There are so many reasons why I continue to stand by the call for Kerry’s military records.

One of them is the recent revelation that Kerry is in essence calling military members ‘dumb’.

That’s why he go out now, isn’t it? He found the loophole to get out; get three purple hearts.

There is a commenter on this thread at the Back Country Conservative:

I was in Viet Nam 1968 & 1969 on PBR’s. I knew some Swift crews and during my time his stories don’t add up. First of all as a boot officer assigned to a ship you have to do at least 18 months or more aboard, Kerry didn’t even do a year. Must have been a screw up to get transfered. He even said he went ashore in Viet Nam when his ship went their. Again no personel went ashore off ships except amphibious type. If he served on Swifts he would not have been able to carry out patrols as he discribes. As a Boat Officer his crew opperated the boat and manned the guns. He had a Chief or First Class as a Boat Captain who had experence and schooling to opperate it.Kerry was responsible for the Patrol and its Mission and answered to headquarters. As far as his Silver Star and three Purple Hearts, I doubt very much. I seen a lot of Officers that were stationed in Staff positions in Siagon went home with a few Medals(Good for Promotion)that didn’t know which end of the gun the bullet came out of. If you knew the right person that had access to your personel records anything was possible. I saw a lot of action the year I was on PBR’s and never received any wounds, but lost some buddy’s and a lot did get wounded. My gut feeling is Kerry knew he needed three Purple Hearts to get out of Viet Nam and made it happen and didn’t even complete his year tour of duty and got transfered to guess where!!

After he got discharged from active duty was he still in the reserves? I think everyone had to complete 6 years total. If so how could he protest and do all the things he did after discharge?

There was a six year gap, if I understand it correctly, between the time he left the service and his ‘honorable discharge’. So we’d like to know the circumstances around those purple hearts, and he should just, in short, give the American people what he promised about three years ago.

Check in with Jay at Stop the ACLU; Kerry calls the Military Uneducated and Lazy

At the California Conservative, there’s a post called Attention: Sen. John Kerry — A Real Soldier Explains “why i serve”. With the growing phenomenon of posers who claim military service without barely having had any if any at all, it’s important, in my opinion, to pursue the release of Kerry’s records, even though he tried releasing a portion of them to his biographer at the Boston Globe, saying that he was ‘done’.

He’s not done. And neither are we.

Image: LindaSog.com

Join the blogbursts to help FREE Kerry’s 180 every Tuesday!

We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.

The more people we have, the merrier!

NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

It’s that time of year again, folks. I’ve joined up with Cass from Villainous Company and Kat from Cathouse Chat to raise money for laptops for servicemen and women who’ve sustained injuries that would otherwise render them unable to use computers. What’s special about these laptops? They’re voice activated.

I joined the Marine Team in honor of my dad, my Uncle, and SSGT Yatahey and others, who served in the Marine Corps, and my son, who went to High School at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas.

Project Valour-IT is a project to raise funds which will then provide our wounded airmen, squids, jarheads, etc.-with voice-activated laptops. Every year, through Soldiers Angels, it’s become a tradition for bloggers to join a team representing the branches of our military- the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine teams-and “compete” to see who can raise the most money for this worthy project.

All the money we raise will be distributed as needed; and all our wounded heroes will benefit.

Make a donation to this worthy cause!

These guys go way over the top a lot of the time. I didn’t laugh when I watched this, did you?

If you were upset about Steve Irwin’s death, don’t watch this. It’s another example of Trey Parker and his sick sense of humor going where..people don’t usually venture in the privacy of their own minds. I’m filing this in the ‘psycho’ section.

It’s daylight savings time!

Wow, it’s been an eventful week. First, the blog called the carteret con artist was very active, displaying some specific examples beyond the Joe Cafasso profile of the infamous poser and military fraud, insurance lobbyist, fraudulent former special forces soldier, fake Vietnam Vet, sailor on the North Sea, hero in the Iran conflict rescuing guys off a burning C-130, rescuer in Louisiana during Katrina under the name of Jay Cafasso, stalker, etc.,etc.

