Wednesday -- February 15, 2006
 HE FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY ... BUT HE'S NOT
WORTHY.
 His name was Gregory Boyington. Some called
him "Pappy." He served as a combat pilot in World War II with
the 1st Squadron, American Volunteer Group. This squadron was known as the
Flying Tigers of China. Boyington later served as a combat pilot for the
U.S. Marine Corps. He commanded Marine Fighting Squadron 214.
Perhaps you've heard of this squadron. It was called the Black Sheep
Squadron and was later featured in a TV series called "Baa Baa, Black
Sheep." Boyington shot down 26 Japanese aircraft while serving in the
Pacific. He was later shot down and spent 20 months in a Japanese POW
camp. For those of you who aren't up to par on World War II history,
Japanese POW camps were not happy places. Torture .. .and we mean real
torture, not stripping them naked and taking snapshots. After the war
Pappy Boyington was awarded the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor. He died
in 1988. You can visit his grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
Education? Oh yes! Almost
forgot! Pappy Boyington was a graduate of the University
of Washington. Just recently the idea of erecting a memorial to this
Medal of Honor winner at the University of Washington made its way to the
student senate. Here you have an alumnus who served in World War II. was
captured and held, and was later awarded the Medal of Honor and the Navy
Cross. Perhaps some sort of monument would be a good idea!
Well .. not to Jill Edwards. Thanks to the
folks at WorldNetDaily we can show you a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the
student senate at the University of
Washington. Under old business there was a discussion of a resolution
calling for a tribute to Pappy Boyington. Student senate member
Jill
Edwards immediately moved to table the resolution. She wanted other
issues to be considered. Another member said that the issue was at the top
of the agenda and should be dealt with. Jill's motion failed, but she
wasn't through. There was then some discussion on why Andrew Everett,
another student senate member, wanted the memorial. Everett responded that
Colonel Boyington "had many of the qualities the University of Washington
hoped to produce in its students." Well, I guess that might be true,
if leadership and courage are considered to be good qualities. Anyway ...
that's when Jill Edwards spoke up and showed her true colors. She
questioned whether it was appropriate to honor a person who killed other
people. Then the lovely Jill Edwards said that a member of the Marine
Corps was not an example of the sort of person the University of Washington wanted
to produce.
Shall I repeat that? Jill Edwards, a Junior
in Mathematics at the University of Washington, says that a U.S. Marine is not --- that's right, NOT
the example of the sort of person that the University of Washington wants to
produce. Let's let this sink in. To all of you men and women out
there who have served with pride in the United States Marine Corps; to those of
you who fought in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, Jill
Edwards, student senate member at the University of Washington, thinks that you
are unworthy to be graduates of the University of Washington. My father was a
Marine. He's buried in the National Cemetery at Ft. Sam Houston in San
Antonio, Texas beneath a grave market that reads "Neal A Boortz, Sr.
Lt. Col. USMC. World War II, Korea, Vietnam." Therefore,
I think that Jill Edwards is an ignorant fool. I would submit that Jill
Edwards is am embarrassment to the University of Washington. With
her mathematics degree and her leftist outlook on life my guess is that she'll
end up being a teacher in a government school. Oh goody.
By the way .. there's at least one more moonbat
on the U of W student senate. Her name is Ashley Miller. Ashley says
that there are already enough monuments at UW commemorating "rich white
men." Well .. I guess you have to get that wealth-envy stuff in there
somewhere.
Don't you just love these young people?
They're so much fun to watch during those magic years when they know everything
and when they have all of the answers to every problem facing mankind. As
I said the other day, we should take 100 volunteer members of university student
senates from across the country --- and let's make sure Jill Edwards is one of
them --- and give them a country to run for four years. Haiti would do
just fine.
FLOODPLAIN? YOU'VE GOT TO BE
KIDDING.
We've been asking in recent days why all of those
FEMA trailers remain on those acres of ground in Arkansas instead of being used
to house Katrina evacuees. Yesterday I head one of the reasons. Many
of the places where those trailers were needed were in floodplains. There
is some sort of a federal regulation which says that you
cannot put one of these FEMA trailers in a floodplain. Give me a break. When disaster
strikes, you put these trailers where they are needed. Floodplains be
damned. But ... this is government we're talking about. What did you
expect? Common sense and efficiency? The reality is that most of
these trailers will never be used. Over $800 million in taxpayer money
wasted.
CHENEY
FALLOUT CONTINUES
Well...we're approaching
day 4 of CheneyGate. Yesterday the doctors treating the accident victim,
78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington, said that one of the BB-sized pieces of
bird shot was lodged against the man's heart. As a result, he had a silent
heart attack, one without any visual signs of such. The man is in stable
condition...is up and talking and is
expected to make a full recovery.
However, that hasn't stopped the media from writing screaming headlines, such
as:
--"Cheney victim has
a heart attack." Technically true, but not a heart attack in the
classical sense. And note the phrase "Cheney victim," rather
than "accident victim." All part of the media push to portray
Dick Cheney as an evil person.
--"Shooting victim's
condition worsens." Not really, we just know more about it.
--The New York Times is
reporting that if the man dies, Dick Cheney will face a grand jury
investigation. There is no evidence that the man is going to die from the
accident.
 There are those that say
Cheney and the White House screwed up by not reporting this accident earlier.
