From White Rhino Report, a truly incredible story, of love, Alzheimer’s and the Red Sox,
She reached into the closest, grabbed the Red Sox cap and placed it gently and lovingly on her husband’s head. She sat holding her husband’s hand watching the opening innings of the game. He turned to her and said: “Honey, do you remember when we went to Game #6 of the 1975 World Series and saw Carlton Fisk hit that homerun that ended the game? Look at these young kids the Red Sox have playing for them now. They are amazing!â€
His wife was astounded. This was the first time in four years he had been able to communicate with anyone.
Read the whole story, it will make your day.
Hat Tip: Universal Hub
1. Iraq Islamic Party declares “Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated”
Somebody better tell Harry Reid!
Courtesy of the incredible Michael Yon,
“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,†according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,†referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.
Colonel Ricky Gibbs, the American brigade commander with responsibility for the Rashid District in south Baghdad today told me, “So goes South Baghdad goes Baghdad.†General Petraeus had told me similar things about the importance of South Baghdad. In fact, Rashid is quickly developing into what might be one of the final serious battlegrounds of the war.
2. US Casualty Rate at Two Year Low
Remember how everyone feared that The Surge would lead to a dramatic rise in US casualties. Well, the opposite has happened.
Gateway Pundit has a terrific, comprehensive post that I highly recommend.
Anyone heard a peep about this in the MSM? Me neither.
3. Time Magazine’s Insurgent Talking Points
We talk all the time about how the MSM covers stories that fit their agenda or narrative. Well, twenty headless bodies being discovered certainly fits for Time,
The horrible discovery in Diyala province Monday was disturbing even by the standards of Iraq’s running sectarian violence. Iraqi police said they found 20 decapitated bodies dumped near a police station west of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province. That same day a suicide bomber on a bicycle careened into a Baquba police station, killing 29.
Fit so well that apparently Time didn’t bother to check to see if it was true. Unfortunately for Time Magazine’s reputation, Jim at Gateway Pundit did check. He did the job that Time was supposed to do, you know, actually check stuff out before publishing.
From Gateway Pundit,
Major Danielson told me that they had not received any word from Iraqi authorities that this event took place. (This is two days after the bodies were supposedly discovered.) Major Danielson also explained that if there was a record of this event that MNF-I would have seen the report. They have not seen any follow up report on this incident.
There is no evidence of this event.
There is no official report on this event.
There are no photos of this event.
The BBC has retracted their report. Time Magazine has not.
Check out the whole post that Jim has put together. It is devastating to Time’s reputation.
Just another day in the blogosphere, busting the MSM for publishing insurgent lies and propaganda and highlighting stories they don’t want you to know about.
Sgt. Tim Sumner is asking a simple question today,
What explains the New York Times’ ten-day delay in reporting that U.S. Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy would be posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?
and providing the answer,
The short answer is some people never change. Thirty-five years ago, when the Times’ Arthur “Pinch†Sulzberger Jr. was asked by his father about his preference should an American soldier run into a North Vietnamese soldier, antiwar activist “Pinch†responded, I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country.â€
Everything you need to know about the agenda, integrity and character of those running the New York Times, in a simple paragraph,
Since 9/11, on all battlefields, more than 4,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have earned and been awarded the top six medals for valor, the Bronze Star with ‘V’ device and higher. Conversely, the Times has written and published but four straight stories about the battlefield heroics of the War on Terror’s most highly decorated troops — and not one time has even their heroism made the Times’ front page.
Read the whole piece, but not too soon after eating, you may lose your lunch.
If you are interested in the combat heroics of these brave men and women, check out our Someone You Should Know archive here.
Hat Tip: Greyhawk at the indespensible Mudville Gazette
From a Boston.com photoshop contest; Brett Dewey from Wicked Cool sent in this dig at an old rival of the Sox.
GI back from Iraq early surprises kids at school
Charles E. Ramirez / The Detroit News
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Brittainy and Madison were hoping their dad, Maj. Robert Thomas, would come home from Iraq in the next couple of weeks.
So it’s no wonder they were bowled over when he walked into their school’s gymnasium during a student program about patriotism Thursday.
Who knew you could still get away with a student program about patriotism? Won’t some people find that offensive? Right, who cares.
As a father, these photos (and captions from the Detroit News) brought a tear to my eye,
Brittainy Thomas, center, reacts as she sees her dad walk into the Atwood Elementary School gym. Her sister, Madison, second from right, does not see her dad yet.
Brittainy flies into her father’s arms as sister Madison, left, waits her turn.
Brittainy looks up at her dad with tears in her eyes as they are interviewed by the media after the surprise.
The Thomases – dad Robert, mom Michele and daughters Madison and Brittainy – are reunited. The school staff planned the event when they heard about Thomas’ homecoming a couple of weeks ago from Michele.
Hat Tip: K-Lo at The Corner
Michael Yon on The New Republic’s latest Fabulist, Scott Beauchamp.
As for The New Republic, some on the staff may feel like they’ve been hounded and treed, but it’s hard to feel the same sympathy for a group of cowards who won’t fess up and can’t face the scorn of American combat soldiers who were injured by their collective lapse of judgment. It’s up to their readers to decide the ultimate fate.
Read the whole thing.
And support Michael’s great work here, I did.
This is fantastic. This creep thought he could take down his arrogant, obnoxious post about dealing with the US soldiers at a checkpoint, but he was sorely mistaken.
The Americans, however, are the absolute worst. I had a testy exchange Tuesday with an American soldier at an entry checkpoint into the Green Zone.
The pomposity and arrogance of this turd is incredible. He removed this post because he was being mocked far and wide across the blogosphere (well, at least the conservative blogosphere)
Here’s more,
He took offense at my response.
Then he looked at the second ID of my companion. It was a badge issued by our newspaper. He said it wouldn’t do. Besides, he asked, what is Knight Ridder?
“I never heard of it,†he said. He probably would have never heard of McClatchy, either. (We use Knight Ridder because it already had a bureau in Baghdad before the chain was bought by the McClatchy Co.)
If only the soldier said, “Oh yea, now I remember, McClatchy, your the morons who wrote that tear jerker the other day about the bear market for ditch diggers.”
Read the whole thing. This reporter thought he could pull his obnoxious post and avoid the wrath of angry bloggers. He was sadly mistaken.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin