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Despite ordeal, Scout Ranch survivor says he 'got off easy'

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, January 02, 2009 10:12:46 PM
A Boy Scouts salute to Dale Rooks by Joey Harrison.
 

Back to the "same old, same old."

With those simple words, 15-year-old Thomas Auen summed up the beautiful normalcy that fills his home at Christmastime this year.
Small signs betray the ordeal Thomas and his family have endured over the past six months - a gift bag overflowing with cards from well-wishers, a handicap-accessible ramp at the front door, a slight limp when Thomas walks forward to greet a visitor.

But if a specter of the tornado that ravaged the Little Sioux Scout Ranch clouds Thomas' life, it isn't apparent in his wide smile or his sparkling blue eyes.
Six months ago, that storm changed some lives and ended others. Four boys died and 42 were injured when a tornado hit the Boy Scout camp in Monona County, Iowa.
Since then, Thomas has undergone 10 surgeries, months of physical therapy and months in a wheelchair, working toward a new version of normal.

For most kids, normal isn't being greeted by President Bush. It's not having a new trachea constructed out of cartilage from your rib. It's not having football players carry you up the stairs in your wheelchair on your first day of high school.

 

(Read the whole story from above Despite ordeal, Scout Ranch survivor says he 'got off easy'.)

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Muslims miffed after being booted off plane

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, January 02, 2009 7:21:14 PM
Muslim Women by Chris Wigginton.
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared them of wrongdoing.

The families of Atif Irfan, a tax attorney, and his brother Kashif Irfan, an anesthesiologist, were removed from a flight in Washington before takeoff Thursday after a passenger reported hearing Atif Irfan's wife say something suspicious.

"We regret that the issue escalated to the heightened security level it did," AirTran said in a statement Friday afternoon. "But we trust everyone understands that the security and the safety of our passengers is paramount." Read the full statement

The airline said it had refunded the family's money and offered to fly the family home to Washington free.

Federal officials say a passenger on the plane notified a flight attendant about a suspicious conversation, and the flight attendant notified the pilot and Federal air marshals who were aboard. The pilot asked the air marshals to remove the passengers, said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Christopher White.

"The conversation, as we were walking through the plane trying to find our seats, was just about where the safest place in an airplane is," said Inayet Sahin, Kashif Irfan's wife. "We were [discussing whether it was safest to sit near] the wing, or the engine or the back or the front. But that's it. We didn't say anything else that would raise any suspicion."

( I am sorry this happen to this family but the truth is radical Muslims killed Americans on 911. I would rather have a mistake happen than have another 911. Read more on this story Muslims miffed after being booted off plane .)
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Another Bowl Game Tonight

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, January 02, 2009 7:05:13 PM

Tonight Alabama plays Utah in the Sugar Bowl.

Alabama should win this. I am going to say by 10.

I don't want be too prideful but did you see my other bowl picks from yesterday games. I got them all right. Don't believe, me check out my  picks in these posts    Bowl Game Picks,        Another Bowl Pick .

 
 
Sugar Bowl, Des Plaines, IL (I miss this place!) by katherine of chicago.
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Wrong of Cuba

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, January 02, 2009 12:48:39 PM
cuba failure by you.
 
From an editorial in Investor's Business Daily comes illuminating commentary on Cuba's 5o years of economic disaster and a careful chronology of just how Fidel Castro and his collectivizing criminals managed to mess things up so badly.

Spare us the fireworks and media-parroted claims of Fidel Castro's dictatorship bringing universal health care and education to Cuba. The real story is that a prosperous Cuba was turned into ruins in just five decades.

Its inflation-adjusted gross domestic product is a mere 5% of what it was in 1958, the year before Castro took over, according to Jorge Salazar-Carillo of Florida International University.

"It's a major failure," Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a University of Pittsburgh economist, told IBD. "Cuba is unable to increase food production to meet its needs and now imports 84% of its food. Cuba produced 7 million tons of sugar in 1952. This year, it's 1.5 million tons. This is the result of economic policy of collectivization, killing of individual incentive, inefficiency, constant changes of policy."

(Cuba is a failure. The one thing  Cuba has been successful at is not  showing human rights to her people. The rest of this must read  editorial, including the and damning record of failure is right here.)


 

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First 2009 New Year's Post (Thursday, New Year's Day Posts)

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:49:26 PM
Feliz año / Happy new year 2009 by Dekuwa.



Happy New Year! 2009 Goals

IS YOUR HOPE IN A POLITICAL PARTY OR PRESIDENT (Cal Thomas)

50 Years of Opperssion

Another Bowl Pick

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (2009)
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Happy New Year! 2009 Goals

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:04:07 PM

What are your goals for this new year of 2009? To find out some ideas about setting goals watch a video which this morning I posted on You Tube ( Happy New Year! 2009 Goals   )

 
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IS YOUR HOPE IN A POLITICAL PARTY OR PRESIDENT (Cal Thomas)

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:56:41 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR! LET’S HOPE THIS ONE WILL BE BETTER THAN 2008. THAT DEPENDS IN WHAT AND IN WHOM IS YOUR SOURCE OF HOPE.

