A plea from Tom Burnett Sr. to the wonderful people of Somerset
(The ad copy below is running in tomorrow’s Somerset Daily American.)
My son Tom confronted a terrible moment of truth. Faced with a plot against our nation, he and the other heroes of Flight 93 fought back, and at the cost of their lives, foiled that plot to destroy the White House or the Capitol. Now it is time for the rest of us to face our moment of truth. Flight 93 has been re-hijacked, and I am requesting that if you can, you go down to the public meeting of the Memorial Project at Somerset Courthouse Saturday, sign up to comment at the end, and demand that a proper investigation be conducted.
THIS was no accident:
The Memorial Project held an open design competition in time of war, inviting the entire world to enter. Guess who joined in? That group of trees that sits roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic flag is the crash site. Who do YOU think is being memorialized here?
A second Islamic feature that I also protested when I served on the Stage II jury is the minaret-like Tower of Voices, formed in the shape of a crescent, with its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky.
Upturned crescents are a standard mosque adornment in many Muslim countries.
Every iota of this original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the so-called “redesign.” That is why Congressman Tancredo asked the Park Service this autumn to scrap the existing design entirely. Instead of getting rid of the giant crescent as Tancredo demanded back in 2005, architect Paul Murdoch only disguised it with a few surrounding trees.
Also remaining are those damned 44 glass blocks on the flight path. (There were forty passengers and crew and four Islamic terrorists on Flight 93.) The Memorial Project acknowledges the 40 blocks inscribed with the names of my son and the other heroes, and they acknowledge the three inscribed with the 9/11 date, but they pretend not to know about this one: the huge glass block that dedicates the entire site.
When this 44th glass block is pointed out, Project Partners say that it can’t be counted with the other blocks because it is not the same size. What? Because the capstone to the terrorist memorializing block count is magnificent, that is supposed to make it okay?
For every Islamic or terrorist memorializing feature of the crescent design, the Park Service has another equally phony excuse. Please read the exposé below of the Park Service’s fraudulent investigation, and please come to the meeting on Saturday to demand state and Congressional investigations into the Flight 93 memorial.
Tom Burnett Sr.
February 2008
PDF of ad copy here.
Non-locals who want to help, please contact your senators and representatives!
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From Old War Dogs-”Not so Fast there, McCain!”:
Up front, as a Vietnam veteran, I will readily concede that I respect John McCain for his service to his country, first as a naval aviator and POW in Vietnam, then for his long years in our national Congress. I even will admit to the fact that I somewhat admire McCain’s desire to effect some sort of political reconciliation with the Democrat party. That being said, I must also make it very clear that I do not support certain decisions McCain has chosen on his pathways to political advancement.
Now that the Senator has won primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina and the network pundits are proclaiming he may well be the Republican “Comeback Kid,” I am reminded of an old Army joke about a platoon sergeant faced with the prospect of breaking the terrible news to one of his young charges, Private Jones, that the soldier’s mother has just passed away. The sergeant calls his platoon into formation and barks out the order, “All of you with living mothers take one step forward.” Then after a momentary pause, he mutters, “Not so fast there, Jones.” That’s my take as a veteran and a conservative Republican on this new political development: “Not so fast there, McCain.”
My first and biggest beef with John McCain is that when a very brave group of Vietnam veterans who had served with John Kerry stood up to say that Kerry’s self-serving portrayal of his war record was patently false, that his blanket charges of war crimes against them were absurd, and that his testimony in Congress was used by the North Vietnamese to further torture McCain’s fellow POW’s, Senator McCain airily dismissed these courageous men and sided with his Senate pal. Playing conciliator in the national media, McCain despicably denounced the Swift boat veterans’ ad as dishonest and dishonorable, hinting that they were pawns of George Bush and the Republican right.
Like all the leftists in the MSM, John McCain never gave these true American heroes even the least opportunity to defend their claims. As a veteran who had suffered more than most to defend our constitutional right of free speech, McCain inexplicably used his powerful office and national presence to ally himself with the repressive forces of mainstream media to suppress that right to men who had risked their lives in combat to preserve it. It was one of the bitterest betrayals the Swift boat vets and the millions of us Vietnam veterans supporting them would have to endure. We expected treachery from the MSM and Kerry’s campaign, but not from John McCain.
