How have things changed

 

         Written Dec. 30, 2009

         As this winter storm grips the nation in ice and snow it makes it harder and harder for the leaders to sell us on this Global Warming lie. This earth has had climate change since its inception and always will. We’ve had how many Atomic Tests in Nevada, Bikini and of course the two bombs on Japan in WWII. If anything could or would change cause our climate to change these would. We’ve also had numerous eruptions from various mountains in the world during the last 50 years. These eruptions put out more gases and pollutants then all the cars on this earth. As I have said many times, the area I live in that is now covered in desert sage and snow was once a lush semi tropical series of lakes and inland sea’s. You can dig up the evidence with your own hands, this is not just some ones theory. For us to be forced into this giant conspiracy that will cost us a fortune is no different than the piracy that is going on in Somalia.


We see the quality of our leadership in Washington, they have to resort to bribery and coercion to get their bills past. When we the people elect someone to the House or Senate it is to be a reflection of the community that elected them. You wouldn’t send a known liar to represent you yet that’s what they have become.   How is it a good thing to sell your influence for money even if it’s for your State? Someone has to pay for this bribery and that someone is the American people. The Congress has failed to realize that they have no money, their money is out of our pockets yet they throw it around like a bunch of drunks at a strip club. First it was Millions and now they speak of Trillions as if it’s coffee or lunch money.

The Cap and Trade Bill and the monstrous Healthcare Bill & Global Warming pact, is all just the beginning, why stop there. The progressives think that all you have to do is to print more money to pay for it. We all want to breath clean air, that’s a given and we all want the best Healthcare we can afford. Like everything Washington gets their hands on it grows with their need to expand their political power. Republican or Democrat it doesn’t matter, if you give government the chance to grow itself, it will. The Progressive agenda of all things to all people is more dangerous than ever before, because many of these people who are running things are not just liberal Progressives, they’re Socialists, Communists and anti-capitalists with only one agenda in mind, to become a know all do all government. They believe that they need to take care of the people because they know best what is right. The concept of a representative government by the people and for the people is foreign to them. You who sit back and scoff at this change will end up paying the same price as I do, but at least I see it coming. Being blind to the actions of a government is the same scenario as the Russians went through in 1917 and the Germans in the late 30’s. Do you think that one day they all sat down and decided to give up their personal rights to the State? Of course not, they eroded them away just as we are doing right now.

There is an old saying out here in the West; “The bigger the hat the smaller the herd.” We have a bunch of big hats in Washington who need to have a reality check and real soon, or you are going to have to give them a bigger portion of your herd just to exist.

 

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        I wrote this blog in December of 2009 and it is so indicative of why the election of 2016 went the way it did.  We still have many of the same elites in charge in the two parties and it spite of this the President has been able to get a large part of his agenda moving.  The left is missing the boat as this President is a negotiator and is willing to work to solve problems yet there is such a void in leadership in the resist movement of the Democratic party that it has been all one sided.  This country needs input from all sides to be whole.  The spirit of the United States is a conglomerate of all people, not rich, not poor but everyone.  Our representation has been nonexistent, it has been corrupted by politics  and poor leadership.  You may not like our Presidents personality or his demeanor but give him credit for his ability to get things done to move our country back to the commonsense approach rather than bogging us down with more political correctness ideology. Get the Muellar investigation over with and allow our country to go forward.       

         

 

              As far as the media is concerned I think of the great newsmen and women of the 40's and 50's they didn't allow their personal bias to even trickle into their reporting.  The Despots of today are doing everything in their power to destroy not only the man himself but the very office of the Presidency.  They have no concept of the Revolution and its consequences should they succeed. Should they create a Constitutional Crisis the result would be catastrophic for America and weaken her beyond repair.  Think about our next generation and what they will face should we allow this to continue even consider a breakup of the States and the resulting chaos.  Let actions speak louder than words, allow the Administration to do their job and in the end see if we are better off or we need to make a change. God Bless America and all those who love her.   

