I thought Obama was gay.....

Apparently at least he likes other women besides Michelle.....

FREE HOME!

Got this from GOC.  Pass this around!

Free Home


I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the successful passing of the recent health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued:

They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard the young man exclaim, “Isn’t Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick.” The young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, “Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market would work for health care. Another said, ‘The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power. Obama should be made a Saint for what he did for those of us less fortunate.” At this, I had had enough.

I arose from my seat, mustering all the restraint I could find, and approached their table. “Please excuse me; may I impose upon you for one moment?” They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.

“I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone interested?” They looked at each other in astonishment. “Why would you do something like that?” asked a young man, “There isn’t anything for free in this world.” They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my point. “I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money what so ever. Anyone interested?” In unison, a resounding “Hell Yeah” fills the room.

“Since there are too many of you, I will have to make a choice as to who receives this money-free bargain.” I noticed an elderly couple was paying attention to the spectacle unfolding before their eyes, the old man shaking his head in apparent disgust. “I tell you what; I will give it to the one of you most willing to obey my rules.” Again, they looked at one another, an expression of bewilderment on their faces. The perky young woman asked, “What are the rules?” I smiled and said, “I don’t know. I have not yet defined them. However, it is a free home that I offer you.” They giggled amongst themselves, the youngest of which said, “What an old coot. He must be crazy to give away his home. Go take your meds, old man.” I smiled and leaned into the table a bit further. “I am serious, this is a legitimate offer.” They gaped at me for a moment.


“I’ll take it you old fool. Where are the keys?” boasted the youngest among them. “Then I presume you accept ALL of my terms then?” I asked. The elderly couple seemed amused and entertained as they watched from the privacy of their table. “Oh hell yeah! Where do I sign up?” I took a napkin and wrote, “I give this man my home, without the burden of financial obligation, so long as he accepts and abides by the terms that I shall set forth upon consummation of this transaction.” I signed it and handed it to the young man who eagerly scratched out his signature. “Where are the keys to my new house?” he asked in a mocking tone of voice. All eyes were upon us as I stepped back from the table, pulling the keys from pocket and dangling them before the excited new homeowner.

“Now that we have entered into this binding contract, witnessed by all of your friends, I have decided upon the conditions you are obligated to adhere from this point forward. You may only live in the house for one hour a day. You will not use anything inside of the home. You will obey me without question or resistance. I expect complete loyalty and admiration for this gift I bestow upon you. You will accept my commands and wishes with enthusiasm, no matter the nature. Your morals and principles shall be as mine. You will vote as I do, think as I do and do it with blind faith. These are my terms. Here are your keys.” I reached the keys forward and the young man looked at me dumbfounded.

“Are you out of your mind? Who would ever agree to those ridiculous terms?” the young man appeared irritated. “You did when you signed this contract before reading it, understanding it and with the full knowledge that I would provide my conditions only after you committed to the agreement.” Was all I said. The elderly man chuckled as his wife tried to restrain him. I was looking at a now silenced and bewildered group of people. “You can shove that stupid deal up you’re a** old man, I want no part of it” exclaimed the now infuriated young man. “You have committed to the contract, as witnessed by all of your friends; you cannot get out of the deal unless I agree to it. I do not intend to let you free now that I have you ensnared. I am the power you agreed to. I am the one you blindly and without thought chose to enslave yourself to. In short, I am your Master.” At this, the table of celebrating individuals became a unified group against the unfairness of the deal.

After a few moments of unrepeatable comments and slurs, I revealed my true intent. “What I did to you is what this administration and congress did to you with the health care legislation. I easily suckered you in and then revealed the real cost of the bargain. Your folly was in the belief that you can have something you did not earn; that you are entitled to that which you did not earn; that you willingly allowed someone else to think for you. Your failure to research, study and inform yourself permitted reason to escape you. You have entered into a trap from which you cannot flee. Your only chance of freedom is if your new Master gives it to you. A freedom that is given can also be taken away; therefore, it is not freedom.” With that, I tore up the napkin and placed it before the astonished young man. “This is the nature of your new health care legislation.”

I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation and was surprised by applause. The elderly gentleman, who was clearly entertained, shook my hand enthusiastically and said, “Thank you Sir, these kids don’t understand Liberty these days.” He refused to allow me to pay my bill as he said, “You earned this one, it is an honor to pickup the tab.” I shook his hand in thanks, leaving the restaurant somewhat humbled, and sensing a glimmer of hope for my beloved country.

Use reason,

Clifford A Wright

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Military humor

You're just going to have to click on the link.    I know the military has downtime but here you go - if you like Lady Gaga.  Words fail me.

Arizona's at it again!

Arizona bans ethnic studies in school. 

Honestly, to me as an American of European descent, ethnic stuidies really grate on my nerves.  My family is Irish, Italian and French.  And German. And Russian. And English.  Yet it seems forbidden to teach or celebrate your history if you're white in this country.

Respectfully my European-American heritage has a LOT to celebrate.  So many innovations have come from those countries in the past four hundred years that have bettered mankind it's just off the chart!  But all we are allowed to remember is what's bad from the white history in class and in the media.

