early, she even got on the military base.  How could that happen?

 Wareing said that he was puzzled as to how a reporter from the Eagle Tribune could have snuck onto a secure military base to either snap pictures or take notes, so he began to ask those in the motorcade. “One of the auxiliary police officers finally admitted that Chief Romero had ordered him to take her in his police cruiser before the motorcade began. I didn’t think I had to search all the police cars before we left, but apparently Chief Romero is in bed with them and I suspect, though I can’t prove it yet, that Romero was the one who tipped them off about Alex’s body being found before the family even knew. That does explain why Trib reporters were in the Jimenez house before the notification was made.”

Thrown out of Wake and Funeral

But Wareing [Jim Wareing spokesman for the Jimenez and Duran Family] said the harassment of the Jimenez family didn’t end there.

You MUST go read the entire article here at The Valley Patriot, or pdf here.

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We'll Ruin Alaska... (No we won't)

That's what my dear, sweet, retired neighbor lady said to me today when we were discussing the energy 'crisis'.  She had been perusing T. Boone Pickins' website, and was thrilled with what she saw.  I told her that I was in favor of investigating all forms of energy, but I believe we need to be drilling offshore and in ANWR.  She cut me off, in her sweet way, saying, "OH, NO!  WE'LL RUIN ALASKA!"

No, my dear neighbor, we will NOT ruin Alaska, nor will we ruin ANWR, nor will we ruin the tiny spot where drilling would occur.  Yes, my neighbor is a Democrat, a Liberal, and she has been brainwashed by CNN.  See the following images (click to enlarge).

The problem is, you cannot reason with people who are already brainwashed. 

Now, in other Liberal news, Lawmakers Could Consider Gas Tax Hike, After Gas Tax Holiday Fails, according to Fox News.

Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded — with a prod from the construction industry — that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.

Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.

The politicians whine (yes I said whine) about the high cost of gas for the American people, but they are UNWILLING TO DO SQUAT to help, they are not willing to cut back on their spending one red cent.  On the contrary, they are willing to INCREASE THE BURDEN ON AMERICANS, so that they can GO ON SPENDING.  Send the bums home.

The Democrats created the victim class, they continue to support the victim class, ... but not if is hurts their pot of gold in Washington. 

From Tom's Place, Where’s the Energy?

Frankly, I’m not counting government to do anything for us.  Just look at the political idiocy going on over what to do about the price of gas, and you’ll understand how moronic & how out of touch with their constituents our elected Congresscritters really are. For instance:

Congress has its own ban on offshore energy exploration, and the Democrats who run Congress have shown no sign that they are willing to follow Bush’s example. They have preferred to make excuses–about why the price of oil is rising, who is to blame for its rise, and why increasing domestic supply won’t do anything to ameliorate the problem

From Conservative Common Man, do not miss this: Digital TV: Another Excuse For A Subsidized Victim Class 

"I hope I'll see your face again baby ..."

Thanks to Error Therapy:

Thanks to Muslims Against Sharia for putting together a short video on the re-hijacking of Flight 93:

The voice at the beginning is flight attendant CeeCee Lyles.

CeeCee's family has really struggled without her. One of the many stories that clearly illustrate how much one life matters. (Serious tear-jerker warning.)

Check out The Strata-Sphere

Last week's blogburst asked those hero bloggers who forced the redesign of the crescent memorial back in 2005 to please notice that the giant Mecca-oriented crescent is still there.

Many thanks to AJ Strata for taking another look, and writing a long post on the fundamentally unchanged memorial. It looks like he might keep after this too, since he gives the memorial another mention amidst his debunking of recent claims that Obama's birth certificate scan shows signs of Photoshopping.

If you aren't familiar with The Strata-Sphere, it is second to none as a source for terror war news and analysis.

The Pennsylvania press reports our "who broke the circle?" email campaign, and covers up the Park Service's refusal to answer

Since the memorial design is still being described as a broken circle, and since the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains completely unchanged, our email campaign demanded to know "WHO is being depicted as breaking the circle?"

It can only be the terrorists. The circle is a symbol of peace, and it was the terrorists who broke the peace on 9/11. So the design shows the terrorists breaking our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant Islamic shaped crescent. A clearer depiction of al Qaeda victory is hard to imagine.

The Memorial Project and the Park Service sent evasive replies to the hundred or so emails they received, never answering the question posed, but the fact that they issued a mass response made the email campaign news. How did the Pennsylvania press cover it? With a cover up.