GM Roper talks about his own personal experience with a poser he ran across years ago who re-emerged. Much along the same lines as Cafasso on this post at GM’s Corner, GM refers to him as “Dario”, a man who claimed to have a degree in Chemistry and 3 years of medical school. I’ve been studying up on this lying phenomenon, because it’s surprising to me that it’s becoming ever the norm. We’ve come to expect it from our elected representatives, as a part of life, and it seems to be ever on the increase.

In “Phonies Fakes and Frauds and the Social Harms They Cause”, Dr. Gehring at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy talks about her personal experience with Cafasso an examines other examples of military frauds, resume padders, plagiarists; all frauds of similar genres who not only try to make themselves out to be what they’re not, but what they perceive they have to gain in doing so. She describes the psychology of what drives people like this and what motivates them to do it in the first place.

Here’s more evidence that it’s a growing phenomenon in this country. A devastating 86% of high school students admit that they cheat on tests. 90% of them say they’ve never been caught doing it! So this is how we’re training up a new generation of people to do what Cafasso and Dario have managed to accomplish in the lives? Are we producing more and more liars who will not only pad their resumes, but out-and-out lie about who they are, their background and what they do for a living, etc? This is a disturbing thing to me. Morality seems to have been flushed down the tubes in our modern day culture in favor of something that seems to be straight out of a science fiction movie. There don’t seem to be very many people out there who are straight with a strong moral fiber in their bones; they’re wishy washy, they change their opinions in favor of what’s politically correct, and even completely changed sides!!

Cafasso is a classic example of what I’m talking about. He worked as an organizer for the Pat Buchanan campaign, and was employed by Fox News at about $200 a week as a military and counterterrorism expert, which he’s not even qualified for, because his self-proclaimed moniker of being a retired Lt. Col from the army is just as false as barge story on the North Sea. Not only was he kicked out of the army after a short 44 days at Fort Dix, and allegedly never had a passport or even been out of the country. He was involved in the flight 800 debacle and was published in an article about it at Worldnet Daily. He lobbyed in front of Congress as ‘the head of the insurance lobby’ and a ‘former special forces soldier’. But when he was ‘outted’ as a fraud in the New York Times, he was welcomed into the bosom of the left, and was even featured as a disgruntled former Fox employee on Robert Greenwald’s “outfoxed” expose. Some have taken note, though, that of all the interviews available through a creative commons license for other diatribes about FOX and ‘the christian rightwing’, the one featuring Cafasso is missing. Leads a lot of credence to the validity, veracity and points of their complaints about Fox when they use guys like Al Franken who think it’s funny to break a chair over someone’s back who disagrees with him to pimp his book, and frauds like Joe Cafasso, doesn’t it? This man is so full of braggadicio that Moveon.org put him on a discussion panel where he presumably put in an appearance as a Fox Whistleblower! (I haven’t seen evidence of precisely who was on that discussion panel, but knowing the character of this man, I doubt he would have passed up the chance to rub elbows and make more contacts with people at the Ritz-Carlton.)

Can you imagine what kind of an existence this must be?

Gosh, can you imagine having so many identities, depending on who you’re running into, like for example - the city of Manhattan? It’s no wonder the more we find out, the more it looks like he’s ready for the loony bin. In the West Side of New York he is Blackwood. On the Lower East Side he is Cafasso! In Little Italy, he’s Big Joey Mosca. When he steps into the Village, he is Jay Mosca! When he hits the steps of the St. Patrick’s Chancery for the Catholic Charities - too close to the UN - he is Lt. Col Blackwood!

That just gives me a headache, I have no idea how he keeps it all straight, but I’m sure it keeps him busy scheming and plotting and making up new stories! I wouldn’t want to live a life where I’m constantly looking over my shoulder or around the room to see if there might be someone else present who knows that I’m lying, but that’s just me, I guess; I’m in the shrinking part of the population who actually thinks these things are despicable and matter.

