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*    Final Itinerary Funeral mission for SGT Tousha, Thurs 17 April

If you have a Kick Stand Pad, bring it.

DATE OF MISSION (FUNERAL):  Thursday April 17th
STAGING LOCATION: ( map )  2601 11St, Huntsville, Tx  77340
Directions  The Brookshire Brothers and Conoco Station,  Corner of 11st and Normal Park Dr.
Take Hwy 190 - Exit 116 off I-45 in Huntsville.

STAGING TIME LINE:
Staging:   0800 hrs
Mission Briefing and Prayer: 0830 hrs
KSU (kick stands up):   0845  hrs
Honor/Flag Line Setup:  0900 hrs

FAST KSU:  1015 hrs

Please join us as we honor this brave warrior, his wife and children.  age 12 & 11.
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*    Final Itinerary Funeral mission for SSGT Hartley, Sat 19 April

DATE OF MISSION (FUNERAL):  Saturday April 19th
STAGING LOCATION: ( map ) First United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 1207 Farr Street, Waller  77484

STAGING TIME LINE:
Staging:   0900 hrs
Mission Briefing and Prayer: 0950 hrs
KSU (kick stands up):   1000  hrs
Honor/Flag Line Setup:  1000 hrs

Please join us as we honor this brave warrior

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PLEASE read more about these 2 BRAVE warriors below:

Apparently, the words “democrat” and “demagogue” are similar not just phonically, but also in meaning. In reference, I cite the recent hearings in Congress about the “obscene profits” that oil companies are making.

First, read a bit of this article. (click link to go to article.)

In it, it states that in the US, consumers use about 168 billion gallons of gasoline per year. Oil companies, then, made about 75 cents’ profit per gallon of gasoline used (about $120 billion last year). The average tax on a gallon of gas in the US is about 42 cents per gallon. That means that the government made about $70 billion on the same gasoline.

There are two points I’d like to make about the above before I continue: The government did next to nothing for their portion of the profit. Secondly, the oil companies make money on a whole lot more than just gasoline. There’s diesel fuel. There’s heating oil. There are petrochemicals. There are plastics. There are a multitude of products that go into the oil companies’ profits. The figure cited for the government is JUST for gasoline.

Now, let’s look at an article from the local paper.

First off, the name of the committee holding the hearings is: House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Note that “Global Warming” is part of their agenda… I mean “responsibilities.” Not to mention that just today, the UN commission has predicted a COOLER climate next year and that the entire Global Warming Hoax is nothing more than hype, speculation, and hysteria, but this doesn’t portend well for the unbiased reception the “Big Oil” people might expect.

Secondly, the Chairman of the committee is Edward Markee, a democrat from the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts… At least that’s one way I’ve heard the socialist, nearly communist, State of Massachusetts described. With representatives like John “Hero” Kerry and Ted “Mario Andretti” Kennedy, I think that the appellation is probably apt.

Here’s the real rub, though. The Government gives tax breaks to businesses (and occasionally, to citizens) to encourage behavior or actions that they wouldn’t take, if they weren’t paid to do it. In this case, the US Government gives tax breaks to oil companies to encourage things like alternative energy research, experimental drilling in inaccessible areas, and other such projects.

The oil companies have decided that there is no profit in such activities, or not enough profit to justify the expenditure, so the US Government gives them a tax break to encourage them to do it, regardless of the lack of profit.

So, if they take away the “tax breaks” it isn’t going to lower pump prices one penny. What it will do is cause the oil companies to stop doing whatever they were being encouraged to do. So, this demagoguery does nothing more than grab headlines, and mislead people into thinking that the oil companies are making money only because the government isn’t making them pay taxes… NONE of which is true.

Democrats are even capable of lying without saying anything, apparently.

SHORT NOTICE ESCORT HOME tomorrow THURSDAY April 3rd

Confirmed: Spc. Joshua V. Molina 20, Houston, TX, 3 April 2008

Spc. Joshua A. Molina, died in Baghdad on Thursday 27 March 2008

from injuries he suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device.

Molina was assigned to the 1st Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment

stationed in Vilseck, Germany. His tour of duty in Iraq was scheduled to end in November.

Born and raised in the Houston area, Molina joined the Army Junior ROTC at Bellaire High School.

When the family moved to Alief, Molina transferred to Elsik High School.

He enlisted after graduating in 2005.

He wanted to be a soldier since he was a little kid, said his younger brother,

Manuel Molina. “He just liked to play war.”

