October 30, 2011
Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate .... By George F. Will
Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate
By George F. Will
The Republican presidential dynamic — various candidates rise and recede; Mitt Romney remains at about 25 percent support — is peculiar because conservatives correctly believe that it is important to defeat Barack Obama but unimportant that Romney be president. This is not cognitive dissonance.
Obama, a floundering naif who thinks ATMs aggravate unemployment, is bewildered by a national tragedy of shattered dreams, decaying workforce skills and forgone wealth creation. Romney cannot enunciate a defensible, or even decipherable, ethanol policy.
Life poses difficult choices, but not about ethanol. Government subsidizes ethanol production, imposes tariffs to protect manufacturers of it and mandates the use of it — and it injures the nation’s and the world’s economic, environmental, and social (it raises food prices) well-being.
In May, in corn-growing Iowa, Romney said, “I support” — present tense — “the subsidy of ethanol.” And: “I believe ethanol is an important part of our energy solution for this country.” But in October he told Iowans he is “a business guy,” so as president he would review this bipartisan — the last Republican president was an ethanol enthusiast — folly. Romney said that he once favored (past tense) subsidies to get the ethanol industry “on its feet.” (In the 19th century, Republican “business guys” justified high tariffs for protecting “infant industries”). But Romney added, “I’ve indicated I didn’t think the subsidy had to go on forever.” Ethanol subsidies expire in December, but “I might have looked at more of a decline over time” because of “the importance of ethanol as a domestic fuel.” Besides, “ethanol is part of national security.” However, “I don’t want to say” I will propose new subsidies. Still, ethanol has “become an important source of amplifying our energy capacity.” Anyway, ethanol should “continue to have prospects of growing its share of” transportation fuels. Got it?
Every day, 10,000 baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare, from which they will receive, on average, $1 million of benefits ($550,000 from the former, $450,000 from the latter). Who expects difficult reforms from Romney, whose twists on ethanol make a policy pretzel?
A straddle is not a political philosophy; it is what you do when you do not have one. It is what Romney did when he said that using Troubled Assets Relief Program funds for the General Motors and Chrysler bailouts “was the wrong source for that funding.” Oh, so the source was the bailouts’ defect.
Last week in Ohio, Romney straddled the issue of the ballot initiative by which liberals and unions hope to repeal the law that Republican Gov. John Kasich got enacted to limit public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Kasich, like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is under siege. Romney was asked, at a Republican phone bank rallying support for Kasich’s measure, to oppose repeal of it and to endorse another measure exempting Ohioans from Obamacare’s insurance mandate (a cousin of Romneycare’s Massachusetts mandate). He refused.
His campaign called his refusal principled: “Citizens of states should be able to make decisions . . . on their own.” Got it? People cannot make “their own” decisions if Romney expresses an opinion. His flinch from leadership looks ludicrous after his endorsement three months ago of a right-to-work bill that the New Hampshire legislature was considering. So, the rule in New England expires across the Appalachian Mountains?
A day after refusing to oppose repeal of Kasich’s measure, Romney waffled about his straddle, saying he opposed repeal “110 percent.” He did not, however, endorse the anti-mandate measure, remaining semi-faithful to the trans-Appalachian codicil pertaining to principles, thereby seeming to lack the courage of his absence of convictions.
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate. Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the Tea Party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming.
Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from “data” (although there is precious little to support Romney’s idea that in-state college tuition for children of illegal immigrants is a powerful magnet for such immigrants) and who believes elections should be about (in Dukakis’s words) “competence,” not “ideology.” But what would President Romney competently do when not pondering ethanol subsidies that he forthrightly says should stop sometime before “forever”? Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for this?
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Wild Thing's comment......
Once and awhile George Will comes through, not very often but this time wow he really went after Romney.
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September 13, 2011
Yakety Yak Don’t Talk Back by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Yakety Yak Don’t Talk Back
Obama’s speech to Congress shows his political insanity and childish narcissism as he proposes to try again what not only did not work last time but placed America in dire financial straits. He blames the failure of the last 1,000,000,000,000 dollar stimulus on Congressional inaction and infighting. Now he wants to spend another $500,000,000,000 on “MY jobs act” which “Congress should pass right now” (without reading it---just like Obamacare).
The hidden agenda behind his ‘act’ is a politically expedient injection of more money into union coffers so they can further fund the Obama re election campaign. When will Republicans and Independents in Congress stop pandering to the insanity of Leftwing Marxists, take charge and just say NO?! Continued funding of secular progressive programs represents a denial of reality by the Democrats and Obama and/or intentional destruction of the national economy to achieve their Marxist goal which is getting ever so close.
There are other significant news items across the wires this week. More weapons at the scene of border agent Brian Terry’s murder by Mexican cartels have been linked to the administration’s Project Gunrunner scandal which is still under investigation by Congressmen Darrell Issa and Charles Grassley. Dept. of Injustice Attorney General Eric Holder may be left holding the bag before it’s over.
He either turned a blind eye to this illegal operation by BATFE, FBI and DEA or had a hand in it. The purpose of the operation was to manufacture data which would support the Administration’s agenda to abolish the Second Amendment in its present form---a clear objective of any Marxist government wanting to disarm “We the People.”
Thanks in part to Obama’s pro-Islam anti-Israel posture and his exaltation of the ‘Arab Spring’, Egypt has lost all tolerance for freedom of religion. Elements of the radical Muslim Brotherhood have claimed responsibility for destruction of the Israeli embassy and threaten political takeover of Egypt. The ‘Arab Spring’ appears to be turning into chaos and an ‘Arab Winter’.
Obama’s lack of support for Israel and his apparent green flag to Syrian mass executions has also encouraged the Turkish president to dispatch Turkish warships to escort Palestinian Authority (PA) boats to Gaza which will certainly provoke Israel to defensive confrontation. In the past such PA ships ran weapons supplies to their brethren in Gaza in order to mount offensives against Israel.
Turkey is on the brink of economic collapse just like Greece, and their president feels isolated from the spoils of war in Libya where Britain, France, Jordan and Qatar have dominated. He wants to divide in half what is now one major fleet of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ships guarding Gaza and Israel’s natural resources. The prospect of war between Turkey and Israel is ever so close and Barack and Hillary are nowhere to be found.
In the state of Washington, union longshoremen not only went on strike but trapped innocent non-workers and destroyed property---just another example of mob mentality and violence openly condoned this past week in Jimmy Hoffa’s (Junior) speech before AFL-CIO members. Hoffa openly proclaimed Tea Party patriots as open targets of his organization using vile speech and threats which seem to be acceptable to Obama as long as such rhetoric comes only from his radical Fascist friends.
Left wing Fascists, who prefer the label ‘secular progressives’, deny reality, distort the truth, and promote their self-centered Leninist ideology which worldwide has repeatedly proved itself an utter failure except for those few in control. They now stoop to verbal threats against patriots and outright destruction of property (Wisconsin statehouse and Washington state grain docks).
Their goal is the same as Obama’s—to build the entitlement society (Nanny State) which began under FDR and which has led to massive government ponzi schemes and ultimately American insolvency, not to mention moral decay as the state increasingly takes over the role of the Family. The means to the Left’s end is to create conflict and class warfare which ultimately forces a redistribution of wealth and destroys the free enterprise system which made America strong and with that will go our privacy, liberties and safety.
The rest of the civilized world thinks Americans are idiots to have elected an anti-American community organizer with an identity crisis to the highest office in the Land. Patriots must now more than ever be strong, unafraid, united and overcome the nightmare which is sinking our nation. Write or call your elected members of Congress and tell them to stand up and stop the wholesale destruction of America by insane ideologues who appear to be running the asylum of Fedzilla!
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Wild Thing's comment......
I love that there are people writing that are not the main stream media. This Dr. is good just as Col Pappas is always good.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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September 07, 2011
Obama Campaigns from the Sinking Titanic, Grants Amnesty to Illegals by Fiat
Obama Campaigns from the Sinking Titanic, Grants Amnesty to Illegals by Fiat, Tries To Hide Involvement in Project Gunrunner
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
As many Americans mourn a jobless Labor Day, Obama is scheduled to give a campaign speech this week to both chambers of Congress on the taxpayers’ dime. The subject will be all the jobs he and his socialist administration have destroyed during the past three years. Let’s see how he spins the fact that no jobs were created in August for the first time since 1945---66 years ago!
This president and his agencies have continued to impose paralyzing new federal regulations on small businesses and done nothing to cut corporate taxes, both of which will be necessary to achieve an economic recovery. Otherwise, businesses will continue to hoard cash to defray the costs of Marxist Obamacare and additional federal regulations. Is it any wonder many businesses continue to move overseas where regulations and taxes are reasonable because other governments know that private sector capitalism is the key to their strength and prosperity? That is contrary to the Marxist ideology of Obama and his corrupt buddies. The upcoming speech will certainly propose more government spending on federal job programs framed as ‘helping the middle class’, rather than catalyzing a private sector recovery.
Most of the shovel-ready government funded jobs promised with the previous trillion dollar stimulus did not materialize since those dollars were paid as kickbacks to the public sector unions which will as usual recycle that money into Obama’s re election campaign. Meantime, Obama this week designated ‘Project Vote’ to handle his re election campaign by mobilizing the dead, convicted felons and illegals to which he has granted amnesty over the objections of Congress.
It seems odd he would choose the name ‘Project Vote’ since the original infamous Project Vote was exposed for election fraud after the 2008 elections in connection with ACORN. This is proof that those on the Left don’t care about morality (knowing right from wrong) and ethics (doing what is acceptable).
The American people who voted for BO continue to wait that ‘hope and change’ they were promised. The rest of us who saw through the charades of the Left from the very beginning are more concerned about the ongoing and increasing lawlessness of Emperor Obama and Chief Enforcer of Injustice Holder, with at least two investigations of critical importance either underway or about to begin: Representative Issa and Senator Grassley continue their investigation of Project Gunrunner in which our own government violated laws in pursuit of their anti-gun agenda by allowing guns to enter Mexico bound for cartels which then were found at murder scenes on either side of the border and included the deaths of at least two border agents.
This week the committee learned that an Arizona Federal chief prosecutor ordered a cover-up of the discovery of these weapons at crime scenes so to not expose the illegal misdeeds of the Administration and its agencies---in particular the Department of Injustice. Despite the Obama administration’s previous denial of knowledge of this scandal, it was found this week that several of his national security personnel in the White House were aware of Project Gunrunner. Issa and Grassley are relentlessly working to find out how high in the DOIJ and White House this goes---who knew and who ordered it.
The other major issue is Obama’s clear violation of the Constitution with respect to enforcement of immigration laws. We all know the Department of Injustice and Homeland Insecurity continue to not enforce our laws but maliciously filed suits against numerous states which have tried to protect themselves from illegal immigration and its expensive and sometimes deadly consequences.
Just recently Obama took this a step further through his constitutionally illegal use of executive powers to enact his own Dream Act which gives amnesty to illegals in order to enlarge his voting base and further destroy America. The Constitution grants lawmaking powers only to the Congress, and the Executive branch must enforce those laws. Rep. Peter King and two other representatives have asked for a committee of Congress to immediately investigate Obama’s illegal actions.
As for Obama’s speech before the Congress, expect more garble about shovel-ready infrastructure projects at taxpayer expense which never worked with the first stimulus. Narcissists like Obama refuse to do what is right but rather whatever is most convenient to achieve their selfish objectives---in this case his re election by offering proposals which on the surface appear reasonable but which discerning minds recognize as politically motivated ploys by Obama to set up scenarios in which GOP resistance to his socialist proposals will be used against them during his campaign. This is one example of how those with Liberal Mental Disorder use lies and manipulation to achieve their ill-conceived goals.
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Wild Thing's comment......
Great write up by the Dr.
As far as I know Obama is the first president to go this much against our Constitution. I can't remember anyone else doing it like this ever.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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August 30, 2011
Shovel-Ready Jobs We Don’t Need by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Shovel-Ready Jobs We Don’t Need
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Did you ever wish you could fire all the members of Congress and just start over? Well, Tim Cox, founder of the non-partisan organization “Get Out of Our House” wants to do just that. GOOOH (website www.goooh.com) continues to build a coalition of patriots from all fifty states from which the most qualified will be placed on the 2012 ballot to compete against all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Many of the current House and their brethren in the Senate have systematically destroyed our once great and prosperous nation which took more than 200 years to create through the hard work and sacrifice of free and industrious people. America now finds itself trapped in a self-destructive scheme engineered by radical ideologues for whom financial responsibility means nothing---and that is why our economy continues to crumble in sharp contrast to prior recessions which were soon followed by rapid recoveries driven by the private sector without government interference.
Obama and the socialist Democrat-dominated Senate have for the first time in our history submitted no annual spending budget for more than two years---a convenient way to avoid accountability in spending taxpayer dollars. Fedzilla has placed all of us on an intolerant and unsustainable course to financial insolvency and its accompanying systemic failure. Not counting ‘mandatory’ future obligations of well over 100 trillion dollars, which include social security, Medicare and Medicaid, the government has a current outstanding debt of 14.6 TRILLION dollars most of which has been created by the current anti-American president and his accomplices, the rest at the hands of the socialist Democrats who ran Congress under the prior president.
The largest recent chunks were the initial bank rescue package at a cost of about 800 billion dollars, followed by a misdirected one trillion dollar ‘stimulus’, after which will be another 2.4 trillion dollars at Obama’s request---Congress just gave that to him during the debt ceiling negotiations which accomplished nothing of substance to address Fedzilla’s spending spree.
Don’t expect significant properly targeted spending cuts from the highly partisan ‘super committee’ of twelve which consists of only four members with any background in economics or business (three on the GOP side). The Democrats have appointed several well-known special interest big spenders.
Here are some real numbers to chew on. If the government cuts all of its discretionary spending (currently about 14 percent of the budget) AND allows the ‘Bush tax cuts’ to expire (which only nets an estimated 700 billion dollars over ten years), there is still no way to balance the current budget deficit and pay future obligations. In 1970, the Federal government spent 900 billion dollars, of which 20 percent covered entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, 42 percent for defense, and only 7 percent to cover interest on government debt. Contrast that with last year (2010) when Federal spending was 3.5 trillion dollars ( 4X that of 1970), of which 40 percent covered entitlements, 20 percent for defense, and 6 percent to pay the interest on the debt (kept artificially low by the Federal Reserve which up until recently was buying as much as 90 percent of U.S. Treasury bonds as foreign buyers receded).
If one extrapolates to the year 2040, our annual budget would grow to over 12 trillion dollars, half of which would be consumed by entitlements, THIRTY percent for interest payments on the debt---leaving only 11 percent for defense and reducing discretionary spending to only 7 percent of the entire budget.* America cannot generate enough revenue to fund its obligations and it is unlikely foreigners will loan us enough money to do so. Therefore, America ultimately faces its day of judgment.
There are but two options: government default or inflating our way out of our obligations. Neither option bodes well for America’s future. The point of no return just passed us by. Truly drastic changes must occur at this point and will require a large and painful adjustment in expectations by Americans. By necessity, government must consume an increasing fraction of our GDP to meet existing obligations which decreases what remains for consumption and capital investment by citizens and businesses. In a word, Americans will be poorer.
We are long past the time when honest and educated people of integrity were elected to public office as an mere interlude to their private occupations. Politics has become a profession and many of those elected to office today are driven by power and greed. Worse, those who elect them are either wealthy parasites (off government favors) or dumbed down fools who merely want handouts from the government (paid for by the ever-diminishing number who work and pay taxes). Those in Congress today are paid about four times the amount earned by the average American and that does not include their self-endowed lifelong benefits all paid for by taxpayers.
Don’t forget they have voted themselves a pay raise every year no matter the state of the national economy, which sharply contrasts with the years following the Great Depression when members of Congress took pay cuts of 15 percent.
On top of driving America over a cliff, our anti-American pro-Muslim anti-Judeo-Christian racist president has put us on the road to Marxism. He has appointed three Muslims to his cabinet who are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, well-known for its goal to establish Islamic dominance worldwide---and a number of self-avowed Communists and socialists to his list of Czars and agencies who have been given free rein to spend taxpayer money to accomplish their ideological objectives. For the first time in history we have a president who ignores the rule of law and rules by fiat, protected by socialists who have taken over the Democrat Party.
Dictator Obama has confiscated private assets (at the expense of bond- holders, set into place his unaffordable plan to control our healthcare without Congress so much as reading the details of his plan, prevented America from securing its energy independence, smothered small businesses with more regulations, and as recently as last week instituted ‘backdoor amnesty’ after his proposal (the Dream Act) failed to pass Congress.
In 2008, America for the first time in history elected a narcissistic ideologue with no business or military experience to the highest office in the Land---one who has systematically destroyed our social, religious and economic foundations in order to satisfy his (and his wife’s) deep hatred for the attributes which made America a prosperous and respected nation: the values of liberty, privacy, self-sufficiency and our willingness to fight tyrannical threats to our nation and our allies.
The next elections will be the most important in American history if America is to halt the transformation from a democratic republic to a Marxist regime which destroys the middle class and reduces the overall wealth and productivity of our nation.
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Wild Thing's comment......
Good article by the Dr. he is so right about Obama and his goal of a Republic to a Marxist regime.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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August 10, 2011
Obama’s Path To Marxist Transformation Gets Another 2.4 Trillion Dollars---From Congress
Obama’s Path To Marxist Transformation Gets Another 2.4 Trillion Dollars---From Congress
Over protests from patriots, your Congress gave Obama his birthday wish (literally)---more money to help fund his transformation of America to a Marxist regime while simultaneously further weakening America’s economic foundation which helps him to achieve that goal. More funny money can now be printed for the Administration’s perverse purposes, and the door was left open for tax increases on the half of American households which already support the other half who pay no income taxes. Businesses will face less incentive to create jobs, and without jobs Obama can destroy the middle class by driving them into government-dependent poverty.
Obama is fulfilling his ideological goal of Marxism, a movement with which he has been involved since 1992 when he served as the lead organizer for Project Vote---one of three main arms of the American Marxist movement whose strategy was devised by two Columbia University Marxist professors in 1966---Richard Cloward and Francis Piven. These two men published their plan for Marxist transformation in Nation magazine, a leftwing publication which had long supported communism.
Their plan was to create social and economic crises nationwide in order to dismantle the American private enterprise system and engineer a socialist redistribution of wealth. They formed the ‘National Welfare Rights Movement’ with over 500 chapters nationwide which was funded by the federal ‘War on Poverty’, accomplishing more than a doubling of one-parent welfare-dependent households nationwide by the early 1970s. This led to the bankruptcy of New York City as tax revenues fell short of those necessary to support expanded welfare rolls. As revenues were exhausted, the organization fell apart, soon to be replaced by the avowed anti-capitalist organization ACORN---Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now---which expanded to include over 400,000 members in more than 100 U.S. cities. ACORN is where Barack Obama got his start as an active participant in the movement to redistribute America’s wealth through transformation of the democratic republic to a Marxist regime.
Followers of Cloward and Piven then founded Project Vote, the purpose of which was to massively expand the number of government-dependent voters across the nation by enlisting anyone who appeared on any government roster---including convicted felons, welfare recipients, driver license applicants (the Motor Voter Law) and even dead/missing people. The objective was to build an electoral base which would (some unknowingly) vote Marxists like Obama into public office. Cloward and Piven themselves founded a third organization known as Human SERVE which teamed up with ACORN and Project Vote to accomplish their goals.
Subsequent high points of the Marxist movement include the Community Reinvestment Act (1977) the goal of which was purportedly to achieve ‘racial equality’, initially by intimidating lending institutions to give loans to those who could not afford them, and ultimately with the help of President Clinton in 1995 through expansion of this program by pushing subprime loans onto the books of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The CEOs of those two entities were paid massive salaries at taxpayer expense some of which would be funneled back to Democrat politicians to ensure their re-election. We all know how this ended in 2008 when the financial system imploded only to be rescued by an 800 billion dollar bailout during the transition from the Bush to the Obama administrations.
After his election, Obama took immediate steps to further his ideological goals. His administration had banks where he wanted them. He then took over Chrysler Corporation and GM, informing bondholders their bonds were worthless while assigning major ownership interests to the labor unions (confiscation of assets). He signed Obamacare into law without Congress as much as reading it before voting. He spent another 2 trillion dollars after TARP to ‘rescue’ Fannie and Freddie, a process which continues by using taxpayer money to buy properties facing foreclosure, and to purportedly ‘create jobs’----a process which appears invisible as unemployment continues to soar. Not counting the initial TARP bailout, we have witnessed an exponential increase in the national debt which is unsustainable and will crush our children---and Obama just keeps spending like there is no tomorrow!
Congress last week gave him another 2.4 trillion to spend before the 2012 election increasing America’s debt to 17 trillion dollars which exceeds the size of our 14 trillion dollar economy and does not even include more than 115 trillion dollars in unfunded future government liabilities which can never be paid. Obama is consciously destroying America’s private enterprise economy through reckless spending coupled with enactment of numerous burdensome regulations on private sector businesses.
Obama is so dangerous to our country that one has to wonder why the Congress won’t stop him. The Democrat majority in the Senate is his accomplice. He shrugs off concern about lack of economic recovery as a ‘bump in the road’, but his policies are largely responsible. He would rather travel on the taxpayers’ dime campaigning for re-election while still running up the national credit card even despite warnings from abroad. He is said to have already raised at least one billion dollars much of which will be diverted to Project Vote in an all-out attempt to ensure his re-election with the help of massive voting fraud and bribery of labor unions.
This transformation to Marxism can only be stopped by patriots who value freedom, self-sufficiency and the principles upon which America was founded.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Good one by the Dr. I too wish Congress would stop him.
We are seeing such a huge rush to desrtruction and somehow it has to be stopped asap. I worry that the longer he is in office and gets his agenda put through the harder it will be to get rid of it. Look at ObamaDEATHcare, will we ever see it gone??? Dear God I pray we see that day!
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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August 01, 2011
The Insanity Of ‘Blockade Harry’....by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
The Insanity Of ‘Blockade Harry’
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
The House has twice come forward with two common sense plans to CUT out-of-control federal spending, CAP the amount which can be spent annually by linking that to a percentage of GDP, and proposed a BALANCED BUDGET amendment to the Constitution. Harry Reid and his fellow addicts have not allowed either House proposal to come before the Senate for discussion; and neither Reid nor Obama has sent a written plan to the House as the artificial ‘August 2nd deadline’ approaches.
Meanwhile, the fear-mongering socialist-controlled pimp street media are trying to create hysteria amongst the American public in support of continuing Fedzilla’s spending addiction. Reid’s only ‘plan’ as scored by the CBO contains no true attempt to curb spending and balance the Federal budget and is therefore not a solution.
So whose fault is the failure to set limits on Federal spending by the artificial deadline? Consequences which arise from Fedzilla’s failure to meet this artificial deadline for ‘raising the debt ceiling’ will sit squarely on the shoulders of Reid and Obama and their dishonest media friends. Socialist Democrats have demonstrated their insanity by refusal to seek addiction treatment despite risking America’s financial solvency. Obama is even asking for another couple of trillion dollars to spend before his term is over! Here are a few facts for readers:
Fact 1: The United States has future financial obligations on the order of 114 trillion dollars to its own citizens in the form of entitlements as well as to its debtors which cannot be met no matter what happens regarding the ‘debt ceiling’.
Fact 2: The U.S. government pays out roughly 10% of its revenues to satisfy debt obligations and therefore is nowhere near a “default on the national debt” as Obama, the Democrats and the pimp street media hysterically report in order to create fear in the minds of average Americans in order to garner support for their spending addiction.
Fact 3: The current president has spent more money than the sum of all prior presidents combined. Obama and the Democrats have had no annual federal budget (which is required by law) for the past 2 years. Having no budget is blatantly irresponsible and just helps them to continue their spending spree.
Fact 4: Senate minority leader McConnell approached Obama in January this year warning that something must be done to avoid a default on Federal government obligations. Obama ignored that warning.
Fact 5: The debt rating services missed the subprime mortgage debacle and the 1.5 trillion dollar government bailout which should have led to debt downgrades. Only at this late hour do they threaten a downgrade which WILL happen regardless of the debt ceiling outcome because of reckless spending by the socialist Democrats and Obama. The only way to avoid a downgrade is to REDUCE SPENDING which the Democrats and Obama are resisting.
So far, only the Republicans, inspired by fiscally responsible ‘Tea Party’ members, elected last Fall, have been willing to treat Fedzilla’s spending addiction which has been accelerating towards insolvency and economic collapse. ‘Blockade Harry’ is doing Obama’s dirty work and they both need to get out of the way or We the People will do it for them!
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Wild Thing's comment..........
Good write up.
I have also noticed how Reid even more the Pelois will name drop that he has spoken with "The President". LOL It is so funny once you notice this to count how often he does this, it begins to stand out even more.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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July 26, 2011
Do Not Raise The Debt Ceiling! by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Do Not Raise The Debt Ceiling!
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
When Obama told us that he would "totally change the economic system;" "totally change America;" and "totally change the world," he wasn't kidding. There has been much speculation that he "doesn't know what he is doing." In a sense they are right, but in one thing they are dead wrong and that is he intends to carry out his promises as they pertain to the country's economic system, its social system and how America fits into the international order. To think otherwise is to ignore the obvious.
Observing the United States of America destroy itself from within is one of the most heart rending, angering, events imaginable, but it is happening. Several years ago, I included sarcastic comments in an essay for the benefit of Osama bin Laden, exhorting him to be patient because all he had to do was wait and the US would destroy itself. Tragically, that sarcastic admonition is in advanced stages of coming to fruition.
The USA, once the economic envy of the world is fast becoming its whipping boy, its laughing stock, and its economic and social black hole. Once the defender of righteousness and good, it is declining into a pit of self-delusion, over-indulgence and Rome; except that it took Rome longer to fall than the length of United States history from its founding, to date.
The International Monetary Fund is based on the U.S. Dollar but if one has been paying attention of late, there have been some heavy weights that have called for a change from the dollar to some other form of international currency. Even light-weight, Islamo-facist Iran made similar calls during the past year. And despite Obama's now comical overtures directly to the Iranian people; his embarrassing "reset" with Russia; whatever gimmick he comes up with for China; his wild inflationary spending, dollar devaluing; financial markets takeover intended to generate pressure for a "total change to the world economic system," Obama voters told voters what he intended, now he is delivering. So, why the surprise?
In an AP article dated March 21, 2009, by Andrew Taylor, "Agenda on Track Despite Worsening Deficits" Taylor explains the projection of Obama Administration multi-trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. Deficits of that magnitude were not caused by the "failed policies of the Bush Administration" about which Democrat Candidate B. Hussein Obama railed with regularity during the 2008 election cycle. Whereas it had its beginning during the Bush Administration, the magnitude and scope of the present crisis is entirely and directly attributable to Obama's initiatives.
Bush Administration deficits were child's play, at $500 billion annually, by comparison to Obama's who in league with the socialists in Congress planned the failed multi-trillion dollar spending spree; which incidentally began with his $787 Billion "Stimulus Bill," followed by the $410 billion Omnibus, earmark-bloated spending Bill. Both of which are on top of the Bush Administrations paltry $138 billion stimulus bill and the $70 billion dollar bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and $30 billion Bear Stearns bailout.
In a laughable moment during a White House Press Conference Obama stated that we would move the economy from "borrow and spend to save and invest," this on the heels of the largest expansion of government spending in history. Of course leftist and RINO "lemmings" lapped it up, but reality is that the statement was made on the heels of ten year projections of multi-trillion dollar deficits. So, either Mr. Obama didn't have a clue, or he was, in a word, "prevaricating." Worse yet, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that Obama and Democrats intentionally overspent to bring the dollar and economy to bankruptcy so that people will beg for a complete government takeover. And what would such a takeover be called, a bailout; or the advent of totalitarian communism?
Democrats and Obama repeatedly bashed President Bush for his "failed economic policies" for, "tax breaks for the rich," "excessive spending" (if one can believe that coming from Democrats, and the cost of the "unnecessary" War on Terror, albeit we are still at it notwithstanding Obama’s pledge that we would be out within three months of his taking office). Their stated theory was that if the rich had been adequately taxed there would be no need for deficit spending and associated borrowing. They point to the "surplus" from the Clinton years to the deficit in the Bush years to buttress their argument. Additionally, they blame the cost of the War on Terror as contributing to increased deficits and National Debt. If that was the case, why are we still engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan? Heck, he’s even started a third one in Libya. (Aside: No amount of bombing short of a willingness to bomb Libya back to the Stone Age will remove Gaddafi, and even then it will likely not succeed.)
Why are the rich still benefiting from the Bush tax cuts, which Obama now, again, wants to stop, although six months ago he favored extending to save the economy? Wasn’t all this nonsense supposed to stop the moment he took office? Of course that was campaign rhetoric but he does continue working feverishly to "totally change the economic system," this time with another massive incremental increase in the Debt Ceiling.
With the benefit of a "retrospectrascope," it is fact that the downturn in the economy began when Democrats took over the Congress in 2007 after six straight years of economic growth under the Bush White House and Republican Congress. Further, Democrats including Obama voted in favor of the "Bush" stimulus bill and the bailouts for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Bear Sterns albeit those did not ignite the recession, that “miraculous” event was accomplished by the collapse of the housing sector thanks to Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd, both Democrats.
Obama repeatedly blamed President Bush for the "hand he was dealt," which like all good prevarications, contained elements of truth. But from the beginning he didn't divulge that his budget deficit projections were in the trillions of dollars, not for one budget or election cycle, but as far as the economic eye could see. All the while he smoothly intoned that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his "first" term albeit with any luck at all, there won’t be a second term. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how he planned to do it.
How could Obama possibly cut the deficit in half by the end of his term? After piling up enormous deficits for several years, all it would take to fulfill his promise to reduce the deficit by half during his first term would be to cut the obscene spending during his last year in office, and Voila! The deficit would be cut in half. Far fetched? Does one think he might be leading up to it in ongoing budget negotiations? Anyone care to bet a dinner for four at Ruth's Chris Steak House? The reason he is resisting so mightily at this time is because the timing isn’t right to achieve the desired effect in the forthcoming elections.
In the event that Obama eventually agrees to cut the quadruple inflated budget in half, he would still be devaluing the dollar at a rate that is more than double that of the Bush years, but will have kept his promise to reduce the budget deficit in half (albeit there has not been a budget for the entire time Obama has been in office thanks to continuing resolutions by Democrats under Pelosi leadership).
The Unites States is on the cusp of a game of political chicken as has never before happened in this Nation. At stake is whether or not the U.S. will be brought to its economic knees by a President and Democrats who are in point of fact working to bring about a socialist/communist state with them in perpetual charge. Or will Republicans and conservatives in the Congress have the spine and skill to stay the course of economic freedom and emerge victorious over tyranny cloaked as populism.
There is plenty of current income for the Federal Government to pay its obligations! THE DEBT CEILING DOES NOT HAVE TO BE RAISED, OBAMA KNOWS IT, GEITHNER KNOWS IT AND ANYONE WHO IS PAYING ATTENTION KNOWS IT! If it goes south without a raise in the Debt Ceiling, it is because Obama chose to do it in the way he prioritized spending. Eliminating the 400 thousand jobs he has added to the Federal Government since he took office would go a long way toward reducing the deficit/addition to the National Debt.
This fight is not about money, it is about changing the character and structure of the United States of America. U.S. citizens who believe in economic freedom should make your thoughts known to your Congressman and Senators! Otherwise, stand by for the fast ride into a Cuba, Russia, China, or some other "workers paradise."
Semper Fidelis.
Bob Pappas
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Good one by the Col..
Ever since Obama won the election our country has been in a socialist spiral and the left has been winning everything they want and none of it is good for our country. I hope and pray people keep calling and, if our side thinks we have gone into apathy like so many used to be ( no one on here but so many others were ) then our elected politicians will cave. They might cave anyway, but we can't give up on this.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:48 AM | Comments (2)
July 05, 2011
From The Left: Independence Day Celebrations For Right Wing Propagandists by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
From The Left: Independence Day Celebrations For Right Wing Propagandists
Sequential events occurred this week which is a testament to the Left’s anti-American agenda. Two liberal Harvard University professors published a bogus study claiming that patriotic celebrations on the Fourth of July are a right-wing ploy to recruit adults and particularly children into the conservative right-wing camp. Is their treatise an example of the Left’s hatred of America’s traditional reverence for God and America’s foundations of freedom and self-sufficiency embodied in the Declaration of Independence? Firefighters’ local 321 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin denied a recent union ‘dropout’, who supported Governor Scott Walker’s efforts to balance the state budget, his request of the union to sponsor a patriotic float commemorating fallen firefighters and police officers during ‘911’ for an Independence Day parade. Is this the Union’s petty retribution against the former member which has a larger effect of denying a patriotic exhibition on Independence Day? Obama this week lost his teleprompter and made a series of spontaneous remarks during an impromptu meeting with the pimp street media which openly showed his hypocrisy and demagoguery. This ‘President’ has been AWOL in helping Congress address his national debt crisis and even rejected Republican overtures this week to meet with Congress during recess in hopes of resolving the standoff. But as soon as Congress adjourned, Obama chided Republicans for not hanging around DC to meet with him with the remark “Where are they---one week here and next week not while I have always been here.” Then before the bowing lapdog media he blamed the largest annual budget deficit in history not on his irresponsible prolific spending but on the lack of tax revenue raised by such items as exemptions on corporate aircraft which he himself signed into law (and which amount to a miniscule sum). Steal, spend and lie---there you have it!
It was reported this week that a United Nations official has requested that Governor Rick Perry of Texas commute the execution of a Mexican national who raped and murdered a 16 year-old girl, stating the criminal was not given an opportunity for diplomatic assistance presumably from the Mexican government. Governor Perry is no idiot. Anyone who rapes and murders a minor gets what is coming to them under Texas statutes!
We also learned the Dictator-in-chief is seeking dialogue with and the good graces of the pro-jihad pro-Sharia Muslim Brotherhood in advance of upcoming Egyptian elections this Fall. The Brotherhood responded they do not trust Obama and issued a statement indicating that he was not transparent enough. Really? I thought Obama was their kin!
The Administration turns one blind eye to the leftwing National Mediation Board (NMB) which consists of three members, two of which are Obama appointees, as they try to dictate where Boeing Aircraft can manufacture airplanes and who it can hire. Boeing spent one billion dollars building a plant in South Carolina with intentions of hiring 2000 employees who voted overwhelmingly to reject union membership. The pro-union NLRB and NMB are challenging Boeing’s right to open a plant in a right-to-work state as the Administration conveniently looks the other way.
The Obama administration apparently has another blind eye among its many serpent heads. Along our insecure southern border, ATF agents who were whistleblowers on the BATFE and DOJ seditious scheme known as Project Gunrunner, whereby massive numbers of high-powered weapons were sold to straw buyers in Texas and then carried across the Mexican border to supply drug cartels, received their termination papers. DOJ and officials at BATFE deny they knew about this operation which appears to have been hatched by the Administration to invent statistics which could ultimately be used to encroach on our Second Amendment rights. Let’s wish Rep. Darrell Issa and his government reform and oversight committee the best in nailing everyone up the chain of command involved in this seditious scheme which resulted in the death of at least two ATF agents and which was designed to subvert our Constitution.
The Left continues to systematically attack our Constitutional rights from all sides and with increased frequency. This week it was learned that a director at Arlington Cemetery ordered volunteers who attend funerals for the express purpose of wishing God’s grace on the families of dead soldiers—and in some cases the soldiers themselves who have no relatives---to not utter the word ‘God’ in their prayers or personal condolences. This constitutes an incessant attempt by ACLU and the Obama administration to remove any reference to God from our culture.
The United States Congress has been remiss in not seizing anti-American maggots like Obama and Holder by their collars and charging them with sedition for breaking the rule of law and usurping the power of the people entrusted in our elected representatives. Where are you Congress? Wake up and fulfill your obligation to “We the People!”
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Wild Thing's comment......
Excellent, thank you Dr. Bates.
I agree, there is so much on Obama and Hollder and our elected people know we count on them to do what needs to be done. The also know we back them so I say go for it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:48 AM | Comments (2)
Greece and Democrats by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
“Let’s see if I have this straight. Greece is, but for Germany and other EU nations bailing it out, bankrupt. The long and short of how that happened is that Greece having joined the EU adopted a cradle-to-grave economic model and embarked on paying its workers dream salaries and retirement benefits, not to mention “universal” health care, such as that is. Costs rapidly escalated given increases both in the number and breadth of government programs.
Having found liberal lending at the EU “trough” the cure to its expanding largesse, Greek politicians believed the “borrowing well” was infinitely deep and would be a permanent cure for its spending addiction, much like U.S. Democrats and RINOs. In the meantime, Greek government unions, similar to California, Wisconsin and other places kept beating the drum for more. The government responded by borrowing more so politicians could dole it out to union members who in turn paid union dues, a portion of which was then used to help elect the same politicians who would continue the cycle.
But, interest on the borrowed money i.e. the Greek national debt, began to mount to the point where the EU realized that Greece was too far extended to service, much less repay its debt. The scenario is somewhat reminiscent of Zorba with Greece representing Zorba, in “Zorba, the Greek.” When responsible people at the EU awakened to the fact that it was impossible for Greece to service its debt, it instructed Greece to find ways to economize.
For a short time the Greek Government “cooked the books” but was soon found out and forced to begin to tighten its economic belt. Greek Unions/Socialists/Communists reacted by blaming everyone but themselves and the situation turned ugly; Unions foment riots seen daily on TV in response to legislative grappling with the out-of-control economic situation. Were Greeks so stupid like Zorba, as to believe there would never be a day of reckoning? (Are U.S. Democrats/RINOs any different?) That EU membership would not exact a toll on its sovereignty? (Democrats in general could care less about sovereignty.) That borrowing more than the country could produce would have no consequences? Talk about arrogant! “Because I am, you owe me,” a concept with a familiar ring in certain U.S. circles.
Across the Atlantic in Washington, D.C. Democrats and RINOs have the mistaken impression like Greek politicians, that the county’s wealth is theirs to give or take, and if taxes are not generating enough revenue, “raise taxes on the rich,” or borrow more from Communist China.
