Here is the Eight of the State for this week, January 31st, 2009:

1. ACORN & The State of Massachussetts – We are all going to diiiieeeeee!!!!  AAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
2. David Liskany – This is a disgusting story!  But then, there is no law against stupidity!
3. The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee – Do as I say, not as I do!
4. President Obama – Illinois politics have now arrived in DC!
5. The “Stimulus” bill – The Democrat led socialization of America!
6. California – They can’t pay their tax refunds!  I wonder why?!…
7. Andre L. Sheperd – “Yeah, I volunteered, but when it got hard…I just pussed out because I lack stones and integrity.” (paraphrasing)
8. EVRP, Phase II – Hi. I’m the government and I tell you how to run your business. Yeah, you elected me!

The Blue Falcon of the Week

The Blue Falcon of the Week for this week, January 31st, 2009 is:

All of the Democrats in the House of Representatives that voted for the Stimulus Bill!! Congratulations!

In a time when Americans need help the most, due to the actions of Congress (CRA of 1977!), the above individuals fleece the very people who pay their salaries with unneeded spending that only extends the problem. All the while, these same Democrats are claiming that it is the much needed help we need. How is $400 Million in global warming technologies saving me and my home in this time of crisis?!

The bottom line is this: how is the government going to fix this financial situation when they were the ones involved in its creation?! This whole situation is the tool that subjugates us, the American people, into servitude to the government. And our government created the whole mess! This is why they are the Blue Falcon of the Week!

(WallStreetJournal.com)

I love this article! I find it really funny how they cite all kinds of statistics from different sources (without links!) and claim the American Legion is inaccurate and implies that they are a “hate group”.

I also like how the Southern Poverty LAW Center completely neglects the fact that any person coming into this country illegally is a criminal. Title 8 of the US Code, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, § 1325

I would just like to remind the SPLC that 90% of statistics can be made to look your way 50% of the time! So while everyone are compiling their stats on the illegal immigration issue, advocate enforcing the laws that are already on the books!!

The SPLC is the perfect example of profiteering on racism. While I applaud their bank busting of the Klan in the 70′s and 80′s, they have came to be the vampire of the left. Feeding on their own political bodies, the Klan was run by southern Democrats, until they were no more. Now they have turned their attention to the NEW “segregation” and form of “economic injustice” that is illegal immigration. Just like the March of Dimes, when they had to change their focus from Polio to something more vague to continue the bureaucracy, the SPLC is now changing the way they operate to continue the cash cow that is the Marxist “social justice” movement.

Decidedly biased in claiming almost always right wing racism and not left wing racism, the SPLC shows it true colors as an instrument of the Marxist agenda in this country. They have also received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

(splcenter.org)

Hmmm. I do remember saying, as early as last Saturday’s show, that closing Gitmo was going to be a huge can of worms that I believed the President didn’t fully understand. Well, guess what?

You know what? I believe it will get done though. At the same time, here are some of the ramifications of that decision. Just like being in a North Vietnamese prison did not break John McCain, why should we expect that Gitmo would break any jihadi? Something to think about.

So in the meantime, we will spend more money to house these people because either (a) other countries will not take them (they are trouble makers), (b) some are considered “high profile” and we need to hang on to them for further information, or (c) we will try to convict some of them to make it seem like we are tough on terrorism. The reality of the situation is that President Obama is obligated, by being elected as President of the United States, to provide for the defense of the country. By releasing these individuals to freely go and plan further attacks against us, either in the US or out, he is sadly neglecting that obligation.

Even though some of us may disagree with the President’s views on things, we still expect him to do his job. One of the four basic functions that our federal government has is to “provide for the common defense”. Make it happen, sir. Semper Fi!

(Timesonline.co.uk)

Here is a Times Online article about the individuals that showed up in the video.

A World War II veteran is in a Mexican prison for alleged charges of child pornography tonight.

88 year old, Edward Chrisman of Washington, was arrested with his grandson on January 8th in Mexico.  They were charged with taking pornographic pictures of children, yet the Mexican Police admitted to a reporter at La Voz De La Frontera that there were no such pictures on the Chrisman’s camera.

Mexico is widely known to be a place where corrupt officials shake down families by forcing them to pay extravagent fees to free their loved ones from prison.

