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The manure I scrape off my brain.

The Irish Sixty-ninth
The Irish Sixty-ninth magnify

By request...

The Irish Sixty-ninth

To Erin’s sons of hill and plain,

Come listen to my feeble strain,

Perhaps you’ll think it all a dream,

Though every line is true.

I’ll sing to you of our long campaign,

Through summer sun and winter’s rain,

To Richmond’s gates and back again,

I will relate to you.

It was in August, sixty-one,

That Colonel Owen took command,

And brought us into Maryland,

Then let it rain or shine,

He drilled us---every day we rose,

To learn us how to thrash our foes,

And often they have felt the blows

Of the gallant Sixty-ninth!

In February, sixty-two,

When passing in a grand review,

We were told our foes we would pursue,

And Richmond overthrow,

To Washington we went straightaway,

And sailed in steamers down the bay,

Until we were stopped next day,

To land at Fort Monroe.

At Hampton then we camp’d around,

Until brave Little Mac came down

And ordered us up to Yorktown,

Our strength there to combine,

And there we worked both night and day,

And drove the rebel hordes away,

And walking through the town next day,

Was the Irish Sixty-ninth.

From Yorktown then we sailed away,

And landed at West Point next day,

And gaily marched along the way,

And camped among the pines.

And there we stopped three weeks or more,

Until we heard the cannons roar

And musketry came like a shower

Along the rebel lines.

Then double quick away we went,

Across the river we were sent

To drive the rebels back we meant,

No man fell out of line,

There Philadelphia’s adopted sons

Bravely supported Rickett’s guns,

And when away the rebels run,

Cheers the gallant Sixty-ninth!

At Fair Oaks then long weeks we lay,

And picket fighting night and day,

I’ve seen our brave boys borne away,

And some in death grow pale,

And in the seven days’ fight, going back

On bloody fields we left our track,

When other regiments falling back,

We stood as at Glendale.

Where horse and foot retreat that day,

All bleeding from that dreadful fray,

Right manfully we fought our way in one unbroken line,

And when our bullets all were spent, three cheers we for the Union sent,

And charging at the gray coats went, the Irish Sixty-ninth!

And on Antietam’s field again we boldly faced the Iron rain,

Some of our boys upon the plain, they found a bloody grave,

Where our brave General, Little Mac, made boasting Lee to clear the track,

And take his ragged rebels back across Potomac’s wave.

At Fredericksburg our old brigade, with Owen, who never was afraid,

As soon as the Pontoon was laid, we crossed in the first line,

And though the bullets flew around, we drove the gray coats from the town,

Such work is always done up brown, by the Irish Sixty-ninth!

Next day upon the battle field, old veterans they were forced to yield,

For the rebels had a stone wall shield, protected front and rear.

The cannons blazing shot and shell, ‘twas like the gaping jaws of Hell,

Though many a brave man round us fell, we boldly done our share.

O’Kane, our colonel, nobly stood, where grass was turning red with blood,

And growing to a crimson flood, we still kept in our lines,

Though many got a bloody shroud, as Philadelphia’s sons we’re proud,

And sing the deeds in praises loud of the Gallant Sixty-ninth!