In short those people believe that the Federal Government owns the Country. Why else would Congressional Democrats unilaterally enact "Obamacare" over the objections of the large majority of U.S. population who will be stuck with the bill? Their mindset is abundantly manifest in the laws they have enacted. Notwithstanding their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, most are interested only in advancing their political careers, serving themselves and pocketing the change.
Democrat strategy has always been to overspend then “force” an increase in taxes to cover the costs. In the past that worked because of the expanding economy, but this time spending is so obscene that U.S. citizen taxpayers are rebelling. How to deal with the resultant debt is the struggle in the ongoing budget debate in Washington.
Increasing taxes on “the rich” would not work even if increased to 100% because there is not enough money even at that rate to cover Democrat/RINOs spending. Incidentally 100% taxation was Obama’s father’s “dream” not just on the rich, but everyone. If those who presently pay no taxes believe they will escape, think again, they will be forced to work, the days of the free ride are over, to at long last help carry the load of their “entitlements.” “Where’s my check?”
For decades Democrats/RINOs have spent so much that as of now future generations of U.S. taxpayers will pay taxes that are so high they will essentially work to support the government and government programs. Stated another way, everyone will work for the government and the country will have arrived at the oxymoron of a socialist utopia.
This prospect is both the essence and fulfillment of Obama’s and Democrats’ strategy to “spread the wealth around.” Although there is plenty of precedent to show that their model fails 100% of the time, liberals, whether in Greece or the U.S. are endowed with the inherent and inalienable intellectual fallacy that they are somehow uniquely equipped to pick up the clean end of the socialist “turd.”
Semper Fidelis.
Bob Pappas
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Wild Thing's comment........
People need to wake up and see we could follow Greece in what has happened to them.
Good article by the Col.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:40 AM
June 30, 2011
Happy July 4th? by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
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by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
While in the process of closing my flooring business due to the fact as stated by Barrack Hussein Obama and his administration, “the recession is over,” and there now being no further need for me to operate for the benefit of Democrats and the Obama Administration, I received the following notice from one of my suppliers:
CWF, Inc. Memorandum
CWF will be closed Friday July 1st & Monday 4th in observance of 4th of July .
Our facilities will return to regular business hours on Tuesday July 5th.
Have a wonderful 4th of July !
Best Regards,
The CWF Team
Thank you!
We appreciate your business.
Come on! What is July 4th? It wouldn’t be Easter would it? Christmas? Valentine’s Day?
Here’s a hint, it came about because brave white men wrote and signed a document entitled the “Declaration of Independence.” Following that action and in keeping with the last sentence of the last paragraph which states: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” there ensued the War of Independence that culminated after great hardship and sacrifice in the founding of the United States of America.
Since those days this country has grown as one never before in history. More wealth has been created, there is a higher standard of living albeit now in decline, than by any other single nation in all of written history combined. Sadly, now there are those who would destroy it. Such an one is Barack Hussein Obama who oft stated, “We will totally change America,” “We will totally change the economic system.” Obama would probably be happy with your representation of Independence Day as July 4th given his predisposition to eschew any symbols of patriotism until forced to wear a flag pin on his lapel.
Before we part, remember that this once greatest nation on earth is being rapidly destroyed by Obama’s and Democrat lawmakers’ policies and your ignorance. Having devoted 30 years of my life to the preservation of freedom on these shores, I urge you to learn the history of this nation and revel in the liberty you now enjoy because it is fast fading. Not because there is any lack of dedication to preserve freedom among those who wear the uniform, but there is an abysmal lack of knowledge of history, patriotism and appreciation of that freedom so hard won then, and maintained at great personal sacrifice for over 200 years!
Enjoy your freedom and Independence Day 2011, it could well be one of your last, unless you wake up.
Semper Fidelis.
Bob Pappas
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Thank you Col. Pappas!
He is right too in what he said. Dear God I hope we can get our country back.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (3)
June 21, 2011
Undermining America: What You Must Know by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Undermining America: What You Must Know
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
My space and your attention are limited so I will get right to the point. Obama and his Leftwing radical friends embrace an evil agenda which is to destroy a free nation by driving it off a cliff economically and socially so they can collect the ashes and transform this nation into a third-world Fascist totalitarian state. Many of their tactics are not readily visible to mainstream America since the Left ‘owns’ the pimp street television media, but a few organizations such as Judicial Watch seek to find and expose the truth through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to our Congress and the American people.
The White House and its federal agencies frequently violate requests for public information in order to hide their tactics, in which case Judicial Watch brings lawsuits for contempt against the Administration and its agencies such as Department of Justice.
Here are five major areas of interest about which all Americans should be aware.
1. Obamacare: HHS (Dept of Health and Human Services) is already engaged in reviews of new life-saving cancer treatments with the apparent objective of determining which will be paid for by Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) based upon cost considerations which violates the Department’s own guidelines. The drug most recently in question is Provenge to treat prostate cancer. Under pressure from Judicial Watch, CMS recently approved coverage for this life-saving drug while denying that cost considerations were a factor in its review. This is but one example of the newly created Obamacare ‘death panels’ which will ration care based on financial considerations unless the law is repealed. Meanwhile, release of documents to Judicial Watch under the FOIA reveals the Obama administration has launched a 200 million dollar taxpayer-funded media campaign to promote Obamacare in order to manipulate public opinion!
2. Illegal alien issues: thanks to Judicial Watch, a college in New Jersey which had been granting discounted tuition to illegal aliens was forced to reverse this policy which is a violation of state and Federal laws. Meanwhile, it appears the Obama administration and its complicit Homeland Security department are working on multiple avenues for ‘stealth amnesty’---that is to legalize illegal aliens through Presidential mandates while removing Congress---and thus the electorate---from the process. Under the FOIA, Judicial Watch has filed for release of White House and Department of Homeland Security documents pertaining to such communications but the Administration has not complied. Therefore, suit has been filed against the Obama Administration for contempt. Immigration attorneys in Houston seeking deportation of illegals have reported that many 34000 deportations were suspended last year and they have been ordered to drop prosecution of such cases unless a criminal act has been committed. Is not illegal immigration a criminal act?
3. The Department of Injustice: Attorney General Eric Holder has colluded with the Obama administration to commit heinous acts of sedition and harm to American citizens in many ways, not only by not enforcing Federal immigration laws but actively subverting those laws to create a new voting bloc for Obama’s reelection, while simultaneously bringing harm to Americans living along the Mexican border. Judicial Watch has discovered collusion between DOJ and anti-American ACLU in the legal attack against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law; apparent collusion between the racist NAACP and DOJ to drop voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers in Philadelphia during the ’08 election; the DOJ has thus far refused to release pertinent documents requested by Judicial Watch under the FOIA (for fear of being found out?). The DOJ has clearly violated Federal laws through its racist and politically-motivated ways.
Worse than that is Eric Holder’s false testimony last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as to his knowledge of and involvement in Project Gunrunner, specifically Project ‘Fast and Furious’ in which BATFE agents (under the DOJ) were ordered to look the other way as straw buyers purchased over 2500 assault weapons from American gun dealers, those weapons destined for Mexican drug cartels under the pretense that BATFE was tracking where these weapons would go. But the real scheme was for DOJ and the Obama Administration to build a case for firearms restrictions in America (in violation of the Second Amendment!) by manufacturing a situation whereby guns recovered from crime scenes committed by cartels could be ‘blamed’ on the availability of guns from American gun dealers. So far over 800 of these guns have been recovered from crime scenes as far as 20 miles north of the Mexican border, one of which resulted in the death of U. S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose family has demanded an investigation by Congress, and that anyone who was involved in this seditious scheme should be prosecuted and brought to justice. Could that be AG Eric Holder or even Obama? Current data from STRATFOR indicates that less than 12 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes south of the border in 2008 were obtained in the United States.
4. Voter fraud: the Chicago-based ‘community organizing group’ ACORN has reorganized across America under many different names (Project Vote for one) and is being funded by the Administration and the Left to continue its commission of massive voter fraud in order to get Obama reelected in 2012. Meanwhile, the ‘old’ ACORN has been investigated and convicted on at least 35 documented election fraud schemes in 17 states leading up to the 2008 election of Barack Obama. We are talking about at least 400,000 fraudulent votes! Examples include cases in Nevada where convicted felons and drug addicts were paid to register new voters who did not exist; Philadelphia, where tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms were submitted; other cases in St. Louis, Connecticut, Washington State, and Texas. Methodologies range from bussing people across state lines to vote, voting names more than once, enlisting convicted felons in voter registration drives and allowing them to vote, voting on behalf of dead people, and falsifying voter registrations. I am amazed that all voters are not required to present photo ID at which time they would be checked off as having voted. Such a simple solution at the national level has been challenged as ‘racist’ by the Left!
5. Labor Unions: the Obama administration is using the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and unions to infringe on rights of companies to expand and compete, thereby further inhibiting the private sector’s economic recovery. Boeing has decided to build a plant in South Carolina. That state, like most, is a right-to-work state which does not force workers to join unions. But organized labor under the Obama Administration does not agree and is trying to prevent Boeing from expanding into South Carolina under the pretense that the company is circumventing organized labor at the expense of union workers in the state of Washington. No one is being laid off at the plant in Washington, and it is Boeing’s or any other company’s right to build where they want and employ whomever they determine to be qualified---that is America! Ultimately, Boeing must prevail or the company will do as many others have done and move overseas which further hinders America’s economic recovery. The Administration leans on its labor union supporters to be openly tyrannical and anti-American.
Obama, Holder, and their anti-American cronies must be removed, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for their crimes against humanity and America.
These animals are hell bent on destroying the private sector (the U.S. economy) through a wall of expensive regulations, by openly supporting organized labor unions who helped elect them, and preventing America from achieving energy independence and national security. They will stop at nothing to disarm patriots, and abolish our freedom of religious expression and free speech.
This spendthrift narcissistic president and his family jet around the world on lavish vacations at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, with no annual federal budget for this year or next, no plan for addressing the huge national debt, nor any true compassion for economic hardships endured by average Americans.
This Administration also spends hundreds of billions of dollars the country does not have (except by printing and devaluing the currency) on its pet bureaucratic agencies and their objectives framed by the impractical and costly ideologies of the Left. There are a number of organizations engaged in investigating, exposing and achieving justice such as Judicial Watch, Alliance Defense Fund, Liberty Counsel and NRA, all of which deserve our support to at this most critical time to help defend against a total transformation (destruction) by the Left.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
Excellent write up and all true!!
We have GOT to get this guy out of office and as soon as possible!
Obama is the enemy of our country and there he is in our WH. I resent deeply those that voted him into office and hold them responsible as well ! There were too many alarms and warnings about this fake and what he planned to do and they ignored all of us.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:47 AM
June 06, 2011
Brainwashed Alabama Legislator Sells Out To ‘Anti-Constitutional Leftwing Union’ by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Brainwashed Alabama Legislator Sells Out To ‘Anti-Constitutional Leftwing Union’
Alabama Governor Bentley will decide this weekend whether to sign into law a bill passed overwhelmingly by his legislature which prevents illegal immigrants from taking jobs in Alabama at the expense of American citizens.
Predictably, the few legislators in opposition were mostly black Democrats who have been brainwashed by the Left to identify any law which seeks to enforce LEGAL immigration as ‘racist’.
Let us take a look at the bill so as to expose the ‘racism’ claimed by the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project director Cecilia Wang, and black Democrat Senator Linda Coleman who predicts the law would lead to discrimination.
The law would prevent illegal immigrants from being in the state without a valid federal registration or other proof of legal residence. Is that racist? The law would require businesses to use the Federal E-Verify system to check legal status of new employees, make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to apply for a job, and revoke the business license of any employer caught twice knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Is that racist? The law would make it a crime to transport or harbor illegal immigrants and prevent cities in Alabama from passing sanctuary laws to protect illegals. Is that racist? If a law officer in the course of a traffic stop finds reasonable suspicion that the driver may be in the country illegally, that driver can be detained. Is that racist?
What about this bill do Senator Coleman and the ACLU think is ‘racist’? Are they suggesting that a law which prevents illegals from taking jobs which could be had by Americans---particularly black Americans who have the highest rate of unemployment---is ‘racist’? The race card is a worn-out shoe of the Left which is pulled off the shelf whenever they need to mobilize unsuspecting minority groups to support their socialist causes.
Let us not forget that all laws by their very nature single out criminals, including illegal aliens, who violate such laws enacted to protect the interests and freedom of American citizens. America is a nation of laws.
Do black Americans want their leaders like Senator Coleman of Alabama to join the ACLU’s cause on behalf of illegal immigrants who encroach on their rights and opportunities? Does the ACLU really care one whit about blacks in Alabama? Why does ACLU have an “Immigrants’ Rights Project”? Is not that anti-American when it seeks to protect those who are here illegally?
Sadly, the vast majority of American blacks sacrificed their souls and fifty years of accomplishments to the Left by voting for Fascist Obama solely on the basis of his skin color. They will have to look beyond skin color to recognize the truth behind the socialist Left’s agenda which would just as soon have them take a proverbial ‘backseat’ to illegal immigrants and any other potential new voting blocs created by the socialist left wing of the Democrat Party in order to advance their Fascist agenda. But rest assured that no black American wants to relinquish the opportunities and liberties won through the civil rights movement in order to satisfy the Left! Just ask Republican presidential candidate and patriot Herman Cain.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Good write up by Dr. Bates. This is so true and he is right it really is sad.
"Sadly, the vast majority of American blacks sacrificed their souls and fifty years of accomplishments to the Left by voting for Fascist Obama solely on the basis of his skin color."
Also IMO it is also sad, because they have fought for our country, died, been injured and deserve better then the likes of folllowing obama just because he is part black.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
May 16, 2011
Where Are The Patriots In Tucson? by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Where Are The Patriots In Tucson?
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
This week a very disorderly protest was conducted by a group of Hispanic students (apparently instigated by a few of their PC teachers) disrupting the school board meeting in Tucson, AZ. The purpose of their protest was to coerce the board to allow Hispanic students to continue a curriculum designed by the PC Left which teaches hatred for American history and values.
If one watches the video clip, it is clear that something very wrong is occurring in many American school systems particularly along our southwest border. It is unacceptable that any school curriculum be politically correct towards immigrants by teaching hatred of America and thus creating yet another class of entitled people.
The Left is not ‘color or ethnic blind’ as they claim to be. In fact, they want to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines in order to create clashing groups so that Fedzilla can continue to grow power and dominance over the American people. All students no matter their color or country of origin must learn and understand unadulterated American history for this nation to survive. A house divided against itself cannot stand!
The various radical groups which have developed in this country over the past fifty years have weakened America by creating a growing entitlement society supported by a declining group of productive and self-sufficient citizens.
The Left would have us believe that Wall Street and the wealthy have destroyed the middle class when facts show the wealthy are the ones who create jobs and opportunity, while the Left nurtures government dependency rather than self-sufficiency which translates into an expanding number of unmotivated poor.
The Left has tried to discredit traditional values which have been the roots of our strength for more than 200 years. On one end of the spectrum you have Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and black supremacy groups who claim that white racism against blacks remains rampant and is responsible for the continued failure of many black kids to succeed economically, when facts clearly show that America has gone overboard to assure that minority groups are given special preferences and taxpayer monies in an attempt to make them economically equal. So why aren’t they? It boils down to a deficiency of the family unit which instills respect for others, a value system and work ethic. This stands in sharp contrast to many other groups.
At the other end of the spectrum we have a Federal government which does not secure our borders resulting in an influx of illegal immigrants who instantly become entitled by Fedzilla in many ways which are not even available to our own American children. As illustrated by the Tucson school system, PC teachers not only make no attempt to integrate these students into American culture but intentionally tear down American values and our rules of law. Religion, discipline, morality, healthy values and a healthy dose of American history are tossed out of the curriculum. What a sharp contrast to the Jews whose education embodies all of these and who have survived centuries of persecution and even attempted extermination by Hitler and now by Muslim extremists.
In order to reach their endpoint the Left must divide in order to conquer, which is exactly what we see in Obama, Holder and their anti-American accomplices. Patriots must face this reality and stop this frontal assault on our values and freedoms. Our borders must be secured in spite of Obama’s pedantic jokes and lies during his first visit to the southwest border since he became ‘president’. Immigrants must be integrated into our culture rather than allowing the Left to divide our nation in order to achieve socialism which already proved itself a failed experiment worldwide.
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Wild Thing's comment........
I would love to see our politicians take a stand when they are accused of being racist etc. by someone in an interview. I have seen it too much where they let the accusations slide and more on with anothe topic. Like this write up says it is the left that pushes race, the left that pushes wanting illegals to have more rights then those that came here legally.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:47 AM | Comments (4)
May 10, 2011
The Idiot Box ( the media ) by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Do you ever wonder how many Americans really understand what is happening to their country and how many ignorantly believe what they hear and read from the left-leaning TV and print news media---CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the New York Times and its numerous syndicated local newspapers? The big picture is not Bin Laden’s death, a thirty minute story which has been repetitively covered 24/7 for more than an entire week without photo proof, nor Obama’s supposed birth certificate which aired for a couple of weeks before that, but whether Americans will survive as a nation of free people rather than become slaves of growing Fedzilla---a ‘transformation’ which has been in high gear since Obama was elected.
Most of the American news media, belatedly including the ‘fair and balanced’ FOX network, pedals sensationalism rather than reality, PC fiction rather than fact, and shallow entertainment diversions instead of reporting Fedzilla’s systematic dismantling of America. There are a couple of exceptions, such as Judge Napolitano’s Freedom Watch on FOX Business Channel each evening, which report the deteriorating condition of our nation and the direction it is headed in the hands of anti-American socialist thugs. Shame on the national media and their owners!
While Bin Laden’s death occurred on Obama’s shift, there is not one whet of evidence that Mr. Obama has changed his grand scheme for a ‘new’ America! His background, his actions and his verbiage remain consistent. The plan is to transform America from the most freedom-blessed, God-fearing, self-sufficient and powerful nation in the world to one in which every part of our lives is dominated by government, with fulfillment of Obama’s ideological objective to destroy what has been ‘special’ about America so as to ‘level the playing field’ in the eyes of the rest of the world.
The Obama administration, empowered by his socialist financiers and the naïve Americans who elected him, continues to systematically attack our freedoms, subvert our laws and reinterpret the Constitution. It is all part of a conversion designed to grow government into one which regulates speech, press, commerce, healthcare delivery, the right to bear arms, how much of one’s financial assets can be kept, and personal privacy. For Obama and the Left it is about control of our lives. But you did not hear this in the Leftwing media!
The Left will continue to milk the cow of Bin Laden’s death for Obama’s political gain despite the fact that he is uncomfortable with what happened as expressed through his concern for following Muslim tradition in disposal of the body of one who is responsible for murdering thousands of innocent lives. But don’t expect the Leftist media to tell Americans that Mr. Obama and his socialist elites want to obstruct free speech in the name of PC; promote tolerance of intolerant religions including overwriting our laws with theirs; transform the best healthcare system on the face of the Earth where no one---not even illegal immigrants---goes without; create omnipotent government which can tell you which light bulbs to burn and which car you can buy; deprive you of your right to bear arms for self-defense and yet steal your earnings to further fund a massive redundant but mostly useless bureaucracy.
In closing, I found the first Republican candidate question and answer session in South Carolina last week to be more interesting and informative than I expected. It was refreshing to see true American patriots on stage----especially Governor Palwenty, Senator Santorum, businessman Herman Caine, and libertarian Ron Paul who knows better than to try and split the conservative vote in 2012. Any one of these men have ideas which put into action could reset America’s course.
I urge Americans not to ignore these debates or the urgent need for repudiation of this Administration. Every American has a vote to determine whether we allow the socialist Left to continue destruction of our economy, security and liberty, or whether we extricate ourselves from them. What is YOUR choice?
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Wild Thing's comment......
Interesting write up.
" It was refreshing to see true American patriots on stage----especially Governor Palwenty, Senator Santorum, businessman Herman Caine, and libertarian Ron Paul who knows better than to try and split the conservative vote in 2012. Any one of these men have ideas which put into action could reset America’s course. "
I am not 100% in agreement with this statement by Dr. Bates. I would not include Ron Paul in the mix of coming to the rescue of the course our country is on. Ron Paul is VERY anti-semitic for one thing.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (2)
May 06, 2011
Danger: Tax Trigger Ahead By Dick Morris
Danger: Tax Trigger Ahead
By Dick Morris
A diabolical plot is being hatched between Senate Democrats, the White House and three Republican accomplices — Tom Coburn (Okla.), Mike Crapo (Idaho) and Saxby Chambliss (Ga.). The concept is to enact an amendment to the debt-limit extension specifying certain targets for deficit reduction and then mandating automatic spending cuts AND tax increases to take effect if the goals are not met.
This formula permits backdoor tax increases on which nobody votes and no fingerprints appear. The taxes just happen automatically — the immaculate conception tax increase. The plan will vindicate Obama’s long-term goal: to expand the size of the government’s share of the economy.
When he took office, federal, state and local spending accounted for 35 percent of GDP. Now it equals 44 percent. But as long as the extra spending is borrowed, it is not permanent. So Obama’s goal has been to lock in the higher level of spending by matching it with higher taxes.
But even the Democrats are smart enough never to vote for tax increases on the general public and, only with some hesitation, to impose them on the wealthy. Now, with the automatic trigger, they and their Republican allies can vote for higher taxes while seeming only to be supporting deficit reduction. When the taxes come as a result of the automatic trigger they enacted, they can blame future Congresses for not agreeing to the spending cuts. They can even rail against the tax increases. It won’t matter. The tax hikes will take place automatically.
Of course, what one Congress mandates, another can repeal. But the mechanism of passing a law to block the tax increases is far more difficult. You would need 60 votes in the Senate and control of the House and the presidency — a tall and probably impossible order for future anti-tax Republicans. So the politicians can have it both ways — they can oppose tax increases and watch them take effect without their fingerprints on them.
So the game plan is for the debt-limit extension to stall in the House and for the bipartisan group of six senators to swoop in with their legislation to save the day. It will seem, to all appearances, that they will have mandated deficit reduction as the price for a debt-limit hike. So far, so good. But the tax trigger will be part of the package, and we will have stripped Congress of the power to tax and delegated it to an automatic trigger.
The crucial actors in this sham are the three Republicans who are part of the six-member “bipartisan” group that is cooking up the idea for the automatic trigger. Without the political cover Coburn, Chambliss and Crapo afford, the Democrats would never be able to push so audacious a plan. But Coburn has a sterling reputation as a fiscal conservative, as does Chambliss. All three Republican senators were just reelected (without breathing a word of their true intentions to their constituents). It is vital that all Republicans let these three senators know what we think of their plan for automatic tax increases.
Of course, once the trigger is enacted, the spending cuts won’t happen as promised. Even if they are enacted, the experience with previous spending-cut/tax-increase deals is that the taxes happen but the cuts don’t. Even if the spending reductions are actually enacted, they will likely be vitiated by the impact of tax increases on the economy. The taxes will drive down what economic growth remains, depressing government revenues and driving up entitlement safety-net spending. As a result, the deficit-reduction targets won’t be reached and even more tax increases will have to be triggered. A vicious cycle akin to that which has ruined cities like Detroit will set in.
Wild Thing's comment........
That the Democrats need the help of three Republicans in the Senate to push this idea suggests they no longer have a "working majority" themselves in that body.
And what about Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution?
"All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills."
Sadly, the Constitution hasn’t meant very much for quite some time now.
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:48 AM | Comments (4)
May 04, 2011
More Questions by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Bin Laden is dead! What a wonderful sound after more than nine years of earnest effort to capture or dispatch him! Naturally, the other side isn’t happy, and that’s understandable, but bin Laden and the “rag headed, jihadist pigs” who follow(ed) him knew it was coming sooner or later. I wrote a number of times that in my opinion bin Laden was killed or died years ago. Now, that opinion has been rendered wrong; so be it, today bin Laden is dead! Patriotic Americans can take pride and solace in the fact that justice has been served.
If Americans could now get confirmation regarding Obama’s birth certificate both those things could be put to bed and America could move on to other issues. There is no more important issue than: that the political election process abide by the Constitution. Many in the media malign those who ask questions about Obama’s eligibility, and that maligning is all but incomprehensible given the repeated grilling to which those same so called “journalists” subjected President Bush.
Why does the media suddenly have no interest in asking hard questions? Why are they “factophobic”? What is difficult about “trust but verify”? And, why malign those who want truthful answers? Would it be that they are Democrat operatives cloaked as journalists; or proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing? These and many other questions animate those who no longer trust the media and who seek answers to legitimate questions in their quest of the truth. Obama repeatedly promised “the most transparent administration in history,” his continuing resistance to American citizens who seek the facts about him is a non sequitur and establishes him as Deceiver-in-Chief.
Backhanded treatment by the White House and its lackeys in the media diminishes confidence in both, gives rise to and propagates conspiracy theories and when combined with fertilizer spread around abundantly by the Administration, promotes conspiracy growth. The best cure for distrust is to exercise promised transparency. Why is the establishment of authenticity of a piece of paper, or confirmation of Natural Born status important? It is important because confirmation of eligibility is fundamental to legitimate government. It is because truth-seekers have read the Constitution and are concerned about fraud in the offering; that an imposter may well have slicked his way into the highest political office in the land and is doing the nation what amounts to irreparable harm that he effectively promised. Plain enough?
What if it were suddenly revealed and confirmed that Obama is not eligible for the office of President because of unresolved citizenship issues? What would talking heads say then? Would they say, “It doesn’t matter, it’s too late, the election is over?” Would they say, “It’s too hard to do anything about it?” How about removal and jail? Do they believe that Americans can’t handle it? Get serious! Americans handled Bill Clinton, Nixon, Kennedys and other miscreants. Trust Americans, they can handle it.
So, now bin Laden is dead! What a marvelous job by SEALS and CIA operatives; and, may many other jihadist malefactors follow him to hell soon. The solution to the jihadist situation is contained in a vignette from the past. Rather than give bin Laden a “proper Muslim funeral” they should have wrapped him in a blanket soaked in pig’s blood before putting his body out for feral swine to eat. In the alternative they could have cut his head off, put that on a stake on the Washington Mall to dry, then they could have hung his decapitated body soaked in kerosene from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and set it on fire? Thereafter ask which jihadist would like to go next! How many volunteers do liberals think there would be? PC enough?! I, for one, have had it with Obama kissing their behinds and this Muslim funeral thing is one more episode.
Finally, Americans can sleep well because their Armed Forces and CIA are on duty and awake! Well done! You make us proud and we are grateful.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment......
Thank you to Col. Pappas. Love everything he has written.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:48 AM | Comments (2)
May 01, 2011
Silly? Who's Silly? by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Thank you Trump for bringing enough pressure to bear that it cracked the “most transparent administration in history’s” stone wall of secrecy. Hopefully, after verification of the Certificate of Live Birth, the birth component of the issue will be over. What won’t be over is a clear delineation and definition of what constitutes “Natural Born.” Most assume it is birth in the United States; maybe, maybe not. It depends. More on that later.
Following Obama’s release of his long form birth certificate he held a news conference at which he whined about being distracted by the “silly” issue, over which he, and he alone had total control from the outset. Instead, he chose to go the its-none-of-their-business, arrogant route creating in the process a vast body of conjecture, which, given numerous inquiries into the matter, now gives rise to additional questions because of the belated release. Then there’s the question, “Why April 27th?” The answer is self-evident. But, perhaps no one noticed that he is in the campaign mode with a scheduled visit to Oprah, and three back to back fundraisers.
Obama told us: "We don't have time for this silliness,” and serious Americans agree; he told us: “We’ve got better stuff to do,” and serious Americans agree; he told us: “I’ve got better stuff to do,” and serious Americans agree; he told us: “We’ve got big problems to solve,” and serious Americans agree; he told us: “and I’m confident we can solve them,” and serious Americans agree. Then he told us: “but we’re going to have to focus on them, not on this,” shortly before he embarked on Air Force One for the flight to Chicago and an appearance on Oprah’s show where he proceeded to joke about it for the lemmings in the audience. Then, not long afterward Obama and his entourage flew to New York for back-to-back fundraisers.
But didn’t he just say? “We don't have time for this silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do. We’ve got big problems to solve, and I’m confident we can solve them, but we’re going to have to focus on them, not on this.”
Rational, thinking people among other things conclude the following:
1. Obama was blathering because he immediately embarked on the very silliness he had just maligned, with Oprah in Chicago; followed by three self-serving “silly little” fundraising events in New York;
2. He was teasing ardent dupes with “birther meat” to drain as much “silly” money as possible from them;
3. He was diverting attention from the fact that he was finally forced to show the “silly little” birth certificate;
4. He was being his normal duplicitous, deceptive, deceitful, dishonest, two faced, tricky, “silly” self; or,
5. All of the above.
Hope and Change? More like “silly” Chicago style politics.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
Good one, thank you Col. Pappas.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (5)
Who’s Distracting Who---And Why? by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
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Who’s Distracting Who---And Why?
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Thank God! We have suddenly been shown what is claimed by the White House and liberal media to be the authentic birth certificate of Barrack Obama. Even Shepard Smith of FOX was orgasmic as he began his newscast that day. The shallow-minded with LMD will say “I told you so”, but a reasonable person will ask why it took almost three years for this to occur.
Donald Trump, in spite of the numerous free passes given to Obama by the liberal media, the courts and the Democrat-dominated Congress, proved that he alone ‘has standing’! He is correct that once the certificate is verified as authentic, he alone can then move on to Mr. Obama’s other self-created distractions and perhaps clarify for the brain-dead how this man thinks and why his presidency has brought about national disgrace and monumental governmental failure. Americans deserve no less from a president.
Obama, despite concerns expressed by conservative media outlets but ignored by the lamestreet media during the campaign regarding twenty years of “mentoring” (his words, not mine) by the racist Reverend Jeremiah Wright, chose to attend a church on Easter Sunday not to listen to a Christian message but to another racist rant by a black nationalist ‘reverend’ similar to Wright. Today I received an interesting list of quotes from the two books which Mr. Obama purportedly authored (though some claim that former Weather Underground bomber and self-avowed Marxist Bill Ayers actually penned one of them).
Every one of the dozen or so quotations from his books confirm his pathologic obsession with racial victimization and his disdain for the white race as well as America’s traditional values. Black nationalism, or black liberal ‘theology’, preaches that redistribution of wealth is but one never ending reparation by whites to blacks not only for past racism but for the delusional perception that such racism continues unabated until there is some dominance of the black race over all others.
This writer agrees with famous black comedian Bill Cosby when he notes the failure of the black race as a whole (there are plenty of individual exceptions!) to achieve economic ‘equality’ some fifty years after the civil rights laws were passed, and in spite of affirmative action which confer advantaged treatment of minority groups over everyone else, is due to epidemic failure of their family unit (the fatherless family where mom works to support her children and so on) and consequent loss of values that unit normally confers to our youth (self-sufficiency and respect for others).
Black nationalism is racist, spiteful and destructive, even of those it purports to defend. Its believers preach socialism to accomplish everlasting redistribution of wealth from guiltless hardworking and self-sufficient Americans. This false ‘theology’ should be marginalized by society and our government just as white supremacy organizations has been.
It is obvious that Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder embraced black nationalism when he ordered dismissal of voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia. Had a white supremacy group placed punks with billyclubs at a polling site, you can be sure that Holder and the lamestreet media would have crucified them.
With the birth certificate issue possibly (assuming that it is shown not to be fraudulent when analyzed by experts) out of the way, I hope Trump will move quickly to Obama’s other distractions which I suspect would confirm what patriots already know---that he is not only the most unqualified and inexperienced president in American history but also anti-American (or un American as Greta Van Susteren says as she tries to water down the destructive personality of Mr. Obama in front of Sarah Palin).
The key point of all this discussion is that we are in deep trouble on multiple fronts and facing the real possibility that our children will not inherit a constitutional republic form of government and the liberties which it protects. America appears as a rudderless ship floating towards an iceberg commanded by the Obama administration while much of Congress, our Courts and the race baiting leftwing media shamefully look the other way.
I must conclude with a message for judges nationwide:
Do not tell me or any other American that we “do not have standing” to request credentials of one who holds the highest office in the Land. It is our right!
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Wild Thing's comment........
Trump had said he was gonig to have his investigators look into this and see if it was for real or not. Then he added he would talk about it in about 3 weeks. I hope he keeps his word.
Good write up by Dr. Bates.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (2)
April 27, 2011
Kool-Aid Now Being Served On Your Dime by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Kool-Aid Now Being Served On Your Dime
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
If you wanted to destroy America without brute force, how would you do it?
You would destroy it from inside out with help from ‘outsiders’.
You would promise to transform the nation into something undefined.
You would grow government into a more intrusive monster which specializes in wealth redistribution to weaken the self-sufficient and grow the government-dependent.
You would appoint others of your perverted ideology to take charge of important agencies, circumventing Congressional oversight and appropriate funds to those appointees to accomplish your goals.
You would ignore and/or misinterpret constitutional law to help undermine the values embodied in the U.S. Constitution and solidify that position by appointing justices who would help you accomplish those goals, including disregard for immigration law and border protection, there-by creating a dilution of natural-born American citizens with a new class of government dependents who are clueless regarding what it means to be an American but who would reward you with their votes.
You would dilute the Judeo-Christian population with other groups who show no tolerance for others in the name of political correctness. They would help you to sow the seeds of destruction of American culture and law.
You would spread our military over the globe at huge expense while weakening the defense of our national borders.
You would borrow from other nations until a financial calamity occurs which deals the final blow to the sovereignty of America.
Meet Barry Soetoro—a man who at great personal cost hides his identity and his background in sharp contrast to all prior presidents. What is he hiding and WHY? Meet the complicit American news media---organizations which unlike their British comrades look the other way when legitimate questions concerning Mr. Soetoro’s identity are raised. Why do they do this? Is it naiveté? Is it fear? Is it ideology? Meet Congress----a governing body which is being intimidated by the press should its members raise legitimate issues regarding the identity and qualifications of Barry Soetoro. Shame on them who fear the lamestreet media’s labels of ‘extremists’ and ‘radicals’ for those who ask valid questions and raise challenges to the legitimacy of Mr. Soetoro whose only proved qualifications are those of one who wishes to transform America into a nightmare.
Patriots have four options: do nothing and let America collapse at the hands of revolutionaries such as Mr. Soetoro and those who placed him where he is; to investigate, impeach and prosecute him and his appointees for high crimes and acts of sedition; replace him in 2012;or,as a final resort take our nation back through force. America is being destroyed---are you going to let that happen?
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Well done article by Dr. Bates.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:47 AM | Comments (2)
April 24, 2011
Obama: Constitutionally Qualified? Don’t Know; Open and Transparent? Not! by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Obama: Constitutionally Qualified? Don’t Know; Open and Transparent? Not!
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Before the General Election of 2008 a number of writers including me questioned Obama’s eligibility for the Presidency. My questions were based on two inextricably related factors:
• First, is Obama Constitutionally a qualified Natural Born citizen as required by Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution? Many inquiring minds are not satisfied by the State of Hawaii’s issuance of a Certificate of Live Birth because of the vagaries of Hawaii law that allowed birth registration by anyone with a couple of “witnesses” at the time of Obama’s birth, ostensibly there.
• Second, is Obama’s repeated campaign promise to be the most transparent Administration in history. It is irrational that he would at the very basic level abrogate that solemn campaign pledge; that is unless he doesn’t consider himself to be a part of his own Administration.
Was Obama born in Hawaii? Dr. Chiyome Fukino former head of Hawaii’s Department of Health released the following statement while still in office in 2008:
“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record.
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.
“No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai‘i.”
In 2009 she released a further clarification which stated:
“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
Could Dr. Fukino be lying? One cannot tell. The only way to find out would be by Obama fulfilling his pledge of transparency and openness, by court action or forced by overwhelming public opinion.
Some point to the fact that an announcement was made in Hawaii papers within days of his birth and others to the Hawaii Certificate of Live birth as proof, neither of which satisfy inquiring minds. There are too many other issues which taken alone could be the subject of important investigations, and most of which raise additional questions rather than present believable answers. Then there are the “talking heads” that out of sheer Obama worship, or some misguided notion that to learn the facts would be detrimental to the nation, sweep aside any vestige of curiosity or responsibility to learn the actual truth not some preconceived version thereof. Therefore, they marginalize anyone who has the audacity to question the matter. Some may be satisfied by media buffoons who assert: “we’ve investigated, and he was born in Hawaii” without actually establishing those facts. As far as one knows there isn’t a court in the U.S. that accepts “hearsay” as conclusive evidence; and that is what Mr. Bill O’Reilly and others who lick Obama’s boots for ratings do without flinching. Then there’s the “Intimidation” Factor (pun intended) where O’Reilly either out-screams or verbally abuses those who raise the question or, he cites his years as number one cable news program, both in an effort to intimidate and/or silence legitimate unsatisfactorily answered questions; once again for ratings not serious investigation.
An April 23rd, AP article by Mark Niesse titled, “In Hawaii, accessing some Obama birth info is easy” Niesse states that in the State’s Vital Records office there is a computer generated tabulation of data that shows Obama’s birth on page 1218, highlighted in yellow. The evident conclusion is that is wouldn’t be there if it weren’t backed up by factual data.
For many the issue is not whether or not Obama was born in Hawaii, which seems to be obscurely, but circumstantially settled, the more important and central issue is his inarguable deception and betrayal of his pledge to be “open and transparent.” If he cannot, or refuses to do that at the personal level, which he allegedly defends at great expense, his claim of transparency cannot be trusted at any level. Obama’s lack of personal transparency gives life, and should, to the unsettled issue of Constitutional eligibility, that concerns a growing number of Americans. In stark contrast one recalls the media grilling that G.W. Bush endured about release of his information, upon which he released most everything.
There is no rational reason for Obama to be so tightfisted with his personal information unless he has something to hide, and that he believes the American electorate would find repugnant, repulsive and/or damaging. On the other hand it may be a ploy to keep his committed band of lemmings stirred up while distracting Americans away from damage that he is intentionally inflicting on the Nation.
For example, in a Washington Examiner 20 April 2011 article, titled “Obama: Mistakes? Can’t think of Any” writer Byron York analyzes Obama’s “dancing skills around the subject” concluding that he is no different than any other politician except if there have been any mistakes it would be that he (Obama) had not driven his agenda as deep and as fast as it should have been driven. That folks is an open statement that he has damaged the country intentionally!
