BEAST MEDIA

Sometimes.

While reading Patrick Conroy's essay, titled "An Honest Confession by an American Coward" and linked above, I had mixed feelings about the man, his thoughts, his opinions, his past, and his present. They were difficult to sum up, and like many people, I came away feeling that yes, it takes a lot of courage to look at your past and find fault in your reasoning and your actions, and it takes a lot of courage to admit that publically.

After hearing Al Kroboth's story of his walk across Vietnam and his brutal imprisonment in the North, I found myself passing harrowing, remorseless judgment on myself. I had not turned out to be the man I had once envisioned myself to be. I thought I would be the kind of man that America could point to and say, "There. That's the guy. That's the one who got it right. The whole package. The one I can depend on."

It had never once occurred to me that I would find myself in the position I did on that night in Al Kroboth's house in Roselle, New Jersey: an American coward spending the night with an American hero.

Confessions of a peacenik who has come to realize that he was wrong, dead wrong, about the United States of America and the troops who protect this country with courage, dignity and honor. It has an added bonus, the story of a hero, a Vietnam Veteran, who suffered horror upon horror, while the peaceniks indulged in sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. And it has some thoughts that are worthy of being quoted:

"America is good enough to die for even when she is wrong."

But this sentence in Patrick's confession left a sour taste in my mouth:

"I understand now that I should have protested the war after my return from Vietnam, after I had done my duty for my country."

It seems to me that Patrick has a bit more to learn about cowardice and a lot more to learn about supporting the troops who do the hard stuff so you can sit back and do the easy stuff. Patrick still needs to learn the simple truth that you can't support the troops without supporting their mission.

The former soldiers who crawled into bed with the anti-war crowd upon their return from battle did great damage to our troops and their mission, they not only abandoned their brothers-in-arms, they turned on them like a pack of rabid dogs. If joining them is what hindsight makes him wish he had done, then I believe Patrick Conroy has to look a little deeper, and travel a little further down the path of redemption for his actions in the 60s.

It seems to me that Patrick landed just short of the mark. But that's just my opinion.

After you read Patrick Conroy's confession, go read what Vietnam Veteran Russ Vaughn has to say about it.

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Laredo, Texas is a city of 175,000 residents, 90 percent of whom are Mexican-American, is the largest inland port in the United States. About 60 percent of U.S. trade with Latin America and 40 percent of the trucks that carry goods across the border go through Laredo.

Last weekend three more American’s disappeared from Laredo into Mexico. Victims of yet another kidnapping brought on by the warring Mexican drug cartels.

Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio , said 60 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in the area since 2004, and 21 of those cases remain unresolved.

He said the abductions are the result of increasing lawlessness as two major drug cartels — the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel — fight for control of the cocaine and marijuana trafficking routes into the United States .

Just across the border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico's rival drug cartels have turned the city into a war zone as they battle for control of the illegal drug market in the U.S.

Gun battles in broad daylight are common, and the U.S. Consulate was shut down, at least temporarily.

The drug gangs have killed the city's last two police chiefs, the second of whom lasted only six hours on the job. Widespread police corruption has compounded the problem. The entire 700-officer force was fired for corruption last summer after opening fire on a group of federal agents sent in to restore order, though many were hired back.

What is the Texas Governor’s response to all of this? Operation Linebacker. Approximately 7.2 million dollars will help fund additional law enforcement and response teams. As the Governor points out, Two-thirds (1,240 miles) of the U.S.-Mexico border lies in Texas. Until the border is secured, international terrorists, organized crime and violent gangs, such as MS-13, will continue to place Texans and the rest of America at risk.

We are talking about Texas- a state within the United States of America. It has been infiltrated and inundated by so much violence that it is no longer safe. How much longer does this have to go on? Are we going to wait until the entire southern border of the United States is no longer safe because of illegals crossing over here? Oh wait, that’s already happening. Wake up America, while there’s still an America left!

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A Hawaii-based spy ring sold secret U.S. stealth bomber technology to China.

Details of the classified defense technology related to the B-2's engine exhaust system and its ability to avoid detection by infrared sensors were sold to Chinese officials by former defense contractor Noshir S. Gowadia, (aka Traitorous Scum) an Indian-born citizen charged with spying in a federal indictment released by prosecutors in Hawaii.

Additionally, Mr. Gowadia provided extensive technical assistance to Chinese weapons designers in developing a cruise missile with an engine exhaust system that is hard to detect by radar, according to court papers made public recently.

He also helped the Chinese modify a cruise missile so that it can intercept U.S. air-to-air missiles, and helped Chinese weapons designers improve testing and measurement facilities, the court papers state.

