US medics brave fire to save lives in Afghan war
AP
FORWARD OPERATING BASE EDINBURGH, Afghanistan – U.S. Army medic Sgt. Jaime Adame hauled open the door and lunged from the helicopter into a cloud of dirt and confusion.
He could hear bursts of incoming fire above the thumping rotor blades. Somewhere in the billowing red smoke that marked the landing zone and the choking dust whipped up by the medevac chopper was a cluster of Marines pinned down by heavy fire, and one of them was bleeding badly.
At the end of the Civil War, Americans faced a formidable challenge: how to memorialize 625,000 dead soldiers, Northern and Southern. As Walt Whitman mused, it was “the dead, the dead, the dead — our dead — or South or North, ours all” that preoccupied the country. After all, if the same number of Americans per capita had died in Vietnam as died in the Civil War, four million names would be on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, instead of 58,000.
Ah! Someone seems to have found the sole exception to the "all-holiness" of "self-defense..." a "friend" has to profit mightily from it, and then it's just fine.
In 1933, most of the Yankees accepted a pay decrease to help out in hard times, as Pres. Roosevelt attempted to salvage the remaining banks. Babe Ruth took a 32,000 dollar decrease.
Compare this with the game today - Ryan Braun's 105,000,000 dollar contract for 2016-2020; and the expectation that other contracts will be even larger.
In 1933, most of the Yankees accepted a pay decrease to help out in hard times, as Pres. Roosevelt attempted to salvage the remaining banks. Babe Ruth took a 32,000 dollar decrease.
Compare this with the game today - Ryan Braun's 105,000,000 dollar contract for 2016-2020; and the expectation that other contracts will be even larger.
Posted by: Chief Joe | May 31, 2011 at 02:27 AM
Congress would never do that:
"January 14, 2002 9:30 A.M.
Congress Gets a Pay Hike
Greedy and unconstitutional.
With U.S. joblessness now at 5.8 percent, employed Americans are clinging to their positions for dear life. Layoff notices — such as the recent announcements of 3,000 workers sacked at GE Capital and 9,400 fired at Motorola — have become as integral to the evening news as weather reports. Against this wartime backdrop, America’s insatiable Congress has behaved disgracefully by hiking its annual pay from $145,100 to $150,000."
That was 2002. In 2009 it was $174,000. Saw some sites where they said it was $186,000. Didn't say what year. But, it shows that politicians would rather screw the people than themselves.
M/M Thanks for that. This country still hasn't fully recovered from what's called the Civil War, and since few if any want to confront it honestly, without the official bunkum, it probably never will. Both the Left and the Right partner up in this. They were politically correct even before the Nazi right and the Stalinoid left imposed its own racism and mind=set. E.g. Since Lincoln is obviously a great historical figure and American icon, it is forbidden to discuss the "whole" Lincoln, like the Lincoln who wanted the slaves, after their emancipation, re-settled outside the US, in the Carribean or South America or sent back to Africa.
I don't blame blacks for this "black-out" in the national discourse. Their white elitenik patrons are the ones who really want it. They fear frank and open discussion and are convinced that Americans are too childish and emotional and immature for it anyway, and would be "offended." (The black nationalists and others probably would be glad to raise it.) This "lockjaw" is clearly imposed by white PC police on the Right and probably even more by the venal Left racists who constantly play black off of white. Conservative racists and more openly vicious liberal racists may each have their own reasons for imposing "lockjaw,"
but they and their media toadies will keep the clamp on. In this sense I can even agree with Obama's Eric Holder, that Americans are too "cowardly" to discuss race, even though he probably means they're not quite PC enough for him.
BTW, maybe I missed something historically. Fill me in if I did. Have you ever heard of American blacks, either today or yesterday, officially thanking the hundreds of thousands who gave "the last full measure of devotion" in the war that removed their chains, a war like no other in human history? Just wondering. If they have, fine. Where can we find it? If they have not, why not?
Fill me in if I did. Have you ever heard of American blacks, either today or yesterday, officially thanking the hundreds of thousands who gave "the last full measure of devotion" in the war that removed their chains, a war like no other in human history? Just wondering. If they have, fine. Where can we find it? If they have not, why not?