Having done considerable research on the eligibility matter one finds that Courts have uniformly rejected cases brought before them regarding Obama’s eligibility on the basis of a lack of “standing;” on the other hand is the possibility of widespread, wholesale corruption of the Courts and that is both alarming and warrants investigation. Out-of-hand rejection by the Courts compels one to wonder why any bona fide U.S. Citizen does not have standing to question the ostensible President’s basic qualification.
The answer is succinctly put: “To have standing, a person must be sufficiently affected by the matter at hand, and there must be a case or controversy that can be resolved by legal action.” Evidently courts do not accord American citizens “standing” in political issues, especially this one.
However, in an instance where a candidate acceded to office though official misrepresentation, artifice or fraud it is, or should be obvious on its face to even the most naive that citizens have been harmed incident to the perpetration of such official misrepresentation, artifice and/or fraud.
A legislative case in point is the “bum’s rush” by Democrats of “Obamacare” signed into law by a President who may or may not be Constitutionally qualified. The harmful result, if nothing else is that no any law signed by Obama is Constitutional and enforceable. That same principle would apply to Executive Orders he has signed.
Those questions, left unanswered by establishing eligibility, harm all American citizens, even the ones who support him. The only way to make a final determination would be for it to be adjudicated in a Court of Law, taking it to the streets or unless Obama in a blinding moment of enlightenment and accompanying compelling need for integrity, makes the issue go away.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment...........
It is up to between 2 and 4 Million obama has spent now to NOT do what we all are asking about his birth certificate. If nothing else this for me screams guilty.
Good writei up by the Col.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:47 AM | Comments (3)
April 18, 2011
Donald Trump, Fox Network And ‘Ostriches’ by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Donald Trump, Fox Network And ‘Ostriches’
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Barry Soetoro continues to escalate his mockery of the highest office in our Land. Anyone who still believes that Obama’s promise to transform America is for the betterment of the nation is either retarded or embraces anti-American values. They are the baggage the rest of us carry as Obama and the Left explicitly dismantle our fiscal house and disobey the Constitution. A collapse of the Dollar would make it that much easier for them to transform the nation into a socialist regime---a government model which has repeatedly failed the world over.
Unfortunately, the club of delusionary Americans has lately been joined by Bill O’Reilly and Governor Mike Huckabee who publicly deny significance to the fact that Mr. Soetoro (aka Obama) has unlike any prior president failed to demonstrate his eligibility to run for President, and that such lack of compliance with the Constitutional requirement of birthright might allow an anti-American alien to undermine our government, which is exactly what we are witnessing!
The facts speak for themselves: why has Mr. Obama spent a fortune to hide much about his past including his long form birth certificate along with health and education records which deserve public scrutiny for any candidate running for the nation’s highest office? Why has the leftwing media given Barry Soetoro a free pass? Is it to assuage their never ending guilt over racism which occurred half a century ago, even if it means putting an unqualified person in the White House? Their PC has paradoxically placed a noose around America’s neck.
Integrity, wisdom, and statesmanship are necessary presidential characteristics completely lacking in Mr. Soetoro whose narcissistic personality dominates his actions. That was demonstrated this week when he kicked off his 2012 re-election campaign at a time when the nation needs a capable leader and not a professional campaigner. He does not care that he and Fedzillacrats have spent America into a hole to the tune of 15 trillion dollars and growing. Worse, he proposes to spend more to grow Fedzilla! How can any patriot with basic mathematical skills not understand that reliance upon foreign nations for our energy and our finances are parallel roads to national disaster? Either can be taken away from us in an instant, leading to immediate collapse our currency and our survival as a free nation. Is that Mr. Obama’s goal?
Enter Mr. Trump---newcomer to the presidential campaign trail. While portrayed as a joke by the Left and underestimated by Bill O’Reilly of FOX, he has very smartly elevated the issue of Mr. Soetoro’s eligibility to the forefront—an issue sidestepped by the DNC, the judicial branch and Congress. The Left’s cheerleaders and liberal media darlings (including Mr. O’Reilly) take their cues from their network owners and condescendingly refer to those patriots who make connections between Obama’s anti-American behavior and concealment of his true ‘identity’ as ‘right wing extremists’ or ‘birthers’. Since when did ‘fair and balanced’ include denying the undeniable? Not so for Donald Trump whose willingness to confront real issues head on in a refreshingly practical way has earned him a top spot in the list of presidential contenders. Patriots are patiently waiting to see who emerges to dump the current bag of poop from the White House.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Great write up! He is spot on about O'Reilly too.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM | Comments (2)
Deceit, Lying; Easter and Freedom by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Deceit, Lying; Easter and Freedom
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Deceit, lying, and relevant synonyms which when used, are intended to protect from perceived assaults on one’s ego or alter-ego but the end of which leads to the “second (eternal) death.” It began with the serpent lying to the woman in the Garden of Eden telling her: “Thou shalt not surely die,” which in due course led to the fall of humankind: “For as in Adam all die..”
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that great harm results from deception and lying whether at the personal, communal or national level. Likewise “spin” is an interpretation of someone’s communication. It transforms the communication from precisely what was stated to a fallacious derivation with an underlying motive pertaining to what was stated; or in plain English: spin is a deception pertaining to a set of facts with the intention to sway opinion. We see it every day in politics or life in general, the purpose of which is to gain some advantage or avoid some undesirable outcome. Human life at every level is best when all parties deal in truth. i.e. No spin; “Let you yea be yea and your nay be nay;” or, as the courts require, “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
As one who started small, I became the purveyor of some real whoppers when it came to deception and lying. I deceived and lied in little things, medium sized things, and life-event things. I even lied when I didn’t “have to” lie. By the time I was in my thirties, deceiving and lying were so routine and flowed so easily from my lips that they became all but indistinguishable from truth. Not that I always lied, on the professional front, when dealing with hard data, I could be as factual as anyone. But when it came to protecting my ego I made excuses that were nothing more than deception and lies whether the circumstances were personal or professional.
Oh, I could see it in others and self-righteously condemned them, but when it came to my own, I had deflector shields all over the place. I could lie as deftly as an expert ping-pong player. I knew I lied, but lying and deception became an integral part of my life. The more I lied the greater the burden on my conscience but I seemed as powerless to change that as the inability to change the reasons for the lies in the first place.
Then one day God used the most important person in my life to hit me between the eyes with: “Robert, you are lying to me.” Those simple words were so filled with underlying love, so direct and pure in their delivery that it became a life-changing event. First, I admitted my lost state which included a lot more than lying; Second, I asked God’s forgiveness. For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of and absorbed “God’s Grace” made possible through His love for me and for all mankind: the sacrifice, death and resurrection of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Third, I promised to live for Him and turned my back on the old ways. There is a song whose words include: “Then Jesus took my burdens, I could no longer bear; then Jesus took my burdens, in answer to my prayer…; Yes, Jesus took my burdens and filled me with a song!” I accepted God’s Gift and now live for Him and enjoy a new, transformed life.
As one who has devoted his life to the cause of freedom, finding spiritual freedom is by far the most freeing event I have experienced.
Many years have passed since that life-changing event, and since then every day is both wondrous and fulfilling. I am a new creature; indeed I know what it means to be born again. Jesus said, “Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls; for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Now I get it, freedom is more than absence of restraint, it is: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” Martin Luther King proclaimed its essence at the conclusion of “I Have a Dream” with the words: “Free at last, free at last, Praise God Almighty, I’m free at last!”
Yes, “For as in Adam all die, Even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
That, dear reader is real freedom! Take it, absorb it, and share it!
Have a Blessed Easter!
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment........
Beautifully written, thank you Colonel Pappas.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:45 AM | Comments (4)
April 11, 2011
For America’s Sake Take it Away From Democrats by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
For America’s Sake Take it Away From Democrats
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Listening to, observing and reading the “uber” left cacophony about what amounts to minuscule reductions in the Federal Budget proposed by Republicans is so funny that one has to belly laugh them into derision. Actually that applies to both sides of the political divide, on the one hand Democrats for being so over-the-top in their ideological branding and Republicans for being too timid to step up and state the fact that spending priorities are always ideologically driven. The following are irrefutable axioms.
1. All legislation, no matter who sponsors it, affects at least two groups.
2. Legislation favoring one interested party inherently disfavors some other party.
3. All legislation is ideologically driven.
4. Politics, which is the public policy exercise of competing ideologies (except totalitarian states), is inherent in everything that is spoken or done.
This is amply illustrated by a number of headline quotes from those on the left (those from the right are too benign albeit profound, to be included):
• Democrat House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi said, “There is a war on women,” which is silly. If women want to have an abortion they can pay for it themselves rather than require those of us who find abortions both evil and repugnant to pay for them.
• According to MyFoxDC.com, Washington, D.C., Democrat Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton stated, “This (proposed legislation) is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians.” Given that U.S. Taxpayers fund a significant portion of the D.C. City budget with a proscription against Federal Funds being used for abortions, any abortions funded by the City inherently absorb Federal and therefore American taxpayer support. Would Holmes Norton call it robbery if she were required to personally fund abortions?
• In an article by Jeff Poor in the Daily Caller, Jessee Jackson sees the Budget battle as: “[T]his really is a Civil War fight,” “This is making the federal government dysfunctional on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. These guys will support three wars. They’ll support tax dodgers. They’ll support the wealthiest Americans getting tax breaks. They want to cut into education and health care. This is an ideological battle.” Mr. Jackson has had a “really tough” life constantly playing the race card to line his pockets at every turn.
• In a Reuters report, according to Harry Reed: "Republicans want to shut down the government because they think there's nothing more important than keeping women from getting cancer screenings.” Of course, this too is inane since there are numerous sources by which any woman who desires cancer screening can obtain one free of charge.
One must keep in mind that these are of the same ilk who as a practical matter believe that government owns everything and that Americans are here to support their pet government programs. Their mentality is somewhat akin to the system that existed in the Soviet Union before its collapse.
One leading Democrat recently stated to the effect, that revenue (i.e. taxes) generation needs to be addressed in addition to cutting spending to get the budget and debt under control. In plain English what he meant was that Republicans should agree to raise taxes if they want to bring down the National Debt and balance the Federal Budget. His poly, if Republicans were stupid enough to fall for it, would allow him like the proverbial rooster, to mount the fence and crow that “those evil Republicans who want to take more money from the already hard pressed Middle Class.” Is there anyone so uninformed to not know that most taxpayers’ aggregate taxes amount to well over 50%. “Aggregate” taxes in this context means Federal, State and local taxes as well as excise taxes and government fees, the latter, tax by another name.
Something evil has been coming for months and will soon begin to hit full force, it is high inflation, the government’s way of eroding the value of Americans’ income in order to “spread the wealth around.” Printing money makes it available for the left’s favorite programs like funding NPR and Planned Parenthood without raising taxes but it decreases the value of individuals’ money assets. For example, take the increased cost of motor fuel which during the general election campaign Obama stated that he would have no problem with gasoline prices reaching $4.00/gallon; this increase is directly attributable to devaluation of the dollar incident to obscene inflationary spending and associated printing by Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration. Well, he has successfully achieved that objective, with prices in many parts of the country over $4.00/gallon. His energy czar stated that U.S. fuel prices should be $10.00/gallon. Obama’s solution: "If you're complaining about the price of gas and you're only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know," "You might want to think about a trade-in." Is this the “Hope and Change” that those lemmings who voted for him expected?
Idealists and others were duped into believing that Obama and his fellow-traveling fifth columnists would work to improve America; WRONG! The present National and International debacle is intentional and brought into being by Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration. It is a clarion call for a better way, a way that leads back to Constitutional principles and liberty, not the perversion thereof and tacit slavery where all but the Chavez, Mubarak, Gadaffi, Reid, Pelosi and Obama personalities would work on the Federal Plantation.
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment.......
LOVE his titte for his article. Great again form the Col.
The Democrats always mess things up no matter what. Keep their mitts off our government and out of our lives!!!!
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:48 AM | Comments (2)
April 04, 2011
Message To Mr. Boehner: Starve Fedzilla! by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Message To Mr. Boehner: Starve Fedzilla!
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
“The Tea Party wing of his party refuses to give any ground. It demands a right-wing social agenda under the guise of the budget. That will be unacceptable to the American people”---states Democrat Representative Chris Van Hollen in his characterization of the difficulty House Speaker John Boehner faces in proposing a budget acceptable to the big-spending career Fedzillacrats in the Senate and the anti-American occupying the White House.
Van Hollen is well-known for his public exhibitions of socialist hypocrisy. He and his colleagues, plagued with LMD, will not listen to the mandate of the American majority which he labels as the Tea Party, suggesting they are a small right-wing minority fringe group. But Mr. Van Hollen is mistaken!
This majority consists of patriotic pro-Constitutional Americans who possess common sense and the ability to count. We clearly understand the nation is trapped in the claws of career politicians who with the help of the Federal Reserve have driven America to brink of financial insolvency; that Obama’s one trillion dollar proposed annual budget and the more than 14,000,000,000,000 dollars federal deficit must be slashed; and that growing our unfunded mandates to over 100 trillion dollars through Obamacare and other socialist anti-American programs is the path to national suicide.
The Democrat-controlled Senate resembles the gang of fourteen Wisconsin Democrats who went AWOL when they realized the majority of their Assembly would prevail to solve to a budget crisis hatched by Fedzilla-aligned Democrats and their cronies. The U.S. House of Representatives is ultimately responsible for proposing a budget the Senate can vote on and the President can sign. Most Americans understand that America is insolvent were not for the printing presses of the U.S. Treasury which continues to devalue our currency.
The Tea Party caucus of the Republican Party is right to insist that the budget is balanced AND slashes the largest national deficit in history. Harry Reid, Van Hollen and their socialist friends mistakenly believe a ‘shutdown’ will reflect negatively on House Republicans, when in reality its merely shows how these socialists are unwilling to do what is necessary to reverse America’s course to national insolvency.
Van Hollen’s quip that the Tea Party budget seeks to achieve a rightwing social agenda which would be unacceptable to the American people resorts to negative labeling and mischaracterization of the goals of the majority. He is correctly afraid that the Tea Party will defund Obamacare, taxpayer funding for abortion, and other self-destructive socialist programs.
House Majority Leader Boehner must not cave in to the career members of his own party who merely want to placate the psychologically-challenged on the other side of the aisle. A government shutdown is not as bad as the alternative!
Wild Thing's comment.......
I like Speaker Boehner, but I am not blind as to how he can go rino on things sometimes. He needs to be strong ALL the time, not just once and awhile. If these people do not show force to match the force of the left America will never survive.
Good article by Dr. Bates.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:48 AM | Comments (6)
March 27, 2011
Wisconsin Law Now In Effect; Soetoro Violates His Oath; Republican Leadership Forgets Mandate Of We The People
Wisconsin Law Now In Effect; Soetoro Violates His Oath; Republican Leadership Forgets Mandate Of We The People
Last week a Wisconsin judge ordered a temporary restraining order blocking publication of the law recently passed by a majority of the Wisconsin legislature and signed by Governor Walker. The judge bowed to the 14 AWOL Democrats who fled the state to hide out in Illinois in hopes of averting the will of the majority to balance the budget deficit created by the preceding Democrat Administration.
Friday the law was published as required within ten days after the Governor signs any new law. The Court and the Union thugs will claim foul as the law goes into effect Saturday. No matter the fireworks from Union thugs, their hired peon demonstrators and the judge, the law will undoubtedly pass again after proper 24 hour notice of session should that be the court’s decision.
It remains to be seen whether the 14 AWOL Democrats will resort to their immature leftwing stunt to prevent another vote---and it really does not matter since the law will go into effect since the elected majority rules. Unions need to get with the program before their workers are replaced with qualified workers who are nonunion and dues money bound for socialist candidates in 2012 evaporates!
United States ‘President’ Barry Hussein Soetoro is being accused by his own Party members of violating the Constitution by committing our military to a conflict without the authorization of Congress as required by law. Even Dennis Kucinich (D) and other Democrats claim it is an impeachable offense.
How peculiar they latch on to this violation after ignoring Soetoro’s other impeachable if not treasonous offenses which include: forcing Obamacare through Congress with bribery against the wishes of the majority of American people without allowing members of Congress time to read the 2700 pages of Leftist crappola which degrades our healthcare to third world status and hastens national bankruptcy; Soetoro and his Democrat Party willfully hiding his birth origin in violation of Constitutional requirements; suing states for trying to secure their borders and enforce Federal immigration law which the administration is intentionally not enforcing; committing 2 billion dollars we do not have to offshore drilling in Brazil while blocking development of nuclear and fossil fuel resources at home.
Finally, the Republican leadership talks a good line but when the rubber meets the road their promise to cut the Federal budget and freeze the debt ceiling appear to be empty rhetoric---key promises upon which Republicans gained a House majority. Speaker Boehner had better organize his troops around the common sense of the Tea Party or risk losing their seats in 2012.
Survival of this nation is at stake and no rational patriot is going to allow these career politicians to continue their unaccountable and wasteful spending to satisfy Fedzilla’s addiction.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Our side has got to be strong, stronger then they may realize and any kind of weakness will cost our country big time. This is a good article by Bates.
I like Boehner a lot and I think as Speaker of the House he could be so awesome... could be is the key and sometimes he really is, I just want him to be consistent, I do wish he would see this is the one huge chance to get our country back from the communists, marxists progressives and there can be nothing less or it will be gone. Not only Boehner but all of our elected people on our side of the isle.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:45 AM
March 24, 2011
Uncertain Trumpet! by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Has there ever been a more incompetent or in the alternative intentionally destructive U.S. Administration? There was Carter with his merry brood of hillbillies who out of sheer stupidity brought new meaning to the word “incompetent” to Government. But Carter was otherwise harmless, Obama’s is intentional and intended to diminish the U.S in the world community. This is amply illustrated by the international mess in Libya as one more indicator of the Obama Administration’s attack upon no, not Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya, rather in the grand scheme of Obama’s “transparent” vision, it is an attack upon the United States.
Despite the combined support from the leftist media most Americans are savvy enough to see through Obama’s abject lack of managerial and leadership skills. That noted, one has to give the “devil” credit where it is due: he does talk a lot, albeit simultaneously out of both sides of his mouth. The most recent example is his repeated calls for Gaddafi to step aside, that Gaddafi had lost legitimacy with his own people, that he needed to go, and etc.
After having been shamed and dragged “kicking and screaming” into agreeing to impose a “no fly” zone over large parts of Libya, which is really more like preparatory fire incident to a ground invasion, Obama is now eager to abandon U.S. leadership of the effort. Adding fuel to the fire is a Coalition that from all appearances is in disarray: with France declaring that they are not at war; Germany pulling its forces from NATO; Libyan rebels on the run; Marines are reported to be on the way to rescue Libyan civilians, while Obama unequivocally states that there will be no ground troops, no matter what the outcome.
From reports, Obama is trying to do something with the Allies, although it isn’t clear just what that would be; Allies are at each other’s throats and the list goes on! Uncertain Trumpet!? For goodness sake, let a Marine Corporal, well make it a PFC take charge, he would do a better job!
Obama dithered for weeks while ostensible, freedom-seeking, al Qaeda supported Libyans protested then took up arms against Gaddafi’s terrorist regime. Isn’t it ironic that in this instance it may well be one terrorist group against another and that couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people. Let them work out their own destiny without spending limited U.S. resources, they are going to hate the U.S. anyway, no matter what the outcome.
Given the circumstances, Libyans had the right to expect support against Gaddafi given Obama’s backstabbing of Egypt’s Mubarak, his encouragement of the rebels in Tunisia and his admonitions to the Saudi’s to ease the economic strain on their own people. But, having all but kissed their shoes during his “world apology tour,” Obama is now in the dubious position of seeking Gaddafi’s overthrow, by “diplomatic” and other non-violent means; yes, of course; the world trembles when Hillary speaks.
One cannot imagine what U.S. aircrews are doing or why they are involved if their underlying purpose is not to facilitate toppling of, or bringing about Gaddafi’s demise. Unfortunately, the present well executed attacks by U.S. forces and Allies, have the earmarks of an international relations debacle on its way to happen.
Obama’s passive aggressive, “if they need me attitude” dating back to the financial crisis of 2008, his encouraging Congress come up with the economically disastrous “Stimulus Package,” his repeated statements that have been aimed at diminishing U.S. preeminence in the world, and this present, “I can handle this on the fly” attitude about Libya, are all vintage Obama. Then combine that with leaving Congress out of the loop, which in the rarest of moments prompts one to agree with Congressperson Kucinich, one can see Obama’s innate dictatorial penchant beginning to emerge.
Yet, it was Obama who according to the Boston Globe in 2007 told Americans: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”(as though he give one whit about the Constitution.)
Likewise, in an interview with Hardball, “If he gives authorization to war without congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him,” was then Senator Biden speaking of G.W. Bush. Of course anyone who knows anything knows that Biden was (and is) as full of bovine scatology then as he is now since it is the House of Representatives that impeaches.
But alas, Administration “spinmeisters” pour the swill, (or is it Kool-Aid?) for the media that attacks are to avoid genocide as happened in Rwanda during the Clinton Administration. But that does not answer the question, “where was he for the weeks leading up to this last minute decision?” (Oh, I get it, everyone missed it, he wanted to surprise Gaddafi.) But Obama is out of character as far as his Muslim supporters are concerned by bombing a nation where the “religion of peace” rules with a dictator’s fist. Louis Farrakhan, grand leader of the Nation of Islam made his anger clear when he asked Obama, “who the hell do you think you are?”
A parting shot: Obama’s circus is embarrassing if not dangerous to the U.S. and makes G.W. Bush come across as a consummate, patriotic professional but, let there be no doubt, this too is Bush’s fault.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
Amazing how these politicians make statements then think they won't be remembered. Especially with the internet where everything is out there someplace that was said. Biden's comment about Bush and impeachment, obama's as well about war etc. Good one Col. Pappas for bringing these up in this article.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (3)
March 19, 2011
Are We There Yet? by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Given events of the past two years with Obama, Soros and the Democrat Congress doing everything possible to bring about the collapse of the U.S. so that they can rebuild it in their “totally changed” image, along with the crescendo of world and domestic events in recent weeks, one surmises that prophecy about end times may well be coming to fruition.
There is world-wide economic instability, inflation is beginning to balloon led by the cost of gasoline nearly doubling in less than a year and that alone is already having negative economic consequences; there are earthquakes in Indonesia, Chile, Haiti, New Zealand, and Japan; volcanic activity in Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Italy, Hawaii, Mexico, Peru and Russia; last year was the great oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, storms and flooding in Australia, unusual blizzards in the U.S. and heightened solar activity and storms; and, there are uprisings and wars across the Middle East from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq.
And there is the continuing invasion across the Southern Border of the U.S. about which Obama is doing essentially nothing.
Then, there are the lunatics in Wisconsin, ah, yes, the self-serving symbiosis of government unions and Democrats that on the one hand are elected by the Union members’ dues and on the other whose dues are contributed almost exclusively to election and re-election of Democrats. In any sane society that’s called a conflict of interest, but who ever said liberals were sane? Just watch them rage at being denied their “rights” while Republicans try to get government costs under control. Great Kabuki that’s both comical and tragic to any rational observer.
Has anyone seen Obama? Of course, he’s busy abrogating U.S. leadership; playing golf and vacationing in Rio. Obama behaves more like a poor person putting on airs after winning the lottery than the leader of the free world. We wrote early and often that Obama is an empty suit, and he has amply demonstrated that he is, and given his vaunted intellect he has to know what he is doing after two years in office being exposed to the litany of events and staff briefings that daily flood the Oval Office. He may be Mr. “Cool” but he is a policy, economic, and leadership disaster for this Nation.
All of the foregoing events are reminiscent of the twenty fourth chapter of Matthew which is worthy of quoting here in its entirety.
“Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 "Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
23 "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 "Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45 "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. 47 Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, 51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
As children are wont to ask on a trip that lasts more than thirty minutes, “Are we there yet?” No-one can say for certain, and it is likely that there are many years before the end, and there will be an end, absolutely, positively guaranteed, however, as the thirty sixth verse states, “36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
I confess to not understanding what seem to be incongruities in the passage nor will I attempt to explain them, but in my opinion one would be wise to be ready for the eventualities without regard to timing that is known only to God.
One thing is certain, Obama is not the Messiah and like Nero fiddles while the U.S. “burns.” Anyone for a round of golf? 2012, are we there yet?
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment........
Another good one by the Col.
Obama has dumbed down the Presidency to that of a community organizer. Isn't it something that a narcissist like barack hussein obama seems to be playing a major part in bringing the world to the “end times”. When those end times will be no one knows, but for sure obama will be known as having a part in it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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March 16, 2011
Outstanding Patriots Of The Week: Rep. Peter King And Gov. Scott Walker
Outstanding Patriots Of The Week: Rep. Peter King And Gov. Scott Walker
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
This past week law-abiding fiscally rational patriots had to tolerate anti-American socialist Democrats along with their union thugs who spend millions in taxpayer dollars to bribe naïve ‘students’ and the ‘Reverend’ Jesse Jackson to exhibit explicitly childish and even criminal behavior as an attention-getting ploy which is so characteristic of mental liberal disorder (MLB).
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin had one goal in mind: to balance the 3.6 billion dollar budget deficit incurred by spendthrift Democrats before him. The Democrats had a different goal in mind: to selfishly preserve special rights which their federal government and private sector counterparts do not have while continuing to plunder taxpayers as the nation suffers a case of terminal debt.
Democrat politicians should be required to take Economics 101 along with a few tutorials on manners and civility---two words not found in the Left’s vocabulary. It is pathetic if not humorous that 14 Wisconsin Democrats fled the state to Illinois so they could be protected by union thugs at taxpayer expense and avoid losing the vote on key financial reform measures favored by the majority. Their constituents recognize they were AWOL while still being compensated by state taxpayers. Their absence from the Wisconsin legislature violated a number of laws and rules which should be addressed by the state including clarification as to who paid them off to desert their posts.
The majority of citizens nationwide regard these charlatans as childish and destructive to the democratic process. They are cry babies when they don’t get their way. I cannot recall at time when Republicans or Independents deserted their obligations to the electorate when a vote was not going their way.
Recall that public unions collect dues from their members whose salaries and benefits are paid for by taxpayers. Their goal is to continue their special privilege of taking but not giving back during hard times for America which in large part have been caused by the Democrats whom they elected. About 90% of those who protest in Madison are not even from Wisconsin---they are flown or bussed in at taxpayer expense to create a scene for empathetic Leftwing media outlets. Unfortunately for them, most citizens know that America’s public unions are like spoiled children of socialist career politicians who get reelected largely through massive diversion of money from union members to their political campaigns and then engage in payback tactics to union bosses. Obscene!
Not surprisingly, the ‘Reverend’ Jesse Jackson showed up to cheer the protesters on as though he could relive the days of the civil rights movement of the sixties. Jesse pretends he is a spokesperson for the ‘working class’ when reality shows he has a persecution complex and loves to exploit that in front of the Leftwing media outlets. He and wealthy slob Michael Moore excite protesters into a frenzy which results in destruction of private property and mortal threats against legislators and their families.
The Left’s ways define them from Tea Party Patriots who behave as responsible mature adults and carry out peaceful rallies to educate the public and our politicians about their pledge to uphold the Constitution---a sacred document for which the Left has no respect. Republicans and Independents must continue the march forward to halt and reverse growing Fedzilla and its wasteful spending, and put public workers’ on par with private sector and Federal workers. Remember this: Equal rights for all; special rights for none!
America’s other Patriot of the Week is New York Representative Peter King who successfully spearheaded a long overdue public initiative to face up to and deal with radicalization of Muslim youth which now poses a growing threat to our national security.
Representative King along with Republicans on the Committee for Homeland Security made it crystal clear that the hearings were not targeting a specific religion or race, but rather a specific problem---Islamic Jihad, which has been responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of innocent people including moderate Muslims over many decades. The Left was well-represented by Democrat Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green of Texas and Representatives Jackie Speier and Laura Richardson of California, each of whom predictably sang the same chorus that the hearings were appalling for singling out or ‘profiling a religious group’, while suggesting such hearings should also address militias and white supremacy groups---none of which rise to the level of Jihad. Even the Muslim witnesses who testified before the committee exalted Mr. King’s efforts and disagreed with the broken record of off-topic racist accusations leveled by these four representatives.
One has to wonder if Green, Lee, Speier and Richardson are really that stupid in not recognizing the reality that our nation and its identity is being threatened from within by Jihadists or are they simply trying to use their PC to divert the committee’s attention away from the problem (if so, that is self-destructive). Fortunately rational educated people prevailed and were able to circumvent the false characterization painted by the Left and begin the process of educating members as well as the public regarding the fact that about 15% of Muslim youth in America between ages 18 and 29 say they support suicide bombings to achieve their goal of killing the ‘infidels’ and establishing universal Sharia Law. To solve a problem one must first define it and then coordinate efforts at all levels.
Cheers for Peter King, Scott Walker and all other patriotic Americans who conduct themselves as mature educated adults as they combat the destruction of America by foreign and domestic elements which include Jihadists as well as the radical Left which exploits political correctness as a method to divert efforts to efficiently target those who would bring about the demise of our nation, its foundations, and traditional values.
Wild Thing's comment........
I agree, Pedter King and Scott Walker had withstood a ton of attacks, bashing and all the left can give them. I pray they get a lot of support from people that love America so they know we out number the crazy left out there.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:48 AM | Comments (2)
February 28, 2011
Just Shut The Damn Thing Down by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Just Shut The Damn Thing Down
Democrats are not taking ‘We the People’ seriously. They continue to snuggle up with money laundering big labor unions and the Democrats’ support base composed largely of government dependents. The American majority made a loud and clear statement last fall by electing rational fiscally conservative candidates to a House majority and into key positions at the state level. Too bad we did not accomplish same in the socialist Democrat dominated Senate which, despite the best intentions of the House, will likely block any meaningful spending cuts at the Federal level. And there is also Dictator Obama’s veto pen.
The Federal government has driven America into the ground in a very short time and continues to dig deeper. Sadly, big labor unions have been transformed into partisan political machines while giving only lip service to their membership whose dues, ultimately paid for by taxpayers, go straight to socialist Democrat political campaigns via union bosses. That means our tax money is being misdirected to support the election of socialist Democrats!
During the industrial revolution, unions were necessary to ensure humane working conditions and adequate worker pay particularly in the private sector. But today we see loss of much private industry to overseas competitors, leaving America with a large private service sector along with taxpayer-funded government bureaucrats, teachers and an assortment of public workers where work conditions are no longer a significant issue. Some public sector employees make out like bandits when compared to their private sector counterparts, with wages and generous benefits funded entirely by taxpayers.
But now the nation is bankrupt. Local municipalities and taxpayers are struggling. The last election was solely about downsizing government spending at all levels which requires revamping entitlement programs and asking public employees to start picking up some of the tab for their own retirement and healthcare benefits. State governments do not have time to engage in ‘collective bargaining’ over a few reasonable nominal changes imposed upon public employees who are ultimately employed by We the People.
The alternative to minimal sacrifice by public sector workers is layoffs for those who refuse to participate. I am certain there are many qualified workers in the private sector who will happily take their place. I am equally certain there are plenty of union members who would rather resign their union membership than lose their jobs.
The message of the Tea Party remains: downsize government and spending. State governors and their legislatures have increasingly taken that message seriously. With regressive socialist Democrats standing in the way, we should not expect meaningful progress at the Federal level.
The republic will continue to collapse into the laps of Barry Soetoro and his anti-American supporters until We the People enforce alternative plans. In the short run, perhaps shutting down most Federal government offices would be a good thing (no pay for no work either). If the Senate and Mr. Obama will not embrace spending cuts demanded by rational people, and then shut the damn Fedzilla monster down until they do.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Good one by the doctor.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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February 14, 2011
Who Is Most Clueless---The Administration Or The Media? by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Who Is Most Clueless---The Administration Or The Media?
by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Fact 1: Most Egyptians hate America. America has kept the Mubarak dictatorship in power for almost 30 years as he amassed wealth for himself, family and his close friends. With the people discontent and the economy in shambles, the military probably had the most to do with insisting that Mubarak cede his power to them and onward to an as yet undefined new leadership.
Fact 2: Most Egyptians are Muslim and believe in Sharia Law. Christians are a minority in Egypt and fear for their lives not knowing who will ultimately lead their nation.
Fact 3: The CIA totally missed the clues preceding the Egyptian uprising against Mubarak. Director of Intelligence for the Obama administration, James Clapper, was delusional or lying when he characterized the Muslim Brotherhood as a secular group which does not eschew violence as a means of establishing Islam as the world’s single religion and culture. The Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine follows the Koran with the goal of establishing Sharia Law internationally and endorses terrorism if necessary to accomplish that goal. We have no idea yet what role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in Egypt’s new future.
Fact 4: The Obama Administration, hated by the Egyptian people, pulled a narcissistic John Kerry imitation by first supporting Mubarak and then repudiating him in favor of the protesters who were winning according to feed from CNN (sadly Obama’s only intelligence resource during the crisis). And the American lamestreet media also followed the same chorus without a clue as to what was really happening (outlined in Fact #1).
The Egyptian people have suffered not only under the tyranny of the Mubarak’s regime but a deteriorating economy even as the Mubarak family fortune is estimated in the billions of dollars with assets in Switzerland and Britain. The military has been financed with the help of 1.3 billion U.S. dollars each year. Question now is what happens under military rule. And when/if elections occur who will emerge as the new leader of Egypt? Will that leader respect America and Israel’s existence and, if not, will America cut off aid to Egypt’s military? What domino effect would an anti-American/anti-Israeli government in Egypt have across the Middle East?
The CIA revealed its lack of insight into the Egyptian situation and spokesman Clapper is delusional or alternatively was commanded by someone else to publicly paint a false picture of the Muslim Brotherhood, as if to endorse them should they be a significant role in Egypt’s future government. His speech confirms this Administration’s empathy for (if not fear of) Islam while disrespecting America’s identity and the government’s needs to call out radical Islam as the root of worldwide terror and violence.
Obama used the national media to pontificate regarding the Egyptian government shakeup, when he would have done better to keep his mouth shut since his Administration has no influence on events in Egypt, not even the respect of the Egyptian people. His attempt to portray the uprising by the Egyptian people as bringing about needed (but unspecified) ‘change’ analogous to that which he promised to bring to America if elected President is pure narcissism. It is paradoxical that Obama calls for a transition to ‘democracy’ in Egypt, while his Administration has tried to move America away from democracy by usurping states and individual rights and trying to place them under control of the federal government.
Finally, the U.S. media including FOX reporters like Shep Smith were nearsighted and read to America only what is handed to them from clueless reporters on the ground in Egypt. It is frightening that our government and our media pretended to know and understand the inner dynamics of the Egyptian crisis when in hindsight they did not. Their shallow idiocy continues until We the People change that.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Good article, he does a good run down of what happened. He is right about.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:50 AM | Comments (5)
January 15, 2011
Hillary’s Incurable Foot-In-Mouth Disease
Not sure if she fell before or after she made her stupid statement.
Hillary Clinton Falls While Boarding Plane
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Hillary’s Incurable Foot-In-Mouth Disease
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
While speaking in an Arab nation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a most disgraceful statement that the murder rampage in Tucson was an example of an American extremist just as there are Muslim Jihadists who commit awful acts not in line with the wishes of the majority of Muslims around the world. Well let us set the record straight for Ms. Clinton since she is either extremely stupid or alternatively and more likely trying to snuggle up to Muslim nations.
There are many thousands of Jihadists around the world who have committed acts of murder and violence for decades. Worse, peaceful Muslims will not speak out against them as silently offering their support for Jihad in order to rid the world of the ‘infidels’ who do not believe as they do. Those who commit Jihad are not insane but intolerant and know full well what their objectives are for the rest of the world..
In the United States, there are rare occurrences whereby deranged individuals commit murderous acts as happened in Arizona. In contrast to those who wage Jihad, they are mentally ill and usually delusional.
The news media has incessantly obsessed about the motives of a madman while failing to recognize that certain individuals who are mentally ill do not think normally and may have twisted ‘motives’ based upon delusional thinking and often hallucinations. So where is the connection between the young Arizona murderer and Jihadists, Ms. Clinton? Americans expect more of you but you have failed to understand the basic difference between mental derangement and sanity. You statement was an insult to America as you attempted to placate Muslims by painting Americans with a similar brush.
The media will try to distill the motives of the Arizona tragedy into a neat little package when there are none, further confirming how shallow if not intentionally distorted the secular progressive news media are. They incessantly try to blame any negative event on someone or some group with whom they do not agree politically when there is no connection but mere confabulation. Great example of liberal mental disorder!
This horrible incident in Arizona will not silence We the People who are fighting in defense of our Constitution and our freedom which have been increasingly assaulted by the Left---the same Left-wingers who were responsible for a number of bombing attacks such as the NYC police station in the 1960s, those who spat on our returning Viet Nam vets, and the despicable America hating pastor and his guests to whom Obama listened for more than 20 years before deciding that he was capable of changing America perhaps in ways which would satisfy his mentors.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Great write up about what Hillary said.
Hillary, Vince Foster deathly disagrees with you.
The Democrats are desperate right now and know they will be wiped out in 2012 if they don’t desperately do something on shutting down political freedom in this country.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM | Comments (4)
January 10, 2011
DEMOCRAT And Hate Monger Pima County Sheriff Dupnik Pushing His Agenda Of Hate Instead Of Being A Good Cop
Megyn Kelly confronts Sheriff Clarence Dupnik over his attempts to politicize the mass shooting in Arizona that left six people dead. Dupnik has been trying to link the shooting to “vitriol” coming from talk radio and “bigotry that goes on in this country.”
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Arizona Sheriff’s News Conference No Place For Personal Political Opinion
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
In the midst of a local tragedy committed by a young man with some type of mental derangement, the Democrat Sheriff of Pima County in Tuscon hosted a news conference which violated the code of conduct of such informational sessions by repeatedly injecting his personal political views and opinions rather than sticking to the facts of the case. His comments are an insult to upstanding law-abiding citizens who support Arizona’s immigration law and Americans who find the secular progressive destruction of our Constitution outrageous. Every reasonable person knows the Arizona law was the consequence of willful failure of the Federal government to enforce federal immigration laws and secure our borders.
