With a hat tip to Zombietime; whose photographic journalism has for some time struck a chord with me-and whose work I’ve been admiring for quite a while, I’m putting up a lot of photographs from the tea party today in a similar fashion to what Zombietime does except:

• the pictures won’t be as large, and
• I didn’t walk into a crowd of hateful leftists and give a closer look at the organizations they represent

Today I walked into a crowd of friendly faces and discovered a lot of conservatives that I didn’t know existed here in Illinois; just about in my own backyard. I am glad we are getting to know each other.

I found out that despite how leftists treat me on this blog in my comments section and when they’re really upset with me for what I’ve written (which is often) through email; what I’m observing and concluding from the actions of Obama and Pelosi, et. al. - are the same conclusions others have drawn. Simply put, I am not alone.

If ever you feel that way, you should come on over here and take a look at some of these pictures from the Palatine Tea Party…!

I’d like to get more closely involved in these events, because it seems to me that a press release should have been circulated to all local media. There are a lot of things that can be done to raise awareness and get the word out. Sometimes people don’t turn out to these things because they simply weren’t aware they were going on.

So have a look at some of these pictures from today - I’ll be putting up more tomorrow.

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Bulletin: My personal thanks goes to someone if not Billy Ayers himself for inquiring at a neighborhood bookstore about Larry Sinclair’s book “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder?”. Yes, it should be a big hit and a best seller; and it’s possible that Billy and Bernadine are looking for their own personal copy!!! In the event that bookstores are not able to get the books in immediately, people can go to the Sinclair Publishing website and order their copy of “BARACK OBAMA & LARRY SINCLAIR: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder? ” directly from there. My copies are on their way, and I can’t wait to get them. My 2009 Independence Day has been made even sweeter with the knowledge that people residing in a neighborhood close to Billy Ayers have been clamoring for Larry Sinclair’s book.

You can order the book by going to paypal, here.

Interesting; there’s no telling what she’ll do next.

The blog “Climate Progress” is all over attacking Alan Carlin, the 25 year veteran with the EPA who has a BS in physics; not mentioning either of those as qualifications but attacking him for being ‘an economist’ and ‘plagiarist’ for lifting parts from what Climate Progress calls ‘deep climate’ but appears to be called ‘world climate report’. But - what is more curious is the complete omission of any mention of the man who co-authored the report with Carlin, John Davidson.

From page 81 of the 2009 Draft:

About the Comments

This report has been prepared by the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) to the EPA Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, which is a part of the Office of the Administrator. It was authored by Alan Carlin and John Davidson of NCEE and in part builds on three previous reports Carlin (2007), Carlin (2007a), and Carlin (2008).

So we know now upon closer examination that Climate Progress’s claims have little bearing on the facts. First, there is no mention of Carlin’s previous reports; second, no mention of Carlin’s expertise beyond “economist”; and third, complete omission of the contributions of Davidson to the report.

Why is that?

When perusing Carlin and Davidson’s 98-page report I was wondering which one of these men inserted the ‘plagiarized’ sections from the “Deep Climate aka “World Climate Report” blog that Climate Progress is so upset about, despite the fact that leftists plagiarize and receive no consequences for it. In fact, I’ve seen bloggers writing in support of plagiarists such as the Huffpo Plagiarist, Obama himself, Joe Biden and others. Gee, one of my main critics is the writer of the “Thinking Meat” website who is also harping on the plagiarism meme and making fun of me for picking up on the suppression of the EPA report. How one is connected to the other I don’t know.

But it’s even more ironic when you realize that “Thinking Meat” is plagiarized from a short story by Terry Bisson, the socialist science fiction writer. But rules don’t apply to them; I’ve known that since Mary Jo Kopechne was found dead in the Oldsmobile but Ted Kennedy’s political life continued without a hiccup. They seem to take this in stride, as I recall Ted Kennedy’s Portugese Water Dog was named “Splash”.

