Born June 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. Worked as a commercial diver in the waters off of Scotland, India, and the United States. Worked overseas in the Merchant Marines. While attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student in 1998 was presented with the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award,” 1st place undergraduate division. (The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with money she won from successfully suing a national newspaper for libel). Awarded US Army, US Navy, South African, and Russian jump wings. Graduate of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School, 1970). Member of Mensa, China Post #1, and lifetime member of the NRA and UDT/SEAL Association.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
--Oath taken by US members of Congress, and US military officers.
"The reality I have observed over and over again in welfare offices and urban classrooms across New York and elsewhere is so dissimilar from that presented in the mainstream media that I sometimes wonder whether their reporters and I occupy the same universe." -- Heather MacDonald "The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society"
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
(Editor's Note: Today marks the 68th anniversary landing of the 1st Marines on a lonely beach at Guadalcanal in 1942, among them a courageous 18-year-old Jerry McConnell. The epic courage of Pvt. McConnell and his Marine brothers is captured here by Navy Seal UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team. SEAL Team Two,) fellow Canada Free Press columnist Jim O'Neill). Both troops are Patriots today in the War to Save America.)
"The circle of life begins at home midst family, then sometimes it ends away from home, but still in midst of family, now called friends. They were as much my brothers as if we shared the same last name. I couldn't have loved them more." Jerry McConnell -- First Marine Division, First Marine Regiment, 3rd Battalion, K Company
"They must take no prisoners. They must root out the traitors in their own party and tar and feather them and parade them in the town square."-- Lee S. Glidden Jr.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently came out with a "new road map" for Republicans. It deals mostly with pragmatic suggestions for fixing the economy, and how can you not love that, after watching the anti-capitalistic, corrupt, destructive machinations of the current Democratic regime?
Fred Barnes writes that "If Republicans adopt [Ryan's] road map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012."
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government...." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) From "The Declaration of Independence"
"In order to prevail against the most hard-core communist revolutionaries, you must send the most hardcore conservative patriots to Congress." -- Ernest Huber -- Congressional candidate from Washington's 8th District
"We are not the enemy here." --Anderson Cooper, CNN reporter (referring to the media blackout surrounding the oil spill)
Let me say up front that, personally, I don't believe that the oil spill disaster was staged (although I believe that much of the clean-up may well be). So why do I bring up the possibility? Because we are being lied to by both the federal government and BP, and at this point all possible explanations for the oil spill need to remain on the table.
On the face of it, asking if the Gulf oil spill is a staged event may seem to be absurd -- what about all the oil washing up on the beaches; what about the deaths from the rig explosion; what about all the money being spent on the clean-up, and so on...?
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." -- R.E.M "It's the end of the world"
The information that I've run across vis a vis the oil spill, runs the gamut from "move along folks, there's nothing here to see," to laser beams from outer space blowing up the Deepwater Horizon.
One thing I know for sure, the government and BP can't be trusted -- they are not telling us the truth about what has, and is, transpiring in the Gulf of Mexico.