X posted at The Wide Awakes

this is the abridged version, you can see it at google vids and put it up on your site. It’s a message too few people know about, that’s why it’s important we get it out. I’ve posted on this movie before; I have it in my video library. It’s excellent.

This is a 12-minute ABRIDGED version of the multi-award winning documentary, Obsession: Radical Islams’s War Against The West - a riveting new documentary that exposes the threat of Radical Islam in a way never seen before!

This featurette was designed to give the viewer an overview of the scope of the film - and the threat of Radical Islam. The full film will be available in theatres soon. In the meantime, a 60-minute version is available for purchase at www.ObsessionTheMovie.com

The film and filmmakers have been featured on major CNN, MSNBC, Fox TV and other top US radio & TV talkshows.

To view these interviews, as well as clips from the film, visit: www.ObsessionTheMovie.com.

Or click here.

It’s Sunday, folks, say a prayer for Jack and Brent, that they’ll be kept safe and alive until that one day soon when he’ll be released.

C’mon and trackback! Put up a post that you think deserves some special attention from this past week.

Watch for Open Trackbacks here on Fridays, Sundays and Wednesdays.

Here’s the link:

http://caosblog.com/3903

Here is the trackback link to this post:

http://caosblog.com/3903/trackback/

To trackback to any post just use the post slug or “permalink” and add trackback/ to the end of it.

One other thing.

I will be deleting trackbacks when the posts don’t show that you’ve linked here. Make sure you do as I did, below–either saying thanks to Cao’s blog and linking to this post, or mention that I have a trackback party, and link to this post. Otherwise the trackback will be deleted.

If you are unable to send trackbacks, then use the Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger.

Others with Open Trackbacks:

Add this Blogroll to your site

This one was posted on September 12 on Youtube, so this one isn’t it.

But this one was put up by CBS on October 27,and this one is it, but it doesn’t show the part with the one-two punch below.

Driving on my way to work, I like to listen to a Chicago morning show, and they’ve been complaining about the elections coming up. They’ve been actually more than complaining, and although I’ve appreciated their lighthearted banter every morning, the other day, their true political persuasion showed. I’ve heard their glowing accounts of meeting Clinton in person during national press association speeches and that kind of thing, their blind adoration of a man that I find absolutely disgusting, but the clincher for me-which will have me turning away from that station from now on, was their account and cheers for Letterman on the show with Bill O’Reilly.

Newsbusters covers it in two posts here and here.

What they read on the air on the radio was some of this, which really made an impression on me in a negative way about those two radio hosts. Letterman voices his disgust with the war in Iraq:

“So we’ve made a mistake in war, so we stay there and kill as many Americans as we possibly can? That’s the way you get out of a mistake?”

And then later, he says

“”60% of what you say is crap.”

Then they read Bill O’Reilly-

“it isn’t ‘We’re a bad country, Bush is an evil liar.’

Letterman responds with

That’s not true, I didn’t say we were a bad country. I didn’t say he was an evil liar” …”You’re putting words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head.”

Guess I have to find conservative programming, both the little morning show and the country station I used to listen to are full to the brim of leftist crap about the war in Iraq, global warming, and all kinds of issues that don’t belong on a radio show that’s not ‘talk radio’-

I’m going to have to see if I can find Mankow on the air…and really look for the right programs so I don’t end up all wound up when I get to my final destination after driving listening to this bologna.

Just like Osama Bin Laden and the socialists. Oh; let’s not forget our domestic cadre of socialists masquerading as democrats these days. Just can’t sell it under its brand name yet.

TGIF!

Thank God I’m FREE! Thanks to guys like Jack Idema.

C’mon and trackback! Put up a post that you think deserves some special attention from this past week.

Watch for Open Trackbacks here on Fridays, Sundays and Wednesdays.

Here’s the link:

http://caosblog.com/3902

Here is the trackback link to this post:

http://caosblog.com/3902/trackback/

To trackback to any post just use the post slug or “permalink” and add trackback/ to the end of it.