 

Just keeping things straight

                              Let me get this straight, for years the ladies of Hollywood and the Progressive Left have advocated for everything from free love to see thru dresses on the red carpet.  They told stories like truck drivers leaving nothing for the imagination and now I cannot tell a woman at work that see looks great today.  A misplaced word can cause a man his job, his family and his total reputation just on the word of a single woman.  I think people like Harvey Weinstein are despicable and should be in prison but this new movement is going to cause problems way beyond the bad timing of a joke or good natured flirt in the work place.  Men are going o be afraid to hire women for the fear of unwarranted harassment charges.  There are bad women as well as men just check out the prisons and it is relatively easy to claim false charges as a method of filing a claim for damages.  The penalty for filing falsely should be as great as the crime itself.  Though just  like charging harassment is hard to prove so are claims of false charges.  Problem is the harassment charges don't seem to need proof  just the claim. Once again Commonsense has been replaced with Political Correctness and this time it will have real consequences.

December 7th

Every year on December 7th we come together to remember the day that our world changed forever. The lessons we learned that day changed the character of our nation. The men and women who died at Pearl Harbor became a rallying cry across America and the people responded by filling the recruitment centers all over the land. Democrats and Republicans, people of all nationalities and color stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat our enemies in the Pacific and in Europe. Today the battles we fight are mostly internal, Americans divided not by war but by politics and in some cases race. I’m not forgetting the war on terror going on all over the World but it is the battle to change the very character of America that has us so divided. We all are ready willing and able to take on the Evil of Terrorism yet we can’t work together to build a stronger nation for the people. As Americans our Constitution dictates our laws and has done a wonderful job for the last 242 years yet we have people on all sides who try to circumvent the Constitution for the sake of political gain. It’s time to wake up my friends and start using commonsense instead of political correctness to solve our dilemma's and heal our differences. 
God Bless our Military and God Bless America.

The Injustice of Justice

My heart goes out to the Steinle family tonight.  Their daughter Kate died cruelly in her fathers arms the result of stupid man with a gun.  In San Francisco a jury has acquitted the illegal alien who fired that gun carelessly on a pier, as Kate and her father walked happily enjoying a beautiful San Francisco Summer day.  The man who fired the stolen gun should have been on his way to the border for deportation but because of the sanctuary city rule enforce in S.F. he had been released before Federal Agents could retrieve him.  This is a man with 7 felony convictions here in the U.S.A. and had been deported 5 times previously.  He had been in jail on a drug charge and the Fed’s had asked for the Sheriff’s Department to hold him for pick up and deportation.  Instead of following Federal law and holding the man they followed San Francisco sanctuary rules and set him free.  He had a gun he said he found that had been stolen from Park Service Officers car.  At first he told police he was shooting at Harbor Seals then after Lawyered up he changed his story, he said he found the gun under a bench on the pier and when he picked it up it fired.  The bullet ricocheted off one of the pillars and struck young Kate in the back fatally wounding her.  Her last words to her father were “help me Dad” as she died in his arms.  Had this been a citizen of this country that fired the shot we would have been charged minimally with 2^nd degree murder or at the least manslaughter.  The government and people of San Francisco have become so progressive that they feel they are not required to follow the immigration laws of the country.  The jury deliberated over 30 hours I’m sure badgering those who wanted justice until they gave in.  Far left Liberal policies to be sure are now the rule in S.F. and I feel it has become an unsafe place to visit.  Maybe if tourism slows they will realize how crazy this path they have embarked on is.  The entire government of California has now declared itself a Sanctuary State maybe we should just close the border to the real United States and let them stew in their own mess.  We don’t need to feed them anymore Government grants let them take care of their education and tax themselves into oblivion in order to survive.  They can keep the 9^th district court of appeals too.  Businesses have been fleeing California for the last several years because of the high cost of doing business, eventually the only jobs that will be available will be in the government and we know that doesn’t produce an income for the State.  I know none of this will happen but I’m just totally disgusted with the system of justice and what it has done to the Steinle’s and what it has done to our beautiful country. 

Politicians have forgotten how to think for themselves.