I had proposed in letters to our congress instead of "black history month" we have "family history month" where people learn their roots and all children learn where they came from and their histories and to be proud of them.  Martin Luther King's dream wasn't that colored people would be given unearned and undeserved favoritism in perpetuity because of the wrongs of the past but that his children would one day be judged on the content of their character and not on the color of their skin.  That they would have equal opportunities.  I think the time for affirmative action and such has come to an end. 

It's time that Americans realize the abounding wealth and oportunities that are had here.  We have libraries that anyone can go into to read free information and free education to prepare for anything.  The American dream wasn't that it would all be given to you but that you could earn it or build it. 

We've all suffered racism in this country - I can't get scholarships for my skin color here!  There aren't quotas that I will get favored for a job because of my color.  If I want to discuss my racial heritage in class - I've heard stuff in college classes that would get me kicked out if I said them as a white student.

Of course there are idiots who will think I'm a white supremacist for writing this.  I just grow tired of being the enemy of mankind for something I didn't do and I can't help: my color and the wrongs of the past.  And my ancestry has done so much more than its greatest wrongs. And it seems despite the prosperity and peace here all we can remember are the offenses of decades and centuries past that have been ended and we miss the blessings that are around us and in our hands and we are missing them.
What's wrong with being an American?  My family's greatest achievements have come in this country and not in the old world.  It's here I'm proud of.  And in my military service - we didn't care about color - only that we were Americans.  To come home to the racial division here and racism was absolutely offensive to me and I wish it were like it was out there - we were on the same side and it didn't matter where you came from.

This is how it SHOULD be when you get home.....

Doing Backflips Just Because You Show Up......this is inspiring....

Women to be Allowed on Navy Submarines

Well here it is!  I hope nobody's running battle stations in their underwear! Click here to read the brief report!

Personally think it's a mistake because it's so friggin close down there but we all know congress knows what it's doing!

The joke used to be 200 sailors go down with a submarine and 100 couples come back up - now I'm wondering if it's going to be 200 sailors go down and 250 come back up.....

Danse Macabre - or - Dance of Death

For what it's worth, I've been playing, or have played trumpet for 25 years now and even played professionally for the U.S. Navy for a time as a member of its honor guard with the Marine Corps.  I also play the violin (am getting better at it, took one year in the 5th grade, hated it, and then bought myself one for fathers day a couple years ago) and have taught myself piano and composed some variations on some songs I like and am getting better and better at it. 

Out of that time, now, part of my educating my children at home is starting to teach them an appreciation for music.  Obviously at 3 and 5 I don't know how much they will pick up but I've tried to turn them on to something besides just the hip hop music. 

At any rate, this is the one song that actually turned my son onto classical music!  It's called "Danse Macabre" or "the Danse of Death" (or more precisley translated "Scarey Dance") and was written by a French Composer in 1872 (it's one of my favorite classical pieces).  I just got done putting my children to bed to some music and it made me think to write this.

The background behind the song, roughly, is that, in an age when there were kings and nobles, peasants and aristocrats, abounding wealth and power alongside rampant need and poverty - the great equalizer was Death.  Death came to all, kings and princes as well as the poor.  Despite their sepulchers it was the one thing that made all men equal and none could escape and all stood before God to be judged of their works in this life - and money could not save you.  In America today, Death is a Stranger.  It is the one thing that awakens us from the American dream (or lately some idiot kenyan president).  However, at the time this was written, death was much more commonplace.  And with it - superstition.

Danse Macabre is a waltz that was written about the death on the Witches Sabbath. On All Hallows Eve (Halloween) when the Devil, in the dance, pulls out his fiddle and the spirits and ghosts that are captive to him dance for him, along with skeletons and every other spectre of death through the night until when the morning comes - the rooster crows and they return captive for another year.  The piece is the musical interpretation of the dance beginning with the harp striking midnight of 12 notes on the harp and then begins with the "devils chord" summoning the others and then the dance begins.  With some imagination you can hear the skeletons dancing (xylophones) and even the ghosts whirling through the air in an incresingly maddening fashion until.....morning comes when the very last of them slip into their graves (superstition or not, some biblical accounts such as Matthew 8:29 indicate to me there might be more truth to this than I'd like to think).

The song was NOT well received when it was first played for its content.  However time has given the piece a place immemorial among classical music.  When I told my son (boys will be boys!) what the music was he thought that was pretty cool.  Since then I've been able to turn him onto Mozarts 5th symphony and even the "1812 Overture" (he likes the cannons firing at the end of it) and he gets a kick out of hearing me play renditions of the things he knows on the violin or trumpet now.

However, I suppose the thing I came to appreciate about music in my liberal arts education (ha! A Military Police veteran and former Nuclear Machinists Mate getting a liberal arts education and becoming a doctor of psychology - still makes me crack up and I'm pretty much the odd duck in every college course I attend) is that music isn't "imitated" or even "recreated" - it's "real" every time it's played.  Unlike using antique tools or antique recipes or dressing up in antique clothes music is the one thing that's "real" and just as applicable and useful today as it was then that it's "live" and not a reproduction (does that make sense?)  You're actually hearing something that was heard way back when and enjoyed then as well and it's just as useful now as it was back then.  While I don't need a blacksmith anvil (and I don't need classical music) when I DO hear it it isn't something that's being done in order to remember the old ways so much as it is to entertain still.

