"WE THE VETERANS"

WHEN, WHERE AND WHY DID THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGIN AND END?  WHAT CAUSES WERE IN PLAY THAT LED UP TO THAT DATE? DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS?  IF YOU ANSWER  YES, THEN CONGRATULATIONS.  YOU ARE IN THE 5 PERCENTILE OF WE THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING AT ALL OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HER VETERANS.  TODAY I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO SOME OF THOSE PLACES AND PERHAPS THEN YOU WILL SEE WHY I REFER TO ALL OF US AS "WE THE PEOPLE", BUT TO A SELECT GROUP THAT WENT BEYOND, RISKED LIFE AND LIMB, AND PUT THEIR VERY EXISTENCE ON THE LINE FOR THIS GREAT NATION.  THEY ARE KNOWN TODAY AS OUR NATIONS VETERANS AND I REFER TO THEM NOW AS "WE THE VETERANS." I COULD NOT BEGIN TO ENTAIL WARS AND DETAILS IN A BLOG, SO IT IS UP TO YOU THE READER TO TAKE YOURSELF THERE. I WILL TELL YOU OF "WE THE VETERANS"

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGAN BACK IN THE 1730'S AND 40'S.  CHURCHES OTHER THAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WERE SPRINGING UP AND MOTHER ENGLAND DID NOT LIKE THAT.  ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAY A SQUAD OF BRITISH TROOPS WOULD SHOW UP AT A CHURCH, ROUST OUT THE CONGREGATION, BURN THE CHURCH DOWN AND RAPE THE YOUNG WOMEN.  SECRET BRIGADES WERE FORMED IN THE CHURCHES,KNOWN AS THE BLACK ROBE BRIGADE WHICH BECAME THE FIRST VETERANS, KNOWN AS THE MINUTEMEN.  PASTOR PETER MUHLENBERG, ON THE DAY THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FIRED AT CONCORD, RIPPED OFF HIS BLACK ROBE TO REVEAL AN OFFICERS UNIFORM OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL ARMY.  THUS LED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, CAME THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON, CONCORD, AND THE WINTER OF VALLEY FORGE.  VIRTUALLY OVER HALF OF THE COLONISTS DID NOT WANT THE WAR AND WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO REMAIN LOYAL TO THE QUEEN.  IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT ALWAYS OCCURS WHEN A SMALL GROUP DOES THE TASK OF MANY.  THIS MIGHTY NATION THAT ROSE UP OUT OF THE ASHES OF CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS OWES IT'S ROOTS AND VERY BEGINNINGS TO THE VETERANS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1774-1783.  THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS LASTED TEN YEARS FROM 1785 TO 1795, FOUGHT BY "WE THE VETERANS" OF THE CANADIAN MILITIA.  THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR LASTED FROM 1798 TO 1800.  THOMAS JEFFERSON COMMISSIONED 12 WAR SHIPS AND 5000 MARINES IN THE BARBARY COAST WAR FROM 1801 TO 1805.  A MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN WAR MUCH AKIN TO THE TERRORIST WARS WE SEE TODAY, "WE THE VETERANS", ( MOSTLY MARINES WITH SOME NAVAL PERSONELL ) SET FREE THOUSANDS OF US SAILORS IMPRISONED FOR BEING CHRISTIANS.  "WE THE VETERANS" ALSO DEALT A GREAT BLOW TO THE MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE, FREEING THOUSANDS OF SLAVES AND CONCURRING WITH THE BRITISH TO MAKE SLAVE RUNNING ILLEGAL.  

KNOWN AS OUR "SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE,  OR THE WAR OF 1812, IT WAS FOUGHT MOSTLY ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDERS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND WATERWAYS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND ATLANTIC OCEAN. IT EVEN COMPRISED AN ATTACK FROM THE BRITISH ON NEW ORLEANS, WHERE "WE THE VETERANS" EULOGIZED IN JOHNNY HORTON'S SONG, "THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS."  ANDREW JACKSON AND WITH HELP OF CARIBBEAN PIRATE JEAN LAFITTE DEFEATED THE BRITISH.  AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT SAW OUR WHITE HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND BY AN OVERWHELMING BRITISH FORCE SEEKING TO ONCE AGAIN MAKE US ROYAL SUBJECTS OF THE KING. AGAIN IT WAS "WE THE VETERAN" THAT KEPT AMERICA FREE AND OLD GLORY FLYING. 

IN 1815, ONCE AGAIN THE MUSLIM FORCES OF THE BARBARY COAST REARED IT'S UGLY HEAD, AND ONCE AGAIN "WE THE VETERANS" ANSWERED THE CALL.  FROM THERE "WE THE VETERANS" DID NOT BACK DOWN FROM FREEDOM'S CALL FIGHTING A MULTITUDE OF BATTLES AND WARS IN  A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST BELOW:

Second Barbary War or Algerian War	Algiers	1815	American victory
First Seminole War

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825

West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations	Caribbean Pirates	1817-1825	United States victory
African Anti-Slavery Operations	African Slave Traders	1819 - 1861	Atlantic slave trade suppressed by 1865
Callao Affair	Spain	November 5–6, 1820	Spanish vow to punish those responsible for attacks on American shipping.
Arikara War	Arikara	1823	The Arikara eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota
Aegean Anti-Piracy Operations	Greek Pirates	1825–1828	United States victory
Winnebago War or Le Fèvre Indian War	Prairie La Crosse Ho-Chunks, with a few allies	1827	U.S. victory; Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the U.S.
Black Hawk War or Black Hawk Campaign	Black Hawk's British Band, with Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi allies	May–August 1832	United States victory
First Sumatran Expedition	Chiefdom of Kuala Batee	February 6 – 9, 1832	United States victory
United States Exploring Expedition	Fiji Samoa Tabiteuea	1838 - 1842	Successful expedition, victory in battle against aborigionals
Second Seminole War or Florida War	Seminole	December 23, 1835 – August 14, 1842	3,800 Seminoles transported to Indian Territory, 300 left in Everglades
Second Sumatran Expedition

 

 I HAVE CHOSEN TO GO ON WITH THIS CHRONOLOGICAL WAR LIST IN YET A SERIES OF BLOGS, SO THAT WE MAY FOCUS ON THE SUBJECT OF "WE THE VETERANS." SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IN THE EARLY DAYS OF AN EMERGING NATION, "WE THE VETERANS" BECAME A BATTLE HARDENED GROUP OF RAG TAGGED SOLDIERS DEFENDING THEIR FLAG TO THE BITTER END, A FLAG THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY EMERGE WITH A FIELD OF 50 STARS THAT ARE NOW ONCE AGAIN THREATENED.  ONLY THIS TIME WE ARE LIABLE TO AGAIN IMPLODE FROM THE ENEMY WITHIN, BOTH SIDES VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS TO A POINT OF POSSIBLE NO RETURN.  VIOLENT RHETORIC AND RACIALLY CHARGED LANGUAGE THAT WILL SERVE NO GOOD IN THE SAVING OF A NATION.  SO ONCE AGAIN WE MUST LOOK TO "WE THE VETERANS" TO LEAD THE NATION OUT OF A MESS AND ERA OF FRIVOLITY. 

ONCE AGAIN I CALL FOR ALL VETERANS TO JOIN TOGETHER, AND AS COLONEL JACK TOOLEY URGED, LET US NOT RETIRE IN THE SENSE THAT WE MUST REMIND AMERICA OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE.  FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, BUT IT IS THE AMERICAN VETERAN THAT MUST PAY THAT PRICE, IT IS THE AMERICAN CITIZEN THAT DRINKS THE MILK AND HONEY, AND IT IS THE AMERICAN POLITICIAN THAT RAPES,PILLAGES AND PLUNDERS OUR NATIONAL TREASURY INTO A 14 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT.  "WE THE VETERANS" NEED NOT ENTER THE VITRIOLIC POLITICAL ARENA IN ORDER TO HELP RESTORE FREEDOM AND VALUES IN AMERICA.  BUT IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT APPARENTLY MUST RISE TO LEAD THE WAY, AS OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" HAVE PROVEN BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT CROOKS, LIARS, AND CAREER POLITICIANS.  NIXON SAID "I AM NOT A  CROOK", HE WAS A CROOK.  CLINTON SAID "I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL", HE DID HAVE SEX WITH THAT GIRL.  BUSH STARTED THE STIMULUS THAT HAS LED US DOWN THE PATH OF FINANCIAL DESTRUCTION.  OBAMA HAS ADDED MORE TO THE DEBT THAN ALL PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM COMBINED.  ROOSEVELT, KENNEDY, EISENHOWER, AND MANY OTHER PRESIDENTS HAD MISTRESSES.  IT IS IRONIC THAT THE VERY PEOPLE THAT RUN OUR COUNTRY HAVE A COMMON VEIN OF IMPROPRIETY AND LACK OF TOTAL MORAL VALUE. THE COUNTRY IS BROKE.  THE COUNTRY IS SPIRITUALLY BEREFT. THE COUNTRY IS WITHOUT AN ECONOMIC ENGINE OR ON A VIABLE COURSE OF CORRECTION WITH A REAL LEADER AT THE HELM AND THE RUDDER.  THE COUNTRY IS ON THE VERGE OF A CIVIL/RACIAL WAR, IF WE DO NOT ALL BACK DOWN, TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE.  "WE THE VETERANS" MUST RISE ABOVE ALL OF THIS AND HELP CALM, HELP LEAD, AND USE ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND WITS THE MILITARY TAUGHT US TO SAVE A GREAT NATION.  MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE VETERANS", MAY GOD BLESS "WE THE PEOPLES", AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA AS A FAVORED NATION.  Hb

THE GOOD

TODAY WE LOOK TOWARD NEXT SUNDAY, A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  IT IS A GOOD AND KIND AMERICA THAT HAS HELD TOGETHER, AND DID NOT LOOSE OUR COMMON GOOD.  IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY EASY TO HAVE GONE OFF HALF COCKED AND STARTED A WORLD WAR OVER THAT DAY AS WAS DONE ON DECEMBER 7, 1941.  INSTEAD WE CONDUCTED LOW LEVEL CAMPAIGNS TO ROUTE OUT THE TERRORISTS, NOW A COMMON THREAD THROUGH TWO PRESIDENTS AND PROBABLY TO BE CONTINUED ON PAST 2012. UNTIL WE TOTALLY DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS WHO CONTINUE TO SEEK MORE 9/11'S,  LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE CAN SOON BRING HOME ALL OF "WE THE VETERANS" FROM TWO THEATERS OF WAR AND ENTER AN ERA OF PEACE.

THE BAD

THE BAD TODAY IS THE NEWS THAT WE WILL LEAVE A MERE 3000 NAKED AMERICAN VETERANS AT THE MERCY OF A YET UNSTABLE NATION OF IRAQ AND THE NEIGHBORING NATION OF IRAN.  ANY IDIOT IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE SETTING UP ANOTHER BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN.  IF THEY ARE GOING TO LEAVE SUCH A SMALL INDEFENSIBLE FORCE, THEN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NEEDS TO GO TO THE UN AND NATO AND TURN IT OVER TO THEM AND BRING ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN HOME FROM IRAQ.  THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY FOLKS. 

THE UGLY

TODAY JIMMY HOFFA MAFIA JUNIOR CALLED THE TEA PARTY MEMBERS "SON OF A BITCHES", AND IN VICIOUS VITRIOLIC AND SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE SUGGESTED THAT WE ARE NOT AMERICANS. FIRST OF ALL MR. HOFFA, THE APPLE DID NOT FALL FAR FROM THE TREE, BUT FAR BE IT FROM ME TO FIT YOU WITH CONCRETE SHOES. I WILL NOT HAVE TO, SOMEONE OF YOUR CALIBER WILL.  SECONDLY MR. HOFFA, MY MOTHER IS NOT A BITCH, AND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU IN THE GYM IN A BOXING RING FOR THAT ONE.  THIRDLY MR. HOFFA, YOU APPARENTLY SEEMINGLY SPEAK FOR THE PRESIDENT AS HE DID NOT RECUSE YOU FOR YOUR ANGRY DIRTY TONGUE.  WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS CALL FOR CALM AND LESS RHETORIC?  FOURTHLY MR. HOFFA,  I AM TIME HARDENED AND BATTLE TESTED AND I AM A TRUE BLOODED AMERICAN THAT WOULD NEVER EVER SPEAK IN PUBLIC AS YOU HAVE.  NOR WOULD I EVER NEVER EVER  OFFEND EVEN ONE OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS IN SUCH A WAY.  IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT GIVE OF OUR LIFE BLOOD TO GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, BUT NOT THE RIGHT TO ABUSE IT.  YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE THE DAY YOU WILL REGRET THE UGLY NATURE OF YOUR BEAST, AND SOMEDAY YOU WILL STAND BEFORE YOUR MAKER.  WHAT WILL YOU CALL HIS MOTHER?????  