Reporter Kecia Bal mentions our "who broke the circle?" subject line, but never reports the substance our letter: that the circle can only have been broken by the terrorists, who then succeed in turning it into a giant (Islamic shaped) crescent.

Instead, Kecia quotes an emailer admitting that "it was a cut-and-paste kind of thing," as if they might not even have understood the content, which remains a mystery to Kecia's readers. She does not even let her readers know that the official government response failed to answer the question.

Why is the local media covering this up? Because the entire Memorial Project, including both advisory boards, was appointed by the Somerset County Board of Supervisors. As a result, it is stacked with local eminences, all of whom are by now deeply implicated in the two and a half year cover up. Kecia thinks she is doing these local eminences a favor by trying to make this story go away, but she is not.

The further that architect Paul Murdoch's terrorist memorializing plot proceeds, the bigger the scandal. All of these local folks could still be heroes by stepping up and tackling the hijacker. Continuing to block for him instead is the worst thing they can do, not just for the country, but for themselves. We are trying to haul these people out of a burning building and they are tearing their fingernails out on the doorjambs. Crazy.

The August 2nd Memorial Project meeting

If you are within weekend traveling distance, please consider joining Tom Burnett Sr. in Somerset PA on August 2nd. If you get there early enough for the Memorial Project's public meeting (10AM-1PM) you can sign up to speak. We will rally in the afternoon on Saturday, and visit the crash-site Sunday.

To join our blogbursts, just send your blog's url.

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PATIENT EVIL - An R.J. Godlewski / Right Truth Blog Exclusive - Chapter Twenty-Five

PATIENT EVIL

An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook

Chapter Twenty-Five

July, 20xx

USAF MC-130P, “R.J.’s Justice”

Airborne over Sea of Azov, north of Kerch, Ukraine

The rarified air of altitude hampered Seth Carmassi’s attempt to ignite the Cuban cigar confiscated from the individual now trailing the aircraft feet first by a thin safety line and it took quite an effort to finally light the massive log of tobacco booty. He gazed back towards Jonas Prinkler who, being somewhat hostile to the suggestion of perching precariously on the edge of the aircraft’s loading ramp; lay sprawled out in the corner like a feline desperately trying to avoid a bath and who was nearly as green as his flight suit. Carmassi shook his head softly, then turned towards the aircraft’s loadmaster, marveling at the young woman’s fiery red hair that engulfed her microphone headset and the brilliant sapphire blue eyes that peeked out through her teardrop eyeglasses.

“Bridget.” Carmassi spoke, holding the microphone closer towards his mouth so that all could hear him above the din of both aircraft and environment. “How far out is he?”

The beautiful girl smiled, unsure of whether she should’ve returned the wink. “About fifty-five feet, sir.”

Flashing a quick ‘thumbs up’ to Jonas, Carmassi followed through with a broad sweeping motion arching his left arm out towards the trailing prisoner in the distance. “Definitely not within fifty feet.”

Jonas was far too sick to argue the point and any glance towards the poor soul trailing far behind the aircraft, sweeping to and fro for the past three hours and from either side to the next with the buffeting motions of the aircraft was well beyond his stomach’s ability to remain in control. He longed for the much tamer flight of their arrival into Ukraine.

Carmassi could not determine how much the prisoner Mahmoud could see from his particular vantage point – they made every attempt to secure him without disrupting his senses – but the microphone headset duct-tapped to the Arab’s head ensured him that he was privy to everything being discussed from within the speeding aircraft.

“Mahmoud, old boy.” Carmassi spoke in near fluent Arabic. “Are you prepared to talk yet? We’ve got plenty of fuel aboard, more than this aircraft actually needs; we can stay out here all day if you like…you decide. This is fun!”

From what words he could understand, Jonas didn’t like the thought of one minute longer and rolled over onto his left side and vomited a load which was immediately sucked out the open door of the aircraft like a missile and hurled towards the suspended Arab.

The pretty face of the Air Force sergeant frowned significantly as she retrieved a clean rag for use by the overweight analyst now surpassing the color of his jump suit.

Carmassi chewed a bit on the cigar, contemplating various solutions and methods, then turned back towards the girl. In methodically dictated words intended for his prisoner to understand should the latter, as expected, be conversant in English, Seth spoke “Bridget. Are there any suspension bridges around here?”