Escort Home

Arrival: 3 April 2008, 1123 hours

Ellington Field, 510 Ellington Field, Houston, TX 77034

Staging Location: Volo Aviation, 11210 Blume Ave, Houston, TX 77034

11210 Blume Ave, Houston, TX 77034

MAP LINK Staging Time: 1000 hours Mission Briefing: 1050 hours KSU: 1100 hours

Escort Destination:

Earthman Funeral Home / Bellaire Chapel, 6700 Ferris St., Bellaire, TX 77401

Apparently there are still some journalists out there worthy of the name. It takes a while to load, and a lot of video, but Graeme Smith of Canada’s Globe and Mail has published a report of interviews with some Taliban in Afghanistan.

Despite his insistence on calling them “insurgents,” the interviews and video do provide some insight into their motives and beliefs.

Go check out “Talking to the Taliban” if you’re interested in what the other side, or at least part of it, thinks.

Punky Perry and the TxDOT are trudging forward with the TCC and calling it SH130.  They signed a contract in New York last month with hordes of Lawyers sipping Champagne and transferring 1.36 Billion Texas Dollars to the Spainish Company Cintra.

Of course they are still debating and holding Town Hall meetings to determine IF the project should go through while they are contracting for Toll roads under other names: Which will become  part of the TCC35 later.  Meanwhile even though this is “not part of TCC”, (YET), it has the same 50 year tax free use of Texas Land, Stolen, (fair and Square), from Texans for this foriegn co. to profit from.

Maybe we should start a web site naming all of Perry/TxDOT supporters that are helping to shove this down the throats of the Texas people.  Perry can’t run again, so he has nothing to lose politically in Texas.  He HAS to be setting up his non-political carreer on the backs of the people that he is stealing land from to build this Texas Bypass for Spain and Mexico.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988516/posts

NCOM NEWS BYTES

Compiled & Edited by Bill Bish,
National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM)

U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY LOBBIES FOR HELMET LAWS

There’s a big difference between promoting helmet usage and advocating helmet laws,

and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters made it clear

to Congress that she prefers the latter as her cornerstone to motorcycle safety.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee

Transportation Subcommittee on March 6, Secretary Peters revealed her desire

to promulgate nationwide helmet laws;

“I support giving the information to states so that they can act on those laws,”

she told Senators, adding “And I certainly have made myself available to a number of states,

and, in fact, have called governors when I see substantial increases

in the number of motorcycle deaths in a state, especially a state that has repealed a helmet law.”

Calling upon the federal government to ease lobbying restrictions imposed

at the behest of motorcycle rights organizations across the country,

Peters has requested legislation that will allow her to divert motorcycle safety funding

to convince states to enact mandatory helmet laws.

Peters has sent letters to House and Senate leadership urging legislation

to allow states to utilize federal funds intended for motorcycle rider training

and awareness programs to promote helmet laws instead.

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I read the headline and could not believe it, but when I read the whole article it does not come as a surprise.

A California judge rejected a foster teen’s request for early enlistment with the Marine Corps —and a $10,000 signing bonus — reportedly on the grounds that the judge didn’t approve of the Iraq war.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied 17-year-old Shawn Sage’s request to join the military last October, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News.

“The judge said she didn’t support the Iraq war for any reason we’re over there,” Marine recruiter Sgt. Guillermo Medrano of the Simi Valley U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office told the paper.

“She just said all recruiters were the same — that they ‘all tap dance and tell me what I want to hear.’ She said she didn’t want him to fight in it.”

Sage, a Simi Valley, Calif., resident, begged the anti-war judge for permission to join, according to the Daily News.

“Foster children shouldn’t be denied [an] ability to enlist in the service just because they’re foster kids,” Sage told the paper. “Foster kids shouldn’t have to go to court to gain approval to serve one’s country.”

Sage plans to join the Marines when he turns 18 in June and his case has prompted a Republican lawmaker to introduce a bill that would allow foster teens to enlist in the military without the express permission of a judge.

The outrage that I am feeling right not about this liberal anti-war hack of a judge cannot be put in words.  suffice it to say I hope that more of this sort of insanity is brought to light and maybe someone will try to get her removed from the bench.  We can only hope

From the
GUNNY’S SACK

This month there is a ton of information to pass on to all you good folks out there.

The Gunny’s move into his own digs is nearly complete and I’m ever so grateful the chore is almost behind me. Moving is for young folks, certainly not for old farts like me. I hope this will be the last move in this lifetime for me!

