WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 25
by Jim Clonts, 2009

09/15/2009

A Summary of the New Transformed America under Barack Obama

Domestic Progress:

Unemployment approaches 10%
The federal deficit approaches $2 trillion
The federal debt approaches $12 trillion

The Government now has controlling interest in:

The banking industry

The home mortage industry

Two automotive companies

The student loan industry

The education of our children through public schools

Medical care for our senior citizens

Medical care for all citizens (pending healthcare reform bill)

The Energy Industries (pending cap and trade Bill)

Domestic Summary: The Government will decide who gets loans for college, which small businesses get loans, which corporate expansions will be financed, what kind of cars will be produced, what your children are taught, what kind of care seniors will receive and finally what kind of care we may all receive.

Questions: do you think it will matter if you are a Republican or Democrat when you need a student loan or mortgage? Do you think it will matter which party you supported financially during the last election in getting that small business loan?

Foreign Policy:

Commanders in Afganistan say more troops are needed to fight Taliban
President Obama says he is not comfortable with the term victory and is hesitant to send more troops to a war he once claimed was justified. -remember---the Taliban sheltered and trained Al Queda

The missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic has been cancelled
-the Polish have refused to accept phone calls from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Further procurement of the F-22 air superiority fighter has been cancelled

Obama has order DOD to develop a plan for massive cuts in our nuclear weapons stockpile

White House Security Advisors have advised Obama to shoot down over Iraq any Israeli planes trying to attack Iran's nuclear weapons facilities

The Obama Administration refused to recognize the constitutionally appointed President of Honduras after the last president attempted to illegally exceed term limits

The Obama Adminstration has insulted the United Kingdon over and over again and in media interviews his staff has indicated the UK was deserving of no special treatment among nations.

The Obama Justice Department is pursuing an investigation of the CIA with regards to interrogation procedures used during War on Terror

The terms "Global War on Terror" and "terrorist attacks" has been changed to "Overseas Contingency Operations" and "man-made disasters"

The Obama Administration did killed two teenage Somali pirates

The Obama Administration has released a half dozen Chinese muslim terrorists on the island of Bermuda

The Domestic Wire-tapping program started by President Bush and criticized by candidate Obama has been continued and expanded according to NY Times

Foreign Policy Summary: The President continues to apologize for America's past actions and is pursuing a policy of weakening US military power and intelligence gathering ability in an attempt to prevent future violence against the United States by the tactic of appeasement.

How's that hope and change working for you?

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