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This will appear on ABC News
on ” This Week ” show with George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air Sunday July 27th
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ABC News’ Mary Bruce reports: Sen. John McCain suggested today that it is fair game to question Sen. Barack Obama’s decision not to visit wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany during his recent trip to the country.
“If I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn’t visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event,” McCain told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air Sunday on “This Week”.
Obama’s campaign reportedly cancelled the trip because Pentagon officials told the senator he could not make the visit accompanied by his campaign staff and because of concerns that the visit would be viewed as politically motivated.
But McCain questioned his rival’s justification:

“I know of no Pentagon regulation that would have prevented him from going there — without the media and the press and all of the associated people. Nothing that I know of would have kept him from visiting those wounded troops.”

McCain went on to note that “in Landstuhl, Germany, when I went through, I visited the hospital. … I think people make a judgment by what we do and what we don’t do. He certainly found time to do other things.”

Also, in a new ad released today, the McCain campaign criticized Obama for canceling his Landstuhl trip while finding time to work out.

“He made time to go to the gym,” the ad said, “but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops.”

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….That ass is Obama’s FEEL THE PAIN Jerk!

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Obama is not fit to be CIC! McCain himself has been wounded. If Hussein and his campaign take issue with him on this he can eat them alive for dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is from a friend of mine in Germany for the last few months visiting family.

“Obama didn’t get a bounce! over here. His poll numbers went down slightly here.
I will tell you this. Here in Germany not everyone thinks he is great. He insulted them when he said that they should do more in Afghanistan. They were indignant that in Germany, which isn’t a part of the United States, by the way….Obama’s people enforced a “no sign” rule. And didn’t like the “don’t wear green” rule either. They are astounded at his arrogance. They recognize propaganda promotion, when they see it. And are sensitive to speech being infringed. They also pointed out in their newspaper articles, that Obama was short on specifics, and mostly offered “empty rhetoric. The people I know here actually like McCain”.

Joe in Iraq

Joe Repya led a counter demonstration of veterans in June during an appearance by John Kerry at the University of Minnesota. (MPR file photo)

ARLINGTON, VA —
Today, Retired Lt. Colonel Joe Repya issued the following statement on Barack Obama’s cancelled visit to Ramstein and Landstuhl:

“The most solemn duty of a commander in chief is to fulfill his responsibility to the men and women who serve this country in uniform. Barack Obama had scheduled a visit with wounded American troops who have served with honor and distinction in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he broke that commitment, instead flitting from one European capital to the next. Several explanations were offered, none was convincing and each was at odds with the statements of American military leaders in Germany and Washington.
For a young man so apt at playing president, Barack Obama badly misjudged the important demands of the office he seeks. Visits with world leaders and speeches to cheering Europeans shouldn’t be a substitute for comforting injured American heroes.”

Army Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Joe Repya served 30 years of duty and three wars, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He was born in 1946 in Gary, Indiana. He was the oldest son of a disabled combat wounded veteran of the European Campaign of World War II. Awarded an ROTC scholarship he attended Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, graduating in 1969.
Upon graduation he was appointed to the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry.
His 30 years of service in the US Army (12 years Active and 18 years in the National Guard & Reserves) lasted from 1969 until 2006. He served as a Combat Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader in Viet Nam in 1970/71 with the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers “Currahee’s”), and an Aero Rifle Platoon Leader with A Troop, 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. In Desert Storm 1990/91, he served as a Combat Helicopter Pilot and Staff Officer with the 4th Brigade (Aviation), 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One). He initially retired in 1998.
After the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, he was one of 12,000 US Army retirees who volunteered for Retiree Recall to Active US Army duty for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
LTC Repya was selected as one of only 350 retirees who were returned to active duty status.
At 58 years old on October 1, 2004 he returned as an Aviation Branch Officer for two more additional years of active duty service with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, KY.
He served for nine months as the G-3 Air for the Division. In 2005 he served as the Senior Liaison Officer for the 101st Airborne Division with the Multi National Corps Headquarters at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq.
He reentered retired status at the end of September 2006 at the age of 60.

