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CAREER AND MOTHERHOOD: Trailblazing Military Women

The role of Air Force fighter pilots is to maintain superiority in the air and support the ground fight. But Nordin's mission goes beyond that. She also is the mother of a 2-year-old daughter named Caleigh.

"Being a mom and a fighter pilot are both equally demanding, which makes having only 24 hours in a day hard," she said. "But more and more, I'm becoming a mom, and a fighter pilot is my trade."

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Portland Marine engages enemy, leads team to safety


FORWARD OPERATING BASE PAYNE, Afghanistan – For much of their deployment, Marines of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion have found an insurgent force which was reluctant to fight them toe to toe. Rather, the enemy has relied more on improvised explosive devices and indirect fire.

However, on April 20, Lance Cpl. Jesse K. Knerr, section leader for 3rd Platoon, E Company, 3rd LAR, and native of Portland, Ore., found that when insurgents have their backs against the wall they are left with no choice but to fight.  




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LINGUISTS AND FEMALE ENGAGEMENT TEAMS IN THE WAR

AFGHAN CULTURAL CENTER, Afghanistan - Members from both the U.S. and U.K. Female Engagement Teams met for training at the Afghan Cultural Center. The purpose of the meeting was to share information, advice and experiences, as well as discuss and highlight the importance of embedding female linguists with the teams. 

The Marines on the U.S. FET have been in Afghanistan for nearly two months, giving them knowledge they passed onto the U.K. FET, who just recently arrived in Afghanistan. Following the counterinsurgency tenet of supporting civilians, the Army and Marines have deployed women-focused teams to gain insight into Afghanistan’s mostly silent female population.  

"Female engagement teams are deployed to support battlefield operations and meet with Afghan women to gain understanding and insight into the country’s culture," said Army Col. Chadwick W. Clark, director of the Counterinsurgency Training Center-Afghanistan. Team members are trained “to conduct female engagements in a culturally respectful manner,” Clark said. They bring to the war effort comprehensive understanding of the operational environment and contribute to civil-military operations, medical visits, and educational programs, he said "All the females that are on these engagement teams have volunteered to do it,” Clark said. “They're taken from different specialties, and they go through varying degrees of training, depending on how they're going to be employed.”  

The coalition has 40 female engagement teams with at least two women per team, Clark said. Team members possess different disciplines and military specialties, he added, and they have very high morale.  “I haven't talked to one woman that's on a female engagement team that isn't motivated and happy about what she’s doing,” Clark said. 

Marine Corps Col. Sheila Scanlon, a U.S. adviser on gender issues and female engagement teams at the Afghan Ministry of Interior, said, "Team members must possess a variety of skills, including the ability to move, shoot and communicate while they’re out [in the field].  Yet one of the most important values the teams exhibit is cultural sensitivity. All of us try not to insult the Afghans and to try to abide by their rules,” Scanlon said. "In addition to engaging women in Afghan communities," she said, "the teams also are used to support Afghan army and police women in hospitals in Bagram. With this in mind, leaders are just beginning to realize the various uses of the teams."

The meeting at the Afghan Cultural Center included a brief from cultural advisers on misconceptions about the Afghan culture, and ways to gain the trust of Afghan women. A question and answer period followed, with many of the Marines providing insight into their experiences and advances they have made. Many of the points made by the teams individually were agreed on by the Marines as a whole, including the invaluable use of female interpreters. “Our linguist is everything to us,” said a Marine with FET 4, located in Marjah. “Without her we wouldn’t get much accomplished.” She said her linguist is especially helpful when the Marines are in the villages and the Afghan women misconstrue her team for males. 

The linguist is able to wear her hair in a ponytail, which makes her more accessible to Afghan women, and in turn is able to expose them to the Marines. “It is awesome to have Marines helping Afghan women. There’s no way I could help Afghan women on my own. Without Marines, I wouldn’t be here helping.” It is the goal of the FET to get a female linguist embedded with each team. Some teams currently operate with male linguists or none at all. Those teams spoke of the benefits they hoped to gain from working with a female linguist in the future.

“We are working on getting a female linguist so we can be able to talk to locals.  Our [local] women are especially shy about talking to our male linguists. All we need is a female linguist to reach out to the other 50% of the local population.” With the help of linguists and the support of coalition forces, to include the U.K. FETs, the U.S. FETs continue to make progress in their areas of operation around Regional Command Southwest. After the success of this meeting between the teams, both FETs plan to hold similar meetings during their next training evolution in a few months.
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THE JOKER PRESIDENT JOKES ABOUT IMMIGRATION IN EL PASO

That he can lie, is not what is amazing.  That it comes so easy to him is what is beyond interesting.  But what is worse, is that the reactions to his rhetoric about immigration are so predictable as to be pathetic. 

