In Memory of the Fallen.....

If you would personally like to look over the names of the fallen in the current conflict, a man I know here in Portland, "Q" - a Viet Vet, has documented every single casualty, the circumstances and location and personally attended every single military funeral here on the west coast and photographed them so their memory is not forgotten.

He has put them all on his webpage http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/ and http://www.afghanistanwarheroes.org/.  It is currently the only collection of all our war casualties in the current conflict. 

Q's full time occupation is documenting the current conflicts and the fallen and his project only continues with the help of donations.  If you would like to help support the effort to remember those who've fallen, you can click on Q's site here: www.iraqwarheroes.org/help/

I've been to Willamette National Cemetery in Portland and the section dedicated to the Oregon troops who have fallen is very large and filled with fresh graves. Our governor, though we disagree politically in every aspect, is a veteran himself and he has personally attended every single Oregon Military funeral while he's been governor and met with the families.

Is this a sign? Do the elements hate Barak Hussein Obama?

Thunder and lightening prevent Obama from speaking at the memorial day ceremonies.

I wouldn't want that communist traitor bastard speaking over my grave either.

I think this is applicable though towards Obama - from "A Few Good Men."

Switch some names around and you get the picture....

Jessep: You want answers?


Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I think I'm entitled to them.

Jessep: You want answers?

Kaffee: I want the truth!

Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall!

We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!

Movies I've Watched: "Red Corner" (1997) (Excellent movie!!!)

I was in Asia when this was made and I was working with several justice systems (military and civil) of various countries at the time.  I can tell you for a fact - while the story is made up, this isn't a work of fiction.

 This is how the oriental justice systems work.  I've personally sat through interrogations administered in these systems and compared to the U.S. - they are brutal and unforgiving just as they are depicted here.  The reputation of the state is worth more than your life and if you are stupid enough to get caught or framed, you are expendable in order to save a high ranking party member or a statused member of society's honor or reputation. 

You're living in a world that has a +98% conviction rate and confession rate - and that goes for crimes people didn't commit but just were in the wrong place - and these are countries we think of as civilized and advanced.

Peaceful?? Yes they are in that part of the world - because of the justice system like this.  No crime?  None other than the kind of stuff you see in this film because people know better than to get caught.  That's why it's so peaceful.

I used to be absolutely infuriated with the "honor" system in that part of the world.  You really do have to wrap your head around it and it takes a while.  And the Asians who work in the government, especially the communists, in those systems spend YEARS being indoctrinated as to the values of their systems compared to America and European values - things us Americans just live and take for granted - unless you've gone through it and are ready for a battle of wits, the average American would be quite unprepared to engage intellectually on the merits of the two systems with them.  Something that's shown quite well in this movie when he gets schooled by the female attorney until he has a few days to think about it in his cell pending his execution.

While Richard Gere is a p-r-i-*-* on his political views and in person, he does an EXCELLENT job in this movie and, not only that, Bai Ling is pretty easy on the eyes in this movie too.

This is an EXCELLENT movie.  (Rated "R" for violence and some not-quite-graphic amorousness).

For me, this is a required in my collection and I need to get it.

Joke of the day: An Illegal gets three wishes (not politically correct).

From Steve, a coworker from Washington who can make me look politically correct and very well reserved (comparitavely) in the middle of a company meeting.

A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute Mexican refugee outside an Arizona immigration office.

"Good man," the fairy said, "I've been sent here by President Obama and told to grant you three wishes, since you just arrived in the United States of America with your wife and eight children."

The man told the fairy, "Well, where I come from we don't have good teeth, so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them."

The fairy looked at the man's almost toothless grin and -- PING!-- he had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!

"What else?" asked the fairy, "Two more to go. Compliments of Obama!"

The refugee claimant now got bolder. "I need a big house with a three-car garage in Scottsdale on the golf course with eight bedrooms for my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in my country.. I want to bring them all over here" --- and -- PING!-- in the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three-car garage, a long driveway, and a walkout patio with a BBQ in an upscale neighborhood overlooking the golf course.
"One more wish," said the fairy, waving her wand.

"Yes, one more wish. I want to be like an American with American clothes instead of these torn clothes, and a baseball cap instead of this sombrero. And I want to have white skin like Americans and - you know what? Make me a white American - those guys have EVERYTHING! " ---and --- PING! -- The man was transformed - wearing worn-out jeans, an Arizona Cardinal T-shirt, and a baseball cap. He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.

"What happened to my new teeth?" he wailed. "Where is my new house? What happened to taking care of my family for me? What....what happened?

The fairy said:

"Tough beans, Amigo, now that you are a white American, you have to fend for yourself and you're on your own!"


(Shown here: typical white American in the eyes of CNN and Obama - actually - google "typical white American" and the results are quite disappointing so - I just made this up to make fun of my own race.)

A good reason not to do drugs......(Graphic, disturbing).

Link and Story Here.

Okay, I saw some whacked out stuff of people on alcohol as a police officer, including hauling people out of bars completely covered in blood while my fellow officers watched my back and then listening to them gurgle on their blood in the street while I was trying to protect them in the middle of a riot waiting for an ambulance to be able to get to me.   I've seen blood sprayed across a building front and literally seen the streets run with blood. I've seen a decapitated body in a traffic accident that was only hanging on by the jaw from a DUI and a Mazda RX-7 um, 20 feet or so up in a tree.  I got the photos of that one still somewhere - and then of course my own police car sinking at sea with me in it due to a freak mishap (I was sober!!!!  I don't drink actually).  I've just been through some really disturbing stuff. 

But this takes the cake. 

Ripping someone's heart out of them while they were alive due to a hallucination????

Yeah....this stuff should be legal.....mmmmmmm no.


Okay but this thing below should be legal.....for me - I mean just to drive to work, not to plow people over with......unless it's an anti war demonstration - then I want to see who they'll call for help.  And I don't know that this takes drugs to do......

B52 Hot Dogging and Crash

I went to flight school for a time and for those of you who don't fly, aircraft have performance specs - a "performance envelope" - i.e. certain agles at certain speeds and altitudes with payloads and fuel loads not to exceed.  There's a saying in the flight community "there are old pilots and bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots."  Even fighter pilots learn the performance envelope of their aircraft and work very hard to keep within that envelope across a wide variety of situations. 