One can only come to the conclusion that to be a politician in today's messed up world you would have to sell your soul to your party. I really don't believe that every democrat is lock step with their leaders nor do I believe that every republican is loyal to their party yet they seem to follow that theory in their voting. What ever happened to our country, how could our politics evolve into such controlled thought. Where are the Scoop Jacksons and the Tip O'neal's hiding... their heads. They surely must be rolling in their graves at such a spectacle in our Congress. The people are just pawns in today's chess game of politics. I for one am disgusted with the process, the Elites in both parties wonder how this election went the way it did, I think they should look in the mirror and take stock of their man or womanhood. Not one of them is capable of thinking for themselves, if they were we would have non partisan voting in many of the items before the Senate and House. We might as well just have the Leaders vote and forget that we have so call representation for the people

From the desk of Charles Krauthammer

Subject:Fwd: An article from the New York Post: There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty,  not the Statue of Equality." �����Max�����  An article from the New York Post:  I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called "Organizing for Action" (OFA).  OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president's administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?  If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!  Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration's top dogs over to Organizing for Action.  OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.  OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for "progressive" change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.   OFA members were propped up by the ex-president's message from the shadows: "Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines..... Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond."  OFA's website says it obtained its "digital" assets from the ex-president's re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.  Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, "The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House."  Sperry writes that, "The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.  Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president's signal that he is heartened by the protests.  If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.  If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.  So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a "PERFECT TARGET" for our enemy!  Charles Krauthammer        Yes, it's happening before our very eyes as we speak.

Give a smile to a Veteran

give a smile to a Veteran;

Every year on Veterans Day many of us sit back and remember those we served with. Good times or bad these people became our brothers and sisters for life. We may not see them for years yet you can depend on the fact that their memories are entwined with your own forever. Life is full of experiences many good and just as many bad but they all make up our character-defining who we are. When I hear things like what happened in Southerland Texas and the first explanation was he was a Veteran it makes my skin crawl. I’ve heard politicians remark that Vet’s are the most likely to become anarchists and anti-government radicals because of our training and the experiences of so many that involve violence. To the contrary I say, Vet’s are the least likely to ever take up arms other than the defense of their family and friends. Of course there are always a few like the creep in Texas who are mentally unfit to serve and just like the poor gun it suddenly makes all Veterans suspect. I guaranty you a Veteran is the first one that will stop to help someone hurt in an accident or to stand with others to protest a wrong. The Veteran is the guy who lives next door and is always there when you need a friend, he’s the guy or girl that people can depend on when others fail them. To most Veterans our flag and our anthem is part of their existence they pledged their lives to defend that flag and our Constitution so when you poke the Bear by disrespecting these things you can expect the anger and backlash it creates. Give a salute to our Veterans they are the ones what gave you the right to live your lives in freedom and even when you do things like disrespecting our country and our government.

May this Veterans day be the beginning of a sea change that brings our country together, the hate needs to disappear and our American can-do spirit needs to rise up and be a positive in our lives. I don’t care if you are Black, White or Purple, Democrat, Libertarian or Republican this is your country be the one that builds on the future not the negative. God Bless America!

Why do we have to live with such hate?

When people ask why things like the Texas church shooting happens first they look for ideology, weapons or mental illness.  In my mind the reason starts with the hate that has been prevalent in our society for the last 10 years.  The Alt Left and the Alt Right breed this hatred with violent rhetoric on a daily basis.  The media and the Hollywood Left have nothing to say about Snoop Dog showing a cadaver with a Trump toe tag or the View expounding hate of Trump every day.  The division between Blacks and Whites is at an all time high with Black Lives Matter breeding concepts of hate and retribution.  The KKK and far right groups like them do the same thing.  The politicians on either side fail us daily by being incapable of compromise for the good of our country.  Lessons learned through the decades are forgotten because political correctness requires us to forget our history either good or bad.  As a child I was taught about the bad in America’s history as well as the good.  I was taught that we fought a war for our freedom from England in the 1700’s and those who fought for the new world were heroes of freedom and those who fought for the British were fighting for their country as well.  I learned we fought a Civil War to end the secession of Southern States from the union and it became a war to end Slavery in the United States.  Those who fought on the Union Side were heroes of Freedom and those who fought on the Confederate side were fighting for their States as well.  Most of those conscripted were non political and had little to do with Slavery and fought more for the sovereignty of their homeland.  I learned that many of our Founding Fathers owned Slaves something inconceivable for me to understand, I learned that Jefferson owned Slaves and took one for his mistress having several children with her.  I cannot condone the fact that he owned any Human Being or that anyone should live under those conditions but it is our countries history and should not be erased but learned from.  I learned that in the beginning we occupied lands that were those of the people we now call Native Americans and took many of these lands by force to satisfy our need for expansion and of course our greed for gold and silver.  I have often wondered at the term Native American as it seems to generalize all of their nations into one group and it does not tell the story of wars between their nations.  It also makes me wonder who the lands were held by before the Native Americans came to the area.  I guess what I’m trying to get across is that we are all in the same soup and if we cannot get it together and become one nation again one of our adversary’s will do the job for us.  Russia has been so much in the news because of the allegations against Trump and the allegations against the Clinton’s.  I really think that the bulk of the hatred and division is the result of Russia’s excellent use of the internet and through false news and innuendo keeps us against each other with the hope that they can just let us fight it out and then take over the spoils. 