For Sheriff Dupnik---a Democrat who publicly opposed that law in a letter to the Wall Street Journal---to suggest this horrible criminal act may have resulted from an increase in “vitriolic language and hate speech heard on radio and some other media outlets” is synonymous with labeling anyone who opposes and speaks out against corrupt government as similar to the individual responsible for the crime which occurred in Tuscon.
The lame street media will certainly make a big deal about the murderer’s motives in an attempt to label “We the People” as of the same ilk because we speak out and protest against those elected officials who actively seek to destroy the foundations of the United States of America by distorting and trampling our Constitution. No such connection can be made, but the secular progressives will hammer that home nonstop for weeks to come until some other tragedy occurs to divert their attention.
There is also no doubt there will be a huge liberal media uproar about second amendment rights which in their minds (plagued by liberal mental disorder) should be revoked because of such incidents. They will ignore the fact that not one crime has been committed with a firearm by a U.S. citizen who has a legal permit to carry. The murderer in the Arizona incident like others in the past apparently did not have legal permit to carry and on top of that showed obvious derangement to commit such a heinous act of mass murder. His actions have nothing to do with second amendment rights nor can his actions be blamed on published or verbal media content which condemns the willful destruction of America by liberal extremist America haters. The Sheriff of Pima County has violated our expectation that he keep his personal secular progressive political views out of public presentations which should stay on point regarding details of the crime committed. May God’s hand be with those who lost their loved ones in this terrible tragedy and the recovery of the injured.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
This VILE sheriff should be FIRED asap and never again be allowed to be in the Police Force. He is NOT doing his job, he could not wait to get his ugly face in front of a mic and spew his hate for the right, for Tea Party people.
What makes all of this even sadder then it already is, is that instead of being able to mourn those killed, to feel badly about what happened, all the attacks from the left are keeping EVERYONE from being able to let the process happen that needs to go on.
Excellent write up by Dr. Alan Bates.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:50 AM | Comments (4)
December 18, 2010
Just One More Reason Why by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Just One More Reason Why
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
House of Representatives passage of the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) is one more reason why throwing out Democrats and liberal RINOs was well justified in the mid-term election. Just as they rammed Obamacare through despite opposition by the vast majority of Americans, that same group is now trying to cram repeal of the proscription against openly practicing sodomites in the Armed Forces down the throats of Americans.
To give their cause the appearance of credibility, one supposed former member of the Armed Forces, Representative Patrick Murphy, Democrat of Pennsylvania stated that he did not care whether a soldier wrote love letters home to his boyfriend or girlfriend, all he cared about was whether or not the soldier could kick down a door or could shoot straight. That mode of thinking raises the question about whether or not Murphy was aware of sexual proclivities of his soldiers; and, if he was aware of their breaking the military sodomy law, whether or not he had the integrity to enforce it.
Murphy’s comments suggest that he was aware but declined to do carry out his sworn duty to uphold the law. More likely, he’s making it up, i.e. he is deceiving his constituency, homosexuals, the Congress and the American people. What a great Representative!? And we wonder why the country is in trouble? People of Murphy’s ilk have already done enough damage, now they want Americans to figuratively, and perhaps literally “bend over!” Here’s a suggestion: Non-sodomite supporters, i.e. liberals, of repeal should get out there and lead by example; live it don’t just advocate for it! Think about it, even Oprah strongly defended against the rumor that she might be a lesbian. Coming from her, why do that if she sees nothing out of the ordinary with the behavior?
Present law stipulates that homosexuals may serve in the military services! The lame and trite claim that they somehow compromise their integrity by keeping their sexual proclivities to themselves is both a Red Herring and specious argument. If someone could explain how keeping one’s sexuality to oneself breaches integrity, that would be enlightening. They cannot, those who try engage in “liberal speak,” the oral expression of a mental disorder.
Assuming liberals in Congress repeal DADT and let that Pandora out of its box, would the Congress follow through and mandate revision of the UCMJ that proscribes sodomy and illicit sex? To do so seems logical enough.
UCMJ Article 125-Sodomy
“(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall by punished as a court-martial may direct.”
In the meantime, the next objective of homosexual advocates would be to permit mutually consenting same-sex partners to engage in sex in the “privacy” of their barracks rooms and it follows, to be married. Using repeal of DADT as their vehicle, advocates for the oxymoron would attempt to then attempt to cram “homosexual marriage” though the Congress because it would no longer make sense to allow homosexuals to ostensibly practice it in the Armed Forces (while “defending” the country) and not allow them to “marry.”
An honest assessment of a lesser but likewise ill-advised action on the part of the Congress, i.e. putting females on ships, is that repeal of DADT would be another unmitigated manpower and readiness disaster. Americans who care about the Nation’s security would be wise to oppose repeal and to block homosexual behavior from being openly practiced in the Armed Forces.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
IMO there is a big difference in someone that happens to be homosexual and is in the military vs. pushing the Gay Agenda and this repeal of DADT is just that. It is all about pushing the Gay Agenda and that is wrong. There is not a single institution in this great land that they do not want to tear down, demolish, devastate, obliterate, and annihilate......The object of all this effort on their part is power — pure, unadulterated power.
Remember the movie "Miracle On 34th Street"?
The lawyer for Santa Claus argued and won the case for his "legitimacy" by showing the US Post Office (a branch of the US Gov't) "recognized" Santa as "legit" (with all the rights associated with it) by accepting and delivering his mail.
IMHO, this is ALL this repeal is about.
Once the US Military "recognizes" LGBT (, gay, bisexual, and transgender) as "legit", they will HAVE to be officially recognized by the WHOLE US Gov't as legit,(states rights be damned), with all the heterosexual rights that go with it such as getting married, teaching Boy Scouts, being a priest , pastor, school teacher, etc, with all the "All Communist Lawyers Union" (ACLU) chomping at the bit to sue into oblivion anyone who denies the "rights" of these "newly Gov't recognized" groups.
Don't forget....the homosexuals will be a protected class in the military....anyone who speaks out, or rebuffs their advances will be disciplined with a hate crime. The congress has already been talking about the “special training” military men will need.
This was an excellent write up by Col. Pappas and to add to that I am putting a quote by Duncan Hunter below.
Retired Congressman Duncan Hunter released this statement today regarding this weekend’s critical votes in the United States Senate:
"And once again, the liberals in the Senate and the House are prepared to “reward” the great men and women who won the war in Iraq by forcibly injecting practicing homosexuals into their ranks. I would advise the members of the Senate and the House to listen to your Marine Commanders, who commanded the point of the spear, the tip of the spear – that is the platoons, the companies, the battalions, and regiments of Americans in combat – to reject this new legislation that would repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. What the legislation really amounts to is an unprecedented injection of practicing homosexuals into the ranks of young men and women who joined the US Military not only for all the benefits that are offered, and not only for the opportunity to serve their country, but also for the wholesome atmosphere that the US Military has always maintained, with its reliance on traditional values. Those traditional values are about to be ripped apart by the leftwingers in the House and the Senate. My advice to all the members of the Senate who want to see the continued effectiveness of the US Military is to reject this radical approach that is being spearheaded by Barrack Obama and Harry Reid in the next couple of days."
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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December 02, 2010
Rocking Obama's World By Caroline B. Glick
Rocking Obama's world
By Caroline B. Glick
Crises are exploding throughout the world. And the leader of the free world is making things worse.
On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just upended eight years of State Department obfuscation by showing a team of US nuclear scientists its collection of thousands of state of the art centrifuges installed in their Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
And just to top off the show, as Stephen Bosworth, US President Barack Obama's point man on North Korea was busily arguing that this revelation is not a crisis, the North fired an unprovoked artillery barrage at South Korea, demonstrating that actually, it is a crisis. But the Obama administration remains unmoved. On Tuesday Defense Secretary Robert Gates thanked his South Korean counterpart Kim Tae-young for showing "restraint." Thursday, Kim resigned in disgrace for that restraint.
The US has spoken strongly of not allowing North Korea's aggression to go unanswered. But in practice, its only answer is to try to tempt North Korea back to feckless multilateral disarmament talks that will go nowhere because China supports North Korean armament. Contrary to what Obama and his advisors claim, China does not share the US's interest in denuclearizing North Korea.
Consequently, Beijing will not lift a finger to achieve that goal.
Then there is Iran. The now inarguable fact that Pyongyang is developing nuclear weapons with enriched uranium makes it all but certain that the hyperactive proliferators in Pyongyang are involved in Iran's uranium based nuclear weapons program. Obviously the North Koreans don't care that the UN Security Council placed sanctions on Iran. And their presumptive role in Iran's nuclear weapons program exposes the idiocy of the concept that these sanctions can block Iran's path to a nuclear arsenal.
Every day as the regimes in Pyongyang and Teheran escalate their aggression and confrontational stances it becomes more and more clear that the only way to neutralize the threats they pose to international security is to overthrow them. At least in the case of Iran, it is also clear that the prospects for regime change have never been better.
Iran's regime is in trouble. Since the fraudulent presidential elections 18 months ago the regime has moved ferociously against its domestic foes. But dissent has only grown. And as popular resentment towards the regime has grown, the likes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, supreme dictator Ali Khamenei and their Revolutionary Guards have become terrified of their own people. They have imprisoned rappers and outlawed Western music. They have purged their schoolbooks of Persian history. Everything that smacks of anything non-Islamic is viewed as a threat.
Members of the regime are so frightened by the public that this week several members of parliament tried to begin impeachment proceedings against Ahmadinejad. Apparently they hope that ousting him will be sufficient to end the public's call for revolutionary change.
But Khamenei is standing by his man. And the impeachment proceedings have ended as quickly as they began.
The policy implications of all of this are clear. The US should destroy Iran's nuclear installations and help the Iranian people overthrow the regime. But the Obama administration will have none of it.
Earlier this month Gates said "If it's a military solution, as far as I'm concerned, it will bring together a divided nation."
So in his view, the Iranian people who risk death to defy the regime every day, the Iranian people who revile Ahmadinejad as "the chimpanzee," and call for Khamenei's death from their rooftops every evening will rally around the chimp and the dictator if the US or Israel attacks Iran's nuclear installations.
Due to this thinking, as far as the Obama administration is concerned the US should stick to its failed sanctions policy and continue its failed attempts to cut a nuclear deal with the mullahs.
As Michael Ledeen noted last week at Pajamas Media, this boilerplate assertion, backed by no evidence whatsoever is what passes for strategic wisdom in Washington as Iran completes its nuclear project. And this US refusal to understand the policy implications of popular rejection of the regime is what brings State Department wise men and women to the conclusion that the US has no dog in this fight. As State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley told the Wall Street Journal this week, the parliament's bid to impeach Ahmadinejad was nothing more than the product of "rivalries within the Iranian government."
Then there is Lebanon. Since Ahmadinejad's visit last month, it is obvious that Iran is now the ruler of Lebanon and that it exerts its authority over the country through its Hizbullah proxy. Hizbullah's open threats to overthrow Prime Minister Saad Hariri's government if its role in assassinating his father in 2005 is officially acknowledged just make this tragic reality more undeniable. And yet, the Obama administration continues to deny that Iran controls Lebanon.
A month after Ahmadinejad's visit, Obama convinced the lame duck Congress to lift its hold on $100 million in US military assistance to the Hizbullah-dominated Lebanese military. And the US convinced Israel to relinquish the northern half of the border town Rajar to UN forces despite the fact that the UN forces are at Hizbullah's mercy.
In the midst of all these crises, Obama has maintained faith with his two central foreign policy goals: forcing Israel to withdraw to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines and scaling back the US nuclear arsenal with an eye towards unilateral disarmament. That is, as the forces of mayhem and war escalate their threats and aggression, Obama's central goals remain weakening the US's most powerful regional ally in the Middle East and rendering the US incompetent to deter or defeat rapidly proliferating rogue states that are at war with the US and its allies.
Having said that, the truth is that in advancing these goals, Obama is not out of step with his predecessors. George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both enacted drastic cuts in the US conventional and nonconventional arsenals. Clinton and George W. Bush adopted appeasement policies towards North Korea. Indeed, Pyongyang owes its nuclear arsenal to both presidents' desire to be deceived and do nothing.
Moreover, North Korea's ability to proliferate nuclear weapons to the likes of Iran, Syria and Venezuela owes in large part to then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's insistence that Israel say nothing about North Korea's nuclear ties to Iran and Syria in the wake of Israel's destruction of the North Korean built and Iranian financed nuclear reactor in Syria in September 2007.
As for Iran, Obama's attempt to appease the regime is little different from his predecessors' policies. The Bush administration refused to confront the fact that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are Iranian proxy wars to a large degree. The Bush administration refused to acknowledge that Syria and Hizbullah are run by Teheran and that the 2006 war against Israel was nothing more than an expansion of the proxy wars Iran is running in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama's failed "reset" policy towards Russia is also little different from its predecessors' policies. Bush did nothing but squawk after Russia invaded US ally Georgia. The Clinton administration set the stage for Vladimir Putin's KGB state by squandering the US's massive influence over post-Soviet Russia and allowing Boris Yeltsin and his cronies transform the country into an impoverished kleptocracy.
Finally, Obama's obsession with Israeli land giveaways to the PLO was shared by Clinton and by Bush, particularly after 2006. Rice who compared Israel to the Jim Crow South was arguably as hostile towards Israel as Obama.
So is Obama really worse than everyone else or is he just the latest in a line of US Presidents who have no idea how to run an effective foreign policy?
The short answer is that he is far worse than his predecessors.
A US President's maneuver room in foreign affairs is always very small. The foreign policy establishment in the Washington is entrenched and uniformly opposed to bending to the will of elected leaders. The elites in the State Department and the CIA and their cronies in academia and policy circles in Washington are consistently unmoved as well by reality which as a rule exposes their policies as ruinous.
The president has two ways to shift the ship of state. First he can use his bully pulpit. Second, he can appoint people to key positions in the foreign policy bureaucracy.
Since entering office, Obama has used both these powers to ill effect. He has travelled across the world condemning and apologizing for US world leadership. In so doing he has convinced ally and adversary alike that he is not a credible leader; that no one can depend on US security guarantees during his watch; and that it is possible to attack the US, its allies and interests with impunity.
Obama's call for a nuclear free world combined with his aggressive stance towards Israel's purported nuclear arsenal, his bid to disarm the US nuclear arsenal, and his ineffective response to North Korea's nuclear brinksmanship and Iran's nuclear project have served to convince nations from the Persian Gulf to South America to the Pacific Rim that they should begin developing nuclear weapons. By calling for nuclear disarmament, he has provoked the greatest wave of nuclear armament in history.
Given his own convictions, it is no surprise that all his key foreign policy appointments share his dangerous views. The State Department's Legal Advisor Harold Koh believes the US should subordinate its laws to an abstract and largely unfounded notion of international law. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy believes terrorists become radicalized because they are poor. She is advised by leftist extremist Rosa Brooks. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to open criminal investigations against CIA operatives who interrogated terrorists and try illegal enemy combatants in civilian trials.
In all these cases and countless others, Obama's senior appointees are implementing policies that are even more radical and dangerous that then the radical and dangerous policies of the Washington policy establishment. Not only are they weakening the US and its allies, they are demoralizing public servants who are dedicated to defending their country by signaling clearly that the Obama administration will leave them high and dry in a crisis.
When a Republican occupies the White House, his foreign policies are routinely criticized and constrained by the liberal media. Radical Democratic presidents like Woodrow Wilson have seen their foreign policies reined in by Republican Congresses.
Given the threats Obama's radical policies are provoking, it can only be hoped that through hearings and other means, the Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives will take an active role in curbing his policies. If they are successful, the American people and the international community will owe them a debt of gratitude.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
Excellent article by Caroline Glick.
So is Obama really worse than everyone else or is he just the latest in a line of US Presidents who have no idea how to run an effective foreign policy?
The short answer is that he is far worse than his predecessors.
The long answer includes his domestic policy and the list of names of domestic enemies that could be mentioned.
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:48 AM
November 28, 2010
The Roots of Obama's Rage by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
The thesis of Denish D’Sousa’s book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” is that Obama is fundamentally anti-colonial, the United States of America is colonial in its international relationships, i.e. Africa (most of it by guilt through association with European colonial empires), Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, and therefore he (Obama), has to “undo the damage” first by apologizing, then by spreading the wealth to countries that the U.S. has ostensibly exploited.
At home, Obama is fundamentally socialist in his approach while touting free market’s, but signing legislation and issuing Executive Orders that are intended to fundamentally transform the U.S. from a market economy to a government run economy; and, he is succeeding. Why, if otherwise did he nationalize the car companies, bail out banks in exchange for major ownership stakes, and cram “so called,” health care reform down the throats of an unwilling populace, all the while claiming that this last was what the American people want.
So, here is a President who is determined to “totally change America” “totally change the economic system,” and here’s one that is not often remembered, “totally change the world.” If he collapses the U.S. economy he will succeed at all three objectives. Unfortunately, should Obama succeed it will be a world that is infinitely worse off than at any time in history. It is notable that no other U.S. President in history has worked so intensely to destroy his own country than Barack Hussein Obama.
One of the Congress’ responsibilities as a separate branch of government is to provide funding ot run the government on the one hand, and to advise and consent to the President’s actions, on the other.
If the Republicans want to do something worthwhile, they will investigate the underlying causes of the economic collapse of ’08, which although complex is not too hard to understand if one devotes even a modicum of thought and analysis to the issues.
The economic collapse did not just happen, succinctly put it was caused by a combination of government mandates which were intended to advance home ownership whether or not mortgages could be paid; banks that saw an opportunity to make huge profits by pushing loans to unqualified borrowers; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s bundling those loans with performing loans then selling them to banks that used them as collateral to borrow money that could then be used to leverage stock transactions; totally out of control stock market speculation, day trading and borderline, as well as over-the-line illegal gaming of the market through insider trading activities; all timed so that speculation in the oil markets would drive gasoline prices to all time highs at precisely the same time that sub-prime mortgages were adjusting upward to normal interest rates.
The overwhelming increase in costs to millions of homeowners caused by gasoline prices and mortgage payments simultaneously doubling caused cascading defaults throughout the entire financial system.
Voila! It all happened co-incidentally, at precisely the moment in the general election campaign to affect the outcome. Soros and Congressional Democrats could not have planned it better!
Further, the Congress should investigate the sources of the hundreds of millions of dollars of contributions to Obama’s campaign that were below the reporting threshold. Since Obama promised to be totally transparent, he should have no problem cooperating in an investigation into the sources of those contributions. We, the American people would like to know even if the contributions were supposedly legal.
Then, all the while working to reopen the nation for business by creating a healthy tax and labor environment, the Congress should rein in Obama’s patently un-Constitutional Executive Orders, for example, the proposed one/ones that would have the EPA issue regulations to effectively impose “Cap and Trade;” and thus drive the cost of heating, cooling and transportation through the roof in the name of controlling carbon emissions and by extension, global warming.
Republicans have an historic opportunity to set this nation back on the right path after having “blown it” leading up to the election of ’06. In fact if they fail the Republican Party will disappear into the ash heap and another more conservative party that is aligned with the majority of Americans will emerge to replace it forever.
Message for the Congress: It’s time to serve the American people, not enact legislation that effectively makes the American people serve the government.
Incidentally, as for the title, America will win.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
I agree, it is time, long past time, our government listens to we the people. What we saw from the many Townhall meetings shocked me. To see how elected officials treated the people that pay their salaries etc. should have left everyone wide awake as to what has happened and how much we need to fight back for our country.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM
November 22, 2010
Obama’s Refusal To Acknowledge Threat Of Radical Islam By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Obama’s Refusal To Acknowledge Threat Of Radical Islam
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
A few weeks ago my wife and I traveled to from Florida to Nevada, but when we picked up our suitcases at the baggage claim, I noticed the combination lock on our main piece of luggage was broken and the latch would not function. A second latch irrelevant to entering that suitcase was also broken. I inquired of the airline and they denied any responsibility for damage and blamed TSA. Our luggage was unlocked when we checked it at the ticket counter.
Neither my wife nor I are on any terrorist watch lists and have been loyal law-abiding loyal Americans for more than 50 years. Why would TSA target our suitcase? Why did TSA elect to damage an expensive piece of luggage when it was checked in unlocked to begin with?
The concise answer is that Obama and those in charge of Homeland Security and TSA have at the very least a misguided approach to prevention of terrorism based upon political correctness which prevents the only proven successful solution---profiling those individuals most likely to be terrorists.
Diehard liberals like Obama, Napolitano and TSA Director John Pistole don’t learn by watching those who already know how to do something---like Israeli airport security teams who are crack experts at spotting would-be terrorists primarily by watching human interactions, mannerisms and targeting those who are most likely to promulgate terrorism based upon past history. Instead, liberals have to reinvent a politically correct way to do everything even if it abuses our constitutional rights.
Damage to our luggage was an intentional harmful act without cause for which our government is responsible. I could care less that they were only doing their job by ‘randomly selecting our luggage for screening’ as was written on a card inserted into that suitcase by TSA. They had no reason to enter it or to destroy the locking mechanism. TSA can claim that the luggage was not unlocked but either they are wrong or some baggage handler accidentally spun the combination and locked it prior to some robotic TSA employee selecting our bag for open search.
Meantime, Islamic terrorists think far ahead of TSA which merely reacts. Ironically, Islamic terrorists have only been stopped while already aboard flights by fast-acting passengers who overpower them. They board flights because TSA ignores the reality that both physical and psychological profiling are the key to prevention, whether in an airport or at Fort Hood.
Whether you are from Yemen or Pakistan does not matter to the TSA or to Obama and his czars. In fact, some of the top positions at Homeland Security are Muslims appointed by Obama.
Could illegal search and seizure of citizens at airports be the first test of this Administration as to whether Americans will complacently surrender their constitutional rights? What next?
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Wild Thing's comment........
Well done by Dr. Bates.
YSA refuses to employ technology that can help them identify travelers who are more likely to be a threat than others. That technology is profiling. Orders from Obama, Homeland Security and the PC lefties.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:45 AM | Comments (4)
November 17, 2010
Obama---An American Disaster By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Obama---An American Disaster
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Forbes magazine in September published a very insightful article which explains why Barack Obama is anti-American (1). In a nutshell, Barry Soetoro spent his formative years in Kenya and Indonesia—not in America---and adopted his rogue father’s anti-colonialism philosophy. Anti-colonialism holds that nations which gain independence may do so politically but not economically and therefore still depend on their former captors. Such nations are therefore assumed to be oppressed and their oppressors must be neutralized. Virtually every bit of his behavior can be explained by the belief that America is an oppressor nation whose wealth and success have been at the expense of others in the world and, therefore, America must be neutralized.
Obama over the past two years has initiated a course of destruction of American incentives for education and productivity through which individuals and ultimately the entire nation may enjoy the fruits of our labors rather than becoming government dependents. Historically, America has been a leader in innovation and productivity, which benefits all Americans rich and poor alike as well as the rest of the world. Obama believes that the rewards of one’s success should be distributed by big government to others domestic and abroad who are not so successful for whatever reason. His two-faced approach to the Bush tax-cuts is an illustrative example of this thought process. He believes that there are two classes of people defined by some arbitrary level of income set by him, and that those who earn over a certain income level should be forced by law to pay not only more in absolute number of dollars but as a higher percentage of their earnings to the government for the purpose of wealth redistribution.
This flies in the face of history which shows that Federal tax revenues have been highest when tax rates were lowest. Why? Businesses are able to invest revenues in capital goods and workforce so as to develop profitable products which generate more earnings rather than give their earnings to wasteful and inefficient big government. Imposing punitive taxation on those who earn the most is not only unfair but ignores the real problem of national insolvency---out-of-control, irresponsible spending by big government.
The anti-colonialism ideology of redistribution of wealth does not stop at the domestic level. Obama and a host of other wealthy elites who are exempt from eating their own cooking (Al Gore comes to mind) believe that America must redistribute its national wealth abroad to less wealthy (and usually socialist) countries via such schemes as ‘cap and trade’ as well as outright financial donations of money despite the current state of insolvency in which we find ourselves (thanks to our Federal government’s ‘charity’ and waste). While the Chicago climate exchange closed down recently, those intent on worldwide redistribution of wealth through imposition of energy taxes on Americans and other industrialized nations are still plotting ways to accomplish their objectives.
Fortunately for Americans, other economically powerful and developing nations such as China and India are not interested in such constraints on their economic development based upon the myth of global warming. The greedy socialists in America however will continue to seek ways of profiteering at our expense.
In conclusion, ‘President’ Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) was elected by morons and those with evil intentions to destroy the foundations of this great nation. He is the most dangerous president in the history of America and must be shown the door as soon as possible before more damage is inflicted on our nation. He is the laughing stock of the world and a nightmare for Americans.
(1) Forbes Article
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Wild Thing's comment..........
Good article. I agree that there were different reasons why people voted for him too. Either way it all got him elected and to destroy.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:48 AM | Comments (8)
November 13, 2010
“Obama’s Economic View Is Rejected On World Stage”
“Obama’s Economic View Is Rejected On World Stage”
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog
by Joseph Klein
The title of this post is not mine. It is the lead headline on the front page of today’s New York Times. Frankly, I never thought I would live to see the day when at least a flicker of journalistic integrity appeared in the Times newsroom, if not on its editorial page.
It took three New York Times reporters – Sewell Chan, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David E. Sanger - to do the heavy lifting on this story of President Barack Obama’s monumental failures during his current Asian journey.
They begin their article as follows:
President Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring economic growth around the world ran into resistance on all fronts on Thursday, putting Mr. Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.
Obama was unable to use his charm offensive to nail down the long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, first negotiated by the Bush administration. It seems that South Korea’s definition of free trade is largely one-way – to help its economy at the expense of American workers.
At the G-20 economic summit in Seoul, South Korea, our major allies and trading partners rejected key elements of Obama’s economic stimulus strategy of wild deficit spending and support for the Federal Reserve’s monetization of our nation’s federal debt.
The criticism coming from China and Brazil is no surprise. China, in particular, has followed a deliberate policy of manipulating its currency for its own advantage and has been a major contributor to current global economic imbalances.
However, when traditional allies like Great Britain and Germany join the chorus of critics, you know there is a serious problem. While Great Britain is just beginning on the course of budget-cutting under its Conservative Party Prime Minister David Cameron, Germany can already show proof that budget austerity is not incompatible with economic growth. Chancellor Angela Merkel has managed to avoid spending heavily on stimulus programs while still producing the most successful recovery in Europe.
This means, of course, that the same reckless economic stiumulus policies that got Obama into so much trouble politically at home are now embarrassing him – and, by extension, our country – abroad.
As reported by the Times:
Mr. Obama repeatedly found himself on the defensive
Add to this Obama’s bumbling performance during the earlier portion of this foreign trip. Most notable was his non-answer to a straight-forward question about jihad posed to him by a student in India.
In response to the question, “What is your opinion of Jihad?” Obama said:
Well, the phrase Jihad has a lot of meanings within Islam, and is subject to a lot of different interpretations. But I will say that, first, Islam is one of the world’s great religions. And more than a billion people who practice Islam, the overwhelming majority view their obligations to their religion as ones that reaffirm peace and justice and fairness and tolerance. I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified.
Obama was responding to a questioner in Mumbai, the scene of a horrific attack by Islamic jihadists. One would think that he would have used the opportunity to call on all peace-loving Muslims to rise up and reject the meaning of “jihad” that is associated with radical Islamic ideology - that killing the infidel in the name of Islam is justified under sharia law.
It looks like the only “achievement” that Barack Obama will have on his current trip to Asia is another attempt to placate the Muslim world by whitewashing the rougher edges of Islamic ideology. This leader of the Free World has once again embarrassed his country.
Joseph Klein is the author of a new book entitled Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, the United Nations and Radical Islam
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Wild Thing's comment........
George W Bush literally set up a trade deal with Korea. It was all set to go. Then Jihad Obama came along and messed with it causing them to reject it.
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:40 AM | Comments (2)
November 12, 2010
Without Veterans there Would be no U.S.A. by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
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Without Veterans there Would be no U.S.A.
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
“Thank you” to the thousands of readers of these essays who heeded the exortations and voted for a return to sanity. Not, the Washington Mall “Return to sanity” sponsored by Stewart and Colbert, but a return to sanity by the vast center of the country who understand that Obama and Congressional Democrats have spent at nearly twice the rate of revenues and have increased the national debt to the point where like it or not Americans will be forced to pay confiscatory taxes as part of Obama’s “spreading the wealth around.”
The reckless spending action during these past two years by Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration is the most serious security threat that this nation faces. The great unwashed, flyover country, ordinary Americans got it, and now hopefully the Congress and Administration will too. Thanks for electing officials who for the most part have promised to adhere to sane policies and legislation that will bring the nation’s fiscal posture back into reasonable balance and stop in its tracks the Obama agenda to “totally change America.”
When Democrats have heretofore gone on their spending binges, it was they alone. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration and Republican Congress followed the classic Democrat model evidently hoping perhaps that it would buy them career status and a fat pension at the end. They broke the traditional fiscally conservative mold and tried to out-democrat the democrats rather than reign in spending so that the economy could catch up. This time the house of cards erected by both parties collapsed and the American people have been left holding the bag. We’ll see how the new Congress proceeds. More on this later.
With that noted, there are about 26 million U.S. Military Veterans, about nine percent of the total census. The bulk of that number are no longer WWII era Veterans, the most celebrated heroes, rather there are the approximately 8 million Vietnam era Veterans who are sadly the most maligned military in U.S. history. Fortunately, the nation as a whole has learned a lesson about its military Veterans and at the least nowadays thanks them for their service. Veterans never make the decision to go to war, no one consults the ones who do the fighting and they may not even agree with the decision, but they go, they fight and some die in the interest of what political leaders declare to be the vital national interests.
Republicans generally get it right, but the political left has never embraced the reality that they would not have a platform from which to spew their vicious venom if it were not for the soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who defend the Nation that makes their leftist blather possible. And, shamefully, the Congress has not always stood by the Nation’s Veterans, despite finding both time and funds for snail darter research, helium storage, the study of sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats, not to mention a complete litany of mind boggling wasteful spending.
Despite a rocky start with its consideration of legislation that would require Veterans to individually procure private insurance for medical treatment, the Obama Administration has improved the lot of Veterans spurred by retired Army General Shinseki as the head of the VA, who have suffered psychological injuries with significant initiatives involving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as other disability programs that are more in keeping with Veterans’ sacrifices.
Today, the United States owes more to its Veterans than it is capable of rendering, most find that a hard pill to swallow considering obvious waste, but they understand and carry the burden imposed on them silently and largely without complaint.
A nation’s greatness is reflected by the manner in which it cares for its Veterans, for it is to them that the nation owes that greatness. From everything one reads America is in decline, not that it has to be that way because that can be changed. Perhaps it is in part because of its long term failure to its Veterans. On this Veterans Day, it is appropriate that Americans pause to reconsider its values, change it priorities and properly honor its long line of active and retired Veterans.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment...........
God bless Col. Pappas, I love to read his writings. Well said Col and thank you. If you ever see we post your articles know we are grateful for your service and for your continued sharing of yourself in your articles.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (1)
November 11, 2010
America, the Rock; and U.S. Marines by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
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America, the Rock; and U.S. Marines
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Currently there is a Department of Defense (DoD) review underway whose general purpose is to analyze and make recommendations regarding the role and missions of the U.S. Marine Corps. One supposes that such a review is conducted for each of the services and that is a good thing. As one, privileged to bear the name, Marine, a natural defensiveness wells up whenever the suggestion of a challenge to its merit arises. So, if this comes across as defensive, so be it.
Like so many Marines who have gone before I had a share of combat, hardships, separation and heartache; and yes, Marines heart. The Marines Hymn spells out the glories of the Corps better than anything one could write, Toys for Tots exemplifies the tenderness, and recruiting material captures the allure, but nothing comes close to the experience.
As a Major assigned to work at the Pentagon, a “giant” expressed being a Marine better than anything I had heard it up until that time. Then Colonel (later Major General) Dennis Murphy characterized it as “owning a piece of the rock.” Owning a piece of the rock (America) is many things, events, places and people. Owning a piece of it is religious experience of sorts animated by young Marines who do the grinding hard work that keeps America free. Marines learn commitment and doing it right the first time better than anyone else on earth. Marines lead in military matters, science, industry, education, and even in government where they stand as a bulwark against shifting values in an increasingly valueless society.
Marines may not agree on everything, but they have the courage of their convictions, express them without hesitation or apology and stand ready to defend them against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They have variously been referred to as Devil Dogs, American Spartans, Leathernecks, Soldiers of the Sea, and characterized by a wide variety slogans and slang expressions most of which are “colorful;” and understated.
There is no occupation on earth that offers the challenges, dangers, opportunities, hardships and satisfaction comparable to the Corps. There, one can accomplish and achieve ones highest aspirations but lest one think that it’s a cake walk, there are unimaginable challenges that only personal experience can explain and the most eloquent words fail to describe.
The U.S. Defense Budget for 2010 ranges somewhere between $880 Billion and $1 Trillion dollars. A significant amount of that is devoted to “Overseas Contingency Operations.” The Marine Corps portion is approximately $30 Billion dollars or about three percent of the DoD Budget. Marines derive the benefit of Army, Air Force and Navy Development programs, and the Corps even has its own Combat Development Center; but those are sunk costs and even the pro-rata portion of the other services’ would be small. Dollar for dollar and person for person the Corps is the best value in the U.S. Military Arsenal; for that matter it is the best value the Federal Government has to offer, bar none!
The U.S. Marine Corps has the only credible forcible entry capability in the world, and everybody knows it. So, when some tin horned dictator gets too big for his britches or a threat arises to vital U.S. interests, a fleet of Navy ships moving in that direction with a U.S. Marine Battalion Landing Team aboard gives pause to most. So, if some brilliant analyst and/or politician gets the unsavory notion that there is money to be saved by eliminating or drastically cutting the Marine Corps, think again. If there wasn’t a U.S. Marine Corps, one would have to be invented; and as long as there is a U.S. Marine Corps there will be a United States of America!
Happy 235th Birthday Marines; and Semper Fidelis, America!
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment.........
Thank you Colonel Bob Pappas and Happy Birthday Marine!
Excellent write up!
God bless our Marines and all our branches of services on this special Veterans Day.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:47 AM | Comments (2)
November 06, 2010
Strip Joe Biden of His Motorcade? by Daniel Freedman
Strip Joe Biden of His Motorcade?
Since the Obama administration announced a series of measures in October last year to put an end to distracted driving, including an executive order directed at federal employees, Vice-President Joe Biden’s motorcade has been involved in at least five crashes. That’s an unusually high number for such a motorcade.
In August, after Mr. Biden met New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion, two New York City police motorcycles escorting the Vice-President were involved in an accident. That followed a high profile crash in February, in which figure skating Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming and former bobsled champion Vonetta Flowers were injured. The two athletes were riding in the Vice-President’s motorcade at the Vancouver Olympics when the rear vehicle of the motorcade hit the back of a second vehicle, knocking it into a third car.
Last November, while Mr. Biden was on his way to appear on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, a police car escorting him collided with a cab, injuring officers and occupants of the other car. (While the Vice-President didn’t mention the crash during his appearance, he did joke that having roads cleared for him was a big perk. “Hell, I’ve never driven in New York with no traffic before,” he told Mr. Stewart.)
That November, cars from Mr. Biden’s motorcade were also involved in two other reported accidents: A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputy escorting the motorcade was injured in a collision; and in Maryland two cars that were part of the Vice-President’s security detail hit (and killed) a pedestrian. These five incidents are just the reported ones; it’s possible that there are others as well.
While it’s not uncommon for presidential and vice-presidential motorcades to be involved in crashes, it is rare. There are usually just one or two reported incidents in eight years in office. So what’s worrying about Mr. Biden is the high number of incidents his motorcade has already had, still less than two years into the job.
How motorcades operate (and the number of cars involved) depend on the location and an evaluation of potential threats. Local police are brought in to help map out routes, and in complex situations motorcycle cops are directed to ride ahead to block traffic. (In less risky situations, it’s just a series of cars, although the president usually always travels with a counterassault team, decoys, and an ambulance.)
Accidents are normally rare because while the motorcades do move at fast speeds, the drivers and riders assigned to them are the very best available. They are trained to operate at high speeds through traffic, and are known to be calm, professional, and safe. Sources familiar with presidential motorcades say that if an accident happens it’s probably because the riders are distracted, or because someone – whether the principal or staff – are urging them to speed up and not be late.
Distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was the cause of nearly 5,500 deaths and 450,000 injuries last year. And officials believe that the actual figure is higher as police reports often don’t document whether distracted driving was a factor. So it’s commendable that the Obama administration has been battling distracted driving, including telling federal employees to lead by example. (The president’s executive order instructed the country’s four million federal employees not to text message while driving in government cars or while conducting government business.)
The campaign against distracted driving has also gained celebrity endorsements. The Jonas Brothers have been involved in a no-texting-while-driving campaign, and Oprah Winfrey has launched a “no phone pledge,” receiving the support of fellow celebrities like Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, Jerry Seinfeld, and the cast of Glee.
When President Obama signed the executive order, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood declared:
“This order sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable. It shows that the federal government is leading by example.”
Whether distracted driving or something else is causing the high number of incidents involving Mr. Biden’s motorcade, it’s still dangerous and unacceptable – and it’s setting the wrong example.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
My gosh, I wonder if Biden is doing the driving.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:47 AM | Comments (3)
October 31, 2010
The Choice Tuesday: Vote For Tyranny Or Restoration Of American Liberty
The Choice Tuesday: Vote For Tyranny Or Restoration Of American Liberty
American patriots must get out and vote Tuesday and offer to participate where possible in reporting suspected voter fraud which has already been reported throughout the country. Most of these incidents involve filing false absentee ballots or altering the vote tallies registered by computers. The U.S. Justice Foundation has a list of at least a dozen documented fraud incidents thus far. Labor unions and the remnants of ACORN and related anti-American organizations have been the primary culprits so far.
Such criminal fraud seeks to alter the outcome of close votes which in turn affects the makeup of Congress and thus our ability to counter the tyrannical takeover of America by this Administration. It is crystal clear that Barry Soetoro is unqualified to be President with paper thin credentials, carefully concealed background, and radical extremist friends. He hates America and what our nation has stood for---strength, defender of freedom, and free enterprise. He is the product of Muslim upbringing resulting in identity confusion as expressed in the books he purportedly wrote.