More about Joe:
Joe is a classic citizen patriot and activist. He first came to public attention in March 2003 when, disturbed by the anti-war campaign mounted by Minnesota liberals, he arranged for the production of lawn signs saying “Liberate Iraq — Support Our Troops.” His effort garnered a lot of publicity, and Joe eventually distributed 30,000 signs.
HE WROTE FROM IRAQ:
* Two weeks ago, as I was starting my sixth month of duty in Iraq, I was forced to return to the USA for surgery for an injury I sustained prior to my deployment. With luck, I’ll return to Iraq in January to finish my tour.
* I left Baghdad and a war that has every indication that we are winning, to return to a demoralized country much like the one I returned to in 1971 after my tour in Vietnam.
* Maybe it’s because I’ll turn 60 years old in just four months, but I’m tired:
* I’m tired of spineless politicians, both Democrat and Republican who lack the courage, fortitude, and character to see these difficult tasks through.
* I’m tired of the hypocrisy of politicians who want to rewrite history when the going gets tough.
* I’m tired of the so called “Elite Left” that prolongs this war by giving aid and comfort to our enemy, just as they did during the Vietnam War.
* I’m tired of anti-war protesters showing up at the funerals of our fallen in a just and noble cause, only to be cruelly tormented on the funeral day by cowardly protesters is beyond shameful.
* I’m tired that some are more concerned about the treatment of captives then they are the slaughter and beheading of our citizens and allies.
* I’m tired that when we find mass graves it is seldom reported by the press, but mistreat a prisoner and it is front page news.
* Mostly, I’m tired that the people of this great nation didn’t learn from history that there is no substitute for Victory.
Joe Repya
Lieutenant Colonel
U. S. Army
101st Airborne Division

This is an article he wrote about John McCain that he did for Townhall.
One Hundred Years

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Hussein and his supporters are contemptuous of our men and women in uniform. I hope McCain really hammers Obama about this.

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Wild Thing’s comment………….
Good … no time to monkey around. McCain’s greatest strengths are the empty suit’s many weaknesses, and so they need to shine the light on them, because the MSM won’t.
Obama by snubbing American troops will be his very own mark of the beast. Obama is the walking talking meaning of the word “inapprpopriate”. He is “inapprpopriate ” for President. He is “inapprpopriate ” for being in the Senate. He is “inapprpopriate ” for holding any office in this land. He is “inapprpopriate ” to be an America and I will include his white hating wife as well.

You must be nicer to Muslims, Britain is told by UN human rights chiefs
daily mail .co.uk
Britain was told yesterday by a United Nations committee to take firm action to combat ‘negative public attitudes’ towards Muslims.
The nine-member human rights committee also criticised some of the UK’s antiterror measures.
The body, which is composed of legal experts, said it was concerned ‘ negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society’ continued to develop in Britain.
The Government ‘should take energetic measures to eliminate this phenomenon and ensure that authors of such acts of discrimination on the basis of religion are adequately deterred and sanctioned’.
The committee expressed concern over the Government’s plans to extend pre-trial detention of terrorist suspects from 28 to 42 days. Suspects should be brought to court ‘within a reasonable period of time, or released’.
Those suspected of being involved in terrorism and subject to control orders and curfews limiting their movements should be ‘promptly charged with a criminal offence’ and their lawyers given access to the evidence against them, it added.
The committee also called on the Irish Republic to open up its largely Roman Catholic primary school system to secular-education. It said Dublin ‘should take measures to help women avoid unwanted pregnancies so that they do not have to resort to illegal or unsafe abortions’.
The committee made its comments in response to reports from the UK and Ireland on how they were carrying out their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The committee has members from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Benin, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Mauritius and Sweden. They are expected to be independent of their governments.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Grrrrr! UNaccountable bureaucrats telling sovereign nations and citizens what to do! The UN is telling the Brits how to think now. I’d bet that committee is made up of muslims!
Sure nice, Infidel, or I’ll lop your head off. I KEEEL YOUuuuuuuu.
Hmmmmmmmm ……Has the UN EVER told the radical muslims they must stop blowing people up?
– Or rioting because they don’t like a cartoon?
– Or threatening the infidels?
– Have they ever said anything about all the violence commited by muslims?

