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SOME OF YOU LIKE ME, NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD GET THIS FAR ALONG IN LIFE....,IT WAS

 GREAT TENN OR KENTUCKY BOURBON (SQUARE BOTTLES), TIGHT BOOTS, LUCKY STRIKE

 CIGARETTES, HAVANA TAMPA CIGARS, TIGHT WET WOMEN, AND RUSSIAN 122 ROCKETS, SAMS ,

 50'S, OPERATION STARLIGHT - OPERATION HASTINGS - SHORT AND NARROW RUNWAYS - MANY

TENTS UNTIL 1973 (72/73 IN THE (ROSE GARDEN NAM PHONG) I THINK IT WAS THE SAME

TENT IN DA NANG,VN IN 1964???? CASES OF C RATS--NO GOLF COURSES AT DANANG, CHU LIA,

QUANG TRI, AN HOA, DONG HA, KHE SAHN- ---PHU BIA- KAM-DUC, NEVER LEARNED THE GAME IN MY

20YEARS NOR DID LOUIE MARTIINS 30 YEARS....WE BOTH MADE EVERY MISSION!!!!

SEMPER FI BLACK CLOUD

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Jane Fonda - Traitor of "OUR" Country

In Memory of

my brother -in- law

LT. C.Thomsen Wieland

Who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton

She really was a Traitor

IF YOU NEVER READ ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE READ THIS!!!!!!

She really was a Traitor

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED

KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

 

 

   

This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do
not remember, and didn't have to bear the
burden that our fathers, mothers and older
brothers and sisters had to bear.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the
"100 Women of the Century."

BY BARBRA WALTERS

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
countless others have never known how Ms.
Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,
but specific men who served and sacrificed
during Vietnam

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot

The Pilot's Name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF
Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison
the "Hanoi Hilton."

Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,
cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was
ordered to describe for a visiting American
"Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane
treatment" he'd received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was
dragged away.
During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which
sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from
double vision (which permanently ended his
flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied
application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the
47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the
"Hanoi Hilton",,, the first three of which his
family only knew he was "missing in action".
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
clothed routine in preparation for a
"peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to
get word to the world that they were alive
and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny
piece of paper, with his Social Security Number
on it, in the pal! m of hi s hand.

When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each
man's hand and asking little encouraging
snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed
babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane
treatment from your benevolent captors?"
Believing this HAD to be an act, they each
palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. At the
end of the line and once the camera stopped
rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
she turned to the officer in charge and handed
him all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
but he survived, which is the only reason we
know of her actions that day.

I was a civilian economic development advisor
in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.

I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one
year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
in a "black box" in Hanoi .
My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
Cambodian border.
At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
(My normal weight is 170 lbs.)

We Were Jane Fonda's "War Criminals."

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
the camp communist political officer if I would
be willing to meet with her.

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
treatment we POWs received... and how
different it was from the treatment purported by
the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
"humane and lenient."

Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
and beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
soon after I was released. I asked her
if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
someone who should be honored as part
of "100 Years of Great Women."
Lest we forget..." 100 Years of Great Women"
should never include a traitor whose hands are
covered with the blood of so many patriots.

There are few things I have strong visceral
reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
blatant treason, is one of them.
Please take the time to forward to as many
people as you possibly can.
It will eventually end up on her computer and
she needs to know that we will never forget.
 

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
Maintenance
DSN: 875-6431
COMM: 883-6343

 

   

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Who is BARACK OBAMA

Each and every one of us need to be fully aware of this man's background. There is a good chance he may be elected President or Vice-President in 2008. Even if he is not elevated to that higher office, by virtue of his being a Senator, he is afforded access to some of our most highly classified military information.
Do we want to trust this man with that information?


I don't think so!!!
Who is Barack Obama?


Probable U. S. Presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from Wichita,Kansas.
Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.


When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced.


His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.
When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He also spent two years in a Catholic school there.


Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school."


Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.


Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam.
Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi School in Jakarta.


Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim Terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.


Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.


Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected Presidential candidacy.


The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out. What better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!


Also, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office - he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran (their quivelancy to our Bible, but with very different beliefs.)


Would you want this man leading our country?......NOT ME!!!






 

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Gupta's InfoUSA Pays Pelosi's Son

Ronald Kessler

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

 

A database company that has showered money on Bill and Hillary Clinton – and is alleged to have aided scam artists – now appears to have close links to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's family as well.

The firm InfoUSA, headed by major Clinton backer Vinod Gupta, has placed Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr., on its payroll – even though he has no experience in the company's main business activities, NewsMax has learned.

As NewsMax previously reported, InfoUSA repeatedly rented marketing databases to unscrupulous persons who used the information to defraud the unsuspecting elderly, investigators found.

The company is also under fire in a shareholder lawsuit which alleges that Gupta is appropriating company funds for personal use and his political pet projects.

Shareholder critics are furious that Gupta had InfoUsa pay former President Bill Clinton $2.1 million in "consulting fees" since he left the White House, with another $1.2 million promised.

