Saturday, June 24, 2006
OPINIONS ARE LIKE........
Thursday, June 22, 2006
RALLY BEHIND THIS GREAT NATION - OR ELSE!
I AM REALLY ANGRY. I TOOK 25 MINUTES PUTTING TOGETHER A HEARTFELT BLOG THAT SAID IT ALL AND THE ELECTRICITY WENT OUT AND IT WAS LOST. I'LL NEVER HAVE THE SAME FURY, BUT HERE GOES.
SHAME ON US AMERICA! WE HAVE GOTTEN SO FAR AWAY FROM BEING ONE NATION UNDER GOD. WE ARE RIGHT NOW A NATION WITH THE PARTY OF THE DEMOCRATS DOING AND SAYING WHATEVER THEY HAVE TO FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO MAKE OUR PRESIDENT LOOK BAD. THEY CALL HIM A LIAR, A WEAKLING, A CLOWN, AND WHATEVER ELSE, BUT THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE DOING THAT IS TO MAKE THIS PRESIDENT FAIL IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD AT ANY COST. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WANT A BETTER SHOT AT THE PRSIDENCY IN 2008 AND THEY DON'T CARE WHO GETS HURT IN THE MEANTIME AS LONG AS THEY REACH THAT GOAL!
I GREW UP IN THE 50'S AND HEARD ALL ABOUT WWII AND KOREA AND HOW WE ALL STOOD TOGETHER PROUDLY AS ONE PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THE AFFILIATION OF THE PRESIDENT. WE SHOWED OUR COUNTRY TO BE A PROUD, STRONG, AND RESOLVED NATION OF PEOPLE THAT WEREN'T GOING TO BE MESSED WITH.
HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE OUR ENEMIES SEE US RIGHT NOW? THEY SEE US FIGHTING AMONGST OURSELVES AS IF WE WERE ABOUT TO BREAK INTO ANOTHER CIVIL WAR. THEY SEE US AS WEAK AND PROBABLY TOO CONFUSED TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND OURSELVES BECAUSE WE ARE TOO BUSY BEATING EACH OTHER DOWN. HOW STUPID! ARE YOU DEMOCRATS REALLY SO DESPARATE TO GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE THAT YOU WOULD SURRENDER THE WAR WE ARE IN AND THEN USE IT AS A REASON TO DISGRACE OUR PRESIDENT JUST SO YOU COULD SNEAK INTO THE OVAL OFFICE? THAT IS PITIFUL. IT'S TIME FOR US TO STAND TOGETHER AS ONE OR WE WILL ALL FALL APART. WE NEED TO RETURN TO BEING A PROUD PEOPLE IN A PROUD NATION REGARDLESS OF OUR PARTY AFFILIATION. IF THE 2 PARTY SYSTEM DOESN'T GET IT ALL TOGETHER, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FORM A THIRD PARTY OF PEOPLE WHO WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP THIS NATION GREAT. I'M TIRED OF DIRTY POLITICS AND ALL OF THE MUDSLINGING THAT GOES WITH IT. I HATE TV DURING ELECTIONS BECAUSE I GET OFFENDED WHEN PEOPLE OPENLY LIE ON TV. QUIT LIENG! IF YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT GOOD YOU ARE GOING TO DO FOR MY NATION, THEN DON'T BOTHER TALKING AT ALL. LET'S ALL QUIT VOTING FOR MUDSLINGERS AND LIARS. LETS GET IT TOGETHER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS
I am watching the news in the background tonight and I hear headlines saying something stupid like, "Most Americans now feel that the war in Iraq is wrong". The newscaster says the growing number of anti-war gatherings is proof of this! What in the hell is going on here? Of course this is on CBS News, and as far as I am concerned they are probably one of the largest clearing houses of liberal bullshit in the USA. But for them to say that growing anti war protests is proof tht most of Americans feel the war was/is wrong is really stretching it. Why does every single action that includes the military get compared to Viet Nam anyway? Maybe it's because there isn't any news unless they make it into news and everything that went on TV during Viet Nam made for big news. New Orleans is about to get hit by a devastating hurricane with calculated deaths reaching 50,000, and that takes number 2 to the story about Americans feeling the war is wrong.