So meatbrain the plagiarist is making fun of me for picking up on the EPA suppression story because it doesn’t fit within the Church of Global Warming’s agenda. Are you laughing yet? And yet meatbrain - who is as dumb as a rock - lifted from “Climate Progress” the part about plagiarism, and didn’t bother to read the report. Meatbrain in all his infinite leftyworld wisdom, neglected to notice that Davidson was left out of the smear against Carlin.

Why is that?

Davidson’s bio cites “Emerging environmental issues” as part of his Current Research Interests, in addition to “Environmental Innovation”. His Job Title is “Environmental Scientist”, the EPA Division/Office is “Innovation and Emerging Challenges Division”. Davidson is also a veteran of the EPA, having joined the progran in 1983.

And get this: Davidson has a Ph.D. in Physics, having received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1972.

This man is no slouch! Why no mention of him by Climate Progress? Did they not read the report, or are they cherry picking talking points?

Previous Experience:

• Staff Member for Energy Programs, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C.
• Staff Member, Energy Policy Project, Ford Foundation, Washington, D.C.
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Selected Publications:

• Global Energy Futures and the Carbon Dioxide Problem, Council on Environmental Quality, 1981, staff coauthor.
• Energy chapters of Environmental Quality, Council on Environmental Quality, 1976-1980, staff coauthor.
• A Time to Choose: America’s Energy Future, Report of the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, Ballinger Publishing Co., 1974, staff coauthor.

Now what drew my attention is that he wrote a Report of the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation.

The Ford Foundation has an extremely long resume of leftist causes, meticulously documented at Discover the Networks.

There is something very odd about the crafting of the plagiarism argument against only one of the two authors of the “Proposed NCEE Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act” - the 98 page report that the EPA suppressed.

So what qualifies someone as an expert in the Church of Global Warming? That you accept the theory unquestioningly? That you apply the “new scientific method”? Is that what gets you in? It appears so.

For Immediate Release

30 June 2009

Contact: Lee Cohen (202) 835-9077

GAFFNEY AND NEW DETERRENT WORKING GROUP ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF NEW REPORT CHALLENGING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DENUCLEARIZATION PLAN AT JULY 1 EVENT IN ADVANCE OF MOSCOW SUMMIT

WHAT: A press conference conducted by the New Deterrent Working Group will announce the release of its report, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century – Getting It Right arguing that Obama’s plans for reduction of the US nuclear program will leave the nation substantially less secure.

WHO: Members of the New Deterrent Working Group, including:

• Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (Acting), President of the Center for Security Policy;
• Peter Huessy President, GeoStrategic Analysis, Inc.;
• Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, Jr. U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet;
• Vice Admiral Robert Monroe U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Director, Defense Nuclear Agency; Former Director of Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E)

WHEN: Wednesday July 1, 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

BACKGROUND: While President Obama prepares to depart for Moscow next week, few Americans have any idea that Obama’s administration is in the process of negotiating a follow-on to the START treaty framework that appears likely to leave the United States and its allies substantially less secure.

Members of the New Deterrent Working Group – an informal team with hundreds of man-years of experience with America’s nuclear forces, doctrine, operations and arms control that is sponsored by the Center for Security Policy – have prepared for Members of Congress, the executive branch, the press and the public at large a comprehensive Briefing Book entitled, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting It Right. This publication, with a foreword by former Clinton CIA Director R. James Woolsey, will be released at the National Press Club at 3:00 p.m. on 1 July 2009.

Getting it Right draws on a wealth of official documents, congressional testimony and other materials to demonstrate the abiding requirement in the 21st Century for an American nuclear deterrent that is reliable, credible, and effective – especially so in the face of present dangers and emerging threats to the United States and its allies. The Briefing Book provides, among other information: (1) assessments of the nuclear policies of America’s allies and peer competitors, as well as rogue nations that have acquired, or are on the verge of acquiring, a nuclear weapons capability; (2) a review of the declining quality and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the infrastructure that supports it; and (3) a series of recommendations to ensure that both the quality and quantity of U.S. nuclear weapons remain at levels necessary to protect American national security and international stability.

