if it is not bad enough that our president rigged the BRAC study to stick it to the Northeast and redeploy our Military Bases , like Ft Monmouth, to Maryland. now comes word that the bushleague administration is ready to approve the LOST , Law of the Sea Treaty , that will give the United Nations control of all international waters.....also known as 70% of the globe. The UN will then insist that anyone can go anywhere for peaceful purposes.....who decides what is a peaceful purpose? the UN, that's who......they will also charge a tax , or royalty fee for anyone that wants to drill for oil in international waters.........can't you see the day the Iranians and Russians are setting up drilling platforms off hte Coney Island coast , and we loose the right to sail unto the Persian Gulf...........the once proud Navy that I served in under the great Ronald Reagen reached a goal of a 600 Ship Navy, the largest "peacetime" Naval force in the history of the EARTH......Today ? 292 active ships.........wake up friends, call Sen Biden, Call our lame duck president and insist that we turn a thumbs down to the LOST......before it's too late. ( see article below for specifics)....this pathetic treat was originally drawn up under Jimmy carter....shocker.....and immediately rejected under Reagen.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
some Americans Still get it.
not everyone is Rutgers scm.
September 19, 2007 -- ARMY senior fullback Mike Viti knows he has a full plate. In fact, he was so concerned about taking on too much responsibility, he sought out the counsel of a West Point great, Pete Dawkins.
Dawkins, a former Heisman Trophy winner and Rhodes Scholar, told Viti he should try to be all he can be. Mission accomplished.
Viti is a team captain and one of just four regimental commanders at West Point. He told The Post because of football practices, games and travel, his regimental commander duties (he oversees eight companies and two battalions) and an 18-credit course load (“It’s the first time I haven’t taken at least 20 credits,’’ Viti said), he’s getting about four hours of sleep per night.
The heavy workload hasn’t affected Viti’s play. He has scored a touchdown in each of the past two games for Army (1-2), including a 3-yard run for a TD in Saturday’s 21-10 loss to Wake Forest.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Viti’s success is that he wasn’t born into a military household and initially didn’t see himself attending a service academy, much less become one of its leaders.
Both of his grandfathers fought in the Korean War, but his dad didn’t serve. Viti, from Berwick, Pa., was considering Villanova and Penn State. Then came the day that changed the world, certainly Viti’s: Sept. 11, 2001.
“I was in my world history class in high school my sophomore year and one of the teachers walked in and said there had been an accident,’’ Viti said. “I remember watching the second plane go into the tower and you knew then it was no accident.
“Then we heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon and the one that went down in Pennsylvania. I felt like my home was in the center of a triangle - New York, Washington and Shanksville. By the end of my junior year I made an unofficial visit to West Point and I knew then that this was the only place for me.’’
The American public has become all too familiar with the Triangle of Death, the region outside of Baghdad that has become the horrific area where so many servicemen have lost their lives or been injured. Viti knows he has committed to a life of service, and he has no reservations.
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September 19, 2007 -- ARMY senior fullback Mike Viti knows he has a full plate. In fact, he was so concerned about taking on too much responsibility, he sought out the counsel of a West Point great, Pete Dawkins.
Dawkins, a former Heisman Trophy winner and Rhodes Scholar, told Viti he should try to be all he can be. Mission accomplished.
Viti is a team captain and one of just four regimental commanders at West Point. He told The Post because of football practices, games and travel, his regimental commander duties (he oversees eight companies and two battalions) and an 18-credit course load (“It’s the first time I haven’t taken at least 20 credits,’’ Viti said), he’s getting about four hours of sleep per night.
The heavy workload hasn’t affected Viti’s play. He has scored a touchdown in each of the past two games for Army (1-2), including a 3-yard run for a TD in Saturday’s 21-10 loss to Wake Forest.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Viti’s success is that he wasn’t born into a military household and initially didn’t see himself attending a service academy, much less become one of its leaders.
Both of his grandfathers fought in the Korean War, but his dad didn’t serve. Viti, from Berwick, Pa., was considering Villanova and Penn State. Then came the day that changed the world, certainly Viti’s: Sept. 11, 2001.
“I was in my world history class in high school my sophomore year and one of the teachers walked in and said there had been an accident,’’ Viti said. “I remember watching the second plane go into the tower and you knew then it was no accident.
“Then we heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon and the one that went down in Pennsylvania. I felt like my home was in the center of a triangle - New York, Washington and Shanksville. By the end of my junior year I made an unofficial visit to West Point and I knew then that this was the only place for me.’’
The American public has become all too familiar with the Triangle of Death, the region outside of Baghdad that has become the horrific area where so many servicemen have lost their lives or been injured. Viti knows he has committed to a life of service, and he has no reservations.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Navy Times article
the below article appeared in the Navy Times.....hence I will gladly await the day the SCUM of Rutgers gets theirs......and they will.
The president of Rutgers University apologized Tuesday to Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler after Rutgers University fans serenaded Navy football players and fans with profane jeers during much of a 41-24 win by the nationally ranked Scarlet Knights on Sept. 7.
Bill Squires, a 1975 Naval Academy graduate who serves as a Naval Academy recruiting coordinator in New Jersey, was at the game. He said he first heard the abuse in the second quarter when a section of about 60 drunken students began screaming at a small group of midshipmen who sat in an adjoining section.