  IS YOUR HOPE IN A POLITICAL PARTY OR PRESIDENT?

PUT YOUR HOPE IN GOD. HE NEVER DISAPPOINTS. ONLY HE CAN FIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH US, WHICH ISN’T THE WRONG POLITICS, BUT THE WRONG GOD.

(The above is from the radio commentary Cal Thomas did. Cal is right if we put our hope in any human regardless of  what political party they belong to they will come up short of we need and what our nation needs. Read the rest of  what Cal wrote  right here  or listen to the audio.)


 Thomas_Cal_01 by ntu_ntuf.

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50 Years of Opperssion

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:44:43 PM

I believe the following picture from the The Real Cuba web site says it all. 50 years ago today Castro took over in Cuba and that is nothing to rejoice about. We can hope and pray for and with the people of Cuba that soon Cuba would have a better government.

 
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Another Bowl Pick

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 5:14:37 PM

Tonight  in the OrangeBowl  Cincinnati  will play Virginia Tech . Don't take it to the bank or put your house on it but Tech should win .

 
 
 
 
The Orange Bowl by given2flym.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! (2009)

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:14:06 PM

No matter what your politics is or what your faith is or even if you have no faith in God I want wish you the best in 2009. I hope and pray God will use 2009 to bless you many ways.
Thanks for reading my blog postings last year and I hope  I will be given the honor by you logging on to this blog many times in the New Year.

 
Feliz año / Happy new year 2009 by Dekuwa.
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Last Posts of 2008 (see you next year in blog land)

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:09:19 AM
New Year's Eve, Esplanade, Singapore by hanneorla.
 
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2008 news and 2009 picks

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:04:06 AM

So what were the top stories in 2008 and what will happen in 2009. To find out what I think check out this video right here.

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Bowl Game Picks

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:48:16 PM

I hope no one minds but thought I would take break from politics, and the culture issues I mostly post about.

Tomorrow is the day some of biggest  bowl games take place.

Here are my picks for two of those games.

Penn State  plays USC  in the Rose Bowl.  I could be wrong but my thinking is USC  will win this one by 14 points. I thought Penn State was overrated. Now you never know what will happen in a football game but that is the way I see it.

My home state College the Nebraska Cornhuskers plays the Clemson Tigers - in the GATOR BOWL. I recall a number years ago when my Huskers just needed to beat guess who the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl and they would be gived the  National Championship.  At the end of that game it  was a happy Orange night for the Tigers and not one for the Huskers. Even though this year there are  different coaches and players I believe Nebraska will be Gator happy. I am not sure how close the game will be but it looks to me like it will be a  happy night here in Nebraska.

 
The Rose Bowl by Matt (mistergoleta).
 
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Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore's investment arm

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:18:56 PM
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth by Juampe López.
 
The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore’s environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
 
On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith reported that in late September the Commissioners had placed the funds with Gore’s boutique management firm which follows an “environmentally sustainable global equities mandate.” Funding for the investment came from “cash and Treasury bills”, he said, and not from the sale of UK equities as initially planned.

(As a person of faith it upsets me that a church would give money to a political person. If some church had  given money to somebody from the right we would hear how this was an outrage by those on the left. It also upsets me that a church would give money  to do with a radical policy instead of investing their money in those who are helping others doing work for the Kingdom of God.  Read more on this issue Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore's investment arm.)
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Cuba's Hidden Heroes

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:31:51 PM

Marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jordan Allott & Daniel Allott write "Cuba's Hidden Heroes" for the American Spectator.

December marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Crafted in the aftermath of World War II, the document (the world's most translated) represented the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.

The Declaration's anniversary comes at a propitious time. January 1, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of what Cubans call "La Revolución," which culminated in the overthrow of the regime of Fulgencio Batista by Marxist guerrillas led by Fidel Castro. The near concurrence of these historic anniversaries provides an opportunity to consider how far the Cuban government has to go in upholding the most basic rights of its citizens.

When discussing the island nation located just 90 miles from America's border, the Western news media almost invariably focus on the 200 to 300 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Often overlooked, however, are the 200 to 300 Cuban prisoners scattered across the island, imprisoned not as terrorist suspects but as nonviolent political prisoners whose only "crime" is that of promoting human rights in a nation in which two generations have grown up without them. Arrested and given lengthy, often decades-long sentences for offenses like "dangerousness" and "pre-criminal activity," they are Cuba's prisoners of conscience.

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet is a leading figure in Cuba's democracy movement. A physician and founder and president of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, Biscet has been confined to a prison cell for all but 36 days since 1999. He first drew the ire of the communist regime by exposing its use of infanticide and forced abortion. (Cuba has one of the world's highest abortion rates.) In 1999, after hanging a Cuban flag upside down in protest, Biscet was given a three-year sentence for the crime of "disrespecting patriotic symbols."

(Do read the whole article at the above link. The evil in Cuba is not what America is doing at Guantanamo Bay  but what the leaders of Cuba are doing to their own people.)

 
old on the inside by Mr. Mark.
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