Monday, July 21, 2014
On the Brink of a Revolt?: TRUSTING RUSSIA? ( with my bicycle.......maybe)
On the Brink of a Revolt?: TRUSTING RUSSIA? ( with my bicycle.......maybe): When I was an elementary school near our Mexican Border (on the American side), I used to teach a simple concept to the Spanish kids who wer...
TRUSTING RUSSIA? ( with my bicycle.......maybe)
When I was an elementary school near our Mexican Border (on the American side), I used to teach a simple concept to the Spanish kids who were "Mexican," and wanted to speak Spanish in an American class room.
" This is a great country we live in, " I would extol, pointing a hundred yards south of our school at the metal fence, beyond which was the prairie of Mexico. Occasionally, one could say an illegal alien crawling over it, fleeing INTO to the US.
I would make the point that, " you can always tell the greatness of a country BY THE WILLINGNESS OF ANY PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO GET INTO OUR COUNTRY, not by their willingness to get out."
It was not lost on them. Then we would study about countries that would rule their people with armed border guards, those that would kill their citizens who did try to leave, or talk back, or cross chalk lines in pavements, or try to vote, or not vote, or vote for people NOT approved by the dictator in control.
Like Russia, for instance. Those wonderful folks who executed over 22,000 helpless Polish Army officers in the Katyn forests in WWII. Methodically shooting each one in the back of the head, then lying, blaming it on the Germans, no saints, themselves. That was a real race to the finish for the award for demonic hell awaiting either nation.
Joe Stalin, it is said, killed 25 million of his own. German like efficiency struck home when to save bullets, he strapped two heads together and blew one bullet through them both. One shot, two dead. Adolph would have been proud. About 25 million of his own countrymen died, and women, and children, and old people. And that in a country that boasts the oldest in the world - 125 years old in one section where they only eat yogurt. Killed them, anyway.
Joe invented the NKVD, secret police, Lubvenka, the HQ where countless went to die, quietly, a real slaughter house, the roach motel where the trench coat crowd honed their skills at dismembering the faithless towards the anti-Joe Stalin movement.
Flesh-forward to the modern day movement, the KGB, same story, now " white washed " in and out of existence and we have Vladmir Putin, the new top-dog in Russia. He's the new growly top-dog in charge in Russia. He thinks he's in charge. He's got our guy cowed.
So far, he's eaten Ukraine, Crimea, and he thirsts for the old Soviet Union, but methinks he is heading for major screw ups as big and as bad as his protege, Herr Obama on this side of the Atlantic.
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" This is a great country we live in, " I would extol, pointing a hundred yards south of our school at the metal fence, beyond which was the prairie of Mexico. Occasionally, one could say an illegal alien crawling over it, fleeing INTO to the US.
I would make the point that, " you can always tell the greatness of a country BY THE WILLINGNESS OF ANY PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO GET INTO OUR COUNTRY, not by their willingness to get out."
It was not lost on them. Then we would study about countries that would rule their people with armed border guards, those that would kill their citizens who did try to leave, or talk back, or cross chalk lines in pavements, or try to vote, or not vote, or vote for people NOT approved by the dictator in control.
Like Russia, for instance. Those wonderful folks who executed over 22,000 helpless Polish Army officers in the Katyn forests in WWII. Methodically shooting each one in the back of the head, then lying, blaming it on the Germans, no saints, themselves. That was a real race to the finish for the award for demonic hell awaiting either nation.
Joe Stalin, it is said, killed 25 million of his own. German like efficiency struck home when to save bullets, he strapped two heads together and blew one bullet through them both. One shot, two dead. Adolph would have been proud. About 25 million of his own countrymen died, and women, and children, and old people. And that in a country that boasts the oldest in the world - 125 years old in one section where they only eat yogurt. Killed them, anyway.
Joe invented the NKVD, secret police, Lubvenka, the HQ where countless went to die, quietly, a real slaughter house, the roach motel where the trench coat crowd honed their skills at dismembering the faithless towards the anti-Joe Stalin movement.
Flesh-forward to the modern day movement, the KGB, same story, now " white washed " in and out of existence and we have Vladmir Putin, the new top-dog in Russia. He's the new growly top-dog in charge in Russia. He thinks he's in charge. He's got our guy cowed.
So far, he's eaten Ukraine, Crimea, and he thirsts for the old Soviet Union, but methinks he is heading for major screw ups as big and as bad as his protege, Herr Obama on this side of the Atlantic.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
" Manhood" - Explained
If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it - on you.
If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too.
If you can wait..and not be tired by waiting, or be lied about, and yet don't deal in lies. Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet, don't look
k too good, or talk too wise.
If you can dream, and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposter's just the same.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch & toss, and lose...and start again at our beginnings and NEVER breath a word about your loss.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone and so hold on when thee is nothing left within you except the WILL which says, " HOLD ON."
If you can talk with crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch, if neigher foes nor loving friends can hurt you.
If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and what is more, You'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling......1905
And, for me, what counts more, is having traveled that road.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Kids are Right - VOTE THEM OUT
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Kids are Right - VOTE THEM OUT: In the "meet n greet" land around town and the telephone/Internet nation, I have detected a collapse of energy in the force field ...
The Kids are Right - VOTE THEM OUT
In the "meet n greet" land around town and the telephone/Internet nation, I have detected a collapse of energy in the force field of political life of my friends here in America.
They have had it. Switched off, tired - they are burned out.
As a example, I was in Hobby Lobby a couple of days ago, whizzing about the store, closing in on a plethora of goodies, when my wife and I got into a discussion about a certain item. We asked the store clerk about it and got a so-so answer. As I walked away, said I to my wife, " I don't believe her, " and a passer- by caught the comment on the fly, who said in retort, " and I wouldn't believe the government, either."