I need to remind all that the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) Convention is just around the corner. MAY 8-11, 2008 is the date and is particularly important as this year is an election year. There will be seminars and workshops the whole time folks, and every one of these events has an impact on the way we do things in our own backyards. The Confederations of Clubs meeting alone is worth the trip.

We have won some and lost some this year, and the lessons learned will help us in our fights for freedom in our own states.

The 2008 NCOM Convention is in Houston, Texas, at George Bush International Airport, at the Sheraton North Houston Hotel, at 15700 JFK Blvd, Houston, Texas 77032.

The reservation phone is: (281) 442-5100 and ask for the NCOM rate.

Call right away to make your reservations before you wind up in an adjacent hotel and find yourself going back and forth.

The days will be filled with enough work that you’ll want to stay in the same hotel as the Convention. Plus, all the fun kids will be there.

To register, look for flyers from your state Motorcycle Rights Organization, contact NCOM at 1-800-531-2424, or look online, at www.aimncom.com.

But send your people, as many as you can afford. NCOM suggest at least two people from each group or club, so you can cover all the workshops and seminars that will be taking place.

The three main days, Thursday - Saturday, will be some of the busiest you will encounter for some time, but the information you bring back to your people will help to guide your decisions forward.

NCOM NEWS BYTES

Compiled & Edited by Bill Bish

National Coalition of Motorcyclists

TRANSPORTATION CHIEF CALLS FOR HELMET USE

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters sent legislation to Congress on February 14th seeking to divert funding from rider training and motorcycle awareness funds to promote helmet use. According to the Department of Transportation, the legislation submitted to Congress would allow states to use federal motorcycle safety funding to promote the use of motorcycle helmets.

Currently, states are limited to using the funds for motorcycle safety training and awareness programs only. In spite of a Congressional ban on the federal agency lobbying state legislatures in favor of passing helmet laws, Secretary Peters wrote letters to House and Senate leaders “seeking greater flexibility for states to target one of the leading causes of motorcycle deaths across the nation – riding without a helmet.”

“Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters is requesting an amendment to allow the SAFETEA-LU Section 2010 Grant funds to be used to promote helmet use in a letter sent to President of Senate Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,” explained Sputnik, Chairman of the National Coalition of Motorcyclists Legislative Task Force (NCOM-LTF). “This is nothing more than a raid on a fund that was intended for motorcycle awareness and education. Motorcyclists across the nation fought hard for many years to get this grant money and the outlines for its usage were hammered out and agreed upon.”

Consider writing letters to your Senators and Representatives asking them to do the following:

1. Write Secretary Peters and request she withdraw her proposed amendment.

2. Speak with your legislators against this letter in an attempt to gather votes against this amendment if she does not withdraw it and it becomes a written bill.

INCREASED GLOBAL DEMAND FOR MOTORCYCLES FORECAST

Global demand for motorcycles is projected to exceed 59 million unites in 2011. According to a new study from The Fredonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm, the demand for motorcycles is forecast to advance 6.0 percent annually to 59 million units in 2011, representing $49 billion in manufacturers’ sales.

“This growth emanates from a mix of developed market incremental improvements and emerging market expansions,” quoted the independent report released February 7th. “Demand for all categories of motorcycles is expected to remain healthy, despite the plateauing of growth in key markets such as China, which is rapidly transitioning away from motorcycles and toward cars for its transportation needs.”

These and other trends, including market share and company profiles, are presented in “World Motorcycles”, a market research study conducted by The Fredonia Group, an unbiased international business analyst with Fortune 500 clientele.

Michael J. Totten is back with another post about the transition going on in Iraq.  Again a good article with some very good insight.

Below are a few blurbs from his article… again a good read I would suggest for all

The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country. Most Americans have heard about the success in this province by now, but few seem to be aware that the cities of Anbar were the scenes of the most ferocious fighting: Ramadi, Haditha, and – worst of all – Fallujah. 

“We’ve already seen a pretty significant difference,” Specialist Brian Henderson said. “When we first got here and went on patrols with the guys from the Dubat station they were just looking around. Now they’re trying to work on their intervals, their staggers, the stuff that we’ve taught them. They’re putting this stuff into play more and more.”

“That’s one of the things we do here,” Specialist Alan Martin said. “This station is pretty well-established. Someone takes account of all their weapons. They had problems with Iraqi Police giving their weapons away to family members because they thought they were gifts. Same with vehicles and stuff like that. Now they’re keeping a count of them and making them sign for them, letting them know they’re accountable.”

