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Sunday, 29 April 2007
An Appeal For Redress

An Appeal For Redress is an authorized means for active duty military to submit a grievance to Congress. It can be signed by Active Duty, Reserve, or National Guard military personnel.


It is authorized by DoD Directive 1325.6 and DoD Directive 7050.6 (pdf).









Sign this Appeal.

This site is an Appeal For Redress in support of our mission in Iraq.

An Appeal For Redress is an authorized means for active duty military to submit a grievance to Congress. It can be signed by Active Duty, Reserve, or National Guard military personnel.


It is authorized by DoD Directive 1325.6 and DoD Directive 7050.6 (pdf).

The wording of the Appeal is:

As an American currently serving my nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to fully support our mission in Iraq and halt any calls for retreat. I also respectfully urge my political leaders to actively oppose media efforts which embolden my enemy while demoralizing American support at home. The War in Iraq is a necessary and just effort to bring freedom to the Middle East and protect America from further attack.

If you are active duty, reservist or national guard, please Sign this Appeal.


This Appeal will be delivered to members of Congress.
We are currently working with members of Congress to make a presentation.

Most service members fully support the war in Iraq and feel calls to retreat by Congress and emphasis by some in the media on negative aspects while ignoring positive ones acts to motivate our enemy while demoralizing our support at home, directly increasing the threat we face and resulting in greater American casualties.

Clarification: 'Actively oppose media attacks' is asking for verbal support of our mission, not legislation of any kind.

As of the time of this post 6:12 AM April 29, 2007

2633 Military members have signed,

They say join us!

Their Statement of Purpose is

Appeal for Courage is a non-partisan, grass-roots effort to communicate to Congress the troops' desire to remain in Iraq until our mission is complete. We feel calls to retreat embolden our enemy and hurt our support within the American public and Iraqi people. We accept no funding from any source, and do not speak for any group or organization other than those military members who have signed the Appeal.

They are Supported by

Vets For Freedom

Vets for Freedom is a nonpartisan organization established by combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our mission is to support policymakers from both sides of the aisle who have stood behind our great generation of American warriors on the battlefield, and who have put long-term national security before short-term partisan political gain.

Families United for Our troops and Their Mission

Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We are a grassroots coalition of Gold Star families, veterans, families with loved ones in harm's way, and Americans who share a deep appreciation for our men and women in uniform and support them in their efforts to make America safer by winning the War On Terror.

Military Families Voice of Victory

Military Families Voice for Victory is comprised of families of our Military. We are non-partisan, non-political but we voice opinions of support or failure in regards to any individual politician, political party or media service

Tell others about Appeal For Courage
Anyone can help by downloading a flyer and posting wherever allowed. Military members who can post at FOBs, flight-lines or on ship would be particularly helpful. Other areas of possible help include:

Submit a new flyer, which will be posted around Iraq and on this site for download by others.
Help spread the word by writing letters & emails to blogs and news organizations.

committee@appealforcourage.org

Appeal For Courage
PO Box 25154
Scott AFB, IL 62225-0154
Write your Congress member regarding AFC.
Tell your friends!

Update:The Mudville Gazette has words about this over at MilBlogs in Quadruple Re: Generalship
Including the fact that the media is reporting another website with an opposite Appeal For Redress Petition that has less signatures than Appeal For Courage.

Why am I not surprised?




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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 10:18 AM CDT
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Updated: Sunday, 29 April 2007 2:49 PM CDT
Saturday, 28 April 2007
One More Light Of Freedom Flickers And Goes Out

Sandmonkey is calling it quits.



I am going to miss this kid, I hope he does not end up in some "backroom"

Done

Today is going to be the day that I've been dreading for quite sometime now. Today is the day I walk away from this blog. Done. Finished.

There are many reasons, each would take a post to list, and I just do not have the energy to list them. As anyone who has been reading this blog for the past month, I think it is apparent that things are not the same with me. There are reasons for that:

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I've grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!

