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In and Out Of Office: Putting iPads To Work
While it can perform many of the functions of a PC or Mac, Apple’s iPad— including the new iPad 2—lacks two of the most common and frequently used features of a traditional computer. It has no standard USB port for connecting a flash drive or external hard disk, so you can’t move files into and out of it from these devices. And it doesn’t have a systemwide, user-accessible file system like those on traditional computers.
The iPad lacks a USB port and can’t accept a flash drive or external hard disk. So how do you get your files on it? Walt Mossberg gives a primer for retreiving Microsoft Office files or Adobe PDFs from a computer or cloud services.
These omissions have led many readers to ask me how you get files—especially Microsoft Office files and PDFs—into and out of iPads. They have bolstered the contention that the popular tablet is really just a “consumption device,” not a productivity tool.
So, here’s a brief primer on how to get such documents into and out of an iPad, and how to view, edit and create them on the tablet. This isn’t an in-depth product review, though I’ve tested every product and method I will mention here. It’s merely a quick, practical guide to how to work with documents on an iPad.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com …
Electoral College Designed To Preclude Political Parties? (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Gunny G’s Old Salt Marines Tavern Weblog: CORPORATE AMERICA: FREEDOM’S GREATEST THREAT…
Most of us who believe in the free enterprise system have been taught that business interests normally work to the betterment of America’s overall health, both commercially and politically. While there might have been a time when this was true, it is definitely not true today. Not only has Big Business become unfriendly to the principles of freedom, it has also become freedom’s greatest threat.
To say that Corporate America is America’s greatest threat is a harsh accusation, but one that I believe is warranted. I will even be so bold as to say that freedom has much more to fear from today’s Chambers of Commerce than it does from Al Qaida.
Today’s Americans need to carefully heed the sage counsel of Thomas Jefferson, who said, “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” The truth of that statement aptly explains the serious damage that Big Business is currently inflicting upon our liberties.
Someone rightly observed that one can determine the focus of, and influence upon, societies by analyzing its architecture. For example, from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the beginning of the War for Southern Independence, the most notable buildings (in most communities) belonged to churches. From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the most prominent buildings belonged to various governments. From the mid-twentieth century to the present, the biggest, most lavish, and most notable buildings belong to Big Business. This is not accidental or coincidental. These buildings are the monuments of men to the ideas that mean the most to them. Accordingly, a vast number of today’s Americans have come to worship at the shrine of Big Business.
However, this idolatry comes at great price. Not the least of which is the way we have allowed Big Business interests to virtually control governmental policy, including our war and defense policies.
For example, I recently obtained a copy of the U.S. Navy’s “Playbook.” This Playbook succinctly summarizes the Department of the Navy‘s policies and guidelines, and is made available to naval officers and to public affairs professionals. Under the section entitled “Vision” it states, “Americans secure at home and abroad; sea and air lanes open and free for the peaceful and productive movement of international commerce; enduring national and international naval relationships that remain strong and true; steadily deepening cooperation among the maritime forces of emerging partner nations . . .”
Notice the emphasis of “international commerce,” “international naval relations,” and “emerging partner nations.”
via Gunny G’s Old Salt Marines Tavern Weblog: CORPORATE AMERICA: FREEDOM’S GREATEST THREAT.
OK, I deleted my Facebook account….anyone else do this?
I still do not understand the fascination with Facebook (or Twitter)…… and I am someone who grew up in a computer.
Was curious how many other people tried it but dumped it.
via (vanity) OK, I deleted my Facebook account….anyone else do this?.
Gunny G: HOW DID WE GET HERE????? ~ Alan Stang Makes It All So Clear… « ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~
Again, how did we get here? We got here because four remarkable things happened in the Nineteenth Century, all designed to disempower God. They are the introduction of Communism by Marx and his disciples; the creation of Charles Darwin’s silly theory of evolution; the destruction of the Union by Lincoln and his Communists, replacing it with a total government in which the states are mere subsidiaries; and the capture of mainstream Christianity by the heretical idea that man is smart enough to overrule God. Satan was the first to believe that.