An older white mans view of the country

Are we becoming a tribal nation?  The notion that America is not for every citizen is spreading across this land, but why?  For decades we have been told that we white people will have to give deference to black’s in hiring, education and housing.  What has that accomplished?  Our Nation is on the brink of a race war, friends who have been close for years are suddenly being separated by race and politics.  As a student in High School in Seattle I guess I didn’t know we were different, skin color didn’t matter a person was either a good guy or an A-Hole his or her actions made that decision for us.  When I was in the service we worked side by side in everything.  I did notice that a division was starting when in the 70’s and 80’s, blacks began to form separate and isolated friendships rather than join in the American family.  Good friends slowly drifted apart. It came with the rhetoric of the Al Sharpton’s, Jesse Jackson and others who started the victims movement and began to champion the cause of reparations for Slavery.  100% of the people at that time abhorred slavery and many fell into the trap that has made several black leaders rich beyond the norm.  People like Martin Luther King tried to bring pride and self sufficiency to the community and were succeeding in bringing home the value of education and community involvement but when he was killed several tried to take his place and led King’s march in the direction of victimhood rather than equality.  This made them very rich as they blackmailed huge corporations by threatening boycotts and bad publicity if they didn’t pay reparations. 

The government poured money into urban cities for education and assisted living all which became ghettoized and hotbeds of discontent, generations learned to take handouts rather from the government rather than experiencing the joy of successfully achieving self-sufficiency.  Crime flourished in these city’s as the birthrate went up and fatherhood disappeared from the home.  The more baby’s the more money from the government.  Single mom’s became the norm and many just gave up being mothers and became baby factories for the almighty dollar. 

The group’s BLM and the NFL players are complaining about injustice yet did nothing to try to stop crime in these city’s.  Policing an area like this became a death wish for the cops and they in turn allowed it to get worse, in self defense they cut many patrols in these communities.  It didn’t matter if it was a black cop or white they were targeted as the enemy.  I’m sure many police became dehumanized as they dealt with savage attacks on a daily basis.  A good example of the nature of things in these communities is the looting that seems to follow any excuse to riot.  New Orleans, Furguson, Baltimore are just a few examples or the lack of pride developed out of this victim mentality.

When you sit back and understand the difference in success and mentality of the many blacks who have joined the American family rather than fall for the victim, poor me ideology pushed by Sharpton and his ilk it is evident that pride and personal responsibility has been their path to success.  The thing that worry’s me the most is so many of the youth of those who have fought their way out of the ghetto are falling for the rhetoric and starting to go the route of victim rather than grow on the success of their parents.  

Disaster relief

As we watch in horror the events taking place on the Texas & Louisiana Gulf Coast it causes us to remember that tragedy can strike anywhere at any time. Our entire history can be lost in a heartbeat through flood, Earthquake or fire. When terrible things happen it’s nice to know that our friends and neighbors will be there to help pull us through. I just ask that our leaders pull together forgetting party or philosophy and work together to make the ravished area strong again. America has heart and it’s time to prove it and bury the hatchet to move forward to make us strong again. This is going to take generations to recover completely, many administrations, many billions of dollars and I’m not even counting the fact that this is not the last disaster our country will face in the months and years to come. This cannot be done by government alone each of us can help even if it’s just $10 find the charity that you feel good about and give what you can. We here in our town escaped flooding this year by the hard work of our volunteers, local companies, the Water District and government officials. But for the Grace of God, we very well could have been in dire straits ourselves. The lives of these folks in the affected area have changed overnight, from everyday working people to evacuee’s, many with no home to go home to. Some lost family members and everything they have from their memories to their pets. 

