RESUME' PADDING?

It's 7:05 a.m. and Patrick and Junior are alsleep downstairs. It was 50 degrees out yestesrday when Earthdog and I were out caching.

RAndom Thoughts:

Just heard on the radio that a reporter has claimed John Muthra was not awarded his two purple hearts at the request of his unit, but APPLIED for them stateside prior to running for congress. Do we need a Form 180 here? We're still waiting for John Kerry's as far as I know... This is not good.

On another front, the racist Mulatto Mayor of New Orleans has been shooting his mouth off again, no not against Mexicans this time, against whites. He says he wants the city to be majority "Chocolate". I hope the votors have the sense to throw this useless bag of shit out of office. Hasn't he hurt the city enough? He says God is punishing America with Hurricanes.

The Hollyweird crowd had a literal Ball last night at the Golden Globe awards, giving prizes to each other and to "Brokeback Mountain", the Queer-Love-is-Nice movie....

Here's a Marine who does not need to pad his resume' :

How Marines become legends! The Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant in the picture is Michael Burghardt, part of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team that is supporting the Nebraska Army National Guard. Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny." He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IED's and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.

Then, on September 19, he got blown up.

He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard- issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk," stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7in knife to probe the ground.

"I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt. Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt. Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.'

"As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.' I knew there was somebody disappointed out there."

Working together, the ordnance disposal Marines and the Nebraska National Guardsmen have developed a mutual respect - there's no Army-Marine trash-talking here. Burghardt, an 18-year Marine with 15 years' experience disarming explosives, returns the admiration from the Army soldiers. "I feel part of this Army team," he said. "They take care of us like brothers."

Burghardt, 35, wouldn't accept painkillers when he was brought back to camp by the Nebraskans. He knew he might need them later. And he's not looking to leave Ramadi for five more months. "I don't want a ticket out," he said. "I want to stay here so we can take as many people home as possible."

Copies of the photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col. John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt. Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home.

But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

AlGore, the brain dead slowtalking not-from-this-planet drooling idiot has called Bush a Terrorist. Now the dried up She Bitch Hillary Clinton has called Bush's presidency the "worst in History". How do these morons get away with this shit? Why does the MSM even bother to report this silly drivel? I'll tell you why: because they're in on it. It's like, as has been said, all the chromosome-damaged monsters in this country. got together and joined the Democrat Party and the MSM...

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