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Time To Send a Well-Deserved Message….

January 21st, 2007 at 08:23 by MsUnderestimated

When my friends, Kit and Heidi from Euphoric Reality, told me about this, I was stunned.

From ER’s site:

One of our soldiers emailed a retailer in West Allis, Wisconsin, inquiring whether they could ship floor mats to an APO address. The NCO wanted to buy better gear for his troops to sleep on. You won’t believe the company’s response*. (Their email address is included below, if you’d like to let the company know what you think of their business.):

From: SGT Jason Hess
Sent: Tue Jan 16 3:25

Do you ship to APO address? I’m in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for who ships to APO first.

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From: contact@discount-mats.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Feedback: from discount-mats.com

SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.

Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com

I thought it had to be one of those hoaxes that we all get behind emotionally to either combat or support. However, this one is apparently no joke. And my response to them will also be “no joke.”

Angry Kitty

This has also been verified by Snopes. Not that they’re the be-all/end-all, but to me if it’s made it to Snopes, at least some verification has been done on the subject.

Folks, this is a call to arms, so to speak, on this matter. Boycott doesn’t even cut it. We need to make sure this business has NO business, no customers who want to buy from them anymore, and all the negative publicity they can get. Are you ready to get busy on this one? It’s already starting.

And our friend Texas Fred has done a little more digging. Although the site is currently down due to technical difficulties, here’s what Fred found out.

The company’s domain is registered to:

Faisal Khetani
PO Box 270693
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227

As far as contact information goes for this jackass, here you go:

Email: contact@discount-mats.com

Tel: 414-736-8394

Here is their mailing address:

Bargain Suppliers
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, WI 53227

Have fun everybody, and let the games begin!

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FNS Brit, Bill & Juan Duke It Out (VIDEO)

January 21st, 2007 at 07:49 by MsUnderestimated

On Fox News Sunday today, the second half of the Panel was a discussion started off by a video clip of Grandma Pelosi saying that Bush is only sending troops into harms way right now because he knows the dems won’t cut off the funding for them once they’re there (wanna bet? let’s wait and see on that one, Ms. Nancy).

Here’s a partial transcript:

KRISTOL: They’re (the Democrats) leapfrogging each other in the degrees of irresponsibility they’re willing to advocate, and I really think people are being too sort of complacent and forgiving almost of the Democrats. Oh, it’s politics, of course. One of them has a non-binding resolution and the other one has a cap. It’s all totally irresponsible. It’s just unbelievable.

The president’s sending over a new commander. He’s sending over troops. And the Democratic Congress, either in a pseudo-binding way or non-binding way, is saying it won’t work, forget it, you troops, you’re going over there on a pointless mission.

Iraqis who might side with us — forget it, we’re going to pull the plug. It’s so irresponsible that they can’t just be quiet for six months or nine months and say the president’s made a decision, we’re not going to change that decision, we’re not going to cut off funds and insist on the troops coming back, so let’s give it a chance to work.

You really wonder, do they want it to work or not? I really wonder that. I hate to say this about the Democrats. They’re people I know personally and I respect some of them. Do they want this to succeed or not?

WILLIAMS: I think everybody wants it to succeed who believes in the idea that we are over there and our people are at stake — I don’t think there’s any question.

I think that’s sort of a rhetorical tool on your part. But your analysis seems to me to be totally ahistorical. It’s as if mistakes haven’t been made repeatedly, as if people don’t feel as if they’ve been misled down this path, that there has been tremendous support for this president and for this war effort, and it come to naught. It’s come to a bad place.

Yesterday was the deadliest day, I think, in two years — 19 Americans killed, Bill.

HUME: Juan…

WILLIAMS: There’s something going on here you might pay attention to as opposed to just the pure politics of if you don’t support this president, you don’t really want us to win.

KRISTOL: What are the Democrats doing that would change the 19 Americans who were killed yesterday? Nothing. Zero, except no reinforcements, you guys are on your own. That’s what they’re saying.

Are you kidding me, Juan?

WILLIAMS: Well, if you believe — you think reinforcements are going to make some radical change — no.

KRISTOL: Yes, I think they…

WILLIAMS: I think what Americans are saying…

KRISTOL: … I think they would help.

WILLIAMS: I think what people are saying is it’s time to re- deploy, look at new strategies, look at political compromise.

No, I’m not, Bill

HUME: Juan…

WILLIAMS: That’s what’s not being done by this administration.

HUME: Juan, serious people recognize one thing, and we are short of serious people nowadays, which is that wars get into bad places and even winning conflicts do.

Juan…have you not learned anything yet?

And you talk about an ahistorical view. It strikes me that the view that you’re espousing is very much that. You look at any major war that’s been fought over a period of time, and the winning side has had terrible moments and stretches of time when it appears victory might not be possible.

And the question then becomes what do you do at times like that. The president at least has changed his approach, is bringing in more troops, and the plan at least on paper has some apparent potential to work.

What you have from the Democrats is the idea, as Nancy Pelosi put it, this isn’t a war to be won — now, you claim they want success. This isn’t a war to be won, she says.

WILLIAMS: I think they do.

HUME: She says it is a conflict to be resolved, and their answer is retreat. You call it redeployment. It’s a euphemism, Juan. It’s retreat.

WILLIAMS: You’ve run out the clock, but we’ll come back to it next week, I’m sure.

You can read the entire show’s transcript here.

~~I don’t have access to the transcript yet, and don’t have time to transcribe the whole thing myself, but as soon as I have it, it will be posted here.~~

Watch Juan get schooled yet again here (must be a glutton for punishment, as he seems to be asking “please sir may I have another next weekend”). HAHA

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Dennis Miller on What’s Wrong With San Francisco? (VIDEO)

January 21st, 2007 at 06:56 by MsUnderestimated

The latest installment of “Real Free Speech” on Hannity & Colmes found Dennis Miller wondering what is wrong with San Francisco. A glee club from Yale can’t be in San Fran singing the National Anthem without getting their butts kicked? What has become of “Pashmina” Pelosi and her hometown?

I always get a big kick out of Miller Time. If you can get through this one without laughing at the Pelosi part, check your pulse.

Watch Dennis here.

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