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I first heard this squid’s name in July ‘05.

Navy SEAL to receive Medal of Honor
Navy
Lt. Michael P. Murphy died in June 2005. He is the first SEAL to receive the honor since the Vietnam War.
Lt. Michael P. Murphy, the first to be awarded the highest military award for combat in Afghanistan, was killed during a 2005 mission.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 12, 2007

Marcus Luttrel documents that day in “Lone Survivor”.

And yet Lt Murphy’s hometown TV station is screamingly silent on this. Just why is that? Perhaps someone from News12 Long Island would care to drop by and explain. I would go ask them, but you must pay a subscription fee for that privilege.

Hat tip to Scott at Powerline and Tony Perry at LATimes.

And to the family of Michael P. Murphy, your sacrifice is not in vain. Your son knew the cost that he could, and did pay. And we honor him.

Funny, I first saw this at EurekAlerts through my bloglines feed, and not anywhere else, so far.

You would think good news like this would be trumpeted from the roof tops.

Ozone hole is smaller. Guess that is about as good news as a substantial drop in deaths in Iraq. Both are getting the same non-coverage.

Saw this at Xinhua this AM, thought it would be a nice eye opener.

At least the leftards are finaly figuring out who the enemy is.

h/t Xinhua.

Gang, and random passers through, I would like to bring a newly printed novel to everyone’s attention.

House to House, the combat narrative of the battle of Fallujah as recounted by Staff Sergeant David Bellavia. For all you civs I highly recommend this as a primer for what soldiers do and how they cope.

For the vets, he pulls no punches. You got those memories shut away and are happy that way you may want to skip this one. He is neither clinical nor detached. Lays it right out there with no apologies or glossy prose, like a 3 days bloated corpse.

Here is the Amazon link, for all you online bookrats. I broke my rule about paying retail for books and got my copy at Borders Books.

Check this troop out.

I have long been a bit pissed about the treatment Filipino Scouts and other soldiers and guerilla fighters have received from us. We asked them to stand against the Imperial Japanese Army, alone, without support for nearly 2 years, after Mc’s return they suffered from massive reprisals against civilian population. Before hand, they received massive reprisals against civilians to force them to surrender American’s still in the Islands. In many cases they did, after Americans came forward and told them to do so in order to save their children and women.

Many people contend that we owe them nothing. They fought in defense of their country. Or that Japan was the legal ruling authority and they were criminals for resisting the lawful directives of the Emperor. Or blahblahblah. The same “reasoning” is applied to the Hmong, Rhade, Anamese, Kurds, Shia, etc etc.

This gets little play in the States, except among those who remember our Allies past.

America has a track record of asking people to do things for us, and dropping them in the fire or gutter as soon as politically convenient. And BOTH political parties are guilty of this. Is it any wonder we have a hard time getting people around the world to trust us? Is it really a surprise that our enemies are successfully using this very history to sow seeds of doubt among the people of the world, including our own population?

Who should be held responsible for the Filipinos being treated as peons after fighting at our request? After willingly sacrificing their lives and those of many families in defense of American interests? In defense of Americans, personally, in many cases.

This is an important question, because this repeated behavior on the part of USG is one of the roots of our problems in the world today.

I was just getting ready to excoriate you warmongering Dakotans for shipping your “hate packets” to other states and lo&behold someone beat me to it. Damnit!

Does anyone believe this mullah will die a peaceful death in his old age? Or eat a dagger in the abdomen one morning after prayers? Anybody want to wager on this Muslim’s cause of death? I highly doubt it will be systemic organ failure due to advanced age.

China and Russia have had several very public police and military exercises of late. So have India and the US. Japan and the US. Indonesia and the US. Hell, Chad and the US have done several active, realtime anti-terror operations in the last 3 years. China and Russia have been playing The Game for hundreds of years, with Russia taking it in the keister most of the time. Short of using nukes Russia will never beat out China. These periods of friendly cooperation are cosmetic, at best.

This article is just one of many, follow the related links. BBC has done a few, and I think Fox has, also.

In the end, global political inter-relations are higgledy piggledy, just as they always have been and will be forever more. Amen.

People should be far more concerned with Russia and Iran dancing. That is where the problems are developing.

From our brothers across the Gulf, Al Jazeera. A fairly evenhanded article, better than CNN or the Big3 will do it.

This,“He said Bush used the province to highlight Anbar as an example of how successful the “surge” strategy has been in the region, pointing to a drop in attacks by Sunni fighters.