     

 

"A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE"

HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL, AND MAY ALL VETERANS BE ENJOYING A DAY OF REST WITH THEIR SPOUSES DOING WHAT THEY ENJOY MOST.  BUT A QUESTION COMES TO MIND.  SHOULD IT NOT BE CALLED UN'LABOR DAY, OR NO LABOR DAY INSTEAD AS AFTER ALL IT IS A HOLIDAY?  MAYBE ALL CHILDREN SHOULD BE BORN TODAY?  

WHILE WATCHING A PATRIOTIC PROGRAM BY THE MORMAN TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA THIS MORNING, COLONEL JACK TOOLEY WAS QUOTED AS SAYING: "A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE."  COLONEL JACK FLEW OVER THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY ON "D DAY" AND ON INTO WWII, CARRYING HIS TRUMPET INTO BATTLE IN THE COCKPIT OF HIS PLANE.  UPON HIS RETURN HE COMMENTED THAT HE NEVER DISCUSSED THE WAR WITH HIS CHILDREN AS IT WAS TOO PAINFUL. RATHER HE ONLY DISPLAYED HIS TRUMPET AS A MEMORIAL IN THE LIVING ROOM NEXT TO HIS CHAIR.  NOW 89 YEARS YOUNG, JACK DOES TALK ABOUT THE WAR  ALOT TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN,AND HE PLAYS TAPS AT MILITARY FUNERALS. HE HAS NOT RETIRED, AND NEVER INTENDS TO, BUT RATHER SAYS IT IS THE DUTY OF VETERANS TO SPEAK OUT AND TELL OF OUR DUTY TO GOD AND TO COUNTRY.  COLONEL JACK IS THE EPITOME OF WHAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE TO BE.

YES, MY FELLOW VETERANS, IT IS WE THAT MUST NOW PICK UP THAT BANNER, AND WAVE IT HIGH.  IT IS NOW WE THE VETERANS THAT MUST SPEAK OUT FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN, BUT RATHER GAVE THEIR VERY LIVES FOR US.  IT IS WE THE VETERAN THAT RISKED OUR LIVES, BLOOD AN LIMBS THAT MUST NOW COME TO THE AID AND RESCUE OF FREEDOM, FOR AS WE HAVE HEARD AND AS WE KNOW, "FREEDOM IS NOT FREE."  IT IS THEREFORE THAT IN ORDER TO YET ONCE AGAIN SECURE THE PEACE OF FREEDOM, WE MUST AGAIN REPLENISH THE COLORS OF OLD GLORY. THAT WE MUST ONCE AGAIN SHED OUR PURE RED BLOOD TO FLOW INTO THE WARM STRIPES OF RED.  THAT WE MUST ONCE AGAIN LIVE THROUGH THE FALLING OF THE PURE WHITE SNOW OF VALLEY FORGE TO WASH CLEAN THE PEARLY WHITE STRIPES.  THAT WE MUST LOOK UP TO GOD AND THE HEAVENS OF A PURE BLUE SKY, AND ON INTO THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT, INTO THE STARS ABOVE, SO AS TO GIVE OUR SOULS TO HIM AND TO THE 50 STARS WE STAND AND DIE FOR.  IT IS FOR OUR GOD AND FOR OUR COUNTRY WE DO THESE THINGS.  IT IS FOR OUR HARD FOUGHT FREEDOMS AND FOR THE DEAR LADY THAT STANDS AT OUR GATES, BECKONING: "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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YES MY FELLOW VETERANS, IT IS AS TRUE AS IT WAS IN 1776 THAT FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE, FOR THE ENDLESS CYCLE OF HITLERS, MUSSULINIS, HUSSEINS, CASTROS, BIN LADENS, NORIAGAS, AMADINAJADS, IS NEVER ENDING. 

ON THE EVE OF 9/11/11 I URGE YOU ALL MY FELLOW VETERANS TO FOLLOW THE WORDS OF COLONEL JACK AND HIS EXAMPLE OF CONTINUED SERVICE.  OUR "LEADERS" AMONGST US ARE NOT LEADERS, THEY ARE CAREER POLITICIANS. THEY SEEK TO TAKE THEIR OWN GRANDMOTHERS KICKING AND SCREAMING TO HELLS DOOR IF NECESSARY TO FEATHER THEIR OWN RICHES AT THE VERY COST OF THIS NATION.  IF WE THE VETERAN DO NOT STAND UP AGAIN, IF WE DO NOT ONCE AGAIN BEGIN TO LEAD, AS OUR WWII PREDECESSORS DID, THEN I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT WE WILL LOSE OUR GREAT NATION TO A "POLITICIANS TYRANNY."  DO NOT MISTAKE MY VITRIOLIC WORDS AS WORDS OF SEDITION HERE.  I SPEAK AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN AND VETERAN WHEN I SAY IT IT THE POLITICIAN THAT IS TERRORIZING AMERICA, NOT "WE THE PEOPLE."  THEY HAVE HELD US HOSTAGE WITH HURRIED VOTES, AND SUCH RHETORIC AS TO NOW DIMINISH THE PENTAGON BY 33 PERCENT, DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDECAIRE, MEDICAID, AND EDUCATION IN THE NAME OF BUDGET CUTTING.  THEY HAVE TAKEN GOD OUT OF CONTEXT AND REPLACED THE WRITTEN WORD AS FORBIDDEN.  THEY HAVE LOWERED STANDARDS OF EDUCATION TO A LEVEL OF:  WELL ACCORDING TO CHACHA, 10TH  http://www.chacha.com/question/where-does-the-united-states-of-america-rank-globally-in-the-field-of-education 

WELL ACCORDING TO STORMFRONT, WE RANK NINTH.

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WELL ACCORDING TO WIKI ANSWERS, WE RANK 35TH OUT OF 57 IN MATH AND 29TH OUT OF 57 IN SCIENCE. AND THAT WAS BACK IN 2006!!!  

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WE ARE IN DEBT UP TO OUR HAIR FOLLICLES AND THE ONLY LIGHT WE SEE COMING AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A RUNAWAY TRAIN.  IT CURLS THE TIPS OF MY TOENAILS TO THINK THAT WHAT OUR WWII VETERANS HANDED BACK TO US ON A GOLDEN PLATTER, WE HAVE PLACED UPON THEIR GRAVES A RUSTED MESS.

YES, MY FELLOW VETERANS IT IS HIGH TIME WE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH, OFF OUR DUFFS AND WE FOLLOW THE PATH OF AN 89 YEARS YOUNG WWII VETERAN, COLONEL JACK TOOLEY.  "A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER RETIRE."  I BEG OF YOU, I DEPLORE YOU, I SEEK YOUR HELP UPON BENDED BAD KNEES WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!!!!! I AM BUT ONE VETERAN TOSSING BUT ONE SMALL PEBBLE IN A CHURNING SEA OF VITRIOL.  IN ORDER THAT WE MAY MAKE A WAVE, I MUST HAVE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THROWING IN YOUR PEBBLES.  WE ALL VETERANS, ONE AND TOGETHER CAN TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.  WE MUST BEGIN NOW, OR FOREVER WILL OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN BE LOST IN A CAULDRON OF SOCIALISM.  OUR LONG STANDING BATTLE TO SEPARATE FROM THE SHACKLES OF ENGLAND WILL HAVE BEEN LOST.  DO NOT LET THEM DO THIS TO US AND OUR YOUNG VETERANS.  IT IS TIME TO ONCE AGAIN PICK UP THE BANNER AND FIGHT.  NOT WITH GUNS THIS TIME BUT WITH WORDS AND ACTION OF THE PEN AND SPOKEN WORD.  IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.  LET US THE VETERANS PROVE IT.  WON'T YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN SPREADING THE WORD? YOU CAN HELP IMMEDIATELY BY PUTTING THIS BLOG TO ALL THE VETS AND OTHERS ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.  BECAUSE WE THE VETS ALSO NEED OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO HELP US.  I NOW HAVE FOUR FOLLOWERS, MARTHA CLAYTON BANFIELD, JAMES BANFIELD, KEVIN AND GENETTE, AND LIBERTY FORMAN.  IT IS A GREAT BEGINNING AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA.  Hb

VETERAN OF THE MONTH:

IT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES TO SPEAK OF THIS MAN, A MAUI, HAWAII NATIVE BORN SON, NOW DECEASED HERO AND FATHER OF TWO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS AND A SON, WITH ONE MORE ON THE WAY.  HIS NAME WAS KRAIG VICKERS, A SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER AND A FIFTEEN YEAR VETERAN OF THE U.S.NAVY.  CHIEF  VICKERS DIED ALONG WITH 29 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SEAL TEAM SIX AND 7 AFGHAN SOLDIERS LAST AUGUST 6TH WHEN THEIR CHINOOK CH-47 WAS SHOT DOWN. HE HELD FOUR BRONZE STARS AND TWO PURPLE HEARTS, AND HE WAS A VETERANS VETERAN.  IT IS FOR HIM I SHALL, AND WE ALL SHOULD REDEDICATE MYSELF/OURSELVES IN THE COMING WEEKS AND MONTHS TO STRENGTHEN MY/OUR RESOLVE TO NEVER RETIRE.  IT IS FOR CHIEF VICKERS THAT WE MUST GO ON TO SPREAD THE WORD OF HOW WE BEGOT FREEDOM AND WHAT WE MUST STILL YET DO TO KEEP IT.  A TIME OF PEACE SHALL COME, THANKS TO SUCH MEN AS THESE.   GOD BLESS YOU CHIEF, WE SHALL ALL MISS YOU.

THE GOOD

THE GOOD THIS WEEK WE FIND IN THE KINDNESS AND HEARTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLES THAT WITH PURPOSE OF MIND SEEK A TRUE AND LASTING PEACE IN THE WORLD TODAY.  WITH THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 LOOMING LARGE, LET US PRAY FOR PEACE ON THAT DAY AND THAT NO ACTS OF TERRORISM OCCUR. LET US ALSO  ALL PRAY TOGETHER THAT IN DAYS, WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME WE SEE THE "ARAB SPRING" TURN INTO A SUMMER OF PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, AND NOT YET ANOTHER THEOCRACY OF HATE AND TERRORISM FROM FRAYED EDGED ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUPS, SUCH AS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ALQAEDA, HEZBOLLAH, PLO, AND OTHERS. WE DO HOWEVER, AS CHRISTIANS, KNOW THAT OUR FELLOW MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS A MAJORITY SEEK TO LIVE PEACEABLY SIDE BY SIDE AND SEEK THE SAME PEACE AND TRANQUILITY AS DO WE. LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT IT IS THEY THAT SHALL OVERCOME IN SUCH PLACES AS LIBYA, EGYPT, YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.   LET US ALSO HOPE AND PRAY THAT ROGUE NATIONS SUCH AS IRAN AND NORTH KOREA CAN SEE THEIR WAY TO THE TABLES OF PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND.  FOR WE AMERICANS ARE THE PEOPLES WHO SEEK PEACE WITH THE PEN BUT ARE WILLING TO DEFEND OUR LIBERTIES, AND ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE, AND LIVE AND DIE BY THE SWORD IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM.  MAY GOD BLESS THE GOODNESS IN THE AMERICAN VETERAN.

THE BAD

AGAIN, LEST I BE MISUNDERSTOOD, I SPEAK ONLY AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN AND A GOD LOVING VETERAN.  I WOULD LIKE TO SCOLD THE ENTIRE 535 MEMBERS OF A BODY OF INDIVIDUALS COMPRISED OF THE EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF OUR SO CALLED GOVERNMENT.  YOU OF THE SUPREME COURT WHO HOLD YOURSELVES AS HIGH AND ALMIGHTY SUPREME, SHOULD BE REPLACED BY DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES.  THEY COULD DO A BETTER JOB THAN THE NINE OF YOUR SORRY BUTTS.  HOW DARE YOU USURP THE AMERICAN VOTERS BY ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO DONATE MILLIONS OR BILLIONS INTO THE POLITICAL/VOTING ARENA?  HOW LINED ARE YOUR POCKETS THAT YOU WOULD BE WILLING TO SELL "WE THE PEOPLE" DOWN THE RIVER? WHY, HELL MOLLY, YOU'D RUN OVER YOUR VERY OWN GRANDMA WITH A REINDEER AND A RUNAWAY SLEIGH JUST TO GET TO YOUR PRIZES UNDER THE CORPORATE TREE!!!