And speaking of the state of the egyptian blogsphere, it has been pretty depressing in its own right. One has to wonder at some point the futulity of being a keyboard warrior in a country where nothing seems to matter to its people anymore. At the same time, there has been those amongst us who have loved the fame and the attention, and are now becoming the egyptian blogsphere's equivelant of Paris Hilton: They are famous for being famous, peddling the same stories and not really presenting anything of value to the debate. And then there is the fact that we are entering the "Iconogrphy" phase : We are becoming Icons. Too much Media attention, too many american organizations claiming to champion our causes while they are cashing out in donation from people gullible enough to believe them, too much hype generated by us and others, so many of us tooting our own horns and even crying wolf at times has made Icons of us. We now have young bloggers who come up to many of us "Old Guard" and tell us how they are such great fans of ours, and how we are their role models and heroes and how they are starting to blog because of our "courageous example". And there are those of us who are buying into it, taking in undertsudies to placate our big heads, hooking up with groupies to feed our egos, acting as if we are the warriors for change we are made up to be and forgetting why we started blogging to begin with. It seems that we are entering a state of transformation, and we should either 1) evolve, take the next step whatever it is, 2) stay the way we are and risk becoming carricatures of ourselves or 3) quit. Not knowing what the next step is, and needing time and space to figure it out, I chose the only other option that made sense: I quit!

So here comes my apology to those of you who read me: I am sorry. I really can't continue to do this. You guys have been the best readers anyone could hope for, altough there are some of you who made me come close to shutting down the comments section many many times. I love you all for everything you have done for me, for all of the egyptian blogsphere. When I asked for your help, you gave us more than a helping hand. You cared. You gave a damn about a bunch of egyptians who had a dream to be free and stood by us in our houres of need. For that you are my heroes, and I can not possibly thank you enough.

May the day comes when I rant once again….

Love you all,

The Sandmonkey


Drop by his website and pay your respects to a 21st Century Hero.

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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 12:54 PM CDT
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Updated: Saturday, 28 April 2007 1:25 PM CDT
Sunday, 22 April 2007
Adding Insult To Injury

I will be the first to admit that at times I am a little slow on the uptake, but last night I had an Epiphany which filled me with instantaneous outrage.

Let me digress to explain how I arrived at this mental crux.

This Spring the Iowa Legislature raised the Tax on Cigarettes by $1/pack and $10/carton.

Now this was no surprise the Democrats took control of the State Legislature during the last election so Tax raises of some kind were a given.

It was a little odd that the Left which raises the most complaints about Regressive Taxes was silent on this one. The fact is that cigarette smoking is skewed towards the lower income brackets so this Tax is much more regressive than others they have complained about, but again that was not much of a surprise either.

It was not until I stood last night before a cash register ringing up my sale, that I realized the full extent of their perfidy.

The $10 increase in Cigarette Tax was not enough for them I was paying Sales Tax on that $10!

They Tax us on our Income

They Tax us on our Property

They Tax us on our Purchases

And Now?

I realize.

They Tax us on our Increased Taxes!!!

That's ----

That's just TACKY!

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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 9:37 AM CDT
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Updated: Sunday, 22 April 2007 9:41 AM CDT
Saturday, 7 April 2007
The Trouble With Islam
SENSE OF UMMAH
Sadly, mainstream Muslim teaching accepts and promotes violence.

BY TAWFIK HAMID
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
Not many years ago the brilliant Orientalist, Bernard Lewis, published a short history of the Islamic world's decline, entitled "What Went Wrong?" Astonishingly, there was, among many Western "progressives," a vocal dislike for the title. It is a false premise, these critics protested. They ignored Mr. Lewis's implicit statement that things have been, or could be, right.

