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David Brock, Dems plan $40M hit on McCain
Politico for complete article !!
Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what’s expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain – the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA’s previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America – failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain’s armor.
“We’re a little behind where we need to be,” he said.
But after a dinner Tuesday night at the Manhattan apartment of liberal megadonor George Soros, at which Brock and the consultant Paul Begala laid out the group’s plans, Brock said his group now has commitments worth $7.5 million – almost twice what the Fund for America is expected to report raising in the first quarter of this year. He said the group would begin running ads before it meets its $40 million goal.
Brock suggested that the group could do the work of a press corps that, he says, has “fallen down on the job” when it comes to McCain.
Brock’s remarkable emergence as a leader of the Democratic party’s shadow campaign efforts marks a milestone in a long personal journey that began in the early 1990s with the notoriety he gained from magazine stories written for The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. Among his controversial articles was one alleging that Bill Clinton had used Arkansas state troopers to facilitate his philandering, a piece that set the wheels in motion for Paula Jones to file suit against Clinton for sexual harassment. In 1993, Brock authored The Real Anita Hill, a critical book about the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
Brock later apologized to Clinton in a public letter and broke publicly with the conservative movement. He wrote about his disillusionment in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right, and Hillary Clinton later helped him establish Media Matters, which criticizes reporters for alleged right-wing “misinformation.”
Brock is now seen in political circles as closer to Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign than to Senator Barack Obama’s, but Brock said he has already met with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close Obama ally.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Well this will be interesting to say the least. The deal is made and Paul Begala will consult with political mercenary David Brock backed mostly by Soros to go after McCain who thanks to Rick Davis McCain’s Campaign Manager is also funded by Soros indirectly through various groups.
This is weird because McCain is also on the Soros dime, not as much as Hillary and certainly not as much as B. HUSSEIN Obama. Soros has covered himself every which way.
a post I did months ago
McCain and Connections To Soros ~ Ugly Stuff
So let’s see the admitted liar David Brock… or the flaming homosexual David Brock… or the greedy propagandist David Brock… or the Marxist David Brock is joining with communist/socialist America hater Soros who is known for hedging his bets are in political “bed ” together.
The Dems are still smarting over the fact that a group of Swift Boat Vets proved their candidate in 2004 was a serial liar.
Through McCain-Feingold, John McCain can truly be said to have fed the hand that bites him.

Photo of Brock with Barney Frank

What we know too is that Hillary wants this so bad she can taste it. She and Bill never were never punished for their many crimes, ‘gates”, suspicious deaths of those that came in contact with them, but even so she is not someone to mess with.
Obama has turned this election into a total race card, and that is UGLY anyway it is done. The terrorists want him to be elected as we saw in the video of the Palestinians doing what they can do gain support of Obama.
Besides being such an important election for the future of America it sure is turning out to be a truly ugly one and we still have months to go.

Senior Airman Melissa Gallardore places retaining rings on a wheel from the main landing gear of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on March 29, 2008. Gallardore is a crew chief with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron deployed from the Montana Air National Guard. DoD photo by Senior Airman Julianne Showalter, U.S. Air Force.

U.S. Navy sailors watch from the fantail as aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 2 streak to a night landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during flight operations in the Pacific Ocean on April 7, 2008. DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James R. Evans, U.S. Navy.

A U.S. Army soldier ducks away from the blast of a 120-mm mortar during operations south of Forward Operating Base Naray, Afghanistan, on March 26, 2008. Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Battalion, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team are firing the mortar in hopes of flushing out anti-coalition militia suspected of attacking an Afghan supply truck. DoD photo by Spc. Derek Niccolson, U.S. Army

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Our military is so totally awesome. I am so very proud of every one of them. Thank God for these men and women and their love for our country. And thank God too for the Veterans that went before them to lead the way.

International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge arrives at a press conference for a joint meeting between the Association of National Olympic Committees and the IOC executive board in Beijing. China bluntly told the world Olympics chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on human rights following days of protests that have shadowed the Olympic torch around the world. (AFP/Liu Jin)

China tells Olympic boss to stay out of politics
BEIJING (AFP)
China bluntly told the world Olympics chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on human rights following days of protests that have shadowed the Olympic torch around the world.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the Games were in “crisis” following the demonstrations, and urged China to respect its pledge to improve its rights record before the event begins in August.

China fired back that Rogge should keep politics out of the Olympics, which Beijing hoped would showcase its much-touted “peaceful rise” to power — but which have instead become a public relations nightmare.

Separately, China’s Ministry of Public Security said it had cracked a terrorist group in its Muslim-dominated northwest that was plotting to kidnap foreign journalists, tourists and athletes during the Olympics.