What I can never reconcile in my mind, my heart or my soul, is how this naval aviator, POW and true war hero, could so easily turn his back on his fellow sailors, combat veterans all. In the name of political expediency, and a sorely misguided attempt to lay to rest all the troubled ghosts of Vietnam that his treasonous Senate colleague was primarily responsible for creating, John McCain turned his back on the true heroes and sided with a phony vet with phony medals and a suspect discharge.
Never mind that I disagree with McCain on immigration, taxes and his unconstitutional McCain-Feingold bill; that’s all merely politics and has nothing to do with honor and loyalty to those who served bravely alongside you in combat. Nope, that’s not the issue. But I’m putting the Senator on notice right now; if you should somehow get the Republican nomination, you are gambling with the votes of millions of veterans like me unless you repudiate your reprehensible siding with the traitorous, treasonous John Kerry. I have never stayed home on Election Day in protest of a distasteful candidate, but this could be the first time for me and many Vietnam vets, again turning our backs on a fellow vet who turned his first.
The Senator should read the excellent recounting of how a determined few veterans, whom he disgracefully defamed, defeated his old buddy, John Kerry, in the 2004 campaign. In ‘To Set the Record Straight,” authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, lay it out, page by page, what the concerted efforts of a few honorable patriots with an unrelenting resolve can accomplish in the arena of national politics.
Like the old platoon sergeant, I would caution, “Not so fast there, McCain!”
Russ Vaughn
Vietnam 65-66
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I’ve just signed a contract with Regnery Publishing for a new book, tentatively entitled Stealth Jihad: How the Islamic Agenda Is Advancing Without Guns and Bombs. It is set right now to appear in November. All I have to do between now and then is write it.
LOL…but it sounds as though he has a clear idea as to what it’s going to be about.
Islamic experts in the Pentagon — fired at the insistence of high-ranking Muslim officials for refusing to sugarcoat the truth about Islamic jihad. The ACLU allying with Muslim groups to make war on public celebrations of Christmas. Presidential candidates advised by Muslims who tell them to soft-pedal anti-terror efforts. American citizens sued for reporting suspicious behavior by Muslims in airports. Accommodation of Muslim religious practices in public places, at taxpayer expense. Muslim cab drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, and Muslim checkout clerks refusing to handle pork products — and even Bibles (they’re “unclean”). Islamic charities funding violent jihad — abetted by non-Muslim politicians anxious to court Muslim constituencies. Islamic advocacy groups silencing all those who dare speak about these issues — with the willing complicity of a clueless leftist mainstream media.
You left out what thing: the Flight 93 Memorial and how ‘experts’ on Sharia and dhimmitude are advising the Park Service and duping the families of the victims. Since it’s slated for construction in 2008, maybe a picture of the final mosque could be included in this book…or a picture of muslims going on a pilgrimage to pray to the AQ martyrs at the largest North American Mosque by a factor of 100~right there in Shanksville, PA!~
It’s all part of the stealth jihad: initiatives to advance the jihadist agenda not by means of guns and bombs, but through a series of initiatives designed to acclimate Americans to downplaying anti-terror initiatives, accommodating Muslim practices, and making special exceptions for Islamic law — while being cowed by cries of “bigotry” into dropping all resistance to these phenomena. The result? An America completely subjugated under Islamic law — just the way Osama bin Laden wants it.
Stealth Jihad will lay bare all the many ways in which this undercover jihad is advancing, and call upon Americans to resist it — before it’s too late.
I can’t wait!~
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At first I thought this headline was a joke or a satire. I imagined a dandelion or a sunflower spitting seeds at cows in a field that were deemed unfit mothers. Feminist cows who decided not to have little cows so they could pursue their careers or something.
And when I got into the article it was still hard to tell what it was, because they were talking about waterboarding cows and making them get up to walk to the slaughterhouse.
I’ve heard about how they treat chickens…so this isn’t coming as much of a surprise…from a PETA-like perspective.
