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The Marine who beat 70 Iraqi roadside bombs DISARMING DUTY: Marine Staff. Sgt. Matthew Bateman just returned from third tour in Iraq as an EOD, Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician who job is to detonate or disarm IEDs, Improvised Explosive Devices.

Veterans Day means more after you’ve stared down death for a living.
Orange County Register
Over here, death waits in discarded rice bags. In motor-oil cans. Even in the carcasses of dead dogs on Iraqi roadsides.
That’s where the bombs lie hidden. Waiting.
Most U.S. troops hope they never see an “improvised explosive device,” or IED – the No. 1 killer of Americans in Iraq. But Marine Staff Sgt. Matt Bateman goes out looking for them every day.
That’s his job.
On this day, he’s been called to a small pile of rocks in the median strip of an intersection northwest of Baghdad. He’s arrived with his two-man demolition team and a camera-laden robot. The robot has identified the IED and now is delivering a charge of TNT to destroy it.
Suddenly the robot hits a snag. It’s stuck. Someone must leave the Marine cordon and retrieve it. By hand. It’s Bateman who makes the 100-yard walk alone.
He’s seen buddies die. Seen firefights. Seen what IEDs can do to trucks and tanks and men.

“Some days, you get nervous or butterflies,” he says. “But you have to stay focused so the feeling doesn’t turn into fear or panic or overtake you.”

For 100 yards he keeps his focus. Then something catches his eye: blinking lights in the pile of rocks. The IED has been triggered.
He thinks: I hope this doesn’t hurt.
WORST DAY
They’re the go-to guys, the celebrities, the rock stars of Iraq – members of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal team, or EOD.
Someone in a convoy or patrol sees a possible roadside bomb, they call EOD.

“It’s rewarding to see we make a difference,” says Bateman, 36, a husband and father of two from Camp Pendleton. “We help guys out. They’re really thankful and that’s one of the rewarding parts of the job.”

The downside?
He lifts his right arm to show a wristband: “Michael ‘Mikey’ Tayaotao, USMC Nov. 9, 1979 – Aug. 9, 2007. Fallen But Never Forgotten.”

“I’ll tell you my worst day there,” he says.

They were responding to an IED that halted a 35-vehicle convoy on a major supply route in western Iraq.

“I hate to say it was routine,” Bateman says. “But we handled it without major incident.”

Then a second IED was found near the back of the convoy. The team moved in:
Sgt. Mark Zambon controlled their Talon robot, with its four cameras and robotic arm. Sgt. Tayaotao drove their 20-ton, armored truck – in military-speak a “Mine Resistant Ambush Protected” Cougar that could withstand most IED blasts – and set up the explosive charges used to detonate IEDs. Bateman was team leader.
They’d responded to as many as five IEDs in a day, so two at one scene wasn’t unusual. But the second IED wasn’t an IED. It was bait. The real bomb lay nearby, waiting to be triggered – by a footstep.
JUST WENT NUMB
As Tayaotao began to investigate, he triggered a booby trap that killed him.

“My brain didn’t want to accept it,” Bateman says. “But I realized we had to do something.”

As leader of his EOD team and a security force of some 20 other Marines, Bateman had to give orders: Call a corpsman, reset security, call in a helicopter, clear a path to his fallen comrade, conduct a post-blast assessment, collect evidence.

Everyone turned to him: “What do we do next?”

In this strange place, people like to put bombs in the road,Bateman writes in an e-mail home. It’s my job with my team to go and make it safe. On top of that, people like to shoot at us sometimes while we are working. What a strange place.
One thing the bombs and shooting taught him: No one ever died from not having a cool car. From not having the latest cell phone. From going without MySpace and YouTube.
I don’t miss football or baseball,he writes. I don’t need to seal myself off from my family while I sit in my room playing X-Box. I know I am a family man and I am very happy and proud of that fact.
His wife, Anita, would write him two or three e-mails a day and check her inbox every few hours.

“He was constantly on my mind,” she says. “I couldn’t watch the news. Knowing he’s a target, it’s very stressful.”

At first, Bateman couldn’t even grieve his buddy’s death.