Posted by: gringoman | May 31, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Let us not forget that it was African tribesmen that captured other African tribesmen that provided the slaves; all the time financed by the religion of peace. Of course, that's not very PC at all...
The first big mistake the European settlers made in what's now called the U.S.A. was to import Negros as slaves. The second big mistake was not to repatriate them back to Africa once the Civil War was over. The third biggest mistake was Brown v Board of Education. Once Brown v Board of Education was enacted into law and put into full force, we can clearly see the result is a steady decline of America's exceptionalism.
I feel an overwhelming sense of pride and thankfulness for those men and women who serve our country, Memorial Day is a time to reflect and say thank you to all those men and women who protect our freedoms.
Not to give thanks for the hundreds of thousands who died to remove your chains---hath no man greater ingratitude?
Posted by: gringoman | May 30, 2011 at 08:38 PM
US medics brave fire to save lives in Afghan war
AP
FORWARD OPERATING BASE EDINBURGH, Afghanistan – U.S. Army medic Sgt. Jaime Adame hauled open the door and lunged from the helicopter into a cloud of dirt and confusion.
He could hear bursts of incoming fire above the thumping rotor blades. Somewhere in the billowing red smoke that marked the landing zone and the choking dust whipped up by the medevac chopper was a cluster of Marines pinned down by heavy fire, and one of them was bleeding badly.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110530/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_medics_under_fire
Posted by: gringoman | May 30, 2011 at 08:41 PM
At the end of the Civil War, Americans faced a formidable challenge: how to memorialize 625,000 dead soldiers, Northern and Southern. As Walt Whitman mused, it was “the dead, the dead, the dead — our dead — or South or North, ours all” that preoccupied the country. After all, if the same number of Americans per capita had died in Vietnam as died in the Civil War, four million names would be on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, instead of 58,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opinion/30blight.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Posted by: gringoman | May 30, 2011 at 08:47 PM
If you're reading this, thank a teacher.
If you're reading this in English, thank a Veteran.
Posted by: LongRifle | May 30, 2011 at 08:56 PM
Well, if we're talking about the Civil War, don't forget about my adopted great granddads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLUmiRLqW8
Posted by: M/M | May 30, 2011 at 09:41 PM
If you're reading this, thank a teacher.
If you're reading this in English, thank a Veteran.
POSTED BY: LONGRIFLE | MAY 30, 2011 AT 08:56 PM
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LOL
And So true!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | May 30, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Especially when those "friends" are multi-billionaire offense contractors and their stockholders.
Posted by: xbjllb | May 31, 2011 at 01:09 AM
Ah! Someone seems to have found the sole exception to the "all-holiness" of "self-defense..." a "friend" has to profit mightily from it, and then it's just fine.
Dam*ning.
Posted by: xbjllb | May 31, 2011 at 01:11 AM
In 1933, most of the Yankees accepted a pay decrease to help out in hard times, as Pres. Roosevelt attempted to salvage the remaining banks. Babe Ruth took a 32,000 dollar decrease.
Compare this with the game today - Ryan Braun's 105,000,000 dollar contract for 2016-2020; and the expectation that other contracts will be even larger.
Posted by: Chief Joe | May 31, 2011 at 02:27 AM
In 1933, most of the Yankees accepted a pay decrease to help out in hard times, as Pres. Roosevelt attempted to salvage the remaining banks. Babe Ruth took a 32,000 dollar decrease.
Compare this with the game today - Ryan Braun's 105,000,000 dollar contract for 2016-2020; and the expectation that other contracts will be even larger.
Posted by: Chief Joe | May 31, 2011 at 02:27 AM
Congress would never do that:
"January 14, 2002 9:30 A.M.
Congress Gets a Pay Hike
Greedy and unconstitutional.
With U.S. joblessness now at 5.8 percent, employed Americans are clinging to their positions for dear life. Layoff notices — such as the recent announcements of 3,000 workers sacked at GE Capital and 9,400 fired at Motorola — have become as integral to the evening news as weather reports. Against this wartime backdrop, America’s insatiable Congress has behaved disgracefully by hiking its annual pay from $145,100 to $150,000."