But indeed, there is much that is clearly wrong with the Islamic world. Women are stoned to death and undergo clitorectomies. Gays hang from the gallows under the approving eyes of the proponents of Shariah, the legal code of Islam. Sunni and Shia massacre each other daily in Iraq. Palestinian mothers teach 3-year-old boys and girls the ideal of martyrdom. One would expect the orthodox Islamic establishment to evade or dismiss these complaints, but less happily,

the non-Muslim priests of enlightenment in the West have come, actively and passively, to the Islamists' defense.


continued

All of this makes the efforts of Muslim reformers more difficult. When Westerners make politically-correct excuses for Islamism, it actually endangers the lives of reformers and in many cases has the effect of suppressing their voices.
Tolerance does not mean toleration of atrocities under the umbrella of relativism. It is time for all of us in the free world to face the reality of Salafi Islam or the reality of radical Islam will continue to face us.

Dr. Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West.


Here is a video on a Secular Islam Summit he took part in


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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 4:21 PM CDT
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Updated: Saturday, 7 April 2007 4:42 PM CDT
The Great Global Warming Swindle Update
Topic: Global Warming
UPDATE All of the Video links below are now down. So here is a link to BBC Channel 4

The Great Global Warming Swindle
Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe there's no need to feel bad.

According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it.

We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming.



There you will find links to: The Programme, The Arguments, Watch the Trailer, Ask Our Expert, Vote, Play the Quiz, Find Out More and the Forum.

Since I am updating this I have to decided to bump it up to the top with a couple of images to stimulate some thought.
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If you do go to the Channel 4 website and take their quiz here is a free answer for you to this question.

The period that spans the last 2.6 million years is referred to by geologists as

The Great Ice Age

Think about the implications of that?

Next, too narrow a look at cyclic trends can be misleading let us take a longer view?
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What can we tell from that image about the relationship between CO2 levels and Global Temperatures?

And last:
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For 10 extra points does the above data show Global Temperature being driven by A: Solar Activity or B: CO2 levels?





Via the EXCELLENT German Blog Medienkritik

A Video Clip of the recent British Documentary

The Great Global Warming Swindle

As David says

Global Warming: Dangerous Thought Verboten in German Media

It seems that Global Warming is no longer a theory but a dogma to many. We are not experts on climate change - and we don't pretend to be - but we do recognize that an entire school of thought has been suppressed in the German media and political culture. As Chancellor Merkel and others debate what to do about Global Warming, we think it would be appropriate to at least listen to what "the other side" has to say instead of blindly accepting what is becoming a state religion in much of Europe.







Google seems to be having problems if you cannot view the above Video there are several posters with segments on Technorati HERE

Maybe Youtube will be more reliable?


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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 12:01 AM CDT
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Updated: Saturday, 7 April 2007 8:28 PM CDT
Thursday, 5 April 2007
Wafa Sultan Speaks Up

I feel a need to redeem myself after that last post. Here is a highly intelligent women, being interviewed on Al Jazeera .



Oh and here is a censored version of one of the responses to this video

nav1181 Country: United Kingdom (8 hours ago)
kill the f^^^^n jew, gas the m^^^^^^^^s and those who helped create a country for the most hated people on earth, everywhere these pigs go people want to kill them. why not create israel in aushwitz on top of the pigs who got their just deserts for their terror all over europe



Wafa Sultan is a secular psychologist of Syrian-American origin. Go read more about her on Wikipedia to get the background. Although she is quite well-known for her part in the the public discussion on the clash of civilizations her recent appearance on Al Jazeera has spread on the Internet like wildfire.



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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:34 AM CDT
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Updated: Thursday, 5 April 2007 2:50 AM CDT
Women Know Your Limits
For the record the following does NOT express my opinion about women, but it was so absurd I almost fell off my chair laughing.

I will admit had it been longer it might have crossed over into nauseating.