AND YOU THE LEGISLATIVE, THAT "GOVERN US" WHEN IT USED TO BE "WE THE PEOPLE" THAT OWNED THIS NATION.  NOW BY VIRTUE OF THE ACTIONS OF "THE SUPREMES" WE ARE HELD HOSTAGE BY YOU ALL, DEMOPUBLICANS AND REPUBLOCRATS, "MY SO CALLED FRIENDS ACROSS THE ISLE."  NOW CONTROLLED BY 22,000 LOBBYISTS, WE BEGIN TO SEE THE RESULTS, WITH WALL STREET TANKING, VIRTUALLY NO JOB GROWTH, 14 MILLION OUT OF WORK, 14 TRILLION IN DEBT AND THE U.S. POST OFFICE DECLARING BANKRUPTCY???? YOU @ZZWHOLES CALL THAT LEADERSHIP???  WELL I CALL IT A LOST SHIP.  WHICH BRINGS UP THE ONE LEFT OF 535, THE LEADER OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, THE SO CALLED CAPTAIN OF THIS HERE USS AMERICA.  YOU SIR ARE THE PRESIDENT OF THIS NATION, WHY IN GOD'S HOLY NAME DO YOU NOT START ACTING LIKE ONE?  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO LEAD HER, YOU CAME HERE TO DESTROY HER.  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO CHANGE HER, BUT TO REARRANGE HER.  YOU CAME HERE NOT TO HELP HER, BUT TO CONFUSE HER.  YOUR TONGUE SPEAKS WITH TWO SIDES, NEVER KNOWING WHICH TO BE THE TRUTH AND WHICH TO BE A LIE, INTERMINGLING THEM BOTH WITH SUCH CAMPAIGN RHETORIC THAT NEVER LEFT THE TRAIL OF  HORSE HOCKEY PUCKS!!!!! I HEAR CHICAGO WILL NEED A NEW MAYOR IN 2013.

THE UGLY

          THE UGLY THIS WEEK IS THE JOB'S REPORT FOR AUGUST.  SPEAKING OF THE FORKED TONGUE, WHILE IN IOWA, MICHIGAN, AND MINNESOTA, OUR LEADER SPOKE OUT OF ONE SIDE OF JOBS AND JOB GROWTH.  THE AUGUST REPORT TOLD THE TRUTH OF "0", "NONE", "NADA", JOBS AND NONE ON THE HORIZON.  NOW ON THURSDAY HE INTENDS TO REVEAL HIS NEW PLAN FOR JOB GROWTH TO A LAME CONGRESS, WHILE DOING ABSOLUTELY ABOUT THE POSTAL WORKER CRISIS.  THE UGLINESS HERE MY DEAR PRESIDENT IS THAT WHILE YOU TALK THE PRESIDENTIAL TALK, YOU ARE NOT WALKING THE PRESIDENTIAL WALK.  I, WE, HELL MOLLY WE ALL, PRAY FOR YOU THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE THE MESSAGE OF US AND OF GOD TO MEND YOUR WAYS AND LEAD. EITHER LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.   

THE UGLIEST

WE SHALL, I AM AFRAID, ONCE AGAIN REMOVE YET ANOTHER LAME LEADER ONLY TO REPLACE HIM WITH YET ANOTHER LESSER OF TWO ( OR THREE ) EVILS, AND YET ANOTHER LAME LEADER.  ARE THERE NO TRUE REAL LEADERS LEFT IN AMERICA THAT CAN SEE THEIR WAY TO THE END OF THE TUNNEL WITHOUT GETTING RUN OVER BY THE RUNAWAY TRAIN?   TO DATE  WE  PEBBLES ARE  LEFT WITH BUT THE POWER OF PRAYER, FOR WE AS VETERANS NEITHER  HAVE NOR EVER SHOULD SEEK  POWERS OVER THAT OF OUR PEOPLE.   WE ONLY SEEK FREEDOM, BUT REMEMBER MY FRIENDS THE POWER OF PRAYER IS MIGHTY.

 

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

WE ARE BUT DAYS AWAY FROM THE ONE DAY THAT HAS SET OUR NATION UPON THE PATH WE NOW WALK.  IT WAS A DAY OF GRIEF AND SADNESS PARALLELING PEARL HARBOR AND PERHAPS THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. SEPTEMBER 11TH OF 2001 IS NOW TEN YEARS PAST AND COMPLETELY PAST THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A NORMAL AMERICAN. WE AS A NATION ARE WAR WEARY AND HAVE BASICALLY FORGOTTEN WATCHING HUNDREDS LEAP FROM THE TOWERS IN DEATH PLUNGES. WE DO NOT REMEMBER THE FOUR JETS CRASHING INTO TOWERS, PENTAGON AND DIRT. WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE HEROES OF UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93, UNTIL IT IS ALL REPLAYED AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 11TH.  THEN AGAIN WE WILL MOURNE, AND THEN AGAIN A FEW DAYS LATER SOME OTHER GREAT CATASTROPHE WILL TAKE OVER THE NEWS AND WE WILL AGAIN FORGET.

WHEN THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR HAPPENED, WE IMMEDIATELY WENT TO WAR AND IN A SHORT FIVE YEARS, THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN WAS ON THE DECK OF THE USS MISSOURI SIGNING SURRENDER AND TREATY PAPERS.  NOW TEN YEARS AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS, OUR LEADERS AND GOVERNMENT HAS ONCE AGAIN EMBROILED US IN A NEW STYLE VIETNAM, STYLING RULES OF ENGAGEMENT THAT STYMIE OUR TROOPS IN BATTLE AND HAVE BOTH  LENGTHENED TWO WARS AND DRIVEN US INTO TRILLIONS IN DEBT IN THOSE SHORT TEN YEARS.  WE SHOULD HAVE FINISHED IRAQ OFF IN TWO YEARS, AND  WHEN BUSH STOOD IN FRONT OF THE "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" BANNER ON THE USS LINCOLN, WE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE TROOPS HOME AND THEN JUST BOMBED THEM 24X7 INTO SUBMISSION AS WE DID IN WWII. 

BEFORE I SAY WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY, LET ME FIRST SAY THAT NO-ONE, AND I MEAN NO-ONE SUPPORTS OUR TROOPS ANY MORE THAN I DO.  I WOULD NEVER EVER DO OR SAY ANYTHING TO PUT THEM IN HARM'S WAY, AS HANOI JANE FONDA DID.  BUT WHILE I DO TOTALLY 100%  SUPPORT OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IN  UNIFORM, WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE GONE INTO AFGHANISTAN.  RUSSIA'S TEN YEAR INTERVENTION SHOULD HAVE TAUGHT US THAT.  BUT WHAT IS DONE IS DONE, SO WE MUST NOW PICK UP THE PIECES, GET TA'HELL OUT OF THERE AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME.  IT IS TIME TO BUILD THE NEW TOWER, BUILD THE MEMORIALAND HONOR THE DEAD.  STRENGTHEN OUR BORDERS, GUARD OUR SHORES, AND AIR AND STOP THIS NONSENSE OF WAGING "WORLD POLICE" WARS.  MY DADDY ALWAYS TAUGHT ME TO FINISH A FIGHT, NOT START ONE.  MY DADDY ALWAYS TAUGHT ME TO TAKE THE FIRST PUNCH AND GIVE THE SECOND.  MY DADDY WAS A REAL AMERICAN WWII/KOREA HERO, AND I ADMIRE HIS GENERATION FOR WHAT THEY DID IN WWII FOR US. I DO NOT ADMIRE LEADERS WHO HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE RUNNING AND STARTING WARS. LEAVE THE WARS TO THE WARRIORS AND GET TA'HELL OUT OF THEIR WAY.    EVERY DAY IT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE WE MAY HAVE TO GO THERE AGAIN, I PRAY NOT SO. NO MAN HATES WAR MORE THAN A MAN WHO HAS BEEN IN ONE.  BUT IF WE MUST DO SO, LET US DO IT IN THE STYLE OF WWII AND NOT VIETNAM OR AFGHANISTAN.  

THE DREAM WE LIVED AS BABY BOOMERS, THE LIFE OUR PARENTS LIVED THROUGH WWII AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WERE BOTH GREAT ERAS.  THE LIFE OUR CHILDREN ARE NOW LIVING AND OUR GRAND CHILDREN WILL LIVE IS NO LONGER A DREAM BUT RATHER A NIGHTMARE. IT IS FOR THEM THAT WE MUST FIND A WAY OUT OF THIS MESS, HOPEFULLY NOT INVOKING THE HUMAN CONDITION, WHICH SAYS WE ALWAYS REPEAT OUR MISTAKES AND GO TO WAR.  WE CANNOT DO THAT THIS TIME.  IT IS A DIFFERENT TIME, IT IS AN ERA OF COMMUNICATION, AND AN ERA OF  ENLIGHTENMENT.  THE GLOBAL PLAYING FIELD IS BEING LEVELED, IF WE CAN ONLY FIND A DEVICE OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CORRECTION.  AS WE SPOKE PREVIOUSLY, WE ARE IN DEBT UP TO OUR NECKS, AND THE NATION IS DYING OF NATIONAL DEFICIT DISORDER. OUR EYEBALLS ARE YELLOW WITH THE HEPATITIS OF A NATIONAL LIVER IN NEED OF AN INTERNATIONAL TRANSPLANT. THE POLITICIANS KEEP TALKING ABOUT PAYING DOWN THE DEFICIT AND BALANCING THE BUDGET.  THE DEFICIT IS NOT THE PROBLEM, THE DEBT IS.  THERE IS NO BUDGET LEFT TO BALANCE, WHEN ALL OF OUR NATIONAL CREDIT CARDS ARE CHARGED UP PAST THEIR LIMITS AND WE CANNOT EVEN PAY THE INTEREST OF THEM.  THE INTEREST WE DO PAY LEAVES THE BALANCE OF THE DEBT RISING, AND BOTTOM LINE, SIMPLY PUT, WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT EVER PAY OUR WAY OUT OF THIS.  ALL THE VETERANS IN AMERICA CAN MARCH ON DC AND SEND THEM PACKING BUT IT WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. 

BEGINNING THIS NOVEMBER 11TH, VETERANS DAY, AND EVERY VETERANS DAY FROM HERE ON OUT, "WE THE VETS" DO NEED TO DO THAT. WE NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY AND HAND IT BACK TO "WE THE PEOPLE.  BUT THEN "WE THE VETS" MUST ONCE AGAIN MELD BACK INTO "WE THE PEOPLE."  THEN IT MUST BE UP TO "WE THE PEOPLE" TO FIND A WAY TO LEVEL OUR AMERICAN FIELDS, AND A DEBT CORRECTION SOLUTION MUST BE FOUND.  IT IS TIME WE ALL AS AMERICANS TOOK A LONG HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND REALIZED THAT WE CANNOT PAY OUR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE.  THE USS AMERICAN TITANIC IS BURSTING AT THE SEAMS.  RIGHT NOW AT THIS TIME WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BILGE PUMPS TO KEEP HER AFLOAT.  WE NEED SOME NEW IDEAS. WE NEED SOME TEMPORARY BANDAIDS, WE NEED TO PATCH HER UA AND WE NEED SOLUTIONS.  BETWEEN NOW AND 9/11 LET US PRAY THAT WE CAN FIND SMALL CURES TO JUST KEEP US FLOATING UNTIL WE EXECUTE A COURSE CORRECTION.  MAY GOD BE WITH US, THE POWER OF PRAYER IS ALMIGHTY STRONG, IF WE ONLY PRAY.  GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.Hb

THE GOOD

 THE GOODNESS OF TODAY IS IN THE ERA IN WHICH WE LIVE. I ONLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT THE ARAB SPRING COMES OFF PEACEFULLY AND WITH HOPE FOR THEIR FUTURE OF FREEDOM AND PEACE. ALONG WITH PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, COULD SPREAD THE SEED OF PEACE ALL OVER THE WORLD. JUST THINK OF IT, SIR PAUL WOULD HAVE HIS WISH IF WE JUST "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE".  WHAT  WITH TEXTING, AND  EMAILS AND IPADS AND TWITTER AND FACEBOOK AND MY SPACE, AND BLING, WE HAVE ENTERED THE AGE OF INNOVATION AND COMMUNICATION.  THAT COULD LEAD US TO A LEVELING AND CORRECTION OF ALL GLOBAL MALADIES AND FOR ONCE IT "COULD BE DONE" WITHOUT A MAJOR WAR.  THE GOOD COULD BE THAT WE ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD RECOGNIZE THAT AND "WE ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD" TELL OUR RESPECTIVE INEPT  GOVERNMENTS TO BACK DOWN AND GO HOME.  WE DO NOT NEED YOU ANY LONGER.  YOU HAVE MESSED THE WORLD UP ENOUGH.  WHOA, YA, RIGHT HARLEY, UTOPIA, PULL UR'HEAD OUT OF IT. OOOOO, DATZ GOOD, LOL.