The socialist ‘progressive’ Democrats are all about converting America to a socialist regime which has proved to be an economic disaster in Europe. Americans who have not awakened to this assault are either too stupid to understand what they are sacrificing or actually want to trade their liberty for government dependence. The question then becomes who is it they expect to support them if those who are productive and paying taxes are no more? Recent polls indicate that by January 2013 ----just two years away---that some 46% of the nation’s doctors will quit the practice of medicine.
Why? Because a panel of bureaucrats will dictate whether or not these doctors can treat their patients according to accepted guidelines which conflict with government’s objective---spending as little as possible on actual medical care by rationing and aged-based treatment.
It is interesting how some 88% of the black voters recently polled would still vote for Obama again. Since we know he hates what America stands for, it sadly follows these black voters, in contrast to other ethnic minorities, must harbor dislike of the American values of hard work and self-sufficiency which Martin Luther King strived to give them back in the 1960s---how ironic! .
Further it proves that racism still exists but on the other side of the fence!. Most Hispanics detest the intrusion of illegal immigrants into America because they compete with those who immigrated lawfully and have productive lives and jobs.
The decision this Tuesday alone will not be sufficient to reverse the current course but will at least put the brakes on the car going off the cliff so that we can change our nation’s leadership in 2012.
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Wild Thing's comment........
I agree it is a first step to take our country back from those seeing to destroy it. I hope and pray it is a BIG step and one that will make a big difference and then on to 2012 for another big step.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:40 AM | Comments (3)
October 11, 2010
Look Beyond Campaign Lies At What They Have Done
Look Beyond Campaign Lies At What They Have Done
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
The Democrat elite ramped up their distortions and lies this week in their desperate attempt to fool the voters yet again, after putting an America-hater in the White House to accomplish undefined ‘change and transparency’.
This scoundrel and his puppeteers are well on the road to completing their agenda of growing government (and our debt) at taxpayer cost, destroying our economy, and allowing invasion of our borders. Just how much destruction of personal freedom and states’ rights must occur before voters wake up and put a stop to this tyranny?
Most Democrat incumbents are running as fast as they can from Obama, like people trying to escape a fire in a crowded theatre. They know their vote for Obamacare and massive misappropriation of taxpayer money will be their loss if they cannot divert voters’ attention away from Fedzilla’s rampage. Hence they avoid those topics while hardcore liberals including Obama use their pathologic personality traits of lying and stealing to try and convince voters that the ruling elite know what is best and “just need some more time”.
They are liars of the highest order, diverting taxpayer dollars from already broken entitlement funds to pay off the unions, to fund fraudulent organizations like ACORN who helped put them into office, and implement unaffordable inefficient healthcare and energy bureaucracies. They try and divert attention away from these realities by accusing opposing patriots of having no plan or falsely accusing them of wanting to take away entitlements from our growing government-dependent population. While Republicans are not off-the-hook, most have recognized the will of “We the People” and have tried to block the suicidal ideological programs which this Administration and its left-wing czars have tried to ram through Congress.
The upcoming elections are absolutely critical if “We the People” are to survive this relentless takeover and destruction of America. We must not let apathy and ignorance be our downfall! Our failure at the polls will leave but one alternative. Will our military officers abide by their oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and halt Obama’s destructive path. They owe allegiance to the Constitution---not the President.
We The People must clean house and do the same in 2012 when Mr. Soetoro’s term ends and he goes down in history as the first President whose agenda was to destroy our founding principles and convert “We the People” into government-dependent serfs. Reversing the damage already done with Obamacare, a 1.3 trillion dollar spending spree, and the estimated 13 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities will be a long-term process. Look beyond campaign lies of culpable incumbents of either party and at what they have done to our nation. Vote for constitutional patriots with conservative fiscal principles who are our only chance for a peaceful solution to this historic takeover of America.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Excellent write up, I really like it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (1)
October 10, 2010
Like The Economy, Self-loathing, Open Borders? Vote for a Democrat
Like The Economy, Self-loathing, Open Borders? Vote for a Democrat
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
It is a tragic day when a country’s leader, whether legitimate or not, finds satisfaction in playing a major part in bringing that country to its economic knees. And so, Barrack Hussein Obama finds great satisfaction. As much as he tries to lay blame at “Bush’s” feet for the nation’s economic distress, which worked for a while, it is increasingly clear that he, and his socialist/communist operatives and lemmings, is the architect.
The media in general with notable exceptions assume that Obama has tried to help the economy, a demonstrably false assumption. Obama has repeatedly stated as the economy declines, “We are on track.” Even as he campaigns for his socialist cohorts for reelection he shouts, “We have to stay the course.” What many assume, which is absolutely naïve to do, is that “staying the course” is intended to help the economy, an absolutely false assumption. Staying the course from Obama’s perspective is to bring the economy to complete collapse then impose wide ranging government control, because “we cannot let the economy fail.” That is where Obama wants the economy to go, and it is obvious from everything he does.
While employment was going off the cliff Obama proclaimed, “The economy is on track,” he knew what he was saying. When he stated that the trillion dollar stimulus would keep unemployment from going over eight percent, he knew that was a fallacious claim. When he said that he was a unifier he was right, he has unified communists, socialists, Muslims, and non-taxpayers. But he delights in spitting in the face of the majority of Americans who want a relatively free market economy with minimum but necessary government intrusion.
If one likes the way Obamacare was enacted against the will of the vast majority of Americans, the, with one hundred percent certainty, predictable degradation in health care, the ongoing draconian increase in insurance rates, exemption from “Obamacare” for members of Congress, unions, and other special interests; taxpayer bailouts of the financial and automotive industries, the housing crash, Stimulus I, II, III and possibly IV, impending onerous tax hikes that will constitute the largest increase in taxes in the nation’s history, the greatest increase in national debt in record time in the nation’s history, destruction of the “American Dream;” greater political and racial polarization, higher unemployment, loss of national stature, devaluation of the U.S. dollar, becoming the world’s leading international relations basket case, abandonment of traditional allies, bootlicking of Islamic nations, increased border violence, taking State’s to court, less hope and more depression to mention just a smattering of
his “hope and change” objectives, one probably should vote for Obama and his political cronies in Congress.
Just ask oneself, “Am I better off today than I was when Democrats in 2006 and then Obama 2008 were elected?” “Who set up the housing crash?” “Who put the economy near the cliff?” Those who know the facts not the spin, know it was Democrats and Liberal Republicans in the Congress and to be fair, a President who was too weakened by constant attacks in the media and by the new majority in the Congress to do anything about it.
But, if Americans want to re-open the nation for business, create jobs, lower taxes, reduce the scope and reach of the Federal and State Governments, and get the nation out of the doldrums, then vote ever single careerist out of office and that might even include some personal friends. It’s time for Americans to take back their government from political careerists, lobbyists, big government, fat and lazy bureaucrats, and restore to Americans real hope and a bright future.
Unlike government unions, most Americans do not want the stale benign existence of being taken care of by the state; most Americans’ forbearers did not come here for that. But with the effective “open borders” attitude of this Administration notwithstanding its advertised deportation achievements, which are questionable at best and fraudulent (like California legislators 340% overstatement of pollution) at worst, this Administration is working to change not only the economy to the socialist model, but American culture from one of personal independence to one of complete dependence under the mantra of “spreading the wealth around.”
Aside. As for taxing the rich, whoever they are and most know some of them, some earned it, but most took it from good faith investors, a big difference. 100 million or even 5 million dollar bonuses are not earned. Stock manipulation to increase its value is not earned, fraudulent statements or puffery in representation of investment opportunities is not earning, short term capital gains are not earned, playing the market is not earning; and, please don’t feed me “buyer beware.” Most investment peddlers are infinitely more sophisticated than the ordinary investor and is adept at taking their money and anyone with any experience or sense knows it. The nation needs to get back to the concept of earning and that alone would crop the obscene greed that dominates the top end of the wealth spectrum and simultaneously protect legitimate investors.
This election is an historic time in the nation’s lifecycle. Americans are confronted with the choice of going over the waterfall with this Administration and its lackey’s in the Congress or taking the nation back. And by the way, any Republican politician who believes that it will be business as usual after the election had best wake up because the Republican Party, like the Democrats are doing, will go the way of the Dodo bird.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment.......
I agree this will be a historic election and the next one in 2012 as well. This one will start the whole thing if it turns out well and I hope and pray it does. America cannot take this constant abuse and destruction from Obama, his administration and his many Czars.
Excellent write up from the Col.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:45 AM | Comments (5)
October 04, 2010
Vote Out Every Senator Or Representative Who Voted ‘Yes’ For Obamacare
Vote Out Every Senator Or Representative Who Voted ‘Yes’ For Obamacare
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Ignore the ‘diversion’ propaganda on the campaign trail. A vote for Obamacare was a vote to destroy America’s financial foundation, your privacy rights and the best healthcare system on the face of Earth. This is not an exaggeration. If you don’t know how your Congressman voted you are uninformed and should check out this summary of the vote by name at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll165.xml
Not one Congressional representative read the 2500 pages of bureaucratic dung written by socialist control freaks which is designed to kill the free enterprise healthcare system and set up a system of rationing, higher taxation and invasion of personal privacy. Many Congressional dumb nuts showed no moral courage and either accepted bribes or succumbed to threats by powerful committee chairs. A vote for the Obamacare bill was a vote for fraud promulgated on the voters and against the Constitution. Every one of these Fedzillacrat morons who voted for Obamacare must go. Otherwise they will stay and commit more crimes against “We the People.” America is financially broken but the U.S. Treasury keeps printing paper money to fill the empty piggy banks of government entitlement programs which are now largely icons designed to get votes for socialists, since the ‘trust funds’ for these entitlements were stolen for other pet projects sponsored by ‘both sides of the aisle’ and are now just IOUs by Congress to the people---IOUs which still must be funded by theft from taxpayers and devaluation of our currency by the printing presses.
Obama’s economic team has abandoned him. Why? Could it be they are embarrassed by their inability to implement obvious solutions to the economic downturn over the perverted wishes of their leader? Even so, Barry Soetoro and his czars who represent every fringe element of society remain in control---none having undergone background checks since the Fedzilla Bunglers of Investigation only performs those when the President asks them to (this policy was confirmed by direct communication between this author and the FBI last year). They too are mere servants of the Administration and not engaged in protection of America from the ultimate preventable threat---hijacking of our government by America-haters who want to promulgate racial, ethnic and class warfare as a method of control over We the People. My Constitution says they do not have that right!
So WHEN you vote, NOT IF, vote for patriots who support We the People and not for those who have willfully or complicity assisted in this hijacking of America in order to implement fundamental transformation from a nation of liberty and equal opportunity to one of tyranny and destruction of the world’s largest economy in order to fulfill their revolutionary ideology which is not American. By the way---a recent poll shows that as many as 39% of voters would vote for Obama again. Are there still that many stupid American voters who just don’t get it?
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Wild Thing's comment........
I agree, these people that voted for obamacare need to learn the majority of Americans do NOT want it, not any part of it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:50 AM | Comments (4)
October 03, 2010
"Jammin" by Charlie Daniels
" Jammin "
by Charlie Daniels
After being in the music business for 52 years it's just about all I know anything at all about -- and in keeping with my admittedly narrow knowledge -- I would like to draw an analogy concerning the Obama administration, viewing things from my vantage point.
Ok, let's say you pick out the finest symphony conductor in the world, add the greatest singer and seven or so of the finest classical musicians on the planet. You get them together backstage and say, "Alright, there are twenty thousand fans out front, standing room only, expectations are off the charts, they are looking for the best show they've ever seen. Now the curtain goes up in five minutes, the sound has been checked out, the lights set and everything is perfect, the stage is set for the greatest show the world has ever seen. So get out there and knock 'em out guys! They're all with you; you're all superstars in their eyes. Go show 'em how it's done. Oh yes, there's only been one change . . . tonight you have to do your show playing songs you've never played and you'll have to improvise. There's no sheet music. You'll just have to jam."
Can you imagine the panic backstage? You see, some of the very finest musicians on earth can't jam a lick. I remember a few years ago when I had a couple of young fiddle players come on stage with me and play "The South's Gonna Do It Again." They had learned the parts I'd played on the record, arrangement, lead lines and all and played it perfectly note for note.
Everything was going swimmingly until I decided to leave the arrangement and jam for a while. When I turned to one of them and told them to take a solo, the kid was as lost as a baby sheep in a hail storm. They had no more idea about improvising than they did about how to build a spaceship.
"The South's Gonna Do It Again" is a simple twelve bar blues song that any musician from any garage band would be able to take a solo on, but even though these kids were extremely talented and played what they knew perfectly, when it came to jammin', they were totally lost. They had just never learned to do it.
To me the presidency is kind of like jammin'. You have to roll with the flow, improvise, adapt to the moment, pick up on what's going on and deal with it.
Our president has never had to jam, he's always had the sheet music in front of him and he's never had to play a note that somebody else had not written for him.
One of the biggest mistakes President Obama made when he came in office was to surround himself with a bunch of players who had never jammed either. None of them have ever had any practical experience in the real world.
In essence, they are a bunch of paper tigers, they do an incredible job of spending other people's money and sneaking legislation through the back door, but out in the real world, where there are no scripts, down where the rubber meets the road, there is probably not a person in the bunch who could change a flat tire, much less deal with the complex problems America faces.
The only thing Obama has done with any problem that has arisen is to throw money at it (our money), and in truth, that's sadly all he knows how to do. When it comes to dealing with things that money alone won't fix, like busted oil pipes at the bottom of the ocean, or solving the problems on our southern borders, he's lost and all those around him are lost.
The Obama cabinet is the most inept bunch imaginable. When people have only viewed the world from the top of an ivory tower they don't react very well when it's time to get their hands dirty.
Obama's people can't even accept real world concepts of the dangerous situations we're dealing with. Eric Holder wanting to try terrorists in civilian courts, in New York City of all places is nothing less than naive arrogance.
Janet Napolitano's gross inexperience in dealing with security matters is going to end up costing this country dearly.
Putting an unqualified person who has never even been a judge on the bench of the highest court in the land, for nothing more than her political leanings, is insanity.
Everywhere you look you see eggheads with nothing more than a college degree to qualify them for the sensitive jobs they hold.
I'm just wondering how long it will take for a majority of the people in this country to realize that the wheel that steers the direction of this nation is in the hands of people who have no idea how to get from point "A" to point "B" without a roadmap and that road map just doesn't exist. Every trip is different.
I see disaster looming on the not too distant horizon, financial disaster, increasing danger from terrorist attack, unabated violence in the streets and an arrogant and unmanageable illegal alien population.
It's coming, folks, and Obama and the band are still in the dressing room looking for the sheet music . . . They just can't jam ! ! !
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country.
God Bless America !
Charlie Daniels
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Charlie is one great American. Thank you Charlie.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:47 AM | Comments (1)
September 29, 2010
One Man’s Struggle with PTSD by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
One Man’s Struggle with PTSD
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
What follows is a story akin to what anyone who served in combat; as a firefighter or policemen might have experienced.
Colonel Washington Sanchez, USA (Ret) is one of those exceptional human beings who when he sees a need or is called upon, steps forward without flinching. In a way Washington reminds me of Isaiah, albeit not in the same setting or context as the Prophet, when he wrote in Isaiah 6:8,
“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me.”
Although I don’t know it for a fact, I believe Washington’s entire life is marked by that characteristic; and, I can state authoritatively that it is true for the past fifteen years.
We became acquainted in the Regional Office of the Florida Department of Banking and Finance where he volunteered his service. Among other things, at my request, he shared insights with me on race and race relations about which I had lifelong interest but lacked the candid discussion to which Attorney General Eric Holder was referring in his infamous remarks that included,
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”
Race was not on the horizon for me during my vocation as a U.S. Marine. During that era I gave no thought to skin color although I was sensitive to racial issues when they arose. My approach was to treat them as leadership and disciplinary issues rather than racial issues. (Aside: In my opinion too much is made of race and too little of leadership.) But after retirement, in the so called, “real world” I learned that race baiting and race were staples for politicians interested in acquiring and exercising power.
Washington was a Godsend when I was Regional Director of Banking and Finance. He illuminated my thinking and answered many questions. Suffice it to note that Colonels Sanchez and Pappas have been tested and forged as brothers in the finest sense of that word. In this essay I want to share a short vignette of this great American whom I am honored to know.
September 8, 2010 was as hot and humid a day as one might expect in Birmingham, Alabama. My friend Washington stood in the sweltering heat, (dressed in a coat and tie, sweat beading on his now fully gray head hidden underneath a Purple Heart Cap, and no doubt it was also running down the middle of his back), before a small group of family and friends 40 years to the day after Specialist 4th Class, James “Butch” Perkins was tragically killed during a North Vietnamese assault on his artillery battery in Vietnam. This day’s event had been long in coming.
That fateful day in 1970 Washington, along with everyone in the Battery except “Butch,” survived. After he completed that tour of duty he went to other military assignments that culminated in nearly 28 years of service, and promotion to the grade of Colonel before he retired. In the intervening years before retirement and since he shouldered the discomforting knowledge that he had not successful in preventing the loss of one of his soldiers, a man not that different than Washington, with similar dreams, hopes and aspirations. Like others who have experienced similar events Washington thought he had locked tight that compartment of his mind.
Oh, it wasn’t that he didn’t remember he did indeed, vividly! But he chose not to consciously dwell on it. Yet, despite his efforts to forget, life’s events would occasionally force the compartment open and he would relive the day, each time the memory of it as vivid as the event itself. All the while the same loss haunted, raised questions and inflicted grinding pain, doubt and unresolved agony on Butch’s family, brother, and wife owing to a lack of clear information about the circumstances of Butch’s death in what was definitely not a popular war and Washington was aware that they stood there in the shadows of his mind.
Now, at long last Washington and other members from Battery “A”, 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment, Americal Division gathered with members of “Butch’s” family and their friends to conduct a memorial event dedicated to the memories of “Butch,” but as any psychologist knows, it was as much for the assembled group as it was for those memories of “Butch.”
Everyone in direct combat sees combat casualties and death; that is the inherent tragic nature of war. Washington’s first experience with it was in 1965 during his first tour in Vietnam. At the time he was a 2nd Lieutenant, Forward Artillery Observer assigned to an infantry cavalry unit. His first combat action was in the infamous Ia Drang Valley where he stopped two North Vietnamese Army bullets. Earlier he had seen his Company Commander take a round in forehead and watched as the Company Commander’s radio operator died from the shock of witnessing that event. Washington was evacuated and treated in a U.S. Hospital on the Island of Okinawa for months, and after recovering he returned to Vietnam to complete his one year tour there. This time he joined a unit that had a very experienced company commander. Among other things, the commander taught his unit defensive tactics and Washington never forgot them.
Vietnam era service was different that WWII and Korea. Then, one served for the duration, but in Vietnam some would have made a career of cycling in and out periodically to get a proverbial “X” in the appropriate career box. Then, as now in the Middle East if one remained beyond the initial reserve contract or was a regular, one would inevitably go back. So, after a few years of stateside duty Washington returned to Vietnam in1970 for the second time.
He had been a Captain for a while and shortly after arriving back in Vietnam was selected for promotion to Major. His was assigned to the Americal Division as a Division Artillery Assistant Operations Officer with the 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment or “3/18 FA.” 3/18 FA consisted of a group of five batteries: Headquarters Battery responsible for command, operations, administration and Service Battery responsible for logistic support. There were three operational firing batteries designated “A,” “B,” and “C.” The firing batteries consisted of two 8 inch (that’s the diameter of the bore) howitzers and two 175 millimeter guns per battery. Additionally, some batteries had 105 millimeter howitzers, 81mm mortars, vehicle mounted quad four 50 caliber machine guns and 40 millimeter anti-aircraft guns as well as M-79 grenade launchers. The 105s were equipped with offensive rounds consisting of general purpose, high explosive incendiary and smoke as well as defensive flechette rounds. A flechette round is comprised of thousands of barbs and fired point blank for close-in defense. Mortars were used for both offensive and defensive operations. In the offensive mode mortar crews fire explosive or white phosphorous marking rounds and could do the same or fire rounds for nighttime illumination during defensive operations. Finally, everyone had a personal weapon, either an M-16 rifle or a .45 caliber pistol. One might say that a firing battery was “armed to the teeth.”
One morning the Battalion Executive Officer called Washington aside and told him that the Battalion Commander wanted him to take over one of the firing batteries. He flushed hot at the thought of himself as a selected Major being assigned to a battery, a Captain’s billet. He wanted to remain as Acting Operations Officer as a Captain in a Major’s billet rather than go the other direction. He winced hard at the thought but on the other hand if it was important enough for the Battalion Commander to pick him for the assignment, he quickly decided that it was important enough to salute and do the job. It didn’t take long before his new “home” was Battery “A” located at Landing Zone (LZ) Cindy. Battery “A” was the northernmost of three firing batteries in the Battalion that was arrayed north to south, some twenty miles apart and inland about twenty miles from the coast.
LZ Cindy was a part of a small complex of several military and Para-military installations located in and around the District Capital of Tra Bong. The village, albeit the District Capital was situated in a medium sized east west river valley. At this point the Song Tra Bong River ran due east and west. This geography made the river a nice “highway” for enemy movement from the mountains in the west ranging into Laos to the coastal lowlands along the South China Sea to the east. The river emptied into the South China Sea north of Quang Ngai City and south of the Marine Base at Chu Lai.
The Tra Bong area was pretty heavily defended by American and Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam (ARVN) forces. Battery “A” was right in the middle of it all, with a Green Beret base camp across a single lane dirt road to the east and a Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) Headquarters Group several hundred meters to the south bordering on a long prefabricated airstrip for twin engine Caribou aircraft that re-supplied the Battery. A handful of American soldiers occupied a hilltop to the immediate north (Searchlight Hill. It was called “Searchlight” because those soldiers could turn night into day with their high intensity searchlight.) on the opposite side of the Song Tra Bong River. This area, at least on paper, gave all the appearance of being heavily defended and by all accounts was, but events would soon prove that large numbers as in this case, meant little.
When he arrived at the Battery in February of 1970 his first impression was that there was a lot that needed to be done. Initial inspection revealed that the Battery was not well prepared to repel a ground attack; and it didn’t take long before he learned that “A” Battery also suffered from an acute lack of combat veterans. Most soldiers, numbering perhaps a hundred men were on their first tour and did not have much field experience. Although he was troubled by the overall lack of experience he reflected on the defensive lessons he had learned years earlier, then set about strengthening the Battery’s posture.
Given his earlier experiences, he came to Battery “A” with probably more combat experience and likewise he respected the enemy’s capabilities more than anyone else. Suddenly, he felt alone with the full weight of the military axiom “responsible for everything his unit did or failed to do” resting squarely on his shoulders. He also knew that secondary to the mission, he was responsible for safeguarding the lives of those approximately 100 men.
Winter, if you can call it that in Vietnam melted into spring and summer. Time passed quickly and the Battery settled into a routine of firing “H and I” that is, Harassing and Interdiction fire missions at night while devoting its days to improving the overall defensive posture.
With the arrival of summer came a changed mission and the course of the war. U.S. ground forces changed from offensive to defensive operations with the additional mission to support the ARVN. “Vietnamization,” not much different than contemporary efforts in Afghanistan, was the new word around the “campus.” Americans began what proved to be a disastrous move of turning the war over to the ARVN and he correctly sensed that the Tra Bong area might well be involved in an early test of the new strategy. In early September, 1970 the Green Beret unit across the one lane road to the east departed turning the concrete reinforced base camp over to an ARVN Border Ranger Battalion. If the new arrangement could be disrupted and/or set to flight it would be a significant demoralizing effect and a major setback for the Allies. North Vietnamese commanders were well aware of this and the fact that Tra Bong was a politically important District Capital undoubtedly added to its appeal as a target.
It wasn’t long before the North Vietnamese would put to test the new strategy in a dramatic way. On September 7th, 1970, Washington learned that the Battery’s defenses along the southwest corner of the firebase had been compromised. Blasting caps had been cut from claymores but the wires were replaced to give the illusion of being armed; and safety pins were inserted into trip flare mechanisms. It was excellent sabotage work on the part of North Vietnamese infiltrators, but fortunately, Washington and his men caught it, just in time. It concerned him greatly that they were so vulnerable on an entire sector of the firebase; and, he quickly surmised that they were going to be attacked. He did not have to wait long.
That afternoon working parties corrected the perimeter deficiencies and that evening he doubled the guard putting the Battery on alert. The North Vietnamese did not disappoint them because at 4 a.m. on September 8th, as the saying goes, “all hell broke loose.” The entire area exploded with rocket and mortar fire followed by a violent ground assault on the ARVN Ranger group, MACV group, and firebase Cindy. The ARVN Ranger Battalion was quickly overrun, its ammo dump blown and the entire reinforced concrete base camp destroyed beyond repair. MACV Headquarters was mortared for nearly half an hour then overrun and the District Chief and his family were killed. Meanwhile an infantry frontal assault was reported on the southwest corner of the firebase perimeter and enemy elements were also spotted along the northwestern perimeter. Things were in a word, “dicey.”
The Fire Direction Center (FDC) was the Battery’s nerve center. Radios and land line communication to the perimeter bunkers were centralized there. The radio was vital to the Battery’s ability to request support from Division. During an attack, in addition to designating a place for everyone to go, the defensive plan was to protect the Battery’s vital area. Consequently once an attack started the FDC was immediately locked down for the duration; no one was allowed in or out.
Specialist 4th Class James “Butch” Perkins returned from Hawaii R&R on September 7th coming in on one of the Caribou resupply aircraft. As shift leader he immediately went back to work with his shift ending around two a.m. on September 8th. It was a common practice to hang around to discuss events, and at that hour when things were generally quiet to “shoot the bull.” “Butch” eventually left the FDC returning to his bunker to get some sleep and shortly thereafter the attack came. In the first few minutes while the situation was still confused and developing, “Butch” evidently decided to return to the FDC where in the darkness he was mistaken for an enemy combatant and was shot at the FDC entrance. Despite extensive efforts to save his life “Butch” died that morning of his wounds. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, the same shot that killed “Butch” inflicted a lasting psychological wound on Washington; he kept it to himself.
The attack by elements of the 406th NVA Sapper Battalion was intense and after it was over Washington surveyed the damage finding that the Battery was struck by more than 100 mortar rounds and hit by extensive heavy automatic weapons fire. Fortunately, the Battery was ready and his efforts to improve Battery defenses proved invaluable in minimizing damage. When compared to nearby forces the Battery suffered the least, took a prisoner and found evidence that the friendlies had inflicted numerous NVA casualties that had been drug away. The perimeter remained secure and although there was NVA blood all over the place, no American soldiers were wounded, and there were no other fatalities, as the news would report might summarize, “there was just one soldier killed in the action.” That “just one soldier” was “Butch” Perkins who was so tragically mistaken for the enemy.
Most would think they were fortunate since the Battery survived such a violent attack and got off so relatively light. However, for Washington there was no joy or feeling of elation, only remorse and sadness because he lost a good soldier. “Butch’s” death was a tragedy that has bothered him ever since. “Butch” returned home in a flag draped coffin to a grieving family and widow while he went on to a full and successful Army career, serving in Europe and the U.S., and never looked back or gave a second thought to Viet Nam, except! Except when something would trigger it, to that fateful night when a great American soldier lost his life. When it happened, Washington would flush hot, twisting to escape the unseen enemy until he could force the event back and out of sight in the dark recesses of his mind.
The South Vietnamese fought a good fight until the Congress cut funding in 1975 and the end for that beleaguered, free people came quickly. The rest is history, but that didn’t change the physical and psychological scars inflicted on Washington who retired as a Colonel with almost 28 years of service in the early 1990s.
Despite what might have appeared as a normal and happy life, the layers of protection that he had so carefully applied against the shock and pain of loss began to involuntarily peel back. In quiet moments he would reflect on his life in the Army and would turn over in his mind what he might have done differently to achieve a better outcome for everyone…especially for “Butch” Perkins. At the time he thought he had covered all the possibilities, but not so, one had slipped, he had failed and it never let him rest.
He wasn’t even conscious of his effort to keep it bottled up but buried it with a variety of activities. One of them was becoming involved with a real estate investment group; another was as a volunteer at the Regional Office of Banking and Finance (which is where we met) and to focus on his now widely separated family.
Washington and I became close friends through our work. Among other things, we were asked to participate in a Statewide Task Force whose charter was to study and recommend legislation that would address the issue of Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries statewide. It was a successful effort. Not long after that project was complete I was asked to temporarily head up one of Florida’s if not the nation’s, most challenging Districts involving Children and Families. I asked Washington if he would go along and he did. Although he never spoke about it, in retrospect I have no doubt he did so in large part to keep the “guilt and pain” genie in the bottle. Eventually though it would emerge to consume his marriage and separate his family.
One might think that Washington would become a broken man, brought down by an insidious enemy that attacked from within the confines of his mind. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or “PTSD,” manifests its effects in as many different ways as there are people afflicted by it. He suffered much over the years, yet Washington managed with steadfast determination and dignity, finding ways to overcome. He chose to expend himself extensively in the service and interest of others rather than escape through alcohol, narcotics or collapse into extended depression and withdrawal. Now, years later, he is remarried and has managed to live an exemplary life, providing an excellent example of how to deal with his own pain and help alleviate the stress and pain suffered by others.
The Memorial event in Birmingham on September 8th went far to heal Washington and other troubled lives and to fill in missing information for the family. Washington at long last was able to directly confront and deal with the “demon” that had been closeted in the deepest recesses of his mind. His excitement and expressions of relief incident to working on and conducting the Memorial Event have gone a long way in healing those psychological wounds that have been festering for forty years. Washington’s struggle was unique and personal; he has overcome much although there remains much progress to be made.
The good news is that the Veterans Administration has established PTSD treatment programs and help for Veterans suffering from the unseen PTSD enemy. Wittingly or otherwise Washington did on his own what others have not been able to do. If one needs help it is available and those needing it should go to the following website http://www.ptsd.va.gov/, for acute cases contact the VA at 1-800-273-8255 or seek help through the nearest VA Vet Center Counselor.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment.........
Thank you Col. Pappas.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:48 AM
September 21, 2010
It’s not about Legal Immigration, It’s about ILLEGAL Immigration, Got it? by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
It’s not about Legal Immigration, It’s about ILLEGAL Immigration, Got it?
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
It is sad to learn that a once popular figure in American culture, General Colin Powell is so far out of touch with reality. In a recent interview on NBC Powell accused Obama of having lost his connection with the people. Unfortunately, General Powell is swimming in same disconnected politics.
The Former Secretary and Army General, both of which are both great and important accomplishments, has shown Americans that he no more comprehends the immigration issue than do Obama and his media shills. In an NBC interview Powell, when speaking of the Republican Party stated, “They’ve got to take a hard look at some of the positions they’ve been taking.” “We can’t be anti-immigration, for example. Because immigrants are fueling this country. Without immigrants [the U.S.] would be like Europe or Japan, with an aging population and no young people coming in to take care of it. We have to educate our immigrants.”
Great observation, but the debate Mr. Secretary, is not about immigration, it is about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! The tragedy about Mr. Powell is that he, like the propaganda arm of the socialist/democrat party is out of touch with mainstream Americans; AND WE’VE HAD IT! For my part, the whiners who “demand” the right to hire and pay illegal immigrants slave wages; who cry that Americans will not do the work that illegals are hired to do (pay a fair wage and Americans will do it. Those who hire illegals render the domestic version of sending jobs overseas); and who foster the illegal invasion across our southern borders should be removed from any public office of responsibility and the latter tried for failure to uphold the Constitution.
Noting the “Constitution,” evidently this Executive Branch of the U.S. government has a problem reading it. First, no one in the Administration bothered to read Arizona SB1070, that State’s illegal immigration control law, then as a follow-up didn’t bother to read the Constitution before taking the State of Arizona to court. But what’s new? Obama only promised to defend it to the best of his ability, which is turning out to be, not at all. In a recent article, a Canadian writer pointed out that there was a problem with the law suit, specifically Article III, Clause 2 which states,
“In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
The pertinent portion is contained in the first sentence. It seems that Arizona has wasted its time with the District Court and would be well advised to ignore the Ninth Circuit, demanding that if Obama’s Department of Justice wants court action, they should plan a meeting at the Supreme Court.
Powell calls Obama a “Transformative figure?” He’s right! Obama is turning out to be what he has always been and what we have been stating since before the election. He is an America hating, socialist/communist who if he could do it instantly would transform the U.S. into a third world dictatorship!
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment.......
Great write up, thank you Colonel Pappas, I hope you know how much your writings are appreciated.
I love how he breaks things down in his discussions when he writes.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:48 AM | Comments (4)
September 20, 2010
Hawking’s Grand Design, or God’s? by by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Hawking’s Grand Design, or God’s?
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
A number of weeks ago I wrote a piece in which I used parallel structure of good works by Muslims and Mormons. It was not well considered and in the process the comparison offended some Mormon readers, for that I apologize. Evidently Muslim readers appreciated the comparison in view of the fact that no complaints came from that quarter. Moving on.
Stephen Hawking, a notable theoretical physicist of long standing with accolades enough to paper a room. He is brilliant in the fields of astronomy, physics, and mathematics and has written numerous articles and a number of books on those subjects. He is the recipient of important awards including in 2009, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. In short he is an intellectual heavy weight, one of those “smartest person in the room” people.
Hawking was born in 1942. His parents moved from London to avoid wartime danger and later he was educated in Great Britain’s best schools. Hawking has had the opportunity to observe much during his lifetime and has great influence in some circles.
In his recent book, “The Grand Design,” Mr. Hawking stretched credulity beyond his intellect’s vaunted reach. Unlike Einstein and other brilliant physicists who have consistently recognized and acknowledged God or other a “superior intelligence” as responsible for creation of the universe, Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow argue in favor of a spontaneous event as the source of creation that was guided by the laws of physics. If there is a God Hawking claims, “it is the laws of science.”
In a recent interview with British television Hawking stated:
“The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.”
If all physical matter can be explained by physics or mathematics it inevitably leads to such questions such as: “Did Einstein invent E=MC^2 or did that theorem exist from the beginning and Einstein discovered it?” I believe the latter. “Assuming that the universe began with a ‘big bang’ what specific laws of physics made it happen?” “How did those laws come to be?” “Who devised them?” Incidentally, one may agree with the “big bang” without contradicting the Biblical account.
Hawking and other scientists theorize ad nauseam about the cosmic genesis; despite his lifelong work on it, Einstein failed to formulate his long sought after “theory of everything;” and, atheists rail against God; yet to their dismay, God’s handiwork stretches unflinching across the universe.
Most scientists describe the universe as finite, elliptical, rapidly expanding and some 15 billion light years across. Expanding into what? For scientists like Hawking the concept of infinite must be overwhelming because one cannot quantify infinity but only acknowledge it.
Imagine standing at the edge of the universe with all of it to ones back, peering out into the darkness. Would there be an outer limit beyond the darkness? If there is a limit what would it be? While standing there suppose one sees a speck of light, would that be another universe? Suppose for a moment that there are an infinite number of universes, each similar to our own like there are galaxies in our own universe. Would the same laws apply? Would God be God of all universes or only of ours? Would that limit God? Even if the latter were so which is not suggested here, God’s “finiteness” would nonetheless confound the most brilliant minds. They cannot explain it and I have faith that God did it all, so any belittling God by even “brilliant” minds does nothing to dissuade me from my understanding of God of the Holy Bible.
God, in Hawking’s world is mathematics and physics, but how did those come to be? One thing is certain, it wasn’t the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Newton, Einstein or Hawking who invented them. Physics, mathematics and science preexisted their discovery and refinement by brilliant men or women. From whence did brilliant people acquire their minds?
In Hawking’s world everything “just happened,” incident to the laws of physics, math, and biology to name a few, but Hawking’s assertion is but theory given that he has no more proof than do other theories. So, let’s set Hawking’s aside for the moment and replace it with the written “theory,” the Holy Bible for which there is mounting scientific “proof.” Let’s replace Hawking’s with a “theory” that asserts there is an infinite God who knows every flower in the field, and every humming bird, eagle or sparrow; He knows each and every insect and animal, in fact God accounts for every atom, proton, electron, neutron, quark and ever other single sub-atomic particle in existence. That same God, the God of the Bible is a living, personal God who loves his physical and human creation enough that He gave His only begotten son to show us how to live, to die as a sacrifice for all of humanity, and to defeat death and Satan that humanity might live eternally with Him. The God whom I have come to know, knows each perso
n who has ever lived in minute detail even before they were conceived; and “I Am” is His name.
Anyone with normal powers of observation is able to observe both the finite and the infinite, but one should humble oneself enough to acknowledge that mankind can only discover and put to use the knowledge gained from observation. Succinctly put, humankind does not make natural law and can only discover it.
I am persuaded that those natural “laws” are God’s laws; and, that same God is infinite in every conceivable and inconceivable way. Humanity is arrogant enough to enumerate them as Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. But there may be dimensions and/or concepts that are both inconceivable and indescribable and right in front of us, but we cannot see them.
Hawking’s definitive statement: “it wouldn’t be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions” assumes that God is not personal and that if one could qualify on one’s merit to “meet God” one would be automatically entitled to “ask questions.” What Hawking evidently does not understand or appreciate is that meeting God will indeed happen, and as much as one wants, tries or believes that one is in control, the meeting will not be on one’s own terms, rather, the meeting will be on God’s.
We’ll see how it unfolds as we pass through life which incidentally is at its longest but a speck on the continuum of eternity.
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment.......
Good write up. I truly belileve a person can't explain the universe without God.
Hawking’s argument appears to be even more illogical when he says the existence of gravity means the creation of the universe was inevitable. But how did gravity exist in the first place? Who put it there? And what was the creative force behind its birth?
Similarly, when Hawking argues, in support of his theory of spontaneous creation, that it was only necessary for ‘the blue touch paper’ to be lit to ‘set the universe going’, the question must be: where did this blue touch paper come from? And who lit it, if not God?
I would ask Prof. Hawking where life came from. You don’t get animate matter from inanimate matter. No way. no how. Where did the genetic material to create an elephant come from? A one-celled amoeba floating around a swamp?