“It was too big to process at once,” he says, “so everyone just went numb for a while.
It wasn’t until 48 hours later, when Bateman finally could call Anita on the phone, that his emotions bubbled up.
“I just kept everything bottled up,” he says. “And when I finally got on the phone with her, I got to let go of it.”

OUTSIDE THE WIRE

Over here, they call it “outside the wire.” As in, “Every time we went outside the wire, I’d say a little prayer.”

As in, “Every time we went outside the wire, we had a security team.”

As in “Every time we went outside the wire, we had on our uniform, boots, body armor, helmet, extra gear hanging on our body armor, pistol on our hips and a rifle. Even if it was 125 degrees.”

Outside the wire – the fenced security of their base – is where most Marines spend most of their time in Iraq. That’s what Bateman hopes people remember this Veterans Day.

“People forget the sacrifices made, not just in this war but in all wars,” he says. “That there are men willing to say, ‘I’ll do this,’ so we can have our barbecues or our day on the beach.”

“Hopefully people won’t take for granted those things they have that are comfortable to them,” he says.

He can’t anymore, because he knows life outside the wire. That’s where more than 3,850 Americans have died in this Iraq war. Where more than 28,000 have been wounded. Where he watched his buddy Mikey die.
And where he faced his own death in a pile of rocks with blinking lights inside.
THE THINGS YOU HAVE
A chess match – that’s how Bateman sees his job on the bomb squad.

“We constantly change our procedure because we know they’re watching us every step,” he says.

One time their armored truck ran over an IED while driving to investigate an IED. Another time they found an IED that was fake, not with a booby trap but with a note naming insurgents in town. He never found out if it was real or a trap. Another time, they took small-arms fire as soon as they stepped out of their truck to investigate an IED.
On successful days, it’s exhilarating.

“Afterwards, we do a mental touchdown dance,” he says. “We crossed the goal line. Everyone comes back with all their fingers and toes.”

On this day, however, he is not so sure: The robot is stranded with TNT in its claw. Next to an IED ready to explode. He sneaks in. That’s when he sees lights blinking in the rock pile.
The IED is trying to explode. But on this day, Bateman’s crew is able to jam the signal – a procedure that doesn’t always work. He is able to walk away. To live another day.

“It was a rush, coming out of the other side of it, wow,” he says. “Not a rush like, ‘Wow, skydiving – I can’t wait to do again.’ But, ‘That was exciting – I hope that never happens again!'”

After facing and defeating more than 70 IEDS in Iraq, Bateman finally returned to his wife and children at Camp Pendleton last month. His routine? Mow the lawn, clean the kitchen, play with the kids and occasionally grab a good, old-fashioned In-N-Out burger.
I know now,he wrote in an e-mail last summer, that it is so important to want the things you already have.
And to appreciatethem, he might add today.

“You don’t have to do anything amazing,” he says of Veterans Day. “You don’t have to buy a vet dinner or donate to a cause. Just please remember them for a moment. That’s all a lot of us ask, just that acknowledgment.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Thank you Staff Sgt. Matt Bateman! You are in our prayers and we are so grateful for all you do.

If you know a Veteran, someone in your family, friend of the family, neighbor, who served their country, take a brief moment of your day to thank them. Thank them for the sacrifice they made for the better good of their country.
I am so very thankful for every service member in our military who has served our great nation .So, to the men and women who answered the call in both times of war and peace, I thank you. —- Wild Thing

Our Veterans took a thousand towns and villages……
Snow fields and empty stretches of Ocean……..
The jungles hot and deep,
and fought the fight for FREEDOM,
and turned then into sacred places
with their courage in the face of unimaginable horror

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Anzio

When they fought their way ashore at Normandy….
Dodged their bombers through a deadly maze of antiaircraft fire…….
Went weeks without sleep in a mad race to break the German Code…

They KNEW what was at stake…….
it was the United States of America.
Their children and grandchild and their homeland…….
it was about our FREEDOM

And away He went to war…….