The food at these stations in terrible. You’re lucky if you can scrounge up a microwaved hot pocket or pizza. Usually we were stuck with tasteless and over-cooked “chow” that spent months or even years in cardboard boxes stacked in the pantry. Steaks are cooked in boiling water. Corn is canned, of course. The macaroni and cheese is so bland it doesn’t even work as plausible comfort food. Barbecued ribs are all bone. Meals in Iraq prepared by Marines at small stations gave me a real appreciation for food served in the gigantic D-FACs (dining facilities) at Camp Fallujah. And food at Camp Fallujah’s D-FACs makes dinner at Denny’s sound awesome.

Embedding with the military in Baghdad and Fallujah has given me a deeper appreciation for the comforts of modern civilization than I would have thought possible when I was younger.  

Also he has posted a story about Moammar Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam and a link to an old photo tour of Lybia, and if you think that they are on our side you are wrong… 

Just a couple of stories that we need to keep our eyes on ….

That has been one of the regular positions of the people in the immigration reform camp for a long time.  However most of the pro amnesty people have consistently said that enforcement will not solve the problem.  Well it may not solve the problem but if you read this article in the Chronicle you will see that it will go a long way towards solving it. 

Illegal immigrants are flowing into Texas across its long borders. But they aren’t just swimming across the Rio Grande from Mexico or making dangerous treks through the rugged desert.

Instead, a new rush of illegal immigrants are driving down Interstate 35 from Oklahoma or heading east to Texas from Arizona to flee tough new anti-illegal immigrant laws in those and other states.

Ok now do we have to do something about our borders with other states?   Granted illegal aliens, I refuse to call them immigrants, are hard to track because of the lifestyle they live, all cash and limited paper trails.

A couple of years ago I signed up for the History Chanel’s Today in History e-mail list.  Since I am a fan of history I felt that it would be something that would allow me a small daily sample of a subject that I enjoy but do not usually have the time to dig into with as much energy and time as I would like.  That being said there are days when the headline of the e-mail as well as the events that they list do not catch my eye.  Today however is quite different, especially since we are in the middle of a “military campaign” and an election cycle.  The primary event was 1968 : Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy

Now if you read the small summary of the event you will see where the majority of today’s liberals get their anti war feelings as well as the truth behind the the events that led up to us losing in Vietnam.  This includes as liberal president who instead of supporting his troops and their commanders, decided to cut and run, and try to negotiate a peace with a group of people who had been fighting a conflict using unconventional tactics.  (Does any of this sound familiar?)  This president despite coming off a military victory, that was bloody and costly in American lives, did the unthinkable, he quit on both his country, his ally and his military.

This one is for Sarge and those that want more stories from Iraq.  I found this on Foxnews.com, but it is from Michael J. Totten.

In short it is a story about the last marines in Fallujah, yes Fallujah, the same city that was according to the press and liberals in our government and abroad, the biggest example of the failure of the Bush Administration’s Iraq plan.   Here are a couple of pieces of his story… I have added the bold for emphasis

FALLUJAH – At the end of 2006 there were 3,000 Marines in Fallujah. Despite what you might expect during a surge of troops to Iraq, that number has been reduced by 90 percent. All Iraqi Army soldiers have likewise redeployed from the city. A skeleton crew of a mere 250 Marines is all that remains as the United States wraps up its final mission in what was once Iraq’s most violent city.

“The Iraqi Police could almost take over now,” Second Lieutenant Gary Laughlin told me. “Most logistics problems are slowly being resolved. My platoon will probably be the last one out here in the Jolan neighborhood.”

“The Iraqi Police in Jolan are very good,” Second Lieutenant Mike Barefoot added. “Elsewhere in Fallujah they’re not as far along yet. Theoretically we could leave the area now and they would be okay, except they would run out of money.”

Ok we are looking at as he says a 90% decrease in US Troops in the city that the liberals once said could never be controlled.   And get this, most of the people who are over there training the Iraqi Police are from TEXAS…

The Marine Corps runs the American mission in Fallujah, but some of the Police Transition Team members are Military Police officers culled from the Texas National Guard. “We’re like the red-headed stepchild of units,” one MP told me. “We’re from different units from all over Texas, as well as from the Marine Corps.”

One Texas MP used to be a Marine. “I decided I would rather defend my state than my country,” he said jokingly. “But here I am, back in Iraq.”

After I adjusted my embed to focus specifically on Police Transition Teams, I was nearly surrounded by young men from Texas. Many seemed to instinctively understand Fallujah’s infamous provincial “nationalism.”