I can’t look at the universe without seeing evidence of God.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (4)
September 19, 2010
America Haters Welcomed By White House NYC Mayor, And PC Media By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
America Haters Welcomed By White House NYC Mayor, And PC Media
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Last weekend, the major media with few exceptions commemorated its brainwashing of America by linking the ‘mosque controversy’ with what should have been an obscure threat by a Florida pastor to burn Korans.
Worse, both received about as much media time as the remembrance of 3000 innocent lives violently destroyed by Muslim extremists (which is why Americans properly resent the location of a proposed ‘Islamic Center’ by an Imam who has publicly supported Hamas and Sharia Law). No one will forget that tragedy on September 11, 2001 which was preceded by numerous fatal attacks around the world propagated by Jihadists during the prior three decades.
The brainwashing process starts at the White House and trickles down to Mayor Bloomberg, with the major network media acting not only as complicit messengers but unauthorized apologists on behalf of America.
Question: Since when did respect for the Koran rise above that for the Holy Bible---the book of Christianity which undergirds America’s heritage?
Question: Why has the press engaged in willful negligence and wreck less endangerment of our military and religious missionaries by creating hype out of a small town ‘incident’ in Florida which deserved no national or international coverage?
The facts speak for themselves. The White House and Dept of Injustice pay no lip service to the increasing attacks upon Christianity and Judaism here or abroad, while publicly submitting to Islam. The Administration is so immersed in political correctness run amok and empathy for Obama’s Muslim background that it no longer acknowledges the reality of Islamic extremism and its war against the Western World! This conclusion and its ramifications were published by a panel of national security experts this week and appeared in the Washington Times:
Examples of submission to Jihadists include events leading up to and following the Fort Hood massacre, the shoe bomber’s failed attempt to explode 300 passengers over Detroit, and the recent attempted detonation of a device in downtown NYC. Some Americans have slowly been brainwashed into apathy or complacency while ignoring these rising threats to our liberty and self- determination. Shame on them!
The Obama Administration misrepresents and disrespects the will of the People as it attempts to charismatically peddle its perverted totalitarian ideology to a declining number of ignorant voters.
The Left uses role reversal, projection and creation of crises in its assault on America’s foundations and its quest for totalitarianism when taxpayer money is distributed without Congressional authorization and without coverage by the complicit media under the guise of ‘economic stimulus’ to those who campaigned for the Obama Administration (Unions and certain ethnic groups), while ignoring the private sector which creates jobs; when radical Islamic terrorists are given rights normally accorded U.S. citizens instead of being tried and punished for their murderous actions by a military tribunal; when states rights are trampled after states pass laws to enforce existing but unenforced Federal immigration laws; when over half million illegals are allowed to go free by our Dept. of Injustice after being apprehended and scheduled for court hearings; when legal gun retailers are imprisoned for unknowingly selling firearms to illegals who possess stolen identities; when a man is arrested in Long Island for firing warning shots at the ground when threatened by military-style gang members on his property; when capital investors are thrown under the bus by government and Union interests; when the Secretary of State falsely incriminates one of our states for human rights abuses in front of a UN council composed of some of the worst human rights offenders in the world; when same Secretary attempts to circumvent the Congress and trample our Constitution by subjecting American citizens to UN rules; when the Dept. of Injustice looks the other way when racist supremacy groups are allowed to threaten citizens at polling places.
The Obama Administration shows respect for those who have inflicted great harm upon civilized peoples worldwide and his Administration persecutes its own citizens through abuse of the legal system at taxpayer expense. The balance of power no longer exists when the Supreme Court is composed of politically correct ideologues, some handpicked by an anti-American president who values totalitarianism over our Constitution.
Americans are historically a people of tolerance towards other cultures and religions. But tolerance cannot include submission to proponents of Sharia who are according to the panel’s report ‘Muslim supremacists waging civilization Jihad’, nor to Sharia Law which is not just a religious code but “seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere — economic, social, military, legal and political." which runs counter to our Constitution and our culture.
Likewise, We The People have no reason to tolerate the current tyrannical Left which inflicts destruction on our value system based upon liberty and rugged individualism. Americans who are loyal to our heritage of ‘government by the people and for the people’, which accords more importance to the individual than to state government and a much smaller role for Federal government, must extricate our government from the dangerous hands of totalitarian kidnappers.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Excellent write up and a good link to the article at the Washington Times as well.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:48 AM | Comments (2)
September 13, 2010
Spending America Into Economic Collapse: Obama’s Way To Totalitarianism
Spending America Into Economic Collapse: Obama’s Way To Totalitarianism
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Economic cycles are normal for free enterprise economies and such economies are the most prosperous in the world. Recovery from past economic contractions has relied primarily upon creation of new jobs by new small businesses---not as much by existing businesses and certainly not government. While technical advances ‘displace’ some employees into other jobs, they also boost efficiency and return on capital investment which generates increased taxable revenues which in turn helps fund government needs.
Obama’s totalitarian ideology does not embrace investment in private enterprise which enriches citizens and government. Instead, it funds growing government and the labor unions (which help keep socialists in control) at the expense of the individual’s prosperity and liberty.
With respect to monetary policy, the more government takes from investors and workers (in bonds and taxes), the less capital goes to the private sector for startup companies and new jobs. A growing Federal government creates a larger web of bureaucracy and regulatory hurdles which further crush the private sector. Obama’s secular progressive ideology is the antithesis of that which embraces the growth and health of the private sector and thus America’s long-term economic success and power.
As long as he and his economic team are grounded in Alinsky socialist ideology which advocates ‘social justice’ by taking capital from business owners through high taxes and costly regulations and giving it to government which then redistributes it to those of lesser financial means, America will see no economic recovery. It is this failure which Obama finds inconvenient on the public stage but importantly convenient as a means to create a ‘captured’ population of dependents who will support his totalitarian ideology.
Another factor behind lack of economic recovery as compared to prior downturns is rooted in the housing bubble which saw its birth with Democrat socialist engineering schemes combined with the greed and destructive creativity of Wall Street banks and lenders. As the housing bubble grew, Americans put most of their eggs in one basket as capital selectively flowed into anything connected with the housing industry---real estate, homebuilders, materials, lenders, insurers, appraisers, furniture and appliance makers. America’s tunnel vision thus failed to power development of new industry and technology upon which it could fall back should the housing industry run out of steam.
Obama and his czars have caused Fedzilla to run amok when it should be downsized and wasteful spending sprees curtailed, particularly the handouts to unions and other cronies (as payback for campaign support), and the multibillions of dollars in ‘foreign aid’ gimmicks. No nation has ever spent itself out of debt! Combined with lower taxes, downsizing the Federal budget would create more capital for new business startups which leads to job creation, more consumer spending, and eventual economic recovery.
Until the uncontrolled and irresponsible spendthrift mindset in DC changes (which seems unlikely unless We the People take our government back or China forces our government to the mat), the economic health of America will continue to decline until our currency collapses as our national debt metastasizes and drowns our falling GDP.
Remember, government can only spend what it collects from bond auctions, taxes, and printing more money which devalues the currency. If jobs are scarce, tax collections will be lower unless taxes are raised to levels which cripple business and individuals. If Federal debt levels are too high, bond sales will wither. That virtually guarantees devaluation through inflation of the money supply.
Obama and his unscreened appointees have kidnapped America and taken us well down the road to totalitarianism---a political system in which the state, under the control of a single political person, faction, or class, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life. Only We the People can stop them. We and our children will suffer greatly if we fail. Every patriot’s vote counts (even if just once)!
Wild Thing's comment.......
Excellent write up.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 03:48 AM | Comments (2)
September 10, 2010
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man by Jon McNaughton
Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, "What have you done?" Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama.
Wild Thing's comment.......
What a talent he has, such beautiful art work he has created. The video is perfect as well.
Thank you McNaughton !
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (3)
September 08, 2010
America Was Built by Rugged Individualists Who'd Reject Obama by ElRushbo
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( notes below from several comments he made yesterday )
America Was Built by Rugged Individualists Who'd Reject Obama
Class envy and tyranny were not founding principles.
by Rush Limbaugh
Let me tell you who built America. I'd love to tell you who built America. America was built by people who fended for themselves, who expected nothing from the government except protection. They expected nothing from the government except protection from foreign enemies and a just rule of law. Other than that, stay the hell out of our lives. That's who built America. The very people who founded this country constructed that kind of a government. The people who built this country revolted against high taxes, a tea tax specifically. America was built by people who believed in individuality, rugged individualism. I love saying that because it so ticks off the left, rugged individualism, hard work, minimal government, freedom and liberty. You see, America was built by people who reject everything Imam Obama stands for, reject everything Imam Obama is doing. And that's why Obama and the suckers in his party who followed him are being rejected by the people. Obama and his party are being rejected because they are the antithesis of how this country was built and how this country grew.
The rich, the poor, the middle class, when America was founded, we didn't think this way. We didn't expect the government to punish other people. We didn't think the purpose of government was to get even with some people. We believed in private property rights. We didn't get caught up in this class warfare claptrap. Not when this country was built. Obama's actions, Obama's philosophy would have been considered tyranny. Obama would have been an outcast at the founding of this country. Obama would have been rejected, and so would his preacher, Reverend Wright. That's what Obama knows about the economy, is what he's been taught by Saul Alinsky and what he's been taught by the Harvard faculty and what he was taught by Reverend Wright. What is Obama's favorite line from Reverend Wright's Audacity to Hope speech? I know what it is. The favorite line is white folks' greed runs a world in need. That's what Obama knows.
Obama looks through the prism of racism at this world and he sees an America as founded as unjust and immoral. "White folks' greed runs a world in need." That is what Reverend Wright said; that's what Obama believes. Reverend Wright was also out preaching against middle classness. We have played those sound bites of Reverend Wright saying such a thing. So Obama's propaganda is the propaganda of failed, dead regimes: the old Soviet Union, Cuba. Obama's railing against capitalism. He's railing against private property. He's railing against trickle down. In his audience is a bunch of socialists, a bunch of union people. Barack Obama is the antithesis of the founding of this country. He would have been rejected as a bit player. Had Obama been around at the founding of this country and had he been known, he would be a joke in American history books today. But not now. Now he's president.
I want to rephrase something here before we go to the top of the hour break. Obama has rejected the American people and that's why the American people are rejecting Obama. He has no business talking about how this country was built 'cause it never would have been if it were up to people like him.
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Everything he believes and everything he has put his emphasis on is failing left and right. Every theory that he has subscribed to for job creation and economic revitalization has done just the opposite. We're looking at a one-man wrecking crew, and he's here in Milwaukee and he is talking to a bunch of union thugs and he dares to tell the rest of the people in the country that he and only he can tell them what they need to do to wait around for the economy to revive, when everybody in the world knows that the single best thing that could happen for this economy is to get him out of any position of power to run it. Pure and simple. So to have to sit here and be lectured to by the wrecking ball, as somebody who doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking about, he's a community organizer, he's nothing more than an agitator. He's so henpecked that when he leaves the house for dinner he goes and gets burgers because his wife is making him eat watercress.
He has not served this country. He has failed it and he continues to fail this country.
Wild Thing's comment...............
AWESOME! I love it when Rush zooms in on all of this with Obama and zaps him with the truth.
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:20 AM | Comments (4)
September 02, 2010
Obama Speech on Iraq, Rewritten
Obama Speech on Iraq, Rewritten
by WOTN Editor
Obama's new speech on Iraq, as written by me. My future as a speechwriter starts here. I like to capture the true essence of the one's positions and personal beliefs in writing for others.
My Dear Americans, I have chosen this moment to declare the "combat mission" in Iraq is over. Our Troops will still be in harm's way and there will still be shots fired by and at them, but I made a campaign promise to "end the war" and have ALL Troops out within 16 months, without precondition. This speech is designed to claim my promise fulfilled, though I did nothing to achieve the current successes in Iraq, nor to overcome the challenges that persist there. In fact, the current Troop levels were not my doing either. I inherited that from President Bush, just as I did the decreased violence there.
As such, I will stick with my strong suit. I would like to apologize on behalf of myself, my party, and the partisan divide which opposed the Strategy that brought us the Sustained Success and allows us to reduce the number of sacrifices of Our Troops in Iraq. I would like to apologize for stirring up anti-Iraq and anti-Victory partisanship that divided Our Nation and nearly caused a defeat despite those sacrifices and Victories.
I would like to extend a special apology to General David Petraeus, who, despite my insolence, my resistance, and my profiting from personal attacks on him, refused to give up. I owe the General great respect, gratitude, and apology because despite my partisan inspired attacks, he maintains integrity to this Nation and a commitment to Victory. Bottom line is that he believes in these values sufficiently to take a demotion to achieve them when my butt was in a sling.
I would like to apologize to the Iraqi people, who are on the precipice of peace and democracy, but that my own stubborness prevents me from changing from my course. I have to admit I am at a loss for words on how to spin the current political logjam in Iraq into what I want to claim as a personal victory. I did after all say that Iraq needed a political solution and during my tenure it has fallen into political disarray. To speed that along, I sent the master of political gaffes to Baghdad, where he can claim that I didn't use the key phrase "turn the page," in my previous speech. I apologize because Biden is the best we can do to end the political impasse and we sent him at a time of our convenience rather than recognize the cultural significance that now is not the time. We hope that if we threaten them with either increased visits or a long term stay by him, they'll break down and form a government, just to get him out of Baghdad. Having to deal with him on a regular basis, I can tell you, this is a workable strategy.
I feel a special need to apologize to the Iraqi people, because Saddam was truly a sadistic tyrant and I know for a fact he had WMD, because I've suppressed reports that we're still finding them. We're leaving the destruction of those munitions to the Iraqis now. And the fact that all crime and terrorism in Iraq kills half of what Saddam averaged in every month, in Iraqi Civilians alone, of his reign is not my fault. I inherited that from Bush.
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And this is the link to the article you see in this post.......... WOTN Obama Speech on Iraq Rewritten.
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Wild Thing's comment...........
Wow this is GREAT, can you see Obama saying this.... I know it would never happen. But I love how it is written and it sure as heck is an IF ONLY. But then Obama would have to be someone else completely.
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:49 AM | Comments (4)
August 31, 2010
Restore America! Yes, We Can! by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Restore America! Yes, We Can!
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
In an interview with Brian Williams of NBC News on Sunday, Obama stated, “I can’t spend all my time with a birth certificate plastered on my forehead” among his other defensive musings. There have been numerous claims that Obama is not eligible for the office he holds and a number of attempted court cases have been filed to ascertain his eligibility. So far, legal maneuvering by his phalanx of lawyers and other impediments have stood in the way of Obama’s pledged transparency.
Unfortunately because of his unwillingness to come clean the issue remains unresolved. Further, recent allegations that Obama is a Muslim with up to 18% of Americans believing that he is have further muddied the already murky water in which Obama swims. Unfortunately, his behavior and policies lend credibility to the latest claim.
Separate from the Muslim issue is a pervasive attitude in the media to the effect that even if he isn’t qualified to hold the office, the majority of Americans voted for him and therefore the squeaking wheel should just stop turning. Huh?!
Since when do Americans allow legitimate questions about qualifications of public officials to go unanswered?
Would it be okay to have a criminal or otherwise totally unqualified person hold the office based on the “right of privacy?”
I think not! For anyone with the integrity and intellectual curiosity of a peanut the Hawaii system at the time of Obama’s purported birth there was highly questionable. That alone should be enough to pursue the issue. One could have been born on Mars, but at the time of Obama’s birth it would have been possible for one to obtain a Certificate of Live Birth from the State of Hawaii.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, it’s time to melt it down to the truth.
No claim is made here that only Obama can satisfy, and we call on him to do so to stop the rising tide of those who for whatever the reason have lost faith. However, his steel-fisted resistance to the very transparency he pledged continues to erode his credibility. During the Johnson Administration that was referred to in the media as the “credibility gap.” What is amazing is his ability to draw any favorability ratings at all, but evidently there are sufficient numbers of uninformed, even mindless Americans that the “empty suit” remains inflated.
It is not even debatable that Americans know less about Obama than any President in history, because they don’t. Despite their efforts to get him elected, the vaunted “mainstream media” has repeatedly admitted as much. But more amazing is that Americans have no legal “standing” to challenge a matter of this magnitude in court that would force release of pertinent records. This President’s breathtaking corruption and lack of transparency is a cancer that is silently metastasizing the heart and soul of political integrity of this nation.
Americans often read about the corruption of foreign governments, what a laugh! If ever there was a corrupt government, it resides in the halls of Congress and the White House. Recent passage of the, Stimulus, Health Care and Financial Reform Bills are prime examples. For too many years Americans have allowed elected officials to do things to this nation that the people did not want but felt helpless to do anything about because they were told that they were powerless to do anything. Oh, Yeah?! At present talk of a Constitutional amendment that would deny citizenship to children born here of illegal immigrants is passed off as not possible. Not possible?! That bit of not-so-subtle propaganda needs to be shoved up their noses. But it can be done only by denying victory to CAREERISTS like the Charlie Crists of the political world. It can only be done by drubbing Harry Reed, taking the gavel away from Nancy Pelosi, and neutering Barrack Obama.
If Obama had not been so eager to “totally change America” into his vision of a socialist utopia by driving the economy from the ditch into an abyss, he might have been somewhat worthy of the accolades that the media and other idiots around the world heaped on him. But he and his administration along with Congressional Democrats have done more to destroy America in two years than any enemy this country has ever faced on the battle field in its history. Iraq and Afghanistan a problem?! B.S.! Congress and this Administration are the problem!
Americans need to divest themselves of both democrat and republican riff raff and reopen America for business. Burgeoning government spending programs is not business, it is an albatross hung around the neck of every American, including the very ones who benefit from government largesse. Once purged of self-serving governmental elected officials and bureaucratic leaches, America can look forward to the best years of its existence. Instead of democrat leadership demonizing and ignoring Americans, mainstream officials are needed who will carry the banner of a bright future and restore real hope for all Americans.
A good start would be to replace any Senator who has served more than two terms and any Representative who has served more than six. A Constitutional Amendment should be enacted that would limit terms of political office. Then at the first opportunity, fire Obama and elect an American who is unapologetically unashamed of and pro-America!
Forget about the smartest person in the room it makes one want to throw up! What America needs are leaders with a modicum of intellect and a wheelbarrow full of common sense!
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Excellent!!!
"What America needs are leaders with a modicum of intellect and a wheelbarrow full of common sense! "
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:48 AM | Comments (1)
August 30, 2010
Racial Acrimony; and, Political Strategy by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
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Racial Acrimony; and, Political Strategy
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
For those who do not pay attention, today, August 28th there were two major events in Washington, D.C.. One on the Mall between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials, the other between a Dunbar High School and the site on the Mall where a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. is to be built.
The size of the respective groups is likely to be the subject of talk shows and media “pundancy” for a week or so but pales into insignificance when compared to the tone of the respective organizers’ remarks. The substance and tone of what TV and Radio Host Glen Beck had to say on the one hand and Rev. Al Sharpton had to say on the other were in stark contrast to one another.
Beck honored the Nation’s founders and military members; and given the anniversary date of his “I have a Dream” speech on that same location, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. He appealed to all Americans to support military members, in particular those who have suffered wounds while fighting her wars; and to return to God as the source of National strength. He spoke of God-given rights, the nation’s heritage of greatness, and of American “exceptionalism.” Other speakers at the Mall event including Dr. King’s niece reflected and reinforced that same theme.
Sharpton on the other hand was decidedly negative accusing Beck of intentionally choosing the anniversary of King’s famous speech in an effort to hijack the Civil Rights movement, implied that Beck’s efforts were disingenuous with the underlying intention of advancing a political agenda or movement; and sounded more like a spoiled child than a Civil Rights Leader. This is not an attempt to recount today’s events; rather it is to take note of the decidedly toxic quality of Sharpton’s remarks.
One is mindful of Obama’s oft stated campaign pledge to bring unity, albeit he sat in a hate-America-first church for twenty years without lifting a finger to advance racial conciliation and harmony. There is nothing here to suggest that racial minorities, blacks of African origin in particular have had no grievances; they have and still do in some quarters. What is no longer a secret is that the evident chip on the shoulders of leaders like Sharpton, Wright, Farrakhan, and Obama does nothing to advance conciliation and unity; rather they work to intentionally divide the nation.
People that I know, most who are “white” would welcome open and honest racial dialogue, but after listening to Sharpton, Wright, Farrakhan, Elder and having read Obama’s books I find little evidence that desire is reciprocated at the leadership level. Sharpton’s attitude today showcased the contrast. Objective Americans observed racism and divisiveness today, and it was on the part of Al Sharpton.
When the word “racism” is hurled at those who have honest disagreement with the direction that Obama is taking the country, the glaring question is, “racism on whose part?” One cannot help but call to mind the oft quoted phrase, “united we stand, divided we fall.”
In today’s environment it is clear that “triangulation” or “divide and conquer” is the operative political strategy. By creating multiple competing factions the strongest minority emerges with the spoils. That is how politicians whose agenda is not representative of the mainstream in this county gained power; and now hope to retain it.
Take Florida’s Senate race as an example of “divide and conquer.” Governor Charlie Crist revealed by his actions over the course of his stewardship that he is not the conservative that he made himself out to be during his gubernatorial campaign. Upon Crist announcing his Senate aspirations upstart Marco Rubio emerged and began to clobber him in the Republican Primary race.
Enter the real Charlie Crist. Similar to Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Crist dumped the Republican Party to avoid certain defeat at the hands of conservative (albeit with warts, Rubio) moving well to the left. Crist scrubbed his website of conservative positions and has openly courted democrats, including there being reports of having former members of the Clinton team as advisors. In the meantime Democrat Candidate Meeks won the Democrat nomination.
Given tepid support by the Party the majority of democrats will vote for Crist over Meeks and when combined with Crist loyalists within the Republican Party might be enough to defeat Rubio. Put differently, the political calculus is that the new out-of-the-closet Crist will garner enough support from democrats and Crist loyalists to emerge the victor in the three way race; “divide and conquer!”
Rubio’s best hope would be for Obama to come to Florida and openly campaign for Crist. And that may be possible given Crist’s announcement in an interview that had he been in the Senate at the time he would have voted for “Obamacare.” But, not so fast! He changed that to, “I misspoke” when confronted with his pronouncement.
Crist, like Obama is a duplicitous liar and deceiver and is the absolute political worst of what is wrong with Washington. It’s time to clean house! How long is it until November?!
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment.............
Col. Pappas is so good, I always love to read what he has to say on the various topics. This was is really good!!!!!
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:50 AM | Comments (5)
August 24, 2010
David Limbaugh author of "Crimes Against Liberty"
Conservative columnist and author David Limbaugh ( Rush Limbaugh's brother) was on with Sean Hannity last night to discuss his latest book Crimes Against Liberty which was released on Monday and is already #2 #1 on Amazon.
David says that Obama is running the nation into the ground and is the most destructive president in our nation’s history. Limbaugh also says the next election will be a turning point for our country on whether America will turn toward socialism-Marxism or go back to a democracy. He also says Obama has no respect for the US Constitution.
Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama ....David Limbaugh (Author)
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Wild Thing's comment...........
It was a good interview on Hannity and I am glad this book is coming out now before Novemeber. Heh heh the left can have one for an early Christmas present.
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:45 AM | Comments (2)
August 23, 2010
No Taxpayer Money For Illegals = Self Deportation By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
No Taxpayer Money For Illegals = Self Deportation
( plus the real intention of the Ground Zero project )
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Most American taxpayers find it utterly reprehensible that Fedzilla spends our hard earned dollars to subsidize illegal aliens and their children, particularly at a time when many legal citizens are out of work with no benefits. A pregnant Mexican woman can walk across the southern border and into an American healthcare facility and that facility will give her an EBT card with up to $450 per month for healthcare services and a food card worth $275 per month. This problem is not just in Border States.
Most states have an illegal alien problem of significant magnitude. In the small Northeast state of Rhode Island for example, there is a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy towards illegals, and just as in Arizona, much taxpayer money is spent on funding their education, healthcare and subsistence costs. That state legislature is sending two representatives to Arizona to find out how to craft a law which cracks down on illegals without running into constitutional issues.
Fedzilla’s non-enforcement of federal illegal immigration law is legal malpractice. Our elected officials are willing accomplices as they plunder government treasuries to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on illegal aliens while American citizens suffer during this recession. The unfortunate irony is that American citizens who are out of work and students just out of college are worse off than illegals!
We don’t need to discuss the reasons behind Fedzilla’s intentional lack of concern, nor the fact that this Leftist administration and its Congressional crooks are at odds with most state governments and ‘We The People’ with respect to non-enforcement of illegal alien laws. Obama and his financiers are currently searching for ways to circumvent the Congress to grant amnesty to illegals before the November elections and certainly by the 2012 Presidential election.
Their goal is to create a large new Democrat voting bloc so their destructive plans for America’s constitutional government and free enterprise system can come to fruition. Simultaneously, this Administration with the help of Democrat leadership has put us into a downward spiral of unsustainable multi-trillion dollar debt with no hope of paying it back to worldwide borrowers.
China is the largest lender to the United States through its purchase of U.S. Treasury bonds, but they, as many other nations worldwide, have lost faith that our government will ever be able to pay those bonds off at maturity.
“When the bank quits lending, the borrower cannot borrow”, which means default and ultimate devaluation of currency as the only remaining solution.
That nightmare is a certainty if We The People don’t act quickly to take back our government and repeal Obamacare and his multi-trillion dollar splurge to fund Fedzilla.
We The People must also demand accountability from our state and local governments, just as in Rhode Island and Arizona amongst others. That means demanding that our officials document and educate taxpayers on the magnitude of government spending for illegals.
Then such funding must be cut off. Without subsidies, many illegals will self-deport back to their homeland. To not demand this accountability and action by our government is to complacently accept the direction in which our nation is headed---off a cliff into the third world. Who will our children hold accountable?
As a sidebar, concerning the proposed Islamic ‘community center’ near Ground Zero, the imam who heads this project is currently traveling on our tax money (thanks to the Obama state department) to the Middle East to raise more money for his project. This is but one step to his ultimate goal that America accept Sharia Law. Some politicians such as Mayor Bloomberg have bought the Muslim lie of ‘religious tolerance’ as justification for this project hook, line and sinker.
Obama and other Muslims know quite well the motive of those who wish to plant this symbol of Islam on property where 3000 lives were lost at the hands of their Jihadists. It would be a different outcome if the imam and his followers humbly and apologetically proposed to build a memorial to lives lost at the hands of radical Islam instead of this ‘in your face and down your throat’ insult to our nation.
America has given a resounding NO to Sharia Law in any way, shape or form within our borders.
Sharia is a the epitome of pervasive intolerance which discriminates against and abuses women, brings death to homosexuals, and regards anyone who is not a devout Muslim as a second-class citizen deserving of death in the name of Allah.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
Well done article, thank you Dr. Bates.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 04:47 AM | Comments (2)
August 22, 2010
Obama's Point of No Return
Obama's Point of No Return
By J.R. Dunn
There comes a moment in a failing presidency where the incumbent, through some single gesture, action, or statement, crosses a certain line from beyond which there is no return. Through his own will and behavior, he so underlines his failings, so frames his negative image, that no further action can ever erase it. Fate, accident, and circumstance have nothing to do with it. It is the president himself who puts the period at the end of his own sentence.
Such moments are obvious in retrospect, though not always at the time. With Richard Nixon, it was the "eighteen-minute gap." An oval office tape recording turned over to Judge John Sirica, who was overseeing the investigation of the Watergate incident, turned out to have a lengthy period of silence smack-dab in the middle of a conversation between Nixon and chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. The White House claimed that Rose Mary Woods, the president's secretary, had inadvertently hit the wrong button for those eighteen minutes. This might well have been true, but in light of Nixon's long reputation as Tricky Dick, it sounded like the cock-and-bull story to end them all. Nixon had been holding his own in the Watergate battle up to that point. The voting public viewed the uproar with bemusement rather than indignation. But the tape gap finished him. In less than a year, he was forced into resignation.
For Jimmy Carter, it was the "malaise speech" of July 15, 1979, in which he attempted to shuffle the blame for his tepid performance as president from his own administration onto the shoulders of the American people. Carter claimed that a national "crisis of confidence" (he never actually used the word "malaise") made it impossible for him to adequately grapple with the country's problems. It was America's fault, not Jimmy Carter's. The public reaction was open disgust and the abject collapse of any support for the Carter presidency.
With Obama, we have an abundance of riches: the multiple vacations, the legal harassment of the state of Arizona on behalf of illegals, the clownish response to the Gulf oil blowout. But when historians come to select the moment when Obama went over the edge of the world, I think they'll find the great Iftar mosque speech of August 13, 2010 hard to beat.
During a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan, the president found it appropriate to come out in favor of religious freedom. Not in support of Christians being attacked by janjaweed gunmen, or Bahá'ís tormented by Iranian mullahs, or Jews being stalked by assassins, or even American citizens being told that they cannot pray in public, but in favor of a shadowy foreign foundation with suspicious financing and disturbing jihadi connections that wishes to build some kind of victory monument congruent to the site of the 9/11 massacre.
These doomsday statements work by putting previous suspicions and surmises about the president -- always negative -- into sharp relief, acting as verification and confirmation. Nixon had suffered a reputation as a conniver since his knock-down, drag-out 1950 battle against Helen Gahagan Douglas (it was Douglas who coined the "Tricky Dick" nickname). The tape gap fit so perfectly into that narrative as to crowd out everything else. Carter's inept performance as president was rendered even harder to bear by his continual sanctimony and moral preening. The malaise speech merely added the patina of a whiner.
With Obama, suspicions have involved his status as an American. The foreign parentage, the registration in an Indonesian school noting him as a Muslim, the uproar over the birth certificate aroused misgivings that, despite media scorn heaped upon those noting them, he has never quite been able to put to rest. As of last weekend, his opportunities to do so are ended. Impressions trump arguments, and for most of the country, Obama will, from here on in, be a strange and untrustworthy figure -- a man who does not understand what Ground Zero means to America, who utilizes American law and custom to support foreign interests, who speaks to strangers more clearly than to his own.
Nothing either Nixon or Carter did enabled them to recover from their faux pas. Even as the tape gap story broke, Nixon was supervising a massive airlift of supplies and ammunition to Israel, which was involved in a life-or-death struggle against massive Arab attack in the Yom Kippur War. It gained Nixon nothing, scarcely earning a mention amid all the public speculation about Watergate. Less than three months after the Carter speech, Iranian "students" (actually professional revolutionaries under the control of the Ayatollah Khomeini) sacked the American embassy in Tehran, taking nearly a hundred American hostages. I can attest that I was not alone in thinking, "Great -- and we've got Mr. Malaise is charge." The year-and a-half-long hostage crisis, climaxed by the disastrous Eagle Claw rescue mission, hastened the collapse of the worst presidency of the later 20th century.
The past two years are the best Obama will ever see. The real crises of his presidency are still to come, and they are easily visible as they move toward us -- Iran, terrorism, the economy, the collapse of the national health care system hastened by his own policies. He will meet them under a cloud of his own making, attempting to overcome them as a president who takes endless vacations, who will not defend his country's borders, who sat out the Gulf oil crisis, who overlooks the sacrifices of his own countrymen in favor of dubious foreign figures.
Some lines of Shakespeare occurred to me while Obama was dawdling over a response to the oil blowout. They can also serve to cover the entire morass:
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads us to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
The tide has gone out for Barack Obama. It is all epilogue from here on in.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh said it best when he said, “Obama is the dumbest guy in the room, no matter what room he’s in.” People are seeing an aloof and out of touch lazy ideologue strut his arrogance and spend our tax dollars with impunity, and we don’t like it.
He is indeed an alien in the White House.May he fall speedily from power!
America is now a powder keg that is set to explode. Let us not underestimate the sheer potential of Iman Obama's mendacity. We are only eighteen months into a historic political train wreck and it may take scholars centuries to pinpoint the exact moment the wheels flew off this "man caused disaster" called the Obama presidency.
Almost every process our forefathers put in place to keep America's freedoms has been tampered with.
How can 330 million Americans sit idly by and watch this monkey destroy our nation. Obama, Ried, Pelosi should be frog marched to Leavenworth tomorrow.
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:47 AM | Comments (4)
August 16, 2010
Whatever happened to “We the People?!” by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Whatever happened to “We the People?!”
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Isn’t there something somewhere about “We the people?” Maybe I was wrong, maybe it said, “We the presiding elite, intent upon enacting our will over the objections of the people, do hereby interpret as we see fit, to accomplish whatever we wish, this Constitution of the United States.”
The recent Judge Walker Court Decision that rendered that portion of California’s Constitution that defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman as unconstitutional is rife with legal fantasy. The entire decision is laced with preconceived bias that one should expect from the fact that the sitting Judge is homosexual. In most rational places in the universe the fact that he judged the case would itself be adjudged a “conflict of interest.” Walker may be a hero to contemporary homosexuals and liberals but his decision and memory will live in infamy.
One dictionary definition of equal is: "identical in mathematical value or logical denotation; like in quality, nature, or status."
The Court anchors its decision in the fallacious premise that the 14th Article of Amendment to the U.S. Constitution under the equal protection provision bestows the right of marriage on homosexuals. If homosexual conduct and therefore marriage was equal to normal marriage and sex the Court’s lengthy tortured argument and process might have been adjudged as fair and proper. However, it should be evident to any rational being that there are inherent physical and psychological distinctions between heterosexual and homosexual relationships. That fundamental fact is lost on the Walker Court and all who celebrate the Court’s decision.
In the process, Walker dismissed seven million Californians (and, one might add, the people of the world) who voted to enshrine the traditional definition of marriage in the California Constitution for as long as history has been recorded, as the union between male and female. But, alas no one should let rationality and eons long tradition become an impediment to irrational liberal behavior and thought.
Aside. One wonders if Muslims will give one wit about homosexual marriage, or for that matter the U.S. Constitution as Muslims proceed to decapitate homosexuals and liberals. Feminazis and adulteresses would be stoned to death and women would be confined to their homes. Think not? What happens in Muslim countries? Obama said, “I will stand with Muslims.”
What the Walker Court told the people of California, the United States and the world is that he has no sympathy or regard for their historic definition of marriage, he has no empathy for the masses of people whose relationship to their wives and husbands has been equated to perverted sexual behavior in order to advance the so called “rights.” Walker and his homosexual cohorts are perverting the Constitution to cram an unwanted redefinition down the throats of Americans in another instance of the manifest tyrannical minority inflicting its will upon the majority.
This situation is similar to the recent infliction of so called, “Health Care Reform” upon an unwilling populace albeit by a majority of politicians, but acting against the evident will of a large majority of the American people. How long is it until November?
Whereas it was argued that denial of a marriage license creates unequal status, there is nothing equal between normal sexual behavior and homosexual conduct from the outset. Additionally, logically and physically there is nothing equal between the two in relation to the historical institution and consummation of marriage. In the final analysis Judge Walker’s ruling has the same depth and quality of rational thought and logic that would render an apple equal to a fish. Given inherent differences that are factually obvious, one must conclude Judge Walker invented yet another instance of legal fiction, and schizophrenia that perverts the Constitution and diminishes the American nation.
The foregoing does not imply that there is no love or commitment in homosexual unions which alone do not constitute marriage. Rather, the decision renders the California Constitution and the historical meaning and physical consummation of marriage as irrelevant and without distinction between participants in traditional marriage and those in a homosexual union. People can have love and commitment for an animal, should not such a pair be issued a marriage license? Some think that they should. Under this ruling shouldn’t humans be able to marry their non-human lovers? And, if not why not? Why should marriage be confined to humans and not between humans and animals? Isn’t it a violation of human rights to deny such a marriage? And so, Pandora’s Box has been cracked upon.
Activists’ current effort is to fundamentally change the eons long traditional definition of marriage to erase evident distinctions, and thus to “normalize” homosexual behavior, which on its face is an exercise in fantasy.
Even in a completely secular society forcing legal acceptance of a homosexual “marriage” would be impossible even if acquiesced outwardly, and they know that. Never, will any normal society anywhere permanently accept homosexual conduct or homosexual "marriage" as the same or equal to heterosexual relationships because it is not, no matter how the law may be perverted and twisted to accommodate the issue. It is a simple fact that the Judge Walker’s legal fiction cannot permanently overcome reality no matter the length, stretch, and tortured legal fiction of his argument.
With all of this noted, one cannot help but find comic relief in homosexual behavior in which females try to cast themselves in the physical role of males with their butch haircuts, strapped-on devices and all manner of obverse paraphernalia; not to mention men engaging in sex in a most comical, if not disgusting way. It is a spectacle so cartoonish and buffoonish that it isn't worthy of further discussion here, and is the reason that for centuries homosexuals were referred to as being queer.
Rational people will never accept the notion that a homosexual relationship is the same as traditional marriage because to do so would require the abrogation of common sense and reality.
Let’s see, if the U.S. Constitution included an amendment that defined the institution of marriage as between one man and one woman, would it be constitutional? Probably not in the Walker Court. Does the tenth article of amendment give the States and the people the right to govern themselves? Evidently not in the Walker Court. What entity issues marriage licenses, States or the Federal Government? According to Walker, the Federal Government because he effectively took that right away from the States with his decision. How do you say, t_y_r_a_n_n_y?
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment.......
I mentioned before on here that several years ago when we lived in Calif. we had voted for Prop. 187, it was dealing with the problem of the illegals. It won by a huge majority of votes through the entire State of California.
However, the left did not like the outcome of the vote so they took it too a Judge and naturally he was a liberal like they were and he overturned our vote. POOF gone, our vote counted for nothing. That really freaked me out to see how little our vote counted. How the wishes and demands of the left and a liberal Judge could erase such a vast majority of citizens speaking out in their vote.
Now we have seen it again, with the vote about marriage.
Each time this happens IMO it really puts our freedoms at risk, our Constitution thrown in the trash and it is always done by the left.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:40 AM
August 07, 2010
Liberal Extremists And The Supreme Court: Two Strikes In A Row---Liberty Lost On Three
Liberal Extremists And The Supreme Court: Two Strikes In A Row---Liberty Lost On Three
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
This writer used to regard Glenn Beck as an alarmist, but having listened more closely and followed his presentation of historical facts and logic for the past couple of years, it is evident that Beck is an expert on America’s past and gives an educated and honest appraisal of our future if we continue to tolerate the current ideologues who ignore the rule of law and our founding documents. The events Beck writes in his new book The Overton Window appears to be playing out almost weekly.
