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In 1984, Palin was chosen as Miss Wasilla and went on to become the first runner-up in the Miss Alaska Pageant and received the Miss Congeniality award the same year. Her husband, Todd Palin was a judge in the 2008 Miss Alaska Pageant.

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CAMP BUEHRING, KUWAIT – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (center) arms a simulated roadside bomb on the IED defeat course at the training village on Camp Buehring, Kuwait. (July 2007)
Maybe it’s the frontier heritage or maybe it’s the state’s rugged landscape, but whatever the reason, Alaskan women seem to have more cajones than most of the men in Illinois politics.
Republican Sarah Palin was elected Alaska’s first woman Governor in 2006. Now 43, she’s also the youngest in state history.
Palin is something of a Renaissance Woman. She once competed in the Miss Alaska contest and she played on her high school’s state championship girls basketball team. She’s been a television sports reporter, a city council member and mayor. She’s helped run the family’s commercial fishing business and she remains married to her high school sweetheart. Earlier this month she announced she was seven months pregnant with the couple’s fifth child.
Palin has one of the highest approval ratings of any Governor in America and she continues to build a reputation as one of the greatest crusaders for ethical government anywhere. She also believes in reducing the size of government. Last year she introduced a budget that cut state spending by $124 million.
While once favored by the old guard of Alaska’s GOP, Palin split with the good old boys over corruption issues. Palin was elected Governor in 2006 as a maverick reformer, without the help of the entrenched party players.
Two weeks ago the Alaska Republican Party held their State Convention in Juneau and Palin rose to the occasion yet again. Under Palin’s leadership, their convention was all about reforming and cleaning-up the State GOP.
Around 400 delegates registered for the 3-day event, reportedly a record. (By comparison, that’s about the same size crowd that attended the Illinois GOP’s State Convention in 2004, and Alaska’s population is barely 5% of ours, 670 thousand vs. 12.8 million.)
Alaska is a very Red State with vastly fewer people, but on some other levels there are startling similarities to Illinois. For one thing, there seem to be a lot of ongoing federal investigations involving bigwig politicos. And just like the Illinois GOP, the Alaska GOP has been devastated by corruption.
The state’s Republican National Committeeman has been under an ethical cloud, just like ours. Alaska’s is Ben Stevens, the son of the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, Ted Stevens.
While Ben has not been charged with any crime, it’s been reported that he’s under federal scrutiny. Two former executives (now convicted) of the oilfield service firm VECO Corp. have already testified they made certain payments to Stevens and others.
Last fall Palin called on Ben Stevens to resign as Republican National Committeeman. Stevens ignored those calls for early resignation, but a new National Committeeman was just selected at their State Convention. Stevens reportedly hadn’t been to an RNC meeting since 2005, and he didn’t show up to the State Convention.
Ben’s father Ted (the GOP U.S. Senator) is also the subject of a federal probe, and in July of 2007 federal agents raided his home. Palin has called on the Senator to explain why to Alaskans. He’s refused.
Then there is Republican Don Young who has been Alaska’s lone U.S. Representative for 35 years. Young is probably best known outside of Alaska for securing $223 million in federal earmarks for the “Bridge to Nowhere” – a bridge nearly as long as the Golden Gate which connects Gravina Island (population less than 50) with Ketchikan (population 8,000). Last year Young’s campaign spent nearly $850,000 on legal fees, but he also won’t explain why.
At the start of the Convention, Palin’s Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell stunned delegates by announcing he would be making an August GOP Primary challenge against Young for the Congressional seat. Parnell, with Governor Palin at his side, then left the Convention floor to file the official paperwork. That move was reportedly very well received by the delegation.
But the Alaska State Convention probably saw the most excitement when Palin and her allies fought to remove State Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich (like our Chairman Andy McKenna, Ruedrich’s regular term isn’t up until 2010).
Palin parted ways with Ruedrich back in 2003 when both served on the state’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Palin exposed Ruedrich for ethical violations and he ended up paying a $12,000 penalty, the state’s largest civil fine for an ethics case.
From media coverage it’s clear Alaska’s GOP Convention provided a lot of positive energy and exciting political theatre. It’s also clear Alaska has some real leaders who get it.
Quotes from Palin from the convention podium and floor:

“I think we need to call on all of you assembled delegates to rise and literally even stand with me if you desire change in our party’s leadership. If you believe in that change please be bold.” –Governor Sarah Palin.

“We can’t kid ourselves, there has not yet been restoration of the public’s confidence in the Republican Party and we have got to do better.” – Governor Sarah Palin.