Bridget smiled broadly, her intense blue eyes sparkling from the glow originating outside of the aircraft. “Not at nine thousand feet, but there are a few mountains hereabouts…”

Waving an acknowledgement, Carmassi turned his attention back towards the prisoner whipping around on the safety line like a snagged bass. He couldn’t tell if Mahmoud had understood, but there appeared to be some struggling which suggested that at a minimum the man was having a terrible time being dragged forcibly through the turbulence created by the roaring aircraft.

“C’mon Mahmoud.” Seth goaded. “Don’t you want to get back down to warm Mother Earth? It’s freezing up here. Of course this aircraft won’t go hungry because we can refuel as needed, but don’t you want a nice, juicy piece of pork to warm your belly? How ‘bout some kosher meat, hmmm?”

“You’re making me sick!” Jonas’ voice could be heard pleading over the headsets.

“Where’s Allah now, Mahmoud?” Carmassi decided to alter his tactic. “He ain’t going to help you – but I can! I can help you by baptizing you in all of that damn water way the hell down there…”

Realizing that he was making little progress, Carmassi decided to up the ante. He turned towards the girl and twirled his finger around in a quick circle, signaling that he wanted the pilot of the Hercules aircraft to begin a sharp circle. Within seconds of her command to the cockpit, the large aircraft proceeded to bank heavily to the right, the horizon tilting drastically. Immediately Carmassi began to see the trailing prisoner’s lifeline drift off towards his right as centrifugal forces attempted to free the Arab from his umbilical with the aircraft.

“Mahmoud, Mahmoud.” Carmassi spoke in a soft, motherly manner. “I’ve got my whole life ahead of me. You, on the other hand, I’m not so sure about. I know that you’ve killed many Americans before and so you know that I could kill you right here and now and not even flinch a muscle. One more dead Islamist doesn’t bother me a bit. However, you might be able to save some future lives and for this reason I am forced to consider ways in which I might save your sorry ass. Therefore, I’ll give you one last chance to make it back down to earth in one piece before we infidels release your safety line…”

An incoherent muttering in Arabic came over the headsets, suggesting to the aircraft crew that, at a minimum, the prisoner had heard the efforts to cajole him into compromising his operations.

Sliding carefully on his backside across the loading ramp, resembling something of a cross between a spider and an overturned tortoise, Carmassi moved over towards the Arab’s safety line and began to kick it lightly with his foot, sending distinct quivering vibrations down towards the terrorist. “Hey, wakeup Mahmoud. I need to know; do you bounce or float better? Which do you prefer; concrete or water? We don’t have much time left; either you come back aboard as our friend and ally or you become useless flotsam. Unfortunately, we will not give you a chance to become a martyr. Oh, you’ll certainly die; but not even Allah will find your sorry ass. So how ‘bout it? Care to humor me with a reply?”

After several further minutes of silence from the spiraling prisoner suspended fifty-five feet behind the aggressively circling aircraft, Carmassi voiced his instructions to the aircraft’s flight crew in clear, fluent Arabic. “Okay, guys; let’s drop down to fifty meters and see if we can find us a soccer match to crash…”

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At the Patient Evil Homepage the Synopsis, Prologue, Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six , Chapter Seven, Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Chapter Ten, Chapter Eleven, and Chapter Twelve, Chapter Thirteen, Chapter Fourteen, Chapter Fifteen, Chapter Sixteen, Chapter Seventeen, Chapter Eighteen, Chapter Nineteen, Chaptaer Twenty, Chapter Twenty-One, Chapter Twenty-Two, Chapter Twenty Three, Chapter Twenty-Four, Chapter Twenty-Five, each chapter will be available in pdf after they are published here at Right Truth.

Synopsis at Right Truth Chapter Seven
Prologue and Chapter One at Right Truth, Chapter Two , Chapter Three, Chapter Four,  Chapter Six,  Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Chapter Ten,  Chapter Five,

Chapter Ten, Chapter 11, Chapter Twelve, Chapter Thirteen, Chapter Fourteen, Chapter Fifteen, Chapter Sixteen, Chapter Seventeen, Chapter Eighteen, Chapter Nineteen, Chapter Twenty, Chapter Twenty-One, Chapter Twenty-Two,  Chapter Twenty-Three, Chapter Twenty-Four, Chapter Twenty-Five,

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Infidel? My Ass! - An Independent Crusade Against Islam

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Looney Left Report and other craziness

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Global Warming Led to ‘Black Hawk Down,’ Congressman Says:  (hat tip hubby)

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) – A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.

