Rep. C.W. Bill Young Drops Staunch Support Of Afghanistan War: ‘We’re Killing Kids That Don’t Need To Die’

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Congressman Bill Young of Florida is calling for an exit from Afghanistan.  Congressman Young and his wife Beverly have been long time supporters of our troops and have gone weekly to take care of those at Walter Reed, giving them encouragement and taking in care packages.  .  They put their money where their mouths are for the wounded.

According to the Huffington Post:

A Republican congressman who has long been a staunch supporter of sticking with the war in Afghanistan is now changing course, arguing that the United States needs to pull out as quickly as possible.

“I think we should remove ourselves from Afghanistan as quickly as we can,” Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.) told the Tampa Bay Times on Monday. “I just think we’re killing kids that don’t need to die.”

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PilotsNPaws: DOG is their co-pilot September 28-29

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Insidenova.com:

WEST POINT, Va. —

More than 125 dogs are being flown from a North Carolina airport to Virginia to save the animals from kill shelters.

Officials with the PilotsNPaws program say more than 80 pilots are participating in the single-day airlift of more than 300 dogs on Saturday.

The dogs are being flown from the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport in Monroe, N.C. to seven states, including Virginia.

About 100 of the dogs are set to be flown to Middle Peninsula Regional Airport in West Point, with others going to Warrenton.

Hats off to these pilots.  Dogs will also go to other states.  In all, 300 dogs will be airlifted today.  Even if you can’t take a rescued dog, you can give a small donation on the website to help this initiative.

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JK Rowling didn’t build it on her own

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“The Casual Vacancy” was released yesterday to throngs of readers salivating to get their hands on JK Rowling first adult novel.  To date, JK Rowling has delighted readers of all ages with her Harry Potter series.

JK Rowling is now a rather shy billionaire who doesn’t easily discuss her new wealth.  She comes from humble beginnings and pulled herself up by her bootstraps using her talents.  Rowling would tell us that it was more than that.  Playing of the gotcha Obama phrase ” you didn’t build this,” Rowling very much assures us that she “didn’t build this.”

According to the Washington Post:

…[T]he author of the Harry Potter series wasn’t shy about stirring a leaky cauldron of class politics.

Once a financially strapped single mom, Rowling penned her way to literary fame and became a billionairein the process. But she says she doesn’t relate to the feeling of many American conservatives that everything they have they can look at and feel, “We built it.”

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Mr. Legitimate Rape Akin finds opponent to be unlady-like

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The Hill:

Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) said on Thursday that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) isn’t acting as “ladylike” as when she last ran for Senate because she’s worried he’s going to unseat her.
Specifically, Akin was referring to McCaskill’s demeanor during a debate a week earlier.
“I think we have a very clear path to victory, and apparently Claire McCaskill thinks we do, too, because she was very aggressive at the debate, which was quite different than it was when she ran against Jim Talent,” Akin said at a campaign stop according to the Kansas City Star. “She had a confidence and was much more ladylike (in 2006), but in the debate on Friday she came out swinging, and I think that’s because she feels threatened.”

We aren’t quite sure what Claire McCaskill has done “unladylike” to deserve such upbraiding but it must have been serious for such a liberated renaissance man to comment on her behavior in such terms.

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