But the one thing that was different back then with music was politics.  If you were a composer, your music was a political statement on the affairs of the kingdom or nation and some pieces were even outlawed (Figaro for example and later even Stravinsky's music in the 3rd Reich) because they could be construed to stir up class warfare and expose people to the harsh truths of the state of affairs in relations between the wealthy and the masses.  Some music was considered dangerous and forbidden by kings and emperors!

Danse Macabre wasn't such a piece, but it was a tangential social commentary on the universality of death and the equality of man in death.  I just thought I'd share it in my blog.  This is a good recording so if you have a nice sound system you can enjoy a fairly fidel recording of it.

Um....Obamanomics doesn't work.....

How much money did Obama make last year?  $5M?  Okay - yeah - that's just rough. 

Y'all - this has NOTHING to do with fairness.  Every single communist revolution has had to do with fairness and ended up in misery.  Since communism is so well known it has to be disguised in this instance.  Evil is always disguised as good.  And both sides claim to be good or the best....duh! 

So what happens if we take the money out of the hands of the private citizen?  Who has the money and the control then? 

ITS THE GOVERNMENT!!!!

And THEN who gets ahead and gets the money? 

Those that are friends to the government.

Seriously y'all - this guy is more dangerous than anything this country has seen.

Honestly, in terms of christian values, one of the ten commandments would avail us of what this guy is selling us: The Tenth Commandment.  Thou Shalt Not Covet.  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors (horse), thy neighbor's wife or anything that is thy neighbors.

However, this guy is selling to people who covet what another has.

Rather than getting it for themselves - he's taking it from those who've earned it fairly (Thou shalt not steal). Rather than teaching them to fish for themselves, he's teaching them to rely on handouts from the government.

We have a LOT of Native American museums here in Oregon.  One theme that is rampant through them all was the U.S. Government sought to destroy the natives' culture and ability to resist the government by making them reliant on the government for their every need.  By giving them handouts and preventing them from living their culture they became unable to resist the government, needed it and became essentially complacent slaves.  Indian welfare was the destruction of the Native Americans. And now Obama is trying to do it to the Africans in this country while telling them they will get ahead when actually it only solidifies his power while he preys on racial pride, division and ignorance that is the product of American school systems.

It isn't charity when it is taken from someone and given to another against their will.

And in regards to charity, this country and its citizens give more per-capita to charity than any other nation on earth outside of government welfare. 

So what happens to all the charity in this country when the government taxes it all to death? 

It dries up!

And then what programs survive?  Well - the ones that are sponsored by the government.

And THEN that leaves people who rely on charity or what's left of it begging from the government.

Does anyone remember when the democrats were saying "The government that is powerful enough to give you everything is powerful enough to take everything."  And what about "those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" ?  Anyone remember that? 

Amazing how quickly slogans are set aside to suit the political winds.

You know this is where John Adams said our constitution was suited to a religious and moral people and is wholly inadequate for any other - the constitution works so long as people choose to live right on their own of their own accord.  When you get to the point where people have to be told every single thing to do and rely on others to make the decision for them, either because they are incapable or DEEMED incapable - freedom is lost.

This man is the enemy to freedom.

YOU CANT FIRE ME! I QUIT! FINE I'M LEAVING & other statements....

YOU DONT WANT ME HERE? FINE! IM LEAVING!!!!  YOULL MISS ME! AND DONT COME LOOKING FOR ME EITHER!!! IM GOING TO BE HAVING FUN WITHOUT YOU!!! HEAR ME?  F! U! N! 

The illegals streaming out of Arizona have figured it out it sounds like.  Illegals pack it up.   Now they talk about the economy being devastated - maybe crime will drop which will cost the economy less, maybe more Americans can have their jobs which will stimulate the economy.....maybe Americans will head to Arizona for jobs and instead of sending their money to Mexico will keep it here in the U.S. stimulating our economy and not paying for Mexico's drug lords and corrupt politicitans.

How many illegals are in the U.S.?  What do they estimate?  Ten Million?  Okay - so they all leave tomorrow - that's ten million Americans who now have a job AND spend their money here.....

I really think this was a great idea.

Infant survives abortion.....before dying 2 days later.....

Read about it here.

As a male and a father a human being and a former fetus I oppose abortion.  I do feel like the national dialogue in this country or in western civilization in general is that because men aren't women they should have no opinion on abortions.  By that logic, since women aren't men, women shouldn't have any opinions on men having opinions on abortions.

Oh - I forgot to add....

Sanctuary Cities Refuse Illegals From Arizona.   So....cities like San Francisco who call Arizona an outrage don't want the illegals from Arizona. You know what?  I think what Arizona has done is the best thing that's happened in this country in a while.  I hope Texas follows suit.  I know Oregon won't.  Never mind that 97% of Oregon is ultra conservative, the liberal mentality piles up in and crowds on top of itsself in three cities here.

Special Report on American Militias.

Click here to read it.

HEAR NOW: The News! (GAME. FRICKING. ON. !)

