Ward Churchill (remember him?) references the book, Smallpox and the American Indian, during his testimony in his civil suit against the University of Colorado at the City and County Building in Denver, Colorado March 23, 2009. Churchill is suing the University of Colorado for wrongful termination.
AP photo.

Today, I picked up 2 kids I carpool to the gymnastics club from their magnet school, as I do every Monday. Apparently, there was no mention about Columbus Day. Nada. Zippo. Nothing negative or positive. But they did watch a performance by dancers dressed like Mayan/Aztec Indians; and the older one said it was “Latino Heritage month”.

This school was closed for Yom Kippur (where 99% of the kids are black and Hispanic). But they were open today, with no mention of Columbus, but did celebrate “Latino heritage”. Oooookaaay…..

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The comment thread about the loss of one of Flopping Aces’ own, Maj. Chris Galloway, has all of us doing some head scratching as to what we can do as individuals. This sense of helplessness, *after* the loss, is simply not acceptable.

Wordsmith did provide some extra insight in his remembrance of Chris with a YouTube link, but I felt that Major General Mark Graham – Commander, Division West and Fort Carson, Colo – and his suicide prevention program needs to be broadened with a grassroots movement.

Below is the ACE card given to military members.. ASK, CARE and ESCORT. It’s an action plan when you see one of our warriors in trouble.

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Life and the internet are strange strange things. I’ve been trading emails and posts etc with Chris for years now. It wasn’t at all uncommon for his duties, deployments, and family to make those virtual conversations sporadic from time to time.   Well, Chris won’t be returning emails anymore.   He passed away suddenly on June 30, 2009.

Last Fall he and his wife Shannon had a baby girl, Lilly. Chris was so happy. We teased him about how awful it is to step on Barbie Doll high heels in the middle of the night, and he bragged about how his friends Mossberg and Remington were gonna help keep the boys away from his little beauty.

A few weeks later he deployed to Afghanistan. We still got emails from him. He sent pics, talked about the firefights, artillery barrages on Christmas night, and how, ‘once you accept that if you step off the path you’re in a minefield , and you’re dead, it’s not that bad. Ya just stay on the path.’ He didn’t love it over there in the ass-end of the planet by any stretch of the imagination, but he was extremely proud to be doing his duty-at least, that’s what he told us in emails. Read the rest of this entry »

HOPE IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN PENNSYLVANIA!

Look what arrived in my inbox today:

SCHRODER ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR CONGRESS

State Representative Curt Schroder running to serve the 6th Congressional District

Downington, PA –State Representative Curt Schroder today announced that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 6th Congressional District that includes portions of Chester, Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties.

“I have decided to enter this race to ensure that the values that built our country remain for our children, that we encourage the policies of entrepreneurism, limited government and to preserve the economic future of our nation,” said Curt Schroder.

Schroder added, “America’s greatness comes from free enterprise and hard working families, not government bailouts and bureaucracy. I will bring my passion for public service and Pennsylvania values to Washington to better our community and nation.”

Through my work with PACC and American Sheepdogs I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure of working with this remarkable individual. Now, more than anytime in history, Pennsylvania is in need of principled leadership that puts needs of average citizens above partisan politics. Pennsylvania needs a change for the better, Pennsylvania needs Curt Schroder.

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This is completely non-political in nature but I had to link to it. My server guru, and the man who has kept this blog afloat through some hack attempts and other problems with the server had a interesting experience at Best Buy where the store actually repackaged a used camera as new and sold it to him. He’s posted about it on his blog:

Anyway, have you ever heard of “PhotoRescue Expert”? It’s a really nice application that allows you to recover images you may have accidently deleted. Wouldn’t it be awesome if I was able to run that application and scan the camera to see if I could recover any of those “demo” photos?

Oh but wait, I did. Due to the fact we had taken a couple photos before we realized the camera wasn’t working right, the first couple images were not recoverable.

The first photo showed a young black woman sitting on a bed. The second shot showed the empty bed with the camera box sitting at the end of the bed. The third shot… Oh, here, you can see the third shot for yourself. You can see the woman and the headboard in this photo.

Go check it out…

Michael is not the guy any store wants to mess with.

Maybe it’s ’cause the inevitable result of Pres-elect Obama’s long list of campaign promises, the HOPE and the expectation of CHANGE now have to face a reality…a reality that soon Obama and the Democrats’ Congress will be sworn in, and the American people will no longer be content with words promising hope and change. They will want action, deeds, not just words.