Young, full of dreams and hope for a future…blue eyes shining bright.
He stepped on the bus that would carry him away from us.
We waved until we could see the bus no more and then
we waved once more…as if to insure all our love went with him.
We could not imagine our baby boy going off to
fight a war in a place we had never even heard of…
Days came and went. The letters were full of wonderful
memories of his childhood and telling me to be sure and
cook his favorite foods and think of him…He wrote about the
endless rain that kept them walking in soggy field of rice …
and the heat that was relentless … and of the people who
were so distrustful because of the Americans.
He also wrote of his pride in our country…
of believing in what he was doing.
And once he wrote a letter that ripped my heart into…he wrote
“Mom…there are times when I am in the foxholes and
I feel like I am not going to come out. I don’t want you
to worry though, Mom because I believe I am going
to come home…deep inside of me. I am coming home, Mom.”
Never before had I thought much about soldiers until
my son put on his uniform. And then I began to pray for them all…
and when I would see one my heart would fill with love for them.
I did not know all the horrors they saw or the pain they felt
but I knew they were laying down their very lives for the country we live in.
I knew there was no greater love.
Soon the calendar in our kitchen was filled with marks.
We were counting the days …
and then the letters which had been coming stopped.
A couple of weeks after the letters had stopped and
my heart was growing so heavy…
it hurt to breathe. A mother knows. I gave him life.
He grew inside my body…and I knew. A part of my soul had died…
I knew before the two men knocked on our door that morning.
I did not hear much of their words…
all I knew was my baby boy was gone.
And I knew that my world would never be the same.
Many years have come and gone since that day in ’69.
But whenever I pass a soldier on the street or see one on TV,
I stop and pray…
“Dear God…bless that young man…
protect him and let him know how grateful we are
for what he does. For what he is doing for this nation…
bless His life, dear God. Please keep him safe and
let him return home safe and sound…”
Today I laid a wreath and a flag on my son’s grave.
I could hear his words still even after all these years…
“Mama, I am coming home.”
And he did … not the way I had prayed but my son is
home-in a place where there is no more death or sadness.
And He is home in his mother’s heart…with every breath I breathe.
Each time I sing, “Our Country ’tis of Thee…Sweet Land of Liberty,”
I see my son, I see mothers and fathers who have lost their children…
I see wives who lost their husbands…
I see children who lost their Dads …
and I see a flag waving in the wind over a land that is free.
And I know the cost of that freedom…
God bless our veterans … each and everyday.
May they always know the price they paid is not forgotten …
and the land they fought to save …
may freedom always ring!

BALLAD OF THE CHOSIN

The nights were cold in the Korean soil.
But the night’s been cold before.
And it’s not so hard in your own back yard.
To be set for peace or war

But in history there’s a chapter of a place called Valley Forge
Repeated one December on the Chosin Reservoir.
They had us all surrounded I could hear them scream and yell
My feelings at that moment No tongue could ever tell.
I saw the bursting mortar shells And the bullets around me flew
As all my strength had left me And all my courage too.
With the breaking of the morning Just before the dawn
I heard the sounding bugles And the big attack was on.
The cotton quilted uniforms Against our bullet spree
The screaming yelling banzai They called the human sea.
Baby faces bearded And chapped with hardenin’ mud
Parkas that were dirty And stained with frozen blood.
Here a bunch of youngsters Who fought on ’til the end
In the battle of the Chosin Where boys were turned to men.
Twelve long miles of convoy Headed for the sea
Roadblocks at every turning Down through Koto-Ri.
The frost bite and the wounded With their dead and dying too
No matter what the objective be These boys were going through.
The Captain he informed us Perhaps he thought it right
That before we reach the river boys We’re going to have to fight.
We’re going out like Marines
In an organized withdraw
And no matter what the rumors say
It’s no retreat at all.
We fought at least nine hours Before the strife was ore
And the like of the dead and wounded I’ve never seen before.
But the everlasting promise Kept along each bloody yard
No one leaves behind the wounded ‘Cause there ain’t no fight that hard.
The Chaplain collected dog tags In his hands were quite a few
There was Captain Smith’s, McCloskies And Corporal Bryan’s too.
And before we reached the river And fought our way back through
The Sergeant had the dog tags And he had the Chaplains too.
If I made you pause one moment And take a little time
Then I know it wasn’t just in vain That I put these words to rhyme.
For there’s just too many people Who take this all in stride
Who hear these tales of battles Then cast it all aside.
The nights were cold in the Korean soil But the night’s been cold before
And it’s not so hard in your own back yard To be set for peace or war
But in history there’s a chapter of a place called Valley Forge
Repeated one December on the Chosin Reservoir.
Written by Frank Gross
The Ballad of Chosin was composed on December 29th 1950
and it is believed to be among the first ballads
to be composed on the war in Korea .