Anyways, this is a compilation of B-52 footage showing a pilot breaking the rules and flight directives and taking the plane outside its performance envelope for years before and you'll probably be surprised what a B-52 can do....on his last day right in front of his family gathered to watch him prepare to retire.....it finally happened! 



Here's an F-16 going through the paces with a bird strike if you haven't seen it - one of the first things you start to learn to do in flying is actually to crash.




And here is a helicopter pilot on a U.S. Navy ship coming in too fast and not paying attention and well....you can see how it turns out......I know the Navy has a bad rap among the other armed forces as not being a real armed force, but it's constantly busy on the ship and anything can go wrong at any time requiring you to jump out of your rack in the middle of your sleep to man your station......it's very very busy out at sea. 




Here's just for fun a video of the USS Kittyhawk (Dad served on her too) and the waterline to the flight deck is around 60 feet.......yeah......good stuff.   The only things I can think of as I was watching this are: I know its even worse on the cruisers and destroyers around the carrier AND this is why Navy aircraft wear out faster than Air Force equipment in general in addition to the beating they take landing and taking off on a carrier.

USS Iowa Footage

My father served on the USS Missouri and I've been aboard the New Jersey - just thought this was a neat video.

gratuitious scary sheep video

I couldn't help myself - this still cracks me up

Inspirational Poems: "Voices"

I like this as it's about being in a world with so many voices competing for our attention and wanting us to go along with them and promising us so much but not finding eternal spiritual truths amidst it all.  

We've even got government leaders who want people to put their "hope" and trust in them.....I think people were foolish to do it in the first place, but they are becoming increasingly disappointed.  This is a bit about that search and coming up empty in this world while listening to those voices instead of finding personal spiritual fulfillment - they instead find the opposite.

"Voices" by Lex De Azevedo. 

Voices calling me from everywhere

"Run over here!"

"Run over there!"

"We've got things to blow your mind!"

So I go! 

What do I find?

Nothing.

Pounding voices, rising, swelling, whispering mysteries, fortune telling.

Voices filled with books and learning

Crying their wares to make me wise.

"We've got ways to get there faster!"

So I go.

What do I find?

Nothing.

Voices crying under tables spreading secrets spinning fables......

Does anybody know anything that's real???

Something that will last for a while?

That I can hold and feel and keep!

That's more than paper and the wind!

That's more than just the frost upon the ground

And when the morning sun comes around

....it melts away......

 into nothing......?

Anxious voices, begging, pleading, chanting rhymes of love and freedom.

Voices rise in waves of air

"There is no sin!"

"You must be free!"

"Come with us and lose your conscience!"

So I go!

And what do I see?

Nothing!

Nothing. 

Nothing.

  Nothing......

Voices twisting into flashes.

Voices dwindling into ashes

Voices wearing wings of glitter.

Calling me. 

Beckoning me.

"We've got bread to bring you pleasure!"

So I go.

And what do I see?

Nothing. 

Nothing.

Nothing...

Nothing...

nothing.....

Sunday Humor: The Wisdom of God....

God is sitting in heaven when a scientist prays to Him, "God, we don't need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning."

"Oh, is that so? Tell me..." replies God.

"Well," says the scientist, "we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man."

"Well, that's interesting...show Me."

So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil.

"No, no, no..." interrupts God, "Get your own dirt."

collateral damage

Went shooting with the wife and kids today - well the kids just watched. Not quite old enough to shoot more than a bbgun yet. However, today when my son had a superman cape on and I told him it gave him powers, he informed me "I already had powers dad! I didn't have them when I was two but I did get them when I was four."

Silly me.
 
Anyways below is a nice picture of my handiwork using a pistol I carried in the military except a WWII officers version - we were using Cantaloupes because I wanted my kids to see what a gun can do to you if you're not careful and they are roughly the consistency of a human head-ish.  Also all my time in the military was spent against "bad guys" and my wife is practicing with her gun.   Anyways, this was my first shot of the day from 50 feet, right between the eyes - I was quite proud.   You can see how a full metal jacket exits the back of the "head" - however a hollowpoint either tore off the entire back of the "head" OR it knocked the entire thing with it.  
 

If you think I'm wasting food I assure you there were a million seeds planted in well tilled ground by the time we were done today.

Obama's budget cuts.......

On the amazing OBAMA economic policies (from David in Oregon - a college buddy and a very outspoken conservative and not quite reformed hippie)

This is an scary video....just.....yeah, watch it - click http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/ 

Books I've Read: "The Screwtape Letters" By C.S. Lewis

For those of you into some "darker works" but who are interested in intellectualism as well as the contemplation of spiritual subjects of an eternal nature - "The Screwtape Letters" might be the book for you.

For those of you who don't know C.S. Lewis was a Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University in the UK. He was also an avowed atheist for much of his life until he became converted to Christianity and became one of the most influential Christian Apologists of our age and in world history.

This is part of the basis of his work "The Screwtape Letters."  "The Screwtape Letters" are a collection of letters from an uncle Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood - both devils in Satan's lowerarchy.  However Wormwood is an apprentice tempter who has been given his first human to tempt and snare and drag and entice to embrace the ways of hell and to carefully lead him back to the Throne of Noise in Hell.  Meanwhile, his uncle Screwtape is writing him letters on specifically how to accomplish this and reflecting on the reports of the life of the human he's been given. You follow the human through his relationships, his embrace of religion and every single exploit that Satan seeks to use to our disadvantage in this life.

For further edification, the book was published in 1942, and the human Wormwood has been given to tempt and drag back to hell and convince of the goodness of the ways of hell is a young man who's seeking to marry but who gets called into the military.  What's amazing is when you contemplate just how valuable our lives are to such a tempter, as they strive to keep him alive and out of the hands of God and from being killed but allow the horror of the war to fill his mind, and get to him with enemy propaganda to make it seem pointless to him to serve so that the impact of the war and its shocks is even more intense. But they are under specific orders not to allow him to be killed in the war (orders Wormwood is hard pressed to keep which requires him to (though it is unsaid you can see it between the lines) allow the angels to keep him alive which forces him to work somewhat with those who would make him puke yet from whom he is filled with horror at their power) -  and how nothing in this world is of use to them unless it is somehow corrupted but all things must originate from "the adversary" (God) first before they can corrupt it - but how hard they were working to create their own invention without having to corrupt something "the adversary" had created first.