Edward Chrisman is now receiving care from the prison doctor at Carcel de Mexicali and has been moved to the elderly section of the prison.  There he may actually get a bed (with a mattress) and a shower.  Prior to his falling ill, he was living in a small concrete cell with other men and sleeping on a metal frame bed without a mattress.

According to the prison doctor, Mr. Chrisman is being treated for pnuemonia and extreme insomnia.  Personally, I would have extreme insomnia from being in a Mexican prison also.

The Chrisman family was told to pay $2,000 to make the charges disappear.  The money was not paid and Edward Chrisman, and his grandson 40 year old Gary Chrisman Jr., are still in a Mexican prison.  And by the looks of it, Edward Chrisman, if not released soon, could die in that prison.

Is this the way that we treat our World War II veterans, America?  If diplomacy doesn’t work, then the military should.  Go get him, either covert or not, and bring him home.  What has Mexico done for us lately besides export their crime, poverty, and drugs here and all the while take our money?  Enough is enough.

(Herald.net)

Here is the Eight of the State for this week, January 24th, 2009:

1. Keith Olbermann – To kill or not to kill?  That is the question.
2. Hypocrite Democrats – “Go green! Hey, let’s fly to DC in my Gulfstream and hang with our boy ‘B-Rock’!!”
3. Pakistan – again…”Do as I say, not as I do”!!
4. Harry Reid – “What rules?  What Constitution?”
5. The ACLU – Christianity bad! Every other religion good!!
6. Oscar Goodman – No, this guy doesn’t have any connections to the mob?…
7. Michael McKie, Khalid Nelson and Denise Albright – Sounds like some needs a “program”…
8. Timothy Geithner – Oh, hello!  Do as I say, not as I do!

The Blue Falcon of the Week for this week, January 24th, 2009, is:

The Clintons!  Wow, what a surprise!

It seems that the Clintons are using the ol’ “Do as I say, not as I do” trick.  I will show you some of my non-controversial donors, but none of the high profile ones.  How do these people expect us to take anything that they say honestly if they are not willing to be honest with us?

You know, when the Democrats talk about electing McCain was just like re-electing Bush…”the same ol’ policies”, they would say; is it not the same thing with the Clintons involved in our government also.  Does anyone understand the level of Hypocracy in that?!

The Clintons will not release the donations records for their charitable foundation which could have received money from the Chinese government.  They are Blue Falconing the entire country and in the same breath tell you about how “transparent” they are going to be.  All the while, possibly taking funds from a foreign government for what, influence?

(WashingtonTimes.com)

Is the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy part of the “Civilization-Jihadist Process”?

We first talked about this a couple of weeks ago on the air (March 15th, to be precise). The Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a charter school associated with the Masjid Al-Aman in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, is named for a Muslim Umayyad general that led the Muslim conquest of Iberian peninsula (today what is Spain and Portugal) in 711a.d. The school was founded in 2003 by two imams, Asad Zaman and Hesham Hussein. It was initially going to be a private school, however, many of the poor Muslim families in the area couldn’t afford to enroll their children. Upon receiving a sponsorship from Islamic Relief-USA, a Buena Park, California, 501(c) 3, the school was able to file as a charter school. The school boosts higher test scores than the state average in math and reading. Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy is currently a K-8 grade charter school, serving approximately 350 to 400 students with over 40 staff members. The school also offers “Islamic study” sessions after school, halal meals at lunch, and optional headscarves, even though almost all female students wear them. There is a dedicated carpeted ‘prayer’ room and the staff refers to each other as “brother” and “sister”. When asked, Mr. Zaman noted “We are all children of Adam.” Under Minnesota state law, TIZA has been receiving taxpayer funding. If this were a Christian school, that place would have been shut down the hour after it opened for business. TIZA has been collecting public funds for 5 years!

Mr. Asad Zaman, Principle of Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy

The principal of the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy is Asad Zaman. Mr. Zaman is the current Vice President of MAS-MN, and an imam at the Masjid Al-Rahman in Bloomington, MN and was a delegate for the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Mr. Zaman also assisted the campaign of Keith Ellison , the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. Keith Ellison swore in as a Congressman on the Koran. Has anyone at the Minnesota Department of Education bothered to connect that an imam is an Islamic religious cleric? Holy “nonsectarian”, Batman! It would seem that Mr. Zaman is pretty good at ducking questions about his school. He has often stated that his school is in compliance with all appropriate state and federal laws in reference to a charter school and yet, as of April 9th of this year, an American flag has not flown over the campus since the schools founding in 2003. That is a violation of Minnesota state law Chapter 121A, Section 11, subdivision 1. Mr. Zaman even admitted that he didn’t know how to work the flagpole. If he isn’t aware of a simple law like flying an American flag when school is in session, what else is he missing?