While Mexico berates the U.S. on human rights against Mexicans, thousands of immigrants are robbed, raped, murdered and kidnapped annuallly in Mexico while the government turns a blind eye to it and the Human Rights Report on Mexico shows it's one of the worst in the world! (go figure - hippocrites). Mexico Acknowledges Human Rights Abuses.

Meanwhile, Texas wants to import and adopt Arizona law!   Nuff said.  Go Texas!

BUT -  A California Lawmaker has seen the light!  Representative Duncan Hunter wants to change the constitution so that children of illegal immigrants aren't autmatically given citizenship.  I AGREE!!!

AND - An Alabama Governor Candidate vows that if elected, English will be essentially the official language of Alabama and drivers license exams will only be given in English. He has said, "This is Alabama, we speak English, you want to live here, learn it." Click here!

BUT - Obama says the government might not take up immigration.  Hmm.....could that be because you know America hates you now Obama?  Because you know we don't want the illegals here sucking up our money?  Hmmmmm.  I thought it was a bad law the other day now it just might not take up the legislation to deal with this....hmmmm.

But on top of all this, Mexico and San Francisco are calling for a boycott of Arizona, Arizonan's are calling for a boycott of all mexican establishments, all mexican food, vacation, tourism and businesses and saying "Fine!  You don't want to obey the law and live in peace?  We're taking our money and good luck feeding your families in Mexico."  However, the headline has disappeared on this and I can't find it anymore.  But that's what I call - GAME ON!  Sounds to me like America is fed up with this.

Me personally?  I don't think a single illegal should get citizenship.  They broke the law and steal identities and engage in fraud that would put anyone else in jail.  However, I don't mind immigrants living here legally, just not getting welfare and food stamps and plugging up the emergency rooms.

One Month! A Bit About Me.....

Well, I've had my blog up for one month now and have logged five and a half thousand hits in that time.  I imagine about a good two thousand of them were me fussing with the layout.  HA!

I think it's been more than that because it took me a while to figure out the page counter and I went off a quasi counter before that.

At any rate, it's been VERY fun. 

Psychologically it's been interesting to see the pressure that I feel under to oblige an audience and then to be true to myself and write what I like and wonder how it will turn out.

I started the blog when I visited Washington DC for the first time in my life a month ago to have research done on Jennifer's medical condition with her muscular dystrophy.  It was absolutely inspiring to see all the things I've only heard of before that such as the Declaration of Independence, the Star Spangled Banner,, Abraham Lincoln's top hat.  I also got tired of pestering people with emails about politics and my email being blown about because people really don't use good security when they forward email chains.

So this is one month!  I'm working on starting my masters and Ph.D. programs for psychology here in the semi near future (no later than the end of next year).  If I get involved in research again expect the blog to take a heavily psychology bent.

Currently my "expertise" or my strong area of psychology is the biopsychology of pictorial pornography and sexual deviance and rehabilitative efforts.  I've either been doing observations (biopsychosocial analysis) of sex offenders (rapists, pedophiles) for the past couple years in a group therapy setting or supervising them for structured social outings.  I got into working with sex offenders because I wanted to see "the impossible" done - most people don't believe you can rehabilitate a sex offender.  I wanted to see if you could.  I ended up working with THE name in rehabilitation of sex offenders in the world, Dr. Barry Maletzky at his clinic here in Portland.  I wanted to work with sex offenders because I have little patience for my work to be morally armchair quarterbacked.  I knew the public would be on my side in saying "this is right - that is wrong" whereas when I work with other issues in psychology there are so many sides to the issue that it's really frustrating and my work is handled with "that's your opinion."  Much of psychology is that way though. 

I did learn rehabilitation is possible as well as the definitions of rehabilitation.  I've also contributed to putting someone back in prison because he was so high risk and predatory and was what we call "cycling" or leading up to an offense in his cycle that it was safer to have him put back in a cell.  I can discuss rehabilitation some other time.  I can also discuss the biopsychology of pictorial pornography another time.  Having been a police officer I became very frustrated with the criminal justice system so I decided to go into psychology to fill in the gaps where law enforcement left off.

My training is pretty advanced for my level of education but that's because I maintained an internship for a year and a half and have worked in the field for 2 years and not just the 10 weeks required by the university.

I'm going to in the next few weeks put another article in here on types of insurance for financial planning.  When I work with my employees I see too many people being "taken" or "scammed" by insurance fraud essentially even when they fill out their W-2's.  I hope the info is useful to someone.

At any rate, it's been fun.  I do see a lot of blogs that make fun of the issues but I don't really feel like they educate people on the background of where we came from or how we even got here.  All history in the U.S. did NOT start with the advent of CNN and there's a lots of different shades that Obama would just rather have us forget.  I hope to be some small voice contributing to that knowledge.  But for now I'm just having fun.

My readership spikes whenever GOC mentions me on his blog and it looks like I'm around 1,500 hits a week average now for the blog without GOC's links.  So I hope it continues to grow and I'm not sure where this is going to head.  Some of my friends want me to put sea-stories from my naval service on here - I can't say I have anything as exciting as landing an F-18 with low fuel  on a pitching deck in the middle of the night but I can talk about I don't know how many fights I got in as an MP and how many military regulations were changed because of something I did that wasn't in harmony with Naval standards as I tried to think outside the box and found out they just say they want people to do that so they look like they honor divirsity but really don't want us to. 