It is interesting watching Wormwood be mocked (would  you expect him not to be) for his weakness before Screwtape whenver he encounters "the adversary's angels" and comment on the "deviousness" of God.

What's scary is you will see yourself in this book.   What's even scarier is you will see just how far so many of us have fallen in this world as we struggle forward, but blinded with scales over our eyes in many forms.  The book is not entirely "satanic" in nature however.   Read it - it is well worth the read, and it is worth a lot to be a well-read individual - and this book?  Would certainly contribute to that.  It's fairly short.

But it will certainly awake you to the forces that are at play in our world.

If I can add my own commentary to the book?  The greatest lie that has ever been told and that has been embraced in mankind is "there is no devil" - let alone "there is no god" - with no devil......nothing matters or is to be feared or respected.  And thats what the book is about - the operations of the satanic lowerarchy in this world to conceal its activities and intentions and disguise them as "nothing."

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I have now viewed my blog on a regular screen, and most of my composition is done on an HD LCD screen - so while the cartoons look perfectly fine on my HD screen - on lower resolution screens they don't look as good.  Also my screen is wider in a wider aspect ratio than the standard PC screen, so my dimensions don't fit a regular screen.  If this has caused you any harm personally or spiritually....I apologize. 

College For The Savvy Conservative: Is This A Good School / College / University?

There are a lot of schools out there offering to take your money in exchange for a certificate or a degree.  And there are even more people who have completed training at these schools only to find out nobody will accept their credentials. So before you jump out without a chute....here's the following:

In order to find out if a school is any good takes a bit of homework.  I'm sorry but there's no "good-school-o-meter" that's reliable on this in our fast-food-world where you can just look to see how "good" it is. 

SO - if you want to graduate from college - this is me being frank here (hi Frank) you'd better get used to doing your own research and homework!  You don't go to school to ask and have someone tell you the answers, you go to school to learn how to answer your own questions and do your own critical thinking. Most college applicants in my experience haven't learned this lesson yet.  Doing research is one of your biggest skills you'll learn and you'll need to start learning before you even go. .

You'll need to contact the school and ask for some information - that's a good way to start, and tell them you're interested.  The reason asking for info is good is because they are going to send you their credentials usually as to why they are a top pick and this can save you some homework.  If not, the steps below are the same anyways.

Look at awards the school has won.  Has it won research awards, quality awards, value awards, any types of awards?   When did it win them?  Who was it issued by?  What are their credentials who gave the award? What department got the awards?

Look at graduation rates.  How many people enroll compared to who drops out?  What is the average GPA?

Look at what graduates have gone on to do.  Most schools will tout this as a measure of their competency.  It will say what their students have gone on to achieve.  This is a big indicator right here.  How many went on to do this?  Is this a regular thing?  What are the credentials of the activity they went on to do?  How many come back to that school to teach?

Look at cost.  This is a big one. What is the funding of the school - private? Government? A trust?  Who donates to it?  My university received a lot of funding from Nike because they were interested in our psychology studies because members of Nike had received a great benefit from our psychology program in their lives and company operations.  You do get what you pay for though, cheaper isn't always better.  I paid out the NOSE for my undergraduate degree but it put me so far ahead it wasn't even funny.

What is the school's specialty?  I didn't major in this but I'm still proud to say this, my university is a world leader in music therapy.  We had students from all over the world come to major in music therapy and if that's what you want to major in - this is probably one of the top 10 picks you'll go for.  Personally I benefited from having the music therapy students in my psychology classes because they brought an extra dimension of world expertise to my class in an area that is just being explored in the world.

What are class sizes?   Are you a number out of 1,000 students?  What's the student to faculty ratio?  (My typical class size was about 8 to 20 students - I got a LOT of individual attention on my work).

What type of homework do they require?  What is the teaching methodology?  Does that fit with your personal study style?  My university didn't do "tests."  It did research and mass homework with a very very heavy focus on writing.  You could expect to spend approximately sixty hours a quarter in each class on writing and research.  But for me this gave me a *lot* of freedom.  More than you will ever imagine in a college setting and I *LOVED* it.  Rather than regurgitating multiple choice test question answers I specialized in sexual deviance and personality disorders and the anti-social spectrums allowing me to achieve a level of education far above what I would with another style that didn't fit me.

What are their instructors backgrounds.  Again MYYYYYYYY university didn't have tenured instructors or professors (excuse me).  The teachers aren't so valuable that they become indispensable and they recieve a lifetime pension to do whatever the heck they want while the students suffer.  The teachers contracts get renewed every quarter.  If a teacher doesn't maintain a certain level of evaulations from the students - their contracts don't get renewed!   Also the instructors were all "adjunct" - meaning they weren't full time teachers.  They had jobs outside teaching.  Sound bad?  Quite the contrary.  I had board members of the American Psychological Association teaching me cutting edge research.  I had members of the Oregon State Geriatric Board teaching me.  I had instructors who had worked on and were professional counsel for Oregon's Assisted Suicide Bills working with me.  I had instructors who were applying what they were teaching in order to keep their heads above water financially teaching me skills and relevant information.

What do the instructors do at the school?  Do they conduct research and involve the students in it?  Or do they expect you to regurgitate multiple choice test questions and become smart that way?

What are the schedules?  Evening classes for the working adult?  Or a full-time student schedule who doesn't work and that begin at 7am?

How often will you attend a class so you can retain what you're learning?  For example, if you're taking a 3 credit course (1 credit means generally you will spend 1 hour per week in class and 1 hour of homework/study in order to keep up with what you learned in class - so a 3 credit course means it's expected you'll do 3 hours per week in class and 3 hours of homework study to keep up for the duration of the course - this can vary however as some schools are on semester credits and others on quarter credits - a quarter being 10 weeks and a semester being 15 - I prefer quarters - midterms at 5 weeks and you get to take wayyyy more classes and the haul isn't so long as trying to do 15 weeks on a class)  Will that 3 hours be all at once?  Or will you come back 3 times a week for each class to do 1 hour at a time while the instructor spends 1/2 hour taking roll of each of those hours with two fifteen minute breaks?