THE BAD

THE BAD CAME FROM THE IMAM'S OF IRAN WHO ORDERED ALL BIBLES AND CHRISTIAN MATERIALS IN IRAN CONFISCATED AND BURNED.  THE CHRISTIANS OF IRAN ARE IN DANGER AND BEING TOLD TO CEASE PRAISING JESUS  OR TO FACE DEATH.  IN THIS NEW ERA OF COMMUNICATION OF WHICH WE SPOKE, IT IS TIME FOR GOVERNMENTS, IMAMS,PREACHERS, AND ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS TO JUST LIVE AND LET LIVE.  WERE I THE PREZ TODAY, I WOULD CALL THE DOLLAR PRESSES AND HAVE THEM PRINT ME A BILLION POCKET BIBLES.  THEN I'D CALL THE PENTAGON AND TELL THEIR SILK MAKER TO MAKE ME A BILLION MINIATURE PARACHUTES. THEN I'D PUT STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND ON ALERT AND I'D PUT EVERY B=52 WE HAD IN THE AIR ALL AT ONCE AT 50,000 FEET AND DROP ALL BILLION BIBLES OVER IRAN.  BUT I WOULD NOT TELL OUR FINE MUSLIM AMERICAN CITIZENS TO BURN THEIR KORANS?????????????????

THE UGLY

THE UGLY  IS AN EARTHQUAKE AND A HURRICANE ON THE EAST COAST IN ONE WEEK.  AN EARTHQUAKE IN VIRGINIA??  REALLY.  AND THEN THE HURRICANE OF ALL TIMES, NEVER ONE LIKE IT BEFORE, WALKING UP THE COAST IN TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DAMAGE.  SORTA' BIBLICAL HUH?? MOMS MABLEY WOULD'A SAID, "DA DEVIL MADE ME DO IT".   SOME WILL BLAME GOD.  SOME WILL BLAME GLOBAL WARMING. SOME WILL BLAME AL GORE.  SOME WILL SAY AL GORE IS GOD.  O'BAMA WILL BLAME BUSH, LOL (ITS A JOKE !!!! GET OVER IT )  SOME WILL BLAME GLOBAL COOLING AND A COMING ICE AGE. SOME WILL BLAME ROCK AND ROLL.   ME?  I JUST SAY IT WAS PLAIN UGLY AND IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE.  I JUST HOPE SHE DON'T DO IT AGAIN FOR AWHILE. A LONG LONG WHILE,WELL?

 

      

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL/GOD BLESS AMERICA

ALOHA AND MAHALO, (THANK YOU)!!!!  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE JOINED VETERANS SOCIAL, OR ARE READING AND COMMENTING, A GREAT BIG HAWAIIAN MAHALO TO YOU ALL.  IT IS A SMALL BEGINNING BUT WE ARE NOW FIVE MEMBERS STRONG AND GROWING.  PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS WEBSITE'S MESSAGE OF FREEDOM AND STRENGTH THROUGH OUR VETERANS TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS.  IN THIS WAY WE CAN GROW STRONGER AND STRONGER EVERY DAY.  

I WILL BE OFF THE AIRE FOR THE NEXT TWO OR THREE DAYS, BUT REST ASSURED I HAVE A LABOR DAY MESSAGE FOR OUR TROOPS AND FOR OUR VETERANS.  I WILL BE SINGING AT OUR CHURCH THIS SUNDAY AND HOPE TO POST A BLOG THAT AFTERNOON.  

IN CLOSING THIS SHORT NOTE,  I WILL JUST SAY THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL STAY FOCUSED TO THE TASK AT HAND.  THERE IS NO SAVING THE NATION FROM THE INEVITABLE, BUT AS WE MARINES SAY, IF WE ASSESS, AND ADAPT THEN WE WILL SURELY OVERCOME.  THE INEVITABLE IS THAT WE ARE BANKRUPT.  THE OVERCOME IS THAT WE CAN AND SHALL FIND A WAY TO DODGE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.  THAT IS THE LIGHT OF A RUNAWAY FREIGHT TRAIN COMING STRAIGHT AT US, AND WE HAVE TO STOP IT.  SOUND IMPOSSIBLE?  ITS NOT, IT JUST AIN'T GONNA' BE EASY, MY FRIENDS AND FELLOW VETERANS.  GOD BLESS AND KEEP OUR AMERICA FREE, AND GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND KEEP THEM FROM HARMS WAY.  Hb

THE BEST FRIEND A MAN COULD HAVE

UNITED STATES NAVY SEAL JON TUMILSON WAS LAID TO REST THIS WEEK.  BEING ONE OF THE 30 MEN WHO DIED AUGUST 6TH IN THE TRAGIC CHINOOK CRASH IN AFGHANISTAN, AS THEY WERE SHOT DOWN BY AN ENEMY RPG ROUND. DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HIS CASKET, HIS DOG HAWKEYE, WHOM JON CALLED "HIS SON", LYE IN SILENT MOURNING FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE MEMORIAL EVENT.  JON DIED FIGHTING FOR AND PRESERVING FREEDOM FOR THE 3000  INNOCENT SOULS THAT DIED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  JON DIED PROUDLY SERVING HIS COUNTRY AND WITH HIM A PART  OF HAWKEYE DIED TOO.  I HAVE HEARD OF CASES WHERE THE MASTER'S DOG NEVER LEFT THE GRAVESIDE MARKER AND DIED THERE.  

HAWKEYE WAS THE BEST FRIEND JON EVER HAD, AND JON WAS THE BEST FRIEND AMERICA EVER HAD.  IT IS MEN AND WOMEN SUCH AS THESE WE EULOGIZE. IT IS SUCH MEN AND WOMEN AS THESE THAT KEEP THE RED IN THE FLAG BLOOD RED.  MAY GOD BLESS AND BE WITH YOU FOREVER AND EVER NAVY PETTY OFFICER JON TUMILSON, AND MAY YOU REST WITH HIM IN PEACE IN HEAVEN.  IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT I REITERATE THIS TALE TO YOU, FOR YOU SEE JON NEVER GOT TO ENJOY VETERAN STATUS.  OH YES, YOU CAN WALK INTO AND JOIN A VFW, BUT ONE DOES NOT GET PROCESSED INTO THE VETERANS AFFAIRS UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THAT PIECE OF PAPER THAT RETIRES YOU OR RELEASES YOU FROM UNCLE SAM'S CHARGE.  UNTIL THEN YOU ARE STILL "IN THE MILITARY."  VETERAN'S STATUS WILL NEVER COME FOR JON.  I LIFT YOUR LAST GLASS IN TOAST TO YOU SIR.


ON THE DAY USAMA BIN LADEN WAS ANNOUNCED DEAD,  ( THAT IS ANNOUNCED NOT PRONOUNCED ) I COULD NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL THE YOUNGSTERS OUT IN THE STREETS DANCING, YELLING AND CHEERING HIS DEATH.  WHY DO THEY CARE, I THOUGHT? THEN IT OCCURRED TO ME, FOR THE MOST PART THEY WERE 8 TO 15 YEARS OF AGE, AND HIGHLY AFFECTED BY THE TEARS OF THEIR PARENTS AND THE SORROW OF A NATION.  IT ONLY MADE SENSE THAT THEY WOULD CELEBRATE HIS DEATH.  IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT WE HAVE SO MANY OF THEM VOLUNTEERING TO SERVE IN OUR NATIONS EFFORT TO HALT THE TERRORISM THAT HAS PLAGUED US SINCE BEFORE THE DEATH OF ISRAELI ATHLETES AT THE OLYMPICS IN 1972.  GOD BLESS THEM AND GOD BLESS THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE JON AND THOSE WHO WILL GO AFTER HIM.  WE WILL NEED THEM ALL AND MORE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. 


WHEN MY NEPHEW JOHN ASSISTED ME IN ESTABLISHING MY NEW WEBSITE @ http://www.harleydalebrown.com  I WAS VERY PROUD OF THE WORDS HE USED TO DESCRIBE ME.  I WAS ALSO PROUD THAT ON MY BLOGSITE, "HE, JOHN" PUT THE WORDS "VETERANS SOCIAL".   IT WAS THE PERFECT THING TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND HOW I NEEDED TO COME TO MY COUNTRIES AID VIA MY FELLOW VETERANS AND NOT FROM POLITICAL VITRIOL.  SO AGAIN, MY FELLOW VETERAN, WE ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, AND WE ALL HAVE OUR POLITICAL PARTIES, ALLEGIANCES, AND BELIEFS, BUT WE MUST BE DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM THE VITROLIC AND SEDITION NATURE OF THE NATION.  LET US  REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST JOINED UP? LET US REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE TOLD ABOUT NOT DISCUSSING POLITICS IN PUBLIC, AND TO NOT SAY ANYTHING BAD OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHETHER WE LIKED AND AGREED WITH HIM OR NOT? LET US ALL FALL BACK IN RANKS FOR A MOMENT AND SPEAK TO THE NATION AS THE VETERANS WHO GAVE OF OURSELVES TO SECURE THIS FREEDOM?  I DON'T KNOW, I AM JUST ASKING QUESTIONS HERE? WILL OR COULD THIS POSSIBLY HAPPEN?  FOR AFTER ALL, I AM BUT ONE MAN ALONE CASTING THE DAILY STONE IN THE WATER,  I MAKE A RIPPLE SO SMALL, I HAVE POSTED SEVEN BLOGS AND NOT EVEN RAISED THE WHISKER OF A CAT WITH A FAT RAT RUNNIN UNDER.  BUT EVEN IN MY DOUBT THAT WE MAY COME EVER TOGETHER, THAT IS AGAIN THE STANCE WE MUST TAKE IN ORDER TO JOIN TOGETHER. IN ORDER THAT WE MAY GIVE EXAMPLE TO THE NATION.  WE MUST ONE AND ALL TOGETHER PUT OUR POLITICAL DIFFERENCES IN OUR HIP POCKET, WE MUST DEMONSTRATE TO THE CITIZENRY OF THE NATION THAT WE CAN AND MUST JOIN TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION. AND  "WE THE VETERANS" MUST SHOW "WE THE PEOPLE" THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE,  AND WE MUST LEAD THE NATION TO HELP IN THE CAUSE OF SAVING THE NATION.  OH YES, I CAN ALREADY HEAR YOU NAYSAYERS, "YOU JACK WAGON HARLEY, MAYBE WE NEED TO TAKE YOU ON DOWN TO MAMBY PAMBY LAND???  HAVE YOU TURNED INTO CHICKEN LITTLE", THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING?    WELL HELL MOLLY NO, THE SKY IS NOT FALLING, WE KNOW THE JACK WAGONS ARE IN DC.  I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS MY FELLOW VETS, BUT THE SKY HAS ALREADY FALLEN.  IT WAS ALREADY FALLING WHEN REAGAN SAID THE FAMOUS WORDS "GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL."  AND TEAR DOWN THE BERLIN WALL HE DID, AND ALONG WITH IT CAME THE FLOOD OF GLOBAL CHANGE FOLLOWED BY WHAT WE NOW SEE, GLOBAL CORRECTION.  

I AM IN THE MIDST OF A BOOK BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, CALLED "THE WORLD IS FLAT."  IT DEALS WITH THE CHANGING WORLD AND THE "LEVELING OF THE PLAYING FIELD." SO MUCH HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID AND MUCH WILL BE SAID AND DONE IN THE NAME OF THE "FLATTENING OF A ROUND BALL OF DIRT AN ROCKS." BUT LEVELING A PLAYING FIELD REQUIRES REAL LEADERSHIP AND RE INOVATION, BUT WHILE WE HANG IN LESS THAN TRIPLE A PERIL, UNEMPLOYMENT REMAINS AT TEN PERCENT, NEW HOME STARTS ARE VIRTUALLY NOT, AND CURRENT HOME PRICES HAVE TANKED AGAIN WHILE WALL STREET JUST TOOK A FIFTEEN PERCENT HICKEY, OUR "FEARLESS LEADERS" ARE ALL ON A FIVE WEEK VACATION. SO IT IS  WE THE VETERAN THAT MUST REMAIN ON WATCH.  I MYSELF AM NOT WAITING FOR THE BIG FISCAL ECONOMIC BALL TO FALL IN OCTOBER, SO TOGETHER, LETS  TALK THE TALK NOW AND WALK THE WALK NOW. 