ON EVE OF OBAMA’S MOSCOW SUMMIT, EXPERTS WARN OF GROWING RISKS TO U.S. NUCLEAR DETERRENT

(Washington, D.C.): Few Americans are aware that as Obama prepares for his trip to Moscow next week, the Obama administration is in the process of negotiating a follow-on to the START treaty framework that appears likely to leave the United States and its allies substantially less secure.

Fortunately, an alarm about this prospect was published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by the U.S. Senate’s top authority on the subject, SEN. JON KYL (R-AZ) and veteran national security practitioner, RICHARD PERLE. And on Wednesday, 1 July, that warning will be strongly seconded and amplified by a team of experts on nuclear weapons policy and programs.

Toward this end, members of the NEW DETERRENT WORKING GROUP – an informal team with hundreds of man-years of experience with America’s nuclear forces, doctrine, operations and arms control that is sponsored by the Center for Security Policy – have prepared for Members of Congress, the Executive Branch, the press and the public at large a comprehensive Briefing Book entitled, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting It Right. This publication, with a foreword by former Clinton CIA Director R. JAMES WOOLSEY, will be released at the National Press Club at 3:00 p.m. on 1 July 2009.

Getting it Right draws on a wealth of official documents, congressional testimony and other materials to demonstrate the abiding requirement in the 21st Century for an American nuclear deterrent that is reliable, credible, and effective – especially so in the face of present dangers and emerging threats to the United States and its allies. The Briefing Book provides, among other information:

1. assessments of the nuclear policies of America’s allies and peer competitors, as well as rogue nations that have acquired, or are on the verge of acquiring, a nuclear weapons capability;
2. a review of the declining quality and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the infrastructure that supports it; and
3. a series of recommendations to ensure that both the quality and quantity of U.S. nuclear weapons remain at levels necessary to protect American national security and international stability.

In particular, the Briefing Book draws on recent and authoritative declarations made by those at the highest levels of the U.S. government with responsibility for assuring the viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. These include:

• Secretary of Defense ROBERT GATES, U.S. Strategic Command Commander
• GEN. KEVIN P. CHILTON, National Nuclear Security Administration
• Administrator JAMES P. D’AGOSTINO
• as well as the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory MICHAEL R. ANASTASIO.

Getting it Right also excerpts and illuminates the most important findings and recommendations of such entities as the COMMISSION ON THE STRATEGIC POSTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Members of the NEW DETERRENT WORKING GROUP who co-authored the Briefing Book include:

• Hon. HENRY F. COOPER, Former Director of the Defense Strategic Initiative (SDI); Former U.S. Representative to the Defense and Space Talks;
• Hon. PAULA DeSUTTER, Former Assistant Secretary of State – Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation;
• FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR., Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (Acting);
• Hon. PETER HUESSY, Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
• Hon. SVEN F. KRAEMER, Former Director of Arms Control, National Security Council, 1981-1987;
• Adm. JAMES “ACE” LYONS, JR., U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet;
• Vice Adm. ROBERT MONROE, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director, Defense Nuclear Agency; Former Director of Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E);
• Dr. ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAFF, JR., Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis; and
• Hon. TROY WADE, Former Director, Defense Programs, Department of Energy

Messrs. Huessy, Lyons, Monroe, and Gaffney will participate in a panel discussion of the highlights of Getting it Right Moscow and his administration’s national security and arms control agenda more generally. and take questions from the press about the ominous implications of the upcoming Obama summit.

In announcing Wednesday’s event, New Deterrent Working Group member Frank Gaffney said:

“President Obama – taking cues from the dangerously misguided “Global Zero” campaign he has embraced – is by all indications going to Moscow with the intent of drastically reducing the number of deployed U.S. nuclear weapons and making related concessions. To date, he appears to have failed to consider the potentially dire ramifications of such actions, let alone to have taken any steps to redress the woeful state of America’s nuclear arsenal or supporting infrastructure.

