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Finally! A war story the state-run media hate to reveal

Quiet Dogood — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:22:36 +0000

Everything Americans know about the end of the Vietnam War is wrong, contends Richard Botkin, author of “Ride the Thunder” and former Marine infantry officer. He reveals the heroic, untold story of how Vietnamese Marines and their U.S. advisers fought valiantly, turning the tide of an unpopular war and actually winning while Americans 8,000 miles away were being fed only one version of the story.

“From the American side, I think most people have a completely uninformed or misinformed opinion of the Vietnam War,” Botkin told WND. “Most Americans, including people who served in Vietnam, didn’t appreciate the level of sacrifice of the South Vietnamese. These people love freedom.”

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NYC beekeepers swarm City Hall to protest ban

Quiet Dogood — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:07:24 +0000

Despite city regulations prohibiting it, hundreds of New Yorkers have kept beehives on rooftops and backyard gardens for years, defying the law in their efforts to create something sustainable in the urban environment.

They’re people like 61-year-old Deborah Romano, a gardener and first-time beekeeper in Brooklyn. She had hopes of selling honey at the city’s various green markets but that dream was put on hold when a complaint drew city inspectors, she was ordered to pay a fine and her hive was removed.

Bee

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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

Quiet Dogood — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:25:02 +0000

3rd Infantrys 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping people at home may become a permanent part of the active Army….

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the jaws of life to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The 1st BCTs soldiers also will learn how to use the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded, 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

The package is for use only in war-zone operations, not for any domestic purpose.

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If we go in, were going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so its kind of a different role, said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.

Unrest?

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Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests

Quiet Dogood — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:39:02 +0000

Convicts do not have a right under the Constitution to obtain DNA testing to try to prove their innocence after being found guilty, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

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U.S. likely to lose AAA rating: Prechter

Quiet Dogood — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:49:45 +0000

Technical analyst Robert Prechter on Monday said he sees the United States losing its top AAA credit rating by the end of 2010, as he stuck by a deeply bearish outlook on the U.S. economy and stock market.Prechter, known for predicting the 1987 stock market crash, joins a growing coterie of market heavyweights in forecasting the United States will lose its top credit rating as the government issues trillions of dollars in debt to fund efforts to bail out the economy.

U.S. likely to lose AAA rating

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Figures, like a magnet draws filings

Quiet Dogood — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:54:57 +0000

Michigan unemployment reaches 12.9 percent in April Government was the only broad employment category to add jobs in Michigan last month, with a net increase of about 2,000 jobs. http://www.detnews.com/article/20090520/METRO/905200445/1409/METRO No related posts. No related posts.

U.S. bonkers for Obama birth certificate billboard

The Frog Prince — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:59:45 +0000

the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land. No related posts.

New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story

Quiet Dogood — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:44:10 +0000

Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.

But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom’s reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady’s
“public editor.”New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story

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How Accurate Is Snopes.com?

The Frog Prince — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:13:59 +0000

This questioned has been asked to me more than a few times. You be the judge of the “authoritative source.”

“For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it as the ‘tell-all, final word’ on any comment, claim and e-mail. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com.

Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it -kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago – and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions – or skepticism’s is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issues, when in fact, they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.
When I saw that Snopes had falsely claimed that Obama’s Birth Certificate had been properly validated, I realized something was wrong with either their research and/or their credibility. It seems something is seriously wrong with both.
Then a few months ago, when my State Farm agent, Bud Gregg, in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, supposedly the Mikkelson’s claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ever took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this, and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact phone numbers. Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet snopes.com issued a statement as the ‘final factual word’ on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things.

Not!

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts: Proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelson’s do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their ‘not’ fully looking into things.”

Check it out and in the future when someone wants to “snopes.com” you, send them a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes

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Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook users

The Frog Prince — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:11:31 +0000

Here’s one of the problems that is again surfacing with Facebook. The first time they hit me with the bogus suspension for plagiarism, the worm hit Facebook right after Newsvine linked the two forums together. I sent Newsvine a link to that CNN report and they never uttered one word to the users of the forum. Tyler now claims they didn’t have a “responsibility” to inform the users. I have that in an e-mail from Tyler to another group member.

Many have experienced computer problems in one form or another since that time. I’m not sure if you are a member of Facebook or not, I am not. However, I am being told that I am there. How did that happen? Can anyone who is a member confirm that for me? I recently received a “friends request” from someone on that forum that hit my primary e-mail address and got spammed. What is my primary e-mail address doing on Facebook?

Now I see this and wonder if Newsvine will announce the problem, sever the linking or not, and do what is necessary to protect the users of that forum? Something was exchanged between the two forums to establish that linkage. I’m sure of that because both are businesses.

If you are a member of Facebook, or know anyone who is, you might want to alert them about this problem IMHO.

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It’s Coming!

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:34:26 +0000

9-12 is coming sooner than we think. Now is the time for all of us to stand up for OUR country!

Thanks, Jim…..I ‘ll show you hwo to do this tonight!

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Opening The Door To Polygamy

Socalgal — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:35:28 +0000

Same-Sex Marriage: Opening The Door To Polygamy Marriage has been defined in this country up until now as a union between a man and woman. The argument given to allow same sex marriage is that it is a civil right based on the wishes of two adults. Using that logic why should we not allow any [...] No related posts.

Schumer on torture: ‘Do what you have to do’

The Frog Prince — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:58:52 +0000

Now lets observe what Schumer has to say these days when the absurd talk about “torturing” terrorists seems to be a very hot topic. I consider him to be one of the biggest hypocrites in Congress.

I’m still a “Do what you have to do” believer with any Islamic fundamentalist organizations that would attack American soil and kill innocent American citizens just because they hate us.

Yes, do what you have to do!

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“Shut Up”

The Frog Prince — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:42:17 +0000

I’m putting this up here because it seems to make so much sense that it makes my teeth hurt.

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Dictionary: ‘Narrow-minded’ means ‘conservative’

The Frog Prince — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:23:16 +0000

WORDS GET IN THE WAY! So what will they come up with next? Reference book equates terms without comment index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98022 No related posts. No related posts.

Arlen Spector Changes Parties For Self Preservation

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:44:16 +0000

Sen. Arlen Spector has changed to the Democratic Party. He says it was a painful decision. I think it was just self preservation as he was losing terribly in the polls an was about to get kicked out of Congress in 2010. This move looks purely like selfishness to me. He should fit right in [...] No related posts.

Easy Conficker Worm Detection

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:27:19 +0000

This link will provide an easy test to see if your compouter is infected with any variant of the conficker worm. Conficker Worm Test No related posts. No related posts.