The Loudmouths are moving.

We've been unsuccessful in getting in contact with support from ShoutOK and the system is still completely unreliable.  We feel that we would be contributing to the problem if we continue to promote ShoutOK as our home since it does not have the capability to properly protect us from unwanted harrassment and aggravation.

I've built a website at www.loudmouths.org  This is going to be a variety social website for people all over to chat social about the world, the United States, Sports, politics, crime, etc.  Drop on by and chat with us sometime.

The Last WWI Combat
Veteran Dies

The last American WWI Veteran passed away in his sleep, February 22, 2007.  He takes with him the last voice for the soldiers who fought in World War I.  To his family, I say thank you for the service he gave us in WWI.

It is sad to think that we'll never hear new stories from the mouths of the veterans themselves.  All opportunities to document the soldiers stories are gone now.  Rest in peace.

The following is an email I sent to one of the support staff I've been able to contact at Catalog.com (parent company of Onesite.com who hosts shoutOK.com which facilitates all of Clear Channel's Oklahoma Radio Station Internet Broadcasting).

I've been in alot of online Communities, and I've found the combination of individual user pages, Group pages, Chat, Forums, and Blogs make ShoutOK a very appearling commodity.  We are close to building our own group site with these features built into it, but want to see ShoutOK grow and succeed.  I'll update this when I hear more from Catalog.com, but right now, we are not happy with what we've been given....free or not.

So, we are going to have to "redeploy" after considerable Democrat pressure to declare Iraq a lost cause.  The United States Leadership (read President Bush) has apparently failed follow up the most strategic and decisive military victory in world history (Total Conquering a World Power in under 2 months) with what the Democrats feel should have been a something close to building a McDonalds and moving on.

The stand the 101st Airborne appeared to all who view the map to be a lost cause.  They were completely encircled by the Germans, low on medical supplies, food, and ammo.  The Germans sent correspondence to the commander of the units in Bastogne, General McAuliffe, requesting his surrender of Bastogne or face annihilation by German Field Artillery.

McAuliffe, at a loss for worse, responded with "Nuts".  Nuts.  Go to Hell.  If the Democrats were to sit back and watch this fighting which lasted more than a month, they would be crying for a retreat within the first two weeks.  In the face of adversity, they'd rather cut and run.  The loss of Bastogne would have allowed the German Army to cut the Allied Forces in Half and the American Side of the split was to be destroyed.  Cut and run?  I'm glad the 101st didn't.  I'm hoping we don't now.

We were in a reconstruction period following the Civil War for 20 years.  We occupied Germany after WWII for 4.  Japan for 7.  Each time we aided in the Reconstruction and Governing of these countries and never fully left.  Each time the reconstruction period went unopposed and we knew who enemy was.

This time, the reconstruction has taken 3.5 years so far against an opposition force that doesn't have the balls to make themselves distinguishable from civilians.  They could care less for the other Muslims and would sooner see everyone die before allowing for a Democratic Iraq.  We steam rolled over the country there and the Democrats are asking us to be done rebuilding in record time?  Someone needs to slap our congressmen in the head and let them read the history books again.

We bailed on North Korea.  Now, North Korea has gone Nuclear and has threatened force against the United States.  We did not bail on Germany or Japan.  Now they are close allies with the United States, 60 years after they were our hated enemy.  Why are we even considering this a lost cause so soon?  Why are we letting the Democrats disgrace us this way when we are so close to getting Iraq established on their own.  Let them deal with their extremists in their own way, we just need to make sure we do NOT abandon them in their time of need.

I am writing to you to address Mr. Rangel's desire to introduce a bill to Congress attempting to reinstate the Draft. I have to say, as a member of the United States Army and Oklahoma Army National Guard for over 11 years that I am very proud of my brothers in arms. Those who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces are some of the best equipped and trained people on the planet. We are who we are because we willing gave ourselves to a higher cause and we know that each person standing to our left and our right did the same.
I try to maintain some knowledge of our Military and its status. This includes knowing how much we are being funded each year, what benefits we draw, what plans are being drawn up for us by Congress, and so on. When I see what the United States has done for us, I am very pleased with the level of support we receive. People understand what it is to be a "Volunteer". And I thank them all for their support.
But when you mandate service, I fear that we may not be afforded such support when our numbers are triple or quadruple what they are today. In Vietnam and Korea, over 1.5 million people were inducted into the Armed Forces. Today, we have just over 1.4 Million volunteers with another 38,000 in the Coast Guard. The Selective Service reported over 15,000,000 people who qualify for Draft status in the United States and this would not be lowered much by the same qualifiers as in Vietnam. Now, if a Draft occurs, college students may only delay entry to the end of the current semester.
Training is a tightly managed operation in the last few years. A large number of our resources in money, time, ranges, and facilities are being used to prepare our soldiers for deployment to other countries. We would be doing those who asked to serve a great disservice by flooding our population and drastically impairing the amount of time each soldier is allotted for training tasks. You can apply the same concept to Active service benefits, Veteran Benefits, Cost of Operations, etc. Congress spends nearly $500 Billion on the Military as it is; I don't want to think where Congress is going to get the money to fund the equipping, training, and facilitating 4.2 to 5.5 million troops.
I had the pleasure of serving in the 90's when our bases were being closed; our soldiers were being held up from promotions or forced out because we were too big following the first Gulf War. I saw all kinds of mistreatment of people who asked to serve simply because Congress did not want to spend money on these patriots.
Now people are asking Congress to consider requiring us many as 15,000,000 people to serve and somehow not turn around in a few years cut millions of draftees and millions of Volunteers because they cannot or will not support them anymore. Please consider very carefully what this bill will do to everyone from the currently serving volunteers, the unwilling draftees, the citizens asked to pay for all of this, and the future congresses that will have to be made to deal with the decisions of our current representatives. Please reach out to those in Congress, like Mr. Rangel, who would seek to see this event come to pass. Influence them to see what their actions do in the long term. Help keep our Volunteer Services just that.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

(Emailed to Representative Lucas.  More mailings to follow)