If you ever get the chance to visit Washington D.C and Smithsonian Museum of National Air and Space Museum, you will find Martin B-26 Marauder called “Flak Bait”.

My grandfather was a tail gunner and bombardier on that plane.  Recently looking at old photos of WWII most notably D-day, I started to think about Nose Art and plane painting.

My thoughts quickly were saddened that in a world run amok of “PC” we will not see many of the pictures and could not even think of doing it now.  Sexist would be thrown out!

Please take the time to look at the website I have listed below and some of the pictures of the art and think about our history and where we are going!

I would have posted them, but those who just want to complain and find objectable and offensive things would complain to Mark Maley.

So, I will not post them and my rights of free speech are diminished. 

These same people would love to have the bloody pictures I am sure wiped clean because they might be offensive.  Yes, change the whole history of things!  In the end, those “PC” people will have diminished more than our rights and freedoms!  They will have diminished the sacrifices those that fought and came before us.  They will have diminished our future and that of our children.

My niece told me that in school she is taught, “Practice makes progress not perfection!”  She told me that her teacher said you cannot be perfect, so don’t try! 

Oh yeah remember teachers are not suppose to be political just like Mayors, Alderman and school board members.  All nonpolitical positions!  All non-partisan positions!  Yeah, right!  Ideology is in the core beliefs of all.

Pictures here

C-47 "Lady Luck"

C-47 "Ready 4 Duty"

EC-135 "Nasty Stuff" Avionics Test Bed

EC-135 "Bird of Prey" Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft (ARIA)

"Widow Maker"

I would like to inform my readers that the NOW blogs will be doing a rollout change.

Waukesha-Brookfield-Elm Grove-Tosa: April 23

Men Falls-Germantown-All North Shore Sites: April 28

West Allis-Greenfield-Oak Creek-Hales Corners-Franklin-Greendale-Muskego-New Berlin: May 6

As you remember from some server changes before, there could be issues plus I will not be able to post a new item 24 hours near the timed change.

Please be patient as this transition takes place. 

The new blog program is the same blogging program that Journal Sentinel bloggers have been using for several months, so if you want to get an idea of how it's going to look check out Tim Cuprisin's blog as an example:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/timcuprisin.html

This information is provided by NOW Online Editor Mark Maley

If after the change you notice anything odd, not working or not right please email Mark Maley MMALEY@journalsentinel.com with the problem and details to which you found it.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

I just want to let people know that there are blogging problems and problems with the NOW pages.  This is due to migrating to new servers.  Please forgive the problems as we hope they are taken care of soon.

As the NOW network transitions over to new blogging software, I am told it will be seamless and should not contain any outages.

Just in case of a major hiccup, I have an Alpha Site that many of you have already seen.

Milwaukee South Shore

http://www.rightviewwi.com/milwaukeesouthshore/

You can bookmark that site and check it out.  There are people trying to have my NOW blog pulled off and have my voice silenced.  This Alpha Site does create a backup plan just in case they win or there is a problem with the new software.  I don’t see that happening, but you never know.

I knew you would not fall for that one twice.

First, let me give you two emails I received about the first part.

“Let me know if you get any real negative response to this blog.  It was a funny move.”

“Loved your gimmick post. You are absolutely right and don’t bow down to the wishes of those who would like to for a lack of a better word neuter you! Keep telling it how it is, many people are waking up. You have more supporters than you know.”

You cannot please everyone

You can please some people

Most people blogging are highly opinionated people.  Not all, but most. 

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This post is based on an email I received from an individual upset over my post “The Next Cudahy Mayor”

Typically, my email comes in 3 to 1 in favor and when this one came in it was too good not to share.  It made me laugh so hard.  I don’t think that was the response they were looking for.  This email smacks of pure desperation.

Now I like it that people have their own opinions and I fully understand that people will disagree with me and I have stated that I am fine with that.  Reasonable people can agree to disagree.

