A 45 year old Chicagoan's observations and commentary on top news, pop culture and an accounting of the Obama Regime and their 'statist' power grab from my unabashed, right leaning/conservative point of view..
This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back. –Tom Tancredo
"Obama will turn the entire US into the south side of Chicago" - Chicago Ray
God Bless America...
Coming from Buffalo Grove IL, 20 miles NW of King Richard Daley's
Fiefdom AKA Chicago,Illinois,USA the land of the free because of the brave..
Here's one of my first posts and observations on a then potential Obama presidency in Feb 07/ I'm no prophet believe you me..... it was all common sense far too many today simply 'lack',
George Mason explained, “(T)o disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” Noah Webster elaborated: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed
These people have incredible video of illegals, Armed terrorists, you name it invading the country each second of every day..
After he makes a $65,000 an hour trip to Ft Bliss this afternoon, tonight for what I sadly believe is nothing more than the obligatory "thanks troops" photo op with this man, President Zero, AKA Barack Hussein Obama will attempt to claim tonight it's finally 'Mission Accomplished Not Quite' in Iraq thanks mostly to he and his being elected of course.
I base that assumption from knowing him these past couple miserable years and his propensity to shun responsibility for anything 'bad' blaming most of his shortcomings and missteps for the most part on President Bush.
However, we ALL know he and these democrats will today and forever hereafter try to take credit for an accomplishment that neither he nor they had a damn thing to do with, particularly since the "Iraq Withdrawal timetable" was well laid out before he was even elected president.
Not to mention every liberal this side of San Fran Freako has been against this mission from it's inception, even going as far as 'aiding and abetting the enemy' under just about any patriot's definition of the term since day one, and only retreated once their Kenyan born boy was elected president, and not a second sooner.
Furthermore, were it 'up to him' and most democrats (who were against the surge from start to finish) this war would have been lost long ago if in fact it's even been 'won', so for them to try to grab the glory while throwing a little bone to the soldiers who deserve the bulk of the credit for what's been accomplished in Iraq and no one else is a bit offensive to this American, and must be as well for all those who did all the heavy lifting.
It's great many are coming home yet more than he'll send to our border to protect 'IT ' remain there to protect theirs in Iraq.
In fact Obama doesn't even "like" being Commander in Chief, so if that indeed is the case as this NYT piece let on the other day linked indirectly below, let's just relieve him of his duties...
Frankly, nobody deserves any credit other than the soldiers and their families who sacrificed their lives in over 4,287 cases, with over 30,000 wounded, and will continue to do so as 50,000 troops stay behind to 'keep the peace' for only God knows how long. Men and women who sacrifice day in and day out far more for this country than any of we 'non service people' can understand, including myself.
For 'proof' of that we need only look to the fact that there's still troops on the 38th parallel on the DMZ in North and South Korea, and we have the largest US embassy on planet earth located in the 'Green Zone' of Iraq. It's not there to leave empty for the next 20 years, of that we can be certain.
So from this American to those returning home to an America they won't recognize, congratulations on a job well done and welcome home for those lucky enough to be coming back at this time .
For those who will not be returning, it sure doesn't sound like 'Mission accomplished' for them yet does it?
Apparently Obama did call President Bush although only those two know at the present time what was discussed and 'perhaps' Obama gives him a 'hat tip' in his speech, we'll see. Count me among the doubters such a thing will take place.
John Boehner takes a pre emptive strike at Obama basically saying "many democrats talk all day about the end of combat in Iraq but we don't hear much about WINNING"
this was his take on the entire weekend on his show tonight for those unable to see it or those who just don't want to, the crowds, the rancid left wing media attacks along with the one under this update that I ragged about first thing this morning:
Beck: Media Misses Rally's Message
----original post follows------
This is the left at their best, their number one goal seems to now be the utter destruction of an enterprising entrepreneurial spirit who has a little more 'pull' at the moment than any single or combination of democrats on planet earth.
So the distraction is that they offer is a reward for 'sex tapes' or any other material that can be used to silence and destroy another fellow American. As if in their way of thinking, since "they all have tapes of themselves" in compromising positions they figure 'every American does' is their assumption.
I doubt they'll find anything on Beck as he's already admitted to being a 'one time' slug as most people have been even every so briefly at one time or another. After all, we're ALL sinners.
Secondly, he doesn't exactly 'look' like the casual sex tape kind of guy! lol.