I've said before that I was an A-1 war protestor in the old days, but that was after a war had been going on for over ten years and there was no end in sight with the USA walking away with a victory in any sense of the word. There had been 50,000 American deaths by then in Viet Nam and it really was time to turn around and walk away, even though we were trying to keep the advance of communism and tyranny at bay. What's going on in Iraq is truly a noble venture. Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of people and dumped them in holes in the desert. He made women hide behind veils or they would be physically punished. Females were not allowed to go to school or hold jobs. This was serious inhumanity taking place and even though some people don't think it is any of our business, it is. Then there's the weapons of mass destruction argument. Would you rather have waited until there was a dirty bomb exploded in one of our major cities before you would be convinced tha they were there? The UN had given Saddam plenty of time to move, hide, or do whatever else he wanted to do with those things, but you can damn sure believe they were there, unless you are ignorant enough to believe what NBC has told you that they were never there in the first place. Having seen the proof numerous times, you'd have to be a real idiot to believe there was never anything there. Don't you remember the UN inspection teams that reported the WMD over and over?
So what reason do you have for suddenly wanting to take part in anti war protests? Do you want to be cool like the hippies were in the old days? Are you so bored that there isn't something else you could be doing with your time? Are you moved by the one mother who denied her son the honor of serving his country to a point that suddenly every soldier is a fool and you know what's good for them while they don't? I just don't get it. We could withdraw our troops immediately and watch Iraq fall right back into the same mess it was in before. Why the hell should we care anyway? Who cares if they have a bunch of uneducated stupid women with veils over their faces? Who cares if thousands are kiled because they aren't from the same sect as the people in power? Why should we lose men and women so that other country in the sand can get away with things like that? Bring all of our service members back here and let's all just sit back and wait for the terrorist attacks to start up. Let's wait for the dirty bombs to explode in New York or Chicago or where ever else they want to take them. Let's quit wasting the time of these people who are going to war and let's just close the military. Let someone else worry about that simple crap. Then you won't have to spend your busy day tearing apart our country from within.
Do you realize that all across the world the news is showing the USA as a country divided? They see that "most of Americans feel the war..is wrong" and watch as what looks like millions of us going to military bases and on street corners everywhere protesting our government because the news says so. So what if they see us as a weak nation full of people who don't trust their government? I just feel good that I'm not one of those morons on the TV screen. I wouldn't want a bunch of terrorists watching me doing something like that and feeling like they are making headway in their war against the infidels. When they do decide to attack our nation, I hope you realize that they won't make any distinction between you who are protesting and those who aren't. To them, we are all the enemy. If we leave ourselves unprotected, then we all die together. Is that your goal?
Old Hippies - New Wannabe Hippies Converge On Crawford
Hey! I'm just on vacation so leave me alone! Why in the world should President Bush stop whatever he is doing to answer rhetorical questions posed by a grieving mom? Why should her nonsensical story get 22,000 news hits in a couple of days? Where did all of these hippies come from?
I am a former hippy. I was a war protestor in the late '60's and early '70's. I protested a war in Viet Nam that was over a decade old and was getting nowhere. We did some good over there, but the time had come for things to end in Viet Nam. The humanitarian efforts made by soldiers serving in Viet Nam were rarely if ever recognized. That wasn't sensational enough for the news of the day. So what makes one woman in a sorrowful situation big news now? Well, I think there are too many leftover hippies and new wannabe hippy emulators with nothing better to do than copy what had been done by Viet Nam war protestors over thirty years ago. They don't know the facts. They haven't been there to see what is or isn't going on, but they will damn sure tell you it's time for this thing in Iraq to end. Ask them why and most won't have a clue. It's just something they've heard and then decided to believe in the "cause du jour" because they haven't anything better to do.
