Why anyone would want to be a foreign exchange student to begin with is beyond me. My kids are not going to be exchange students. In this photo, Jonathon McCullum is only 97 pounds!

First of all, what the hell sort of inspection or verification process is there to ensure that the host family are not a bunch of freak shows? Any dumbass can hand you a line of bullshit, but is there an independent inspector there to verify that the shit is genuine? I have the same beef with “organic” food products from other countries…How the hell do I know that it is “organic”? Is there an FDA inspector sitting on the side of the field with a lawn chair and a beach umbrella with a lemonade in his/her hand watching the field? Doubt it. Is there people on behalf of the Exchange Program in the specific host countries monitoring the types of families to ensure that my child isn’t sent to Zarqawi’s house for a school semester? Do you get my point here people?!

Secondly, I would be suspicious as hell if the exchange program lady told me to have very little contact with my child. That host family would be very lucky that there wouldn’t be a Marine in a ghillie suit in a bush outside of their house! And then the exchange program lady tells me to not call as much?! My ass!

It is very obvious that this host family is out for the money. The hast father cannot deny the fact that a child under his charge lost one-third of his body weight. You have to be a pretty heartless bastard to do that to a child. Then the Blue Falcon has the nerve to say that he eats for hours and costs more than his daughter did to go to America! Fine dumbass. Tit for tat. We will hold your daughter and starve her for the same time period. Then you can pay to have her shipped home. Fair is fair.

In the end, AFS is complicit because they (I believe based upon the article) failed to advise the McCullums that the host family are coptic christians. If the host family had known that and their fasting schedules, I seriously doubt Jonathon McCullum would have ended up with that particular family in Egypt in the first place. (AP)

And this from Breitbart.com

Is this the beginning of the North American Union?

In an unprecedented, not publicized meeting on Feb. 14th, 2008 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the commanding generals of USNORTHCOM and Command Canada signed a “civil assistance plan” agreement. This agreement would authorize the use of U.S. and Canadian armed forces to support each other in a domestic civil emergency. The emergency does not have to be a cross border emergency either.

Update: It has come to this Marine’s attention that the only way a four-star General could have possibly negotiated a deal like this…is from obtaining permission from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who received permission from the Secretary of Defense, who received permission from the Vice President, who received permission from the President! A four-star General, especially the commander of USNORTHCOM, reports directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There is a strict chain of command here, people!

Again, we are back to President Bush and his insisting on the creation of a North American Union without the approval of Congress and the American people. Dr. Jerome Corsi, of World Net Daily, had this to say about the agreement, “The agreement, defined as a Civil Assistance Plan, was not submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the operations of the armed forces of the United States and Canada in the event of a wide range of domestic civil disturbances ranging from violent storms, to health epidemics, to civil riots or terrorist attacks.”

In this Marine’s opinion, this is just another cog in the machine that is going to be the North American Union. The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is a plan by the Bush administration to facilitate an economic integration with Canada and Mexico. Most may not know this, but this is how the EU started. You may think me a “conspiracy theorist” but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, stinks like a duck, odds are…you are staring at a duck. I can understand “supporting” our neighbor; it is the right thing to do. But to authorize one country’s military to conduct domestic control over another country’s people is beyond the pail. Canada should be strong enough to care for its’ own people without our help!

An agreement of this sort should pass through Congress, especially when it deals with the lives of our brave service members. Not to mention all of the brouhaha not more than five months ago about the SPP and inland safe zones that would be controlled by the Mexican Government, right here in Kansas City.

This reminds me of a little thing called NATO. When it first came to fruition I would bet dollars to doughnuts that Turkey was not expected to be a member nation; surprise Turkey is a member nation today. NATO was formed to protect Europe from the USSR, mother Russia, and now we have former nation states from the USSR as members. If you go back and look more deeply into SPP it is not hard to see the Mexican military signing onto this agreement, just like Turkey was admitted into NATO.