Their rationale is since Andrew Brietbart offered the same amount for a tape to disprove the pack of race baiting lies which we all know was the 'Black Congressional Whitey Haters Club' led by John Lewis falsely claiming they were all called "nigger" and so on with 20,000 cameras within spitting distance and none heard the so called offenses, so can they.
Like the two things are even in the 'same ballpark'. Liberal Pretzel logic I guess.
That's when they decided to cross the street and walk right through a conservative rally in order to 'stir up some shit' while also 'creating a distraction' while 'shitting and spitting' on our constitution that day, Obamacare Black Sunday.
Furthermore, not every reformed alcoholic, sexaholic, or drug addict records their 'years of debauchery' and I know, I didn't. lol ;) The liberal way. If you can't beat em, destroy them!
I cut this from Free Republic so I don't use Huffpo's story per se....the pics I made though ;)
"In the wake of Glenn Beck's hugely successful Restoring Honor rally held in Washington, D.C. this weekend, the Huffington Post has published an offer of $100,000 to anyone with evidence that would destroy Beck's reputation and take him off the political/cultural battlefield.
An essay written by Beau Friedlander, the last editor-in-chief of Air America before it shut down this year, was posted in the Politics section of the Huffington Post today with the title, $100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tape.
Friedlander says he will not use his own money for the hit, but that he will 'broker' the deal.
It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)
If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.read more source Free Republic
Huffington Post Offering $100 Grand for Sex Tapes, Phone Records, anything to destroy Glenn Beck
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Million man march my ass! If this was that, then there were 4 million at the 'Beck - Palin -Bachmann Overdrive' weekend in DC::
This shot above was the so called 'million man march'.... so you be the judge..... looks like about three or four of those to me below... just the side crowd on the left beats the snot out of the Million man march..lol
UPDATE: Pic taken from atop the Washington Monument, that's about 700,000 people folks. Can't fit many more people there although the idea wasn't to 'outdo' that anyhow.
Here's one of the same totally EMPTY btw
IT was to CELEBRATE it unlike the left tried to 'convey' with their lies and 'fraudulent' framing of the event today, which obviously didn't work to keep people away, now did it?
Just like their lies and treasonous reporting won't effect election day in 3 months when Congress is told "YOUR ASSES ARE FIRED" and then Obama shortly thereafter we pray and promise.
Here's a pic of the King "I have a dream" Speech / Rally some 48 years ago today in 1963:
In comparison, sources who were actually 'there' say that there were about 500-1000 Sharpton peeps 'celebrating' King's speech at his 'alternate' rally.
In fact, here's a shot of him 'working up the crowd' there during his anti /blame whitey rants ;)
Original post follows,and btw there wasn't a single solitary arrest the entire afternoon, which likely makes this the most peaceful rally of this size ever since it's always been liberals who've congregated in such numbers and we know what they do at their rallies.
On Facebook for those of us not going to DC today, and is actually starting now. CSPAN will be replaying the rally or what have you this evening sometime so check their website or http://facebook.com/cspan
Looks like there's about 200 000 people there, quite a showing indeed.
Both sides of the reflecting pool / mall are full of people ! That's nice to see and I sure do wish I could have been there with all the peaceful yet pissed off Americans. Real Americans who put America first.
Beck walking up to make his first opening speech
Sarah Palin at the inception of her speech....
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Restoring Honor now streaming LIVE!: "Yes, 8/28 will be broadcast live on Facebook. We want as many people as possible to have the chance to view this event which is why it will be streamed FREE. Checkout our Facebook page on 8/28 to watch this event LIVE! Remember 10a ET. If you can’t be in Washington DC, join us on Facebook to watch it live here
Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Draws Nearly Half a Million Patriots Today!
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
This alone is the best reason to make sure the dems and RINOs are kicked to the curb in November, and then Obama to follow soon thereafter. Especially once all the illegality that took place over the past 2 years can be sifted through and then prosecuted.
Starting with the near billion dollars Obama amassed to get elected in the first place, every damn dollar of it needs to be investigated and accounted for. Right there is a mountain's worth of work as these dems planned on hiding their tracks for all this and didn't think in a thousand years Americans would rise up as we have.
And the good news there, we're just warming this train up for departure November 5th. And if the new group doesn't follow through with their promises, then a real LIVE revolution will begin.
POLITICO.com: "If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Republican staffers say there won’t be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.
And a handful of aggressive would-be committee chairmen — led by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — are quietly gearing up for a possible season of subpoenas not seen since the Clinton wars of the late 1990s.
Issa would like Obama’s cooperation, says Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But it’s not essential.
