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Detective Dimeo's wild ride

Dateline: In the Belly of the Beast— The Southern Command has ventured into Union territory for the 2009 Medal of Honor Convention.

Chicago … the City with Big Shoulders and a seamy undercurrent.

I thought about dropping by Obama/ACORN HQ for some legal advice and seed money for my escort business, but the office was closed. 

The first night in town we hooked up with one of Chicago’s Finest, and experienced Det. Mark Dimeo’s Wild Ride which took us to the West Side near The Projects, through the mean streets and eventually to “Lucky’s Liquor” where out front the homies were doing a brisk business in “40s” and god-knows-what.  (Mark is shown left with Recipient Bob Patterson and daughter.)

The is the part of town where the booze and customers are separated by bullet-proof glass and a heavy aluminum screen. Dimeo flashes his tin and someone opens the door and we are  now inside the store which is about the size of a McMansion bathroom.

Don and Mike and I figgered that there was an under counter gun about every five feet. We got our Crown and Glenlivet and... with a nice “copper discount”.

Package in hand, Mike headed out the door and toward the curtain of milling, aimless loiterers; still inside, Dimeo yells,”…. Hey, hey, hey…. Mike. Back in here!”

It’s not advisable to walk outside alone having just purchased some of Scotland’s high dollar national drink.

We sped down under the city multi-layered street seen seen is some most movies, most recently, “Batman –The Dark Knight” with Dimeo steering expertly through heavy traffic.

I can understand why Batman is dark and brooding down here.

More on the ride later… the best news is that John Finn is here and in good health and in about 30 minutes he’s headed the Wrigley Field to see the Cubs lose.

As faithful readers know, Mr. Finn, Hero of Pearl Harbor,  turned 100  last June….. and was born in the middle of the Cubbies’ 1909 season; they would go on to win 104 games that year but finished second in the behind the Pirates. The roster included Christy Mathewson and the DP combo of Tinker, Evers and Chance.

Mr. Finn has lived his entire life without the Cubs winning the World Series.

Chicago can be a mournful town.

Mr. Finn knows a lot of history… hell, Mr. Finn is a lot of history.

Great architecture here…. obviously a city committed to preserving the old while embracing modern, but far from garish design. It has the feel of a port town due to expanse of Lake Michigan which serves to display the downtown area beautifully.

Took in a great talk by Recipient Leo Thorsness and MajGen. John Borling who were together in the Hanoi Hilton for several years, on the subject of “Commitment to Courage”.

As is the case with real heroes, both men spoke eloquently on the subject without making themselves the focus of their own stories; our current commander-in-chief should try the approach himself. sometime.

Colonel Thorsness, in discussing the warmth and the magnitude of the POWs welcome home in 1972 said something that every veteran in the room immediately knew was the absolute truth.

Of a country that was greatly divided against itself over the Vietnam war, he said, “Regardless of how people felt politically or about the war, they could genuinely be happy that we were home; we were America's substitute for victory".”

While it is the truth…..most of us believe there is no substitute for victory, and that history is on our side.

Real America Stand Up

This will be stream-of-consciousness on the best couple of days I’ve had in a very long time… and faithful readers will agree that I am never happy unless it has something to do with dogs or the Marine Corps.

Thank you, Real America, for standing up and proving that the voices of our Founding Fathers are alive and well in our 233-year-old Republic. Yesterday those voices echoed from the lips of Patriot thongs who flooded the Nation’s Capitol and across this great nation to redress our grievances against a renegade government that must heed our warning or be snuffed out as We the People regain control of our destiny and liberty.

Our domestic enemies were not prepared for this offensive. The arrogance of our  overly confident oppressors proved to be a bridge too far.

With the memory of 9/11 still fresh in their minds an estimated 75,000-to over a million citizens of Real America overwhelmed the National Mall. 

We have taken on Goliath with little more than the truth, a belief in God and our Nation; as a result, our enemy has been stunned into offering only meager defensive rallying.

Their commanding officer, Barack  Hussein Obama, was forced to retreat from his own home and his command post to seek more friendly environs such as Minnesota where they have elected a third-rate comic to represent them and not long ago, a “professional” wrestler to govern the state.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s wonderful isn’t it when Obama finds a perfect audience for his glittering platitudes?

Real America, led not by a political party, but by citizen-journalists like Beck and Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart, who brought us the damning video evidence of ACORN--the democrat party’s on-going organized criminal enterprise, have blunted the fascist attempt to take over our country.

Do not be troubled by the fact that the Obama-run news media is intentionally underestimating the gigantic crowd in D.C., if they are covering it at all.

You don’t worry about Obama’s mother-in-law’s estimation of his first eight months in office do you?

And don’t be concerned about the Communist News Network’s propaganda such as running “Racial Undertones? –Tea Party rallies” (above) during its coverage. Our enemies are the only ones who care about race in this fight.

This was our weekend, today is the Sabbath and then it’s back to the hard work on Monday when it will not be time to gloat, dance in the end zone… act like you’ve been there before.

Money quote of the day: Real American corrects Obama News Anchor: “We don’t live in a ‘democracy’, we live in a Republic”. The fun starts at 1:40.

But before we do, here are some of the highlights of this pivotal week:

The “Chicago Way”:

CHICAGOLAND: Key Blagojevich adviser, witness found dead; 'Aspirin overdose'...

Who lies?  Barack Hussein does. -- White House Issues Clarification-- Admits Joe Wilson Was Right

Oh, and thanks for helping Joe; we bitch-slapped the Liar-in-Chief

NO LIE! SC's Wilson Rakes In $1M in 48 Hours...

Hires new-media strategist...

Right wing violence? Guns? Militias? DC Tea Party Planners Forced Out of Meeting After Bomb Threat ...Update: Massive Turnout Expected

State-owned and run NYT: Many of the participants came on their own and weren't part of an organization or group. The magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.

NYT: Public option all but dead

The US unemployment rate rose from 7.6% to 9.7% under Obama... the highest rate in 26 years.

And trust me and common sense, 9.7% is not even close to what real unemployment is.

 

 

And may God bless with eternal peace the 3,000 souls of 9/11.

… and may we exact 1,000 times their number in righteous retribution.