Anyways, it's been fun, hope y'all come back - its been neat seeing this get hit from Singapore, Tel Aviv, Quatar, Egypt, Iraq, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, all over Canada - but I believe today is one month since it's been up - I'm too lazy to look as I'm headed out the door but - welcome aboard y'all!

Late Night Cartoons

Here's a military man for ya.......of course having a toilet next to other guys with no wall between us (I can handle not having a door) would drive me crazy too.  I think that's what pushed him over the edge....in the navy we didn't have doors but we DID have walls....

No kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cleaning up the Border

Some Dreams Must Wait......

At Rich's memorial service I got called on to speak with 5 minutes notice.  I recited a poem that is a favorite of mine that I have memorized and I thought I would post it here.

Some Dreams Must Wait - by Lex and Julie DeAzevedo

Some Dreams must wait

Life isn't long enough.

Some Dreams must wait to come true

Sometimes it seems life just begins and then....

All of a sudden it's through.

There's songs you won't sing

There's stories that you won't ever hear....

Pages you'll never turn

Words that you'll never know

Things that you never will learn.....

Some dreams must wait

Life isn't long enough

Some dreams must wait to come true....

It's nice to know there's all eternity

For everything you'd like to do....

There aren't any clocks

There aren't any things like calendars.

No such thing as "Too Late!"

Just "Always!" and "Ever More!"

That's why I think it's so great

That our Heavenly Father has figured it all out so clever,

There's NEVER enough time

And that is why I'm glad we go on forever....

We go on forever......

Some dreams must wait life isn't long enough

Some dreams must wait to come true.....

Radio Roundup: Jerry Doyle

Of the radio talk show hosts I enjoy and perhaps the most colorful is Jerry Doyle.  Like I said, I am a political connisuer and usually consume at LEAST an hour of news each day in the form of either conservative talk radio or the web and am more of a fanatic than most sports fans. 

Jerry Doyle has a bachelors in aeronautics from Embry Riddle, was a former corporate jet pilot for a number of years.  After that he left for Wall Street and was a successful stoke broker for 10 years.  Growing bored with that he tried his hand at acting and was on Babylon 5 playing Michael Garibaldi.  Then in 2000 he ran for the US House of Representatives for the State of California.  Having lost the election he decided to go into conservative talk radio.  He grew fed up with the Republican Party and left it and became an independent.

I enjoy Jerry's show because he has experience across a broader swath of American life than anyone I know either in the media or out.  He can and does talk intelligently on just about any subject that comes up.  Something I do like is that he is a conservative independent.  He examines issues from a number of sides with a conservative streak running right through the middle of it.  But beyond that, he's not contentious with his guests, has good guests on, and is intellectual and very informed with a bit of a sense of humor as well.  His wide experience gives him the ability to break it down for anyone who wants to listen.  I don't feel like I just got done listening to a bunch of school children throw sand at each other and am a bit more educated by the time I get done listening to him.

His website is found at this link right here.   You can find a radio station for him at this link right here.  

Screw you...I got a rocket jet pack to take ME to safety......

We often hear of "spin" in the media about the dumbocrats efforts to paint a story the way they want it to appear.

I've decided to coin a new phrase though that refers to a party trying to cover its self while it goes down in flames like an airplane out of control on its way to a fiery death and convince everyone they are not : "Tailspin."   Tailspin can also refer to not presenting another side to look at but chasing something in circles like a dog after its tail.  Like a dog that barks at its tail and then bites it and gets a rude surprise.






'Nuff said.

While I'm at it, the photo below I think summarizes our president and his relationship to the American people. 

Everyone is gathered to watch.

He is piloting a very large (the largest) and very powerful (the most powerful) machine economically, militarily and such, but he's inept and incompetent and is crashing right on top of the people who gathered to watch and worship him after showing off.

Meanwhile as the thing goes down in flames and people suffer a horrible fate, Obama just ejects and rockets to safety while everything goes down in flames behind him and taking out those who gathered to watch and cheer.

Late Night on Obama

Got this from Carl:

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree, and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

Leno


America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

Leno



Q: Have you heard about McDonalds' new Obama Value Meal?

A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.

Conan O'Brien



Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?

A: A fund raiser. Leno



Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?

A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.

Letterman

Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?

A: America!

Fallon



Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?

A: Bo has papers.

Kimmel



Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for clunkers" program?

A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

Letterman

WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS????? (automatic lawnmower)

VJ Day: Honolulu, 1945

I got this from Sherry.

It's a color video of the celebrations that broke out when news of the Japanese Surrender was announced in Honolulu in Hawaii, 1945. (Click the link).  It was just interesting to see a bit of color and real life from back then - the music was nice too. Just an interesting snapshot from history.

My grandfather (U.S. Navy, Gunners Mate 2nd Class) was here when the surrender was signed as he was at Pearl Harbor on December 7th and was invited as a guest to watch the U.S. finish what the Japanese started.

