This Will Be My Last Appeal for Help

because on 11 May, if I'm not absolutely certain we have funding, the Declaration of Victory Rally will be cancelled. I can't keep the vendors or guests in limbo waiting or hoping for funding at the last minute. I have deployed troops who need support. The time and effort I've spent organizing this rally could have been directed at them.

I have done all I can do. The asshats on the left have a sugar daddy named George Soros who will throw money to any extreme left wing group who wants to call our troops killers and rapists. They have the media who will give them front page above the fold coverage on all their stupid anti-American anti-military protests.

We have no sugar daddy. Everything we do is done out pocket. I have never expected anyone to fund my agenda. Any help I get is because someone believed in what I was doing.

It would appear that no one believes we have won except the ones who did it, and the ones who supported them while they were doing it, and they shouldn't have to pay for their own celebration.

Here's the address:
1 West Cary Street
Richmond VA 23220

If 100,000 people sent me one dollar, I could pull this off.
As of today, we have 50 dollars and that was from ONE person.

You Are Known By the Company You Keep

and where you blog.

Click here to read why one former IAVA member left the group. To quote: “Today I’ve come to realize they are another hack organization masquerading as non-partisan.”

Beware of smoke and mirrors in the Veterans organizations.

http://patdollard.com/2009/04/clx/

ALERT To False Front Predators: Major Leftist Indoctrination Group Poses As Veterans Aid Organization
April 9th, 2009 Posted By Pat

An insidious, treacherous, anti-military, anti-democracy and anti-capitalist organization called “Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America”, IAVA, is posing as a veteran’s aid and support group in an attempt to turn the last non-Leftist bastion of America into the Left’s mightiest arm of real force.
They are dedicated to one mission, and one mission only: indoctrinate the average service member into a Leftist ideologue loyal to George Soros’ and Obama’s neo-Marxist revolution. Go to this link and scroll down to the bottom, and you will see the IAVA’s “report card” on politicians’ performance as supporters of the troops. John McCain is given a D, Barack Obama a B.
George Soros is a financier of the IAVA. ( From Blackfive: But Burden says what really bothers him about IAVA’s report card is its insistence that its grades are nonpartisan. He points to IAVA’s funding: Jonathan Soros, son of liberal financier George Soros, is sponsoring the group’s annual dinner next month. At the same time, the IAVA uses technology provided by Democracy in Action, a self-described “progressive nonprofit” that provides discount services to liberal groups. And, Burden points out, Rieckhoff once delivered the Democratic response to one of President Bush’s radio addresses.) They used to operate under the moniker Operation Truth before they came up with the less radical sounding IAVA. Blackfive did an expose on Operation Truth.
The IAVA, led by Paul Rieckhoff, claims to operate as as a “non-partisan” group, but as you can tell by both the report card linked above, and the fact that Rieckhoff blogs exclusively for the Huffington Post as the face of the IAVA, they are anything but. You can put the fact that Rieckhoff makes such a bluster about his alleged “firecely non-partisan” stance into the “Me thinks thou do protest too much” file.
Anyone who operates behind such a curtain of blatant deception is a coward, a predator, and fits the vernacular appellation of “weasel”. Don’t presume that the term “traitor’ hasn’t come to my mind, either.
Predatory IAVA commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbqLul97Fg
From Rieckhoff’s propagada machine:
Paul Rieckhoff is the Executive Director and Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan, non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest organization for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. IAVA’s mission is to improve the lives of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and their families.
Rieckhoff served as an Army First Lieutenant and infantry rifle platoon leader in Iraq from 2003-2004. He is now a nationally recognized authority on the war in Iraq and issues affecting troops, military families and veterans.
Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs. Recent appearances include: NBC’s “Nightly News,” ABC’s “World News With Charles Gibson,” CBS’s “The Early Show”, PBS’s “Tavis Smiley” “The Charlie Rose Show,” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the “Dr. Phil Show” and numerous NPR programs.
He is a contributor to the New York Times, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek and a regular blogger for The Huffington Post, Military.com, and Scoop 44.

Donor Intimidation??

From Michelle's blog:

Get a load of these guys:
Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the mail next week.…
Led by Tom Matzzie, a liberal political operative who has been involved with some prominent left-wing efforts in recent years, the newly formed nonprofit group, Accountable America, is planning to confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.
“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr. Matzzie, who described his effort as “going for the jugular.”
The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.
Free speech is cool with these guys, see, just as long as they approve of what you’re saying. Otherwise, they’re going to attempt to shut you up. They’re especially interested in strongarming Republican donor Sheldon Adelson (of Freedom’s Watch) , but as I mentioned back here, they won’t be the first leftist group to try to shut him down.
Accountable America would be far more alarming, by the way, if they were smarter:
…anonymity is a potential obstacle to the group’s efforts. Outside political groups organized as 501(c)4 entities, including Accountable America, do not have to disclose the names of their donors.
Oopsie. Think about that: by sending intimidating letters to potential donors, Accountable America has actually discouraged direct contributions to conservative candidates (which are on the public record) and created an incentive for donors to give anonymously to groups like Freedom’s Watch, which can legally protect their donor list from the likes of Accountable America!
It wouldn’t be the first counterproductive leftist campaign in recent memory, would it?

As I said on Michelle's site:

MOLON LAUBE asshats!!!!

COME GIT SOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Cross-posted at The Talon

Another Video Answer To MoveOn

Here is the video of Ania Egland, wife of Major Eric Egland, OIF/OEF veteran and candidate for Congress.


I forwarded the email CJ sent me with Major Eglands wife to my friend Chris over at Modern Conservative.
He has penned an article you must read to appreciate.
Chris is deeply committed to defeating the forces of the extreme left. Not just defeating, making them irrelevant.

You can read his post here.
Here's a small sampling:

Just like the sacrifice of Leonides and the 300 reverberates to this very day, in the free air we breathe, so too does a comparison between two women of today:Recently, MoveOn.org put out an ad called "Not Alex." It features a young mother, holding her son. It is, needless to say, an "anti-war" ad.

Here is the text:"Hi, John McCain; this is Alex. He's my first. So far, his talents include trying any new food and chasing after our dog — that, and making my heart pound every time I look at him. So, John McCain, when you said you would stay in Iraq for 100 years, were you counting on Alex? Because, if you were, you can't have him."

This women says that John McCain—and by extension this great nation—cannot have her son.But this cowardly woman—who most likely mated with a cowardly wisp of a man—doesn't realize something vital: John McCain won't take her son. Neither will the military. She doesn't decide for him, at age 18 months or 18 years. When he grows, he will decide—as a free man—whether to wear the uniform of his country.

This Needs to Be Seen

Marine wife answers moveon's anti-McCain ad.