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TankerBabe and SSG Pitts SSG Pitts, kburi [Mr] Trooprally PleaDeal, Taco Mamma, Damion VAFlagWaver, Lurker Bill TomTheRedHunter, me, Jimmy Valentine's Brother CindyTrueSupporter, Fraxinus, USNRetired Nov 7th the DC Chapter had the honor of meeting two very special people.SSG Pitts and his unit set up a small remote outpost in the northeastern Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. It didn't take long for Taliban forces to plan an attack. SSG Pitts was not only one of the few to survive the Battle of Wanat but played an instrumental part in repelling the attack. Damion Maynard is in the process of walking a mile...

Strange things happen when the Trooprallys are out of town and I have to fill in. I won't go into detail about what happened last time. This time, sure as space aliens crash landed in Rosswell New Mexico back in '47, the Straight Talking Curvaceous Walking Bus was stopped at the traffic light while we were setting up!        If kburi was there you'd see a photo of the "Shake-things-up Express" bus right here But as luck would have it, kburi, who was in charge of taking pictures, was not there! We had just erected the "Support Our Troops"...

Lurker Bill. It may be raining but he's a happy person. Jimmy Valentine's Brother, Fraxinus [Mr] Trooprally, me Olney-Keith [Mrs] Trooprally We started out with a very mild drizzly-rain. On and off for the first hour. Not enough for me to bother with a plastic poncho - yet. But a little after 8pm it started to pick up. By the time the bus arrived - 9:40pm - we were experiencing a steady rain. Didn't dampen our spirits. Before the rain kicked in Olney-Keith and Kburi had a chance to talk to a WR patient who was on his way...

In his White House address to the Nation Wednesday night, Bush said, "Under our proposal, the federal government would put up to $700 billion taxpayer dollars on the line to purchase troubled assets that are clogging the financial system." But just seconds later, Bush continued: "... the value of many of these assets will likely be higher than their current price, because the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay off their mortgages." He added that once "markets return to normal... money will flow back to the Treasury as these assets are sold. And we expect that much, if not...

BufordP, TomTheRedHunter Lurker Bill USNRetired Mr Trooprally, Laurie, Fraxinus Mrs Trooprally, Cindy-True-Supporter, Fraxinus Satin_Patriot, USNRetired, RonGKirby and Mrs RGK Cindy-True-Supporter, RonGKirby and Mrs RGK No MOAB this week. Rain was in the forecast. I think the MOAB was still drying out from the previous week. Never rained though. So the weather was pretty good as far as I was concerned. Nothing unusual to report. There may have been one or two cars drive by that shouted something derogatory. Most everyone else honked and waved with approval. Another night keeping the hate-America lefties away from the Walter Reed gate. More...

Republican presidential running mates John McCain and Sarah Palin roared into Virginia yesterday in their first appearance together in this vital battleground state. Sans their opponent’s usual big-name band opening act to pull in crowds, the McCain-Palin rally drew an estimated 23,000 or more from across Virginia. Crowds packed into a hot and humid Van Dyke Park in Fairfax City to cheer for their candidates. According to the campaign press office, this was the largest McCain-Palin rally to date. Sen. Fred Thompson fired up the crowd as the lead-in to the main event with red meat jabs at the media,...

Cindy True Supporter TomTheRedHunter, Jimmy Valentine's Brother BufordP Satin_Patriot PleaDeal, WR patient, Mr T Step into the circle of photos. It'll make you feel like you're there. Hear the horns honking? See the people in the cars waving as they drive by? WR patients come out and say hi and thanks! Can you feel it? Then what are you waiting for? There's a map link below. See you next week! More pics at: [Mrs] Trooprally's Photobucket AlbumPleaDeal's Photobucket Album Honor Roll:3D-Joy; BufordP; Cindy-True-Supporter; Jimmy Valentine's Brother; kburi; Lurker Bill*; PleaDeal; RonGKirby; Satin_Patriot; TomTheRedHunter; [Mr and Mrs] Trooprally; VAFlagWaver If...

Chris, VictoryNY, Dan, CTS RonGKirby CTS, 3D-Joy Lurker Bill, 3D-Joy, Pasquale VictoryNY ATTACKS! PleaDeal, John Miska, Chris, CTS PleaDeal, CTS, Chris Before we got situated, Chris and Dan, both patients at Walter Reed paid, us a visit. You can see them pictured in the upper left photo. Mrs T and VictoryNY talked with them for a bit. Found out they both grew up at Schweinfurt Army Garrison as a couple of Army brats. They were friends growing up. Both enlisted and went their separate ways. They both ended up together again as patients here at Walter Reed. Weather was...

The White House has rejected calls from House Republicans that it convene a special session of Congress on energy, saying it wouldn’t make a difference. “We don't have plans to call Congress into session -- it won't make a difference if Democratic leaders are unwilling to bring up a bill for an up-down vote,” said White House spokesman Tony Fratto. Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) asked President Bush to convene the special session in an Aug. 1 letter. The same day, House Republicans launched an unusual protest on the House floor urging...