Can someone explain to me how this isn’t a violation of the Logan Act? Or how this agreement does not violate the sovereignty of the United States of America? Is this not the beginning of the North American Union? I hope you have stock piled your Ameros.

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).

Someone needs to also explain to this Marine under what “authority” this General used to sign such an agreement. They also need to explain how a General Officer from a foreign nation is not “an officer or agent thereof” of a government that is foreign. And if you cannot explain these points to me please explain why we, as a nation, should not Courts Martial or Try those that are involved in these dealings, either directly or indirectly. Since when has it been policy that a U.S. General dictates foreign policy?

(WND)

Here is the Eight of the State for this week, February 23rd, 2008:

1. The Associated Press – what ever happened to the media being a watchdog of the government?!
2. Council on American Islamic Relations – I think that RICO statutes apply here.
3. James “Yousef” Yee – Well, well, well.  It is only obvious whose side this guy is on.
4. Rennaissance Learning – a classic case of the left hand indoctrinating the right hand’s fingers…wtf?!
5. Bulgarian Passports – and you know what a threat they are!!!!
6. Denver International Airport – this story reminds me of that classic scene from the first “Airplane” movie
7. Marilyn W. Thompson – shill or gangster would be appropriate
8. Kesarah Abercrombie – if the chick needs a drink, get her a damn drink!

The Blue Falcon Of The Week

The Blue Falcon this week is a group called “Students for a Democratic Society” (SDS).

You may remember this group from college or most notably from the ’60′s.  They were formed in Ann Arbor, Mich. as an “anti-anti-communism” group that espoused the overthrow of the government and a Marxist dictatorship be installed.

The SDS eventually split into factions in 1969 when a group of people who called themselves the “Weatherman” or “Weatherman Underground” were elected to control the group.  The Weaterman eventually conducted domestic terrorism to achieve the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.  Several of the former members of Weatherman are college professors today.

This brain-washing of the young, who don’t know any better, has led to the modern SDS movement that we see today.

This week during a “Funk the War” protest in Washington D.C., a group of approximately two hundred protestors ransacked the Army recruiting offices at 14th and L street.  One lone recruiter was in the office at the time.  Word is that he attempted to stop the protestors from destroying government property, but was quickly overwhelmed.  I heard that some of the protestors may have even laid hands on the recruiter.

Literature and a cardboard display were destroyed by the protestors.

Here on the indymedia.org site, people even brag about how much fun it was.

Chris Hill is the National Director of Operations for A Gathering Of Eagles.org.  Chris appeared on the Sat. Feb. 23rd show to talk about the ransacking of the Army recruiting office in D.C. and the anti-war crowd in Berkeley.

Apparently the esteemed Senator from Illinois has “inside” information. A Captian friend of his is having trouble keeping his “platoon” together and have to resort to stealing the enemy’s weapons versus using their own due to a lack of ammo. Hhhmmm. That is about the dumbest thing that I have ever heard!

First of all, even Jesse Adam MacBeth knows that a Captain is a company commander and not a platoon commander!

Secondly, why would you choose a Crapistan made AK-47 over the M-16? You would have to be an idiot to use an enemy’s weapon. There is no telling of the quality and the likelyhood of it crapping out on you in a firefight is high. Is it worth your life to risk it?

Third, since when has the Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy, and/or Coast Guard ever split a military unit to send to combat?! That is the most asinine thing that I have ever heard. Why then does the military work so hard to create unit cohesion to undo all of it to send some guys to Iraq and some to Afghanistan? This makes no sense.

Barak Hussein obviously has no clue as to the real nature of the military and what it means to be the “commander-in-chief”. (Gateway Pundit)

In a video released to the judge this week, Rep. Murtha (D-Pa) was shown to be flat wrong about the events surrounding the incident in Haditha, Iraq that has a Marine Lt. Col. in a fight for his career.

Brian Rooney, a spokesman for the The Thomas More Law Center, was quoted by WND after the two-day motions hearing as saying, “If you go back [to Murtha's description] there was no [Improvised Explosive Device], there was no firefight, it was like there was a phantom menace. However we have the firefight on video. You can’t deny it.”

