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A Jingle Air, Mi-8 HIP heavy-duty helicopter, prepares for a cargo airlift operation to a forward operating base in Afghanistan, June 7. In May, Jingle Air moved 1.53 million pounds of cargo to service members out in the field and to forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan.

A Jingle Air, Mi-8 HIP heavy-duty helicopter, flies en route to forward operating base in Afghanistan during a cargo airlift mission, June 7. Jingle Air pilots hail from different countries and nationalities. Still, they all work together toward a common goal – to ensure the cargo gets to its destination.

Jingle Air Supplies Isolated Soldiers
By Sgt. Charles Brice
382nd Public Affairs Detachment
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan
Imagine being a Soldier out on the border of eastern Afghanistan and the only connection to the rest of the world is a pallet of supplies on the back of a foreign helicopter. That is what it is like for coalition forces cut off and isolated throughout parts of Afghanistan. With the troops focused on combat missions, the Mesopotamia Group created Jingle Air to move cargo in-and-out of hard to reach locations.
Jingle Air offers helicopter services throughout Afghanistan.
The name comes from the popular jingle culture which resides in Afghanistan. People decorating with colors, ornaments, bells and paintings on just about anything they posses, including their transportation, the trucks of Afghanistan are the most ornamented of them all.

“Jingle Air is a key logistic enabler, which allows 4th Brigade, Currahee Combat Team to conduct counter-insurgency operations in a area roughly the size of West Virginia,” said Maj. Jon Beale of the 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, and Combined Task Force Currahee.

With a fleet of Mi-8 HIP heavy-duty helicopters and five flight teams, Jingle Air can move up to 3.2 million pounds of cargo throughout Afghanistan, said Capt. James E. Fager, officer in charge of transportation and logistical operations for the 801st BSB in Forward Operating Base Sharana, Afghanistan.

“Jingle Air’s track record speaks for itself,” said Fager, who explained the crew has conducted 20 emergency re-supply missions in conjunction with supporting many areas of operations.

Last month alone Jingle Air moved 1.53 million pounds of cargo to troops out in the field and to forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan.

“The pilots of Jingle Air are very motivated to fly and they take a personal interest in making sure the operations go well,” Fager said.

Jingle Air pilots hail from different countries and nationalities. Still, they all work together toward a common goal – to ensure the cargo gets to its destination.

“Jingle Air is a force multiplier and it allows us to move much needed supplies and equipment,” said Fager.

Concerned Local Citizens near Samarra greet a Soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team near Samarra, Iraq. Together with Iraqi security forces and coalition soldiers, they have helped quell the violence in the once embattled city.

Screaming Eagle’s, Iraqi Volunteers and Iraqi Forces Have Al Qaida Reeling
By Sgt. Rick Rzepka
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs Office
Al JAZZERA DESERT, Iraq

“Yesterday some men tried to kill me as I was driving my car,” said the man with a reflective belt draped across his chest. “They say that if I stay with the volunteers they will kill me, but I don’t care about that,” he said as he lit one cigarette with the stub of another.

The man is part of an all volunteer force called the Concerned Local Citizens, or “Sons of Iraq” and he and his compatriots have had enough. The violence, the killing, the overall lawlessness that was a hallmark of Samarra a year ago, left these men to make a decision: apathy or action. They chose the latter.
Today, hundreds of volunteers, spread throughout the greater Samarra area have banded together to secure the once turbulent city and its people from enemy extremists. In doing so, they have allowed coalition forces to focus their attention on dismantling a waning al Qaida in Iraq.

“CLC leaders and IP leaders are taking care of a lot of the footwork in securing the population centers, which lets us take the fight to al Qaeda and their safe-havens,” said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Martin, Gator Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment.

Martin and his Soldiers are part of the famed “No Slack” battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, which has a reputation for an intense work ethic and exceptional Soldiering.
Since arriving in Iraq in October of 2007, the battalion has seen the security situation in Samarra and its periphery go from fragile to firm due to greater cooperation and effectiveness of Iraqi Security Forces, the volunteers and Coalition forces.

“The last few months have been a huge change,” said Martin. “Between Iraqi police, Iraqi Army and CLCs, we’ve been able to push further, which has led us to more HVIs (high value individuals) and more caches.”

Martin said that in the last month alone, Gator company has unearthed five to six hundred military grade munitions including rockets, mortars and artillery shells, which are commonly used by enemy fighters to make improvised explosive devices.