“At a time when so many actual or potential adversaries are improving their existing nuclear capabilities or acquiring such capabilities, the United States cannot afford to labor under the illusion that unilateral American disarmament and a lack of U.S. nuclear modernization will make the world safer, when it is clear that the opposite is true.”

To RSVP for the New Deterrent Working Group event or to receive a copy of U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting it Right, please contact Lee Cohen at (202) 835-9077, or at lcohen@securefreedom.org.

Congress Votes for Bad Weather by Harry Jackson, Jr. at Townhall.com-

He starts off with how this will affect GNP and the economy in general and other concerns. The entire article is worth a read, but the part about how it will negatively affect the most vulnerable among us is the most disturbing to me:

…cap and trade will affect the poorest of the poor in America. In a manner of speaking it is a regressive tax. Let me explain. Because the poor spend more proportionally on energy than others, their disposable income will decrease because of energy costs. Our poorest citizens spend up to 50 percent of their limited income on energy, while the average American spends only 5-10 percent of their income. In comparison to their rich suburban counterparts, poor families are sometimes forced to make serious choices between food, medicine or fuel. As a result of this dilemma, 8 percent of households with incomes between $33,500 and $55,000 have had their electricity shut off this year due to non-payment. Those living in rural areas of the country are being squeezed even harder. They tend to have older vehicles that are less fuel-efficient. Pickup trucks are common because they work part or full time in agricultural jobs. It takes a larger percentage of a person’s income for transportation in rural areas because of longer rural commutes.

It’s not only the poor that will be hit hard, it’s EVERYONE - but then he spells out in poll numbers that black people are against this regressive taxation:

The third reason I am against cap and trade has to do with the felt needs of the average minority citizen. “An overwhelming majority of African-Americans want Congress to fix the economy before turning its attention to climate change,” said David Ridenour, Vice President of the National Center for Public Policy Research. A recent national poll which included 80% self-identified Democrats produced fascinating results: 76 percent of African-Americans want Congress to make economic recovery instead of climate change its top priority. The same study says that 56 percent of the respondents believe that policymakers have failed to consider “economic and quality of life concerns of the black community.” Finally, over 70 percent of the respondents don’t want to pay more for gasoline or electricity.

Does anyone? America is the only country in the world where the poorest people have air conditioning - but don’t worry, that’s about to change and we’ll be exactly like the rest of the socialist regimes in the world.

WorldNetDaily article entitled “EPA’s own research expert ’shut up’ on climate change-Government analyst silenced after he critiques CO2 findings”

And from the Competitive Enterprise Institute: “CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA-The Public Shouldn’t Be Kept in the Dark by an Agency Supposedly Committed to Transparency”

Well of course they should! This is the age of the Marxist Comrade Obama the “lightworker” where “transparency” means the exact opposite of its dictionary meaning! Where liberal doublespeak is rampant! Where “just words” are “just words”-and “Stimulus” means its opposite! Occasionally the dhimmicrats makes devastating slips that are completely wiped away as if they never happened!

Just like Nazi Germany. And just like Nazi Germany, they are pro homosexual and cover it up - just like Nazi Germany, they are blind greens that promote failed energy sources like wind power that don’t exist in the private sector. As a matter of fact, for every government-generated green job, three jobs are lost in the private sector, and that is precisely the goal of these elitists; to destroy the fabric of our lives, and tell us how to live, what to say, and what to think.

Here is a pdf of the internal EPA document entitled “Proposed NCEE Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act” that the EPA refused to allow into the light.

It starts out

“We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and others have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups, particularly the IPCC and the CCSP, as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation. If they should be found to be incorrect at a later date, however, and EPA is found not to have made a really careful review of them before reaching its decision on endangerment, it appears likely that it is EPA rather than these other groups that may be blamed for this error.