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GOP and Independents plan Tsunami of Obama White House probes -
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Notice how these jerkoffs from AP leave out this major fact of this story !
A move which must be intentional, since anyone writing about 911 and the proposed Ground Zero Victory Mosque who doesn't know the simple fact that the landing gear from one flight came through the roof of the Burlington Building, [which is why it's presently closed] should be removed from their so called journalism position for such an omission of fact.
Secondly they should have their useless degree shredded to shit, since that's all it's worth to dumbass 'useful morons' like the two here who (A) made the statement and (B) the writer who quotes it and reprints it across the MSM through the AP wire as fact!
This is an excerpt from the piece below of misinformation which IS NOT corrected throughout the entire piece which frankly is the basis of the entire article. Moron, the writer and the 1st quoted imbecile "Slawsky" who represents the typical uninformed or flat out lying liberal.
'This is not sacred ground,' Slawsky said. 'To me, ground zero is any site that was destroyed or damaged on 9/11 - mostly the hole in the ground.'
(Dumb assed college student! DOH it was destroyed by it, the roof at least you moron)
But Maureen Santora, whose firefighter son was killed at the trade center, says ground zero extends far beyond the fenced-off construction site where cranes, skyscrapers and a Sept. 11 memorial are rising. It goes through a wide swath of lower Manhattan, where debris was littered on rooftops and body parts were found years later, she says.
Gee how about that, a voice of reason and intelligence. This is hers, mine, and likely your definition of Ground Zero shown below..
See what I mean? Media bias is so brutal they write crud like this without equivocation, and to me almost constitutes treason on such a sensitive subject, and then to come down on the side of the Victory Mosque Muslims, who know this fact as well and yet omit if from their website and every other media appearances they manage to book makes it double treason.
Especially in the case of the rabblerousing Muslim who's running this entire shabang, Daisy 'whatever the fuck her name is', along with the divisive idiot she's married to, the Taquiyya King Imam Rauf.
The lying Muslim captain of this ship of imbeciles whizzing in the eyes of 80% of America and most of all the tens of thousands of directly effected families of the 3000 victims of 911 of which my family alone knew 12.
Ground zero's boundaries evolve in mosque debate: "NEW YORK (AP) - The furor over how close is too close to ground zero for a planned Islamic center and mosque has raised a simple question nine years after Sept. 11: Where exactly is ground zero?
The lines marking the site of the 2001 terror attacks change depending on which New Yorker, 9/11 family member and American you talk to. Even those who know it best can't agree on its boundaries. Tourists who come to snap pictures outside of a busy construction site often aren't sure that they're there.
Andrew Slawsky, a 22-year-old college student standing outside the proposed mosque and Islamic center, north of the World Trade Center site, says ground zero is not here.
'This is not sacred ground,' Slawsky said. 'To me, ground zero is any site that was destroyed or damaged on 9/11 - mostly the hole in the ground.'
But Maureen Santora, whose firefighter son was killed at the trade center, says ground zero extends far beyond the fenced-off construction site where cranes, skyscrapers and a Sept. 11 memorial are rising. It goes through a wide swath of lower Manhattan, where debris was littered on rooftops and body parts were found years later, she says.
'It will always be a place where my son was murdered. I don't care what they call this place,' Santora said. 'It will be a cemetery.'
The evolving boundaries of ground zero have informed - or misinformed - the debate about its proximity to the planned Park51 community center. The farther away from the place, the bigger it seems. continued My Way News -
Here's a great video sent to me this morning by my old school friend Joy called Of Mosques and Men....thanks Joy ;) It's got over 2 1l/2 million views on Youtube . Pass it around if you can.
MSM Bias Alert: Ground zero's boundaries evolve in mosque debate | plus video
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
He's got a long long way to win me over as I haven't liked Letterman since he followed Johnny which is about never, but even he can see that Obama's days as a president of this country are indeed numbered and hopefully after an impeachment they'll be even shorter than we all hoped.
Letterman: “He’ll have plenty of time for vacations after his one term is up.” while he's still got a week of vaca left at our expense, 5 thou a night.
Today we stand at 878 more days
Any bets it's less? Bets close on November 5th.
I'm sorry, but anyone who would buy and wear one of these seriously needs a psychological exam... and soon. But then again, we already know that from their vote.
CBS New York-: "NEW YORK (CBS/AP) — A storm that curtailed outdoor activities for much of President Barack Obama’s vacation was forecast to end Wednesday, but he said he’s been able to fight off cabin fever.