 

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

But one global warming expert from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) told Cybercast News Service that such a remark reveals Markey’s ignorance on the subject of global warming.

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Tony Snow’s Funeral, from Stop the ACLU

Cross-Posted FROM MsUnderestimated

Dear God, please let the Patriot Guard Riders know about this ahead of time. The Phelps gang is ready to strike, and they outline their intent here.

Please pass this along to all who can get the word out so we can stop these fools. According to their site, this is when it’s going to happen and why:

Read More at Ms.Underestimated

Update by Jay: Here is the disgusting youtube video Phelps decided to put out on this.

  Filed Under News, Stupidity

Ben Johnson at FrontPageMagazine has a roundup of the horrible comments from the Left on Tony Snow.  Vile and vicious:  Go read it, "Goebbels With Better Hair"

Pakistan: ‘U.S. Can’t Hunt bin Laden Here’, (USA Today, via National Terror Alert)

Pakistan’s top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaeda leader.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation’s new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.

“Our government’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”

FOIL WAR, (Right Truth Exclusive)

FOIL WAR

By R.J. Godlewski

© July 12, 2008, All Rights Reserved

I miss the height of the Cold War from, for my particular life, 1963 to 1983. No, I don’t like the notion of the planet being mere minutes away from exploding like a seagull on Alka-Seltzers®, but I do reflect nostalgically on a period when the country was serious about defending itself against an “evil empire.” Today, we have an entire generation that doesn’t know what it means to commit to good; that watch old movies such as The Night People and Strategic Air Command with genuine disbelief. Often I’ve wondered whether the phrase ‘Duck! And Cover!” is ever emitted outside of a culinary classroom.

Many older people have admitted that they would not wish to see a return to an era of McCarthyism, but I sometimes wonder whether that period was really all that bad. It is true that many lives and careers were ruined, but I myself remember seeing footage of hard-core communists simply walking away through protection afforded by the Fifth Amendment wondering how devoted someone could be to their beliefs if they were simply afraid to admit to them. Today, the situation is no different – we have ‘hard core’ Islamic terrorists who are using our Constitution to prevent them from suffering at the hands of our justice system. Cowards.

Whereas before the mere words “Red Menace” sent nerves quivering, we now see fanatical Islamic terrorists as simply maligned individuals, sent on a path of juvenile delinquency as if Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys were at it again. We can no longer expect Leo Gorcey to have a change of heart; there are no happy endings to the conflict between Western civilization and diabolical Islam. This is not Hollywood where chaos is created simply for the sake of economic distraction. Our enemies live, breathe, and die for the chance of killing as many of us as possible. It is not only their ‘civic’ duty; it is their calling, their predestined place in all of Creation.

How do we stack up vis-à-vis the Cold War? We pamper our enemies. We shield them from our brave military and law enforcement personnel. We bestow upon them rock star status and ensure them of immortality for ‘the cause.’ Simply put, no Cold War warrior would’ve been caught dead granting their adversaries such special privileges. In fact, many of them did die just to prevent this outrage. Just ask the crew of the Little Red Ass or any of the other fifteen or so U.S. aircraft crews that were shot down during ‘peace time’ – once you get to Heaven.

Part of our problem rests with the journalism community – once a proud and honorable profession now infested with pathetic scum who seek to return to their late nineteenth century ‘glory days’ when the desire for sensationalism literally invented the news. They no longer desire to inform the public; they want to indoctrinate the public as evidenced by their hatred of all things American. I’ll admit that my beloved country is not perfect, but any group of people that intentionally seek the destruction of their own nation aren’t even worthy of the indignities of McCarthyism.

We are engaged within a brutal war – the ‘Foil War’; the action by the national (and global) media “which, by comparison or contrast, shows the superiority of another person,” supposedly the terrorists and their ilk – which began in the mid-1960’s, just as soon as the federal government pulled out of communications research and training within our colleges and universities. The void was quickly filled by those who despised government influence in a sector that has both public and national implications.

Today’s ‘enlightened’ media types no longer operate as mere fifth columnists (no pun intended) – they’re frontline troops in the war against our liberty and freedom. They don’t just aid and abet the terrorists; they adopt and canonize them. They take people who live to destroy our Constitution and our flag and wrap both around them as if they were Patrick Henry reincarnated. They use our courts against our own troops and subjugate local governments through their tactical arm – the American Civil Liberties Union – and nothing would make them happier than to witness a broad crescent being sewn upon the blue field of Old Glory herself.

