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2009 August 24

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Clement R. Bontemps

American Legion Post 139

703 Green Meadow Road

Bay St. Louis MS 39520

Mailing Address:

P. O. Box 2187, Bay St. Louis MS 39521

Post: (228) 467-9000

Lounge: (228) 467-7100

Anyone who requires entry

to the Legion Hall after normal hours

call Duty Phone (228) 342-2399

Bill Moran, Commander

legionpost139@aol.com

Ray Sheehy, Adjutant

rsheehy1@bellsouth.net

www.al139baystlouis.org

www.scuttlebutt.blog.com

NOVEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

2009 October 20

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NOVEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Nov 26 – Thanksgiving Day Dinner

The 24th annual Free Thanksgiving

Dinner will be from 11 AM to 2 PM,

November 26 at the American Legion

Hall at 703 Green Meadow Road.

The sitdown restaurant style dinner

is open to all communities and includes

turkey and all the trimmings.

Takeout dinners are also available.

Also, deliveries will be made to the

homebound in Bay St. Louis, Waveland

Hancock County.

For delivieries, call 223-7349 or e-mail

nkellygirl@yahoo.com

not later than Sunday, November

22.

Squadron 139 will deliver meals to

homebound resident who cannot

come to the legion. If you can help

with deliveries call the SAL Commander

at (228) 220-7417 and leave a message

or (228) 324-0729

Nov 27 - Pot Luck dinner at Club 5 - 8 PM

Nov 28 - 10:00 AM, Volunteers are asked to

be at the Big Hall to decorate for

Christmas

Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 5 - 7:00 PM

CLUB HOURS: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
2:00 PM TO 9:00 PM. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 12:00 NOON TO 8:00 PM (WITH EXCEPTIONS).

ALL DONATIONS OF CLOTHES, SHOES, AND OTHER ITEMS FOR THE VA PATIENTS ARE TO BE LEFT AT THE LEGION CLUB.

CHECK THE ABOVE SCHEDULE FOR HOUR OF OPERATION OF THE CLUB.

Anyone requiring enter into the Main Hall after Hours. CALL duty phone (228) 342-2399.

Continue full speed ahead on membership campaign. The next quota cut off is December 31, 2009. We now stand at 331. (80.92%) (78 to go).

A NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE IS BEING PLANNED FOR THE LEGION CLUB ON DECEMBER 31, 2009. TICKETS ARE LIMITED (50 COUPLES) AND YOU MUST HAVE RESERVATION IN ADVANCE.

TICKETS ARE $10.00 PER PERSON, $20.00 PER COUPLE.

CONTACT THERESA FOR TICKET INFORMATION AT (228) 467-7100.

December 2009 Calendar of Events

2009 October 18

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DECEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Dec 1 - VA Lucheon for Biloxi VA

Patients. Santa will stop in

for an early visit to MS. Menu

turkey, dressing, and the works.

Dec 3 - Executive Committee both

Men and Women meet @ 7:00 PM

at the Club.

Dec 4 - Pot Luck Dinner - Club 5 - 8 PM

Dec 7 - Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

Dec 10 - THURSDAY - NO DECEMBER

MONTHLY MEETING.

Dec 11 - FRIDAY - Annual Christmas Party,

Social Hour 6 - 7 PM; Short

meeting at 7:00 pm followed by

Dinner and Entertainment.

(Menu: Baked catfish, mashed potatoes

Green beans, French Bread, Drinks,

Desert. All activities will end at

10:00 PM SHARP.

CLUB WILL CLOSE AT 6 PM

SHARP.

Dec 12 - Building Usage:

Bay St. Louis PD, Christmas Party

Dec 15 - Bill of Rights Day

Dec 18 - Pot Luck Dinner Club 5 - 8 PM

Dec 20 - Invasion of Panama (Operation Just

Cause - 1989

Dec 25 - Club Closed

Jan 1 - Club is Closed

Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 5 - 7:00 PM

CLUB HOURS: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Saturday and SUNDAY 12:00 NOON TO 8:00 PM (WITH EXCEPTIONS).

PLEASE LEAVE ALL DONATIONS OF CLOTHES, SHOES, AND OTHER ITEMS FOR THE VA PATIENTS AT THE LEGION CLUB.

CHECK THE ABOVE SCHEDULE FOR HOURS OF OPERATION OF THE CLUB.

Anyone requiring enter into the Main Hall after Hours. CALL duty phone (228) 342-2399.

A NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE IS BEING PLANNED FOR THE LEGION CLUB ON DECEMBER 31, 2009. TICKETS ARE LIMITED (50 COUPLES) AND YOU MUST HAVE RESERVATION IN ADVANCE.

TICKETS ARE $10.00 PER PERSON, $20.00 PER COUPLE.

CONTACT THERESA FOR TICKET INFORMATION AT (228) 467-7100.

STARTING IN JANUARY 2010, HEAD CHEF GUS AIME WILL PREPARE A MEAL AT OUR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS.

The President’s “Military Spouses Residency Relief Act”

2009 November 21

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The President’s “Military Spouses Residency Relief Act” statement.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-s475

This new law allows service member’s spouse to retain residency in his or
her home State for voting and tax purposes.