Right before the Convention’s adjournment, the delegates voted 167 to 133 to table the resolution calling for State Chairman Ruedrich’s early resignation. Ruedrich told the assembled just prior to that vote that he would ignore such a resolution anyway (that also sounds familiar).
Still, the Alaska GOP had a very successful convention. They had real leaders standing-up for positive change. They elected a new and better National Committeeman. And they found out their popular Lieutenant Governor would be challenging their stayed-to-long King of Pork, GOP Congressman Don Young.
Reform minded Republicans maybe didn’t get everything they wanted, but they seriously advanced the ball. The Alaska GOP is truly rebuilding. Our State GOP can’t say that yet.
The only question left is why in a state with nearly 20 times the population of Alaska can’t we seem to find a Republican for statewide office like Sarah Palin?

Wild Thing’s comment………
The article is interesting and gives a glimpse of some history about Palin. Good stuff!!!

“The Man in the Door”
A story by Marine, Michael Rierson

Wild Thing’s comment………
Thank you to all of our Vietnam Veterans. This video is so well done, very moving I am sure the very first cut of the blade into the air brings back many memories. With tears in my eyes I thank you all . To the door gunners , the gunners on Huey gunships, the crew chief’s, and all that served in that war and others that have memories watching this video………….brothers all.

……Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion – 1st Aviation Brigade – Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam

Nancy Pelosi on McCain’s veep selection: ‘Palin is not the right choice’
Politicker
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) issued the following statement Friday on Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate:

“The selection of a vice presidential candidate is one of the most significant and telling decisions a presidential candidate can make.
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin raises serious questions about his judgment. Why, when the country is fighting two wars, facing an uncertain economy and an energy crisis, did Senator McCain make the choice that he did?
Why, with so many other qualified women and men in his party, did John McCain choose Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin is not the right choice. She shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies.
John McCain and Sarah Palin will not bring the American people the New Direction they need.”

Wild Thing’s comment……….
The best endorsement yet…giggle.. Pelosi’s jealous that Palin still has the ability to blink!
Pelosi: “MEOOOOOOOOOOW”
Palin: “Bang bang”
LOL

Nancy Polosi’s approval rating…. 9%
Sarah Palin’s approval rating….80%
Next!

Former President Carter: McCain ‘Milking’ POW Experience
Fox News
Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that John McCain is “milking every possible drop of advantage” from his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, USA Today reported Thursday.
Carter focused on McCain’s interview earlier this month with author and pastor Rick Warren at his parish, the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. McCain used every question, whether it was about religion, domestic or foreign affairs, to talk about his five-and-a-half years as a POW, Carter claimed.
“John McCain was able to weave in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question was,” Carter, a 7-year Naval officer, told the paper. “It’s much better than talking about how he’s changed his total character between being a senator, a kind of a maverick at the time, and his acquiescence in the last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right wing Republicans have presented to him.”
In the interview that came before Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Denver, Carter also talked about Obama’s challenges facing the lingering effects of racism in America, the ability of the Clintons to bring their supporters over to Obama. He also decried Sen. Joe Lieberman’s decision to “abandon” the Democrats by speaking at the Republican National Convention next week.
I would hope that the Democrats could have enough senators elected in November so that we would not any longer need to include Joe Lieberman among the senators,” Carter said.
Carter called Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech at the convention Tuesday “superb” but questioned her for pointing out her accomplishments in some areas and merely saying that Obama shared those concerns.
Carter said former president Bill Clinton’s speech Wednesday was “perfect.” Carter said the two speeches took pressure off Obama by uniting the party and ensuring that Clinton supporters would support Obama.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Traitor Carter is so full of it, if anyone milked their military experience it was Hanoi Kerry and he did it to the max. Try again peanut breath, better yet , leave the country and NEVER come back.
Next week is going to be really painful for Jimmuh.
I find it disgusting that this POS leftist appeaser who unleashed Islam terror on the world actually has a US Navy ship named after him!
Carter is a bitter, evil,. supporter of dictators washed up antisemitic hack.

You can scroll down and read the comments at Hillary’s forum……. there are pages and pages of comments like the ones below.

Hillary Clinton forum

“HOPE ITS PALIN, I WOULD VOTE TWICE JUST TO STICK IT TO OBAMA”

“I’m actually very excited that women will get some serious respect in this race.”

“Hoo Ray! Fu*k the DNC. Fu*k Obama. They are so fu*k up. They brushed off the women base like dirt. and the GOP pick them up. Go McCain.”

“OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buuuuurn Obama Buuuurn! What a slap in the face. If it’s Palin, I will put blood and sweat into campaigning for that team.”

“Leave it to the GOP to pick a woman for the ticket. Obama snubbed the most viable and experienced woman who received 18 million votes, for another MALE. I have a feeling, somewhere somehow, Hillary is snickering!”

“SHE HAS FIVE KIDS!! TRUST ME! SHE KNOWS HOW TO RUN THINGS!”

“That’s it for me. I will be voting McCain/Palin, a Republican team, for the very first time in my life. YEOW, how my life has changed this year.”

…..and this one had this with her comment………..

“So much for McCain being against women’s rights and equal pay… I can’t wait til Hillary can mutter under her breath- I TOLD YOU SO- you stupid arses! “

“They keep making this mistake again and again. The more they trash this woman the more she will get Hillary’s vote.”

“No surprise. CNN’s treatment of Hillary Clinton tells you EXACTLY what they think about women who seek power. Shame on them.”

” I have had it, my party used Roe V Wade to try to keep us all “loyal” to the party. But the truth is the Democrat party has proven that they didn’t really respect women because of the way they treated Hillary. I wrote Hillary about this and told her I will sign up again for her in 2012 and we will win. And that I want to stick it to Obama and will be voting for Palin on McCain’s ticket. I have been noticing at work too the people that are against Obama are a lot nicer to me. “

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And there is also this……………….

Some Clinton Donors Are Contributing to McCain
ABC News
Some of Hillary Clinton’s most fervent supporters are taking their enthusiasm – and their campaign contributions – to John McCain.
More than 85 of Clinton’s fundraisers, including Donald Trump, Univision chief executive Joseph Uva, cable mogul Charles Dolan, philanthropist Norma Hess and one of Florida’s biggest lobbyists appear to be skipping Barack Obama when it comes to writing checks for the general election, according to an ABCNews.com review of campaign finance records.
These Clinton donors have contributed at least $200,000 to McCain’s campaign in the last few months, an amount which doesn’t include larger contributions to the Republican joint fundraising committees.
The defecting donors, along with a significant segment (20 percent) of Clinton fans who have expressed support for McCain in recent polls, could present a problem for Obama in the general election.
That speech was amazing, but it’s not going to change my mind,” one Texas donor, who gave $2,300 to Clinton earlier this year and contributed $2,300 to McCain last month, told ABCNews.com. “I talk to plenty of people like me who just won’t accept an unqualified president.”
At least one of Clinton’s HillRaisers, elite fundraisers who contributed at least $100,000 to her failed campaign, recently donated to the Republican candidate.
Charles Dolan, head of the giant Cablevision, wrote a $2,300 check to McCain on June 30 after Clinton’s initial plea to help Obama.
Ronald Book, one of the biggest lobbyists in Florida who represents clients as diverse as the University of Miami and Bell South, raised $700,000 for President Clinton in recent years and contributed the maximum to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign earlier this year.
Now, he’s contributing to McCain and is leaning toward endorsing the Republican nominee. Book notes that he wouldn’t give money to Obama even if the candidate took money from lobbyists.
“Obama has said a lot of stuff, but nothing with a concrete vision,” says Book
……….this article is 3 pages long this is the link if anyone would like to read the entire article ……..

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Wild Thing’s comment……….
This is so interesting to me these women have had their vote stolen from them in Florida and Mich.. They saw Hillary pushed aside by the media and Obama and they are angry. From reading the comments at Hillary’s forum they are as excited as we conservatives are even though it is mostly for completely different reasons.
This will really hit Obama hard, and I am glad. He could have stopped the votes from being stolen and he said nothing, so much for respecting a persons vote. But then he is a wanna be dictator so it figures he would be like that.

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Wild Thing’s comment……….
Just sitting here thinking of the Palin vs. Biden debate, I think Sarah will be having some fun. heh heh

John McCain, here is your Vice President
Jewish World Review
By Nat Hentoff
In 2006, Sarah Palin became Alaska’s youngest and first woman governor after having earned a reputation as a determined and successful advocate of ethics reform in politics. In the primary, she defeated an incumbent Republican governor and then a former two-term Democratic governor.

During her first year in office, as reported by the Associated Press on May 10, she “distanced herself from the old guard, powerful members of the state GOP (and) stood up to the oil interests that hold great power in Alaska, and with bipartisan support in the statehouse, she won a tax increase on the oil companies’ profits.”