Knowing this is not going to be a quick fix situation Jan and I are going to pledge a monthly sum to a local Gulf area relief fund yet to be decided. We would be happy to do the research to find such a facilitator and let others know. There are so many relief programs and many scams designed to just steal money. So far all the government agencies involved are doing the right thing for the people just trying to comfort, feed and clothe but the real test will be the permanent programs required to bring them back as the living, loving Americans they were. God Bless the heart and soul of America and the spirit of our humble beginnings.

Civil War II

The Civil War is being fought again and this time it's against our historical monuments. The statue of Robert E. Lee never made me feel like I wanted to own slaves or disrespect the rights of Blacks. It is our history good or bad. If we continue to erase our historical monuments we will erase the lessons learned by their either good or bad example. I feel this really has nothing to do with the statue's or what they may or may not stand for it is strictly a power move by the left. They didn't win the election, they are not winning the Russian BS so now they have picked what they think is a soft target. It's time to bring an end to all this political Nonsense before we do permanent damage to the soul of our country. The ultra left has to go, the Democratic Party has to find its roots and build themselves once again into the average American Party. As it stands now they have become the home of the far left. We need a viable two party system here in America to balance our diversity and make us whole. The idiots that are running the party now have created nothing but chaos and are driving a wedge into the heart of the United States of America. The same goes for the ultra right like the Nazi's, Skin Heads and any other radical group that wants to destroy what we have all fought for all our lives. God Bless America, we are all races and proud to be the melting pot of the world but don't try to put a divide between us you will fail.

It's time to reflect

Once again the World is threatened with terror as cowards using a rental van plowed through crowds in Barcelona. The free world is at crisis point both at home and abroad. There are those who would take us back to the stone age if allowed and here at home there is a movement to disrupt our elections and our elected officials. America has always been the Land of the Free and home of the Brave no matter who or what party was in power. We now have agents of disorder trying to overthrow our duly elected President and his entire administration. Over my long time here on this planet I have seen disagreement with our government and many of it’s decisions. There will always be a difference of opinion with a free society. What is happening today is far beyond the norm and is being fed by an opposition media and the losing party. This event in Barcelona is no different than the Antifada here in America, it’s driven by hate and will lead to chaos, not unlike the things we are seeing across Europe if not stifled. People who represent this like Michael Moore, groups like the Nazi Party and Black Lives Matter are just mini versions of the radical Islamic terrorist we see today. Look inside yourselves and find the spirit we were founded with to bring civility back to our country.

Where are we as a People

Where are we as a people? We had an election since then we have had every possible scenario proposed by the losing side to upset and derail what the people voted in.  I have lived through Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump.  I have found fault or disagreed with many of the decisions made by these men never have I felt the need to destroy them or their reputations.  America has been established as a Representative Republic with two basic political party’s and has always found ways to pull together to make this country safer when threatened.  We now have a situation where the opposition party has resorted to every possible means to bring down the dully elected government.  The latest is the 25^th amendment which calls for a medical or mental evaluation of the President.  I truly believe these people have lost their minds due to the stress of losing.  They have decapitated him in effigy, they have tried to show him as a Russian plant, they have called him every name in the book from stupid to dimwitted.  It started with the calling of those who supported him Deplorable’s by Hillary Clinton during the election.  One thing these far left zealots have failed to realize is that they are pulling the base of Trump’s followers closer together and in fact would be faced with the largest armed uprising in America’s history should they succeed.  The Civil War would be a minor event compared to the insurrection that would follow what many would consider a Coup.  I am not suggesting anything just making a commonsense judgment on the situation.  The judicial system needs to respond to the law and not make law as they go.  Our laws are made by our Representatives not our Judges or individual members of Congress.  Our laws are based on the Constitution of the United States and supposedly enforced to the letter of the law by the Supreme Court.  When a member of Congress calls constantly for resistance to the legally elected government and they are acting in a treasonous manner like an agent for subversion they should be sanctioned and have charges placed against them.  This goes for either party and members of either House of Representatives.  Our form of government is at stake, there are those who would change our basic freedoms if allowed.  The idea that professors are allowing a minority to stop free speech on campuses and the local governments are standing by as anarchists destroy public and private property should be alarming to every American.  Race relations in this country have become more separated during the last 8 years and race has been used against anyone who dared question the motives of the left.  Crimes against the police have been growing and becoming more and more violent.  Organizations like Black Live Matter are not working to make Black lives better they are causing chaos and driving a wedge between the races that had been improving for decades.   