Some of us, however, see through their smokescreen. We understand that this is not just “another war” in the brief history of the United States; it is the continuation of the war that began with George III, endured through slavery and secessionism, carrying on through Nazism, imperialism, communism and now Islamism. It is one war – the war between Good and Evil; between inalienable rights and tyranny; between God and Satan. And, friends, in the words of one of my personal heroes: “I have not yet begun to fight.” Just watch me when I get pissed…

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Special Disbursement Operations - How special forces are at work to surrender America’s future to the world. (Right Truth Exclusive)

Special Disbursement Operations

How special forces are at work to surrender America’s future to the world.

By R.J. Godlewski

John Wayne must be rolling in his grave. In a world where our enemies are far more brutal and clandestine than what was displayed within The Green Berets and global appeasers much more pronounced than the ‘George Beckworths’ of his era, our future is rapidly being subjugated to academic study and theorems of mass destruction. When we find ourselves, for example, in a situation where our own Special Operations Forces (SOF) are expanding to record levels, my chosen alma mater – if such a term can applied before the final result is bestowed – American Military University, has phased out its Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict concentration of its intelligence studies program. In other words, understanding international law and prisoner treatment now seems more palatable than training people about paramilitary operations, guerrilla warfare, and the like. Of what do we gain by sacrificing our John Waynes for George Clooneys or Alec Baldwins?

Anyone who’s paid a fair amount of attention to the greater world today – and you’re a very rare breed indeed! – cannot dismiss the subjugation of American interests for the sake of ‘peace’ and ‘tranquility’ within the world. In other words, many people seem to believe that if the Islamic terrorists were given free reign to do as they please then somehow they would eventually “see the light” and become reputable members of society. Hogwash; so is the notion that by taming our academic programs we become more respectable in the long run. This has become America’s Achilles’ heel – diluting our educational system to the point where decades’ of classroom knowledge amounts to very little practical benefit. Consider that some of my physician friends in Eastern Europe were bona fide medical doctors by twenty-two years of age. How? Because there one enters directly into medical school whereas American students must first endure four years of indoctrination – sorry, I meant undergraduate – training before they are permitted to enter their chosen field. European schools simply treat their universities more as apprenticeships than as character conditioning programs. Is there any wonder then why we consistently fall behind in nearly every arena?

This fascination with making ‘better citizens’ instead of better doctors, lawyers or, yes, warriors begins well back in our public primary school systems. My high school courses regarding the Civil War and World War II were instrumental in my understanding of the world and subsequently my career; the same, however cannot be said of the Mythology class that I was required to take. I might act like Thor sometimes, but the class was largely a waste. So is our insistence upon resolving everything through negotiation and debate.

As a culture, we need to turn off Star Trek, set down the Kool-Aid®, and progress towards a more realistic future – one based upon personal responsibility and effort and not communistic utopia. The modern “Age of Terrorism” grew from its equally modern “Age of Revolution” and herein we have been our own worst enemies. Ignoring all ongoing conflicts, we have failed in every single war since 1945 despite the fact that we’ve had sixty years in which to adjust our capabilities. I attribute this blame squarely upon academia which holds its share of responsibility with the media for educating the public-at-large.

Our last significant war – Vietnam – had failed largely because of three things:

1. The direct control of communications research by the U.S. Government had ended by 1960;

2. Our reliance upon a conscripted army could no longer dodge a resentful university system now freed to indoctrinate at will; and

3. We possessed a general population unaccustomed to dealing with global events scheduled via the evening news.

This combination of a freed media orchestrated by resentful academics, a military foreign to conducting operations under less than patriotic support, and a populace forced to make choices “on the fly” sabotaged our perfect record in war. We are no better today.

To adjust our operations to match the expectations of asymmetrical warfare requires the development and modernization of several key attributes:

• We must utilize ‘disciplined fear’ to engage indigenous populations that may have been reared exclusively on being taught what to believe and how to think. Irrespective of the fact that most Third World dictatorships actually exercise less control over their constituents than does the government of the United States over its own citizenry, we must acknowledge that “grab ‘em by the balls and yank” works sometimes better than simply appealing to their “hearts and minds.”

