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Free dinner for Vets 2008

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:00 GMT

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Military Appreciation Monday

The 2008 Military Appreciation Monday dinner will be held on Monday, November 17, 2008 from 5 pm to 9 pm in all Golden Corral Restaurants.

The free “thank you” dinner is available to any person who has ever served in the United States Military. If you are a veteran, retired, currently serving, in the National Guard or Reserves, you are invited to participate in Golden Corral’s Military Appreciation Monday dinner.

To date, Golden Corral restaurants have provided over 1.8 million free meals and contributed over $2.53 million to the Disabled American Veterans organization.

Military Support and Holiday Greetings Post Cards – 50,000 Delivered to Operation Thank You

Golden Corral restaurant management teams and their guests have written over 50,000 Holiday Greetings for our troops serving overseas. The post cards were delivered to “Operation Thank You” in Columbia, South Carolina for shipping overseas prior to the Holidays.

2008 Campaign Begins Sept. 1, 2008

Tags: military, veterans, food, golden corral

Defend our Heroes

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:07:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: murtha, military, iraq, war on terror, politics

Palin visits with troops at Landstuhl in Germany

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:39:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In July of 2007

Clip Source: juneauempire.com

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visits Army Pvt. James Pattison on Thursday during a morale tour at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Pattison is being treated at the center for injuries.

Tags: palin, military

Kerry backstabs McCain, msm says he settled score

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:52 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

AFP & Yahoo: Lurch Settles the Score

Umm. No he didn't.
He lost... Remember?
And, he still hasn't released his military records or apologized for his shameful Ghengis John smears.

Oh... And, maybe the AFP forgot but Senator McCain-- the one Lurch attacked last night-- defended Kerry in 2004.

And, finally, he's still a liar.

Tags: kerry, mccain, election, politics, hypocrisy

Russia freezes military cooperation with NATO

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:16:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Doubts surfaced over the future of military cooperation between NATO and Russia on Wednesday after Norway said Moscow had informed it of a decision to freeze all joint work with the alliance in the row over Georgia.

"Norway has noted that Russia has decided for the time being to 'freeze' all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries," Norway's Defence Ministry said on its website.

A defence ministry spokeswoman told Reuters that Moscow had sent "a message" to Oslo -- with which it has had warm relations -- about the freeze but declined to provide further details.

On Tuesday NATO countries agreed after U.S. pressure on to freeze regular contacts with Russia until Moscow had withdrawn its troops from Georgia in line with a peace deal.

Tags: russia, nato, georgia, war, occupation, politics

Russia digging in, not pulling out

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:12:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

MOSCOW -- Russia plans to establish a long-term presence inside Georgia and one of its breakaway republics by adding 18 checkpoints, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia, a ranking Russian military official told reporters Wednesday.

The checkpoints will be staffed by hundreds of Russian troops, the official said, with those in Georgia proper having supplies ferried to them from breakaway South Ossetia.

"This is the essence of it," Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the army general staff, told reporters at a briefing. He showed maps detailing the proposed Russian positions, one just outside the Georgian city of Gori, which lies along a crucial juncture of the country's main east-west highway.

"The president ordered us to stop where we were," he said. "We are not pulling out and pulling back troops behind this administrative border into the territory of South Ossetia."

Tags: russia, georgia, war, occupation, politics

Zogby has McCain up by 5

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:07:04 GMT

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Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election.

That margin reversed Obama's 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain, an Arizona senator and former Vietnam prisoner of war who has admitted a lack of economic expertise and shows far greater interest in foreign and military policy.

Tags: poll, mccain, obama, politics, election

Obama's Busy Week

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:37:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.redstate.com

The beautiful sand, surf and sun of Hawaii has proved too delightfully relaxing for Senator Obama this week. Sadly, he's had to miss out on an entire war, taking only enough time to elicit compliance from Russian President Medvedev by decree. So overwhelmed with his vacation is the Senator that he cannot even take the time to help the poor, long-suffering clerks at his own State Department of Health to produce a real, 3-dimensional copy of his birth certificate.

Now, he's even going to have miss his "favorite thing to do." His vacation, you see, is the "scheduling conflict" his campaign cited when they decided to snub our troops. Again. As Soren Dayton said last week, "Did he learn nothing in Germany? Could he send a clearer signal to the troops about what he thinks about them?" Well I think he's being quite clear, sweeties.

Of course, no one faults a man for needing a vacation, right?

Tags: obama, vacation, war, military, politics

Military Officials disute Obama's Landstuhl claims

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:09:00 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Last week after blowing off a visit to see the wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the Obama campaign released this statement:

The Pentagon "viewed this as a campaign event and therefore they said he should not come." said Axelrod.

Barack Obama went to workout instead.

