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Several Soldiers in 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment perform nighttime maintenance on an AH-64 Apache Longbow. Performing larger maintenance jobs at night is one way these maintainers try to reduce the possibility of heat injuries.

Task Force XII Soldiers Battle Heat: Troops on Flight-line Work Hard on Trying to Stay Cool
By Sgt. Brandon Little
Task Force XII Public Affairs Office
CAMP TAJI, Iraq
It’s highly unlikely that a terrorist will take the day off because it’s just too hot outside or that he’ll bring in a doctor’s note recommending he stay indoors and not blow things up until it gets cooler outside.
The enemy doesn’t take time off from what he does because of increasing temperatures, so Task Force XII aviators can’t afford to either. However, working outside in these plus 100 degree temperatures can have a strenuous effect on a Soldier’s body.
Since the sun doesn’t show them any sympathy, Soldiers working on the flight-line must take certain precautions to prevent themselves and their buddies from becoming another heat casualty statistic.

“Working outside can be pretty rough at times,” said Spc. Rene O’Neil, an AH-64 Apache Longbow maintainer in Troop N, 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. “Our workload has been steady for the last couple of months but the temperature has increase by about 20 degrees.”

These aircraft maintainers are responsible for conducting preventative maintenance, checks and services to keep Task Force XII helicopters flying around the clock.

“Our aircraft have to be serviced either every 14 days or after they’ve been flown for 25 hours,” said O’Neil, who hails from York, Penn. “We have to pay close attention to the flight schedule to know which aircraft is due for PMCS, because an aircraft can’t overfly a PMCS.”

Conducting a PMCS on an aircraft means first inspecting it for leaks or visible damage; all while braving the brutal sunrays and extreme heat bouncing off the concrete airfield.

“If the temperature walking around the base is 100 degrees, it’s probably somewhere between 120 and 130 degrees on the flight-line, “said 1st Sgt. Jon Martin, the top enlisted Soldier in Company C, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment.

“I’m from Dallas so I’m kind of use to this type of heat, but it’s important for us to watch out for one another and bring each other water,” said Spc. Justin Khounborinh, an Apache maintainer in Troop O, 4th Sqdn., 3rd ACR. “There are plenty of first aid kits and Combat Life Saver bags out here, and we’re all CLS qualified.”

“Everyday (1st Sgt. Richard Bonney) makes sure we have plenty of water and ice out here,” said O’Neil. “He’s always making sure we take breaks and rotate between time in the sun and time in the shade. We also work as a team to get work done faster and we try to save big jobs that can wait until it gets a little cooler.”

In addition to drinking water, these Soldiers must take other precautions to protect themselves from the sun’s wrath.

“We try to make sure that the Soldiers are wearing sunscreen and boney hats if they have sensitive skin,” said Martin, a native of San Diego. “We also make sure that all the Soldiers have gloves when they’re working because the parts on those aircraft get hot enough to burn your hand.”

A Soldier’s diet and physical fitness can be key factors when trying to prevent heat injuries, he said.

“We really try to stress the importance of physical fitness, because if you’re out of shape your body will definitely tell on you in weather like this,” said Martin. “I also let the smokers and coffee drinkers in my company know the effect it will have on them in this heat.”

Prior to deploying, Soldiers in Task Force XII also received classes and training on heat injury symptoms and ways of preventing these injuries.
Taking time to ensure Soldiers have protection against heat injuries helps keep aircraft flying even if the enemy decides it’s a little too warm outside to cause trouble.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
God be with our soldiers and protect them. I read in another article last summer that each soldier drinks an average of a gallon of water a day in the heat.
There are so many things that our media could cover about our troops. What it is like to be there in the heat, or in the cold in the winter and so many other things. All safe information to share about our awesome troops, to help people understand what they are up agaisnt and understand more about being at war.
I really do believe IF we had a media that loved America even if the left politicans and liberal American’s did not, it WOULD make a difference. It would be right in their face each night how great our soldiers are doing.
Instead we either get no news or only slanted bad news.