• Our Intelligence Community must shy away from its ageless reliance upon “documented facts” and fully engage the “tropical pastel” world of indigenous beliefs. Our analysts must not fear retribution for making informed analyzes based exclusively upon the tidbits of data that often mark Third World intelligence. Intuition is far more valuable than official documentation because it is often more timely and less “fabricated” then the types of data requested by policy-makers. We must develop and maintain the ability to sniff through conflicting rumors, troubling broadcasts, and downright lies to achieve what’s required by our most adaptive forces. Politicians and legislators with a flair for leaking things to the media or each other can wait until the broader threat is eliminated.

• Academic study must be considered a fundamental part of our overall intelligence process; therefore all institutions and researchers who benefit from taxpayer-funding must be given strong guidelines as to what is and is not permissible under the national security umbrella. Saying that our government is “screwy” is one thing; telling people where our forces are operating, what procedures they are using, and attributing ‘citizen rights’ to apprehended terrorists has no basis in academia. We elect our leaders and not our schools or newspapers to decide what happens. If they fail us they go – professors and journalists are held accountable only to their own expectations of duty.

Another significant problem when dealing with Third World environments is that they, as in the case of the Muslim lands, are quite unaccustomed to our version of democracy. They wholeheartedly believe in the redistribution of wealth for all; that the haves must not only share with the have-nots but with the ‘think they haves’ as well. This leads to apathy as those who lack ambition can merely blame those with more initiative.

This is why the vast majority of Muslims supported Saddam Hussein during his invasion of Kuwait – he ‘promised’ to spread the wealth “horded” by the ruling Kuwaitis. It also explains why the Arabs are steadfast in their hatred of Israel – they see a powerful, rich neighbor and want a piece of the action. To appease these Muslims, American (and Western) diplomats had decided to distribute the wealth of Iraq, not amongst Iraqi businessmen who might be able to better invest within their local economy, but amongst the total population thereby breeding another generation who receives ‘something’ for little or no effort.

We treat our military much the same way – as, historically, we’ve always done; we shed our blood so that others may live in peace and harmony. There is nothing inherently wrong in this as it reflects who we are as a people. Unfortunately, however, we do not engage liberated people with the same level of responsibility as we had done in the past. No marching citizens through concentration camps to learn firsthand what their leaders had done, for example. Our precision weaponry has given us an excuse to shield these people from responsibility for their own governments and our liberation policies have shielded them from responsibility for their own future. Can you think of a better recipe for disaster?

Military forces cannot engage exclusively within post-event humanitarian operations. We simply do not have enough resolve or support to continually show our “good face.” This is best left to diplomatic forces and, because of this, to academia as well. Our combat forces must be geared towards winning the war first; winning “hearts and minds” will come when we have enough time to play ‘patty cake’ with people who otherwise have no ambition of their own. To foster this, we must return to an era when academia, defense, and national leadership shared the same goals:

1. Our universities and colleges must begin to turn out leaders and innovators worthy of our nation. As in war, we must remain the undisputed leader. To turn out anything other than the most dynamic innovators or the most adaptable leaders – in any field – is detrimental to our national survival and security. Any and all agenda-based platforms must be extinguished promptly; any institution that does not acknowledge the preeminent role our military plays in life should not benefit from the collective treasure;

2. Because our military has to endure two constantly evolving missions – to protect against large-scale national adversaries and highly adaptive non-state threats – it must likewise evolve into two distinct units. Let’s dispense with the traditional Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines and create a singular force to provide impenetrable, spherical protection around U.S. territories. Secondly, let’s fashion a Special Operations community that works with a singular capability and not multiple units with their varying layers of “standards.” Special Ops forces need to be constructed around key personalities best suited to particular regions and/or missions and not broad, archaic physical standards.

3. National leadership must succumb to the will of the American people. Energy, border control, and effective immigration enforcement are not matters for debate. We need to become self-reliant in energy, possess impenetrable borders, and apprehend quickly those who violate our sovereignty if we are to protect ourselves against outside influence.

Our future remains brightest when we corral our educational institutions for then we are able to adequately elect proper and patriotic leaders. Once we have local, state, and national leaders that answer to our needs first and the world’s second, then we can have a powerful and dominant military. Once we have a dominant and powerful military, then we can have the peace and security that all but our worst enemies desire. A little knowledge thus goes a long way…

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E. D. Hill and Obama

I must have been hiding in a cave to have missed this story about E.D. Hill of Fox News and Barack Obama.  Thanks to Hyscience, here's the story, links, and a way to contact Fox News and express your opinion on the subject.  Via email from Althor at Hyscience:

On June 6th last, on her former program, "America's Pulse," E.D. Hill teased in a segement about body-language about Obama's fist bump  with his wife Michelle : "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."

