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Air Force One visits our small town for a moment today!

Posted by Thacker Agency.com on Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:07:26 PM

I was at the post office today, which is at our airport, coming back to the office when I looked up and saw a huge plane that had just taken off from Greensboro a minute ago.  It was big enough for me to notice that it was a plane I would like to identify.  It looked big enough to be a 747, but was it?  Not many 747's use this airport.  A longer look and sure enough the nose did look bigger than the rest of the plane.  I thought I could make out 4 engines on the wings.  But the colors were too far away to make out.  It seemed like there was some blue shimmering on the nose.  Just like AIR FORCE ONE!
 

My heart skipped, 'no way', I thought.  The President isn't in town because there would be police everywhere if it really was Air Force One.  There is one other 747 for the cargo company Tradewinds Cargo that is usually at the airport.  Maybe it was that 747.  Maybe Fedex was flying in to test out the equipment at the new hub.  I know from working with Fedex in grad school that most of their planes are 737's, with a few DC10 and DC9's, and a couple of 727's.  Maybe they had a new 747, but I would know the colors of a Fedex plane from that distance.

 
Surely I thought it was the 747 of the Cargo company.  But I just had to see it.  It was still in the landing pattern so I knew it was going to come back around.  If it was Air Force One, that would be cool, but it would still be cool to see such a gigantic aircraft fly.

 
So I drove to the market street runway and parked.  I saw it in the pattern so it was going to be coming to land any minute.  First a small single engine piper landed (yawn), then a commuter came in to land (nope, not what I'm looking for).  A jet took off between those to aircraft to give you some idea of how long I waited. . . .

and waited. . .

and waited. . . .

I had to get to work and there was no sign of this monstrous plane I had seen.  Had it left the pattern?  Was it going to another airport?  Should I go on with my day?  After all, it's just a plane. . .

 But then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, just above the tree tops, in all its physics defying majesty!  Right above my head there it was!  The bastion of freedom around the world!  The harbinger of justice to those mistreated!  The torch of Liberty from sea to shining sea!  The pin ultimate icon of Capitalism world wide! as plain as the nose on my face! AIR FORCE ONE 747 set to land at full throttle for the go around with the blue and spangled wording 'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"!

Oh, I could not believe it.  I saw it from an angle few will.  For surely had the President been on the plane, I would not have been able to get that close!  It didn't land.  It flew right over the Runway on a 'touch and go' but never actually put its wheels on the ground.  My lunch break I got a fly by of AIR FORCE ONE!  Imagine the countries and places that plane has seen.  I know there is more than one air force one, and it is only air force one when the President is on it technically.  But wow!

This was better than the f-15 flyby at the Wake Forest homecoming two weeks ago.  But that F-15 fly over was THE BOMB because the f-15 is my favorite plane and they were so low and so fast and it was REALLY AWESOME!  But this was even BETTER! 

That plane is calling me.  It's the only reason I would want to be President.  But it might be enough of a reason to get me to seriously consider straightening up my act and letting my ideas benefit the world.  I don't know if I want to be President.  But that plane and all it symbolizes and represents is something I definitely want.

I had to share that experience with someone because I was by myself, but it was awesome!

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Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles will win the war in Iraq and at home.

Posted by Thacker Agency.com on Friday, September 28, 2007 10:00:49 AM
Our soldiers are the bravest and most well equipped fighting men and women in the world.  It is a shame that one single tactic is responsible for most of the success of our enemies in Iraq and we failed to counter it.  Our troops are in Iraq fighting hard.  Many are getting killed.  Our soldiers are not getting killed by air power because of our air superiority.  Our soldiers are not getting killed by tanks because the enemy doesn't have any.  Most of our soldiers have been killed with IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices).  Basically these things are glorified pipe bombs.  They are placed on the road and wait until our Humvee patrol drives by before they detonate it.  This was the chink in the mighty American military machine and the insurgents exploited it at the price of our men and women.  MRAP's would have and will save the majority of the deaths and injuries that our soldiers are suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our soldiers knew this right away as they began putting make-shift armor of scrap metal on their Humvees before going on patrol.  They knew that Americas weakness was in the patrol vehicle.  Donald Rumsfeld failed the troops when he uttered his famous phrase at the press conference 'You go to war with the army you have, not the army you would like to have'.  There could not be a more obvious expression of the people in charge not understanding what their job is.  I would bet that Rumsfeld would not have gone on patrol in those ill equipped death traps like he asked our brave men and women to.

Our troops did not need more bullets, nor tanks, nor aircraft.  Rumsfeld offered up plenty of those hugely expensive pieces of military hardware.  They needed MRAP's.  These vehicles offer the protection that our soldiers need to do the job that they are doing.  These vehicles withstand IED explosions to save the lives and limbs of our troops.  The pentagon has about 1500 scheduled to be in combat by the start of 2008, and they have ordered another 20,000 of them.  This should be priority number ONE.