Not only has he been able to sneak in two rounds of golf, but he told reporters Tuesday he’s “doing a lot of reading” at the farm compound he’s rented for the first family. “I’m having a great time,” he said.
The president made the remarks, his first in public since heading out on vacation last week, as he escorted first lady Michelle Obama from the State Road restaurant.
Obama has faced some criticism for his latest vacation, his sixth since taking office. At a time when painful unemployment numbers continue to bear down on the tattered economy, many are frustrated that the nation’s leader is enjoying another luxurious trip. On CBS’ “The Late Show” Tuesday night, David Letterman took a jab at the president, saying:
EVEN Letterman Knocks Obama For Latest Vacation, Calls Him "one termer"
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Well it looks like the people of Arizona weren't really too motivated to send John McCain out to the RINO retirement home, as only around 23% of registered voters made it out to the polls today to cast votes to send him back to DC. That's for the most part right around their normal turnout for an off year primary.
I personally was hoping to see a big revolt of a Hayworth victory, but I think the 'huckster government loan' commercial he did to pay some bills are what likely did him in. How can you say you're for cooling government waste but whore yourself out for no payback government loans?
You can't.
Hopefully at least McCain actually wins the seat in November, after all he's still better than a democrat. Almost.
It was good to see the voters get behind Jan Brewer who's single handedly fighting Illegal Immigration with the help of the Border Patrol and a couple thousand National Guard.
Now if Obama would send about 50 thousand more we'd be in business.
FOXNews.com - "Sen. John McCain fended off Republican challenger J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Senate primary
Tuesday, virtually assuring he'll keep his seat in November despite signs earlier in the year that the anti-Washington wave could wipe out one of Capitol Hill's most influential residents.
Hayworth at one point in the campaign seemed poised to leverage Tea Party support and give McCain a run for his political life. Outsider challenges had already led to the primary defeats for Republican Utah Sen. Bob Bennett and Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, and McCain was potentially vulnerable nearly two years after losing the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama.
Jan Brewer is headed to the general election after
handily winning a GOP primary marked by a surge in her popularity after
she targeted illegal immigration.
full story
McSame Old Sh** Different Day as McCain Beats Hayworth in AZ Primary, Brewer Wins Handily
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
The men in this country are now being counted, and have spoken loud and clear.
We need no Metrosexuals running the show in the dangerous world we live in today, where men like him are kicked around like an empty beer can, or in this case an empty suit, except when he's playing golf, which is most of the time nowadays.
CNSNews.com - President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among American men has fallen to a record low, hitting 39 percent in the week of Aug. 16-22, according to the Gallup Poll.
The week of Aug. 16-22 also marked the first time Obama’s average weekly approval rating dropped below 40 percent for either gender. His approval rating among American women was 46 percent for the week.
When Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, his job approval rating was 64 percent among men and 69 percent among women, according to Gallup. That was the highest his approval ever hit with men.
Obama’s approval rating first dipped below 50 percent among men in the week of Aug. 24-30, 2009. In October and November of 2009, it rebounded above 50 percent for a four-week stretch, but then in the week of Nov.16-22 it dropped to 46 percent and has never again exceeded 48 percent.
The last time Obama had an average weekly approval rating as high as 50 percent among American women was the week of June 28-July 4
"DEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged calls"
Linguists they call these 'Ghetto talkers'? I'm sure 'true' linguists don't appreciate the comparison.
This phrase is what the article uses to describe what 'ebonics' is for those who weren't paying attention when the name was coined back in the 90's when they tried to actually 'teach' this shit in where else but 'Californicate'?
"Ebonics, which is also known as African American Vernacular English....."
I call it something else, as do most, and our adjective for describing it is not as kind to the people who CHOOSE by their own volition to openly and proudly speak it. There are millions of African Americans who REFUSE to speak it, thank God for them.
I don't know about you all, but the Ebonics word I hate the most is AXE, which is used in place of ASK of course and we hear it day in and day out on tv almost everywhere you look.
Especially on UPN and BET of course.
It's used like so: "Axe me this, axe me dat yo?"
I never realized they actually determined Ebonics to actually be a recognized form of vernacular, but apparently the federal government does recognize it as such and is in need of some 'translators' to teach them 'ghettospeak', so they can understand what all Obama's disciples are 'yappin' about when they wiretap their cells, yo.
ie: "Ya'll gots to be doggin me yo! You know they gots an Ebonics experts right there in the Oval bling room! And his his handle be Obama dogg."
Obama himself speaks a different version of "Ebonics, which I call 'Obonics'.