 

Immediately thin-skinned Obama supporters and the leftist blogs on the web were in a rage and an uproar about the comments, and  George Soros' "Media Matters" began a campaign encouraging people to contact Fox and complaint about what is in their view an unforgivable slight  of their "Obamamessiah,"  calling for Miss Hill's resignation. Here are some links:

 

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060007?f=h_top

 

The "Obamamoonies,"  the left, and Media Matters and their minions kept pounding Fox to remove Miss Hill, even though she clarified her comment and apologized for them.

 

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100009

 

Then the propaganda Obama surrogates at CNN and MSNBC took up the fight as well.

 

http://www.mahalo.com/E.D._Hill_Terrorist_Fist_Jab

 

When Fox apparently buckling to the Obamamaniacs and to Media Matters quietly cancelled E.D.'s show, "America's Pulse," chastised her, and relegated her elsewhere, the hateful Huffington Post was exuberant at her dismissal, gloating triumphantly:  " 'Terrorist Fist Jab' Anchor E.D. HIll Loses Her Show"

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/fox-news-changes-terroris_n_106306.html

 

I first  learned about it from  Richard's post of June 13, 2008, here on Hyscience.

 

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/06/fox_goes_over_t.php

 

It has gotten so ludicrous, and  so utterly  ridiculous,  with the Obamamoonies, the Obama campaign, and the fawning, sniveling, Obama boot-lickers in the Obama surrogate  "Liberal Mainstream Media," that, as Richard points out in his post: " apparently any slight against the Obamamessiah is intolerable - even one only perceived"!

Go here at Hyscience, for Fox News contact information and to read a fine article on the subject.  Also read Richard's original article here.

 

Scaremongers

The scaremongers continue to shout, just like Chicken Little -- "The sky is falling!"

Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse?  According to many of the world's top scientists, the answer is yes, unless we take action now.

The above quote is the beginning of the article "Scientists From Around the Globe Join ABC News in a Forum on Surviving the Century" at ABC News.  What, prey tell, could bring about the END OF THE WORLD?  Why, global warming, of course.  " ...extreme changes in climate, combined with dwindling resources, famine, war and disease" seem to equal DOOM for everybody and everything. 

BUT WAIT!  It seems that not all scientists and experts are being interviewed or allowed to speak in the MSM.  NEVER FEAR, because the "rest of the story" is out there if you just look for it.

John Coleman's Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce:

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

[snip]

With a preacher’s zeal, Mr. Gore sets out to strike terror into us and our children and make us feel we are all complicit in the potential demise of the planet.
Here is my rebuttal.

There is no significant man made global warming.  There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed.  But mankind’s activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces.

Through all history, Earth has shifted between two basic climate regimes: ice ages and what paleoclimatologists call “Interglacial periods”.  For the past 10 thousand years the Earth has been in an interglacial period.  That might well be called nature’s global warming because what happens during an interglacial period is the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes. Clearly from our point of view, an interglacial period is greatly preferred to the deadly rigors of an ice age.  Mr. Gore and his crowd would have us believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control warming. 

Well, it is simply not happening.  (continue reading) 

The End of Greenism, by Raymond S. Kraft ( hat tip Snake Hunter ) is a political plan for John McCain and Republicans to turn this scam around.

[snip] ...   CO2 is not the enemy, that humans have no identifiable effect on climate, which has always been changing, and humans cannot stop it; and that it is far more important to produce enough energy from all sources, nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, oil, and coal, than to go tilting at the windmills of Greenism to stop the unstoppable Climate Change, which is entirely natural and organic.

If John McCain can learn that lesson, he can turn the issue of Global Warming and Climate Change on its head, and use it to take down Barack Obama, take down the Democrat Party, and take down the Greens and Greenism, in the next four months. But it has to be done as a frontal attack, a head-long cavalry charge straight up the hill into the face of the enemy, something neither Obama, nor the Dems, nor the Greens, are prepared for. It would throw them into total panic and disarray.  [snip]

Here's the change I want.

1) Legislation to immediately lift all moratoria on oil and natural gas exploration and development on Federal lands, except National Parks.

