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SAN DIEGO -- There's controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported.
A local family said fallen soldiers and Marines deserve better and that one would think our war heroes are being transported with dignity, care and respect. It said one would think upon arrival in their hometowns they are greeted with honor. But unfortunately, the family said that is just not the case. Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag -- greeted by a color guard. But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo. John Holley and his wife, Stacey, were stunned when they found out the body of their only child, Matthew John Holley, who died in Iraq last month, would be arriving at Lindbergh Field as freight. Matthew was a medic with the 101st Airborne unit and died on Nov. 15. When someone dies in combat, they need to give them due respect they deserve for (the) sacrifice they made, said John Holley. John and Stacey Holley, who were both in the Army, made some calls, and with the help of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, Matthew was greeted with honor and respect. Our familiarity with military protocol and things of that sort allowed us to kind of put our foot down -- we're not sure other parents have that same knowledge, said Stacey Holley. The Holleys now want to make sure every fallen hero gets the proper welcome. The bodies of dead service members arrive at Dover Air Force Base. From that point, they are sent to their families on commercial airliners. Reporters from 10News called the Defense Department for an explanation. A representative said she did not know why this is happening. Previous Story: Just read public comments on other websites...republicans are upset...sm and either not voting or voting for Obama. McCain is looking like a true hypocrite with his VP pick. I couldn't stop laughing at all the comments. He made a HUGE mistake with Palin. Do yourself a favor don't ever get a job as a seer...because you're totally off base with your analogy. All in favor, say "I" Give it a rest. We got more important fish to fry. Who all is in favor of a polygraph? I personally think that all candidates should be subjected to a polygraph. This way we won't have to dig through all the BS all the politicians give us and we know whether they are lying or not. LOL! Kind of like our own political BS detector.
Is anyone actually in favor of the bail out? I personally think that we should just let the banks fail and not save their greedy banker butts. It seems like that's the way a lot of other people feel too. I haven't heard one person say let's save their greedy banker butts. However, I'm pretty sure that congress will bail them out. If I could vote on this, I would definitely say no, no matter what consequence to myself (drop in stock, retirement and possibly the value of my home, no loan for college next semester). Are there any average Americans out there that are for this? I'm in favor of choice So, yes, I want the deck stacked on my side, lol! If you aren't in favor of an abortion, then please don't have one. You can make that choice all by yourself. Do us all a favor. Go look up the definitions of tax cut The only way anybody gets money back more than what they pay in is if they earn very low wages and have many children. The income bracket they are in refunds all revenues back to them that they paid in. In addition, they get a tax CREDIT only if they qualify for earned income tax credit or child tax credit. For example, lowest bracket tops out at $7825. Their tax rate is 10%. Whatever they have paid in over $782.50, they get back and ONLY what they have paid over that amount, because this is based on the tax rate. They get more back only if they have qualified for EIC or CTC. It you get a tax rate cut, you cannot benefit from it if you do not earn wages. These guys also will not get any additional refundable tax CREDIT as that is paid against tax liabilty. If you take issue with this, show me how I am wrong here. Well, I'm not in favor of bailing out people who bit off more mortgage than they can chew. Assuming they could read, they should have read the fine print. If they agreed to buy a house for a price, then they owe that amount of money plus interest. That's the way it's always been. I think the governmennt is focusing on these "bad loans" to take the spotlight off the real people...those who bought a house they could afford, have made their payments and now many are faced with losing their homes because of losing their jobs. Those are the ones who get my sympathy. So you're in favor of this? You actually think that this bloated thing they're calling a stimulus plan ought to be passed in the House version? Do you really believe that this is the time and place to push through every piece of pork and catering to special interest groups and call it stimulus? Why not just call it the liberal Democrat wish list and let it go as that? This not the time to cater to special interests when our country is sinking economically. I had every hope that Obama would come up with a legitimate stimulus plan, but this is a tragic joke. He does favor sex education for kindergartners... ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." My question is, what part of sex education is age-appropriate for a 5-year-old? Can't we just let them be kids? Sigh. And if the lipstick pig thing is a joke...it is in poor taste. In all honesty, I don't believe he actually meant to compare Sarah Palin to a pig. However, it was a poor choice of words. And if you look at the crowd he was talking to, THEY thought he was talking about Sarah Palin. That is why they stood up and had a big laugh over it. In politics, sadly, perception is everything...and most people perceive he was taking a low blow shot at Palin. I would favor a federal sales tax if there were no exemptions whatsoever. If, say you earned a dollar, you owed a dime. No exceptions regarding where the money comes from. Tax welfare benefits too. Social Security is already taxed for some recipients. Those of us who receive Social Security and have enough income to pay taxes on 85% (maximum) of it ALL had the opportunity for a better life. Some took advantage of that and some didn't. Young people today have little hope of receiving Social Security and they also have little hope of being able to live while saving for their future. In my usual long-winded way, t hat's what I think. I am not in favor of a federal sales tax.... as much as I am in favor of a flat percentage income tax. For the sake of argument...let's say 10%. No deductions, no nothing. Flat 10%. I don't care if you make a dollar or 10 million dollars. Everyone pays the same amount. Cut back the IRS because if you pay a flat tax you don't need them and the incessant forms and reams of laws. Cutting back on the IRS would save millions in and of itself. Then every American pays the same tax. THAT is equality. Everyone gets the same shake. You make less, you pay less. You make more, you pay more. They should also abolish the death tax. IF the feds have already taxed all your money, they should not tax it AGAIN just because you die. That is unfair to the heirs you worked to provide for. Just my opinion. DO OUR COUNTRY A FAVOR, show the BC!!! 
A ? for those in favor of national healthcare What is your rationale for wanting government in charge of your healthcare? You have to know that if this happens, healthcare in this country IS going to be rationed, the same as it's been rationed in Great Britain, Sweden, and Canada. There will be long waits for procedures that we now take for granted being done in a very short time. I know Obama promised the same healthcare as he now has in the senate...do you believe him? Doesn't look like ALL the people are in favor of it. sm Not even all Dems support it and looks like their support is dropping as well. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 37% favor the legislation, 43% are opposed, and 20% are not sure. Two weeks ago, 45% supported the plan. Last week, 42% supported it. Opposition has grown from 34% two weeks ago to 39% last week and 43% today. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats still support the plan. That figure is down from 74% a week ago. Just 13% of Republicans and 27% of those not affiliated with either major party agree. Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans oppose the plan along with 50% of unaffiliated voters and 16% of Democrats. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/economic_stimulus_package/support_for_stimulus_package_falls_to_37 Total climbing in favor of impeachment sm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/ The bully thing would argue in favor of nm Bottom line...are you in favor of infanticide? nm nm Oh well. Looks like libs have fallen back into favor. is how we stage our revolutions. This one is long overdue and while lamenting this cruel turn of events, you might want to ask yourself why all this is happening. Could it be that W, his cronies and right-wing fringers have overplayed their hand and the voters are fed up with lies, deception, misinformation, politics of fear, division and the culture war, and yet the McCain camp keeps right on keepin' on. When you do a poor job, you get fired. That's the way it works. Change is what they want and change is what they are going to get. We are getting ready to write a new chapter in our history that will move us far beyond that mentality and will thrust us onto the threshold of the post post-911 era. I can't wait to get started and thank God I have managed to live long enough to watch it all unfold. I am not in favor of the financial institution bailout either..... sm I think it was just the first in a long line of folks parading to the White House with their hands out. I think we have opened a huge can of worms by bailing them out and there does not seem to be an end in sight. I'd sure like to know when MTs are going to get their bailout! I'd probably get in line for that one! LOL Undecided voter score of 98% in favor of x One more reason why I favor federal sales tax....sm Our retirees are being taxed on money on which they have already paid taxes. And yes, there should be no exemptions. People are going to buy cars, appliances, take vacations, remodel their homes, etc., so the federal sales