We do not maintain that we or anyone else have all the answers needed to take action now. Some of the conclusions reached in these comments may well be shown to be incorrect by future research. Our conclusions do represent the best science in the sense of most closely corresponding to available observations that we currently know of, however, and are sufficiently at variance with those of the IPCC, CCSP and the Draft TSD that we believe they support our increasing concern that EPA has not critically reviewd the findings by these other groups.”

Then it goes on to summarize what a lot of us have been saying for some time (each point is elaborated on in greater detail in the document):

• Global temperatures have declined.
• The consensus on current, past and future Atlantic hurricane behavior has changed.
• The idea that warming temperatures will cause Greenland to rapidly shed its ice has been greatly diminished by new results indicating little evidence for the operation of such processes.
• One of the worst economic recessions since World War II has greatly decreased GHG emissions compared to the assumptions made by the IPCC.
• A new 2009 paper finds that the crucial assumption in the GCM models used by the IPCC concerning strongly positive feedback from water vapor is not supported by empirical evidence and that the feedback is actually negative.

Read the whole thing; it’s an eye opener, but not anything new, really. What’s new is how overt the suppression of real science is, which is so very reminiscent of Lyzenko biology in the Soviet Union.

This is eerily famliar; he’s sending his kids to private - not public - schools, too.

From ABC comes a very revealing admission from Barack Hussein Obama:

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.

Well of course he refused; he’s not an idiot! He just thinks the rest of us are idiots! And here’s the money quote:

The president said he understood the American people “know they’re living with the devil, but the devil they know instead of the devil they don’t.”

Yeah, Obama’s the devil, all right….and more people know what he is than the DNC’s Goebbels style propaganda dares to reveal.

This is just in sane, but you can expect it from someone like Axelrod; he’s the one that WRITES the speeches that promise the opposite of what we get.

Obama Aide: Second Stimulus Package Possible

So he says let’s wait until the fall to see where we are…LOL

Yeah let’s wait so that we can do more of the same to make sure it gets worse.

Oliver North in an interview with Newsmax regarding his book, the importance of the war on terror, Mike Spann, Obama’s apology tour as opposed to military members who made the ultimate sacrifice. This president should come to recognize we’ve all but won in Iraq - we should reassert the goodness of this country. Americans have become the protectors of muslim women. Their sacrifice is what’s made us a safer country. Newsweek published a totally fictional account of a koran being flushed down the toilet…great interview, worth the time to watch. (more…)

A protester quotes from Glenn Beck.

This was sent to me through email, but they are the sentiments of everyone I ran across in the airports from Nashville to Chicago and back.

One man said that Obama is an illegal alien; he is a muslim; that there will be war if this doesn’t let up. His medicare is being taxed, he isn’t allowed to pay to see a physician; he can’t drive the kind of car he wants to drive; electricity and other things are going to skyrocket should cap and trade go through…

The democrats are going to have to quickly put all their restrictions and big government into place before it hits Americans’ paychecks…because when that happens, you can bet there will be a revolt on their hands.

There is already talk of a big revolution against the Obama government right now, and it ain’t pretty.

Another man who was visiting from Richmond Virginia said there is going to be serious trouble…

And everyone I talked to was unhappy with the way things are going with the Obama administration.

Yeah, we saw how it was with King George, and under King Barack, things are going in the exact same direction.

Obama and the democrats are underestimating the American people…and there is going to be a backlash if they keep forcing their big government on us.

That’s part of what I took away on this trip; which was totally unexpected.

Happy 50-something birthday to me !!!

Having a wonderful time in Nashville - Tennessee is a lovely place, and there is a great car show going on. When I get back I’ll probably be putting up some pictures from it.

Update from Debbie Lee:

I’m sitting at the desk in my hotel room after just completing our 8 hour Troopathon at the Reagan Library. I’ve gone over and over in my head trying to figure out why this year even though we had a better set, added celebrities to our line up and had better media coverage that our final funds raised to support the troops was half of last years efforts.