But….but what about this……. And in other news: One Third of UK Muslim Students OK with Killing for Islam
Religion of Peace Moment is brought to you by Muslims attending British universities: Third of Muslim students back killings.
Times Online

“ALMOST a third of British Muslim students believe killing in the name of Islam can be justified, according to a poll. The study also found that two in five Muslims at university support the incorporation of Islamic sharia codes into British law.
The YouGov poll for the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) will raise concerns about the extent of campus radicalism. “Significant numbers appear to hold beliefs which contravene democratic values,” said Han-nah Stuart, one of the report’s authors. “These results are deeply embarrassing for those who have said there is no extremism in British universities.”
The report was criticised by the country’s largest Muslim student body, Fosis, but Anthony Glees, professor of security and intelligence studies at Buckingham University, said: “The finding that a large number of students think it is okay to kill in the name of religion is alarming.”

Two Muslim women filed a lawsuit today against a McDonald’s restaurant, saying they were denied jobs because of their Islamic headscarves, known as hijabs. Standing near the restaurant in Dearborn from left to right are Quiana Pugh, 25, of Dearborn, one of the plaintiffs, Dawud Walid, head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Nabih Ayad, attorney for the women and the second plaintiff, Toi Whitfield, 20, of Detroit.

Source
Two Muslim women said they were denied jobs at a McDonald’s restaurant in Dearborn because they wore Islamic headscarves, according to a discrimination lawsuit filed today in Wayne County Circuit Court.
Toi Whitfield, 20, of Detroit, and Quiana Pugh, 25, of Dearborn, said they applied for jobs at the McDonald’s on Ford Road in the eastern section of Dearborn, but were told by the store manager “you’re not going to work here if you don’t remove” the headscarf, known as hijab. According to the women, he also said he couldn’t “really hire you due to your scarf.”
A spokeswoman for McDonald’s did not immediately comment on the lawsuit, but said a statement would be coming soon.
The Dearborn restaurant happens to be one of only two stores in the U.S. that sells Chicken McNuggets that are halal, the Muslim equivalent of kosher.
Dawud Walid, head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said that it’s upsetting that a restaurant with such a large Muslim customer base would discriminate against Muslim women employees.
“They’ll take Muslim dollars, but won’t hire Muslim female employees,” Walid said.
The case was filed in Detroit against the store manager, a management company, and McDonald’s. It alleges the restaurant violated a state civil rights law.
The store is located in an area with one of the largest Arab-American and Muslim communities in the U.S.
Walid said the two Muslim women were African-Americans born in the United States.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Muslims? Hygiene? Bwahahahahahahah
Why do they want to work at a restaurant serving non-halal meat? These stupid Muslims keep trying to make us change our way of life.
Islam is creating a lawyers paradise here in America sheesh and CAIR is leading the way.
My guess is the local mosque put these people up to this. These women no more wanted to work there than a vegan in a slaughtering house. They knew they would be turned down, just another step in tearing down our nation.
By the time they get done, the menu will feature:
Achmed Cola
Big Muhammed
Egg Bin Muffin
Qatar Pounder
Double Cheese Burqa
Medium Chocolate Sheikh
Infidel Delectable
McSheik’n Sandwich
Camel Dung Biscuits

Barack Obama: Global Poverty Act = World tax = Socialism

Obama’s $845 billion U.N. plan forwarded to U.S. Senate floor
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The U.S. Senate soon could debate whether you, your spouse and each of your children – as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America – each will spend $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world.
The plan sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is estimated to cost the U.S. some $845 billion over the coming few years in an effort to raise the standard of living around the globe.
S.2433 already has been approved in one form by the U.S. House of Representatives and now has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar for pending debate.
The proposal demands the president develop “and implement” a policy to “cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief” and other programs.

Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media has published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could “result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States” and would make levels of U.S. foreign aid spending “subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.”

The plan passed the House in 2007 “because most members didn’t realize what was in it,” Kincaid reported. “Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require.”
A recent statement from Obama’s office noted the support offered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces,” Obama said. “It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America’s standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world.
“Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere,” he continued.

Pleasae CLICK HERE for rest of article.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Insanity!!! spending money to bring Freedom to Iraq and raise the standard of living in Iraq is bad. But just giving money to a corrupt organization like the UN or simply giving it to corrupt dictators who will continue to repress and, gulp, actually torture (real torture, not loud music torture) is just fine and dandy.
The United States is already the most generous nation on earth when it comes to helping the world’s poor.
The communist Obama wants to give our money away. This bill (and this man) must be stopped

……Thank you Mark for the article.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Obama’s people have already begun to complain about this ad. TUFF you jerks! Liberal..it’s a mental disorder!!!

