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Does America Still Deserve The Marines? (by Gunny Bob Newman, retired 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps) Not that I know what one is, but I do know what one looks like. A parabolic wave is a thing that looks like a wave when viewed from the side. Parabolic waves appear on screens that are part of certain machines and computers and other technical devices. I suspect they are useless, really, but scientists and technicians like them because they look cool and by turning just about any dial, one can change the height and frequency of the wave. The war...

Bloated blowhard Michael Moore says George Bush is a racist and intentionally delayed Hurricane Katrina relief because he hates blacks. The remarkably wealthy and obese Moore, who makes more money during lunch than most Americans make in a month, refuses to take some of his scores of millions and mount a rescue and relief effort for the very blacks he claims to love and care for. Self-proclaimed scientist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says Bush created Hurricane Katrina because he wouldn’t sign off on the Kyoto Accords. He fails to mention that the Accords came about during the Clinton years and...

Good interview by Mike Rosen on KOA 850am today with Melanie Morgan of Move America Forward and Deborah Johns of Northern California Marine Corps Moms. In the final minutes of their one hour appearance a caller from Colorado Springs called in to argue against the two guests and the mission of our military in Iraq. He started the call by stating that he had served for ten years in the Army during the first gulf war in Kuwait / Iraq. The caller was unhinged during his 5 to 7 minutes 'debating' with Mike and Melanie Morgan, totally undisciplined. He was...

The photos of the victims are horrifying. With their bodies covered with huge pustules that will have left large craters in their skin forever (if they survived), the victims of smallpox suffered unimaginable agony. Along with the pus-filled lesions came crushing headaches, delirium, extensive bleeding, crippling backaches, chronic fatigue, unstoppable diarrhea and vomiting, bone infections, pneumonia, and fevers that oftentimes ran above 104 degrees. Highly contagious, it is easily spread through droplets expelled by sneezing, coughing or breathing, and it can also be spread through contact with an item touched by an infected person, like a set of keys, cell...

I have just received an extremely nasty email from Randi Rhodes, host of the vile, anti-freedom "Randi Rhodes Show" on the failing, under investigation Air America. Ms. Rhodes doesn't like me and says, among many other things, that I am "sick." Shocking! Hopefully she will discuss me on her show soon. I love free publicity, especially from another talk-show host and especially from one on the far, far left. Is she a lesbian? Just curious. Not that there's anything wrong with that (a la Seinfeld).

Cindy Sheehan does not believe those filthy ragheads and camel jockeys in Iraq deserve freedom. Nor does she believe they should be allowed to live in peace or be able to sleep at night without wondering if their genocidal dictator’s bloodthirsty henchmen are going to kick their door in and drag the entire family off to a grisly torture chamber, where the parents will be made to watch their children be repeatedly raped and sodomized and finally blinded and dismembered while still alive. Her son adamantly disagreed with her. U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, in fact, disagreed with his mother...

I will be returning to the place of my birth next month to testify before Congress. Yes, I fully realize that our founding fathers are spinning in their dirt beds. The Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus has asked me to appear before them on 21 September. I will now spend the next 7 weeks preparing for my testimony. Whereas I have a great deal of information and guidance to give them, I hope to also have the chance to let them know what my audience is thinking and what Freepers are thinking, so if you have anything (no profanity, please) you...

There is a continuous interest among Freepers in gathering accurate intelligence regarding the war on terror. To that end, the Intelligence Summit (www.intelligencesummit.org) is set for Feb 2006 in DC. Lots of high-speed speakers will deliver presentations, including former DCI James Woolsey. My presentation will be titled "Countermeasure Methodology: Defeating Terrorists in the Reconnaissance Phase of the Operation." If any of you attend, please intro yourself to me. --Gunny

I have been a student of war since 1968 and became a Marine in the 1970s as a teenager. In part because of my unusual, enhanced career path as a Marine infantry unit leader with extensive special operations and counterterrorism experience, and because of my access to some of the foremost asymmetric warfare and terrorism experts alive today, I have been able to formulate an 10-point plan that, if strictly adhered to, will allow the United States and its allies to win the war on terror sooner than expected. Points 1 through 9 are mandatory in that failure to accomplish...

<p>I would like to thank all of you for the frequent words of support you offer your military, who serve this nation because they understand what is at stake.</p> <p>On evening long ago in Boston, Robert Emerson Newman, sexton of the Old North Church, hung two lanterns for his silversmith friend and fellow Minuteman Paul Revere. Grampy Newman was captured by the British shortly thereafter, who quickly realized that a signal had been given to announce their arrival in Boston Harbor to the rebels. The Brits were rather upset with my great x 6 grandfather. Those were the days when American patriotism was born.</p>

Times and people change. In 1776, a new people, the Americans, were a feisty lot who, because they had so unquenchable a thirst for freedom, had the audacity to fight the world’s most powerful nation to gain their freedom. It took these brash, visionary upstarts until 1783 before victory was achieved and a stunned British army and Royal Navy threw in the towel, and many thousands of Americans lay dead, but a new country was born. The British came back in 1812 for a second helping, with the same results. Many wars followed for the Americans. The Indian Wars, Spanish-American...

The pain is mind-boggling. I hate that parachute and every other thing and event that partially disabled me. And I hate the fact that I wasn’t clever enough to realize long ago how I would pay much later in life for my knowing and willing abuse on my body in the Corps. My machismo stopped me from seeking the medical attention I needed after each injury while on active duty, and sometimes the situation was such that seeing the corpsman or battalion surgeon wasn’t an option at the moment. C’est la guerre. But what I hate the most is how...

I am abnormal and wish to explain. I am abnormal, according to leftist extremist Reggie Rivers, who writes a column in the Denver Post, because I believe in defending (and have defended with my life, as have millions more true Americans) the flag which represents the principles for which so many Americans have died. Frankly, I am proud to be so abnormal. In his latest anti-American tirade in the way-to-the-left Post, "Radical Reggie" continues his never-ending attacks on America by stating that "the flag is not without its problems." People like Osama bin Laden love it when Americans attack their...

Gunny Bob's Hall of Heroes You have just entered a sacred place. Here in this Hall of Heroes are the stories of just a handful of the heroes who have risked their lives under fire in the war on terror. In some cases, these men of steel and grit have made the ultimate sacrifice so that others might live. In the case of those who survived their selfless act of heroism, none ever brag about their medals and the deeds that brought these bits of cloth and metal to their chests. They simply salute, reload, and press on with...

Sorry for being an arrogant, pretentious ass, but I want an explanation from God as to why he/she felt it was necessary to kill what is expected to be 100,000 people, probably more, especially in so nasty a fashion and especially when tens of thousands of the victims were children who never hurt anyone. I've seen you do many horrific things in my lifetime, including what happens to innocent people's bodies in war, but this time you crossed the friggin' line. If you are reading this, God, I require an explanation...and an apology.