I turn on the TV and click through the channels trying to find coverage of our days event. I had heard earlier in the day that Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett had both died. As I clicked through the channels I found every single channel had coverage of Michael Jacksons death, even Fox News was covering it.

As I am not an “Idol” worshipper it always amazes me how engulfed people can get in the lives of celebrities. I have an “ah hah” moment and realize that could be part of the reason our event was not as successful as we had hoped for. We had lost viewers to the “Breaking News.”

Not one prone to want to listen for hours on end to all the hoopla of his death I opt to turn the TV off and lay my weary body to rest.

After arising today I turned the TV on and you guessed it; almost every channel is still talking about Michael Jackson. The announcer is talking about all the crowds at the “Reagan” Memorial Hospital mourning his loss.

What a contrast, yesterday we were at the “Reagan” Library raising funds to support our troops and send care packages to the combat zone to let them know how much we appreciate and love them, and the rest of the world was focused on the news from Reagan Memorial Hospital that Michael Jackson was dead.

Our men and women are fighting selflessly to combat terrorism and defend our freedoms. These troops are willing to lay down their lives just like my son Marc Alan Lee did on Aug 2, 2006. These heroes aren’t begging for the world’s attention, they don’t seek to be recognized, honored, or worshipped, but we do need to remember them.

I thought about the world’s attention yesterday at the Reagan Memorial Hospital how engrossed they were in the death of Michael Jackson, my heart ached as I realized the priorities that most people have in life. How the media will dwell for weeks non-stop on Michael Jackson and his idiosyncrasies. My condolences go out to his family during this time of loss. I do understand the grief, the loss in losing someone you love so dearly.

This man may have entertained millions but did he do anything for their freedoms? He wasn’t willing to sacrifice his life for his buddies, for you or I as my son did, or as our troops, our true heroes are willing to if need be. Each one of our warriors who signed up to defend this nation have written a blank check to this nation and they are willing to pay what ever price is required for our freedoms including scarificing their life.

Why is the media not telling the stories of America’s Mighty Warriors, our troops? Why were people afraid to part with their money yesterday to send care packages to our warriors dodging bullets, IED’s and RPG’s yet they had no problem buying flowers and gifts, piling them at Michael Jackson’s home, at his Hollywood Star, the Reagan Hospital or other memorial sites around the world? Our priorities as a nation are so distorted.

For those of you who did participate and gave yesterday, THANK YOU! You understand the sacrifice our troops make and you have your priorities right.

Obviously since losing my son, Marc, not a day goes by that I don’t think of him and how he lived his life to the fullest. I think of the words on his headstone “Loved deeply, deeply loved” which so describe Marc. His last letter home has changed peoples lives all over the world. If you haven’t read that amazing letter you can read it in it’s entirety at www.americasmightywarriors.org
. If your moved by his letter please make a generous contribution by clicking on the donate button. He gave up his tomorrows so that you and I could have a today. Please be generous and do whatever you can for our troops, their families and the families of the fallen.

Marc wasn’t the only one with that attitude, I have seen the same character in our other brave warriors fighting for you and I. I always remember and pray for our troops who sacrifice so much for me and for this nation. They are the true heroes, they deserve our loyalty, our praise, our attention, our media focus. They need to know that we have not forgotten them. If you would still like to sponsor a care package and be part of the Troopathon 09 it’s not too late, you can do that at www.troopathon.org. How much more important to share the sentiments of your heart and your affections with someone who is living and fighting for your freedoms.

Please America check your priorities! We are a nation that was founded on God’s principles and we need to stay focused on what those are. May God continue to strengthen us and bless us as we follow Him.