What are their online classes like?  Online can be a great way to learn and is increasing in popularity.

Can you talk to someone who's graduated?  Is there a student alumni association where you can talk with graduates who've gone on to be successful?  Talk to a few people who have come from there and see what they think!

Go attend a class!  See what you think!  This is the best way!  You can write a department head of the department you want to take a class from and major in and go sit in on it!  Usually they will be very happy to let you do so.

This is much better than just asking around.  If you want to get a better feel for it, go do the homework for two schools in this fashion and compare the two to get an idea of what's up. 

This takes a lot of work - BUT - then you're spending a lot of money and if you do it wrong....well, you'll be in debt, have wasted time with no prospects  of a better future due to the work you did.

If you have questions, please feel free to post them as a comment as I'd like to round this out and add to it.  While this isn't the "answers" to the question, it does address them and - I wish I'd know how to do this before I went though I knew a bit of what I was doing and finding the answer to this question on line?  More difficult without the help of "simplybecauseitis."  But now - there is a source online to help people do this because - I just posted it!

Again this is an excellent resource, the book "College Planning for Dummies."

HOLY BLEEP! MASSACHUSSETTS PASSES LAW LIKE ARIZONAS!!!!

Wow, they are going after healthcare and everything on this one! You'll have to read it for yourself! 

Perhaps there is light! Read the exciting news here!

Obama "Watergate" Sestak Scandal Grows.....impeachment?

This thing over the offering of a federal job in return for NOT running for the senate BY Mr. Obama isn't going away so nicely.

But don't worry.  An official explanation will be out shortly.

Karl Rove (I'm a fan of his - pretty smart guy - I've heard him speak on Rush and a few other places) has said that either Sestak's lying or he's protecting a felon (which one?  Actually lets start with the ones who ARENT felons - shorter list) in the white house.

I'm going to post this here on my blog just because I want more coverage on the criminal in chief of the US.  And I intend to follow it.

Will it peter out like the birth certificate thing because someone got to a Federal Judge?  Who knows.  But I'm going to as much as possible keep tabs on it here.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/05/joe-sestak-karl-rove-chris-dodd-george-w-bush.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/100067-issa-sestak-scandal-could-be-obamas-watergate

Inspirational Poems: "In Flanders Fields"

In Flanders Fields was written by a Canadian Military Surgeon in relationship to the dead who died in the war.

The history surrounding the poem isn't so important as what the poem says: those who spent their lives in the service of something raised us up as children, trained us as shipmates and brothers in arms, passed on to us a legacy they built or had kept in hopes that they would keep it - as their lives were spent - expended - used up - ended - in the service of those ideals.

Though we battle in the flesh and the flesh and spirit suffer, it is not against the flesh we struggle: Ephesians. 6: 12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

These thoughts are what stirred my memory as a US Navy Bugler who blew taps to 21 gun salute with cannon fire over the graves of those who fell overseas and we owe it to them not to let it happen in vain.

There are those in our nation who will not uphold that legacy though it is their office and calling to do so, so when they fall it is our responsiblity to remember the legacy and hold it high.

I hope you enjoy "In Flanders Fields" and remember it what it says.

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

A Penny For My Thoughts: Obama Crackup & Breakdown

It's very clear to me that Obama loves being the president, loves the fanfare, the suits, the police, the lights, the audulation - but he hates the responsibility and hates the job.

When a leader replies to something intricate and damaging and critical that he's largely responsible for the response to by saying "just plug the damn hole" that's a big clue that would make any behavior analyst perk their ears up.

SO!  It's clear to me the press secretary is under pressure, Pelosi....where's she been? 

I'm honestly wondering if Obama is going to have a meltdown with this job and lose it.

Psychologically, for someone of his personality traits, I think the president job is one of the worst things for him, there's not much I can imagine that would be worse for him.  What will be interesting is how he handles being out of the white house.

I expect a lot of books to come out of him when it's over and him trying to re-capture what he had and even more blaming going on.

It's just obvious he can't handle it.


Just a thought.

My 2 cents: Why I as a veteran police officer disagree with the feds and agree with Arizona

Today I heard a Tucson Arizona Police Chief decry the Arizona law on immigration as being bad for law enforcement.

This is exactly why I got out of law enforcement and went into psychology instead.

Let me run though the list:

(While I did my job honorably and so do millions of other police officers and no discredit to them or the job they do - this is my opinion and my choice)

1) Politics - the Mayor of Tucson appoints the Police Chief - the Police Chief is beholden to politics (of the Mayor) but not the public for his job which his morals can be compromised - unlike a Sheriff which is elected by the public and directly accountable to the public - anyone wonder why Sheriff Arpaio is so popular?  Its because he does his job the way the public wants him to.  Meanwhile a city law enforcement agency becomes a puppet to politics and a political agenda forcing officers to compromise their morals and values in order to simply hold a job.

2) Having to enforce someone else's jackassed policies when I saw what was going on and was not free to stop it.

3) Having politics turned against me (like what happened to the officer over the Harvard professor and having the president jump in and call him racist) when I was in the right (I've been in the middle of controversies like that).  You can see on the left how racist the white cop was after their meeting at the white house while the white cop helps the frail Harvard professor down the stairs while the black racist president just goes on ahead.

But here's why I disagree with the Tucson Police Chief who I guarantee you has puppet strings attached to him.

He said that the law makes people feel singled out, and they rely on community involvement to approach police to report crimes to keep the community safe - and this law makes them not want to interact with the police.

OKAY DUMBARSE - this is one reason why I'm becoming a Ph.D. so I can pull rank on idiots like this and set the record straight or at least say with authority beyond the obvious "you're an idiot" and if they say I'm an idiot I can say "um, yeah, I'm more educated than you....idiot." (I promise to only use my powers for good and for the advancement of the American Way, of Life, Liberty and Truth and all that Superman Stuff).