The drop in violence is attributed to Sunni Arab leaders joining forces with the US military to combat al-Qaeda fighters, although it is unclear whether they will back a unified Iraqi government as well.” is not nearly as snarky as American press usually are.

h/t Al Jazeera.

Here is an interesting tidbit. American workers are the world’s most productive. What will the doomcriers do!

“The average U.S. worker produces 63,885 U.S. dollars of wealth per year, the International Labor Organization said in its report.”
And.
“The U.S., according to the report, also surpass all 27 nations in the European Union, Japan and Switzerland in the amount of wealth created per hour of work — a second key measure of productivity.”

It ain’t long, but boy is it going to piss a pile-o-leftards off.

h/t Xinhua and editor Lu Hui.

Yet another apostasy uttered from within the Temple Of The Goreacle.

This has got to be pissing Algore off. He has decreed that all debate and research concerning “global climate change” is over.

These guys can expect a lump of coal upside they heads come Goremas season.

This is the money shot.“The scientists said the source of the halogens is natural”. That has got to be pissing Algore right off.

This, from Egypt, could be the beginning of Islam’s Reformation.

“Egyptian grand mufti says Muslims can convert.”

Paul Schemm

Agence France Presse

“The essential question before us is can a person who is Muslim choose a religion other than Islam? The answer is yes, they can,” Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said in a posting on a Washington Post-Newsweek forum picked up by the Egyptian press on Tuesday.

Will this man be hailed by the western press for his vision? Will he be ranked with Martin Luther and Calvin? Will he be stabbed to death after morning prayers one fine day?

h/t to the Daily Star of Beruit, and as always, read it all.

And this sentence should be pounded into the heads of the left. “Gomaa is a civil servant, the top religious adviser of the state, and technically speaking the deputy justice minister,” he said. “So his views on the matter carry authority.” The equivalent in America would be to have Jerry Falwell or Bishop Donald Wurhul as Deputy Secretary of Justice.

Surrendering to Islamic terrorists will insure America has an Imam as the highest authority in our judicial system.

Is this the sentence that really has Hillary pised off?

“Edelman’s letter does indicate the Pentagon might be planning how to withdraw, saying: “We are always evaluating and planning for possible contingencies. As you know, it is longstanding departmental policy that operational plans, including contingency plans, are not released outside of the department.”

And why is that information at the end of the article? Seems that should have been in the opening paragraph somewhere.

Anybody remember Senator Leaky?

Algore is certainly not reining in his priests very well! I mean, did he or did he not declare all debate and research at an end? Did he not decree that Global Warming is solely and only caused by human agriculture and industrial activities? Apparently someone did not get the memo.

“It’s the coupling of the world’s two great fluid systems that actively defines climate,” said Michael Freilich, director of Nasa Earth Science Division and former project scientist on QuickScat.

h/t to Molly Bentley at BBC. A very good article. I agree wit the basic premise, losing QuickScat is one of the stupider things Congress and NASA have decided to do in the last few years.

I always thought the primary mission of the Space Shuttle was for maintenance and upgrading of satellites in orbit. Wasn’t it?

Funny how the Chinese national news service can find out things like thisand our media can’t.

“BAGHDAD, July 19 (Xinhua)—Iraq’s main Sunni Arab bloc ended Thursday its boycott of the parliament, a spokesman from the bloc told Xinhua.

“The Iraqi Accordance Front decided to end its boycott of the parliament sessions after the other political blocs agreed to our condition that the Front’s speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani would preside the parliament sessions,” spokesman Salim Abdullah said.

The 44-member bloc of the 275-seat parliament had suspended its participation in the parliament last month after the leading Shiite and Kurdish blocs voted on June 11 to remove Mashhadani, over allegedly ordered his bodyguards to beat a Shiite Member of Parliament.

On Tuesday, Iraqi political bloc of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also ended its suspension of its membership in the Iraqi parliament.

The move of Sadr’s bloc came after the government responded to their demands of protecting the shrines and the formation of a committee to supervise the reconstruction of the two Shiiteshrines in Samarra, both were destroyed by repeated attacks.”

Even Mookie is bowing down before the Parliament in the face of Al Queda getting owned by the citizens and forces of Iraq.

Why are CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC so silent about this?

h/t to Xinhua

"update" After going 5 pages into FOXNews online I found this AP article. I have AP on one of my RSSFeeds, never saw it there. Guess I will try their public pages, too.