Patriotic Federalist

Justice Delayed But Not Denied: Kerry Ally Stripped of Silver Star

In 1992, Capt. Wade Sanders was awarded the Silver Star for actions in Vietnam years earlier. In 2004, he introduced Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry at that year’s convention and was a big supporter throughout the campaign. As we all know, a group of some 200 fellow Swift Boat veterans eventually helped sink Kerry’s presidential campaign by blowing up the Vietnam “war hero” facade that the Massachusetts senator had meticulously and misleadingly put forth. Contrary to Kerry’s boasting, he committed treason in Vietnam. Sanders was a lead attack dog for Kerry, and he worked to tarnish the Swifties’ reputations, slandering them as “Nazi propagandists.”

In a case of poetic justice, the Navy recently stripped Sanders of his honor. The Navy’s tersely worded statement indicated that “subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself” led to the revocation of his Silver Star. Sanders, by the way, is also serving 37 months for possession of child pornography, and we doubt that helped his case. He claimed it was research for a book he was writing.

Kerry made quite the issue of his military record, using it as both a crutch and a stick throughout his campaign. How ironic that one of his lead witnesses was found to be so wanting in character. Kerry should hope the Navy doesn’t come after him, too.

via Digest for Friday, July 29, 2011 – Editions – PatriotPost.US.

Democrats Love Reagan?Among all the other shenanigans taking place in Washington, Democrats have now attempted to rewrite history and co-opt Ronald Reagan’s legacy. In their fight to raise the debt ceiling, House Democrats released a television ad with selective clips of a 1982 Ronald Reagan radio address warning of the fiscal disaster that would come from a failure to raise the debt ceiling. Of course they neglected to mention that the 1983 ceiling was $3 trillion, a bit below the current $14.3 trillion. Democrats gleefully point out that Reagan agreed to raise taxes at the time. The tax hike rolled back some of Reagan’s historic 1981 tax cut, and he regretted the decision for the rest of his presidency. Democrats reneged on their promise to cut $3 spent for every $1 raised, and instead used the tax revenue to increase spending. In other words, they lied. You won’t see that in the ad, nor will you hear what Reagan said later in the same speech: “Every time Congress increases taxes, the deficit does not decrease, spending increases.” Democrats would love history to repeat itself.The debt has quintupled since the Reagan presidency, and since that time Democrats have constantly smeared his legacy. But now, even Obama quotes the former president in his attempt to push his ideological agenda of an all-encompassing federal government. We would rejoice if our friends on the Left had truly come to respect Reagan, but when such comments are weighed against the vitriolic words Obama has used against the GOP in recent weeks, it’s more than apparent that Democrats are adulterating Reagan’s record for their own political gain.

via Digest for Friday, July 29, 2011 – Editions – PatriotPost.US.

And Now NorwayBy Cal Thomas Archive · Tuesday, July 26, 2011When parents send their children off to summer camp, they reasonably expect them to return refreshed and more attuned with the world than when they left home. Even in their wildest nightmares, they don’t foresee them returning in a pine box.We must now add Norway to the expanding list of unsafe places that includes Columbine, Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center, London, Madrid, Ft. Hood and Virginia Tech. The host of the 1994 Winter Olympics and home to the Nobel Peace Prize has had its sense of safety and security violated in ways it could never have imagined; shattered by a crazed gunman with an inflated sense of self, on a mission from Hell where he’ll soon be sent.Police are calling the gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, a “Christian fundamentalist” because we must have labels except when describing Muslim fundamentalists, which police, politicians and much of the media try to avoid for fear of angering Islamists. Breivik is as much a “Christian fundamentalist” as Judas Iscariot was and he deserves a similar fate.Writing in London’s Daily Telegraph, reporter Mark Hughes notes, “Norway’s intelligence service had previously been criticized for its failure to keep track of suspected terror cells and the country was felt to be complacent about the prospect of a terror attack,” according to secret cables from WikiLeaks files.That may be true, but how does a government crack a “cell” that isn’t a cell? Breivik only recently created a Facebook page and his 1,500-page manifesto ranted against Muslims about 2 percent of Norway’s population is made up of Muslim immigrants, and that number is growing and indigenous Europeans, whom he accused of betraying their heritage. That none of his young victims are responsible for the conditions he railed against adds to the madness of this inexplicable event.Listening to some of the survivors tell their stories is heartbreaking. It took Norway police 90 minutes to arrive on scene, probably because of the “diversionary” bomb Breivik exploded outside government offices in Oslo. Breivik used the time to hunt down more victims until police finally arrived.Norway forbids civilians from carrying concealed weapons, or owning an automatic weapon, unless they are gun collectors. As in America, gun laws do not deter criminals who are determined to cause harm with a weapon. What would have deterred Breivik would have been a gun in the hands of a competent person capable of stopping his mass-murdering spree.If Norway can be a site for terror, is there a safe place on Earth? The answer is no. There are no “safe” places; no one can be 100 percent safe. Does that mean everyone should be armed? Not necessarily. What it means is that for some countries, some people and some places, a way to make the environment as safe as humanly possible is to have properly armed and trained people who can respond to such events.Would Anders Behring Breivik have thought twice about his killing spree if he had known in advance that someone would shoot back? That is impossible to know. But if someone on Utoeya Island had returned fire, there’s a possibility that far fewer would have been killed. This approach may not be pleasant for some to contemplate, but the alternative is more personal and national mourning, as is now being experienced in Norway.c 2011 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.

via And Now Norway – Opinion – PatriotPost.US.

Clear Word Properties In A Click

Every time you create a Microsoft Word document, it saves its properties too. By default, Microsoft Word will fill the properties with you registration name and company name. Unfortunately, you don’t always want it. Maybe you want set document properties with nothing or with yours. Whatever you choose, you must clean it first but if you must clean it every time you create a document, that’s not a good idea. You can make a macro to make it with a click.

To check your properties of document word, you can open it through File – Properties menu in Microsoft Word.

then you can look the properties.

And here are the steps to create a macro that can wipe you properties entries in a click:

1. Open Microsoft Word first, then open VB Editor to create a macro by click Macro – Visual Basic Editor menu.

Visual Basic Editor menu

2. In Visual Basic Editor, create a module by click Insert – Module menu.

3. Then type this script:

Sub wipe_prop()
Dim my_prop As DocumentProperty
On Error Resume Next ‘to make it silent
For Each my_prop In ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties
my_prop.Value = “”
Next my_prop
End Sub

4. Then, to make sure that you don’t mistake when type the script, try to compiles it first by click Debug – Compile Project menu.

5. If you don’t get any error messages, you may close the Visual Basic Editor. Then you must copy to default Word template file, it calls normal.dot. To doing it, organize your macro first, click Tools – Macro – Macros menu.

6. In Macros dialog, click wipe_macro in Macro name list, and then click Organize button.

7. In Organize dialog, click Module1 item in left panel, click Copy button to copy it to normal.dot and then click Close button.

8. Actually, your macro has been made, but you must represent it by button on toolbar so that you can access it directly. To create a toolbar button, click Tools – Customize menu.

9. In Customize window, click Commands tab, select Categories: Macros, select Commands: Normal.Module1.wipe_prop.

10. Click and drag Normal.Module1.wipe_prop onto toolbar (you can choose your favorite toolbar to put it).

11. Then change its button name to makes it be more user friendly to other users by right click it (I suggest to give it name: Clean Properties), and if you’ve done click Close button on Customize dialog.

12. It’s done, to try it, click your macro button (Clean Properties) and then check your document properties by click File – Properties in Microsoft Word and if its properties is empty, it means it works!