“All the sudden I hear this ‘F--- you, Navy, f--- you, Navy’ chanting for like 45 seconds,” he said, adding that Navy fans and football players ignored the hard words, but the Navy band did not. It struck up “Anchors Aweigh,” drowning out the hecklers.
Later, when he and a Navy lieutenant stationed at the Naval Academy walked to a stadium bathroom, Squires said a drunken Rutgers fan confronted them in the doorway, screaming more profanity at them about how badly Navy was losing.
And when Midshipman Reggie Campbell, a 168-pound slot back, was tackled returning a kickoff, “showing all the heart and desire that the Navy team stands for” against the larger Rutgers players, according to Squires, the same group of fans jeered and cursed him, chanting “you got f---ed up” in unison as he walked from the field.
Squires, who has run Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium and the Cleveland Browns’ stadium during a long career in sports management, said he was no stranger to the antics of obnoxious fans.
“I am very attuned to fan misbehavior, and I have seen some pretty bad things in my day,” he said. “This is one of the worst. It’s in the top 3.”
Rutgers officials apparently agreed.
“No student athlete should ever be subject to profane language directed at them from the crowd, and certainly not the young men of the Naval Academy who have made a commitment to serve our nation in a time of war,” university President Richard McCormick wrote in an open letter to Fowler and the Rutgers student body. “Your midshipmen conducted themselves with dignity throughout the game and have my admiration.”
Naval Academy athletic department spokesman Scott Strasemeir said he was aware of the incident but declined to comment, other than to say that there had been communication between officials at both schools about it and that the Navy athletic department considered the matter closed.
“How anybody can root against a service academy when [graduates] are going to be asked to put their lives on the line, I don’t know how you can do that.” Squires said. “It goes to show you the social changes taking place in our country. It’s not just Rutgers. It’s elsewhere throughout this country. But it wasn’t more plain and visible than what I saw Friday night.”
Squires said that older Rutgers fans showed more respect for the Navy team.
“They weren’t 100 percent jerks. It was really the students. It was young kids who don’t seem to get it,” he said, contrasting the Rutgers’ fans actions with the midshipmen who were there.
“I was so proud of the midshipmen because there was no reaction from them,” Squires said. “They took it. They stood tall. They did what they were taught to do. I am not sure, if I was 30 years younger in my white uniform, I wouldn’t have reacted differently.”
The president of Rutgers University apologized Tuesday to Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler after Rutgers University fans serenaded Navy football players and fans with profane jeers during much of a 41-24 win by the nationally ranked Scarlet Knights on Sept. 7.
Bill Squires, a 1975 Naval Academy graduate who serves as a Naval Academy recruiting coordinator in New Jersey, was at the game. He said he first heard the abuse in the second quarter when a section of about 60 drunken students began screaming at a small group of midshipmen who sat in an adjoining section.
“All the sudden I hear this ‘F--- you, Navy, f--- you, Navy’ chanting for like 45 seconds,” he said, adding that Navy fans and football players ignored the hard words, but the Navy band did not. It struck up “Anchors Aweigh,” drowning out the hecklers.
Later, when he and a Navy lieutenant stationed at the Naval Academy walked to a stadium bathroom, Squires said a drunken Rutgers fan confronted them in the doorway, screaming more profanity at them about how badly Navy was losing.
And when Midshipman Reggie Campbell, a 168-pound slot back, was tackled returning a kickoff, “showing all the heart and desire that the Navy team stands for” against the larger Rutgers players, according to Squires, the same group of fans jeered and cursed him, chanting “you got f---ed up” in unison as he walked from the field.
Squires, who has run Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium and the Cleveland Browns’ stadium during a long career in sports management, said he was no stranger to the antics of obnoxious fans.
“I am very attuned to fan misbehavior, and I have seen some pretty bad things in my day,” he said. “This is one of the worst. It’s in the top 3.”
Rutgers officials apparently agreed.
“No student athlete should ever be subject to profane language directed at them from the crowd, and certainly not the young men of the Naval Academy who have made a commitment to serve our nation in a time of war,” university President Richard McCormick wrote in an open letter to Fowler and the Rutgers student body. “Your midshipmen conducted themselves with dignity throughout the game and have my admiration.”
Naval Academy athletic department spokesman Scott Strasemeir said he was aware of the incident but declined to comment, other than to say that there had been communication between officials at both schools about it and that the Navy athletic department considered the matter closed.
“How anybody can root against a service academy when [graduates] are going to be asked to put their lives on the line, I don’t know how you can do that.” Squires said. “It goes to show you the social changes taking place in our country. It’s not just Rutgers. It’s elsewhere throughout this country. But it wasn’t more plain and visible than what I saw Friday night.”
Squires said that older Rutgers fans showed more respect for the Navy team.
“They weren’t 100 percent jerks. It was really the students. It was young kids who don’t seem to get it,” he said, contrasting the Rutgers’ fans actions with the midshipmen who were there.
“I was so proud of the midshipmen because there was no reaction from them,” Squires said. “They took it. They stood tall. They did what they were taught to do. I am not sure, if I was 30 years younger in my white uniform, I wouldn’t have reacted differently.”
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
record # of hits on Sweater Nite Blog
the royalties are rolling in.....thanks to a flurry of activity on this blog....keep up the good work............update....Collins bar-b-q a big hit....lots of friendly familiar faces
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