One other thing.

I will be deleting trackbacks when the posts don’t show that you’ve linked here. Make sure you do as I did, below–either saying thanks to Cao’s blog and linking to this post, or mention that I have a trackback party, and link to this post. Otherwise the trackback will be deleted.

If you are unable to send trackbacks, then use the Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger.

Others with Open Trackbacks:

Add this Blogroll to your site

With this heated election approaching faster than one could imagine, we thought it would be a time to throw the FT BB into the debates to see where each of our respective candidates reside in these matters.

We have grown fast and have expanded further than Terry and I anticipated in such a short time, which should prove to be interesting as we will hopefully see. Since we have members of numerous states, and numerous districts of the House of Representatives, let us see where the incumbents and their challengers reside when it comes to the Fair Tax.

This is where Terry and I ask for a small Homework assignment, but Terry and I will be participating, as well…..

What we shall do is send a letter to each of the respective campaigns for the district you reside asking them how they feel in regards to the Fair Tax. It can be something as simple as an e-mail, and you can tell them that the Fair Tax BlogBurst will be curious to see their answers….that way, when we hear back from them, we can all report for our readers where these individual candidates stand. We have provided a form letter below, so feel free to borrow this letter and use it/modify it for your convenience. Readers of the FT BB, we encourage you to do the very same and send either Terry or I an e-mail and let us know what they have to say.

This should prove interesting, and should prove to be informative for voters, as well.

Good Luck!

Here is a valuable resource to look up the individual e-mail addresses of your Representatives.

Sample letter to Congress: The Fair Tax Act, a nonpartisan bill (rewrite this to be your letter)

[Date]

The Honorable [First and Last name of congressman or senator]
United States [House of Representatives or Senate]
Washington, D.C. 20510

Re: The FairTax replaces the current tax system.

Dear [Congressman or Senator Last name]:

The Fair Tax Act, a nonpartisan bill sponsored by Representative John Linder (GA) and Senator Saxby Chambliss (GA), removes the burden of the income tax and other federal income-based taxes.

The current tax system is incomprehensible. It is beyond reform. It simply has to go.

The Fair Tax Act replaces the current tax system with a national consumption tax that:

• Allows Americans to keep 100 percent of their paychecks, pensions, and Social Security payments.
• Provides a prepaid, monthly rebate for every registered household.
• Allows families to save more for home ownership, education, and retirement.
• Raises the same amount of money for the federal government.
• Makes American products more competitive overseas.

I urge you to heed the vast majority of voters who will surely support you if you are seen as responsible for passage of this historical tax reform measure.

As a constituent, I would like to know where you stand on the FairTax.

Sincerely,

Your Constituent
[Name]
[Address]
[City, State ZIP]
[Phone number]

The FairTax Blogburst is jointly produced by Terry of The Right Track Blog and Jonathan of Publius Rendezvous. If you would like to host the weekly postings on your blog, please e-mail Terry. You will be added to our mailing list and blogroll.

Here are the blogs participating:

blah, blah, blah. I’m getting sick and tired of listening to the wailing on this. Over at TWA, we’ve had a bunch of outraged liberals come out complaining about Rush’s commentary, and I doubt that they even heard it.

Princeton Professor Robert P. George who sits on the bioethics comission says;

“I have great sympathy for Mr. Fox and other victims of Parkinson’s and similarly horrible diseases. I understand how desperately he hopes for a cure for what afflicts him and so many others. I have seen members of my own family suffer, and I too want to hasten the day when the great engine of science conquers the diseases that cause so much suffering. But the fact that Mr. Fox is a victim is not a license for him to mislead or manipulate the public. The truth — the whole truth — must be told. Those politicians who, for political gain, have run these ads in which the truth is distorted and people are misled deserve the most severe of reprimands. Win or lose, they have brought upon themselves disgrace.”

