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Politically Correctness is intended to politicize not civilize a society. It is said to be racially motivated to question a morally twisted Middle-Eastern Army Officer shouting “Allah Akbar” before his shooting rampage toward his fellow countrymen, and yet it is not so to omit the WASP from the racial compositions of American society in a Social Study. “No one said anything about the WASP race, why is that?” asked my mixed-races 9 year old daughter. It was the WASP Americans who framed and founded this Republic, and Politically Correctness views other races as inferior to this supreme achievement. If the...

Muriel Martin spent four years helping train fighter pilots as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, during WWII.Muriel Martin struggles these days to remember the years she spent as a World War II U.S. Army Air Force pilot. The dates have run together in her mind and the details of her training and experience long ago faded into the background of a life filled with child rearing and community service. But some days, the memories push through and she finds herself back in her 20s and in the cockpit again. “I was flying to Dallas earlier this year and...

Attacking from nests as big as pickup-truck beds, invasive western yellowjacket wasps in Hawaii are munching their way through an "astonishing diversity" of creatures, from caterpillars to pheasants, a new study says. Adult yellowjackets consume only nectar. But they kill or scavenge prey to deliver needed protein to their growing broods. "They basically just carry it in their mandibles—you see them flying with their balls of meat," said lead study author Erin Wilson, who just finished her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. In their native habitat in the western U.S., the wasps die off in winter. But...

Maj. Gina "Torch" Sabric, an F-16 fighter pilot and 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing flight-safety officer, sits on her aircraft after a flight. Sabric proudly attributes the progression of women in aviation to the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). President Barack Obama presented the WASP the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest and most distinguished award Congress can award a civilian, July 1. Courtesy photo, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing. BALAD — It's been more than 60 years since the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) took the skies by storm as the first women in U.S. history trained to fly American...

W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS: 'God Help Us… God Bless America' - Nov. 2, 2008 W.A.S.P. mainman Blackie Lawless has released the following message via the band's official web site, W.A.S.P. Nation: "'We the people of the United States.' These are the first seven words of the constitution of the United States of America. As I stood in the reception area of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. early this year, a large recreation of that constitution was posted on the wall. It's the first thing you see as you enter the building. 'We the People of the United States,' I stared at...

The nation's largest freshman class in history is moving into college dorms, hanging posters, meeting roommates and learning fight songs. In Indiana University's Assembly Hall last Friday, a remarkably large chorus hailing from private high schools in the Northeast was singing the school's ode to the "Cream and Crimson" in a pronounced New York accent. Freshman Jess Berne, from New York's Westchester County, crosses the Indiana University campus. It's a striking byproduct of one of the most competitive college admissions sessions ever -- an influx of East Coast prep-school students in Indiana. Indiana University welcomed about 260 students from the...

Female pilot with a lifelong love of flight and distinguished racing career Margaret Ray Ringenberg, who died on 28 July, 2008, was an American aviator who flew for over 60 years and wracked up more than 40,000 hours in the air, including

Britain on alert for deadly new knife with exploding tip that freezes victims' organs Senior police officers have been warned to look out for a new knife which can inject a ball of compressed gas into its victim that instantly freezes internal organs. The 'wasp knife', which can deliver a ball of compressed gas capable of killing its victim at the press of a button, may be heading for Britain, the Metropolitan Police fear. A needle in the tip of the blade shoots out the frozen ball of gas which instantly balloons to the size of a basketball, freezing organs....

'Medicine cabinet' found in wasps' antennae 12:57 02 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service Rowan Hooper Male beewolf wasp (Philanthus triangulum) with antennae that contain useful bacteria (Image: Martin Kaltenpoth) Beewolf wasps, named for the females' habit of hunting bees, have special reservoirs in their antennae, filled with bacteria. But not any old bacteria: beewolves (Philanthus triangulum) cultivate the antibiotic-producing Streptomyces and secrete them into their underground brood cells. Watch a video of a female wasp doing just that (2MB, wmv format). When a beewolf larva is ready to pupate, it applies the bacteria onto the silk threads of its cocoon....