Mr. Zaman has claimed repeatedly that the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has inspected the school eleven times in the year of their founding in 2003. Yet, MDE records show only three visits and none were for compliance of their “nonsectarian” curriculum. Care to explain why you lied, Mr. Zaman?

Just recently, a substitute teacher, Amanda Getz, came out and described what she saw at the school when she worked two fifth grade classes on Friday March 14th. She was instructed to walk four students at a time to the bathroom for ritual foot washing. An assembly was held after lunch where the children were “corralled by the adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred.” Ms. Getz also described a man in a “white robe with a white hat” walking around the school all day. This man led the assembly and showed up to teach the “Islamic studies” class in the afternoon.

Despite the apparent possible noncompliance with the “nonsectarian” requirement of Minnesota state law, there is a far more sinister act taking place here. To show you what I mean, let’s conduct a quick history lesson.

Mr. Hussein and Mr. Zaman are co-founders of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. Mr. Hesham Hussein was killed this past January, 2008, in an auto accident in Egypt. Mr. Hussein was the Chair of the MAS-MN at the time of his passing. Their headquarters, the Masjid Al-Aman mosque, and TIZA are located on the same property. Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate reported that as of May 25th, 2007 ‘The following statements are found on the MAS-Minnesota site, www.masmn.org:

• “The Holy Prophet (and through him the Muslims) has been reassured that he should not mind the enmity, the evil designs and the machinations of the Jews …”
• “In view of the degenerate moral condition of the Jews and the Christians, the Believers have been warned not to make them their friends and confidants.”
• “If you gain a victory over the men of Jews, kill them.”
• “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”
• “May Allah destroy the Jews , because they used the graves of their prophets as places of worship.”
• “A Muslim must always worship Allah and wage jihad until death in order to reach his ultimate goal… Regularly make the intention to go on jihad with the ambition to die as a martyr.”

An Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporter holds a banner reading in Arabic "Martyrs for Islam" as another displays a copy of the holy Koran during a demonstration in al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo 22 September 2006 to condemn Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks about Islam. A wave of Muslim outrage swept the globe after the Pope linked Islam with violence during a recent visit to his native Germany. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

The Muslim American Society of Minnesota claims that it is an affiliate of Muslim American Society. The Muslim American Society has been proven to be a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, a violent terrorist organization started in 1928 by an Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna, in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood’s stated mission is to recreate the Muslim Caliphate over the entire world. In a memorandum released on May 22nd, 1991 by the Muslim Brotherhood titled “An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America”, the group outlines their role in America:

“4- Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.”

The Muslim American Society (MAS) in America have had numerous arrests and indictments related to Islamic terrorism. Several of its board members are named as supporters of Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas.

The sponsor of TIZA is Islamic Relief-USA. Islamic Relief-USA is an affiliate of a London based organization called Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). The IRW’s Chief of Operations in Gaza, Ayaz Ali, was arrested by Israel in May of 2006. Israel said Ali gave money to HAMAS and Al-Wafa and Al-Tzalah, both outlawed by Israel for laundering money to HAMAS. He also stored images of Osama Bin Laden, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Senior German Nazi officials, Nazi swastikas, and a “God Bless Hitler” banner on his computer.

In an Israeli government report about Ali they said:

“He also admitted that he worked in Jordan and cooperated with local HAMAS operatives. . . . Incriminating files were found on Ali’s computer, including documents that attested to [Islamic Relief's] ties with illegal HAMAS funds abroad–in the UK and in Saudi Arabia–and in Nablus.
The IRW’s activities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are carried out by social welfare organizations controlled and staffed by HAMAS operatives. The intensive activities of these associations are designed to further HAMAS’ ideology among the Palestinian population.
These associations’ educational and religious institutions incite against the State of Israel and advocate terrorist actions against it and its citizens.”

Islamic Relief-USA was incorporated in 1993. The Registered Agent for its incorporation was Kazbek Soobzokov, the son of Nazi Waffen SS officer Tscherim Soobzokov, and the former attorney for terror operative Wajdi Ghunaim, who in 2006 called for violence against Jews, was deported from the United States, and was refused entry into Canada after it was discovered that he was a member of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Debbie Schlussel of Detroit, MI, reported on several IRW events that she attended on her blog:

“An Islamic Relief fundraising dinner I attended in summer 2004 in Dearborn, Michigan, was chilling. It was just after Americans Nicholas Berg and Paul Johnson were beheaded by Muslims.

The evening’s “entertainment” consisted of young boys–some apparently as young as seven–simulating beheadings and shootings of other young boys who donned the American, Israeli, and British flags. Then they put red scarves over their heads to symbolize blood . . . and no head. Afterward, they took off the flags and stomped on them. Almost every Islamic leader in town was there, clapping in ecstasy. So was U.S. Congressman John Conyers, who will run the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats regain control of Congress.

The master of ceremonies was Rayed Tayeh, formerly employed by Islamic Association for Palestine, which several former top FBI officials say is a HAMAS front group. In 2002, Tayeh served as spokesman of a Muslim group boycotting Starbucks because its Chairman is Jewish. A letter Tayeh wrote in a Capitol Hill newspaper was deemed so anti-Semitic that even Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney fired him from her staff.”

So, based upon all of this, one is likely to speculate that the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy is only piece of a larger plan outlined in the ’91 memorandum by the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a press release saying that they have no evidence to warrant an investigation of the school for violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. Yet, if a public school that was run by a Christian religious leader, where the staff referred to each other as “brother” and “sister”, contained a specific, specified carpeted prayer room, and was adjacent/connected to a church; the ACLU would not have even waited for a complaint or any evidence. They would have moved to shut it down immediately.

We must scrutinize very closely, my fellow Americans, the events unfolding around us. This is the only way that we will notice an invasion of our culture, borders, and liberties by people who want nothing more than to see us destroyed. They understand that we cannot be destroyed outright by military force. Britain is only the test subject for the real deal…us. They work closely with the left because they are the weak in our society. The left seek to take away guns from the American people. The radical jihadists would love that! Already, groups like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and a few rogue anti-American lawyers like Lynne Stewart, are working to undermine the fabric of the Rule of Law in this country. By claiming discrimination and racism, they seek to paralyze the American people into complacency. In this Marine’s opinion, the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy is part of this elaborate network of Islamic organizations being created to seed Islam here in America to cultivate native radical Islamic activists. Is there any other possible outcome than that?

One of the traits instilled in us as Marines from the first day of bootcamp is that you never leave another Marine behind. Everyone goes home, whether it is alive, or dead. Feel confident in the knowledge that one way or another, you are going to go home.

This is truly great news. Welcome home, Pfc Rogers and Pvt Marquez!! Semper Fi!

(defenselink.mil)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

They are Pfc. Julian H. Rogers, of Bloomington, Ind, and Pvt. Henry E. Marquez, of Kansas City, Kan. Both men were U.S. Army. Rogers will be buried in the spring in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and Marquez will be buried on May 30 in Kansas City, Mo.

Representatives from the Army’s Mortuary Office met with the next-of-kin of these men in their hometowns to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army.

In November 1944, the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, was attacking east through the Hürtgen Forest in an attempt to capture the German towns of Vossenack and Schmidt. On Nov. 4, the Germans counterattacked in what would become one of the longest running battles in U.S. history. Rogers and Marquez, both members of G Company, 112th Infantry Regiment, were reported killed in action near Vossenack on Nov. 4. Their bodies were not recovered.

In 2007, a German citizen searching for wartime relics in the Hürtgen Forest uncovered human remains and military identification tags for Rogers and Marquez. He notified U.S. officials and a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) team excavated the site later that year. The team recovered human remains and non-biological material.

Among dental records, other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains.

Ethan Allen and The Green Mountain Boys of Vermont

There was a loud knock on the door. British commanding-officer Captain William De la Place answered the call. Outside the door, was Colonel Ethan Allen demanding that the British officer surrender his command of Fort Ticonderoga. It was May of 1775 and the armed-rebellion of New England was well under way. When De la Place answered the door, sources record Allen as having demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.” The problem is that he would not have been inclined to invoke either. Allen was an atheist. According to historian and folklorist B.A.Botkin, one Israel Harris was present at the time, and later told his grandson (the late Professor James D. Butler of Madison, Wisconsin) that Allen’s actual words were,” Come on out of there you old rat.”