SO I WILL NOW GIVE YOU FACTS THAT FEW KNOW, BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW IT YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT.  BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO WALK THE TALK AND TALK THE WALK FOR  RIGHT NOW.    IN A YOU TUBE "GOVERNMENT GONE WILD"VIDEO YOU CAN VIEW @ http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk  THE MODERATOR SPELLS OUT THE FOLLOWING.   JUST LAST YEAR ALONE OUR FEARLESS CONGRESS SPENT 413 BILLION DOLLARS IN JUST INTEREST ON THE DEBT.   JUST LAST YEAR.  THAT IS MORE THAN WE SPENT OF THE DEPT. OF  AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF HEALTH , DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION, DEPT. OF ENERGY AFFAIRS, DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPT. OF  JUSTICE, DEPT. OF  COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, DEPT. OF  LABOR, DEPT. OF SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, DEPT. OF THE  VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION, AND THE DEPT. OF  HOUSING URBAN DEVELOPMENT.  COMBINED!!!!!...  SINCE 1988 OUR CONGRESS HAS SPENT OVER 8 TRILLION DOLLARS IN JUST INTEREST ALONE, MUCH OF IT GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES BUYING OUR BONDS WHILE WE STILL SEND THEM FOREIGN AIDE.  8 TRILL? 8 TRILL??? REALLY??? REALLY??  THAT IS ENOUGH TO BUY A DREAM CAR FOR EVERY TAX PAYER IN AMERICA, NOT BAD CONSIDERING ONLY 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS PAY TAXES.  ACCORDING TO THE NON PARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SAY THAT BY THE YEAR 2021 THE  INTEREST ON THE DEBT  WILL BE 1.1 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!!!! THAT IS  1 AND 1/2 MORE THAN TIMES THAN WE SPEND ON NATL DEFENSE.  BY THE YEAR  2046 EVERY SINGLE DIME OF TAXES WE PAY IN THE GOOD OL'US'OF A,  WILL BE SPENT ON JUST THE INTEREST ONLY.  TO PUT ALL THAT IN CONTEXT,  IF CONGRESS STOPPED ALL SPENDING  TODAY AND SPENT NOT A SINGLE NICKLE ON ANYTHING ELSE, AND ONLY  PAID 100 MILLION A DAY IT WOULD TAKE 389 YEARS JUST TO PAY OFF NATL DEBT.  REDUCING DEFICIT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT REDUCING THE DEBT AND IT WILL BE THE DEBT AND INTEREST ON THE DEBT THAT WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF US, THE "U' AND THE "S' IN THE USA.  

THIS IS WHY WE MUST BECOME INVOLVED NOW, TODAY, MY FELLOW VETERANS.  NOT TOMORROW, NOT AFTER OUR FILTHY RICH VACATIONS UNTIL AFTER LABOR DAY, BUT TODAY.  I IMPLORE YOU ALL TO JOIN ME IN THIS EFFORT.  WE MUST MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC IN EVERY WAY WE CAN, BY WRITING, BY PHONING, BY TRAVELING BY CAR, TRAIN, PLANE, BOAT, MOTORCYCLE, BICYCLE, TENNIS SHOES, WHEEL CHAIRS, WALKERS, CRAWLING ON HAND AND KNEE, WE MUST STOP THIS INSANITY NOW AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.  MAY GOD BLESS THE VETERANS AND MAY GOD BLESS MY AMERICA.  Hb  im pissin in da wind  )-  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~   ~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

THE GOOD

THE GOOD IS HAWKEYE.  I HAD A DOG LIKE HIM ONCE.  HER NAME WAS DESTINY. SHE HAD A BROTHER AND WE NAMED HIM MANIFEST.  THAT WAY WE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE MANIFEST/DESTINY, HARDEEHARHARLEY.  WE LOST DESTINY ONE HOT TEXAS SUMMER DAY.  SHE WAS OLD, SHE WAS TIRED, AND SHE WAS IN PAIN, SO WE BELIEVE SHE (BEING BLACK) LAID UNDER THAT BIG TRACTOR TIRE ON PURPOSE.  WE SHALL ALWAYS MISS HER, AS I AM SURE SHE WOULD MISS ME LIKE HAWKEYE MISSED JON.  WHEN I WAS LYING IN BED WITH A BROKEN NECK, RUPTURED BACK SPINE AND CRUSHED NERVES SHE NEVER LEFT MY SIDE.  DOGS ARE THE GOOD.  I AM NOT SO SURE ABOUT HUMANKIND. OR sometimes EVEN USING THE WORDS HUMAN AND KIND IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

THE BAD

A SHAMESTREAM  COMMENTATOR COMPARING POLITICAL CANDIDATES TO CURLY MO AND LARRY.  YA BUT AINT DAT GOOD?  YA DATS WHAT I MEAN, IT'S BAD.  BUT WHAT USED TO BE BAD THAT NOW MEANS GOOD, IS IN THE NEW LINGO "SICK".  YOUR SICK NOW MEANS GOOD.  BAD MEANS BAD AGAIN.  AND WHAT IS GOOD IS THAT I WOULD VOTE FOR CURLY, MO, OR LARRY RIGHT NOW TODAY BEFORE I VOTED FOR THE LESSER OF ANY TWO EVILS.  WHAT IS WITH THIS CRAP POT OF SO CALLED LEADERS THESE DAYS?   THE POLITICAL PROCESS WE HAVE IN PLACE TODAY  IS LITERALLY DESTROYING AND TEARING APART OUR NATION, NO MATTER WHAT SIDE, LEFT OR RIGHT THEY ARE COMING FROM?  ITS BULL%#@.itz bad!!!

THE UGLY

CONDOLEZZA RICE UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS VISITED THE DICTATOR MUAMMAR QADDAFI AND UPON ONE SPECIAL OCCASION, HE PRESENTED HER WITH A GOLDEN LOCKET AND CHAIN WITH HIS PICTURE IN IT. TODAY THEY FOUND A SCRAP BOOK OF CONDOLEZZA  KEPT BY THE GOOD COLONEL, AND HIS EXPRESSED LOVE FOR HER.  NOW I AIN'T SO SURE JUST HOW PRETTY IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IF SHE AND HE HAD ULTIMATELY BECOME HE AND SHE AND THEY HAD A LITTLE HE OR SHE.  NOW DAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, WELL I'LL JUST LEAVE IT TO LETTERMAN OR LENO TO PAINT DAT PICTURE, OR WAS IT CONAN DAT DID DAT????       

PATRIOTS VERSUS POLITICIANS

GREETINGS AND ALOHA MY FELLOW VETERANS.  AS WITH ALWAYS, I WILL MAKE DISCLAIMERS AND I WILL TWEAK THIS BLOG AS IS NECESSARY.  YESTERDAY I MADE A SMALL ERROR, IN THAT I SENT OUT THE LAST VETERAN'S SOCIAL BLOG AND ASKED ALL MY FRIENDS TO PASS IT ON TO THEIR EMAIL LISTS.  I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A VERY DEAR FRIEND.  HE SHALL OF COURSE REMAIN NAMELESS AND HE SHALL REMAIN MY VERY DEAR FRIEND FOR ALWAYS AS LONG AS HE WISHES.  IF I OFFENDED HIM I APOLOGIZE, HOWEVER THIS WAS MY ERROR, AS THIS BLOG IS MEANT FOR PATRIOTIC VETERANS WHO HAVE "BEEN THERE,DONE THAT".  

FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN PINNED DOWN BY SNIPER FIRE FOR FOURTY FIVE MINUTES WITH BULLETS ZINGING BY YOUR EAR SO CLOSE THEY BURN, THEN YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VETERAN.  IF YOU AIN'T HEARD THE WHINE OF ROUNDS AS THEY COME POUNDING INTO YOUR COMPOUND, YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VETERAN. IF YOU AIN'T NEVER SEEN YOUR BEST BUDDIES LEGS BLOWN OFF AND WATCHED HIM BLEED TO DEATH, YOU AIN'T NO VETERAN. IF YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN THE COMPOUND COOKIE, HEARING THE EXPLOSIONS AND REPORTS OF INCOMING AND OUTGOING, YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VETERAN.  IF YOU AIN'T SMELLED THE JET FUEL ON THE FLIGHT LINE AND THE DIESEL FUEL OF  GENERATORS, OR THE STENCH OF DEFRACATION BURNING OFF THE DIESEL FILLED BARRELS, WHILE ALL AROUND YOU WHILE ROCKETS POUND THE AIR STRIP, THEN YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VETERAN.  IF YOU AIN'T FLOWN ON AN NICE QUIET AIR CONDITIONED JET FROM OKIE TO DA NANG OR KUWAIT TO IRAQ WITH A KNOT IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH, DOORS OPENING TO THE SMELL AND STENCH OF DEAD BODIES WAITING TO BE LOADED ON THE PLANE YOU JUST LANDED ON, THEN YOU AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VETERAN.  SO WHEN I SAY I AM GOING TO DO MY VERY BEST TO NOT BE POLITICAL, BUT RATHER I AM GOING TO WRITE AS A RED BLOODED BIBLE PACKIN', GUN TOTIN', FLAG WAVIN', CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT, VERSUS A FRIKIN LOW LIFE @ZZWHOLE POLITICIAN THAT AIN'T NEVER DONE NUTTIN IN THEIR DI MENIAL LIVES BUT GO TO COLLEGE, GET A LAW DEGREE AND LIVE THEIR RICH LIVES OF ENTITLEMENT AND EXPECTANCY, PERHAPS I WAS MISUNDERSTOOD???  ANY DIP'CHIT CAN GO TO COLLEGE AND GET A LAW DEGREE, IT TAKES REAL B@LZ TO PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR YOUR COUNTRY AS WE NOW SEE BEING DONE IN LIBYA, FOR INSTANCE. 

MY FRIEND REFERRED TO MY BLOG AS A RANT, SO NOT TO BE OUTDONE, I WENT TO WEBSTERS DICTIONAIRE' AND LOOKED UP THE WORD "RANT".  I TYPED IN THE WORD RANT AND THE FIRST THING THAT CAME UP IN MY GOOGLE SEARCH WAS THE WORDS "AL GORE'S RANT".  WHOOPS, POLITICAL, SORRY, IT'S A JOKE??? NOT.  SO I RETYPED IN "MEANING OF RANT", AND I FOUND THIS: 

¹rant

verb \ˈrant\

Definition of RANT

intransitive verb

1

: to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

2

: to scold vehemently

transitive verb

: to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion 

 

MY FRIEND THEN SAID THAT IF I THOUGHT MY BLOG WAS APOLITICAL, IT WAS A "JOKE", SO I TYPED INTO GOOGLE THE WORD JOKE.  WIKIPEDIA TOPPED THE LIST SO I LOGGED INTO THEIR WEBSITE AND FOUND THIS PIECE:  A joke is a phrase or a paragraph with a humorous twist. It can be in many different forms, such as a question or short story. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous. A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl).

SO NOT THINKING MY BLOG PIECE TO EITHER BE A RANT OR BOMBASTIC, NOISY, OR EXCITED, NOR DID I THINK I WAS SCOLDING ANYONE VEHEMENTLY, ALTHOUGH I DID SCOLD MR. HOLDER RATHER LIGHTLY I THOUGHT.  NOR DID I THINK MY BLOG TO BE A JOKE, NOT HUMOROUS, NO PUNCHLINES, NO TWISTS, NO IRONY, SARCASM, OR WORD PLAY, I WAS QUITE CONFUSED BY HIS REPLY.  THEN I REALIZED THAT I WAS WRITING FOR MY FELLOW VETERANS, CALLING THEM TO THE CAUSE, SEEKING THEIR SUPPORT, AND I THEN REALIZED THE ERROR I HAD MADE.  I WISH TO APOLOGIZE TO MY DEAR FRIEND, FOR I PUT HIM IN A VERY PRECARIOUS POSITION, OF NOT UNDERSTANDING WE THE VETERANS.  BUT HE, MY FRIEND, THE VERY BUDDY I SWORE AN ALLEGIANCE TO PROTECT AND GIVE HIM THE RIGHT TO SPEAK AS HE WISHED WAS  BEING ASKED TO PASS ON MY MESSAGE OF RANT AND JOKES.  I AM VERY SORRY BUDDY, AND I PROMISE I WILL NOT SCREW UP LIKE THAT AGAIN.  I WILL NEVER MIX THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WITH PATRIOTS VERSUS POLITICIANS EVER AGAIN. I AM SINCERELY SORRY MY FRIEND, AND   I HOPE I STILL HAVE YOUR FRIENDSHIP THAT I DEARLY TREASURE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.  

