SHERMAN'S LAGOON

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Sherman is a great white shark who is uniquely unaware of how intimidating he can be. He is the main character in SHERMAN'S LAGOON set somewhere in the tropical seas and inhabited by  a cast of unique characters. Sherman gets pushed around a bit by these other characters including Hawthorne, a hermit crab, Fillmore the sea turtle, and Megan, Sherman's domineering wife, another great white shark. The characters in Sherman's lagoon lead lives an awful lot like middle class Americans. They try new business ventures, go on dates, have family issues. But they also have problems unique to life in the lagoon, like what to bring to a covered dish party; shrimp...will shrimp be there?

 There is also an ocean environmental aspect to the cartoons. Ocean environmental themes are explored in a humorous non political way. The Cartoons appeal to adults who relish the social commentary and by children particularly pre teens and teens who enjoy the rough and tumble of Sherman's undersea world.

 The crew here at American Admiralty Books are fans of Sherman and the inhabitants of his lagoon. We think many of our visitors would enjoy periodic visits to the lagoon. So we will run the links here alternatively with our home grown "SUNDAY FUNNIES" and the links will have a permanent home in our OCEANOGRAPHY SECTION.

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"The U.S. Marine Corps will phase out the Boeing AV-8B Harrier II jump jet by 2025 � about five years earlier than planned � and will instead extend the life of its fleet of aging Boeing F/A-18 Hornet strike fightersaccording to the service�s recently released 2015 aviation plan. USNI NEWS"

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 You may read both the recent article by the U.S. Naval Institute News and the full Marine Corps 201 5 aviation plan via the links above. For the record we want to express concern for any diminishment in the use and further development of STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) warbirds in the fleet. STOVL is the enabling technology that allows us to turn our numerous flat deck amphibious warfare ships into virtual "jeep carriers" in the event of casualties or further reductions is our barely adequate fleet of big deck air craft carriers. STOVL aircraft also male our helicopter carrying amphibs intrinsically capable of providing their own "high cover". STOVL aircraft can also operate from from fairly primitive and hastily assembled airfields ashore.  Generally STOVOL air craft don't fly as far or as fast as our more advanced non STOVL fighters and fighter bombers but they are quite credible fighter aircraft and the only air craft of choice when "jeep carriers' are needed fast, operations must proceed using primitive air fields, or Amphibs need organic high air cover. STOVOL technology must continue to advance and production lines must remain ready. That's our cautionary note to this latest news in defense budget reductions with no relevant cut in threats to national security.

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ISIS PRESENCE ON QUANTICO MARINE CORPS BASE

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ISIS Fliers on a Marine Corps Base? 


Somebody scattered some leaflets with an ISIS flag through the town of Quantico. Story from THE DAILY BEAST: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/isis-flyers-on-a-marine-corps-base.html

 The leaflets claim that some ISIS "agents" have entered the country via train through Mexico. The "town" of Quantico is co located within the boundaries of Quantico Marine Corps Base. You can't get in to the "town" without passing through military security including showing a picture ID and stating a reason for being there. Admittance to the "town" doesn't automatically admit a visitor to the operating military base. The Marine Corps discounts the possibility of the operatives having arrived by train from Mexico though it has been determined that ISIS operatives are in Mexico. Of course it would be politically incorrect for any actively serving officer to admit to anything that displeases the Obama administration. But let's assume the PC position is correct and that the fliers came from homegrown Islamofascists. Does that make you feel any more secure? Does it make it any less true that ISIS agents are here?  The purpose of the leaflet distribution was to spread fear and to intimidate. Whether done by domestic or imported terrorists it is a terror tactic. ISIS is trying to control the behavior and attitudes of the American Public.  The attitude they want from you is one of fear and submission.

 There can be only one proper public response to this outrage. The PUBLIC, vice the government with the White House now occupied by a Muslim, must respond by visibly and effectively turning against all manifestations of the Islamic push for supremacy and the overthrow of the U.S. constitution. Demand the investigation of all Islamic charities in the U.S.; 18% of the donations to many of these charities go directly to the support of terrorists organizations. If the Feds won't do it, demand that your state police investigate. Arrest the Islamic officials who are funding terror under the cover of Islamic charities.  Boycott all Islamic small businesses. Demonstrate , write letters , and publicly demand the cessation of Muslim immigration. Demonstrate for the arrest of all Imams engaged in sedition and hate speech. Never eat Halal meat products and demand that any Halal slaughterhouse meet all laws concerning sanitation and cruelty to animals (most can't, end the free pass). Shun all food establishments that employ Muslims or advertise Halal products. Use local law to ban all manner of Islamic dress that obscures the face of could cover the illegal concealment of weapons. Finally, realize that everything the Islamic apologists and left tell you about Islam in America is a lie.

