The Amboy Times

Pinups For Vets

Iowahawk has a great idea;

My Kinda Tax Deduction

  Enjoy these deductible assets 

Yeah, okay, so maybe I live in a trailer and haven't filed taxes in 10 or 20 years. But even I know this date means ulcers to all you long form 1040 bigshots: only a few leafs left in that tearaway desk calendar, and you suddenly realize you haven't fully leveraged your itemized deductions. Then you're in mad scramble to remember a worthy cause, and in the confusion you decide to dash off a fat check to your alma mater because they squeaked out a win in the Miracle Glue Tomato Bowl, and then later you find out that instead of thoughtful football recruiting bribes your stupid college blew your entire donation on the pastry cart for a Michael Moore campus lecture.

Rejoice, brother, your annual December 31 giving anxieties are a thing of the past. Thanks to the miracle of internet email technology (h/t Coop), I have learned of a swell new program that combines four of my favorite things: scantily clad females, vintage vehicles, support for the troops, and tax deductibility. It's called PinupsForVets, and in my book causes just don't get much more worthy than this.

That crazy Gina, always
forgetting her dress 

The PinupsForVets program is the brainchild of Gina Elise, a 24-year old UCLA graduate who also serves as the effort's Pinup-In-Chief. It is also sponsored by the Lake Arrowhead, CA American Legion. The core of the PFV program is a ginchy 1940's-style cheesecake calendar featuring Gina in a variety of provocatively work-safe poses, surrounded by some neato vintage iron. Holy Gil Elvgren! You can purchase a calendar online at the above link (for the ridiculously low price of 20 clams) and direct it to an injured vet or an active duty soldier along with a personalized greeting. Gina will hand-deliver your purchase directly to hospitalized vets, or mail them to deployed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But why stop there? Order an extra copy for yourself! Donations are tax deductible, and proceeds from the program bring in needed funds to Veterans Hospital Programs and encourages people to volunteer at their local Veterans Hospital.  And next December, instead of that boring desk calendar, your annual charity giving reminder will come with a lovely photo of a real patriotic gal.

More details are at the PFV site, so head over there pronto - and tell Gina that Dave sent you.

  Enjoy these deductible assets 

Yeah, okay, so maybe I live in a trailer and haven't filed taxes in 10 or 20 years. But even I know this date means ulcers to all you long form 1040 bigshots: only a few leafs left in that tearaway desk calendar, and you suddenly realize you haven't fully leveraged your itemized deductions. Then you're in mad scramble to remember a worthy cause, and in the confusion you decide to dash off a fat check to your alma mater because they squeaked out a win in the Miracle Glue Tomato Bowl, and then later you find out that instead of thoughtful football recruiting bribes your stupid college blew your entire donation on the pastry cart for a Michael Moore campus lecture.

Rejoice, brother, your annual December 31 giving anxieties are a thing of the past. Thanks to the miracle of internet email technology (h/t Coop), I have learned of a swell new program that combines four of my favorite things: scantily clad females, vintage vehicles, support for the troops, and tax deductibility. It's called PinupsForVets, and in my book causes just don't get much more worthy than this.

That crazy Gina, always
forgetting her dress 

The PinupsForVets program is the brainchild of Gina Elise, a 24-year old UCLA graduate who also serves as the effort's Pinup-In-Chief. It is also sponsored by the Lake Arrowhead, CA American Legion. The core of the PFV program is a ginchy 1940's-style cheesecake calendar featuring Gina in a variety of provocatively work-safe poses, surrounded by some neato vintage iron. Holy Gil Elvgren! You can purchase a calendar online at the above link (for the ridiculously low price of 20 clams) and direct it to an injured vet or an active duty soldier along with a personalized greeting. Gina will hand-deliver your purchase directly to hospitalized vets, or mail them to deployed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But why stop there? Order an extra copy for yourself! Donations are tax deductible, and proceeds from the program bring in needed funds to Veterans Hospital Programs and encourages people to volunteer at their local Veterans Hospital.  And next December, instead of that boring desk calendar, your annual charity giving reminder will come with a lovely photo of a real patriotic gal.