SAL Need help in Delivering Thanksgiving Day Dinner

2009 November 21

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Son of the American Legion Post 139

Clement R., Bontemps

P.O. Box 2187

Bay St. Louis, MS 39521

November 13, 2009

A Call to Arms

We need help to deliver Free

dinners

Thanksgiving Day from 9am to

11am

To people who can’t leave there homes

the number is growing and we need more

help

If you can help call 228-220-7417 ASAP

Leave name and number

Thank you

David Horodecky

Commander

David Horodecky Marvin Thompson Bob Hanson Joe Everett Charles Wilkinson Dan Doagherty

Commander Vice Commander Finance officer Adjutant Chaplain Historian

Harold Barr John Benson

Sargts. at Arms

Ask someone to JOIN we need the HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Members Special Recognition

2009 November 20

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FORMER POW:

JOSEPH C. BAXTER

PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT’S:

LEOHMAN P. MC ELVEEN JR

BERNARD A. MUTTER JR.

DAVID G. ORGERON

JOE F. SOUTHERN

WILLIAM G. STIGER

New Members

2009 November 20

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WE WISH TO WELCOME ABOARD OUR

NEW MEMBER:

CHRISTOPHER T. WOODSON

BEN A. PARKS

JASON S. GAMBLE

JAY V. GAMBLE

JEREMY M. DIDIER

WILLIAM R. PLAISANCE

KENNETH M. NECAISE SR.

HAROLD G. LANDIS

CHARLES A. BREATH III

JEFFREY P. GOGGIN SR

MICHAEL R. MOREL SR

WILLIE S. MANNING

JEFFREY H. ROSE

THOMAS A. MOREL

Undeliverable Mail

2009 November 20

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National Headquarters has advised that the mail addresses for the below individuals has been returned as UNDERLIVERABLE.

If you know anyone on this list ask them to please up-date their mailing address or send us a change of address notice.

Thanks.

RICHARD W. DAVIS

DON E. DAHL

DENNIS R. DOUZART

CARLOS A. HUNTER

EVA A. NECAISE

RINGER R. STIGLET

LOWELL K. GIFFIN JR

Obama’s “CZARS”

2009 November 20

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OBAMA’S “CZARS”– Read who they are and realize what they want to do.

OBAMA’S CZARS
CZAR	Czar Position	Summary
Richard Holbrooke	Afghanistan Czar	Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery	Auto recovery Czar	Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley	AIDS Czar	Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin	Border Czar	The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegal’s without interference from US
David J. Hayes	California Water Czar	Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom	Car Czar	Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross	Central Region Czar	Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal	Domestic Violence Czar	Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske	Drug Czar	devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker	E conomic Czar	Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy.. Member of anti business “Progressive Policy” organization
Carol Brower	Energy and Environment Czar	Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois	Faith Based Czar	Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.
Cameron Davis	Great Lakes Czar	Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. *Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.”* No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)
Van Jones	Green Jobs Czar	(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.
Daniel Fried	Guantanamo Closure Czar	Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Nancy-Ann DeParle.	Health Czar	Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Vivek Kundra	Information Czar	Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?)
Todd Stern	International Climate Czar	Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.
Dennis Blair	Intelligence Czar	Ret Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as “provocative”. Chair of ultra liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars.
George Mitchell	Mideast Peace Czar	Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 “ smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual “special rights” advocate
Kenneth Feinberg	Pay Czar	Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true)
Cass Sunstein	Regulatory Czar	Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times –like private gun ownership and right to free speech.
John Holdren	Science Czar	Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Earl Devaney	Stimulus Accountability Czar	Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
J. Scott Gration	Sudan Czar	Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Herb Allison	TARP Czar	Fannie May CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
John Brennan	Terrorism Czar	Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military
Aneesh Chopra	Technology Czar	No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr..	Urban Affairs Czar	Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire “slum lord” of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care
Ashton Carter	Weapons Czar	Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other “policy”
Gary Samore	WMD Policy Czar	Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”.

How lucky are we that these are the people who are helping President Obama in the RUNNING of our country and the White House?

Obama Took First Step in Banning All Firearms

2009 November 20

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http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

Obama Finds Legal Way Around The 2nd. Amendment and Uses It.

If This Passes, There Will Be WAR!

Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:56pm EDT Reuters News Service

The Full Article Here
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

Subject: Obama Takes First Step in Banning All Firearms
On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States

On Wednesday the Obama administration took its first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States. The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments. These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nations and individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms.

The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened. Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment.

This is not a joke nor a false warning. As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control.

Read the Article

U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush’s administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

The Full Article
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

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Powerful words which should be heard

2009 November 20

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Allen West on Fort Hood Massacre

The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West:

This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas . As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America , an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait . We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America , and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan , Boston Massachusetts , Dallas Texas , and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America . And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.
We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States , one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach . Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia ? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca ?
So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

You won’t see this on the Nightly News

2009 November 20

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/18/npr-shocker-attorney-general-holder-stumped-lindsey-graham

Joy of Christmas Cards

2009 November 19

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It is time to get out your CHRISTMAS cards list!

Yes, you read this right….. CHRISTMAS cards.

This is coming early (really early) so that you can get
ready to include an important address to your list.

Read on……..

Fun with the ACLU……

Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS?
Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS card this year.

As they are working so very hard to get rid of the
CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send
them a nice CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their
dark, sad, little world.

Make sure it says

“Merry CHRISTMAS“ on it.
Here’s the address;
just don’t be rude or crude.
(That’s not the Christian way, you know!)

ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004

Two tons of CHRISTMAS cards would freeze their
operations because they wouldn’t know if any were
regular mail containing contributions. So spend
44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave CHRISTMAS
alone.

Also tell them that there is no such thing as a
“Holiday Tree“. . . . It’s a CHRISTMAS Tree even
in the fields!

Pass this on to your e-mail lists.

We really need to communicate with the ACLU!

They really DESERVE us!!