Obama loses his train of thought several times during one Townhall Meeting

LMAO
Here is some more from the same speech

Wild Thing’s comment…….
It looks like he is trying to blame the crowd for his ineptitude.
And this is the guy who’s going to “fix” the country, stop global warming, keep the oceans from rising, give everyone free healthcare, convince the world’s terrorists and dictators to sing kumbaya with him, and “heal” our “broken nation”? What an idiot.

“Sean Hannity has done yeoman’s work at exposing the radical ties Barack Obama has to any number of far-leftist people. But perhaps none is any more disturbing than his ties to Rashid Khalidi, a radical associated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the late Yassir Arafat. In the video above, Daniel Pipes explains the close and recent connection Obama has with Khalidi.” -Redstate and McCain websites

Wild Thing’s comment……..
America ….where anyone can become a Presidential candidate including a racist couple who is supported, endorsed and favored by terrorists around the world.
This time if we and when our country, or Americans are attacked on our own soil or in any part of the world, we can go straight to the Commander in Chief if Obama wins this election. Because his cut backs in our military he plans on doing, his non support of the war against Islam and his connections to those that want to kill us will make B.Hussein Obama owning his part of the blame!!!!

Defense, Prosecution Chiefs Differ As Guantanamo Arraignment Ends
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY
The chiefs of defense and prosecution offered different views of the day’s results to reporters yesterday after five accused terrorists heard the charges filed against them for their alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America at an arraignment.
The judge, Marine Col. Ralph H. Kohlmann, informed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, of the nature of the charges filed against them, which include terrorism, conspiracy, hijacking and murder. Each defendant was served nine referred charges, including two specifications of one of the charges, on May 21.
All five defendants would reject court-appointed defense counsel and elect to represent themselves before the day long hearing was over.
Kohlmann had tried in vain to convince each of the five defendants that it would be wiser to retain professional counsel, rather than electing to represent themselves during a trial that’s expected to begin in mid-September.
Army Col. Steven David, the chief defense counsel, told reporters at a post arraignment news conference that four of the defendants may have been influenced by Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
It’s universally understood in the legal community that defendants are not helping their cases when they choose to represent themselves in a court of law, David pointed out to reporters.
Mohammed was the first of the group to be addressed by Kohlmann at the arraignment, and the accused terrorist also was first to opt to reject his court appointed lawyers and choose to represent himself.

In court, Mohammed was overheard to have exclaimed to fellow defendant Hawsawi: “What! Are you in the American Army now?” said Army Maj. Jon Jackson, one of Hawsawi’s court appointed military attorneys.

Jackson told reporters it appeared as if Mohammed had intimidated Hawsawi, the last of the defendants to be arraigned.
As the day wore on, it seemed as if the defendants who followed Mohammed marched in lockstep with him, as each chose to be his own attorney at trial. The five men are to be tried jointly, just as they appeared at today’s hearing.
Chief prosecutor Army Col. Lawrence Morris emphasized to reporters that the government has to respect the defendants’ decision to represent themselves in court.

Morris reminded reporters that the five defendants now in U.S. custody are the people “most responsible for the murder of 2,973 individuals.”

Nineteen people in U.S. custody have been charged with crimes under the Military Commissions Act, Morris noted. Today’s arraignment was conducted under the auspices of the act.
The Military Commissions Act established procedures governing the use of military commissions to try alien unlawful enemy combatants engaged in hostilities against the United States for violations of the law of war and other offenses that can be tried by military commission, according to a military commissions fact sheet.
The chief prosecutor expressed his confidence in the fitness of the military commissions system as a means to dispense justice.

“As you continue to see, the military commissions process is an orderly, fair, open legal system, remarkably similar to other trials in United States courts,” Morris said. “The prosecution team will continue to work diligently to bring all cases to trial in a fair and expeditious manner, consistent with the best practices in both civilian and military courts.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I am all for death for these terrorists!!

Born James Kenneth McManus
September 24, 1921(1921-09-24)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Served in U.S.Navy, 1943-46

Jim McKay, the veteran and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.
McKay died Saturday of natural causes at his farm in Monkton, Md.