----- unknown soldier, 69th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

The Irish Sixty Ninth (US) - David Kincaid
Tags: civilwar, music, irish, philadelphia, courage
Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 01:17pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
Obama's Foreign Donors: The media avert their eyes
Obama's Foreign Donors: The media avert their eyes magnify
Folks,
During the 1996 election cycle the Clintons accepted vast amounts of illegal campaign contributions from Red China. The quid pro quo to that deal was the providing to China of U.S. missile and satellite guidance technology. In one fell swoop, by accepting illegal campaign contributions (which should have been part of the impeachment charges that Clinton faced two years later), Clinton made the U.S. vulnerable to a Chinese ICBM strike (can you say "treason"?), and may well have also made us more vulnerable to the events of 9/11/01.
Now the 'rats are behaving true to form, only more egregiously so. Obama is accepting illegal campaign funds from Gaza (and likely other Arab and mohammedan sources), and bearing in mind his already well known animus to Israel, his membership in a virulently anti-Semitic church, and his close association with Calypso Louie Farrakhan (a man who, if he weren't black, would have been good buddies with Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels), should raise red flags of all sorts regarding what the likely quid pro quo for these funds would be. In politics, no one gives money to a candidate without there being an action expected in return for that money. I dread to think of what Obama would do in return for that money, seeing as he got a good chunk of it from Hamastan.
Don't be surprised that the socialist lamestream media in this country isn't reporting on this. Did you honestly expect that they'd do anything to harm The Messiah, their cherished Marxist soulmate in his quest for the highest office in the land? Don't expect Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham or Rush Limbaugh to latch onto this, either. Limbaugh is too much into his golf, and is stuck on stupid when it comes to the true corruption of the libs...Ingraham doesn't pay much attention to the blogs, well, at least not to the ones that aren't run by media elites (if Michelle Malkin hasn't blogged about it, Laura Ingraham is ignorant of it)...Hannity is too absorbed with being a media star...and O'Reilly is playing patty fingers with Obama in hopes that he'll get an interview with him (ain't gonna happen, but O'Reilly can't see that). Bluntly, this has to be made known via the Citizen Underground.
Pam Geller does excellent work. She won't put anything up on Atlas Shrugs unless it's verifiable. Tom Lifson won't post anything on The American Thinker that equally isn't well sourced and verifiable. Rush Limbaugh will occasionally reference TAS and Sweetness and Light on his show, but because this isn't a "big" issue (stealing an election with foreign money isn't big??? Well, I guess we have to put things in proportion to golf...), he hasn't said word one about it. Okay. I'm the one who says to go around the media, so that's what I'm doing.
I mentioned the "Citizen Underground." Well, that's what you are. Take this message and the article and spread the word! Pass this on to interested people and urge them to pass it on...GET THE WORD OUT! Our country is being stolen by Barack Hussein Obama and his Obots and Obamatrons. If you value your liberties and your family's liberties, this needs to be known about. When the 'rats have to get money from our enemies in order to fund their campaigns, that should be a signal that what they want to do to us isn't good. You're in their gunsights, and knowledge of their intentions, allies and funding sources is your kevlar. Make sure that as many people as possible get this information...our country, and our lives, may depend on it.
Oh, if some of you decide to send this to Rush, or Hannity, or Laura...please do. They need to know that the Citizen Underground is at work.
Credit goes to The American Thinker and Atlas Shrugs. Links are live at last check.

Shannon G. Lucky

“Here's to the sunny slopes of Long Ago..."

-------------Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts their eyes

By Pamela Geller
I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity.

The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research. I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in.

Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story. Jihadis donating to Obama from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story? Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians" spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.

And yet still no media.

But Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble and while no media asked, he answered anyway. Sen. Obama's campaign immediately scrambled and contended they had returned the $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, despite the fact that records do not show that it was returned and the brothers said they have not received any money. Having gone through all of Obama's refunds redesignations etc, no refund was made to Osama, Hossam, or Edwan Monir in the Rafah refugee camp. And still no media.

One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan (identified here), claimed he bought "Obama for President" T-shirts off Obama's website and then sold the T-shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions.

The Palestinians allegedly claimed "they were American citizens", so said Obama's people. They listed their address -- zip code 972 (ironically the area code for Israel) and they input "GA"the state abbreviation for Georgia (screen shot here) They actually lived in a Hamas controlled refugee camp. So if Obama's people thought it was "Georgia" why did they ship the tee shirts to the correct address in Gaza? Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is vastly different than the state next door.

Still no media.

"Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama," Edwan claimed in a follow up article in the conservative websiet WorldNetDaily. And Hamas has publicly endorsed Obama.

And still no media.

Obama's campaign said the Palestinian brothers in the Middle East made $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

The donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds weren't reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

If McCain had been involved with something so dark and nefarious, taking money from Islamic jihad, his candidacy would never withstand the media blowback.

But it was the son of hope, the agent of change, the one we have been waiting for , so the media yawned.

The jihad donations were hardly the only bloody red flags. The first in my series of posts ran July 19th. The documents were so unwieldy, readers like John, Doc, and Cathy (who discovered Rafah) were working furiously to cross check our findings at the FEC site and then mine the data.

Obama's overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations, ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up. The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,

Half a million dollars had been donated from overseas by unidentified people "not employed".