Only one month earlier, patriot-minutemen of Massachusetts had squared off against the British regulars who marched out of Boston looking for patriot-gun powder, Sam Adams and John Hancock. But now it was time for the Americans to take action to secure vital outposts in the coming war with Britain. Fort Ticonderoga was an inviting target. Ethan Allen had heard the call from the Massachusetts Provincial Government to take the fort. Allen, along with Colonel Benedict Arnold and 83 armed men, took the fort without firing a shot. To this day, some controversy exists over who actually led the expedition to take Fort Ticonderoga. Benedict Arnold claimed command on authority of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. When the Green Mountain Boys objected and threatened to leave rather than serve under anyone but Allen, the two colonels worked out an agreement (though no documentation exists as to the exact nature of the terms). Some historians have supported Arnold’s contention, while others suggest he was merely allowed to march next to Allen. As for the actual taking of the Fort, Arnold was alone with Allen and his Green Mountain Boys on the New York side of Lake Champlain, making it fairly easy to figure out who was really in charge.

These same militia-men took control of Crown Point, New York, the following day without facing any opposition. The two easy victories garnered for the Patriots much-needed cannon that they then used to drive the British from Boston.

Both Arnold and Allen tried to exploit the American victory for personal gain. Arnold was vain and hungry for fortune and fame while Allen was overbearing and known as a loud-mouth braggart prone to self promotion. However, Allen’s first concern was Vermont, also known as New Connecticut at the time. And the taking of Fort Ticonderoga was also his high-water mark in the American Revolution.

Allen was no military genius. He was a staunch patriot who apparently did not know the meaning of fear. More importantly, he had the loyalty of the Green Mountain Boys, as unruly a bunch of roughnecks as any in history. He could control them better than anyone else, and they would follow him anywhere. George Washington would write of Allen, “There is an original something about him that commands attention.”

What might have been a brilliant military career for this bold and impulsive man was thwarted when he was captured during the American attempt to capture Montreal in September, 1775. He was captured and held prisoner until an exchange could be arranged on May 6, 1778. The following year he published his Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen’s Captivity.

So this week in American history, we remember that in 1777, Ethan Allen and his fellow Vermonters formally declared their independence from Britain and their fellow colonies when they created the Republic of Vermont. Allen was unsuccessful in presenting the Vermont claim for separate statehood to congress in September, 1778. After the war concluded, the independent Vermont could not join the new republic as a state, because New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut all claimed the territory as their own.

In response, frustrated Vermonters, including Allen, went so far as to negotiate with the Canadian governor, Frederick Haldimand, about possibly rejoining the British empire.

Some historians claim that Allen’s correspondence with Haldimand was a ruse to bring the continental congress to terms but most people believe that it was a wholehearted effort to make Vermont a British province. And for this attempt, I suggest that perhaps Allen is not the patriot that Vermonters and others feel he was. Did his relationship with Benedict Arnold have anything to do with his politics? I will leave the reader to decide that question.

The Paris treaty of 1783 wrecked the province scheme and Vermont had to wait until 1791 for statehood. Allen did not live to see this. He died on February 11, 1789, at Burlington.

This policy has been around for over 25 years. It was banned by President Reagan in 1984, reinstituted by President Clinton, and then subsequently banned again by President Bush in 2001.

The “Mexico City Policy”, or also known as the Global Gag ban, prohibits U.S. taxpayer funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development to go to foreign groups that counsel and/or perform abortions around the world.

So in short, America will help unborn babies die in the name of equality, diversity, and humanitarianism. Ah, eugenics. The global policy by which Marxists and fascists legalize murder!

(MSN.com)

Gia: This is why we fight!

Ah, and now we start to see the downside of globalization. How are you supposed to validate that your customer is who they say they are? I am reminded of Karl Marx and his quote “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

“Despite multiple attempts by the Bush administration to halt illegal imports — including sanctions against several Dubai-based Iranian front companies in 2006 — the technology pipeline to Tehran is flowing at an even faster pace.”

(WashingtonPost.com)

“America, which gave [Israel] everything it needed in these battles, will suffer economic stagnation, ruin, destruction, and crime, which will surpass what is happening in Gaza. One of these days, the U.S. will suffer more deaths than all those killed in this third Gaza holocaust. This will happen soon.”