I think I may have paid the price for my protesting back in the '70's. I was drafted in the very last draft. I had felt that it was my government's way of getting the last laugh on a dirty hippy. I got a phone call one day from a girl who had been in my brother's classes at school who saw my name and felt she should warn me that I was about to be drafted. It may have been an easy choice for some hippies to turn and run straight north to Canada. It pisses me off to this day to think that all of those people got pardons for doing just that while others served and died. I however , despite my strong anti-war convictions was and am a patriotic American and regardless of my beliefs at the time had one more powerful belief. That is that if called upon, I will defend the honor and glory of my country at any cost. So not only did I go into the Army, I enlisted for an extra year.
Why would somebody do something like that? Simple answer, I was told about a way to stay out of Viet Nam while still answering my call to duty. The USA was ending the draft right after this "final "draft in late 1972. Everyone who entered the Army after that was going to be part of the all new VOLAR, the VOLunteer ARmy. That's right, every person who entered active duty after November of 1972 was a volunteer. THAT MEANS THAT NOBODY WHO HAS SERVED SINCE THEN HAS BEEN "FORCED" TO DO ANYTHING!
Every person entering the service does so as a volunteer. There are many reasons people join up. Some try to work toward that all too expensive education, a benefit that has been given to service members and veterans for years under the GI Bill. Some go to avoid jail. I had 7 guys in Basic Training with me that faced the ultimatum of joining the service or going to jail. Some go because they need to become part of a disciplined society. It has usually been decided by a parent that they haven't been able to make anything of their lives on their own. But way too many Americans forget that some people do join the military because they are patriotic Americans who feel a duty to serve their nation. Every single person in the military right now is there with the possibility facing them that they will be going to a foreign nation to defend our way of life. It may not make sense that they are doing it thousands of miles from home, but if those priciples are trampled "over there", then eventually we will have to face it over here. We defend a way of life that protects freedom. We defend a way of life that allows us to say whatever we want to say in public. This does not give us the right to be right though. Sometimes saying what we think is the right thing is ill conceived or just plain wrong. This is the case in Crawford, Texas and where ever else in this country that people have gathered to support a lady's protected freedom of speech, even if that speech spits in the face of every soldier who has given their life protecting those rights.
The honor of a mother's son is being swept aside and now old hippies and some wannabe new hippies have something to protest. That son joined the service of his own free will. He joined, hopefully, because he felt a patriotic duty. He maybe wanted to keep our way of life free. He paid the ultimate sacrifice by giving his life in the defense and honor of his country. Now his mother has taken away that dignity by discounting the death of her own son and trivializing it by making it her own "personal problem". It's no longer about her son giving his life. It's all about what the president and this country "owe" her. How selfish. I feel her pain. I can easily empathize and I truly do sympatize, but this isn't really about her and what she thinks we as a country owe her. It seems to me that like many people in the beginning of a grief process who have a need to blame somebody, this woman has chosen the president to blame. Now we have to hear the most ridiculous rhetorical question of, "Why aren't your daughters over in Iraq Mr. President?"! It's very simple folks. They didn't volunteer to join the service. It doesn't make them any less patriotic. It certainly doesn't qualify the president as being the right person to blame for the loss of a soldier's life. That soldier joined the service knowing full well that he may one day face combat in defense of this country and the principles for which this country stand. He was not killed because the Bush girls did not accompany him to Iraq!
There are too many problems in this world right now, and taking a stand behind a grieving mother who in her pain asked a stupid rhetorical question of the president just isn't going to solve any of those problems. It won't bring back the life of the soldiers who died in combat. It will not make any senators or congressmen feel so bad that they will go home and force their children to join the service. It will not end this poor woman's grief. It's just something to occupy the minds and time of a bunch of otherwise purposeless people who apparently have way too much tinme on their hands. Leave the president in peace in Crawford, Texas. You wouldn't want people bothering you on your vacation to ask you a question that really has no "right" answer would you? If you really want to be upset about something, go ask the oil companies why gas has risen in price by over 50 cents in the last ten days. If you really want to make a difference, then go volunteer a few hours at the hospital in your community. Go give a pint of blood. Go read at your local school. Just go do something that might have an outcome that is real. If all you are really after is trying to make my president and my country look weak and uncaring, then go the hell to Canada where the rest of the protestors who didn't really want to make a difference in our country went last time protesting a war was cool.