   

Happy 4th of July

Happy Birthday America!

Of all our holidays celebrated here in this Country the 4^th of July is the party one.  Everyone has been bundled up for Winter for several months, the schools are mostly out and the vacation season is here.  Our Fore Fathers had the courage to emancipate us from the powerful and oppressing government of King George.  They chose courage over safety as by signing the Declaration Of Independence, they were signing their Death Warrants according to the King.  These men didn’t just sign and go back to their offices and allow others to do their fighting they took the leadership role in the Revolution.  They left their powdered wigs and fancy clothes at home and took on the most powerful army in the world and won.

It’s hard for me to say “Happy Memorial Day or Happy Veterans Day” as I know what the intended meaning of those day’s represent.  Happy 4^th of July is a whole different thing.  Our Fore Fathers paid for our freedom from oppression and this is a day to celebrate.  

Health care solutions

Just some thoughts on the Health Care fiasco;
We had a perfectly great Health Care system before Obama and his cronies got involved. The free enterprise system was known through out the the world as the best available. Yes there were holes, yes there were the uninsured but now we have been forced into government programs that are not sustainable. Go back to the free market and let the people decide what coverage they want. There needs to be open state borders to increase the competitive edge. It is impossible to force Insurance companies to cover preexisting without big increases but for a fraction of the cost of government subsidies the government can set up a program for those with preexisting conditions in some area's even utilizing military doctors and base medical facilities. Medicaid has been abused for years by those who just want something for nothing, if the States want to provide healthcare for their people they should be responsible for it and strictly enforce the rules. Those who choose not to cover themselves are free to do so but they must understand their only help will come from charitable organizations not trauma care facilities. A cheaper version of catastrophic coverage should be available with high deductibles utilizing deductible Health Savings Accounts for those people who decline to purchase full coverage. Medicare and Veterans benefits are sacred and have been paid for over the years. There should be no benefits for those here illegally, a fund paid for by a small tax on imports should be set aside to take care of hospitals who are forced to treat illegals. This tax can be offset by the governments of the illegal who uses the facilities. When a citizen of Mexico or any other country who is here either illegally or legally who uses our medical facilities their government would be billed for the service. Non payment would mean an increase of the import tax from their area and immediate deportation of the individual. Not perfect but better than anything the government has done.

Memorial Day 2017

My tribute to Memorial Day May 29^th, 2017

The date is June 4^th 1944, 18 year old Johnny is in England taking a few minutes from a busy training schedule to write to his sweetheart Karen in Seattle.  He told her that his greatest dream is to build a house for them to raise their family in and that her love is what gives him the courage to face whatever may come.  He had very little time so he asked her to give his Mom a big hug and tell her not to worry, the war will be over soon and I’ll be home to help plan their wedding.  As he just settled into writing he heard the whistle blow that meant he had to muster.  A quick goodbye and he sealed his letter with a kiss dropping it in the post as he ran to muster.

All afternoon of the 4^th they gathered their equipment, held prayer sessions and prepared to board the vessels that would take them across to France and the German Army.  The 5^th was full of activity, they started to go and were cancelled because of the change in the weather.  Nerves were on edge and everyone was in deep thought as they knew they were about to face Hell on Earth. 

The night of the 5^th they finally got the green light to go, the mood was a solemn one as they made their way across the channel and soon they could hear and see the massive bombardment from the Navy on the shore they were about land on.  Surely no one could survive such chaos, between the bombardment from the sea and the air, his buddies were talking about actually walking ashore.