Additionally, the court papers indicated that Mr. Gowadia sent e-mails to Israel, Germany, and Switzerland in 2002 and 2004 that contained data labeled "secret" and "top secret" that was related to U.S. stealth technology intended for use in the TH-98 Eurocopter and for foreign commercial aircraft. He now additionally faces charges of assisting China with designing and testing an exhaust system nozzle that protects a cruise missile from detection.

This sick traitorous scum has compromised our country. He's currently in federal custody, and could face the death penalty. Although I hope he gets the death penalty, I think that's too easy on him.

I hope they hurt him.

A lot.

According to the indictment, Mr. Gowadia, who lives on an estate on the island of Maui, conspired with two men, Tommy Wong and Henri Nyo, to sell the technology.

Well, I haven't found any information on these two "alleged conspirators" yet. We'll just have to wait and see...

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but in Denver, the footprint of the Great American Chicken might be a symbol of satan...

DENVER - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan.

Yep, that looks evil to me, always has, always will.

Lisa Jensen said she wasn't thinking of the war when she hung the wreath.

ahahaha! I bet she said that with a straight face too! Oh, but wait... there's more!

Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members.

ahahahahahahahahaha. He fired them! All of them! ahahahahahahaha!

I might comment on this if I could stop laughing long enough to do so. Maybe later, m'kay?

ahahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by Linda Sue O'Grady at 7:27 AM | Permalink | Comments

There is no terrorist threat:

SKOWHEGAN -- The explosion of two homemade bombs inside Wal-Mart Saturday afternoon sent a store full of holiday shoppers scurrying for the exits.

Two acid bombs detonated in two separate aisles as the store was crowded with shoppers around 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, said Sgt. Joel Davis, fire investigation supervisor for the State Fire Marshal's Office. One of the bombs detonated in the pet area. The second was in the store's toy section, Davis said.

For the record, Skowhegan is in Maine. Maine is in the United States. And a similar bomb in another part of the state seriously injured a police officer. However, you should still feel safe, because the democrats are in the house, and there is no terrorist threat.

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The Sleepy Terrorist is gonna get a dirt nap!

The death sentence for convicted murderer Sgt. Hasan Akbar was approved late last week at Fort Bragg, N.C., by Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, commander if XXVIII Airborne Corps and court martial convening authority in the case.

Ya'll remember Akbar don't ya?

Akbar wrote in his diary that once he was sent to Iraq, "I am going to try and kill as many of them as possible."


Prosecutors have said Akbar told investigators he was worried that U.S. forces would harm fellow Muslims in the Iraq war.


Another entry said: "I will have to decide to kill my Muslim brothers fighting for Saddam Hussein or my battle buddies. I am hoping to get into a position so I don't have to take any crap from anyone anymore."


Elsewhere, he wrote: "I may not have killed any Muslims, but being in the Army is the same thing. I may have to make a choice very soon on who to kill."


In the end, Akbar made his choice, he killed Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, 27, with a shot in the back, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, suffered 83 shrapnel wounds. Another 14 soldiers were injured.


Akbar used grenades and a firearm to murder his fellow members of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait days after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.


Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, 27, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, were killed; 14 other soldiers were injured.


They charged Akbar with two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted premeditated murder.

Whatever they do to him, I hope it hurts!

Posted by Linda Sue O'Grady at 1:36 PM | Permalink | Comments

There is an army gathering strength and planning to take over our country from within. They are originally from a foreign country but many of their members have managed to infiltrate our cities. They’re living among us, working and going to school right beside us. Many of them are here illegally, but some are not. They have a plan to conquer our nation and take us over, killing us if necessary.

They currently have leaders working in highly respectable positions such as a professor at an American university. They have multi-million dollar support from American corporations. They have managed to get their hands on over $15 million dollars in US grants last year alone.

They receive financial backing from some of America's largest banks and corporations. With multi-million dollar funding from corporate America, they operate a powerful political and communications network of hundreds of affiliates in 41 states that work to shape American government and society to suit its own ideological and cultural interests.

Sounds pretty scary doesn’t it?

Don’t believe me? Think I’m making this up? I wish I was, but I’m not.

I’m talking about La Raza (“The Race”), MEChA (the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).

“We have got to eliminate the Gringo.”
The words above were spoken by Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party. His full comment was: "We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." 1

''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. 2

Former MEChA members include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was officially endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza's Graciela Olivarez Award. Now we know why he refuses to condemn a sea of foreign flags in his city. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He delivered the keynote address at La Raza's 2002 Annual Convention. 3

To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. 3

Take a look at the corporations that support La Raza. Companies like Allstate, Bank of America, and Coca Cola. You can find a complete list at the official NCLR (National Council of La Raza) web site here: https://www.nclr.org/section/corporate_partners/institutional_corporate

There is also a much larger list of corporate partners listed on their web page here:
https://www.nclr.org/section/corporate_partners/corporate_partners_program

A national crisis is brewing right here in America. If it’s not stopped, lives will be lost, and we will be at war to stop our southwestern states from becoming “Aztlan”.