Except for the fact that we’re being TOLD that we’re eating healthy beef…and now it’s coming out that we’re probably eating tainted sick beef from sick cows …which leads me to believe that there’s probably some of that mad cow disease out there and the government is - as usual - lying to us.
Oh wait, this is for elderly people, needy families and school lunches! Well, it’s probably okay then.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.
That’s a weird sentence.
The Humane Society displayed a video from its own undercover investigation that it said showed abuse by workers at the Hallmark Meat Packing Co of Chino, California. However, the name of the plant was not visible in the video.
The video showed workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades, applying electric shocks and even using a hose to simulate the feeling of drowning so the animals would revive long enough to pass federal inspection.
What kind of inspection is that? Do they keep the inspectors in a closed office with no windows until the cow stumbles to its feet, or is the ‘inspector’ helping? I can’t figure out how this works.
“The attempt was to make them so distressed and to cause them so much suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse,” Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, told reporters, [sic]
With the way greens feel about animals, it’s just hard to tell what’s going on here.
This is one of the weirdest damned articles I’ve ever read.
He said the plant’s use of injured and sick cows was not an isolated incident in the United States and he called on the USDA to tighten regulations regarding the ban on processing of “downer” cows.
Give us more government! Government is our savior!
SHEESH.
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Let the pics do the “talking;”
Bonus: “No Excuse for Terrorism” (Part 1 - follow this link to get to 2, 3 & 4)
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Recently somebody put up a blog encouraging people to boycott Chuck Norris, the celebrity that endorsed Huckabee, mainly because of Huckabee’s position on separating AIDS patients from others (quoting the government) claiming that AIDS patients aren’t dangerous to people who come into contact with them.
Right. That’s why people who deal with AIDS patients have to wear gloves…and dentists wear gloves. Ever wonder why that is?
The other reason was because he opposes the theory of evolution… I guess this guy never stopped to consider the fact that JUST MAYBE not everyone has been brainwashed sufficiently enough to believe unequivocally in the ‘THEORY’ as FACT.
Now an ethics complaint was filed against Huckabee over private fund donors.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - An ethics complaint was filed Monday against Mike Huckabee accusing the former Arkansas governor of violating state law by not revealing donors to a private fund used to raise money for his official portrait.
It’s interesting how-Whitewater, illegal Chinese donors, Rezko, the Keating Five, chappaquiddick-and numerous other things don’t seem to phase other politicians…
How much could a portrait have cost, anyway?
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Not all of the Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial is hidden. One of the things that Tom Burnett Sr. protested from the beginning was the overtly minaret-like Tower of Voices. The Tower is formed in the shape of an extruded crescent, and even has its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky, similar to the upturned crescent motif seen atop minarets all over the world:
Up tower view (left) shows the Tower of Voices to be formed in the shape of an Islamic crescent, covering about 2/3rds of a circle of arc, with a circular inner arc. The top of the tower is cut at an angle (right) so that the crescent arms reach up into the sky.
This sky-reaching crescent is a standard mosque motif, seen from the Abdul Gaffoor mosque in Singapore:
… to Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland:
… to the Uppsala mosque in Sweden:
There is no way that the Islamic shaped crescent atop architect Paul Murdoch’s minaret-like tower is an accident, any more than THIS could possibly be an accident:
That’s before you even get to the hidden stuff, like the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent; the 9/11 date placed in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag; or the fact that the Tower of Voices turns out to be a year round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial:
Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign, which only disguised the original crescent with a few irrelevant trees.
That Islamic crescent reaching up into the sky is completely undisguised. How can anyone abide this?
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Ten years ago today…
Oh, yeah..let’s vote in another “Liar-in-Chief.”
And…ten years ago tomorrow:
or is that “Victim-in-Chief?”
And in case any readers think these people are worthy of leadership, read this. There’s an adult reaction (2 of them, BTW) for you…just the kind of street thugs and battered women that you can count on to make rational, useful, non-self-serving decision…
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Stumbling about blogs this AM took me to a new one, and I scanned the other posts the blogger had done. there was one up titled Theory: The US needs a new TVA, maybe several. I read a pretty well written discussion of why, but I don’t agree.