“To those warriors, who have passed on since and to those who gave their youth, their health and their peace of mind in the fight for freedom, particularly the freedom of speech. We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
~ Orwell

The Senrinels
You ancient, rusty relics- if you
could only tell
Your history and your legends, of
the battles and the hell.
You lie silent on those beaches,
where you formed a battle line,
Now decaying hulks of rusting steel
from a different place and time.
Ghostly figures man your turrets,
though the surf’s the only sound.
Aye, your guns are long since si-
lenced, while the ground swells
rage and pound.
I close my eyes and visualize those
beachheads long ago,
When young Marines were fighting
through that surf and undertow
All too many never made it and, like
you, they shall remain
Silent sentinels at your turrets, while
the hourglass drops its grain.
Time, to you , is unimportant; You’re
a monument to the past,,,
But your presence is a waning, if
again the die is cast.
Let no tyrant, King or ruler ever tam-
per with our land,
Lest you start your rusty engines,
and your gunners rise and stand.
May you never be forgotten; May the
old vets spread your fame,
For your colors still fly boldly, and
Old Glory still her name.
Carl Dearborn

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Click on graphic BELOW to hear “Some Gave All” by Billy Ray Cyrus

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Cheerleaders visit the Marines at Camp Fallujah

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Denver Broncos Cheerleaders In Iraq

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Here are the matchups for Sunday, November 11 Time (EST)
STL @ NO 1:00 PM
JAC @ TEN 1:00 PM
CLE @ PIT 1:00 PM
PHI @ WAS 1:00 PM
ATL @ CAR 1:00 PM
DEN @ KC 1:00 PM
MIN @ GB 1:00 PM
CIN @ BAL 4:05 PM
DET @ ARI 4:15 PM
CHI @ OAK 4:15 PM
DAL @ NYG 4:15 PM
IND @ SD 8:15 PM
Monday, November 12 Time (EST)
SF @ SEA 8:30 PM
Byes: Texans, Patriots, Jets, Buccaneers

These are the teams I think everyone is for. I will add to this as you tell me your favorite teams.
(Some names are those deployed in Iraq)
Lynn – Broncos, Bears, Browns
Tom – Cowboys, Broncos
Darth – New York Giants, Tampa Bay Bucs, (ABP – ‘anybody’ but Philly )
Mark – Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Bears
Bob – Buffalo Bills
Billy – Jets, NY Giants, Bears
Nick – Cowboys, Rams and Raiders
Karsten – Tampa Bay Bucs, NY Giants
navycopjoe – Chicago Bears
LindaSOG – Miami Dolphins
Jonathan – Raiders
Dawn – Seahawks, Bronco’s ….(husband USARMY delpoyed, Iraq)
Amber – Green Bay Packers …..(husband USMC delpoyed Iraq)
Cuchieddie – Raiders
Sierrahome – Colts
patrickdaniel – Chargers, Cowboys
Eve – Colts ….(husband USARMY deployed Iraq)
Beth – Bears , Saints
Chief – Seahwaks
Chrissie – Bears, Broncos and Cowboys
Deployed:
Andy ( USMC) – Colts
Mike ( USARMY) – Seattle Seahawks
Sand Man ( (USMC) – Bronco’s
Dave (USARMY) – Patriots
Tim ( USMC) – Bears
Jean ( USARMY) – Atlanta Falcons
Max ( USARMY- Cowboys
Pete ( USMC) – Bronco’s

