ONE FOR OUR SIDE

The IDF, working with the Israel Security Agency (ISA), assassinated a senior Al-Qaeda terrorist in Gaza on Wednesday. The terrorist was identified as 27-year-old Mohammed Jamal a-Nahmnam.

He was killed by a car bomb near the Hamas police station in Gaza City.




A-Nahmnam was involved in past terrorist attacks on Israel. He was plotting attacks against Israel and American targets in Sinai, Egypt, in coordination with Hamas.

Several small Gaza terrorist groups are affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The oldest is the "Army of Islam," which took part in an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing in which IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped, and in the kidnapping of British reporter Alan Johnston in 2007. The group also planned to target former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during his visit to Gaza in July 2008.

A-Nahmnam belonged to the Army of Islam, and was responsible for security.




A senior Hamas terrorist argued this week that Al-Qaeda - a Hamas rival - is no longer present in Gaza. Fathi Hamad told Al-Hayyat that Al-Qaeda "is not active . . . we've sealed off all the [security] gaps."


Sherut haBitachon haKlali (שירות הביטחון הכללי‎, "General Security Service"), officially known by the acronym Shabak (שב״כ‎, IPA, Arabic: شاباك‎), officially known in English as Israel Security Agency (ISA), and commonly known in English as the Shin Bet, is Israel's internal security service. Its motto is "Magen VeLo Yera'e" (מגן ולא יראה‎ - "Defender that shall not be seen" or "The Unseen Shield"). It is one of three principal organizations of the Israeli Intelligence Community, alongside Aman (the military intelligence of the IDF) and Mossad (responsible for overseas intelligence work).

HOW IS THIS A GOOD THING?

I came across this article on the Internet . . .

DC STUDENTS RECEIVE DINNER AT SCHOOL - PROGRAM SERVES 10,000 STUDENTS

By AUDREY BARNES - FOX 5 Reporter - Friday, 29 Oct 2010, 11:26 AM EDT

WASHINGTON - Getting kids to eat three healthy meals a day can be a challenge, especially if money is tight. But D.C. Public Schools have found a way to take some of that burden off parents. They are now serving dinner at school.

OK lets go through this by the numbers: since when is it the mission of the Department of Education to take the burden of feeding the kids off their parents?

On the menu are things like salmon salad, a whole grain roll, orange juice, one percent milk and a corn and pepper relish.

If you're going to give the kids milk, give them whole milk - DUMBASSES.

"With positive feedback, the kids will enjoy the food," Chef Edward Kwitowski said. He is in charge of whipping up healthy dinners for D.C. school kids as part of this new program to provide three healthy meals a day at school.

"Our program is from scratch cooking with local produce," said Kwitowski. "And definitely low fat cooking."

It's a far cry from the muffin or bagel and juice kids used to get in the after school program, which was often was the last food some would eat until the next day at school.

That's another myth I keep hearing - "It's the last food they eat until the next day at school" - I'm sorry I don't buy it. I've lived in countries where this is true, and the streets are full of children with their hands out, begging. I've also been through East D.C. - a VERY rough neighborhood - not to mention Oakland and parts of the Southside of Chicago. Where are the packs of kids, begging for handouts?

"It's good and it's healthy," fourth grader Emanuel Gross said. "So I can stay on task."

I bet you'd stay on task a lot better if they fed you BEEF - you know; the other white meat.

D.C. joins 13 states which serve three meals a day at school – and to the tune of $5.7 million. Officials here have embraced the program because they realize healthy, well-fed kids learn better.

“We're reaching 10,000 kids a day at 99 of our 120 schools," said Anthony Tata, Chief Operating Officer of D.C. Public Schools. That's about 25 percent of the student population. And another big benefit of the after school dinners are that more kids are enrolling in after school programs where they can get some academic help as well.

So the dinners are really serving three purposes - fighting hunger, obesity and offering help with classwork too.

And the best news of all is this is a federally-funded program.

HOW IS THIS GOOD NEWS ? ? ? That $5.7 million could buy a lot of ammunition, diesel fuel, food, water, medical supplies and spare parts for our guys overseas.

“We're reimbursed on a per meal basis," Tata said. "We can already see the good it's doing for our kids."

It'd do those kids a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT BETTER if their parents owned up to their responsibilities and fed and clothed their kids on their own, without depending on you or me to do it.

HEY - I've got an idea - we'll feed and clothe your worthless asses BUT you gotta submit for mandatory urinalysis for drugs AND you give up the right to vote for as long as you're on the public dole . . . deal? DEAL!


SEAN LINNANE SENDS


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OUR GAL SAL

B17G Our Gal Sal
351st Bomber Squadron, 100th Bomber Group (The Bloody 100th) out of RAF Thorpe Abbotts - USAAF designation Station 139.

Picture of air and ground crew May 1, 1944 (left to right)
Back: Nels Davidson (gnd), Arnold Schluter (gnd), Ed Silverstone, Virgil Warders, William Wright, Don Hammond, Charles Killebrew (gnd), Frank Stevens (painted OUR GAL SAL and mission bombs), Dewey Nelson (gnd), Harold Wildrick (crew chief)
Front: Don Blair, Glenn Hudson, Duncan Shand, Bob Shoens, Bill Eresman
100th BG Photo Archives

The 351st B-17 Bomber Squadron (Flying Fortress Heavy Bombardment) was established in mid-1942; deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in June 1949 and was assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England.