He was host of ABC’s influential “Wide World of Sports” for more than 40 years, starting in 1961. The weekend series introduced viewers to all manner of strange, compelling and far-flung sports events.
McKay also covered 12 Olympics, but none more memorably than the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. He was the anchor when events turned grim with the news that Palestinian terrorists kidnapped 11 Israeli athletes. It was left to McKay to tell Americans when a commando raid to rescue the athletes ended in tragedy.

“They’re all gone,” McKay said.

The terse, haunting comment was replayed many times through the years when the events of Munich were chronicled.

“I had to control myself. I was full of emotion,” McKay recalled. “But when you are a professional, it is important to communicate what it is like, to capture the moment.”

Sports, McKay said, lost its innocence that day.

“Jim was at his best during what had to be his most difficult assignment, hosting with skill and sensitivity ABC’s blanket coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis,” President Bush said in a statement. ” We are also grateful for Jim’s service to his country as a Naval officer aboard a minesweeper during World War II.”

He won both a news and sports Emmy Award for his coverage of the Munich Olympics in addition to the prestigious George Polk award.
A veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II, McKay was the first on-air television broadcaster seen in Baltimore. He worked at CBS Sports briefly, but did his most memorable work at ABC Sports when it dominated the business under leader Roone Arledge.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Jim McKay was so good and he will be missed. He was such a huge part of sports and the Olympics too.

Clap clap… point; clap clap… point; clap clap… point; clap clap… point thingy has suspended her run for President.

“Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won”

Sunset Boulevard – 1950 – Final Scene

LOL NON lovers of B. Hussein Obama
Democrats Against Obama
Others funded by Soros:
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John McCain
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Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”
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John McCain: George Soros’ Best Friend

A little about George Soros:
Sources:
Chronicles Magazinewww.ChroniclesMagazine.org
George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 but, today, spends most of his time in New York City. Not much is known about his early years. He is the only eminent “holocaust survivor” who has been accused of collaboration with the Nazis.
In 1947, he managed to sneak through the Iron Curtain, and, the official story goes, “he landed penniless in London, but by hard work and sheer genius, he rose to become one of the planet’s most successful investors and richest men.”
George Soros is out to deconstruct nations and states as Europe has known them for centuries, with Russia always the main prize. In an interview with the Moscow daily Komersant (August 8, 1997), he declared that “a strong central government in Russia cannot be democratic.” “The rescue of a free Russian economy depends on the attraction of Western investments,” he added, and, to that end, “Russia’s general public must accept the ideology of an open society.”
There is not one patriot (Russian, Croat, Latvian, Serb, Rumanian, Hungarian) or one practicing Christian on Soros’ payroll. In all postcommunist countries, Soros relies on the sons and daughters of the old communist establishment, who are less likely to be tainted by any atavistic attachments to their native soil, culture, and traditions.
The more successful among them-and the most loyal-may spend years drifting from one “project” to another, and some have been living that way for more than a decade. Soros has revealed (in Underwriting Democracy) that his Open Society foundations will help create an international web, at the heart of which will be the computerized base of personal data that will enable Western multinationals to find the local candidates they need.

Soros’ agenda in world affairs is clear from the fact that his appointees include Gen. Wesley Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war against Serbia in 1999; Louise Arbour, the former chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal at The Hague; former assistant secretary of state Morton Abramowitz, an enthusiastic supporter of Bosnian Muslims and Albanians in the wars of Yugoslav succession; and former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose visceral Russophobia aided and abetted the rise of Osama bin Laden and his jihadist cohorts.