Pajamas Media wrote, “This harangue would be nothing new on television in the Islamic world; in fact, it is commonplace. What is unique about Sultan’s threats against America is that he holds U.S. permanent residency status and, according to one federal law enforcement official, travels regularly on a U.S. passport. And as I have reported elsewhere, Sultan is pursuing U.S. citizenship (the status of his application is unknown due to federal privacy laws). Thus, Salah Sultan has lived quite comfortably for more than a decade under the protections of the very country he now threatens with death and destruction.”

H/T to LftBhndAgn

Tonight’s guest is Jack Marino, a patriotic, independent film maker, who financed and shot his own pro-Vietnam war movie.

Being one of less than a handful of positive Vietnam war films, Forgotten Heroes, brings the realism of war and courage to the big screen in honor of those who served.

Profit from the sale of Forgotten Heroes DVDs goes to The American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. Please support our brother and sister vets by ordering your copy of this truly patriotic movie. Lord knows, there are not enough of them.

You can learn more about Jack Marino and Forgotten Heroes here. Forgotten Heroes is also on MySpace and YouTube.

Reviews of the film:

“As a Vietnam veteran I can tell you that you have captured the essence of every platoon, and squad and small unit that ever served over there. I led an infantry platoon of the 1st Air Cavalry Division and I had a little bit of every one of your characters in the guys in my unit. What a pleasure to see in your film was that you didn’t cop out to the clichés of most of the movies out on the war with the standard atrocities and racial, drug, psycho themes. The kids in your movie are just like the tens of thousands of 19 year olds who served over there. And there were hundreds of small unit missions with heroics such as you portrayed in your film, many which have been long been forgotten because of security classifications, and quite frankly, time because people back home just didn’t want to hear about it anymore. It’s good to see the Vietnam soldiers and Marines presented in a positive light for a change.”

R. Flynn – Platoon Leader 1st Air Cav Division – Vietnam 66 – 67

“’Forgotten Heroes’ is a good, solid, old-fashioned entertainment in a Vietnam setting without the distorted stereotypes of drug addicts, murderers, and rapist. I particularly liked the ending with President Kennedy’s Inaugural ceremony pledge to defend freedom anywhere, anytime, at any cost. It was not only very effective but helped to put our Southwest Asian involvement in context.”

Joseph N. Smith, USMC (Ret.) – Director
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs – County of Los Angeles

“But the military has its own culture, more insular and more conservative than the broader population’s. In a survey of active-duty service members released last week, 58 percent said they oppose any change in the military’s policy toward gays. Up to 23 percent of troops might not re-enlist if the law is repealed, according to a Military Times poll. Mullen will have to act as kind of cultural mediator between his new boss and the old institution he has managed for more than a year. That will mean advising Obama on what changes the military can (and cannot) withstand and then obliging troops to accept them.”

As you heard here on Chandler’s Watch, the Ramos family home was vandalized, Saturday, January 3, in the afternoon when no one was home.

Entrance was gained through a back door to the home. Couches were turned over and slashed. Computers had been thrown about the home. Family photos had been thrown and broken.

A DVD player and a couple DVDs were reported stolen.

The family is safe and police are on a 24 hour watch. They do not have a suspect at this time.

This is just the latest in a string of tragedies that has plagued this poor family. Agent Ignacio Ramos received a 4,739 day sentence (over 12 years!) for failing to report the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler.

More from www.agentramos.blogspot.com:

“Upon returning to the house with her 3 boys, her eldest son opened the front door. He was immediately hit with the smell a large amount of gas in the air, he yelled to his mom, she told him not to turn the light on. Monica safely removed her children from the area.

It is then she found her home had been broken into! Computer equipment destroyed, couches and chairs slashed, cherished wedding pictures, pictures of her life with Nacho and their children were ripped off the walls, shelves and slammed to the ground. DVDs & player taken, and the entire house ransacked! They even beat her dogs!”

H/T to the San Diego Minutemen.

This is a significant project for its obvious anti-terror potential. I hope that all of the major fuel companies look into this and this type of fuel production becomes the wave of the future and a model for Western Society’s innovativeness. I wonder what the price would be per gallon of Pork V-Power plus+?!!

I think my friend, KH, summed it up best:

“The significance of this plant just south of Baton Rouge is that we could use pig fat fuel, and drive around mosques spewing atomized droplets thus fouling their places and forbidding them from ever going to see the virgins even if they become martyrs.

I know of two other fat to fuel construction projects kicking off elsewhere.”

