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The federal government prosecution team is loosing the ability to intimidate and the use of threats and scare tactics is starting to fail in the last couple cases against Marines doing the jobs other (legal)Americans won’t do…

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - The Marine Corps dropped its case and gave full immunity Friday to a serviceman who was accused of involuntary manslaughter in a squad’s killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005.

The case against Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum, 26, of Edmond, Okla., was dropped as jury selection was about to begin for his court-martial. The government has been seeking Tatum’s testimony against the squad leader, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn.

In addition to two counts of involuntary manslaughter, Tatum had been charged with reckless endangerment and aggravated assault. Tatum’s attorney, Jack Zimmerman, said there was no agreement with the government before the dismissal.

“Absolutely, there is no deal,” he said.

Zimmerman said Tatum would testify if called as a witness in future trials but that he would testify as a neutral witness, not a government witness.

But that won’t diminish the will of the liberal press and their ability to pressure the military justice system to crucify American fighting men in battle with a ruthless enemy.

Four enlisted Marines were initially charged with murder and four officers were charged with failing to investigate the deaths. Over time the case has shrunk, including removal of all murder charges. Tatum was the third enlisted Marine to have all charges dismissed.Only two officers remain charged.

Even the leadership agreed that is was within the rules of engagement and this is really only because some jackass wants to show the world how evil America is and the liberal press is supporting them in this lie.

The highest-ranking defendant is Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani of Rangley, Colo., commander of the Camp Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment at the time of the Nov. 19, 2005, Haditha killings. Chessani, accused of dereliction of duty and violation of a lawful order, has said he didn’t order a formal investigation because he believed the deaths resulted from lawful combat.

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Isn’t this just dandy.

Muslims students at the University of Miami have organized for the Islamic call to prayer, broadcasted each Friday afternoon this month from Richter Library’s clock tower in commemoration of Islamic Awareness Month.

The call to prayer, or Adhan, is spoken in Arabic and is meant to resonate throughout the area.

“It serves as constant reminder of when we have to pray, because prayer itself is a reminder of our religion and how we practice it,” said Selima Jumarali, the vice president of the organization.

According to the teachings of Islam, Muslims are to pray five times a day. In Muslim-majority countries, the call is usually performed live by an individual and is heard before every prayer.

Do we have a Christian Awareness Month? Or a Jewish Awareness Month? How about a Buddism Awareness Month? No, of course not.

“It brings true variety to the university and open appreciation to diversity, especially in these times when people have misunderstandings of Muslims and who we are,” she said.

I don’t know about others, but everything I ever wanted to learn about Islam I learned on September 11 2001. That was enough for me. I’m really getting sick and tired of all the pandering to Muslims. I don’t want to have any more awareness of their religion, because it’s not peaceful.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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Sorry to report this news clip…

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview on Wednesday that if elected president she would push for a universal health care plan that would limit what Americans pay for health insurance to no more than 10 percent of their income, a significant reduction for some families.

Yes, but it’s also a significant increase for some of us who aren’t of the high income class people. Oh but wait…I forgot…she’s not about FAIR really. She’s about fair to her well defined idea of who is poor. The rest of us can cough up extra cash to cover these people. It used to be about shared risks. Now it’s about shared paid equal access. One only has to look at MA Health Care to see how this idea sounds good but doesn’t work. At all. The ten percent has already turned into twice that amount, and now businesses are going to be taxed and fined more as well….and they still can’t afford their own mandated health care for everyone.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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A couple or three weeks ago I wrote here about NH bucking the Real ID law mandates. The law is stupid and a waste of money. More than half the states don’t and never will comply with standards- yet have gotten Uncle Sam’s blessing. Not NH- and three other states who openly defied the Federal government.

The showdown came to a head this past week and the feds blinked.

MANCHESTER – New Hampshire has won a skirmish in the battle against the RealID federal mandate.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed yesterday to postpone imposing the requirements until Dec. 31, 2009.
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New Hampshire won the extension by detailing existing security measures and new measures to be incorporated this year to driver’s licenses and identification cards.

It amounts to a compromise, one tailored after Montana’s argument that its state security measures were already tough enough. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer held his ground, declaring the federal government could “go to hell.”

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is no less opposed to RealID, especially since state law prohibits New Hampshire from participating in the federal system.

I would have preferred Gov. Lynch tell the feds where to go, as Montana’s governor did. But Mr. Lynch is a gentleman.

Anyway NH will not change it’s law so the fed government will in effect, have to go to hell. If it means NH citizens “suffer” consequences, so be it. It’s better than being overly TREADED UPON as most the other states are allowing.

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This is the ultimate Drag Race, but it is between a 1000 HP Bugatti Veyron and a Eurofighter.  This is very well done!

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Ahh and Eliot’s exploits continue to be revealed.

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.

The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said.

When will Mrs. Spitzer file for divorce? The sooner the better. She doesn’t deserve such a man.

The revelation comes three weeks after Spitzer was outed as “Client-9″ in a separate federal hooker probe involving the New Jersey-based Emperors Club VIP.

At the center of the new ring is Kristin “Billie” Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a ough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list.

Davis’ alleged multimillion-dollar empire was smashed by city vice cops as she made plans to skip town. Prosecutors say she netted some $2 million last year by pimping out ladies of the night for as much as $1,000 an hour through four Web sites.

10,000 clients? She was a busy gal. Sex sells. And if you’re a desperate enough man, you can buy it for this kind of money. Course the classy guys only want the best whores they can afford.

I really feel bad for Spitzer’s teenage daughters. To know their father is a low life scum who does these things must be very embarrassing, and he has let them down in a huge way. This is one of those things daughters have trouble forgiving. They’ll certainly never forget the pain and anguish this has caused their Mother.

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This sounds cool.

What if your WordPress text editor could analyze the article that you are writing and provide suggestions of images, tags, related articles and content?

I’ll have to check it out when I can get back to regular blogging.

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When I was in 5th grade my class did a project about racism. We learned all about the personalities of those who brought forth this issue in American history, and how they came to be who they were. And, what happened to them throughout their lives. Dr. King and others were subjects of study.

Once upon a time there was another Reverend Wright, who stood up for racial justice. With the modern day Rev. Wright, of Obama fame, I see a very different but similar series of events taking place. Racism could end in America, if only those who chose to use it as an excuse for their shortcomings would stop doing so.

Once upon a time, America’s soul was stirred by a brilliant man whose words provoked a national conversation about race, a black man who firmly believed in so-called “social justice”, a man of consequence whose struggles and achievements formed the backdrop of a quintessentially American story.

Who was this man? Not Barack Obama, but the late Richard Wright.

Wright, the author of the iconic 1940 novel Native Son, bore witness to the horrors of the pre-civil-rights South; the anti-black violence of his Mississippi childhood left emotional scars that took decades to heal. Like Obama, Wright settled in Chicago as a young adult and began a long march to national fame; by the mid-1940s, Wright became the most famous African-American author in the United States, a man hailed worldwide for his vivid depictions of racial injustice.

Like Obama, Wright aligned himself with a politically radical entity–in Wright’s case, the American Communist Party. Wright spent years
writing for Communist publications and defending the party’s doctrines. His commitment to Communism was not just professional, but personal; in 1941, shortly after a failed first marriage, he wed Ellen Poplar, a New York Communist Party organizer.

Yet, unlike Obama, Wright gradually opened his eyes to the deep flaws of the radical group he had joined. Wright realized that despite the party’s proclamations of colorblindness, an inflexible racial caste system existed in the organization. He was denounced when he tried to question the party’s orthodoxy, and was rebuked when he raised questions about the treatment of those living in the Soviet Union. Slowly but surely, Wright realized that Communism was oppression disguised as freedom; by the late-1940s, he had severed his ties to the Communist Party.

Wright remained a liberal until the end of his life, but he understood that Communism was poisonous, corrosive, dangerous to the ideals of freedom upon which his vision of liberalism stood. He was loathed by former Communist colleagues for his apostasy, but he never apologized for seeing the truth behind Communism’s lie.

Obama and Hillary and their supporters are seeking a form of communism for America. They’re using examples of social injustice as reasons for this. Do we ever learn from our history? Do liberals even know of it? I don’t think so. Why does a conservative author such as D.R. Tucker write and remind some of us about the other Rev. Wright? Why the silence from those on the left? Do they not want this history recalled and it’s lesson’s re-taught? I think so.

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Via email….

Top this for a speeding ticket

Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar California . One of the officers was using a handheld radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill.

The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then turned off.

Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet, which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.

Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander. The reply came back in true USMC style:

Thank you for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident.

You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down.

Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.

Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.
The pilot also suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.