They're right, but do you really think the media would be letting it go...even
if it had been reported in a timely fashion? Not at all. If it
weren't this, they'd find some other flaw in the White House's actions.
Oh, and it was an accident. Give it another couple days and the press will
be reporting that Cheney intentionally shot the man. Actually, somebody is
already saying that. (See the reading assignments below.)
By
the way .... compare the media feeding frenzy here to the
Vince Foster
episode. Somehow I don't remember the media being all that
interested. We'll ask Jamie.
ABLE DANGER AND 9/11
 Remember 'Able Danger?'
This is a secret group of military people that knew about some of the 9/11
hijackers before the planes flew into the towers. They have also been
silenced....they weren't heard from or investigated by the ridiculous waste of
time known as the 9/11 Commission. Well, now they're back.
Representative Curt
Weldon, Republican of Pennsylvania, held a news conference yesterday to announce
that the Able Danger group had
identified 9/11 hijacker and ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 times prior to 9/11. That's right, 13 times.
What's more is the Able
Danger group also knew about the attack on the U.S.S. Cole before it happened.
Well, they knew something was going on in Yemen and that something might happen
at that port, yet the commanding officer on the Cole was never told about it.
Nice.
So when will all of this
be investigated? Doesn't seem like anyone is in a hurry to. The 9/11
Commission shows no willingness to re-form and take a look at it. Why is
it being swept under the rug? Isn't this what the 9/11 Commission was for?
Why the cover-up?
Either these Able Danger people know something...or Weldon is full of it.
Let's investigate and find out.
HOUSE
ISSUES KATRINA BLAME
A report is due out today
from the House committee investigating the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Blame is assigned everywhere, including to the federal government, FEMA and
George W. Bush for not doing enough, fast enough in response to the disaster.
But finally...blame is being assigned where it belongs: with the Democrats that
run that state.
According to the report,
Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin waited until too late to evacuate
the city. They had warnings 56 hours before landfall of what might happen,
yet chose to wait until 19 hours before the hurricane hit to tell everybody to
get out. So who deserves most of the blame?
Blanco and Nagin.
Why? First of all, because disaster response has traditionally been a state, not
a federal matter. In 2004 there were about four hurricanes that hit
Florida. Florida responded. That is as it should have been in
Louisiana. Question: Did the failure to move trailers into the area
immediately cause deaths? No. Did the failure to get food and
supplies into the survivors within hours cause deaths? There's no evidence
of that. The deaths were caused because people didn't get out.
That's a local issue, not a federal one. Had the governor and mayor
ordered the evacuation much earlier, many more people would have lived.
Did anyone die because it took supplies longer to get there than it should have?
Maybe a few. But nothing like the more than 1,300 people who are
dead...mostly because they didn't leave the city.
The media and the
Democrats will push the lie that it was George Bush's fault that all those
people died...but make no mistake, The lion's share of the blame rests on local
politicians. That would be Blanco and Nagin.
Sent in by Cynthia G.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK I'm glad to see that people from all walks of
life accept the responsibility for
teaching young 'uns the facts of life. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Make the Font Size
Bigger
This week you all voted to keep the font size normal rather
than big and you'll adjust it larger if you need it. Here's how you do that
in case you didn't know. In Firefox, hit Ctrl and + to increase font size.
Do it again and it gets even bigger. Alternately, you can hit Ctrl and roll the scroll wheel to adjust. Ctrl and - makes it smaller again. In
Internet Explorer, go to View--Text Size--Larger or Largest.
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Michelle Malkin breaks down NBC reporter David Gregory's little temper-tantrum
the other day in the White House briefing room. She calls American
journalism a joke.
Democrats and the
mainstream media are doing their best to convince everyone that the economy is
terrible, yet
retail
sales are seeing their best numbers since 1999.
That's years ago. Of course good economic news is not part of the media bias
template.
A former general of Saddam
Hussein's
says
the WMD stockpiles are hidden in Syria.
Shall we go look for them? And if they're found, will Democrats apologize?
Probably not.
Get out your tinfoil
hats...one
columnist says Cheney's shooting of his lawyer buddy was a message to Scooter
Libby not to testify.
How long before Howard Dean gets wind of this?
With all that the country
is facing...illegal immigration, Iran developing nukes....Hamas running
Palestine...Tony
Blankley wonders just why the media is so concerned about Dick Cheney's hunting
trip.
The former mayor of New
York City,
Ed Koch, tells us the Mohammed cartoon riots show that the idea of a free press
has fallen on its
knees and surrendered to Islamic terrorists.
Continuing with his
columns about the public school system,
John
Stossel continues to point out that market forces don't even come close to
working in government schools.
If you've got school-age kids, don't miss this one.
Is America addicted to
oil, as President Bush said in his State of the Union address?
Walter
E. Williams calls that silly talk.
Don't believe him? Read on...and be convinced.
Linda Chavez says the Vice President has some explaining to do.
She says the public did have a right to know about the shooting, and Cheney was
wrong to withhold it for almost a whole day. Accidents do happen, but
imagine if Al Gore had done the same thing. Fair is fair.
For decades,
Democrats have been playing the race card to get automatic votes from the black
community.
Jack
Kelly says playing that card doesn't exactly have the effect that it used to.
Israeli group announces
its own anti-Semitic cartoon contest. Consider Iranian thunder stolen.
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