"Mr. Bellavia is the recipient of both the Silver and Bronze Stars, and the Conspicuous Service Cross, New York State 's highest award for combat valor. He also has been nominated for The Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in a fierce, urban, hand-to-hand fight in the battle of Fallujah in November 2004."
do you live in NY? in his district? isn't this the kind of person we want representing us? go vote for this guy!
this movie has some seriously shocking images. it is a movie about the Koran, by Geert Wilders. i could not watch the entire thing, but i'll keep trying. if you have forgotten what terrorism is about, you need to watch this. then you will remember.
Wilders releases controversial film on Islam
(EUX.TV) -- Dutch member of parliament and outspoken Islam critic Geert Wilders on Thursday night posted on the Internet his long-awaited movie 'Fitna' on LiveLeak. The movie is a controversial critique of Islam as a 'fascist' religion.
though the film has been pulled from LiveLeak, it is still available all over the web. it's an important piece of work and helps us all to understand exactly what islamofacists are all about. and really all of this seems to prove Wilders point doesn't it?
ok so we all know that hillary has had another "pinocchio moment" with her recent whopper about sniper fire and her trip to Bosnia in '96. along for the ride was chelsea, sheryl crow the singer, and sinbad the comedian.
why are we all so surprised? is this not just an everyday practice of the clintons? is this not what we all lived through for years and years under the clinton administration? frankly i don't see it as such a shock because it is common behavior for them - lie first always then when caught (nee blue dress, video clips) claim simple and harmless mis-speak. my all-time favorite hillary tall tale was when she tried to become a Marine.
so over the top hillary. shameful aren't they?
the blogosphere is having some fun with our would be commander in chief's latest "misspeak". check these out...
h/t registered
h/t herman friesen
h/t franksalterego
h/t MM
this is simply clinton deception of the day. sadly.
this amazing video is a great reminder of what Jesus Christ has done for us! may we continue to give thanks to our great savior. have a blessed easter weekend.
today i listened to barack obama's "redemption" speech along with the rest of the free world. if you want a transcript, you can get it here. and after mulling on it for a bit, i have a few random thoughts:
the more we learn about him, the more obama seems to be a rather opportunistic politician, impressively smart and disciplined, who has put together a good political career and a terrific presidential campaign. but as i've been saying for a while now, there's not much "audacity of hope" there. this is however calculating ambition coupled with hubris that attempts at great length to convince our nation that this campaign and this candidate are "different."
today's speech gave a good analysis of race relations and injustices from a broad perspective but obama simply failed to take responsibility for having an apparently close twenty-year relationship with a racist, anti-american pastor to whom hateful rhetoric from the pulpit appears second nature. obama seemed to claim in his speech that rev. wright's words were only sentiments of an earlier generation -- one that lived precariously through the civil rights era. if that were true why were there so many young people in all those clips whooping and clapping their approval during rev. wrights' rants?
isn’t obama's platform one of taking responsibility to the next generation, to end that kind of rhetoric? if obama is a change agent and the candidate who wants to move us all beyond racism to a "one america," shouldn’t he have spoken out at his own church about rejecting the bitterness and racism of the past?
as obama lectured the nation today on race relations, how responsible or courageous was it of obama to remain silent for 20 years in his own community while this kind of hateful rhetoric was preached week after week to generation after generation including his own little children? he doesn't glow for me.
is this race baiting or simply speaking truth to power?
barack obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God d**n America...." *blink*
this is all so jarring. by now many of us have heard the incendiary rhetoric from the pulpit of reverend jeremiah wright. vid clips of his comments have been all over tv and the internet. in a campaign appearance earlier this month, obama tried to explain away some of this rhetoric by saying rev. wright is like the nutty old uncle in the corner. i am not so sure....
listen closely to rev. wright. pay attention to how he thinks, who he is, and the culture of his church...
rev. wright has been obama's pastor for 20 years. does obama bring his little girls to church to hear this? is this the spiritual teacher obama lets speak into his life? does this kind of hate speech inspire obama? maybe this explains in part why michelle obama is so tragically unhappy with america.
obama has said publically many times that his best selling book "the audacity of hope" was inspired by a sermon of rev. wright. it is that very book that obama has molded his campaign philosophy around - hope and change.
so here is my issue: though i am concerned about the "association" with wright, i am more concerned with the "judgement" of barack obama for staying in a church and aligning himself with a mentor and spiritual leader for 20 years where race baiting and anti-american rhetoric is preached openly and routinely from the pulpit. The obvious deception on obama's part is he would have us believe that in 20 years of attending that church and being very close to this pastor he only became aware of "one" of these clips in the last year and the rest, more recently this last week. this is incredulous to me and speaks loudly of lousy judgement on obama's part.
