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OUCH.

Ouch…but it’s pretty on spot, hate to say.

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Marines take care of Marines. In any way, every way.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.– People swim, cycle and run for a variety of reasons; for fun, fitness or competition. Capt. Andrew Christian, a Marine assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, does all three in memory of fellow warriors killed and injured in the Global War on Terrorism and to raise money to help support their families.

While deployed to Iraq in 2006 as a member of a Military Transition Team, the Neenah, Wisc., native was authorized two weeks of leave to return to the United States and run the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in June of that year. He completed the 26.2-mile run while carrying a 3 x 5 foot American flag and crossed the finish line in three hours and 23 minutes.

True to the amphibious tradition of the Marine Corps, the four-time marathon-runner would not be satisfied until he attacked his objective from the sea: He set his sites on the Ironman Arizona triathlon in Tempe, Ariz., and committed to carrying his U.S. flag through the harsh desert heat and 30-mile-per-hour winds for a marathon’s distance once again – but this time after swimming 2.4 miles to shore and completing a 112-mile bicycle ride.

Christian contacted a company that agreed to sponsor his cause to raise money, both for the daughter of his fallen teammate and for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. The sponsor then asked three-time Ironman World Champion, Peter Reid, to be Christian’s coach and prepare him for the competition.

Read more about Andy’s training and the marathon here.

Semper Fi Fund

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He should be a Congressman.

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania — After trying to run illegal immigrants out of town, just about everywhere Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta goes these days, someone inevitably urges him to run for higher office: County commissioner. Congress. President of the United States.

While flattered, Barletta said his only interest for now is winning re-election this year. The Republican mayor is seeking a third term, defying expectations that he would try to parlay his newfound fame as a crusader against illegal immigration into a higher post.

Republican activists say Barletta, 51, has a bright future in politics — if he wants it.

“Politically, he’s done himself a world of good,” said Republican media consultant John Brabender. “The real question is, where does he go from here, and what is the right office. But certainly he’s put himself in a position to consider a number of offices.”

We need more ballsy people like this, who will stand up for Americans FIRST and who will put some pride back in the term, LAW AND ORDER. Illegal immigrants, parasites that they are, are first and foremost, LAWBREAKERS. Not exactly the kind of people we should be asking Congress to give amnesty to.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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The gall of this woman, to make this claim:

Hillary wants to build U.S. respect

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told voters here yesterday that President Bush has squandered the international good will and strong economic standing her husband, former President Bill Clinton, created in the 1990s.

“We’ve got to get back to where we can trust our government again,” the New York Democrat said while campaigning in the early primary state.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a government again that was respected around the world?” Mrs. Clinton asked a crowd at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church. “I think America is ready to have a president … that will create alliances, not alienation, and I know America is ready for a president who will once and for all end the war in Iraq.”

Let’s give Hillary a refresher course on international good will…
Her husband’s ignorant policies towards foreign affairs (clouded by his own inter-Oval Office Monika affair) created the groundwork for the events that happened on September 11 2001. When American choses to please the world, America loses. The world hates the US and it doesn’t matter who our President is; as long as he (and hopefully not SHE) cowards down and hands out the cash, America is tolerated. What Hillary and her fellow Lemoncrat ilk don’t understand is that the world’s “freedom” loving nations put a price on that freedom…in the form of government oversights and economic regulation and “wealth” redistribution
(AKA socialism). The free world is scared of a truly free America, whose citizens won’t put up with bank rolling every brilliantly blind cure to every third world nation- created problem.

If the Lemoncrats take the White House, the world will once again be content with band aid solutions and superficial feels-good foreign policy. The political, moral and ethical culture of the US and the world will continue to go down it’s relentless mudslide into hell, and our enemies will carry out their attacks with our blessing, unintentional, of course. The Clinton’s will be personally responsible for much of this. Hillary has no shame, none. I AM ASHAMED OF HER.

Cross posted @ ARS

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