Books I've Read: The Naked Communist

While I put my blog together to raise my voice and ideas on conservative principles and ideas, I know that my own ideas and simply ridiculing the folly of idiots like Obama (however fun it may be) alone isn't going to be all the enlightenment this world needs.  Nor would I even pretend to be the sole source of enlightenment (though I consider my thoughts some of the better ones out there...humbly).

Many of my own views and values have come from the books I've read.  Currently I'm reading three books at once: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," George Washington's "Rules of Civility and Other Writings & Speeches" and the King James Bible (I'm in Jeremiah in the bible).


However, given what's currently happening in our nation, one of the most interesting books I've read was "The Naked Communist" by W. Cleon Skousen. Skousen was at one time a special agent for the FBI and worked under J. Edgar Hoover while one of the main jobs of the FBI was to keep tabs on the communists and their movements in the U.S.

"The Naked Communist" is reference to the fact that his book is about communism exposed with nothing left to hide.  Skousen discourses on the cost of living and production in the U.S. compared to other countries as well as compares and contrasts the communist government and theological systems with the American capitalist and religous systems.

The book came out in the 1960's and is therefore a very interesting voice from the past.  However, despite being a voice from the past, one of the most significant points I took away from the book (which is full of interesting graphs and graphics breaking down the systems) is that the man for which communism was designed or designed to preside over - doesn't exist.  This is why communism didn't work. 

He details the revolution and went on to point out that there wasn't a single revolution of the proletariat in which class warfare and aristocracy wasn't replaced by the communists with a new aristocracy and ruling class with an even tighter grip.  An example?  Anyone notice that Obama is not poor?  He made $5M last year while he rails against the wealthy (compare that to Ghandi).  How much power does Castro have?  What kind of health care did Lenin receive compared to the people (or the American congress compared to the people?)?  What special stores do the Chinese party leaders shop at and what priveleges do they enjoy that others do not enjoy? 

It's easy reading and well worth adding to a reading collection.  Oh, but the one thing that I really like that I often have referenced is the part in which Skousen details the chain of events that began World War I and the role of the communists in that war.  That paragraph alone is worth the book (for me).  I bought it used at a book store and it is signed by Skousen himself. 

I've read Marx's works and found him persuasive and yet a crack head and delusional.  This book really throws open the light on the folly that is communism and socialism.  I recommend it.

A Real Man.....A MOTIVATIONAL Man.....

Okay, no really....in keeping with the theme of the Friday's Fashion and my wife's thoughts that I needed to put a guy on here, I've decided to put a REAL man on here: Captain Kirk - complete with him defeating a hideous Gorn in MacGyver type fashion some thirty years before (or space centuries after) MacGyver was even born, him being sensitive, friendly and even intense!

If We Didn't Have Illegals We Wouldn't Be Having A Problem......

Illegal Immigration Protesters Disrupt American Life.   This is exactly the kind of problems we have with illegal immigration  - smearing swasticas made of refried beans on the capitol?  We don't need people like this in our country.  If there were no illegals, we wouldn't have this problem.   Then they go and break other laws by vandalizing and disrupting society to intimidate people into letting them break other laws.  All the more reason to crack down if you ask me.

Mexico has a very vested interest in all this because Mexico's biggest source of income (or the second biggest) is money sent back by illegals to their families in Mexico.  Without illegals, Mexico collapses. Mexico doesn't give a care about human rights, not for a second. 

Contrast this with the tea partiers, peaceful, law abiding citizens who just want to be heard.   Is anyone covering the violence though of the protesters in Arizona and portraying them as out of control racists?  Or do they just do that to the tea partiers?

I still find it amazing how if a white man steals an identity he is in for it, but if an illegal does it, they are given property rights, welfare and voting priveleges.  Also, how Al Sharpton wants to call it racism and march for the illegals rights when illegals hold millions of jobs that african AMERICANS could be holding and feeding their families with and are blocked out of because the illegals will work for less.  Al?  They aren't your friends....unless you're just planning on buying their votes to keep you in power while you blame whitey for your followers not having jobs when you're the one actually responsible for it.

I have faith and know all this will be exposed at the last day anyways as to what frauds Sharpton and his cronies are and how they actually preyed on the people they pretended to serve.

I do have a question: How is this law going to become so racist and have racial profiling?  Okay - before you answer, let me take your mind back in history to something else: 9/11.  September 11th was carried out by radical muslim extremists.  How have we defended the nation without racial profiling?  If you've been to an airport in the last 9 years you've probably noticed that EVERYONE gets scanned.  And so it is with this new law: you aren't stopped because you're hispanic but only for other legal infractions.  If you're not doing anything to make anyone suspect you're illegal you're good to go.  But I just wanted to point out we have an entire national security policy on the books that's essentially aimed at one race only.

Meanwhile San Francisco calls on California not to do business with Arizona.  Um, San Fran?  Arizona is it's own state.  It's not San Francisco.  We have laws in place where people are individuals so that the entire nation doesn't look like and act like San Fransicko.  Besides, with California's budget problems....can California really afford to not do business with another state?   Not only that, since tens of millions if not billions of dollars are spent in California supporting illegals with their current budget problems....who are they to tell anyone else what to do?  I think Arizona's right on the money.

Hats off to Governor Brewer for making a hard decision that's so often lacking in today's morally ambiguous and devoid world.