A taciturn Rogge, on a visit to the host country, admitted he was “saddened” that these Olympics, dogged by protests over Tibet and calls for a boycott, were not simply a global celebration of sport.

It was “not the joyous party that we had wished it to be,” Rogge said in Beijing, nevertheless insisting that the torch relay — disrupted by protests in Greece, London, Paris and San Francisco — would go on.

He also told a news conference that China — under fire over a crackdown in Tibet and a host of other issues — had promised that winning the right to host the Games would lead to an improvement in human rights.
“We definitely ask China to respect this moral engagement,” he added.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters that Rogge’s view of a “crisis” might have been exaggerated, and made it clear China would not engage in a discussion on its human rights performance.

“I believe IOC officials support the Beijing Olympics and adherence to the Olympic charter of not bringing in any irrelevant political factors,” she said.

“I hope IOC officials continue to adhere to principles of the Olympic charter.”

When asked later Thursday whether tension had surfaced between Rogge and the Chinese authorities, IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said: “No, not at all.”

“Relations are very good,” she said.

Attention to China’s rights record intensified last month when protests in Tibet against Chinese rule erupted into violence and spread to other areas of the country.
Exiled Tibetan leaders say more than 150 people were killed in the ensuing crackdown by China. Beijing insists its security forces have killed no one while trying to quell the protests, but that Tibetan “rioters” killed 20 people.
However China sealed off the areas to foreign reporters and other independent monitors, and global rights groups have said they fear those detained could face torture.
Beijing has repeatedly blamed the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, for the unrest.
The Dalai Lama, on a visit to Japan, said China had the right to host the Games but blamed Beijing for the unrest, saying there was no freedom of speech in his homeland.

“They really deserve” the Olympics, he said. “In spite of the unfortunate events in Tibet, my position has not changed.”

Pro-Tibet groups, human rights activists and other campaigners have shadowed the flame since it was lit in Greece on March 24, starting its 20-country journey across the globe.
Protesters disrupted the torch relay this week in London and Paris, where officials had to extinguish the flame several times.
There was no major trouble in San Francisco after organisers shortened the course for the only US leg and switched the route. Its next stop is Buenos Aires.

“The Olympic torch relay will continue in all sorts of weathers to spread the Olympic spirit …,” Jiang, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, told Xinhua news agency.

Some activists have said they fear that, rather than improving the situation, China is using the Games to justify cracking down even harder on critics at home.
China’s security chiefs said Thursday that they had broken two terrorist groups in its heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, where there have lately also been reports of protests against the government.

The “violent terrorist group” plotted to abduct foreigners during the Games in a move “that would achieve the goal of wrecking the Beijing Olympics,” Ministry of Public Security spokesman Wu Heping said.

Meanwhile, European lawmakers in Brussels urged EU leaders Thursday to boycott the Olympics opening ceremony unless China holds talks with the Dalai Lama, while Beijing refused a request by the top United Nations human rights official Louise Arbour to visit Tibet.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Hey Rogge, you people created this monstrosity
“It was “not the joyous party that we had wished it to be,” Rogge said in Beijing.”..
You should have thought of that BEFORE you decided to put the Olympics in CHINA.

A Marine assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), test fires his weapon from his seat aboard a UH-1N Huey before an aerial-reconnaissance mission.

Gen. Randolph Alles, the commanding general of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) accepts a piece of birthday cake from Lt. Col. Michael E. Watkins, the commanding officer of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 167. April 1 marked the 40th anniversary of the squadron.

A Tradition of Excellence: Warriors Celebrate Four Decades of Success
By Cpl. Scott McAdam
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
AL ASAD, Iraq
Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing celebrated its 40th anniversary April 1.
The Warriors, originally Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 167, were founded aboard Marble Mountain Air Facility in the Republic of Vietnam on April 1, 1968, under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 16.
This ceremony is unique because we are celebrating our 40th anniversary in a combat zone under the command of MAG-16 once again, explained Capt. Somer A. Chambley, UH-1N Huey pilot, HMLA-167.
Though the war today is much different than the war 40 years ago, the squadron’s mission remains the same – to support coalition forces.

“Our mission is to provide offensive air support, utility helicopter support, armed escort and airborne supporting arms coordination during naval expeditionary operations or joint and combined operations,” said Chambley.

“Often times the squadron would provide several of these same missions as part of the same operation,” she added. “Our squadron patch, which closely resembles our original patch, has symbolism that represents all these varied missions.”

As with any other element of the Marine Corps, every mission the Warriors accomplish supports Marine infantrymen on the ground.

“There is no doubt that the men and women on the ground are carrying the heavy load of this conflict,” Chambley said. “They are taking the fight to the enemy.”