(BusinessReport.com)

“Construction has begun on a Geismar plant in which Tyson Foods Inc. and Syntroleum Corp. will use grease and animal fats to produce diesel and jet fuel.”

“The plant is expected to produce 75 million gallons of fuel annually from fat from chicken, beef and pork.”

Now that is interesting! H/T to KH!

I guess it is tough to find a Muslim to give a prayer during your inauguration that isn’t linked to a terrorist organization in this country!

Who would have thought that it would be that tough?! He must have just settled for Ingrid Mattson then because the Islamic Society of North America is the largest Muslim organization in the country.

But then, I guess we could say the same about the Evangelicals and Rabbis that are going to be giving prayers (for diversity’s sake) also. You know, because the Christians have funded Christianic terror all over the world! For example, in Saudi Arabia…no, uh, Sudan….nope, um, China….ah, I give up!

And the Rabbis!! Everyone knows they fund Jewish terror across the globe!! Like in Gaza where they give people a 10 minute heads-up before they bomb the builing…uh, that’s actually not comparable. Hold on. They built a wall around the palestinian people to keep them from killing Isrealis…no, the palestinians started that…ah, I give up!!

Ingrid Mattson was quoted by We The Women.org websites as saying,

“Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian Muslim convert professor and activist and the current president of the Islamic Society of North America, said,

‘Our history is not a history of the marginalization and exclusion of women. Our history is a history of the empowerment of women. We’re not trying to invent something new. We’re trying to pick up where we left off.‘”

How does she reconcile what she said with the predominant belief of Islam that women are second class citizens, and property?! She is obviously a puppet!

(AtlasShrugs.com)

Here is more information on how the ISNA is connected to Hamas

(InvestigativeProject.org)

Here is the original AP article about this

(Associated Press)

Some more costs associated with failed liberal policies of taxation and spending coupled with rampant illegal immigration. Welcome to the Thunder Dome!!

“Schwarzenegger says the furloughs will save the state about $1.3 billion in the next 18 months as California grapples with a deficit projected at $42 billion.”

(MSN.com)

You’re an 18 or 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 – 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn’t seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. Ed Freeman is coming for you. He’s not Medi-Vac, so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway. And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. And, he kept coming back…. 13 more times….. And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ……May God rest his soul…..

(Oh yeah, Paul Newman died about that time too. I guess you knew that — He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.)

(Military.com)

Subject: Global Exchange

Re: Dec 04/Jan 05 trip to Amman, Jordan and Iraq

In this report, we will attempt to retrace and uncover the truth of the fate of approximately $600,000 that Global Exchange, Code Pink, and the Middle East Children’s Alliance raised to support “refugees” from Fallujah. There is some speculation as to the ultimate destination of the supplies and money due to the comments and motives of the parties involved.

The first step in uncovering the truth as to the final destination of the some $600,000 in supplies and money that Global Exchange (GX), Code Pink, and the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) donated to the “refugees” of Fallujah; is to understand the backgrounds of the individuals and organizations that participated in the trip.
Global Exchange (GX) was the primary organization on the trip. GX was co-founded by Susie “Medea” Benjamin and her husband Kevin Danaher in 1988. Medea Benjamin is also a co-founder of Code Pink and the International Occupation Watch. GX plans trips all over the globe, especially Cuba to highlight to their great medical system, which is against a U.S. embargo. The purpose of these trips is to show how bad US foreign policy is and how socialism benefits societies across the world. GX has many sponsors including the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. GX has supported the National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Immigrants organized by C. Clark Kissinger, who is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the former National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Other signatories included C.A.I.R., the Muslim Students Association, and the Islamic Society of North America, all of which all named as “un-indicted co-conspirators” in the funding of Islamic terror organizations. GX also supported the October 22 Coalition which protested the “brutal police state” that is America and demanded the freeing of “political prisoners” like Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther Party anarchist and convicted cop killer, and Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of providing material support to her client Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and leader of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, a State Department designated Islamic terror organization. GX has several speakers that work concurrently with the International Solidarity Movement(ISM), a radical anti-Israeli, anti-American organization that justifies suicide bombings and advocates for Palestinian resistance “by any means necessary”. GX was able to raise approximately $100,000 for the December 2004 delegation to Fallujah.
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) was a major contributor to the trip. MECA donated $500,000 in medical supplies specifically for this delegation. MECA was founded by Barbara Lubin in 1988. MECA boasts on its website that it has donated $10 million dollars in aid to the children in Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. Barbara Lubin was interviewed in an Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah) article where she states how anti-Israel she is and sympathetic to the Palestinian plight. MECA has also been a supporter of the Ibdaa Cultural Center which is an “indoctrination” center for Palestinian youth. Barbara Lubin also received the “Service to Humanity Award” from the American Muslim Alliance(AMA) at their 5th annual conference on September 30th, 2006. The AMA was a signatory on a 2004 letter to urge the members of the U.S. Senate to vote against the “supporting of Israel’s construction of an anti-terrorist security fence in the West Bank, a barrier that the letter described as an illegal ‘apartheid wall’ that violated the civil and human rights of Palestinians.”
Fernando Suarez del Solar, a gold star dad and member of Gold Star Families for Peace, traveled to Jordan on the delegation with a letter from Rep. Henry Waxman’s office. Gold Star Families for Peace’s founder Cindy Sheehan was recently in Egypt to protest the governments’ imprisoning of “political prisoners”. These “prisoners” were members of the Muslim Brotherhood that espouse the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Mr. del Solar, an illegal alien, works with an organization called Project Yano, which is an anti-recruiting, anti-militarism group.
The last significant group was the Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility. Founded in 1961, the group contacted local Iraqi doctors in Fallujah to “disperse” the medical supplies. One of PSR’s most notable members is Dr. Helen Caldicott, a staunch anti-American. Dr. Caldicott collaborated on a book with Ramsey Clark, an outright communist, and the former defense attorney for Saddam Hussein.