Well, don't you think?Here's the plan...

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered the oldest bee ever known, a 100 million year old specimen preserved in almost lifelike form in amber, and an important link to help explain the rapid expansion of flowering plants during that distant period. The findings and their evolutionary significance are outlined in an article to be published this week in the journal Science. The specimen, at least 35-45 million years older than any other known bee fossil, has given rise to a newly-named family called Melittosphecidae – insects that share some of the features of both bees and...

ATLANTA - Five men convicted in Miami for being unregistered Cuban intelligence agents are not entitled to a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The five argued on appeal that pervasive community prejudice against the Cuban government and publicity surrounding the case prevented them from receiving a fair trial. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit threw out all the convictions last August, ruling that pretrial publicity combined with pervasive anti-Castro feeling in Miami didn't allow for a fair trial. The government asked the full appeals court to reconsider. The entire 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with...

For Wednesday's flight from Livermore to Moffett Field, Eleanor Wortz wore the same uniform and silver wings she wore as a 23-year-old member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.They defied convention -- and defied gravity -- six decades ago when they became the first women in history to fly for the U.S. military as Women Airforce Service Pilots.On Wednesday, three of the World War II aviation pioneers, now in their 80s and living in the Bay Area, made a short return flight.Eleanor Wortz of Los Altos, Jean McFarland Koehler of Sunnyvale and Maggie Gee of Berkeley flew through crystal blue...

A college professor and his wife, a college administrator, have been charged with being longtime illegal agents of Cuban President Fidel Castro, according to documents filed Monday. Carlos Alvarez, a psychology professor at Florida International University, and his wife, Elsa Alvarez, were charged with acting as agents of Cuba without registering with the U.S. government as required, said the documents filed in U.S. District Court. The two were scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Simonton, according to the documents. An indictment further describing the charges was expected to be unsealed after that appearance,...

After thinking it over for a bit, the Miers outrage among 'conservatives' seems to have one major feature: she is a Southern, White, Protestant. And that type of individual has not been on the SCOTUS for a long long time. I don't think this is an 'accident' of history.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- The London Bridge Baptist Preschool presented the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) with a 10-foot by 10-foot banner to thank Wasp crew members for their service in a brief ceremony May 11. The banner was created in honor of Armed Forces Day, observed at the end of the month. “We have a lot of military families come here,” said Jennifer Connolly, wife of a Wasp Sailor. “Many of those service members are deployed to Iraq right now.” The preschool decided to make the large banner, decorated with the handprints of more than...

PALMDALE - Ty Hughes-Killen won't accept defeat. She never has. Even when faced with some of life's toughest adversities and deepest sorrows - like the death of her first husband in wartime - she kept plugging forward. And, she encourages others to follow her lead. The former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilot, commonly referred to as a WASP, delivered her message of hope and persistence to a group of 125 seventh- and eighth-grade students Thursday at Juniper Intermediate School. "Keep on keepin' on," Killen reiterated to the youngsters - a mix of students from Juniper and Pinecrest schools....

You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same love for him as for yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God.” (Leviticus 19:34) Now, some people would find that kind of Scripture quoting offensive. Indeed, some would simply mutter “and the devil himself uses Scripture for his own devices.” And they would be right. A single verse does not an argument make. However, the debate about immigration is raging, and we have all heard from the Democratic, Republican,...

America's core culture has primarily been the culture of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century settlers who founded our nation. The central elements of that culture are the Christian religion; Protestant values, including individualism, the work ethic, and moralism; the English language; British traditions of law, justice, and limits on government power; and a legacy of European art, literature, and philosophy. Out of this culture the early settlers formulated the American Creed, with its principles of liberty, equality, human rights, representative government, and private property. Subsequent generations of immigrants were assimilated into the culture of the founding settlers and modified it, but...

Here are some .jpg scans that Korean War and Vietnam War Vets & their families can save and use....