Throughout their history, the Warriors have accomplished many firsts and participated in numerous significant operations around the globe.
During the squadron’s deployment to Vietnam, Lt. Col. T.F. Miller, then commanding officer of HML-167, dropped the first helicopter bomb using the Helicopter Trap Weapon. In May of 1971, HML-167 was the last operating helicopter squadron in Vietnam, completing over 60,000 combat flight hours during the war.

“Utility helicopter support was our bread and butter during Vietnam –fulfilling a wide range of missions in support of friendly forces,” said Chambley.

After returning from Vietnam, the squadron received the Marine Corps’ first UH-1N Huey, becoming the initial UH-1N squadron for the Marine Corps. With the new airframe, HML-167 also acquired the responsibilities as the training squadron and model manager for the UH-1N.
Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 167 received its first AH-1T Cobra in January 1984 and became the first light/attack squadron on April 1, 1986.
Though the squadron switched designation, their mission didn’t change; it only expanded with the addition of the AH-1 and improved technology.

“Today, we still do those same missions, but we also provide an anti-armor capability and forward air controller capability,” added Chambley.

In 1989, the squadron added three AH-1W Super Cobras to their already deadly arsenal.
One year later, HMLA-167 supported the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit with the evacuation of more than 3,000 American citizens and foreign nationals from Monrovia, Liberia, the largest non-combatant evacuation since Saigon in 1975.
Other large operations HMLA-167 took part in include: Operation Urgent Fury, Beirut, and Desert Storm, in addition to several Marine Expeditionary Units (Special Operations Capable) and Marine Air Ground Task Force deployments.
In 2004, the Warriors deployed to Al Asad Air Base as a full squadron and are currently on their fourth deployment in support of OIF.
Through the last four decades, the Marines with HMLA-167 have demonstrated success and look forward to future accomplishments.

“I could not be more proud of this squadron and of our history,” said Lt. Col. Michael E. Watkins, commanding officer, HMLA-167. “I believe the high-caliber of people we have in the squadron are the right ones to carry on our fine history and traditions.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
There is something very special when I see a story lilke this and the connection from those who served before and those serving now. There really is no break at all in the awesome brotherhood. I love it so much.
God bless those serving now and keep them safe. And I pray too they kill lots of bad guys. haha

A video about celebrities that we all can’t stand, to the music of Tim Wilson and his song titled “But I Could Be Wrong.”

…Thank you Cuchieddie, this is great. hahahaha

Fresh eggs are prepared at the Ironhorse Dining Facility for Soldiers and civilians here April 7. Eggs had not been allowed into Iraq after a March 2007 bird flu outbreak in Kuwait. However, the efforts of Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sabrina Nero, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., brought eggs back to patrons of the dining facilities all over southwest Asia. Nero serves as the command food advisor with Company B, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Aaron Rosencrans, MND-B PAO)

Fresh eggs available once more for deployed Soldiers
By Spc. Aaron Rosencrans, MND-B PAO
CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq

Baghdad Soldier made it possible for deployed troops to once again enjoy fresh eggs as one of their breakfast options after the nutritious staple was banned from Iraq for one year.

After receiving a plethora of requests from Soldiers and the command group, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sabrina Nero, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., took it upon herself to find a way to once again get fresh eggs on the menu; Nero serves as the command food advisor with Company B, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, MND-B,

“When the 4th Inf. Div. got here, everyone, including the command staff, was wondering where the eggs were, so I went to find out why there were no eggs here,” Nero said.

Receiving the mission, Nero immediately got a copy of the memorandum, which banned fresh eggs that originated in Kuwait after a bird flu outbreak in March 2007.

“I read the memorandum from the state department and found a technicality that would allow eggs back into Iraq,” she explained. “The technicality was the Iraqi Government didn’t want poultry products shipped into Iraq that had originated from Kuwait. If it originated in Kuwait, that meant we couldn’t get the product.”

She said she noticed the letter never said Soldiers couldn’t have eggs – it stated the eggs couldn’t come from Kuwait.
Nero wondered where else she could procure eggs since Kuwait was off limits.

“I went and talked to the food safety officer, and she gave me a list of all the approved sources where we could source eggs outside of Kuwait,” she said.

Nero then pieced together the necessary paperwork for a proposal to crack open alternative sources of fresh eggs and poultry from other countries surrounding Iraq.
She submitted a proposal to her chain of command for approval from Lt. Gen. James Lovelace, commanding general of U.S. Army Central and Coalition Forces Land Component Command.
Nero said there was some hesitation as to whether or not to accept the proposal because all food products were shipped through Kuwait; but in the end, she got a green light from all levels and eggs began to roll into Iraq.
To her surprise, her efforts not only affected Iraq but also Afghanistan and other neighboring countries where U.S. troops were stationed.