In the very early hours of the 6^th the call came to man the boats, Johnny’s was in the third wave and as they were traversing the waves they saw the first of the casualties being brought back.  As they neared the shore the boat next to his exploded and was gone in seconds taking all aboard down with her.  The thought of walking ashore brought a nervous laugh from his lips.  They felt a jolt as the landing craft hit one of the structures the Germans had installed on the beach.  The ramp came down with a splash and they found themselves in neck deep water with bullets splashing all around them.  The 80 pounds of equipment made the effort to survive double hard.  As he was fighting to keep his head above water and his carbine held high he saw the bodies of those who never made the beach floating face down in the surf.  When he finally hit dry land he found it hard to run on as his boots dug into the loose sand.  When he made the cover of the cliffs above him he realized that he was one of only three survivors from his Landing Craft.

As the day progressed things were getting desperate, they were really pinned down hardly able to get a shot off at the enemy above.  They were running out of water and were totally exhausted after the fight just to make it to the cliffs.  Finally they breached the cliffs and got a foothold on the ridge above to protect them for the climb up. 

Not many men today are still here that made that terrifying climb, many never made it to the beach and even more died on those sands that were dyed red with American blood.  Their remains are buried in France but their spirit is still alive in America.  Memorial Day is special because it honors those who actually paid for our freedom.  Whether it was on a lonely sea when their ship was blown out from under them, in a burning bomber over Germany or on the sands of Tunisia or the swamps of Viet Nam these men were just like Johnny, they had dreams and aspirations for the future, they had sweethearts, wives and mothers who meant the world to them.  Many had yet to see their 20^th birthday.  This is why we cherish and celebrate Memorial Day and why it is so important that we take just a minute to give thanks to those whose courage made our lives possible.  Johnny died of his wounds at just 19 during the Battle of the Bulge in the freezing cold and never made it to his wedding.

Memorial Day is more than an extra day off and a picnic, it’s a day to praise and give thanks to those heroes who gave their lives in order that we may live ours in freedom.

                                                                     

Time to come together and stop the political corruption

 Sorry but I'm ranting again, I just want the truth and a cooperation between the party's to make our country prosper once again. False statements should have a consequence for both the Republicans and the Democrats. The divide shown at the Presidents speech before the joint session is just an example of the stupidly and childishness of our so called leaders on both sides of the aisle. It's time to demand fair and honest representation and for once listen to each other and work out compromise to make our country prosperous once again.

It’s a time to come together for all Americans. Our goal should be truth in government and cooperation between party’s for the good of Americans. If it is discovered that former President Obama or his organization are responsible for the spread of false and undocumented info that is designed to disrupt or cause fracture in the Trump Presidency without evidence they should be sanctioned and stripped of their retirement and all opportunity to serve in public life. Lies in politics are becoming standard operating procedure in both parties. If the false info cause the people of the United States both time and money for the investigation and it proves false the perpetrators of the information should be held in contempt and stripped of all power.

On the other hand if the info proves to be correct the perpetrators in the Trump Administration should also be stripped of their power and ability to serve in public office. There should be consequences for liars and they should be harsh. The American public deserves only the best representation possible.

People outside the government that attempt to falsely accuse and cause damage should also be held in contempt and be considered an enemy of the United States. I also believe that any false or misleading information that is forthcoming from members of the press that is proven to be false or manufactured news should cause the loss of licensing for the period of several months. Heavy penalties in all cases of fraud and misrepresentation are necessary to clean up our government.

Organizations such as Move On Dot Org. should also be responsible and held liable for spreading false and inflammatory fake news and the perpetrators held responsible, many of these false and misleading fake news items have led to the demise of very good people. It has also caused many to avoid Public Service at all, only we Americans suffer for this loss of good people. Damages cause or perpetrated by outside organizations that lead to riot or looting should be at the expense of the persons spreading or abetting these individual rioters.

Don't take a party stand on this take an American stand, we deserve no less.