Sunday FINAL Scores
JAC 28 @ TEN 13 FINAL
PHI 33 @ WAS 25 FINAL
ATL 20 @ CAR 13 FINAL
CLE 28 @ PIT 31 FINAL
BUF 13 @ MIA 10 FINAL
DEN 27 @ KC 11 FINAL
STL 37 @ NO 29 FINAL
MIN 0 @ GB 34 FINAL
CIN 21 @ BAL 7 FINAL
DAL 31 @ NYG 20 FINAL
DET 21 @ ARI 31 FINAL
CHI 17 @ OAK 6 FINAL
IND 21 @ SD 23 FINAL

November 11~We Honor All Who Have
Served and Sacrificed For The Freedoms We Enjoy.

It was the Veteran,
Not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It was the Veteran,
Not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It was the Veteran,
Not the lawyer,
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It was the Veteran,
Not the police,
Who has given us the right to be secure in our persons.
It was the Veteran,
Not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the right to demonstrate.
It is the Veteran,
Not the politician,
Who defends our Nation
It is the Veteran,
Who salutes the flag.
Who served under the flag.
Who gave his oath to support and defend
The Constitution and Our Nation
Against all Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
It is the Veteran,
Willing to give his life to protect your freedoms and mine.
Whose coffin is draped by the flag.
It was the Veteran,
With faith in God
Who has given us all our Freedoms.
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD,
AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM

Logo of D.C. imam’s movement

Washington-based cleric working toward ‘Islamic State of North America’ by 2050
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A Washington, D.C., imam states explicitly on the website for his organization that he is part of a movement working toward replacement of the U.S. government with “the Islamic State of North America” by 2050.
With branches in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Philadelphia, the group As-Sabiqun – or the Vanguard – is under the leadership of Abdul Alim Musa in the nation’s capital.
Musa’s declaration of his intention to help lead a takeover of America was highlighted by noted Islam observer Robert Spencer on his website Jihad Watch.
The group says it has a six-point plan of action which is implemented at each location where a branch of the movement is established.
* Establishing a mosque “as a place to worship Allah in congregation and as a center of spiritual and moral training.”
* “Calling the general society” to embrace Islam.
* Establishing a full-time school “that raises children with a strong Islamic identity so they can, as future Islamic leaders, effectively meet and deal with the challenges of growing up in the West.”
* Establishing businesses to “make the movement financially stable and independent.”
* Establishing “geographical integrity by encouraging Muslims of the community to live in close proximity” to the mosque.
* Establishing “social welfare institutions to respond to the need for spiritual and material assistance within the community as well as the general society.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
And we let these folks into our country for what reason????
America, these pukes are telling us to our faces what their intentions are. They are not some fringe element, but rather they are representative of mainstream islam. It is patently obvious our government is doing nothing to stop this clear and present danger to America, what with all the PC and multicultural and kumbaya crap that infests and infects our national leadership. These bastards are indeed the vanguard of the global islamic movement, and our response seems to be “What can we do to make them like us?” Get a grip, America! They are not here to like us, they are here to sow the seeds of our destruction!

Since 1775 they have been answering thier nation’s call.
Thank you from a gratefull nation to all of you who have answered that call, but past and present.
May God bless each and every one of you and keep you safely in His arms.

Justices to decide whether to take up case on strict limits approved in D.C.
McClatchy-Tribune
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court will discuss gun control today in a private conference that soon could explode publicly.
Behind closed doors, the nine justices will consider taking a case that challenges the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban. Their ultimate decision will shape how far other cities and states can go with their own gun restrictions.

“If the court decides to take this up, it’s very likely it will end up being the most important Second Amendment case in history,” said Dennis Henigan, the legal director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Henigan predicted “it’s more likely than not” that the necessary four justices will vote to consider the case. The court will announce its decision Tuesday, and oral arguments could be heard next year.