On the fly, mind you, and she was serious. THAT got us into a mid-store discussion. Just that morning, my best friend in Orlando (on a long distance call) and I had talked about the same thing. He, of the political burned out class, " I HATE all this crap, because ' I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
" We are watching the country go to the dogs, and there isn't a damn thing I can do to change ANYTHING" he growled to me. And I reflected same to the woman my wife and I collared in the store.
She took off on the same subject. " We had a prayer meeting in church last night about it, " she said. Their attitude? They felt so helpless, "No one is listening: Senators, Congresspeople, no one. We send letters, all we get back IS FORM LETTERS. 'Thank you very much for expressing your concerns.....'
" No one is listening to us, " she said. " For the first time ever, I think the kids are right. We should vote them all out of office and start over. Somebody has to listen to us."
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They have had it. Switched off, tired - they are burned out.
As a example, I was in Hobby Lobby a couple of days ago, whizzing about the store, closing in on a plethora of goodies, when my wife and I got into a discussion about a certain item. We asked the store clerk about it and got a so-so answer. As I walked away, said I to my wife, " I don't believe her, " and a passer- by caught the comment on the fly, who said in retort, " and I wouldn't believe the government, either."
On the fly, mind you, and she was serious. THAT got us into a mid-store discussion. Just that morning, my best friend in Orlando (on a long distance call) and I had talked about the same thing. He, of the political burned out class, " I HATE all this crap, because ' I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
" We are watching the country go to the dogs, and there isn't a damn thing I can do to change ANYTHING" he growled to me. And I reflected same to the woman my wife and I collared in the store.
She took off on the same subject. " We had a prayer meeting in church last night about it, " she said. Their attitude? They felt so helpless, "No one is listening: Senators, Congresspeople, no one. We send letters, all we get back IS FORM LETTERS. 'Thank you very much for expressing your concerns.....'
" No one is listening to us, " she said. " For the first time ever, I think the kids are right. We should vote them all out of office and start over. Somebody has to listen to us."
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Monday, July 14, 2014
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Mysterious Bo Berghdahl
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Mysterious Bo Berghdahl: Ok, I'm stumped. Contrary to our current " transparent " administration, which we all know is NOT, ( PS, I am), Bo, the desert...
The Mysterious Bo Berghdahl
Ok, I'm stumped. Contrary to our current " transparent " administration, which we all know is NOT, ( PS, I am), Bo, the deserter, run-away, kidnapped (?) whatever has been found, fed, fotogenicked and freed all within - what? 6 weeks?ah, the Taliban, those folks who liked to shoot women in the head with rifles in sports stadiums, we got to watch it on TV some years back on, I believe it was 60 Minutes.
Berghdahl had a rap against him built in the media that seemed iron clad. E-mails, letters home, his squad mates testimonies that they would testify AGAINST him for desertion in a New York minute, he having put their lives in danger by walking away from his post.
Circumstances of his "Missing in Action," still not fully explained. The question about that - do you think we will ever hear all the details??
I think we will about the same time we get the full skinny on the IRS document dump from Lois Lerner, the full story from Clapper (Not Whittingly!!), and Hillary knowingly burps up the truth why she arbitrarily cancelled the security at Benghazi. Never mind about Obama taking a snooze when I guys were Oozied that night on the embassy roof. He's never going to tell us.
All the e/mails tying him into the " mind-set of radical-Muslims?
I don't know about you, but I read everything, watch cable news - all of it - research my brains out and I have heard nothing on this guy - zero, zip, blank. News black out.
Now, today, he's on active duty, desk job they say.........DESK JOB?? This is NOT your father's US Army. Just that short while ago, they were talking about court martial, Leavenworth, firing squads, everything short of Dry Tortuga's.
Now, a desk job is in his future.
It's funny ( strange, not laughable as in weird) what the famous " Pen and a Phone " can do when it wants to ) It can't come up with a budget in five years, but it can quote $3.7 Billion bucks for 100,000 " refugees" on our leaky borders down south on a moments notice. Where in hell did THAT figure come from??
I forgot, the transparency doesn't go that deep.........never mind.
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Berghdahl had a rap against him built in the media that seemed iron clad. E-mails, letters home, his squad mates testimonies that they would testify AGAINST him for desertion in a New York minute, he having put their lives in danger by walking away from his post.
Circumstances of his "Missing in Action," still not fully explained. The question about that - do you think we will ever hear all the details??
I think we will about the same time we get the full skinny on the IRS document dump from Lois Lerner, the full story from Clapper (Not Whittingly!!), and Hillary knowingly burps up the truth why she arbitrarily cancelled the security at Benghazi. Never mind about Obama taking a snooze when I guys were Oozied that night on the embassy roof. He's never going to tell us.
All the e/mails tying him into the " mind-set of radical-Muslims?
I don't know about you, but I read everything, watch cable news - all of it - research my brains out and I have heard nothing on this guy - zero, zip, blank. News black out.
Now, today, he's on active duty, desk job they say.........DESK JOB?? This is NOT your father's US Army. Just that short while ago, they were talking about court martial, Leavenworth, firing squads, everything short of Dry Tortuga's.
Now, a desk job is in his future.
It's funny ( strange, not laughable as in weird) what the famous " Pen and a Phone " can do when it wants to ) It can't come up with a budget in five years, but it can quote $3.7 Billion bucks for 100,000 " refugees" on our leaky borders down south on a moments notice. Where in hell did THAT figure come from??
I forgot, the transparency doesn't go that deep.........never mind.
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