tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82701247694446245702024-03-12T17:34:22.216-07:00Conservative DiggsConservatives unite for news you can really "digg."onthewritesidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367608787760372300noreply@blogger.comBlogger938125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-56139625721773298642009-05-23T05:19:00.001-07:002009-05-23T05:19:45.464-07:00MEMORIAL DAY - THEY SACRIFICED THEIR TOMORROWS FOR USIf our eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us." - General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868, Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic"The solemn trust.""Ours shall keep it well as long as the light <br/><br/><a href='http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/05/memorial-day.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/educational/MEMORIAL_DAY_THEY_SACRIFICED_THEIR_TOMORROWS_FOR_US'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-8661851568127367642009-05-17T16:52:00.001-07:002009-05-17T16:52:12.856-07:00Officials Use Anti-Terror Cameras to Stop Golf Ball Bombard“Hitting golf balls is a problem, but if they turn their cameras up on the neighborhood and spy on us, that’s a bigger problem,” said David Mascarenas, a neighborhood watchdog who has for years fought the port to improve the community’s access to public land. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/05/16/officials-use-anti-terror-cameras-to-stop-golf-ball-bombardment/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Officials_Use_Anti_Terror_Cameras_to_Stop_Golf_Ball_Bombard'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-35818694342428618432009-05-12T14:49:00.001-07:002009-05-12T14:49:06.704-07:00Terrorist Traffic Via Syria Again Inching UpLast October, the Bush administration was touting a dramatic drop in the number of suicide bombings in Iraq. Well now the lull is over and the pipeline from Syria to Iraq is back in business transferring suicide bombers into Iraq. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002242.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Terrorist_Traffic_Via_Syria_Again_Inching_Up_2'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-55814803189942186112009-05-10T08:18:00.001-07:002009-05-10T08:18:59.449-07:009th Grade Students Asked To Plot Terror Attack - Colorado :A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/05/10/9th-grade-students-asked-to-plot-terror-attack-colorado/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/educational/9th_Grade_Students_Asked_To_Plot_Terror_Attack_Colorado'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-42787092213510660462009-05-10T08:17:00.001-07:002009-05-10T08:17:58.836-07:009th Grade Students Asked To Plot Terror Attack - Colorado :A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/05/10/9th-grade-students-asked-to-plot-terror-attack-colorado/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/educational/9th_Grade_Students_Asked_To_Plot_Terror_Attack_Colorado'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-21002976003021340882009-05-04T14:33:00.001-07:002009-05-04T14:33:40.105-07:00Congress votes to protect pedophiles, but not veteransThis is really kind of mind numbing and demonstrates what is wrong with Congress.During a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) offered up an amendment to the hate crimes bill to exclude pedophiles from being a protected category under the hate crimes legislation.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/05/04/congress-votes-to-protect-pedophiles-but-not-veterans/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/politics/Congress_votes_to_protect_pedophiles_but_not_veterans'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-46041088529011327692009-05-04T14:12:00.001-07:002009-05-04T14:12:47.712-07:00Butt Kicking LIONESSOur Battalion had a 7-ton truck hit full of lioness switching out at a checkpoint. Many were injured and some KIA. The enemy knew that an attack on female servicemembers would carry a physiological impact as well.. Its natures way, when females get injured, males protect. Needless to say the enemies’ ploy worked but only for a short time <br/><br/><a href='http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/2009/05/butt-kicking-.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Butt_Kicking_LIONESS'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-33917225566532977052009-05-02T16:18:00.001-07:002009-05-02T16:18:35.697-07:00Iraq prime minister ties Saddam regime to Al QaidaThe government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said Al Qaida worked closely with former operatives in Saddam Hussein regime. The Al Qaida-Saddam link, asserted by then-U.S. President George Bush in 2002, came in wake of the reported capture of a leading Al Qaida commander in Iraq.