Flag Day -- Hollywood Canteen 1944

Dinah Shore sings* for those who serve the Red, White and Blue:

Remember when we had a real Hollywood?

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*Miss Shore's singing is at about the 3-minute mark.

Derek T. Roberts, Army Sergeant -- Rest In Peace

Derek T. Roberts, 24

Army, Sergeant
Based: Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Infantry Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 14, 2007
Kirkuk (near), Iraq
Engaged
Gender: Male
Hometown: Gold River
High School: Bella Vista High (Fair Oaks)
Burial: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu

...Roberts and two soldiers serving with him were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in the northern city of Kirkuk. Also killed in the blast were Spc. Val J. Borm, 21, of Sidney, Neb., and Spc. Farid Elazzouzi, 26, of Paterson, N.J. All three were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Infantry Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Instead of getting married in Hawaii, Roberts was buried there July 2 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The historic cemetery is also known as the Punchbowl, because it rests in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Read more about Sergeant Derek T. Roberts here.

Trig Palin With His Dad -- Video Interlude

John D. Aragon, Army Sergeant -- Rest In Peace

John D. Aragon, 22

Army, Sergeant
Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 12, 2008
Kadamiya, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Antioch
High School: Antioch High (Antioch)

"He just always wanted to be in the Army," said his mother, Denise, a pair of her son's dogtags hanging around her neck. "He went to the recruitment office when he was still a senior in high school without telling me. I found out and made him go to (Los Medanos) College for a year and then make a decision.
"I told him maybe you'll meet the girl you're going to marry. You don't know what will happen."
The extra year did nothing to diminish Aragon's passion for the military. After arriving at Ft. Campbell, Ky., he called his parents.
"He said, 'I love the Army and the Army loves me,'" Denise Aragon said. "The two just clicked."

Read the whole article about Army Sergeant John D. Aragon here; and read more here.

His family did what they could to provide him the comforts of home, sending care packages with brown sugar Poptarts (one of his favorites), granola bars and canned oysters. During his last conversation with his mother on June 4, he said he'd be home next month for 18 days and asked for a packet of Flaming Hot Cheetos.

Shabbat Shalom

Pot Growing Brides of Christ

I gotta get back to church.

Ugandan police find marijuana plantation

in the garden of a convent.

Investigation is ongoing.

H/T AmSpec

Cameron K. Payne, Army Pfc -- Rest In Peace

Cameron K. Payne, 22

Army, Private 1st Class

Based: Ft. Riley, Kan.
2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 11, 2007
Baghdad (eastern part), Iraq
Married, 2 children
Gender: Male

Hometown: Corona

High School: Buena Vista High (Corona)

Burial: Riverside National Cemetery

There wasn't anything particularly gung-ho about Army Pfc. Cameron Payne. He almost had too much individual style to be in the military...

"I just loved the way he walked and the way he talked," said Julie Payne, 22, who married the soldier in 2005. "He was such a goofball. Every time he came home from work was a celebration. He'd dance into the room with a waddle. Sometimes he'd run into the house, jump and turn around. I'd just run up to him. We were always like newlyweds."

Read more about Army Pfc Cameron K. Payne here and here.

Victor H. Cervantes, Army, Sergeant 1st Class -- Rest In Peace

Victor H. Cervantes, 27

Army, Sergeant 1st Class
Based: Ft. Bragg, N.C.
1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom
Died: June 10, 2005
Orgun, Afghanistan
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Stockton
High School: St. Mary's High School (Stockton)

He took that event personally. He knew that what he was doing in Afghanistan was in response to 9/11, and he fully supported that. — Adena Rollins, childhood friend

He once told longtime friend Rene Bayardo that he was inside a tank on Army maneuvers when it unexpectedly rolled over. Everyone scrambled out, unhurt.

"That's hard to do -- roll a tank -- but it seemed to amuse him. It fit with his personality. He liked to push the envelope," said Bayardo, 26, of Falls Church, Va.

Read more about Army,Sergeant 1st Class Victor H. Cervantes here, here and here.