This was in Sgt. Grit’s

…”I must tell you a story that just happened to me. I was in Shannon airport on May 21st, early afternoon, waiting for a flight to U.S. As often happens in Shannon a U.S. Troop Transport plane came in – full of Marines this time – and off they came. I have seen U.S. Troops there so often – it is the refueling spot on their trips in and out of Kuwait. I have been there and seen those young men walk up to the bar and order a pint and have seen men – U.S. and other citizens, and women, too, walk over and say – No U.S. solder pays for a drink here – there are enough of us in this airport to buy them a pint – and they do. I have rarely seen a soldier remove money from his pocket. As they get off the plane and walk in and it happens all the time – the entire waiting room area in the airport stands up and claps. The first time I saw it I melted in tears as I clapped – and I have melted again each time.

Those young men whether coming in from Iraq or wherever or going to Iraq are always moved and sincerely appreciative of the support. As I was sitting there watching them I noticed several of them going up to the Eircom (the Irish version of Ma Bell) boxes trying to make calls home to the states and I sat there with our Irish phone with about 25 Euro still left on it – and so I walked over and handed it to the young Marine and said – here – call your momma. He looked stunned and then thanked me and did call his momma. He finished and I checked the time left on the phone – 23 Euro – I said, just take it and pass it to your friends til it runs out. Jim and I were sitting there in tears – but knew that those 25 Euro were well worth the price to think someone’s momma or wife would hear from her son again. Another man asked what I was doing and Jim told him and he was an Irish citizen and he whipped out his cell and handed it to another Marine. By the time our phone ran out of Euro there were about 15 phones being passed around.

As wewere boarding our flight for the states another troop transport was unloading and they were Air Force men. They, too, got the standing ovation and someone started handing them their cell phones. It was just a very emotional experience for us and for everyone there. It made me proud, once again, to be an American to see the reaction of the U. S. Citizens, the Irish and the many other nationalities there in the airport. I think the press downplays the support, love and loyalty that we all feel toward our military.
Becky Kent “

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I love things like this to happen so much. It just makes my heart feel like bursting.

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….Thank you Mark.

Bear Climbs Into Hammock

A Highland Lakes, New Jersey woman captures on her home video camera a bear climbing into a hammock in her backyard

LOL you just knew I would love this video. heh heh

Obama Team Begins Work On Presidential Transition
The Atlantic
With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition.

“Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small group to begin thinking through the process,” a senior campaign adviser said. “Barack has made his expectations clear about what he wants from such a process, how he wants it to move forward, and the establishment and execution of his timeline is proceeding apace.”

Last month, the Post’s Shalaigh Murray reported that campaign advisers were sounding out John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and currently the president of the Center for American Progress, for his advice.
An aide confirms that Podesta will probably be asked to head the transition team, which would take over from the campaign if Obama wins in November, and would be tasked with ensuring a smooth handover of power.
Podesta’s Center for American Progress is working with the Third Way think tank on a Homeland Security Presidential Transition Initiative; its director is Michael Signer, a former senior policy aide to Ex-Sen. John Edwards.
Cassandra Butts, a longtime Obama friend who is a CAP executive vice president, is working closely with Podesta.
Butts, via e-mail, would not confirm her participation in the project.
Podesta remains a close friend of both Clintons and his participation will help assuage the concerns of Clinton-era Democratic policy and political appointees who might have felt abandoned in an Obama administration.
New Presidents have only three months to complete a herculean remaking of the equivalent of ten of the world’s biggest companies. Most presidential candidates don’t spend precious campaign time thinking about to do, so the questions come fast and furious: how do you your turn your ideas into policy? What do you do first? What does Congress expect? What last-minute executive orders should you overturn? What will your first 100 days look like? How will you vet and when will you appoint major cabinet secretaries and political appointees? What’s he proper balance of power between executive department? Budgets, costs, logistics?
A campaign spokesperson confirmed that transition planning had begun but would provide no further details. An adviser said that the campaign wants to keep the process as low profile as possible in order to minimize distractions.
A public announcement is planned for the fall.

“Given the myriad challenges that will face the next president, Barack would encourage Sen. McCain to begin to undertake a similar process,” the adviser said.

A McCain spokesperson said the campaign would not discuss the subject with reporters.

