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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/11/the-last-bayonet-charge-in-vietnam

Friday, November 11th, 2011 | Posted by Jim W. Dean
The Last Bayonet Charge in Vietnam
A Veterans Day Retrospective on Our Veterans Today Senior Editor and a Marine – Gordon Duff
Intro by… Jim W. Dean

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In Vietnam, as with Afghanistan, we sent an army to a hopeless war led by the most corrupt leadership in America’s history.

In Vietnam, a generation of Americans was systematically destroyed, with the best and brightest of the generation “doing time” in Vietnam, combat units, while “bottom feeders” sat in Saigon and DaNang.

Those shirkers an “no accounts” have given us the America we have today, broke, addicted to propaganda and fear, obsessed with safety, a generation ducking responsibility and leadership, borrowing from tomorrow to steal today.

The number of members of congress who ducked Vietnam through imaginary illness, special arrangements for “safe” National Guard units or simply deferment after deferment created a list of “chickenhawks” that became a national shame.

Those that ducked service in Vietnam were the first to push for war after war for the children of those who fought.

Who would have imagined this or have believed they could have gotten away with it?

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The day after Veterans’ Day, and all the problems remain. And, the “chickenhawks” are trying to drum up a war with Iran.

Vote Ron Paul!

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I’m going to shun Penn State today. If its game today is on the tube — and I would have watched it — then I’ll just ignore it. Maybe if their ratings go down, even if just by one person, then they will get the message. Their conduct was deplorable. I don’t know what others will do, this is my small gesture.

p.s. The Penn State game is on ESPN at Noon. I suggest IGNORING it.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ycn-10399373

Mike McQueary Will Have to Publicly Live with His Cowardice: A Fan’s Perspective
By Pete Lieber, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Nov 9, 1:43 pm EST

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When the common citizen conjures up images of a “grad assistant,” they may picture a frail, nerdy, insecure college graduate living in libraries because their sociability is at its apex amongst books. That is not the case here. Mike McQueary is a tall and brooding red head, standing well above six feet and carrying 200-plus burly football player pounds. He was a quarterback at State College High School and Penn State. He is said to have been a vocal leader on the field in Happy Valley and a brilliant persuader of young men when recruting in a living room.

He is said to be a “leader.” What a frighteningly sad reality it is when a community as large as Penn State’s can so horrendously mischaracterize someone who’s stature on the sidelines of every Penn State game is as evident as Joe Pa himself. A leader sternly and angrily screams into that shower to stop. A leader grabs the closest towel or blanket and scoops that boy up, running at break neck speed to the closest area hospital while feverishly dialing 911 on their cell phone. A leader might take a moment to knock out Jerry Sandusky with repeated blows so when the police arrive on scene, he’ll still be there, right at the scene of the crime. A leader stands up. Leaders don’t cower. Leaders don’t run to daddy to ask for advice. Yeah, let’s mull it over in front of the family fire place over cocoa while a ten year old endures a life-changing, earth-shattering assault. Lets look out for my own rear end by, in essence, protecting someone who in 2002, didn’t even work there anymore.

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Well said.

Wish I could have said it that way. Or that well.

One has to wonder what any parent, who’s been sold by this cad, feels. Maybe to take a shower. But that has it’s own risks if any Penn Stater is around.

Argh!

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http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/08/obama-couldnt-wait-his-new-christmas-tree-tax/

Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax
David S. Addington
November 8, 2011 at 6:15 pm

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President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)). And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).

To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program, the Department of Agriculture imposed a 15-cent fee on all sales of fresh Christmas trees by sellers of more than 500 trees per year (7 CFR 1214.52). And, of course, the Christmas tree sellers are free to pass along the 15-cent Federal fee to consumers who buy their Christmas trees.

Acting Administrator Shipman had the temerity to say the 15-cent mandatory Christmas tree fee “is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government” (76 CFR 69102). The Federal government mandates that the Christmas tree sellers pay the 15-cents per tree, whether they want to or not. The Federal government directs that the revenue generated by the 15-cent fee goes to the Board appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the Christmas tree program established by the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. President, that’s a new 15-cent tax to pay for a Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

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Are you kidding me?

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[JR: Cancelled!]

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http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-paterno-firing-breaking-110811,0,7521879.story

Report: Paterno firing “imminent” won’t coach in 2012
Reuters
12:36 p.m. EST, November 8, 2011
The Sports Xchange

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Paterno has come under fire and, according to the Times, citing two people briefed on the conversations with top school officials, could be fired within days or weeks for failing to involve the police when he learned of an eyewitness account from a graduation assistant coach who told him Sandusky assaulted a boy in 2002. Paterno at the time turned the information over to his superiors, but took no further action and said he did not know the explicit details or nature of Sanudsky’s encounter with the boy. The graduate assistant was identified by the Centre Daily Times as current wide receiver coach Mike McQuery, who played quarterback for the Nittany Lions while Sandusky was defensive coordinator. Sandusky retired in 1999 but reports say he had access to the school, its locker rooms and training facilities, privileges that hadn’t been denied even into his retirement until last week, according to Yahoo.com.