FIRST:  WHY THE HECK ARE WE RELYING ON ILLEGALS TO HELP US ENFORCE THE LAW???????  WE MAY AS WELL RELY ON AL QAEDA TO HELP US DETECT TERRORISM!!!!

THE ILLEGALS ALREADY BROKE IT JUST BY FRIGGING BEING HERE!!!!!  THERE'S YOUR  FIRST CLUE SHERLOCK!  WAY TO GO! GLAD YOU'RE IN CHARGE IDIOT!  WHY DO YOU WANT A LAWBREAKING COMMUNITY TO HELP YOU ENFORCE THE LAW??? WHAT UTOPIAN IDIOT WORLD DO YOU LIVE IN?????? (I'm a veteran police officer y'all - this is my experience coming out here - is it clear?).

SECOND:  Why the heck would you expect people who engage in identity theft etc., and cover up for a whole bunch of other things to be so honest as to report a crime?   Why would you expect them to?  How "in bed" do you need to be with a bunch of people who break the law for them to trust you and how large a scale of this do you need in order for things to work?  How about enforce the law so law abiding citizens feel like there's even a point to cooperating with the government and law enforcement to report illegal activity?  Why are we so damned worried about one single demographic to report everything?  Don't we have asians, whites, africans, middle easterners who can ALSO report illegal activity?  OR are the illegals the only one who know where the illegal activity is (I have a clue - the ILLEGALS ARE ILLEGAL) and so we need them to tell us where the law is being broken (except for where the illegals are)?

THIRD:  Many of these people are being exploited already because people know they won't report stuff because they don't want to get deported.  Just being here illegally puts them at risk for a variety of crimes.

FOURTH: No illegals - no problems with illegals.  The problem solves its self.  If there were no illegals you wouldn't have all these problems.  It's pretty obvious that if there weren't illegals afraid of being deported because everyone was obeying the law, people wouldn't be afraid of approaching the police.

FIFTH: Why do you want a community of lawbreakers?  I thought that's what cops did was prevent lawbreaking or take care of it?  This is probably the biggest "duh" question there is. 

This whole thing is smoke and mirrors.  And it's very clear the constitution, federalism and the separation of powers is a major inconvenience for Obama. 

But that's just my 2 cents.

US DEBT CLOCK - we're in trouble y'all.

Here's a photo I took of the US Debt Clock but you can acess it realtime by clicking here. 

One of the big numbers to pay attention to?  Is in the upper right hand corner - a debt to GDP ratio.  The US had a massive debt to GDP ratio after WWII, about like what we have now percentage wise.  HOWEVER, the economic activity and government stance towards economic growth allowed the US to rapidly grow out of it.  Unlike our current idiot/narcisistic/histrionic/racist/incompetent/moron kenyan in chief with his idiot cronies where they spend nearly a trillion dollars and we get nothing for it while they go on the news telling us all how much they saved the economy (anyone heard the phrase lately "saved or created?") 

I do have one question though, and it's irrelevant and more academic, but: Did Obama ACTUALLY think his policies would work (and obviously he's lied a bunch too) but did he actually think they would work and when they didn't work was he surprised?  Or, were they not supposed to destroy so fast so that he could be out of office by the time they took effect and he sits back and laughs? 

Move to Impeach Obama in Congress?

Wow....never thought I'd see this....of course for as corrupt as that guy is....sooner or later someone would have something to do with it.   There is  something bubbling up about impeaching Obama for bribing (essentially) a candidate not to run in exchange for a government job so politics would go the way the kenyan in chief wants it to.

Link here on fox news.

On doing your duty

I got this from Jordan in California (and she's working on becoming a FMF HM in the USN)

It's a speech by a Vietnam Veteran on being a sheep in society, or being a sheepdog who watches over the sheep.  It may not make sense but if you click on the link and read it you'll get it.  It's very good!

speech here

Obama: "Just plug the damn hole!"

Obama just wants the hole plugged.

Obama lost it in a press conference and uttered the phrase  "just plug the damn hole!" when talking about the BP oil spill.

Let me see if I can apply Obama's logic or reasoning or perception of things - since it's not that hard - to a bunch of other things as well, and lets see how it works.

Okay, ready?

Okay, here goes.

Just secure the damn border.

Just enforce the damn laws.

Just win the damn wars.

Just defeat the damn terrorists.

Just fix the damn economy.

Just fix the damn healthcare system.

Just keep your damn campaign promises.

Just plug YOUR damn hole.

Just show your damn birth certificate.

Okay - that's my Obama-like presidential leadership at play here at work in my blog.  If the president follows my advice and leadership all our problems should be solved by tomorrow! 

Whoohoo!

my work here?  is done.

That is IT friends.  You saw it here.  Change is COMIN' from SIMPLYBECAUSEITIS! 

And we thought these issues were complicated......how stupid are we?   Did we really NEED to elect the MIGHTY OBAMA to tell us all this? 

I think we're bigger suckers than we thought - because obviously it's not that hard.....sheesh.  I feel silly right now.

SURPRISE! Our president still a histrionic narcisistic ineffective racist moron.

Not much else to post but you can agree or disagree with it.

Books I've Read: Patrick F. McManus "The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw"

Patrick F. McManus has probably been one of my favorite authors since my youth.  An outdoor humorist who grew up in the 1940's in Rural Idaho, his humor is what I would consider a classic American type along the lines of Mark Twain that would only come from growing up in Rural America before the advent of urbanization.

Whether you're a hunter, an angler, a camper, and outdoors enthusiast or not, McManus will leave you in stitches!  I don't know that I have ever shared a McManus book with someone and they didn't love it and end up cracking up over it.

A collection of short stories, such as "The Grasshopper Trap" (the best way to catch a butt load of grasshoppers for fishing bait in true redneck fashion and sell them to become a wealthy fisherman without having to do any work) or "The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw" (a family outing with a paranoid demented grandmother who can set even the most hardened outdoor enthusiast on edge) it really is a good laugh.

SO!  As you can see, you can purchase the book (at the time of the posting of this) for $0.01 + shipping, (From whoever is selling them) and there's an entire collection of his.  But it's something I guarantee the outdoor enthusiast even if they don't really enjoy reading would enjoy.