Last December, the mother of four children, Palin, four months pregnant, found she was going to have a child with Down syndrome, a condition characterized by moderate-to-severe mental retardation. A school friend of one of my sons had Down syndrome, and I have known functioning adults with the extra chromosomes of that syndrome.
However, as a longtime reporter on disability rights, I have discovered that many fetuses so diagnosed have been aborted by parents who have been advised by their doctors to end the pregnancies because of the future “imperfect quality of life” of such children.

Palin’s first reaction to the diagnosis was to research the facts about the condition, since “I’ve never had problems with my other pregnancies.” As a result, she and her husband, Todd, never had any doubt they would have the child

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“We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life,” she told the Associated Press. “We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”

In an age when DNA and other genetic-selection tests increasingly determine who is “fit” to join us human beings, we are witnessing the debate between sanctity of life versus quality of life being more often decided in favor of death. This is a result welcomed by internationally influential bioethicist Peter Singer, now a celebrated Princeton University professor, who, in July 1983, wrote in “Pediatrics,” the official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics:

“If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication, and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.”

And there are bioethicists who point to the continuing costs of rearing a “defective infant.” By inspirational contrast, Palin, says of her new son, Trig: “I’m looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?”

Three days after she gave birth, Palin was back in her Anchorage office with her husband and Trig. “I can think of so many male candidates,” she tells the AP, “who watched families grow while they were in office. There is no reason to believe a woman can’t do it with a growing family. My baby will not be at all or in any sense neglected.”

Says the governor of Alaska, “I will not shirk my duties.” Taking her stand for life as a holder of high political office is all the more valuable in the face of not only the termination of fetal lives as not worth continuing before they can speak for themselves, but it also puts a searching light on the growing “futility” doctrine in hospitals — affecting born people of all ages.

Nancy Valko, a medical ethicist and intensive-care nurse I consult on these lives-worth-living debates, has emphasized that “with the rise of the modern bioethics movement, life is no longer assumed to have the intrinsic value it once did, and ‘quality of life’ has become the overriding consideration.”
Because of Palin’s reputation as a maverick, and her initial reduction of state spending (including pork-barrel spending), life-affirming Palin connects with voters and has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for John McCain.

She would be a decided asset — an independent Republican governor, a woman, a defender of life against the creeping culture of death and a fresh face in national politics, described in “the Almanac of National Politics” as “an avid hunter and fisher with a killer smile who wears designer glasses and heels, and hair like modern sculpture.”

Still unknown is whether Palin would be as flip-flopping as McCain on the Bush torture policy that has so blighted our reputation in the world. But we’d find out, as — if chosen as his running mate — she would create more interest in this already largely scripted presidential campaign.
And her presence could highlight Obama’s extremist abortion views on whether certain lives are worth living, even a child born after a botched abortion.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Great article, we are so fortunate that Sarah Palin said yes to being the VP.

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.

Announcement to be made by McCain at noon EST

Gov. Palin grew up in Wasilla, where as star of her high school basketball team she got the nickname “Sarah Barracuda”
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle–especially to transparency and accountability in government–can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
In 2005, she continued to take on the Republican establishment by joining Eric Croft, a Democrat, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only attorney general but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The governor reprimanded Renkes and said the case was closed. It wasn’t. Renkes resigned a few weeks later, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.
Palin, 43, the mother of four, passed up a chance to challenge Republican senator Lisa Murkowski, the then-governor’s daughter, in 2004. She endorsed another candidate in the primary, but Murkowski won and was reelected. Palin said then that her 14-year-old son talked her out of running, though it’s doubtful that was the sole reason.
In 2006, she didn’t hesitate.
She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals.
“The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
One of her first acts as governor was to fire the Alaska Board of Agriculture. Her ultimate target was the state Creamery Board, which has been marketing the products of Alaska dairy farmers for 71 years and wanted to close down after receiving $600,000 from the state. “You don’t just close your doors and walk away,” Palin told me. She discovered she lacked the power to fire the Creamery Board. Only the board of agriculture had that authority. So Palin replaced the agriculture board, which appointed a new creamery board, which has rescinded the plan to shut down.
In preserving support for dairy farmers, Palin exhibited a kind of Alaskan chauvinism. She came to the state as an infant, making her practically a native. And she is eager to keep Alaska free from domination by oil companies or from reliance on cruise lines whose ships bring thousands of tourists to the state.
“She’s as Alaskan as you can get,” says Dan Fagan, an Anchorage radio talk show host. “She’s a hockey mom, she lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she hunts, she’s an NRA member, she has a float plane, and her husband works for BP on the North Slope,” Fagan says. Todd Palin, her high school sweetheart, is a three-time winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race from Wasilla to Nome to Fairbanks. It’s the world’s longest snowmobile race.