Posted by: jay | May 31, 2011 at 03:43 AM
That was 2002. In 2009 it was $174,000. Saw some sites where they said it was $186,000. Didn't say what year. But, it shows that politicians would rather screw the people than themselves.
Posted by: jay | May 31, 2011 at 03:50 AM
Happy Memorial Day CIA!!!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35161730/Stanley-Ann-Dunham-Obama-Soetoro-Passport-Application-File-Strunk-v-Dept-of-State-FOIA-Release-FINAL-7-29-10
Posted by: xbjllb | May 31, 2011 at 06:42 AM
Well, if we're talking about the Civil War, don't forget about my adopted great granddads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLUmiRLqW8
Posted by: M/M | May 30, 2011 at 09:41 PM
M/M Thanks for that. This country still hasn't fully recovered from what's called the Civil War, and since few if any want to confront it honestly, without the official bunkum, it probably never will. Both the Left and the Right partner up in this. They were politically correct even before the Nazi right and the Stalinoid left imposed its own racism and mind=set. E.g. Since Lincoln is obviously a great historical figure and American icon, it is forbidden to discuss the "whole" Lincoln, like the Lincoln who wanted the slaves, after their emancipation, re-settled outside the US, in the Carribean or South America or sent back to Africa.
I don't blame blacks for this "black-out" in the national discourse. Their white elitenik patrons are the ones who really want it. They fear frank and open discussion and are convinced that Americans are too childish and emotional and immature for it anyway, and would be "offended." (The black nationalists and others probably would be glad to raise it.) This "lockjaw" is clearly imposed by white PC police on the Right and probably even more by the venal Left racists who constantly play black off of white. Conservative racists and more openly vicious liberal racists may each have their own reasons for imposing "lockjaw,"
but they and their media toadies will keep the clamp on. In this sense I can even agree with Obama's Eric Holder, that Americans are too "cowardly" to discuss race, even though he probably means they're not quite PC enough for him.
BTW, maybe I missed something historically. Fill me in if I did. Have you ever heard of American blacks, either today or yesterday, officially thanking the hundreds of thousands who gave "the last full measure of devotion" in the war that removed their chains, a war like no other in human history? Just wondering. If they have, fine. Where can we find it? If they have not, why not?
Posted by: gringoman | May 31, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Fill me in if I did. Have you ever heard of American blacks, either today or yesterday, officially thanking the hundreds of thousands who gave "the last full measure of devotion" in the war that removed their chains, a war like no other in human history? Just wondering. If they have, fine. Where can we find it? If they have not, why not?
Posted by: gringoman | May 31, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Let us not forget that it was African tribesmen that captured other African tribesmen that provided the slaves; all the time financed by the religion of peace. Of course, that's not very PC at all...
Posted by: LongRifle | May 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Against this wartime backdrop, America’s insatiable Congress has behaved disgracefully by hiking its annual pay from $145,100 to $150,000."
Posted by: jay | May 31, 2011 at 03:43 AM
It is exactly those government parasites who send men to war to give THEIR lives for Congress' friends.
Posted by: LongRifle | May 31, 2011 at 11:20 AM
The first big mistake the European settlers made in what's now called the U.S.A. was to import Negros as slaves. The second big mistake was not to repatriate them back to Africa once the Civil War was over. The third biggest mistake was Brown v Board of Education. Once Brown v Board of Education was enacted into law and put into full force, we can clearly see the result is a steady decline of America's exceptionalism.
Posted by: DJ | May 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM
Interseting how the memo is more of a "white race vs others' Than,a 1 political party against another.
Will add to my previous post, that in 1989, Congress voted for themselves an automatic "cost of living" pay hike that will occur each year.
Posted by: jay | May 31, 2011 at 01:33 PM
"Interseting how the memo is more of a "white race vs others' Than,a 1 political party against another."
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AG Eric Holder wants to have an HONEST discussion about race in America. I am just trying to oblige him.
Posted by: DJ | May 31, 2011 at 01:44 PM
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Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 04:18 PM
I feel an overwhelming sense of pride and thankfulness for those men and women who serve our country, Memorial Day is a time to reflect and say thank you to all those men and women who protect our freedoms.
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