During WWII all of our production capacity went into building tanks and planes.  A result of that production is that we won the war.  Thus far, we have basically 'gone to war with the army we had.'  None of our soldiers should have gone on patrol in vehicles that could not withstand the only threat that the insurgents posed to our troops.  These vehicles should have been ordered immediately after our first soldier was killed.  Many battles in history were not waged because the generals determined that they did not have the proper resources to fight without losing our soldiers.

When the enemy has success against us such as this, it emboldens them and makes them want to fight more.  If our troops had these MRAP's earlier, the war would be over because the insurgents would not have any way to fight successfully against us.  Back home the anti-war effort gains traction each and every time one of these roadside bombs does what it is intended to do and kills one of our men.  If the soldiers had these vehicles, Rumsfeld would likely still have his job because loss of life would have been so minimal you would not be able to be against this operation to spread freedom.  These vehicles would likely have kept the enemy at bay so that the war could be ended and our troops could come home.

When the enemy does not have success, they stop fighting.  We are not trying to fight against anyone as much as trying to keep others from fighting us at this point.  Once the enemy stops fighting, the war will be over and all of our troops can come home.  At that point we can all rest assured that not one more of our soldiers will die on the sands of Iraq.

Please urge Congress to pay for these vehicles that the troops need.  With these vehicles, America wins.  Without these vehicles Iraq 'becomes another Vietnam'.  Success for our troops can be had, but they must be given the equipment that they need to do the job right.  I hope that this lesson is learned by all future leaders as we possibly fight more wars.  Our soldiers should never be placed in a situation that their lives are in danger simply because they don't have the equipment (that is available) that they need.  We owe that to our soldiers.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not have Constitutional Rights

Posted by Thacker Agency.com on Friday, September 21, 2007 11:53:01 PM
It is disgusting that America has to allow the Iranian president into our country without being arrested while he is orchestrating the murder of our men and women in uniform.  This should be the final straw in the debate over whether or not the USA should host the UN.  Many people say that this will allow him to see what freedom means.  Many people say that this is what freedom of speech is all about.  Many 'Americans' agree with him when he says that America is the cause of the problems of the world.  The problem is that Constitutional rights of freedom of speech only apply to American citizens.  As such Mahmoud's speech means much more to his culture and country than it does to our country.

People might say that he has every 'right' to come to our country and speak.  No he does not because he is not an American citizen.  He will only come here and tell everyone what they want to hear while lying about things he thinks might be considered offensive.  He will use this as a platform to spew his propaganda, not free speech, about how American soldiers are jumping in the way of Iranian bombs and bullets.  He will say, 'If the American soldiers were not there, then the Iranian bombs and bullets would not be able to hit them and so it is America's fault that they are being hit with Iranian weaponry by Iranian soldiers.'

America is not the problem, America is the solution.  The problem with the Iranian president coming to speak here has less to do with our culture as it does with his culture.  In our culture we will use it as another sign of proof of our willingness to allow freedom for even those we disagree with.  In Iranian culture and any enemy's culture they will see it as a sign that America is a paper tiger.  The whole world knows that Iran is fighting against the Americans in Iraq.  The whole world knows that Iran fought against Israel through Hezbollah.  The world can not believe that America will allow a man who is actively at war against it's brave soldiers to come to the country with the red carpet treatment.

I personally can't believe it either.  There are many in America who believe we should negotiate with this criminal who participated in the hostage crisis of 1979.  The only negotiation that we should allow between the two countries is for him to stop shooting at our soldiers who are not in his country.  The only negotiation we should have with Iran is a formal declaration of war against a country that is actively fighting a war against us.

This visit by the Iranian president shows that America is weak.  Nobody knows this more than this tyrant who has called for the destruction of another country and death to America (known to him as the 'great satan').  This man will use our freedoms against us to emphasize the fact that he is winning on the battlefield because we can't fight back, as well as in the political realm because we allow him to tell us his side of the story when he won't care about our side of the story.

America needs to allow some other country to host the UN for a few decades.  We should not be forced to grant our Constitutional rights to someone who is doing everything he can to kill those fighting for us to maintain our Constitutional rights.  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not have Constitutional rights and we should not allow him to exercise them for his own propaganda.
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100% of Americans want our troops home safe!

Posted by Thacker Agency.com on Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:43:28 PM
We see polls all of the time that declare one candidate leading another candidate, or one point of view more popular than another point of view.  Most of these polls seem meaningless to me other than giving the media something to talk about.  One poll that I recently saw said that 55% of Americans wanted our troops home.  There were no other qualifiers other than 'they wanted our troops home'.  Obviously the pollsters (and the media) were trying to point out that a majority of Americans disapprove of the war that our troops are fighting and we should bring them home at all costs.  However that is not how the poll read.

I am one who supports the war effort and appreciates every last one of our brave men and women who choose to fight for my freedom every day.  We can never do enough to thank them because each and every one of them choose to put their lives on the line as a duty for their country.  But even supporters of the war want every single one of these fine Americans to come home safe and sound.  Every American mourns the loss of every soldier on the field of battle.  I wish there was something more that I could do as an American to protect each soldier from harm.