2) Legislation to grant a 100% tax credit for all new capital investment in energy production in the US and its territorial waters. If you spent $20,000 to put solar panels on your roof, you get a $20,000 tax credit. If Exxon puts $75 billion into developing new oil production in the US, Exxon gets a $75 billion tax credit. This would 'send a message' to OPEC that the party's just about over, and it would create millions of new jobs for working class Americans in America.

3) Legislation to fast-track NRC-approved nuclear power plant designs, and to require Green plaintiffs suing to block the construction of nuclear power plants, geothermal plants, oil refineries, or any other energy project, to prove by 'clear and convincing evidence' that the proposed project was unreasonably dangerous, or that the harm it would cause was greater than the benefit it would confer.  (continue reading)

The sky is not falling, America and the world will not cease to exist;  but the way we live can be drastically altered by those who believe the Chicken Little's, by those who report fiction rather than fact and by those who will not give voice to the scientists who offer the truth.

The Five Follies of Keith Olbermann

The Five Follies of Keith Olbermann

By Paul A. Ibbetson

For some time now a struggling MSNBC has employed a Bush hating mad hatter by the name of Keith Olbermann. Olbermann appears to be on an endless mission to disparage the president as well as the war on terror, and in doing so has created a very interesting example of the inner workings of the far left liberal. First, in highlighting the five follies of Olbermann it is only fair to give the disclaimer that these failings are not Olbermann’s alone but are general characteristics of the far left. Keith Olbermann is recognized for analysis because he showcases these characteristics beyond what the average angry liberal is capable of due to his platform as a talking head at MSNBC. Secondly, there must be some observance given to the actions of Olbermann that must be placed within the context of the highly competitive environment of the political news world in which Olbermann lives and which he must contend with competitors such as Bill O’Reilly who are consistently besting him in the ratings. To avoid any misconception that excuses are being made for individuals such as Olbermann, the five follies which make up the angry liberal are submitted: 

1. Acts of the demented
2. The jack-in-the-box syndrome
3. The conspiracy theorist
4. The birds of a feather showcase
5. The forked tongue debilitation.

First and foremost Olbermann’s presentation to the public carries a constant appearance of the unhinged, whether it is the anger filled shaking of his body as he rants at President Bush or the wild-eyed glint of the madman when he is in full verbal contortion. Almost every show with Keith Olbermann is akin to a trip to the psycho ward. The jack-in-the-box syndrome; that is, the mindless repetition of the same old scripted performance which usually begins and ends with “Bush lied” is without a doubt a fundamental component of Olbermann’s inability to reach higher echelons of popularity. Now for amusement’s sake, Olbermann’s constant performance as the dysfunctional “Sherlock Holmes”, the man who alone appears to constantly unearth the criminal acts of the President is good for a few laughs but upon continual repetition places his credibility alongside the 911 truthers, code pink, and the Westboro Baptist Church to name a few.

They say that you can know a person by the people they run with and Olbermann’s chummy nature and growing contribution list for the ultra radical Daily Kos has made it abundantly clear who he has made his closest bed fellows. Yes, birds of a feather do flock together and Olbermann and the Daily Kos make for some very dirty birds. Last but not least Olbermann suffers from an extreme case of the forked tongue debilitation, that’s right, he is just plain and simply a liar. Pulling baseless fabrication after fabrication out of the air, Keith Olbermann paints a false picture of the President and the war on terror that the word ‘shameful’ cannot fully describe.

The five follies of Olbermann describe an individual whose actions are not duplicated on any of the other cable news networks regardless of the political slants that may or may not be present to viewers as they turn their television dial. In short, Keith Olbermann is the most overt activist for the left in the media today and his equivalent counterpart on the right is yet to be created, and I hope it never is. I am sure that some birds of a similar feather will come to the defense of Olbermann after reading this article but I challenge them to defend the five follies of Olbermann, for to do so they will have to become Olbermann, and that is truly scary business. MSNBC has made their bed with Olbermann and it is a testament to the direction they appear to want to go with their organization, and that’s fine, it’s a big world and there will always be folks like that out there. Meanwhile, other networks such as FOX will continue to collect the bountiful rewards of MSNBC’s tactical decision to encourage by employment the follies of Keith Olbermann.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a published author and lecturer on the Patriot Act. He is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the book “Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society” and is the host of the award winning radio show the “Conscience of Kansas” on the wildcat 91.9 f.m www.wildcat919.com www.ibbetsonusa.com . Paul is a regular writer for the Conservative Crusader as well as 35 other online websites.

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