Every Day Hero needs prayers

From Soldiers' Angels Germany:

Thursday, April 01, 2010

One of our Marines could use your prayers

This tough United States Marine could use your prayers after being severely wounded last week in Afghanistan. Courtesy photo.

From the Todd Nicely - Wounded Warrior - Benefit Facebook page.

This page is for the friends of Todd Nicely to have a place to keep up to date on his condition. Todd's convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. He has lost both legs, a hand, and could possibly lose the other arm. I will let everyone know more info when I get it. I am also working on a benefit for the near future, so please keep posted to this page.

Todd came through Landstuhl hospital and is currently at Bethesda Naval Medical Center where he is surrounded by family and friends.

Please keep Todd and his family in your prayers, and leave a message of support at the Facebook page.


Update, see also:

Prayer for A Seriously Wounded Hero and His Family, by David Bellavia

Spiritual Warfare Needed - Todd Nicely, by Blackfive

A Call for Spiritual Warfare, by Carrie at Villainous Company

(SAG here)

Every one of these columns is a must-read. Then please pray for this young Marine, who IS a hero, every single day.

Music and Me

Great memories of seeing this in London - long ago - with the bratchild......:)

ISAF Forces Save Life of Afghan Child

From War on Terror News:

ISAF Forces Save Life of Afghan Child

ISAF Joint Command

KABUL, Afghanistan - A 10-year-old Afghan boy lays motionless in his hospital bed as a nurse gives him another injection of morphine to help him deal with his pain. Even in this condition, he is better than he was Sunday morning when he was nearly fatally wounded by a piece of shrapnel from an exploding rocket-propelled grenade.

The boy was on his way to school Sunday when insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade

during a fire-fight with another insurgent group. The boy was wounded in the cross fire. The insurgent-on-insurgent battle lasted most of the morning. When it was over, the boy's father brought him to a German medical facility in Kunduz for treatment.

The ISAF medical staff there began treatment of what they first thought was a gunshot wound, with the projectile still lodged in the little boy's neck. Doctors later realized it was shrapnel. The boy was then transported to Camp Marmal which houses the only medical facility in northern Afghanistan with both a brain surgeon and advanced life support equipment.

Tests revealed the shrapnel was wedged near the boy's spine....

Go read the rest here.

Obama is the First Anti-Israeli President

Lt.-Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters

Israel news photo

US Mil. Analyst: Obama is the First Anti-Israeli President

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters, military analyst and author of a book on Middle East politics, says Obama apparently has a chip on his shoulder against Israel – and it’s not “helpful to our civilization.”

Peters, who wrote “Endless War: Middle Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization,” was asked to explain why he felt American-Israeli friendship appears to have been derailed so dramatically. “The answer is two words,” he said. “President Obama.”

“Obama’s treatment of [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu [during their recent meeting in Washington] was disgraceful and shameful,” Peters told FoxNews. “We treat our enemies with greater courtesy! In addition, it was counter-productive – because this vendetta on the part of the White House against Israel - all it does is encourage the Palestinians and their Arab backers to make ever wilder demands that Israel cannot possibly fulfill. This is not a peace process; this is something about a chip on the President’s shoulder.”

Peters says that Obama’s approach is “absolutely” a departure from past American policy. “It all started with Obama’s Cairo speech,” he said, “where Obama attempted to appease radical Muslims in the Middle East, cold-shouldered Israel, and raised Palestinian expectations that he’d take care of Israel and that the Palestinians would get their revenge. Secondly, in the past, under Presidents Clinton and Bush, there were face-to-face negotiations; the Palestinians were offered one deal after another, and it was always – always! - the Palestinians who walked away.”...

Go read the rest here.

An Open Letter to Obama

An Open Letter to Obama from VP of Proctor and Gamble Co

Written by a former VP of Procter & Gamble in June 2009 (and yes, I checked it on Snopes)

Read on:

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

By Lou Pritchett

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Note: Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.

Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated "open letter." “I did write the 'you scare me' letter. I sent it to the NY Times but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the internet and according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits.

'Nuff said!

H/T Brenda

40 Reasons To Ban Guns!

From Monkey in the Middle:

Those who wish to ban guns make the claim that giving up the personal weapons will bring about safer communities. But does it? Check out these 40 reasons:

Hat tip to TexasFred
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, Detroit & Chicago cops need guns.

2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.

3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just statistics.”

4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.

5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.

6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.

7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.

8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense – give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die – People Do, 1981, p. 125).

10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.

11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seat belts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise....

Go read the rest here.

Keith Fairben Blood Drive

YOUR mission today:

Keith Fairben Blood Drive

Location:Our Lady of Victory Church, Floral Park, NY

Time:2:00PM Friday, April 2nd

Annual blood drive in memory of Keith Fairben, sponsored by the Floral Park Knights of Columbus, and the Floral Park Fire Department.

From Captain Lou D'Amore:

[...] "Keith was a fellow firefighter as well as a good friend to many. He was someone who always did as much as he could between the fire department and Presbyterian Hospital. His nature was to help people, just as he did on 9/11. Today, having a street sign dedicated to Keith is a special way of saying 'thank you' for all that he did and a reminder to all of us every time we see it."...

From "Keith Fairben: Still Riding."

Such an easy way for YOU to say Thank you...

Please, do this for Keith. I thank you!