5/15/2008
Project: Letters from Home 2.0 Update
Just an update on the Letters from Home project. If you remember, I’m collecting letters for the men and women serving aboard the USS Russell. So far I’ve received a little over 50 letters. Remember, we’re looking for about 250, so we’ve got a long way to go yet.
Once again, any help you all can give would be greatly appreciated. Please pass the word along to family and friends. Or, if you have a blog, please put up a post abou the project. Letters can be sent to letters@thinking-right.com.
Tags: Afghanistan, GWOT, Iraq, Letters from Home, Military, Navy, Support the troops5/12/2008
Praying tonight for those in China effected by the 7.9 earthquake. Jared, we’re especially praying for The Boy™.
In events closer to home, tornadoes and severe weather once again hit the south Saturday during the day. So far, the death toll from the storm system is at 22. There were in the neighborhood of 50 tornadoes reported on Saturday alone. Property damage costs will run in the millions. Please remember the people effected by these storms in your prayers as well. Severe storms are expected again tomorrow in many of the same areas.
Tags: China, Earthquake, Severe Weather, Tornado5/6/2008
Bumped to top:
This post will stay on top for awhile, so please check below for newer posts. I’ve got the email address for Project Letters from Home up and running, and have already recieved several letters. Thank you to those of you who have already emailed and/or posted about this on your blogs.
Once again, I’m collecting letters of support for the men and women aboard the USS Russell - DDG-59. I’m aiming for about 250 letters, so it will be a smaller project than last time. I’ve received word back from the Marines who we sent the letters to late last year, and I can’t emphasize enough how important these letters are to them. It’s really not all that much to ask to sit down and write a short note of support to those putting it all on the line for us.
Please send the emails to letters@thinking-right.com.
Tags: Iraq, Letters from Home, Military, Navy
Obama’s Clueless On Energy Policy
Obama made an odd remark tonight in his victory speech in North Carolina. He commented that our energy policy is funding both sides in the war on terror. Here is the full quote:
The man I met in Pennsylvania who lost his job but can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one – he can’t afford four more years of an energy policy written by the oil companies and for the oil companies; a policy that’s not only keeping gas at record prices, but funding both sides of the war on terror and destroying our planet in the process. He doesn’t need four more years of Washington policies that sound good, but don’t solve the problem. He needs us to take a permanent holiday from our oil addiction by making the automakers raise their fuel standards, corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future. That’s the change we need. And that’s why I’m running for President.
So, is he saying that American oil companies are funding both sides in the war on terror, or is he saying that our energy policy is funding both sides?
What real solutions does he offer? One real solution that would help stop this supposed funding of both sides of the war on terror would be for us to start drilling in this country. We have vast reserves of oil not only in ANWR, but off shore, and in the interior of the country as well. However, the exploitation of these resources have been consistently blocked by radical environmentalists and democrats… including Barack Obama.
Hope and change indeed…
Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
Tags: ANWR, Barack Obama, Election, GWOT, Politics5/5/2008
Marathon Pundit found a photo of Barack’s friend Bill Ayers from around 2001. In this picture Ayers is stomping on the flag. Of course, Ayers is the unrepentant Weatherunderground terrorist who proudly proclaimed in a 9-11-01 interview in the New York Times that he didn’t believe he had done anything wrong, and in fact wished he had done more. What Ayers and his fellow America hating comrades did was more than enough though. Among their crimes were the following acts of violence:
- The bombing of the US Capitol building — twice
- Bombing of the Pentagon
- Bombing of the State Department
- Bombing of NYPD Headquarters
- Bombing of several state and federal courthouses
- The 1981 Brinks robbery that killed 2 police officers and a security guard
- The bombing of New York Supreme Court Justice Murtaugh’s house as he presided over the trial of the “Panther 21″
Then, we have Jeremiah Wright who has cursed America, claimed that the government invented the HIV / AIDS virus to kill off African Americans, equated Hiroshima with the 9-11 attacks, and has said that America’s foreign policies justified the 9-11 attacks. He’s said these things from the pulpit for at least the last twenty years while Barack and his family sat in the audience.
Barack wants us to believe that he never heard Wright say these things. That he never new Wright held such extremist views. He never knew his pastor — his mentor — hated America so much.