Engaged in strategic bombardment operations over Occupied Europe and Germany, sustaining very heavy losses of personnel and aircraft while conducting many unescorted missions over enemy territory attacking airfields, industries, naval facilities and transportation hubs. During the summer of 1944, aircrews bombed enemy positions at Saint-Lô, followed by similar campaigns at Brest in August and September. In October 1944, the squadron attacked enemy and ground defenses in the Allied drive on the Siegfried Line, then bombed marshalling yards, German-occupied villages, and communication targets in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945. Attacked enemy targets in Germany during the spring of 1945, ending combat operations with the German Capitulation in May 1945.

Remained in Europe as part of the United States Air Forces in Europe occupation forces, dropping food to the people in the west of the Netherlands, and in June transported French Allied former prisoners of war from Austria to France. Demobilizing in England, in December 1945 the squadron inactivated as a paper unit.

B17 Our Gal Sal survived 235 missions




Wednesday Wench O' the Week HERE



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THIS IS IT

Today we begin the first step . . .

Today's historic turnovers will represent the first tiny efforts toward reconstructing what the Democrats have done such an incredible job of destroying in the four years they have controlled Congress.

How can this be? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid & Co. sailed into power four years ago; Barack Obama took the Whitehouse two years later. There people couldn't have received a clearer mandate to rule - they should be enjoying a wave of popularity, a ten-, twenty-, even thirty-year reign.



A San Francisco radical, straight from the Land of Fruits, Nuts and Flakes . . .

Instead, a mere two years into the Presidency of The-One-We-Have-Been-Waiting-For; Americans have woken up.



A career politician who somehow became a millionaire over in the course of a forty-odd year career in Government.


Elections are not won by the rank-and-file, card-carrying members of the political parties; instead, they are decided by the swing voters in the middle - Joe Six-Pack, the greatest single block of whom are probably best described as "Reagan Democrats"

The worldwide Apology Tours, the bowing & scraping before Oriental satraps and potentates, the handshaking with foreign despots & haters of America - this is not what Americans wanted, this is not what they voted for.

The Government takeover of more than one sixth of the U.S. economy; government ownership and bureaucratic mismanagement of insurance programs; this is not what the American people voted for - proof positive is the fact that A) it had to be rammed through Legislature via political threat and legerdemain, ruse and deception WITHOUT BEING READ OR UNDERSTOOD by the very people who voted on it (never mind the citizenry who voted them in) and B) a mere six months later, the very Senators and Representatives who voted it in, in the first place, are being run out of town on a rail.

The American People were sold a bill of goods by a compliant media that turned a blind eye to the indicators: Barack Obama was raised by Marxists (his mother Stanley Ann Dunham, his mentor Frank Marshall Davis), associated & mentored by radicals and terrorists (Saul Alinskey, Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorhn), preached to for twenty years by a foaming-at-the-mouth fanatical hater of America (Jeremiah Wright) . . .

A man who hates his own country . . .

. . . and married to a woman whom by her own words is "not proud of her country."

I have only two things to say about Barack Obama:

If Barack Obama is not a Marxist, he most certainly is not a believer in the Capitalist way that made America the richest, most productive nation in the entire history of the world; more powerful than the rest of the world put together,

AND -

Barack Obama might not be a Muslim, but he most certainly is not a Christian.



There is still the lame-duck session; significant damage can still be done by recalcitrant Democrats on their way out. Two significant issues they will still have control over:

Illegal Immigration, and Border Control

AND

The Bush Tax Cuts



"The Longest Journey Begins With but One Small Step" - Lao Tsu


This is only the beginning.



SEAN LINNANE SENDS

DOWN AND OUT IN BANGKOK

The sad story of a U.S. veteran, down on his luck, reduced to begging on the streets in Bangkok.

This story dates back to 2008 - 'Bob' appeared reasonably well dressed and clean shaven at the time period of this journalist's encounter with him.




His story: he's a 62 year old American who first came to Thailand 39 years ago. He's a Vietnam vet and he had a long hitch in the Merchant Marine. It's the classic 'my wife sold the house and didn't tell me' story that you hear so often in Thailand. I don't doubt for one moment this is the God's honest absolute truth.





He is not actually begging per se. He goes to great lengths to keep himself clean and presentable, even though his circumstances are bad. His hair is well groomed, his shirt is clean and all he wants is a job, as stated on his sign.


Read the interview HERE.


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OLD 666

OLD 666 - B-17E 41-2666 was assigned to the 43rd Bomb Group in 1943, piloted by Lt. Col. (then Captain) Jay Zeamer on the mission that would earn him and bombardier Joseph Sarnoski a Medal of Honor, and every other member of the crew a Distinguished Service Cross.

By 1943 Old 666, serial number 12666, had suffered heavy battle damage and had gained a reputation as a cursed bomber, often coming back from missions with heavy damage. Grounded at Port Moresby Airport, it was parked at the end of the runway where other aircrews could cannibalize it for needed parts. A friend of Zeamer's said to him, "I know where there’s a bomber, but no one will fly it anymore because every time it goes out it gets shot to hell!"

Captain Zeamer, who had been unable to acquire an aircraft or crew of his own, had the bomber towed out of the 'bone yard' and, with enormous effort, not only restored the badly battered aircraft to flight status but made many changes.

They included increasing the number of machine guns from 13 to 19, replacing the waist gunners' standard single guns with twin guns, replacing all .30 cal machine guns with heavier .50 cal machine guns, and even added a fixed-position gun that could be fired from the pilot's station. Zeamer's crew put guns where they didn't even need them, and left spare machine guns on the aircraft's catwalk; if a gun jammed at a critical moment they could dump it and quickly replace it. These modifications made Old 666 the most heavily armed bomber in the Pacific Theater.

They also mounted a gun behind the ball turret near the waist. In the months of missions that followed, Zeamer's crew was so busy that they never had the time to adorn their bomber with the traditional nose-art, commonly seen on aircraft of that era.



Monday's Mystery Bird is HERE



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