The Ron Paulian Cult Begins Work On Paulville Compound

They have purchased 50 acres of land in Western Texas for Ron Paul supporters only. Apparently this "community" will be self sufficient as to "not be forced to do or pay for other people's life styles you may not agree with."

The goal of Paulville.org:

...to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.

If you stumble over to Paulville.org, make sure you check out the forums, there's lots of interesting tidbits there.

They will be visiting the nearest Sam's Club or Costco and purchasing large amounts of Kool-Aid.

 

h/t: Flopping Aces

A Late Memorial Day Treat

I finally have video of the largest masted American flag in the United States. It's located at the V.F.W. here in my hometown of Norwalk, Ohio. July 4th, 2003, a severe thunderstorm came through, tore the flag, and ripped down the 150ft tower the flag was flown from. The flag was repaired by Norwalk Furniture. I don't know exactly how large the flag is, but I'm guessing its about 120' x 80'

***UPDATE 11:00PM 05/28/08***

Apparently; Google video didn't like the video I uploaded. So I had to upload it to Blogger's goofy thing.

Memorial Day - It's Not Just Another Excuse To Drink

Originally posted 5/28/07

History of Memorial Day

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael replied with her own poem:

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms.Michael and when she returned to France, made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children's League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help. Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW became the first veterans' organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their "Buddy" Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. In 1948 the US Post Office honored Ms Michael for her role in founding the National Poppy movement by issuing a red 3 cent postage stamp with her likeness on it.

Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.

There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.

Being the manager of a grocery store, I have watched, for the past 3 days, people loading up on alcohol. I mean "loading up" as in cart-fulls of beer, wine, and liquor. As I see this, I wonder if any of these people know why this is a three day weekend. They seem oblivious to the fact that Memorial Day is just that, a Memorial for those who died in defense of this country. Do these people even have the wherewithal to do as little as display the flag? Do any of them plan to attend a memorial service?

Even in a time of war, these holidays are not recognized for what they truly are. It's just another excuse for them to get plastered. I bet most of them couldn't bother to watch the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

Having been to Arlington, you cannot appreciate the magnitude of those who have sacrificed their life for us. It's just tombstone upon tombstone for as far as you can see.

Here's a small slideshow with some pics from Arlington Cemetery:

And Finally, a tribute to those who sacrificed their life for OUR country.

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Link Of The Day

Republican Tea Party

Like the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the Republican Tea Party is a direct act of defiance against an unresponsive authority. The Republican Party of today
is a left leaning establishment which has lost touch with its conservative core principles of life, liberty, freedom, justice and traditional family values.

A Democrat Tells The Truth...That They Lied To Win Congress

Rep. Paul Kanjorski is shown on this YouTube video that they promised what they didn't intend to deliver in regards to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we...the democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn't say it, but we implied it. That if we won the Congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of Government would know that wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts...and people ate it up."

- Representative Paul Kanjorski on August 28, 2007

 

No Posts Again. My Health Hasn't Been The Best

But at least it's not as bad as his. That's cancer, I have pneumonia. I don't feel like doing anything. It's hard enough just showing up to work.

Obama's Panties Get Twisted

In a general remark from President Bush about the failures of appeasement, Obama so vainly believes Bush was talking about him. So Obama does what Obama does best, he cries about it.

President Bush's comment:

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

There was nothing specific about that statement. If anything, he was talking about Western European countries and liberals (such as Dhimmi Carter).

Now it's time for Obama to cry:

It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack.

George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel

If you weren't paying attention when Obama said he would hold direct talks with a state-sponsor of terrorism, Iran, then you're probably a nutjob Obama supporter.

Oh, today he calls Israel a stalwart ally, yesterday he calls them a constant sore.

JG: Do you think that Israel is a drag on America’s reputation overseas?

BO: No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

Hamas <3 Obama

"I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse," Ahmed Yousuf, chief Hamas political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an interview with myself and radio host John Batchelor broadcast on WABC in New York.

"I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance," said Yousuf.

Yousuf told us that Obama has "a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with humiliation and arrogance."