Below is my response, which, got me thinking about how I think the Government should and should not interact with the economy. It just kept growing, so in the current mindset of “going Green,” thought I’d reduce my blogging footprint by re-using the material…
With the very low Nationwide unemployment (and you’ll never reach zero), it’s an issue of why? to me.
Any given region may have low employment, but is that specific region ripe for a large scale project that will use federally collected dollars that will have national level impact?
I could see a major initiative for alternative energy, in that in a region (that has the resources, be it sun, water or crop waste, etc) that would be the beginning point for the work to re-engineer the power grid of the country as a reasonable idea because it, like the Interstate development, would spread out and benefit a large percentage of the population.
To take billions and funnel them into a small area, which is down on it’s luck is a misuse of my money. If an area is suffering, then it should be incentive to look ahead and get to work making a new industry to revitalize their area.
Examples include: The massive base closures after WWII, and then again the sweeping changes to the “footprint” of the military in the mid-90s. Many communities, which had made an entire living off the presence of a military base and the payroll of the servicemen, as well as the services they could provide for the base, are still doing well. Charleston, SC is a recent example. Greenville, SC is one from the 70s, Newport, RI has been there, too.
Unemployment is no where near what it was in the Depression, so why do you think it’s right for the Federal Government to move money from one area of the country to another?
I recently finished reading “Fresh Water Submarines.” While it is a book about building submarines on the surface, it is actually a great story about the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company and how it kept itself viable from it’s formation in 1902, through the depression, into WWII, and it still a powerhouse company in the Great Lakes area. How? The owners kept their options open, they kept looking for needs in the market and leveraged their initial wooden ship building knowledge into where their was a market. They still build excellent cranes (used worldwide) and even have a major industry in food service machines, which was a track they developed because of what they had to do in building subs…they are a major supplier of vending machines, soda dispensers and chilled cabinets. Why? Because Mr. West, and his team kept looking ahead, not because the Federal Government handed them money. And…before you think it was because of the sub contracts alone, read the book and see they made about a 3% profit, and actually took on a few projects for the cost alone, because that’s what some companies did in WWII. There is a very detailed breakout of the financials of the wartime operation to support this in the book.
How much Federal funding has Apple received? Look what they have done with the industry, the employment and housing market…And Steve and Steve didn’t even do it because they were in a tough job market in CA. How about eBay? No federal funding there, but it’s gone worldwide, because one guy had an idea and coded it. The gaming software market? Yes, there maybe be some companies there (”Dangerous Waters” and “Falcon”) are two games I know got some money. the first was an unclassified version of simulator work on Navy contracts, the second, because it was so good, the USAF paid for the 2.0 version, so they could use it for initial training for their F-16 pilots.
What we need is people willing to step up and run their own businesses, and to not settle for just being employees. Hard work? Yes, but they are the one who actually drive the financial engine of this country.
Government, at any level, really has little place in the daily economics, in my opinion. They are to “provide for the common defense” role, which is law enforcement and justice, when translated within our national borders. Consumer protection would fall under that, too. When I used to live in Virginia Beach, many things were “fees.” That way, they could advertise themselves as having a low tax structure. The reality, when you added all the “fees” in, which sure felt like taxes (eg: “Storm Water Fee”), cost like taxes, were billed like taxes, were just that: Taxes for more and more and more projects.
I submit that are far more stories on how one or two people took a spark of inspiration and have created huge economic machines than there are stories of even moderately successful government conceived and funded, and, more importantly, managed projects, within our country, or outside of it. You may not like large corporations, but they once were small entities, that out maneuvered all the competition, either by end running them, or by seeing the “high ground” no one else was going for and they took it. Now everyone (who could have done the same) complains, but they shop there so as to keep more of their hard earned dollars in their own pockets.
The need for a much higher percentage of business owners is the prescription.
Anyhow, it looks like that blogger is off to a good start in the blogosphere. Jump over there and take a look.
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As usual….curtesy of a friend with more time than money.
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