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Nov 17 2008
Removed By Police Sunday…………
Yesterday, Sunday 11-16-08, I posted this report about Veterans and Military Family Members occupying a scaffold at the National Archives Building in Washington DC
Nov 16 2008
Message Being Sent By Veterans: Defending the Constitution
Veterans Occupy National Archives
photo from Tony Teolis
Nov 14 2008
Re-Building Plan for the Religious Wingnutery and Repug Party??
I may be jumping to a wrong conclusion here but this looks mighty suspicious and sounds rather wingnutery.
Could there be a Nationwide Call Out, is this a challenge to the Dems and Indies to get it on as well, or have they finally figured out what Sex really is {not bj’s or hand signals in public johns} and with whom and want to celebrate their new found intelligence.
The commentary, leading me to think the christian right thus repug, is written by John Kelso in the Austin Statesman, and as he writes
it’s a great big church with about 20,000 members over five campuses
Anyone who knows of this Mega Church, Fellowship Church in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, can set me straight.
Here’s what he’s doin this coming Sunday:
Nov 11 2008
Memorials
Today, as many know or should know, is Veterans Day, or actually many who observe call it what it was intended to be called, Armistice Day.
On this day in a U.S. occupation of anothers country, that seems so long ago but isn’t, and which I served ’70-’71, the following happened:
November 11, 1972
The U.S. Army turned over its massive military base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. The last American forces, however, did not leave until 1975.
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April 29 – Corporal Charles McMahon, Jr., and Lance Corporal Darwin Judge, USMC, are the last US military personnel killed in Vietnam. They are struck during a rocket attack at the US Embassy in Saigon, during the final North Vietnamese attack on the government.
April 30 – At 7:53 a.m., 11 US Marines (the last of 865 Marines assigned to guard the US Embassy) carrying the American flag, are airlifted from the US Embassy rooftop helipad. Three hours later the Vietnam war finally ends when North Vietnamese tanks break into the Presidential Palace.
Nov 09 2008
Veterans Day on Tuesday…….
The Whole Countries Responsibility, Not Singular Groups!!!
While this was a Great Gesture, on the part of the Redskins Organization teaming up with other Advocacy Groups, this is much more than a one day need. We who serve don’t serve for singular organizations We Serve The Country and an Oath and Contract is made for our service. It is the Responsibility, Every Day, for the Country Served to aid our Brothers and Sisters who have given much more than just their Service, Physically and Mentally, because of these Wars of Choice!!
Nov 08 2008
In Their Boots
Brave New Foundation: In Their Boots Webcast 18
Topic: Employment After Service Beyond Basic Training Chapter 1
Originally aired on October 29th, 2008
Beyond Basic Training
After being medically retired from the Army, Iraq veteran Kevin Randolph and his family are without options. They move to a transitional housing facility, and Kevin must enter one of the worst job markets in recent history to support his wife and their new baby.
Nov 07 2008
Veterans Day – Tuesday 11-11-08
We all know we have a change coming, and it would be great if it happened yesterday, but it will be happening soon enough. That change is in a New President and His Administration who ran on “Change” and bringing along with him a change in the Peoples Representation in both houses of Congress.
The new President, Barack Obama, was not brought into this job of the Countries President by a political parties leaders but by The People who rallied behind him, from the primaries to the Nov 8th National Election Day, and those people, Us, have to continue in what happens, for just one person and the administration nor the peoples representatives can bring about the “Change” that is so desperately needed now after these detructive years on so many fronts by themselves, we must stay engaged!
Nov 06 2008
Meet “Obama’s Mama’s Uncle”
Just caught this, a Proud Great Uncle of a Nephew to become the 44th President of the United States!
Jon Payne, Barack Obama’s great uncle, watched the election coverage with great anticipation. He was particularly moved when he heard the acceptance speech.
Nov 05 2008
Back From The Lion’s Den
How did a group of female support soldiers-mechanics, supply clerks and engineers-end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war? Find out in Lioness, a film about female combat veterans.
In the new PBS documentary “Lioness,” Specialist Shannon Morgan, a brawny, tattooed Army vet, conveys the anguish of post-traumatic stress disorder in one simple line. In the woods of her native Arkansas, she sits with a rifle in one hand. On the brink of tears, sounding half like a warrior and half like a lonely young girl, she recounts the fire fight in Iraq that probably should’ve killed her. “I really wish,” she says, “I had lost my mind.”
Nov 04 2008
Contrast: America
The Differance Is Amazing!!
If McCain Wins, Obama Supporters Predict . . .
At an Obama rally in Columbus, Ohio, ANP asked Obama supporters how they would feel if they wake up on November 5th to find that John McCain has won the election. Produced with Patricia Foulkrod, director of The Ground Truth.
If Obama Wins . . . Conservatives Panicked, Pessimistic
At a Halloween-day rally for John McCain in Columbus, Ohio, ANP asked McCain supporters a simple question: If Barack Obama is elected president, what will it say about America? One woman, who claims that Obama wants to change the flag and the national anthem, demonstrates the lasting power of a debunked anti-Obama chain e-mail. Produced in collaboration with Patricia Foulkrod, director of The Ground Truth.
Nov 04 2008
You say Obama is a Muslim?
I really needed this!!
I believe I just hit on our next Texas Common Sense put to Good Writing and Humor, though my guess is he’s been around for a while, and that would be one John Kelso.