1000 Words -- Plus Two

Oh my:

Update: Heel!

That Ain't No Lady, That's My Gaga

So tritely predictable

Being creative is hard work. Being vulgar to shock the middle class is by now simply the last refuge of an empty mind; it's not shocking at all. We expect disrespect from people like Lady Gaga. After all, we'd only be shocked if she sang something beautiful, inspirational, or possibly with more than ten words in the song.

Ouch.
Read all of Fowler on the vulgarians here.

Alien Heart

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
WSJ OPINION JUNE 9, 2010
The Alien in the White House
The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.

Those qualities to be expected in a president ... were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.

A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

Yes, Ms. Rabinowitz, as always you are right.
The Birthers are a fringe -- but no more deluded or demented than the Obama true believers'n'voters themselves -- to say nothing of his groupies in the press.
Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews anyone?
Evan "Sort of a God" Thomas anyone?
Now that's delusion and dementia.
Updatery: Also covered here at Contentions.
And Hugh Hewitt read the whole thing on his radio show this afternoon...but not until after discussing Nebraska joining the Big Ten...

Tali Fahima Converts to Sharia

Left-wing Israeli Jewess Tali Fahima converts to the religion of thugs

According to website of Islamic Movement in Israel, Fahima converted to Islam in a mosque in Umm al-Fahm; Fahima served three years in prison for aiding the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade.
By Jack Khoury
Fahima is said to have converted at a mosque in Umm al-Fahm in the presence of sheikhs who tested her knowledge of the principles of Islam. Afterwards, she visited the home of Sheikh Raed Salah and informed him of her conversion.
Fahima was released from prison in 2007 after completing a three-year sentence for passing information to the enemy, having contact with a foreign agent and supporting a terrorist organization.
In May 2004, Fahima entered the Jenin area and meet with operatives of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah movement. She met with Zakaria Zubeidi, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade leader in Jenin.
Fahima declared that she would serve as a human shield for Zubeidi, who was wanted by Israeli security forces. She also reportedly had an affair with Zubeidi.

How Islamic is that carnal affair?

News of the Janeane Garofalo conversion to Islam has not been made public yet.

H/T Jennifer Rubin at Contentions

Also at the Jawa Report

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Once again, for your consideration:

Nah, this is not great literature, but then what is these days? It is, however, a fun alternate-future story where the cowardly blue state Americans convert to Islam, while the well-armed red state real Americans form a Christian republic in the the Bible Belt. Heh. Somehow Southern California remains kind of secular, go figure, Utah remains Mormon, and Las Vegas remains Vegas, baby

Eduardo S. Silva, Army Specialist -- Rest In Peace

Eduardo S. Silva, 25

Army, Specialist
Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
563rd Aviation Support Battalion, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom
Died: June 9, 2009
Bagram, Afghanistan
Married
Gender: Male
Hometown: Greenfield
High School: Greenfield High (Greenfield)

Army Spc. Eduardo S. Silva, 25, loved making his family and friends laugh.
That he would die mysteriously in Afghanistan was unimaginable to his family in the Monterey County community of Greenfield. Because he was an Army cook, his family believed he would be safe.

He said his son joined the Army "because of the lies the government tells these kids."

But his cousins said Silva was enjoying his tour in Afghanistan.
"He liked Afghanistan," said Maria Silva, 25, a cousin who grew up with him. "When he was here two months ago, he was so happy. He was just going everywhere. . . . You could see the happiness he had in him."
She said her aunt urged him not to return to Afghanistan after his trip home, promising to help him and his young wife financially until he could find other work. "But he said, 'I like it over there, and I am going back.' And he went back," his cousin said.

Read more about Army Specialist Eduardo S. Silva here, here and here.

Governor MoonBeam

Jerry Brown: Ultimate Insider from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

Looks like fun in LaLaLand this year.

