You are wrong on so many things, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Other bloggers have done a much better job than I could, so all I will say is that the way that you speak of our military and your latest comments from Iraq highlight the contempt you hold for the people whom you are not fit to wipe the sand off their boots. Your ignorance of all things dealing with honor, leadership and integrity is shown every time you open your mouth. Your elitism comes through loud and clear every time you neglect to include the military’s successes that have kept this country safe these past few years.

You may be the first black presidential candidate, but you came to this place, not so much of what YOU have done, but what so many did before you were even a blip on the political radar. I’m not going to vote for you, not because you’re (half)black, but because I despise everything you stand for. (Though with the way you keep changing your stands, it’s difficult to keep up with them all.) Call me racist if you will. I’m not and never have been. My ancestors never owned slaves either but fought on the side of freedom and liberty for all in many wars.

As the mother of a soldier, the fact that you may be my daughter’s CIC gives me great pause. I see her being in even more danger because of your inexperience and ignorance of all things military. Plus, from what I’ve heard from you, strategy is not your long suit. I would hope that my daughter’s CIC would be able to admit when he or she is wrong (which you seem inherently unable to do) and have love enough for this country to protect her (something you and your wife seem to be lacking). If you become president, I hope my daughter does not reenlist during your term in office. You can use words like “brilliant” and “brave” in reference to our troops in the Middle East, but you had the “audacity” to vote to cut off funding for them mid-mission. That is unforgivable to this mother of a soldier. Again, your ignorance and political posturing is glaring.

The changes you keep vaguely talking about (vagueness does seem to be your long suit) just proves that you do not have the “judgment to lead”.

BTW ~ In regard to your believing “Afghanistan is the central front in the war on terror”, have you ever heard the term “beach head”? You might want to look that up…

I can only hope that the people in this country wake up and see you for what you are ~ an elitist, controlling, manipulative socialist who does NOT have this country’s best interests at heart and despises our military.

Obama Banks On Foreign Tour

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UPDATE:

I just returned from visiting my guys and attending a Volunteer Services meeting at the VA Hospital near here where some things said were very upsetting but that’s for another post soon.  I came online to check some blogs and found the following at American Thinker by Rick Moran:

Obama’s Love for our soldiers only goes so far

Evidently, if you’re a soldier in Afghanistan and there are no cameras around to record how much you love the troops, you can blow them off if you are Barack Obama….

Click here to read the article.  (WARNING! First put down anything heavy you may be holding that could seriously damage your monitor.)

And the fact that Europe loves this useful idiot doesn’t make me feel any better about his presence in this presidential campaign.  Just reinforces my grave doubts about him.

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This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Toni

1st LT. Frank B. Walkup, IV
23 years old from Woodbury, Tennessee
2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division
June 16, 2007

Toni already has a great post up on her site, so I’ll just link to it.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died,

We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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I received a couple of emails from two organizations that do good stuff and need some support.

The first one is Dog Tags For Kids:

The Story Behind the Effort

We heard a story about a guy who was in Iraq. He sent his kids a package. They were so excited because they got something from Dad. He sent the only things he had access to: a couple of band aids and some sun screen. The kids didn’t care, it came from Dad!!

We tried to think of something we could send Dad that he could easily send back to his kids. What soldier’s child doesn’t want a dog tag of their own?

The older kids can put it on their key rings, the little ones can put it on their back pack or jacket zippers.

From the email:

“I’m sorry to say that after providing over 350,000 tags to our troops at no cost to them, the organization has run out of funds. Having relied heavily on public support, the economic times have taken it’s toll and we are now sitting on requests for almost 20,000 tags that we can not send. Please understand that although we appreciate donations and are looking for whatever help we can get, our main focus at this point is to get the word out to as many people as possible. This in turn should help bring in the people that are in a position to help and in doing so will provide many many smiles on the faces of the small children left behind.”

Learn More.

Also, Dog Tags For Kids has become a member of America Supports You

Go on over and read some of the letters about the kids receiving their dog tags - a great big AWWW!

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And this one came at an appropriate time for me, having just acquired a couple of units in Afghanistan to support!

CoolClothingUSA.com

CoolclothingUSA.com was founded by a husband and wife team: Craig
and Joanna. Craig is an Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran who knew
first hand how valuable coolmax shirts were in the hot environment of
Iraq. Joanna is a marathon runner who has enjoyed coolmax clothing
for years.

They were both frustrated by how expensive it was to find coolmax
products. They scoured the globe working with a variety of
manufacturers to produce the finest quality moisture wicking shirts at
the best prices available. For those who know, once you wear
coolmax you can’t go back to simple cotton. Their passion is simple-
free people from the poor performance of cotton shirts and liberate
them with coolmax at a price that’s not much different.