Michelle Obama — Barack’s wife – said in a speech back in February that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of America. Apparently, her husband’s run for the Presidency is the only thing that’s happened in the last 26 years in this country that she has to be proud of. Not the ending of the cold war, not the freeing of millions of people over the last seven years in Afghanistan and Iraq, not the tremendous sacrifices of our troops as they fight terrorism. None of these things warrant pride in one’s country according to Michelle Obama.
Barack Obama wants us to believe that he has the judgement to be President. He wants us to believe that his long time relationship with America hating radicals like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright are distractions from the real issues. Well, for me, one of the “real issues” is exactly how does Obama feel about this country? Does the company he keeps accurately portray his feelings towards and about America?
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Democrats, Election, Jeremiah Wright, Politics
We’ve all seen the video of the nutter who pulled a sneak attack on John McCain at a town hall meeting. Well, Marty Parrish has been found out. He’s a Dem plant. Gateway Pundit and the guys at Powerline have done the research on this guy, and have found out some interesting things about him.
First of all, he ran Joe Biden’s campaign office in Des Moines Iowa. Next, we discover that he signed into the event as a Huffington Post reporter. Then the media, including the Huffington Post — the ones who apparently got him his press credentials for the event — tried to pass him off as a Baptist minister. It turns out he’s not a Baptist minister. Gateway Pundit has the email from the church he claims to have an affiliation with.
Marty Parrish is a non-resident and inactive member of our church. We do not remove members from our church records until another church asks for them. None have asked for Marty’s records and he is still officially a member of our church. A church member who lives away from the city is called a non-resident member. One who does not attend regularly is called an inactive member. He was inactive before he moved to Iowa. Marty is not, nor has he ever been, a minister of this church or any other Southern Baptist Church.
He was licensed by this church at some distant past (he says tin 1980; those who were here at the time say earlier). Marty told me that he was licensed as a teenager just before he left on what was supposed to be a summer mission with some non-Southern Baptist mission in some state other than Arkansas. he stayed after the summer and served two churches as youth minister for a couple of years. A license is only a local church’s encouragement an individual who expresses desire we call a “calling” to become a minister. Apparently, Marty demonstrated some aptitude early during his young adult life. In Southern Baptist life, a license is not considered “ministerial credentials.” Ordination is the level of actual practicing ministers and that usually is after seminary or at least Bible college. Marty did neither. He did not serve on any other church staff after those years. By his own admission, he did not follow the Lord for many more years.
There’s much more in Gateway Pundit’s post, and the guys at Powerline have audio of Parrish getting schooled by John Gibson. As see-dubya put it:
Here’s John Gibson toying with Parrish like a cat with a dead gopher. Gibson establishes right off that the guy’s an Obama supporter and then it’s off to the races.
Oh, it’s going to be an interesting election season.
Tags: Biden, Democrats, Election, McCain, Media, Media Bias, Obama, Politics5/4/2008
Eight years after the bombing of the USS Cole — an attack that killed 17 US Sailors and wounded another 40 — most of those involved in the attack are on the loose again. Jamal al-Badawi who helped plan and organize the attack has escaped from prison in Yemen twice. He has been recaptured, but has been seen at his home and can apparently come and go as he pleases. Fahd al-Quso, another defendant in the case, was freed last year. FBI director Robert Muller flew to Yemen last year to demand that both men be extradited to New York to face justice. So far, Yemen has said no.
Yemeni officials have released some of the conspirators because they have taken part in a dialogue and reconciliation program designed to reform Al Qaeda terrorists.
Yemeni officials have said that some of the Cole defendants have been let go because they’ve helped authorities track down other suspected terrorists, or because they’ve taken part in a “dialogue and reconciliation” program to reform al-Qaeda members.
In other GWOT news, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee — who had been released — has apparently blown himself up in Mosul Iraq.
A friend of Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi in Iraq informed his family that Abdullah carried out the attack in Mosul, his cousin Salem told the Dubai-based television channel.
“We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon … through a call from one of the friend’s of martyr Abdullah in Iraq,” said Salem al-Ajmi in a telephone interview aired by Arabiya.
He did not say when the suicide bombing happened.
Abdullah had been missing for two weeks and his family learned he left Kuwait illegally for Syria, he said. Abdullah had sent messages to his wife from Iraq.
Yeah, those terrorist reform programs work so well.
Tags: Al Qaeda, GWOT, Iraq, Terrorism, USS Cole, Yemen