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" 

THE BOTTOM LINE

EVERYTHING COMES DOWN TO A COMMON DENOMINATOR, AND A BOTTOM LINE. THERE IS A LINE IN LIFE BELOW WHICH NOTHING CAN ESCAPE.  WE HAVE FORGOTTEN MUCH AND THE STEADFAST RULES OF NATURE BY WHICH, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, MUST LIVE, ARE THOSE OF NEWTON, EINSTEIN, AND LEST WE FORGET MURPHY'S RULES.  OF THOSE RULES, EINSTEIN ONCE SAID: " A human being is a part of a whole, called by us_universe_ , a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.  a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desiers and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty"

NEWTON TAUGHT US: " the apple does not fall far from the tree", and of course we all know from him that "what goes up, must come down"

MURPHY'S LAW SIMPLY PUT SAYS:  "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".  
AND OF COURSE IN THAT SAYING, IT IS ALSO SO THAT "HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF", SPEAKING OF THINGS GOING WRONG.  

SO THE BOTTOM LINE TO ALL OF THIS ALL PUT TOGETHER IS THAT WE HAVE NOT YET LEARNED THE TASK EINSTEIN GAVE US, THEREFORE WE HAVE NOT FALLEN FAR FROM OUR TREE, AND THUS WHAT WENT UP, (AMERICA AND FREEDOM) MUST NOW COME DOWN.  IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THAT, WHAT WENT WRONG WILL CONTINUE TO GO WRONG IF WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW HISTORY TO REPEAT ITSELF.  

OUR FAILING AS HUMAN BEINGS IS THAT WE ARE MERELY CREATURES OF HABIT, AND WE HABITUALLY CONTINUE TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES OVER AND OVER AGAIN.  IF WE ARE TO GET OFF THE BOTTOM LINE, WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER AS ONE NOW AND STOP THE MISTAKES OF HISTORY.  BOTTOM LINE HERE FOLKS IS THAT FREEDOM WILL FALTER AND FREEDOM WILL FAIL IF WE DO NOT CONTINUE TO SHED THE BLOOD NECESSARY TO REPLENISH HER.  THAT IS THE ONE AXIOM OF LIFE WE CANNOT ESCAPE, FOR IF WE DO NOT SHED THE BLOOD, MEN SUCH AS HITLER, MUSSOLINI, MARX, STALIN, CASTRO, HUSSEIN, AND OTHERS WILL TAKE YOUR FREEDOM FROM YOU.  

WE ARE NOW AT A CROSSROADS IN OUR HISTORY WHERE THE BOTTOM LINE HAS BECOME NECESSARY.  THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT.  WALL STREET IS FALLING AS WE SPEAK.  JOBS ARE IN DIRE STRAIGHTS.  WE JUST SUFFERED THE FIRST OF WHAT COULD BE MORE DOWNGRADE IN OUR NATIONAL CREDIT RATING.  THE CENTRAL BREAD BASKET OF THE NATION IS BURNING UP WITH ALL CROPS IN JUST TEXAS ALONE LOST.  HOLLYWOOD DC IS IN GRIDLOCK AND CANNOT ACT TO SAVE ITSELF.  

THERE IS ONLY ONE GROUP AMONGST US THAT CAN RISE UP TO SAVE THE NATION. IT IS OUR NATIONS VETERANS.  WE ARE THE LEADERS.  WE ARE THE DOERS.  WE ARE AND ALWAYS FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON ON DOWN BEEN THE SAVING GRACE OF OUR NATIONS FREEDOMS.  IT IS TIME FOR US TO ACT GENTLEMEN.  IT IS TIME FOR US TO TAKE BACK OUR NATION AND THE FIRST STEP IS THIS:

VOTE'EM OUT, VOTE'EM ALL OUT EVERY TIME EVERY TERM UNTIL THERE ARE NO INCUMBENTS LEFT!!!!!!!!!!! 

CALLING ALL VETERANS

PAY ATTENTION, YOU HUNK'A GOVERNMENT GOOD FOR NOTHING THROWAWAY. ???  WELL AM I LYING OR ISN'T THAT ABOUT WHAT THE V/A TREATS US LIKE?  IN ENGLAND, OR AUSTRALIA, OR CANADA, IT IS A LIFETIME AFFAIR TO BE A VET.  IT HAS MEANING, IT HAS PRIDE, YOU ARE TAKEN CARE OF FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOU ARE HONORED AND YOU ARE A LARGE PART OF THE RETURNING SOCIETY.  

