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The Being Conservative team saw this heart-wrenching yet sobering reminder of our troops’ sacrifice and wanted to share. This is a photo of Landon. His father, Marine LCPL Andrew Carpenter, was killed in Afghanistan a month before he was born.
Occupy L.A. is finally over:
“They were like storm troopers. They encircled us,” said protester Cheryl Aichele, who was sitting in the middle of the south lawn in a circle with other protesters when police first entered the camp.
U.S. Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Michael Madsen plays with an Afghan child during a visit to his village in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Oct. 26, 2011. Madsen is the senior medical officer assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman
-Former President George W. Bush
President Bush will host the Warrior Open golf tournament in Dallas, Texas October 10-11 at Las Colinas Country Club. To learn more, visit http://warrioropen.com/.
This is the latest popular image that seems to be making its rounds amongst my liberal friends on Facebook… Continue reading
U.S. Army Spc. Michael Leone walks with Afghan kids while providing security on patrol in the Purchaman district in Afghanistan’s Farah province, Sept. 26, 2011. Leone is assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 182 Infantry Regiment, security force for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah. The team attends shuras throughout the province to demonstrate support for the shura elders, the district governor and provincial governance. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airmen Alexandra Hoachlander
– it took a lot of special effects to make the toned actor look like the skinny military hopeful he’s supposed to be at the beginning of the story.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Evans told Reuters. “They took shape out of my jaw line, they shrunk my skeleton and they made my shoulders less broad.”
Those rippling muscles on his Captain America alter-ego, however, are anything but CGI — the actor put on 15 pounds of muscle to play the part.
Everyone’s raving about Chris Evans in the film and how, thanks to CGI, they are able to make the actor look like a 90 lb soaking-wet weakling when the actor has in fact packed on 15 lbs of real muscle; but what they aren’t telling you is that after his character receives the super-soldier serum, that body doesn’t belong to Chris Evans either.
FA has obtained the exclusive rights to a behind-the-scenes photo of the real actor/stunt double, who just happens to be a real-life super-soldier about to deploy to Afghanistan:
No, this isn’t a picture describing Obama’s military budget cuts. I took this picture today here at Ft. Hood because of the absurdity of it! This Soldier is cutting the grass WITH A KEVLAR ON!! Is the Army afraid that … Continue reading