You know what I'm talking about, when he pulls out the "I've been bangin' in the hood" dialect he uses when he wants to sound hip, mostly when he's bullshitting in urban environments we suffer through this.
Here's a perfect example of him doing it, and it's all translated into Ebonics for those of you out there totally unfamiliar with Ebonics OR Obonics...
(WARNING, like 'ghettospeak itself, it's filled with bastardized profanity, so please be forewarned )
By the way, Which ones bug the hell outta you folks?
DEA seeks Ebonics experts to help with cases: "ATLANTA — Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.
The Drug Enforcement Administration recently sent memos asking companies that provide translation services to help it find nine translators in the Southeast who are fluent in Ebonics, Special Agent Michael Sanders said Monday.
Ebonics, which is also known as African American Vernacular English, has been described by the psychologist who coined the term as the combination of English vocabulary with African language structure.
Some DEA agents already help translate Ebonics, Sanders said. But he said wasn't sure if the agency has ever hired outside Ebonics experts as contractors.
'They saw a need for this in a couple of their investigations,' he said. 'And when you see a need — it may not be needed now — but we want the contractors to provide us with nine people just in case.'
The DEA's decision, first reported by The Smoking Gun, evokes memories of the debate sparked in 1996 when the Oakland, Calif., school board suggested that black English was a separate language. Although the board later dropped the suggestion amid criticism, it set off a national discussion over whether Ebonics is a language, a dialect or neither.
The search for translators covers a wide swath of the Southeast, including offices in Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Miami and the Caribbean, said Sanders. He said he's uncertain why other regions aren't hiring Ebonics translators, but said there are ongoing investigations in the Southeast that need dedicated Ebonics translators.
Linguists said Ebonics can be trickier than it seems, partly because the vocabulary evolves so quickly.
What's even more sad than this? It isn't the first one.
This is just so beyond the realm of normal thinking, I can't even really coherently yet accurately convey how I feel without getting a visit from the Obama SS Apparatchiks .
I did however say this over at the DC NBC local affiliate's website, (which strangely often gets similar anti Obama commenting on the local NBC here as well) where the majority of the negative commenting, which is the clear majority, [keep in mind this is in Washington DC] is done anonymously, except for mine and a couple others out of a few hundred.
"Just think how much money they've wasted and will waste once Obama's impeached in 2011"
You'll have to go there for the video at the links in the story, the damn thing kept the site from loading :(
Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly 'green' school. There have been other schools named after President Obama in the country, but this will be a first in his own backyard in the D.C. region.
That's just one of several new initiatives for Prince George's Public Schools this year. The District also will open an all-male charter school in Upper Marlboro. Called Possibility Prep, the new school will emphasize math, science and engineering. Officials hope that the all-male environment will do away with many distractions and allow students to focus on their studies. continued
This is the most pathetic and sad thing I've seen in a long time from a desperate liberally run urban center who's sending notices to bloggers to cough up three hundred bucks for a blogger's business license?
Since when did hobby meet the threshold of being a business? I know about 20 people who make more than $50 a month on their blogs, the rest make nothing..
These people waste waste waste and instead of cutting the waste they keep sending us the damn bills. This is just another reason to fire every damn democrat this side of Moscow in the fall and then the republicans who lied to get elected get burned at the stake with the dems kicked out in November.
Maybe they need the money to pay the Black Panthers' to guard all the polling places in November to assure Obama's allies get re elected perhaps?
Pay Up :: News :: Article :: Philadelphia City Paper: "or the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it's a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.
In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.
'The real kick in the pants is that I don't even have a full-time job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a handful of money is outrageous,' Bess says.
It would be one thing if Bess' website were, well, an actual business, or if the amount of money the city wanted didn't outpace her earnings six-fold. Sure, the city has its rules; and yes, cash-strapped cities can't very well ignore potential sources of income. But at the same time, there must be some room for discretion and common sense.
When Bess pressed her case to officials with the city's now-closed tax amnesty program, she says, 'I was told to hire an accountant.'
She's not alone. After dutifully reporting even the smallest profits on their tax filings this year, a number — though no one knows exactly what that number is — of Philadelphia bloggers were dispatched letters informing them that they owe $300 for a privilege license, plus taxes on any profits they made.
Even if, as with Sean Barry, that profit is $11 over two years. continued
This was my comment there by the way
This is just nuts. They need bloggers to cough up money so they can waste it on more schoolteacher pensions and out of league salaries and so on? ROTFLMFAO
Just another reason to fire them all in the fall.