letter from a Democrat

> Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: Letter from a Democrat--great read.
> >
> *     Yes, this should be read by every one in the U.S.  Including the
> guilty parties called Politicians, If you never passed any thing on before
> do it now! This guy really hammered the nail into the box.   AND ** HE'S A
> DEMOCRAT!!!!   My Cousin said this letter had been checked with Snopes, and
> its authentic. You  won't ever see it on CNN or any other flakey net works.
> *> *Interesting prespective*
> > *This is really a great letter. I am most impressed by the fact the
> gentleman  who wrote it signed his name and address to it.*
> This came from a Democrat!  I read it and it certainly hits the nail where
> it would hurt. Google has the letter posted on their web site.*
> *It is well written .... and should be read by everyone in these United
> States!
> > It will be well worth the three minutes it requires to read. It is quite
> impressive. You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Independent or
> Libertarian and I'll bet this will hit a nerve. Our country is in real  trouble. *
> ****************************** ******************************
> > Senator Patty Murray
> Senator Maria Cantwell
> Washington, DC 20510
>
> Dear Senators:
>  I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Command
> Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortly
> after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt
> important -- honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of
> our various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked
>  hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts.
> >
> Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my
> country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things
> abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. *I have calculated that
> all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keep the
> Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped
>  actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers.
>  So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.*
>
> Last year, the president spent an estimated $1.4 billion on himself and his
> family. The vice president spends $ millions on hotels. They have had eight  (8)
> vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate
> have become America's answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the
> "perfumed princes and princesses" of our country.
>
>  In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care Act,
> a.k.a. "Obamacare," a bill which no more than a handful of senators or
> representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it down our
> throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting your
> own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance. (Let's eliminate that
> exemption and put the Congress under the Affordable Health Care Act)
> 
> You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one percenters;"
> consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times
> the average U.S. individual income; and give up nothing while you (as well
> as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to sequestration (for
> which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, anyway).*
> >
> You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How to
> get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with the aid of
> an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certain
> economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed
> and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom *do* vote)
> who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net"
> has become a hammock for the lazy.* And, what is it now, about 49 or
> 50 million on food stamps - **pretty much all Democrat voters** - and the
> program is absolutely rife with fraud and absolutely no congressional
> oversight?
>
> I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is the
> seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. It is
> the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate
> your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a
> leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldest
> profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.
>
>  As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 -1902),
> English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated, "Power
> tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are
> almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to the female
> sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than
> Congress?
>
> While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government becomes
> less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so much
> more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a
> very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or
> hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use, and what
> health care we must buy. *Countless thousands of pages of regulations
> strangle our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day.
>
> As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government
> tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you, Senator, your
> colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officials and their
> families will get the best possible health care on our tax dollars until
> you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond
> my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay
> for.
>
> The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff
> will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter response might
> be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe
> that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actually cares.
> This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have the
> chance to read one person's opinion, rightly or wrongly, about this
> government, its administration and its senators and representatives.
>
> I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for all
> the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for which, by
> law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $19 trillion
> national debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren and
> ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab.
>
> My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost his or
> her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to
> destroy the country that I deeply love. You have put it so far in debt that
> we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the minute, because of
> your power.
>
> For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who
> constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how
> power has corrupted you and the entire Congress*. The only answer to clean
> up this cesspool is term limits and replacing their retirement with the
> same Social Security plan the rest of us will receive (if they don't put
> that program into bankruptcy) .* This, of course, will kill the goose that
> lays your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring
> it up.
>
>  Sincerely,
> Bill Schoonover
> 3096 Angela Lane
> Oak Harbor, WA
>
>
>
> *Maybe....just maybe this is the reason the political establishment is
> against Trump.  He may just kill the goose ......*

You call yourseves never Trump, what are you really?

You call yourselves never Trumper's but what are you really? You obstruct everything regardless of the eventual outcome. The people of The United States conducted an election and it was exactly as our Founding Fathers created it. The reason for the Electoral College is obvious as without it 3 or 4 states would control our entire country. The method has been used since the beginning of our country and has been successful in electing our Presidents since then. Now that tho...se who are traditionalists in America have finally shaken off the mantel of political parties and voiced their opinion it seems to have upset you. I'll tell you this, I have been upset for years with some of the things that our government of both parties have done but I have never felt the urge to break windows and create havoc in the streets. I am an American and to be that it is imperative that I understand our laws as Congress and the Constitution proclaims them. It is not your job or my job to make laws it is our duty as citizens to understand and obey them. This is what makes the Union run successfully benefitting all its citizens equally.

As one of those what I will call Silent Fly over Americans it offends me greatly to see the chaos and destruction of our system and only makes my resolve greater to see my traditional values enforced. So if I am any example of today's American and I believe I am, keep it up and it will be generations before you ever attain power in this country again.