WND also reported that five motions were filed on behalf of Col. Chessani. These motions were: “a motion to compel the deposition of Murtha, a motion to dismiss all of the charges due to their constitutional vagueness, a motion to dismiss some of the charges because the same allegations have been charged in multiple ways, a motion to compel discovery that the government has kept from the defense because the government judged it was not relevant, and a motion for a new Article 32 hearing because the last hearing was defective.”

If the “deposition” of Murtha was granted, could Murtha finally be forced to publically apologize for calling brother Marines “cold blooded” killers? You and I both know that Murtha will probably never be called to the stand, and he will never admit that he was wrong and apologize publically for it.

(WND)

A 23 yr old woman, who identified herself as Alainiss N. Morales, is in custody for four counts of felony vehicular homicide, and other related traffic counts, when the van she was driving ran a stop sign and struck a loaded school bus, killing four children.

According to KMSP-TV, Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating when the woman entered the U.S. and where she is from. They believe that the name she gave was an alias. She is being held at the Lyon County, Minn. jail. Police found that she was driving without a valid drivers license.

Four children were killed, and fourteen others were wounded, when the maroon van that Morales was driving ran a stop sign and struck the side of a school bus causing it to roll onto another vehicle.

When are our “elected” officials going to clamp down. Either they do, or we should! My brother and sister Americans, it is high time that we hold our “representatives” accountable. Write letters, send emails, and vote them out of office if they refuse to listen. How many more Americans have to die before enough is enough? We are already past that point if you ask this Marine’s opinion. Shut down the borders and prosecute the employers. Make the illegals come in the front door instead of the back. (WND)

Semper Fi, Debbie Lee!

In an unbelievable turn of events, the Public Broadcasting System vindicates the Marines who are currently on trial for the incident at Haditha. Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive watched it was “convinced…they should face no punishment.” Uncle Jimbo also said of the show itself, “The show was fair and I have no complaints about bias or slant.”

As a Marine who thought that PBS was on ‘their’ side and not ours, I am pleasantly surprised and also curious if they were smoking anything at the time the decision was made to air the program. This is completely unlike PBS and that is the only conclusion that I could come up with.

Anyway, thank you to PBS for expressing a viewpoint not normally shared in media. And to Murtha…Kiss my nuts, you ex-Marine!

(BlackFive)

When is this chick going to quit?! She either has no clue what the hell is going on in the world, or she is the epitomy of the term ‘useful idiot’.

Apparently there was a protest this past Wednesday in Cairo. Cindy Sheehan was there in support of about 50 burkah-clad women to demand the release of some Muslim Brotherhood “political prisoners”. I guess what Cindy Sheehan doesn’t know is that the Muslim Brotherhood are outlawed in Egypt. They have been since 1954 when they espoused the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. The Muslim Brotherhood is also listed on the U.S. State Department’s roster of known Islamic terror organizations.

What the hell is this dumbass thinking?!

(FoxNews.com)

Daveed appeared on the February 16th, 2008 show to discuss the legalities of the upcoming trials for the six terror suspects currently being held in Gitmo for the attacks on 9/11.

Here is the Eight of the State for this week, February 16th, 2008:

1. Measles – This is why I hate Day Care and the doctor’s office!
2. Robert Somma – He should have ran around yelling, “I’m a dirty tramp!”
3. Raymoundo Rojas Garcia – And yet another one…
4. The four Senators that didn’t vote on H.R. 2082 – Thanks for not caring!  Now more US troops will die because of you!
5. Lt. Col. Sean Sullivan – You are a shitbag, Sir.
6. Mexican drug smugglers – Easy fix.  It’s called a “wire cutter”.  Check out the LAVs, it’s been thought of before.
7. Obama supporters – Communist to the core are we?  Typical for Democratic causes…
8. The City of Fort Lauderdale – Toss up…Blue Falcon or Eight of the State?  You decide.

