Category: Support the troops

Mr Wolf sent us this link to an article on Fox News about the smartest and luckiest SOB living;

Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, last week set up a YouTube page and posted a video asking the “Friends With Benefits” star to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball on November 18th in Greenville, North Carolina.

“Hi Mila, I just want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the Marine Corps. Ball with yours truly,” the uniformed sergeant said from his digs in Afghanistan. “So take a second to think about it and get back to me. All right, bye now.”

And when FOX411 asked Kunis about the invitation over the weekend, her “Benefits” co-star, Justin Timberlake, assured Moore he was going to make it happen.

“Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? You need to do it for your country,” Timberlake asked Kunis excitedly, before sending out a direct message to Moore. “I’m going to work on this, man. This needs to go down.”

After questioning her publicist if she knew about the invitation, the clearly flattered 27-year-old actress agreed.

“I’ll go, I’ll do it for you,” she said, turning to Timberlake. “Are you going to come?”

“They don’t want me! They want you,” Timberlake responded. “You need to do it for your country.”

Kunis nodded.

“I’ll do it,” she confirmed.

Jeff Schogol of Stars & Stripes sends us the video of the interview he did with Gary Sinise about his new film “Lieutenant Dan Band Movie For the Common Good’

Here’s a link to the trailer.

It’s my favorite time of the year – VALOUR-IT campaign time. You guys get to show our wounded soldiers how much you care about their service and sacrifice by helping to give them voice-activated laptops that help them keep in touch with the troops they left behind in theater and their families despite their injuries.

Your donations, no matter how big or small go to the most worthy cause I can think of – that being raising morale and connecting our troops with the people they love from their hospital beds. I’ve been to a few presentations of the laptops and I’ve seen the looks of appreciation from the folks on the receiving end of your gifts and I know you make a difference in their lives.

I’d prefer that you give to Team Army, but actually, I just want you to give however much you can give to any team. You can click the button in the sidebar from now until the 14th or the link at the beginning of this post.

Thanks in advance for your generosity.

The folks at Old Navy want me to tell about their Operation Troop Donation drive this weekend;

· When: July 1-4

· Where: All Old Navy stores (www.oldnavy.com for locations)

· What: Old Navy will be collecting essential items like tees, socks, and flip-flops as well as matching any cash donation up to $100,000. Participating customers will receive a 10% discount off their entire purchase in-store that day.

I know a couple of you could use a 10% discount on clothes for those herds of kids you’re raising. More information here.

ROS sends us a link to an article which tells that back in my old stomping grounds, residents of Monroe County, New York have made it illegal to protest within 1000 yards of churches, cemeteries or funeral homes an hour before, during and after ceremonies;

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks signed the law in a ceremony attended by local veterans, lawmakers and members of the Patriot Guard riders, who place themselves between protesters and funeral events.

Parma legislator Richard Yolevich, a Vietnam veteran and Republican, and Dick Beebe, a former National Guard member and Democrat, co-sponsored the legislation.

“We’re in favor of freedom of speech, but we also think that the family and friends deserve to have the right to take care of their loved ones in a respectful and quiet way,” said Beebe, (D) Greece.

I hope more localities take actions that State and federal governments are unwilling to enact to stop these Westboro fags. Speaking of whom, I guess they have plans to protest at Ryan Dunn’s funeral. Ryan Dunn of “Jackass” fame was killed along with a former Navy Seal in an automile accident last week..

Scott sent us a link to an article about a Homeowners’ Association in Evans, Georgia which initially approved and then denied permission for Homes For Our Troops to build on a lot in their neighborhood;

Homes for Our Troops — a national organization that has built or remodeled homes for more than 100 severely injured veterans — had planned to build a house for Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean Gittens and his family this weekend. Gittens suffered concussive head injuries while serving in Afghanistan. After he returned home, a brain aneurysm caused a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

Homes for Our Troops worked for four months with the Knob Hill Property Owners Association to get the design approved, according to John Gonsalves, the group’s founder. But at an association meeting, members said the 2,700-square-foot home was too small and neighbors thought it would bring property values down, Gonsalves said. A cease-and-desist order was issued as the site was being prepared last week.

Ya know, it’s one thing to keep an area exclusive and well-kept, it’s quite another to be a fricken dick about it. Know what else will bring property values down? Having a reputation for being elitist snobs.

UPDATED: As Claymore points out in the comments, the members of the HOA are revolting against the HOA board’s decision (read the comments) and hundreds of Evans, Georgia volunteers are standing by to begin construction.

UPDATED: Claymore sends a link from the Augusta Chronicle;

“We’re all just very disappointed,” [Sharon] Gittens said, adding she found out about the problem late Tuesday.. “We got real excited when we saw that they cleared the lot, cut the trees down and everything, and started doing some work.”

Brown Neck Gaitor sends this from the HOA’s covenants (.pdf);

ARTICLE SEVEN MINIMUM SIZES

SECTION 1. “Lot Size”: No improvement shall be constructed on a lot having a square footage of less than as indicated on the record plat, provided that the developer may cause the re-subdivision of up to IS developed lots, provided that the final re-subdivision shall not reduce the size of any single lot by more than 20% of its original size, and further that any such re-subdivision shall be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission of Columbia County , Georgia .

There are no other mentions of “sq” (square), “foot” or “size” in the covenants.

Here are the Architectural guidelines.

It does state that they recommend that all houses in this section be 2700 sq feet minimum (which this new house allegedly satisfies).

Now they’re just being insufferable pricks.

BooRadley sends an article about the police department in Lorain, OH which thwarted an assassination attempt on a Marine’s life after he was cleared of charges in his wife’s death;

Eppler had been accused of murdering his wife, former Amherst resident Natalie (Wlaszyn) Eppler, 23, in their home in Albany, Ga., but the charges were dropped after investigators ruled her death a suicide. Eppler then was reinstated to active duty and took leave to come back to Lorain and watch his younger brother graduate Sunday from Lorain High School.

He did not know that Lorain police were investigating Natalie Eppler’s aunt, Irene Wlaszyn, 54, of Lorain, after a Lorain man told police she wanted him to kill Eppler. After police learned Wlaszyn intended to follow through on her offer, she was arrested on Tuesday.

Good on the police in both instances; clearing the Marine’s name in his wife’s murder and protecting him from his sociopath sister-in-law.