Pay Up for that worthless blog, Free Speech in Philly now costs $300 a year!!
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Rest in peace men and we thank you and your families for the immeasurable sacrifices you all make on our country's behalf each day. A simple thank you just doesn't quite 'cut it'.
Christopher 'C.J.' Boyd, 22, a 2006 graduate of Palatine High School, became the second suburban native this week to die in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Boyd and the other Marine, Kevin E. Oratowski of Wheaton, were based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Boyd, who lived in California with his wife and twin boys, was killed by a roadside bomb while on foot patrol in combat against enemy forces Thursday, according to the Marines. Palatine High School's Pirates flag was lowered to half-staff Friday afternoon. Boyd's parents left their Palatine home Friday for Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to claim their son's body.
Boyd was a rifleman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force. First Lt. Ken Kunze, a Marines spokesman at Camp Pendleton, said it was Boyd's first combat deployment.
Kunze said the losses are difficult for the commanders in Afghanistan.
Here's the second Marine and he's from Glenbard South which is also in the immediate area so it's been a tough week around the are for Illinois soldiers and again we pray for they, their families and loved ones. Especially while their 'comrades in arms' in Iraq are finally being sent home victorious as we talked about the other day here.
Lance Cpl. Kevin Oratowski, 23, died Wednesday in an explosion while conducting mounted combat operations against enemy forces in Helmand Province, according to the Department of Defense.
A 2005 graduate of Glenbard South High School, Oratowski was assigned to the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force from Camp Pendleton, Calif., officials said. read more...
Both these men here are from townships nearby the one I presently live in here in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, and the first man went to a high school which about 15 years ago my backyard actually 'butted up to' in Palatine Il., naturally named Palatine High School.
I btw went to Hersey high here in Arlington Heights in district 214 graduating 83, while Palatine High is in district 211, which is in a rival township and district for you folks not in the Chicago area, and both are great school systems in all realms be it athletically or scholastically, anyone from here will tell you.
However, Glenbard South High is in the south suburbs in a town called Glenn Elyn in Glenbard district 87, although it too is also a great school district, none of which are to be confused with the failing Chicago Public Schools in the city 'proper' which have been decimated my minorities and illegals in most sections south and west in the city over the past 3 decades under liberal rule.
Both late Marines were lost in the past couple days, and we pray both men rest in peace, with prayers going out to their grieving families and friends, right along with all the other soldiers fighting in Afghanistan who are now sadly under the command of Slumdog Obama and have been for almost 2 years now.
For that alone I and hundreds of millions weep for them all daily, praying for their safe return sooner than later alive and in once piece.
2 Local Marines from Palatine and Glenbard South High in IL killed in Afghanistan
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
We knew this was coming and may in fact be the nail in the coffin of the Mosque that even Muslims don't want nor need in the literal shadow of Ground Zero, located 2 blocks away streetwise as the left likes to claim.
However, in 'reality' the building would be more like 500 feet as the 'crow flies' or I suppose in the case of the Muslim world the "hijacked airplane or missile flies" which is exactly why anything "Islamic" can't be withing range of anything built on the property and especially a memorial to the victims of the FIRST ATTACK.
Build this Mosque and there'll sure be a second one some day somewhere in America because the hardliners will use the Mosque as proof they are winning the war against the West when they can build on the site before the buildings knocked down are even replaced.
A literal disgrace in itself that should cost every NYC politician their job, including that screwed up Port Authority abomination they have going in that region. At one time a useful organization now nothing but a political clusterf*ck just like the UN> IF the Muslims want to attack something, please at least pick 'that' next time.
The Daily News: "A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero.
'It's a very touchy thing because they want to do this on sacred ground,' said Dave Kaiser, 38, a blaster who is working to rebuild the World Trade Center site.
'I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11,' Kaiser said.
The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the 'Hard Hat Pledge' on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.
'Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country,' said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. 'People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there.'
'Hopefully, this will be a tool to get them to move it,' he said. 'I got a problem with this ostentatious building looming over Ground Zero.'
(Room Rate Source.. so that's accommodations ONLY for this trip. Add $56,000 an hour for AFO, about 90 minutes each way.... When republican presidents go on vacation they go to their own homes and property btw)
They couldn't even wait until Friday to take off, they do it on a Thursday.
Man I dislike this man and his wife more and more each day when I didn't even think 'that' was possible. It is.
We all know the liberal's argument today on this 2 year Obama vacation spree, [his sixth this year alone not counting the one's Michelle has taken on her own with the children], is what?