Digging deeper, all sorts of very bizarre activity jumped at us. Dr and JJ continued to break it down and pull data from various sources. We found Rebecca Kurth contributed $3,137.38 to the Obama Campaign in 112 donations, including 34 separate donations recorded in one day,

How about this gibberish donor on the 30th of April in 2008.

A donor named Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj Works for: Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation: Balanon Jalalan Amount: $1,077.23

or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044

The $ contributed = $10,780.00

This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG

The more questions we answered the more questions we discovered.

Thousands of Obama's foreign donations ended in cents. The "cents" did not make sense. And we compared McCain donation documentss to Obama's. McCain's records are nothing like Obama's. McCain's are so clean. No cents, all even dollar amounts. But Obama's contained thousands of strange, odd amounts -- evidence of foreign contributors, since Americans living overseas would almost uniformly be able to contribute dollars. Still no media.

Julia Gorin told me a funny story two months ago. Her husband's co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his Macy's card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain's campaign, and the transaction wouldn't go through. Now, obviously, down the line, the Obama transaction would fail as well, but it goes to the point that there is no safety system in place -- it'll just accept any and all money, which helps explain how his campaign raised so much more money than everyone else's.

Despite the evidence of dirty campaign donations, crickets chirped in newsrooms across the country. The moment my Gaza story started to get some chatter on talk radio, the left and their supplicant handmaidens in the media sprang into action and created a McCain illegal campaign contribution "scandal". The Washington Post published an inaccurate allegation and then retracted not a day later, at the risk of looking stupid. They are jeopardizing the little credibility that they have left.

....a Washington Post story detailing some suspicious looking contributions to the McCain campaign bundled by Harry Sargeant III. Shortly after posting, a correction appeared in the original report, as follows:
An earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors -- Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and Shawn Abdalla -- wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story (noted by Amanda Carpenter).

So here an intrepid blogger finds a keg of dynamite of dirty dollar donations to Obama and what does the media do? They ignore it. And when forced to confront it by the sheer newsworthiness of the story, what happens? They go after McCain. They punish McCain.

And that is meant to be a lesson to all of us, Whatever you find, whatever you discover about the Candidate of Mystery, they will blow it back in your face. And they did. Almost immediately.

The irony and the upshot of all this. John McCain is reviewing contributions. Ain't that a kick in the head. I can tell him he needn't bother. Been there, done that. Nothing to see, keep moving.

Obama's out there raising millions, some in illegal donations and the Washington Post jumps on McCain for a $50k, which hasn't been shown to be illegal, but merely "inappropriate." The left and their handmaidens, the main stream media, were so quick to deflect this hit, it seems we have hit a raw nerve. I intend to keep digging. Stay tuned.,

Pamela Geller is Editor and Publisher of the blog Atlas Shrugs.
Tags: election, americanthinker, atlasshrugs, obama, corruption
Thursday August 14, 2008 - 12:45pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
F-15's just plain rock (but then, so do KC-135's)
F-15's just plain rock (but then, so do KC-135's) magnify
Just feels like a fighter-type day... I really need to strap something high-powered on... Jet noise: The Sound of FREEDOM!!!
Tags: airforce, f-15's, eagles, flying, straponandrockandroll!
Friday August 8, 2008 - 10:59am (CDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment
Thoughts on Freedom and Self Defense
Thoughts on Freedom and Self Defense magnify

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force. That's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on an equal footing with a carload of drunken morons with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a (armed) mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat...it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, which is the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.

Tags: guns, guncontrol, freedom, liberty
Friday July 25, 2008 - 10:08am (CDT) Permanent Link | 4 Comments
Running...again
Running...again magnify

Well, my weight loss has again plateaued, so it's time to get back to running.

I've been so damn busy this summer, between classes and the ranch, that I let my favorite form of exercise slip. Well, things are settling down a wee bit, so I think I can get out my USAF shorts, my "I'd Rather be Flying" t-shirt and my B-1 cap and start making some distance on the road. It'll be nice and (relatively) cool in the mornings, and I can feed the horses when I get back...I just have to get up half an hour earlier is all.

Since I've dropped a size in shirts, and almost a size in trousers, I might as well kick it up a notch...and see about dropping another size or so before winter.

Tags: running, weightloss, flying
Sunday July 20, 2008 - 08:01pm (CDT) Permanent Link | 4 Comments

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