His total works include:

A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978)


They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? (1981)

Never Sniff A Gift Fish (1983)

The Grasshopper Trap (1985)

Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs (1987)

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw (1989)

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink (1991)

The Good Samaritan Strikes Again (1992)

How I Got this Way (1994)

Never Cry "Arp!" And Other Great Adventures (1996)

Into The Twilight, Endlessly Grousing (1997)

Kerplunk!: Stories (2007)

First Legal Challenge To Health Care Asked To Be Dismissed By Obama

Here it comes! ROUND ONE!  Link Here. 

I think if a court just heard the case and ruled on it then it could have some fun on the way up, either way it's going up to the top - so - lets have some fun!

How to Fly A B-29......just in case.

I've never seen one of these fly in person, would love to though.  SO just in case you have the opportunity to fly one of these, I'm posting this video as a public service so you don't crash one of the remaining B-29s....

Disagreeing With Obama is Now Sedition....

Okay, that was just "rhetorical fluorish" (according to the Massachussetts governor).  Either way, I'm going to say, it just AMAZES me how much these people are so in lockstep with the president and disagree with the constitution and the right to free speech. It borders on sedition! (See? I can do it too!)

Massachussetts governor puts his foot up his own rear and out his mouth Link Here.

63% Favor Repeal of HealthKare Law

Link Here

I think all the people who want it should get it and the rest of us can have our private healthcare.

Don't Ask Don't Tell up for Repeal....

So up till now the gays acted like they were straight, now everyone else will act like they are okay with it.

Yeah I know there's people who are okay with it, I don't need to hear from you.  I personally think it's a mistake, but I did have to laugh that of the people debating the topic, the Navy Admiral was the one who was okay with the repeal.....go figure (and I'm a navy vet).

What's America coming to?  Can we socially engineer until there is nothing anymore, no rules, no structure, no organization.....no meaning and we're all kept in line by fear of ridicule or being called a bigot or being the lowest of the low "not open minded"?   When you have that....what's worth fighting for?  What's worth living for?  If nothing matters.....then why does it matter if you protect it?

Obama Bumper Stickers: - Make your own! And Musings on Portland.

If you're interested and want to make your own Anti Obama Bumper Stickers or any kind of sticker, you can make your own here at www.makestickers.com .  I've done it actually, I made a bumper sticker and they mailed it to me.  Mine said "Not Hillary '08."  Boy did I have no idea how bad this guy could be. I was a Romney man in '08.

Anyways, I tried to take a picture of it but it didn't come out. So I recreated the best sticker I've seen in Portland so far:

Kind of summed it up for me because I wouldn't ever want to put profanity on my car or Obama's name so this was a nice way around both of those dilemmas. But you can actually take that picture and have a bumper sticker made at the above website.

Speaking of Portland, I went downtown one day with my work boots and my work pants, a work shirt and a pair of suspenders and a baseball hat about like if I was on a construction crew or more like a redneck construction worker or something....whatever you wouldn't see in Portland.....um, you'd think I was the freak from freak-central.  I had so many people stop to look at me and I was like "uh, yeah, we don't all smoke hemp and dress like a hippie...."  Weird thing is I can spot a liberal just by the way they dress and they even have the same facial features here it seems - the ultra hippie ones with a larger nose and fair complexion and usually light brown hair.....trust me, weird stereotype but hang out here long enough and you'll see what I'm talking about.  Oh and they all wear the Austin Powers glasses and the guys have Austin Powers hair or a reasonable facsimile or related haircut or his sideburns.

One time my wife and kids and I went for dinner in the Pearl District in Portland.  Okay, let me tell you about Portland - nice people.  Kind people (until you put a Bush Sticker on your car).  But the most sycophant intellectual phonies I've ever seen in my life.  Anyways, Portland has such a wannabe feel to it.  There is no "big city" here.  Not like San Fran or even Seattle or LA.  It's got a bunch of pretend shops and districts in it that aren't so distinguishable from each other as to be anything special.  Like the Pearl District.  Bunch of mom-and-pop (or gay partnered or hookah smoking buddy) shops and restaurant that are selling the latest bead and power-crystal-glass-wear with an entire corner of the shop dedicated to rocks shaped like men's "organ's" with some guy who's WAY too effeminate at the front counter promising to make  all your dreams come true for $5.00 and wants to take you to the corner and show you the phallic shaped stones while he tries to lightly rub your arm to lead you in that direction (yes this has happened to me).   Get the picture?  It's frickin weird here.

Anyways, so me and my wife, both a heterosexual couple, with kids, white people, and I'm a veteran wearing one of my Navy hats....go walking through the Pearl District for dinner.  You'd have thought I was in Barnum and Bailey's circus as people stopped and actually stared at us like "what are you.....doing here?.....straight.....families.....can't.....comprehend......world....spinning....don't....under.....stand"   A normal American family stopped dinners as we walked through that part of town. 

SO my point?   I don't know - Portland's weird.  BUT we do have a couple things from here, um, Mark Lindsay of "Paul Revere and the Raiders" has a restaurant here over in the Sandy District, and "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen I believe came out of Portland.  OH! And did I mention the world's largest sex slave and child pornography industry flows through Portland?  yes, we are very open minded.  Oh and "Burgerville" - very overpriced food with local ingredients from the Northwest like Walla Walla Onion rings. 

Oh, and tonight I went for a bike ride with the kidlets and got my Yokota all ready to go after a few hours of work tonight and went to Red Robin for a burger. Some people here wanted to stop me and take pictures of me because they had never seen a getup like what I had going on.  I asked them where they were from, they said "New York." Ah.  That explains it.  I still have to put the toe-cages on my pedals and will be better to go.  The rolling resistance is a lot less than on the other bike I posted pictures of before.  Anyways, that's enough for tonight, kidlets aren't going to sleep and I gotta go tend to that.  But you can see them in the back of the carrier.

Media Turning On Dear Leader?

Watch Video Here.....

You know, I thought when Dear Leader was going to become President we would all fly around in vehicles powered by our own sense of self-satisfaction.......or off unicorn farts.

