Memorial Day: USS Arizona

On this Memorial Day we remember all the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
Most poignant to me is the memorial for the USS Arizona, a living memorial that still leaks diesel fuel from the hull-- a living bridge spanning 69 years and counting, lest we forget.
As a nation, our thanks isn't enough, I know. But it's the best we can give.

It's a Darwin Thing: Al Qaeda Liason Accidentally Blows Self Up

Ok, was he at the Acme facility? That's what I'd like to know.
What a Wile E. Coyote moment....

"A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.

The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was "messing with a bomb" when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News' sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death....

The State Department recently described al-Qahtani as "a liaison between Al Qaeda cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/21/key-al-qaeda-figure-accidentally-blows-officials-say/?test=latestnews

Arizona, L.A. and the Whole Immigration Issue

Los Angeles, and other cities in America, are boycotting Arizona because of the anti-immigration legislation that passed there recently. Arizona took a swipe at L.A. today, saying they'd be more than willing to renegotiate the power contracts & agreements they have to provide power to the L.A. area.
Touché. Someone needs to take a stand.

I'll take mine with Arizona. And I want to share three opinions:

1) To Mexican President Felipe Calderón:

If you are as worried that this new law would promote "discrimination" as you say, then I feel compelled to suggest that you keep your citizens within your own borders.

2) To those people who like to say that these people are here working jobs that no one else would take:

With the economy the way it is, do you really think there would be that much of a glut of available jobs? Seriously? And if so, how much do you think would be due to the fact that these illegal workers typically work "under the table," not paying taxes, like an American worker would have to?

3) Finally, to those people who think that there are too many "hoops," too much to the legal process to apply and be allowed to legally immigrate to the United States:

First of all, are the laws regarding immigrants from Mexico any different than those for, say, someone immigrating to the US from Sweden or New Zealand or Argentina? If so, that's a problem. But if not, these people simply need to suck it up and do the right thing. They don't deserve to be here, especially since proximity and a porous border affords them a relatively easy way in.

Secondly, how do America's immigration laws compare to those of other countries like Canada and the UK? When followed legally, are they stricter or more lenient? I've not looked into that but I'm curious about it-- it makes me wonder now, especially seeing as how I cannot remember the news media making a point out of it.

Until these people come here legally, I am not about to afford them any rights that I enjoy as a legal citizen.

Federal Legislation I'd Like to See Someone Have the Guts to Introduce

This will be fun!

My number one?

Legislation forcing a 2/3 vote on any bill in both houses of Congress when ONE party holds the White House and either the Senate or the House of Representatives.

Mojave Desert Cross

Erected by the VFW in 1934 in honor of the men killed in battle in WWI....
Center of a court fight for the past decade, ultimately winning a decision to stay put from the US Supreme Court just two weeks ago....

Stolen last Sunday night.

And I am speechless. This memorial was not merely vandalized (which would have been bad enough)... it was stolen.

Tell me something-- what is it about people that they don't recognize the danger in karma or cosmic retribution, or whatever it is your beliefs call it?

3rd Navy SEAL Cleared of Charges

"Virginia military jury found a Navy SEAL not guilty on charges of punching a suspected Iraqi terrorist.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class, was facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
The suspected terrorist McCabe was accused of punching is Ahmed Hashim Abed, who is the suspected masterminded the grisly killings of four American contractors in Iraq six years ago."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/navy-seal-guilty-assaulting-suspected-terrorist/

Good for McCabe! This is awesome news!

Here is a perfect example of how common sense did (and should have) won over liberalism.
In this trial (and that of the other two exonerated Navy SEALS), it was brought out how the suspect faked his own injuries to try to win favor from either the defense or the military jury.

Make no mistake: the terrorist will use all means, including dancing on the unsuspecting heartstrings of American liberalism, to win favor. Deceit is their friend, an informed public-- their enemy.
Remember that!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, A Legend In His Own Mind

So the little creep thinks he can toy with the American public and make them think that

>>gasp<<

Osama Bin Laden is hiding in DC?
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Bin Laden's hiding, all right, but Iran seems the most logical place. Especially after that kind of explanatory façade.
Just a guess.

Will Ahmadinejad visit the Southern US? Can we take him on a snipe hunt, seriously? Please?