Wow......quite the letter, but the REAL deal!!!

Subject: FW: And that's the way it is this November 24th 2009 - - - goodnight and God Bless

From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan

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From the Sand Pit it's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.

I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.

The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.

It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.

I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me, I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.

Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.

I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... actual, living Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.

I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.

They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.

OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at it.

Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here, because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know. We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us here to do.

Saucy Jack

Recon Marine in Afghanistan

Semper Fi

"Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share".

Negative Liberties...

In a 2001 radio interview, Barack Obama revealed some of his shocking ideas about how the government should run.
Here is what he said about the 1953 - 1969 Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, which was a very activist court: "To that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren court, It wasn't that radical." (Pay atention here) "It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were place by the Founding Fathers in the constitution."
The extremely liberal Warren Supreme Court wasn't radical enough, in Mr Obama's opinion.
Mr. Obama was showing where he believes the Founding Fathers erred in writing the defining legal charter of the United States.
"Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties," Mr Obama continues. "It says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf."
This is true, and it is a major reason the Constitution was so successful in establishing the nation.
Essayist Bill Whittle wrote this in response to Mr Obama's interview: "The entire purpose of the Constitution was to linit government. That linitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population. Barack Obama sees the limiting of government not as a linchpin, but rather as a fatal flaw..." (National Review Online,Oct. 27th, 2008)

Draw from this what you will, But it seems clear that Mr Obama intends to work towards changing the constitution. And let's assume for a moment that he is completely benevolent. Even so, he won't be in office forever, and if he's successful in making the changes he seems bent on, he's opening the door for any kind of tyrant to follow, and have their way with the government, and the country.

Is this really the direction we want to go?

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

I would truly like to get off the political comment and move back into music, but this is just too good to not give it a larger platform. I'm not a fan of Proctor and Gamble, and stay away from I think, almost ALL of their products in our home, but Lou Prichett really hits this one out of the ballpark. So, here goes:



Lou Prichett is the retired VP for Proctor and Gamble. This
>> letter
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>> AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
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>> Dear President Obama,
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>> You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and
> unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
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>> You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing
> about you.
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>> You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your
>> expensive
> Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with
> no visible signs of support.
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>> You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of
> youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an
> American.
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>> You scare me because you have never run a company or met a
>> payroll.
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>> You scare me because you have never had military experience,
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> don't understand it at its core.
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>> You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always
> blaming others.
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>> You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
> yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse
> to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
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>> You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame
>> America
> ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
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>> You scare me because you want to change America to a European
> style country where the government sector dominates instead of the
> private sector.
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>> You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
> with a government controlled one.
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>> You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
> capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
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>> You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist
> goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard
> of living in the world.
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>> You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics
> against certain banks and corporations.
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>> You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
> challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
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>> You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even
> consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
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>> You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
> omnipotent and omniscient.
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>> You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on
>> everything
> you do.
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>> You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
> Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing,
> conservative points of view.
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>> You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
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>> Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
> probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
>>
>> Lou Pritchett
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>>

...A shining light has gone out...

I have not said anything about the passing of Michael Jackson, and by not touching on this subject, I'm doing a great disservice to this site, and to modern music in general, so let me start by saying, unequivocally, that MJ was a musical and performing genius, who will not be replaced certainly not in my lifetime, and who is only survived, perhaps by artists like Prince, or perhaps Christina Aguilera.

I'm not even sure if this comparison is doing justice to MJ. He brought his art, which was his own, to the top of its game. His passing is like the passing of Frank Sinatra, or Oscar Peterson, or Victor Borge, who were also at the top of their game, and were the kings of their respective fields. Some might say, I should also put Elvis in here. Perhaps. But the three people (Frank Sinatra, Oscar Peterson, Victor Borge) were innovators who were, each one of them, the top of their fields, the best of the best. MJ was in this category.

I say this because it is true, and also to counter-act some of the stupid and just plain asinine comments I've been hearing about Michael on local and national media. For example, "I don't know why we're giving all this attention to Michael Jackson. He was just a freak and a pedophile...' That was one of the nicer, of the idiotic things I've been hearing. And for those idiots, those small minded piss-ants who think this way, I have two words: "Not Guilty" Nothing was proved. Get over it, already, or perhaps you'd like me to accuse YOU of Pedophilia. Why? Just because I feel like it, because MAYBE I can get some of your money, because you are dumb, and trust everyone, and it doesn't occur to you that someone may be sick and evil enough to ruin you for a few $$$. Yeah. Think about that, while you're throwing stones at MJ, even in his grave...