More details are at the PFV site, so head over there pronto - and tell Gina that Dave sent you.

CAIR: Prostitutes for Radical Islam

Cross posted from Anti-CAIR.

Once again, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding respect for Islam … radical Islam, that is.      Just what caused CAIR to roll out the charges of “Islamophobia” and, as usual, go off acting like a spoilt child?     

Sen. Barbara Boxer, well known Democrat Senator representing California, recently rescinded an honor called a “certificate of accomplishment” awarded to Basim Elkarra, an officer in the local CAIR chapter.  Among Boxer’s concerns?  According to Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz, Boxer is concerned that CAIR “gives aid to international terrorist groups”.

While the accusation that CAIR gives aid to international terrorist groups is certainly a surprise to CAIR’s executive director Nihad (“I am in support of the Hamas movement”) Awad, it isn’t a surprise to anyone with the slightest interest in radical Islam.  Perhaps Awad should climb down off his high horse and examine his own past a bit?      Awad, true to form and right from the CAIR playbook, immediately goes on the offensive to defend CAIR’s so-called “honor”.  Awad denied the charges that CAIR has any links to terror groups and claims a “deliberate smear campaign” by individuals whom support Israel are behind efforts to smear the Muslim community and silence its voice.     

So, CAIR is the legitimate voice of Islam in America?  While we agree that CAIR is the voice for radical, terrorist Islam in America, we seriously doubt that CAIR has done anything constructive to polish the image of Islam in America.     

Consider: (From a July 2003 article by Dr. Daniel Pipes in the New York Post)      American Muslims: In November 2001, they had positive views from 59 percent of the public.      That number fell to 54 percent in March 2002 and now stands at 51 percent.     

Shared values: Asked if "the Muslim religion and your own religion have a lot in common,"      31 percent answered affirmatively in November 2001, 27 percent in March 2002,      and just 22 percent this year.

[2003]      While the article is dated, we believe that the "fall in respect" by the average American for Islam as a religion can be directly tied to activities by CAIR to undermine our country, prepare North America for conversion to an Islamic thugocracy, and CAIR’s obvious ties to radical Islam.     CAIR is an insult to the North American Islamic community and represents a very small number of Muslims who either do not know CAIR very well or refuse to see CAIR for what it is: a malignant cancer on the Muslim community that must be destroyed.     

CAIR’s southern California executive director, Hussam Ayloush, believes Boxer's move is an "attempt to marginalize the largest and most mainstream Muslim organization in the country" and that  “This is absolutely unacceptable”.      If so, just what is Ayloush going to do about it?  Demand a meeting with Boxer?  Demand the award is re-instated?  Hold his breath until he gets his way?      Ayloush and the rest of the CAIR gang had better get used to hearing a new word:      “NO”      But what really has CAIR so upset over what is just another award, commonly issued by politicians to groups and organizations recognizing everything from literacy campaigns to get-out-the-voter drives?     

J-e-w-s.      That’s right.      Jews.     

Joe Kaufman, the man behind “Americans Against Hate” is Jewish.  It was through his efforts to put pressure on Boxer that the award was revoked.      This would explain Awad’s weird statement: "The entire issue is going back to Israel … if you love Israel, you're OK ... if you question Israel, you're not … if that is the litmus test, no American Muslim and no freedom-loving person is going to pass that test."     

Now we understand.      A lone Jew from southern Florida rose up, stuck his finger in CAIR’s eye and the bigots of CAIR are incensed and blame it all on Israel.      How pathetic.  This is the best CAIR can do?      No wonder most North American Muslim’s want nothing to do with CAIR.      CAIR, North America’s greatest prostitute for radical Islam, has once again been exposed for what they are…and they don’t like it.

"Tough"   (No one ever said the life of a gutter-common street whore was easy.)      Word to CAIR:  Get used to it.      Anti-CAIR salutes Joe Kaufman for his hard work and welcomes Senator Boxer’s enlightened stand against CAIR.

Be sure to visit Anti-CAIR and thank Sen Boxer for coming to her senses.