"Bush did it all the time!!"
My ass he did. What he was doing isn't comparable to what Obama's doing.
Mr Bush was usually working at his Prairie Chapel ranch in Texas, which was named the “Western White House” during his long summers there when he was accompanied by dozens of staff.
Where he like Reagan worked while on vacation on their own personal, 'paid for by their own money' ranches, and when they weren't meeting with staff most of the time on the properties, they were doing this....
"working and busting their asses. Not 'screwing around' like tourist LottObama".
Obamas to begin sixth holiday of the year "President Barack Obama will be accompanied by his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, and are expected to stay at the historic Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark.
Bill Burton, the deputy White House press secretary, said that the US president was “going to spend a little time recharging his batteries” at the Massachusetts island ahead of the November midterm elections.
“There will be some hiking, some time at the beach, some time at the ice cream store - all the sort of things you do when you’re at Martha’s Vineyard. You enjoy the people and the good food.”
He is also expected to work on his swing at Mink Meadows golf club in Vineyard Haven and to work out every day, as he did when the First Family visited Martha’s Vineyard last year.
The tally of vacation days for an American president has become a contentious issue in recent years.
President Bill Clinton conducted a poll about where best to holiday. President George W. Bush spent a total of 879 days on holiday in his eight years in office, according to Mark Knoller of CBS, the unofficial statistician of the presidency.
Mr Bush was usually working at his Prairie Chapel ranch in Texas, which was named the “Western White House” during his long summers there when he was accompanied by dozens of staff. continue reading at - Telegraph:
(well, he kind of did, the people who thought like him knew it was round, liberals would call 'rounders' I guess and vilify like they do we 'birthers')
And Obama's been proven to embellish if not outright lie most of the time he talks. Certainly nowhere near the "Messiah" he allowed himself to be 'sold' as. In other words, a fraud.
A Muslim and not the Christian he claims to be.
Many of the liberal headlines inserted 'incorrectly' into their headlines, as did did Fox News as you will see below, and regardless of what they all say, I have to say he's done far more to assist the Muslim world than the American public during this disastrous presidency, one which has been diametrically at odds with most of the American people his decision making.
Arizona anyone?
He's inserted himself on the side of the Muslims insofar as the Ground Zero Victory Mosque goes, he's never been 'baptized', or 'baptised' if you prefer, never officially and correctly left the religion of Islam and is technically an Apostate if he isn't a "Muslim" anymore [new york times] as he INCORRECTLY claims. ;)
Furthermore, he hasn't been to church on a Sunday since he's been president, the whole world knows he plays golf instead.
We all know the quotes, the '..siding with the Muslim's' quote, the '...most beautiful sound in the morning' quote so I won't regurgitate that. Even the reverend Wright has charged Obama with using him and throwing him under the bus along with his Caucasian grandmother, a quote we all know to well, and so on and so on.
If it looks like a Muslim and quacks like a Muslim.
FOXNews.com - Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Thinks Obama Is Muslim, Survey Shows: "A new survey reports a sharp increase in the number of Americans who, incorrectly, say President Obama is a Muslim.
The increase has occurred over the last couple of years, and the poll was taken before the president stepped into the fray of the Ground Zero mosque controversy.
The findings are part of the 'Religion, Politics and the President' poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life early this month. It also explores Americans' attitudes toward religion's impact on society and voting preferences in the upcoming 2010 congressional races.
According to the survey, nearly one in five Americans (18 percent) say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in 2009. Obama is a Christian, but the number of people say Christian when asked his religion has gone down sharply, from 51 percent in 2008 to 34 percent today. And 43 percent say they don't know what religion the president follows.
Alan Cooperman, associate director of research for the Pew Forum, says, 'I think overall the picture that we see is of uncertainty and confusion about the president and religion.'
read more at fox link below....
Uh, yea. Look how some of the headlines say "incorrectly" as I noted above. What bias? All we have is Obama's word he's a Christian. He's never "proved it" to the world, yet I and millions of others can prove we're Catholics and so on.
4,419 U.S. troops have died in 7 years of war in Iraq.
They died for us, for the Iraqi's first taste of freedom and to settle some old scores, and frankly in this American's opinion, those people there owe them their asses and us their oil for the next 25 years for asses kicked and 'Mission Accomplished', but thanks to the liberals we'll never see a dime of that sort of payback money.
This day would have happened 5 years ago if the liberals in this country would have kept their mouths and keyboards shut, and supported the war effort like every American sans Vietnam has done during our entire history for the 6 years before bonehead Obama was elected as they have since, as we have the entire time, from the night it started with Shock and Awe.