The basic principle of Communism of course is atheism. The Communists say God doesn’t run things; they do. There is no God. Man is supreme. Man can create a heaven on earth far superior to God’s version (the Kingdom of Heaven). But, guess what? Only God can handle being God!
Everyone else who tries to be God has gone crazy. That is what the record shows. Every one! In Kipling’s story, The Man Who Would Be King couldn’t even handle being king, much more God. In Rome, the emperors went crazy merely pretending to be one of many gods. Look at crazy Caligula. Remember, we are talking history here, not religion.
History shows that being God goes to a man’s head. Because God can do anything for His own pleasure, a man who would be God thinks so can he, and that whatever he does is right because he does it. To make heaven on earth, he mass murders millions. He justifies every excess in the belief that he is “God.”
International Socialists Stalin and Mao did that. National Socialist Hitler did that. But remember that Hitler got his ideas on the subject from the United States, which pioneered the concept of mass eugenicide. Now that competition from Hitler has been eliminated, mini-gods here are arguing again about eliminating huge chunks of the earth’s population. The only thing they argue about is how many people should be killed. No doubt they consider Hitler a pipsqueak.
via Gunny G: Alan Stang Makes It All So Clear… « ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~.
LINE OF SUCCESSION IF OBAMA/SOETORO REMOVED FROM OFFICE ~ By: Devvy (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Gunny G: Alan Stang Makes It All So Clear… (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
The Essence of Liberty #206, Federalism vs. Nationalism at the Philadelphia Convention Monarchists and nationalists and federalists—oh my! (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Psyops: Is Barack Obama a CIA Trained Manchurian Candidate? (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
The Church Age Ended In 1988…??? ~ May 21, 2011 – Judgment Day!; October 21, 2011 – The End of the World … (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Ribbon Creek PISC Plt #71 1956 S/Sgt Matt McKeon USMC
Thus Sergeant McKeon‘s ill-fated march set off immediate repercussions
which shook Marine Corps training from top to bottom. Moreover, an
uninterrupted flood of publicity by the press, radio, and television literally
divided the entire country into two opposing camps, those who condemmed McKeon
for what had happened and those who sympathized with him.
It was in this glare of public gaze that McKeon’s court-martial began at
Parris Island on 16 July 1956. A noted New York trial counsel, Emile Zola
Berman, undertook the sergeant’s defense before the military court. For three
weeks, the battle ebbed and flowed, concerned as much with the propriety of
the rationale and practices of Marine Corps training as with McKeon’s
responsibility for the Ribbon Creek affair. Witnesses came forward to defend
Marine training, others came forth to condemn it.
The defense presentation
culminated in the appearance on the stand of retired Lieutenant General Lewis
B. Puller and the Commandant of the Marine Corps himself.
Finally, on 4 August 1956, the court handed down its decision: McKeon
was acquitted of charges of manslaughter and oppression of troops; he was
found guilty of negligent homicide and drinking on duty. The sentence was a
fine of $270, nine months confinement at hard labor as a private and a
bad-conduct discharge from the Marine Corps. Upon review by the Secretary of
the Navy, the sentence was reduced to three months hard labor and reduction to
the rank of private; the discharge was set aside and the fine remitted.
Having already served part of his term prior to sentencing, McKeon…………………
via Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Ribbon Creek PISC Plt #71 1956 S/Sgt Matt McKeon USMC.
Fred On Everything ~ “Bageant Moves On We don’t last, and there’s no warranty”
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March 27, 2011
This will mean little perhaps to those who do not know Joe Bageant, but I write it for those who do. Or want to, which makes sense.
Jocotepec, Mexico–Joe lived awhile down the lake. We would visit him of an afternoon, Vi and I, and find him, a bear of a man, bearded mountain Buddha, writing on the porch of his one-room place in Ajijic. Always he wore his old fishing vest, in which I suspect he was born, and sometimes he carried a small laptop in one of its pockets. Usually we adjourned to the living room, which was also the bedroom, dining room, and salon. He would fetch bottles of local red, or make the jalapeño martinis he invented—there was a bit of mad chemist in him—and we would talk for hours of art, music, the news, politics, and people. Especially people. Sometimes he grabbed one of the guitars from the wall and sang blues, at which he was good.. I guess growing up dirt poor in West Virginia puts that kind of music in you.