Alaska governor sees ‘perfection’ in son with Down syndrome
The results of Gov. Sarah Palin’s prenatal testing were in, and the doctor’s tone was ominous: “You need to come to the office so we can talk about it.”
Palin, known for a resolve that quickly launched her from suburban hockey mom to a player on the national political stage, said, “No, go ahead and tell me over the phone.”
The physician replied, “Down syndrome,” stunning the Republican governor, who had just completed what many political analysts called a startling first year in office.
The doctor’s announcement in December, when Palin was four months pregnant, presented her with a possible life- and career-changing development.
“I’ve never had problems with my other pregnancies, so I was shocked,” said Palin, a mother of four other children.
Once her husband got the news, he told her: “We shouldn’t be asking, ‘Why us?’ We should be saying, ‘Well, why not us?'”
There was never any doubt the Palins would have the child, and on April 18 she gave birth to Trig Paxon Van Palin.
“We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life,” Palin said. “We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Brilliant move!
I LOVE this heh heh “she got the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” “. Out of the park, game changing home run Senator McCain.
She is a governor and has been a mayor, so she has executive experience—right there is more experience than B.Hussein Obama.
This choice will cause the dems to self-destruct.
Also pro-life! Five children, the last of which is a Downs Sybdrome child. God bless her. A hunter, pro drilling, she is also a hockey player.

“We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life,” she told the Associated Press. “We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”

Gov. Palin loves to get up in the middle of the night to go moose hunting! Now it’s a female clinging to her guns and religion!
Lifetime NRA Member
Oldest Son Joined Army on 9/11 and will be deployed to Iraq this September!!
giggle….she eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane!
From CBS News’ Ryan Corsaro:

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s parents were called early this morning at their home in Wasilla and told to “listen to the radio” by Palin’s husband, Tim.
Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, says he and his wife were caribou hunting when they were told to come home and tune into their local radio station to hear “exciting news,” but said he did not know if his daughter was the choice for John McCain’s vice president.
“The river was swollen, so we almost didn’t get back,” Palin’s mother, Sally Heath, told CBS News.
The two said they said the call was “a wonderful surprise.”

You see each person was given a Flag, GIVEN , they did not have to buy them at some booth, they did not even have to bring them with them. The DNC had their bases covered trying to ‘ appear” patriotic. But it was ONLY for show and nothing more. IMO!
Flags are on seats at top of stadium at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008

Old Glory gathered up and waiting to be thrown out as it rests on steps of bleechers in trash bags.

The American flag is only a prop in their propaganda message.
It shines a great big light on the fact that the core of the democrat party is all show and no substance. The things that are sacred to a majority of Americans are nothing but props to them.
Fly over country needs to see this crap again and again and again until November 4 .. there is no defense that the dims can offer that won’t just keep pissing people off. If the outcome of this election is governed by symbols, this one can make a difference:
It doesn’t matter if you are republican, democrat, independent, male, female, black, white, whatever. This is a symbol of America, a symbol of those who sacrificed their lives so I could sit here pounding away at my keyboard. This is truly a disgusting act. Like I said this would make a great McCain ad, “Old Glory” could be the title. Countless Patriots have died for that flag including friends and family of mine. And we should revere it because of its symbolism for FREEDOM.

Identity Theft Actor James Woods Proves Crime Does Not Pay
Hollywood
James Woods, who played an LA prosecutor on Shark, has set a great example for dealing with identity theft. Woods told Michael Glynn at The Enquirer that he was horrified to learn that someone had charged thousands of dollars on his credit card.
The crook had bought a computer and purchased two VIP tickets to the recent Dave Matthews concert at the Staples Centerin LA for $3,700.
The fraudulent charges were deducted from his bill, but James was determined to find the guilty party. He called the Staples center and cleverly told them he hadn’t received his tickets yet – that he wanted to verify the correct name and address. Incredibly, the crook had used his own real name and address. James realized he’d eaten at a restaurant just blocks from where the crook lived.
He then called the restaurant and tracked down a guilty waiter. Woods handed the info to the Beverly Hills police and they arrested the guy.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Woods is a good guy.
When I saw this story about Wood’s it reminded me of another thing that happened to him. He observed and reported four hijackers making a trial run on an airline flight before the September 11 terrorist attacks on America.