AND IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR. - DON'T ASK ME I DON'T GIVE A DAMN.....I JUST WANTED TO HANG OUT AND BE COOL.
Bush Was Right - The Video
Here is the link to the video:
Bush Was Right
Monday, June 05, 2006
GEORGE W. BUSH DID IT!
I couldn’t believe my ears. This woman was blaming George Bush for all of these problems that would have very simply never even happened if she just kept her pants on. She said she and her husband had a little alone time and since it happened so quickly she just didn’t have time to think about these things. Of course that makes it the president’s fault. When a person isn’t able to think quickly, there must be some sort of a protection clause in the constitution that makes all of your problems the fault of the current president. This woman was dead serious, and felt she had a right to complain publicly about her plight. One of the larger news services even provided her with an online forum to discuss her awful story.
Much to the surprise of this bitter woman, many if not most of the respondents were telling her she could have simply gone to Planned Parenthood to get everything she needed to solve her problem in any of the stages of her panic. What she was blaming the president for not providing for her was readily available to her right in her own neighborhood. There never was any reason for her to panic or blame anyone other than herself. Of course the president had nothing to do with any of this mess. It was the simple mind of this woman that caused all of her problems. If any thoughtful person took one minute to think through each step of this nonsense, they would see that each step had a simple solution. So why was this even a news story in the first place?
If you look at any newspaper, news program on TV, or any online news service, you will see that basically everything that is happening in the world today is somehow George W. Bush’s fault. What’s even sadder is that so many people are taking this seriously. I can see where some folks might want to blame the current administration when any political issue that relates to them goes wrong. They probably feel that if their guy had been elected instead that this thing would never had happened. This seems to go along with most political arguments, but forgetting to use proper birth control methods, doing poorly in school, not finding the highest paying job when you are looking for employment, a neighbor painting their house bright pink, and problems that go on ad nauseum somehow being the fault of the current administration or heaven forbid one single man – it’s ridiculous. But this is where our nation and perhaps the entire world stands right now. Everybody is blaming George W. Bush for everything.
There is a very simple explanation for this phenomenon. President Bush is a Republican. The Democrat Party wants to be in the Whitehouse in 2008. There is an old quote that says, “If you can’t say something good about yourself to get people on your side, then say something bad about the other guy”. Say something bad enough about someone often enough, and then even if it isn’t true you’ll convince enough people to believe it is true. President Thomas Jefferson said basically the same thing over 200 years ago. He said something like, “There is nothing so ridiculous, that if repeated often enough, does not begin to sound like the truth”. This is exactly what is happening. The push is to make everything sound as if though the president and his administration are directly responsible for every single thing in this world that is going wrong. The popularity numbers of the president back that all up right now. People are actually falling for this nonsense and are blaming Mr. Bush for whatever is going wrong in their life. This woman’s pregnancy issue is a sad testimony as to how far this thing has gone.
Allow me to remind everyone that both the Congress and the Senate need to vote on just about everything that happens as a result of a government. The president does not have an absolute power in this country and certainly not in the entire world. He does represent an entire mighty nation, but the way many of you people are beginning to think, it’s a shame that you represent the people of that nation. We vote to elect our government. We have the choice to retain those officials at each election. Will we continue to blame one person for all of our woes from now on? I sure hope not. Maybe the Democrats will succeed in this next election and get the Republicans out of the Whitehouse, but will we still be a nation of proud Americans or have we become a nation of people who know little more than blame and hate?
Start thinking for yourselves. Quit blaming someone else for the results of your actions. If you get pregnant, waste too many days to act in time for a magic birth control pill, and then panic and can’t find an abortion doctor, take a breath and work it out. George W. Bush didn’t have anything to do with it honey.