Asked about Obama's repeated condemnations of Hamas, calling the Islamist group a terror organization, Yousuf replied, "I understand American politics, and this is the season for elections, and everybody tries to sound like he's a friend of the Israelis ... so whatever [the] Israelis didn't like they will take from all those candidates."

Ohio Attorney General Dumbass Dann Finally Resigns

It took the filing of impeachment by his own party to finally convince him to resign. He has been a disaster and embarrassment to this state since the day he was elected. He appointed his unqualified buddies to posts, stripped contract from companies that supported his opponents, extra-marital affairs, and just being a loser.

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann announced he was quitting Wednesday during a late afternoon press conference with Gov. Ted Strickland by his side.

"Unfortunately, the last step I must take as attorney general to resolve these problems is to resign as attorney general," said Dann as he read from a prepared statement at the governor's Statehouse cabinet office. "It is my belief that this will preserve the great work being done by the office of attorney general."

While Dann left and did not take questions from the reporters assembled, Strickland answered questions from the media.

Strickland said Dann "has come to realize the seriousness of the situation" as "growing recognition from around the state" piled up asking for him to leave.

The governor defended the actions of Ohio Democrats to shun Dann as well as push articles of impeachment in the Ohio House. "This was not the failings of a party," Strickland told reporters. "I think the party responded strongly and forcefully to clean our own house."

Dann's office has been in turmoil during a sexual harassment probe that concluded early this month with the firing of two top managers and the resignations of two others. Dann, the embattled attorney general who took office in January 2007, also announced on May 2 that he had an extramarital affair with a 28-year-old staffer.

Interesting Display At Lowe's Home Improvement Store

Tonight, I was at Lowe's in Sandusky, OH, picking up some items. As I walked to the register, I see a big cardboard display containing various US Flags and banners. THE DISPLAY WAS IN SPANISH!!! It made me sick to see it. I'm sure if I would've looked closer, the flags were probably made in China.

On a side note, something that did make me almost physically ill:

I was at Wal-Mart this morning getting a prescription. There was a rather large woman in front of me. She was wearing white stretchy pants that were stretched to the max, and by max, I mean almost transparent. She wasn't wearing underwear. I nearly vomited in the aisle.

Why could it not have been a gorgeous woman?

Iranian Madman Says Israel To Be Swept Away Soon

Blah, Blah, Blah. The whole death to Israel thing is getting old and monotonous. Swept away, wiped off the map, or whatever new catch phrase the little monkey can make up is just blather. I doubt Israel would have any reservations about sending a nuke to Mecca...and that is why no large scale attack has taken place.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Israel would "be soon swept away" from the Palestinian Territories by the Palestinians. It is the second time within less than three years that the Iranian president predicted the eradication of the Jewish state.

The first time was in 2005 when Ahmadinejad hoped that Israel would be eradicated from the Middle East map.

"This terrorist and criminal state is backed by foreign powers, but this regime would soon be swept away by the Palestinians," Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran.

Referring to worldwide celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Israel's foundation, he said that "it would be futile to hold a birthday ceremony for something which is already dead."

When A Picture Is Worth A 1000 Words

This pic of Obama from Drudge is priceless. There really is no end to the captions you could add.

In Obama's America, There Is 58 States

So, There's Been A Break In Posts

I've been quite busy lately, thus no new posts. I have a side job and that job is doing tech support for a local Subway restaurant franchisee. I also do some accounting (profit & loss statements, checkbook balancing, just basic stuff). It's actually grown into more of than just a side job since this franchisee now has 16 restaurants.

The good news...this franchisee also owns my grocery store. So it allows me more flexibility.

During the past week I have been setting up registers and a network for two new Subway locations inside Cedar Point amusement park. These restaurants will be out of control once the park opens this weekend. So there is an even greater need to make sure everything is running at an optimal level.

Because I have to be able to get in the park at a moments notice, I was given a free pass. Yeah, I know...AWESOME! But, the ordeal in getting this pass was ridiculous. Now on with the story.

I've been sick for a while, and I started a new medication Sunday night. This medication kept me awake ALL night. I finally fell asleep around 4am. I had to get up at 6am to be at Cedar Point by 8am. I arrive at 8am and go to Human Resources to process in for my pass. Little did I know this was also the last day for ALL Cedar Point employees to process in. The result was a huge line.