Bumped & Tidied Up: Helen Thomas -- I Luv This Press Corpse

UPDATERY:
[Okay, I'm deleting my comment here. Make up your own. Shouldn't be difficult.]
Sometimes words mean what they mean and can be used, but why be like that?
No need to use that word, twice, no matter how disgusted I may be at how disgusting she/they can be.
As KB told me a few months ago, not liking a clever (I thought) FaceBook post I posted right after ObamaCare passed: Couldn't you be more, um, pretty?

Hear hear. Let us all be pretty.
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And One More Thing:
Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky, to Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon. That explain anything to ya? It ain't the Winchester coming out of the aging bigot here, sorry to disappoint you, it's the ungrateful Tripolese.
[Now if you know what a sensitive soul I am, then you also know that's a comment on ungratefulness, not a comment on Tripolese-ness.]

Luis D. Santos, Army Specialist -- Rest In Peace

Luis D. Santos, 20

Army, Specialist
Based: Ft. Carson, Colo.
1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 8, 2006
Buhriz, Iraq
Engaged
Gender: Male
Hometown: Rialto
High School: Fontana High (Fontana)
Burial: Riverside National Cemetery

Santos's parents came to the U.S. from Guatemala.

That was the only time I've cried in this country. I've seen a lot of stuff over here, a lot of good things and a lot of bad things. But I'll never forget how it felt knowing that Santos wasn't gonna be coming back to the States when we redeployed, and we weren't gonna be able to do all the things that we had planned to do together -- barbecues, drinking a beer or two. Just everything. — Andrew Townsend, fellow soldier and friend

Read more about Army Specialist Luis D. Santos here and here.

PTO -- BoyDog

Personal time out.
BoyDog.
July 1996 - June 6, 2010
Bud.
Friend.
Protector.
Champ.
Cat nemesis.
Beloved.
Old guy who looked like a puppup.
Good run.
Going to miss you, you handsome thing.
Thanks for all of it.
All pictures: Studio City and Chatsworth, CA, April 2010.

1000 Words -- Israeli Navy Seals

Worthy words -- Our Children
via Israel Matzav
T-shirt of the day.

Joshua R. Whittle -- Marine Corporal -- Rest In Peace

Joshua R. Whittle, 20

Marines, Lance Corporal
Based: Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom
Died: June 6, 2009
Helmand province, Afghanistan
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Downey
High School: Columbus High (Downey)
Burial: Riverside National Cemetery

Although he was only 12 years old, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks profoundly changed Whittle and eventually sent him down a path from which he never wavered. Whittle wanted nothing more than to become a U.S. Marine. Three weeks after he arrived in Afghanistan for his first combat tour, Whittle was dead, the victim of a land mine.

Read more about Lance Corporal Joshua R. Whittle here.
Josh Whttle's MySpace page.

D-Day

Musical Interlude -- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong -- Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Saturday Night Oldie

Justin A. Verdeja, Army Pfc -- Rest In Peace

Justin A. Verdeja, 20

Army, Private 1st Class

Based: Ft. Carson, Colo.

2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: June 5, 2007

Baghdad (southern part), Iraq

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: La Puente
High School: James A. Garfield Senior High (Los Angeles)
Burial: Resurrection Cemetery, Montebello

Verdeja, slim and muscular, excelled as a triple-jumper and wide receiver at Garfield High. Friends and family recall him as a soft-spoken, incorrigible flirt who rarely missed an opportunity at school to try to impress girls with his singing.
He had more passion than talent, joked Guerrero, who said Verdeja's favorite ballad was "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith. "He sang that song and annoyed the whole world. It was horrible," she said.

Verdeja is survived by his mother and five brothers.
Read more here and here.

Shabbatus Interruptus -- Ground Zero/Cordoba Mosque

Mr. Smith is on it again over at TOMcC.
NYC Weakards.
They'd not attempt this had we a real president.
Don't talk to me about Obama hatred.
Grow up.
Wake up.
Smell the fricken coffee.
Now, happily, back to Shabbat Shalom.
See you later, tater.

Shabbat Shalom -- Musical Interlude -- En Tus Tierras Bailare

EN TUS TIERRAS BAILARE
אני ארקוד על האדמה שלך
I will dance on your land

HT IsreallyCool

Helen Thomas -- I Luv This Press Corpse

UPDATERY:
[Okay, I'm deleting my comment here. Make up your own. Shouldn't be difficult.]
Sometimes words mean what they mean and can be used,  but why be like that?