The Blue Falcon of the Week

Here is the Blue Falcon for this week, February 16th, 2008:

It is the 51 Senators that voted to ban “waterboarding” because it is inhuman.

Don’t make me laugh.  This is the most ridiculous thing ever and you know these folks are just riding a political wave with it.  The simple fact is that the more information we have, better decisions can be made.  The better the choices, the more effective our actions are.  The more effective our actions are, the more U.S. troops stay alive… directly due to the ability to extract timely information from people who, incidently, wouldn’t show us the same respect.  They would rather cut our heads off with rusty knives.

And surprisingly enough, John McCain did not vote the way I thought he would on this issue.

The actual legislation reads;

Subtitle C: Other Matters

(Sec. 327) Prohibits any individual under the custody or control of an IC element, regardless of nationality or physical location, from being subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by the U.S. Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations.

Oh my God! Liberals really are crazy! I mean the photos from the Feb. 12th MAF rally in Berkeley are funny because of the dumbass “lefties” in them.

But now, a top psychiatrist, Dr. Lyle Rossiter, is proving it. In his book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness”, the good doctor explains “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.” Looking back at the photos on Zombietime.com, I can really see it in these freak shows. The doctor continues “The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind.” He goes further saying “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”

This is amazing when you really analyze the actions of the nut bars from Berkeley. Thank you for helping to understand doctor.

(WND)

For photos from the event check out Zombietime.com here.

Move America Forward’s Pro-Troop rally in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Park has once again shown the City’s ant-troop, anti-American bias.  Move America Forward showed up at the park early Tuesday morning to show their disappointment in Berkeley’s City Council members and to support the Marines.  They were being countered by the leftist group Code Pink, who protested the pro-troop rally from across the street.

 From early Tuesday morning reports were coming in about the lack of protection from the Berkeley Police Department, who had officers stationed at the park in riot gear to keep the peace.  Members of Code Pinks counter demonstration continually tried to disrupt the pro-troop rally by walking into MAF’s rally attacking the pro-troop crowd.  Berkeley’s “Finest” did nothing to intercede and stop the Code Pink.  Deborah Johns was in the crowd and when I spoke to her on the phone she confirmed that Code Pink was trying very hard to disrupt the rally by using bully tactics.  When Deborah asked the police that were on the scene for help as she was being hit with the handle of a sign, she was told that they could not determine what side of the sidewalk was covered in the MAF permit.  When the police officers on the scene would not do their jobs and stop the Code Pink thugs from assaulting MAFers, MAF called the police station to request help.  They were promptly hung up on.

Is it just me or is the irony of anti-war crowd visible to all?  I guess that I cannot understand why I am accused of being a violent and evil person when I am not the person that is physically attacking those who don’t share my opinion on how to conduct foreign policy.  The fact that the Pinkers had to hit people with signs and throw rocks into the MAF crowd just shows their contempt for the First Amendment, well at least when it is an opinion that they do not agree with.

Can you imagine the heavy handed way that Berkeley Police would remove Pro-Life anti-abortion demonstrators if they physically stopped people from both entering and exiting an abortion clinic by forming a human chain in front of the door to the clinic?  Something tells me that not only would you be hauled off to the Municipal Jail, you would probably need to make a stop through the Emergency Room.  Why do I have to tolerate everyone who I find offensive, but no one is expected to tolerate me and my beliefs?  

Peace NOW or I’m gonna beat you up!!  No violence or I’ll kick your ASS!!!  