Often times, villagers will walk Coalition and Iraqi Security forces right on to a cache site without fear, said Martin.

“What’s happening is the CLCs in the area have pushed out the major key leaders of al Qaida in the area out into the desert,” said Martin. “Now the villagers feel safe enough to say, hey look, these guys used to be here and they left this cache and Ill take you to it. They are huge caches, buried deep in the ground,” he said.

By manning checkpoints on the dusty roads outside of Samarra, the CLC volunteers are able to keep enemy fighters from permeating the population. They take pride in their work as protectors and are able to provide for their families as well.

“The CLCs in Samarra are the best CLCs in Iraq,” boasted one volunteer working a checkpoint outside the city. “We do it for our family and country,” he said.

“They are looking at the future. They are talking about schools for their kids and grandkids and they are starting to see the importance of that,” said Martin. “The hope is there and they are looking for results from their own government.”

The presence of CLCs and Iraqi security forces gives people the sense that Iraqis are securing themselves, said Spc. Mathew Gozalkowski, Gator company Soldier. “They know what right looks like,” he said. “They know where the insurgents might hide caches and possible safehavens and they know who belongs in their respective neighborhoods and who doesn’t.”

As the population continues to turn against extremists in the Samarra area, groups like al Qaida are unraveling quickly, said Gozalkowski. “The CLCs in the area have caught on like wildfire,” he said. “The people around the al Jazzera desert are standing up volunteer groups with out any contract,” he said, meaning that they aren’t getting the nominal fee of $300 per month that is typically paid to CLCs across Iraq.

“They are doing it because they are tired of seeing what the insurgents have done to their homes.”

Obama Says “Uhh” 144 Times in Eleven Minutes during Press Conference
Source: Hot Air
It was a press conference CNN called Obama on “President Maliki”
HERE IS THE VIDEO
CNN VIDEO
A commenter at Hot Air blog posted the following about the video:
I watched the whole 11:09. I don’t remember a thing he said. All I heard was uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh.
He talks for 4 minutes. I counted 55 uhs.
Then he takes questions.
First answer: 10 uhs
Second answer: 27 uhs
Third answer: 16 uhs
Fourth answer: 7 uhs
Final answer: 29 uhs
144 uhs in 11 minutes. Articulate, Uh-bama!

Wild Thing’s comment…….
LOL
“Uh-bama”
Transcribing his non-scripted dialogue would wear out the “u” and “h” keys on your keyboard.
Hussein has to be one of the poorest speakers that has run for president. I can’t stand him.

Trend Hunter Magazine
Apparently, the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is a rock star in Germany. So German expert toymaker Marcel Offermann decided to create a doll in the likeness of the junior senator from Illinois.
The 14-inch doll is rocking a black suit, complete with a Stars-and-Stripes lapel pin, a white shirt and sky-blue tie. This collector’s doll is available in a limited edition of 999 and it is priced at a hefty €139 ($216).
Offermann, who admits to being an admirer of Obama, has made dolls of public figures such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Benedict XVI and the Dalai Lama.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Limited edition of 999???
OK, tell me that’s not to be read upside down.
As a critique of the doll I think it needs a different set of ears.

Postal Service Warns Maine Residents of Liquid Explosives In Mailboxes
Incident Report
The United States Postal Service is warning residents of Maine about liquid explosives placed in curbside mailboxes.
Residents received a postcard informing them that postal carriers do not place soda bottles or other plastic containers containing liquid into mailboxes. They are warned to use extreme caution if anything suspicious is found in their mailboxes.
According to the postcard isolated incidents of vandalism involving the mixing of common household materials together have occurred throughout the country, including in Maine. The result can be a powerful explosion, with the potential for serious injury.
Tom Rizzo, public affairs officer for USPS in Maine, said there have been a small number of incidents in Maine towns and the post office is simply being proactive.
“There’s been no pattern,” Rizzo said. “We attribute it to teenage pranks or personal conflicts between neighbors. We have put these (postcards) out statewide so if you get one it doesn’t necessarily mean it happened in your community. We’re just doing the best we can to get our customers’ attention and alert them that there is a small threat, in the hopes that it will prevent an injury from happening.”
Rizzo said the postal service is aware of incidents across the country.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
When I saw this I thought of how different the world is today. When I was growing up we lived in the country but even so my parents would leave the keys in the car and the door to our house unlocked. I doubt there are many places where a person can do that anymore.
This is concerning about the mailbox’s because sometimes when driving some place, I have even seen children around the age of 9 or 10 going out to get the mail for their parents. I would hate for anything to happen to anyone.

