Friday, December 7, 2007

Today is a day that will live in Infamy

As some of you may or may not know. Today is the anniversary of the day the Japanese navy snuck into Pearl Harbor and destroyed 3,000 sailors and Marines lives and crippled our pacific fleet. This day was the day America started to bleed.

December 7, 1941

Never forget this day.


(click the video first below the speech, then read while it plays)

Pearl Harbor Speech by F.D.R.

To the Congress of the United States

Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleagues delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

This morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.


Franklin Roosevelt





Thursday, December 6, 2007

Not even Chuck Norris could roundhouse kick this allegation

Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we pratice to decieve. - Sir Walter Scott


"What? I did that? really? dammit!"

The Story.

I was actually told about this story before the mainstream media picked up on it and before the bloggers and mud slingers first laid scent to it.

My aunt-in-law lives in Arkansas and I asked her opinion on huckabee a few weeks back and she went off about the man. She even spit in his general direction, electronically of course. It's well known in Arkansas that he was the man who released this rapist, according to her.

Just reviewing this story with the CNN fact sheet, I'm amazed at the hole I see this man digging for himself. If he came clean to what happened, i'm sure he'd still be doing decent in the polls.

Let's examine some of the discrepencies i'm seeing here. Three parole board membes have stepped forward to say that Mike Huckabee pressured them into releasing DuMond from prison during his parole. He says that he never spoke with the parole board about DuMond, but his aide said that it was discussed, although no pressure was placed on the members.

Now, I'd be skeptical at the accuasations as well if I haven't seen about four sources saying otherwise. My aunt-in-law is extremely upset with this situation before it became Mainstream media (MSM), and there's not one, but three board members accusing him of pressuring. It's like Michael Jackson having 3 boys call him a molestor. The entire world knows he did it! Even bubbles was afraid of Michael! (His pet chimp)

What I don't buy about Huck defending himself is, he wrote this guy a letter feeling pity for the man. Good on him for admitting at least that, but that just goes to show me based off the letter of pity, the parole board members accusations, his aide not agreeing with him 100%, and my aunt being so pissed that she'll e-spit in the former governors face that this story isn't adding up.

It appears to me that between all these lies and some religious battle going on with Mitt Romney, that this guy really isn't what we need.

I went to mikehuckabee.com and read one of the blogs. One of the comments from a Pro-huck member said "preemptive (love the choice of words) strike this story. Tell them that you made a mistake that you regret and you're sorry". Well we all know of a man who made a mistake once, and it's landed us in a war with no end in sight for the past 4, almost 5 years.

Reviewing the
huckabee blogs on his official campaign website is definitely interesting reading. They're either supportive 100% with blind faith, or they're starting to question the man they are supporting or even trying to downplay this whole fiasco. I don't know how you can downplay the release of a convicted rapist with life in prison, who goes out and rapes and murders again.

Hell, a woman who was raped by this man before said that she wrote a letter to Mike Huckabee, which his aides said they received and he read, and she stated that she feared that he would not only rape again but kill to leave no witnesses this time.

Another interesting point that a huck supporter named William Jockusch had -

After reading Mr. Huckabee's version of this, I am troubled by one question. Here is a sentence from an Arkansas Times article about the Dumond case:

• The board did not allow its recording secretary to attend a closed session with the governor regarding Dumond, nor was the session taped, a departure from custom.

My concern is simple: why was the meeting not recorded? How did this decision come about, who asked for it, and why?

Valid question William. I'm sure we'd all like the answer. Between Huck the pro-rapist, Rudy Giuliani using cops to drive his mistress around town and walk her dog, and Mitt Romney firing illegal aliens after being accused about it on the CNN/Youtube debate, there isn't much hope for the front runners in the republican race. I wonder how this is all going to play out...

Monday, December 3, 2007

Where have all the republicans gone?

"It's amazing how human a politican can seem until they become corrupt." - A Furious Mind December 3, 2007

Listen to every single word that is being spoken. Especially from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Has that much changed in the past 10 years? No. Terrorism has not changed the way the middle east is set up.

We had an open field and only 10 yards to go for the touchdown and we fumbled it.

