Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.
Letter from Jack to the Denver Post Editors:
The headline read, “Library secure for kid porn” [Post 2007-11-18].
That’s a heck of a headline. I think that what you meant to say was,
“Clearing the road for US Att’y. Troy Eid’s assault on the Fourth
Amendment.”
If you’ve spent any time at Ron Paul meetups and talking to Ron Paul organizers (as I have, just to see what’s going on), if you do go to the Thanksgiving, expect to be hit up for money, but most of all, hit up to change your party registration. The deadline for the Republican caucuses is Dec 5 and the Republicans are looking to make a big dent in our registrations (on which our ballot access for the State of Colorado is based).
The McCaffrey Warning: Now that aged F-15s are falling out of the skies, we would direct your attention to a recent report prepared by retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a combat veteran of Vietnam and the Gulf. His comments were contained in a six-page “after action report” prepared after visiting air bases and talking with airmen of all ranks. He wrote: “The US Air Force is badly underfunded, its manpower is being drastically cut and diverted to support of counter-insurgency operations, its modernization program of paradigm-shifting technology is anemic–and its aging strike, lift, and tanker fleets are being ground down by non-stop global operations with an inadequate air fleet and maintenance capabilities. … We should create a US national security policy based principally on the deterrence capabilities of a dominant, global Air Force and Naval presence. … The US Air Force is our primary national strategic force. Yet it is too small, has inadequate numbers of aging aircraft, has been marginalized in the current strategic debate. … The next Administration must fix the manpower, aircraft, and funding shortfalls of the US Air Force or we will place the American people in enormous peril. … We lack the equipment, Airmen, and money to adequately defend America in the coming 15 years. We are placing our national security at enormous risk if we do not soon act to correct these crucial shortfalls.” McCaffrey went on quite a bit more, but you get the idea.