Joe could fool you. He talked slow and Southern, lacked pretensions, and you could talk to him for weeks without realizing how very damned smart he was.
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Re The Army’s Germ Warfare Against Civilians…. (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Did Socialists Choose Democrat’s VP Candidate? ~ “…Barack Obama was promoted to the U.S. presidency, by an alliance of several Marxist groups…”
…It is a central theme of this blog that Barack Obama was promoted to the U.S. presidency, by an alliance of several Marxist groups including Democratic Socialists of America.
While this sounds far-fetched to some, there is nothing new about socialists working inside the Democratic Party to put “their” candidates into very high positions.
The late Millie Jeffrey was a leader in United Auto Workers and a high ranking Democrat in Michigan and on the national stage for decades.
In 2000 President Bill Clinton presented Millie Jeffrey, with the nation’s highest civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. Government, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, with the citation stating that those awarded “have helped America to achieve freedom.”
Millie Jeffrey, center, red dress
In the 1950 and 60s, Jeffrey was a Democratic Party National committeewoman from Michigan. In 1960, she helped campaign for John F. Kennedy, as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
After mobilizing the Michigan Democratic Party behind JFK in 1960, she then reportedly pushed JFK to initiate the Peace Corps.
Millie Jeffrey quit the DNC in the late 60s to protest the Vietnam War and to work for Robert Kennedy.
Less publicized were the facts that Millie Jeffrey was also a long time leader of Democratic Socialists of America, a “midwife” to the radical Students for a Democratic Society and a veteran of the communist infiltrated Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Jeffrey also traveled to the Soviet Union in 1969 and to the Peoples Republic of China in 1974.
According to Democratic Socialists of America member and prominent journalist Harold Meyerson, Millie Jeffrey was an influential power broker inside the Democratic Party………………….
BREAKING: Pacifex 11 Linked to Asian Earthquake ~ By Captain Eric H. May
BREAKING: Pacifex 11 Linked to Asian Earthquake
For those who dare not ask for themselves!
By Captain Eric H. May
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9xFIFR7OE&feature=player_embedded#at=51
HOUSTON, 3/27/11 — For the second time in the last four years, the training scenario of an in-progress, high-level U.S. disaster drill has actually occurred in Myanmar, the Indochina rice bowl that has irked international investors with its anti-globalist economic policies.
Three researchers sent me emails yesterday, the sum of which is that the former Burma probably suffered a punitive geowar attack. I render them to my reader with this earnest counsel:
They who caused Mayanmar’s mayhem have planned National Level Exercise 2011 for mid-May. At its core is a catastrophic U.S. earthquake.
ONE — Mike Delaney (Prothink) produced the best 9/11 documentary, Missing Links, and is well known as the unfazed recipient of throaty threats by an apoplectic Alex Jones. He wrote:
“In the 1970′s the U.S. signed the Environmental Modification Treaty banning the use of tectonic weapons, but how would the public know if it were now being broken? In 2007, when the infamous HR 1955 was floating around Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Center specified which issues they wanted people to shut their mouths about. These were:
“I pay close attention to ‘conspiracy theories,’ but never heard the one about Sumatra until it was brought up in the HR 1955 hearings. It was a big issue in the Middle East, though, which is spot-on about other issues. Fast forward to the Haiti earthquake, which Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said the U.S. caused.
“Now we have the earthquake/tsunami in Japan, which has the third strongest economy in the world, followed by its WW II partner, Germany. I would not be surprised to see a misfortune happen in Germany soon as well.”
TWO – Brother Shahid Allah, an eight-year veteran of Ghost Troop, sent me 6.8-Magnitude Quake Strikes NE Myanmar, to which I replied:
‘Salaam, Brother Allah! I strongly suspect that this was tectonic warfare, neatly coinciding with the second day of earthquake/tsunami drill PACIFEX 11, the subject of my article Tsunamis Today, 323, Worry Watchers.
