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?