JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG......HILLARY AND BILL CLINTON ??

Long ago and far away in what seems to be on another planet far far away, two Americans who turned over confidential documents to the Russians were arrested by the FBI, tried by the American government, convicted of espionage and executed.
      In a book released today called Clinton Cash, it has been alleged that for multi=millions of dollars through a nefarious scheme the Clinton's accepted cash into their trust Fund from foreign governments, and helped a transaction that channeled American Uranium through to Vladamir Putin, president of Russia. Benefits Bill Clinton also received were the opportunity to deliver a speech in the Russian capital for over a half million dollars.

     It is also alleges that at time, e/mails were transacted between General Electric in New York and the Clinton's who brokered the deal. As of this date, the CEO of GE refuses to acknowledge the existence of said emails. This is beginning to sound familiar.
     Since Iran is a client state of Russia and we are presently trying to negotiate with Iran to " please don't shoot us with any nuclear missiles" it seems likely that our negotiating position might be a little weak at this point.
     The Rosenberg's were electrocuted for far less than what it is ALLEGED the Clinton's have done.
      Also, on this date, a new federal Attorney General has been confirmed and it is believed she will be saddled with the task of an investigation into the above. At least we all hope and pray that she does.
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FOX NEWS AND ME? -- SPLITSVILLE

I almost plugged my  television tonight. I have been a steadfast loyal consumer of Fox News - " fair and balanced." Yadda, yadda.
      Tonight was the last straw. I flipped off mid-way through Hannity. I can't take Prince Loud Mouth anymore. The pressure to leave has been building over the last weeks and months. And it hasn't just been Hannity.
      I have grown tired of listening to that over bearing super-heated Blondie lawyer with the hyper inflated ego and big mouth. Her persistent interruptions of her " guests " drive me . A derisive term, guests, she brings them interrupts them at every term, and blows them off the set before the viewer can grasp why they are even there. This evening, an older woman, a " feminist " lecturer on campus rape couldn't get a word in edge-wise as to why she was poison at some college campuses because Princess couldn't stop expounding. Exit stage left. I had no idea what the hell was going on.

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     Hannity? Same story, Rudeness times 10. Why don't the save some coins and not invite guests and just lecture us on their pious points of view? That seems, of late what they're doing anyway.
     I'm looking for news, not jaundiced points of view and lectures. Fox just hit the skids for me and headed south. Somebody better fix that program.
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CIVILITY? WHERE THE HELL HAS IT GONE?

George Washington wrote a book back then on the rules of civility. Every and then, somebody steals the idea, copies some of it and re posts the book under a new concept....doesn't matter. As our civility continues to circle the drain, we need it, like a life raft to a drowning man.
     I'm going out of my mind reading and watching stories of young mothers drowning their new borne children, stabbing their husbands 27 times, driving over cliffs, drinking themselves into oblivion, murdering their fathers!!! And, I wonder, what in hell is going on.
    Born in 1940, growing up in the 50 and 60s, I was exposed to none of this. Sure, alcoholics existed, troubled marriages were around, divorces happened, but not the rupture of civil discourse that seems to riven our society today. And, I know it's not just the US. Similar distress in Europe bleeds there, and some, but not all of the Pacific Rim.
    In my young and formative years, mouthing back to my parents would result in a violent clash of wills with me losing. Today, parents seem lost as to what to do. We can a ll draw a straight line from awful movies, violent television, commercially available sex, computers without limits, language that is uncontrollable, AND no consequences for bad behavior. Civility as we knew it, is no longer is demand.
    The fault lies in our INACTION. The continues DEBATE. It is time to stop talking about it and pick up the truncheon and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I know that the timid will say, oh, don't go off half cocked,  mistakes and all that.
     My retort?  SO WHAT? How often does the State Legislature subject US to laws that are harmful, screwed up and costly, that we have to retreat, recall them, and start over? Better to act in good faith and sit quietly and count the damage.
     Blame it on a string of bad factors all you want, but get off your hands and do something. We have a lot riding on this, and chances are, they're looking at you at the dinner table.
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Whatever Happened to WALT LONGMIRE ?

There was this deep voice, ragged piercing stare, and huge hands of his that when he sat behind his desk, leaned forward and asked you questions, you knew he was in control of the situation. 

     Everything was going to be alright. Walt was on the job.

     "I'm 911," he once said. 

     His limited extended family ran the gamut across gender, race and age. His best friend was the Indian bar tender at he town's watering hole. " Walt" he called him. 

     Walt's past haunted him and it wasn't a secret, wife murdered down south in Denver, daughter - a pretty little woman - growing closer to him. Eventually quiet close as the story went on. 

      Although he packed a six gun, rarely used, Longmire's signature was a long rifle, a tradition Winchester 30-30. He was never without it. Occasionally, he hit what he was aiming for.

      Like John Wayne, he was big and powerful, yet gentle, quiet and in control. His temper rarely flared but when it did, furniture flew. His audience was faithful, every week, missing dinner, appointments, school plays, what - not, to catch Longmire. 

      Like John Wayne, Walt Longmire was teaching a new generation of American Men how to act like men, something they seemed to have forgotten in recent years, a softening in the culture. A sense that we are weakening in our resolve.