As Gilles d’Aymery noted two years ago, Soros is not just the power behind the Open Society Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group:

“Like an immense Jules Verne octopus, he extends his tentacles all over Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus as well as the republics of the former Soviet Union. With the help of these various groups it is possible not only to shape but to create the news, the agenda and public opinion to further aims which are, in short, the control of the world, its natural resources and the furtherance of the uniform ideal of a perfect world polity made in America.“

Soros pledged to raise $75 million to defeat President Bush in the 2004 Presidential election, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush groups (see The Shadow Party). He gave $5 million to MoveOn.org, the group that produced political ads likening Bush to Adolf Hitler. He also contributed $10 million to a Democratic Party 2004 get-out-the-vote initiative called America Coming Together, whose directors include representatives from the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, the Service Employees International Union, and EMILY’s List. He further pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank headed by former Clinton chief-of-staff John Podesta.
PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy President Bill Moyers is a trustee of the Open Society Institute’s Board of Directors. The network of Soros foundations – the most prominent of which is the Open Society Institute – supports a wide array of leftist groups and causes.
In December of 2006, Soros met with Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama in his New York office. Soros had previously hosted a fund-raiser for Obama during the latter’s 2004 campaign for the Senate.
On January 16, 2007, Obama announced the creation of a presidential exploratory committee, and within hours Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount allowable under campaign finance laws.
Later that week the New York Daily News reported that Soros would back Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had also supported in the past. Soros’s announcement was seen as a repudiation of Clinton’s presidential aspirations, though Soros said he would support the New York senator were she to win the Democratic nomination.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama’s victory overwhelmed him.
Politico

“I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”

Chris Matthews Effusive Over Barack ‘New Testament’ Obama
Newsbusters

“I’ve been following politics since I was about 5,” said Mr. Matthews. “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”

” I really think there’s a Salieri-Mozart thing going on here,” said Mr. Matthews. “Salieri was the court composer who did everything right. He was impressive. Along comes Mozart. And everybody couldn’t get the music out of their heads. Hillary is really good at doing what she is supposed to do. She’s impressive. He’s inspirational. That’s the difference. One’s the court composer. And one is the genius. There’s something he does. I don’t know what. Oprah said it. It’s not that he’s black. It’s that he’s brilliant.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
The entire Obama phenomena creeps me out. Hussein seems to be setting himself up for the office of Antichrist.

Haditha: No Massacre, No Cover-Up
Frontpage Mag. com
By Ben Johnson
THIS WEEK YET AGAIN PROVED THE PARTY OF DEFEAT’S KING WEARS NO CLOTHES
On Wednesday, a jury found Lieutenant Andrew Grayson “not guilty” of covering up the (un)massacre at Haditha.
The 27-year-old had been accused of multiple counts of making false official statements and one count of attempting to deceive by making false statements. A charge of “obstruction of justice” had been thrown out the day before.
More than simply another exoneration of those accused of wrongdoing in Haditha – the sixth of eight accused – this verdict will go a long way to redefining Haditha and refuting those who insist on slurring “baby-killer” Marines and the United States herself.
In the atrocity story churned out by left-wingers and “mainstream media” newscasters (but then, I repeat myself), four U.S. Marines murdered 24 blameless Iraqi civilians on November 19, 2005, as their victims cowered, some “as if in prayer.” The then-ascendant face of American surrender, John Murtha, made this story his own in a dramatic press conference in May 2006, insisting his fellow Marines acted “in cold blood” even as an internal investigation was taking place.
The story at once illumined the Left’s imagination like nothing since Abu Ghraib. More than a massacre, its obsessive observers saw in Haditha a “cover-up,” a conspiracy.
The official press release stated these civilians had died during an explosion, rather than by gunfire, yet investigators understand they were killed by ammunition fired at close-range. The narrative became set: the Bush White House ordered American soldiers to slaughter innocent civilians every opportunity they got (My Lai by the dozen); the service covered up the story; and a compliant media hid it all from the American people. The fact that Time magazine broke the story gave them little pause. They became keepers of the dirty secret: America, a genocidal nation since 1492, is at it again.
“Mainstream” members of the Party of Defeat also took advantage of the allegations, using them to promote a six-month timetable for withdrawal.
Had such a withdrawal gone through, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would be the acknowledged emir of the al-Qaeda-controlled sphere of Iraq, recruiting Europeans for actions outside Iraq.
The Haditha lie is dying a bitter death not unlike that of the Jordanian terrorist – again, in spite of the Left, and in a way that is unacknowledged by the Left. Wednesday’s verdict leaves but one person each charged with any form of wrongdoing: one for the “massacre” (Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich) and one for its reporting (Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani). Sgt. Wuterich no longer faces “murder” but reduced “manslaughter” charges, and there are already questions of unlawful command influence in Chessani’s case. Lt. Grayson’s attorney, Joseph Casas, said he looks for both to follow his client’s footsteps.

“I think [Grayson’s acquittal] sets the tone for the overall whirlwind Haditha has been,” Casas stated. “It’s been a botched investigation from the get-go. I believe in the end all of the so-called Haditha Marines who still have to face trial will be exonerated.”

Previous acquittals also paved the way. In August 2007, the judge stated Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt was not merely “not guilty” but actually “innocent” of any illegal action whatsoever. Either, or both, Wuterich and Chessani may yet be convicted of some crime, but the narrative of a slaughter and cover-up is long gone.
This is a necessary corollary of the fact that there was no such “massacre.” The defendants – who are, it is too infrequently pointed out, U.S. Marines who pledged to give their lives if necessary to keep America safe from terrorists – have maintained the “insurgents” initiated the firefight; hid among civilians (as terrorists often do); and the Marines heard rifles cocking in the smoke-filled room when they inadvertently killed the Iraqis (whom they also pledged to protect from terrorists at the cost of their lives).
The investigation attempting to prove “murder” never made sense. In June 2007, Lt. Col. Paul Ware told the prosecution flatly, “The account you want me to believe does not support unpremeditated murder. Your theories don’t match the reason you say we should go to trial.” Relatives would not allow doctors to autopsy the bodies, and the house in question had been freshly repaired and painted before investigators could retrieve additional evidence. Photographs of the scene revealed the curtains and walls were riddled with bullet holes – indicating a two-way firefight. And these “cold blood”-ed killers have broken down in tears at the remembrance of their actions.
The disgraceful John Murtha doesn’t even blush over his.
Now leftist hopes of a conspiracy cover-up have also disappeared like gunsmoke dissipating in the atmosphere.
The apparent explanation is that Lt. Grayson was following procedure. The Associated Press reports:

“Grayson said the charges appear to be the result of a misunderstanding. He has always maintained he was following Marine Corps policy that prohibits the keeping of pictures on personal computers of Iraqi bodies.”

One can see the logic of Lt. Grayson’s position: he could not allow anyone to possess such pictures in the aftermath of the damage done by the amateur photographs a few enlistees made keepsakes of Abu Ghraib. What would the media have done if it found pictures of dead women and children on a laptop? Had Lt. Grayson allowed them to keep such photos, the DailyKos and The Huffington Post would have accused him of enabling the military’s inherently sadistic voyeurism.
Instead, he says he followed procedure and, in return, faced the full legal brunt of his own government. Lt. Grayson is still driven to the point of tears when he remembers the day he first heard of the charges, and the fact that he was facing 20 years in prison: “It was surreal. You can’t quite believe you’re hearing all this.”
Much the reaction patriotic Americans have while reading left-wing accounts of Haditha, Iraq, or the United States.

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Wild Thing’s comment…….
This is an outstanding article! It’s great to see some sources picking this up .
Hopefully Murtha will suffer a fate similar to a death by a thousand cuts with the articles that have been and will be printed.
Murtha Must Go blog
Someone should start a movement to deny Murtha the honor of a military funeral when his time comes!

….Thank you Mark for sending this article.

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez, published in a Spanish newspaper on 5-22-07. It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe — and possibly to the rest of the world.
REMEMBER AS YOU READ — THIS WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER Date: Tue, 22 May 2007.
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back:
These events are actual events from history. They really happened!
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a: Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 w as bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages of 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves — if they have any such sense.
As the writer of the award winning story ‘Forrest Gump’ so aptly put it, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’
People need to wake up. North America is dying, now.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
This is something from an email, but it is so good I wanted to post it here.

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.

And the Lord spoke, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out! Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
For something non political haha