The Military Times reported:

All media, including local press and the more than 40 journalists accompanying the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on his eight-day international trip last week, would have been able to photograph the Illinois senator entering and leaving the hospital, said Air Force Lt. Col. John Dorrian, a U.S. European Command spokesman.

under no circumstances may a candidate receive approval to make a campaign or election-related statement or to respond to a campaign or election-related media query

the candidate may appear on camera and in photographs as an official participant and may make a statement or answer questions about the official business being conducted

Tags: obama, military, politics, election, germany

Dem says surge opposition was reverse psychology

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:13:02 GMT

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Clip Source: minx.cc

Democratic Rep: By Opposing the Surge, We Actually Encouraged the President to Enact the Surge, Which in Turn Resulted in Victory... and You're Welcome

Great post from Jeff Emmanuel. This is the same Democrat Rep who recently admitted Democrats had "stretched the facts" about the feasibility and prudence of a quick withdrawal from Iraq, just to win the election.

Now he makes this curious claim:

In February 2007, Kanjorski went to the floor of the House to say:

Ms. Speaker, I rise today to join the overwhelming majority of the American people, the Congress, and many top U.S. military commanders to voice my opposition to President Bush's ill-conceived plan to send more American troops into the middle of an ongoing Civil War in Iraq.
Then, in an interview from just days ago, Kanjorski said:

We've taken public positions which have now forced the president to go into the surge mentality, which is somewhat working.

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Tags: democrat, surge, iraq, war on terror, politics, wtf

What is success?

Sat, 31 May 2008 19:37:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This doesn't mean it is over. It doesn't mean things can't change. What it does mean is we are on the right path and it would be pure ignorance to depart from that path now.

Clip Source: www.aswataliraq.info

Baghdad, May 31, (VOI) – The CIA has declared that al-Qaeda is virtually defeated in Iraq and that the country is seeing its lowest level of violence for four years, according to the British newspaper The Times.

Nineteen US military personnel have died in Iraq this month, according to the Pentagon, making May the least deadly month for US troops since the beginning of the war, writes journalist Tim Reid in an article.

The deadliest month for US troops was May 2007, when 126 died as the insurgency in Baghdad raged.

Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, a US spokesman, said violent incidents in Iraq were down 70 per cent since President Bush ordered a “surge” of 35,000 extra troops into the country last year.

In April, 75 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police were killed, the lowest level since November 2004.

Tags: iraq, war on terror, military, success

Surge still succeeding

Fri, 30 May 2008 04:37:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

BAGHDAD — This May has been one of the least violent months of the Iraq war. The relative calm follows a cease-fire agreement by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia in the face of steady pressure from U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Eighteen U.S. servicemembers have been identified as having died in Iraq so far in May, according to the Pentagon. To date, the least deadly month of the five-year war was February 2004, when 21 U.S. troops were killed in a 29-day period. The number of wounded also has fallen.

Overall, militant attacks in Iraq have dropped to levels not seen since spring 2004, U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll said this week. Attacks are down 70% since President Bush ordered a U.S. troop increase, or "surge," early last year.

"We're seeing progress because we're getting more capability out of the Iraqi security forces," said Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin III, the number two U.S. commander in Iraq.

Tags: surge, iraq, war on terror, military, politics

USS Kitty Hawk to be decommissioned

Fri, 30 May 2008 04:26:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

YOKOSUKA, Japan — The oldest active ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, made its final departure from Japan on Wednesday to be decommissioned after nearly half a century of service.

The Kitty Hawk, with sailors lining its decks, pulled away from Yokosuka port just south of Tokyo to the cheers of hundreds of schoolchildren and the sounds of brass bands.

The Kitty Hawk, the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the Navy, is to be replaced later this summer by the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered carrier.

The decommissioning date for the ship is set for Jan. 31.

Tags: usn, navy, kitty hawk, aircraft carrier, military

Thin plastic phone armor vs blender

Fri, 30 May 2008 04:06:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not quite as entertaining as the Will It Blend videos, but really cool anyway.

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Clear Armor Brings Apache-Grade Scratch Protection to Your iPhone (But Will It Blend?)

Case-mate has announced the release of a "groundbreaking" new product designed to protect your iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic (80GB and 160GB) or BlackBerry Curve from scratches using a military-grade Scotchgard film from 3M that was originally designed to protect Apache helicopter blades during Desert Storm. The film is also completely clear, so there are no bulky, ugly cases to contend with. But the real question here is: does it blend? Well, let's find out:

Case-mate's Clear Armor is available now for $19.99. It may not have been released in time for the iPhone case Battlemodo, but look for a review soon. [case-mate]

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Tags: phone, protection, blender

McCain broadsides Obama

Thu, 29 May 2008 07:55:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.floppingaces.net

He could see the fact that Sadr City is quiet. He could see that the Maliki government is taking control of Basra. He could see that the Iraqi military is leading the fight in these places with the support of American troops. And to say that we failed in Iraq and that we’re not succeeding, does not comport with the facts on the ground.

if we set a date for withdrawal, which Senator Obama wants to do, there will be chaos. There will be genocide. There will be increased Iranian influence there, and we will have to go back with further sacrifice of American blood and treasure.

Senator Obama has said, as you know, that he wants to sit down without any preconditions with the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad. He has said that he wants to sit down with a leader of a country that a few days ago called Israel a quote, ’stinking corpse’.

Now, why is it that Senator Obama wants to sit down with the President of Iran, but hasn’t yet sat down with General Petraeus, the leader of our troops in Iraq?

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Tags: mccain, obama, iraq, war on terror, military, politics