      Let's just say the backers of LONG

MIRE grew weak in the knees. Money, ratings, reputation, something transitory this way comes. We'll give them that, won't we? BUT, THERE ARE LARGER THING IN LIFE THAN JUST MONEY. There are moral principles, truth character, country. And occasionally, power meisters see behind the pale, like the owners of Star Trek and they keep on funding it until it catches on.

      And now, eons later, we still celebrate the character and culture of that artistic and character building venture out of Hollywood, don't we?

      Don't we?

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Geneology - Mine

My grandmother (mom's mother) came from the mountains of central Pennsylvania. She had a delightful country/mountain twang to her voice. She was my favorite. When I was a boy, I often talked to her about where the family came from: i.e. our roots, our history.
    Her favorite retort was, " be careful not to go too far back on the family tree, you never know who you're going to find hanging off it." Grandma was a card.
    Now in retirement, I've decided to look.
    She was right. A long lost uncle was one of the more famous architects in America, living and working in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. Married to a beautiful young woman who loved to flaunt her ....attributes, she worked in a gentleman's club of the day entertaining rich New Yorkers. One night after entertaining one a little too much, my great, grand uncle arrived pistol in hand and shot the suitor in the head, killing him. Headlines, everywhere, the trial of the century ensued.
     In 1804, Lewis and Clarke set out from St. Louis on the Oregon Trial with a bunch of people trying to find the Northwest Passage. In the group was one lone Army Lieutenant whose duty was to armament of everyone else, the horses and provisions. Lt. Alexander Graham Willard went on to be the only member of the Corps of Discovery every photographed in his 90's. I am one of his descendants.
     The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 hosted the Witch trials. Among the  12 witches hung was John Willard, last to be executed for witchcraft. Testimony at his trial indicated he caused one young lady in town to cause her to cease urinating. Verdict, guilty of witchcraft. I, also, am a descendant.
     Gettysburg battlefield was the largest conflict in this hemisphere and among the thousands of killed and wounded was Colonel Alexander Graham Willard, commander of the 124th New York Volunteers, my grand uncle. He died at the front of his troops during Pickett's charge on July 3 at about 3:30 in the afternoon. He was a descendant of Generals of the war of 1812 and of the Revolution.
     Little did he know, he fell in battle two days after General John FULTON Reynolds died just northwest of town on the first day of Gettysburg engagement. General Reynolds was an ancestor of my family's other branch, the two gentlemen did not know of each other.
     All of this comes as a shock and surprise to me, this late in life. I continue to investigate, to explore. To date, I have found no axe murderers, petty thieves or pirates.
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GUNS, INSANITY, POLITICIANS, VOTERS???

Why do they do it? The crazies are alive again, roaming the landscape, stirring up voters, they think. " We gotta get control of guns" they holler. Another town mayor tried to pass a law against pistols in his town and his own town council voted him down. Guess he's off his meds. 

     Things are so bad here in the USA, fringey, as my youngest daughter used to call it, that everyone is getting armed, and I imagine, stuffing them in their pockets. 
     I detect, as they used to say on Star Trek, a rip in the space time continuum. Communal stress if you will. Everybody is just a little up tight. The beginning of the funny season, a year and a half out, the politicos are out running around for president. Obamas staying out of traffic, which is hard for him to do, sucking up to every tv camera in Christendom. 
     At this writing, there are 27 Republicans running for the nomination. Our current president hiding under his desk in the White House as a Florida mailman just flew a helicopter right up to the Capitol Bldg, violating this country's strongest military air space without so much as a scratch. 
     National moods are below apathetic: nothing works, all the agencies seem dysfunction, most of us feel unprotected from the outside, at the mercy of an uncaring, predatory government on the inside. 
     Tax season just ended, the health care act has fostered nation wide stories of tax implications on Mom and Pops all over the country, late filings, lack of assistance from the agency, surly agency management personnel, indifferent government officials. Never have we felt so ignored and powerless than now. Without a voice.
     And this we must endure for another 15 months or more. 
     Or worse.
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AUTO-GYRTO LANDING IN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY

At this early stage, facts yet revealed, no matter how you feel about the dramatic video of the auto-gyro that landed on the grounds of the Capitol building, I believe it should have been shot down.

     The pilot, whomever he is, got within 100 yards of the wall of the Capitol. Nearby was a group of children touring that vast lawn leading up to the Capitol. The aircraft used it in his approach and landed on a patch of grass quite close to the building.

• He came so close to those children, he could have crashed into them.
• He could have been carrying a bomb.
• Explosions near or on top of those kids would have been preventable disaster and loss of American lives.
• Again-----where was the Secret Service? Where was Security? 

How often will Washington's Federal Air Space be violated without protection from those agencies who should have learned by now, from the experience paid for by American blood that this should never happen again? Some whacko with letters for Congress could have easily dropped them in the front door and given them to the mail clerk. Someone has to have the stones to make the decision and protect us.

      The man in charge of all this is the top guy - President Barack Obama. The VA hasn't improved it's waiting times, the IRS seems to be in cardiac arrest, late night comedians make fun of the NSA spying on us, Obama's own family are fodder for Saturday Night Live.

      Someone has to step up and do something. The time for talk should be over. We are in danger!!

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