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Heros When We Needed Them Most - Doolittle Raiders to present congressional medal to museum

Crew of 1^st Aircraft: Pilot Lt. Col. J.H. Doolittle, Co-Pilot Lt. R.E. Cole (2^nd from right), Navigator Lt. H.A. Potter, Bombardier SSgt. F.A. Braemer, Engineer Gunner SSgt. P.J. Leonard

Crew of 7^th Aircraft: Pilot Lt. T.W. Lawson, Co-Pilot Lt. D. Davenport, Navigator Lt. C.L. McClure, Bombardier Lt. R.S. Clever, Engineer Gunner Sgt. D.J. Thatcher (right end)

Doolittle Raiders to present congressional medal to museum | PJ Tatler

By Rick Moran On April 18, 2015 @ 11:10 am In Politics | 12 Comments

Only two men are left alive from the 80 airmen and pilots who took off from the deck of the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, and set out to send Japan a message that the U.S. would stop at nothing to win the war begun by Japan a few months earlier.

Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, 99, and Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 93, are the last of the Doolittle Raiders — the men who struck the first blow against the Japanese empire by bombing Tokyo. They are in Dayton, Ohio, today to present the Raiders Congressional Gold Medal to the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Associated Press:

“It just happens that way, I guess,” Thatcher, of Missoula, Montana, said of being one of the last survivors.

“Something’s just got to give,” said Cole, a Dayton native who lives in Comfort, Texas.

The museum’s director, retired Lt. Gen. Jack Hudson, accepted the medal, the highest honor Congress can give a civilian, for them in Washington on Wednesday. In a video message, Cole said it was an honor to receive the medal “on behalf of 78 fallen Raiders who we proudly served with on that famous raid.”

The latest Raider to fall was Lt. Col. Robert Hite, who died March 29 at age 95 at a Nashville, Tennessee, nursing facility. Hite was also the last of the eight Raiders who were captured by Japanese soldiers. Three were executed and a fourth died in captivity. Three other Raiders were killed soon after the bombing run, as most crash-landed or had to ditch.

Cole was the co-pilot for their mission’s leader, James “Jimmy” Doolittle, in plane No. 1 of the 16. Thatcher was engineer-gunner aboard the 7th plane, nicknamed “The Ruptured Duck,” whose crew’s crash-landing and evasion of Japanese troops in China was depicted in the movie “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.”

Thatcher, who was played by Robert Walker in the movie while Spencer Tracy portrayed Doolittle, chuckled as he recounted how the Raiders had given little thought at the time of the raid about earning a place in history.

“We figured it was just another bombing mission,” he said in a phone interview from his home this week.

In the years afterward, though, he said, they realized: “It was an important event in World War II.”

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Aren't there some worse guys, who were not as good at playing baseball, in the Hall of Fame?

Thoughts on Fox Hiring Pete Rose | The American Spectator

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By Aaron Goldstein on 4.19.15 

Ken Rosenthal of the MLB Network has revealed that Fox has hired Pete Rose to be an in studio analyst for its pre-game shows and various other MLB programs on both the Fox and FS1 networks.

I think this is a great addition. It goes without saying that the game's all-time hit leader knows the game. But he also knows the game's history.

Rose, who turned 74 earlier this week, was banned from MLB in 1989 following an investigation which determined he bet on baseball. This ban bars him from being at present at MLB facilities. However, Rose will be confined to studio work and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has no objection to the hire.

Rose recently applied for reinstatement in the game last month. I made the case that I did not think Charlie Hustle would ever be reinstated.

But if Rose will now regularly appear on TV talking about baseball and introduces himself to a new generation of fans, he will surely gain a platform by which fans will rally for Rose's reinstatement and thus be eligible for the Hall of Fame. Surely, Manfred knows this and may be delighted by the development.

I still wouldn't bet on Manfred reinstating Rose. But before today I would have argued that Rose had no chance for reinstatement. The fact that MLB doesn't object to Fox hiring Rose tells me that his chances for reinstatement have gone from none to slim.

Enemy Gov't: EPA and California Democrats are at the core of the Water Crisis.

EPA wasted Billions of Gallons of fresh water to save a few questionable fish and the Democrats wasted funds on pet programs diverting money from planned water backup systems and reservoirs designed to conserver water in times of severe drought. 

The Drought: California Apocalypto

Now the EPA leaks trite! m/r

EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks them to Check Toilets for Leaks | Heartlander Magazine

JUSTIN HASKINS 4-13-15

Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA’s WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.