“This isn’t the first strong case for a geowar attack against the country. On May 2, 2008, it was slammed by category-four Cyclone Nargis on the second day of U.S. National Level Exercise 2-08, which was then simulating a category-four storm. I wrote a article about it for the Iconoclast, Storms and Quakes: Weapons of War?:
“Whatever momentous event may happen in the future, you can count on the media to tell it wrong, and to label those who tell it right ‘conspiracy theorists.’ That’s the nature of information in evil times, when you have to move heaven and earth to get the truth out.”
THREE – Former Marine Major Bill Fox is the publisher of America First Books, and the author of the three-volume history of Ghost Troop, Mission of Conscience. He wrote:
“I watched the following video of nuclear scientist Leuren Moret, who offers invaluable insights on the 3/11/11 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear catastrophe. Here’s an introduction:
‘In 2004 Leuren Moret wrote Japan’s Deadly Game of Nuclear Roulette in the Japan Times, unmasking the lies and distortions by government and industry officials that led to nuclear power plants built in unstable areas. On March 20, in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Webre, she declared that the 3/11/11 Japan earthquake and ‘accidents’ at Fukushima’s six nuclear power plant units were in fact deliberate acts of tectonic and nuclear warfare against Japan.
“52 minutes into the video, Moret suggests that Space Shuttle Discovery was a forward observer for a HAARP attack on Japan. I wonder whether she read your False Flag Space Shuttle, posted in February, in which you gave an early warning that the shuttle might target nuclear reactors.
Endnotes:
- National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011), http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/nle2011_fs.shtm
- 9/11 Missing Links, http://www.911missinglinks.com/
- Alex Jones Apoplectic, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9xFIFR7OE
- Environmental Modification Convention, http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/index.html
- HR 1955, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
- The Protocols of Zion, http://tinyurl.com/cv4je4
- The Holocaust, http://tinyurl.com/d6lgn5
- 9/11, http://tinyurl.com/3n7lmp
- Sumatra Tsunami, http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f20/u-s-israel-india-nuclear-testing-may-345/
- Hugo Chavez says Haiti was HAARP victim, http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/116834.html
- Myanmar 6.8 Earthquake, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-24/rest-of-world/29182176_1_magnitude-quake-strikes-pacific-tsunami-warning-center-kilometers
- PACIFEX 11, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/23/90190/
- Geowar: Storms and Quakes , http://tinyurl.com/6onyyy
- America First Books, http://tinyurl.com/5f93lb
- Mission of Conscience,
- Leuren Moret, http://truth11.com/2011/03/24/haarp-japan-scientist-leuren-moret-japan-earthquake-and-nuclear-%E2%80%9Caccident%E2%80%9D-are-tectonic-nuclear-warfare-video-japan-not-natural-earthquake-initiated-by-external-energy/
- Leuren Moret Japan Times article, http://thealphanews.com/news-articles/earth-disaster-geo/japan-disaster/113-japans-deadly-game-of-nuclear-roulette
- HAARP, http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/
- False Flag Space Shuttle, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/25/eric-may-the-false-flag-space-shuttle/
- This article originally published by Veterans Today, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/27/pacifex-11-linked-to-asian-earthquake/
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Wounded 1981 (John Batchelor tonight) (Ronald Reagan)
Speaking Del Quentin Wilbur, author, Rawhide, re the assassination attack on Ronald Reagan in March 1981 by the sad-eyed Hinckley, and how lucky it was that Secret Agent Jerry Parr not only shoved POTUS Reagan into the car but also made the judgment call to divert to George Washington Hospital rather than return to the White House. Without that decision, done instinctively by Parr even absent certain evidence that the president had been wounded, the result would have been catastrophe. The book is a moment-by-moment recounting of the details from many points of view, including that of the sorrowful Hinckley. It is surprising to learn how near Reagan was to death. What a dark difference the death of Ronald Reagan would have made to the history of the Cold War and to the success of the United States in the 20th century. The alternative universe is where the Russians win the first round, Red Dawn.
Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield ~ The Plot To Destroy The US Military
In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy’s guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officers over a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically correct disarmed forces the world has ever seen.