Here, here. Amendment 2 on the ballot in Missouri is actually called Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. Fox is trying to say that Jim Talent opposes Stem Cell Research and Jim Talent wants to criminalize it. The Amendment 2 isn’t about Stem Cell Research. It’s about cloning. It hasn’t become a law in the 4 years they’ve tried to ram it through. They’re trying to make cloning an amendment - a RIGHT in the constitution.

Nobody wants to criminalize this research, as Fox says. That has nothing to do with the evil christian rightwing, that has to do with FACTS. You know. Stem Cell Research and Cloning aren’t one-in-the-same. FACTS seem to be what people conveniently leave out of the debate.

It’s pretty consistent, and the parading their victims thing in order to get the upper hand in a political debate based on nothing but emotions is another. It’s a shame because people aren’t listening to what’s being said, but how they feel about the speaker.

The same tactic they’re using by rolling Tammy Duckworth out against the war in Iraq because she had two legs blown off. They take advantage of this woman in order to make a political point, and I think that’s despicable.

Well I guess what I’ve been seeing on Joe Cafasso as of late isn’t really big news.

Here’s an article from the NYT, entitled A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data By TOM ZELLER Jr.

It starts out like this…

If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for “Jon Kyl,” the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly.

Mr. Kyl “has spent his time in Washington kowtowing to the Bush administration and the radical right,” the article suggests, “very often to the detriment of Arizonans.”

Searching Google for “Peter King,” the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined “King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.”

Fifty or so other Republican candidates have also been made targets in a sophisticated “Google bombing” campaign intended to game the search engine’s ranking algorithms. By flooding the Web with references to the candidates and repeatedly cross-linking to specific articles and sites on the Web, it is possible to take advantage of Google’s formula and force those articles to the top of the list of search results.

The project was originally aimed at 70 Republican candidates but was scaled back to roughly 50 because Chris Bowers, who conceived it, thought some of the negative articles too partisan.

The articles to be used “had to come from news sources that would be widely trusted in the given district,” said Mr. Bowers, a contributor at MyDD.com (Direct Democracy), a liberal group blog. “We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up.”

Each name is associated with one article. Those articles are embedded in hyperlinks that are now being distributed widely among the left-leaning blogosphere. In an entry at MyDD.com this week, Mr. Bowers said: “When you discuss any of these races in the future, please, use the same embedded hyperlink when reprinting the Republican’s name. Then, I suppose, we will see what happens.”

But didn’t we witness the same thing as their pilot in the Mariah Blake piece from Columbia Journalism Review, or is this just the wave of the future–????

I still can’t locate these two blogs that Kathryn Cramer has referenced on Joe Cafasso, by the way. Is google search results skewed to hide them, or what?

Mr. Bowers said he did not believe the practice would actually deceive most Internet users.

“I think Internet users are very smart and most are aware of what a Google bomb is,” he said, “and they will be aware that results can be massaged a bit.”

Puhleez. A bit? How about a gigantic lot and we bloggers feel like we’re getting corraled? Or hoodwinked? This is skulduggery!

This week Wictory Wednesday presents Jim Talent for re-election to the United States Senate.

Control of the Senate will come down to three races, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia. Jim Talent is fighting the hard fight in Missouri and he’s a solid conservative. It’s one thing to lose a seat because the sitting Republican has no conservative credentials, defending a solid conservative however is a must.

Immigration is a hot issue with conservatives wondering why no one in the government seems to recognize a problem with an open border. Sure, many people come here to work and do contribute to the economy and their communities, however with an insecure border, even terrorists and criminals can walk in with complete ease. The current system also all but ensures that illegal immigrants are exiled to the fringe of society and left to be abused by human traffickers and malicious employers. The border needs to be shut so we can control who comes in and let in only those who are here for a better life.

Energy independence is another hot issue, and Jim Talent believes there are only a few ways to get that done. Either we need to research alternative fuels (which Talent supports) or drill for oil in land we control like ANWR (which Talent also supports). This race is also overshadowed by the ballot proposition on stem cell research and cloning, which was so disgustingly politicized by Michael J. Fox.

Please consider donating or assisting Jim Talent’s campaign.