That he drips sarcasm as he jokes about building a moat with alligators in it is bizarre.  He is, after all, the President. But it is beyond the pale that he would resort to such analogies, which just oozed sarcasm, and in such a venue as El Paso, Texas. 

One can only wonder and marvel at the blatant revelations of a personality disorder that should not apply to a head of state.  Sometimes it just slips out.  The Narcissim is just too overpowering to hold back the torrent.  Does he really think no one can see? The President was defending legislation that he is proposing that will essentially give amnesty and then citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, when he knows full well that his policies, (and those of previous administrations) long ago decided to grant amnesty to illegal aliens inspite of what the majority of Americans want. 

You see, if you and a Liberal fight about immigration, you will not notice that your illustrious leaders have already granted amnesty by the sheer fact that not only do they ignore the law of the land; not only do they refuse to enforce the laws already on the books about illegal immigration, they have also taken legal action against those who would attempt to enforce the law, AND have invited foreign governments to join in the fray. 

It is in fact, a de-facto amnesty, amnesty by default, and because it violates the laws of the land, it is also a criminal enterprise, which is being perpetuated at the expense of legal citizens from one end of the nation to the other. And it's not just a political faction of America thumbing its nose at the legal citizens:  Even those who so charmingly laughed at the joker's jokes are being taken for the proverbial ride, for they also have to pay the additional costs for goods and services that are included in perpetuating the Amnesty by Default.  

That those being led by their noses to agree that defacto amnesty is a good cause, allow it... is a testimonial to the craftiness with which this criminal enterprise is being advanced. 

Consider the following:  With a defacto amnesty the business community gets a pool of labor much cheaper than they would have if they were properly hiring legal citizens to do the work. This is alone is beyond outrageous.  Just a few years ago during the building boom in Houston, Texas, the highly skilled, efficient, well organized, well-oiled construction machine, which was erecting Houston's office buildings and constructing thousands of homes in the suburbs, was not staffed by Americans, but with hundreds, if not thousands of foreign workers.  

This was so much the case, that in at least five instances this reporter found that legal citizens were being turned away in favor of illegal aliens. The foreman doing the hiring in those cases was usually an illegal alien. In at least three instances in casual conversation with three different contractors, the "boss" in each case was quick to point out: "Well, they (illegal aliens) are cheaper. They show up for work. They don't call in sick.  I don't have to go to their houses to drag them out of bed, because they are hung-over. I only have to tell them or show them how to do something once, and if I tell them to do something a certain way, that's the way they do it. They don't complain about the heat. And they have fewer accidents and are more efficient." 

They each noted their love for their country, but their bottom line was always that business was business.  The contempt for "legal" workers, however, could not be overlooked. This reporter found it interesting that the workers with which he had contact appeared to have "their papers in order."  Yet they were obviously here illegally.  And on more than one occasion it was discovered that certain individuals had a social security number for being employed, another social security number for being unemployed, and another social security number for being unable to work, i.e. to collect disability insurance. 

Granted, not all illegal aliens are involved in such extensive fraud, but it is there, and it certainly adds to the cost of the defacto amnesty. The Unions benefit from this defacto amnesty, at least in part because there is an increased demand for teachers, who must be hired to cover the increased enrollment in public schools of the children of illegal aliens.  

In Las Vegas alone, can you venture to say what the percentage of workers in the hospitality field, such as restaurants, hotels, casinos, are not actually members of a Union?  How many of those do you think are illegal workers? 

Consider also that legal citizens do not spend their money in China (unless you shop at China-Mart or a similar business). The money they spend tends to be spent in their own neighborhoods at local businesses, adding to the enhancement of their communities.  Illegal aliens, however, send their money to their home country to support their families, and so the benefit of their labor contributions are invested, not here in America, but elsewhere.  This extraction of wealth is akin to being "colonized" by foreign entities, and it smacks at least in part, of an earlier period in American history, when the wealth of the colony was being confiscated and sent abroad to our British colonizers.  

While some would argue that the percentage of money that is sent abroad is not significant, I beg to differ, because the extraction is not simply measured in the dollar amount, but the lack of investment in communities has a multiplying effect in that there is less revenue for the expansion of businesses and that can be measured in a loss of creation of jobs, which means less wealth is being generated as a result. And then, of course, there is the cost of the illegal aliens being, well.... illegal.  They tend to be poorer, and they tend to  be housed in poorer communities, and the cost of those communities in terms of other illegal activity also acts as a multiplier of the cost of a defacto amnesty. 

And so by keeping the illegals here illegally, attacking those who would promote the enforcement of the law, creating the illusion that our President and his allies are the valiant protectors of the downtrodden, padding the palms of those who benefit from cheap labor and helping to drain revenue from the nation to empower another nation(s), helping the Unions, and keeping the unwitting and unwary in conflict and in a constant battle, the President and the pro-amnesty groups pretend to favor amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and are provided, thus, with an antagonistic opposition that they joke about and point to as evil perpetrators of exploitation, discrimination, and in some cases, racism. 