Debbie Lee
President
America’s Mighty Warriors
623.537.5322
debbie@americasmightywarriors.org
www.americasmightywarriors.org

It’s incredibly odd and SAD, isn’t it…that POP CULTURE wins out over reality and what is right. The unfortunate thing is - POP CULTURE - not our HEROES is what is all over the news, it is what has saturated the public’s consciousness. And that is BY DESIGN, make no mistake.

During WWII that wasn’t happening. But during WWII, everyone knew we were at war and why.

Today, the DNC and its media have watered down and destroyed the message. Terrorists are now called the people who cause ‘man made disasters’. The war on terror is now the ‘Overseas Contingency Operation”.

Words matter; and when you water down a cause and inundate people with meaningless messages, those who stand for a cause become fewer and fewer.

And that’s the point; Washington and the radical leftists that are running it- want it that way.

What an incredible dancer and performer he was.

It’s surreal; but so was his life. He was supposed to have made a ‘comeback” and had drawn an advance against the ‘perfect tour’. AP, Newsweek and the Los Angeles times have reported Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

He was allegedly suffering cardiac arrest and was not breathing when picked up by the paramedics; and taken to UCLA medical center.

MJ is survived by three children: Michael Jackson, Jr., Paris Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II. I think it was “Blanket” that he hung out of a window in Germany which got a lot of attention.

Any way you look at it, he was a weird egg. Very talented, but very weird.

Speaking of weird, this has been a weird week; Farrah Fawcett died this morning after her long battle with cancer, and Ed McMahon died earlier this week at the same hospital where Michael Jackson was pronounced dead.

I usually blog frequently on the weekends, but this weekend I’ll be in Nashville; the last few days were spent at a conference, and I will have little time to pack before I leave Friday because I have one more day at the conference-so I’m okay, just very busy and don’t have a lot of time to pay attention to negative attention seeking commenters, etc.

Whatever I don’t get to will just have to wait until I get back Sunday.

Polls: Obama’s Disapproval Rate Growing

Rasmussen Presidential Poll for June 22, 2009.

You’d have to be dumb as a rock not to see what’s happening, but I’ve still heard that lame old mantra about how Obama inherited a disaster from Bush. Are these useful idiots or what?

Rasmussen poll findings:

# Only 46% of respondents think Obama is doing an excellent or good job with the economy.

# Just 30% say they trust Obama to handle the economic crisis.

# 60% of voters now trust their own judgment on economic issues more than the president’s.

# 51% of voters favor an across-the-board tax cut for all Americans to stimulate the economy.

# 45% of voters trust the Republicans more to handle the economy, while 39 percent trust the Democrats more.

# 50% those polled agree that the economy is getting worse, and only 25% think it is getting better.

# A majority of those polled, 56%, have an unfavorable view of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and 34% have a favorable view. Just 27% have a favorable view of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

I know it’s late…but there is a lot going on.

Prayers for Neda in Iran (click here to see the real face of oppression)…and I’ll be saying prayers for her father, wherever he is today….her family, her friends…and the Iranian people—both those living in Iran dealing with this mess-and Iranians who live here in the US who are watching these horrors.

Iranians Shot as Obama goes for Ice Cream

Yeah. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who don’t have to bury a child because of oppressive government today.

We here in the US still have a lot to be grateful for, but that’s rapidly changing.

Unfortunately we have a president that doesn’t give a damn and actually seeks to impose upon us the same kind of oppression that’s going on today in Iran; they nationalized their businesses a long time ago.

Scroll down to take a look at the pictures I’ve been taking with my new Rebel T1I. The lens I’ve been using for these is the 300, although we have a few other lenses I’m experimenting with - that particular lens is the best out of our collection for the purposes of taking pictures of birds.

If you’re irritated with my bird pictures, don’t look; but I find this an amazing pastime that allows me to unplug for a little while, and allows me to relax a little bit, and take some deep breaths.

A great blue heron in flight.

A female redwinged blackbird.

A Cedar Waxwing.

A Snowy Egret in flight.

Two snowy egrets in flight together.