Thank you for your concern. Semper Fi.

This is perfect.

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more
than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:

List of 7 items:

1. Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent

2. Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent

3. Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

4. In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

5. While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

6. There has also been a dramatic increase in break- ins and assaults of the ELDERLY.

7. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it. You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late! The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.
With guns, we are ‘citizens’.
Without them, we are ’subjects’.
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
If you value your freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.

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Marine Cpl. David Thibodeaux’s song is a rallying cry to stay the course.

Forgive, I should
Forget, bet you wish I would

You say, time heals everything
So just keep waiting

You’re through, no doubt
But your too blind to figure it out
There is, a price
And I’ll keep payin’

I’m not ready to end the fight
I’m not ready to back down
I’ve been through hell
And I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to turn back now
You know I wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m proud as hell
I can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

You once, walked
On the yellow brick road

But now you stumble on jagged stones
And I kind of like it

In your bed you sob like a baby
So full of regret as you lye there prayin’
And it’s a sad, sad story that a mother didn’t teach her
Daughter to respect those who protect her
And now you know how the words that you say
Can send so many over the edge
That hearts fill up with hate and anger
As you dream of a way to make it better
You can’t make it better

I’m not ready to end the fight
I’m not ready to back down
I’ve been through hell
And I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to turn back now
You know I wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m proud as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to end the fight
I’m not ready to back down
I’ve been through hell
And I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to turn back now
You know I wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m proud as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, no chance
Forget, not till my last breath
You say, time heals everything
But I’m not waiting

From his MySpace page, Cpl Thibodeaux writes:

A fellow Marine and I wrote, and I recorded a song titled “Not Ready To End The Fight.” This song was inspired by the fact that I, like many Americans, don’t particularly appreciate the underlying message behind the Dixie Chicks’ song “Not Ready To Make Nice.” While I did like the underlying music from song, the lyrics’ just didn’t sit well with me, many of my colleagues and other Americans.

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This is why I have faith in America, we have the best people in the world.

I was really humbled by it because I didn’t do anything special,” says Cpl. Lyon, a 22-year-old Marine who lost a leg in a mortar attack near Fallujah. “I went to Iraq to do a job, and I got injured and actually couldn’t do it. So why was I getting honored?”

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Must See Video: American Guns Are Fueling Mexico’s Drug Wars — .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Used to Kill Mexican Police Officer

Not that I care about a country that wants to kill Americans for drug profits. but this is how the crazy drug users on the left support America.

they take the side of Aljazeera, the same anti-American Mooooslem TV station that likes to show the murder of Americans on prime time TV in the sand pits of the world. Because Aljazeera wants to remove firearms from Americans the Gun Guys support them…WOW, watch the video to the end and see who the liberal Anti-Americans want to support!

Do you notice how the pussy shithole gun guys wont allow comments?

I would post this youtube but it is truly an Anti-American, Anti-Free people, pro-Communists video and while you should watch it, it might make your blood boil.

I need to go by a .50 cal jsut because it is my RIGHT!

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The Washington Post Poll: Most Say Amendment Covers Individuals and Militias

Gun Guys (one of many gun grabbers that believes that people are safe if government takes away all means to defend themselves and that the government is here to help) sent an email stating 

Poll Finds 59 Percent of Americans Support Banning Handguns, 76 Percent of DC Residents Support District’s Ban

They are doing the typical lying to try to convince people that guns are evil….

They fill that somewhat supports additional restrictive laws is totally in their favor.Tthey are using this to persuade others that new laws outlawing guns from law abiding citizens will impact the crime rate let alone the violent crimes.

They cut out the first two questions in the poll about Individuals rights to bear arms.

The poll does have a strong support for locking up guns in the home.

While I keep most of my guns in a safe,  I will not do it because the government tells me to. I have a couple questions for the liberal DEMOCRATS that want to take away might rights to legally own and keep arms. I want to know when is it OK for cops to inspect your bedroom to see you lock your guns? What if they see the phone number of your gay lover? what if they see your sex toys also?

Does this also impact gay rights? Aids kills a lot of people and if we can save just one life by outlawing homosexual behavior wouldn’t it be worth it?

I say keep government out of as much of our lives as possible and make them get real evidence on a crime and not feel free to inspect our homes.

Now this poll only has 707 national sample adults. how many in big cities? how many in the burbs? and how many in the country?

I say keep government small and out of our lives!

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