WE HAVE A LARGE PROBLEM WITHIN OUR NATION, AND I FOR ONE AS A VETERAN, THOUGHT I HAD DONE MY DUTY, AND I COULD RELAX AND ENJOY OUR FREEDOMS AS A NATION.  NOW I FIND MYSELF IN A NATION I NO LONGER KNOW OR RECOGNIZE.  MANY HAVE CALLED US BACK TO DUTY, ASKING FOR THE VETERANS TO COME BACK AND HELP SAVE AND LEAD THE NATION OUT OF THIS DILEMMA.  MANY OF US ARE TIRED, AND HAD THE BACKS OF A NATION TURNED TO US, SO NOW ASK "WHY US".  YOU DID NOT LIKE US AS VIETNAM VETERANS AND YOUR SILENCE SPOKE VOLUMES. NOW YOU WANT OUR HELP???  WELL, OK. SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT, AND IT IS FOR SURE THAT IT WAS THE RICH ELITISTS THAT DODGED THE WAR AND STAYED HOME WITH OUR GIRLS AND GOT THE DEGREES THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS.  SO IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT IT WILL HAVE TO BE THE VETERANS, FROM  (YES EVEN THE WWII GUYS) THAT WILL HAVE TO LEAD YOU OUT OF IT.  

SO I AM CALLING ALL VETERANS THAT ARE READY WILLING AND ABLE TO HELP ME FORM A GROUP TO TAKE ON THE WOES OF A RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT.  TODAY WE LOST OUR TRIPLE AAA RATING.  YOU THINK IT WAS ON PURPOSE?? I DO!!!  I BELIEVE THE ENTIRE CONGRESS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND 22K LOBBYISTS ARE SELLING US DOWN THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST "NEW WORLD GOVERNESS" ORDER.  IT IS A GRANDIOSE ATTEMPT  BY GEORGE SORE@ZZ AND CREW TO COMMIT M.A.E.D., (MUTUALLY ASSURED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION) AND TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELDS OF ALL NATIONS, THEREBY MAKING IT EASIER TO CONTROL AND TO DICTATE TO.  WE AS A NATION ARE HEADED TO A DICTATORSHIP IF O'BAMA AND CREW HAVE IT THEIR WAY.  IT IS NO LONGER A TIME FOR US TO FIGHT THEIR SMOKE AND MIRRORS, DEMOPUBLICAN/REPUBLOCRATIC BATTLES IN THE STREETS OF AMERICA.  IT IS TIME FOR US TO FORM NEW PARTIES, ELECT NEW CANDIDATES, VOTE'EM OUT, VOTE'EM ALL OUT, EVERY TIME EVERY TERM UNTIL THERE ARE NO INCUMBENTS LEFT. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  hB

The Power of Prayer and Action

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The attention span of an average adult over 60 these days is somewhere from 3 to 6 minutes, and below.  If you do not have a blog of interest within that time, chances are your blog will not be read.  It is therefore that I intend to go the shortest route and to the point.  Today all anybody wants to do is blah, blah, blah, blog, blog blog, all talk and no action.  The time for talk in this country folks is over.  It is time for us to do the only two things left to do that we are not doing today.  One is the power of prayer.  If enough of us fervently pray with meaning and purpose, we can move mountains. Pray aloud in public, pray in Church, Pray, pray, pray.  The other thing we must do in this country is to spring into action.  As talkers we are loser, we must become "do'zers".!!!  We have much to do to save the country from Hollywood DC, and we must stop just talking about it and do something.  The very first thing we can do and prepare for is to put forth some new and viable candidates and vote out ALL OF THE INCUMBENTS.  Vote'em out, Vote'em all out, Every Time, Every Term.  This is action the "politicians" will understand that "We The People" truly mean business.  I have heard it said that no One man can truly make a difference, but it takes a movement or alot of people.  Well folks, you have never met this "ONE MAN", and I intend to make a difference.  I have been a "One Man Show", most of my life, so it is high time to turn my talents to the American Patriotic Arena.  Calling all Veterans, it is we the Military men and women that serve to provide and protect the freedoms we as Americans enjoy.  Unfortunately it looks as though it will be us again that must in the interest of Freedom and Free Will, take the reins in our hands and guide the idiots of this nation out of this mess.  My blogs will be short, 3 to 5 minutes, but to the point and I welcome all comers with opinions to either agree or disagree, but the civility of tongue to agree to disagree and WITHOUT FOUL LANGUANGE.  It takes more intelligence to speak without cursing than it does to bully someone into the corner with foul cursing and vitriol. After all, we ALL are in this Ship the USS America together, and unless we want HER to become the USS Titanic, we had better START DO'ZING!!!!!  Hb