“Fallujah pride is like Texas pride,” I heard from several MPs who, unlike Iraqis from Baghdad, didn’t think that was a bad thing.

Like Texas pride, now how about that.  I do not know about you but to me Texas Pride is about being independent, self sufficient, and willing to take the hard road to success.  Yes sometimes it also generates a stubborn streak that would make a mule blush, but that is what makes us as Texans special, and I guess if you can relate to those that you are working with, then you will work better with them and see top notch results.

Training Iraqis to replace Marines is a lot less dangerous than fighting a war, but it’s harder. Every single American who has an opinion one way or the other told me it’s harder. Iraqis are not lumps of clay or blank slates that can be hand-molded or written on. They are human beings with their own complex history and culture. Most recently they were the brutally micromanaged subjects and enforcers of the regime of Saddam Hussein. If the Americans fail to field an effective local police force, Fallujah may go the way of Somalia and Gaza all over again – and next time there may be no one to save them.

Maybe it will work, and maybe it won’t. The Iraqis lag more than a hundred years behind their teachers. “They’re where the American police were in the late 18th and 19th centuries,” said Lieutenant Brandon Pearson, a resident military expert in American Criminal Justice. You can see the broad outlines of what he means in old American movies that take place on the Western frontier in places with names like Dodge City. Corrupt lawmen sometimes sided with bad guys while decent, yet weak, lawmen cowered while gunslinging thugs terrorized entire communities.

This story is just one more piece of evidence that we need to make sure that when we leave those that we leave behind have been taught up as much as they possibly can be taught and making sure that they can call on us for assistance if or when they need it, and then we walk away, always keeping an eye on things, but staying out of their way.  The story goes on to tell even more…. Read it you will find it interesting

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Michael Yon is now being reported on by The New York Times! Who’d a thunk it!

Read the article.

Bin Laden’s son to father: Change your ways

The story headline says it all Omar Bin Laden the son of Osama Bin Laden is publicly calling his father out and challenging him to change.  The things that I find amazing about this are that first in the Arab world a child would never call out or challenge his parents, let alone one with the name recognition of Bin Laden.  Second the fact that the press is even covering this is positive. 

Now I do not believe that the Muslim faith as it is currently is one that is good for the world community, however if more people like Omar come to the forefront and work towards the elimination of the radical sects of their faith then maybe there is some room for discussion.  That being said,  here are a couple of quotes from the article

“I try and say to my father: ‘Try to find another way to help or find your goal. This bomb, this weapons, it’s not good to use it for anybody,’ ” he said in English learned in recent months from his British wife.

He said that’s not just his own message, but one that a friend of his father’s and other Muslims have expressed to him. “They too say … my father should change [his] way,” he said.

Coming from his son and friends, that carries some weight.

He said he doesn’t consider his father to be a terrorist. When his father was fighting the Soviets, Washington considered him a hero, he said.

“Before they call it war; now they call it terrorism,” he said. He said his father believes his duty is to protect Muslims from attack.

He is right about the fact that when he was fighting the Soviets he was OK, but the same could be said for Sadaam and Iraq.  It comes down to making decisions on who and where to fight and what to fight for.  If he feels it is his job to protect Muslims maybe he needs to start hunting down the radical religious leaders who are doing more harm to the world view of their faith than a lot of other things.

“I don’t think 9/11 was right personally, but it happened,” he said. “I don’t think … [the war] in Vietnam was right. I don’t think what’s going on in Palestine is right. I don’t think what’s going on in Iraq is right.

“If we make what is right and not right, we will make a very big list,” he said.

He said he left al Qaeda because he did not want to be associated with killing civilians. He said his father did not try to dissuade him from leaving al Qaeda.

And here is the home run shot…  and the proof that there are some in that region, who have some sort of brain and are capable of thinking for themselves.

The co-pilot of a British Airways flight managed to save hundreds of lives by keeping his head and guiding his powerless 777 to a safe, albeit bumpy, landing.

Click on the picture for the entire London Times article.

Just thought I’d post some good news, for a change. The only injury was a broken leg by a passenger exiting via the slide after the short landing.

UFOs have been spotted at Stephenville, Texas.  They have to be real because the military is summarily denying it. 

I believe it is nothing to be alarmed about.  I have it on good authority from a Mr. Adams that it is just some kind of inter-galactic bypass construction project.

Happy reading……

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/14/ufo.sightings.ap/index.html