American Solutions for Winning the Future announced today that one million Americans have signed the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” petition urging Congress to immediately start drilling for American oil to lower gas prices.
The petition reads:
“We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other fuel prices) by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.”

“The voices of one million Americans are sending a clear message to Congress that we can do more with our huge energy resources here at home,” said Newt Gingrich, American Solutions’ General Chairman. “With hard-working Americans struggling to pay for soaring gas and diesel prices, it’s likely gas prices will be the defining issue in November. Our elected officials have a simple choice: Either take action to drill here and drill now for American oil or the American people will take action this fall.”

American Solutions

Wild Thing’s comment……..
This is great news, I am so glad a lot of people are signing the petition. I hope it makes a differnce or I should say impact on those that are brainless and think not to drill is the answer.

Obama Suggests GOP Will Use Race to Scare Voters
Fox News
Barack Obama told a group of Florida donors Friday night that Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him, and suggested they would use his race to scare up votes for John McCain.
Apparently girding for a nasty general election fight, the Illinois senator has in recent days predicted that independent GOP groups are waiting in the wings to attack him, and said his presumptive GOP rival is already “fear-mongering” when it comes to foreign policy.
But his comments Friday night in Jacksonville, Fla., seemed to reflect elevated concerns that his campaign to be the first black president would run headlong into political race baiters.

“We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid,” Obama said at the fundraiser. “They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? He’s got a feisty wife.”

The crowd of supporters cheered, and Obama added:

“We know the strategy because they’ve already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us.”

He said Republicans would be unable to run on the economy or foreign policy, so the election would ultimately boil down to a choice between “hope and fear.”

His “feisty wife” comment was probably a reference to a Tennessee GOP ad that criticized Michelle Obama for saying in February that she was proud of her country for the first time.
Obama mentioned the ad Friday afternoon at a press conference, where he defended his announcement the day before that he was backing out of the public financing system for the general election. He expects to raise more money on his own, in part to defend himself against independent GOP attack groups.
While there is no imminent, large-scale threat from so-called “527″ groups — such as the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” group that attacked John Kerry in 2004 — Obama said they’re waiting for him.

“527’s pop up pretty quickly and have enormous influence and we’ve seen them,” he said. “I don’t think that I am off the wall here to see that … a lot of outside groups that are potentially going to be going after us hard.”

The presumptive Democratic nominee, though, has faced down a viral whisper campaign, carried out through anonymous e-mails and Web site postings, in which race and religion are front and center. Obama launched a new Web site to debunk the false attacks, some of which suggest he secretly is a Muslim, that his wife harbors racial angst against white people and that he is not patriotic.
Some of his detractors also have referred to him by his middle name, “Hussein,” though McCain usually condemns attempts to suggest he is Muslim.
The issue of race was repeatedly invoked during the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton was criticized for comparing his win in the South Carolina primary to Jesse Jackson’s victory 20 years ago. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told an editorial board that some white voters just wouldn’t support Obama because he’s black. Another supporter, Geraldine Ferraro, said Obama was seeing such success because of his race.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..