Wild Thing’s comment………
One word………… presumptuous! The absolute arrogance of this marxist dimwhit astounds me.
Who am I?
* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audience – Check
* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise – Check
* Creates his own new symbols of power – Check
* Associates with racists, hatemongers and Violent radicals – Check
* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light – Check
* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations – Check (see German
campaign poster for example)
* Wants Secret Police force – Check
* Somebody powerful people think they can control – Check
* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents – Check
* Seeks to replace God with the State – Check
* People adopting his name as their own – Check
* Inspires adoration art – Check
* Appropriates symbols of past German glory – Check
* Never plans on giving up power – Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)
* A narcissistic megalomaniac – Check
* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments – Check
Barack Obama.
Frightened yet?

RUSH: Now, as promised, we turn to the official Obama criticizer on the EIB Network, Bo Snerdley.
SNERDLEY: Thank you. This is Bo Snerdley, Official Barack Criticizer for the EIB Network, certified, black enough to criticize with organic slave blood. I have a message. Mr. Obama, your overseas visit to, uhhh, um, Iraq, um, the war zones is (sigh), uh, proving to be a world-class embarrassment. Uh, aside from giving report to the efforts of, uh Mu-muk-muk… Muqtada al-Sadr who hates America, you’ve really said nothing there that you, uhhh, didn’t say here, which, uhh, um it calls into question the — let me think about it — the, I should say the whole purpose of the trip. You continue to denigrate the efforts of our military and won’t acknowledge their success — and to make matters worse, your, uh, stuttering performance, uh, is, uh, now being, uh, held up to ridicule despite all the glowing reports from your public, uh, public relations, uh, uh, specialist, uh, agents in the media. Your performance, sir, has not made you look presidential. It has really, I want to say “harmed” your presidential chances in the eyes of those who take foreign policy seriously, uh. This has, uh, truly been a sad performance, sir.
And now an extended translation for our EIB brothers and sisters in the Hood.
A’right, dog. I’m going to come with it on you today. First up B. What’s up with this Iraqi dealy, yo? We got to chill over there. We got issues here, my brother. Like gas prices, my man. You know what I’m saying? You’re posing, man. You even got words how you’re “pimping Bush’s ride” over there, mang. And then you go over there and what’s the first thing you do? You dis our troops, man! You givin’ props to Mookie! Gee, man! Sadr yo? His boys was the ones flaming the IEDs on our boys and you are claiming they are the ones who want to cool us out? It was our guys that did that, yo? What you should have done if you had to go over there anyway, was just have a sit-down with old Mookie, mang. Pull out that New Yorker magazine cover — you know, the one with you in the turban and Shelly with that AK wrapped on them, man. Tell them, “Yo, you see this, Bro? This is me and my shorty. We’re going to come over there and whip some ass after I get in, yo, if you don’t get things chilled.” That’s what diplomacy is. But then, no. What you do, man, is you give this guy props. And then, yo, look. Yo, what’s up with all this stutterering, mang? You running for president, man, or are you trying to get Porky Pig’s job with, “T-t-t-that’s all, folks.” Come on, main. Did Jesse snatch them baby makers from you, bro? What’s up with that, man? You went to Harvard, yo! That’s all you got: “Uh, uh, uh, uh”? Yo, even Reverend Wright doesn’t come out like that. He makes it flow, man. You ever heard him say, “Uh, God d-d-d-damn America”? He make it flow, man. What’s with you? Then, on top of all this, you, you go over there and you say the biggest problem in Iraq is that so many men are unemployed? No, no, no, man! The biggest problem over there is they ain’t giving us our props, yo. We are the ones that killed off old Hussein — I’m sorry, Saddam-y — for them, man. We freed them, yo! We looking for work? You ought to go over there and tell them brothers, “Y’all need to start busy to build a pipeline to break us off some of that oil, you know what I’m saying?” But no, mang. You go over there and start talking about their unemployment? When was the last time he was in Kill-adelphia, yo? Brothers is trying to get paid over here, man, can’t find no jobs. They unemployed? When’s the last time you was down in Katrina, mang? Come on, Bro, what’s up with that? You, you know, I’m about to check you off, Obama, man. You need to start listening. Every time you step out, you’re chumping yourself, chumping off our country and our military, yo. This is not cool!
That concludes our statement.
RUSH: And that was the Official Obama Criticizer Bo Snerdley.