This week, the Congress dominated by Socialist Democrats voted to confirm Elena Kagan as Obama’s second appointment to the High Court in a pattern which is easy to understand if one understands his ideology. Obama has shown that he is not race- or gender-blind, having sequentially appointed two women to the Court, neither of whom are Constitutionalists.
Moreover, Ms. Kagan has no judgeship experience. Her writings clearly reflect her personal activist ideology. Notwithstanding her personal socialist views, she has also been dishonest. One blatant example is her intentional alteration of the position of ACOG (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) a few years ago with respect to the organization’s opposition to partial birth abortion, in such a way as to try and influence the Supreme Court’s opinion on this heinous act. Such dishonesty on the part of one who now serves a lifetime appointment as a Supreme Court judge should be alarming.
This is only the second time in history that one that has no judgeship experience has been voted to the High Court, the purpose of which is to serve as a check and balance on the Legislative and Executive branches of U.S. government. A closer look will show this appointment is nothing more than another step forward in the Left’s takeover of America by planting ideologues instead of constitutionalists into judgeships.
Americans must demand more of our government. The deck is stacked against our national survival. Four of nine justices recently showed their contempt for Amendment 2 (gun rights) by signing onto a statement that nothing in the Bill of Rights supports private citizens having a firearm for self-defense. Sotomayor voted with the liberal extremist faction of the Court. And one can expect Kagan to do the same.
We The People are now just one judge away from the Left’s tyranny. I encourage you to read The Overton Window if you want to see where we may be headed and why. It is clear there will be a point beyond which Americans will not be able to climb out of the pot of boiling water. What legacy will you leave your children---the rule of tyranny or a nation of liberty? We must make the choice in whatever manner necessary or it will be made for us.
Wild Thing's comment........
Excellent write up. I really think we are at a turning point in our country. This next election and the one after that will decide if our country will survive or not.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:45 AM | Comments (5)
August 05, 2010
it Is Us
It is us
We're the ones who allowed anti-Americans to take over America
by Ted Nugent
Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives. This president's overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al. So let me get this straight: You claim your intentions were noble because you simply wanted to get your child a puppy but somehow didn't notice that it was foaming at the mouth, and now you're shocked that your child has rabies?
I think not. That is not a mistake. It is negligence -- dangerous, life threatening and, I am convinced, downright criminal negligence.
And the price for such negligence is catastrophic, don't you know.
But it gets worse. For, you see, the blame doesn't fall just on the obvious stupidity of our friends and families who voted for this corrupt, death-wish government in whose stranglehold we find ourselves. Ultimately, it is our fault. It is the failure of those of us who know better but have failed miserably to educate our own. Living our lives with a captive audience of family, friends, co-workers, socialites, fellow worshippers at church and other parents at school -- everyone in our everyday walks of life -- far too many of us have allowed uneducated, history-devoid, denial-riddled, fantasy-driven, anti-gun and anti-hunting, anti-capitalism general ignoramuses to remain so and run amok, when by all thoughtful considerations, it was our duty to educate and upgrade everyone in our lives to truth, logic and the American way.
It is the terminal curse of apathy and disconnect that got us into this shameless mess we find America in today, and in all honesty, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
We all saw it coming, but political correctness caused most of us to clam up in the ridiculous mindset that it was more important to avoid hurting feelings than to stand up for what we knew in our hearts was being trampled underfoot. Sadly, America has become a nation of ultra-thin-skinned, whining little girls, afraid of our own shadows and so cowardly as to back away from the simple solution of speaking the truth when we know we are supposed to do so.
I have been damned as being a radical extremist my entire adult life for simply standing up and relentlessly promoting and celebrating self-evident truth, logic and common sense. The devil brigade acting upon the Saul Alinsky deception playbook has made its mark by lying, cheating and attacking with the very hate that it accuses everybody else of harboring. With an overall complicit media to bullhorn the brigade's agenda, a nation of sheep has taken the pill and swallowed it whole.
Welcome to the new fat, soft, cowardly nation of wimps with the perfectly corrupt president and pack of soulless hounds in government that they deserve.
Look at Harry Reid. Charlie Rangel. Listen to Nancy Pelosi. What kind of idiots do they represent? A huge army of idiots who wish to do nothing for their country, but whine for their government to do everything for them. Welcome to France, ladies and gentlemen, only worse.
There always have been bad, ignorant people in the world. But in the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave, the epicenter of rugged individualism founded on the premise of live free or die, where the powerful DNA of defiance got us where we are as the last, best place on Earth, the ultimate violation is that so many hardworking, truly entrepreneurial, independent Americans backed down and failed to stand up when we saw the wimps squawking about all the wrong stuff.
Everything from the New Deal and Great Society on has been a dismal and grossly counterproductive failure, yet we continue to allow corrupt bureaucrats to keep jamming more of the same down our throats with barely a whimper of resistance. How pathetic. How lame. How un-American.
Wild Thing's comment.......
The 'sleeping giant' has been awakened. The Tea Parties are a start. We must follow through on our convictions.
We have the chance in November, 2010 to totally destroy the Democrat Party as an effective political force. Message: Get out, vote on November 2, 2010 and defeat every Democrat that is running for office!!! This may be your last chance!!!!
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at 07:47 AM | Comments (4)
August 01, 2010
Christian or Muslim? by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Christian or Muslim?
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
This is to those who blindly accept Islam/Muslims as a healthy contributing part of American society, including Barack Hussein Obama, who some argue convincingly, is a Muslim. The media, mainly CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and to a lesser extent FOX, are willing dupes in the hoax that Islam/Muslims are peaceful; perhaps within a very narrow context may be minutely, partially true.
However, in the aggregate, there is nothing peaceful about Islam, that is, except in the context of PAX Islam. Yet, even where Islam is the dominant religion there are divisions within Islam i.e. Sunni vs. Shiite that are sufficient to sustain eight years of conflict between Iraq and Iran not to mention the ongoing Sunni/Shiite conflict in Iraq which is far from over notwithstanding claims to the contrary by the Obama Administration.
What liberal westerners, in particular those whose life experience is as deep as a plate do not desire to understand is that historical as well as contemporary Islam, unlike contemporary Christianity has not distanced itself from violence and conquest as a religious body. Further, those same liberals do not want to comprehend or accept that Islam is a system of governance and lifestyle that emphasizes total mind, soul and body control (and yet, the claim is that 4 out of 5 new converts to Islam are women. Imagine that.)
Islam in the macro context is a: religious/moral, political, educational, economic, and legal system. Everything is focused on submission to Allah with the ultimate reward of 72 virgins who await martyrs (although evidently there is not counterpart for those females who blow themselves up). There are no doubt humanitarian aspects of Islam, most if not all of which pertain and apply to fellow Muslims somewhat like Mormons who take care of their own; or, who are afflicted with gang loyalties that are irresistibly attractive to some in this country.
In the U.S., Islam is protected by the U.S. Constitution, and for those with a chip on their shoulders for whatever the reason, Islam legitimizes the hatred they harbor toward their fellow Americans who may not be of the same cultural mindset, ethnicity or faith. Consider the racist, hate filled remarks of Louis Farrakhan and other hate purveyors/ Islam-o-files towards Jews and Christians.
Travel to any nation that is dominated by Islam such as Saudi Arabia and try to openly practice a different faith or recruit anyone to join in one’s different faith system and see what happens. Allow a bit of edification: one would as a minimum be arrested and expelled if not arrested, imprisoned and/or beheaded.
Obama’s words while he visited Turkey where he stated that we Americans
“do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Muslim nation, but rather, a nation of citizens who are, uh, bound by a set of values.”
Yet in an interview with a French news agency on the same trip he stated notwithstanding his error in fact:
“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
So, while diminishing America’s Christian heritage Obama dismisses and replaces it with Muslim heritage/achievement.
Obama’s personal direction to NASA Chief, Charles Bolden, in Bolden’s words:
“When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he (ed., Obama) charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.”
Americans are constantly bombarded with the notion that Christians are hypocrites, and if one observes many who claim that title, the charge is on point. That is because most who claim it do so out of ignorance of its substance which is the love, forgiveness, mercy and grace of God as manifest through the life, teachings, death and resurrection of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Note: To become a Christian is both simple and free, in fact it cannot be purchased at any price: for those who do not know, repent of one’s evil ways, ask God for forgiveness, and live according to the teachings of Jesus Christ as contained in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. Christianity frees from evil and guilt and promises (and unlike Obama, God keeps His promises) personal contentment and peace, and eternal life; it is a freely exercised lifestyle without forcible imposition by or upon others and stands in stark contrast to the intimidation, weight and legalism of Islam.
“Choose you this day whom you will serve, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Semper Fidclis
Wild Thing's comment.........
Obama's actions and his words have shown us he is a Muslim. About a week ago Glenn Beck did one of his shows about Rev. Wrights church and what they belileve in and of course as well Obama believes in as well. How obama uses the term collective Christianity and the thing is there is no such thing. Not one mention of that in the Bible. It is all political with him, with Wright and his church, the whole thing.
Taqiyya allows Muslims to do anything they want to - if they’re doing it to convince others that they are not Muslim so they can further the Muslim agenda. Taquiya (deceit to advance islam) is allowed for jihad. He is considered advancing islam therefore, he can say whatever he likes. He does use “code” meaningful to practicing muslims, his pronunciation of arabic words, etc. Very precise, very deceitful.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
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Posted by Wild Thing at 05:45 AM | Comments (2)
July 21, 2010
Liberal Journalists Target FOX News and Want Government To Shut It Down
Tucker Carlson broke the news last night on Hannity that the far left members of Journolist targeted FOX News and wanted it shut down by the government.
The source ...........The Daily Caller
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Publisher Neil Patel chats with Megyn Kelly about JournoList
The Daily Caller explosive story about JournoList, publisher Neil Patel chats with “America Live” host Megyn Kelly about a few thing more incendiary than sports.
“What we have found,” said Neil, ” are discussions in there directly working to try and elect Barack Obama and doing so in the most … loathsome ways.”
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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
By Jonathan Strong
It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”
Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”
Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”
“Richard Kim got this right above: ‘a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.’ He’s dead on,” Tomasky continued. “We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.”
(In an interview Monday, Tomasky defended his position, calling the ABC debate an example of shoddy journalism.)
Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, “why don’t we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?” Schaller proposed coordinating a “smart statement expressing disgust” at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama.
“It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort,” Schaller wrote.
Tomasky approved. “YES. A thousand times yes,” he exclaimed.
The members began collaborating on their open letter. Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones rejected an early draft, saying, “I’d say too short. In my opinion, it doesn’t go far enough in highlighting the inanity of some of [Gibson's] and [Stephanopoulos’s] questions. And it doesn’t point out their factual inaccuracies …Our friends at Media Matters probably have tons of experience with this sort of thing, if we want their input.”
Jared Bernstein, who would go on to be Vice President Joe Biden’s top economist when Obama took office, helped, too. The letter should be “Short, punchy and solely focused on vapidity of gotcha,” Bernstein wrote.
In the midst of this collaborative enterprise, Holly Yeager, now of the Columbia Journalism Review, dropped into the conversation to say “be sure to read” a column in that day’s Washington Post that attacked the debate.
Columnist Joe Conason weighed in with suggestions. So did Slate contributor David Greenberg, and David Roberts of the website Grist. Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, helped too.
Journolist members signed the statement and released it April 18, calling the debate “a revolting descent into tabloid journalism and a gross disservice to Americans concerned about the great issues facing the nation and the world.”
The letter caused a brief splash and won the attention of the New York Times. But only a week later, Obama – and the journalists who were helping him – were on the defensive once again.
Jeremiah Wright was back in the news after making a series of media appearances. At the National Press Club, Wright claimed Obama had only repudiated his beliefs for “political reasons.” Wright also reiterated his charge that the U.S. federal government had created AIDS as a means of committing genocide against African Americans.
It was another crisis, and members of Journolist again rose to help Obama.
Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to “particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media” who were members of the list.
The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all. Instead, “It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.”
Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. “All this hand wringing about just how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going.”
“Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You’ll forgive me if I just can’t quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama’s pastor,” Hayes wrote.
Hayes urged his colleagues – especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way – to bury the Wright scandal. “I’m not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don’t think he’s worthy of defense, don’t defend him! What I’m saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable,” Hayes said.
(Reached by phone Monday, Hayes argued his words then fell on deaf ears. “I can say ‘hey I don’t think you guys should cover this,’ but no one listened to me.”)
Katha Pollitt – Hayes’s colleague at the Nation – didn’t disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. “I hear you. but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita,” Pollitt said.
“Part of me doesn’t like this shit either,” agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”
Ackerman went on:
I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
Ackerman did allow there were some Republicans who weren’t racists. “We’ll know who doesn’t deserve this treatment — Ross Douthat, for instance — but the others need to get it.” He also said he had begun to implement his plan. “I previewed it a bit on my blog last week after Commentary wildly distorted a comment Joe Cirincione made to make him appear like (what else) an antisemite. So I said: why is it that so many on the right have such a problem with the first viable prospective African-American president?”
Several members of the list disagreed with Ackerman – but only on strategic grounds.
“Spencer, you’re wrong,” wrote Mark Schmitt, now an editor at the American Prospect. “Calling Fred Barnes a racist doesn’t further the argument, and not just because Juan Williams is his new black friend, but because that makes it all about character. The goal is to get to the point where you can contrast some _thing_ — Obama’s substantive agenda — with this crap.”
(In an interview Monday, Schmitt declined to say whether he thought Ackerman’s plan was wrong. “That is not a question I’m going to answer,” he said.)
Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman’s strategy. “I think it’s worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he’s trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he’s not going change the way politics works?”
But it was Ackerman who had the last word. “Kevin, I’m not saying OBAMA should do this. I’m saying WE should do this.”
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Reporters at Pravda weren’t this insufferable
By Andrew Breitbart
Journalists love whistleblowers. Just not when the whistle is blown on them. Journalists love transparency. As long as they’re not the ones being exposed.
No journalistic steadfast rule is unbendable when it comes to justifying and protecting the racket that is modern journalism, specifically, political journalism in the United States today. The ends justify the means for the Democrat Media Complex. They lie when they claim to be objective. They lie when they claim to be unbiased, because these so called “truth seekers” are guilty of engaging in open political warfare. And when the whistle is blown, they simply double down. “Journolist” — like Media Matters, but more insidious, if that’s possible — is an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.
Talk radio and the Internet have allowed outsiders the ability to challenge a multiple generational shift from journalism being about the story, to journalism being crafted toward a partisan end. From Newsweek killing the Lewinsky story to the Swift Boat veterans (until the undermedia pressure got too big) to the Dan Rather implosion to the open attempt to keep the Al Gore masseuse story under wraps to the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter debacle to the Van Jones admission of missing the story to the networks ignoring the ACORN video footage to the media playing up trumped up charges of racism in the Tea Party — while ignoring exculpatory evidence to the mother of all media-as-political weaponry: the non-vetting of candidate Obama, the mainstream media has shown that it is in an ideological death spiral. And the ground is right here.
American journalism died today. What The Daily Caller has unearthed proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that most media organizations are either complicit by participation in the treachery that is Journolist, or are guilty of sitting back and watching Alinsky warfare being waged against all that challenged the progressive orthodoxy. The scandal predictably involves journalists posing as professors posing as experts. But dressed down they are nothing but street thugs. They deserve the deepest levels of public consternation. Will they get it?
The only way that the media will recover from the horrifying discoveries found in the Journolist is to investigate and investigate until every guilty reporter, professor and institution is laid bare begging America for forgiveness. Will they do it?
If the powers that be don’t comply with this demand, we can always call Jonathan Alter and Eric Alterman racists.*
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E-mails reveal Post reporter savaging conservatives, rooting for Democrats
By Jonathan Strong
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv.
“Too soon?” he wondered.
Weigel was hired this spring by the Post to cover the conservative movement. Almost from the beginning there have been complaints that his coverage betrays a personal animus toward conservatives. E-mails obtained by the Daily Caller suggest those complaints have merit.
Please continue HERE for the rest of this very interesting article
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Conservatives Karl Rove and Fred Barnes respond to Journolist ‘racist’ post
By Chris Moody
The Daily Caller revealed Monday that then-Washington Independent reporter Spencer Ackerman argued during the 2008 presidential campaign that the best way to combat criticism of President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright was to accuse those who raised the issue of racism.
“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us,” Ackerman wrote on the Journolist listserv in April 2008. “Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
While many members of the group voiced concerns about Ackerman on strategic grounds, there seemed to be no clear disagreement with the substance. The strongest repudiation came from Mark Schmitt, now at the liberal magazine the American Prospect, who said the tactic of calling conservatives racist would do nothing to advance the argument.
Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes and former White House senior adviser Karl Rove told The Daily Caller they were disappointed that there was not more criticism from other Journolist members for Ackerman’s plan of attack.
“I’d like to hear an explanation from those who participated in the Journolist about this,” Barnes said. “Why didn’t they quit the thing when smearing other journalists to help Barack Obama was advocated? Why didn’t they denounce the idea in unison?”
Rove played down the notion that members of the mainstream press agreed with Ackerman but he said he found it curious that such talk was tolerated within the group. It was important, he added, not to judge the motives of members who chose not to respond.
“I thought it was a revealing insight in the attitude of one minor player in the D.C. world of journalism,” Rove said of Ackerman’s comments. “It’s an even more important insight into a broader group of more prominent journalists that they seem to be willing to tolerate the suggestion that they should all tell a deliberate lie or that they should take somebody’s head and shove it through a plate glass window. I would hope that somebody would say, ‘Mr. Ackerman, do you really believe we ought to fabricate a lie about people just because we don’t agree with them?’”
Barnes added that even if there was an effort on the left to smear opponents as racists, the plan wouldn’t work.
“The charge has been made so often without any evidence that it has lost its sting,” he said. “It has become the last refuge of liberal scoundrels.”
Mother Jones magazine writer Kevin Drum, who participated in the Journolist discussion and worked for the Washington Monthly at the time, said in an interview Monday that charges of racism should only be used “sparingly.”
“It’s not something you should do unless you’re really, really sure,” he said.
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And just a few snipets from Rush's show yesterday:
All right, there is a huge story out there today, but it could be even bigger, and it should be even bigger. It is from Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website, The Daily Caller, and it is about this Journolist, and what it shows is something that we have known all along, and that is that there's not just media coordination in order to advance the Democrat Party agenda and to rip and ridicule, criticize Republicans and conservatives. It's not just coordination. It is an outright propaganda campaign.
So liberals don't just lie, they lie to destroy people. No smear is too low or outrageous when it comes to conservatives.
So something that you and I have known instinctively all along has now been confirmed by the people at the Journolist, these people are in collusion. They're not journalists whatsoever. And any of you in this audience, if you are a journalism school graduates you ought to be ripped to shreds over this. There is a journalist conspiracy out there, we've all known it, it existed to elect Obama, it exists today to reelect Democrats and Obama, and it's done so for years and years and years.
So to say that this is just a small-time blogosphere that's involved in collusion is a big mistake. It's no accident Bob Schieffer has no idea about the New Black Panther Party. It's no accident that Charlie Gibson -- what was the story that he had no idea about while he was on vacation? ACORN. It was no accident Charlie Gibson didn't know about the ACORN tapes that Breitbart had uncovered. He didn't know about it. If it's not in TIME Magazine, if it's not on the other two networks or any of the three, if it's not on CNN, not in the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, they don't know about it. They're insulated. They live and exist for each other. You and I are three times as informed as the so-called veneered fourth estate. You and I know more about what's going on in this country than they do, and they are the ones with the arrogant condescension looking down on all of us. The only way they can discredit us is to call us names.
The best way to say it is there is nothing that is media as you and I think of media. There are no reporters. The media is simply an arm of the left. It is the Democrat Party
Marxism, socialism, whatever you want to call it, it's the left -- and they are all considered to be members of the ruling class, and that ruling class has its agenda.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
WOW!
If the framers of the constitution were writing it today, instead of being concerned with separation of church and state, they would insist on separation of media and state.
Today our media is nothing more than a branch of the government and a tool for the destruction of our liberty.
With the media in this country, Obama has a thousand Goebbels. Hitler had one.
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:49 AM | Comments (6)
July 17, 2010
Obama's Next Act by Charles Krauthammer
Krauthammer warns Republicans: Don't underestimate Obama as he prepares for Act Two
Obama's Next Act
by Charles Krauthammer
In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House.
I have a warning for Republicans: Don't underestimate Barack Obama.
Consider what he has already achieved. Obamacare alone makes his presidency historic. It has irrevocably changed one-sixth of the economy, put the country inexorably on the road to national health care and, as acknowledged by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus but few others, begun one of the most massive wealth redistributions in U.S. history.
Second, there is major financial reform, which passed Congress on Thursday. Economists argue whether it will prevent meltdowns and bailouts as promised. But there is no argument that it will give the government unprecedented power in the financial marketplace. Its 2,300 pages will create at least 243 new regulations that will affect not only, as many assume, the big banks but just about everyone, including, as noted in one summary (the Wall Street Journal), "storefront check cashiers, city governments, small manufacturers, home buyers and credit bureaus."
Third is the near $1 trillion stimulus, the largest spending bill in U.S. history. And that's not even counting nationalizing the student loan program, regulating carbon emissions by Environmental Protection Agency fiat, and still-fitful attempts to pass cap-and-trade through Congress.
But Obama's most far-reaching accomplishment is his structural alteration of the U.S. budget. The stimulus, the vast expansion of domestic spending, the creation of ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see are not easily reversed.
These are not mere temporary countercyclical measures. They are structural deficits because, as everyone from Obama on down admits, the real money is in entitlements, most specifically Medicare and Medicaid. But Obamacare freezes these out as a source of debt reduction. Obamacare's $500 billion in Medicare cuts and $600 billion in tax increases are siphoned away for a new entitlement -- and no longer available for deficit reduction.
The result? There just isn't enough to cut elsewhere to prevent national insolvency. That will require massive tax increases -- most likely a European-style value-added tax. Just as President Ronald Reagan cut taxes to starve the federal government and prevent massive growth in spending, Obama's wild spending -- and quarantining health-care costs from providing possible relief -- will necessitate huge tax increases.
The net effect of 18 months of Obamaism will be to undo much of Reaganism. Both presidencies were highly ideological, grandly ambitious and often underappreciated by their own side. In his early years, Reagan was bitterly attacked from his right. (Typical Washington Post headline: "For Reagan and the New Right, the Honeymoon Is Over" -- and that was six months into his presidency!) Obama is attacked from his left for insufficient zeal on gay rights, immigration reform, closing Guantanamo -- the list is long. The critics don't understand the big picture. Obama's transformational agenda is a play in two acts.
Act One is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses, whether de facto or de jure.
The rest of the first term will be spent consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act Two.
The next burst of ideological energy -- massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education and "comprehensive" immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) -- will require a second mandate, meaning reelection in 2012.
That's why there's so much tension between Obama and congressional Democrats. For Obama, 2010 matters little. If Democrats lose control of one or both houses, Obama will probably have an easier time in 2012, just as Bill Clinton used Newt Gingrich and the Republicans as the foil for his 1996 reelection campaign.
Obama is down, but it's very early in the play. Like Reagan, he came here to do things. And he's done much in his first 500 days. What he has left to do he knows must await his next 500 days -- those that come after reelection.
The real prize is 2012. Obama sees far, farther than even his own partisans. Republicans underestimate him at their peril.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
Krauthammer is a wise man. In short, his advice is keep your powder dry. Obama does not see this as the end and neither should we. We make lite of him at our peril.
I think Krauthammer is entirely right. For one thing, Obama has been building a group of mindless sycophants and for another, the new black panthers are being allowed, even encouraged, to disruption elections. Beware. This man is evil and he is dangerous. A second Obama term would effectively end our Constitutional Republic.
Another term for that communist Obama is unthinkable. There’s a good chance he’ll destroy the country in one term. A second term would guarantee that, not only would he destroy the country, but he’d drive a stake through its heart and we’d NEVER recover from it. Truly U-N-T-H-I-N-K-A-B-L-E the damage the SOB would do with another four years.
One of the positive things we have going for us is that the American people remeber the better times of the 80s, 90s and most of the 00s and will want them back.
Obama and the democrats are Godless, anti-American, and sickly perverted.
I refuse to accept defeat. If enough people wake up and also if enough people would LOVE America, we might have a chance and then get a Republican HOUSE and SENATE elected this November. Then maybe they can vote to defund "Obamacare."
If we do not win and win big enough to really take our country back I am terrified as to what will happen. Evil people and forces are at work to literally destroy the country. They seek to revers the 234 year experiment and go back to the dark ages where power and money is always concentrated into the hands of the few and the rest are slaves.
This is why November is so important. Take the House and the Senate back. Put a stop to all this crazyness. There’s not choice here. It has to be done.
De-fund, repeal, outlaw, and ignore. We have plenty of weapons but we must be willing to use them when the time comes.
Otherwise, we face the same scenario that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about life in the old Soviet Union, described back in 1974:
Things have almost reached rock bottom. A universal spiritual death has already touched us all, and physical death will soon flare up and consume us both and our children–but as before we still smile in a cowardly way and mumble without tongues tied. But what can we do to stop it? Why haven’t we the strength? We have been so hopelessly dehumanized that for today’s modest ration of food we are willing to abandon all our principles, our souls, and all the efforts of our predecessors and all opportunities for our descendants – but just don’t disturb our fragile existence. We lack staunchness, pride and enthusiasm. We don’t even fear universal nuclear death, and we don’t fear a third world war. We have already taken refuge in the crevices. We just fear acts of civil courage.
We fear only to lag behind the herd and to take a step alone - and suddenly find ourselves without white bread, without heating gas and without a Moscow registration.
We have been indoctrinated in political courses, and in just the same way was fostered the idea to live comfortably, and all will be well for the rest of our lives. You can’t escape your environment and social conditions. Everyday life defines consciousness. ..........From Live Not By Lies. Washington Post, February 18, 1974.
Those of us who survive the mass murder and atrocity that 0bama's minders have planned for us will face something very much like this. Solzhenitsyn also said that if we submit to this, we cannot call ourselves human. And he's right.
So we need to De-fund, repeal, outlaw, and ignore. And rain hell down on those who seek to force us to do otherwise.
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July 15, 2010
Black Panthers, you're free to go – not so fast, Arizona by Ann Coulter
Black Panthers, you're free to go – not so fast, Arizona
by Ann Coulter
So I guess all that hysteria about the Arizona immigration law was much ado about nothing. After months of telling us that the Nazis had seized Arizona, when the Obama administration finally got around to suing, its only objection was that the law was "pre-empted" by federal immigration law.
With the vast majority of Americans supporting Arizona's inoffensive little law, the fact that Obama is suing at all suggests that he consulted exclusively with the craziest people in America before filing this complaint (which is to say, Eric Holder's Justice Department).
But apparently even they could find nothing discriminatory about Arizona's law. It's reassuring to know that, contrary to earlier indications, government lawyers can at least read English.
Instead, the administration argues, federal laws on immigration pre-empt Arizona's law under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
State laws are pre-empted by federal law in two circumstances: When there is a conflict – such as "sanctuary cities" for illegals or California's medical marijuana law – or when Congress has so thoroughly regulated a field that there is no room for even congruent state laws.
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If Obama thinks there's a conflict, I believe he's made a damning admission. There's a conflict only if the official policy of the federal government is to ignore its own immigration laws.
Only slightly less preposterous is the argument that although Arizona's law agrees with federal law, Congress has engaged in "field pre-emption" by occupying the entire field of immigration, thus prohibiting even harmonious state laws.
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Field pre-emption may arise, for example, in the case of federal health and safety laws, so that manufacturers of cars, medical devices and drugs aren't forced to comply with the laws of 50 different states to sell their products nationally.
And yet, just over a year ago, the Supreme Court held that there was no "field pre-emption" even in the case of an FDA-approved anti-nausea drug because Congress had not explicitly stated that state regulation was pre-empted.
The drug, Phenergan, came with the warning that, if administered improperly (so that it enters an artery), catastrophe could ensue.
In April 2000, Phenergan was administered improperly to Diana Levine – by a clinician ignoring six separate warnings on Phenergan's label. Catastrophe ensued; Levine developed gangrene and had to have her lower arm amputated.
Levine sued the health center and clinician for malpractice, and won.
But then she also sued the drug manufacturer, Wyeth Laboratories, on the grounds that it should have included more glaring warnings about proper administration of the drug – like, I don't know, maybe a flashing neon sign on each vial.
Wyeth argued that since the Food and Drug Administration (after 54 years of study) had expressly approved the warnings as provided, state tort law was pre-empted by the federal drug regime.
But the Supreme Court held that Congress had to make pre-emption explicit, which it had not, so Levine was awarded $6.7 million from Wyeth.
If ever there were a case for "implicit pre-emption," this was it. Without federal supremacy for the FDA's comprehensive regulation of drugs, pharmaceutical companies are forever at the mercy of state and local laws – and trial lawyers – in all 50 states.
As much as I would like pharmaceutical companies to rot in hell for their support of Obamacare, I might need their drugs someday. Now, drug prices will not only have to incorporate R&D costs, but also the cost of paying for trial lawyers' Ferraris. (Perhaps that should be listed as a side effect: "Caution! Improper use may cause nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, and six new houses for John Edwards.")
But the point is: According to the Supreme Court's most recent pre-emption ruling, Arizona's law is not pre-empted because Congress did not expressly prohibit state regulation of illegal aliens. In fact, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the pre-emption argument against state laws on immigrants – including laws somewhat at odds with federal law, which the Arizona law is not.
In the seminal case, De Canas v. Bica (1976), the court held 8-0 that a California law prohibiting employers from hiring illegal immigrants was not pre-empted by federal law.
The court -– per Justice William Brennan – said that the federal government's supremacy over immigration is strictly limited to: 1) a "determination of who should or should not be admitted into the country," and 2) "the conditions under which a legal entrant may remain."
So a state can't start issuing or revoking visas, but that's about all it can't do.
Manifestly, a state law about illegal immigrants has nothing to do with who enters legally or the conditions of their staying here. Illegal aliens have neither been "admitted into the country" nor are they "legal entrants."
Indeed, as Brennan noted in the De Canas case, there's even "a line of cases that upheld certain discriminatory state treatment of aliens lawfully within the United States." (You might want to jot some of this down, Mr. Holder.)
So there's no "field pre-emption" of state laws dealing with aliens, nor is there an explicit statement from Congress pre-empting state regulation of aliens.
On top of that, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld state laws on immigrants in the face of pre-emption challenges. Arizona's law is no more pre-empted than the rest of them.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Excellent, informative article by Ann.
Obama is emulating the banana republics via his Attorney General sanctioning the actions of these black panther thugs. This and his Ayres (domestic terrorist) and ACORN and Union connections is how this obama guy rules his kingdom
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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July 11, 2010
The Dreams And Audacity Of Barack Obama: ‘Progress’ Report by Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
The Dreams And Audacity Of Barack Obama: ‘Progress’ Report
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Dossier on Eric Holder: In a speech given during Black History month, AG Eric Holder labeled Americans as a bunch of “cowards” when it comes to race issues. During testimony before Congress, when asked if the Jihadist assassin of Fort Hood soldiers was inspired by radical Jihad, Mr. Holder refused to implicate radical Islam. No one in the Administration including deputy director of Homeland Security, Brennan, will state that Islamic terrorists are a specific threat to our nation---despite decades of destruction and mass murder which culminated in ‘911’. Arizona has been overrun by half million illegals with little border security response by the Federal government. There are even reports that Jihadists travel through South America to Mexico and then penetrate our southern border. Mr. Holder’s response, sue Arizona. Last week a DOJ lawyer resigned and testified under oath that his colleagues were ordered by the DOJ to dismiss a blatant case of white voter intimidation and threats by three black supremacists at a Philadelphia polling place, and further, to never prosecute cases against blacks who commit violations of the Voting Rights Act. Wonder if Mr. Holder knew this? So what conclusions can we draw about Eric Holder’s allegiance and his commitment to upholding the Federal laws which he is entrusted to enforce? Is he an American patriot? If not, to whom is his allegiance?
Dossier on Barry Soetoro—alias Barack Hussein Obama: Kenyan-borne and schooled in Muslim Indonesian school. Moved to America but hides his significant past at great expense. During his run for high office claimed to be a Christian. Elected by morons on the abstract platform of transparency and change with promise that all government business would be conducted openly with no hidden agenda. Mr. Obama without Congressional approval appointed over 30 ‘Czars’ to oversee his perverse un-American socialist programs. Turns out most of them range from self-avowed Communists to socialists, all conspiring with the Administration to destroy American capitalism and redistribute wealth as occurs in Fascist states. They started with takeover of the auto industry, with part ownership given to Obama’s SEIU supporters (basically Chicago union bosses and their thugs) who, with Obama’s help, want to amongst other things adopt a policy in which workers cannot vote secretly on controversial issues ‘near and dear’ to their bosses. Then, Mr. Obama and his social engineering appointees, with help from dishonest liberal extremist leaders in Congress, rammed a bankrupting healthcare law down the throat of Americans designed to ultimately give the Federal government control of not only your healthcare and access to all of your personal information, but ultimate control of your lifespan through rationing of care---all this at the hands of massive bureaucracy which will leave our healthcare system in shambles. All programs and paybacks combined, Mr. Obama has quadrupled the national debt since Bush left office, keeping in mind that budget overruns began under the Democratic Congress during Bush’s last term as Pelosi and Reid circumvented the President through special appropriations. The current fiscal path is terminal. It destroys America’s solvency. Finally, during Congressional recess this week, Obama appointed a non-practicing physician who publicly advocates rationing of care to head Medicare and Medicaid.
When Arizona tries to protect its borders from the surge in violent crime committed by Mexican drug and human trafficking cartels, Mr. Obama not only does not respond with Federal aid, but allows Mexican hypocrite and President Calderon to tell America that we should not block illegal immigration (Calderon obviously does not want all those millions of Mexican illegals sent back to Mexico). Worse, Holder and Obama not only refuse to enforce Federal laws, but have filed a lawsuit against Arizona. If that is not enough, the Feds will not prosecute ‘sanctuary cities’ for violations of existing law. Are they patriots?
Other assaults on American values, freedom and safety by the Left:
* Assault by Chicago’s Mayor Daley on law-abiding citizens’ access to firearms for self-defense, in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that citizens have a right to possess firearms for that purpose. How? Daley’s new handgun registration requirements are so expensive and difficult that weapons will still primarily be in the hands of criminals. So why does the Mayor have armed bodyguards with automatic weapons? Is Daley a patriot?
* The Second Amendment states that ‘We the People’ can own and bear arms not only for self-defense but also in order to restore our government when taken over by tyrants. The Court conveniently forgot to mention that last part. Four of the high Court’s judges are apparently clueless about the 2nd Amendment since they voted against it. Are they patriots?
* Anti-American conduct: The Feds are allowing Muslims to conduct a convention in Chicago for the purpose of recruiting young Jihadists. Government is systematically targeting symbols of Christian religion while allowing public Islamic celebrations in Washington and turning a blind eye to the will of ‘We the People’ with regards to construction of mosques at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center. What next? Sharia Law? Remember that Obama for 20 years attended a church ‘pastured’ by a racist who preaches hatred of America and ‘white people’. Remember that Obama was quick to blame a white Cambridge cop as racist for arresting a black professor who resisted the officer’s request for identification. Michelle Obama publicly noted that she never was proud of America until her (narcissistic egomaniacal) husband was elected President. Are these American patriots?
* The Administration shows lack of support for the traditional family while condoning gay and transgender unions in speeches and by enforcing a new law that employers must allow a transgender parent up to 12 weeks off each year for ‘bonding’ to their children. Mr. Obama has nominated an unqualified non-committal Leftist to the Supreme Court, who has never been a judge or practicing attorney. Instead, she has written and spoken in favor of such heinous crimes as partial birth abortion.
Add it all up and we have a corrupt, lawless, bigoted, anti-Judeo-Christian Administration, which actively creates division along ethnic and racial boundaries in order to further their agenda. That agenda is to eradicate the Judeo-Christian nation whose values evolved for more than 235 years so as to enable every American to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is not the nation Obama and Holder and their radical supporters have in mind. Through creation of crises, their two-pronged approach is to seek national insolvency as well as division of the People with the goal that they can control and ultimately destroy the once-great nation of America which was founded through the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Constitution.
November is critical and the other half of all Christians who don’t bother to vote need to wake up or lose it.
Wild Thing's comment........
I agree people need to wake up. If things to not change in November big time, so that it shows we ARE taking our country back, it will be too late. I really believe this. We need to be talking up the elections now to anyone we can. Let them know things if they are not paying attention.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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July 01, 2010
"It’s Bush’s Fault" by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
It’s Bush’s Fault
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Before beginning, in the last essay, titled “Useful Idiots, Freedom’s Enemy” I made a comparison between Alex Haley’s “Roots” to the larger context of U.S. Americans having a need to know and understand this Nation’s roots. A number of readers reminded me that Haley’s book, although portrayed as an authentic investigation was a work of fiction mixed with its own version of reality. They are right and I was wrong for not making that distinction clear and I appreciate having the issue called to my attention.
That noted, the following are a number of reflections and some logically founded conjecture and opinions about Obama’s “most transparent administration in history.” It is intended as both informative and entertaining even though some of the conjecture might well be accurate.
“Hope and Change!” “We need it because it’s Bush’s fault.” “Yes, we can!” “Rahm, call Blago for me, you know what to do. Right. Yes, I want Valerie for the Illinois U.S. Senate seat I vacated; just make sure I have deniability.” “Law, what law? Everybody makes deals like Sestak, Valerie and Romanoff;” golf, basketball, smoke.Smoke, golf; trillion dollar stimulus, “needed because of Bush’s tax breaks for the rich;” smoke, golf, smoke, golf, golf, “Why not Valerie?” “He wants what? Cabinet appointment?! We’d better cool it Rahm.” Smoke, look pensive. Four hundred billion omnibus spending bill, “necessary because it was Bush’s fault;” smoke, golf, smoke, golf, golf, golf, act cool. W.A.T., otherwise known as the “World apology tour,” “all because of Bush’s go it alone policy;” golf, smoke, basketball, golf, smoke, golf, basketball, golf, golf, smoke; “Bush alienated the world.” Act humble. Smoke. Air Force One over Manhattan for photo op, “the girls’ joyride has gone too far;” smoke, golf, smoke, “besides, it was Bush’s fault.” Act cool, golf.