That does it, now your going to get it full force Obama!
Obama bases his entire campaign on racism!!!
Damn all this dweep does is whine, whine, whine. I am soooooo sick of it. I have yet to see any blog including this one say we don’t like this twit because he is black.
MY MEMO TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:
Hey Obama listen up you idiot! It is what you stand for, it is your associations, it is your lies, it is what you have planned for our awesome country and how you want to destroy it.
It is that your CHANGE means one thing…take down America to YOUR Marxist level that has never worked in all of history. You are a communist, Marxist, socialist !!
America is NOT broken but you keep insisting it is. Do YOU think people, decent people not the hand out gimmie people, but those of us that are the ones that work hard, pay our taxes, vote and love our country want to hear their country being put down day after day that it is broken when it has been the most awesome country in the world until power hungry weak leaders got voted in and allowed PC and the left to win their agenda.
I could care less if you THINK you are black you are NOT, that is yet another lie from YOU Obama. You had a white mother that you try just ever so hard to degrade. You are a shameful human being that expects to do whatever you want, lie as much as you like and attempt to manipulate all around you, and American citizens with your don’t hate me because I am black bullshit! Well that won’t fly, that dog won’t hunt or whatever expression you will understand. You are pathetic!
And about your middle name you FOOL. Hussein IS your middle name and if someone wants to mention it tuff. You should have taken your middle name in to consideration when your ego decided to run for President. Including your being Muslim growing up, your background and all the other things. You are either a total fool or a walking talking full blown idiot if you thought running for President would not put you through scrutiny like no other position held in our country. If Soros told you not to worry about it he lied to you. LOL When our country is done with you we will know more about you then you have known yourself believe me. You can deny it all you want but count on the information getting out sooner or later.
And one more thing! Regarding your hate monger wife. No one forced her to say what she did about America. NO ONE! The two of you not wanting to be responsible for saying such things is just so typical of how all of you on the left think you can live your lives. But this blog is Theodore’s World and the posts are PC Free Zone Gazette so this is a PC Free Zone got it???? We ( I ) don’t stand for that kind of copping out baloney. I don’t use words like “African America” ONLY American. And when your wife said these things:
First she said that only Obama can “fix America’s broken soul.”
And then this:
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
She has to learn to be smart enough to know it was just begging for any American loving person to say something. To defend OUR country that we love. By saying what she did she made it very clear that our Founding Fathers, WW1, WW11, Korean War, Vietnam War etc. mean nothing to her. That the reason she lives in the land of the free and what it cost mean nothing to her including the lives that were lost to end slavery that Blacks mind you started!
Michelle Obama, your wife’s world is very small just like her character and yours. A world that only cares about how as a black one will be treated today. Get out of the way of yourselves you people, there is a whole world out there you can make a difference in. Look at the life of Cindy McCain. She has made a HUGE difference in this world and she could have sat back, enjoyed the good life and done nothing. Everything Michelle has done has been in conjunction to the race card and your book was the same thing Barrack! And NOW your campaign follows suit!
Education for you so listen up. When I was a child and all through highschool and college age. My family had a yard man, his name was Walter Strong. He was 6’4, heavily muscled, loved to work outside and was a hard worker. A man of high character, a good husband, his wife was a nurse at one of the hospitals where I grew up, and father to 4 children. He grew up in Tennessee before moving to Illinois. Walter’s family had picked cotton before he was born and after. He wanted more for his life and he pursued it. Walter was as black as night with a smile that would light up a room. He loved to hunt raccoon and possum in our woods surrounding our home on his days off. We loved him like a family member and he knew it. My Dad would get him nice suits and shop for clothes at Christmas time. We would take bags of groceries to his spotless home at Thanksgiving as a thank you for being a good person and for all the extras he did as a yard man for us throughout the year.
My Dad has an old Army Wiley jeep and Walter used it to pull the big mover blades to mow the bigger lawn behind our home. Many times he would pick me up from school and we would stop and get popsicles at a corner market at the end of the winding road back to my parents home. This is important to point out because it speaks volumes as to how much this man, Walter Strong, could be trusted. To pick me up, a child and be trusted with my care like that. In today’s world that means even more then it did back then.
Once in a conversation to my dad, Walter commented on how he did not understand the”Negroes ” he knew. That is how he put it. He said, ” Mister Henry, I am a black man and that is what I am. I take care of my family and I do my work, but some are not happy that are like me and are angry. I just hope my children do not grow up to learn anger. I want them to be happy. And this name of Black gold the negroes want to use confuses me. Black gold? ”
My Dad told him not to worry, that his (Walter’s) influence on them was rich with hope and love for this country. That he set the finest example of all as a Father and that would be carried on by his children as they grew up.” Walter smiled his huge warm smile and went back to what he was doing. I remember that moment in time as if it was yesterday. There was a oneness between my Dad and Walter, two Fathers that love their family and want the best for them. Two Fathers that love America and don’t want a world of anger and hyphenated people with labels. Two that knew that character counts.
Obama you have none of this that Walter had. Your actions, writings, words, speeches and whine tell the rest of us all we need to know.
America the citizens that are awake and seeing what is happening don’t want a Marxist like you for President and it would not matter if you were orange with purple stripes, race if it is there with some people I am sure is at the bottom of the list.
Because of your racism, you Obama stand to hurt black people who actually do have the potential to be good leaders in the future with your (you hate me because I am black and stop picking on my wife and I) Obama.
It is time to wake up and smell the roses homeboy. Is that a word you can understand better? Because we can go there if that is all you understand believe me! But remember this….YOU chose the game, you brought the deck of cards to the game and you dealt the hand. And we on the right are sitting here with a Full House so live with it.
Shame on you Obama and the example you set for your children and as a representative of our country. You want to make it black and white and that won’t happen. It is red, white and blue and I pray it stays that way.

