June 16 2010
11:30 AM
Missing Vehicle Report
Portsmouth Va Naval Hospital

Missing Vehicle

KIA Sportage, dark gray.
Registered to Mike Blankenship...Property of Mrs Mary Blankenship
Suffolk Va
Vehicle has reported missing at 11:30 AM , Recovered after a hours search.

Reports were received from Mike Blankenship, reported, unconfirmed, Gathering of Eagles Grand Dragon, that his wife's KIA Sportage Van, dark gray in color, could not be found in the five level parking deck and he assumed it had returned to die in its native North Korea. After 25 laps on foot around the five level parking deck in 90+ degree heat Mr Blankenship requested assistance from security forces from Fort Samek NC. Mr Blankenship was then,with great effort, folded and placed into the rear seat of the Mustang to assist in the search for the vehicle.

Due to the heat induced confusion Mr Blankenship spotted four Honda..two Buick's, and a red VW Bug he thought matched the description of the vehicle. Alcohol abuse may have been a factor in his failure to determined red from dark gray, and the fact two of the Honda vehicles were pick up trucks.

As the Korean made KIA has no vehicle panic alarm device included to help find the missing vehicle the search required 250 laps around the parking deck to locate the missing vehicle. The good news is the Mustang averaged 28,7 MPG. The bad news is the screams from Mr Blankenship that he could no longer feel his toes due to the lack of leg room in the rear area of the Mustang only added to the confusion.

During the recovery efforts Mr Blankenship sobered up and spotted the vehicle when he saw the beer cans piled up to the rear window. Mrs Blankenship has called off the mob hit on Mr Blankenship and no warrants for the arrest of Mr Blankenship were requested by Mrs Blankenship, as she said Mike had suffered minor brain damage as a result of diving into their empty swimming pool to save a drowning can of Old English beer.

All is well that ends well and Mrs Blankenship stated Mr Blankenship would be allowed to drive her vehicle again "When Hell Freezes Over" and Mr Blankenship would be required to wear a helmet in the pool in the future. Mr Blankenship removed a five gallon gas can and hose from his vehicle and replaced the gas consumed during the recovery efforts.

Let us all pray Mr Blankenship will no longer purchase vehicles made in North Korea from Old English beer cans.

PS
Twelve laptops were recovered from the trunk of Mr Blankenship's vehicle and presented to our Marine and Navy Wounded Warriors.

George Samek..Esq.
Certified NC Bull Shipper
The Man,The Myth,The Legion

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders and says
"EVERYONE,QUIET,HE'S AWAKE !.

SWAMPFEST 2010 HOLDS BENEFIT CONCERT FOR FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS OUTREACH (“FSO”) TO HELP SEND MONTHLY “WE CARE” PACKAGES TO OUR TROOPS!

Holden Beach, NC – Red, White and Blue! Rocking this Memorial Day Weekend for the TROOPS at Cedar Landing Marina, Holden Beach, NC!!! The flags will be flying high as SWAMPFEST 2010 hosts a 2 day Benefit Concert to benefit Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, Inc. (“FSO”) in their mission of sending out monthly “we care” packages to our troops overseas!

This FREE two day “family friendly” event, is hosted by North Carolina’s very own, SwampDaWamp www.swampdawamp.info and will kick off at noon on May 29th and on May 30th, till whenever?????
Swampfest 2010 will include a host of vendors, bands, great bbq food and beverages, along with children’s activities!

This Memorial Day Weekend, as many people are out having a good time, we can’t forget about those who have served and continue to serve our country, many of them putting their lives in harms way right now for all of us! We are able to enjoy going to the beach, fish and attend concerts this Memorial Day because of our Military Personnel. So, what a way to give back….Join us at Cedar Landing Marina and help FSO continue their mission that begin in 2003, in sending monthly “we care” packages to our troops serving overseas, covering ALL world theaters!

“We are not only so excited and Blessed to be the recipient of such an amazing National Recording Artist Event, but to be in a state where so many of our recipients are from…….thanks to SwampDaWamp and everyone involved with Swampfest 2010, we look forward to bringing awareness to Holden Beach about our mission of sending “a little bit of home” to assure that our U.S. Servicemen and Servicewomen are not forgotten.” Says Lynelle Chauncey Zelnar, Executive Director and Founder of FSO.