A Green Heron in flight.

The Green Heron after he landed, preening his feathers.

The Green Heron giving me the eye.

Since - aside from our swimming pool - we have a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water, I am graced by waterbirds and wading birds whenever I step outside.

Here is a mallard duck female with her large brood. I counted eight of them….but one of them is a daredevil that’s always either lagging behind, or getting in trouble. Eight is a big brood in comparison to what geese have, and I don’t see any mallard drake swimming along or helping her out. Geese tend to their young in pairs as do quite a few other kinds of birds - but it appears as though mallard ducks don’t share parenting responsibilities. At two months these little guys will be able to fly, but it’s hard to imagine with them awkwardly stumbling all over the place and each other right now. Still, they’re expert swimmers, despite the fact that they’re so little.

A couple of geese and two goslings still with their yellow down. At this stage, they’re still pretty cute.

Young geese go through a really ugly stage, but I don’t have a picture of the one that is still there. Instead, I have pictures of the ones that now resemble small versions of their adult parents, and who appear to be flapping their wings, getting ready to fly.

Here are two such siblings..virtually indistinguishable from their larger parents except their parents are bigger, and a little bit more defined in their coloring. But these two have most of their adult plumage and are about ready to fly.

They find all kinds of opportunities to flex and strengthen those wing muscles.

Getting in the water, coming out of the water - they follow their parents’ lead, and eventually they’ll just fly off.

This is a grackle parent, getting ready to feed its young.

And I’m pretty sure this is its young. Ever hear the story of the ugly duckling? Lots of birds go through an ugly stage…if they’re lucky enough to be destined to grow out of it…

I have been seeing a lot more snowy egrets than herons lately. As an example, yesterday, one flew up right alongside me when I was taking pictures.

It was a little too close for comfort, so he flew a safe distance away, and eventually flew off. I snapped pictures of him the entire time.

An English sparrow male flying to the nest.

A robin that jumped off the curb, headed straight for me.

We have a lot of birds that are acting crazy right now. Most of them are nesting, and some of them are nestlings trying to learn how to fly and take care of themselves. This robin flubbed getting onto that branch, and I suspect he’s a youngster.

These birds make a huge racket when I walk out onto the peninsula, and when my husband used to take our dog out there, the redwinged blackbirds used to dive bomb him.

Grackles, sparrows, redwinged blackbirds are in abundance here, and we get frequent visits from herons and snowy egrets. I haven’t heard the cardinals, bluejays, crows or starlings lately, but they’re around, too, and I can’t wait until I get some shots of them to add to the photo library. Every time I see the green heron I’m surprised, as I thought they were somewhat rare - but I’ve seen them here and at the nature preserve.

We also have a muskrat living here, I just haven’t caught him above water enough to make any of the photos I’ve attempted worth posting. But I know where he is…LOL…so it won’t be long before I shoot something worthwhile of him.

A tree swallow demonstrates his flying skill. Tree swallows are a fairly recent discovery for me, and I am completely in awe of not only their luminescent beauty, but their flying skills - they are very fast, and fly like dive bombers - and they also have the ability to hang in the air like this one did for my camera - like a helicopter. Not quite like a hummingbird, but pretty darned close.

They glisten and gleam in the sunlight and have very pretty colors; blue/green on their heads, and a rust brown on the wings, with a white underbelly that extends up to under the chin. They look like they have little bandit masks on.

This gives you an idea of how my picture-taking is developing…with my new Canon Rebel T1I and the lenses my husband has procured for me, I will be able to do a lot more…

The nest in dead trees, and this particular nest’s entryway is on an interesting angle which forces the bird to have to carefully navigate to get to it.

You can get an idea of how stunning these little guys are from these shots.

I took over 1,000 pictures today…but will show you some of the best shots I think I took.

I’m fascinated by these little birds - probably because I’ve always lived in an area where trees were carefully pruned, and taken care of - and these birds nest in dead trees.