HE FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY ... BUT HE'S NOT WORTHY.

His name was Gregory Boyington.  Some called him "Pappy."  He served as a combat pilot in World War II with the 1st Squadron, American Volunteer Group.  This squadron was known as the Flying Tigers of China.  Boyington later served as a combat pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps.  He commanded Marine Fighting Squadron 214.  Perhaps you've heard of this squadron.  It was called the Black Sheep Squadron and was later featured in a TV series called "Baa Baa, Black Sheep."  Boyington shot down 26 Japanese aircraft while serving in the Pacific.  He was later shot down and spent 20 months in a Japanese POW camp.  For those of you who aren't up to par on World War II history, Japanese POW camps were not happy places.  Torture .. .and we mean real torture, not stripping them naked and taking snapshots.  After the war Pappy Boyington was awarded the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor.  He died in 1988.  You can visit his grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

Education?  Oh yes!  Almost forgot!  Pappy Boyington was a graduate of the University of Washington.  Just recently the idea of erecting a memorial to this Medal of Honor winner at the University of Washington made its way to the student senate.  Here you have an alumnus who served in World War II. was captured and held, and was later awarded the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross.  Perhaps some sort of monument would be a good idea!  

Well .. not to Jill Edwards.  Thanks to the folks at WorldNetDaily we can show you a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the student senate at the University of Washington.  Under old business there was a discussion of a resolution calling for a tribute to Pappy Boyington.  Student senate member Jill Edwards immediately moved to table the resolution.  She wanted other issues to be considered.  Another member said that the issue was at the top of the agenda and should be dealt with.  Jill's motion failed, but she wasn't through.  There was then some discussion on why Andrew Everett, another student senate member, wanted the memorial.  Everett responded that Colonel Boyington "had many of the qualities the University of Washington hoped to produce in its students."  Well, I guess that might be true, if leadership and courage are considered to be good qualities.  Anyway ... that's when Jill Edwards spoke up and showed her true colors.  She questioned whether it was appropriate to honor a person who killed other people.  Then the lovely Jill Edwards said that a member of the Marine Corps was not an example of the sort of person the University of Washington wanted to produce.

Shall I repeat that?  Jill Edwards, a Junior in Mathematics at the University of Washington, says that a U.S. Marine is not --- that's right, NOT the example of the sort of person that the University of Washington wants to produce.  Let's let this sink in.  To all of you men and women out there who have served with pride in the United States Marine Corps; to those of you who fought in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, Jill Edwards, student senate member at the University of Washington, thinks that you are unworthy to be graduates of the University of Washington. My father was a Marine.  He's buried in the National Cemetery at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas beneath a grave market that reads "Neal A Boortz, Sr.  Lt. Col.  USMC.  World War II, Korea, Vietnam."  Therefore, I think that Jill Edwards is an ignorant fool.  I would submit that Jill Edwards is am embarrassment  to the University of Washington.  With her mathematics degree and her leftist outlook on life my guess is that she'll end up being a teacher in a government school.  Oh goody.

By the way .. there's at least one more moonbat on the U of W student senate.  Her name is Ashley Miller.  Ashley says that there are already enough monuments at UW commemorating "rich white men."  Well .. I guess you have to get that wealth-envy stuff in there somewhere.

Don't you just love these young people?  They're so much fun to watch during those magic years when they know everything and when they have all of the answers to every problem facing mankind.  As I said the other day, we should take 100 volunteer members of university student senates from across the country --- and let's make sure Jill Edwards is one of them --- and give them a country to run for four years.  Haiti would do just fine.

FLOODPLAIN?  YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING.

We've been asking in recent days why all of those FEMA trailers remain on those acres of ground in Arkansas instead of being used to house Katrina evacuees.  Yesterday I head one of the reasons.  Many of the places where those trailers were needed were in floodplains.  There is some sort of a federal regulation which says that you cannot put one of these FEMA trailers in a floodplain.  Give me a break.  When disaster strikes, you put these trailers where they are needed.  Floodplains be damned.  But ... this is government we're talking about.  What did you expect?  Common sense and efficiency?  The reality is that most of these trailers will never be used.  Over $800 million in taxpayer money wasted.

CHENEY FALLOUT CONTINUES

day 4 of CheneyGate.  Yesterday the doctors treating the accident victim,

78-year-old lawyer Harry Whittington, said that one of the BB-sized pieces of

bird shot was lodged against the man's heart.  As a result, he had a silent

heart attack, one without any visual signs of such.  The man is in stable

condition...is up and talking and is expected to make a full recovery. 

However, that hasn't stopped the media from writing screaming headlines, such

as:

--"Cheney victim has

a heart attack."  Technically true, but not a heart attack in the

classical sense.  And note the phrase "Cheney victim," rather

than "accident victim."  All part of the media push to portray

Dick Cheney as an evil person.

--"Shooting victim's

condition worsens."  Not really, we just know more about it.

--The New York Times is

reporting that if the man dies, Dick Cheney will face a grand jury

investigation.  There is no evidence that the man is going to die from the

accident.