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Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky, to Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon. That explain anything to ya? It ain't the Winchester coming out here, sorry to disappoint you, it's the ungrateful Tripolese.
[Now if you know what a sensitive soul I am, then you also know that's a comment on ungratefulness, not a comment on Tripolese-ness.]

Racisty Goodness -- Andrew Klavan

"You know what's great about anti-Semitism?" Klavan asks.
"It lets you know exactly who the dirtbags are."

HT NRO
Mr. Klavan recommends: DiscoverTheNetworks.org

Krissoff -- Bush -- Krissoff

President George W. Bush told the story the other night, in Grand Rapids, of former East Grand Rapids resident Bill Krissoff, an orthopedic surgeon who pressed Bush at age 61 in 2007 to let him join the Navy as a combat surgeon in honor of his son. Marine Lt. Nathan Krissoff, 25, had been killed in a December 2006 roadside bomb explosion in Iraq.
Krissoff served a year in Iraq and now is serving at age 63 in Afghanistan, Bush said.
"America produces amazing people like Dr. Krissoff," Bush said.

Yeah, America does.
Read about Dr. Krissoff:

Dad joins Navy to honor fallen son

Via Drudge

Cody R. Legg, Army Sergeant -- Rest In Peace

Cody R. Legg, 23

Army, Sergeant
Based: Ft. Drum, N.Y.
1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry)

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: June 4, 2008

Tikrit, Iraq

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Escondido

High School: San Pasqual High (Escondido)

Burial: Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego

His joy of life, his smile, could light up a room. He just had a zest for life that was contagious. — Bunnie Jacquay, mother

Read more about Sergeant Cody R. Legg here and here.

Flotilla Of Thugs -- We Con The Useful Idiots Via CNN & BBC

Thanks, as always, to Mr. Smith and Mr. McCain at The Other McCain -- where the lyrics are available as well.

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Updatery 06/12/10:
Nah, this vid is no longer available because YouTube succumbs to threats from CAIR and submits to Sharia shite.
Updatery 06/19/10:
BUT: Pajamas Media has it up for you. Enjoy.

Shop-Rite Sharia

Attention Hellmart shoppers, BlueLight Special in aisle 666

I have to admit that occassionally Pat Roberson looks a little demonic to me and he sounds like a kook too, from time to time, a kook from my youth, God love them. Yet he appears to be onto something here with this CBN report from Hellalco Halalco in Falls Mosque Church, Virginia:

In addition to halal meat, the store carries a large selection of Islamic books, recordings and clothing.
In an exclusive investigation, CBN News discovered that Halalco was also selling CDs and DVDs by none other than al-Awlaki.

In the store, was a display devoted entirely to al-Awlaki's works just one day after he released a video calling for the killing of U.S. civilians.
When Halaco's management was asked for comment, CBN News was told to come back the following day to speak with store owner Abdul Mateen Chida.
The next day, the al-Awlaki display was gone. CBN News asked Chida about the sudden change.
"We have removed them now," he replied.
When asked whether the display would still be up had CBN News never inquired about it, Chida answered, "…it is possible."

It gets better, read it all.

Things to ponder:
CBN News also found his Religion of Thugs materials for sale at Amazon.com. The online Caliphate-bookseller did not respond to a request for comment.
B. Hussein Obama's FBI did comment correctly that al-Awlaki's kill-the-infidel-for-Allah recordings are protected under the First Amendment.
About 3,500 American-loving Arab/Muslim Americans serve in the US Military.
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For your consideration:

Nah, this is not great literature, but then what is these days? It is, however, a fun alternate-future story where the cowardly blue state Americans convert to Islam, while the well-armed red state real Americans form a Christian republic in the the Bible Belt. Heh. Somehow Southern California remains kind of secular, go figure, Utah remains Mormon, and Las Vegas remains Vegas, baby