It was supposed to be a nice bonus for people who paid $1,500 to attend a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) -- a ticket to the Bruce Springsteen concert Sunday at Giants Stadium. But the Lautenberg campaign canceled its order for 40 tickets yesterday after it came under review by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which is promoting the concert, and drew fire from Republicans.

Bureaucrats at the American Physical Society (APS) have issued a curious warning to their members about an article in one of their own publications. Don't read this, they say - we don't agree with it. But what is it about the piece that is so terrible, that like Medusa, it could make men go blind? It's an article that examines the calculation central to climate models. As the editor of the APS's newsletter American Physics Jeffrey Marque explains, the global warming debate must be re-opened. "There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not...

LoRo, Greg, Matthew, TomTheRedHunter Lurker Bill, PleaDeal, Chris, and VAFlagWaver LoRo, a Freeper, has been very busy working as an intern for the Heritage Foundation. She was able to join us on a fairly regular basis last summer. A few weeks ago she did a little recon and saw that we were still out here keeping Code Pink pushed down the street away from the gate. So she sent out an email to all her associates and friends at Heritage and asked if anyone wanted to join her at Walter Reed on the 11th. We were fortunate that she...

On one side of Bragg Boulevard on Wednesday, American flags whipped in the wind, from toothpicks, from veteran’s hands, from the top of a pole attached to a pickup.On the other, American flags were being dragged on the ground.On one side, Army wives, veterans and bikers held signs that read "I Love My Soldier," "Our Husbands, Our Heroes," and "God Loves The World."On the other, four members of Westboro Baptist Church — including a 22-year-old woman and 7-year-old boy — held signs that read “God is Your Enemy” and "America is Doomed." The child’s read: "God Hates the U.S.A."The two...

The Trooprally's drive in heavy rain on the way to WR In a few weeks PrezUSA222 (Chad) will no longer be able to stand with us at Walter Reed on Friday nights. He's got new responsibilities. Responsibilities that will require 12 weeks of basic training, several months on job training, and then a probable tour in Free Iraq. Chad answered the call. He's in the Army now. We presented him with a plaque of a photo montage of most of the troop support signs we've used over the years. The montage is an original creation by iMacMan. After I...

The FBI and Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man accused of running down and killing a Prince George's County police officer. He died while in police custody Sunday, a little more than a day after he was charged with the killing. The Maryland medical examiner ruled Monday that the inmate, Ronnie White, died from strangulation. Two small bones in his neck were broken. The FBI, which investigates prison deaths as a matter of course, said it is focused on possible civil rights violations. White had been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Cpl....

What residents were hoping they could avoid has happened in St. Charles. As feared, part of the Elm Point Levee has burst and water is rushing through right now at a rapid pace. Authorities say that the levee burst in two spots around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. One of those holes is reportedly the size of a football field. Several homes and businesses in the area are now flooded. Officials say that residents in that area voluntarily evacuated before the breach.    Google map link

<p>"Support the troops, bring them home now." "Money for wounded - not for war." Like "Free Tibet" bumper stickers, these are the "feel good" signs and phrases the apPeacers exclaim. What President Bush aptly described as the "false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." 161 weeks running we've averted attention away from their bogus message.</p>

Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC, unanimously voted to continue leasing county property to the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is funded by the Saudi government. The school had been criticized for using textbooks which included virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Christian language and teachings. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report last year urging the State Department to shut the school down unless it materially changed the textbooks to remove the hateful language. To quote the Commission, "Moreover, a 2006 report analyzing some Saudi textbooks from the 2005-2006 school year found that...

Lurker Bill, VAFlagWaver, kburi Lurker Bill, Fraxinus, RonGKirby VictoryNY VictoryNY, Cindy-True-Supporter, Fraxinus VictoryNY, Cindy-True-Supporter, Fraxinus VictoryNY, BufordP Bus Yeah, that's right. DC Chapter repudiated, repudiates, and will continue to repudiate Code Pink. We repudiated them when repudiation wasn't cool. We didn't wait for Code Pink to demonstrate the ravings of a lunatic before the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP. We didn't wait for them to embarass themselves before the National Press Club. We never belonged to the Church of Hate AmeriKKKA. They didn't marry us, convert us to black liberation Jimmy Valentine's Brother, typical freeper person hateology, or baptize...

On 4/11/08, The Newseum opened its new quarters in Washington, DC. I was specifically interested in an exhibit in the Internet, TV and Radio Gallery. The exhibit was "Bias at CBS" and it featured the September 2004 "60 Minutes II" Dan Rather report aimed at discrediting President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. This 9/04 report was meant to hurt Bush's re-election chances in November, 2004. Comments among FReepers quickly exposed inconsistencies in the documents and led to bloggers on the internet exposing the report as deeply flawed, as well as using forged documents. These inconsistencies ultimately forced CBS...