PATRIOTS VERSUS POLITICIANS

SO FROM HERE ON OUT WE WILL SPEAK AS PATRIOTS VERSUS POLITICIANS.  PATRIOTS ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ARMED FORCES THAT PUT THEIR VERY LIVES ON THE LINE AND MANY DIE FOR THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN FREEDOM.  NINETY EIGHT PERCENT OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN A VETERAN, THEIR FATHERS WERE NOT VETERANS, AND THEIR SONS WILL NEVER BE VETERANS.  PATRIOTS ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR FIVE BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY THAT SACRIFICE, GIVE UP NORMAL LIVES AND SERVE ON OUR OCEANS, IN OUR AIR, AND POUND THE GROUND TO KEEP US SAFE AND WARM IN OUR BEDS AT NIGHT.   POLITICIANS ARE THE VERMIN AND INSCUMBENTS  THAT NOW EXIST IN HOLLYWOOD DC,SUPPOSEDLY LEADING OUR GREAT NATION, ( GIVEN TO US BY VETERANS ), YET GOING DOWN THE PATH OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DESTRUCTION.  PATRIOTS ARE THE RED NECKED, BIBLE, GUN TOTIN' CHRISTIANS THAT ARE PISSED OFF THAT AIN'T NEVER BEEN A VET, BUT ARE JOINING THE VETERANS BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT WE DO FOR OUR NATION.  POLITICIANS GET LAW DEGREES, TWIST WORDS TO MEAN THEIR OPPOSITE AS BEN FRANKLIN ONCE SAID, LIE TO YOUR FACE TELLING US THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO.  PATRIOTS STAND UP AND PLEDGE TO THE FLAG, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.  POLITICIANS WORK FERVENTLY TO TAKE THE WORDS "UNDER GOD" OUT OF EVERYTHING INCLUDING OUR SCHOOLS, OUR BOOKS, OUR CURRENCY, OUR BUILDINGS, AND OUR VERY LIVES.  PATRIOTS ARE WILLING TO LIVE AND DIE UNDER THE CREED AND THE CODE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS.  POLITICIANS ARE WILLING TO LIVE, BUT NOT DIE BY REWRITING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, BY DIMINISHING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND BY DESTROYING THE BILL OF RIGHTS TO FIT THEIR NEEDS OF POWER AND CONTROL.  PATRIOTS LIVE TO GIVE TO THEIR NATION AND THEIR INFLUENCE IS THAT OF GOD, COUNTRY AND FLAG, UNITED INTO THE WHOLE OF TOTAL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THOUGHTS VERILY UNBRIDLED.  POLITICIANS LIVE TO TAKE FROM THEIR NATION THEIR OWN MILLION DOLLAR MANSIONS, THEIR PRIVATE LIMO'S, THEIR PRIVATE JETS,THEIR PRIVATE PERMANENT RETIREMENTS, THEIR VERY OWN PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE, THEIR OWN RICHES INFLUENCED BY TWENTY TWO THOUSAND  PLUS LOBBYISTS RAPING, PILLAGING AND PLUNDERING OUR MILK AND HONEY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, MAINLY THE RED COMMUNIST CHINESE HORDES.   PATRIOTS WILL ALWAYS SURVIVE, PATRIOTS WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL IN THE EYES OF GOD, PATRIOTS ARE WILLING TO SHED THEIR BLOOD IN THE NAME AND THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM.  POLITICIANS WILL ALWAYS LOSE WHEN THEY SEEK TO CONTROL, EXPAND, AND DIVIDE WE THE PEOPLE, AS IS NOW BEING SEEN IN SUCH PLACES AS YEMEN, EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, NOW LIBYA, SOON SYRIA, AND MORE.  PATRIOTS WILL EVENTUALLY OVERCOME, NO MATTER THE YEARS, WHILE POLITICIANS WILL TURN TAIL AND RUN AS GADDAFI IS NOW DOING, AND THOSE IN HOLLYWOOD DC WILL EVENTUALLY DO WHEN NERO IS THROUGH FIDDLING.  THOSE YOUNG PATRIOTS UPRISING NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE TYRANNICAL DICTATORS WHO HAVE HELD THEM HOSTAGE FOR 20,30,40 OR MORE YEARS.  MANY OF THEM HAVE NEVER EVER KNOWN TRUE FREEDOM.  THEY WILL NOW, AS WE WILL SOON AGAIN, BY THE VOTE.  I SAY TO YOU ALL MY FELLOW VETERANS AGAIN, VOTE'EM OUT, VOTE'EM ALL OUT, EVERY TIME EVERY TERM UNTIL THERE ARE NO INSCUMBENTS LEFT.  THEN THEY WILL UNDERSTAND. !

SO TO MY FRIEND AND TO THOSE WHO SAY I AM RANTING, OR THAT I AM A JOKE, I SAY TO YOU THAT JUST BEFORE HE DIED, ROBERT KENNEDY SAID THAT ONE MAN WHO IS WILLING TO STAND UP FOR HIS BELIEFS IS A RIPPLE THAT TURNS INTO A WAVE.  WELL I SAY TO YOU, MY VERY DEAR FRIEND, I HOPE THAT YOU DECIDE TO CONTINUE TO BE MY FRIEND, FOR I AM BUT A MERE PEBBLE THROWN INTO A HUGE POND OF VITRIOL, BUT THE RIPPLE I ATTEMPT TO MAKE WILL I ASSURE YOU BE MIMED BY MANY AND THE LITTLE PEBBLES WILL TURN INTO BIG WAVES AND WE THE PATRIOTS SHALL ASSESS, ADAPT AND OVERCOME.  WE WILL PREVAIL.  THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NEVER FALTER, FOR WE ARE WILLING TO SHED THE BLOOD NECESSARY TO KEEP THE RED BLOOD RED.  WE ARE WILLING TO SHED OUR VERY HIDES TO THE HEAVENS TO KEEP THE WHITE, PEARLY WHITE. AND WE ARE WILLING TO KEEP FIFTY STARS IN OUR EYES TO OUR VERY OWN DEATHS, AS WE GAZE UPON A SKY OF BLUE.  WE SHALL NEVER FALTER, WE SHALL NEVER FAIL, AND WE THE VETERANS THAT GIVE THIS VERY NATION HER NAME, HER REASON, HER GOD AND HER VERY SOUL SHALL STAND TO THE DEATH FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, SO HELP US GOD.  AMEN. AND MAY GOD BLESS MY DEAR AMERICA.  Hb  "ha'cha'cha, now dat my fellow Merikans is a rant.  but it sure's ta hell aint no frikkin  joke", so good night mrs. kalabash wherever you are. keep the faith.trust in God.Aloha Hb

THE GOOD

THE GOOD IS THAT I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK FREELY OF OUR HERO VETERANS THAT ARE WILLING TO RISK LIVE AND LIMB TO MAKE SUCH A DECISION TO GIVE THEIR VERY LIVES IF NECESSARY TO SAVE OUR FREEDOMS AND WAY OF LIFE TO PASS ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION.

THE BAD

THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO SPEAK OF OUR LEADERSHIP ACROSS THE BOARD IN SUCH A VITRIOLIC MANNER.  THAT I MUST ASK ALL GOOD MEN AND WOMEN WHO DO NOT FEEL AND CAN PROVE THEY DO NOT FIT THE MOLD I HAVE SET FORTH TO COME FORWARD AND PROVE TO AMERICA THAT YOU ARE THE LEADERS WE TRUSTED AND ELECTED TO LEAD US OUT OF THIS MESS. EITHER COME FORWARD AND WE WILL EMBRACE YOUR HONESTY AND GIVE YOU CHANCE OR OTHERWISE JUST PACK UP YOUR BAGS AND GO HOME. FOR IF YOU ARE NOT A FRIEND THEN YOUR SURELY ARE A FOE, AND I PERSONALLY, HARLEY DALE BROWN AM COMING AFTER YOU AND YOUR LIES.  I AM BUT A TINY PEBBLE RAISING A MERE RIPPLE IN A SMALL POOL, BUT MANY MORE WILL FOLLOW TO CREATE BIG WAVES. PROVE YOUR HONESTY, PROVE YOUR INTEGRITY, PROVE YOUR LOYALTY OR MOVE ON!!

THE UGLY

THAT OUR FOREFATHERS ARE LITERALLY ROLLING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES AT WHAT THIS NATION, STARTED ON SUCH GREAT FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLE HAS BECOME WHAT IT IS.  VERILY I TELL YOU THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BEN FRANKLIN AND MANY MORE WROTE OF THESE FEARS THAT WE THE PEOPLE WOULD ONCE AGAIN FALL INTO THE HANDS OF TYRANTS AND NEER'DO'WELLS, WILLING TO RUN OVER THEIR OWN GRANDMA'S WITH WINTERS SLEIGH TO GET TO THE GOODIES UNDER THE TREE.  I AT TIMES AM ASHAMED AS I WATCH MY AMERICA BECOME SOMETHING I DO NOT RECOGNIZE OR UNDERSTAND.  I DO UNDERSTAND WE ARE A GLOBAL EARTH IN CHANGE, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT CHANGE MUST ALWAYS COME, BUT I DO NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME UNDERSTAND THE UGLINESS OF PEOPLE SUCH AS THOSE IN DC. HOWEVER I WILL NEVER HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME, OR EVER SAY THAT I AM NOT PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.  I LOVE MY COUNTRY.  I LOVE MY GOD, I LOVE MY FLAG. THERE IS NO SHAME IN MY HEART. GOD SAVE US ALL. Hb    

U.S. VETERANS COME TOGETHER AS ONE TO SAVE A NATION

GREETINGS MY FELLOW VETERANS.  I WISH I COULD SEE THAT ONE IN THE HEADLINES, "U.S. VETERANS COME TOGETHER AS ONE TO SAVE A NATION IN PERIL."  AFTER ALL WAS IT NOT THE VETERAN THAT SAVED US FROM SPLITTING IN THE CIVIL WAR?  WAS IT NOT THE VETERAN THAT SAVED EUROPE IN WWI AND WWII?  WAS IT NOT THE VETERAN THAT ANSWERED THE CALL AFTER PEARL HARBOR AND THEN AGAIN AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001?  AND FOR THAT WE HERE ON MAUI HAVE HAD OUR MEDICAL CENTERS FUNDS CUT BY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS?  OUR PENTAGON AND MILITARY IS FACING A CUT OF THIRTY PERCENT?  IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THE VETERANS OF THE NATION TO RISE UP AND LEAD THE NATION BACK INTO FREEDOM AND SOLVENCY.  IT SEEMS AS THOUGH NOT ONLY MUST WE PROVIDE THE FREEDOMS BUT WE MUST NOW SACRIFICE TO KEEP THEM.

I WISH TO BEGIN THIS WEEKS BLOG BY PUBLISHING A SMALL DISCLAIMER AND EXPLAINING "MY BLOGGING RULES".  THIS IS MY BLOGSPOT AND THE RULES ARE BUT TWO AND VERY SIMPLE.  WE AS VETERANS ONCE TOOK AN OATH WHEN WE ENTERED THE MILITARY.  WE WERE ALSO TOLD NOT TO EXPRESS PERSONAL POLITICAL OPINIONS.  I AM HOLDING MYSELF TO THAT RULE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO WISH TO RESPOND.  I WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANYTHING POLITICAL.  THAT WOULD BE RULE 1.  RULE 2 WOULD BE TO OBSERVE ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDERS AND IN ALL CASES, EITHER AGREE, DISAGREE, BUT ALWAYS AGREE TO DISAGREE AMIABLY AND HONORABLY.  

MY DISCLAIMER IS THAT I WILL ALWAYS SPEAK AS A VETERAN, I WILL SHOOT STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, NO SPIN, AND GIVE THE BOTTOM LINE.  I AM NOT NOW NOR HAVE EVER BEEN A REPUBLOCRAT NOR A DEMOPUBLICAN, BUT RATHER I AM A VETERAN, A PATRIOT, AND A RED BLOODED TRUE AMERICAN.  I CARE ABOUT AND FOR MY COUNTRY, BUT LIKE MANY OF US, I AM FED UP WITH MY GOVERNMENT.  THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, IF YOU MISCONSTRUE ANYTHING I SAY AS POLITICAL, THAT WOULD BE YOUR INTERPRETATION AND YOUR PROBLEM.  ANYTHING I MAY SAY IS ONLY AND SOLELY FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE USA AND HER VETERANS AND IS SOLELY MY OPINION .  

NOW FOR TODAY'S TOPIC, MR. ERIC HOLDER.  THE NEWSPAPER, "USA TODAY" CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MR. HOLDERS STATEMENT THAT "HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT GIVES AMERICAN CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO OWN GUNS."  THE POLL SIMPLY ASKED ONE TO VOTE EITHER "YES" OR "NO" OR "UNDECIDED" TO THE QUESTION.  THE POLL CAME OUT TO BE 97 PERCENT "YES IT DOES", 2 PERCENT, "NO IT DOES NOT", AND 1 PERCENT UNDECIDED.  END OF QUESTION.  REALLY?  END OF QUESTION? I THINK NOT.

FIRST OF ALL, AS A VETERAN, I WAS TRAINED, AS WERE MOST OF US, IN THE EXTENSIVE USE, CARE AND KNOWLEDGE OF FIREARMS, AS WERE THE FIRST VETERANS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.  IT HAS BEEN OUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS FROM THE DAYS BEFORE GEORGE WASHINGTON TILL NOW.  MR. HOLDEN IS AN ATTORNEY GENERAL, HIRED BY WE THE PEOPLE, AND ASSIGNED THE TASK OF ENFORCING THE LAWS OF THIS GREAT NATION, NOT INTERPRETING THEM OR DEFINING THEM.  HE IS IN THE JUDICIAL, NOT LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT OF WE THE PEOPLE, AND IT IS NOT HIS JOB TO COMMENT, REDEFINE, OR LEGISLATE ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT.  THAT IS THE JOB OF THE SENATE, THE CONGRESS, AND JUDICIALLY CAN ONLY BE DECIDED OR REDEFINED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.  

