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Pork Fails to Stop Floodwater; Government Still Not Big EnoughMaybe this is something that the Louisiana voters can ask their delegation about: Army's engineers spent millions on Louisiana projects labeled as pork. Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers...French, Dutch Reluctant to Commit national Suicide?
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Interesting report from across the pond: The Frogs and the Dutch seem poised to vote NON! on the proposed Eurocratic Constitution. Oooops. There goes the push for a fully integrated United States of Europe, or whatever it would have been called.
Pesky democracy! Those sheeple just don't vote the way their leaders say they should!
As you may know if you've been reading this blog, I'm trying to help out a local law enforcement agency get some relief supplies to Mississippi. Click here for my post with all the details. Here is a local news...Worth Noting:
The left mocks Rehnquist's deathMaybe you'd like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears. This was e-mailed to the Chief, you may have seen it, but I haven't before, & think it it well worth some attention and thought:
Meet Brian Chontosh. Churchville-Chili Central School class of 1991. Proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband and about-to-be father. First lieutenant (now Captain) in the United States Marine Corps. And a genuine hero. The Secretary of the Navy said so yesterday.At 29 Palms in California, Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow.
It was on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee. When all hell broke loose. Ambush city.The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades. And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him. So he moved to the side of his column, looking for a way to lead his men to safety. As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line his humvee came under direct enemy machine gun fire.Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack. He told his driver to floor the humvee directly at the machine gun emplacement that was firing at them. And he had the guy on top with the .50 cal unload on them. Within moments there were Iraqis slumped across the machine gun and Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver now to take the humvee directly into the Iraqi trench that was attacking his Marines.Over into the battlement the humvee went and out the door Brian Chontosh bailed, carrying an M16 and a Beretta and 228 years of Marine Corps pride, and he ran down the trench, with its mortars and riflemen, machine-guns and grenadiers.He fought with the M16 until it was out of ammo. Then he fought with the Beretta until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up a dead man's AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up another dead man's AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo. At one point he even fired a discarded Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster, sending attackers flying with its grenade explosion.When he was done Brian Chontosh had cleared 200 yards of entrenched Iraqis from his platoon's flank. He had killed more than 20 and wounded at least as many more. But that's probably not how he would tell it. He would probably merely say that his Marines were in trouble, and he got them out of trouble.The citation concluded: "By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, 1st Lt. Chontosh reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service."NOT TYPICALLY BEING REPORTED BY THE MSM ? BUT CERTAINLY WORTHY OF NOTICE.
?People sleep peaceably in their beds because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.? ? George Orwell
Doug Wiken has a post regarding the passing of Chief Justice William Rehnquist titled, Justice with Racing Stripes Croaks. Excerpt:This death unlike the thousands of deaths in New Orleans gives the Texas smirking weasel another opportunity to screw up another...New Blog
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Earlier I posted on Tim Johnson? remark on the upcoming judicial nominations in which he referred to the mainstream. I received this email: Steve I see Tim Johnson is using the word mainstream again, what does he mean. Is there...Economist: "The air force has a future in South Dakota. Do the Democrats?"
From The Economist:A big decision for South DakotaThe air force has a future in South Dakota. Do the Democrats?IT WOULD take a direct hit from an enemy warhead to breach the 25 tons of steel and 12 inches of concrete...
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