 Stand up now or bow down later. If you bow down later it won't stop with the loss of your personal and religious freedom, property, and women relatives. Eventually they will cut your head slowly off. Unlike Europe which many European politicians tell us is already lost, Muslims make up only .083% of the American population. They are openly defying European governments and pushing through demands for local Islamic law within Islamic enclaves with less than 6% of the population. With their expanded birth rates and unlimited immigration Europe will have about a 41 % Muslim population in as little as 12 years and direct warfare on Jews and Christians will begin. In 29 years if things aren't reversed, Russia will have a majority Muslim population. The United States will be home of the last peoples able to resist. Fight gun control, you will need  your guns. Never ever vote again for a Muslim candidate for public office. One President and one Congressman are two too many. Volunteer for and revamp the State Guards, Don't expect anything "federal" to protect you from the Islamofascists who are increasing in number daily. Don't except the label Islamophobic for being concerned or fearful of the rise of Islam, A Phobia is an unreasonable fear. There is nothing unreasonable about fearing the rise of the Islamofascists. Their intent is to totally dominate you either by conversion, some combination of taxation and restrictions and enslavement, or to kill you slowly and painfully in a public spectacle.  Don't believe that?  Just look at what ISIS is doing in their so called "Islamic State" daily. Check out life in Iran, formerly Christian Persia. The level of subjugation , humiliation, and extermination varies among Islamic nations, but it exists in all.

 The West is now under siege. Draw the line and hold the Western Muslim communities to it. Donating to terrorist organizations is not accepted because it is done under the cover of "giving alms", one of the five "Pillars of Islam", this is not a protected "religious practice" any more than "Freedom of Religion" would protect human sacrifice.  One can not expect to be allowed to drive wearing head gear such as a burka which obscures vision in most configurations. One can not expect to have picture IDs and licenses requiring facial identification depicting a veiled face. For security reasons banks and other public places may bar entry to people wearing clothing that both conceals identity and and possible weapons. Subject Halal slaughterhouses to proper sanitation and cruelty to animals regulations and inspections. Arrest leaders of mosques and other groups that solicit and provide financial aid to, or recruitment for terrorist groups. Acknowledge that preaching the establishment of a global or local "caliphate" or the incorporation of Sharia law into a western society  is sedition and prosecute. Get together as Christian and Jewish congregations to offer shelter and help to the 35 to 50% of Muslim women in the West who would leave Islam but for fear of honor or apostasy killings. Don't attach such help to any pressure to "convert". Someone abused in the name of "religion"  will be naturally leary of any religion. Admiral Lord Nelson told his captains that regardless of the fog of war, no captain could go very far wrong if he pressed the enemy and engaged. Oppose Islam at every opportunity until Western Islam reforms and accepts separation of Mosque and state, modest dress codes that do not undermine public security, non polygamous marriage, and the rule of constitutional Western law which will never be compatible with Sharia, Hada punishments, honor killings, female genital mutilation, or murder for apostasy,  Every Western Muslim must realize that any religion that insists on a right to convert by armed force, and to punish with the death the unconvinced, will never be viewed as anything but intrinsically evil by Western people. Every Western Christian must realize that while Muslims have the right to street preaching, and use of public forums to try to win converts, Christians in Western Society have that right too, including in predominantly Muslim areas. With proper security, exercise and enforce that right. 
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INDIAN MILITARY ANNIVERSARY-THE "TIGERS" IN MODERN HISTORY

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NOT EVERY INDIVIDUAL MUSLIM IS UNFIT FOR LIFE IN A NON CALIPHATE NATION. BEFORE THE DIVISION OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN SEPOY KHUDADAD KAHAN WAS A HERO OF DEMOCRACY. SOME OF HIS DESCENDENTS LIVE IN ENGLAND

Khudadad Khan  Troops of the 129th Baluchis
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 While we have already carried articles about Muslims fighting on the side of the Germans in WWI and WWII we shouldn't neglect the fact than many also fought on the side of the allies. The First World War had 1.2 million participants from what is now India. Combatant units from what is now Pakistan , Bangladesh and counted in with the British/Indian Units. There was another 100,000 troops provided by Nepal, all fighting as part of the British Empire. The Indian Army included Muslims (over 400,000), Hindus and Sikhs. Almost 75,000 including 20,000 Gurkhas, didn't survive.