Gupta has also spent roughly $1 million of InfoUsa funds to provide corporate jet flights for both President Clinton and his wife Hillary.

Pelosi's son Paul acknowledged he has also been taking trips on corporate jets provided by Info USA.

 

Paid $180,000 for Second Job

 

 

Just four weeks after Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House this past January, Gupta and InfoUSA hired her son as a senior vice president. He told NewsMax InfoUsa pays him $180,000 a year.

Even though his job with InfoUSA is considered full-time, Paul Pelosi continues another full-time job, as a home loan officer at Countrywide Home Loans, part of Countrywide Financial, in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco.

 

While InfoUSA is based in Omaha, Pelosi said he reports to a small InfoUSA office in San Mateo.

In two interviews, Paul Pelosi confirmed that Gupta hired him as senior vice president for strategic development starting Feb. 1, just after Pelosi's mother took the gavel as speaker on Jan. 4. He said his mother is aware of his new job.

A person familiar with the arrangement says Gupta treats Pelosi as a "trophy" and has the Speaker's son accompany him at high profile meetings around the country.

Pelosi denied the suggestion he is being used because of his family ties.

"I don't think that's really what happens," he said.

Nor does he "think" his hiring was related to his mother becoming speaker, he said. But he acknowledged the timing raises a "good question."

"It's interesting, timing-wise," Pelosi said. "I don't see it that way, but I could see why you'd ask the question ... I guess you always wonder why somebody hires you, right?"

Asked how he can hold two full-time jobs at once, Pelosi said Countrywide is satisfied as long as he fulfills his quotas.

Spokesmen for Nancy Pelosi and for InfoUSA did not respond to requests by NewsMax for comment.

Paul Pelosi said he met Gupta about three years ago when the businessman refinanced a $3 million Countrywide loan on one of his more than half a dozen homes. He said he decided to apply for a job with InfoUSA about six months ago.

Asked what a home mortgage loan officer would know about the business of InfoUsa which manages databases about consumers for direct mail and telemarketing, Pelosi said his experience in investment banking has been useful to the company in its acquisitions of other companies.

"Basically, the record's pretty clear that they buy about two or three companies a year and that is to continue," he said. "And so what you want to do is you want to take a look at the earnings of a company and you want to take a look at what they do ... You've got to do an analysis of the people and the strategic fit."

Pelosi said he "did the same thing" at Montgomery Securities and Bank of America, previous companies he worked for.

In 1995, Pelosi obtained a joint law degree and MBA from Georgetown University with a concentration in world economies and global sustainable development.

Before becoming a home loan officer at Countrywide, he was a sales manager at the company's San Mateo office.

"I'm very qualified at what I do," he said. "I work a lot of hours at it, and it's only been a couple months but in that short period of time, I've been able to really work on some material projects, which are coming forward."

Since starting with InfoUSA, Pelosi said he has looked into a possible acquisition of a company in Portland, Ore., with revenue of $8 million a year.

"For a company that does $650 million in [projected] revenue a year, $8 million is a small thing," Pelosi said. "I go in there and meet with the people, we look at the leases. We're trying to figure out what their cash flow is."

When he flies on the company jet, Pelosi said, it's always with Gupta on business. He said his relationship with Gupta is "nothing like the Clinton situation."

 

InfoUSA Practices Questioned

 

The Iowa attorney general's office, in an investigation that began in 2005, found that InfoUSA sold consumer data to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans, sometimes wiping out their life savings.

InfoUSA advertised call lists with titles like "Elderly Opportunity Seekers" or "Suffering Seniors," a compilation of names and phone numbers of people with cancer or Alzheimer's disease. "Oldies but Goodies" was a list of 500,000 gamblers over age 55.

"These people are gullible," the company said in describing the list. "They want to believe that their luck can change."

E-mails show the company continued to sell the lists even though its employees knew their customers were being investigated for fraud that victimized the elderly. InfoUSA has said the lists were aberrations and has said it would not engage in such practices again.

Gupta, 60, is an entrepreneur from India who founded InfoUSA in 1972 and built it into a publicly traded company with reported revenue of $434 million in 2006.

Gupta also considers himself a player in Democratic fundraising circles and stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom when Bill Clinton was in the White House. He gave at least $1 million to the Clinton Library and raised over $200,000 for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.

Hillary has also made extensive use of InfoUSA's jet for campaign trips for which she had to reimburse InfoUSA an amount equal to a first class airline ticket. Use of a corporate jet for two hours could be worth $20,000 or more, but under Senate rules Mrs. Clinton may only have to pay the equivalent of the premium ticket.

In the past, Stormy Dean, chief financial officer of InfoUSA, has said Bill Clinton lends the company "credibility."

The payments to Clinton came to light as a result of shareholder lawsuits brought by Cardinal Capital Management of Greenwich, Conn., an investment management firm, and Dolphin Limited Partnership of Stamford, Conn., a hedge fund.

