Da Hawg Frog Blog

This is the full length English movie about the invasion of Sicily. False information is placed on a corpse that changes the outcome of the invasion. Da Frog enjoyed it.

A lot has been said about the lifestyle. This short video says a lot.

My father died of Lou Gehrig’s disease nearly twenty years ago. It is an awful disease that dooms the victim to a slow death. For many years amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease was considered a “niche illness”. So few people contracted it that deeper research was not felt feasible. That opinion is changing today with the onslaught of numerous Gulf War veterans suffering from it.

The federal government will provide disability pay, lifetime health care and death benefits for all veterans with Lou Gehrig’s disease, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday, saying the disease was linked to military

All veterans with the illness will be eligible, regardless of when or where they served. The 10-year cost for death and disability benefits is projected at $505,839,000, said Tom Pamperin, the deputy director of the compensation and pension service at the Veterans Affairs Department. That figure does not include health care costs. (Source: NY Times)

It is about time this killer was taken seriously. Finally there may be some serious research into it’s source and causes. For years after my father died I was always looking over my shoulder. At that time it was speculated to be a genetic thing. Today they realize it goes much farther than that.

The fatal neurological disease, named after the legendary New York Yankee, is rare, afflicting about 30,000 Americans, fewer than 10 percent of whom served in the military. It progressively kills motor neurons until total paralysis sets in. But the mind stays sharp, leaving patients fully aware of their deterioration. Most die within five years of diagnosis.

No one knows for sure what causes ALS, but some veterans and their families believe it can be caused by exposure to chemicals and toxins, including nerve agents that they suspect were in the air during the first Gulf War. Studies have provided no answers, and scientists are skeptical that there is a link.

They point out that in scientific terms, the incidence rate among veterans is relatively low when compared with environmental links established for other diseases. Smokers, for example, are 10 to 20 times more likely to contract lung cancer than nonsmokers, one scientist pointed out.

Testifying before a congressional committee last summer, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Mikolajcik, who has ALS, said the government has not done enough research on potential causes and might be exposing service members now in Iraq to an elevated risk of the disease.

“If we know that it happened in the first Gulf War, and now we’re exposing millions more, why aren’t we doing more, and how are you going to answer those people in three, five, 10 years that come down with this disease?” Mikolajcik said in an interview. (Source: Veterans Today)

For more information about this disease please visit the ALS Association and the MDA ALS page.

Consumate dirtbag and turncoat Joe Lieberman met with “Give ‘em Hell Harry” Reid the other day. Two worthless politicians discussing “Joe the Opportunist” future. I got to admit Leiberman is a pimple on the butt of the Democratic party, but at the same time I am sure Harry Truman is rolling in his grave at the thought of Harry Reid adopting his moniker. Harry Reid, like Nancy Pelosi, is one of the main reasons the Democratic congress has lost the confidence of the American people. We’d all be better off if all three of them turned in their time cards and went back to where they came from.

If the Democrats don’t get rid of “Joe the Shithead” then we should demand they do so. When Pelosi folded and declared “impeachment was off the table” it was the lowest point in voter confidence ever. Why the hell do these people think they were ushered into office? Not to do business as usual, but to take care of business. They should have gotten rid of Bush and Cheney. They didn’t so they should be ridden out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. If they don’t get rid of “Joe the Whiner” then they need their heads examined. Keeping the dirtbag in the Democratic caucus and letting him retain his committee seats is a slap in the face of everyone who voted for change.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

For the past two years we have been bombarded with political campaign coverage. With the election behind us now, how are the political junkies going to deal with the realization that it is over. No more commercials, no more debates, no more absurd accusations. The problem of campaign withdrawl is affecting millions around the nation.

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

After two intense years of campaign ups and downs for both major U.S. political parties, the nation has finally settled on a president. Although initially, Obama’s victory brings celebrations for supporters, experts say the let-down that voters of each side may feel after the campaign is akin to postpartum depression. (Source: CNN)

But cheer up junkies! In a few weeks Sara Palin will begin campaigning for 2012 and the cycle will start all over again.

Eight years ago the present administration assumed control of the White House by the slimmest margin imaginable. It took a decision by the Supreme Court to get Bush and his cohorts into office. And yet the strutting little popinjay boasted of winning by a mandate of the people. Well today America spoke loudly, rejecting the failed policies of the Bush administration. America said, no more.

Citizens went to the polls in astonishing numbers to accomplish the peaceful revolution that will bring change and stability to their nation. Foremost on many minds was the meltdown of the American economy brought on by decades of deregulation and greed. An era of economic disaster that was initiated by the Reagan Administration and its systematic dismantling of all the safe guards put in place by the Roosevelt administration.

The Bush doctrine of first strike has done much to destroy America’s credibility in the international community. Perhaps now we will be able to restore our standing by ending the conflicts that have drained our capital and blood over the past few years. A McCain administration would have insured that we remained at war until the last dime was spent in fruitless pursuits of nation building that Bush and Cheney started.

A government that doesn’t serve the will of the people and look out for their best interest is doomed to fail. Instead of pandering to big business it is time government began helping the people. It is time to get rid of the influence of lobbyist and special interests and listen to the needs of citizens. Obama promised change and America agreed and voted for that change.

Now is time to begin rebuilding the nation and restoring faith in the economy. The GOP has by their actions rendered themselves marginal at best. The Republican brand has been tarnished and may never recover from the radical direction the neo-conservative movement has taken it.

The overwhelming victory of the Democrats and Barrack Obama is a real mandate, not some imagined one like the Bush administration thought they had. Now we have to wait and see if the party is up to fulfilling that mandate.