I WOULD SUGGEST THAT MR. HOLDEN SHUT UP HIS BIG FAT MOUTH AND DO HIS JOB ENFORCING THE FOLLOWING: 
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes in federal enclaves, such as self-defense within the home. The decision did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment extends beyond federal enclaves to the states,^[1] which was addressed later by McDonald v. Chicago (2010). It was the first Supreme Court case in United States history to decide whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self defense.^[2]
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia.^[3][4] The Court of Appeals had struck down provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 as unconstitutional, determined that handguns are "arms" for the purposes of the Second Amendment, found that the District of Columbia's regulations act was an unconstitutional banning, and struck down the portion of the regulations act that requires all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." "Prior to this decision the Firearms Control Regulation Act of 1975 also restricted residents from owning handguns except for those registered prior to 1975."<sup>[5]

AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN MR HOLDEN HAS EVERY RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS "PERSONAL" OPINION AS TO WHAT HE BELIEVES THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANS, BUT WHILE SERVING IN HIGH OFFICE OF THE USA, HE NEEDS TO KEEP HIS POLITICAL VITRIOL TO HIMSELF, AS WE DID AS VETERANS BY NOT EXPRESSING POLITICAL OPINION.  I FOR ONE  AS A VETERAN WOULD BE GLAD TO DEBATE HIM ON THE FOREFATHERS MEANING BEHIND THE 2ND AMENDMENT, BUT I THINK THE "USA TODAY" POLL FROM CITIZENS ALL OVER THE NATION HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED THAT FOR US.  

THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WE HAVE TOO MANY OF THE 100 SENATORS, AND 435 REPRESENTATIVES ACTUALLY NOT DOING THEIR JOBS AND STICKING THEIR NOSES INTO PLACES THEY DO NOT BELONG.  THAT IS WHY WE SEE THE COUNTRY IN SUCH A MESS, BECAUSE  "WE THE SHEEPLE" HAVE ELECTED THE WRONG PEOPLE TO REPRESENT US.  YOU AND I, YES THAT IS RIGHT, THE BLAME BELONGS TO US AND RESTS SQUARELY ON OUR SHOULDERS, "WE THE PEOPLE".   WE HAVE BEEN "WE THE SHEEPLE" FOR TOO LONG NOW, NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR "GOVERNESS" AND JUST GOING ABOUT OUR DAILY LIVES AS IF THIS WAS GOING TO GO ON FOREVER.  IT IS OUR FAULT COLLECTIVELY, BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT WE HAVE BEEN MISLED BY SO MANY WHO CAMPAIGN AND RUN FOR OFFICE.  THEY CAMPAIGN ON WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, THEY LIE TO US, AND THEN WHEN THEY GET ELECTED THEY DO WHAT THE HELL THEY  DAMN WELL PLEASE.  METAPHOR:  UPON ARRIVING AT THE PEARLY GATES A MAN WAS TOLD HE MUST FIRST GO DOWN TO HELL FOR 24 HOURS AND THEN HEAVEN FOR 24 HOURS AND THEN DECIDE WHERE HE MIGHT SPEND ETERNITY.  UPON ARRIVING IN HELL IT WAS VEGAS, ATLANTIC CITY, AND NEW ORLEANS ALL ROLLED UP INTO CALL GIRLS, MARGARITA'S , AND PARTY.  UPON RETURNING TO HEAVEN IT WAS CLOUDS, AND HARPS, VIOLINS AND CHOIRS OF GREGORIAN CHANTS.  THE MAN THEN TOLD ST. PETER HE'D RATHER SPEND HIS ETERNITY IN HELL, WHEREUPON HE AGAIN FOUND HIMSELF IN HELL.  ONLY THIS TIME EVERYONE WAS NECK DEEP IN YOU KNOW WHAT DRINKING HOT COFFEE AND MOANING THE BLUES.  SATAN, SATAN, WHAT HAPPENED HE EXCLAIMED.  CAME THE ANSWER, YESTERDAY WE WERE CAMPAIGNING, TODAY YOU VOTED.  SO BE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE WHO WE ELECT TO DC AND AS I HAVE ENCOURAGED IN THE PAST,
"VOTE'EM OUT,VOTE'EM ALL OUT EVERY TIME EVERY TERM TILL NO INSCUMBENTS ARE LEFT IN DC!!!!!!!!!!!! "
BUT WHEN YOU FIND A KEEPER, KEEP'EM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  " 

I ESPECIALLY CALL OUR VETERANS INTO "BEING OF RESPONSIBILITY" HERE, FOR IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT SPILLED OUR BLOOD, RISKED OUR LIVES, AND LEFT THE NAMES OF OUR DEAD ETCHED ONTO GRANITE WALLS FROM WWII TO KOREA, TO VIETNAM AND NOW WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.  WHAT WILL WE DO NOW, BUILD ANOTHER WALL TO THEM?  SORRY, THERE'S NO MONEY LEFT, BUT I DO SUPPOSE WE COULD HAVE A STIMULUS OF POLISHED GRANITE AS ROCKS AND STONE CARVERS DO COME CHEAP.   AFTER ALL WE HAVE BEEN BUILDING MONUMENTS TO OUR VETERANS SINCE THE 1700'S !!!!!  WE HAVE JUST NOT BEEN HONORING THEM PROPERLY.  WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT? FOR US TO HONOR OUR WWII BOYS THAT GAVE US THE GREAT NATION WE JUST RUINED, WE MUST FIRST TURN BACK TO THEM AND EASE THEIR PAIN OF ROLLING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES AND WONDERING "WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE?"  IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT SINCE IT IS WE THE VETERANS THAT  GIVE OUR LIVES AND LIMBS FOR FREEDOM, IT MUST ALSO BE US THAT LEADS THE NATION BACK TO SOLVENCY AND FREEDOMS WE ONCE KNEW.  OBVIOUSLY "CHARLIE CITIZEN" OR "JOE BLOW" OFF THE STREETS ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT, AND THE LEADERSHIP MUST COME FROM WITHIN THE RANKS OF OUR VETERANS.  

ON JULY 28TH, 1932, THEN MAJOR GEORGE S. PATTON TOOK SIX FULLY ARMED BATTLE TANKS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND ATTACKED OUR OWN WWI VETERANS, WOUNDING HUNDREDS AND KILLING MANY.  YOUR HOMEWORK TONIGHT IS TO GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND READ:  http://www.zimbio.com/War+in+Iraq/articles/5EyT97xp7-J/Forgotten+History+Army+Attacked+Veterans+Washington   YES, THAT IS CORRECT, WE THE VETERANS 17000 STRONG SURROUNDED WASHINGTON DC AND DEMANDED PAYMENT OF THEIR MONEY.  FOR THAT THEY WERE ATTACKED, SHOT, WOUNDED AND KILLED ALONG WITH 25000 FAMILY MEMBERS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.  SO WHAT AM I SAYING HERE?  WELL, WHAT I AM SAYING MANY OF MY FELLOW VETERANS WILL AGREE WITH, MANY MORE WILL DISAGREE WITH AND YET MANY MORE WILL AGREE TO DISAGREE.  BUT, MANY OF YOU, MY FELLOW VETERANS WILL PROBABLY BE ON PATTON'S SIDE, AND SO BE IT.  WHAT I AM SAYING HERE, IS THAT IF WE ARE TO SAVE OUR NATION, WE ONCE AGAIN NEED TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC.  BUT WE NEED TO DO IT PEACEFULLY IN KEEPING WITH THE MANNER OF MAHATMA GANDHI AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, NO GUNS, NO SHOOTING, NO VIOLENCE.  IT IS NOW AUGUST 21ST, 2011, AND WHAT I AM SUGGESTING IS THAT EVERY VETERAN THAT IS READY, WILLING AND ABLE, PLAN A TRIP  AS SOON AS YOU CAN. AND UP AND UNTIL ELECTION DAY.  GO BY BUS, TRAIN, CAR OR PLANE, WALK INTO THE HALLS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE, AND SURROUND THE CITY WITH OUR VOICES.  INUNDATE THE ENTIRE CITY.  LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD  YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.   LET US THEN PICK A DATE AND HAVE A MILLION VETERAN MARCH TO LET THEM KNOW THAT "WE THE VETERANS" ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THEY ARE RUNNING THE NATION, NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THEY ARE TREATING OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, FUTURE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS.  CURRENTLY THEY ARE EXPERIENCING THIRTY PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE HIGHEST SUICIDE RATES SINCE WWI.</sup>

  ^{THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY}

^{THE GOOD: THIS WEEK IS LIBYA:  WHATEVER THE "MIDDLE EAST SPRING" MOVEMENT IS ABOUT THIS WEEK HAS SHOWN IT'S GOOD SIDE IN THE DEFEAT AND HOPEFULLY THE REMOVAL OF ANOTHER WORLD DICTATOR, MUAMMAR GADDAFI.  HIS 41YEAR, 11MONTH TERM IN OFFICE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY IN RUIN, BUT AT LEAST ABLE TO MAKE A FRESH START.  LET US HOPE IT IS IN A GOOD DIRECTION, AND NOT BACK TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND ANOTHER DICTATOR.  THE GOOD IN THE GOOD IS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT MADE THE RIGHT DECISION NOT TO PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND COMMIT TRILLIONS IN REBUILDING THAT NATO AND THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD NOW ADDRESS.}  

<sup>THE BAD:     THIS WEEK IN DC:  WHILE WE THE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LANGUISH IN THE INDECISION OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND BUSINESS LEFT UNDONE IN THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE, BOTH THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND 435 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE ON A FIVE WEEK HIDEOUS. WE NEED ACTION NOW, NOT IN SEPTEMBER AS WE WATCH WALL STREET CRASH AND GROAN, AND OIL AND GOLD SHOOTING THROUGH THE ROOF, OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" ARE VACATIONING.


THE UGLY:   THIS WEEK IN FRANCE:  WHILE WE THE PEOPLE ARE WORKING, ( THOSE OF US WHO ARE ) FOR AND SPENDING OUR DOLLARS HERE,  WERE YOU TO GO ON VACATION, SAY TO FRANCE, A BOTTLE OF PERRIER WOULD COST A WHOPPING $10.00 IN AMERICAN DOLLARS.  HOW IS IT THAT WHILE FRANCE BASICALLY DECLARES ITSELF INSOLVENT, ( AND DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT ) THE US CREDIT RATING IS DOWNGRADED BY STANDARDS AND POORS?  LEST WE USE THE "P" (POLITICS) WORD HERE, IT MAY BE HIGH TIME S&P WERE INVESTIGATED FOR COLLUSION.  THE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE FRENCH FRANC TO THE US DOLLAR TODAY WAS 4.55852 TO ONE.  AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE???  ME THINK THE S&P MAY BE MANIPULATED BY THE GREAT GEORGE SORE@ZZ AND HIS CHINESE COHORTS.  TIME FOR CHANGE FOLKS.