Again, this comes courtesy of an out of touch Cudahy resident, who does not represent who or what Cudahy is!  I have not changed anything with their email (minus removal of their name).  I have only included my translation below in blue.

Once more, I have blanked out the name partly out of respect, but mostly out of embarrassment on their part.  I know I would not want to own up to this email or the ideals that are held up in it.

Please take the email seriously, if you can, because at first, I thought it was a joke.  However, you will see with further emails (I will share them all) they could not be more serious.

Cue the Twilight Zone theme!

Dear Randy,

  I read your rant with great interest.  My academic training from the University of Wisconsin in urban planning, urban affairs, urban geography, administrative leadership, adult education, history and governmental affairs says this.  Your understanding of society is short sighted and lacks the concept of a strategic plan.

Translation: I am better than you and nearly everyone else except those few I deem my equals.  My credentials and opinions are beyond reproach.  I am a liberal elitist.  No one who at the very least has my equivalent background can possibly understand the complexities of society, especially you as I know from your blog and my friends you're a conservative.  You will see my rant is far superior to yours for I am writing it!  When I said I read your rant with great interest, I only glanced at it for a moment because I already knew what it was about and would not waste my time actually reading it myself.

  The current administration in the City of Cudahy has the history of training in government from a city, state and federal perspective.  The current Mayor has successfully recruited new smart educated individuals who will move this City forward.  As a research scientist your "opinions" are only opinions.  If you want to educate the public with your blog, why not read research provided by the University of Wisconsin.

Translation: The current administration of Cudahy is leaning far left.  The mayor and some of his friends run in my circle and I have deemed them superior to the common people.  They've complained about you and your blog so I went online to glance at it for the first time; not open minded but instead sympathetically to the perceptions of those in my circle.  Behold by credentials again: research scientist.  Common people like yourself need to remember your place in society.  You should not speak or cause problems for your superiors for they are superior.  You should only consider speaking if you are going to support the political views and plans of your superiors, and you should look to UW research, as a left leaning educational institution, to find how you should be thinking and writing.  How the “federal perspective” I don’t know, but I will throw it in because it sounds grand.  I will state the obvious that opinions are opinions and attempt to put you down, as I know you are not a research scientist.  The only opinions that matter are mine and my friends.  Any dissenting opinions shall and will be stricken by the land of the law in a decreed set forth by me!

  Apparently, you seem to speak only to the older citizens and street people.  Have you had the opportunity to speak to the young college educated people who live in the city?  There is a core group of citizens who back the "educated strategic plans for the City."  Remember Rome was not built in a day.  All cities evolve and it takes time.  Bashing is not the appropriate response to encourage people to take action.  Assigning the blame is always the plan of the less educated.

Translation: You are stupid.  Only the poor and elderly could possibly believe your prattling.  This is because the poor, the elderly, the middle class are all extremely stupid compared to me and my ilk and shall be replaced.  They must be herded like the cattle they are by the Mayor and the "educated" like myself.  Bashing is not the appropriate response to encourage people to take action, unless they are conservative.  Anything that can be perceived as wrong in the last 8 years (Iraq, Katrina, financial crisis) should be blamed on Bush, Republicans, and Conservatives and all should be "bashed".  Any problems that occur during the Obama administration, or under Doyle as Governor aren't really problems, you're just not capable of understanding the complexities involved.  Be patient and remember that Rome wasn't built in a day.  You are proving to be incredibly articulate and politicized in a way that we do not like.  You cannot be allowed to speak your mind about issues you feel passionately about for we do not want an informed citizen uprising.  You should only speak if spoken to and Caesar and his entourage have not and will not speak to common folks like you.  You have been deemed unworthy.  You are common peasants and have no usefulness.  I have asserted blame on you simply because I can.

  Did you start this blog to get your name out there for free advertising for your political agenda?  And if you really did anything of substance for the City of Cudahy you would have been asked to author a story for our "Generations of Pride" history book.  Is your name in the book?