“Since the military houses its food in Kuwait, eggs became available for all Soldiers in southwestern Asia,” she said. “All it took was one person to stand up and point out the technicality. We were just the ones to push the issue.”

Soldiers seemed appreciative of the new addition to the breakfast menu at the Ironhorse Sports Oasis.

“I was already eating breakfast every day, but now that they got real eggs, it makes it even better,” said Pfc. Manuel Silvas, a native of Houston, who serves as a generator repair specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, STB, 4th Inf. Div. “The eggs give me more motivation to wake up in the morning and get some chow.”

Spc. Benjamin Heath, a native of Overland Park, Kan., and regular breakfast eater said he is happy he can now add eggs to his morning routine. Heath, who ordered three eggs, cooked over medium, serves as an administrator with the Inspector General, Co. A, STB, 4th Inf. Div.

Thinking proactively, Nero said Soldiers can rest easy if there’s an outbreak of bird flu at one of the suppliers.

“Even in the event there is a producer who has an outbreak of the bird flu or has some sort of health issue with their products, there are other facilities we can procure our eggs from,” she said. “This way, we won’t have an interruption in our supply of poultry products from neighboring countries.”

Aside from the recent addition of eggs to the menu, Nero said she had another project on the table for Soldiers this summer and was willing to share the inside scoop.

“The menu board meeting begins this month, and we’re working to bring sherbet back to Baghdad,” she said. “The sherbet should be available by this summer if all goes well. There has been a great demand for a low-calorie alternative to ice cream, so I’ve been working to bring this back for Soldiers who want to eat something sweet, but don’t want all the calories.”

With Nero’s time in Iraq coming to a close, she said she feels she can leave country knowing she accomplished something good for the Soldiers.

“I’m just happy I’m leaving knowing the Soldiers got their fresh eggs,” she said. “It goes to show if you want something done, all you need to do is raise your voice and it will happen.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I love this story!

Delftsman of Delftsman blog tagged me with this challenge:
The Rules:
1. Write your own six word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as travels across the blogosphere.
4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.
5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
Here is mine: I am doing them in order of how my life has happened. haha
Pianist, Athlete, model, entertainer, blessed wife

Now I will tag:
Jack, Billy O’blog, Linda, ( she will kill me for this heh heh), LinkaZona, Poor Grrl Zone,

Obama can denounce Rev. Wrights words…but can he separate himself from his own words?

Wild Thing’s comment………
B. Hussein Obama will bring this same hate for whites and his wife’s hate for whites right into the Oval Office. Every decision Obama makes has this hate seething inside of it.

* STOP the ACLU

Ahmadinejad denies al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on America
Debka file
In his most provocative anti-US speech to date, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised doubts about whether al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001 attack on New York actually took place. He was addressing Iran’s Nuclear Technology day, April 8, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report. He went on to ask why the US had never released the names of the thousands of dead in the Trade Center attacks and how the most advanced security, intelligence and tracking devices in the world had failed to detect the hijackers’ planes before they struck the two New York towers.
Ahmadinejad is famous also for denying the Nazi Holocaust.
Announcing earlier that Iran had begun installing 6,000 new advanced (P2) centrifuges for uranium enrichment at Natanz, the Iranian president claimed his country’s nuclear program had passed the point of no-return technologically and politically.
America is disintegrating politically, militarily and economically, according to Ahmadinejad, who boasted that Iran’s nuclear achievement is a turning-point in history that will change the international order prevailing since World War II.
He asked why everyone jumps on Iran’s nuclear program when “a band of international pirates has stores crammed with nuclear bombs.”
DEBKAfile adds: By going full steam ahead with uranium enrichment, Iran is flouting three UN Security Council resolutions and standing fast against threats, sanctions and incentives offered by the West to halt a process capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Instead, Tehran is installing a new generation of advanced P2 centrifuges to replace the older P-1 machines and accelerate enrichment. He claims they are five times cheaper than the commercial machines.
The five Security Council members and Germany meet later this month for their umpteenth discussion on Iran’s nuclear activities. However, aside from “sweetening” their incentives package and tighter sanctions, they have run out of ideas for curbing Iran’s rapidly-advancing nuclear plans.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I am just sooo tired of this empty-headed camel breeder. swear he must have hired Baghdad Bob to help him with his PR. There are noooooo nuclear bumbs in Iran… NEEEEEVEH!
Other news from I’m-a-nut-job:
Pope is a Muslim.
Bears wait until they leave the woods to use the bathroom.
Sun rises in the west.
And of course number one on his list: The Jooooooooos did it, no matter what “it” is.

Terrorists Ahmadinejad can kiss my ass!

U.S. President Jimmy Carter is planning to meet with Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal in Damascus.