How convenient is that? 

The crass audacity, and the severe images of the joker President joking about immigration in El Paso, Texas are beyond the pale, when one considers that as he joked about the border being safe, in the background, just across the Rio Grande from where he spoke, the neighborhoods were stained with the bloody trail of bodies massacred at the hands of the murderous cartels warring with each other for the spoils and the benefits of the defacto amnesty just across the border. 

Who would be so unable to empathize with such a tragedy?  Who could be so insensitive?  Who would stand there in front of thousands and ridicule that situation, without noticing the carnage occurring a mere mile from where he stood. 

Only the Joker President could do so. 
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TREASURY TARGETS IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS

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NATIONAL GUARD OUT IN FORCE IN NEW ENGLAND

A round of winter storms that left several northeastern states covered in ice kept many National Guard units busy over the weekend.

The storms, which hit Massachusetts and New Hampshire on Dec. 12, brought down trees, closed schools and left thousands of residents without power.

As a result, President George W. Bush declared nine counties in Massachusetts federal emergency areas, and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick called members of the Massachusetts National Guard to state active duty.
 
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To the Vanguards of Freedom

 

 

 

 

 

The New Liberals:

I have removed the gray areas from the following for the purposes of making a point. Indulge me.

Liberals of yesteryear were those people, who were considered open minded, wanted change to improve the country, wanted progress and reform in new ways and were optimistic and idealistic about the future.  They were contrasted by yesteryear's Conservatives, who wanted to maintain the status quo, preferred tradtional approaches, and wanted to stick to what they considered successful actions, tried and true policies, etc.

The status quo has changed.  The establishment is now Liberal, and Conservatives have been thrust into the position of being the defenders of the Constitution, as well as the defenders of the country against its foes.  They espouse sound economic policy, and a positive entrepreneurial spirit, with an enthusiasm reminiscent of post WW2 America.

Conversely Liberals have become the agents of socialism.  While they qualify for the labels of communist or socialist, and while they advance those causes with the unrelenting agenda that marches to the Left, they are not true socialists or communists.

The true socialist or communist is "the common man:"  a worker, a "proletarian."  Yes, he goes to work in company with his fellows, he is "politically enlightened" and participates in a Union, works with his socialist political parties or groups, etc.  When he goes home at night to his family, he goes home to his proletarian, worker house to confront for that week what he is going to eat, how he will make ends meet.  For him there is no huge bank account. His is not in the world of affluence or credit.

Liberals on the other hand get "involved" in their community.  They go out and march in protest marches, organize demonstrations, confront government agencies, adovcate for better conditions, organize community meetings of workers/proletarians in order to effect change, etc.  But they do this with a very significant distinction from what I am calling "true socialists or communists."  

At the end of the day, the proletarian goes home to HIS neighborhood, his house or apartment, his reality of being poor.


The Liberal goes home to his Middle Class trappings, a house with a two-or-more car garage, his college degrees.  In cases where he actually lives in the same community, under the same conditions as the worker/proletarian, the Liberal often has recourse to funds and resources that his benefactor does not.  And, in fact, if he gets frustrated enough, he can pick up and leave any time he wants.

Yes today's Liberal marches to the beat of the socialist/communist drummer.  But when the day is done, he goes home to his bourgeoisie world.

I have never met a Liberal that, for the purpose of commitment and allegiance to their Leftist cause, had turned in their affluent lifestyle, money, materialistic trappings, and their wealthy family connections.

They work to make YOU give up a share of your wealth, to redistribute it. 

Visitors to this country of the socialist/communist persuasion have expressed to me their severe contempt at Liberals.  They are content to have "Useful Idiots" facilitating for their cause, obtaining much needed funds from grants and loans from foundations, providing forums and resources for leftist causes.  But they make it very clear, that in a socialist/communist take-over, these "wild-eyed" ideological advocates are the first ones that have to go.

In moments of unique candor I have heard them express without batting an eye, the necessary incarceration, re-education, and extermination of those who would not conform to their "revolution."  And first on their list were Liberals.

Liberals would be the first to go, because a socialist/communist revolution is not afforded the luxury of dissent or opposition. It must make a severe example of any opposition to its goals, and it cannot afford the embers of a romanticized utopian ideal burning within their ranks that might derail the revolutionary ambition.

Such were the killing fields in Cambodia.  Such were the slaughters in Cuba.  Such was the genocide in the Soviet Union.  This was so much the case, that Russia was left with scant resources in terms of creativity and management and managers. Anything and anyone they considered a threat to their power was eliminated.

So it is, whether it is the Liberals in Congress, the Presidency, or the Judiciary, by way of legislation, judicial edict, or by fiat, these ideologues will turn the country over to socialists and communists. You should remember that when you go vote.

 

 

 

 

 

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