"Everyone was impressed with the fact that we were able to do our job with as few casualities as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president in terms whether or not we went on to Baghdad and took additional casualities in an effort to get Saddam Hussein was how many more dead Americans was Saddam worth? And our judgement was.. not very many and I think we got it right." - Dick Cheney before becoming Vice President in an interview

A Soldier's Personal Revolution

I joined the Army in the early months of 2001; my patriotism led me to the recruiter’s office. I had grown up in awe of my grandfathers and their stories of World War II, and their reminiscing became my dreams. When I got to basic training I did not talk about missing home like the other recruits around me, I felt at home in ways I never had before.

The weeks after 9/11 found me in Kosovo, part of C co 3/7 Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division, patrolling the border with Macedonia as part of our duties. We had ammunition to defend ourselves with and the authority to apprehend anyone crossing the border illegally. I will get back to why these details are important later.

Fast forward to 2003, I am rolling across the desert in the back of a Bradley fighting vehicle, part of the spearhead into Iraq. Other than those first three weeks of “Shock and Awe” what I remember most about Iraq was the people. Crowds of kids wanting to know about Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, open-minded adults wanted to know about our social freedoms, and ninety some percent of Iraqis just wanted to raise their families in peace and did not hesitate to tell us. I really fell in love with the Iraqi people. My platoon and I played soccer with some of those crowds of kids, we had dinner and shared food with families in their homes, we even went to a few house parties, and my lieutenant and I spent one very memorable afternoon swimming in an irrigation ditch with five young women. It is all of them I think of when anyone tells me we need to turn the Middle East into a sheet of glass or that all Muslims are our enemies.

I remember thinking on this briefly when I was there, but more so since I’ve returned, usually when I’m day dreaming behind the wheel of my van, but what we were doing when we were doing our jobs, patrolling the streets, conducting road blocks vehicle searches, bodily searching individuals, and searching houses, couldn’t be helping our long range plans for winning hearts and minds. I really have to wonder, how long would it take me to move from a position of thanks for my despotic government being removed to feeling like I lived in a conquered and occupied country if I saw foreign troops on the streets of my hometown Tallahassee everyday? Add to this our having bases and troops in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia, ( I may have missed a few, we have approximately 700 bases in 130 countries ) some of them for decades, our Navy of their coast, our fighter jets in their sky’s , the CIA in business with monarchs, dictators and thugs, and our State Department treating their leaders like irresponsible children, it’s no wonder moderate Muslims takes to the streets shouting “ Death to America” and a minority takes action against us. I would expect we would be doing the same thing if say, China had bases on our soil, and her Navy patrolled our coastline and Chinese fighter jets streaked across our sky. In short, this is all hard to admit, but our actions do have consequences.

Fast forward again to the present day, I am out of active duty, and in the Army Reserves. (I wanted to stay active duty, but my wife said I would be single, so we had a compromise.)To be honest the reserves has bored me to tears and I haven’t felt like I’m giving anything back to my country, so I looked into getting attached to a National Guard unit on our border with Mexico for a tour or two. However, when I learned they don’t have the authority to apprehend illegal border crossers and can only call up our overworked and overstretched border patrol when they spot illegal activity, I got myself in trouble again by thinking - about what I had done in Kosovo and about what I knew our military had done to our own people in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina ( disarmed law abiding civilians only trying to protect themselves when the police had failed to do so) . To add insult to injury, our Guardsmen and women on our own border don’t have ammunition and have on several documented occasions actually had to retreat when facing fire from Mexican paramilitary groups. Now why would I want to sign up for that? To be witness to the violation of America’s sovereignty? No one in the Executive branch of our government is doing anything about it, and it makes me wonder why I am even in the Army at all.

Why are we the worlds policeman when our own country is being openly violated? Why are we borrowing money hand over fist from nations not exactly our friends, just to spend it on our out of control foreign policy? I am starting to feel like the powers that be do not have America’s interests in mind at all. It’s starting to feel like our ruin is their objective. From our factories closing and moving overseas, to the plunging value of our dollar, America is crumbling. Yet I love her far to much to watch her fall apart.
This is why I am taking my personal revolution and joining forces with Dr. Ron Paul’s revolution. His “bring all the troops home” non-intervention foreign policy and plans to put America first again are just what we need at this time in our history. I don’t expect you to agree with everything he says, but I do hope we can all put our differences aside and join him in seeing that ALL the troops come home, the Republic is restored and America saved. Thank you and God Bless.
Zakery Carter

http://dailypaul.com/node/10752

Chants in the background...

The chants from the background start off faint. You can barely make out the words they are saying. "ron paul. ron paul. ron paul." They get louder and louder as the days and weeks roll on. "Ron Paul. Ron Paul!"