For more information about Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, a national 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered with the State of Florida and the State of Georgia please log on to www.forgottensoldiers.org or call 561-369-2933.

For More information about this event or SwampDaWamp, please visit their website at www.swampdawamp.info or call 704-648-1855.

The GOE Warrior Support Project
Mission Update: December 31, 2009

Ann Scott Tyson, reporting at
Washington Post

Army Officers Criticize Rebuke of Gen. McChrystal

Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would not succeed.

The hallways at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center buzzed with sympathy for McChrystal, who has said the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan risks failure without a rapid infusion of additional forces. Obama and his advisers are now debating strategy in Afghanistan, with some officials arguing against additional deployments.

"It was definitely a hand slap," one Army officer said of the statement last weekend by national security adviser James L. Jones, a retired Marine general, that military officials should pass advice to President Obama through their chain of command. The Army officer, like others attending the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the politically sensitive issue.

Read the rest of the article.

Meanwhile, JohnHuang2 at FreeRepublic had this to say:

A few easy tips on how to lose a war
Obama has managed to cram four years of Jimmy Carter's incompetence and cowardice into less than nine months -- an Olympic record! It took years for Carter to build a track record of fecklessness and cowardice big enough to invite the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but Obama bested Carter with the Taliban in mere months.

Liberals -- including Obama -- opposed the war in Iraq supposedly because of the theory that Iraq 'diverted' resources from Afghanistan, which was the war they pretended for seven years and eleven months to support. Now libbies say they suddenly oppose the war in Afghanistan because Afghanistan 'diverts' resources from Pakistan, where al-Qaeda is. When liberals finish surrendering to the Taliban in Afghanistan, they'll claim we shouldn't fight in Pakistan either because Pakistan 'diverts' resources from Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda just returned!

Making believe he has a clue about what is going on in Afghanistan, Obama got together with his alleged national security team for yet another 'strategy session' on Afghanistan Wednesday after a 90-minute meeting the day before with House and Senate politicians, including eminent war strategists Gen. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. To really put the fear in al-Qaeda, more strategy sessions are scheduled. (And on the seventh strategy session, the messiah will rest.)

Winter is just around the corner and American troops in Afghanistan still don't have reinforcements and are running out of ammo and water and are getting bombed and shot at from all directions -- but look at those strategy sessions the White House is having! How can we lose???

Obama spokesman Baghdad Bob Gibbs told "reporters" (or, Democrats with press passes) that Obama "is going to make a decision -- popular or unpopular -- based on what he thinks is in the best interests of the country." Depending on which country Gibbs is talking about, this would mark the first time. His own commander on the ground along with Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen and CENTCOM Commander David Petraeus all say reinforcements are needed -- versus Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. This is a real brain teaser.

For almost two years, some chap named "Sen. Barack Obama" headed up a subcommittee which oversees NATO ops in Afghanistan, so maybe the 'president' should ask him what to do.

Showcasing his decisiveness, Obama's strategy on Afghanistan since becoming president has been to announce a 'comprehensive new strategy', hold on to it for at least five minutes, then change his mind. In March, Obama announced a 'comprehensive new strategy' on Afghanistan, sending another 21,000 troops to carry out the fight without Obama. Six weeks later, he appoints Gen. Stanley McChrystal as ground commander because McChrystal is against relying too much on drones. Late August rolls around, polls go south, and Obama begins to disagree with decisions made weeks earlier by Obama. Now Obama wants to rely more on drones.

On September 30, just one tiny month after Gen. McChrystal handed in his assessment for Obama to ignore, Obama held a 3-hour strategy session on when to hold the next 3-hour strategy session where no decisions will be made.

Afghanistan was called the Soviets' 'Viet Nam' but warmongering George W. Bush and the other grown ups eight years ago knew it's either invade Iraq, hang a huge flypaper there and get the blanket of swarming jihadists buzzing into it or Afghanistan rapidly becomes the Great Satan's prolonged war/'Nam-style quagmire, too. Win the Afghan war in Iraq or lose both. The run up in the U.S. troop body count in Afghanistan is happening concurrent with talk of bugging out. Even beyond Afghanistan, Bush's 'unnecessary war' in Iraq kept binny and the boys so diverted and distracted that, eight years on, the all-but-certain and inevitable second 9/11 on U.S. soil never happened. But voters sent a former ACORN community organizer to finish a grown up's job so better gird your loins for Viet Nam II.

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"