tax should apply to everything. Food.....I'm still not too sure about that as I believe that food is a basic necessity of life. The conservative way....but that's fallen out of favor this cycle....you'd all rather pay out EPA slants analysis to favor Bush's agenda Report Accuses EPA of Slanting Analysis By Juliet Eilperin The Bush administration skewed its analysis of pending legislation on air The Environmental Protection Agency's Oct. 27 analysis of its plan -- along The administration's Clear Skies legislation aims to achieve a 70 percent cut Although it represents a step toward understanding the impacts of legislative The congressional report, which was not commissioned by a lawmaker as is EPA estimated the administration's plan would cost coal-fired power plants as EPA spokeswoman Eryn Witcher said the agency based its cost estimates on Clear Skies delivers dramatic health benefits across the nation without But aides to Carper and Jeffords said they felt vindicated by the The CRS report backs up a lot of what we initially said about EPA's latest © 2005 The Washington Post Company Iraqi Soldiers Speak Out in Favor of Murtha On January 5, 2006, Congressman Murtha held a town hall meeting with Cong. Jim Moran (D-VA 08). The soldier who asked the first question served in Afghanistan and said that morale among troops is high and that he would gladly serve in Iraq today. His comment was the only one replayed by Fox News the next day. Here are some excerpts. John Brumes, Infantry Sgt. US Army: Everything that the Bush Adminstration told us about that mission in Iraq is absolutely incorrect. Furthermore, I'd like to say ... I came home to no job, no health insurance. Until we take care of this war, we can't take care of the problems that matter like health care. John Powers, Capt. 1st Armored Division, served 12 months in Iraq: The thing that hits me the most is the accountability. ... Where is the accountability for those men [who took us to war], as well as where is the accountability for Paul Bremmer, who misplaced millions of dollars and claims to keep accountability in the war zone?... I know that if we lost $500 we would be court marshaled. So where is the accountability for this leadership? Garin Reppenhagen, served as a sniper in Iraq for a year in the First Infantry Division: My question is also about accountability. The soldiers that you see, Congressman Murtha, at the hospitals... those are my friends. After coming back, being a veteran, my question is why? Why did we go to this war, why the hell did it happen, why are we in this condition. A lot of soldiers are debating whether this war was fraudulent to begin with. And there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. A lot of Americans now are debating the fact over whether or not the war was fraudulent in the first place. How come there hasn't been an investigation on the fraudulent lead up to the war by this Administration? C-SPAN has the full broadcast here. Poll MSNBC 87% in favor of impeachment for Bush.sm Really popular guy - 283,513 polled 87% said yes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/ Obama has already said he is in favor of draft - see link inside http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/obam-s13_prn.shtml So you favor the choice to deny a living child... independent of the mother...who manages to survive an abortion...medical care that it needs to survive. You condone infanticide. So your in favor of a creep who tazered a child to be allowed She put a stop to this creep being able to abuse his position as a cop who tazered a 10-year old child and put fear into a family with death threats. She had the proper and legal authority to fire him. She should have also fired the person who didn't fire him. If you think its okay to let thugs run around the streets in cop uniforms yielding badges and guns tazering children and threatening death to people your a real piece of work. The liberal media is biased in favor of Obama..... Half this country believe in this so called savior, and I hold the media 90% responsible, and the ill-informed people will and are following blindly. God help us. I would favor community service. We are talking about military (sm) x 19 Republicans vote in favor of amnesty for those who kill our soldiers. In the Senate today, 19 Senators voted that it was okay for the Iraqi government to give amnesty to anyone known to have attacked, killed or injured American soldiers, and every single one of them was a Republican. I guess this is an example of how Republicans *support* the troops. The only one that truly surprises me is McCain. He must have lost his mind since he began pandering to those who believe they are Bush's *base.* Vote Summary: Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State NAYs ---19 Not Voting--- 2 YEAs ---79 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/20/19-gop-senators-vote-agai_n_23445.html Republicans favor giving poor families subsidies to afford private schools. Obama opposed. Yet Obama sends his daughters to a private school, 29,000 for EACH KID. Hypocrisy, here we come. Geesh, not even in office yet. 
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