The suits, now consolidated, claim that Gupta's spending on the Clintons is part of a pattern of improper corporate expenditures for such items as luxury cars, jets, and houses, as well as a yacht based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with an all-female crew.

Gupta has said the expenditures were legitimate and has asked for dismissal of the lawsuit.

 

Pelosi Clan

 

Besides being a loan officer at Countrywide and now a senior vice president of InfoUSA, Paul Pelosi is president of San Francisco's Commission on the Environment. Former Mayor Willie Brown originally appointed him in 2003.

The affable Pelosi keeps an extremely low profile. But in a recent interview with Men's Vogue, Pelosi revealed that he lives in an apartment in San Francisco's Marina district, where he abstains from using heat or air conditioning and doesn't wash his clothes during peak energy consumption hours.

According to the magazine, he usually takes the electric bus, but when he does drive, it's in a tiny, two-seat Smart car, a hand-me-down from his parents.

Referring to his position with the environmental commission, Pelosi told the magazine, "If we think there's an environmental hazard that can be prevented, then we don't wait for that risk to emerge."

Pelosi's commission has urged the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to require stores to charge a fee to customers who want plastic bags rather than paper.

Pelosi, a marathon runner, described himself as "a momentum person" who often makes a six-egg omelet for breakfast.

"Six eggs at a minimum," he told NewsMax. "Six is a good start. I'm a doer, I work. So I have to take in some fuel, I got to get going in the morning. I have to eat, because I gotta think, and I gotta work."

Pelosi has four sisters, including Alexandra, a documentary filmmaker. Alexandra's entertaining "Journeys with George" followed George W. Bush during his first presidential campaign.

Nancy Pelosi met her future husband, Paul Pelosi, while attending Trinity College in Washington. After she graduated in 1962, they married and moved to his hometown of San Francisco, where he is in real estate.

Because of his holdings, she is the ninth wealthiest member of the House, with assets of $14.7 million to $55 million.

Paul Sr.'s San Francisco investment firm owns stock in companies like Microsoft, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Disney, and Johnson & Johnson.

His real estate investments include a four-story office building in the Financial District of San Francisco, office buildings on Battery and Sansome streets, a building housing a drugstore near Ocean Beach, and other commercial property in San Anselmo.

Other California investments include a St. Helena vineyard, a town house in Norden, and minority interests in the Auberge du Soleil resort hotel in Rutherford, the CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, and the Piatti Italian restaurant chain.

 

Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of NewsMax.com. .

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I wonder if any of the media's know anything about this? But heck, if they do they're too liberal to print or say anything about it.

Ed Hunt - Sanford, FL sends

 

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Could Not Be Said Better

Written by a housewife from New Jersey and sounds like it! This is one pissed off lady.

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 ?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ? Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia .

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg 's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.

When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured: I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank: I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and -you guessed it I don't care ! ! ! ! !

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your e-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country! And may I add:

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan

I have another quote that I would like to add AND .......I hope you forward all this.

"If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Also by.. Ronald Reagan

One last thought for the day:

In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair 's words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said:

"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ

2. The American G. I.

One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM. AMEN !

Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

 I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"

When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.
 

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea

Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

Enjoy Your Freedom & God Bless Our Troops
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Subject: Dinner in Montana - I want to go there!


Montana Restaurant:

This is a great story! The radio station America FM was doing one of
its "Is Anyone Listening?" bits this morning. The first question was,
"Ever have a celebrity pull up with the 'Do you know who I am?'
routine?"

A woman called in and said that a few years a go, while visiting
her cattle rancher uncle in Billings, MT, she had occasion to go to
dinner at a restaurant that does not take reservations. The wait was
about 45 minutes; many ranchers and their wives were waiting.

Ted Turner and his ex-wife Jane Fonda came in the restaurant and
wanted a table. The hostess informed them that they'd have to wait 45
minutes. Jane Fonda asked the hostess, "Do you know who I am?" The
hostess answered, "Yes, but you'll have to wait 45 minutes." Then Jane
asked if the manager was in. When the manager came out, he asked, "May
I help you?" "Do you know who we are?" both Ted and Jane asked. "Yes,
but these folks have been waiting, and I can't put you ahead of them."

Then Ted asked to speak to the owner. The owner came out, and Jane
again asked, "Do you know who I am?" The owner answered, "Yes, I do. Do
you know who I am? I am the owner of this restaurant and I am a Vietnam
Veteran. Not only will you not get a table ahead of my friends and
neighbors who have been waiting here, but you also will not be eating in
my restaurant tonight or any other night. Good bye."

Only in America - what a great country.

To all who received this e-mail, this is a true story and the name of
the steak house is:
Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse, 204 W. Main, Manhattan, MT 59741
(406)284-6929


If you ever get there, give this fellow a sharp salute, buy a steak,
and tip the waitress. Keep passing this on. We should never forget our
national traitor! And let's not forget what "our gal" Hillary said to
The troops in Iraq , "This war has no support from the American public."

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says

One News Now.com ^ | 2/22/07 | Jim Brown

Posted on 03/02/2007 8:18:13 AM EST by alienken