The USS Enterprise crackdown, like the firing of General McChrystal and the push to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell“, completely ignore military realities for political objectives. A political military is also a useless military. Stalin‘s purges of the Russian Army‘s commanders left the Soviet Union completely unprepared for the Nazi attack. And the US military is being shaped along the same lines into a political military overseen by men whose chief credential is that they share the same politics as the politicians whom they serve.
A congressional report now says that the US military has too many white males at the top. Women are being kept out of the highest ranks because they lack combat experience. The report calls on the military leadership to “better reflect the racial, ethnic and gender mix of American society”. Which is code for affirmative action. If we didn’t have enough incompetents at the top, we can look forward to an affirmative action military in which the generals will be there because of the color of their skin or their gender, not because they’re the best at what they do.
News! Rubicon Crossed!| The Post & Email
A new day is emerging and it’s called America’s Second Revolution where the Constitution is, once again, the law of the land. No more free ride, no more anchor babies, no more collecting welfare without doing something for it (school crossing guard, picking up litter, etc.), no more showing up for a government job to just sit around and talk about pensions, and no more people allowed across our borders whose aim is to implement Sharia Law.
No more foreign aid to countries that do not support us. Not one cent of protection money to any Muslim country. No more training foreign troops in our military just so they can go back home to fight us. And as far as manufacturers of weapons here in the U.S.A., the free ride is over. You will fill out every export form, cross every ’t’ and dot every ‘i’. You will not be selling even one B.B. to any Muslim country.
Anti-Establishment History Is the Constitution Really Inimical To States Rights? Part 4
Mr. Galles also noted that: “One of the most insightful of the Antifederalists was Robert Yates, a New York judge who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, withdrew because the convention was exceeding its instructions. Yates wrote as Brutus in the debates over the Constitution. Given his experience as a judge, his claim that the Supreme Court would become a source of almost unlimited federal over-reaching was particularly insightful.”
As Brutus, he observed that the Supreme Court, as envisioned under the Constitution, would end up becoming a source of growing abuse because they were beyond the control of both legislatures and ordinary citizens and they were in no way subject to being “corrected by any power above them.”
“Brutus argued that when constitutional grounds for making rules were absent, the Court would create grounds ‘by their own decisions.’ He thought that the power it would command would be so irresistible that the judiciary would use it to make law, manipulating the meanings of arguably vague clauses to justify it.” (Galles)
That being the case, the Court could then proceed to interpret the Constitution according to the “spirit” of the law rather than the letter of the law. Looking at some of the “decisions” the Supreme Court has handed down in our lifetime, can anyone seriously doubt the concerns Robert Yates had? In fact, if anything, his concerns would today have to be labeled as “optimistic” because, in his day, he could have had no concept of just how far the Court would go in promoting the agendas of radical, activist judges who would shamelessly promote their version of what they wished the Constitution really said. I can remember Joseph Sobran, writing on this subject years ago when he noted that the Court has found many “enumerated penumbras” in the Constitution that justified abortion. Many will ask “What’s a penumbra?” For want of being able to explain it legally I will note that it is nothing more than a judicial version of “seeing through a glass darkly.” The lawyers see “rights” there that are never spelled out anywhere, except in their own minds. One might almost be led to ask that if these activist judges see such imaginary “rights” in the Constitution in their minds, have they, in fact, become “legends in their own minds?”
