Seems the LCMS has some leadership people who suddenly have an issue with a lapsed trademark that is being applied for by another party.
Didn’t the leadership learn anything from last year’s cancellation fiasco?
Go forth and sign the petition.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Kagen votes for more pork
The House yesterday approved sending another $410 billion down the drain. That would be the omnibus spending bill that was loaded with 9,000 earmarks. Some of the earmarks:
* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;
*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;
*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
Not surprisingly Congressman Kagen voted for this porkulus deal. He also had a few earmarks in the bill to the tune of $2,732,000.
Speciality Martets, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade. and Consumer Protection $338,000
Wisconsin Uvestock Identification Consortium $1,455,000
Johne’s Disease activities, Wisconsin $939,000
Again Congressman Kagen the question has to be asked, why do continue to vote for pork-filled bills that waste OUR money as taxpayers??
And here’s some more. Why don’t you disclose your earmark requests online? Better yet why don’t you forgo making earmark requests?
Green Bay Tea Party
Congressman Kagen we want to know why you keep supporting pork-laden spending bills. Your socialist friends in Congress and in the White House may think its OK to bailout banks and auto companies. You and your friends may think its OK to create huge economic burdens that will extend to our children and grandchildren by ramming spending bills through Congress with no chance for amendments or real debate, let alone transparency. Guess what Congressman Kagen, your constituents back in Wisconsin don’t approve of all this reckless spending of OUR tax dollars! We are sick of the expansion of current entitlement programs and the creation of new ones!
“We the people” are sick of our voices not being heard by you and your Democratic friends in Washington DC.
In Green Bay we are joining the ranks of cities holding Tea Party protests.
What: Green Bay Tea Party
When: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 11 am – noon
Where: Titletown Brewing Company (Downtown)
This will be an outdoor rally. A march to Congressman Kagen’s office is being planned.
Spread the word and hope to see you there!
Wednesday Hero 2/25/09
Spc. Ross A. McGinnis
19 years old from Knox, Pennsylvania
1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
December 4, 2006
His mission was to patrol the streets of Adhamiyah in northeast Baghdad and find a place to put a 250-kilowatt generator that would provide electricity for more than 100 homes. But it’s a mission he wasn’t able to accomplish.
Shortly after Pfc. McGinnis’s convoy left the compound, and less than a mile from FOB Apache, an insurgent standing on a nearby rooftop threw a grenade into the sixth, and last, Humvee. “Grenade!” yelled McGinnis, who was manning the vehicle’s M2 .50-caliber machine gun. He tried to deflect the grenade but it fell into the Humvee and lodged between the radios.
“McGinnis turned and looked down and realized no one in the truck knew where the grenade was,” said Capt. Michael Baka, his company commander. “He knew everyone had their doors combat-locked and they wouldn’t be able to get out.”
Instead of jumping out of the truck to save his own life, like he had been trained to do, McGinnis threw his back against the radio mount, smothering the explosive with his body. The grenade exploded just as Pfc. McGinnis covered it. The blast filled the vehicle with black smoke and debris and blew the driver’s door and right passenger’s door wide open and blew the machine gun off its mount. The explosion hit McGinnis on his sides and his lower back, under his vest. He was killed instantly.
The other four soldiers in the Humvee suffered relatively minor injuries.
On the morning of December 4, 2006, before his convoy had left, Cpt. Baka has signed a waver promoting Pfc. McGinnis to Specialist and he was posthumously promoted to E-4.
For his heroic actions on that day, McGinnis was awarded the Silver Star and was nominated for a Medal of Honor which he received on June 2, 2008.
All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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