Recently military historians in Great Britain and India marked  the 100th anniversary of the first Indian soldier to win the Victoria Cross. His name was Sepoy Kudadad Khan, a Muslim from the 129th Baluchis regiment. Khan was a 26 year old member of one of two machine gun crews which due to their firepower were heavily targeted by German forces at Ypres where the allies were trying to halt the German advance of the ports of the Channel coast. The 129th took an un-entrenched position at Hollebek on October 30, 1914. It was rainy, muddy and cold, conditions that the Indian troops were not used to. They were soon subjected to heavy bombardment as the germans launched a major offensive. Near the opening of the advance one machine gun was destroyed by an artillery shell hit. The surviving crew joined Khan's team which held their ground against the German onslaught. All of the men except the severely wounded Khan were killed at their posts. Khan continued firing as the Germans simply streamed past him leaving him in their rear. The severely wounded Khan was now behind enemy lines. He did not surrender but waited until nightfall and evaded the Germans until he regained his tattered unit.

 Khan was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions and fellow machine-gunners; Sepoys Lal Shah, Said Ahmed, Qasim and Afsar Khan were posthumously awarded the IDSM (Indian Distinguished Service Medal) and Ghulam Muhammad the IOM (Indian Order of Merit). In addition to France Indian subcontinent forces also fought fought in Africa, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, Gallipoli, China and Singapore. In all, there were 11 Victoria Crosses and more than ten thousand other honours awarded to participants from the sub-continent. Ironically Khan was later commissioned but died after the partition in Pakistan at the age of 83.  Our point that we would like to make is simply this Indian forces come from a military / naval tradition that is thousands of years old but also includes plenty of action within the modern era of mechanized war. China, a thug state threatens India as do outside Muslim forces. But Indian forces even including Indian Muslims, as well as Hindu ,Sikhs, Gurka, and more rarely Christians have stood shoulder to shoulder to defend freedom.  The record of Indian Forces is that they stand and fight, they don't run. They train hard and they fight hard and those surrounding nations and terrorists organizations contemplating some future "siege of India"  are, as we say in Louisiana, barking up the wrong tree. Though non aligned at the moment, India will never have to stand alone in any such seige. Unlike the jackals that surround her, India is an ancient and intact civilization, a real democracy filled with admirable and industrious freedom loving people. The World will rally to India, not to the surrounding gangs of thugs. On the 100th anniversary of the actions of Sepoy Kudadad Khan, Sepoys Lal Shah, Said Ahmed, Qasim and Afsar Khan it is good to pause and remember that valor in combat is a very old but continuous Indian military tradition. 
http://www.memorial-gates-london.org.uk/history/ww1/participants/indian-subcontinent/khudadad-khan.html

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An Absolutely Final Invitation to the Red Fish Action From Capt. Richie For This Season

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THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE GIANT RED FISH IN THE VICINITY OF CAPT. RICHIE'S BOAT WILL CEASE FOR THE FALL SEASON IN A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS A BUCKET LIST FISHING TRIP! 



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Late Fall Redfish Action - The "Slabs" of the South

Folks, this little area on the Georgia Coast offers some of the best Redfish action in the world for huge Bull Redfish. That's right! Some of the best in the world, non-arguably, especially for these giants.

Louisiana has a great fishery for Reds, but their average size is slightly below most of our female bull Redfish here around Jekyll Island in the River Channels of the Satilla River and St. Andrews Sound.

The action is almost over, so book your.... Fall Season Fishing Fun in Coastal Georgia starts here! Phone anytime for information: 912-580-5577    See our official website here: http://www.georgiasportfishing.com/ or email anytime: fishwithus@gmail.com?

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