Barack Obama Has Awakened A Sleeping Nation By Gary Hubbell (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
RIBBON CREEK: THE AFTERMATH… “BOOT CAMP” 1956 AND AFTER… (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Barack Obama Argued Strict Revolutionary Marxism to John C. Drew, at Occidental College (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Pravda (Russian Nes Agency) not too happy with Mr. Obama: “liar and cheat” (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
ABOUT THE WIND AND THE LION ~ By R.W. Gaines GnySgt USMC (Ret.) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
ABOUT THE WIND AND THE LION ~ By R.W. Gaines GnySgt USMC (Ret.) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Federal Reserve Tells: Something Big Is Going Down And It’s Not Good
I doubt you will see this chart in the mainstream media any time soon… if EVER. This is a chart of the US monetary base. In simple terms, it charts how much money the Fed has pumped into the system (at least that it admits). So it’s a kind of visual of the Fed hitting the PANIC button: when the monetary base explodes higher, the Fed is FREAKING out. You’ll note that during the Financial Crisis the Fed didn’t do much until the autumn of 2008 when it pumped nearly $1 trillion into the system. Think about that, the Fed didn’t go nuts pumping money until the stuff REALLY hit the fan. You’ll also note that there’s only one other time when the monetary base went absolutely vertical: TODAY. Indeed, the Fed has pumped nearly $500 billion into the system since the start of 2011. Don’t even try to tell me this is QE 2. If it was then the monetary base should have spiked in late 2010, NOT in 2011. No, this is the Fed FREAKING OUT about the financial system again. And it’s a freak out on par with 2008. So if you think that all is well “behind the scenes” you’re in for a rude surprise. Something BIG is going down and it’s NOT good. And rest assured, by the time the mainstream media announces what it is, it will already be in full swing. Prepare Now!
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Remember Building 7 | Stand with the 9-11 families demanding a NEW Building 7 investigation – What is Building 7 ?
What is Building 7?
Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was part of the World Trade Center complex. It would have been the tallest high-rise in 33 states. It collapsed at 5:20 pm on September 11, 2001. It was not hit by an airplane and suffered minimal damage compared to other buildings much closer to the Twin Towers.
Video compilation of Building 7‘s destruction (no sound):
Building 7 in relation to the rest of the World Trade Center complex:
Building 7
To learn more about Building 7, visit “7 Facts about Building 7”, which includes photos of Building 7 before, during and after its destruction.
Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: WHAT DO THE POINTS ON THE USMC UTILITY COVER SIGNIFY?
WHAT DO THE POINTS ON THE USMC UTILITY COVER SIGNIFY?
Just my opinion, I have never seen anyone question the “points” on the Gung Ho Cap until the last few years. I suppose by “points” you boots are referring to the uppermost sewn-up portion of the headgear.
The old utility cap (called a Gung Ho Cap by my DIs) had no “points,” the first ones (WW II) actually were pretty floppy and had a longer bill (visor).
About 1953, the Corps came out w/the new non-HBT dungarees, and shortly after, the cap w/the sewn top appeared.
<>About that time, there had been a company called Ken Nolan, Inc….based in San Clemente if I recall correctly. (Ken Nolan was said to have been a former Marine S/Sgt–whether retired/discharged, I don’t know).
<>He had a number of items sold in the PX at that time at Pendleton. Most common was the Stripe-Rite Kit–a plastic two-piece box w/stencils cut into it from Pfc to M/Sgt. The sleeve of the dungaree jacket could be fixed within the two pieces and your stripes stenciled w/either a brush-n-ink, or a “stencil-pencil,” an affair that looked like a cross between a tube for toothpaste w/ponted end, and a magic marker.
<>Marines had previously just drawn the stripes onto their dungarees freehand–but most of the jobs really looked like hell. Some of the Bn Supply shops had also made up some stripe stencils same way they had for the names, MSNs stenciled on the backs of dungaree jackets, trousers, mount out gear, etc. The Ken Nolan stencil kit put an end, almost, to the crappy looking chevrons on dungarees.
via Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: WHAT DO THE POINTS ON THE USMC UTILITY COVER SIGNIFY?.
Chinese Troops In Mexico (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Gunny G: Sources of Info Regarding Constitutional Issues by Dr Eduardo M. Rivera… (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Lloyd Marcus — To Save America, We Must Wake Up and Dethrone Obama (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Obama, Receives Foreign Student tuition aid ~ “Smoking gun finally found?” (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Censored Jesse Ventura Show On FEMA Camps Survives On You Tube (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Lloyd Marcus — “King Obama is systematically taking control of every aspect of our lives.” ~ To Save America, We Must Wake Up and Dethrone Obama (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Ron Paul believes Libya intervention an ‘impeachable’ offense | EUTimes.net (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
The Battle of Athens 2 AUGUST 1946 (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
ABOUT THE WIND AND THE LION ~ By R.W. Gaines GnySgt USMC (Ret.) (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Billboards Going Up Around Country Saying Jesus Coming May 2011 Video (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
“the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was in fact an illegal coup d’état” ~ Conspiracy in Philadelphia by Gary North
The book’s thesis is, even for me, controversial. I provide 400+ pages of evidence that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was in fact an illegal coup d’état. The participants knew this. This is why they took a lifetime oath of secrecy, walked upstairs to the second floor of the State House (so that eavesdroppers could not report what was going on), closed the doors, and hammered out the design for a replacement government. Newspaper reporters were excluded.