But they didn't and here we sit 5 years later and almost 4500 military men and women lighter since 911.
It's not so wonderful a gift, but we thank them for all they've done, apologize to them for all they lost, especially their fallen comrades and their families who have suffered untold and immeasurable sacrifices, and we prey they don't have to do it all again in this lifetime.
Even though Iraq had no direct connection to 911 aside from one meeting and the harboring of some Al Queda, our government were the boneheads that created Saddam, so finally after 911 it was up to us to kill the monster before he piled on the 'fun', and our finest in the world military did just that, delivering Saddam and his sons' heads on silver platters to the Iraqi's as promised.
So, perhaps we'll just nuke em next time, because there will be a next time we can rest assured, as long as Islam exists in this world.
Welcome home when you get here, God Bless you all, and the United States of America.
And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible (until the Woodstock liberals came along) with liberty (same thing) and justice for all. (social justice if you're a NAACP peep)
Last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraq "Mosul, Iraq (CNN) -- The last U.S. brigade combat team in Iraq has left the country, a move that helps U.S. President Barack Obama reach his goal of 50,000 troops in the country by September 1.
Their departure leaves about 56,000 U.S. troops in the country, according to the U.S. military.
Capt. Christopher Ophardt, spokesman for the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, said the last of the 4,000 members of the unit crossed the border into Kuwait early Thursday.
A few hundred members stayed behind to finish administrative and logistical duties but will fly out of Baghdad later Thursday, Ophardt said
Much of the brigade departed more than a day ago, but the announcement was delayed for security reasons.
Their departure comes more than seven years after U.S. combat forces entered, though their departure does not signify the end of all U.S. combat forces in the country. continued at CNN.com:
Now on to the post....How much more are we going to take from these people in DC, and particularly this out of control, power hungry Fascist of a woman Nancy Pelosi ?
'There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some,' she told San Francisco's KCBS radio. 'And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.
The interview, conducted Tuesday, was made public this morning.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) also noted that New Yorkers alone should be left to decide the 'zoning issue.'
'It's up to [New Yorkers] to work it out,' she told the San Francisco Chronicle in another interview published today.
Polls indicate that public opinion is firmly against the building of an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the site of the terror attacks. Criticism from families of 9/11 victims has been particularly intense. continued at NYPOST.com: "
This is how out of control and touch this criminal 111th congress has become, and they, along with the out of control executive branch and judicial branch need to be entirely disassembled, prosecuted, investigated, jailed and executed if found guilty for the treason we believe they've committed against all Americans.
And the trials need to start the seconds after we remove their asses from office in the fall.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, the entire congress and first and foremost Barack Hussein Obama have become enemies of the people and must be removed from office.
Here this woman wants to investigate we Mosque opponents instead of the Muslim Madman Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who's working for the CIA and FBI being payed with our money ($16,000 total they claim) to go around the Middle East and raise money for this thing?
Unacceptable doesn't even scratch the craziness going on in our names in DC and statehouses across America today!!!.
How much more evidence does America need to decide the country's governmental employees from the people at SSA to the White House should be fired, every damn one of them?
Well, here's some more to add to the pile as Nancy defends a Muslim Terrorist building a provocative Mosque over 80% of America.
Yet these same idiots are doing everything they can to keep the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church that was completely destroyed from being either rebuilt or relocated meanwhile San Fran Nan and GhettObama and friends oblige the Mad Mullahs and the Imam from Hell every chance they get. an aside...my middle name is Nicholas..
Decision Not to Rebuild Church Destroyed on 9/11 Surprises Greek Orthodox Leaders:
"Greek Orthodox leaders trying to rebuild the only church destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks expressed shock this week after learning, via Fox News, that government officials had killed a deal to relocate the church.
The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, once a tiny, four-story building in the shadows of lower Manhattan, was destroyed in 2001 by one of the falling World Trade Center towers. Nobody from the church was hurt in the attack, but the congregation has, for the past eight years, been trying to rebuild its house of worship.
Though talks between the church and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey stalled last year, church leaders say they've been trying to kick-start discussions ever since. But amid debate over whether a proposed Islamic community center should go forward near Ground Zero, government officials threw cold water on the prospect of any deal with the church -- telling Fox News the deal is off the table. FOXNews.com -
Soon Former Speaker San Fran Nan Pelosi calls on Islamic center opponents to be investigated, Not The Deceptive Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
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