Anyways, when even James Carville is saying what he's saying.....the spinmeister....something's wrong.

But Napolitano is an @$$kisser learshipless flop of a douchebag moron (that's as strong as it gets on here) on everything as it goes.

Repsectfully, I assess behavior for a living and assess personality traits, and she may as well tape a sign to her forehead "I am lying, I want you to like me, I have no clue whats going on, but for the sake of my job I'd better sound tough and blame someone, and I hope you buy this because I'm not even buying my own performance the way things are going ,things are bad, I know it, but I'm going to keep lying in hopes this just goes away so I can get the paycheck and keep the job."

It's baaaaad......*sigh*

Well, wonder how our first colored president, being a douchebag liar is going to set the stage for other non-white presidential candidates in the future.  That's what I'm starting to wonder.

Did he ruin it for them all? 

Just wondering.   I'd go for Lt. Col. West for president but man....this guy (BO) needs to go and take all his slime buckets with him.

I'm starting to wonder if this is a prank from God to make him look bad - no seriously - I think God has a sense of humor and hates the guy though - remember at the global warming summit?  A blizzard?  Now with cap and trade going on, we have a massive volcano that disrupts everything and belches more ash and pollution into the air that's the biggest disruption to world flight ops in world history.  Now a BP spill.  Is it just me or since this guy took office the earth is just NOT cooperating and conspiring to make him look bad?

Now a giant crack in the earth chasing the presidential motorcade through LA for 20 miles while it gets filmed from a chopper.....that would be entertainment.  I'd place bets that Joe McGaffe Biden's limo would go first....but not before he hits an old lady on cruches or something......ahhh fantasies fantasies.

Movies I've Watched: The Invention of Lying

For a brutally honest semi romantic comedy it's prety "colorful" though because, think about it, if you were brutally absolutely honest about everything you thought or did....you'd be saying some pretty...um...interesting things.  I mean really, can you make it through ONE day without telling a lie?  On everything from what you were just doing to what you're going to do to what you REALLY think about someone or something?  Hence the PG13 rating.  But it's got a nice star lineup.  So if you don't mind sitting through a bunch of people saying out loud the stuff you probably think all day long but never would say because you'd be out of a job and a life.....well....this might be the movie for you!

Obama's Ties to BP Hampered Govt. Response to Oil Spill

Now the mud slinging is getting interesting!  Like to see him spin his way out of this one!

Palin has now asserted that the reason that Obama's been so slow to respond to the BP spill is because he's received large donations from the company.   I wonder what career Gibbs will have when Obama gets ousted in 2012.....actually I wonder what career Obama will have when he gets outsted in 2012....follow the new president around and make excuses?   However many tens of thousands of dollars BP gave away....they can give it to me! I'll only buy gas at BP and even put a BP sticker on my car (which is a huge sacrifice here in Portland Oregon People's Republic Of and puts my life in danger of being accosted by prius driving hemp smoking hippies).

Read Story Here.

Barak's Peace Prize a year later.......how's that working out? Has he earned it yet?

This came up the other day at work and so I had to post this wondering how he's doing in fulfilling the expectations with this.  I'd say he's a 1 termer and the TOTUS has lost its power of persuasion and the charm has worn off.  Anyways, these cracked me up now looking back on what it was given for.

Individual Economic Proposal To The Recession

One of the top companies I worked for and a major competitor and leader in its field (Les Schwab Tire Company   ) was quite unique in how it operated.  Despite being THE major tire company on the west coast, they did something most other businesses won't do in order to drive up their profits:

Work a six day work week.

The company is closed every Sunday and the benefits to it are overwhelming.

First, Les Schwab doesn't operate on just volume - in other words - it isn't open seven days a week because it needs the business and to shut everyone else out and is worried about someone going somewhere else on a Sunday.  Les Schwab has and strives to have superior service and quality  so that people won't even think of going anywhere else and by and large - they do! They don't have the lowest prices and people know it, but the service, warrantees and guarantees and quality are such that - well - you get what you pay for.  When I worked there several years ago, out of ALL the tire companies on the west coast, Les Schwab was over 60% of the industry.

By being closed on Sunday, they still do the same amount of business due to customer loyalty and reputation.  But they increase their profits or lower their operating costs should I say by 15%  because they do the same amount of business in six days that they otherwise might do in seven (1/7 = ~15%).

This drives down their operating costs and they work more efficiently because they pack more work into a six day work week and get more work out of their employees and equipment, while also cutting down on overhead and operating costs (electricity for lighting, air conditioning - all the stuff you pay for to keep your business operating).  Because they are more efficient with their work they can pay their employees more because they have more money and can pay them more for the work they do in the shorter time making it worth their while (+$1.00/hr raise every six months if you continue your employment).  Their retirement plan is second to none as well.  You would think that they would be open more often in order to fund all this but they refuse because they see the benefits to doing more business in less time at a faster pace and a lower cost while being able to pay enough to attract employees who will produce the quality to make the business a success.

Not only that, even if you're operating as a family, for my family, we tend to stay home on Sundays and not travel and spend money or go out to eat on that day, and that also reduces our expenditures by 1/7th.

Unexpectedly, I thought it funny that I found an economic benefit to the ancient law that is still lived in some parts of the world "Six days shalt thou labor, on the seventh day shalt thou rest" Logic would indicate otherwise.  But I have seen and know it works from having done the books at the company myself, there really is a blessing in it.

I would propose if companies want to go into the black, by becoming more competitive and cutting their operating days they would actually increase their profits!

Books I've Read: Embraced By The Light by Betty J. Eadie

This is perhaps one of the best books I've read. It's an account a woman wrote of the life after this after she died and came back to life.  If you want to read in detail what awaits the life after this or believe in it? This is the book to read.  She talked of even meeting Christ Himself as well as seeing the earth's creation, the mercy of God and much much more.  I've given this book out as a Christmas present to those I thought would like it (I give books for presents).



  We needn't fear death, as those who pass are very much alive.  There is a specific purpose to this life, and God is very much involved in it.  A light and easy read but full of profundity, insight and eternal truths in an easy to digest fashion. I'm willing to bet if you pick the book up and get into it, you won't be able to put it down.  If there was a must read on my list of books, this would be it.  It's a game-changer.  Whether you believe it or not is up to the reader, but it is fascinating when read in the context of "if this is true..."