I realized at 8:30am I was not going to be processed before 9am. At 9am I had to go to an orientation on park policies. This lasted until 10am. I got back in line to process and stood there FOR 4 HOURS!!!! I finally get to the counter, fill out the paperwork, and get ready for my ID when I was told I couldn't get my ID until I shave. Everyone who works in the park has to be clean shaven, with the exception of a mustache. I had shaved that morning, but stood in line so long I had stubble.

So now I had to drive 30 minutes home, shave, then drive 30 minutes back. As I am sure you can relate, I was extremely salty. Had I known at the beginning of the day I would have to go through all this, I would've paid the $109 and skipped the hassle.

So I go back,  I don't have to wait in line again, I am able to go through a different door for ID's.I walk up to the counter, tell the lady I'm there to get my ID. She has me write my name on a pad of paper so they can pull my file. A few minutes later this older woman comes up behind the counter to assist. She has this look of bewilderment on her face and I'm not entirely sure she wasn't an alien.

Another person had the same issue as I, and stated he too, needed an ID. This alien woman rips off the sheet of paper with my name, crumples it up, and throws it away. My first thought was to jump over the counter at her, but then I thought, maybe she read it and will go pull my file.

I should've went with option 1. I wait, and wait, and wait. Finally, I tell the other lady that the alien lady threw my name in the garbage. She apologized and had me write my name down again. Fifteen minutes later, the ID printer breaks down. It's now 4:45pm, I had been waiting since 8am. It was in everyone's best interest that I left immediately.

I now understand why people go into places and shoot them up.

Tuesday I had to go back to Cedar Point to do some reprogramming. After I was done, I decided to attempt to get my ID again. This time, there was a whole five people waiting in line, I got my ID in 5 minutes, walked back into the park to food services to get the form for my parking pass, went out to the parking lot to get my pass and was done. The whole process took me 30 minutes, compared to the 8 hours 45 minutes the previous day.

I was there today, and will probably have to go back out Thursday. Then I'm done. Hopefully; I will never have to go back.

Global Warming Causes Shark Attacks

First thing I have to say is, shark attacks have been occurring long before this Glo-bull warming nonsense. Sharks were made to swim, humans were not. People are invading their house, they didn't come into ours. That's the risk you take and any other contributing factors to this increase in shark attacks is nil.

I have never been attacked by a shark and never will...because I don't swim in the ocean. I walked ankle-deep in the Atlantic, but that was just to do it. I then meandered my way back to the hotel and swam in the shark-free pools.

Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida's Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.

[...]

'The one thing that's affecting shark attacks more than anything else is human activity,' said Dr George Burgess of Florida University, a shark expert who maintains the database. 'As the population continues to rise, so does the number of people in the water for recreation. And as long as we have an increase in human hours in the water, we will have an increase in shark bites.'

Some experts suggest that an abundance of seals has attracted high numbers of sharks, while others believe that overfishing has hit their food chain. 'I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's a convenient excuse,' Burgess said. Another contributory factor to the location of shark attacks could be global warming and rising sea temperatures. 'You'll find that some species will begin to appear in places they didn't in the past with some regularity,' he said.

Good News From The War On Terror 4/29-5/2

Coalition forces target AQI: three terrorists killed, 12 detained

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces killed three terrorists and detained 12 suspected terrorists while targeting the al-Qaeda in Iraq network in the northern half of the country Tuesday.

Coalition forces targeted an AQI foreign terrorist facilitator at a suspected terrorist safe-house 60 miles north of Baghdad.  Coalition forces called for the target building’s occupants to come out peacefully, but several men refused to comply, including three men displaying weapons, one of whom was wearing a military-style assault vest.  Responding to the perceived hostile threat, Coalition forces engaged the three armed terrorists, killing them.  Five additional suspected terrorists were detained.

Coalition forces captured an individual allegedly involved in attacks against Iraqi Security Forces and one other suspected terrorist in Mosul based on information gathered from an operation Mar. 31.  Another operation in Mosul targeted a car-bombing expert who recently fled Kirkuk after Coalition forces captured two of his associates there during operations Apr. 15 and 22.  Two suspected terrorists were detained.