Translation: Here's a personal attack as I didn't know how to end this e-mail.  I'll throw out again how superior I am to you by pointing out my involvement in this Cudahy history book that most people probably haven't heard of.  Notice how I didn't point a single specific issue I disagreed with you on, just my credentials in hopes I'd impress you.  Quit bullying my liberal friends and the mayor around, you're having an impact and I don't like it.  What I tried to do is mask my lack of understanding of the topic at hand with a lot of fluff in hopes to dazzle you with information that my superior words and credentials shut you up.  I have received accolades that you could not.  I hope all of my indoctrination by liberal professors has taught me enough catch phases that I will make you look as stupid as my circle says you are.  Just give up already and come to grips with defeat at the hands of the Aristocats, no darn it that was the Disney movie, I mean aristocrats.  Again, only those deemed to my personal standards shall be allowed to have an opinion regardless of the Constitution because only properly vetted college educated professionals are allowed to have opinions because they are so much smarter than the rest of the common folks that Cudahy has.  You could join us “IF” and only “IF” I deem it so.  We are trying to setup a Utopia here and start over, but the meddling fools like yourself are getting in the way.   Soon you will see statues of me and my circle sprouting up around the city.

Name placed here

Translation: Liberal elitist, who judges their actions superior to the majority of the lowly people of Cudahy around them.  I must be rather conceited to repeatedly state my credentials to try to prove to you my superiority.  That or low self-esteem because I was a coddled spoiled brat.  Then I need to end that my actions are positive?  Humility is certainly not one of my qualities, not based on this e-mail anyway.  See I have to state my agenda is not hidden as a misdirection because my agenda is as clear as mud but my actions are easily seen.  I was asked to help fight the losing war with you because you don’t seem to stop, so they recruited me as the brain trust.

Due to restrictions and censoring on the NOW network, along with Jeff N., we will start up a blog for the right called “The Right View Wisconsin”     http://www.rightviewwi.com/ . 

I will still be doing the NOW blog, but Jeff N. and I will be doing this new blog along with other main contributors.

The new blog with be about the Conservative Right and Libertarian issues and viewpoints on any topic.  I am sure politics will be center stage.

No longer will the restraints and rules bind the Conservatives & Libertarians who dare to voice their concerns against the left.  This will put the right on even ground with the attack left.

Who else will be contributors?

On board we will have:

Jay Weber – of the Jay Weber Show

CRG - Orville Seymer & Chris Kliesmet

Kevin Fischer of FranklinNow

Jim Hayett of LakeCountryReporter

Amy Hemmer of LakeCountryReporter

Scott J.

Wayne U.

Please Join us at The Right View Wisconsin

http://www.rightviewwi.com/

Anti-Obama Bloggers Question Why Google Froze Their Accounts

Some bloggers opposed to Barack Obama say they suspect Obama's supporters — with the assistance of Google — may have tried to censor them when the Internet giant froze their Web sites for five days last month.

Seven blogs run by Democrats who oppose Obama’s nomination for the presidency were incorrectly flagged as spam sites by Blogger, the hosting service Google has owned since 2003.  Google says it was an automated response from a spam filter.

But the bloggers believe that Web surfers who support Obama took advantage of a loophole in Blogger’s system that allows readers to report spam blogs, the artificial Web sites that abound on the Internet and are used to promote other sites.

"It appears that [Blogger's] policy can be manipulated by people determined to shut down the free exchange of ideas," said Carissa Snedeker, whose blog, BlueLyon, was among those that were frozen.

Rest of the story

Could it be possible that Obama supporters are treated differently and given special leeway?  Naw, that would not be fair and we all know they play fair.

Here is the article that the New York Times would not print and asked the McCain camp to rewrite.  While a news media should be fair and balanced that is not always the case.  If you want to buy a media outfit, you could influence what is printed and what is not.  I do think that if you let one party write the other should if you are reporting news.