“No more War on Terror there are only angry jihadists because we used to support Israel. We don’t want to offend Muslims, let’s call it ‘Overseas Contingency Operation;’” “the 9-11 attacks were Bush’s fault, the ‘green jobs’ Czar said the attacks were an inside job;” party, golf, party, sneak a smoke, golf, basketball, golf, party.
“Rahm, cram through universal health bill, begin raising taxes right away, hold off on benefits until 2014, raise taxes on the middle class; huh? What are you saying, I promised not to raise taxes?” “We have to raise taxes, our spending is unsustainable,” “we need another stimulus,” “we’re out of money.” “Very difficult choices ahead on deficits.” “We definitely need another stimulus.” “What? The North Koreans want how many trillions? That’s a great crisis. We can use it as an opportunity to push the Congress to pass ‘Cap and Trade’ so we can raise taxes some more to pay them. Yes, and to help with Obama care and even cover some of my other deficit spending; also, let’s put some strong arm on BP for more money.” Golf, party, smoke, basketball.
“By the way, Rahm, I want the power to pull the internet plug on anyone who opposes what I am doing to America.” “How are we doing at the Blago trial? What? That S.O.B. is doing what? Pointing fingers my direction? I thought I told him I wouldn’t stand for that!" This one must be Cheney’s fault. Golf, basketball, smoke, snort.Increase National Debt Limit to 13 trillion dollars, “it’s Bush’s fault for giving tax breaks to the rich;” basketball, golf, smoke, party, golf.
“I need to clear my mind,” “that’s Bush’s fault too;” sneak a smoke, golf, golf, basketball, party, give media the slip; golf, party, swat a fly during interview, act cool; Declare the U.S. is not a Christian nation then declare that the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim nations in the world. Ignore Netanyahu but roll out the red carpet for Hamas; “Rahm get me four hundred million for Gaza to arm themselves against the Israeli aggressors, oh? You’re a Jew? I never noticed.” “Let’s see, whose fault is this one? What the hell, Bush used to be President, you pick which one, it’s Bushes’ fault;” party, golf, smoke, midnight basketball.
“Michelle, let’s take a ride in Air Force One to clear my mind.” “What do you mean, ‘where do you want to go, sir?’ Kenya of course, to visit my real relatives since I am a son of Africa, my roots are there, somewhere, or is it Hawaii, I forget.” “We have to have prior clearance? Don’t they know that I’m President of the United States, that the buck stops with me and I can do whatever I want?” “On our way, tell China that I want to meet to discuss their human rights violations. Pause. What I meant to say was, discuss our human rights violations in Arizona against illegal immigrants.” “What? I’ll have to wait? For what? Because Bill Clinton is at the World Cup? What’s that got to do with it?” Smoke, party, basketball, helo to Andrews A.F.B., snort some cocaine, smoke a joint, ah, relax. “Have you sent Churchill’s bust back to England yet?” “Be sure to include my latest speeches for the Queen, I know she’ll be impressed.”
Afghanistan going south, “that’s definitely Bush’s fault,” fire McChrystal: “McChrystal was a rightwing plot to embarrass me. What? McChrystal voted for me?” Golf, golf, party, golf, “the economy is on track,” “the loss of eight million jobs is permanent, pause, but we need more illegal immigrants;” “it’s Bush’s fault;” golf, golf, party, sneak smokes.
Hire Patreaus, fly to Florida to visit white sand beaches with cleanup workers bussed in for photo op; fly to Ohio for ten minute speech, “who cares about forcing workers to take a day off?” Impose onerous banking regulations; golf, basketball, sneak more smoke, golf.
Threaten to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants by Executive Order; sneak two smokes, party, golf, basketball.
Do nothing about open southern border for eighteen months; “Bush didn’t secure the border, why should I have too?” Refuse to meet with Arizona Governor until outcry becomes very loud; “Where is Bush when I need him to blame?” Golf, basketball, party, sneak three smokes.
Meet with Arizona Governor, promise twelve hundred troops, but do not plan to deliver, “Bush’s fault;” smoke, “The Gulf oil spill is right wing talk radio’s fault;” golf, smoke, basketball. Sue Arizona for its law that’s designed to defend itself. “We can’t have States defending themselves, who do they think they are?!” Hold the border open as hostage for “comprehensive immigration reform.” Sir, what is “comprehensive immigration reform?” “That’s granting amnesty to illegal immigrants who already in the country so that they will always vote Democrat.” “Senator, look, if I seal the border, you people won’t have a reason for comprehensive immigration reform, get it?” Golf, smoke a joint, golf, basketball.
“All the problems are Republicans,’ ‘tea baggers,’ Palin’s, and Blago’s fault. I need to clear my mind;” golf, golf, golf, smoke, smoke, basketball, smoke, golf, pause. “On second thought, they are Bush’s fault.”
“Hey! ‘Betray us,’ pause, I mean General Petraeus, you got us out of Afghanistan yet?” “What?! You just got there?!” “Wadda do you mean, you’re changing the rules of engagement so those ‘little people’ in uniform can defend themselves? Don’t you know I have the safety of Muslim terrorists, sorry, Jihadists and Taliban to be concerned about?” “Those people in uniform volunteered, so what’s their beef with risking their lives, and by the way, since they volunteered tell them to buy their own health and life insurance if they want coverage, oh, yeah, tax them the cost of their transportation to and from Afghanistan and Iraq?” Golf, smoke, basketball, snort, relax.
“Rahm, have you directed Daily Kos to remove the remarks about General “betray us” form our website now that I’ve made the brilliant move of appointing him to head up our cut and run policy from Afghanistan; gotta get that done before the next general election you know?”
“This oil spill thing, that was absolutely Dick Cheney’s fault, he planned and caused the blowout while he was still VP; What? We just finished inspecting that well and gave them a safety award? Then, it’s all BP’s fault, they must have colluded with Cheney and did it on purpose; they’re pissed because of the Churchill bust thing. Yes, I am well aware that they donated more to me than to all other candidates.” Smoke, party, basketball, golf.
“Put your boot on BP’s neck! Damn the Jones Act, we’re gonna kick some ass. Smoke, party, golf, basketball; “damn the Jones Act even more, we have to support our base: you know, Soros, Gore, Clinton, etc., SEIU, illegal immigrants, ACORN, ACLU, Abortionists, Gays, Lesbians, and Muslims; damn the wildlife, tourism, fishing industry and drilling industry, damn those bastards who want to make money, damn the dollar. In fact! God damn America!” pregnant pause, “Ooops!” Golf, smoke, snort, basketball, party.
Hey Rahm, tell the Republicans that if they don’t support my nomination of Kagan for the Supreme Court that I’ll direct MSNBC, CBS, CNN, and ABC label them racist, homophobe, misogynists!” “Be sure to contact Brzezinski, you know, the female on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, she’s been working with us all along.” “By the way, how are we coming in shutting down talk radio?” Golf, golf, smoke, basketball.
“Can’t you people see that we’re busy spreading the wealth around? You people need to quit your harping, just get out there and volunteer; it’s our turn, we have welfare recipients, SEIU, illegal immigrants, and tax cheats, communists, and socialists in my administration to support!”
But, sir, where’s the money to come from? There are no new jobs except for government census workers and fourteen thousand new IRS enforcement jobs, the private sector ones that are there are being taken by illegal immigrants and businesses are leaving faster than fleas on a dead rabbit. We are out of money; a hundred per cent taxes for a generation won’t pay the debt. What are you doing? Where’s the Hope and Change?! Oh, I see, “Bite me” said the economy is on track? But sir, I thought you said that?
“Ah, shut up! It’s all Bush’s faulty economic policies of tax breaks for the rich that caused all this!” Openly smoke, smile big, golf, party, basketball, and begin celebration of the destruction of the greatest economy the world has ever known! “What do you mean the American people don’t like what I’m doing? Do you think I care what the American people like or don’t like, want or don’t want!?” “I won the election, didn’t I?”
“Hey Blago! What the hell are you doing out there?” Smoke, party, basketball, golf, chin in air, look down nose, turn head to profile to look like Lenin, look off in distance; “Rahm, find a Carp Czar right after you find Blago Czar!” Golf, smoke, basketball, golf.
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
I love it , the Col,. ia so good,. He hit so many things in this one.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
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June 26, 2010
Have the Democrats Learned Anything from Vietnam?
Have the Democrats Learned Anything from Vietnam?
By Michael Filozof
The Vietnam War was the defining event for the modern Democratic Party. Nearly four decades after the war ended, we ought to ask if the Democrats learned anything from Vietnam that is applicable to Afghanistan.
In Vietnam, the U.S. fought an insurgency in a remote, forbidding jungle that neutralized our tactical advantage. In Afghanistan, we are fighting an insurgency in remote, forbidding mountains that neutralize our tactical advantage.
In Vietnam, the insurgents had no armor and no air power. They attacked American patrols with jury-rigged explosives called "booby traps." In Afghanistan, the insurgents have no armor and no air power. They attack American patrols with jury-rigged explosives called "IEDs."
In Vietnam, a socialist country tried to defeat the insurgents before the U.S. became involved. It failed. It was called "France." In Afghanistan, a socialist country also tried to defeat the insurgents before the U.S. became involved. It also failed. It was called the "Soviet Union."
In Vietnam, American involvement began by sending advisers, Special Forces, and CIA operatives. Nine years later, we had hundreds of thousands of troops in combat brigades stationed there. In Afghanistan, American involvement began by sending in advisers, Special Forces, and CIA operatives. Nine years later, we have combat brigades and over a hundred thousand troops stationed there.
In Vietnam, the insurgents routinely obtained assistance and sanctuary in a foreign nation where U.S. forces were forbidden to go. It was called "Cambodia." In Afghanistan, insurgents routinely obtain assistance and sanctuary in a foreign nation where U.S. troops are forbidden to go. It is called "Pakistan."
In Vietnam, the U.S. sought to protect the population from insurgents through a program called "Strategic Hamlets." It didn't work. In Afghanistan, the U.S. is seeking to protect the population from the insurgents with a program called "Clear, Build, and Hold." It isn't working, either.
In Vietnam, the U.S. supported a corrupt ruler who rigged elections in an attempt to give his regime a veneer of legitimacy. His name was "Diem." In Afghanistan, the U.S. is supporting a corrupt ruler who rigged elections to give himself a veneer of legitimacy. His name is "Karzai."
In Vietnam, the U.S. declared that its goal was to train and equip an indigenous force to hold off the insurgents by themselves. They were called the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam). The ARVN turned out to be incompetent and corrupt. In Afghanistan, our strategy is to train and equip indigenous forces called the ANA (Afghan National Army). The ANA is also incompetent and corrupt.
We fought in Vietnam for over a decade, but Congress never declared war on Vietnam. We have fought in Afghanistan for nine years with no end in sight, and Congress has not declared war on Afghanistan, either.
The Vietnam War was escalated by a Democratic president named "Johnson." Johnson could not afford to look soft on communism in the 1964 campaign because his Republican opponent was a hawkish fighter pilot from Arizona named "Goldwater." The Afghanistan war was escalated by a Democratic president named "Obama." Obama could not afford to look soft on terrorism in the 2008 campaign, because his Republican opponent was a hawkish fighter pilot from Arizona named "McCain."
Although Johnson was responsible for escalating the Vietnam War, his real interest was in domestic politics, where he presided over a massive expansion of the welfare state and created expensive federal health care programs called "Medicare" and "Medicaid." While Obama is responsible for escalating the Afghan war, his real interest is in domestic politics, where he has massively expanded the welfare state and created an expensive federal health care program called "Obamacare."
Rather than leave the battlefield tactics in Vietnam up to his field commanders, Johnson was known for micromanaging the war and manipulating bombing strategies and other rules of engagement that prevented the U.S. forces from going all-out. In Afghanistan, Obama has micromanaged the war with restrictive rules of engagement that prevent the U.S. forces from going all-out.
In Vietnam, the United States lost. In Afghanistan...we're not winning.
Have the Democrats learned anything from Vietnam? Actually, they have learned many important lessons.
First, they have learned that anti-war riots and protests should be conducted only against Republican presidents, not Democratic presidents. (Isn't it amazing how Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan disappeared after George W. Bush left office?)
Second, they have learned to not send Jane Fonda to enemy territory to pose for enemy propaganda photos. Unlike the warm reception she received in Hanoi, the Taliban would probably behead her live on the internet for failing to wear a burqa.
Third, they have learned that if a Democratic presidential candidate plans to conduct a foreign policy of national self-abasement and groveling before our enemies, it is probably better to not announce it during the campaign. George McGovern promised that he'd "crawl on his hands and knees to Hanoi and beg for peace" in 1972 and lost 49 states. Obama did not apologize to the Muslim world and bow before foreign monarchs until after he was elected.
Finally, the most important lesson the Democrats have learned is that they should not draft long-haired, stoned hippies and America-hating radicals on college campuses and send them to war. They'll only riot and try to bomb the Pentagon (like Bill Ayers did). And it makes no sense to offend the voters who are virtually guaranteed to support the Democratic Party anyway.
It's far better to prosecute a war with patriotic, America-loving volunteers from red states who probably voted Republican in the first place, and to play them for suckers by sending them on a mission about which you've said you're "uncomfortable" using the term "victory."
The Democrats have indeed learned a lot from Vietnam, haven't they?
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Wild Thing's comment........
Goldwater wanted a quick win and less of our troops lives killed, he wanted to bomb the hell out of the North, and force them into submission, and he said so openly. And he was right!! But saying so openly caused him the election. It freaked people out to hear strong talk of how to fight a war to win and people went with LBJ instead.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
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June 25, 2010
MacArthur Defeats Truman: The Real McChrystal Message by Jeffrey Lord
MacArthur Defeats Truman: The Real McChrystal Message
By Jeffrey Lord
Harry Truman was no dove.
But Douglas MacArthur made him look like one.
And the political consequences for Democrats of Truman's legendary dismissal of the iconic hero of World War II -- at the height of the Korean War -- were both dramatic and long-lasting. In fact, those consequences are part of the political baggage of the American left -- and the Obama administration -- to this day. It is a history that stirs yet again with the decision of President Obama to fire General Stanley McChrystal in the wake of the now infamous Rolling Stone interview with the General and his aides.
First, the history.
World War II was over, and the world celebrated. Within a month of Truman's decision to drop two atomic bombs -- the brand new weapon of the day -- on Japan, the Japanese had finally yielded. General Douglas MacArthur, the hero of the Pacific Theater, had accepted the Japanese surrender onboard the battleship USS Missouri.
MacArthur was quickly installed as, in effect, the American Shogun of Japan in the aftermath of the war. Working effectively to keep the Japanese tradition of the Emperor yet melding it with a solid constitutional underpinning of democracy, the General played no small role in helping the Japanese people recover and thrive as the Asian democracy they have been ever since.
Yet while MacArthur was busy reconstructing Japan, Truman was coming to the recognition that the Soviet Union was turning from an American ally against Hitler to its central dream of imposing a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the world. The Cold War had begun.
Americans, still celebrating and trying to resume the joys of a normal civilian life, were finding themselves increasingly caught up in a bewildering if not frightening new world they simply hadn't seen coming. It wasn't the peace they thought they had won.
Startling accusations flew along with a host of new names.
Gone were FDR and the bulk of the household names that had filled the newspapers, radio newscasts and newsreels since 1932. In their place were tumultuous allegations of Communist spies in the government, secretly salted throughout the Roosevelt and now Truman administrations. A young California Congressman named Richard Nixon burst on the scene helping a Time magazine editor named Whittaker Chambers expose an ex-FDR aide named Alger Hiss as a Communist spy. A Wisconsin veteran styling himself "Tail-Gunner Joe" McCarthy was elected to the U.S. Senate in the 1946 elections and soon was making accusations of communists in government. Abroad, the United States was finding itself in one crisis after another with Communism. Berlin was blockaded, Greece was under assault, Mao Tse-tung toppled the Chinese government. Winston Churchill pronounced the reality of what he called "The Iron Curtain." The Russians -- with the help of American spies -- had gotten their hands on The Bomb.
And inside the Democratic Party an at-first almost invisible fissure began to widen and show itself, separating Truman from self-described left-wing "progressives" as represented by his predecessor as FDR's vice president, Henry Wallace. The dividing line? How to deal with the Soviet Union and its increasingly relentless drive to remake the world -- by murderous force -- in the Communist image of Marx and Lenin.
In this new era, on June 25, 1950, Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, stunning both Truman and the world. No slouch in taking action, Truman quickly arranged for the new United Nations -- a decision from which the Soviets had deliberately absented themselves -- to call for a police action and send member country troops to South Korea. MacArthur, the hero of World War II who had spent much of his career in Asia, was called from Japan to take command.
Which, in his usual and famously imperious fashion, he did. In MacArthur's world Truman, while president, was little more than the failed haberdasher and crass World War I artillery captain that was the caricature of Truman's political enemies. The notion that fate would have Truman giving orders to MacArthur simultaneously amused and infuriated.
There were increasing clashes between the two. Most behind the scenes, but increasingly some leaking into the media of the day. Even more irritatingly to Truman -- and, in retrospect a sign of the historic division to come -- MacArthur was picking up allies among prominent Republican conservatives in Congress.
In particular, the once isolationist-leaning GOP of the 1930s was now focusing on the new Communist threat. And what it perceived as the growing problem internal to the Democrats, as exemplified by Henry Wallace and his "progressives." The problem? Weakness towards Communism, a philosophy that was, with increasing clarity, seen as a sworn enemy of America, freedom and democracy. A re-start of the war just ended by other means. In the vernacular of a day that was belatedly yet correctly sensitive to the rise of Hitler -- Republicans saw this as appeasement. Appeasement of Communism. And this time, the GOP had no intention of sitting on the sidelines as many felt it had during Hitler's rise to power and war.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Interesting read. The essence of the Spectator article is that McArthur was tougher on communism that Truman and from that time on the American people saw democrats as weaker on communism than republicans. In fact, the article states that the firing of McArthur was the beginning of the transformation of the democrat party into the party of appeasement which has culminated in the Obama presidency. The article concludes that since the American people support toughness over appeasement, Truman may have fired McArthur but McArthur won in the end.
Obama is no Truman. McChrystal is no MacArthur. MacArthur was a Republican and McChrystal is a democrat. And he’s certainly not the only or even principal cause for Obama’s precipitously declining approval ratings. But we can at least hope that the above article and snipet of history gets repeated.
Truman lost China and was a wimp on Communism. If MacArthur had his way we would not be worrying about China or North Korea.
Truman didn’t run in 52 cause his approval rating was in the tank.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM | Comments (4)
June 19, 2010
Charlie “Judas, Benedict Arnold” Crist by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Charlie “Judas, Benedict Arnold” Crist
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Someone recently labeled Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist as “Judas” Crist, an apt description. Surprised? It really should not be to anyone who has observed his motivation and modus operandi. Those characteristics are well established: Crist’s motivation has been, is and will be self-aggrandizement, and his modus operandi, self-serving.
So, just who is Charlie Crist? If voters are satisfied with more of the same from Democrats in Washington for the last four years, Crist would fit their expectations perfectly. He is a careerist politician whose modus is an anemometer that automatically aligns itself with whatever direction, and turning at the same velocity that the wind happens to be blowing; always with his finger in the air.
So, if the economy is blowing in the direction of freedom and free markets, that would be Crist’s mantra. If however, it is free market bashing, Crist would stand tall with the bashers, à la Obama. If it is about smaller government, Crist would mouth “smaller government,” but if public sentiment were in favor of strong centralized government, Crist would be at the head of the line. Like all careerist politicians, Crist is in it for Crist and voters are the “little people” who both serve him and to whom Crist panders for votes.
Crist’s inherently leftist self came to the surface in recent months and is accurately reflected in a June 16th article on the Politico website, by Jonathan Martin. The writer stated:
“The governor has vetoed an education reform bill teachers unions didn’t like, vetoed a bill abortion rights advocates didn’t like, reversed his stance on gays in the military, reversed his support for offshore drilling and come out for the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan, after opposing Sonia Sotomayor when he was running as a Republican.”
Any politician who decides to change his fundamental beliefs, if he had them in the first place, is another indicator of what is wrong with this country. All one had to do is be present in Northwest Florida during the 1994 elections to observe Democrat politicians abandon their Party by the horde and flock en masse to the Republican Party because at the time it became the “only game in town.”
Even local U.S. Representative, Jeff Miller, a Republican, made the switch from Democrat to the Republican Party days before running for State office. To his credit he has consistently voted “conservative,” but to his political damnation he is a careerist, and political careerism is central to the economic and social damage that this country has suffered for the past sixty years. They make one sick!
Two years ago it was evident to anyone who bothered to study Obama understood that he would intentionally attempt to crash the economy. Exercising normal powers of observation and common sense one can tell that Obama’s and Democrats’ effort in that regard has not waned with the passage of time.
When Rush Limbaugh created a tempest in a tea pot by “hoping that Obama fails,” he, along with all rational observers understood that the direction that Obama was going to take the country was radically different than the preceding two hundred thirty two years of unprecedented and unequalled success.
By his own words and actions Obama eschews the U.S. Constitution while feigning respect for it; by his actions, notwithstanding his words, he is antipathetic to the core American principles and values of hard work, creativity, exceptional-ism, honesty, integrity and leadership.
One reader was astonished when nearly eighteen months ago I wrote that Obama would work to intentionally reduce the U.S. to third world status. It should now be evident to anyone, given his track record thus far and his present abysmally incompetent handling of the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history, (in which I believe he is both complicit and has intentionally exacerbated), that he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
He may actually feel sorry for the people who are suffering, but that suffering is at Obama’s hand. With even minor understanding of the blowout catastrophe Obama would have immediately waived the Jones Act and allowed the Dutch to loan containment vessels (and still could), that would have contained the majority of the spill but continues largely unabated, and will until relief wells are completed later this summer.
So, why would he intentionally try to harm the US economy? The answer is simple if one has taken the time to study Obama, and I have. He is doing it in order to fraudulently acquire extra-constitutional powers and impose a form of socialism with an Islamic twist from whence he sprang, upon the nation. Alas, Khrushchev’s prediction, “we will bury you” will come true unless Americans show their children that there is a better way; and that way is the Christian faith, free market economy, and liberty and justice for all.
Obama’s Sharia Islamic socialism would be infinitely worse than Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s Soviet communism that accounted for about one hundred million killed during their reign of terror. His Muslim roots and vision for America carried through to fruition would inflict a form of servitude that no generation of Americans, including the dark days of slavery has ever experienced. It is a disaster that could come true; remember “Hope and Change?” What the world is witnessing is “Hope and Change” Obama style, enabled by Democrats like of back stabbing Arlen Specter, Charlie “Judas Benedict Arnold” Crist, and other likeminded political traitors.
Our children and grandchildren deserve better!
L. A. St.Onge CW4, USA (Ret) writes: “Politicians won't vote term limits for themselves so we must do it for them.”
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment........
Thamk you so much Col.Pappas!!! I hope and pray Crist does NOT get elected.
And he is right about Obama too.
" He is doing it in order to fraudulently acquire extra-constitutional powers and impose a form of socialism with an Islamic twist ..."
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 08:47 AM | Comments (3)
June 13, 2010
Motion Sickness From Washington By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Someone sent this to me and I thought it fit well with this write up below.
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Motion Sickness From Washington
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Common sense and self-preservation have been turned upside down and backwards by the Destructionists in Washington. The reason is simple---dunces enamored by promises for undefined ‘change’ have voted liberal extremists into power for the first time in American history. Every week the list of idiotic decisions by the current Administration gets longer. Practical solutions to problems are replaced by misguided ideology which not only compounds current problems, but creates new ones. Unfortunately for us, that gives them plenty of opportunities to ‘let no crisis go to waste’ (Rahm Emanuel).
Americans are fed up with crises nurtured by the Obama Administration. Every week we hopscotch from one disaster to another digging America into a deeper hole on the global landscape. A few weeks ago Mr. Obama hosted Mexico’s president who was allowed to publicly condemn enforcement of our Federal laws by Arizona. This was quickly followed by an apology to China, a leader in human rights violations, for the ‘inhumane’ Arizona law which protects citizens from invasion by illegals. The Obama Administration’s response to Arizona was to send lawyers from the Justice Dept and to race-bait the populace.
Almost simultaneously, we learn the Dutch, one of several nations worldwide who possess technology to clean up massive oil spills, were turned away by the Obama Administration on the 3rd day after the BP rig exploded. The Dutch were told they were not needed. I have witnessed numerous interviews of CEOs and inventors who have methods of skimming vast quantities of oil from the sea, but each one notes lack of response by the Administration to their overtures.
Instead, the Administration sends lawyers to investigate for possible criminal charges against BP. Even worse, the liberal extremists who run the circus react by enacting a moratorium on drilling activity, despite recommendations to the contrary by industry advisors, ignoring the dire consequences to the fragile American economy which will result along with the greater risk inherent in shutting down active drilling ops.
What is missing here is not the entrepreneurial input which has always made America a world leader for dealing with catastrophic events, but rather the lack of receptivity by our rogue government for practical private-sector solutions.
We all recognize that the BP rig explosion is a serious incident. And most of us know that accidents will happen. This was the first time a rig explosion of this magnitude has occurred despite many decades of offshore drilling. But the opportunistic Left just this week gave the EPA broad powers to regulate environmental ‘pollutants’, heretofore a power delegated only to Congress.
This is their backdoor approach to cap and trade, a product of the Left’s ideology which replaces practical common sense energy solutions such as drilling in ANWR (Alaska) as well as further development of offshore drilling while nuclear energy and oil shale resources are developed.
How ironic that this ‘clean green energy’ Administration run by lunatics will go down in history as ignoring well-known practical solutions to cleaning up the BP spill, thus resulting in the biggest environmental catastrophe ever, while simultaneously weakening America’s security by blocking time-efficient development of energy self-sufficiency.
Did you vote for them?
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Wild Thing's comment........
Excellent write up. I really believe Obama wants this to fail and then take over the drilling and ban it.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:44 AM | Comments (3)
June 10, 2010
Charlie Crist? Florida’s Specter by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
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Crist? Florida’s Specter
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
I met Charlie Crist once or twice during his visits to the Florida panhandle before he became Governor. He seemed friendly enough, but having observed him over the years my opinion galvanized that he always has been exactly what he is turning out to be, a liberal in conservative clothing. Crist is a political opportunist, careerist chameleon changing stripes for convenience or advantage for the sole purpose of advancing his political career. In a recent statement Crist bemoaned the loneliness of not having party support for his campaign, probably a terminal observation since cogent voters can now see for themselves just who he is; and that will make him really lonely.
Crist ran as a head-fake conservative and once ensconced revealed that he had no interest in the conservative social issues which topped those among which he ran for Governor and which helped sweep him into office. But, during his term he conveniently sidestepped proposed legislation that would tighten abortion rules as well as homosexual issues, specifically as the latter relates to redefining marriage. Crist’s convenient dodge was always his limp-wristed excuse that he had more important things to deal with; not surprisingly first and foremost being his political career.
Never one to miss getting his face on TV, Crist followed McCain around like one puppy following another in heat, that is, until McCain was beaten. After that it was not long before the Crist/Obama embrace. Right on Charlie at least you let your true colors show. Being a man after his own heart, Crist repeatedly declared that he would run as a Republican, not an Independent for the November elections but evidently could not bear seeing his career slip away as he was being crushed by upstart Rubio.
Like any other self-serving politician Crist forgot his pledge, and now, as an Independent in a not so covert act but a rare moment of integrity removed pro-life information from his website since he has lost the conservative vote anyway trading it for the pro-abortion vote. He might just as well show his true colors like other socialists/democrats who finally came clean with their votes for so called, “Health Care Reform.” Americans can see them at last for what they really are and can make an informed decision on how to vote instead of being duped by their fraudulent centrist rhetoric. Charlie Crist fits right in with the putrid D.C. crowd and if he is what some Florida voters want in the U.S. Senate, they should vote for him.
Of the choices for the U.S. Senate from Florida: Meeks is a racist who doesn’t have a clue or a chance; and, his own democrats are in the process of throwing him “under the bus” in favor of supporting Crist, Florida’s version of Arlen Specter. On the other hand, one may be no more enthralled with Rubio than any other careerist politician; but I will vote and it won’t be for the first two.
Americans should pray that Obama will be fired by voters sooner than later and along with him all those politicians who have made a career of spending American taxpayers’ money while feathering their own nests with it. Crist fits right in with that putrid crowd! Florida voters should show him retirement so that he can spend fulltime with his new wife.
I cannot resist writing a few words about the “Wicked Witch” of the White House Press Corps; what was her name? Yes, I know but decline to dirty this essay with it. One of the more striking images was her diminutive, shriveled up, hunched over witch-like figure being embraced by Obama and his Joker smile in the White House briefing room. All she was missing was the broom and black hat and Obama, the painted face. What a pair! On a positive note, at long last a liberal icon tells it like they really feel about Israel and one more layer of the noxious liberal onion has been peeled back for the nation to see. Israel’s right to self-defense is self-evident and anyone who disagrees can go to hell because today, I am a Jew!
Semper Fidelis
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Wild Thing's comment........
Great write up by the Col. I love reading his opinion on things.
It is amazing what people sell their souls for as in Charlie Crist and what he has done.
Obama is supposed to be coming to Florida, I would bet that Charlie is all panting with excitment to see him again.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 06:48 AM | Comments (2)
June 06, 2010
Liberals, New Age Slave Masters by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
Liberals, New Age Slave Masters
by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired
One never thought that a President of the United States and members of a major political party would actively work together to destroy this country. If such activity were to happen in Iran, China, the USSR, or Eastern Europe, one would understand, even applaud. But the United States of America? To anyone watching events, the fact that the Obama Administration and Democrat Congress are actively at work to destroy the goose that laid the golden egg is so obvious that prospects for the nation’s future are for the first time in my adult life, unsettling.
Increasing voices call for armed revolt; and should that happen, so be it. But in the mean time cool heads must prevail and work to crush Obama and his destroyers at the ballot box before they have a chance to make taking America back impossible short of the use of arms, which is their goal, and this becomes a nation of elitists running the country, and de facto slaves preening the elitists’ “feathers.” No doubt some, like Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and just as likely Obama given his manifest attitude and writings, revel at that possibility of “the chickens coming home to roost” for white middle/mainstream America, who incidentally had zero to do with slave descendants’ social or economic condition.
On the subject of slavery, there is more to slavery than involuntary servitude: there is slavery of the mind and heart where one is told what to believe and/or think, what to watch or not to watch, to listen to or not; denial of the human right to pray in public facilities under the guise of “separation of church and state;” restricting if not destroying the right of free speech on talk radio by enacting laws that would require equal time for opposing points of view at the expense of the original proponent; taking ones earnings to “spread around;” forcing the procurement of a product or service, such as mandatory health care; effectively forcing workers to become members of a labor organization whether they want to or not as in “card check” by removing the right to a secret ballot and subjecting workers to union thug intimidation with respect to their vote; and, encouraging, if not demanding “volunteer” service that potentially serves a political party or objective; etc., to name a handful of enslavement frameworks.
There is income slavery where one hundred percent of the fruits of one’s labor, per Obama’s father, are taken by the government and the government decides who gets what and how much, except for elitists. Slavery is where the government keeps income producing Americans alive to support those who do not contribute to themselves or to anyone else. And, on the subject of “keeping alive,” given Obama’s underlying philosophy and his likeminded Czars with whom he has surrounded himself to carry out his wishes, there is little doubt that those who become a drain on “society” would be terminated whether ready or not and/or willing or not.
Survey the state of the country that liberals have created and dominate and decide which, “Hope and Change” or conservatism would be preferable:
The U.S. presently “enjoys” all time high unemployment, crime, drug abuse, homicide, rape, theft, business and political corruption, domestic violence, pornography, child: molestation, abandonment, and abuse, elder abuse, perverted sexual behavior, AIDS, divorce, and illegal activity from a White House that declares openness and transparency but where the opposite is true, using thugs to intimidate voters, and fostering if not inspiring massive voter fraud; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives pretending to be a Catholic Christian while in practice being neither.
Additionally, there are constant liberal attacks on freedom of speech to silence opposition. It isn’t conservatives making those attacks, it is liberals who impute conservatives with their own hatred and declare dissent or criticism as racism or “hate speech.”
The foregoing are the fruits of “liberalism;” and liberals’ solution is to invent yet another government program to fix the “fix” from which the foregoing indicators grew. No wonder that one talk show host says that “liberalism is a mental disorder.”
If ever there was a time that mastodons of the “Silent Majority” should abandon their silence, it is now! Instead of accepting Colin Powell’s recently stated nonsense, “it’s a different era,” this is America folks; the “Silent Majority” should speak out, write and inform one’s Senators and Representative of one’s attitudes, and in the event of noncompliance to those voters’ attitudes and wishes, crush them at the ballot box.
Fortunately, there is a growing army of conservatives who are at long last willing to take on liberals at every level. For that, one can thank God. And while mentioning God, it is notable that He instructed all to “love our enemies” and to “pray for our leaders,” who in the instant case are one and the same.
While one does not hesitate to point out both error and fault, one should pray that the nation’s leaders will have their blinded eyes opened, repent and abandon their concerted efforts to destroy (“totally change”) this nation.
Semper Fidelis
Wild Thing's comment.......
Well done, he is really good.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at 05:47 AM
May 28, 2010
ElRushbo and Zev Chafets Book: "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One"
Rush Limbaugh: I know I'll be destroyed eventually
He's the most-listened-to personality in the history of U.S. radio, but Rush Limbaugh feared for his life recently and said he knows he faces destruction at some point, to the delight of some of the American public.
In an e-mail sent to Zev Chafets, author of the new book "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One," Limbaugh admitted, "I know I am a target and I know I will be destroyed eventually. I fear that all I have accomplished and all the wealth I have accumulated will be taken from me, to the cheers of the crowd. I know I am hated and despised by the American Left."
The message was sent the day after President Obama laughed at comedian Wanda Sykes' joke about Limbaugh's death during last year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
In a diatribe against Limbaugh, Sykes said: "Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' – I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?"
The dinner was broadcast nationally on C-SPAN, and a clip has been posted on YouTube, with Sykes' remarks about Limbaugh beginning at the two-minute mark:
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Obama can clearly be seen laughing as Sykes delivers her line about Limbaugh's kidneys failing.
"He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs," she continued.
In "An Army of One," Chafets notes that while Obama laughed at the kidney-failure joke, he stopped grinning when she started talking about waterboarding.
"He saw the humor in hooking Rush up to a broken dialysis machine, but waterboarding was nothing to joke about," writes Chafets.
"Atypically, Limbaugh didn't say a word on the air about Sykes' routine, or the fact that the president of the United States had smiled broadly, in front of the entire country, about the prospect of his death. He was disconcerted, though, and he was right to be. He was in first place on the enemies list of the president of the United States."
Limbaugh is also in favor of homosexual civil unions, according to Chafets.
"He regards homosexuality as, most probably, biologically determined, and while he opposes gay marriage as culturally subversive, he has no problem with gay civil unions – which is the stance of President Obama and Hillary Clinton," the author explains.
When it comes to his thoughts about broadcasting colleague Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, Limbaugh likened him to the buffoonish TV anchor portrayed by actor Ted Knight on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show."
"He's Ted Baxter. Sorry, but somebody's got to say it," Limbaugh noted. "I never mention others on the air, and I don't engage in contrived rivalry crap. That's bad business; it encourages people not to hear the station you are on."
Limbaugh does make an exception for CNN's Larry King, whom Chafets says Rush truly doesn't like.
"He never had nice things to say about me, from 1988 to the present," Limbaugh explained. "He was working midnights [on the radio] when I started and demanded that his syndicator move him to afternoon drive when my success was obvious. He bombed and quit radio for CNN exclusively."
On his radio program today, Limbaugh got provocative against the Obama adminstration when he agreed with one of his callers that Obama was deliberately doing little to resolve the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to further his leftist agenda against drilling and capitalism in general.
"Everything is political. They want the disaster," Limbaugh emphasized.
"I know this is a tough thing for some of you to believe and hear because we don't think of presidents this way, but we got one now and an entire administration that do think this way – that everything that happens must be seen through the prism of 'Is it a political opportunity or is it a political liability?'
"If you doubt this, it's been six weeks. We now have Democrat commentators all suggesting that we know President Obama cares, but he's gonna have to do something to show it. He's gonna have to use a little emotion out there. The cool, calm Obama is not what we want."
"These are not things that you can fake," Limbaugh continued. "[If] you care about something, you care about it. If it really angers you, you get angry about it. When you're a leader and things like this happen and you think people are being lackadaisical in fixing it, then you step in and you see to it that everybody heels to. There hasn't been any of that. There's been the usual political posturing. ...
"We don't have a leader. Obama's not a leader. He's an exploiter. He creates problems. He exacerbates them for the express purpose of taking advantage of them, pure and simple, folks."
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ElRushbo speaking about this book:
From his website, transcript from his show yesterday ( May 27th)
An Army of One. It's by Zev Chafets. Zev is the writer who did that cover piece on me, the New York Times Magazine, what was it, two years ago? Yeah, just about that. I spent 16 hours with him, interviewing. It's not a biography. It's certainly not an authorized biography. It's got some biographical stuff in it but it's not primarily a biography. I've had a lot of e-mail exchanges. To this day I have not read the whole thing. I've thumbed through it -- you know, check a page here, check a page there. (interruption) Well... Snerdley says, "Why not?" I don't read anything about myself. I haven't read the New York Times piece all the way through.
I just don't. If they get it right I already know it, and if they get it wrong it's par for the course. So, you know, why bother? It is what it is. But I have talked to a number of people. Snerdley thought it was okay. H.R.'s got a couple nitpicks with it.
I don't recall ever saying that George Bush was "a preppie snob," George Bush 41. I don't recall ever saying that, and Zev still doesn't understand my attitude about racial problems in the country but those are minor things. He tried. He tried to get it. (interruption) Well, here's the way that came about. He asked me a question. I think he said he asked you about July 4th, Independence Day, and he said that July 4th's no big deal to you.