Let the Election Lies Begin! First up - Harry Reid

I'm not sure if it's dementia or sociopathy.   From the article: “The Republicans in the United States Senate do not represent mainstream Republicans in this country. They are so far to the right ... we need your help to elect Democrats,” Reid said. *Since when does Reid care about Republicans?  And if I don't recall the government at all representing America here a few weeks ago with the health care bill....*

Then, he said, “along comes George Bush,” creating a war that cost the country $1 trillion in borrowed money. *And how much has the U.S. borrowed under Obama?  The largest deficit in American history EVER greater than the deficits of all other presidents combined in less than a year???*
That, along with a slew of other mistakes, left the country in bad shape, Reid said. *Like electing Obama and everything Reid has done in office*

“That was the hole he dug for us and President Obama,” he said. *I thought he was going to dig us out*

During the last two months alone of the Bush administration, 1.5 million jobs were lost, he said. *That's nothing compared to the 10% unemployment since Obama's been in office for the past year and a half*

Reid also talked about some of the legislation that has been passed — such as job creation — to help the economy recover.


“We passed a recovery package … has it done enough? Of course not,” he said, but many critical issues are now being addressed such as flaws in the credit card industry and mortgage fraud.

“We're doing everything we can to get out of this,” he said. *By digging us deeper?*

Is America going to fall for this again??????

Military Fashion Bonus......

The advertizing message of this photo to the ladies is that "if you own or carry this gun you will look like her and guys will be attracted to you"....or scared of you.....or be attracted to being scared of you. I guarantee you that advertizing is absolutely correct.   Notice the inquisitive look - as in "what are you doing here?" But notice because she's fully armed, she doesn't need to look like a jerk or some East German steroidal shemale feminazi to get her point across.  She can look charming and feminine and still let the gun do the menacing for her.  This is skilled and a classic! She's obviously not overbearing as a person as a result and knows where she stands in a relationship without having to go over the top to prove it and is confident enough to not have to work too hard to get your attention.  AND if you misread her...well...your loss. Probably a great mom. I'd give this about a really high 9.9 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Late Night Cartoons

swiped from here.

I confess some of the stuff on my blog you'll have to be in the loop on politics in order to get such as the photos below - PLUG IN AMERICA!  CATCH UP!!!

Its all about perspective.....

Nothing racist about this......

Some people feel this way.....

Christ Matthews reported he gets a tingle up his leg when he's around Obama....

Harry Reid is on record saying domestic violence comes from unemployed men....

Yes, Obama is talking about forming a national security police for domestic peace.....

Notice the offensive whitey cop helps the harvard professor down the steps while the african kenyan in chief is so sensitive to racial issues he just wanders ahead....

Nobel Peace Prize......

Got this from Steve.  Verfied the story here but it reminded me of a few refugees I picked up out at sea or out of a minefield who literally wet themselves thinking we were going to execute them and were so relieved when we gave them a cigarette, a drink of water and even my jacket to cover up until we got them back to base and some first aid. 

THE REAL WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!

John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing. He is a real Star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do.  Even if it is just one little girl at a time.
~James Gates U. S. Navy

One thing led to another......Bike Trip

I absolutely HATE running.  I'm a biker.  I used to ride 100+ miles in a day just for the heck of it and no I'm not exaggerating.  My best ride was from Oregon City to Lincoln City with a night campout up by Trask Lake and then a few days at the coast and ending in McMinnville.  But because I was loaded with camping gear, rode solo to carry all my own stuff with no help, and I crested the coast range at about 3,000 feet on the route I took I only did ~60 miles the first day.  I learned the importance of nutrition on that trip.

Normally I rest on the Sabbath rather than recreate, however, having been under pressure at work, my wife is sick and having two kids driving me up a wall I decided to go reflect on God's creation.

I haven't really ridden a bike for a long time since I found the freedom of a car and a motorcycle, but back on a bike there's so many places a car CANT take you that I'd forgotten about.  You just see more scenery and a lot more detail in life on the ride.

I was going to go for a bike ride around Hood River just because I've never ridden there, but decided to stay closer to home and just hit the Columbia River up by the airport.

This is my current getup.   It's not top of the line but usually my stuff isn't because I don't really need it to be.  With the two kidlets in the back I think I was pulling around 100 pounds behind me.  THEN I found out they were dragging their feet on the ground through the floor for the first 8 miles + uphill across the bridge....I was severely annoyed.  

I hadn't intended to go so far, it was a 15 mile round trip which is considerable towing a bike trailer with a straight 2.5 mile stretch up an incline with a headwind crossing the Columbia. Just, it started, "let's head to the beach", then "to the bridge", then "on the bridge", then "to the border", then "to another state"....and yeah....now I'm beat.


I snapped most of these while I was riding with my kids riding in the bike carrier behind me.