I also have questions about the Berkeley Educational system.  As it turns out Berkeley High School is just two or three blocks down the street and some of the teachers were bringing their classes to join the Code Pink counter-protest.  I would really like to know what those teachers were thinking.  With all of the footage on the news, youtube, liveleak and others that clearly show the violent lengths that the left will go to shut down the right; is it really a good idea to bring those kids down to the side show?  Is this an educational field trip or the beginning of the indoctrination?  When I called the Berkeley School Superintendant I was only able to speak to a secretary who would not give her name but acted as though it was no big deal for teachers to bring their students to a political protest.  I also called Berkeley High School and talked to the Principal’s Assistant named Richard who acted as though it is was a normal thing to let the kids go to a political protest.  He actually sounded condescending as he began to explain that it was not a big deal, well until I asked him if he was aware that the kids being at the rally were more than likely going to show up on a video at a demonstration that had had acts of violence perpetrated, allegedly, by the Code Pinkers.  Then he got quiet and told me that he appreciated my concern for the kids.  I really am not that convinced that he meant it.

I should not be too surprised by the attitude presented by anyone that works for the Berkeley school system or their government.  Just look at the video of Code Pink from last week when they blocked the door to the Marine Corps Officer Recruiting Center and the attitude of the Berkeley Police officer.  He said that he would not protect the rights of those who wished to get into or out of the building because they, Berkeley Police, wanted to remain as neutral as possible.  I guess neutral has a new definition, especially when you look at who showed up Saturday at the ongoing protest in front of the Marine Officer Recruiting Center; it was none other than Mayor Tom Bates.

I guess that the only lesson that Berkeley has learned is that they cannot openly espouse their beliefs without a large portion of America showing up to show them where they screwed up!

The Eight of the State

Here is the Eight of the State for this week February 9th, 2008:

1. The Defense Lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan – You notice that one of this guy’s lawyers is from the Navy JAG Corps!
2. Global Warming supporters – because of you shitbirds, my tax dollars could be going to make the situation worse!
3. Johnny Eric Marlowe – Just a dumbass.  That’s D…U…uh, M…A…um, Z?
4. John Murtha – Nice!  I wonder if the esteemed Mr. Murtha can spell ‘dumbass’?
5. Dr. Rowan Williams – This is about the dumbest statement that I have ever heard.
6. Omar Khalifa – Why to go, idiot.  Now you’ve skylined yourself!
7. Mitt Romney – You sure do know how to stick it to Americans, guy!
8. Carty Finkbeiner – This shitbird needs to lose his city’s funding too, Mr. DeMint.

The Blue Falcon of the Week

Here is the Blue Falcon for this week, February 9th, 2008:

Univeristy of California at Irvine!

UCI allowed a conference for the Muslim Students Union who had as its speaker Mr. Muhammad Al-Asi, former head of the Islamic Center in Washington D.C..

Mr. Al-Asi praises Lebanese terrorist organization Hizballah, compares the Israeli security barrier to the Berlin Wall (invoking Ronald Reagan, if you can believe it), whines about how the barrier prevents dialog and communication, then threatens Israel by saying, “You think the wall will keep out an ocean of 2 billion Muslims?”

(lgf)

Turkey is now seeking to lift the ban on Muslim headscarves to seem more socially compliant with European Union regulations in a bid to become a member.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party and a conservative nationalist party have the required two-thirds votes to make it a constitutional amendment.

Turkey has been a secular country since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk took power in 1923 and created the Republic of Turkey. He made sweeping changes to the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of the Turkish people. Ataturk recognized that in order to function properly as an arab society, the Muslim traditions that have stagnated societal development through the centuries would need to be removed from the heads of government and the military.

Thus the irony of the situation is that the thing that has made Turkey one of the most free and democratic Arab societies in the Middle East needs to be undone to become a part of the democratic western world. “The headscarf is a political symbol,” charged Canan Aritman, a lawmaker from the Republican People’s Party. “We will never allow our country to be dragged back into the dark ages.”

The mandatory anti-discrimination laws of the EU are basically forcing these changes on Turkey if they wish to become a member. A lot of the more pious Muslim parties wish for this to happen because they see it as a way of reinstituting Muslim law into Turkey. Kamer Genc, an independent lawmaker, said the approval of the law would amount to “the death of the secular republic.”