was obama aware of his pastor's belief system and never really cared until it had political consequences? maybe. though rev. wright was on obama's campaign team in a largely ceremonial role, formal ties between obama and wright are at an end.
remember the now famous "3 am campaign ad"? hillary implying she had more experience to be president when a disaster or terrorists struck at 3 in the morning? obama hit back by saying HE had the better judgement to take a 3 am call as president.
yikes. um, i don't think so senator.
alrighty then...
now to help rinse your palette of all the above gunk. here is a fun treat guaranteed to make you smile, cheer, and be proud of your country (unlike michelle). turn it up ...
yep, its kate smith singing "God Bless America" from game 6 of the 1974 stanley cup finals in philly.
i don't understand women like Dina McGreevey, Silda Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, or Carmela Soprano.
(by the way i have no idea why they are dressed alike: could it be the uniform of contrition after adultery?)
ok. so your man has just humiliated you in front of the whole world. he has shown absolutely no regard for your feelings or physical preservation or that of your kids. how do you stand by his side at the press conference knowing that you have a tortured look on your face? knowing that the whole world is looking at you while he talks? how do you hold his hand as you walk off the stage?
this is my question: why stand there in the first place? is it force of habit from a lifetime of being there for the "big" moments? do otherwise strong women turn to putty in these awful times and allow themselves to be pushed onstage by political handlers—or yanked up there by desperate foolish husbands? what does a woman have to gain by letting the whole world watch what would be hard enough to bear even behind a locked bathroom door with the shower on full blast?
i get the whole love thing. you'd do anything for the person you love, stand by them in times of trouble -- try your best to preserve the family. i understand. but at some point, doesn't your own self-preservation instinct have to kick in? isn't there a point where it's clear that your husband doesn't have the respect and love for you or your family bond?
so why do these women go before the cameras then? paralysis? denial? maybe deep down, they are just as power hungry and morally bankrupt as their creepy, self absorbed, narcissistic, power hungry husbands. i hope i am wrong. now here is some GIRL POWER:
Brown age 19, of Lake Jackson, Texas, is scheduled to receive the Silver Star later this month. She was part of a four-vehicle convoy patrolling near Jani Kheil in the eastern province of Paktia on April 25, 2007, when a bomb struck one of the Humvees.
"We stopped the convoy. I opened up my door and grabbed my aid bag," Brown said.
She started running toward the burning vehicle as insurgents opened fire. All five wounded soldiers had scrambled out.
"I assessed the patients to see how bad they were. We tried to move them to a safer location because we were still receiving incoming fire," Brown said.
She helped move them out of harm's way, eventually some 500 yards, and then treated their wounds and saw them off to safety. She saved their lives.
The military said Brown's "bravery, unselfish actions and medical aid rendered under fire saved the lives of her comrades and represents the finest traditions of heroism in combat."
Spc. Brown serves in the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team.
Spc. Monica Lin Brown from Lake Jackson Texas of the 82nd Airborne stands guard at a forwarded operating base in Khost, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Well done Specialist Brown. Thank you for your service. An "All American Hero" with Girl Power too.
waterboarding - simulated drowning. does this look like torture to you?
today, our president vetoed legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics. in a time when " the haters" incinerate 3000 of us, destroy our assets, behead us, and vow to hang the islamic flag over the white house, why would we NOT want every tool available to us to feret out necessary information from suspected terrorists to stop them? to me its wildly inappropriate to limit this as a interrogation technique because of the seriousness of our times.
i mean get stinking real. THIS is torture from Al Qaeda's own manual....
and i guess if the bad guys still won't spill it, there is always the ultimate torture...
anything from these three is horror personified. :P
sometimes words are unnecessary... even on a blog.
h/t lucianne moronic story of the week
this is certainly the most ridiculously outrageous measure ever passed by any town in american history....
worse than arresting someone for throwing chewing gum on the sidewalk. worse than arresting someone for shaving on sunday. worse then arresting someone who painted their house mental ward green.
the little towns of brattleboro and marlboro vermont have passed a measure that would force their constables to arrest the President and/or Vice President of the United States if they ever set foot in their towns. Really.
in brattleboro, the vote was 2,012 for and 1,795 against. in marlboro, it was 43 to 25, with three abstentions.