They started off selling their shirts on ebay. Demand was so strong
they established a web site and business has taken off ever since.
Their brainchild, coolclothingUSA.com treats customers
the same big or small. From the mother who wants to send her son
some shirts in Iraq to the large screen printer with a bulk order.
Everyone deserves a great product at a fair price with great service.
This is what we strive for.

If supporting a small veteran owned business with a passion for great
products and service is for you then please give us a chance to earn
your business.

I can get behind this! So go over and check them out. They have quite an assortment of different items, so I’m sure you can find something for your warrior to help them deal with the weather in the the hot zones.

They also do screenprinting ~ so if you have a special saying or graphic you would like on clothing for your group, they can help you out there too.

So please help spread the word! Thanks!

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Just working on something to post.

“In a speech this week, Obama said the war in Iraq was a distraction, unlike the fighting in Afghanistan….”

I’m sure the Soldiers and Marines in Iraq are happy to hear that what they are involved in is just a “distraction”.

I’m sure it helps their families’ morale here at home too.

Putz!

a horse lovin’ wounded warrior, send this link to them:

Back in the Saddle, Bit by Bit (B.I.T.S.)

It is our pleasure to introduce Back in the Saddle, Bit by Bit (B.I.T.S.), a non profit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for combat injured men and women serving or having served in the Armed Services, their immediate families and families of deceased servicemen and women by providing physical and psychological health and overall well-being by utilizing equine facilitated therapy.

We not only provide therapy, but create performance venues for our participants to showcase their achievements. This helps them build a new life and allows the public to honor their brave service.

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The Department of Defense (DOD) acting through its Severely Injured Center has this to say about the B.I.T.S. program:
“The Department of Defense, through the Military Severely Injured Center, is working with private citizens to significantly improve the physical and mental health of military members seriously injured in the line of duty through the use of therapeutic horses. For example, one organization, Military B.I.T.S. (Back in the Saddle), located in Colorado, uses specially trained equine therapists during the patients’ rehabilitation. In the past, this same therapy used by other organizations improved the health of severely disabled patients. DOD is appreciative of the private citizens who have improved the lives of injured military members through physical therapy.”

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On the east coast in Maryland, there is a therapeutic riding facility, Circle of Hope, that has been working with the wounded from Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Go to: Heroes on Horseback to see photos of the riding sessions. I’ll warn you, the first photo will get you right from the start.

If you got through those ok, here’s more.

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Now, I’ve spent a lot of my life with horses and I can tell you that they can heal a heart and a soul. Riding can also teach muscles that are wracked with disease to stretch and move again. A horse will give you unconditional support if you ask nicely.

They don’t care if you’re missing a leg or two - they have four themselves and they are more than happy to share them.  Can’t hear so well?  Heck, they could always hear better than you anyway.  Don’t feel like talking?  They don’t say much themselves, unless it’s absolutely necessary.

They are one of God’s special gifts to us confused and weary humans. I miss having them in my life. My little Morgan was my best Bud in my dark times and he kept me sane. Taught me a lot too - like how to fall off and land on my feet. And then get right back on and have the best gallop down a back road, with him snorting and me whooping loud and long.

One of the hardest things I had to do was give up working with horses. But I will never lose the places they touched me inside.

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Yesterday morning I was filled with so much anger and disgust at the politiking and socialization going on in this country.  Those feelings soon dissipated into a heavy sadness that stayed with me most of the day.  The nine fallen members of the 173rd and their families were very much on my mind and then I caught the news of the terrible prisoner exchange between Hezbollah and Israel.  I am so glad that the Israeli soldiers,  Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, are now home, even though they are very dead.    But I’m so sickened that five prisoners were released by Israel, especially that one of pure evil, Samir Kuntar, who has declared that he will continue in his murdering of innocent Jews as he was given a hero’s welcome in Lebanon.  No.  He is no hero ~ he is a killer of babies.

(Pam at Atlas Shrugs has  posts about this here and here.)

My heart aches for the Moms of all these fine warriors.

I tried to watch the House and Senate sessions on CSPAN yesterday and found I couldn’t after hearing Rep. Jane Harmon (D CA) declare that (I’m paraphrasing here) it was the usage of the term “axis of evil” that created so much animosity toward the US.  If those words hadn’t been used, things would have gone better.

WTF ~ Over???  She was serious!!

I tried to read the blogs.  I got to the ones about Obama saying he is going to do away with the Nuclear Weapons and invade Pakistan (huh?) in his first term and his idea for a corps of little “brownshirts” he calls his civilian national security force:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set… We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”

You can read his entire “public service” speech here.

Obama government with it’s tentacles in every home, every room in every home, in every car, business, private property and school.