MSNBC reports “The government says the measure is aimed at expanding democracy and freedoms to progress the country’s EU membership bid. But secularists harbor deep suspicions about the real intentions of Erdogan — who had tried to criminalize adultery before being forced to step back by the EU.”

Only time will tell if this is a bad thing or a good thing. But in this Marine’s opinion, anything associated with the EU is a bad thing. From MSNBC.

Here is the Berkeley City Council in their own words.

It is because of comments like these and organziations like Move America Forward bringing them to light, that shut down Berkeley City Halls’ servers last week.

I encourage you to go to Move America Forward‘s website and sign their petition.

A big ‘thank you’ to Sen. DeMint and Ca. Assemblyman Guy Houston for standing up for us, the Marines. Semper Fi!

Duncan appeared on the Feb. 9th show to talk about his campaign for the 52nd Congressional district and about the current Presidential race.

When will this madness end?!

Another victim is claimed by the “do nothing” politicians and the politically correct media.  Lillian Clark, a mother of two from Chile, was pinned between her rear bumper and the front end of a 1990 Plymouth that was speeding down her street in front of their house.

She had just finished strapping her two boys into their child safety seats and was walking around to the right side of the car when Francisco Pacheco, an illegal alien from Mexico, rammed into the park vehicle at about 50 mph.  According to the Napa Valley Register that is reporting the story, “With the impact of Pacheco’s car, John Clark said, “The trunk popped open, and she flew inside. Then, the guy threw his car in reverse and left. Lili just fell to the ground in a heap. The neighbors ran out of the house. I was yelling ‘Call 911.’ They said they already had and asked me which way the guy went. They followed him in their car and found his car parked in front of his house down the street.”

Francisco Pacheco is being held on $100,000 seeing as he was on probation at the time of the accident.  That’s right…He was on probation from a prior misdemeanor DUI conviction from 2007.  Pacheco was arrested on felony DUi, hit and run, and driving without a valid license.  Pacheco also did not have valid insurance.

So what will come of Lillian Clark?

The doctors amputated both of her legs at just above the knees.  Mr. Clark is quoted as saying “There was no way they could save her legs.”  That was because there were over sixty breaks in her legs!

This story reminds me of a little drunk driving incident happened on my parent’s street in Encinitas a couple of months ago.

An older Mexican man on the next street over was traveling down our street in his landscaping truck one weekday afternoon.  He stopped at the stop sign at the end of the street.  There was a boy walking his bike in front of the landscaping truck.  Our neighbor across the street is a construction contractor and his son, who was with him, is a firefighter.  The landscaping truck took off from the stop sign and ran over the boy’s bike as he was passing in front of the truck.  Fortunately, the boy had just stepped past the front end of the truck when it took off.  The front driver’s side hit the back tire of the bike and ripped it from the boy’s hands and bent the tire rim and the forks on the back of the bike.

My neighbor and his son saw the whole thing as they were the truck behind the landscaping truck at the stop sign.  My neighbor followed the landscaping truck into the neighborhoods while they were on their cell phone with the police.

About five minutes later, the landscaping truck pulled into a random driveway and acted like the person lived there.  My neighbor stopped a little ways down the street and that was when the sherrif showed up.  The sherrif on duty that day was a very large Mexican guy that probably needed his uniforms custom made!

When the officer approached the truck, he smelled beer.  He hauled the man out of the landscaping truck and beer cans spilled out with him.  He was arrested and posted bail that day.

This happened in a neighborhood where the houses go for $650,000 easy!  Turns out the same house where the landscaping truck parks has had a history of gang activity too.  Damn shame.  Oh, yeah.  The drunk hispanic landscaper?…He had been in the country 13 years, was still illegal, and didn’t have a valid drivers license or insurance.  Plus, he owns the house on the next street over!

Mr. Taylor is from FreeRepublic.com and appeared on the show to talk about Code Pink and the whole Berkeley situation with the City Council’s resolutions to attempt to kick the Marines out of the city, and show Code Pink favoritism.