Saddam Hanged, (video) Ford Honored

In the same week that we lost Gerald Ford to natural causes, Saddam Hussien was hanged by his own people. An interesting contrast if you will, Ford buried with full honors, with six days of observance and thousands of well wishers. Flags will be flown at half mast and the stock markets paused in reverence of the former President.

Saddam on the other hand, was pulled out of a spider hole, given a Nuremberg styled trial and hanged in disgrace. His country danced around his broken body in celebration.

"Now, he is in the garbage of history," said Jawad Abdul-Aziz, who lost his father, three brothers and 22 cousins in the reprisal killings that followed a botched 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the Shiite town of Dujail.

Ali Hamza, a 30-year-old university professor, said he went outside to shoot his gun into the air after he learned of Saddam's death.

"Now all the victims' families will be happy because Saddam got his just sentence," said Hamza, who lives in Diwaniyah, a Shiite town 80 miles south of Baghdad.

The timing of the deaths of these two former leaders may be a coincidence, but the contrast is illustrative of why going into Iraq was right.

9/11 Conspitracy Nutjob Interviews Danny Bonaduce

Sign me up for the Danny Bonaduce fan club, he really lets the little traitor have it!

Now the conspiracy wacko's are sending him death threats.

Former "Partridge Family" star Danny Bonaduce is terrified for his life after speaking out in support of President George W. Bush earlier this month.

 

The actor has been forced to alert the FBI after receiving a string of death threats following an impromptu video interview which portrayed him as a advocate of the war in Iraq. It was subsequently circulated on file sharing Web site YouTube.com.

 

Bonaduce claims he's been flooded with hate mail, and even his 12-year-old daughter's online social networking site has been targetted with images of maimed Iraqi children.

 

He tells the New York Daily News, "If (the interviewer) had personally offended me or I got death threats and I didn't have children, I would have tracked him down and kicked his skull in, and that would have been the end of that.

 

"But I have children, and you can't behave like that anymore."

 

The interviewer, known only as "9/11 Truther," runs an extremist Web site accusing Bush of Satanism, among other things.

 

He denies any connection to the death threats, maintaining, "I think (Bonaduce's) delusional. And if you're going to quote me, it's a 'drug-damaged mind'."

Death threats and the harrassment of children...for peace.

Here's a John Gibson radio interview with Bonaduce.

Other voices, Noble Eagle, GOP and the City, Flopping Aces,

Happy New Year Open Trackback

Open Trackbacks all weekend and New Year's Day. Here's the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne, and the history and traditions of New Year's Day.

Have a safe and happy one everybody.

John Mc Cain as Cpt Planet

I got a letter from John Mc Cain today. My first thought was he wanted money for '08, but boy was  i wrong. I nearly tossed it , after all, I won't be voting for Mc Cain in the primary, but curiosity got the best of me.

It was nothing so selfish. In fact, Mc Cain's mailer was on behalf of the Enviromental Defense Fund.

Dear Fellow Citizen, That's me.

I'll give it to you straight: Uh oh...

We have a growing crisis on our hands...one that seldom gets the attention it deserves.

I'm speaking about global warming.

What!? Seldom get's attention? Nary a day goes by that I don't hear about global warming. The penguins, the polar bears, doom...doom...doom... believe what you will, but give me a break!

So I ask that you join me, Enviromental Defense president Fred Krupp and hundreds of thousands of citizens, by taking these simple action steps today:

First ask your Senators to support the Climate Stewardship and Innovatiion Act by signing both of the enclosed petitions.

Second sign up to be part of the Global Warming Action Network so you can stay abreast of the latest developments as they unfold and take action  when needed.

Natural climate change is nothing new, the Little Ice Age started in the 13th century and lasted about 400 years and is thought to have been triggered by decreased solar activity and increased volcanic activity.

The opposite may be happening now, as there is already evidence of increased solar activity resulting in the warming of Mars.

  As evidence accumulates of significant, ongoing climate change on Earth, severe   fluctuations in the martian climate strike closer to home. “There is quite a   bit of evidence that suggests that severe episodic or catastrophic phenomena   are much more common in nature than we have thought,” Malin says. “Certainly   my research both on Earth and Mars strongly points to such processes as being   most crucial in shaping the landscape.”