View and cringe




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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 1:30 AM CDT
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Updated: Thursday, 5 April 2007 2:26 AM CDT
Monday, 2 April 2007
The Open Trackback Alliance LXXIII
UPDATE: Denmark Exports Soaring
After blogger Judith Klinghoffer and an army of Davids declared a "Buy Danish" campaign to combat the Muslim boycott. The Guardian says "fervent rightwing Americans" participated in the buying spree and implies that the cartoonists were responsible for the deaths of 139 people.(like it was the cartoonists who killed those people instead of the ones who shed their blood, how like the Progressive TransNazi viewpoint)


For your listening pleasure while you browse

"Der er et yndigt land" (There Is A Lovely Land)


Words by: Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager
Music by: Hans Ernst Kr?yer
Adopted: 1844

"Derer et yndigt land" was first performed for a large gathering of Danes in 1844, and became popular quickly with the Danish people. It was adopted later that year by the Danish government as a national anthem, but not the sole national anthem. This anthem is on equal status with "Kong Christian",which is both the national and royal anthem.

When the Danish anthem is usually performed or sung, the first verse is played in its entirety, then it is followed by the last four lines of the last verse. (This is true whether the lyrics are sung or not



Recently I have been posting music to Illustrate the Diversity of America, this week I have a different motive to express Solidarity with DENMARK


I maintain my Support of Denmark, and will later today, post links to and my thoughts about a Danish Editorial "We are being pissed upon by Per Nyholm "

I think I shall title my Post, "There is no "But" in "Freedom of Speech".




When I first started upon my journey through the blogverse I created a
Statement of Purpose
Now upon reading it, one can realize that I did not hold to every detail of that original statement, but from it's basic premise, I have never swayed, in my belief that the Blogs are in fact the Committees of Correspondence of the Second American Revolution.

And that it is a Revolution of Information, no longer can we afford and allow elite gateways to control what we can see, hear and discuss.

For I believe that those bloggers who find their way, here and in particular from the Blogs associated with Sam.

HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.

Some of us are more Serious, some of us are more lighthearted and some post the common ordinary things that make one smile and recall that Life without the simple things to treasure is meaningless.

And it is important that all have a platform from which to speak.

As I understand this process you can link to this post and trackback to this post on ANY subject or post you think important. It is open. I will repeat this every Monday.

The Committees of Correspondence welcomes your intelligent comments. And also welcomes you to join the

OPEN TRACKBACK ALLIANCE


This week I also have shortened my usual introduction for a more important message.




In it's struggle for Freedom of Speech.

Sign the Petition NOW!

JEG opstille hos Danmark!




49410 Total Signatures 2:32 AM CDT March 26, 2007 We can do better pass the word~!




From Agora a call to Support the Manifesto online by signing another Petition, why not sign both?


MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
Created by Mark Jefferson on March 1st, 2006 at 5:42 pm AST

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all. "

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Y'al come back now, Y'heah? ;-)
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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 2:31 AM CDT
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Updated: Monday, 2 April 2007 2:33 AM CDT
Friday, 30 March 2007
One Small Fact Rosie Overlooked
Or did she?


The speed and cunning shown by the Revolutionary Guards suggests that their action was premeditated

The Iranians also blundered in diplomatic talks by giving the British their own compass reference for the place where they said the 14 men and one woman had been seized. When Britain plotted these on a map and pointed out that the spot was in Iraq’s maritime area, the Iranians came up with a new set of coordinates, putting the seizure in their own waters.



Let us end with the Immortal Words of Rosie O'Donnell

"Don't fear terrorists, they're just moms and dads."

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Tuesday, 27 March 2007
2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll - March 2007
The Latest from GOP Bloggers


by Matt Margolis at 05:14 AM



Welcome to GOP Bloggers' ninth 2008 Straw Poll. Our straw poll last month tallied over 11,000 votes.



Like our last poll, you get to pick which candidates you find acceptable and which ones you don't and you get to choose which candidate is your first choice for the GOP nomination in 2008. In this poll you can indicate your state, age, and gender. You can also indicate how many hours a week you read blogs, and how you can tell how committed you are to your first choice candidate.



Like our previous polls, you can post this one on your own blog and have your readers vote in the poll directly from your blog! The code is located at the bottom of this post:





Technorati Tag: ***Brownback ***Gingrich ***Giuliani
***Huckabee ***McCain***Pataki***Romney***Tancredo





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Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 8:12 AM CDT
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Updated: Tuesday, 27 March 2007 8:25 AM CDT

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