THE UGLIEST:  THIS WEEK ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD:  THIS WEEK WHILE VACATIONING ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD WITH ALL OF THE ELITE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, OUR FEARLESS LEADER LITERALLY HALTED THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS WITH THE SWIPE OF THE EXECUTIVE PEN.  THE LEGAL DOORS OF ELLIS ISLAND REMAINED EMBROILED IN RED TAPE AND BASICALLY CLOSED TO ALL WITHOUT CONNECTIONS, WHILE THE NEW W.O.P. ( WITH OUT PAPERS ) ILLEGALS CROSSING OUR BORDERS IS WELL OVER 15 MIL.  HE THEN WENT ON TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF IOWA, MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA HE FELT THEIR PAIN???  IN 1953 EISENHOWER DEPORTED 11 MILLION ILLEGAL MEXICAN CITIZENS TO GIVE JOBS BACK TO OUR VETERANS AND CITIZENS??  FOLKS YOU CAN ONLY GET TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD BY FERRY, MASERATI'S AND JAG'S ONLY, PRIVATE BOAT, OR PRIVATE AIRPLANE.  THE ONLY PAIN ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD MIGHT BE NOT HAVING ENOUGH FRENCH PERRIER.  NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT, JUST A PERSONAL OBSERVATION, SEEING AS HOW MY WIFE'S PAY WAS CUT FIVE PERCENT AND SHE AS A TEACHER OF OUR CHILDREN IN EDUCATION HAS 15 FURLOUGH DAYS THIS YEAR.  DO YOU FEEL THE CHILDREN'S PAIN???????????????????</sup>

^{WELL BOYS AND GIRLS, THAT IS MY VETERANS SOCIAL BLOG FOR THIS WEEK.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, LET US BE CIVIL, LET US AGREE OR DISAGREE BUT MOST OF ALL AGREE TO DISAGREE FOR THE GOOD AND BETTERMENT OF OUR GREAT LADY OF LIBERTY.  SHE IS HURTING STANDING AT OUR DOOR OF NEW YORK HARBOR, SEEING THE LEGAL IMMIGRATION DOORS OF ELLIS ISLAND CLOSED,  TEARS STAIN HER COPPER FACE, FOR SHE KNOWS AS WE DO THAT AS A NATION WE ARE BROKE AND ON OUR KNEES.  WE MUST STAND UP NOW FOR SOMETHING OR WE WILL STAND FOR NOTHING AT ALL.  LET IT BE LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND THE AMERICAN WAY.  Hb} 

 

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES

IT IS A COMMON THREAD WITHIN THE "human condition" THAT RUNS DEEP IN THE RIVER OF HISTORY.  AS THIS IS A BRAND NEW BLOG, I WILL SPEAK OF THE "human condition" BOTH THE GOOD, THE BAD, OH AND YES THE UGLY.  THE THREAD I TREAD UPON TODAY IS THE OLD AXIOM  "what goes around comes around."  IF ONE WERE TO SET SAIL UPON THE RIVER OF HUMAN HISTORY, THEY MAY FIND THEMSELVES SAILING IN A CIRCLE.  WITH REGARDS TO THE SITUATION WE AMERICANS FIND OURSELVES IN TODAY, EINSTEIN MIGHT HAVE SAID THIS: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."  IN FACT HE DID SAY IT OF HIS OWN GENERATION.  I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE GENIUS PART, ALTHOUGH I HAVE A RATHER LARGE SKULL, I AM STILL NOT SO SURE WHAT ALL IS IN THERE.   BUT COURAGE I DO HAVE AND I AM MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.  WON'T YOU PLEASE TAKE THIS JOURNEY WITH ME? IN ORDER THAT WE SAVE AND PRESERVE THE BEST OF A NATION, WE MUST ALL MOVE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, WHICH LEADS US BACK TO NEWTON'S THEORIES.  THE THIRD LAW OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LAWS OF PHYSICS STATES THAT "every action has an equal and opposite reaction."  IF WE ARE TO MOVE IN AN OPPOSITE DIRECTION, WE MUST EXPECT A FORCE AGAINST US, WHICH IS JUST WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN CONGRESS TODAY.  IT IS THEREFORE THAT WE MUST APPLY A LARGER FORCE TO ACHIEVE THE MOVEMENT WE SEEK IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR NATION.  IT IS TIME FOR A 180 DEGREE MOVE, AND I NEED YOU ONE AND ALL, VETERANS, CIVILIANS, ALL LIKE MINDED CITIZENS TO ASSIST ME IN THIS MOVEMENT.  WE ARE RATHER CONSTIPATED WITHIN THE RANKS OF HOLLYWOOD DC, SO THE BEST FIRST MOVE IS A LAXATIVE.  WHAT WOULD THAT LAXATIVE BE??  "VOTE'em OUT, VOTE'em All OUT, Every Time Every Term UNTIL THERE ARE NO INSCUMBENTS LEFT."


IN LIFE, AS I HAVE CONTINUED TO GROW, (IN MANY WAYS, LOL) SOMETIMES I HAVE GAINED RESPECT FOR PEOPLE I USED TO QUESTION.  I USED TO HATE AND BLAME LYNDON JOHNSON FOR THE WAR "HE" PUT ME IN, BUT LATER I LEARNED THAT HE WAS A VERY TROUBLED HEARTFELT MAN. WHEN IT CAME TO THE DEATH OF "HIS BOYS"i NOW BELEIVE IT LED HIM TO AN EARLY GRAVE. YET ANOTHER GREAT LEADER AND STATESMAN, MAHATMA GANDHI, IN MY YOUTH PLUM BEFUDDLED ME?  I DID NOT AND COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HIS APPROACH.  LATER WHEN I READ OF HIM I CAME ACROSS THIS QUOTE IN WHICH HE SAID.  SAID It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.  WOULD THERE POSSIBLY BE ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD DC CLOAKING WARS THEY SAID THEY WOULD END?  COULD THERE BE VIOLENCE IN HIS HEART?




I WOULD LOVE TO FOLLOW HIS PATH OF NON VIOLENCE AND I PROMOTE AND ADVOCATE IT TO A POINT.  UNFORTUNATELY THIS ONE TRAINED NAVY AND MARINE MAN STILL HAS VIOLENCE IN HIS HEART AND WILL STILL IF NECESSARY PICK UP A GUN TO DEFEND MY AMERICAN TRADITIONS, ROOTS, WIFE, AND WAY OF LIFE. I AIN'T CLOAKIN' IN VITRIOL AND SEDITION, HOWEVER THE HATE I SPOKE OF EARLIER IS GONE, AND I MIGHT SAY  "I hate the word hate." I HAVE NO HATE FOR ANYTHING OR ANYONE LEFT IN MY HEART.  I NOW ONLY PITY AND FEEL SORROW FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH AND THE BOTTOM LINE. 

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY

TODAY "THE GOOD" IS:  NOT SEEING AMERICANS RIOTING IN THE STREETS, FIST FIGHTING EACH OTHER OVER POLITICAL DIFFERENCES, AND INSTEAD SEEING AMERICANS BEING PEACEFUL, CALM AND PATIENT.
TODAY "THE BAD " IS:  MY MISPERCEPTION THAT AMERICANS ARE BEING PEACEFUL, CALM AND PATIENT.  NOT RIOTING AND NOT FIST FIGHTING IS GOOD, BUT DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, AND SITTING ON OUR DUFFS WHILE THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER US IS BAD.  
TODAY "THE UGLY" IS: DING DING DING (BELLS GO OFF) MY "QUOTE OF THE DAY".

NOT ALL DAYS WILL BE THE QUOTE, IT JUST WAS THE ROUND PEG IN THE ROUND HOLE. AND IF IT FITS, YOU MUST AQUIT!!!  MY QUOTE OF THE DAY COMES FROM A VITRIOLIC SEDITIOUS MEMBER OF THE TERRORIST JIHADIST MAUI TEA PARTY THAT JUST CAUSED THE DOWNGRADE OF OUR TRIPLE AAA RATING.  WHAT???
  QUOTE:  "The Wizard of Oz is 72 years old today.    Today, if  Dorothy were to encounter men with no brains, no  hearts, and no balls,
 
 she  wouldn't be in Oz....



 She'd be  in Congress!  
    
SADLY, I FEAR THAT THE UGLY HAS TRICKLED DOWN INTO OUR SOCIETY, BECAUSE I FIND THE VERY SAME AMONGST MOST OF OUR AMERICAN MEN???  IS THAT A STATEMENT OF FACT OR A STATEMENT OF CHALLENGE?  NO, IT IS A STATEMENT OF TESTICULAR VALUE, AS IN NONE!!!!!  IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN,IN THAT I DO SEE OUR GREAT YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN VOLUNTEERING FOR OUR MILITARY AND DYING FOR OUR CAUSE AS DID THE THIRTY MEN ABOARD THE CHINOOK SHOT DOWN LAST WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN. UNFORTUNATELY THEIR RANKS COMPRISE LESS THAN ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT OF A SOCIETY THAT SHOULD BE UP IN ARMS IF NOT ALREADY IN SIGHTS AND IN AIM.  AND SO IT IS THAT EVEN THIS TOO, LIKE IT OR NOT, COMES BACK TO "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND".  OUR VOLLEY SHOT INTO THE BIN LADEN COMPLEX RESULTS IN THEIR VOLLEY OF THE TAKING OF SO MANY GOOD MEN OF SEAL TEAM SIX.  NOW WILL WE RETALIATE AND DECIMATE A FEW THOUSAND OF THEM TO COMPENSATE FOR OUR LOSS?  MY VIOLENT HEART HOPES THAT WE DO, BUT MY GANDHI HEART SAYS STOP HERE, LET IT LAY, EVERYONE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND GO HOME.  SO WHO WINS HERE? MY VIOLENT HEART OR MY GANDHI HEART? FOR A TIME IT COULD BE THAT GANDHI WILL WIN, AND WE COULD GO HOME LICKING OUR WOUNDS FOR SOME TIME.  BUT IN TIME BECAUSE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, HISTORY WILL ONCE AGAIN REPEAT ITSELF, AND WE WILL BE DOING THE GO AROUND COME AROUND WALTZ.  YET ANOTHER BIN LADEN WILL REAR ITS UGLY HEAD AND WE, AS AMERICANS DO WILL YET ONCE AGAIN SPILL OUR BLOOD IN THE NAME OF OUR FREEDOM.  IT IS WHAT WE DO FOLKS, IT IS A NEVER ENDING VICIOUS CIRCLE THAT FREEDOM IS NEVER TRULY, NEVER TOTALLY FREE.  WE MUST REPLENISH THE RED BLOOD IN OLD GLORY'S RED WHITE AND BLUE.  THE BLUE OF THE SKY WILL REMAIN WITH THE FIFTY STARS SHINING BRIGHT, AND THE WHITE STRIPES OF THE CLOUDS IN GOD'S HEAVENS WILL EVER SHINE BRIGHT AND WHITE, BUT THE RIVER OF BLOOD THAT FLOWS THROUGH THE RED STRIPES AND ALL TRUE RED BLOODED AMERICANS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO NOW LIBYA IS NEVER ENDING.  IT MUST BE REPLENISHED WITH THE VERY BEST OUR YOUTH THAT OUR MOTHERS HAVE SELFLESSLY OFFERED TO OUR NATION.  MAY GOD BLESS THE MOTHERS OF SEAL TEAM SIX AND ALL OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES WITH THEM WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SAVE OTHERS.  FREEDOM IS OUR WAY OF LIFE, FREEDOM IS OUR MANTRA, IT IS THE WAY WE KEEP FREEDOM FREE.  BLEEDING HEART LIBS GET OVER IT, GET UNDER IT OR GET OUT OF THE WAY, BECAUSE YOUR OPPOSITION MUST NOW GIVE WAY TO OUR EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION. WE BEGAN IN WAR, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN OUT OF WAR FOR VERY LONG, AND I FEAR THIS WAR WILL CONTINUE FOR SOME TIME TO COME.  IN TOMORROW'S BLOG I WILL DISCUSS THE WAR WITHIN AT HOME NOW KILLING US IN HOLLYWOOD DC.  LOOK, YOU DUMB @ZZ'ES IT IS NOT THE TEA PARTY THAT DOWNGRADED OUR AAA, IT IS EWE, YOU, EWE.  STOP BLATTING AND START PACKING, AS WE "VOTE'em OUT, VOTE'em All OUT, Every Time Every Term UNTIL THERE ARE NO INSCUMBENTS LEFT."  

NOW I AGAIN SET FORTH MY PLEA, I NEED ALL VETERANS TO COME TO MY CALL.  VETERANS, I NEED YOUR HELP.  VETERANS ARE THE CORE OF OUR FREEDOM, THE GIVING, AND THE KEEPING.  VETERANS ARE LEADERS. VETERANS ARE FEARLESS.  VETERANS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO HAVE BEEN THERE DONE THAT AND THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN HELP RESTORE HONOR TO THOSE RETURNING NOW.  THEY NEED OUR HELP VETERANS.  THEIR VETERAN'S  RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT IS 30 PERCENT.  THEIR VETERAN'S RATE OF SUICIDE IS GREATER THAN THAT OF WWII, KOREA, OR VIETNAM.  THEIR VETERAN'S RATE OF  PTSD IS AGGRAVATED BY MULTIPLE TOURS AND A SOCIETY THAT SEEMS TO SUPPORT, BUT STILL CARRIES THE SILENT SCARS OF HOW WE VIETNAM VETS WERE TREATED.  SILENCE HERE IS NOT GOLDEN, SILENCE HERE IS DEADLY.  THESE YOUNG LADIES AND MEN NEED OUR HELP AND WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN GIVE IT.  YOU CAN REACH ME AT THIS BLOGSITE AND MY ALTERNATE EMAIL IS harleydalebrown88@yahoo.com   NO HATE MAIL PLEASE, IF YOU CANNOT SAY SOMETHING NICE, THEN SAY NOTHING AT ALL.  WE CAN ALL AGREE, WE CAN ALL DISAGREE, BUT AT LEAST HAVE THE CIVILITY TO AGREE TO DISAGREE.    PLEASE VETERANS JOIN ME IN THIS "MOVEMENT IN AN OPPOSITE DIRECTION" TO SAVE A GREAT NATION IN PERIL.  Harleydale Brown @ "veteran's social"