In Bayji, 100 miles south of Mosul, Coalition forces captured an AQI car-bombing cell leader and detained two additional suspected terrorists.

 

MND-B Soldiers kill 9 criminals in separate clashes

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division—Baghdad Soldiers killed nine criminals in two separate engagements April 30.

At approximately 3 p.m. in Sadr City, Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division observed criminals loading multiple rockets onto a launch sled.

The Soldiers engaged the criminals before they could fire the rockets and killed five criminals.

Approximately 20 minutes later, the Soldiers observed another criminal attempting to recover the rockets and he was killed.

At approximately 5 p.m., an aerial weapons team fired a Hellfire missile and destroyed the rockets and the sled.

At approximately 6 p.m., Soldiers from the 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, were attacked by criminals using rocket-propelled grenades in Sadr City.

The Soldiers returned fire and killed three criminals.

 

MND-B soldiers kill 8 criminals

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers killed eight criminals during night operations in northeastern Baghdad.

Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, operating an unmanned aerial vehicle, witnessed two armed criminals, including one bearing a rifle on the rooftop of a house at approximately 7:15 p.m. April 30. Soldiers fired one Hellfire missile from the UAV. Both criminals were killed, and the weapon was destroyed. 

At approximately 7:40 p.m., soldiers from 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., positively identified a Special Groups criminal with an RPK machine gun. Acting in self-defense, the soldiers returned fire and killed the individual.

Criminal forces continued to attack the soldiers with small-arms fire. At approximately 8:10 p.m., the soldiers killed another criminal firing upon them and then a third criminal at approximately 8:25 p.m.
At approximately 2 a.m. May 1, an air weapons team used a Hellfire missile to engage and kill three criminals in a vehicle. The criminals were seen earlier in the evening emplacing an improvised explosive device before fleeing in the vehicle.

 

Coalition forces strike Iranian-sponsored Special Groups leader in Sadr City

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces conducted a precision airstrike in Sadr City against a known Iranian-sponsored senior Special Groups leader at 2:17 p.m. today.

Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted a known Special Groups leader responsible for criminal acts against Iraqi citizens and Coalition forces.

 

Iraqi Army, Coalition forces detain 32 suspected terrorists

MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi Army and Coalition forces soldiers detained 32 suspected terrorists in a joint operation in Mosul May 1.

The cordon and search took place in the Zanjali and Borsa neighborhoods of western Mosul.

 

Four terrorists killed, 10 suspects detained in Coalition operations

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained 10 suspected terrorists during operations targeting the al-Qaeda in Iraq network around Mosul Thursday and Friday.

Thursday, Coalition forces targeted members of an AQI bombing network 70 miles south of Mosul.  As they prepared to stop a vehicle, Coalition forces were engaged with small arms fire from another vehicle.  Responding to the hostile threat, Coalition forces engaged the vehicle, killing three terrorists and destroying weapons and ammunition inside.

Despite Coalition forces’ warnings to stop, the driver of the target vehicle refused to comply.  Perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces engaged the vehicle, killing the terrorist inside.  Coalition forces later found heavy machine guns and other weapons inside.

Friday, Coalition forces targeted members of the same network in Mosul and detained four suspected terrorists.

Also in Mosul Friday, Coalition forces captured an alleged member of an AQI cell that targets security forces with indirect fire attacks.  Coalition forces also detained another suspect and discovered a cache of weapons near a house.  Coalition forces moved a nearby family to safety while they destroyed the weapons on site.

Using information from operations March 24 and April 13, Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists in an operation in the city Friday targeting an AQI leader in Mosul who conducts attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces.

 

Coalition, Anti-Afghan forces clash in Nimroz

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Coalition forces engaged Anti-Afghan forces in Nimroz province Monday, resulting in the death of several militants and capture of 14 additional militants. 

Coalition forces conducted a search of compounds in Khash Rod District targeting a militant engaged in the movement of weapons and fighters in the area. 

During the search, several militants attempted to flee the compound.  Coalition forces came under fire by rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns and quickly responded with small-arms fire and air strikes.