Lawyers are swarming.
Texas, Florida and 11 other states weighed in on behalf of gun owners who are challenging D.C.’s strict gun laws. New York and three other states want the gun restrictions upheld. Pediatricians filed a brief supporting the ban. A Northern California gun dealer, Russell Nordyke, filed a brief opposing it.
From a victim’s view:
Tom Palmer considers the case a matter of life and death.
Palmer turns 51 this month. He’s an openly gay scholar in international relations at the Cato Institute, a libertarian research center, and holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University. He thinks that a handgun saved him years ago in San Jose, Calif., when a gang threatened him.

“A group of young men started yelling at us, ‘we’re going to kill you’ (and) ‘they’ll never find your bodies,’ ” Palmer said in a March 2003 declaration. “Fortunately, I was able to pull my handgun out of my backpack, and our assailants backed off.”

He and five other plaintiffs named in the original lawsuit challenged Washington’s ban on possessing handguns. The District of Columbia permits possession of other firearms, if they’re disassembled or stored with trigger locks.
Their broader challenge is to the fundamental meaning of the Second Amendment. Here, commas, clauses and history all matter.
The Second Amendment says, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Gun-control advocates say this means that the government can limit firearms ownership as part of its power to regulate the militia. Gun ownership is cast as a collective right, with the government organizing armed citizens to protect homeland security.

“The Second Amendment permits reasonable regulation of firearms to protect public safety and does not guarantee individuals the absolute right to own the weapons of their choice,” New York and the three other states declared in an amicus brief.

Gun-control critics contend that the well-regulated militia is beside the point, and say the Constitution protects an individual’s right to possess guns.
Clashing decisions
Last March, a divided appellate court panel sided with the individual-rights interpretation and threw out the D.C. ban.
The ruling clashed with other appellate courts, creating the kind of appellate-circuit split that the Supreme Court likes to resolve. The ruling obviously stung D.C. officials, but it perplexed gun-control advocates.
If D.C. officials tried to salvage their gun-control law by appealing to the Supreme Court — as they then did — they could give the court’s conservative majority a chance to undermine gun-control laws nationwide.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Another example of liberals not being able to see the consequences of their actions. Suppose guns or even just handguns are outlawed. What happens next? Look at DC where handguns are already outlawed.
When you see the arrogance and treason in DC today, it’s becoming apparent that we may need them to control our runaway government. When they are this treasonous knowing we still have guns, can you imagine how bad it would be if we were not armed and able to protect ourselves?

“No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. To secure peace, securely and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” –George Washington

“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress … to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms…. “–Samuel Adams

“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”—Samuel Johnson

“The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”—Thomas Jefferson “If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin” ~ Samuel Adams

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”–Thomas Jefferson

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship.” –Patrick Henry

“A government that does not trust it’s law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.” -James Madison

” Freedom was never lost through a brutal assault; it was lost due to sloth, lack of vigilance, and apathy. Gradually more restrictions were imposed to make life seem safer, orderly and more fair. Freedom has been ravaged, now we must suffer the consequences!” author unknown

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
ICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project
When John Coleman founded The Weather Channel in the early 1980’s, he probably never could have guessed that TWC would be promoting the theory of global warming in the 2000’s.
That’s because Coleman doesn’t believe in global warming, or so-called climate change. In a November 7 blog entry on icecap.us, Coleman makes it clear that he does not oppose environmentalism, but he says that global warming is a “non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam.”

“I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct,” Coleman wrote.

“The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.”

Coleman believes that in time, the global warming theory will be proven to be a scam when none of the predicted catastrophic events, such as coastal flooding and super storms, actually materialize.

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus. “

“Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.
I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend. “

Wild Thing’s comment……….
With NBC going green with their logo and during the football game this Global warming thing is really getting out of hand. It is INSANE!

British Troops call in B1 assistance with a direct hit on Taliban Position

Wild Thing’s comment……..
God Bless our Allies and all who hold Freedom and Liberty dear. Lucky Strike Means Fried Taliban!
This is the same B-1 bomber that treasonous puke Jimmy Carter tried to kill early on in his pathetic four year tour de’ farce in the Oval Office. Fortunately, thanks to 44 States and President Ronald Wilson Reagan, the B-1 was resurrected and serves as an integral and valuable part of our military resources today.