And the freak thing? Hey, he was a genius musician. Find me one that's NOT a weird guy/girl, in one way or another, and I'll show you someone who's not really a musician. Not in their heart. Not in their soul. And, for the record: Just because you play something, that doesn't make you a musician. For a short period of time, recently, I was involved with a small group of people in a church, who THOUGHT they were Musicians. One of them had the potential to be...but none of them were.

Michael Jackson was. Very much was. And after the trial, he never really recovered from the hurt and pain it caused. That people, HIS people could truly think that about him. Did you notice that Not ONE of the people who knew him personally thought that way about him? They couldn't of course, because they knew him. Gene Simmons, (the guitarist from Kiss)you have it completely wrong, dude.

He was a genius, as a performer, composer, innovator, musician, and artist.

I miss him.

Teacher's letter to Obama

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> This letter you are about to read was written by a 4th grade teacher recently (April 2009). She even gave the world her telephone and fax numbers. We are in dire need of more trueAmerican citizens who are proud of OUR United States ofAmerica. WAKE UP AMERICA . . . please . . .before it is too late!
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> Mr. Obama:
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> I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States ofAmerica collectively or of me personally.
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> You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States .
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> You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth. I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples ofEurope? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?
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> I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them?Anything? I seriously doubt it.
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> I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
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> Every Real American
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> P.S. I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.............
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> PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all
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> Americans to wake up!
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> Ms Kathleen Lyday
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> Fourth Grade Teacher
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> Grandview Elementary School
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> 11470 Hwy. C
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> Hillsboro , MO 63050
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...Very Scary Stuff Happening Now...

Doubtful? Verify this for yourself
Whether you are an Obama fan, or not,
EVERYONE IN THE U. S. Needs to know....
Something happened... H.R. 1388 was
passed in January, behind our backs. You may want to read
about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news... Just went
by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to
immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that
didn't make the headlines...
By executive order, President Barack
Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in
"migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees
and "conflict victims" in Gaza.
The "presidential
determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United
States, was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal
Register on February 4.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media,
took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with
housing and food allowances to individuals who have
displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic
Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of
January 2006.
Let's review...itemized list of some
of Barack Obama's most recent actions since his
inauguration:
His first call to any head of state, as
president, was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in
the Palestinian territory.
His first one-on-one television interview
with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
His first executive order was to
fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here within the U. S.,
but within the world, using U. S. Tax payer funds.
He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all
military trials of detainees halted.
He ordered overseas CIA interrogation
centers closed.
He withdrew all charges against the
masterminds behind the USS Cole and the "terror
attack" on 9/11.
Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds
of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in,
the US at American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues
are being "lost" in the blinding bail-outs and
"stimulation" packages.

Doubtful? Verify this for yourself
PLEASE PASS THIS ON... AMERICA NEEDS TO
KNOW
WE are losing this country at a rapid
pace.

Reply to "I don't Care..."

I felt that this was important enough that it needs a much larger audience. So I re-print this here, with permission.

"By no means do I take away from the words of the fellow Canadian whom you have shared. But my -not caring- stems deeper than that of a woman, a person, an individual, who is only seeing the little picture.

How can one assume that the world's problems can be solved through tolerance when 90% of history's "organized religion" has taught otherwise.

Acceptance can only be achieved if and when the youth of today are being educated as such, as so, and so on.

The recent passing of Bill 44 proved that even in Canada, the LAND OF THE FREE, there is intolerance. 'Free' in our nation? More like, free us from our nation. Not only do individuals have the freedom/right to vote on such matters, but now they also have the power to CHOOSE what their children CAN learn, through a lack of participation and communication with their teachers and fellow students.

Religion, sexual education and orientation have always been touchy subjects because they are not being talked about in the right ways. By cutting communication and discussion on this matters (or "issues" if you want to be like that) we are stunting their growth and dampening the advancement of the spiritual war.


Watch it here

I implore you to watch this video and not only consider the message that it intends to send, because... however, it is true.

There is only one culture who's fertility rate is not only above the necessary to maintain their culture, but well-surpassing all others. This, will change the global demographic, drastically.


Consider it."