Not on my watch. It’s time for the real Americans to stand up and take notice. This is our country, not Mexico. It’s time to clean house. Our government is allowing illegals to infiltrate our borders. We are in danger. The enemy is here and they are planning a war against us now. It’s time to fight back people.


References:

1 https://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=134993

2 https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49992

3 https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610952/posts

Posted by Sues at 12:08 AM | Permalink | Comments

If you were worried about the state of the world today, all the conflict, violence, all the war, well, you can sit back and relax now, 'cause help is on the way! That's right!



It's Synchronized Global Orgasms for Peace! Yay!

Will it work? Oh yee of little faith... of course it will work! The concept has been researched by The Global Consciousness Project of Princeton University and they've been measuring the general randomness of the world! I watched the movie, its all about these little golden eggs everywhere that measure stuff, its very scientific and based on the Zero Point Field or Quantum Field which surrounds and is part of everything in the universe. It can be affected by human consciousness, as can be seen when simple observation of a subatomic particle changes the particle’s state. The golden eggs prove this!

We hope that a huge influx of physical, mental and spiritual energy with conscious peaceful intent will not only show up on Princeton’s REGs, but will have profound positive effects that will change the violent state of the human world.

It's good to know that the world now has a real and viable solution for peace on earth in our time, and one we can all participate in and make happen!

It's Global-O baby, for peace!

So, where will you be on December 22, 2006?

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No one told me Rosie was doing comedy these days...

Rosie O'Donnell: "Faith or fear, that's your choice. You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking. And I think that this country–"

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Well, I'm a person of faith, so I, but I also believe–"

O'Donnell: "Well, then, get away from the fear. Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

I guess Rosie has never heard of Palestinian Mother of the Year and Hamas politician Um Nidal, who is also known as Mariam Farahat. Um became famous when she was filmed bidding her 17-year-old son Mohammed farewell to die through a terrorist attack. She ordered him "not to return except as a shahid [martyr for Allah]." Ordering one son to die was not enough, thus far, Um sent three of her sons to die and murder others.

When a mother orders three of her children to kill themselves and to kill innocent civilians with them, what better candidate could you have to help run the new Palestinian government?



Today, Mariam Farahat, is part of the Palestinian parliament and she has this to say to mothers everwhere:

Umm Nidal on raising children:

Ever since [my son] Muhammad was a little boy, he carried and used a weapon. This was natural for him. It is not that he all of a sudden took up a weapon, carried out operations, and so on. This was a gradual process for him, ever since he was little.

Umm Nidal on sibling rivalry:

There was an operation that was about to take place - the same operation that he eventually carried out. [My eldest son] Nidal, may he rest in peace, said to me: "I want to give this operation to my brother Muhammad." He insisted on this because he loved Muhammad very much. He chose him. He chose him for the operation over the rest of the guys. Some of the guys were even a little mad at him for not considering them for this operation, but he said: "By Allah, this operation leads to Paradise, and I will choose nobody but my brother."

Umm Nidal on what boys want:

Allah be praised, we have thousands of young men. They all yearn for martyrdom for the sake of Allah. Some of them even cry when they do not get the chance to commit martyrdom. As long as we have such determination, we will prevail, Allah willing.

Umm Nidal on the meaning of life:

We believe in the faith charted for us by Allah, and believe that if someone is destined to die, he will die, even if he hides in a crate - but why shouldn't we take the initiative and die as martyrs? There is an abyss between one form of dying and the other. So why shouldn't we choose martyrdom? Allah has chosen us, from among all people, and has bestowed upon us the honor of Jihad in the front line of Palestine. So it is all the more fitting for us to initiate martyrdom, before death reaches us while we sit at home.

and finally, Umm Nidal's message to all the Muslim mothers, who want to raise their sons, and hope they will attain worldly things, university degrees, luxurious palaces, and fancy cars:

A Muslim mother should raise her children on prayer, good deeds, and, of course, on Jihad, which is one of the duties on which we should raise our children.

Jihad in Islam is a duty that one cannot forego. It is like any other religious duty. If we understand the true meaning of Islam, the notion of Jihad will be included among the Islamic duties, and in Palestine - an individual duty. If we are remiss in this duty, we sin.

Now, that might make you feel all warm and mushy inside Rosie, but mothers like Um Nidal scare the crap out of me.

Is Rosie listening to Condi Rice? Now that's really scary.

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Always have, always will:

In a question and answer session at Kansas State University on Thursday, outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was posed the following: “If you were going to give yourself a letter grade for your performance as Secretary of Defense, what grade would that be?”

