Go read this very interesting post:

http://www.footballfansfortruth.us/archives/001530.html

A very interesting exchange between Mike Wallace and the late Peter Jennings. I have not confirmed the source cited, but have no reason to doubt it…

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USMC Gunnery Sergeant John, of Jarhead’s Firing Range, had a post on 20-Jun-06 which included the following picture:

John’s comment about the post (and the picture) was, basically, you think you’re having a bad monday. How about this guy? Well, along comes a troll named “Flo” who made the following comment:

Shame that they never “payed” for an education for you then…

And what’s that soldier doing lying down having a ciggie. Lazy bastard. He should be discharged immediately - that’s your tax dollars he’s wasting…
Flo | Homepage | 06.21.06 - 12:19 am | #

Several readers took exception to Flo’s comments and responded with some well-deserved verbal abuse (including Sue who found that he was from South Africa and said she wanted a piece of him). So Flo responds with:

Meeow!

Gosh - you military types certainly enjoy your fighting, huh?
Certainly got a bee in your bonnet about the AP as well - will they be next on Bush’s hitlist, I wonder? Or is no-one really listening to you?

As for me - well, I suppose I’ll just have to wait ’til you guys find out where South Africa is. I’ll give you a clue - it’s at the southern end of a certain continent. Now, can any of you ignorant yanks tell me which one? No? I thought not.

Oh, and Sue - anytime sweetie - which piece would you like? I don’t have a huge amount to spare as I’m obviously not as obese as most of your countryfolk…
Flo | Homepage | 06.21.06 - 11:47 pm | #

So I took it upon myself to research Flo, who’s real name is Trevor Marshall, and posted the following:

Come on, guys, give poor “Flo” a break! He admits he’s a pussy!

In actuality, he’s Trevor Marshall. A transplanted Englishman, who’s been in Cape Town since Jan of 2004.
On April 30, 2005 he married the former Nicole van der Linde (a.k.a. Nix), an accountant. He’s father to Alex Morton Marshall, (formerly known as “Malcolm the Fetus”) born at 2:45 pm on April 25, 2006 (Congrats, Nix — my wife says epidurals are God’s gift to women!).

He’s had a bad back (I can relate). They have a bonsai tree named Oliver in their house behind Wynberg Boys High which they bought on July 29, 2005 (I believe). They remodeled which was a hellish ordeal for Nicole during her pregnancy, but Trevor cooked and cleaned for her and treated her like a queen.

Trevor’s web site is www.ballacorkish.net which is named after his parent’s house on the Isle of Man and means (loosely translated) “farm of corks”…

Is that about right, Trevor?

Oh, and one final point — Shame on you for soliciting Sue like that, just weeks after your lovely wife gave you a handsome son! I guess maybe you’re a dog, not a pussy…
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Author’s note: I forgot to mention Trevor works at Somerset Hospital…

Now, I normally don’t bother posting troll’s info on the internet. Not that I care about Trevor’s sad butt, but Nicole and Alex deserve a bit of privacy. I would feel bad if a stalker attacked them, or something like that, but in all fairness, I got all of this info from their web sites, so it’s not really my concern. If I were Trevor (a.k.a. Flo), I wouldn’t have my wife and son’s names and location plastered all over the world, but maybe that’s just me.

I’ve read part of Nicole’s blog and she seems like a decent woman. She’s attractive and her son is adorable. I can’t tell her politics and I don’t really care. We probably have more in common than not, and under different circumstances, she and Trevor might be social friends (I do have quite a few liberal friends, but that’s another story).

What irks me is Mr. Marshall’s elitist crap about yanks. If it weren’t for the yanks, your mummy and daddy wouldn’t have a house on the Isle of Man because it would probably be a resort area for the Third Reich. You are a moron, Trevor. You look down your flattened nose (too many soccer balls to the face?) at America as a bunch of uneducated gun toting cowboys, don’t you?

Fine. We’re fiercely independent and we like it that way. We shed the Crown of Imperialism for self-determination and we’ve fought (and, yes, killed) for not only England and ourselves, but for many oppressed cultures vastly different from our own. Gun-owners? You damn betcha! We consider it a birth right to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our hard-earned property and not have to rely on a state-sponsored protection service which is under-funded, over-worked and arrives too late to help the average victim.

As for uneducated… well, my IQ test in college put me in the top 2% of the world, statisically speaking, and I’m a former member of Mensa (you know, the “genius club” — oh, sorry, perhaps you haven’t heard of it). Cowboys.. yep, many of us conservative types are what you would call cowboys. Loyal, independent men and women of action and convictions. In Europe, 800 years ago, we might have been the Knights Templar. In Japan, we might have been the Samurai. In any event, men and women like Gunny John have been around for a very long time and history has shown, and will again, the need for their courage, determination, valor, and skills. Think about that, Trevor, before you open your mouth next time. That soldier smoking a “ciggie” is a hero to millions around the world and you are just another troll.

Semper Fi, Jarhead John, Semper Fi — although I never served in your beloved Corp, I salute you and your brothers in arms. Thank you!

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PS- Nicole wrote in her diary (last July 11th) “Thinking of all those poor people injured or killed in the London bombings”. Perhaps she has a different perspective of the military than you do.

Here’s a potentially worthwhile tribute…

Hat-tip: Alabama Improper

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Kudos to Beth at The Blue Star Chronicles for this recent post. In it, she laments the MSM’s (lack of) coverage of the horrific murders of 2 of our American soldiers. 

U.S. Army Pfc Thomas Tucker (25 of Madras, OR) and Pfc Kristian Menchaca (23 of Houston, TX) were members of the 502 Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division who were captured on June 16th. At the same time a third member of their team, Army Spc David Babineau (25 of Springfield, MA) was killed in the combat. On June 20th, the Army found the mutilated bodies of the 2 captured soldiers. They had been tortured, mutilated and beheaded. Their remains were used as bait in a boody-trap to kill or injure more coalition forces.

Beth ends her commets with a particularly good point. She says:

The President needs to speak up and send a very clear message to the world. Tell the world that we will not be passive victims. We will not tolerate the continued mistreatment of our Soldiers.

What was done to those boys was an act of war in itself.

We need to send a clear message to the world that we will not tolerate this and there will be a reckoning.

Unleash the dogs of war and let it be done.

I couldn’t agree more in this particular case.  I harken back to the MSM stories about Abu Ghraid prison. Brokaw, Rather, et al. were roasting the Army’s rear ends for weeks over these pictures of abuse at the detention center. Do you find the use of dogs to intimidate prisoners is as horrific as the mutilation of our soldiers? Do you wonder why the MSM only gave Pfc Tucker and Pfc Menchaca passing coverage? Was is because their remains were so mutilated that the Army had to use DNA to identify them, or was is because it didn’t fit their political agenda? At the same time, the Marines are condemning one of their own over an “insensitive song” (the Hadji Girl video)… are we supposed to have sensitive Marines or do we want rough men ready to do violence?*

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* In reference to the quote attributed to George Orwell: Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.   

It appears that the United Nations, led by the usual socialist utopian fools, is wanting to disarm all of us “common folk” — both here and abroad. According to the NRA web site, they are planning a meeting soon and we NEED your help to defeat their evil plans.

Three cheers for James Earl Jones who had this to say:

“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.”

Go here to learn more, and do it today if you’re a gun owner or want to protect the Second Amendment… please, do your part!
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Hat-tip to: David Hardy at Of Arms & the Law and Gina Parker at the Navasota Examiner and Grimes County Review (Texas).