Blue Star Chronicles

Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” has 432 pages, and if you work for the AP you’re going to become very familiar with it. All of it. The Associate Press has assigned 11 reporters (a small army) to comb through Sarah Palin’s book and “fact check” it in its entirety.

Supposing that all books from high profile politicians were given such scrutiny, the AP’s overzealous fact checking party wouldn’t seem so, well, overzealous. The Associated Press was the first media agency to get their grubby little hands on a copy of Palin’s book and immediately began to claim she was making things up.

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Today is Friday the 13th! How is it going for you so far? If days like today scare you, or if you don’t go on the 13th floor of a building, or if you get an even dozen rather than a baker’s dozen, then you might be suffering from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of 13!

Triskaidekaphobia the the fear of the number 13! Many people are morbidly afraid of Friday the 13th and some of the number 13 in and of itself, also known as paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia. Seriously. I’m betting there are support groups for these phobias.

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Army Paratrooper Benjamin Sherman died in Afghanistan attempting to save another Soldier. At a memorial service for Sherman on Veterans Day, his mother, Denise Sherman pleas with Obama to make an Afghanistan decision. Sherman is just one fallen Soldier of the many who have died while Obama delays any decision as to their fates.

Benjamin Sherman, Fallen Soldier

Benjamin Sherman jumped into a river in Afghanistan in an attempt to save a fellow soldier. The two were swept away in the current and missing for a week. Sherman’s body was recovered on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. On Veterans Day, his family and friends remembered him in his hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Benjamin Sherman was an American hero, one of our volunteer army that stands in harms way in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan. His mother tearfully pleaded with the President to make a decision to either bring all of our Soldiers home or ‘finish it’, finish the war there. Her words resonate with those of us who will have, do have or have had sons and daughters deployed in the Global War on Terrorism.

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It was first reported that Kimberly Munley shot and brought down Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man who perpetrated the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood Army base in Texas last week. The reports mentioned she was with her partner, but never mentioned what her partner was doing while she was shooting and being shot. It turns out, her partner, Mark Todd shot the Fort Hood suspect and brought him down. Here’s more of the story.

It’s not uncommon for the initial stories to come out of a traumatic event to be jumbled and misrepresented. It’s called the ‘fog of war’. Different people see and remember different things. Reporters are in a hurry to get stories out, to take a different angle and to scoop their competitors. Therefore, the stories are not always accurate in the beginning. Most of us know that and realize that it’s understandable.

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Here are the details of Applebees Veterans Day offer in which both active-duty military and veterans can eat free food. Good for them, and for Krispe Creme Doughnuts which is doing the same thing. See the video and information below.

Where is an Applebees near you? Find out!

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Meet Kimberly Munley, police officer, mother and Ft. Hood massacre hero. In the biography section of her twitter page, long before the events of this week, she describes herself as ‘I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone’s life.’ And she certainly has. She is a true American heroine!

Kimberly Munley

Officer Kimberly Munley was doing her job, directing traffic on the Ft. Hood Army base in Killeen, Texas. She and her partner just happened to be walking by the deployment processing center when shots rang out. She was the first responder on the scene where Army Major Nadal Hasan had trapped a large number of Soldiers in a waiting area and begun shooting them. She is credited with taking down Hasan and saving untold lives, even after she was wounded herself.

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Here is some raw video footage from the Ft. Hood shooting rampage that was perpetrated on our Soldiers yesterday. This horrific act was perpetrated by a islamic radical terrorist who was a member of the United States Army. Remember, this is a GLOBAL war on terrorism. It’s not against any particular country or group, it is global and it is about 9th century ideology trying to bring down and destroy western society. The shooting rampage took place in the Howze Theater and at the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center, where Soldiers were being processed to be deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan.

The main stream media and the family of the alleged perpetrator, Major Malik Nidal Hasan, are painting this as a disgruntled Army officer who was conflicted about the war on terrorism and terrified of being deployed to the Middle East and had been picked on by his fellow Soldiers because he’s a muslim. However, the people who have worked with him say that he was radicalized, preached the Koran, stated he was muslim first and American second, was unable to get along with his peers or relate to the Soldiers he was supposed to be helping at Walter Reed Hospital.

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Somali pirates and islamic militia groups are struggling for control of British hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler who were taken hostage last week as they were sailing to Tanzania. As the Somalis fight over the British couple, they have lowered their ransom demands.

Somali pirates are continuing to wreck havoc on the seas along the coasts of Somalia. British couple Paul Chandler, 59-years-old, and his wife Rachel Chandler, 55-years-old, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom, were taken hostage on October 23, 2009. They were taken from their yacht, the Lynn Rival, as they were sailing from the Seychelles towards Tanzania. The pirates demanded about $7 million and the release of seven Somali pirates who were captured while attempting to take a French ship last week. The pirates claim that the $7 million (£4.2 million) is to cover the cost of damage caused by NATO troops.

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What do you get when you mix Twitter, a psychic, and a bunch of nincompoops who will believe just about anything? You get a tweance, or more specifically you get a Michael Jackson Twitter séance with Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix thrown in for good measure.

Psychic Jayne Wallace performed what I suppose was the first ever Twitter séance; in honor of Halloween no doubt. Wallace “contacted” Michael Jackson with a bonus communication with musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and actor River Phoenix who died of a drug overdose.

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The Warrior Song is dedicated to all our men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces. Regardless of what branch of service you are serving in, this song is for you. Members of the United States Navy/Marines, Army, Coast Guard, Air Force, and National Guard are all beneficiaries of this effort.

Vocals contributed by James De Vito (US Marine Corps) and Rock Williams, guitars by Sean Hurwitz, marching snares by Bernie Pershey and ‘The Wobble Beat’ by Justin Sullivan. This song is now available through iTunes. All profits go to the Armed Forces Relief Trust. You can find out more about the song and how to get it at The Warrior Song website at www.thewarriorsong.com/.

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There is a huge Denver snowstorm blasting the mountain area. It makes me cold just to think about it. A good friend of ours in Denver says the snow is coming down hard and fast and the wind is fierce.

As I sit in the sunny South, I can’t help but feel for those who live near the Continental Divide and are looking at well below freezing temperatures, a foot of snow and high winds. Denver is experiencing it’s first major snowstorm of the season and is under a winter storm advisory. By Thursday evening the foothills could see as much as 24 inches of snow and Denver 10 to 18 inches of snow. Burr.

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Two men have been charged in a muhammad cartoon revenge plot. Remember the muhammad cartoon wars back in 2005? A Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons of the islamic prophet muhammad. You might remember that the islamic world burst into riots and threats, demanding that the newspaper be shut down and the cartoonist executed for depicting the prophet. The riots went on for weeks. There were death threats and jihadist around the world used the incident to incite as much frantic hatred and violence as they could against Western civilization.

We thought the whole frenzy over the muhammad cartoons had died down, but apparently we were wrong. Two men have been arrested and charged with plotting revenge for those cartoons. The two men are from Barack Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago.

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