However I know that there is a job that needs to be done.  Once that job is done, all the troops can come home to ticker tape parades and the gratitude of everyone in America.  Once our enemies decide that it is better for them to stop fighting than continue to lose the war of attrition because our military can not be defeated, then we can come home victorious.  If America leaves the theater of battle before the job is done, the fight will be much more difficult for those future brave soldiers who choose honor and duty for country over some desk job back home. 

The soldiers know that we are winning.  The soldiers want the politicians in Congress to know that we are winning.  Are soldiers dying?  Yes they are.  Is that a horrible fact of war for a warrior's chosen profession?  Yes it is.  But the fact that the enemy is still firing back at us means that there is work left to do.  Our soldiers are still in Germany and Japan, but we are not getting fired upon.  We left those wars victorious as we will do in the middle east.  Our soldiers are up to the task.  Our tax dollars are supposed to go to support America's finest in the theater of war.  Our battles are supposed to be fought to be won.  100% of our troops should come home safe and sound to their mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and neighbors.  We all want all of our troops home.  But we all, especially our troops, know that there is a job to do.  And as long as that job remains undone, our military is more than up to the task to do it.

America is a great country in no small part because of our military.  The world is a safe place in no small part to the American military.  America is not without its faults, but the world is a much better and safer place with America playing an active role in global politics.  The world is a better place with a strong and united America behind its armed forces.  All of our troops will come home when the job is completed - until another job needs to be done and our military men and women will be eager to take up that task again for duty, for honor.  God bless America and please keep all of our troops safe from those that wish to harm them.  Let them know that 100% of Americans want 100% of them home safe and sound victorious.
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Who Would Osama Bin Laden Vote For?

Posted by Thacker Agency.com on Monday, September 10, 2007 12:58:07 AM
For my first post on the anniversary of 9/11 I would like to ask the question, 'who would the most wanted man on earth vote for for the President of the United States of America?'  I assume that he is interested in politics because of his latest video release for the first time in 3 years.

All this talk about illegal aliens in this country and what to do with them gets me thinking about who these people might vote for and why.  Since we don't know where Osama Bin Laden is, and we don't know who 12 million people are in this country, it is possible that Osama is one of the illegals right here in America hoping for amnesty and citizenship.  Once these illegals become citizens, they would get to vote just like any other American.  Without questioning any politician's patriotism I question who public enemy #1 would side with.

Likely Osama would side with the Democrats on most issues because his goals seem to parallel theirs.  He wants American troops out of Iraq like all of the Democratic presidential candidates.  He claims victory in Iraq just as Harry Reid says we have lost the war in Iraq, and Chuck Schumer declares that the American military is INCAPABLE of providing security from the mighty mighty Al Qaeda in Iraq.  And like Cindy Sheehan, he claims dismay at the inability of the Democratic leadership to force the American withdrawal from Iraq.

Now that we have narrowed down the party affiliation, lets look at the individual candidates.  Edwards probably would not be one of Bin Laden's favorites mainly because he would not want to pay so much in taxes out of his vast personal wealth.  All Democrats claim they will raise taxes, but none as enthusiastically as Edwards.   Plus Edwards voted for the Iraq war in the first place to become one of the 'crusaders' he despises.

Osama would probably vote for Obama in the primaries because of his grade school education in the madrassa.  As a devout Muslim, he would think that once a Muslim always a Muslim.  So he would like the idea of a Muslim in the White House as a victory against the west.  It would fulfill his dream of converting the leadership of the most powerful nation on the planet into a Muslim leadership.  To him and many Muslims and Obama presidency would be proof of the 'greatness' of Islam to conquer the greatest nation without firing a shot.  However, Obama's recent statement that he would go after Osama's friends in Pakistan probably sour the final decision against Obama.  While Obama just stated the current US policy with regards to Pakistan, he had never heard it spoken so forcefully.

And that leads us to the front runner, Hillary.  Osama would vote for Hillary because of his personal view of women as the inferior sex.  A woman as leader to him would show weakness.  Also, he would like another Clinton who, when Bin Laden is offered up for capture, might again decline.  Most of the 9/11 planning took place during the Clinton administration.  Also, the Clintons made sure to slash the military budget and close the military bases to make the military smaller.  A smaller military means that the US can not fight the wars with the manpower and resources that we might need.  A Clinton presidency would allow the American military to be weakened within.  Finally Bin Laden would like a Clinton presidency for free health insurance to cover whatever ailments he currently obviously has.  He could get the Great Satan to pay for his recuperation as he plots his next attack.

It is amazing that hearing Bin Laden speak is like listening to Democratic talking points.  Democrats always say that dissent is patriotic.  Osama Bin Laden dissents more than anyone, but I doubt anyone thinks he's much of an American patriot.  Thank you for reading.
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