There's also the fact that a large volcano blast can contain more greenhouse gases than humanity can produce in our lifetime. But to be fair the Enviromental Defense Fund has done a lot of good, like ridding us of DDT and lead gasoline, I just don't subscribe to the global warming doomsday scenario.  It seems to me Mc Cain is more concerned with preserving the RINO.

Ethiopia Defeats Al Qaeda in Mogadishu

Hot Air: It’s been tough over the past couple of days not to stand up and do a little dance of joy over Ethiopia’s so far masterful efforts in Somalia. Ethiopia very correctly recognized that the United Islamic Courts, the al Qaeda-backed Islamist movement that took control of Mogadishu and most of Somalia this past summer, represents a threat. So Ethiopia acted. And now Bill Roggio reports that Mogadishu has fallen to the Ethiopian and transitional Somali government forces.

Nine days after the onset of open warfare between the al-Qaeda backed Islamic Courts and the Ethiopian backed Transitional Federal Government, the Islamic Courts have surrendered. “After having crucial and urgent meeting tonight in the capital, the leaders of executive and Shura councils of Islamic Courts Union and deputy leader of executive council of ICU, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and Sheik Abdirahman Janaqow resigned and issued a joint press statement over the current situation in Somalia particular in Mogadishu,” reports SomaliNet.

Euphoric Reality adds;

The biggest lesson to be learned from this tempest in a teapot in East Africa is that there is never a substitute for victory, and we must have the resolve to truly win, and not compomise our effort with a willingness to just get by (read “keep the peace”). 

What we and the Israelis seem to lack right now, and which the Ethiopians apparently have, is the political will to win without worrying overmuch what the so-called internation community thinks.

Balls to the wall. That is how you defeat Islamic Totalitarianism, anywhere, anytime.

As you may remember, Mogadishu was the location of the infamous "Blackhawk Down" incident. President Clinton withdrew all troops from Somalia by 3/94.

Tony Blair: Dhimmified

Hat tip, Brussels Journal

A quote from Tony Blair in Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007

To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.

Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian ones

Unbelievable, I guess Saudi Arabia is the model of tolerance and forward thinking.

OKC Bombing Report: Cover Up?

There's no doubt about the guilt of Mc Veigh'and his co-conspirator, Nichols, but eye-witness reports and even the FBI were sure of Middle Eastern involvement at the time.

NIN: In an exclusive interview with the Northeast Intelligence Network and America's News Source– her first and only interview since the release of a Congressional investigative report last Friday pertaining to the terrorist bombing of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that took the lives of 168 people and 3 unborn children, award-winning investigative journalist, and the foremost expert on the bombing, Jayna Davis, author of the best-selling book The Third Terrorist, adeptly exposes the blatant deficiencies of the incoherent, poorly researched, and jumbled "investigative" congressional report. With the deadly proficiency of a skilled marksman, Ms.  Davis methodically shoots down the critical findings that comprise the essence of this congressional report and successfully makes the case that the report represents a betrayal of justice to each and every victim of the April 19, 1995 bombing and betrays the trust of every citizen of the United States.

The report made few headlines when it became public last Friday due to its overall lack of investigative value and conclusive merit. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who spearheaded the "investigation" that reportedly took him two years to conduct at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers has been billed as an independent examination of a possible foreign connection, but in reality, has amounted to nothing more than the fruitless pursuit of repudiated conspiracy theories blatantly devoid of any conclusive findings. Read it all.

Saddam's Baathist's Threaten US

Your basic "death to America" rhetoric from the usual suspects.

Saddam Hussein's Baath Party threatened Wednesday to retaliate if the ousted Iraqi leader is executed, warning in an Internet posting it would target U.S. interests anywhere.

The statement appeared on a Web site known to represent the Baath, which was disbanded after U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam in 2003. The site is believed to be run from Yemen, where a number of exiled members of the party are based.

On Tuesday, Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam's appeal against a conviction and death sentence for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate in Dujail, northern Iraq, in 1982. The court said the former president should be hanged within 30 days.

"Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr. President and his comrades," the statement said.

Of course they always want to kill infidels, but this time they're reeeeally mad I tell you!

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