Hot Air ……Thank you for the video
Video had to be removed due to some tech problems with red lasso video’s.

Stevie Wonder – “You Haven’t Done Nothin”

You Haven’t Done Nothing”
We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you’ll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
It’s not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else
And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
Jackson 5 join along with me say
Doo doo wop – hey hey hey
Doo doo wop – wow wow wow
Doo doo wop – co co co
Doo doo wop – naw naw naw
Doo doo wop – bum bum bum
Doo doo wop
We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That’s becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a person’s mind
Can turn as cold as ice un hum
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
Yeah

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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said he’d consider an offer to serve as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s running mate, if asked.
He said whoever the next president is, he will “have to bring this country together.”
And this from a past news story:
According to Federal Election Commission records, Mrs. Hagel donated twice to Obama’s campaign in February for a total contribution of $500. The contributions were first reported by the Washington Post
But Mrs. Hagel is acting on her own, said Mike Buttry, Sen. Hagel’s chief of staff. In fact, Mrs. Hagel has contributed to a Democrat before. Last August, she donated $250 to Niki Tsongas, a Democrat and widow of Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts who was running to fill a vacant House seat from the state.
“Mrs. Hagel is a private citizen who is entitled to decide who she supports and how she supports them,” Buttry said in a statement. “She has admired Mrs. Tsongas for many years, going back to the time when she was married to Senator Tsongas.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
LOL I can’t help it, this is the craziest election ever! It feels like they are all MAD as in insane. hahaha They are!
Obama can have him if he wants him. hahaha

….Thank you Rhod for the link for the song!!! It is perfect for Obama and Hagel.

Presidential Seal Obama Substituting His Own Name on his version of the Presidential Seal

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Now we see it has even gone further with this Seal as you can see in the Video.
Isn’t this the same type of sleezy mindgames that the Marxists engage in and a conscious attempt to manipulate people’s thinking.
This man is the Devil and we are doomed if he gets to be President.
Obama is showing great disrespect for American voters who haven’t elected him to lead as yet. He hasn’t earned the seal. Spitting on American traditions will apparently be his first goal. It cheapens the symbolism of the Presidential Seal. He has no respect for the President of the United States nor the people of the United States.
President Reagan wouldn’t even remove his suit coat in the Oval Office out of respect…..B. Hussein, has attempted to turn the great seal into a ghetto vanity plate.
What’s next, will Obama appear with a crown of thorns on his head????

This is not the first time Obama has done something like this. ON April 23 of this year I posted about the image he had at his campain website with photos to show how his campaguin has taken the Presidential Seal and did a make over of the seal. I felt it was wrong then and I still do.

B.Hussein Obama’s Logo New Look of Presidential Seal?

*** red lasso video had to be removed due to tech problems with their video.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter ( Republican ) – Michigan, took to the House floor to try to translate for the American public in a speech entitled — “Speaking Democrat:”

Rep. McCotter is a guest on Just In with Laura Ingraham on FOX. He discussed his call for a congressional oversight on the administration’s transfer of sensitive technology to communist China.

More things here:
http://www.houserepublicanpolicy.org/
His Government website
http://mccotter.house.gov/HoR/MI11/Home/
Congressman McCotter has focused his efforts on preserving and promoting manufacturing and small businesses, because he knows they form the back bone of our community’s economy. He has steadfastly supported winning the War for Freedom and increasing our homeland security; tirelessly fought to reduce taxes and the size and scope of government.
Thaddeus and Rita McCotter, a registered nurse, have three young children.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I never heard of this man till I saw him on Laura Ingraham’s new show on Fox, he has many videos of speechs he has made that are excellent. He is Pro the Surge in Iraq, he supports the troops, he is upset about the changes in the Republican party and so many things………and the best part he is speaking out about them.
The only bad thing is the media ignores this since he speaks the truth. I wish some of the talk shows would bring him on and give him more coverage.
All in all it felt good to hear someone in our party that seems to know how we feel and speaks the truth.