This is crossing back from Washington just to prove I made it out of state....this is on I-205 headed south (obviously its south because I'm headed from Washington into Oregon - unless Magic Unicorn Rainbow Obamaland changed the compass directions as well while he was in office or CNN got to the map and put Oregon next to something else like Hawaii)

 
This right here is actually photographic proof of one of the dumber things I've done in life.  The bike path was not the smoothest thing in the world, the bridge was bouncing from traffic, there were wind gusts racing as they do through the Columbia Gorge over the bridge, and there is a spring hinge on the bike trailer wich makes it undulate as it goes over the not-so smooth terrain and I'm holding on with one hand snapping photos with a cell phone.  I hit 25mph at one point.  It's not that fast but when you're trying to manage a bike carrier with wind gusts on a not-so-smooth-surface it's plenty fast and about the fastest I wanted to go.   Fastest I've personally been on a bike was ~68mph on a really sweet downhill stretch wearing spandext and all decked out and tucked in (uphill both ways in the snow against a headwind with a flat tire and two broken legs while carrying firewood).  I did go head to head with some yahoo who had to ride side-by-side with his friend comeing at me and I thought he wasn't going to get out of the way fast enough and I was about to take all three of us out because I couldn't stop very fast with the trailer behind me. 

Under the Interstate looking south into the Columbia with the bike path on the right.....I just thought this looked cool.....

A guy came up in a handmade boat and beached while he carried his oars up to his car waiting for him.  I just thought it looked cool. My dream is to have my own boat someday.

A view of the interstate headed up to Washington....it was NOISY.  I'm used to noise and this was severely annoying even me.

Anyways, I hope I lose some more weight from this if anything.  My goal is to fit back into my navy uniform by next year.  Seeings how I may end up joining the military again when I start working on my Ph.D. and become an officer to pay for the rest of my schooling, fitting in a uniform would be a good thing.

Does this make me a redneck?

Yeah....I did.  It was frozen and I didn't need the entire block and didn't have patience to do it the slow way.   This way took all of 15 seconds.  I should have used the jig saw though because there's more to clean out on a circular saw and I couldn't find the hand saw.

Mexican Illegals Urgently Needed to Vote Democrat!!!!!

I think China may have beat us to the answer for the illegal problem and they had the answer several hundred years ago.  I wonder if building a wall to keep out invaders was politically incorrect back then. 

I find it amazing that it's so obvious that the Democrats in congress are as corrupt as they come to sell out America for money and power and control and will do anytthing to make it happen.  It was observed in the book "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis as he reflected on the atrocities that sparked WWII that the most evil men the world aren't those who carry guns or look thuggish even.  They are well dressed men who work in nice offices and rarely have a need to ever raise their voices such as were the Nazi leaders who ushered in a reign of terror.

So, here we are in the middle of the Great Recession (Government Engineered, American Tested, Obama Approved) with an unemployment rate of ~10% (which makes the 3% under Bush look laughable) and suddenly in light of Arizona's immigration law congress is racing to pass a law to make Arizona law illegal. 

QUICK!  QUICK!  THE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF LINE!  THEY ARE USING DEMOCRACY AGAINST US!!!!  CHANGE THE LAW TO MAKE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE NULL, VOID AND IRRELEVANT!!!! HURRY!!!!

So here's what I find interesting: The American People didn't want Obama Kare, it's illegal and unconstitutional, but it was passed anyways. 

Now Arizonans, and Americans overall WANT Illegals out of the country, want the federal government to do something about it, want our border secure, so they do something about it, and the federal government declares it illegal and rushes to pass laws to undo it.

What I also find interesting is the notion that the illegals, before this law was passed, could not be detained unless they broke the law (i.e. stealing).  But the fact that millions of them engaged in identity theft and were in the country illegally was not grounds for detention.  Meanwhile if a white man engages in identity theft we're going to haul him to court and put him in prison and ruin his life......sounds pretty racist to me.

Thomas Paine, in his book "Common Sense" noted that the ones who were most unsuited for democracy and freedom in America were those who had allegiances to other forms of government or ideologies.  I'm reading about anchor-babies who are now adult American Citizens who are complaining about the law because many of their friends are illegals. 

I'm sorry - if your friends are illegals, then you're part of the problem, American or not.

Thomas paine also observed how the law was used in England to supress the people and keep them under wraps, such as by their taxation laws which deprive people of the resources they needed to provide for themselves to stand against the government.  Our government is doing that as well by depriving our democracy of an open and fair vote by filling the pool with tens of millions of welfare recipients whos votes are bought by giving them citizenship to keep the government in pwer.

In my military service you had to choose your loyalties.  Was it going to be to your nation?  Or to something else that when push came to shove you wouldn't stand in line with those you served with?

In all the world there is nothing worse than a traitor.

I know the hispanics are complaining about racial profiling and saying they aren't doing anything wrong, yet in interviews in the news, again, they talk about hanging with friends who are illegals - they are part of the problem and need to go as well. They support them, give them moral support, money, clothing, food, shelter....I think they have helped bring it on themselves and unfortunately have dragged millions of law abiding hispanic American Citizens into the fray because of their actions.  But these actions are what the Arizona law is specifically designed to combat.

Personally?  I love the Mexican culture.  I love the food, I love the traditions, the families - but I can't abide the illegals, the laziness to learn a language of their host country, the dishonesty and deceit that comes with it all.  America, to preserve herself in times past has had to pass some unsavory laws such as the Alien and Sedition Act.  This is a nasty time in America and our infrastructure is crumbling - it's time for some drastic action.  Hats off to Governer Brewer for signing the law!