Records are broken, the media is no longer able to ignore this dark horse and the chants that could barely be heard are now drowning out the arena... "RON PAUL. RON PAUL. RON PAUL."


"He is an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled inside a sesame seed bun of mystery." - Stephen Colbert on the Colbert report

As most of you know on November 5th, 2007 the Ron Paul campaign set a record for the most money collected in donations in a 24 hour period by raising roughly $4.3 million.

Now what gets me about this story is, people still won't consider Ron Paul a front runner or top tier candidate for the republican president nomination.

Well maybe his one day fundraising gimmick was a fluke. Maybe he is just a lot of hot air. Or is he? Other top tier candidates on both Republican and Democratic sides have tried to mirror Ron Pauls success.

Barack Obama had a one day fundraising attempt to mirror this amazing feat Ron Paul has accomplished. Baracks Friday Nov. 16th wasn't much of a success for the Senator Obama. There in fact wasn't much sound coming from the donation trail that day for the Senator from Illi(noise).



A Total of $4,650 were raised by 72 people. Falling short of his goal set for his fundraisers by $995,350. And falling short from Ron Paul's record by a massive $4,295,350 for all of you out there who are too lazy to go grab that calculator.

Another attempt at a similiar day with "Fred's Giving Day" gave Senator Thompson a whopping 82 pledges for $100 each. But in all honesty, any money to any campaign is better then zero dollars. They're just falling short of the drowning voice Ron Paul supporters have.

There's another "Money Bomb" being attempted that is set for the Mitt Romney campaign and is to be held on December 7th, 2007, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
"Dec 7th For Mitt" has a not so ambitious goal of 100 people to pledge only $30 each. They are excited about their success of beating their goal by reaching 191 pledges. This will give them a staggering number of $5,730.

Ron Paul has another "Money Bomb" that appears to be bigger then the first that broke records on November 5th. This one is to commemorate the Boston Tea Party whose anniversary is coming on this up coming December 16th.
Ron Pauls Teaparty.

All this really does is show you that Ron Paul is not out of the race by any means. That his competitors are starting to copy Ron Paul verbatim, not only by donations but by their speeches.

The Mainstream Media would like to tell you that there are only a few people that are making all this noise. They are the ones that are making the polls on the internet tip in their favor. They are the ones making it seem like Ron Paul has a chance.

Then I stumbled upon this bit of info. Here are pictures and links to each meet up group for the top tier candidate and Ron Paul.

This is a picture of the location for each campaigns Meet-up groups. Organizations that support their President of choice throughout the country. I'll tell you right now that the difference is HUGE and goes against what the mainstream media is telling you.



hrclinton.meetup.com/about/



barackobama.meetup.com/about/



rudygiuliani.meetup.com/about/



mittromney.meetup.com/about/



mikehuckabee.meetup.com/about/



ronpaul.meetup.com/about/

Another bit of info... Most of the national polls are not accurate either. They are conducted from people who were likely Republican voters in the last election. I can tell you now that the majority of Ron Paul supporters come from apathetic voters who never had the passion to care so much for a candidate for President. And there have been a lot of democrats coming to the republican side to vote for Ron Paul. So don't put all your faith into national polls.

I guess the purpose of this article was not to sling mud or slander anyone other then the mainstream media. My advice to you is, vote with your gut. Don't disregard a candidate because the media tells you he has no shot. Let that persons actions dictate your vote. Let that persons supporters let you know that you're not alone.

If there was one thing that you could give your children and be proud of, wouldn't it be Freedom?

Vote Smart, Vote Ron Paul.


Ron Paul 2008

Cheers to the Venezuelan people!


From the Venezuelan people to Hugo Chavez: "No Way Ese!"


On Sunday, the Venezuelan people voted against giving Hugo Chavez his dictatorship.... narrowly. 51% to 49% ensured that Chavez would not be allowed to run again in 2012.

I have to say that i'm slightly (on the smallest level possible) impressed on how Chavez is handling this defeat. Though being impressed with a ruthless guy like this makes me ill to my stomach. I wonder if he can stay humbled for another 4 years and leave office. If I know this guy, he has a trick or two up his sleeve.

Pick your poision:

The Story from Yahoo news.

The Story from CNN.


I do have to add a little humor to this article. I mean, come on, you guys are getting to know me and my sense of humor... you had to expect it.


"Man, you guys suck! You all can suck it!"