Then there’s the media ~ Integrity 24/7

AP Photographer Takes Pictures As Taliban Murder Women

See also here:

AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage [UPDATE: Worse than Bilal Hussein!][UPDATE: Confirmed: Took Video of Murder]

And that this even has to be thought about, never mind becoming a law:

Denver police propose law to take pipes, chains out of protesters’ hands

A draft law proposed by the Denver Police Department would ban the possession by protesters of materials such as weighted pipes and chains and items that can make urine and feces bombs…

Now I usually can handle all this sort of nonsense ~ lord knows I’ve been watching the antics of our elite elected career politicians for long enough.  I can sit and laugh at the idiotic statements from those who think they know best how to spend my money.  Politicians = spending my money.  Always has.  Always will.  It’s the nature of the beast.  I have spent time and energy letting my congress critters know what I think of this or that bill under consideration. I have watched numerous hearings on my computer.  I have signed petitions, visited Capitol Hill, carried signs and called the senators and congressmen’s offices while watching their speechifying on CSPAN and felt better for having done so.

But this is getting to me.

Our elected idiots keep proving over and over again that they don’t give a rat’s a$$ about this country - or you and me.  There is a large group sitting on Capitol Hill who really want to do away with our military, capitalism and individual rights.  They seem to want to bring this country to it’s knees so we are powerless to fight their power grabbing agenda.

The latest from wunderkind sNancy Pelosi and Harry Reid:  No drilling for oil in our own country.

“The New Direction Congress will soon bring forward legislation to help facilitate increased production in these lands and require Big Oil to ‘Use It or Lose It’ with legislation that will require diligent production on public lands and coastal areas already available for drilling— or lose their leases to someone else who will. (Pelosi)

“This economy needs the President’s attention and he doesn’t need to have any diversionary tactics. It’s about drilling offshore, but drilling isn’t, by his own admission, going to have any effect for many years to come.” (Pelosi)

“We can not drill our way out of this energy crisis, which is why Reid is hosting the National Clean Energy Summit this August at UNLV. This forum will bring together leading experts in the clean energy revolution from all over the country to discuss America’s energy future. Reid believes by investing in solar, wind, and geothermal power sources, Nevada could be the world leader in renewable energy. Read more on Reid’s efforts to promote renewable energy in Nevada and across America.”

The Democrats call the Republicans “obstructionists” but Pelosi and Reid have time and time again tried to get bad, bad legislation through without allowing any input from the Republicans - no debate, no amendments.

And Earmarks reform??  OFF-LIMITS!!!  Much like our oil.

Then there’s the whole war thing:

Vets vs. Reid, Obama, Hagel

That would take a whole post on it’s own.

So I’m turning off the TV, the radio and the blogs for a few days (well…maybe.  I’ll be surprised if I last 48 hours, actually) and focusing on getting some loving home support to our troops.  We’re having a packing party with all the donations from our drive we had on Saturday.  27 large bins just filled with all sorts of things that people here donated!!  My hand is stiff from filling out all those custom forms - *smile*.

Then I’m going to sit a spell on my porch, drink ice tea and watch the critters that visit our pond.

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I am so disgusted with our politicians (too many to name here) that I can’t even write about it.

So I’m just going to ask you to spend a minute sending out a prayer for the families of the soldiers killed in Afghanistan this past week and, while you’re at it , include one for the troops still fighting the fight and their families waiting for them to come home.

OH! and how about one for the gahdamm politicians to GET A CLUE!!!

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Spc. Kisha Makerney
23 years old from Fort Towson, Oklahoma
120th Engineers, Oklahoma Army National Guard

Spc. Kisha Mackerney isn’t being profiled today because of something she did on the battlefield. She’s being profiled because her spirit and determination. In 2002, Makerney joined the Oklahoma Army National Guard out of a sense of patriotism, because, as she put it, “I love our country and our people.” Between 2004 and 2005, she served in Iraq as a gunner and helped provide battalion security. She returned home in early 2005 and was in a terrible motorcycle accident on June 25, 2005. The front wheel of her brand new bike had blown out and sent her flying into a highway sign. She looked up at her now mangled bike and was angry. That’s when she noticed that her left leg below the knee was missing. The first thing she thought of when she saw her leg was that her military career was over.

Makerney pulled herself out of the ditch that she had landed in and was able to flag down a passing motorist. She was taken to a hospital in Hugo, Oklahoma before being flown to Dallas, Texas.

As soon as word spread about her accident, her fellow soldiers, her second family, rallied and rushed to her bedside. “Even before I was out of surgery they were waiting in the halls,” she said.

Continue reading Spc. Kisha Makerney’s story here. There are some despicable comments by a few readers on the story. Just ignore them.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.

Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes,

They Just Don’t Know Where To Look

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