On to blogs.  They are one sided and don’t have to be fair.  I was asked where are McCain’s flip-flop posts from me.  This from a Liberal blogger who does post the McCain flip-flops, but he himself doesn’t post the Obama ones.  He doesn’t have to.  The blog is opinioned.  Thus fair and balance doesn’t have to be there.  That blogs are slanted and sided and that is the point.

“It is mostly, as you'll see, a response to Democratic contender Barack Obama's views on what to do in Iraq -- and a response to the opinion piece written by Obama that the Times published on July 14. Obama's column was called "My Plan for Iraq."” – USA Today

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/new-york-times.html

July 21, 2008

Op-Ed piece by Republican presidential contender John McCain

Sent to The New York Times

Source: The McCain campaign

In January 2007, when General David Petraeus took command in Iraq, he called the situation "hard" but not "hopeless.”  Today, 18 months later, violence has fallen by up to 80% to the lowest levels in four years, and Sunni and Shiite terrorists are reeling from a string of defeats.  The situation now is full of hope, but considerable hard work remains to consolidate our fragile gains.

Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy.  I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington.  Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent.  "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there," he said on January 10, 2007.  "In fact, I think it will do the reverse."  Now Sen. Obama has been forced to acknowledge that "our troops have performed brilliantly in lowering the level of violence.”  But he still denies that any political progress has resulted.

Perhaps he is unaware that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has recently certified that, as one news article put it, "Iraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress.”  Even more heartening has been progress that's not measured by the benchmarks.  More than 90,000 Iraqis, many of them Sunnis who once fought against the government, have signed up as Sons of Iraq to fight against the terrorists.  Nor do they measure Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s new-found willingness to crack down on Shiite extremists in Basra and Sadr City -- actions that have done much to dispel suspicions of sectarianism.

The success of the surge has not changed Sen. Obama's determination to pull out all of our combat troops.  All that has changed is his rationale.  In a New York Times op-ed and a speech this week, he offered his "plan for Iraq" in advance of his first "fact finding" trip to that country in more than three years.  It consisted of the same old proposal to pull all of our troops out within 16 months.  In 2007 he wanted to withdraw because he thought the war was lost.  If we had taken his advice, it would have been.

Now he wants to withdraw because he thinks Iraqis no longer need our assistance.

To make this point, he mangles the evidence.  He makes it sound as if Prime Minister Maliki has endorsed the Obama timetable, when all he has said is that he would like a plan for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops at some unspecified point in the future.

Senator Obama is also misleading on the Iraqi military's readiness.  The Iraqi Army will be equipped and trained by the middle of next year, but this does not, as Sen. Obama suggests, mean that they will then be ready to secure their country without a good deal of help.  The Iraqi Air Force, for one, still lags behind, and no modern army can operate without air cover.  The Iraqis are also still learning how to conduct planning, logistics, command and control, communications, and other complicated functions needed to support frontline troops.

No one favors a permanent U.S. presence, as Sen. Obama charges.  A partial withdrawal has already occurred with the departure of five "surge" brigades, and more withdrawals can take place as the security situation improves.  As we draw down in Iraq, we can beef up our presence on other battlefields, such as Afghanistan, without fear of leaving a failed state behind.  I have said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013.

But I have also said that any draw-downs must be based on a realistic assessment of conditions on the ground, not on an artificial timetable crafted for domestic political reasons.  This is the crux of my disagreement with Senator Obama.

Senator Obama has said that he would consult our commanders on the ground and Iraqi leaders, but he did no such thing before releasing his "plan for Iraq.”  Perhaps that's because he doesn't want to hear what they have to say.  During the course of eight visits to Iraq, I have heard many times from our troops what Major General Jeffrey Hammond, commander of coalition forces in Baghdad, recently said: that leaving based on a timetable would be "very dangerous."

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