“To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!” the “WaterSense for Kids” website says.

In addition to convincing kids to stay away from the tub, the EPA’s website instructs children to be careful not to give plants or the yard too much water, to ask parents to use car washes that recycle used water, and to avoid using hoses whenever possible. The EPA even suggests kids conduct experiments with parents to test toilets for leaks.

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Obama's Government Gestapo snooping through your emails without a warrant

Did you ever wonder how the citizens under Stalin or Hitler allowed this small-minded cretins to totally control every aspect of their lives? We have that situation growing here, yet so few, especially the press, resist! The wannabe dictator and commie-fascist, totalitarian Obama has his administration's agencies prying into everyone of our lives. m/r

Blog: Government snooping through your emails without a warrant: Not just the NSA

By Mark J. Fitzgibbons  4-18-15

The SEC and IRS, among other government agencies, love, love, love administrative subpoenas to snoop through emails without probable cause. Techdirt writes:

The story that we keep hearing is that two government agencies in particular really like ECPA's outdated system: the IRS and the SEC. Since both only have administrative subpoena power, and not the ability to issue warrants like law enforcement, the lower standards of ECPA make it much easier for them to snoop through your emails without having to show probable cause. Last year, in a Congressional hearing, the SEC's boss, Mary Jo White, was questioned about this by Congressman Kevin Yoder, who has been leading the charge on ECPA reform. As we reported at the time, in the conversation, White clearly said that the SEC needed this ability or it would lose "critical" information in its investigations.

The practice is very widespread. For example, see below that the Georgia Department of Labor has placed an ad for a subpoena specialist.  Feel safe though:  Candidates must have a high school diploma.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/government_snooping_through_your_emails_without_a_warrant_not_just_the_nsa.html#ixzz3XkOCTnfE

DEA is a Worthless Agency - Much like Obama and the rest of his Administration

This Agency, the DEA, the IRS, the ATF need to be disbanded, These are wasted agencies that act without responsibility and against US! 
If they ever curtailed the flow of illegal drugs, they would be out of a job. Strange how they are now entertained at the expense of drug cartels, isn't it? m/r


Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement - DEA Chief Grilled Over Sex Party Scandal - Trey Gowdy - YouTube

Apr 18, 2015

Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement - DEA Chief Grilled Over Sex Party Scandal - Trey Gowdy

Anti-American Obama Supports Iran Against US

Judge Jeanine Pirro - Iran Receiving Billions Of Dollars From Assets Unfrozen By U.S., World Powers - YouTube

Apr 18, 2015

Judge Jeanine Pirro - Iran Receiving Billions Of Dollars From Assets Unfrozen By U.S., World Powers

Hold These Weenie Republican's Feet to the Fire! They were elected to Repeal Obamacare!

Obamacare repeal falls off Republicans' to-do list as law takes hold - LA Times

What's Next, Specimen and DNA Collection from the Sewer Lines?

» ‘Intelligent’ Streetlights to ‘Watch’ Florida Residents Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Answer: Because they ARE! Question: Why Are the Democrats So Old and Tired?

Democrat Atrophy: Failed old Democrats full of old notions and old, failed senile thoughts. m/r

Why Are the Democrats So Old and Tired? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

2016 field so far looks like an AARP convention, minus the Viagra

Matt Welch|Apr. 17, 2015 

At the Washington Examiner, the shrewd political columnist Byron York points out that the Democratic field for the 2016 presidential race is more than a little gray around the gills:

There are five Democrats who have either declared or are thinking about running for president. Three — Joe Biden, Bernard Sanders, and Jim Webb — will be over 70 years old on Inauguration Day 2017. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton will be nine months short of 70. Only Martin O'Malley, who will turn 54 a couple of days before the 2017 swearing-in, has not reached retirement age already.

What explains this last wheeze of the Boomers? York lets an anonymouse do the talking:

"It's the snuffing out of young talent by the strength and size and sheer velocity of the inevitable nominee," says a well-connected Democratic strategist. "The Clintons took all the air out of the collective Democratic room. There are a lot of people who would be running who are much younger, but they've got their future in front of them, and they don't want the Clintons to ruin it, in this campaign or after this campaign. So they're waiting for a moment when there is enough oxygen to run."

"If Hillary Clinton weren't running, we'd have a field that looks like the Republican field — young and vibrant and diverse."

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