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A quarterback, attracted by the noise, sees the assault and rape taking place and doesn’t immediately intervene?

Was he a past victim? Past witness? Unindicted co-conspirator?

What else can explain the delayed response?

Wouldn’t a normal person race in a punch the pervert’s lights out?

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I wrote this last night. Listening to Imus, this morning, he cited Maureen Dowd excoriating Penn State.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/opinion/dowd-personal-foul-at-penn.html?_r=1&ref=maureendowd

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Personal Foul at Penn State
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: November 8, 2011

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Paterno was told about it the day after it happened by Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant coach who testified that he went into the locker room one Friday night and heard rhythmic slapping noises. He looked into the showers and saw a naked boy about 10 years old “with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky,” according to the grand jury report.

It would appear to be the rare case of a pedophile caught in the act, and you’d think a graduate student would know enough to stop the rape and call the police. But McQueary, who was 28 years old at the time, was a serf in the powerfully paternal Paternoland. According to the report, he called his dad, went home and then the next day went to the coach’s house to tell him.

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Totally unexplainable behavior!

Even then, if “Pappa Joe’s” image is to be believed, why didn’t he immediately call the police. Old-heimers?

It’s both a “personal foul” and an “institutional foul”.

I’ve long ragged on the NCAA and the NCAA schools as the modern plantation. More interested in “revenue” and image than caring for the slaves on their new type plantation.

At least major league baseball is honest with its minor leagues.

Time to break this cartel up. Root out ALL the abuse.

And, like the Catholic Church, nothing will get better until the evil is cauterized.

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On Varney & Company, Former Judge Andrew Napolitano asserted that Joe Paterno is legally in the clear because he reported it to his superiors in Penn State.

<He was interrupted by an AP report that Joe will retire at the end of the season.>

Side kick babe, Tracy Byrnes as Mom, went nuts but he gave he the First Amendment and East German police argument, no obligation to report what people tell you. She wasn’t mollified, but I guess he’s right about that.

While Joe under that scenario, didn’t have an obligation to report. Clearly Mike McQuery did.

AND, let’s consider the “where there’s smoke” argument!

This can’t be the first time and what did Joe know and when did he know it?

If I was the Attorney General of PA or of the USA, I’d have my State Police or the FBI collecting papers and computers.

There has to be a smoking gun.

No one gets a “free pass” from a “proctology exam”.

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Joe has reportedly released a statement.

http://philly.sbnation.com/penn-st-nittany-lions/2011/11/9/2549353/joe-paterno-retires-quotes-penn-state-scandal

“… At this moment the Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my status. They have far more important matters to address. I want to make this as easy for them as I possibly can. …”

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Sorry, but I don’t buy it. If I was on the BoT, then I’d want to hear from Coach Joe and I’d have the Audit Committee taking under oath statements. I’d have all University property collected and all email and network logs frozen for forensic examination.

I’d also freeze accepting any “retirements”. No rat gets to abandon ship with a big payday. There should be consequences.

“… easy for them …” or is it easiest for Coach?

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http://www.click2houston.com/news/29554808/detail.html?taf=hou

Bank Forecloses On Home Destroyed By Ike
By Amy Davis
UPDATED: 6:32 pm CDT October 28, 2011

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HOUSTON — Hurricane Ike destroyed dozens of homes in Seabrook. Many families are just now rebuilding, but when Brad Gana tried to pick up the pieces, he learned that Bank of America was trying to take what little he had left.

“I was shocked when they said they were foreclosing on it,” Gana told investigator Amy Davis.

Gana was working overseas when the hurricane hit, destroying his home. But even then, he said he never missed a mortgage payment. It took him days to figure out why Bank of America was foreclosing.

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Why is BoA allowed to get away with this?

Clearly the bank regulators can’t do the job. Or won’t do it.

“Too big to fail” really means “too big to care”.

Solution seems easy.

(1) A cap by the Gooferment on the absolute size a “corporation” can be. “Too big to fail is too big to exist.”

(2) Mortgages can be sold, but if they go bad, they are the responsibility of the originating entity. No more sell it and forget it.

(3) Triple damages for “foreclosing in error”; punitive damages for fiscal malpractice. (As we cap, medical malpractice awards which have become like lottery tickets, “we” should put the Trial Lawyers on this problem.)

(4) Since bank regulators seem to be unable to regulate, let’s eliminate the regulations and sale all those costs.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4145266,00.html

Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu ‘liar’

Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he ‘can’t stand’ Israeli premier. Obama: You’re fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!

Ynet Published: 11.07.11, 23:53 / Israel News

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