As he answered, "Oh, I'd let history worry about that," Rumsfeld used his middle finger to scratch his nose.



It was classic Rummy moment.

While we're on the subject, I must say, I don't blame Rummy for retiring, why would he want to work under a Congress that doesn't support the troops or their mission? The answer to that question leads to another, what's next for our military?

A few thoughts on that from Out of the Race:

When all is said and done in connection with the Pentagon management shakeup, the Baker commission report and the Dems actively taking control of the legislative branch, I for one will be watching the reenlistment rate among the troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suspect many troops will opt to return to civilian life if they feel that they no longer have support from the policymakers, rather than be jerked around by people who think like John Kerry. And if the re-up rate goes down, original enlistments will probably decrease, too. Nobody wants to fight in a war that the movers and shakers don't want to win. That was true in Korea and Vietnam, and it's true now.

Any new trends should be apparent by March or so, if they are to happen. I guarantee you that any such change will be spun by the lamestream media as Bush's fault, probably accompanied by NYT and WaPo opinion pieces bemoaning what a dumb thing it was to get rid of Rumsfeld.

It sure would be interesting if Charlie Rangel's (D-NY) idea of reinstating the draft had to be implemented by a Democratic congress in order to maintain military force levels. I wonder what the political fallout from that would be in '08.

As an aside, I also think that diminished capacity of our conventional forces, especially the Army and Marines, tends to make nuclear war more likely, because weakness encourages the enemy to attack, and when you must fight, you fight with what you have. The alternative is capitulation.

It is indeed something to think about.

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For Southern California hospitals, overcrowding is an understatement. One-third of the patients treated by the Los Angeles county health system each year are illegal aliens, according to county health officials. In the last decade, 60 California emergency rooms have closed. California hospital losses totaled $390 million in 2001, up from $325 million in 2000 and $316 million in 1999. The crisis reaches throughout the state, with 80 percent of emergency departments reporting losses.

Sounds pretty bad, doesn’t it? Well, it just gets worse.

In 2002, the county spent $350 million providing health care to illegal aliens, according to the Department of Health Services. Officials said that if that money had been available, the county could have avoided the closure of 16 health clinics and possibly two hospitals, as well as cuts in services.

Scripps Memorial Hospital in Chula Vista estimates that about one quarter of patients who are uninsured and don’t pay their bills are illegal aliens. The hospital loses $7 million to $10 million in uncompensated costs.
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Many might think theses numbers are incorrect. I do. I think they are way too low. Don’t agree with me? Well, then I invite you to visit a Los Angeles County Emergency Room.

I see the chaos and abuse on a daily basis. I work in a Southern California hospital. Our ER is burdened with illegals that use it as a clinic and doctor’s office. They bring their whole clan down to ‘hang out’ in the ER because one of the kids has a runny nose. I’ve actually seen them sitting in groups in lawn chairs in the ER parking lot. All that was missing was the loud music and the keg of beer.

Common reasons for visiting our ER are stubbed toes, runny noses, congestion and cough. We also get the famous, “I’ve had a backache for two weeks.” Well, what suddenly made it an emergency at 2am? Couldn’t find the time to go to a clinic in the last two weeks?

The sad part of this is that there are two near by clinics. One of them is in a building that is located in the hospital parking lot!

Last year Douglas Bower wrote an article where he said, “I’m telling you there is a lot of “Phony-Baloney” going on regarding the Mexican Immigration issue. Where are your “Phony-Baloney Detection Kits”? You need them to cut through the “cock and bull” in this issue!”

Quoting a study from 1998, Bower proclaims that “immigrants” are actually 84% below native born citizens in health care costs. He quotes, “Latinos had the lowest expenditures among the immigrants; non-Latino whites had the highest.”

Bower neglects to mention that “the researchers adjusted their figures to take into account possible differences between the two groups”. Or that “a full 30 percent of immigrants used no health care at all in the course of the average year.” Or how about, “Researchers also found that immigrant children were less likely than other kids to visit doctor's offices or take prescription medicines. On the other hand, the children of immigrants ended up consuming more in terms of higher emergency room costs, compared to the children of native-born Americans.”

Forgot to include that information in your little article, didn’t you Bower. Also, the study constantly refers to “immigrants”, NOT illegal immigrants. This blurs the line between legal and illegal. The quote about how “30 percent of immigrants used no health care at all” is another unclear statement. Of course ILLEGAL aliens don’t have insurance, but they definitely use our health care systems.

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Illegal Aliens Abuse Hospital and Healthcare Systems

An Enemy is Gathering Within our Cities

China Bought Stealth Bomber Technology

Mexican Drug Cartels Kidnapp Americans

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