Cheney and the White House screwed up by not reporting this accident earlier. 

They're right, but do you really think the media would be letting it go...even

if it had been reported in a timely fashion?  Not at all.  If it

weren't this, they'd find some other flaw in the White House's actions. 

Oh, and it was an accident.  Give it another couple days and the press will

be reporting that Cheney intentionally shot the man. Actually, somebody is

already saying that. (See the reading assignments below.)

By the way .... compare the media feeding frenzy here to the Vince Foster episode.  Somehow I don't remember the media being all that interested.  We'll ask Jamie.

ABLE DANGER AND 9/11

Remember 'Able Danger?' 

This is a secret group of military people that knew about some of the 9/11

hijackers before the planes flew into the towers.  They have also been

silenced....they weren't heard from or investigated by the ridiculous waste of

time known as the 9/11 Commission. Well, now they're back.

Representative Curt

Weldon, Republican of Pennsylvania, held a news conference yesterday to announce

that the Able Danger group had identified 9/11 hijacker and ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 times prior to 9/11.  That's right, 13 times.

What's more is the Able

Danger group also knew about the attack on the U.S.S. Cole before it happened.

Well, they knew something was going on in Yemen and that something might happen

at that port, yet the commanding officer on the Cole was never told about it. 

Nice.

So when will all of this

be investigated?  Doesn't seem like anyone is in a hurry to.  The 9/11

Commission shows no willingness to re-form and take a look at it.  Why is

it being swept under the rug? Isn't this what the 9/11 Commission was for? 

Why the cover-up? 

Either these Able Danger people know something...or Weldon is full of it. 

Let's investigate and find out.

HOUSE

ISSUES KATRINA BLAME

A report is due out today

from the House committee investigating the response to Hurricane Katrina. 

Blame is assigned everywhere, including to the federal government, FEMA and

George W. Bush for not doing enough, fast enough in response to the disaster. 

But finally...blame is being assigned where it belongs: with the Democrats that

run that state.

According to the report,

Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin waited until too late to evacuate

the city.  They had warnings 56 hours before landfall of what might happen,

yet chose to wait until 19 hours before the hurricane hit to tell everybody to

get out.  So who deserves most of the blame?

Blanco and Nagin. 

Why? First of all, because disaster response has traditionally been a state, not

a federal matter.  In 2004 there were about four hurricanes that hit

Florida.  Florida responded.  That is as it should have been in

Louisiana.  Question:  Did the failure to move trailers into the area

immediately cause deaths?  No.  Did the failure to get food and

supplies into the survivors within hours cause deaths?  There's no evidence

of that.  The deaths were caused because people didn't get out. 

That's a local issue, not a federal one.    Had the governor and mayor

ordered the evacuation much earlier, many more people would have lived. 

Did anyone die because it took supplies longer to get there than it should have? 

Maybe a few.  But nothing like the more than 1,300 people who are

dead...mostly because they didn't leave the city.

The media and the

Democrats will push the lie that it was George Bush's fault that all those

people died...but make no mistake, The lion's share of the blame rests on local

politicians.  That would be Blanco and Nagin. 

Sent in by Cynthia G.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I'm glad to see that people from all walks of life accept the responsibility for teaching young 'uns the facts of life. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Michelle Malkin breaks down NBC reporter David Gregory's little temper-tantrum

the other day in the White House briefing room.  She calls American

journalism a joke.

Democrats and the

mainstream media are doing their best to convince everyone that the economy is

terrible, yet retail

sales are seeing their best numbers since 1999. 

That's years ago. Of course good economic news is not part of the media bias

template.

A former general of Saddam

Hussein's says

the WMD stockpiles are hidden in Syria. 

Shall we go look for them?  And if they're found, will Democrats apologize? 

Probably not.

Get out your tinfoil

hats...one

columnist says Cheney's shooting of his lawyer buddy was a message to Scooter

Libby not to testify. 

How long before Howard Dean gets wind of this?

With all that the country

is facing...illegal immigration, Iran developing nukes....Hamas running

Palestine...Tony

Blankley wonders just why the media is so concerned about Dick Cheney's hunting

trip.

The former mayor of New

York City,

Ed Koch, tells us the Mohammed cartoon riots show that the idea of a free press

has fallen on its

knees and surrendered to Islamic terrorists.

Continuing with his

columns about the public school system, John

Stossel continues to point out that market forces don't even come close to

working in government schools. 

If you've got school-age kids, don't miss this one.

Is America addicted to

oil, as President Bush said in his State of the Union address?  Walter

E. Williams calls that silly talk. 

Don't believe him? Read on...and be convinced.

Linda Chavez says the Vice President has some explaining to do. 

She says the public did have a right to know about the shooting, and Cheney was

wrong to withhold it for almost a whole day.  Accidents do happen, but

imagine if Al Gore had done the same thing.  Fair is fair.

For decades,

Democrats have been playing the race card to get automatic votes from the black

community.  Jack

Kelly says playing that card doesn't exactly have the effect that it used to.

Israeli group announces its own anti-Semitic cartoon contest. Consider Iranian thunder stolen.

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