These men had been authorized by Congress and by several state legislatures only to revise the Articles of Confederation (1781), but not replace them. Knowing full well that they planned to replace the Articles with a new form of government, the leaders of the Convention nevertheless agreed to the terms laid down by the state legislatures, and then went off to Philadelphia to begin the first stage of a political revolution.
The story of this second American revolution is not told in the public school textbooks or in the “Christian America” seminars that are dear to the hearts of Christian home schoolers.
But what about Verna Hall’s book, A Christian History of the Constitution? Its documentation ends in 1774. It is also worth noting that the book was edited by her colleague, Joseph Montgomery, who was a Christian Scientist. Why did he edit it? Because Miss Hall was a Christian Scientist at the time she began compiling her book. I discuss this little-known background in my book.
In 1787, the states, with one exception (Rhode Island), were explicitly based on faith in God. In most cases, elected state representatives were required to swear their belief in the Trinity. The new Constitution made all such oaths illegal for Federal office (Article VI, Clause III). By means of the 14th Amendment (1868), the U.S. Supreme Court has applied this prohibition to state governments, completing the transformation in the case of Torcasso v. Watkins (1961).
I told this story 15 years ago. In response, the silence has been deafening. The “Christian America” promoters have steadfastly avoided any reference to my 1989 book. So, I decided to create a stand-alone volume, add more documentation, put a title on it that might break through this wall of silence, and give it away.
You can download your copy here:
VP’ staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests
The White House website proudly says ‘President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history.’ But try telling Vice President Joe Biden’s staff that, after they held a local reporter in a closet for hours after he was invited to cover a Florida political fundraiser because they did not want him talking with the guests.
As the unaware $500-a-head invitees dined on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese, grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps, veteran reporter Scott Powers was locked away.
The Orlando Sentinel reporter was ushered into the closet inside wealthy property developer Alan Ginsburg’s Winter Falls mansion, after being told that Joe Biden and Senator Bill Nelson had not yet arrived. They were due to speak to the audience to raise money for the 2012 elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk …
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100 days in office, coronated Messiah Arms outstretched, he wears crown of thorns on his brow (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
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WHO RAISED THAT FLAG ON IWO JIMA?
(The following is from the book, Iwo Jima…, by Marling/Wetenhall) The answer may surprise even long-time Marines who think they know their Marine Corps history…)
“…on February 24 when Schrier was notified, “Request you designate one member group of flag raisers report aboard Eldorado (AGC 11) early morning 25 February.Purpose news broadcast.
Schrier sent his second in command of the original patrol–PltSgt Ernest Ivy “Boots” Thomas.
At 0430 the next morning, Thomas found himself aboard the ship in the presence of Admiral Turner and General Howlin’ Mad” Smith. He was then interviewed by Don Pryor of CBS, who, microphone in hand, introduced him as “a modest but tough 20-year old fighting man from Tallahassee,” leader of the Marine platoon that captured Suribachi, “the first American in history who has ever raised Old Glory over a part of the Japanese Empire.”
A stunned pause. “No, Mr. Pryor,” Thomas interjected, “I don’t want to give that impression. The honor belongs to every man in my platoon. Three of us actually raised the flag–Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier, our company executive officer, Sergeant H.O. Hansen of Boston, and myself. But the rest of the men had just as big a part in it as we did.”
Thomas continued to point out that although he felt “mighty proud,” he did not consider himself a hero, or that he had done anything that the others hadn’t also done.”
(PltSgt Thomas, speaking to the media and Navy/Marine Corps top brass just a couple days after the flag raising on Iwo Jima!)
THE VANDEGRIFT REVELATIONS
The following is from Tedd Thomey’
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