The second step to uncovering the truth as to the ultimate destination of the $600,000 in cash and medical supplies donated by Global Exchange, Code Pink, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and others; is to understand their mission.
The stated purpose of the Families for Peace delegation was to deliver $500,000 in medical supplies and $100,000 in cash to “refugees from Fallujah, especially the children” that were displaced by the assault on the city. The time of the delegation’s arrival into Fallujah coincides shortly after the ending of Operation Al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury. Operation Al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury were the U.S. and Iraqi combat missions into Fallujah which has become known as the second battle of Fallujah. The offensive started on November 7th, 2004 and ended on December 23rd, 2004. The first battle of Fallujah occurred in April of 2004. By the time the second offensive had occurred the only people left in Fallujah were the “hardcore” insurgents. If this aid was to help “refugees” from Fallujah, why did it happen so late?
The trip to Jordan and then into Iraq was facilitated by a letter from U.S. Representative Henry Waxman’s office. In a letter to the Consul General, Daniel Goodspeed, Rep. Waxman asked that diplomatic privileges be extended to Fernando Suarez del Solar of Palisadians For Peace, and the Families For Peace delegation. Rep. Henry Waxman has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the War on Terror. Waxman voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq and then voted against funding for the troops.
This Marine still has questions regarding the letter from Rep. Waxman’s office. The letter describes Mr. del Solar and the ‘gang’ as “constituents”, and yet the bio of Mr. del Solar on Wikipedia says that he actually lived 114 miles away in Escondido, California, which is not in Rep. Waxman’s district. In fact, Mr. del Solar came to this country ILLEGALY, and settled in Escondido. Thus, he was never a “constituent” of Rep. Waxman’s. So then, why would Rep. Waxman write such a letter?
This Marine believes also that Mr. del Solar was not even a member of Palisadians For Peace at the time of the Jordan trip. Evidence indicates that the website for Palisadians For Peace was defunct by the time of the trip, but have since revived conducting counter recruitment leafletting in public schools. So why use that name? Why not the name of Mr. del Solar’s organization? Easy, because Palisades is in Rep. Waxman’s district. Thus, Rep. Waxman lied in his letter, and Global Exchange needed a sympathetic Congressman to get to Jordan.

The outcome of the trip is still vague. The money and medical supplies are unaccounted for. Only Global Exchange, MECA, Code Pink, and Fernando Suarez del Solar, know for sure where that money went. I would speculate that even they cannot tell you where those supplies ultimately ended up. Is it plausible that they ended up in terrorists’ hands? Very. Susie “Medea” Benjamin was quoted in a December 31st, 2004 Agence France Presse article as saying, “I don’t know of any other case in history in which the parents of fallen soldiers collected medicine…for the families of the ‘other side.’”

From this point on, I will let you be the judge.