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_terror0344_04_30.asp'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Iraq_prime_minister_ties_Saddam_regime_to_Al_Qaida'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-22440152579960425972009-05-02T04:07:00.001-07:002009-05-02T04:07:48.512-07:00You don’t need Obama here,” “I bought the cow.”This is Firebase Vimoto, named for Pfc. Timothy R. Vimoto, an American soldier killed in the valley two years ago. If all goes according to the Pentagon’s plan, this tiny perimeter — home to an Afghan platoon and two Marine Corps infantrymen — contains the future of Afghanistan. The Obama administration hopes that eventually the Afghan soldiers<br/><br/><a href='http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/2009/05/you-dont-need-obama-here-i-bought-the-cow.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/You_don_t_need_Obama_here_I_bought_the_cow'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-66214797547275202792009-05-01T05:24:00.001-07:002009-05-01T05:24:48.871-07:00Donkeys gone wildA senior British Army officer and six other military personnel survived an attack when a tethered donkey laden with explosives was detonated as their armored vehicle passed in southern Afghanistan.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/2009/05/donkeys-gone-wild.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Donkeys_gone_wild'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-12928451905904890692009-04-27T10:46:00.001-07:002009-04-27T10:46:21.944-07:00Al -Qaeda’s UltimatumAl-Qaeda’s North African arm has threatened to kill a British hostage within 20 days unless Britain releases the extremist cleric Abu Qatada from a maximum security jail.In a message posted on a well-known jihadist website, the group demanded the release of the Palestinian preacher in return for that of a British hostage captured this year.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.freedomscost.net/?p=2218'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Al_Qaeda_s_Ultimatum'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-42903194534720647092009-04-26T15:44:00.001-07:002009-04-26T15:44:41.012-07:001976: The Epidemic That Never WasOn the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19,<br/><br/><a href='http://covertress.blogspot.com/2009/04/1976-epidemic-that-never-was.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/health/1976_The_Epidemic_That_Never_Was'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-74822771354405162032009-04-26T08:40:00.001-07:002009-04-26T08:40:12.262-07:00Soldier Disfigured in Blast Aims for Physical RecoverySAN ANTONIO — Sgt. Darron Mikeworth's first glimpse in the mirror was largely a blur.He'd just come out of a drug-induced coma three weeks after a bomber blew up his Humvee in Iraq.Mikeworth awoke in a bed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517919,00.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Soldier_Disfigured_in_Blast_Aims_for_Physical_Recovery'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-61202280537807774022009-04-26T07:56:00.001-07:002009-04-26T07:56:17.239-07:00The West Coast Plot: An "Inconvenient Truth"Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced interrogations stopped terrorist plots, most would support the CIA program. <br/><br/><a href='http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDE5YTNmZTg5OWUyOTlkMGUxOTk3OGMxY2I4ZDQ4YWQ'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/politics/The_West_Coast_Plot_An_Inconvenient_Truth'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-14986456634900540562009-04-26T04:26:00.001-07:002009-04-26T04:26:46.727-07:00Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Sunday FunniesThese are Funny Enjoy your Sunday...<br/><br/><a href='http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/04/26/sunday-funnies-37/#more-20516'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/comedy/Flopping_Aces_Blog_Archive_Sunday_Funnies_20'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-3574324304428161892009-04-25T06:40:00.001-07:002009-04-25T06:40:52.885-07:00Vietnam vet from Ariel decorated for saving shipI should have died. I shouldn’t be here today, but for the grace of God I Go,” Allardyce told me a few weeks ago. “This is the first time I ever told this story to anybody. I want to tell it before I die of cancer.”<br/><br/><a href='http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/x303479274/Vietnam-vet-from-Ariel-decorated-for-saving-ship'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/people/Vietnam_vet_from_Ariel_decorated_for_saving_ship'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-7052064561221992062009-04-25T06:00:00.001-07:002009-04-25T06:00:43.852-07:00Legion leader accepts apology from Napolitano"[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country," Mr. Rehbein said. "She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department."She was very sincere. She used the words 'I'm sorry' <br/><br/><a href='http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/25/legion-leader-accepts-apology-from-napolitano/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/politics/Legion_leader_accepts_apology_from_Napolitano'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-17851442706369590432009-04-24T11:31:00.001-07:002009-04-24T11:31:59.981-07:00Somali Pirates Form Unholy Alliance with IslamistsWarships have done little to deter Somalia's pirates. But now it seems that terror on the High Seas is making an unlikely alliance with Islamic terror inland. It's a terrifying alliance: The pirates supply money and arms, while the Islamists have troops and the power on land. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,620027,00.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Somali_Pirates_Form_Unholy_Alliance_with_Islamists'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-38969525296041055652009-04-24T07:42:00.001-07:002009-04-24T07:42:34.960-07:00Bush Saved 100,000 ++ Iraqis From Sadam & Clinton EmbargoSo how do Bush's numbers compare to the slaughter during Saddam Hussein's reign or the deadly embargo kept in place during the Clinton years? The numbers have been crunched and you will be amazed.....<br/><br/><a href='http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/bush-saved-hundreds-of-thousands-of.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/politics/Bush_Saved_100_000_Iraqis_From_Sadam_Clinton_Embargo'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-74673331932836840392009-04-24T06:09:00.001-07:002009-04-24T06:09:09.762-07:00John Rich’s powerful video about the loss of American ManufaHow Wall St and The Bankster's are shuting down and destroying American middle class lives.<br/><br/><a href='http://ameriborn.com/?p=339'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/John_Rich_s_powerful_video_about_the_loss_of_American_Manufa'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-64075520652983545092009-04-20T15:51:00.001-07:002009-04-20T15:51:10.721-07:00Platoon Fights for its Life in Taliban AmbushA Soldier caught in an ambush - looking for safety while returning fire, with ears ringing and skin pouring sweat - can feel utterly alone, trapped in a box of crisscrossing lead and terrifying sound, with death an instant away.He is actually part of something more complicated. Bullets flew down into the river bed from three sides. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.military.com/news/article/April-2009/platoon-fights-for-its-life-in-taliban-ambush.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Platoon_Fights_for_its_Life_in_Taliban_Ambush'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-50575632280323411502009-04-18T11:37:00.001-07:002009-04-18T11:37:50.802-07:00In One Battle, Nine Earn Valor Awards"When we went to enter the house, all hell broke loose."McCaffery was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor for what he did as bullets whizzed around him.His entire unit, 10th Group's 3rd Battalion was honored with the Army's Valorious Unit Award for their collective actions that helped turned the tide in Iraq during the 2007 surge<br/><br/><a href='http://www.military.com/news/article/in-one-battle-nine-earn-valor-awards.html?col=1186032310810'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/In_One_Battle_Nine_Earn_Valor_Awards'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-52327692503444804112009-04-15T23:05:00.001-07:002009-04-15T23:05:42.749-07:00Tea Party Spin:The Story Inside The StoryIt's funny and quite telling how the various news agencies seem so eager to cover up in lieu of providing legitimate coverage for the event. Either they are looking away because the story did not involve six women wearing pink boas or quite possibly someone is afraid that not all is well in Obamaland-and that just won't do. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.onthewriteside.org/2009/04/tea-party-spinthe-story-inside-story.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/politics/Tea_Party_Spin_The_Story_Inside_The_Story'>digg story</a>onthewritesidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367608787760372300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-56435067146461816252009-04-15T15:08:00.001-07:002009-04-15T15:08:42.642-07:00Army Sharpshooters to Get SEAL Sniper RifleIt's not just elite Navy SEALs who get to plink their sniper targets with a new high-speed semi-auto rifle designed to replace their Vietnam-era, bolt-action predecessors. Soon even Joes scanning mountain redoubts in craggy Afghanistan will have the same tools to take out insurgents that elite Frogmen do. <br/><br/><a href='http://www.military.com/news/article/April-2009/army-sharpshooters-to-get-seal-sniper-rifle.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/world_news/Army_Sharpshooters_to_Get_SEAL_Sniper_Rifle'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8270124769444624570.post-48448558416795498382009-04-15T14:05:00.001-07:002009-04-15T14:05:48.484-07:00Information Overload: How do you know what to trust nowadaysWe on the Right have several problems, but a big one is that crazy stuff can come in mainstream packages and trick all of us.The latest escapade - and I don’t even know what to believe myself, I’m just reading the sources and pretty much withholding judgment - involves a Department of Homeland Security report <br/><br/><a href='http://www.ashokkarra.com/2009/04/information-overload-how-do-you-know-what-to-trust-nowadays/'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/political_opinion/Information_Overload_How_do_you_know_what_to_trust_nowadays'>digg story</a>Today's Curry County Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139729578266335395noreply@blogger.com0