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Sunday, September 12, 2010
COURAGE AWARD: AMERICAN MUSLIM ORGANIZATION SAYS PRESIDENT OBAMA IS WRONG
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Let’s recognize DR. ZUHDI JASSER, president and founder of the AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY (AIFD) for risking his life to defend America and her ideals in opposition to extremist Muslims. From the AIFD statement on the Ground Zero Mosque:
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Mr. President this is not about religious freedom. It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. While Imam Faisal Rauf may not share their violent tendencies he does seem to share a belief that Islamic structures are a political statement and even Ground Zero should be looked upon through the lens of political Islam and not a solely American one.
As a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity. I do not stand to eliminate Imam Rauf’s religious freedom; I stand to make sure that my children’s religious freedom will be determined by the liberty guaranteed in the American Constitution and not by clerics or leaders who are apologists for shar’iah law and will tell me what religious freedom is.
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Dr. Jasser is not the only MUSLIM OPPOSING THE MOSQUE in its proposed location, there are numerous others. But he has taken the type of stand that has COST OTHERS THEIR LIVES, so he gets the September, 2010 Courage Award.
Monday, March 08, 2010
*THIS* IS THE FACE OF COURAGE…...
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This is a young Iraqi girl, too young to vote, who inked her finger anyhow—so committed to living in a free country, where the government is chosen by the citizens, that she is risking death at the hands of the terrorists, in order to make her position known.
Did you even *vote* in the last election?
Sunday, February 07, 2010
CHRISTY OBIE-BARRETT—A REAL OREGON HERO!
Brian Obie, Eugene’s mayor in the late 1980s, says his precocious daughter, who had just one brother, planned on a big family from the time she was 5 or 6.
“I didn’t think she was serious,“ he says.
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She was serious…..
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Even before she married,
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she says she was clear about her goal. She wanted 12 children, some adopted….
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE MEN LIKE DETROIT’S MAYOR—DAVE BING
I remember listening to Dave Bing play ball on the radio….I may have seen Dave Bing on the basketball court. I remember reading about Dave Bing in my sports magazines, and admiring his skill….but I didn’t admire him nearly as much back then, and certainly for nothing as important, as I do today.
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Why did Dave Bing run for mayor of Detroit? Cassaundra says simply, “He felt he had to.“....Yes, people know Detroit is in bad shape ... but what do they really know? Do they know that the graduation rate for African-Americans in the Detroit Public School district is 20%? Do they know that the unemployment rate in the city was recently measured at 27%—and that by some estimates the actual number may be 20 to 25 percentage points higher? Do they know that the turnout in the May 5 special election to replace Kilpatrick, in which Bing first won the mayoralty, was only 15%?
Then there is the city’s deficit, estimated to be approximately $325 million. And the city’s median income, which in 2008 was $28,730—the lowest of any major city in the country.
Are you having fun yet, Mr. Mayor?
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Dave Bing is a multi-millionaire businessman and an ex-All Star basketball player.
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Dave Bing is 67 years old…...
Thursday, January 07, 2010
YOU, TOO CAN RELIVE THE DITCHING OF US AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1549
Almost a full year ago, a former fighter pilot DITCHED THE PASSENGER JET he was flying in the Hudson River, without the loss of a single life.
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Now, you can re-enact this historic (and totally unprecedented - I mean, no one DIED? Are you kidding?) water landing…...from Captain Sullenberger’s seat! I really do wish Dad had lived to see this - he would have enjoyed it immensely!
DELBERT E. HAHN, RIP
Delbert E. Hahn received
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a citation for a Purple Heart issued in 1945; and a certificate for a Bronze Star medal “for heroism in ground combat in the vicinity of Normandy, France ... June 1944.“
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He was buried, with his wife, on December 16, 2009 in the Florida National Cemetery
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“Let us open the gates of the Lord,“ said a military chaplain, who led the procession of strangers into the gazebo. “Let us remember,“ said the chaplain, “none of us lives only unto himself.“
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Among the 56 people at the graveside service, there were exactly ZERO relatives or loved ones….not even any friends. But two very important people WERE there….
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Mike Colt, 19, and his girlfriend, Carol Sturgell, 18, had driven more than an hour from their Tampa homes last month to be at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.
.They weren’t really sure why they had come. They just knew they had to be here.
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Why? To find that out, you’re going to have to go to Blackfive and READ THE WHOLE THING
Sunday, December 13, 2009
WHAT DO YOU CALL A MAN WITH NO ARMS….............THAT SHOOTS PAR?
Butch Lumpkin was born with no arms…..but he got a GIANT heart to compensate.
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Yes, of course he tees the ball up for himself…...and he doesn’t have to stoop over to do it, either!
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You are not going to BELIEVE THIS VIDEO
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