Obama & Clinton Fundraising Scandal $300B

$300B scandal.

Now there are those who will say "Obama didn't raise that money" but he did receive it - and these are the types of people he associates with, takes power from, who support him.....we got a problem!

LtCol Allen West On Illegal Immigration.

I'd have voted for this guy for POTUS - he'd be much better than the kenyan in chief we have now.  Actually, why's it gotta be our first non-white president's gotta be more full of bigotry, racism and hatred than most average white people and more divisive than a white president and set us back a few hundred years on equality?  This guy, a U.S. Marine Officer, would have been MILES ahead of the idiot-in-chief or racist-in-chief we have now. 

A Spiritual Case For Individual Responsibility And Honesty In America....

I hope my readers do not mind me taking some time to post a few spiritual thoughts of a Christian but non-denominational and somewhat secular nature.

I haven't ever stated my religious denomination on here and I don't know that I will. Suffice it to say despite believing my religion to be correct, I do not believe that only members of it will be in good standing before God after this life. I also do not believe that people who do not believe in it will suffer in a fiery hell the instant they are snuffed out of this life or at any time after this life for simply not believing it in this life nor do I believe they will even be in danger of standing condemned before God for that being the case. This in mind, I am very comfortable with people believing differently than me and consider them equals and often only hope I can attain the same graces and strengths they have acquired as individuals in my attempts to become a better person.

We are in trouble in this country. There are forces at work here that did exist at our nation's birth but that weren't as widespread as they are now. One of them is the inability to simply recognize truth and a lot of virtue, everyday virtue has been lost. If I can quote 1^st Timothy 3 – see what you see here in our day, this is Paul prophesying.

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

  2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

  3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

  4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

  5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

  6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

  7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Spiritual truth or secular truth, all truth I might say is of God, and whether they believe in God or not, there is a definite intellectual failing and complete inability on the parts of many in this nation who are supportive of the destruction of our freedom – of their freedom! Ever try to argue with a liberal?

And as far as a truce breaker goes, while this does use the word truce, a truce is a promise, and I think we could include “promise breaker” in there with that, and false accusers as well....look around! Do we have false accusers in our government (who accuse and demand laws be passed without having read the bill? Is that dishonest? Is it immoral? Is it corrupt? You betcha! These are the types I fear for spiritually.)

Incontinent? This in the old English essentially means they have no self control and I personally believe is a reference to the inability to refrain from gratifying ones self sexually and someone who will do anything to fulfill it.

And having a form of godliness....yes, there is a messiah in which everyone has recently slathered their cars with bumper stickers and put their hope in him the anointed one....

While we try to inform ourselves in this world and then ask “What do I do? What can I do to stop all this?” I think the answer for us is simpler and yet harder to believe and put our trust in: simply learn what is right and then do what is right. Do what is right in your personal life every day. The influence of this goes much farther than we like to think. But beyond this, it's the one thing we have the most control over.

I just like this scripture:Ephesians 6:12

  12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Imagine what a world we would live in if everyone began to not only do what is right (don't confuse right and good, there's a lot of things people will justify in the name of good but that aren't right).

I know, “yeah right, like that will happen.” Well, I'm not planning on it happening. But I'm saying imagine what it would be like if it did. Just think of all that would be impacted. Now if you're the type that says “well, yeah, duh! I already know that!” I might say – “I don't think you do.”

When we take time to think about the things we “already know” we often can find a new angle or a new appreciation for things we've just glossed over and have lost a special appreciation for anymore. But at any rate – just think of what would be different. What about the housing crisis that was engineered by the government as well as furthered by people who signed up for stuff they shouldn't have and took on debts they knew they couldn't repay? What about people who come into a country and demand welfare and say they are entitled to it and protest when they are not given what they want?  Are these the types of people who should become citizens or be allowed to vote? What about ridiculing a religion and blaspheming it (I believe that was on the list above given by Paul) just because people disagree with it and stirring up conflict within and against it? What about claiming they are entitled to certain things because they are a good person and someone else should pay for them? These things are not right, people. Neither are they strong foundations, or foundations at all, for a civilization to be built on. Nor can such a civilization that embraces such foolishness expect to thrive or prosper long.

Unfortunately in our own lives there is a tendency to say “Well I only did x,y,z but HEEEEEE did THIS THAT AND THE OTHER THING and that is WAY worse than me! He's going to hell!”

Saying that won't really improve our state, our lives or our country any. Its the gratification of pride and the excusing from personal responsibility and an exercise in ego and ultimately is destructive to a degree.

A people who can govern themselves, who know the difference between right and wrong – don't need a government to tell it to them or to set a million laws in place destroying freedom under the guise of protecting people. And most certainly, a corrupt government should not be the one doing all the law making either. And we can recognize it and write to our leaders and let them know we are onto them, and vote against them, but also live right in our own personal lives and be accountable as much as possible. I might suggest, put our faith and trust in God on all this after all that.

Do what is right let the consequence follow – all else will fall into place after that. We can't always overthrow an administration or move the world currents but we can do what is right in our own sphere of influence. And when a million people do that....things begin to change.

There is a reason our national motto is “In God We Trust.” Its because we believe that by living the principles laid out in those Judeo-Christian values we will be free and we recognize God as the author of it and they did make us free! And even if we do not believe in God, if we can recognize those principles as being good then that's something and I have no doubt those principles will continue to bless us.

But when we begin to look to other means to secure our freedom, and begin to excuse ourselves for our shortcomings while pointing at others, begin to lie about others in order to achieve an end, begin to subvert the will of the people in order to achieve an end or gratify pride, or believe we are entitled to something we are capable of providing for ourselves at the expense of others....then the end is truly nigh and the civilization that believes this will not last much longer as those beliefs translate into actions and become national policy.

I believe we need to turn back to those principles that made us free (The ten commandments would be a great place to start) and which were present in the first place and not allow our baser instincts such as fear and greed become the rudders or compass by which we guide our lives and elect our government.