(btw, no, it’s not crack or pot, or bourbon. It’s Theraflu that brought this saucy sentiment to you.
-Scott)

Hello from Bagram, Afghanistan.

Since moving assignments, I have not posted much here.  I am now in Afghanistan and, like my tour in Iraq last year, I have noticed a few things.

1.  The Western “Mainstream” media lies so much I doubt I could trust the times they give for sunrise and sunset.  In 2007 and before, everything was slanted or even made up out of thin air to slam President Bush.  Now everything is roses as Obama is going to ride to the rescue.  The lies of the left and the media are so vile that the sewage dumping point here smells good in comparison!

2.  We have noticed that the tone of the reporting has changed dramatically since the election and the Animal Farm/1984ish antics of the leftist media are so transparent that we can only sit and laugh because crying out at the arrogance, bias, and stupidity is useless.  I am still waiting for the media to use a less than flattering pose for the President Elect as they have for the current President all through the last 8 years!!!  The only poses I see are so engineered and flattering that even Stalin and “Kim the Ill” in Korea would be jealous.  The pure sycophantism and worshipfulness by the media is disgusting beyond measure!  The worst part is I know it will only get more so. (Sorry Scott, I do not think the media will ever stop with their blind worship and witch-hunts of critics).

3.  So much for “change”.  It looks like the Clinton Administration, with all of its disasters, stupidity, and arrogance is back again.  Unfortunately, President Bush in his “reaching out” never got rid of the previous administration’s underlings who have been backstabbing him and, well, that makes it easy for Obama.

4.  AFN (Armed Forces Network) is what is played in the area on public televisions in the DFACs (Dining Facilities)  and common areas.  AFN News is a military presentation with soldiers reading the news about DoD and service related issues.  It is followed by a mixture of CNN, MSNBC, and FNC.  O’Reilly has a program followed by Oberman.  I do not understand how then Candidate Obama did not understand this, but I think our programming will “change” soon and FNC will be removed.  Why is this important?  Because where Service Members can access Satellite TV, FNC wins out as watching CNN and MSNBC makes more than a few want to swear openly towards the television at the stream of lies CNN and MSNBC pushes off as “journalism”. Read the rest of this entry »

In the weeks before the election, I noticed a growing number of my fellow citizens wearing Obama’s face on their t-shirts, usually in the spirit of socialist realism art. There’s not a politician alive who I admire enough to the point of worshipful adoration that I’d sport his likeness on my clothing or plaster it all over the wordsmobile (I do, however, wear my FA t-shirts with pride and enthusiastically tell people it’s a right-wing website when asked).

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Today, my 6yr old daughter was told by another kid on the bus that if we voted a certain way, they’d come and blow up our house, blow up our cars, and kill us tonight. It’s surely just kids blowing off steam and talking smack, but when 6yr olds are trying to politically intimidate each other, it’s time to change directions and demonstrate unity.

The 2008 election has been too divisive. Half of America will be disappointed on Nov5th. Let’s try to at least oppose that sense of alienation, frustration, and defeat. After you vote, find someone in line, and shake their hand. Wish them well regardless of who their voting for. If they are for the other guy…then all the better. Be a neighbor not a partisan. When there’s a flood, we don’t just save Republicans or Democrats. We save Americans. Let’s be Americans first tomorrow, and Democrats or Republicans or whatever last.
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Today, my 6yr old little girl Katy got off the school bus ashamed and in tears. I ran out to see what was wrong, and she finally looked up at me, “Daddy, I got some bad news.”
“What’s wrong? What happened? Are you hurt?”
“No. The kids on bus #9 (pre-teen kids) said that if we vote for McCain they’re gonna drop bombs on our house and our cars and kill us tonight.”
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Halloween is a fun time. Not only do people love to dress up, but they love to decorate their houses as well, with the macabre and the shocking. Full of scary laughs and frightening decorations.

I thought I’d share with the FA readers, some of the clever and imaginative if not bone-chilling haunted house decorations out there in the Los Angeles area….

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Mike blogged on this Monday morning. Yesterday, before work, I decided to go out and see this for myself.

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Want to know more?

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It’s our fearless leaders birthday today!

For readers interested in learning more about Curt, I did this online interview with him in December, 2006.
Come on readers… give Curt a good roasting!