Archive for November, 2009
History Challenge 11/30/09 Mitsuo Fuchida
This History Challenge is now closed, please see comments below for the resource and winner information.
This weeks prize is the book “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck’s Favorite Facts and Stories” By Chuck Norris
Mitsuo Fuchida life changed one day shortly after the end of World War II as he got off the train in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station, and was handed a pamphlet entitled “I was a Prisoner of Japan” by an American. After reading about this American’s story and how the American volunteered for the Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo because of the attack on Pearl Harbor to which he (Fuchida) was the leading pilot and the Air Squadron Commander. He became more interested and learned that the American ran out of fuel and was forced to parachute into Japanese held territory to which he became a prisoner for 40 months. He was also interested in how the American survived the experience with the help of the Bible and learned to forgive his captors. So, despite his traditional buddhist heritage he decided to read it for himself. He became a Christian and spent many years spreading the gospel to his people. Name the American Doolittle raider, POW, and missionary to Japan that changed the life of Mitsuo Fuchida and many others.
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Navy Seals Face Charges for doing their Job.
Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away -Unfortunately, it probably will. Environmentalism has become a religion to so many people and the fact that there’s billions on dollars at stake with the green movement (Including GE who owns NBC –who is not reporting accurately on Climategate). So, unless THE PEOPLE stand up and demand answers, it will just be a minor set back to the movement. Besides, when has truth ever bothered these people? They just explain (talk), make up something new, or ignore it away and keep plugging along :) So, write you’re congressmen and senator and tell them to vote against cap and trade, and any climate treaty obama gets us in; based on this new evidence (that might give them an out, for those on the fence or who has committed in the past, but now might change their mind -ie McCain, Lugar and others)!! We can at least try!!
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist - And We Expect to Win This War? I’ve had the honor of working with Seals when (way back) I was in the Navy (Subs), and these guys are the real deal. They give all so that we might have freedom. They should be protected from this non sense – call your congressmen and demand they be treated fairly!!
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 By Marcus Luttrell
GOP’s Thanksgiving Proposal: Fewer Taxes, More Jobs
Hide the decline -Climategate
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? -- Although it should be, i’m guessing we’ll still be pushed for cap and trade.
Obama says ’step closer’ to climate deal
Has Oil’s Alternative Been Found?
Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents
Illegal alien burns elderly woman alive, now gets life
Abortion Activist Judge Hamilton Confirmed with Help of Ten Republican Senators
History Challenge 11/23/09 – First National Thanksgiving Day
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Four score and seven years ago….
Visiting Maj. Nidal Hasan’s Hospital
Sarah Palin Gives Oprah Her Highest Ratings In Two Years
‘Fireproof’ Creators’ Next Film about Fatherhood
Excused Horrors – by Walter Williams
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -President Abraham Lincoln on November 19th, 1863




















